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. rV-E honldiDT chance so nappsn—deeds , } ( A £ l ll who warmth Thought !" Mk I hear a little bird , rrho sings ' ^^ p letjand by will be the stronger . '' _ BTBO 5 HALT , AUSTRIA , AM ) THE POPE . Italia . ' oil Italia- ' lion wio hast T * e iatal gift ° * besn ^ r , which became Vfaneral dowa of present woes and past , Oa tliv sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame , And aunals grareain charasters of flame . Oh God ! tkat llloa wert ^ J &edness i « s lovely or more powerful and could ' st claim . Th y risWi aad awe the robbers back who press died W blood , aad drink the tears of thy distress . -ffe canuot quit the " Coadition-of-Italy-Ques-» - „ " which has occupied this department of the c « " r for so many weeks , without a word or two as to £ '; position in which England is placed with regard that question . Unfortunately it is our painful ^ tv to confess that that position is a - ? ery
disgraee-TVom the murder of Guucciou to the opening of ¦ itonsis letters , England has , by her aristocratic T . tos-bce& made to play a treacherous , cruel , and Samriess part towards unfortunate Italy . l ' crhans some of our readers have never before lipard of the murder of Cakacciolt . After the aban-Snvnent of Naples , . by ( the French Republican ) ! k * eral Macaonald , in May , 1799 , and the feu of the hart-lived Parthenopeau Htpublic , the friends of fil . ertv were everywhere subjected to proscription aid slaughter at the hands of the agents cf the rear ed monarchy , and the fanatic lazzawrai excited to the utmost pitch of sanguinary madness by the inf amous priests . A number of French troops and jative Republicans remained masters of , or rather
were shut up in , thecasties of Uovo and Jfuove . Hard ntesed , and finding their situation desperate , the ieaeged capitulated . The King was yet absentis Neapolitan Majesty haviug some months preriondy decamped to Sicily , taking with him all the Measures and moveable valuables of the palaces , together with some millions of money , and setting fire to the dockyard , —but Cardinal Ruhfo , who had ieadedthereToltof the "loyal" Neapolitans , acted in name and by authority of the runaway Xing . By ite terms of the capitulation , agreed npon between ihe Cardinal and the besieged , complete security for person and property was guarranteed to all within tLe iorts , whether French or " rebels . " This treaty was not only solemnly entered into by the Cardinal ,
as representative of the King , but was also sanctioned lr the Turkish and Eusaan commanders , and Jy C' pttdn Foote on the part of tfte EagUtk . Before , ioffever , the treaty coald be carried into executien , Ox British fleet , under the command of Nelsos , arrived from Sicily , and Nelson peremptorily entered tlie treaty to be annulled , dee 5 arin «* ii 5 conditions to be "infamous . " He insisted that tLe " rebels , " should surrender at discretion , and shojaii themselves to the " clemency" of their " gracious lunr / ' As he could not induce the Cardinal to share iaxfiis iaiqtaioas procedore , be . took tlie xesponsi-Ifflv npon himself . In the treaty so infamously iMtra by Xekox , Prince Caraccioii , if not named , was understood to be included , this unfortunate man
iail been forced into joining U . e French and serving wtli tliera . Garaccich had fled , l > ut a prico being stcpon hi > head he was taken , and tyMton ' sordcn Trasimmediately put upon his trial for "high trea ain . " Tlie victim was seventy years of age ; he lad ' served his Idng as anaval officer for forty years , and was gcnerallv beloved and respected ; but all this availed him nothing . Ivklsos thirsted for blood ; Ufood was , to use his own words , his only " comfort . " "Exiting torn Palermo to Captain Thoubeidge , in ccmiaand of the blockade of Naples , a short time previously , he had said , " Send me tiwd some proper k ( ads are taken off . This alone will contort me " Pear Gariccicij was seized at nine o ' clock in the morning , tried at ten o ' clock , mthout being allowed
a moment to prepare his defence , his principal judge , Count Tnuitx , being his personal enemy . In less dan two hours he was condemned to death , and imneuiately after the finding of the court , Kelsos confirmed the sentence and ordered the execution to take place at five o ' clock the same day . The unliapjw victim in vain demanded a new trial , iu vain cSeredtoprovatliatlie bad only token up aims on camjuMon , Kelsos was inflexible . Aband-ouin ^ iiimself to despair , Caraccioli entreated that he nidit be shot , and not subjected to the disgrace of Irajging , but even this poor boon was sternly refused . Tothelininar . e and ref = ea . ted entreaties of Lieutenant 1 ' iiaissox , Uelsox brutally replied , " Go , sir , and attend to vour duty . " As a . last resource Caeaccioli bs »«< l lieutenant Parkinson to try to get Lady
Hamilton to intercede for him , bat that shameless , kardess wretch , would not be seen ; she , however , was jiesentatLer victim's execution . GAHACcioiihad been tried en board an English ship , tiie Fuudroy ; int . lie w ? . shanged onboard oneof his own nation ' s ships , the 3 ! ioerra frigate . Bh body , as had been ordered by Hscbief assassin , Kelson , was tin-own into the sen . It is a singular , but notorious fact , that notwithstanding a weig ht of 250 pounds was attached to the lndv , the sea would not retain it ; a week after the execution the body was observed upright , and half floating out of the water , bearing down towards tlie JbcdroTant . The King , Nsusox , and tLe Hamiltoxs were on board the Foudroyant at the time , and , 10 get rid of this ghastly witness of their crime , a feats crew were ordered to take charge of the corpse , and consign it to "Christian burial , " which
tos donr . Many executions of the unfortunate persons -whom Erases had seized , and given up to " the clemency cf the King , " accompanied or followed that _ of OiHicciou . Nelsox found his reward in the title and domain of Bronte . TLehtotory of ibis assassination will give our readers a better insight into the real character of >' nsoxthan they -will find in three-fourths of the accounts of this " naval hero" which they have lutherto been conversant with . Nelsos was a clever
Miing brute , whose treed was , "Fear God and lonour the King ; " great on the quarter-deck , hut fenced by the lowest vices and most ignorant preinSces . "SVehope , for the honour and happiness of iunkiiid , iUat we shall have no more saeh heroes to ualfttiioEn glish name famous and infamous too . Eii column in Trafalgar-square is yet uninseribed ; and if the inscription , that is to be , was written by Jh « finder of truth , other achievements besides those cJSt . f inccnt , the Me , Copenhagen , aud Trafalgar , tbM fce blazoned thereoa . " Viscount jSelsos and Dake of Bhoxte would also figure
as"Paratnour of Lady Hamilton , Executioner to the Eing of &j > les , and Jfardcrer of CaracdoU /" Men the fall of JNapoko . y at length came , again ias Italy betrayed , and England disgraced , by the afaaious Miuistry of whom the execrable Casilb-Eicn was the head . When invoking the nations to seajaiastXAPOLEOS , Italy , amongst other states , ias appealed to , and promises were made to the Wiau people which were shamefully broken the aanent that the end soug ht by tlie allied despotisms fas accomplished . The partial restoration of Italian ¦ ationdity under Jsssstxos , although dependent ( pon , aud subjected to , Frencli doniiaation , hr . d been wdnctiveof the happiest results for Italy . The
