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BEAUTIES OF BYRON . > ; so . sxxin . "MBi . " This isle Is not a favourite of ours , although it contains several passages of great beauty . We confine ourselves ; to the following extract : — ' THE BISDJG . "Within that land was many a malcontent , Who cursed the tyranny to which he bent ; The soil full man ; a wringing despot saw , "Who work * d his wantonness in form ef law ;
Long war without and frequent broil within IM made a path for / blood and giant sin , -. That wanted bat a signal to begin Kew havoc , such as civil discord blends , Which knows no neuter , owns but foes or Mends ; Fix'd in his feudal fortress each was lord , In word and deed obey'd , in soul abhorrM , Thus Lara had inherited his lands , And with them pining hearts and sluggish hands ; But that long absence from his native clime Had left him stainless of oppression ' s crime , And now diverted by his milder sway , All dread bj slow degrees had worn away . * * * *
A&d though his lonely habits threw of late Gloom o ' er his chamber , cheerful was his gate ; For thence th « wretched ne ' er nnsoothed withdrew , For them , at least , his soul compassion knew . Gold to the great , contemptuous to the high , The humble pass'd not his unheeding eye ; Much he would speak not , but beneath his roof Uhej found asylum oft , and ne ' er reproof . » ? * Prom him by sterner chiefs to exile driven They bus required a shelter , and 'twas given . 3 £ y him no peasant mourn'd bis rifled cot » And scarce the serf could murmur o ' er Ms lot ; " With Jam old avarice found its hoard secure , With him contempt forbore to mock the poor . * * # *
All now was ripe , he waits but to proclaim That slavery nothing which was still a name . The momeatcame , the hour when Otho thought Secure at last tbe Tengeance which he sought : ^» c stumnons ibond the destined criminal Begirt by thousands in Ms swarming hall , ¥ resh frouiJUieir feudal fetters newly riven , Defying earih , and confident of heaven . That morning he had freed the soil-bound slaves Who dig no land / or tyrants out that graves ! * * *
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SOXGS FOR THE PEOPLE . * KO . IX . INVOCATION TO POLAXD . Wake , Puland !—the dark clonus are breaking , The hearts of thy tyrants are quaking , Bouse up from thy slumber , tbou down-trodden land , Loag , long hast thou bent to the death-dealing brand ; Heart-broken by tumuit , andtorn with dismay , Thou hast fawned on the spoiler who made thee his prey Bat the Fates are proclaiming , " thou liv ' st in a time When submission is treason and patience a crime 1 " Tny disc was but darkened , thy son was not get , Per bright years of glory are stored for thee yet . Had the nations of Europe forgot
thee—From the roll of their names would they blot thee ! Or dream'd they the ardour which fired their souls Had melted away trom the breasts of the Poles ? Ah ! thought they the monster , unchecked and unchained , Would pause , when the end of % freedom was gained ; Shall vengeance awake , shall your anger drive forth To their deserts the pestilent fiends of the 3 onh , Or tivine , with jour necks ' neath the conqueror ' s car , Wreaths of laurel to bind round the brows of the Cxar ! Be the mists of delusiveness -vanished ! 01 think of your patriots banUhed ! Hemember the groaning , the sweat , and the tears , Wrung from them by despots , through wearisome years ! Siberia will tell how her solitudes wild , Bung dread with the wailings of parent and
child—Sow sweet recollections their bosoms would swell , And the psarly tear-drop would freeze as it fell . JCoskiusko ' s great spirit ! complains that the thrones Of your foes have been reared en your forefathers ' bones , That the turrets of Warsaw , the Vistula ' s waves , Were sot fashioned for sounding the moanlngs of slaves . Bat the magic of thrones 13 declining , The brightness of man-hood is shining : The cronn Irom the mitre is rending asunder , "While bigotry , helplessly gazes in wonder ; Truth's seeds , lightly sown on Time ' s swift-rolling blast , Dispelleth the dogmas that darkened the past , And liberty ' s breathings a radiance flings , That scorns to be classed with the - . insei of kings ; While the patriot ' s bosom impulsively throbs Contempt for the gewgaws of sceptres and robes .
The dungeon , the scourge , aud the scaffold—The hopes of your ancestor , baffled 2 > Have their principles died , is their mcm ' ry less dear , Or starts less spontaneous the fast tailing tear , Though the freeman be clutched by the talons of potver , And the blindness of fury its tempests may shower ; Though his name and his deeds o ' er the broad earth be borne , As a mark of contempt and a by-word of scorn ; Though torture may chill the warm blood in his veins , And his voice may be drowned in the clunk of his chains ; Though reason in madness couvulsivelv swims .
And the iron rust . keen in his festering limbs ; Though the cheers of a rabble his presence may greet When his uutngltd heart ' s crush'd on the blood-crimson'd streets , Still the truths which he uttered impenshing pleads , And ballon- his mem ' rr , bis name , and his deeds , fame springs from his ashes , and nation and shore Contend for the name which , they trampled before . The reign of oppression and terror s : iall ceaga—Han welcomes to earth the douiiuiou of peace ; Fair Justice reverse ' s the despots decree , And Poland rings sweet )) the songs of the free ! Danstable . EdwarbDeckab .
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D 0 T 3 GLAS JERROLD'S MAGAZINE .-Mabch . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet-street . This is nut a very brilliant number of the Shilling Mtgazise ; the editor is again absent , and the want of "St . Giles and St . James , " and the "Hedgehog Letters , " is not supplied bv anything at all approaching to then-merits . The best article in the number is "A PJea for our Climate , " byAscus Reach , in which the writer manfully contends that the muchabused , niuch-beJied , lon ^ enduriug climate of England , is one of the best , if not the very best , in the world . We confess we were not prepared to hear this maintained ; but we must also confess , that we think Jit . Reach has made out Ms case , and in support thereof adduced arguments which the must eathuaiislic admirers of "indigo-coloured skies , "
blazing auns , and brilliant moons , may knock their teadsagainst for a long time before they will be able to controvert them . We must confess ourselves pretty nearly converted ; at least , we may go the length of saying with the poet : — England , with all thy faults , I love thee still " A few good Actors wanted , " conveys some good ideasof whatactingshouldba , but unfortunately isnot . "A History for l ' oung England" details a portion of the hisjory of the reign ot the infamous John . As Beset VIII . changed the religion of the country ¦ ¦ from Catholic to Protestant , so it appears his pre-\ decessor . Jobs , when excommunicated by the Pope , and threatened with a French invasion under Pump , would , to save himself , and glut his thirst for ven-^ eance , have handed over England to the faith and domination of the folio were ot Mohammed : —
What course his terrors took might seem a figment of romance , but that Matthew of Paris Touches so gravely for it , and gives such grave authority , from the land he had governed so un-christianly , he turned to the Mohammedan Emir who had just then conquered Spain , « nd whose genius and prowess threatened to extirpate the religion of Christ from the whole of the south of Europe . He entrusted to two of his creatures , Thomas BardingtOHandKalph FitzKcholas , and to apriestnamed EobertofLondon , a mission to this east . ru warrior ; and Bobert of London afterwards described its result to the old historisD . He said that the palace of the Moor was a strange and wonderous place ; and that the splendid yet uncouth shapes they satr on passing through its endless halls and gxlleriet , moved their extreme amazement . At last they sWod before the Emir , tfohammedal-Katsir , a man of grave look and middle stature , who , throughout tbe interview , kept his eyes fixed upon a book
which la ; open before him . After all due reverence , the letter of J 0 U 11 was presented , translated by an interpreter , and found to contain , on certain conditions of general support and help for private vengeance , an offer to hold tti » ffniffiih crown as ihcEmir's -vassal , and a promise to : ¦ e mbrace tbe . Mohammedan JaiUj . Tile Emir Showed HO : emotion in listening to it , but at it 3 close quietly put a number of what seem to have been very practical question * to the convoys , concerning the strength and population of England , and the character and prospects of John ; and then , with , unmeaning expressions of friendship , dismissed the embassy . But as they retired , he « alUd * lnt : k Bobert of London , and , as that sober clergy man assured bis fiiend Matthew of Pan * , adjured him , * 'by LUruptct for the Christian faith , " tosaj what kind of man Us master waa . Itobert could nut rerin the appeal : ne said lie was a tyrant , and would soou be deposed by his subjictt . Uothing more , was heard of the Emir .
