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TT 18 TABLISIIED in leeds Sn 1837 , and siuce then the JJi leading Provincial Journal in tha Kingdom , is now published at So . 310 , Stvand , London . Tlie object of the Proprietor in establishing the Xorlhern Star was to furnish , a fearless aud faithful organ four tlie re presentation of the Labouring Classes , whose interests from time immemorial have been shamelessly neglcted . The removal of tho Slav lt > London has enabled its conductors to supply tho reader with the latest intelligence , its well as the most interesting news ; in consequence of which its number of readers have materially increased in tho Metropolis , and its couutry circulation can be equalled by few , even the most extensively circulated Metropolitan newspapers . From the extensive circulation of the Northern Star , together with the act that it is read by all classes of society as the organ of Uie movement party , Advertisers will iind it to be a medium of foumiuiueatioii with the public at large-worth notice . UoO / . s aud Publications for review must be addressed ( post paid ) to the Editor , 310 , Strand , London . Adverssemeuts and orders for papers to be addressed to Feargus O'Connor , 310 , Strand , where all communications will be punctually attended to . The following extract from the Newspaper Stamp Returns for October , November , and December , 1843 ( since which no returns have been made ) , show that the Northern Star is far at the head of many old-established London Weekly Journals : — IVOJSTflBSSBN STAR 167 , 000 News of the World .. 86 , 000 United Service Ga-Becord .. .. « » 83 , 300 zette .. 10 , 600 B . xaminer ' 71 , 000 Tatriot .. GO . OOO Mritannia GG . 000 Spectator 48 , 000 TarUane Express .. 51 , 000 Era 41 , 000 tablet 45 , 000 John Hull 39 , 0 t ) 0 Abserver 41 , 000 Watchman 83 , 000 Stlas 37 , 000 Age and Argus .. .. 22 , 500 Nonconformist .. .. 30 , 000 Sentinel 20 , 000 Sell's New Weekly Journal of Commerce 13 , 500 Messenger .. .. 22 , 500 * # * Observe the Office , 340 , Strand , London ,
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I 7 ie following Books are published at the Northern Star office , 3-1 . 0 , Strand , and may be had of all Boobsellers and News Agents * CHAMBERS' PHILOSOPHY REFUTED . fust published Price Fourpence ( forming a l ' ainplilot of 5 G pages demy 8 vo ., in a still' wrapper ) , TIIE TIIIItD EDITION OF A TVlli and COMPLETE REPUTATION of the PHILOSOPHY contained in a TRACT recently published by the MESSRS . CHAMBEPiS , of Edinburgh , entitled the " Employer and Employed . " This valuable little work contains the most complete defence of the demands of the Working Classes for their fair share of the enormous wealth created by Machinery , as well as a justification of Trades Unions . The numerous appeals that have been made to Mr . O'Connor from neatly every part of the kingdom for the publication , in pamphlet form , of those Dialogues that have recently appeared in the Star , have determined him to gratify what appears to be the almost unanimous wish of the Labouring Classes , " The Employer ami the Employed , " * * byl ' eai'gus O'Connor , # # beats anything even of its author's . —Economist .
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Complete in one Vol ., neatly Bound in Cloth , A PRACTICAL WORK ON SMALL FARMS . Price Two Shillings and Sixpence . BY FEARGUS O ' CONNOR . ESQ . The desire of the author has been to furnish a valuable compendium at such a price as would enable every working man to become possessed of Jt . It contains all the practical instructions , together with Plates , describing Farm-house , Offices , Tank , Farm-yard , < kc . ; with particular information requisite for carrying out all the operations . N , B , —The above work may still be procured Jnnum bera , price Od , each . " I have , within the last few months , visited every par of France , and I declare that I have seen more misery in one street in Dublin than in all France ; the people are well clad , well fed , and merry ; they arc all employed on Shall Farms of their own , or onoquitable takings !"Vide Lord C'loncuny ' s Letter in Morning Chronicle , Oct . ith , 1 S 13 . Those persons desirous of bettering their condition and of becoming "Independent Labourers , " by entering tlie " Productive-labour" Market , will do well to read "A Practical Woi-kou Small Farms , " by Feakgus O'Coskor , Esq . It contains much useful information , invaluable to the parties for whom it was written ; and Old Farmers will find many useful lessons in the new system of husbandry , which they have yet to learn . The work displays great practical knowledge , aud is written so that any one who reads may understand . Mr . O'Connor seems not to have used either the old or ' new nomenclature * in this work ; he has not buried liis uieaiu-tg in chemical tcclllli-3 aIitieS , which very few understand , but which most writers on agriculture seem so desirous of using . Perhaps they do not understand the practice of Farming so well as ; he theory ; and , therefore , mystify that which they cannoi explain , by some ion ; , ' chemical term , which tlio plain render may pass ovsr as a " hovel WOl't ? , " hlivd to pronounce , and harder to understand when it is pronounced . The reader will find that Mr . O'Connor has avoided all those bard names , and suited the language to tlie toUing labourer , whose college is generally tho workshop , or , at Yost , the Sunday School . Though the work it written for holders of Small Farms , yet no Allotment Tenant ought to be without it ; the valuable informatioi . it contains respecting tilling and cropping is alike useful to all . "—Extract from o Farmer ' s Z $ Uvr , " This really useful little volume ought to be in tht hands of every one at all connected with agricultural pursuits . " —Lloyd ' s Weekly London Newspaper . " Although we feel no desire , in the language of tht proud Peruvian , in contemplating what we hope to rejoict in , the contentment , prosperity , and comfort of our fcllon men , to exclaim— "This , this is my work ; " nor is our object , as Mr . O'Connor declares his to be , "that cacb man who is willing to work may be independent of overs other man in the world for his daily broad , " yet we can with much plensure recognise in the book before us a poircrful instrument for aiding in developing in man a \ nuch higher destiny than he has hitherto attained . "Mr O'Connor shews clearly , what will soon be apparcn to all who reflect deeply , that we arc not left without the msaris of obtaining not only all that is physically requisite for man ' s progress , but also that we may readily prodace what is apparently desirable ; for none who carcfullj paruse this work can doubt that a system of small farms , held by active and industrious labourers , would amplj return , in exchange for healthful exertion / far more than i 3 requisite to preserve physical strength . " lie also shews that something more than this is requisite t o ensure happiness , for he says in page 121 , " I feel convi need that man can place no reliance whatever upon his fellow man , or a community of men , when ciruuni . stances operate upon his or their minds , the influence and effect of which would be stronger than any abstract notions of justice . For instance , if a community of la . bouring men purchase a quantity r land , and hire la . bour for its cultivation , hcTcvcr just their intentions and pure their motives , they will nevertheless feel themselves justified in raising the price of the land , according to the improved value conferred upon it by the labour of the hired workman . This power of steadily trenching upon the rights of others is one of the greatest disadvantage . jgainst which tlie labourer lias to contend ; and U 1034 hived by a community , at the end of twenty years would be in no better condition than they were at starting , while the community of proprietors would have increased the value of their property twenty-i ' o'd ; that is , they would have robbed those labourers , by whose industry the value was increased , of nineteen shillings in the pound . 