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jilE ALLEGED murder AT GBEExNWlCU . TftUt OF THE RICHinDSOSS . CENTR AL CRIMINAL COURT .-Wednesday . giismorniag , William Richardson , aged 49 described as an atlronomer , and Anne Ajana Kichard-S ^ ed 22 , spinster , were placed at tin ! bar fc . plead f& ietmentfoand against them at the March Sssion , f . r murder . The indictment aU ^ ed that the goners feloniously administered to a male child oi Tender age , to wit , eight < iavs old , a certain quantity B { deadlv poison called arsenic , aud that they dm hereby kill and murdep the said child . The " prisoners pleaded not guihy . At ten o ' clock , Lord Chief Justice Dennian and } Ir . Baron Aldcrson entered the Court , and ; the prisuners -were tUen again placed at the bar , and they werefciven in ehirge ta the Jury . 31 rV Bodkin , Mr . Huddlestone , and Mr . Glark appearcd for die Grown ; Mr . Clarkson and Air . Ballantiae defended the prisoners .
2 tir . Uodkin addressed tbe Jury , and said that jjaving heard from the reading of the indictment the nature of the charge that was made against the pris oned , it became his duty to detail to them the cirpuiiistances upon vrhich they would have to decide the awful question of the guilt or innocence of the prisoners at the bar . Tlie case was one almost without parallel . The prisoners not only stood in the relative position of father aud daughter , charged witii gje murder of an helpless infant , but that infant , there was no doubt , was their own offsjiriug , aud the j ^ uii of an incestuous intercourse between them . Be stated this to them because he was aware that it
* vcas impossible for them not to have become acquainted with the fact from other sources , and as he felt that such a circumstance must tend to create horror in every well-regulated mind , he had to entreat thcRi not la allow the prejudice that would thus naturally be created to neigh unfairly against the prisoners ; but that iu the decision they should even tnally come to they would be guided solely by tin evidence that -would be adduced in support of the specific charge no » v made against tlieiu . The Ltari'ed Counsel then proceeded tu narrate the facts in support of the charge , and the following witnesses Wre examined : — ....
Cbaries Pearce deposed , that he is a labourer in { he employ of a bricklayer , at Greenwich , and on jhezL ' nd uf January last , he was engaged iu digging fora cesspool in the garden of the male prisoner ' * jor . se at Greenwich , and while so engaged found a coffin which contained the dead body of an infant . John lliscoek , the employer of the last witness . proved that lie took charge of tbc coflin and tbe dead fci d :, ai . d aftenvatds handed them over to the police . . Mr . Thomas Oak Mitchell deposed , that he is a surgeon at Greenwich , and he first saw the body of ilrc deceased on the 23 d of January . The next day
lie made a more minute examination , wiiick induced him to remove the contents of the abdomen , with a fiew to their undergoing a minute chemical examination , and he afterwards , a sistcd by another nudica : gentleman , applied tests to the liquid Jie s : > removed , in order to endeavour to ascertain the cxisteiiCf of poison . The results of that examination were not very satisfactory to him , but he conjectured tlie existence of arsenic in the stomach , and in consequence of this the remaining contents of the stomach were given to Dr . Leesow , to undergo further analysis .
Mr . Hcinseh , the assistant chemical lecturer at St . Th naas ' s Hospital , proved the receipt of the jar containing the contents of ths stomach antf portions of the body oi an infant from the last witness and that he was present and assisted Dr . Leesun in making certain experiments upon them with a viewto ascertain whether any poison existed . Tiie witness gave a minute technical detail of the experiments resorted to by himself and Dr . Lecson , and expressed an opinion that nothing but arsenic could lave produced all the results to which he had alluded , and in his * opinion the quantity discovered was four grains and one-tenth , but lie could not undertake to say that this was sufficient to have destroyed the life of a child .