There are several other readable articles in this Dumber . In one entitled " The Press and the Peop le , " by Mrs . Lous Gillies , in which the writer briefly sketches the progress of newspaper literature from the reijjn of Elizabeth ( in whicu the first newspaper was published , entitled the "English Mer-Jjr ic , " to the present time , the writer remarks : — Shall we not rejoice that these days of ignorance are past ? • * ft is , now , fairly a race between
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the classes ; and I fancy that the energetic sons of the people , such as can * rite"Tne Suicide ' s Purpa tory , ' and'The Baron's Yule , ' with the few E that they wring from toil , or snatch from re 3 t will outrun the college-taught and cjwtle-uueltercd ' aoiw offortune" : *"" inflThurT thiil II fT ^ nni , j |
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THE ALMANACK OP THE MONTU . -MABnn London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet-street . The " Abuse of the Month" is well and deservedly castigated in this number ; that " abuse" we hardly need say is "the plague of the tongues , " of which St . Stephen ' s " has been , and , we regret to add ig likely to be the scene . " The Cockney Mariner * is a capital burlesque of Coleridge ' s Ancient Mariner The "Fashionable Novel , in fliree Chapters , " is no burlesque ; it " is the real thing , differing only from the fashionable novels in one respect—that being , in three chapters it is readable , while the usual
fashionable novels being in three volumes , are perfectly unreadable . " Reduced to Extremities" is not a bad tale , and possibly not very unlike the truth . " Political Maxims a la XochefoucauUP' are capital , as for instance : — "Everything is allowed in office , except leaving it . There is no steeple-chase in the world like a vacant bishopric . Half the secret in holding office is to hold your tongue . Certain members do not study speaking so much for its use as its abuses . Speeches are an unnecessary evil . Why not divide first , and talk afterwards ? " The whole of the contents are excellent . The wit of the editor
and his associates , supported by Doyle ' s mirthexciting illustrations , make this publication the best sixpenny-worth of fun extant .
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PUNCH . Pabt LVI . London : 85 , Fleet-street . In this month ' s part we have the conclusion of the laughter-exciting "Diary" of the famed " Jeames of Buckley Square . " We are sorry to part with the worthy fellow ; we " could have better spared a better man . " The best of this month ' s illustrations is Peel as " The political My Slowboy nursing Cobden ' s baby ( Free Trade ) . Titty ( Log ) : — " Dids its Dukes of itichmonds says its was a humbugs ?" Two new series of papers are commenced in thit part— "Mrs . Bib ' s Baby , " and "ihe Snobs of England ; " both of which give promise of racy entertainment .
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THE CONNOISSEUR—MARCH . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . The claims of this "Record of the fine arts , musio , and the drama , " on public support continue undiminished , or rather , month by month , increase . The articles are unexceptionably clever and unflinchingly honest , and the illustrations are exquisite ; each number is excellently printed , and altogether admirably got up . _ As a continuation of the gallery of great painters given in this publication , we have this month a lithographic portrait of Titian , copied from a painting by himself . It is enough tttoy , that this lithograph is every way worthy of Mr . Saodibe . . The articles are briefer than usual , and more varied " Self-appreciation in Art" isthe title of the opening
essay , which , for the very useral lesson it inculcates , we recommend , not only to the class to which it is specially addressed , but also to readers in general , l ' ne article On tke study of Singing , * ' contains information of interest to thousand ;! , and of the first importance to those individuals who aspire to popularity and profit by tuning their voices to the service of melody . " The Drama" is a severe , but necessary and wholesome criticism on theatricals as at present conducted , which we trust will be productive of some good effect . That the drama is in a fallen state through the degeneracy of actors and the corruption of the public taste , is beyond dispute . It may seem ridiculous to believe that such articles as the one under notice can promote a reform of the drama ; nevertheless we have faith that it may be
n ords are things , and a small drop of ink , Sailing like dew upon a thought , produces That which makes thousands , perhaps millions , think . We have read with much interest the article on "The model of the Parthenon , " in the British Museum ; " Criticisms on the Exhibition of Paintings at the British Institution ; " the opera of " Don Quixote ; " and a valuable letter on" Pictorial Church Decorations , " by J . B . Brown , find a place in this number . From the " Miscellaneous" notices we learn that" A young girl , named Riohiita Mebu , only six years old , born blind at Lucca , has been lately astonkhiug the good people of Rome . She composes music and plays the pianoforte with a feeling and force surpassing all imagination ; she plays the most difficult works of the first masters having only heard them once or twice . She will shortly go to Paris . "
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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . Part II .-Londbn Published at the Artisan Office , Wellington-street Korth , Strand . Although we very recently noticed this publication , we return to it with pleasure , that we may bear witness to its continued and increasing merits . The second monthly Part is now before us , and , so far from seeing any reason to modify our good word , we see ijood reason to repeat the approbation before expressed . The lectures by Air . Fox on " The Political Morality of Shakspeare ' s Plays , " Taxation , " " Theory and Practice , " and " English Wars—their causes , costs , and consequences , " are excellent , and should be read by all , particularly the two on " Taxation , " and "English Wars ; " those two should be
read by every . one who ' pays taxes—arid who is not taxed in this favoured land ? We notice a new contributor in the Part before us , one whose name is " a tower of strength , " a name respected and honoured throughout Europe , the name of a patriot and champion of the rights of mankind—Joseph Mazzixi , the Italian exile . Mr . Mazzlvi commences in the ninth number a biographical gallery of " The Martyrs for Italian Liberty ? ' the subjects of his first article being the murdered and martyred brothers Attiuo and . Euoio Bakdiera . Their history is a sad but not _ inglorious cne . They have set an example in their devotion to principle , and contempt of death , which thousands of their noble countrymen wil ^ when the hour arrives , not pause to
imitate—And add to theirs a name of fear , Which tyranny shall quake to hear . We have not room this week , but on a future occasion we purpose to extract irom Mr , Maizisi ' s article . In "Snatches from our old Literature , " contributed by the Editor , we have a famous ballad of " Robyn Bode , " which cannot fail to delight the lovers of old English poetry , and the admirers of the glorious Saxon freebooter . We must not omit to notice some charming poetry by Mabt Howiit , entitled " Lyrics of Life . " We would gladly transfer a specimen to our columns , but want of room forbids . There are two or three good articles from the pen of William Howirr , expressing sentiments , and enunciating principles which do honour to both the head and heart of the writer . In saying this , be it understood that we do not coincide with all his ideas , nor adopt all his views , but their general tenor commands our sympathy and approval . Here is a word on
FEES TSADE AND INFANT SLAYZST . In 1842 1 was reading tbe Times newspaper in the public news-room at Heidelberg , in Germany . What waa the great subject ! The horrors just brought to light by the parliamentary inquiry into the state of the people , and especially of women and children in the coal-mines , the factories , and workshops of England . AU those horrors in which , delicate women and little children figured , half naked , bearing huge burden * in the bowels of tbe earth , in dampi , in darkness , in running water , where they stood whole days ; of—but enough . I ceased to read—my heart seemed to collapse , ray braiu was in a whirl—I was actually sick . I walked out into the air . It was bright nooa , the bright , clear joyous noon of
the south of Germany—and at this moment out burst from tbe public schools for the working classes , hundreds aad thousands of little boys and girls , released to their twelve o ' clock dinners , and all healthy , happy , merry and shouting , as if they had five times too much pleasure in them for their need . But what a contrast ! Proud England , rich England , mighty and free England , grinding its children to death in mines and mills , in subterranean darkness and nakedness , and poor and despotic Germany guarding its children till the twelfth year , and giving them all an education ! And this still goes on ! the child-murder of the mills goes on , and man calling themsalres liberals and philanthropists applaud it , and call it free trade' Good God ! free trade in the sinews and
lives of tender children of eight years old ! Little children pitched against the Juggernaut of steam , and those who denounce this immolation of manufacturing mammon to be sneered at for the cant of humanity ! The most hideous of all cants is the cant of cruelty . Free trade , forsooth , in the lives and happiness of children ! — 'Tis a Tile abuse of term * . Trade is trade only when it deals in legitimate articles ; beyond that it is making lar too free , it is then free outrage . Again here is
THE CBI OF THE AOE . It is a new cry ; it U a voice almost of this century —that of all for thepeopU , and not for a das * . Itisth * great and magnificent truth , that it is the whole of man * kind which arc xw&e Jor each other , and not the multitude for a few , that is now heard on all hands ; that iB the distinguishing maxim of thephiloiophyof the day . These extracts , though brief , sufficiently indicate the spirit of Mr . Howin ' a writings . Mr . H . is not always a safe politician , but our old pupils will not be slow to detect the short-comings and errors which they will find occasionally marring his productions . As a politician , Mr . IIowiit is yet as much a learner as a teacher , but he appears to bt admirably progressing with his lessons , and , if we mistake not , will become ere long one of the most thoroughly democratic champions of the people . The "Annals of Industry , " tUe " Illustrations , " < fec , claim a word of commeudation . We again heartily recommend this publication to our readers .