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Price Two Shilling !! . FIFTEEN LESSONS on the ANALOGY and SYNTAX of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE , for the use of adult persons who have neglected the study of Grammar . By Wai . Hill . Fifth edition , revised and amended . The Lessons in these works are intended solely for the use of natives . They are divested , therefore , of all those hair-breadth distinctions and unnecessary subdivisions in Analogy , which , if at all useful , can only be useful to foreigners . The science of Grammar is disentangled in them from the folds of mysticism which have so long enshrouded it . The absurd and unmeaning technicalities which pervade all other works on Grammar aveexchanged for terms which have a definite and precise mcauing , illustrative of the things they represent . The Parts of Speech are arranged on an entirely new principle , founded on a philosophical consideration of the nature of language . The necessary divisions and subdivisions are rationally accounted for , and the principles of Universal Grammar demonstrated so fully that the meanest capacity may understand them as clearly as it understands that two and two make four . In Syntax , the formation of the English Language is ux . cinsively consulted , without any unnecessary reference to other languages . A majority of tho numerous Rules given in most Grammars are shewn to be little better than aheap of senseless tautology . The necessary Rules are demonstrated upon rational principles , and illustrated by a variety of examples . By the use of the fifteen lessons , and the accompanying exercises , any one may , in a few- weeks , acquire a good knowledge of Grammar , without any of tlit tlisgxisting drudgery which , under the present system , prevents nine out often from ever acquiring a knowledge of Grammar at all . "A competent Grammatical knowledge of our own I anguage is the true basis on which all literature ought to rest . "—Bishop LowOt . '' Mr . Hill is evidently an original thinker , lie attacks with ability and success , the existing system of English Grammar , and points out the absurdities with which it ia encumbered . Justly condemning the too frequent practice of making pupils commit portions of Grammar to memory a Btasks , he maintains that tht only proper way to tV : e memory is through tho understanding It is but justice to him . to say thsvt , in a few pages , he gives a more clear and comprehensive view of tlie structure of the English language than can be found in some very elaborate works . "—Literary Gazette . " Mr . Hill has discharged his task with considerable , ability and no person can peruse his books with anything like attention , without obtaining a clear aud sufficient estimate of the construction and laws of his vernacular tongue . "—Leeds Times . " A concise philosophical and lucid exposition of the principles on which tl- language of Milton and Shalt , speave rests . "—Bradfo * dObserver . "It is calculated to give the student a correct idea ol Grammatical construction—of the analogies of the language—and of the nature of the various parts of speech It is simple , but not mean ; dear , bnt not diffuse ; a : ul there are few works in which the first principles of Grammar arc- better explained or more ably followed up . "York Chronicle . " The method ho lias adopted to convey his lessons is the least repulsive to a learner that we have yet gecil , UOt excepting that of Mr . Cobbett the whole seems to be intended as a mental machine to abbreviate the labour of the mind . "— Glasgow Liberator . Price One Shilling . Progressive exercises , selected with great ofll'O , and adapted to the Rules and Observations respectively contained in his' Fifteen Lessons on the Analogy and Syntax of the English Language , and in his Rational School Grammar . By Wm . Hill . Third edition , revised and corrected .
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11 &SS 10 S HOUSE . S . TCXPJiT . — Chjiiioe of Beccinc— linn- Cattc-11 , an 8-e d woman , dressedin tliegarbof the Sucirf . v of TnaOf , Wis hroncht before the Lord Major in custody vf Hosforil , nn vhiwr vf the tt « wHvi& Societj , on a remand from tiie previous day . The officer stated lliat lie had followed tlie defendant , who went from house to house with a red l > o » k in her hand , and appealed to the owners for the exercise of ever so small a mite of humanity . Her appearance was extremely scrviceablt ; to tlit object upou which . she professed to pay her visits , and cv « n amongst those nho wire evidently hard pushed to support thc-ir families , she raised from one penny to sixpence a head . She represented that she laboured to release a person from prison , whu had been confined there for a length of timi , and it iras really difficult to resist her supplication .
for she accommodated herself to the v' -ry lowest capacity of pocket . After having witnessed for some tiase the unwearied pfrseverance of ttedcJciidaut , he told her lie granted her and her red book , and her papers , and after such a straggle as her littie strength permitted , she resigned them to his hand . In her pocket was 7 s . Cd ., some half-pence , and a £ 20 Bank of England note , which appeared to have just arrived from t ! : a ; establishment . Tiie defendant stated that she had been seeking assistance to relieve her brother , who had l > een confined in the Queen ' s Bench Prison , fvr a period of five or six years ; sh « sot the £ 20 note from the Bank of England for silver , and , considering the motive , slie was not at all ashamed of whatshe had been doing . One of the officers of tlic Mendicity Society said inquiry had been made , and the statement , so far as regarded her brother being in the Queen ' s
Bench Prison , was quite correct ; but he was there in contempt of the Court of Chancery , anil refused to purge that contempt 1 if lie would only sign a paper lie might "be released any day . —Mary- Stanlcton , a Quakvrtsf , affiincd t 3 iat she knew Mary Cattell ; she was not a member of the Society of Friends , she sometimes attended their meetings , and disturbed them Tiy speaking without authority . She had lodged with lier in "White Horse-street , Stepney ; she always paid her rent , and was otherwise respectable , but she , nevertheless , thought her a little deranged . —Defenflant said she never had stated tliat she was a Quakucss , she wished to meet her accusers publicly , however strong they might be . She bad obtained the " change , for which she got the £ 20 note , parti v in subscriptions and partly on loan . —William
A . Hatchings , a tradesman , of 2 G , BueWcrsburv , said he perfectly recollected the p risoner coming several times to liis shop and begging , as vinch as three years ago ; she ¦ then begged for a society . —Defendant said she never bad begged , or pretended to beg , for a society in her life , and called on the witness to name the society . She handed 5 n some documents relating to some property in house and land at Daventry , of which she Stated herself and brother had been unjustly defranded , as the L « rd Chancellor w 35 now aware , and of which they should soon repossess themselves . —The lord Mayor said the ease was proved to his satisfaction -, he should therefore sentence her to one month's imprisonment in Bridewell , the expense of the prosecution , and her maintenance while there , to be deducted from the money found on her .
IVXDXXSIUT . pLT . LI . NC 3 ? OSES AT THE STOCK ^ ESchakge . —John Spillard was chnrgdn with having pulled the nose of John Chick Vorthimjtou , in the neig hbour , hood of the Stock Exchange . —Mr . TTorthington , a dealer in raw silk , stated that on Friday week he went to a broker in UartholomewJane , and asked a gentleman with ¦ uliom be entered into conversation the price of certain shares . The gentleman beckoned to the defendant as a person to give the information , but he ( complainant ) declined having any communication with the defendant , wlio a < &etl the cause of such refusal , ami committed the degrading assault attributed to him . —The complainant , in answer to a question , said that he had not called the
defendant : * scamp until the defendant bad taken him by tlie nose . —S . WorKiiagton , brother to the complainant , stated that the defendant committed the assault upon the complainant ' s refusal to do any business with , him . —The dtfantbnt declared that he bad treated the complainant with tlie indignity described , because the provocation given was one of the most insupportable insults . The complainant had , without rhyme or reason , applied the name of " scamp" to him , and the act complained of aniarallv followed snch a description . —The Lord Mayor said tlie assault was clearly proved , and he should hold the defendant to bail in the amount of £ 20 to answerthe charge at the sessions .