ataasc of material prosperity , the growth of raiemoation , and the prosress of intelloct , in pro ems prtviously miserable , exclusive , and benighted , Tared the immense good which the mere partial Kioration of Italian liberty had effected , and plainly Iswed -stoat great things were destined to be f&iercd Ly the descendants of the world ' s masters , ir ovided that Italy , " one and indivisible , " was Wractced to them . TJcder these circumstances it « s impossible that the Italians could sympathise ftth the enemies of Xatoixox , ualess they had been ^ to hope from them greater concessions than fey Lad gained from the Gallic conqueror . These oaressious were promised , and the English Government was foremost in the werk of deliberate Ratterv . Generals Wnsos , M'Faeuse , and Lord
f- teiixcK , proclaimed , in 1814 , the liberty and adependeuec of the Italian people . " Liberia , e in-• I-aidmza Itatica " were the words inscribed on the ^• lards of the Legion , ateo called Jtalica , or-Mused by the Engfeh Government in Sicilj to be m r'ojed in Tuscany . The English agents everyiere desseminatcd copies of the Sicilian Coastitu-° a , of that Constitution -which was given to Sicily - * cn that island was important to England as a lilitary position , and afterwards infamously abaupied , in spite of promises , in which the honour of ••" dand was invoked . -NiPotEos fallen , all these promises were violated fci broken . In vain did the deputies of the Italian e ^ jle appeal to the good fattli of England . England HS , anfortunately , represented by CASTLEHEAGH , and atJttcCreaBt , wno had sold Ireland for the price of ocd , atd was at that very time preparing to atm rt the jrenewal in England of those despotic and o&dv acfe which he had previously perpetrated m
5 nativ e la ~ nA *** » ot likely to day any other part an ( hat of ia ^ kaU to the Austrian monster . Air . sttixi has * appended to his pamphlet a report of eof the confciv ^ ^ ° * I * ' deputies with snicEACH * Ali ' that the deputiee could get Irom e reprea-ntative . of EvgjenA ? as the assurance at ltalvliadnotliiEg 10 dread from" the patorna , 'Tcnmient of Aastm . " Three months after tuis ahwee fed been grmv ¥ i ^ 3 ' fnf fans of every rank , were v ^^ fc pr ^ ons of % , Austria ; and Ilan ^ arv . , ^ - ^^ L « 5 ? action and concurrence of the abominable . Engusb wwnent , tie Confess of Tf * BB * j " ! 2 fJ £ &eot thapen , erased the libei * & f / S f iopes ofWltalinn people . ' ^^ " fS js evfrnrLero rc- ^ tahlidlcd , ' pernk ™* ' "" L ?^ ^ Bbtfow , a « d fhintias for . vengea ^ e . ihe mrecjio ^ of 1820 ; iS 2 iriS 31 , and ; t \ ^ u ^ a ^ , tusalts , proscriptions , confiscat . 0 ^ , « >* c * t i&ks , mi judicial assassinations wh ** * v
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year has since , witnessed , have beea the legitimate fruits of the enormous fraud and wrong perpetrated in 1814-15 , in which England , by its rascally Govern : ment , was made to be a principal actor . It was in allusion to the betrayal of Italy by the English Government at this period , that our glorious ana immortal poet , Btkox , ' . ' wrotei ' the following words , in hia introductioi to the fourth canto of "ChildcHarold " : — , .-That man must be wilfully Hind , or ignorantly heedless , who-iriiot struck with the eitraordi » arj- capacity of this people , or , if sueh a word be admissible , theiv cipaliilitks , the facility of then * acquLitioiis , the rapidity of their conceptions , the fire of their genius , their sense of beauty , and , amidst all the disadvantages of repeated revolutions , the desolation of battles , snd the despair of
ajJfrS , their still unqueucteil "lon ^ iug after immortality " —tbe immortality of independence . Aud when na ourselves , iu riding raund the walls of Koine , heard the simple lament of tae labourers' chorus ; " Roma ! Roma Roma ! Iloma non e put come era prima , " it was dimeult not to contrast this melancholy dirge with the bacchanal roar of the songs of exultation still jelled from the London taTerns , over the carnage of Jfont St . Jean [ Waterloo ] , and the betrayal of Genoa , of Italy , of France , and of the world . # * * What Italy has gained by the late transfer of nations it were useless for Englishmen to inquire , till it becomes ascertained that England has acquired something more than a permanent army and a suspended haJms corput ; it is euough for them to look at home . For what they hare done abroad , and especially in the south , " verily , they tdllJiare their reward , " aud at no very distant period .
Come we now to the damning and more recent act of treachery and villany committed by the English aristocratic Government—the seal-breaking and opening of Mr . Mazzesi ' s letters . Here it strikes us that we shall do well to answer the question , " Who is Joseph Mazzisi ? " \ Yc take the following answer from the Westminster Review : — The presentstate of Italy couldnotbebetter illustrated than by describing ihe circumstances which threw llazzini into his present position , lie first attracted tlie attention of the governments of Italy br tlie freedom with which , throngh various channels , he discussed literary questions . We need hardly say that for political questions there is no channelin Italy . A "Westminster Review" would be a greater curiosity at Borne than the Thames Tunnel . In 1838 , Mazziui published , at Genoa , a -nreeklTliterary gazette , called the "Indicator Genoviise . " It appeared under the doable supervision of a civil and an ecclesiastical censorship ; but at the end of the year , it was suppressed . In 1829 he attempted a similar journal
at Leghorn , under the ti tle of the " Indicatore Livomesu , " but in a fe ^ v mouths this also was suppressed . Thesamt year ha wrote an article upon European liters ture in a review called the "Antoiogia , '' published at Plorenc * . The review was suppressed , after having been in the &nt instance prosecuted . In 1830 occurred tberevoluiionoi July ; and from the excitement it occasioned in Italy it was deemed prudent to put under arrest every person oi known or suspected liberal sentiments . Hazziui waso ) course amongst them . Hazzini ' sfather , whois professor of anatomy at the University of Genoa , vent to tin governor of the town ( Vc ' nansoc ) to inquire what offence his sou had committed , and found that the chief ground of accusation was the following : — "Your son , " said the goreraor , "is in thehahit of walking every evening in the fields and gardens of the suburbs , alone and wrapt in meditation . What on earth can h * have at his age to think about ? We don't like somuch thinking on the part of young people without knowing the subject of their thoughts . " *
A COm&usslon of senators was appointed at Turin to try llnzziri and his friends ; but , as nothing could U proved againstthem , they were acquitted . The acquittal , however , signified nothhig . Mazzini was detained for five months in solitary confinement in the fortress ol Savona , and then banislied the couutrjr . At this time Louis PliUippe , newly seated on his throne , had not been recognised by tha absolute sovereigns ci Europe , and it -svas the policy of the French government to protect and encourage the discontented of all nations , especially Italians and Spaniards ; many ol whom received money and semi-official offers * f assistance . The object ox Louis Philippe in this case has since been explained .