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Berlin . —The carnival closed on the 21 st ult . at Berlin with a grand masked ball , giyen by the kins at iha palace to 1 . 100 guesU . AmoDgat ihem were all the scientific men of note and the artists of celebrity m that cto . Several members of the royal family appeared w character .
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^ rss ^ sws ?* S = ^ sx £ sS ^ P » -. i » - » -i- «» tt « . i' » s tssr vious disposition on the part of th « nJi A quarrel upon the deceased Afto . onTeT ? f V * guage blows were struck fr . ffiH £ ? 5 ™ swsaatwljb 2 ird K asa ^ -ss « . __ . ¦ - „ . , CH ^ D MURDE R , pMD 1 T .
SfSK oldnff •*• * & < %£ && teitn stated the circumstanws of the case ** « . »» engrtwane Nisbett , examined : I £ at 8 hotnCol Sa i emember Sunday « 2 Srd Member last . On ^ Ss ^ rracs f = V ~"^ ' » --- » LXr ^^ iM 7 - r 0 lled iU her head « She had « " »• Sfd h ^^ an lO 0 k - S ° e looked very bard atthe child but dtd . not fondle over it I know Charlea
. Si t < l " him ' not particularly . She swore the child to him before the magistrates . I vm h * 1 S a P itm { " > . He neglected paying for the child . The prisoner ' s father is bed-ridden , and has been for years . She has a step-mother .-Isabella J » naon : I am ths wife of Hobert Davison , who keeps the Bird-in-Bush public-home . On Sunday , tha 23 rd November last , Margaret Stoker came to our house , between sis and seven o ' clock at night . She cams in and » tood by the fire-side . I asked where ihe had been , and ¦ he said the had been living at Shotton , and was going to her father ' s , at Broomside . The prison * r had not a child with her then . I saw her again between eight and nine next morning , when I was called out of our houie . The prisoner had not the child with her then . She said a woman had put her child into the beck . ' She appeared distressed , and cried much . I went to the burn side with
her aud lifted the child out . : It was quite dead . I told the prisoner to lift up tfce child and bring it , and she brought it to our house . Priioner said she was beat with the child—it was too much for her . The same afternoon she told me she had tossed it into the beck herself . I said if she had brought it into my house I would have given it a meal of meat and a night ' s lodging * . She said she had done it for the best , and it had turned out the wont . I asked if the child had cried when she tossed it in , and she said she did not stop to hear . She appeared very much distressed , and cried bitterly . She did not tell me the chUd was her own . She said that she had been at all the parishes for relief , and hone of them would give her anything . I said nothing in reply to that . I asked her why she had not gone into tbe workhouse . The child had the same clothes on when taken out of the beck as when it was examined by tha surgeon . — Daniel M'Eweu : I am a superintendent of the rural
police . I have got some child ' i clothes here . ( Produced . ) Ou the afternoon of the 21 th of November I was seat for to tbe Bird-in-Bush public-house . I saw the prisoner and took her into custody . I told her some suspicion attached to her as having caused the death of the child which was found in the beck . I cautioned her against saying anything that would criminate hersilf . Shortly afterwards I inquired if tligre was any circnmsUnce she wished me to inquire into that might be favourable to herself . She said , No , there was no one but myself . " She appeared much distressed , and cried very much . I took her to Durham gaol . On going down Gilesgate , she said , " Oh , sir , I hope they'll be canny with me , as it is the first thing I ever did . " She asked me what I thought would be done to her « I said I could not give any opinion . I got tha clothes , with the exception of a shawl , from Mr . Shaw , surgeon . The shawl I found in a brook near Davison ' s public-house . That is the statement the made before the
coroner . It was read over to her , and I saw her make her mark to it . ( Ihe deposition of the prisoner was here read . It was to this effect : — " I was coming home from my place , and goiug to my father ' s , and I was going over a beck , and 1 was very much in trouble , and I did not know what I was to do with the child , as I had no wages to keep it . I put it into the becki and I went to my father ' s , and he asked me where the child was , and 1 could not tell . He said I must go back and see ; so I came out at seven in the morning to senk it . I came along by the burn side , and I saw my child lying in tilt ) bum , and I could not take it out myself , and I asked a woman to take it out for me , and when she took it out , I fetched it to the stable . I went before the magistrates to swear the child ; and I wanted to go into ihe
poorhouse , and they would not let me go ; and I could get nothing to keep it on . I was fairly urged and famished to ; do this . I was in a great deal of trouble when I did this . I had no place to go to ; and I was knocked from dog to devU . I had been paying 2 s . a-week for my bairn , and I had only 2 i . 4 d . a weekmyself . )_ Crose-examined : I searched the prisoner , and i ' ouud a half-penny upon her , and a thimble , and a piece of net . ( Mr . WUkins asked to look at the clothes . They were no better than a bundle of rugs . ) After the inquest , she asked to see the body of herchild . She saw it ; and « he said , "My canny , canny bairn , what made me do this to you ! Many a wvary foot we ' ve wandered . " She embraced and kissed the child ; and I bad some difficulty in getting her away from the body ,
She also said her stepmother had not been good to her . Mr . Serjeant Wilkins addressed the jury for the prisoner . —Mr . Justice Fatteson having summed up , the Jury retired for about teu minutes , and then pronounced the following verdict : — " Guilty , " but with the strongest and most earnest recommendation to your lordship ' s mercy . —The learned Judge ( without assuming the black cap ) then passed sentence in the following terms : Margaret Stoker , you have been convicted of the offeuce of murder . The gentlemen of the jury have considered all the circumstances of the case . —Prisoner : Will you allow me to speak !—The Judge : If you wish to say anything , you certainly shall b « heard ; but I don't see how you can possibly alter the circumstances and facts of the case . It is quite clear that jou . are the person who did
actually throw into the water , and drown , and destroy this child . I do not 8 ay you did it from any ill-feeling towards the ehttd itself , because you appear to have been affectionate and kind to the child , to far as we can judge ; and certainly , from your conduct at the time of the inquest on the body , I believe you were distressed at what had taken piece , and would have given anything you could that it had not occurred . I dare say you would not have injured or hurt its finger , willingly , and , indeed , upon auy account ; but still , not being able to maintain the child—having ao means of supporting it , you seem to have considered that the best thing that you could do was to send the child out of this world . Now , really , unless you were at the time in a « tate of positive frenzy , and did not know what you were