UOW-STREET . TllUESDAr . —IloBifEsr hi a Policeman . —A policeconstable of the P division , named John Guy , was charged with having absconded from the force with £ 23 , received by him in his oSicial capacity . The prisoner was on duty in tlie Strand early on the morning of the 13 th hist . At afcuut four o'clock lie apprehended a woman on suspicion of rubbing a seaman , named David Evans , and took her to the station-house in Bow-street , where be handed to Mr . Logan , the inspector on duty , five £ a Hank of £ ugland notes , two sovereigns , and 21 s . in silver , which he found in lier possession . This money was given back to the prisoner when he brought the charge before the magistrate . He was ordered to give up one of the notes to the seaman ( who was daily expected to leave Plymouth , on board the Caledonia ) , anil it was bis dutv to
return the remainder to Inspector Logan , « ho -was responsible for its safe custody . This was not done , and on the following evening he was reported as " not on duty . " The suspicious of his superior officers were consequently aronsed , ana it was soon ascertained that llu ll fid ali ? eon ( lediro 3 i his lodginjsin private clotllCS , leaving Ms uniform behind him . On Thursday morning Inspector Black , who bad b : en apprised of his retreat , proceeded to a bouse in Xe w-strcet , Wcbbcr-street ; Lambeth , wi « r . » hof <» inil tfce prisoner in befl with a prostitute . He searched the bed , and found £ ? 0 7 s . wrapped up in paper under the pillow . On being informed of the charge , and duly cautioned , he admitted his giritt , and stated that he had changed one of the notes for gold . The prisoner said nothing to the charge . Mr . T wyford committed him for trial at the Old Dailcr .
SAT 0 £ n . » i . —Stkeet KoBEtay . —A very respectably attired young man , who gave tlie name of Jones , was charged with being concerned with others in stealing a gold snuffbox from a gentleman in Itolborn . Mr . Ransdale , the prosecutor , a gentleman of fortune , stated that he was passing up Ilolborn yesterday evening , in company with two friends , when he suddenly felt some one lift up his coat , and take something from it . He turned round , and fuunu tlie prlsonei was tbe nearest person Standing l ) y him . Hes&ld to the prisoner , "You liave stolen my snuff-box ; " and the prisoner replied , "So , I have not , hut those two have , " pointing to two men , who had just taken to their heels . The prisoner took to
liis lieels too , but they were close ! yfollowedby a fr iend of Ids , who , with himsalf , pursued them through a number of intricate courts and alleys , to the WJ : itc Horse pubtte-tousein Shorts-buildings . The snuff-bos was not found upon cither of them , l ' ocock , tlie officer , proved that the prisoner belonged to a notorious gang of thieves fliat infested the streets of-London , and scarcely a day passed that they did not commit some robbery or other . Sir . Twyford remarked , that as the snuff-box was not found upon either the prisoner or his companion , he could not well scud him to the Old Bailey , cut there was HnSrierit evidence to show that he-was a notoriously bad character , and he should commit bun to the House of Correction for three months .
TcES » iT . —Shocking J ) epjuvit : t . —Caroline Evans , a housemaid at Buckingham Palace , was finally examined , aud fully committed for trial ou three separate charges « f felony . The robbery at the Palace was established at the previous examination . Evidence was now given to show that , in September last , after the prisoner had called upon s sister living in the service of a gentleman residing at St . John ' s-wood , a silver spoon was missed from the house . Siuce the prisoner ' s apprehension it was discovered that it was pledged for her at a pawnbroker ' s shop in Camberwell . The third * charge was of precisely tlie same kind ; the prosecntnr , Mr . Wilkinson , a surgeon , of Southampton-terrace , Pentonville , having missed two silver spoons after one of the prisoner ' s visits to her sister then in his
service . This property was also found at a pawnbroker '^ . In the latter case the sister , who was deeply affected during her examination , attributed her dismissal from the prosecutor ' s employ to the loss of tlie spoons ; but when Mr . Wilkinson stepped forward and denied the assertion in the most positive terms , declaring that he never suspected her , and that her discharge , at the time in juestion , was in consequence of her ill-health , tlie poor ? M retracted btr statement . Mr . Wilkinson , however , did not explain away the fact that , upon the dismissal of the sister , the valueof the spoons was deducted from her wages . It is due to that gentleman to add thatthemoney was repaid to her when he considered that her innocence was established by the late disclosures respecting her relative , the prisoner .
WOKSniP-STUEET . TWDAT . ASOTHEB " GENTLEMAN '" BlACKGCAED . — Sir . George Gurney , described as a wine merchant , in Mount-street , Walworth , was charged before Mr . Broughton , with having- committed the following aggravated as-Snult , in One of lllC carriages of the Eastern Counties Jtailwar , upon Jlrs . Annie Kimbrel , a married lady , residing in Trinity-street , Cambridge . The complainant stated that she left Cambridge in a second-class carriage , at four o'clock on the preceding afternoon , and on reaching the Station at Bishop ' s Stortford , the defendant and two other gentlemen got into the same carriage . Immediately he had entered the defendant placed himself by her side , and after pressing offensively against her , laid bis head upon her shoulder and pretended to be asleep . Sho Instantly removed to the extreme end of tlie seat in order to avoid Turn , but was followed up
by the defendant , who placed his arm round her neck , and addressing her by the appellation of "My dear , " asked her if she intended to travel all the way to London . She remonstrated with him upon his insulting behaviour to no purpose , and as he still persevered in his offensive familiarities , she called louaiy to the guard for assistance , but without receiring any attention . On the stoppage of the traiu at the next station , she got ont upon the platform and informed the guard of tlicinsulting behaviour she had experienced from the defendant , whose name she demanded , but her complaint was treated with indifference . On reaching the t encinusin Shoreditchshe gave the defendant into ens-* ° dy . After the hearing of other evidence , Mr . Broughton wBtenced the black guard wine-tnordianl to pay a p ^ i .-v fln » ^ . ' f cnaer ? ° seven days'imprisonment {!} . « The * " * *** eoiatel y paid" ana lhe defendant liberate ] 110
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utmost efforts of the officers , and the threats of the tiiagistrjte to have tlie court cleared , failed to silence . . Mrs . A : me Lewis , who stated Uut she was a widow , tv . en said bow , while she was passing through Jl idclcst-x-stre-. t , Whitechapei , to her father ' s house in Cox court , lhe i ! i'f ? fldant accosted her , and without the slightest provocation called , livr lhe worst names . Upon running into the house for protection , Mrs . Honejjar put one of her hands through a piine of glass , and finding that somewhat sharp , took off her bonnet , placed it on J-. er fist by way of a fbield , and then made war with two more panes , upon * which a neighbour interfered , and then Mr « . Honeyjar turned her fury upon her . —Mr . Broughf > n : Why was all this ?—Mrs . Lewis : I don ' t know more than the dead alive . —Policeman II 153 said lio took llvs .