It was merely to embarras the allied powers with their own Eubjecis , that hostilities against France might be rendered impossible . When this tud had been answered , revolutionary propagandism was disavowed , and protection was withdrawn from the refugees but not till many among them had been led to commit themselves too hopelessly against their own governments to dream of returning to their native land . The unfortunate Spaniards : and Italians fell alike into the same snare . 'Who among them could bs blamed for believing that the time had arrived when s blow struck for freedom could not be other than successful ? They were deceived by a prospect bright but transitory ; soon to be overcast with dark shadows , which could notbs foreseen .
ilazzini was permitted to publish at Marseilles "La Giovino Italia , " and to form an association of Italian liberals , under the same name . This association differed irom that of the old Carbonari ia various points , but especially in repudiating secrecy , whenever it is practicable to claim and exercise the right of public discussion . A free press not existing hi Italy , the press of foreign countries -was used as a medium for the open dissemination of liberal principles . The political tracts of " La Giovine Italia , " were smuggled bj Italian merchant ships from Marseilles into Italy , and immediately produced an effect which alarmed the Italian governments for the result . In various states the symptoms of an impending rcvolutian could not be mistaken . In some the people broke out into open insurrection—a movcmeut in which the foreign exiles hastened to take a part .
It commenced too late . The policy of France had cha ised . The new House of Bourbon came to an under-Standing with the House of Austria , and Italy was sacrificed as the price of peace . The refugees at Marseilles were now sent into the interior . Maz-rini , without forin of trial , or reason assigned , was ordered to quit France He refused . Hope had notyet been abandoned , andit appeared to him still Important to keep himself in conimumcation with his countrymen . He remained at Marseilles for twelve months , hading the Tigilanceof the French police and Italian spies ; out so rigorous was his seclusion , that only twice during the whole period did he venture to leave his place of concealment to breathe the fresh air , aud that only at night , once iu the dress of a woman , in the other instance disguised in the uniform of the
National Guard . When a large body ef Italians assembled in Switzerland , to aid a popalsr movement in Savoy , ilazzini joined them . The attemptthsh made , although frustrated , chiefly through the misconduct of then- military leader ( General Ramorino ) , brought npon Switzerland the ire of the great powers . Dix » lomatic notes Tvere showered upon the government of the Cantons . Austrian and French troops were poured vpon the frontiers , llazzini and his friends were compelled to fly iron ) Geneva to the Canton deTaud ; thc-iica toBwne , thence to Solotburn ; thence to unfrequented villages in tlie mountains ; everywhere receiving marks of sympathy and kindliest from the people , but finally compelled to look to England as the only country in Europe in which ii would be permitted them to find a resting-place or a sate asylum .
How safe that asylum must have proved to some who have since leftit unconscious that the reputation of Great Britain for honour and hospitality only masks the same system of secret espionage which prerails on the continent , -we leave the public to judge , llazzini landed in England in 1 S 37 , and has remained a guest of this country from that period to the present j esteemed by all who know him , and enjoying the confidence and personal friendship of many of our ablest literary men . We need not reiterate tlie disgraceful story of our country's degradation , caused by the opening of Air . Mazzoi's letters . At the time when the facts in cosnection therewith were , thanks'to Mr . Ddsccmiie , made public , we took the part which our love of freedom , OUT Veneration for justice , Oui' sympathy Ibr Italv . and our resard for Enjtland ' s honour dictated .
In common with the better portion of the press , mtc demanded the punishment of the traitors , and the expunging from the statute book of that odious and infamous law which authorised the abominable acts of Gbaham , Aberdeen , and their predecessors . The efforts to obtain justice , made within and without the walls of the legislature , were , howexer , made in vain , because the members of ihat legislature represent not public opinion , and are irresponsible to the mass of the people . Still , we must confess , that even the unrepresented people were not altogether blameless . For a time the charges preferred by Mr . Ddscombe , the admissions extortedfromthe Gpvernment , and the disclosures made by the " committees , " excited considerable ferment , but this soon died away . The aristocracy , regarding Mr . Mizzijcias one of the pr incipal representatiYcs of the democratic principle ,
were consistent in their defence of the spy system , knowing that it is to such means they must look for safety against the attacks of the masses . Their country ' s honour was nothing totliem ; it was enough that aristocratic domination abroad was endangered bv tlie acts of Mr . M-izzixi and his compatriots . This was enough to induce them to sympathise with those of their own caste , and connive at any means , how . erer base , to crush the friends of liberty . The middle class care not a straw for England ' s honour , or Italy ' s liberty . If they have any dislike towards the present political system in Italy , it dees not extend beyond dislike of the Pope , because he wi » l not permit them to traffic iu railroads within his dominions . Could the English middle classes have the tariffs of the several Italian states modified to suit their rapacious views ; and could tbe Pope be induced to allow them to overrun tbe "States of the
Church , " with railroads , no matter whether Pope , King , or Devil ruled tLe land , no matter what are the sufferings aud wrongs of ixvesty-two millions of people , these maiters would be pcriectlj indifferent ' to the English profitceraey , provided they could suck and plunder the Italians as they suck and plunder Sieir own eounti-ynicn . They lad no sympathy , therefore , for Mr . Mjzzixi . The working classes , so far as they became aware of the facts of Graham ' s spy-system , did earnestly sympathise with Mi . - » kzzixi , and burned wiih indignation-for the wrong'done fe Italy , and the blight cast upon their own countrvV name . . SiilJi tierewas nothing like , an oreanised expression of the opiuion even of this class , as most assuredly there ought to have been , had it been only for the vindication of their country ' s honour . But they Lad another and a stroucer motive which should hare impelled them to active hostility . ipiiust
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that system under which Mr . Mazhsi had been so grievously wronged . They , too , had been wronged . It ; was proved , admitted by the Government , that the letters of a great number of the leaders of the Chartist party had been regularly opened for the avowed purpose of entrapping the writers , and imniolating them for their political views and intentions . But let . us see . what Mr . Mazzijji says on this subject ; we beg onr readers to weigh well his ' words : — And now , if I were an Englishman—if the prejudice of distrust that still clings too much in this country to the name of foreigner ( a term : tbat should have had no meaning since Christ spoke ) , does not abstract weight from the truths that fall from my lips—this is thelmi ' guage , my baud on my heart , that I would hold , not to you , Sir Janus , but to your countrymen , to whom I am irritinc under your name .
. Beftre all things , hasten to wipe from your foreheads the burning stain of dishonour that your statesmen have planted there . You have , truckling to the foreign absolutist police , in the persons of your statesmen , played the spy for five months in most ignoble fashion , on patriots who are seeking to raise from Papal-Austrian mud the land in which their mothers live and suffer . Hasten to throw « ff , by blotting from your laws an odious and useless power , all identlfication between you and your statesmen . Do not suffer it to be said by the world , that the nation which abolished the slavery ' of the negro tolerates with indifference the slavery of the white ; ana that besotted witk calculations of immediate material gain , or blinded by the sordid divisions of political party , she has lost the moral sense or ths courage to c « rrv out such
inspirations and their logical application . I know mnuy men among yea , -deploring from the bottom of their hearts what has pssscd with regard to myself as immoral and unworthy of England , Mho gave their vote in favour of Ministers , not to shake a power already too much threatened . These , in my opinion , are the true culprits . They have forgotten that they are in their places not to support such and such men under all circumstances , but to support what is just , to overthrow what is unjust , without reference to secondary ca ' culations . They have forgotten that the safety : of England is not linked with individHals whatevw name they may bear , but with the degree of morality she possesses , and which her representatives are bound to make fruitful . Never has a moral people wanted a Government worthy of it .