about , it is impossible that the lam of the country can pass over an offence of this sort . The gentlamen of the jury are satisfied—as everybody wao has heard your ease must be satisfied—that although you were distressedindeed , in a state of deep distress of mind , yet , at the game time , you knew perfectly well what you were doing , and that your iatentio * really was to drown the child , thinking it was perhaps the best thing for it . It may be that you thought so ; still the offence is , in the eye of thelaw . theottsuce of murder ; and it is my duty to pass the sentence of the law upon you for that offence . The gentlemen of the jury have recommended you strongly to mercy—very strongly . I am very desirous to attend to their recommendation ; and I shall give this case Ui « most anxious and painful consideration , in order that I
may see whether it be possible that I can , coasistentlj with the due administration of justice , recommed to her Majesty that your life should be spared . I do not say that it may not ; neither do I positively say , at this time , that it will ; beeause it must dapend upon a good deal of consideration how far it will be possible . that it should be done . You see how one step in sin leads to another . Tou see how yielding to this man—if it be the first time that you did yield—how the consequence of having a child born which you could not support , has led you to the commission of this tad offence . I am quite sure that there hardly ever occurred any casa so painfulcertainly none that I recollect—as tnis case is to my feelings , as it must be to those of every other penon concerned . But , at the same time , I have a duty to perform which I must do ; namely , to paBB upon you that sentence which the law provides for the crime of murder ; telling you , at the same time , as I have already done , that 1 shall anxiously consider whether it may not be possible , after
all , that that sentence may not be carried into effect , but your life be spared . But if it please her Majesty to spare your life upon my recommendation , —which I don ' t say , ! because I cannot , without consideration , —it certainly i cannot be , then , except upon very severe punishment . ] For it would be a sad and mischievous thing if it should go abroad and be thought generally that any person who happened to be in great distress , and who might not be able to maintain one or more of hit or her children , might put that child out of the worla , and not be called to a fearful account for It . The sentence of the law that I amnowabouttopassis , that you be taken hence to the place from whence you came , and thenoe to a place of execution ; that jou be hanged by the neck until you are dead ; aud that your body be afterwards buried in the prec . nc « softhepr ! 8 oninwhich youareconfined . Andi » ay Almighty God have mercy on your soul!—The prisoner shrieked aloud , and was otherwise greatly affected on receiving this sentence . Throughout the proceedings there was scarcely a dry eye in court .
_ Satom > at . SESKscM . -Joseph Dixon , Win . Dixon , aud Robert Barren , who were found guilty of manslaughter of James Davison . on Thursday , were brought up and sentenced , Joseph Dixon tobe transported for twenty years , William Dixon to be transported for ten years , and Robert Barron to one year ' s iinprissnment and hard labour . Violet Crawfurd , who was tried at the last assizes , before Mr . Baron Rolfe , upon the horrible charge ol having thrown boiling water into her husbaud ' s ew , anC found GuUty , was brought up for judgment . Mr . Baroi Kolfe was doubtful whether the facts were such as t < come within the words of the statute . The Judge * wen ofopinioaihatthey were , ajidAIr . Ju » . tic « Patleion » o »
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pronounced the judgments the Gourmand which-Mr . ^ . roHltolfe . haa recommended-imme ^ , Uo yS to pnsonment , yuth hardlabuur- thelusttbree weeks to be passed m solitary eonlinemeriti ^^ tHe sentence to take eiftfatirom tliehmt . assizes . : ¦ , -. . ; ., ¦•• - . " . ¦ . peCuurt did nut tm uuUlh ^ n ,, i tea ^ dUt wnon the business wus concluded , ' ' " Aimsbuby , PaiDAY . MUKDBR . ¦ ; ¦ Frahcir Fleet was charged with the wilful' murder of Ann Ray , at Dunton ,-fa this county , by administering to her two drachms b ' f corrosive sublimate on tlie ' 26 th of June lust , from the testimony of thevurious witneases examined in support of this most serious charge , it appeared Oiat the prisoner and the deceased wero fellOVf srvaats at Dunton , the former being the sheplierd and the lattir the only female attendant of a ih \ Duncomus , a farmer in that village . For some time before the date
of tins transaction it had become known to tlieir fellow servants that an illicit connexion had sprung ' up between these parties , and it was suspected that the deceased was in the family way by him . On the 20 th of June the prisoner was working with some other men in the riukyard till one o ' clock , when he went iuto the house , as lie said , to get some bread and cheese from " the gal . " In a few minutes , however , He returned , and calling one Of the laiMoreHto . Uiii , told him tbat " tlie gal" was taken ill , and aaked him to go in nhilo he went lor assistance . ' On going into tlie kitchen , the poor creature was discovered in great agony , vomiting dreadfull y , and complaining of a burning sensation in her throat and stomach . For some days she continued to suffer much , ulcers having appeared in her mouth and on her tongueand during all
, that time the prisoner evinced great anxiety on her account , making frequent inquiries after her condition . On one of these occasions , hu was taxed ' with having g iven her " some stuff , " when he replwd that "he had not compelled her to take it . " Oh the 9 th of July the deceased was removed to the Wiuslow . Uhiou in a gig , and soon after that exertion she grew . rapidly worse ; till ene . of the ulcers broke , and shu died of eximustion , During her illness the prisoner was taken into cuBtody , and she made a deposition before a magistrate in his presence , from which it appeared that ou his coming into the kitchen on the 26 th of June , he had put some wHte powder into a glass of water and told her to drink it ' off ; declaring that lie would not leave the house till she did so . This she declined to do at first , but being at last
persuaded by him she swallowud it ,. and on tlie instant was attacked witll the sickness and pains which had been deposed to by the other witnesses , and were attributed by medical testimony tohcr having taken a quantity of white mercury , or corrosive sublimate . , Tlw deceased also swore that she was then two months advanced in the family way by the prisoner , iyIio knew that fact , and had on a previous occasion cause d her to take something to do away with the child , but without effect . In addition to this , she stated that the prisoner had some more of the same stuff by him , and on being searched , a rag was feund in his pocket , containing a small quantity of corrosive sublimate , an article which appeared to have been kept on the farm for the purpose , of application , to the sheep under the prisoner ' s care . Mr . Poiverliaviug
addressed tlie jury , his lordship summed up the caso to them with great care and perspicuity . The jur . y thenretired to consider their vc-riliet , and ultimatel y found tbat the prisoner had administered the poison to the deceased to procura abortion , aud thatshehad ditd inconsequence thereof ; on which a verdiet of Guilty was recorded . Mr . Baron Parke then put on tku black cap , and proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon the prisoner ; alter which the jury begged to recommend him to mercy , asiu their opiuiou he had not eontumplated any injury 10 the deceased . His ' lordship then intimated to him that he should take care that the recommendation of the jury should be conveyed to the proper quarter , though he could not take upon himself to hold out any prospect of mercy in this world .