Dr . Leeson was next examined . lie confirmed the opinion given by the last witness , and also stated that lie bad Miaseif made other experiments , with rJie same object , aud tbe ultimate result was , that he had BO doubt whatever that the body contained arsenic . and that the quai . t ty was at least lour grains and one-tenth , which , he also said , was quite sufficient to cause the death of a child . Dr . Leeson went on to say , that if arsenic were administered to aa infant , it would probably first cause great pain in the stomach , then a redness and soreness in the throat , and there would also probably be blisters u ; on the tongue and throat , and the usual result ef Inflammation in the stomach , great thirst , &c
By Mr . Clarkson—Very great care and attention were necessary in the experiments made , with a view to ascertain the existence of poison , and some tests formerly relied upon were now rejected as fallacious . He should not , himself , rely upQa ^ any one individual test , but the result oi the whtle ^ DfTiis experiments satU&d him to a certainty of the existence of arsenic In this ease . \ Jh Elizabeth Reynolds deposed , that she resided with Icr husband , in Westen-street , Bermondsey . On the 12 tii of September , the male prisogg&jjanie to her house , and engaged the iront room oniwe first floor , saying tbat it was for his daughter , who Wai near her C-uGiiL'Kieiit , and he wished her to be comfortable . On the 14 tfi be came again , accompanied by his
vik , and ou this occasion he said that the name of Ms daughter was Mrs . Robinson . On the following day the female prisoner was brought to the house by her father and mother , who left her there . On the "Wednesday the male prisoner came to the house alone , and at this time his daughter was in bed , and she hud been delivered of a child the same morning . The child appeared to be perfectly healthy , and was fed as childrea generally are , with rusks , and tops and bottoms . On the Wednesday following the day on which it was bora , the child first becsme unwelf . The Kialc prisoner had come to sic his daughter about four o ' clock in the afternoon oi that day , and Tip t : that time the child appeared quite well , and BQtto have any ailment whatever . The prisoner
¦ went up to his daughter ' s room where she was lying in bed , and witness was occasionally in and out of the room , leaving him alone with his daughter , apd they had teato-ether about five o ' clock . Between four and five o ' clock witness was out of the room more than half an hour at one time . About eight er nine o ' clock the same iiiglit , the child was taken -with violent scteauitng . This was About half an hour after the male prisoner had left the iioiue . The child seemed to b _ - in great pain , and screamed till It had no power to stream any longer . It continued in this state all night , and a medical gentleman , named Wood , saw it , and he sent some powders fur it , one of which she administered on the Fridaj . The mother of the female prhi aer came to the lwuse on Friday , and remained wril the child died , which" was on the next daj . Daring the Thursday the child presented some of the appearances of baring the thrush , and after that it
remained in a state of stupor until its death . The female prisoner wrote a letter to her father on the Friday , and the next day , after tlie child was dead , he cauie to the house , and appeared to be very sorry for the deatli of the child , and said that he should take it heme to Greenwich and get it buried , as it would be less expense ; and the s ; ime evening be brought a coffin to tbe house , and tbe body was placed Iu if , and it was then put in a bag , and the twj prisoners and the mother took it away ivitb them . Before the child died , she told the male prisoner that it would be better to have the birth registered , and the next day he said it was all right , and he had had it registered . His daughter asked him in what name ? and he replied , " Theodore Horatio . " Tbe child ' s food was generally kept in a tea-cup in the same room occupied , by the female prisoyer . When the prisoners were together they CQUversed a good deal in the French language .
Dr . WodcI deposed , that he saw the child on the 25 th , and he observed that the eyes were very much inflamed , sis was also the mucous membraue of the throat . He considered it was suffering from thrush , and he scut some powders for it . lie did not see the child until the day after it w-as first attacked . "When he was informed of the death of the child , he certified the cause of its death to hsjntirasmus , or wasting away of tlie vital powers . Jl e did so because tlie child appeared to him to be indisposed and to Tvaste awav from its birth .
Thomas Jones , a iabourer , residing at Greenwich , proved that in the month of September he \ ws _ iu the male prisoner ' s employ , and used to work at his liou > c on lloval-hill ; and lie remembered ou a Thursday m that month the prisoner ordered Mm to dij ; a hole iu the garden , aud be did so , aud showed it to the prisoner , . ho said it would do very well . On the iollowiug Saturday be saw the prisoner comtiome with a bundle under his arm , but ho could not gay what was in tbc bundle . Mr . William Sturton deposed that he is a surgeon , residing at Greenwich . In June last he attended up- n the female prisoner , and asce rtaimd that she was then pregnant . In the inoiith of October he attended upon the male prisoner , who at tbat timu told him his daughter had had a child and that he vvas tbc father , lie added , that society would view it ; ts a great mural crime , and he was afraid heshould lose iiis situation . He likewise stated that the child was dead .