. The map of Europe is to redraw . Tlie system of old monarchical nationalities , of the treaty of "Weshphalia . is decayed . The popular element has dissolved it , and is preparing a new system . The . treaty of Tiennaj in organising a tyranny of the great powers over the smaller states , explicitly , avowed the danger without succeeding in averting it . All that as occurred sinee then has been in contradiction to that treaty . Europe is tending to recomposeitself in greatuniform masses , resultiug from a spontaneous popular impulse , —creating a mutual equilibrium as respects guarantees of internal independence—harmonising themselres to a common aim ,
pursued under various systems , for the civilisation of the world . "Who among you scans this' map of future Europe t New nationalities prepare everywhere to form . In a period more or less distant , but inevitable , Spain and Portugal will found one Iberian power ; Poland will revive , a nucleus for Slavonian organisation ; Greece will outstep her existing boundaries , to incorporate all those colonies kindred iu language and belief ; Italy and the southern Slavonians will cause the empire of Austria to vanish : ana which statesmen of yours occupies his thoughts with these configurations of the future , whose signs are already visible on the horison ? Which of your statesmen asks himself— " What will be the character
and tlie power of England when these things come to liass , if , revolving in the egotistical circle of her policy of a day , she shall have prepared for herself and these naw nationalities neither homogeneity of tenderness , recollections of gratitude , orgerms of sympathy !" Twenty-two years ago there was a wan who , if ho had net a just eoueeiition of the mission of Englana , had sit least a clear intuition of the state of things . Mr . Canning told you within the venerable walls of . 'Westminster ( 2 Sth April , 1 S 2-3)— " It is perfectly true * * * * that there is a contest going on in the world between the spirit of unlimited monarchy and the spiritof unlimited democracy . Between these two spirits , it may be said
that strife is either openly in action or covertly at work throughout tjie greatest portion of Europe . It is true , that in no former period in history is there so close a resemblance to the present as in ^ that of the Reformation . It is true it is , I own I think , a formidable truth—¦ that in this respect the two periods do resemble each other . " Then with this spectacle before him , with Europe before him in arms for evil and for good , he coldly concludes — " Our station is essentially neutralneutral not only between contendirg nations , but between conflicting principles . " This was precisely contrary to ihe conclusion drawn in analogous times by Elizabeth and Cromwell .
Since 1823 . this contest has but enlarged . The efforts of nationalities — for that is my only ground in this debate — suppressed or unrecognised in ths treaties of Vienna , in some parts already victorious , elsewhere not yet so , have proved , do each day prove , that this contest is not a transitory effervescence , but a sacred war between fact and right , between the will of millions and the protocols of the old diplomacy . Your policy has been the same . Xow as then , you pretend ^ to stand calm , immovcablff , iu the midst of the European ferment ; now as then , you declare yourselves neuter between two opposite princip les . That is to say , you , a Christian nation , declare yourselves indifferent between the good and the evil , the just and the unjust ; you . a people believing in the unity of the human race the creation of the Deity , deny all oneness with it , all duty towards it ; you , the emancipators-of tlie blacks , you say— "despotism or liberty , Austria or Italy , it matters not to us : we give alms to Hie exiled Poles—we give fetes to their persecutor : we serve God and the Devil—and that is our
part . But this part—this degrading , lelfiBh , and atheistic part—you cannot sustain . ThankGod , theforce of principles is so great , that you must elect for one or the other to ascend or descend . You deduced the sole logical eonssquence of your pretended neutrality when you said , "let every one look at home ; there shall be no intervention on our part anywhere ! let there be no intervention from any one else . " And yet you were obliged to look on quietly upon French intervention in Spain , upon Austrian in Italy . You said , "Iu virtue of our neutrality , we aflfordhospitality to all the proscribed , come from what part they may ; " and see whatyaur Government adds to this proud 'declaration— "Good ; but upon condition of opening their letters , for the convenience of Baron Neumann , or any other agent of a foreign despotic power . " You , men constitutionally governed , who say that liberty is a holy thiuy , loner yourselves to the footing of spies , to crush this holy thing elsewhere and confirm tyranny on the Continent as Jong as possible .
Let our readers ponder on Mr . Mazzini s words : — "Never has a moral people wanted a Government ivorthy of it . " The English democrats , though they are of the people , are not yet" the people , " but with the words of stinging rebuke from Mr . Mazzixi ringin" in their ears , will they not do move than they have ever yet done to write their principles on the hearts of the multitude , and induce the majority of the nation—the veritable people—to overthrow that accursed system which makes their country ' s name a tiling of scorn and hatred , instead of wliat it should be , a beaeon of hope , a watchword of love , for the patriots of every clime ? Mr . Mazzisi concludes his pamphlet—nominally a ¦ Letter to Sir James Graham , " but really an appeal to the British people , with the following words : —
I would not be misunderstood . I do not invoke the French propagandist armj of 1793 : I do not wish it for my country , for it is not the fad , it is the conscience of liberty that we want ; and we can acquire that but by emancipating ourselves through our own efforts . But I do -wish tliat there sliould be at least one nation in tlie avoiIu to set an example of public morality ; one nation professing a belief , whose language and acts should continually harmonise with that belief ; one nation whose international policy should not be an insult to its internal policy . And I would wish , that cheered by active manifestations of sympathy here afforded us for our misfortuu ' es and * our efforts , my countrymen , who now sorrowfully say , — " We have all tha world against us , even free En- 'land , " mig ht repeat encouragingly to each other , —
"If we succeed , we shall have'fronds and allies ; if we fall , we shall be lamented and admired . As for myself , Sir James , whom you have selected for the object of your diplomatic amiability , all that I have hitherto written must teach you what I think it my duty to do during the years of life that remain to me—to speak , to write , to act , by every fair means that are or maybe in power , for the emancipation of niy unhappy country . I have had it said to me , that in affording hospitality , England did not intend * to grant roe tlie right of labouring on her soil for the wellbeing of my country , for the destruction of a great injustice . I reject such
language with all my energies ; and i n rejecting it , I believe myself to be more English than those who proffer it . I do not believe that the hospitality of England is limited to the hody of the exile : ' tis the sotH—Qie soul with all its aspirations towards the just anil the true , with all that constitutes the human being—that she intended to welcome . Otherwise , the hospitality she is so proud of would be but a bitter irony . The man who sots foot on this soil of England is free—free in f / ioiyftt as well as in the instruments Goi has givtn him so realise tliat thought . I am using , and I shall use , this privilege ; let him who would not do as sruch for his country stand forth and condemn me .