Winchester Satuiidat . Chaboe of Child Mukdisr . —Charlotte Elizabeth Thornton , aged 22 , wife of Thomas Thornton , was indieted for thu wilful murder of her male infant cliild . The prisoner was an interesting and rather respectably dressed young woman . When first put to the bar she appeared not aware of her situation , but during the opening speech she wept bitterly . It appeared that . the prisouer had recently been married , aud in about five weeks after her marriage she gave birth to a child , Tlie husband not having been aware of her state before their marriage , this cireumstnnce caused unhanpiness and misery between them , and she left her husband ' s house the day alter her confinement . They then lived in London . The prisoner set out with her child for the country on Thursday ,
forlorn and sad , iut"nding to go to her friends . Slit ; reached Newbury . She had then a bundle with her , and a child was heard to cry . On Friday the prisoner was apprehended , and she then said the child was in a pond , and she took the officer at night to a large pond hear Woodhay . They tried to find tht child , bui did ! not succeed ; it was eleven o ' clock at nig ! n . A man was placed to Watch the pond , and tlie next morning ! after dragging the pond for soino hours , the bodj of a child was found . It was a very deep pond . The priioner was th .-n taken to Newbury gaol . She . -, was faint and ill . The matron of thu gaol put her to bed , and made her comfortable , and sat up ' all night with her . She stated to the matron that she had been married only five weeks ; that as soon as 3 he was
confined her husband said he was . not going to submit to tlwt disgrace , and she must quit his house . She said , that in order to Sttvu her bab y she determined to risk her own life . She came by train to Reading , and then started to walk to Nowbury ; that her baby was wrapped up in two shawls . After , proceeding some distance , she thought the child was dead ; she opened the shawls and fouud her baby had ceased to breathe ; that it had such an effect upon her that she fainted away ; it was then light . When she came to her senses it was dark . She wrapped up the child and proceeded on her journey , but Being timid , and not kuowing what to do with the body , she placed it in the pond . Uy the desire of the prisoner
the gaoler wrote a letter to her husband ; it . was read over to her , and she then signed it . When the child was found the eyes were closed ; tliu pupils were dilated ; the skin waa pale ; and the umbilical cord was not tied . There was frothy mucus about ; the mouth and . nostrils . The lungs were very congested . The right side of the heart was filled with blood . In the opinion of thu medical men there was no specific marks of drowning ; but from all the appearances on the body put together ii was thtt opinion of tlws medical men that this child had died by drowning ; but still the death might . have been from other causes . —The learned Judge then at once stopped the case , and ordered an Acquittal . ' - :
Osiokd , Sattodat . Ciukoe 0 ? Manslaoohteu against , a Police Officeh —Charles Knott , a uolice rom cer at Chipping Norton , was indicted for the manslaughter of William Slatter , having caused his death by striking him over the head with his constable ' s staff in the execution of his duty . Kobert Hall—I urn a higgler , living at Chipping Norton , lu Octobtr last I had ; t stable adjoiniiij , ' one of William Sbtter , the deceased , in the yard of the Bell Iun . I made a charge against the d . ceased of stealing chaff .
Ifetcheu the prisoner , who is constable , and-we went into the stable . Several others wei u present . Kiiutt usKedif the chaff was mine . I saidjes . Slatter prevented me putting the chaff in the bag I brought to take it away in . He was pulling the chaff from me . Knott said , " I'll see if I ean'c have the chaff . " Slatter turned and faced him . Knott said , " Is that what you mean t I'll settle With you . " Knott then pulled something from his ri ght-hand pocket and struck deceased on the left sidui ' of his head . It was a moonlight night , and thero was a candle in the stable . Deceased ' s face was towards Knott when the
blow was struck . I saw and heard it . It was not a very hard blow , and wan made with a stick as thick as a constable ' s staff . Slatter said , "You have douc a nice thing for me . " Knott pulled out hand-cuffs and said , " put your hands m here . " l ' adbury was behind Knott , and prevented him striking a second blow ; that was before the hand . cufl-3 were put on . I said to the prisoner , " pray don't strike him . " . He could have j ; ot at the chaff without striking him ., . I'ndbury said , ' . 'lor God ' s sake don ' t strike him , there is present plenty to hulp you . " Knmt said , " you want to rescue my prisoner . " Slatter walked across the stable ; Knott asked him tvh ' ere he was going . He replied , " I don ' t kno « v where I am jtoing or . vhut I am doing , jou have struck me such a blow , " he reeled and fell , he was then taken to the stutioii-house . — John Padbury : I am landlord of the Bell Inn . Was present at the stable when deceased unlocked the stable door , and went in with them ; Slatter said the chaff was hu , aud no one ' s else . Kuott told Slatter to let Hall
have tile chaff , if it was his . I saw Knutt attempt to take the chaff . Deceased pulled it towards his horse , and said it was his . I heard Knott say , " If ha would not let him have it , he would soon sottle him . " Knott then pulled out the bandcuits , aud told him to put his hands in there . Slatter said "I slw ' nt , " Knott then pulled outa sort of a bludgeon er blood-iiicli , aud struck him a very severe blow . I ww and heard it . It would have knocked doueased down if it had not been for the manger . I was as n « ar to him as 1 could , and prevented the prisoner from striking another blow , which ho ! was going to do . I said , " Don ' t strike him , for if you can ' t put on thi handcuffs , Uuxe are plenty here to assist you . " He said , 1 know my dutj , do j ou want to reseue him I " Thehaudcuft s were then put on without any assistance . — Mr . Farwell : I am a surgeon , residing in Chipping Norton . 1 was called in to the deceased at the lock-up houae . I found him lying Oil the bench . He had been vary s ' leU , and appeared to have been duud about three or four
hours . I assisted to make a post mortem examination . I found the skull fractured ; a blond vessel was broken ; tbe blood flowed to the brain , which was the immediate cause of death . —Chariot Wiiigiittld : I am a surgton at Oxford . I was present at the jjost morttm examination . 1 heard the evidence of the last witness , and agree with it . The blow fractured the skull , ami the fracture of . the skull ruptured the artery , which caused death . —The J Chief Baron having summed up , the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . MONPAT . Chahgb of MoitDEK—Henry 'Flint , atred twtnty-one , was charged on the coroner ' s warrant with thu murder oi
William l ' rieit , in the parish of Adderbury . Williau Dumbleton ( apparentl y about ' fourteen years of age ) ex amined . —I live at Addi-rbury , and was acquainted witl William Vriest . vrho isHlout my age and wie . I wa walking with the decea-cd mid two others up and dowi the swtsut at Adderbuvy , about lisilf-past seven on th evening of the ! l 7 tU of October . As we w « nt up the strec 1 saw the prisoner with a pistol in his haud . I taw hit ; snap the pistol . Y , '« walked on about'fifty yards , » m then rctunwd walking all abreast . I was uwreit to Mn
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Warehara ' a house , in the adjoining garden < rf = which the prisoner was . Priest whs next to me ., 1 heard 11 pistol flred . I saw Henry Flint iire the pistol . lViist ' idl on tht ground , . I afturwards discovered th . it tlie b : ills , luul passed through inj ci | i . from other oviili-nw it iiji . i , imiil that Ae prisoner hud fired thepistul wiiliiiiit ' liL-iiigjiu ' iirb * M *? was lu « ded with ' ball . Two mouths beiore his brother had loaded the pistol , and when putting it away , had . neglected . to draw the charge ; There was no enmity between the prisoner" " and the deceased . The jury , in accordance with' the . direction of the " judge , returned a verdict of mansliu enter , and the prisoner , after a Were admouitiou , wuss ntencsd to two im > rith » 'imprisonment .