Cross-examined—lie appeared very much depressed , aud seemed to be under great apprehension of poverty , and said he should die iu the vrorkhouse . By the Court—lie was very ill from ulcerated sore throat and fever , and for a day or two his life was Iu dau < vr His wife iirst informed witness of the iact of the connexion that existed between the prisoner and his daughter , but requested him not to allude i « it t » Li :: i . J < sLua Edward Kearsoy , apprentice to Mr . Riches , a chemist at Greenwich , proved that in August . List he Lad some conrenafion with tbe male prisoner absiut poisons , and he showed him a Lottie that contaiticci arsenic The prisoner said , " Ob , that is ajseuic , Is It ? Witness said it was . The prisoner
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then asked how much it would take to kill any one > and he told him a very small quantity . About a . week after the 12 th of September he saw the prisoner again in tbe shop of his employer , and he saw Ml' . Riches give the pr isoner a packet which contained arsenic , and he at the time saw him write something upon the paper . Mr . Cross , the registrar of births , deaths , and marriages , for the Wcston-street district , proved that there was no entry upon his register either of the birth or death of Theodore Horatio Richardson , and he never heard of any application to make such an entry .
George Wilson , a police sergeant , deposud that he apprehended the female prisoner on the 23 rd . ^ 1 January , upon the charge of concealing the birth of her child . She then said that she was delivered of a child at Mrs . lleynolds ' s , in Weston-slreet , Southwark , en the 15 th of September , and that it died ten days afterwards . He asked her if she had a certificate of the death , and she replied she had not , but she believed her father had . He asked her what became of the child , and she told him her father took it away with him in a cofiin and buried it . She likewise said it was her father ' s own child , and that he
was the father of it . She added , that she was present when her father buried it , and that one ot his labourers had dug the hole , but she did not tlllllK he was aware what it was for , as it was not dug like a grave . She then told him that her father was at rocklington , in Yorkshire , and he proceeded to that place on the 25 tb of January , and apprehended bini . lie asked to see the warrant , and , on fanding tliat he was merely charged with secretly burying the body with a view to conceal the birth of the child , he said , that could not be , for a medical gentleman and a nnree were engacod . He then wished to know whether there was any other charge against him , ai ? d witness told him there was none that he was aware of . ....
Mr . John Drake Finch , the principal clerk at the Greenwich Police Court , produced the statements made by the prisoners while under examination before the magistrate . The different statements were then put in av . d read . Tbe female prisoner made the following statement : — "I am sorry for what I have done ; my father compelled me to do what I have done—to give way to him , I mean ; I mean as to the connection . 1 knew the object of my bein ; taken to Weston-street to be confined . I will let it pass hy what he has done to me . I went once to Mr . English for protection . I was afraid my father was going to do somethins : to me . "The male prisoner said" I wish to speak the truth
, however much the awful circumstances are against me . I never wished to conceal the birth or death of the child . I could have had it buried in London for a few shillings much more secretly . My desire was not to have the remains of the child disturbed . In June last my daughter was unwell , and Mr . Sturton was engaged to attend her . I went away , and when I returned I found she was pregnant , and I withheld any medicine ihat would tend to procure abortion . There was no concealment . 1 engaged a nurse and a doctor . On the 15 th I took ray daughter to the apartment I had provided for her , and I returned home . On the 17 th I heard that the child was born . I believe I went up to see my daughter . On the 25 th
I went to the house to look after the chill , and it died on the 37 th , in the morning . I went and got a CDffin made , and expressed my anxiety about the child Every attention was paid to it , audl brought it to Greenwich by the railway . " The male prisoner subsequently made the following additional statement : — " I have never done anything to contribute to the decease , or cause tliG deatli of the child , and God knows it . My sole care was to preserve the child . I declare before God and this jicple that I never saw thefarticle , or bought any arsenic . The only tiling that caused me . to bury the child iu my own cround , was . that it should not be dlsturbad . I mfcht have eluded this inquiry . AH mv children and mv wife know that I have ever
mourned the death of the child . " Amelia Richardson was then called and sworn , and in answer to a question put to her by Mr . Clark , she said that she was 17 years of age , and the male prisoner was her father . By Mr . Ballantinc — She remembered the ni » ht In which her father brought home the coffin . It was on Saturday , the 27 th of September . A hole was « ug in a corner ef the garden on the following Thursday , and the body was buried on the Friday night , and witness held a light when it was placed in the hole by her father . By Mr . HmMleston—She could not speak positively to the day on which the body was burled . By the Lord Chief Justice—She was quite sure the hole was dug after the body was brought home . Mr . Clarice said , this was the case for the prosecution .