Before we conclude , let \\ 3 ask wliy the conduct ors of the " liberal" press have , with two or three honourable exceptions , so shamefully neglected Mr . Mazzim ' s pamphlet ? The Morning ' Chronicle , when it lifid a party purpose to serve by showing up Hjc misdeeds of the "in : ? , " because its own party Tvas " out , " was loud in its denunciations of Sir James Gk . ui . vm and the Earl of Aberdee . v , for opening Mr . Mazzjsi ' s letters , but not a word lias its columns contained respecting tids pamphlet : on tlie
contrarjy it denounced the recent insurrection at Rimini as a " disgrace" totlie brave but unfortunate men who took part in it . We have beep , still more surprised at the silence of the Weekly Liyotch . Occasionally , that paper has done good service in the cause of general liberty by its notices of Italian politics , but not a word even ha 9 the " Republican " Biyiatcli said in favour of Mr . Mazzixi ' s appeal to the English people , which it was to essential should be made widely known . Tiie greater part , at least all the hading points o
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Mr . Mazzinis . pamphlet ,-ha * now been-laid before our readers . We should not have felt ourselves at liberty to have reprinted so much of that gentleman ' s work , had we not had his permission to do so . That permission . he kindly gave , and we have availed ourselves ot it io the full , our desire boing , to make known to the English tvorking-classes , the actual state of their Italian brethren . We will now add , that whenever Mr . Mazzini , or any of his known and trusted countrymen , think proper to avail themselves ot our columns to publish the wrongs of their country , or vindicate their holy cause to the English people , those columns will bo found open for that purpose . We had purposed to have offered some observations of our own as to the present state and prospects of Italy , and the duty the English-Democracy , we . to their Italian brethren ; but the great length- < to
which this article has extended forbids this . = Enough for the present , tliat for ourselves , and for the democratic party of England , we repudiate the slavish doctrine ot Casx 1 S o ; the " neutral" is not our position . We have ranged ourselves ontlieside of progress , and taken our stand with the men of every cliine who have sworn to devote themselves to tlie overthrow of tyranny and the emanci pation of the nations . We sympathise with Italy , and therefore wo execrate the -Austrian- despotism . We cominisserato tbe Poles , and therefore we do not join in fetes given to than- persecutor . We are ' the advocates of freedom , perfect freedom , for all mankind , and believqrs in the everlasting progress of the human race , and therefore we have vowed inextinguishable hatred and unceasing war against all who would keep the minds and bodies of our fellow men in dwknesa and bondage !
. VfT * , - " VW IVl !*** . * UUIIVIU ^ UI . . We respond tv Mr . Mazzisi ' s allusion to the word foreigner ; it is a word we repudiate . We bid him good speed m his mission , and success as thereward of his labours . It is our unfaltering hope that Italy will yet ba free , Italy and fraieifttity be in the ascendant throughout Europe , and \ ' . " Man to man , the warld o ' er , . Brithers be and a ' , that . "
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Gbavesend , Saturday Evenisb . —An occurrence of an extraordinary character , which at present is enveloped in considerable mystery , has beeu discovered at Cobham-park , four miles distant from this town , the princely domain of the Earl of Darnley , and which has created the greatest sensation throughout this part of the county , there being no doubt that a duol has taken place , and that ono of the combatants was seriously or mortally injured . Tlie particulars connected with the tragical . affair , as far as we have been enabled to glean , arc as follow : —
It appears that , between the horn's of one and . two on Friday evening , the keepers , or watchers , in the service of the Earl of Darnley , on duty in the preserves of the park , heard the report of lire-anus in the direction of the main road , near the Blue-gate , and , suspecting that it proceeded from some poachers , they were induced to keep a more than ordinary look out , but no one was seen . One of the keepers , however , shortly after daylight , in going off duty , and passing through that , part of the park where the unfortunate Mr . Dadd-was murdered by his son , a few years since , discovered , probably not more than thirty yards from the spot where that dreadful atfiur happened , a brace of pistols lying on tlie grass , and in the immediate vicinity were found the case tor the
pistols , a pocket handkerchief , and a ginger-beer bottle . On examining the pistols lie found one of them loaded witli ball , and cocked . The other was unloaded , arid apparently had been recently disch"r « cd The handkerchief , a white cambric one , was saturated with blood ; one part jn particular appeared to have been pressed against a wound , and vras stained with Wood . Near -Where it vrns -pickwl up was a large pool of blood , fully showing that the unfortunate individual had bled profusely , and , from foot-marks and clots of blood which were traced some distance , it is evident that'he must have been carried away . On the ginger-beer bottle being drained , it was found U contain a small portion of brandy .
.... The gamekeeper , on making tbe discovery , immediately ' hastened to the park-lodge ,-and obtained further assistance , so as to scour the domain . The ground was strictly examined , and after the spots of Wood liad been traced some distance , the track was lost ; it was , however , in the direction of the main road . Information having been forwarded to Daws , the constable of Cobham , he took charge of the pistols and the other articles found on tlie ground , and since has been most actively engaged in endeavouring to ascertain what lias really occurred ; bat un to the present period all efforts have failed to solve the
mysterious affair . Dunns ; the whole of yesterday ana to-day the park , preserve , and adjacent land , have been strictly searched with no better success . The authorities of Coblmm have directed the numerous pools of water in the vicinity to be dragged ; and nothing has been lost sight of that will tend m any way to unravel this perfect mystery . At the principal inns in Rochester , Chatham , Maidstone , and Gravesend , inquiries have been made as to whether any post-chaise had beenhircdin the course of Thursr day night , but not the least clue has bsen obtained . Id should be observed , that the pistol which nppeared to hare been fired was besmeared with blood .
THE DENOUEMENT . Among the passengers ou beard the Waterman steamer No . 3 ,-which left tlie Bellwater-gate , Woolwich , on Saturday evening , at five o'clock , was a tall , portiy , well-dressed man , about forty years of sge , who , * soon after the vessel left the pier , seated himself aft , behind the man at the wheel , with one leg over the taffrail . This position attracted the notice of Mr . Phillips , the mate , who was steering , and who told the passenger that he was acting very foolishly , and that he had better keep his leg in-board . The passenger replied that he would take care of himself , and that he always assumed the same position on board steamers , because it was so much like riding on horseback . He then called for a glass of hot sin .