HORRIBLE CltlilE . James Stevens , a jouriiejman blacksmith , was indicted for commuting a rape on . two . oMiis own children : one Sarah , a child ten years pf age , last , Friday ; and tinother , Mary Anne , under twelve years of age . The first case was clearly proved by the testimony of the cliild Sarah , and a surgeon , Mr . Fisher , who had examined the child , ihe evidence was totally unfit for publication but quite conclusive . The prisoner put in a ' well-writteu statement , . which was read by the judge to the jury , denying the charge , and stating that it was trumped up ' by his wife to get rid of him . The second charge was not koiio into , as . it could only be supported by'the evidence of the
prisoner ' s wife and son . The Chief Baron very carefully summed up , and the jury returned a ' verdict of Guilty . The Chief Baron , in passing sentence on tha prisoner , said as follows : —You ' have been charged with a most atrocious offence , and you have been found guilty on testimony the- ' most conclusive . This is- one of the most appalling instances of crime that I over heard . JNo observations from me can increase this sense of the enormous wickedness of the crime ; it calls for the highest punishment that can be inflicted , and the sentence of the court is that you be transported for the term of your natural life . —The assizu business at Oxford concluded this day . .: ¦ . ;
WSCO IN , MOHDAT . Charge of Rape . —Two Irish labourers , of the name ' s of Welsh and Glynn , were indicted for a rape , within the precincts of the city , on tue 22 ud of August lsst . 'Hipon the ' person of one Mary , the wife of George Lee ; a ' monstrously dirty member of the gipsy tribe , of the age of about GO ;' Mr . D'Eyncourt conducted the prosecution ; Mr . Macaulay defended the prisoners , It appeared that there was an encampment Of gipsies in Greet-well-lane , in or near th city , on the night in question , which , at the dead hour of the night , whilst the tribe slumbered in peacu , was outrageously stormed by u party of wanton Irishmen , who remorselessly demolished their tents , and sought to defile the female members of the tribe , succeeding successively in their base assault upon the urosecuttix , whilst her
husband was engaged in running after his ass , which had made off down a lane with a load of blankets at the outbreak of the engagement . She , with her husband , reposed in one tent , her two daughters of whom one was u willow , in another , aud a kinsman n nd his wife in another . She had also a son , twenty-sis years old , who seemed to have acted as patrol . The assault opened with an attack upon the tent of the-daughters , which , after they had refused to let the Irishmen go to bed to them , wus carried ,-and raxed to the ground ; but the Irishmen ' bsing , by recourse to throats and nails , repulsed in their further attack upon thu daughters , turned off to ttie old woman ' s tent , While Gl y na succeeded with tins mother , Welch held the widowed daughter , after ' : which ' ' tho prisoners
interchanged their positions . Thero was a party of nino or ten Irishmen behind tbe hedge . ' This uuhuppy-uged victim of Irish concupiscence deposed to the leading factB . The parties first began heaving stones . The two prisoners did it . Tlie other nine or ten did not interfere or throw stunen . They remained behind a hedge . They upsi-t one of the tents , aud ' then the son and kinsman started off to Lincoln for the police . They knew pruviously that the men wanted to go to bed with the young women , who wouldn ' t liuvv it 011 no account . The husband then ran liway . There was a stone ready uplifted to tnak his neck . AU ran away but her and her daughter Susan , the widow . One of the men hugged and ravished witness . Welch bejjan . Sti uggled and rented him in the shirt about tlie neck . Hi-ard
something hveak . Welch then threw her down and raviaheil her . Slio holloaed out murder . They'said , if shu gave any alarm they'd murder her . The other then dime ihe fialne . He rnvlsliud her tou . Sliu stiu ^ k-d » mueli a » she could while she had strength . But she was au old woman , and hadn ' t much strength left . ' Welch , with the blunt edge of a hatchet belonging to the camp , struck her under the right car after both had had connexion with her . They then dragged her about tliu road with great violence . Each held tlie daughter Sudan whilst the other proceeded with her . Susan Herringi the widowed daughter , deposed to the same story . The men came to the camp , and vruuted to go to bed with them . -When-they found that they got ui > and dressed themselves , tln-y refused very mueli . They
began to pull up their camps—her camp and another . Then thu son and kinsman went off to the city , all the rest bu * the and her mother went . away . They pulled them about shamefully . Th < y begged and prayed . Glyun lulJ her so that she couldn ' t assist lu-r mother . [ She then described what was done by Welch to her mother . ] lielore he got her down he struck hoy with the blunt side of the hatchet behind the lilt ear ' . ' " Slu then suw thu same over again , \> Hh Clynn * uj ^ KJ | MK two IIR'M lliid chuiigud uhai-nctiis . Ilu-y tliBflBBt murder them if tla-y guvu : uiy al » rm fiiJ 8 BMMW wards dnguudiisr ( witness ) about tnefiHnjp ^ & and used her very bad indeed . Told g SRoU- i ^ jjHH | people eoiniilj . ' . Tlu-y lbtthu-il , ai'd / Tffl ^ jU » | » ll used them agai . i . flu-y struck-lnir tfflffi- IJM » K « B
what she was about . Welch took a ' " WiuKggflHHmn her face , which was the one produut-d ,. n 1 ujfim |^| 9 ftsi on the night they ravished her niotAer . / wHgmHgi |{ r begged they wouldn ' t , the more they woulu ^ qMHlfn now said ( Having before the mngismitosi , like lierlnotiuTi ; said thu contrary as to both matters ) that it was Woluh who struck her mother with iv liatuhut buforu he ravished her . There wus no violence done to her mutlu-r after they had both ravished her . They were trying to puult up to go away , when the ravishing began . After their men were gone away , they attacked them with stones . These niun went to the city , whim ihey saw the prisoner * wanting to come to bed with them . The meii all went away because they thought they would be murdered amongst so many . —The mother and daughter both told
their tide with tin air of noMchulahce , and quite con amore . —Georyu Lee : Was the husband of the oM wuiii . mh . The two prisoner .- , came to the camp and began to stone them . He and h ( s spAuse , Mary , were both in bed , mid got up and dressed themselves . A little while after nine or ten more men came up . Tlio two prisoners began I to pull their teuts down . They attacked his and j that of his daughter ' s . He collected ' their tbinjja | and set them on his ass . Was afraid thvy would j tear all the things to pieces . There were but ¦ two then . They struck him , 'and hu thought they had ; broke his thigh . One threw a stone and hit him on the i neek , so that he did ' nt know what , he was about . His ' a » s , when he had packed it , bolted and went , up a lane , j He bolted after it , caught the exeited animal , ami phuwl i
it in a close . He was so hurt that he lay uiiwu in a ditch 100 yards from thu encampment . They hud stoned him away . Heard tliifin two men with his wife aud daughter —a ravishing of his wife , but he kept a close look-out upon his ass . Heard th em say that they would murder them , and the latter suy , "i ' or God ' s « ike let them alone . " Upon this , got up and followed his ass ,. His son and kinsman went off directly they began with the women . In answer to a questim ) , -whether he assisted the women at all , he only said , "Xo , Hollowed my ass , " Heard the cries of his wife and daughter from the camp , but was so frightened that he still ran alter his ass . — Thomas Asliton , police coustable , of Lincoln , deposed sliat , about threco ' clock , on the ^ nd of August last , the kou anil kinsman came to him . Wuit with them to the encampment ; saw the tents all torn up in the mo . st de .-ol » te state . Tlioy wore all in remnants , a piece here : uid 11 piece there . Saw Mr . Lee about thirty yards J ' rwn the
camp , towards Lincoln , 'lliu women were very mueli excited and frightened , and their njijiuarance wax rui-y much disordered , ( iartieularly Mary Let ' s ciutlius , mid Utr face was cuvurud with blood . Su . iasi Herring , . the daughter , was not so bad . A quarter of a mile off round fifty or sixty Irishmen in a barn . Ite liist secreted himself , and saw the two prisoners in this yard , who )> ruueedcd to open the door , and went into the barn . Tw > k them into custody . Pound another man in the barn , dressed , and , took him also . The remainder of the tiity or sixty Irishmen were all undrussc-d , ami in sacks , uvaiing up to their tlirosUs , nil lying in a vuw . VimUltd dow > . \ . —it w »* then proved that Welch had tho W-om of his !> Mi t torn . — The jury returned n verdict of Guilty of n common assault . —Tho learned Jud » e ob-erveil , that it was clear that the prisoners had b « e » guilty of ;> musi atrocious assault , ami sentenced them respectively to be imprisoned hi the com mon gaol of this county , nntlkvpt to hard labour , for thi space of six calendar months . '
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Suicidk ov a CoMutuicnii Tuaveuxr . —On S-hiiday Morning eonsiderablu excitement was create *! in the vicinity ofDuckhcatt , in cunstquenco of a report having sjnuad that a strsuiyo "ciiiloman luid ewt- his throat in a most dvendtul imumur , in Cox ' s ( Mcc-j house , Dockliead . Skvw , tlie bwulJe , instantly U-ft ! tho church , and ' proceeded to this house ill qui'stion , ! ¦ where he found w midtue aged man lyiiif ; in Vwd with j his tln-oat cut in u tlvundl ' ul niauncr . Tho wiml | ii | it ! J was severed , anil thu wound extended thn-e inclitw i across ,. He hml Install nrtiwilatimi , but from his " ' signs , Slmw asewtained that he cut hisihvuatnciU ' the table at the window , and lilnuiii" mx end of the
i sheet in the wound , s « t into . Lcd , wlieru lie was found i by the landlovd about twelve o ' clock , lie luul hived a bed on the breeding mslit , but not answering to breakfast , they endeavoured to arouse him ; on his not giving aiiy answer , they burst tho door open , wlieii he was found in tlwt di'iilovablu state . Drs . Russell and tirceiiyrooil intended him , but they wen ; . ; not able to render him any UrsisUniv . Kiiim napurs found on him , it ahpimml bis ii .-nii' is Ki | -.-an ! ¦ Collins , ajjeil forty-iiinii , ' residing with his wife : it \' 6 , Clerk-street , Stepney . lie is a cumiuercinl traveller , , in the employ of Messrs . liatnyur and Co ., couleeturners , Uishopsgate-stvcct Wittiout , in whose eoiili-1 denee lie hud been for many years .