Honeyjar into custody ; she was drunk . —Mrs . Ltuua Levy then mounted tlie witness-box , made a variety of curtseys to tlie bench , ana said that while standing at her own door in Cox-court , on Wednesday la ^ t , a-doi » go ' nothing , slie saw the defendant break tbewiudows , whereupon tlie witness remonstrated with her , but had scarcely done so When Mrs . Honeyjar turned her back to the window and commenced an attack upon her , Mrs . Linn a Levy . Mrs . Iloiieyjar , in explanation , said lhe windows were broken in the seuflle , but not by bsr . She had met Mrs . Lewis in the street , and had asked her to pay back some mom-ylent by her husband to her at Bristol for support . She owed her £ 4 . The magistrate terminated the case by ordering Mrs . Hono \ jav to pay three shillings for the windows .
3 IoxD . % r . —St-miiii . no . —A young man named Charles Gibson , described as a sawyer , was placed at the bar , before Mr JJrousliton , < m the charge of stabbing a man named Moses Isaacs , who was not now present , and also with cutting and wounding the police-constable who had taken him into custody , l ' oliue-constahjc Uavis , II SC , whose upper lip was covered with adhesive plaster , stated that while on duty . in Keatc-strcet . Spitalflelds , fit flUG o ' clock tliat nioniiii ^ , lie saw the prisoner engaged in a violent struggle with the man Isaacs , who called loudly for assistance , and exclaimed that he had been stubbed with some sharp instrument . Witucss instantly hastened to tlie spot , and observing a stream of bloud gushingfrom the nose of Isaacs , he attempted to seize the prisoner , when the latter made a blow at him , which disabled him in a moment , and he found that the back of his hand had been laid open to the hone . Witness then attempted to
secure him with the other hand , when the prisoner made a sudden blow at his face , and he felt his upper lij > completely eut through with some sharp weapon , which struck violently against Ins teeth and filled his mouth with blood . Finding that he w ; ts unable , from the injuries he bad rcetived , to retain ins-hold of tbcpiisoner , tlie complainant , Isaacs , took the rattle from his puc-ket and sprung it , but before any assistance could be procured tiie prisoner had succeeded in effecting his escape . Sergeant Barker and other officers shortly afterwards came up , anil after an active pursuit the prisoner was traced to a coffee-house in Xortoii-Folgate , and taken into custody , but no knirc or other instrument was then fomiil ill his possession . A certificate va * bawled to the bench from Mr . Metros , the divisional police surgeon , which stated tliat the olliccr
had received a wound through the upper lip , penetrating into the mouth , ¦ which had evidently been inflicted with some cutting instrument , nnd that he had also sustained a second wound upon tlie hand , inflicted apparently with the same weapon . In answer to the charge , the prisoner said that a < marrel having arisen between liiniseli ; iu < Illis friend Isaacs , the policeman had most unnecessarily interfered ; and although he admitted haviug struck him several times with bis fist , he positively denied having made use i > f a Uuifeor any oilier weapon of that description . Mr . lii'oughton s . iid that he should commit the prisoner for cuttingand wounding the policeman , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm ; and should issue a summons to compel the attendance of the nv . m Isaacs , on whose appearance the depositions wou ' . d be taken for bis final committal to Xewgate on botli charges .
SOUTHWARK . Tcesdat . —Juvenile Demavitt . —Mary Benson , a girl thirteen years of age , was brought before Mr . Jeremy ( who sat fur Mr . Trail ) , charged with robbing her father , and absconding from home . The complainant stated that he had occasion to bring his daughter to a police-court before for plundering him , and that , through theiuterces . sion of Mr . Cottingham , she was admitted into an asvhtm for the reformation of juvenile offenders at Tottenham , instead of being ssut for trial . She , however , had not been loner there when she effected her esuapoby climbing over _ a high wall at the rear of tha premises , aud since then had joined a number of her dissolute companions , with whom she had been leading an abandoned life . She afterwards returned home , but she had been there scarcelv
twenty-four hours when she absconded , taking with her ail her clothes , aud had been away tight days when he at length traced her , and brought lier uj > to this court , as he could < lo nothing with her . The magistrate said it would be a waste of words to endeavour to make any impression on such a heartless girl , that as the articles she was charged with stealing were tlie garments she had on her at the tune of ahscondinjr , the father could not proceed npinst her criminally for the act , and therefore must give her another trial and take her home . The poor father said lie was a hard working man , and that the prisoner would take advantage of his absence , and leave home in spite of her mother , who w » s laid on a beil of siekuess , owing to her anxiety of wind about her unhappy daughter .
SyiBRDA ? . —Hiot in A "Workhouse . —Sarah Evans , a young woman , attired in the workhouse garb , was charged with creating a disturbance at the doors of St . George ' s Workhouse . The relieving officer said that the prisoner came to the woi'khousu on the previous evening and demanded admittance ; being a very disorderly character , and having on several occasions created disturbances in the house , he refused to admit her . She then became very abusive and refused to quit the door , lie endeavoured to put lier aivay , when she struck him on the mouth , lie then called in the assistance of the police , and gave her into custody . In answer to the charge , the prisoner said that the young girls in that workhouse were treated with grant severity . She was brought up to this court the
other day because she merely spoke to one of the wardswomen , aud committed to lhixton for seven days . Hit term of imprisonment expired yesterday , when she returned to the workhouse , having no other place to go to . When she applied to the complainant to admit her , he refused , and shut the door in her face . She then did make a noise with the endeavour to be admitted , The complainant came ont of the house , and pushed her down . She denied baring assaulted him . —Mr . Traill Sidd tlie officer had no right to refuse her admission . Slie was a pauper belonging to the parish , and had a right to enter tlie workhouse . Her being puii'shed on a former occasion had nothing to do with their refusal . She had been punished for it , and was entitled to be admitted into the workhouse . He discharged her , and advised her to be more careful for the future .