and-water and a cigar , which were supplied ta him , and the mate again requested him to alter his position and take a seat upon deck . He refused to do so , and said he was very comfortabb . Directly afterwards the mate heard a splash in the water behind him , and , looking round , missed the passenger . He immediately called out there was a man overboard , and Mr . Smith , the ' mnster , gave the order to stop the vessel . The engines were reversed as soon as possible , ropes were thrown out , and a life buoy was also flung overboard . The man floated upon his back on the surface of the water , and made no effort to save himself , or to lay hold of any of the ropes thrown towards him . Two collier brigs were drifting down vritll the tide , and were hailed by the crew of the steamer . A
boat was lowered from one of them , and two seamen entered it and pulled towards the man who floated like a cork on the water , and never disappeared from the moment lie fell ^ overboard . lie was again taken on board the Waterman , and apneared to suffer little inconvenience from his immersion . The captain , however , told the man to keep a sharp look out after him . He was taken into the fore cabin , and as he had complained of being cold , he was supplied at his own request with a glass of rnnvaiKl-water . Just before the waterman reached the Blackwall Railway terminus he put a sovereign on the cabin table , and said that was for the men who had saved his life , but soon afterwards picked it up , and put it in his pocket . On the arrival of the vessel at the terminus , Mr . Smith gave his passenger In firmrire to a policeman on the wharf , who said he
would not detain him unless the captain proceeded to the Poplar station-hcuse , and signed the police-sheet . Mr . Smith declined leaving the paddle-box , as he had a irreat many passengers on board , wlio were proceeding to the Adelphi Pier , and said if the policeman thought proper to release him , he would do so on his own responsibility . The vessel proceeded on her voyage , and about half-past nine o ' clock the same evening , Mr . Smith had occasion to go aft to inspect some tvifling damage , when he found a large pocketbook behind the steerage wheel . Curiosity induced him to open it , and the first thing he saw was a sealed letter , with the following address upon it : " To the captain on board the steam-boat . 1 go in —I believe it will be one of the Waterman ' s boats , but -whether five or half-past five I cannot say . " The captain , not doubting that the letter was intended for him , and that it was written by the passenger who threw himself ovevbsard , opened it , and found the contents to be a 3 follows : —
" Woolwich , tfor . 15 , 16 M , Two o'Clock . " Sir—I , whom may the great God forgive , expect to he no-mova before you receive this . This is my second attempt at suicide . I am now suffering with a black eye , and parf of face blown away through a pistol shot . 1 was not ; it appears , to die with my own hands , with a pis . tol . I am non-going to try water . Inclosed is a halfsovereign to defray any expenses you mtiy be at in sending the inclosed letter to my house , and letting zny unhappy wife know her husband ' s untimely end . " I urn , sir , ysurs obediently , " J . P . Pai , meb . "P . S . I say the inclosed letter , I mean another letter in my pocket-book , addressed to my wife . " J . P . P . "
. In the same pocket-book were many papers and memorandums , and three sealed letters of considerable thickness , all addressed "Mrs . Palmes ' , 3 , Boauvoi'Mcrrace , Kingsland-road , London , " and upon each the following direction which was written above tlie address— " To the Captain , deliver this with the other two . " On the back of one of the letters there were three spots of red sealing-wax , and bekw theva tbe following words were written : — "My dear wife , kiss the three wax spots , and you will J : noTV ttiylips have been there , I am in death , VOUl'S truly , P . " , .-,
Mr . Smith Lid no sooner road tlie letter addressed to himself and the address upon thei ' oilier , than he proceeded with all possible- expedition to the Kin" « - fand-road , with great misgivings as to the fateV his passenger ,-whom he never expected to see alive awiin , supposing that he had been liberated bv the policeman , and that he . * had sought his death some other way . On reaching the house No , 3 , Beauvoirterraco , he made known his errand as delicately n » possible to Mrs . Palmer , who at first denied that
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her husband had reached home , and delivered to her the letters and the pocket-book .. She was much agitated on hearing that her husband had attempted to commit suicide in the river , and then admitted that he had been brought home in the course of the evening by one of the police of the R division , and a Sorter belonging to the railway station , andthathe ad informed Tier he had fallen into the water by accident . After some delay Mr . Smith was introduced ,- at the p .-. tient's own request , t « Mr . Palmer , whom he found in bed , and labouring under ddmvm tremens .. Mr . Palmer immediately recognised the captain of the steamer , thanked him for his kindness , and said that he bad left Erith in the afternoon in a gig , and that on his way to Woolwich the horse had taken frisht and the vehicle was dashed to
pieces . Air . Smith asked him if it . was true he had shot himself with a pistol , and he said that he had received a wound in a duel in Cobham Park on Friday morning . On being asked how the affair originated he said lie was dining with a party at an . inn "the other side of Rochester , " and that a gentleman gave him the lie , and he called him out . That he received his adversary's ball in the mouth ,, and that Mr . Coward , a snv-{ repn in Beauvoir-square , had extracted a bullet since he came home . He also stated that he was a little excited when he wrote the letter addressed to tho captain , and that he never had any intention of shooting or drowning himself . Both Mr . and Mrs . Palmer appeared very anxious to obtain possession of the captain's letter , but he declined parting with it .
After a long interview with Mr . Palmer , who assumed an air of indifference and jocularity , aud said his adversary was too high to get a shot at , Mr . Smith proceeded to the residence of Mr . Coward , in Bcauvoir-squarc , and learnt from that gentleman that he had been called upon about eight o ' clock tlie same evening to attend upon Mr . Palmer , and found him in a highly excited state , and very cold from his immersion in the water , and that Mr . Palmer informed him he had fought a duel , and that a pistol shot was lodged in his mouth . Mi . Coward added that ho discovered by . the light of the caudle , a bullet fixed in Mr . Palinpr's upper jaw , and succeeded in extracting it . In doing so , he was compelled to remove a small portion of the jaw . The ball entered Mr . Palmer ' s mouth in an oblique direction , carried
away a part of the upper lip and two of his front teeth , and then entered the upper jaw . The bail , when extracted , was nearly flattened . Mr . Smith handed the letter he had retained to Mr . Coward , who perused it with great atttatien , and said it was his firm conviction that Mr . Palmer was labouring under temporary insanity , and that he had siven directions he should bekept very , quiet , and not allowed to receive any visitet's . Tlie mystery in which this extraordinary affairwas involved at Chatham and Gravescnd , is thus partially cleared up by the subsequent conduct of Mr . Palmer . No doubt is entertained that he shot
himself m Cobham-parlc , and after he had discharged the pistol threw it on tho ground , where it was ' found with a loaded one beside it . What favours this BUp-¦ nosition is that his left eye was blackened , and his face slightly burnt with tho powder . This could not have happened . if he had been shot in a duol by another man a few paces'distant . Mr . Palmer is a leather factor , and has offices in Coleman-street . He left home on Thursday evening , and proceeded to Rochester via Gravcsend , ' where he is supposed to have slept on Thursday . night , and to have strayed towards Cobham-park on Friday morningwhen he committed " tbe rash act "
, . Ft / RTHKR PAKnccjLABs . —There now remains not the shadow of a doubt that Mr . Palmer shot himself in Cobham-park , and threw the pistol away , with another which was loaded , after he had mnde the attempt . It is somewhat remarkable that lie did not obtain any medical aid till Saturday night , Yrlien Mr . Coward , of Beauvoir-square , Ivingsland-road , extracted a pistol ball from his upper jaw . There is no question that he bled profusely , for foot marks and clots of blood were traced some distance on the grass , in . Cobham . It was quite dark when the report of a pistol was heard in Cobham-park *; and it seems that
he went to the pavk at a very unseasonable hour , to prevent observation . It is not known how he spent his time after he wounded himself , until lie embarked on board the Waterman steamer , at Woolwich , at five o ' clock on Saturday evening , but a gentleman , exactly answering his description , breakfasted at Erith the same morning . He made ereat preparations for making his wife acquainted " with his attempts to commit suicide , for he wrote three letters to her enclosing others addressed to his friends and connections , stating that he had shot himself in Cobham-park , and that he intended , as Ills first attempt on his life had faijed , to drown himself . He also embarked after sun .