ScuLriuuii . —Gregory XY 1 , lias formed a new nailery lor studies in the ( iardi'ii Delia l'iunii , aUhe Vatican , so called : Uter the tipple ot 1 'iy . v , eontainii )!; tho ashea of Adrian , and which was previously Mie sole ornament of tho pardon . Tho new collection is j to be * the name oi ' " Museum Campeiire . "
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1 Major . Buoaiwoot . —The ' / Revi-dDr . Croly is not tlie Only minister Of volifjkm wWe «< mhas fallen in tho epi fliet witli the Sikhs , . Major Broadfoot , the polititnoT " ™ * il e f |() Vt ! ' 1 »«»> "Gen ( irarat'I ! ihl . re , was the wolnf nln ' r ' flftynMWt : Tfie Major , 10 use alt of ti ro te ™?«^« al ' B dispatch , was the . * " »*? UvKnrooi ,. -between one and two o ' clock , on Lmay moron * , V fih , ^ observed to issue fS one ot tha flues belonging to Mr . Moore ' s extensive ' soap manufactory , corner of Leeds-street , Vauxhnllroad , but so quick was the fiery cleisent , that before word readied the fire-police station the whole building was in flames , la Jess than two hours the building where tlie nrc originated was completely gutted , some vats alone liciny ; saved .
Parkmukst . —liic annual expense of Parkhurst establishment for young convicts amounts to ; € 236 s . lid . each inmate . An AniuyAii . —On Wednesday , Mrs . ( Dionysluay Lardner ! arrived in Shorcham harbour , by tbe iVlenai , from Dieppe , and forthwith proceeded to London . Tiik Sanatorium . —On Saturday night a ^ sumptuous banquet wa * given at tlie Clarendon Hotel by the Marquis of Lanstlowne , and a , committee ' of noblemen , andlgentlenien , to Charles Dickens , Esq ., and other gentlemen of literary and artistic eminence , who contributed , by their talent , to improve the funds of th * Sataiorium by amateur performances at the St . James ' s Theatre .
Funkral Exi'kxsks . —A movement is now being , made in Paisley lor the abolition of the custom , which is carried to an extravagant excess in Scotland ot * providing refreshments to company at funorals . •¦ Waichks . —A watch consists of 999 parts , themanufacture of which employs 43 trades , and about 215 persons . " : , . ¦ :, ¦ , Sir It-P KELion Birmingham . —It is said that a requisition is 'now in progress in Birmingham , addressed to Sir 11 . Pee ) , soliciting him to become a can-., didate for the representation of that borough at tlie nrst election , anil thut such is the popularity of the lion , baronet , that it will be so numerously and respectably signed as to place his return beyond the shadow of a doubt :. . , ¦ ¦
feuieinu AT' -BnioHTOx . —On Monday morning , a ( jcntleman named Lamb , a London merchant . wh » had been in lodging , on the King ' s-road , Iw rather more than a week , cut his throat with a razor , and ied instantly . It appears that the unfortunategentleman , who had been in a low desponding way , left his wife iu bed ,-aud retired to an ' antu-room to commit the act if seJf-destruction . TiiK Maumotu llwsv . s . —Sir Roger Palmer ' ante George Hudson , Esq . ' , M . P . ; have purchased the two splendid mansions on eitherside of Albert-gate , llydepark .
AlTKAlUNCK OP TIIK L ' OTATOK DlSStASE IN Till ' . Kf . W Citur . —Potatoes grown iii frames , which had chrowii-Up shoots eighteen inches high , have been dug up ,. anil found so much affected as to . baunfit for use . Some which had been planted out of doora , tlifc shoots , of which had not appeared above ground , have been examined aiid found also affected , the shoots in manycases being rotten . —Proton Guardian . , Tiik LADiite oi' Philadelphia ( says an American paper ) have adopted blue as the tashionaple colour , and now may be seen iiromi'iiadiag Chesnut-street with blue bonnets and blue clunks , - blue dresses , blue stockings , and— " blue noses . " Fcdue . —Amongst the We » t . i > nd military circlesit is currently reported that several battalions of the Foot Guards have volunteered to proceed forthwith for the l ' uiijaub , ami that their chivalrous oiler is under the consider t ion of the Horse Guard * .
Rk-aitkaua ^ o : of tiik Cholkka in Asia . —Letters Irom Persia speak 111 a truly touching manner of the destructive progress hiado by tin ' s pestilential disease 111 , the interior of Asia . ( Joining from Cabul , the cholera had already reached'Teheran . Ai-hioan Discoviiny . —Another African expedition has left Liverpool umJer Uiu cbarjc of G . W . Daniel ! , li- <[ ,, a surgeon , who lived on . the west coast , and iu the interior of that iiimtiweut , for some yearn . The chief object is to explore further ihe discoveries of Mr .
M ' lirejiorL ' ainl . Mr . Daniell is known to the medical public as' the author of some papers on tho sanatory topography of thu west coast of' Africa . Fiuk m iJHKAD-siUEKT . —On Monday evening , between fight am ! nine o ' clock , a tin- , that for upwards of an lioureuu .-od areat alarm , broke out upon the premise * belt « i » ing to Meisrs . P . Poland and Co ,, Furriers , carryius ; ' on business ; u 52 , Kifad-street , Wieapsiile . The liie was nofc subdued until past ten , o ' ciuck , and not until damage to a serious umouui had been done .