LAJlBETIT . Moxdat . —Tins D-isnisc Victimize ** - ; . — Mrs . Ellen XaTier , < fl «» Evans , aluu Edwards , who has beon ill CU 8-toflj for SCVWal days on a c 5 ) : ; rj ; e of victimising several surgeons in the vicinity of Clapham , as well as in other parts of the metropolis , was brought before Mr . Henry for final examination . In addition to the cases already taken against the prisoner , the following witnesses were called : —Miss Ann Goelirane , an assistant to JllSS Richards , who l : eej > s a luce warehouse , 133 , Chcapside , deposed that early in the month of April last the prisoner drove up to the shop in a cab . ;«« 1 on entering inquired for Miss Kiclidids . She ( witness ) told her that Miss Kiciiards was then ensraged . but that as soon as she was disengaged she should see her . She then Silid she WilS going out of town by tlie Layton coach , and feared she should be tooJate if she stopped anvtime , and that having
unfortunately forgotten her purse , she called to ask Miss Itichards , who knew her , for 3 s . to pay her cab hire . Witness asked what name she should give to Jiiss Richards , and the prisoner rejJicd , " Miss Evans , Grove House , " and she sent one of the young persons in the shop to Miss Richards . The answer returned from Miss Ziicliards was , that she knew no person of the name of Evans , of Grove House , and therefore could not give any money . The prisoner , upon hearing this , expressed much astonishment , said she was sure that if Miss liichards saw her she would atonceeojnp'y with her request , and expressed a wish to see her . Her manner was so urgent , that a second message was sent to Miss Richards , but the latter peremptorily refused to give any money . The prisoner then stated that she was sure if the pretty-looking young woman was then in the shop who used to serve there she would at once have given her the money , ami described a young woman who Iiad previously lived there so accurately , that witness
thought her representations ivere correct , and also fancied Miss Kichards might have known and forgotten her . Under this impression , and influenced by the highly respectable appearance of the prisoner , she ( witness ) ' gave theprisoner 3 s ., one of which she had to borrow from her fclluw-shop-iroman , 3 Iiss Margaret Clayton , an assistant i © MUs Iiicharils , corroborated the whole of the evidence of the last witness and said she had lent a shilling to Miss Cochrane to give to the prisoner . Miss 1 ' riseiUa Kichards declared she had never , to her knowledge , seen the prioiier before that day , and that she never had a customer , nor had she been acquainted with , a Miss Evans , of Grove House This concluded tiie evidence against the prisoucr , and Mr . Henry committed her to Jfewgate , to take her trial at the Central Criminal Court , upon the distinct charges of fraud _ and obtaining monev by false representations . The prisoner , who is considerably altered since her apprehension , on hearing the decision of the magistrate dropped in the dock , and was obliged to be carried out ot court .
n edmsdat . —Extensive Robbert of Tiate asp Jeweiieht . —Two young women , sisters , named Caroline and Mary Cumming , were placed at the bar on a charge of stealing various articles of plate and jewellery , amounting in -value to Over £ 400 . Mr . Charles Shaw , a solicitor , residing at Ifo . II , Terrace , Wahvorth-road , deposed that the prisoner Mary Cumming had been in his service , but bad been succeeded by her sister Caroline , about ten years ago , when she ( Mary ) was strictly forbidden ever coming near tlie house again . Some months ago a lady , a friend of his , being about to travel , had placed in his ( Mr . Shaw ' s ) charge a chest full of plate ; and the chest , being locked and corded , was placed under his bed in his bed-chamber . On Tuesday last , the lady returning , dined at his house , and having expressed an anxiety to wear a portion of the jewellery in the box on the following Tuesday , the servant , Caroline , was desired by Mrs . Shaw , on Monday , to take the box from underneath the bed , when it was found that the lock was
broken , and the box itself perfectly empty . This circumstance led to . bis ( Mr . Shaw ) making an examination of his own plate , when he also discovered tliat a quantity of it , together -with a gold watch , and other articles of jewellery , were gone . Since that time the nineteen duplicates he then produced were found , all relating to plate and jewellery belonging to himself and the lady be had before-mentioned . A shopman in the service of Mr . Turner , a pawnbroker in the TTahvorth-road , produced a gold watch , and various articles of plate , which had been pledged by the prisoner Mai ? Cumming . The witnees said that prisoner was troll known at liis master ' s shop , slie having been ill the habit for more than two years past of pledging various articles of plate and jewellery , which she represented to btloiig to her uncle on the Terrace . She had also been in tiie habit of taking sonic Mlkk-s out and pig ging others . The prisoners , ' who declined saying anything in defence , were , as requested l » y the proitculor , remanded to a future i ' ay . " . VAXDSVfOHTH . vrxzxzissT . — a Casing Thief . catciik . i . — Alfred V s ~ 3 - / » 5 a"J » Vc " ii ; f . Tvlvr years of S £ f , va ? charged wish
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attempting to rob a till . —Tha prisoner sneaked into the shop of 8 Miss Jones , opposite the Nag ' s Head , Wandsworth-road , and was leaning over the counter with the shop-till drawn out and in his hands . When the shopmail disturbed him lie ran off , pursued by Miss Jones ' s d « K , who captured him , and held him fast until tlic slwpniiiu came up . —The prisoner m . nde no defence , and was committed for two months , with hard labour .
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SURREY SESSIONS . Moxdat . —A Reputed Ci . ehgyma . v Charged with Fklost . —On Monday the adjourned sessions commenced at the Court-house , Newington , before . Air . Pucklc , and a full bench of magistrates . Jauics West , described in the calendar forty years of age , a man of respectable appearance , anil said to have been a clergyman of the established church , was indicted for feloniously stealing one blanket , two sheets , and one counterpane , the property of Hannah Cracker , a lodgiug-house keeper in Pecklmiii . Mr . Locke stated the case on the part of the prosecution , and called Hannah Oraker , an aged nnd infirm woman , who deposed that slie is a widow , and lived with her daughter at Peckham . That , in the early part of September , the prisoner and his wife came to lodge at her house , on which occasion he pave the
name of Fletcher . That they remained there about thirteen days ; and , as she suspected they were getting rid of some of her property , she made an excuse to get into their room , by saying she wanted her bonnet , in order to ascertain whether tlisre - were just grounds for her suspicions . That the moment she entered the room for the above purpose , the prisoner and his wife ran down stairs out of the house , and on proscewtvix raising iho articles mentioned sbe loU her daughter , who gave information of the circumstance to a policeman , and the prisoner was taken into custody . William llammend , a policeman , deposed , that on the 13 th of September , the * prosceutrix ' s daughter having informed him of what had taken place , and seeing the prisoner and his wife runine from the direction of the house , he
pursued them . He came up with them in Peekham Rye , and on stoppi ' iit ; the prisoner , asked him what lie bad been doing . The reply was , that he had robbed his rea . ly-furnished lodgings of some sheets , a blanket , and a counterpa " r . i > , ' ~ but that he intended to redeem them , and give them back to the owner . He added , however , that he had disposed of the duplicates of the sheets to the hostler at the King ' s Arms , Peekham , but that he expected money , and he would get them all again . The policeman added that he found the duplicates of the blanket and counterpane , together with several letters , in the pr isoner s possession . The jury returned a verdict of guilty , llorsford , one of the Mendicity Society officers , was then called ; and he stated that he had known the prisoner since 1837 , in which year he was apprehended on a charge of writing begging-letters . That in March , 1844 , he was again in custody for attemptill " to commit a fraud on Mr . Rashleish . the member