set , when there would be less chance of his being picked up after he had thrown himself overboard . Hcvc again his intentions were frustrated , for he floated oh his back like a cerk , and although he was in tlie river a quarter of an hour he never disappeared once , and he is no swimmer . Ho appeaw to have repented of his attsrapt on his lifo , for when ho was landed at Blackwall he bogged of a -oliccconstable and a railway porter to see him lionic to his residence , No . 3 , Beauvoir-terrace , which he had no sooner reached than lie sent for Mr . Coward , his surgeon , to extract the bullet lodged in his mouth . He persisted in las original statement that he hac *
been shot in a duel , and fell from the Waterman steamer bj accident , until ho left home on Sunday morning . His own letter , addressed to tho "Captain on board the steam-boafc I go in , " now in the possession of Mr . Smith , of Waterman No . 3 in which he ' states that he had shot himself , and as the pistol failed lie intended to try water , gives a flat contradiction to his assertions . His motives for making the attempts on his life remain involved in mjstery . His surgeon , who had occasionally attended him , and Mrs . Palmer , describe nira as a very cheerful , intelligent gentleman , and that he never observed any symptoms of insanity about him .
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——— « ' ¦ H 0 RHIBLE MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE AND MUTILATION OF THE BODY . ' Staefohd , Saturday Mousing A most horrible murder was perpetrated on Wednesday last , at a place called Alsager ' s Bank , in the parish of Audley , in this county , which from tho shocking circumstances connected with it , has produced the greatest excitement throughout the county . The name of the murdered man was Adolphua Fielding , iovty-nJac years of age , respectably connected , living in Stockroad , Newcastle . He was a potter by trade , but his sight declining , became a hawker in small wares . The murderer is a stone-mason of the name of James Dean , he is a married man , separated from his wife , and lived with another female . It sppoars that about noon , on Wednesday , Fielding went into the cottage where Dean lived , who had been ill during the week , and had not been at work . It does
not appear that there was any one else in the house at the time , excepting Dean ' s son , a little boy five years of age . Shortly afterwards , tho woman who cohabited with him was met in the road by the child , who told her that his father was beating the old man . On her hastening to the cottage , to her great horror , she saw through the opened door the headless body of the unfortunate man on the ffoor , deluged with blood , and Dean striking at the head of the murdered man with an axe . The alarm brought numbers to the spot , but , from the- ferocious appeamnce £ Dean , they were afraid to enter the cottage . Smug tho crowd , Dean took up a portion of the brains of his unhappy victim , and threw them at the bystanders . A collier , named Scott , more resolute than the rest , then attempted to secure him ,
and received sevevai wounds about tho neck and face , Dean having armed himself with a pair of scissors and a knife . The infuriated mtin then bolted tlie doov , and having placed the head of his victim on the fire , commenced blowing it with the bellows . It ap . pearing to be the intention of the murderer to consuire the body , several people got on to the roof of the cottage , and , by pouring water down the chimney , extinguished the fire . They then stopped the chimney up , and the force of the steam and smoke drove him to one of the upper rooms . The street door was then forced by the villagers , and the extent of the frightful tragedy was immediately apparent . The body still remained on the fiooiv and the head when taken off the fire , was so burnt that it scarcely presented a human aspect . " * -
During this time Dean stood at the top of the stairs , armed with another a " \ e , of a larger size tliaii that he had just used , and repelled his assailants by brandishing it about , and throwing bottles and other tilings that he could lay hands on at them . Eventually , some policemen broke through tho roof , and rushed upon him as lie was crouched in one comer of the room . What with his blackened features from dust and smoke , and his clothes saturated in the blood of his unhappy victim , he presented a spectacle perfectly appalling . After very great resistance lie was hand-cuffed , and then conveyed to the "lock up" at Audley . At the inquest heid on the body of poor Fielding , on Thursday last , before Mr . Harding , the county coroner , the following evidence was adduced : —
Frances Mayeook said she cohabited with Dean , Between the hours of eleven and twelve o ' clock on Wednesday last she left Dean and his little boy in the cottage . Had not been gone more than five minutes , when she met her son , who cried out that his father was beating the old man . She ran to the house , and on opening the door saw Dean ou the floor with tlie body of the old man , whose head / was off . lie did not appear to notice her , and slie ' -ra ' n ; . ' into tho main road and gave the alarm .- * ' The razor produced belonged to a widow -who owned the cottage in which they lived . In the ' eavlv pavfc of the week she had
noticed that his conduct was very strange , he appeaved not to know what ho was about . William Scott , the collier , stated that he was passing the cottage when his attention was drawn to a loud screaming . The door being open lie went in , and saw Dean cutting away at the head of the deceased . He held the hair in his left hand and was cutting at it with an axe-hammer witl * Ills right hand . The next moment the head was severed from the body . When Dean saw him , he dropped the axe , and took up a knife from a bench which was near him , aud pointed it to witness with a hissing noise .