Unu . NKus LxfjiKsT . —On Tuesday evening Mr . liedlord held an inquest at tint Feathers , Diumstreet , Westminster , on view of the body of -VUry Ann Thomas , aged one year ami eight , months , the illegitimate offspring of u wioow living in I'ye-s . UMst , Westminster , and \ vho is now in piboii , having t-. tu . reniaiidcil on ; i eijsugc of havinu eiiuseil the dead-, ot if ! ^ " ! '' , . . throwiiij- it on tiie noor , at ' ienvads win ;; it in the Icr , and ttieu . living it e : ; po $ eu at Hft . deor of St . John ' s Wwkiiouss . The stlle-ed « np > were dispiovcjd before the coroner anil jury , . fluid . "Natural Death . "
; JBluitDKu at iNkwauk . —Th . ; inhabitants of this Bffllfei : boiniigli have been iu ; i Mtate of commotion * fflNpinu from the body of a youi . u female bavins ; been-Wound drowned in the canal which passes from one portion of the river Trent to another , .. n the nortti-, wcst side o ( the town . An inquiry was iu * liuuc ( l bvfore the coroner ( Air . Bumaby ) , and the jury brought their labouis to a i-W , in ' letuniin . " a vordiutof WiJtiil-Murder jig . iin > t i-. vi > joung men , mimed llomur and llesulby . The two prisoners were taken to Nottinahaiii « aol , for trial at tlie assizes .
iMkunciiuu" Sifiunn . — Bkh ; mio . v . —A corcner ' s inquest was held at tiie Sea-h .. u > e Hotel , on Monday evening . b .: f . n « F . 11 . Gull , K-q .. coroner for EasV Siumox , to inquire into the eiiuunistancevaitendiu ? the death of Air , Francis Lamb , an Italian warehouseman , at Islington . From the evidom-e , it app : sired that deceased , aecoinpanieil by his wife , c : « ue toludj-oat Air . GIsuldina ' s , m the KingWoad , oil Saturday week , but livelier the servant nor Mr . Uladilini ; noticed anythiug remarkable in his conduct . Mr . l'hilpott , surgeon , was called in to atteud deceased on the following Wednesday , and found him suRerii !}; from liypueoadrincal dl-ease , the result of nidiutintton , one of tin- symptom * of which is ruit-sue for . jolf-destriicuon . ilvideueo having been adduced , it appeared that the deceased cut his throat . ' The jury , returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " Deceased , who was much respected , hit * left a wife and eiirlit children .
Skisious I'inii . NKAn St . Paul ' s . —On Sunday moruiiiji , siuirily before i , wo o ' clock , a iire , nearly attended w itli fatal coiiM ! qucnci ! s to . several persons ' , broke out in the premises tenanted by Mr . W . II . Curliim , tubaccouWt and cigar importer , situate at 1 o , l . urtuatu-stiect , wiiliiu five ilours r > t ' St . Paul's Catlictrjii . The liiiUK ' s ori ^ iliaW In thi .- . lu > uls' parlour , ami wores first itisnivered b y me of tliu female servants in the lviiiy ' s Head Tavern , at tint rear of the prenxwes . Before Ike inmates could be aroused ,, the iire had extended from the bottom almost to tho top of . iiife
staircase , r . heivby cuttimruifall escape by the regular I menus . Fortunately , the wiiok- of the parties m-| siding m the huiltling suee .-eded in getting upon the i roof , and escaped through the . adjoining ileuses liy . the period that the oiiiiinus eouhl be sei to work , thu : llaim . 's had cxteiidt-d nearly U > the roof of the building ' , 1 ami i ' ur siinm time it was sutuigly feairfjI . the llatues ¦ would havo detiiroyed tlie Kitu s Head and . > uvei'al 1 of ilw surrouiuliuy dwelliiijjH . The tiremen , Iiok-• ever , liy labimriny iuui-Ksaial y lor tho space of ail ¦ liour , at length ma-ecudud in jjewing the ilwines es-¦ tinjiiiislicd . Tins dmiia » u is eo «» iderable .
1 ' llK J . AIE |> t'Ill . tu £ AT \ h PTFOK 1 > . — Oil Satlinlsj morniiit :, ai Soutiiwark pohtx ' -cuurt ,, information vv ' a « brought t » the magistrate that t . hft polie « m « n , ' . JauifS llastie , ol lliu R ilivisimi , luul died at Gut ' s Hospital from the injuries inlliot' -d on him at Depifoul . The unforiuimlu man was so dreadfully woundeil that h » - has been qu ' Ut : ineap » ble of giving " any iHtelli-cilt aCr vomit » t' tlie allVny which caused hi * dentil , It appears tlwt ab-iut a we « li ' pnsvioiis to tho utTair he ! hail taken two or U \ ro : men huo i-nstoilv for eventing si disturbiHite ni-av the spot whvre ho was aftmrardsattacked . The m «» i were fined tit the tinus . and it seems tlvvt this act exeited reveugofulfstlinssagainst hiin , and .-that his Ijitu assaiUmts were , in s » mo way , mixid up with thv previnuii ailair , and luu \ on thiit
iceouiia iitiaclu-d ii . iin . Ue was a stout , halo man , tbout , iliirty-h ' ve yi'itrs of ay « . and has si » ee > uftered : ii « ftt awverely . F . u . u . Act-iitt ^ -r ox 3 kk RivsK , —An , inquest v > M imiil mi Tuesday eveuiu » at thu Grapti ^ i > ubli < :-lioii 3 e , New Uravol-lano , Shadwclt , « n thu body of Hoiiry U * x , twenty-one , 1 ears of a ^ s , late a rei'iuit in the ; 5 rd b . ut »! ion of the Uoyal Ani-. lery . Tho body hnrnvv been viewed ; nivl iiti <) itiiii : <) by one of tiiv ^ e-Lsiuwd ' s i-omv . ulvs , cridemje was ^ iuon'to We fo ' linwuii ; eih'ist;—It : ipp » aivil Hie i . leceased cutne up irom Wuolwicli on Sat » nl » y , by thu So . 10 Waiennaii ' s unit , ami ju * t »* it arrivy-i M the Thames TviiuoL 1 ler , b'jiwuoii twelvn ami four o ' clock , the ves ^ l at the Him ' piw > at tier usual sperd , deceased fell acei-UeiiUliy into the water hwU . iver head
Thoalanikwas mstantly s iven , aud the wsscLstopped KH ^ nickly ; w possible . 1 w . i boats at o » put out for him , but he sunk bolore they eould waeti Umi . 'fh-j Uws were then worlctl to . anil tlm body wanuot out m about tour iiiinntos and u hnjf , and br « u » ht to thet .. i ; tj . L \ . . . Mr . Km-, Mirm-oii . * . f lli « h-4 reei . shadwuil , siiM « ciiiK'in | y aiien . led , ; u , d tho uwu was brmiih ' vmmd b-. mean ., W \ , tm MH \ friction , but k waseyideiu ,. tv . im appe . iruiu-s , that he wa . » hil ) i . ur-I ing under congestion of the brain , lie livrd for I iilioin t wo hours iind a \ VA \ f % im \ tuen exp ired from emigration nf the Imin * . •> & luu ^ s . lie was u | iowerfully iVivitiml insi ) , mt' immonsti uia ? clf , »'"' » t « oil : \ l ) 0 Ut 1 ' lVu li-ot t-. M . inuiie . * . lie » tru irijl * 'l «» VMfOw'lion exhibiting tw \* of re . u >« i «» ti < 'H . t ' lflt ll F * iiuiivd four Ttien in h Id him . After i » iinnin * 111-( iiiiry into all the facu , whk-Ji P «» ed that tho iluatU was purely awid-ntnl , the jury letumed a verdiu ; to that effect .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 14, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1358/page/3/
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