for Cornwall , on which occasion he wrote to that gentleman under the signature of the Rev . Fletcher West , describing that he was on a bod of sickness , and that he and his family were in the most dreadful state of distress . That the communication appealing to Mr . Uashleigh ' s feelings was sent by a man named l ' cmn , with whom the prisoner was acting in concert ; and that he ( llorsford ) aware of the fact , followed Pen-in from Mr . Rashleigh ' s house , and saw him meet the prisoner in Bow-street , to inform him of the success of the application . He { llorsford ) took the prisoner into custody on that occasion , and since then he had been convicted at Queen-square Police-office of , illegally pawning , aud sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment , llorsford added , that he had a bundle of begging epistles written by the prisoner to various noblemen and gentlemen . The learned Chairman then sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment in Guildford House of Correction . ¦
Tuesd . it . —Charge of Felony . —Mrs . Rosetta Ann Robinson , who had falsely represented herself to be tho wife of a barrister of that name , and who was described in the calendar to be twenty-six years of age , -was placed \ ipon her trial upon a bill of indictment charging her with felloniously stealing two yards of satin , of the vatue of seven shillings , the property of Mr . William Mabley , the proprietor of the King ' s Head-inn , at Norwood . The prisoner , who was elegantly dressed , upon being placed in tho felon ' s dock , appeared excessively affected , and during lhe trial was seized with such violent fits of hysterics that it required the united exertions of three of the prison keepers , nnd two of the female attendants , to control her . Her screams and sufferings were of a painful character , and caused a deep sympathy in the court . Mr . Lelly was engaged for the prosecution , and Mr . Bagley for the defence . The former gentleman stated the caso to the
jury , the brief facts of winch were these : —On Wednesday afternoon , the 8 th inst , the prisoner and two others set out from her residence in Gloucester-street , Queen-square , the former mounted on a pony , and the two latter in a gig . On reaching Blackfriars-bridge' the pony tumbled with the prisoner , and was no severely injured that they put it up to livery at the Horse and Leaping-bar in the Blackfriars-road . The prisoner being a good deal alarmed nnd shaken by the fall , called for a bottle of sherry at the Horse and Lcaping-bav Tavern , and she and her friends having finished its contents , started for Norwood in a gig . On arriving at the King ' s Head Inn they desired the ostler to put up the horse , and requested to bo shown to a private room . This was done by the chambermaid nnd
they called for half a pint of gin . They remained there for three quarters of an hour , when they left , as they said , to have their fortunes told by a veil-known gipsey in that neighbourhood . On returning to the inn they were shown into the ordinary parlour on the gronnd floor , when they called for «* i second half-pint of gin . Some time after Mrs . Mabley , the landlady , fancied she heard some noise on the stairs , aud immediately after observed the prisoner come down stair 3 , and go out at the front door . She suspected all was not right , and instantly rushed up stairs , when she missed from the drawers in her bed room four
pieces of satin which she had placed there in the morning with a piece of paper over them . On making tins discovery , Mrs . Mabley sent lier pot-boy first , and then her daughter , to bring the prisoner back , and upon being told the landlady wished to speak to her , she threw the pieces of satin in the ditch . On lier returning to the inn , she was met by a policeman , who accused her of stealing the pieces of . satin , and her reply was , that if she stole it she must have been dreaming at the time . The jury found the prisoner Guilty , recommending her to the mercy of the court . Tlie chairman sentenced her to twentyeight days solikvy confinement in Horscinongeivlanu Gaol .
The City Police . —A correspondent writes as follows : — -As I was returning home , about ton minutes past one o ' clock , on Thursday morning , it was my mortification to witness another brutal act on the part of the police—three of them had got hold of a young man , very humbly dressed , having on a fustian jacket , apron , &c . The police , on my approach , relinquished their hold , and the poor fellow declared he would wait for the sergeant and tell that officer the treatment he had received . I naturally felt an inclination to ascertain the truth , and stood at a few vards distant to watch the result ; but the watchfufguardians skulk'daway without locking tho man up . The poor fellow cried bitterly , and stated to me . that he could not nossiblv have eiven the
slightest offence—he had been to his brother ' s to sup , was returning home ( xn Red Cross-street ) ( luiotly humming a tune to himself , when one of tho policemen " bonnetted" him rather violently , and then , because he asked the reason , he attempted to drag hint to the station—they had nearly choked him with his neckerchief . While he was showing me his broken hat , one of the police came up and told him to go on and not call people " 1 > y fools , " or they would make a " b y fool" of him . Now this was evidently done to irritate the man , in order to get a reply from him , and a pretext for taking him to the station-house . Now , sir , from the frequent doings of this kind by the city police , ! am convinced that many innocent persons ( especially if they appear poor ) very often suffer imprisonment and fines from tlie cruel and unnecessary offieiousness of the unboiled , and the sooner your pen is employed in exposing these intolerant
domineering and unfeeling acts of the " Jacks in office" the better , and sure I am that j ^ ou will render much service t © the public . Ruminating on what I had just seen , ou mv way home , and near the India-house , I was ifforded an opportunity of marking the contrast in the treatment of the apparently poor , and those who pass as the respectable classes . A -ffelltlresaed person , with cigar and stick , bawling at the top of his voice , proceeded along the street ( -which -was well supplied with the vi g ilant blues ) uninteruptedly , —on interference with him , no policeman knocked his hat over his eyes , or got hold of his neck-cloth and pressed their knuckles in his throat , no station-house for him . I watched him till out of sight , and could not help exclaiming , alas ! poor fustian jacket , how thou hast been punished this night for thy poverty , and what a protection would that gent ' s clothes have afforded thee—but I forgot that in this country there is the same law for the rich as the poor (?)
The Potatob Murrain , in Manchester . —Wo have made inquiries of intelligent agriculturists and scientific friends who have visited different districts in this immediate neighbourhood , and the result is a conviction that the disease exists here , though as yet in a very modified form . It is , however , exceedingly difficult to arrive at any precise conclusion at present ; for a great quantity of potatoes in this neighbourhood are not yet gathered , and it is found that the murrain is later in making its appearance in some places than others . An intelligent friend , who has extended his inquiries in every direction around Manchester within a few miles , informs us that he believes the murrain to be more or less in every ilistrict in the neiehbou : hood , except in that about Ohectham-hill , which exemption he supposes to be owing to its \ evy light and sandy soil . Inoeed tue potatoes on tlie light , dry soils , arc genciv . ! ly more free from murrain , than those on the ' eoid heavy lauds . —Mumhmcr Chvxrxkin .