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Having got a rail to defend himself he returned , % kn lie found Dean had armed himself withi apair of scissors and a knife . Dean then came up . and stabpeo him in the face and neck . In the struggle they fell , and having recovered , he . ran out of the house . He then assisted the police in breaking through tho root and taking Dean into custody . ¦ - ...-: A police inspector having proved the finding ef a shovel and a pair of tongs with blond upon them , which showed that those weapons had been used in tbe . deadly affray . Mr . C . Tint , surgeon , of Audley , said the head of the deceased was taken off near the shoulder . The primary cause of death was no doubt a fracture on the temple , which was apparent , AH the witnesses having been examined . The jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner James Dean . •¦ * . *
The prisoner , who was in the court during the whole proceedings , and appeared quite unconcerned , was asked by tlie coroner if he wished to say anything ; ho replied , with a vacant stare , "I was not taking any notice . " On the coroner telling him the verdict thejury had returned , he said , "I lave a good deal to say , but I have forsot it ; I did not want to kill him : I did not kill any liinn ; did I ? " - . lie was then removed in custody of the police to Stafford gaol , to await his trial at the ensuing assizes . Further Pauticitlars . —No one can peruse the account of this atrocious murder without arriving at the conclusion that it was the act of a maniac , and tlie present state oi' the prisoner strengthens tliat supposition . Dean is by trade a stone-mason , and
Wcis for some time employed in the alterations and improvements in Trentham-hall ; he has lately beensimilarly engaged at Apedale , the mansion of R . E . Heathcote , Esq . He had lodged at the widow Coldough ' s , Alsager ' s-bank , for tlie last twenty-threeweeks , and bore the character of a quiet and inoffensive man . It is said that about fourteen years since Dean was married to a woman named Sarah Plant , at Dane-en-Shaw , near ConKletou * , he lived but seven weeks with his wife , and then left her , it is said , through feelings of jealousy . From that time up to about six years since he passed as a single man . At the latter period , while employed at Trenthamhall , he became acquainted with Frances Mycoek ; from the birth of a little boy , the result of this illicit intercourse , they lived as man and wife , and it was though fc by the neighbours that they were legally
married . " ¦ On Saturday night last , Dean arose in the middle of the night and disturbed the inmates of the cottage by calling out "Glory be to God ; I ' ve found pardon , " and other similar expressions . He showed evident signs of insanity , for when Mrs . Colclaugh offered to protect the child , who ehe thought was in danger from the half frantic gesticulations of Dea » , he resented the interference . Dean continuing in that disturbed state of mind , Mrs . Colclough , fearing the consequence , went for her son . The nightpassed ftffay without anything worthy of further remark taking place . On being questioned by a neighbour on Sunday morninjr , as to the eause of the disturbance during the night , Dean said , "It was the power
of God that v .-a 3 upon me . " He desired Mrs , Colclougli to get his raior from his razor-case , but she refused to do so ; he got it himself , and appeared to be playing witk it , without any . object . She desired him to put it back , but he refused , answering , " Can't I do as I like with my own ? " During the day Dean and Mycoek , accompanied by the little boy , went to Newcastle . Mycoek observed that ou starting Denn put the razor in his trowsera' pocke ^ , and on the way kept taking out the instrument an < £ making stealthy glances at it , several times she remonstrated with him . When they had arrived opposite the Almshouses , Dean took the razor and a knife out of his pocket , and put them down on the stones ; then with a largo stone he broke them into pieces , saying to Mycoek , " There ; now are you satisfied ?" In the ovening , for the first time during the fiv& years of their cohabitation , Dean went to the 'VVesleyan Chapel at Alsager ' s-bank , where he conducted himself in a very indecorous manner , requestina : Mycoek , who was with him , to nudge him if he acted
wrong . On Monday Dean went to his work as usual at Apedale , but was sent away in consequence of not performing it in a proper manner . Instead of chiselling a stone , he applied the hammer to break it to pieces . He then carried a razor with him , and holding it open in one hand , he solicited a maid at the hall to go into a shed with him , saying he would bIiow her now " pigs were killed . " On Tuesday , Dean , Mycoek , and the boy visited some relations of Myccck ' a at Stone . They returned in tho evening as far as Han ford , where they slept at the cottage of a relation , and arrived back at Alsager about eleven o ' clock on the Wednesday morning . Mrs . Colclough having occasion to go to Newcastle , had left the cottage , and Mycoek wishing to execute an errand at the village shop , left Dean and the little boy alone in the house . Within a few minutes after this , poor Fielding was murdered . Dean was yesterday removed to Stafford . The general impression is thai lie is decidedly insano .
Ihe body of the murdered man ttas removed from Alsager ' s Bank to Shoke-road , last evening , for interment . The uncle ( William Ratcliffe ) with whom the deceased lodged , and by whom he had been brought up and adopted , is a rery aged man , upwards of seventy ; Fielding was something over-forty years of ago . William Eateliffe is a bachelor , in possession of a small competency , which it was understood he had devised by will to deceased , with remainder to the children of his brother Humphrey . The family are much -respected for their probity and industry . A series of domestic afrlclions seem lately to have fallen upon the Ratcliffes . Aboutthree months since , a daughter of Humphrey ' s married to Dr .. Whitehead , now practising as a barrister at New York , died under painful circumstances ; another daughter lies at the point of death in the house of her parents ; and their cousin , the deceased , was cruelly butchered- , in the manner described in the preceding account .
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Joist Stock Factories . —On this subject , Mr . W . Howitt , the celebrated author , writes to the Leeds Times : — " What reason is there , that railways , and steam-packets , and gas-works , and joint stockbiinks , and all sorts of trade and money incorporations should thrive , and that joint stock factories should not ? There ia none . The million may have their share 3 in such companies , which shall be regularly managed by paid agents as these other investments are , and thus t'ecelve their fair share of profit over and above the mere price of their labour . If this principle could . be brought to bear , and worked into practice , U would confer on this country , and on the world , the greatest possible blessing . " Ni'w Orange Movement . —The Orange confederacy , so recently established at tbe " Orange Institution , " under the advice of its counsel , Mr . Napier , has adopted the new designation of " the Protestant Alliance . "
Death of a Celebrated Dake . — -In Copenhagen , the healing art has sustained a loss by the death , in his * 72 ndyear , of the celebrated surgeon , Christian Feriger , Director of tlie Royal Academy of Surgery in that city , chief surgeon to the king , and author of a great variety of professional works—the . ^ most " - important of which have , it is said , been translated into English , French , and German . New Work by Thomas CAni . TtH .--A new book , in two vols . octavo , is announced , from the pen of Thomas Carlyle , entitled ' Oliver Cromwell ' s Letters and Speeches , with elucidations and connecting nar « rative . " IIokour to Art is Belgium . —The King of the Belgians has created M . TVappers , the most eminent of living Flemish artists , a baron ; and conferred the order of the Legion of Honour on M . Ilubert , the promoter of the Wilhelm System of Musical Education among the people .
Si'pposed Shipwreck . — -Copbshmsen , Nov . 8 . —To the many losses in the late storm we fear we may add that of the Victoria steamer , purchased in England of Mr . Lundt , for a week ago a piece of the side of a steamer ¦ was driven on shore to the north of the Auger Canal , which is thought to be a piece of the Victoria , as nothing has been heard of her since she left England on the 18 th of last month . Railways . —Nearly 270 railway schemes , exclusive of those in Ireland and Scotland , are already an * neunced for next session . Potatoes asd Provisioks . —There has been a very visible improvement in the quality of the potatoes introduced into the London market during the last few weeks . At Spitalfields , however , the great emporium for the supply of the Eastern districts , the quality is still inferior .
Determined Act op Suicide by a Policeman . - * On Friday evening police constable Thomas Peters committed a most determined act of suicide by cut * ting his throat at bis lodgings in Lock ' s Fields , Bermondsey . Upon his landlady going to call him to go on duty , she found him with a razor in his hand , and a dreadful wound in his throat ; he was not quite dead at the time , but breathed his last at two o ' clock on Saturday morniag . Worthy of Suppobt . ¦— A subscription is in progress for the widow and young family of Mr .
Augustine wade , the late song writer and composer , who died prematurely in very indigent circumstances . Life Preservers . —Afew days aso , a large concourse of persons assembled on the cliffs , at Brighton , to witness a trial of some life preservers . The novel teaiure of tho trial was to see two men smoking their pipes and waving their hats on the water , although tlie sea was running tolerably high . The life-preserver kept the men above water admirably . The Sandwich Islasds . —Itappears that tho Sand * wich Islands have a king , an independent govern , nicnt , and a local legislature . .
Commutation op Skstisxce . —The government have commuted the sentence of death passed on Martin Malier ( Tierney ) at last Tipperary assizeB , for tlie murder of Timothy Cleary ,, the bailiff of John Carden , of Barnone , Esq ., and have directed that h « be transported for the period oi'tis natural life .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1342/page/7/
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