A Practical Philanthropist We Find The Following In The L'Mse .-—Monsieur Du Petit Mautcau Ulcu
A Practical Philanthropist We find the following in the l ' mse .- —Monsieur du Petit Mautcau Ulcu
seems to have lounua rival , or rather , an emulator , with this difference , that our new philanthropist has hitherto preserved the strictest incognito , by assuming the js'iU'b , and tone , and language of the lower orders . About a week or ten days ago , a few minutes before two in the afternoon , a man dressed in a blouse ( . 'literal the shop of a traiteur in the Faubourg St . Antoiue , where hundreds of workmen come at lixed hours to take what they call their ordinary . He was served with tv plate of soup , which lie swallowed like a famished man , then a portion of the beef , which he devoured with equal appetite , and lastly a cup of wine , which ho drank at one draught . This done ,
• ie got up and went to the bar , demanding what he itful iojpay . 'L'lic landlady summed up— " An ordinary 7 sous , wine 3 sous , and 2 sous for broad , in all l ! i sous . " " Good , " replied the guest . "Now tell me how many workmen come here to their dinner . " " Why ! you sec there are sixteen tables for four each , and in a very few-minutes they will all be fillet ! , that will make sixty-four . " "Good , that makes 3 Sf ., and adding my score it will amount to 39 f . Here is 40 f ., and you will tell all these good fellows that ftheir dinner is paid for to-day ; " and throwing eight five-franc pieces on the counter , he disappeared . At daybreak the next morning a man entered one of the numerous lodging-houses for workmen in the Rue de 1 'IIotel de Ville frequented by journeymen joiners , and cried out , " Well ,
companions , how many of you arc in want of work ?" Ten men jumped up together and preferred their claims . " Well , " continued our eccentric but humane friend , ' Pick up your legs , and I will get you engaged for the whole winter . But you must make haste , forl am in a hurry . " Believing that theyhadto do with a brother chip , the ten men lost no time in following him to a master joiner in the Hue du Cherche Midi . Here , addressing the master , he said , " I have brought you ten good workmen , and you must employ them . " " But lam not in want of any , for I can hardly find work for my own people . " " Good ! good ! still engage these , and you shall not find work fail you . In the first place you must make for me 50 school desks of heart of oak , five metres long by one and a half wide , and as manv
benches of the same Stuff , and then we will talk of more . " The worthy joiner , however , stammered and hesitated . "Oh ! you don't know me . True—true therefore you must have something in hand . " Taking out a dirty pocket-book and producing a bank note tor l . OOOf ., he thrust it into the joiner ' s hand anil decamhed . For three successive days in last week the same person put in requisition all the women who earn then- living by carding mattresses , and paying each her day ' s work in advance ; he divided them into squadrons , and ordered them to go and card gratis all the mattresses in the lodging-houses for workmen in tho neighbourhood of the Place de wove . This popular species of philanthropy may , as we can very well imagine , raise a smile , but in such eccentricities we should look only at the results and applaad them .
Death of tub Last Diqshary of Anciemt To-1 AKD . —1 he last great ttignitavy of the Polish Crown died some days ago at his country-seat , a short distance from Posen . Jlis name was Herr von Czarnecki ; he was the royal carver of Stanislau s AUCUStwPonjatOTOki . the last King of Poland , and had attained , before Ins death , his 90 th year . According to his expressed wish , he was buried with all the 53 X& ft&S" ° mer Wgh raDk »*¦ "W *—
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*¦*¦»* ¦ ~*~~~ . ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . We must again accord our meed of praise to the spirited lessee of this theatre ( Mr . John Douglass ) , and ins truly talented company . We marvel not at the in . creasing celebrity this temple of Thespis has recently obtained , seeing that mo effort is-wanting on the part of the conductors to gratify theiv numerous patrons , and sustain the high position they have attained . We ccr tamlyfeel a pleasure in recording the triutaph o £ merit over mercenary worthiness , and iu chronicling the lactot an improved taste and refined discrimination on the part of the public , who , In consequence of the amal gamating influence of political and social corruption " tinV «* hni-afnfni > a invnHlnU ., -. 3 « ... Mr **" have heretofore invariably adorned
the brow of avarice and ignorance with the chaplet justly due to dmaw . ta ana sterling intellectual worth On Monday night , Luke Freeman ; or , a Sister ' s fflTr , adomosho drama , -was introaueed , in which the pluinc ters were admirably stained , in ,, o ^ b 1 , 1 6 eifa > evinced superior powers , whkh elicitedI the repeated fS i ? V'f " Cd ll ° ** . In tho irXfaSU Duty * f * M' - I * e appeared at homo ; and also in the drama of Oluer ^ mj , iu the character of Mv . £ u » Me . In tins di-ama Mrs . Konner , as Oliur JWrt . and Mr . Honner , as J yan , shone to advantage , and fully realised the ai .. wil «» u .. ns oi tho auditory . The manners and customs of those iivoicMional gentlemen known by the cogaomen
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of piw wore pointedly illustrated , and their compeers , known | by the soubriquet of " the three devil kings of $ 0 . merset House , " were helped forward towards immortaii . sntioii ( if they have not yet attained that honour ) by the unveilinij of their misery-fraught and damnable system . Tho order to satiate CAicefo Jmnjyer with " tlie bones tlio dogs had picked the previous day , " evidently reminded the auditory of the recent doings at Andover . We certainly think such mementos well-timed , and « -e trust all such public spirited iiiiiiiugers as Mr . D « uulass will be supported auil encouraged as they deserve .
IUUNCESS'S THEATItK . Uf-Ari'EABANCB of ilr . AIackeadv . —There was a terrific crush on Monday night to obtain cntrnnco into the L ' rincess ' s Theatre to welcome Mr . M&civady . Loubefore the doors were opened an eager crowd besieged them , and v , hen the portals were thrown back people had literally to fight their way up the long , narrow , and in . convenient lane which forms the common passage to both boxes and pit from the untranca in Oxford-street . When half-way up this defile , many took fright , and di-spami ] . of effecting an ingress , turned back , and struggled frai ° tidy to retrace their steps , a procedure which caused tuu most admired disorder . The whole theatre was crammed by tlie first rush , and crowds went away disappointed Certain it is that every nook and cranny of the house was filled from which tlie most distant hope could L
nourished of obtaining intermittent glimpses ot the stage . The play produced was Ihmltt . the first scene of which was acted nearly in
To enlarge upon a performance so well known to every playgoer as Mr . Macrcady ' s impersonation of the nielan * . choly and philosophic Prince of Denmark , wuuldbe . i tedious superfluity . Enough for us to state that he never played Hamlet with more fire , with a display of more inexhaustible resources , with more art covered by the semblance of perfect spontaneity . A very efficient compauy has been tui-mcd to support Mr . MacreaUy . Mrs . Ternun , liltl ! JliaS Jiirmilll , played Gertrude , and ably acted up to Macremlvjii ( lie finu scene iu the third act . Cooper was the Ghost ; Kyder was the King ; G . Fisher , a young man of good figure and a very judicious s peaker , was Horatio ; Compton and OsViorry ( both excellent ) were tlieffrrtvi-dteferi Graubv was I ' olonius ; and Miss Emma Stanley was Ophelia . A bwmtiiul scene lias been painted by-Mr . licvcrley , representing the castle and the moon-lit sea bv Elsinore . Altogether , Mr . Maddox has spared no pains to honour " ii ,-. Macready ' s return to the metropolis iu the Lost man ncr possible .
Wednesday evening was the second of Mr . Jfacready ' g performance , and another crowded audience was assembled to witness it . When he first appeared there was a repetition of that hearty cheering which greeted his 1 C . turn to tlio Stage oh Monday . Tlie play was Kimj Lear , acted according to Shakspaare ' s version , as rtsvived b y Mr . Macready , at Covent-ganlen , iu the season of 1837-8 , when Nahum Tate ' s mollification was abolished . Mr . Macread y ' s Lear is one of his most iuipvissive delineations . The means whereby lie prepares his effects , and unfolds the groundwork of the character , are not less commendable than those more obvious displays of passion with which he draws down thunders c . r applause . The air of imbecile fondness with ivliieli lie totters down the steps of his throne to mect ' iiis most heoved daughter Cordelia , after he lias move formall y jiiven
the two portions to his elder children , accounts , as it were , for the indignation which her apparent coldness creates . The querulous old man is in a sensitive a / fcctiuiiate mood that will not bear checking ; he receives a chuck , and is first shocked , then enraged . His greeting of the fool , after the first suspicion of Goncril ' s neglect , is another preparation . Tlio attVetion with which he caresses him , the readiness with which lie laughs at his ploiisuivtrie ? , without seeming precisely to understand them , appeared to proceed from an uneasy notion that lie is clinging to the only being that remains faithful to him . When the ingratitude of Goneril is fully revealed heis entianced . his mind can scarcely receive what liis senses have admitted , and it is a linu toucli that lie now does not even hear the Fool , to whom , a fcwniiniiics before , he listened with such forced eagerness . The curse upon Goncril took th * house by storm .
It was a masterly picture of the struggle of a strong will to overcome the obstacles produced liy physical infirmity , lie seemed afraid lest his force should leave him before he luul spoken the last words of wrath—to eke out his strength by a preternatural effort—that he might utter one curse more . After the behaviour of Goncril , the jests of the Fool cease to please him altogether , ami he passes tlll'Ul ill IllOUrnful siieilGC . The vacant countenance which in the third net he wears for some moments admirably prepares the transition from the toi rent of rage and grief with which he enters upan the heath to the state of insanity , and this is further elaborated by the clinging eat'tiostlluss with trhicli he uttaclius himself to the feigned maniac , Edgar , evincing a mysterious sympathy . Hut in the whole performance there was not a more subtle
toucli than the manner in which the words " Bo not abuse me" were given at ' to . r Uiu recognition of Cordelia , Waking for a moment from his insanity , ho embraced her with a burst of alVection . Then it seemed as though this bruin had no lougev vowel' to vctahi the . images presented , all the scene before him seemed to fade away , and the words just quoted marked the return tohelplcss imbecility . Tho agOttyol'grief n-itii which at tliu end licbrought on tlie dead Cordelia , the anxiety with which he fruitlessly watched for some sign of returning life , and the despair with which ho reclined on the ground by her body , formed a worthy conclusion to this highly wrought aud affecting representation . The applause of the audience at tho conclusion was unbounded , and Mr . Macready was called before the curtain amid the loudest acclamations .
Tho play was respectably tilled . Mrs . Sterling played Cordelia , with a great deal of feeling , anil assumed the appearance of deatli ( not a matter ufucui'ge ) with excellent effect . 1-jdghr ami Kvut were acted with j pivit by Messrs . Wallack and . Cooper . Mr . C . Fisher * looked well as Edmund . The fool , the faithful fool , was excel , lcntlv well i > layotl hy Hiss jtfai \ Vh : ill . Tlie talmt she CVilieetl Was Well appreciated , and has given us the hopes of this young lndy line day holding a very distinguished position in ihe profession . On Friday evening , Mr . Macready repeated his performance or Jlamlet to another crowded and equally enthusiastic audience . On the alternate nights Vnl . ' aek has been playing in i ) ou C' ivsar J ) c Sazan and the Brigand to crowded audiences . HOYaL PAVILION TI 1 EATKJ-:
On Thursday evening wo psttd a visit to the Royal Pavilion Theatre . The house was crowded . Jilfca Jlulwei ! , a "domestic drama , " appears to be a great card here , it we vimy judge by the vast number of persons who nightlv crowd to . witiiess its performance . The piece is from tin * pen of Mr . Frederick Nuale , am ! is put upon-the stage remarkably well , ' lhescenery , machinery , dresses , ifcc . are excellent . It must be highly gratifying to the author to know of tho immense applause with which the piece was hailed throughout . The first-rate acting of Aliss Adelaide Cook , and the rich droll humour of Miss l ' eUifer , elicited warm applause . Messrs . Uale . Ikirton , and Howard also admirably sustained their respeetivu characters . Ilr . Canfield , the American Sampson , shows some woudevt'ul feus of strength ; dut our space , will not permit us to criticise his astonishing performances .
Hoyai . A » ELM * i > s CiAW . Ki " . Y . — On Trilby evening we visited this delightful place of entertainment , aud xveru happy to find a numerous and exceedingly respectable audience present , who testified their approbation of the several entertainments by frequent bursts of hearty applause . On entering , tlw establishment presents to Vht view of the visitor a remarkably light and neat appearance ; aud in addition to the fountains , scientific models , paintings , steam engines , & « ., there is the atmospheric railway , the electric eels , tho weighing machine , prume . nado concerts , ifcc . Mr . A . Scdgmck ably presided over the musical arrangements : his handling of the accortliau exhibited great professional skill ; in fact , he all but made tbe , insU'vnYve . -i \ t speak . A . Miss l \ ilser \ s dancing was beyond all praise ; and Sig . A . Guibclci delighted the company with the songs , "Koeked in the cradliuif the deep ,
and " Would 1 were a boy again . " Oui > gallantry w »» uot permit us to be sileut as to Miss l ' earce , a lady who enraptured us by her first-rate execution of the ' Echo song , and also the " Hunter of Tyrol , " in each of which sli" >« ls vociferously encored . The " Xew Zealand Chief" was introduced by a gentleman , who gave a topograp hical description of tho islands , and u most iu tcrestm ; , ' " « - tOl'y of the couutry ; in the course of whiuh lie ''" el ( : much on the fertility of the soil , its p roduce-such asnas , &c . ; its minerals—lead , iron , copper , ores , itc , w . neh are found there in abundance » ave a brief uecovmt ol Captain Cook ' s visit , as well as other navigators who hail visited and traded there ; and indulged in n > ui ' " WiuWl t / t >\\ tho great blessings conferred on the natives by ^ " religious instruction" imparted to the ' savages" by tnu missionaries ; and concluded by avowing as his oimupn , that it , -was the very best speculation for the cnteiyrisvns English emigrant , and decidedly the safest investment tor labour , capital , and skill , of » iiy part of tlie globe , mi ' Cluct" iscertainW an extraordinary man ; aud it one . halt of what maniioui
he says is true , he has experienced perils and "hair-breadth escapes . " He ' gave a lenginy account of his residence amongst the natives ; Ins treat , went by them , and ludicrous description of theiv Iniiguagemanners , customs , &c . ; exhibited their weapons ot warfare , a number of dresses worn by them , sang several songs in their language , danced , &c . lie then came stlOHb the gallery to enable tins company to closely inspecuns person , which was curiously tattooed . lie has pubusiiw * a narrative of his life , which maybe had in the gallery for sixpence . But the gem of the evening's cntci'tan » * was the incomparable "dissolving views " and " chromatrope , " which must be seen to be appreciated . , 'lbc av j rangements appear excellent , the attendants civil a » tl obliging , aud altogether we know no place i « Lou" 011 where a . more intellectual treat can be enjoyed lor Oiw-MUing ; we therefore earnestly rcconi mend our rcauevs w go and judge for themselves . tVe should state tliat a » explanatory lecture on tho " atmospheric railway V ""' oiplc" is delivered at nine o ' clock . The whole couchwe * about eleven .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 25, 1845, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1338/page/8/
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