Mr . Clarkson submitted to theCourt that there was no evidence against the female prisoner to call upon her for a defence . The Lord Chief Justice , after consul ! ing with Mr . Baron Aldcrsou . said he did not think there was any evidence to show » hai the female prisoner had auy -= We in causing the death of her infant . Mr . Claiks'm then addressed the Jury for the defence , eontendinEas he proceeded . ithat there was not only no distinct proof that the child died of poison at all , but that there was also an absence of anything like direct evidence that the prhoner had ever purchased poison , or that he had administered it to the decased . The Lord Chief Justice summed up the evidence . The Jurv retired at a quartar to seven o ' clock , and returned into Court at a quarter past eight , finding a verdict of Not Guilty .
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BANKRUPTS . Joseph Fearnlev , Windsor terrace , City-road , -worsted stuff manufacturer . Nathaniel Levy , Buteher-row , . Aidgate , carcase butcher . John Green , Yarmouth , Norfolk , coal merchant Charles Culledge Barley , Wisheacb St . Peter ' s . Cambridgeshire , grocer . Brookes Hugh Bullocl ; , 2 ficholas-lane , City , ivine merchant . Charles M'Kiunell , -Fencliureh-street , City , wine merchant Robert Ilearn , Doddingtnn-grove , Kchnington , commission agent . "William'Wells anil John Claxton , Victoria-wharf , Banksjde , Southward , coal merchants . Frederick Baverv , Hillinjraon . iliuaiesex , balier . Charles Frederick Came and
Maurice Telo . iiverpool , merchants . George AVMtficid , Nottingham , lemonade manufacturer . Bit-hard Lets , AVolverliamjiton , Staffordshire , ironmonger . John Andrews , llU'Wcnsfield , Yorkshire , commission agent . Samuel Brear Sowden , Leeds . share-fcrok < T . John Hacmi , York , caiiieiiter . lWilliamBadier . Rotherham , Yorkshire , hoot aud shoe maker . Edward Linley and Aaron Linley , Sheffield , shecpshears manufacturers . Thomas ITartley and Rouert Ingliam . Leeds , stock lirokcrs ; Tliomas Rostra , Bradford , Yorkshire , surgeon dentist . John Wihnnt , - Lentnn . Nottinghamshire , coach proprietor , John Page , AValsall , Staffordshire iron dealer . William Fox and James Fo . v , iluuchester , oilmen .
DIVIDENDS . June 3 . R . Garland . ¦ VVallunn-gracn , Middlesex , corn chandler , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London —June 11 . D . Jfarte , Iloundsditch , pen manufacturer , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London—June 1 ' . A . H . Ciiamht-rs , sen ., and A . If , Chambers , jun .. New Bond street . Hankers , at two , at tlie Ccurt of Bankruptcy . London—June 13 , J . Kadbone , Alcester , Warwickshire , hniker , at eleven , at the Court uf Bankruptcy , Birmingham—June JC , C . Harrington , Kidderminster , plumber , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham—June Ifi . S . Rogers . J > aIe-haH , Staffordshire , earthenware manufacturer , ' at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . CEET 1 PICATBS .
June Z . 3 . Scholefield , Cheapsidc , cutler , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London—June 8 . "W . Kearton , Lamb-street , Spital-siniare , checscin nger . at eleven , at tlie Court of Bankruptcy , London—June 5 . G . B . Esirp . London , ship Tjrokvr , at eleven , at tlie Cuurt of ISankruptcy , I / ondon—June 2 . M . Jones . Theobald's-roiid , grocer , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London—June i , J . Shirt , Broad-street , Lambcth-butts , grocer , at eleven , at . the Court of Bankruptcy , London—June 4 . F . Herpent . Sherrard-street , Golden-square , warehouseman , at half past twelve , at tlie Court of Bankruptcy , London —June 5 . P . Crispin , Bristol , carpenter , at half-past eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol-June ' 1 . S . Veiine , Liverpool , merchant , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—June 5 . G . Williams , Bristol . watchmaker , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristul—Juue -1 . T . and 3 f . Knight , Bath , upholsterers , at onu . at the Court of Itaubruntrr . Vrhtul ,
PAKTSERSHIP 3 DISSOLVED . E . Reed and Co . Liverpool , milliners—C . L . Brockleliur . < t and Co ., JJolmfiitJj , Yorkshire , linen drapers , as fttr as regards G . L Bpicklchurst—J . Darby and It . Gar . land , Woirtl-street , Cheajiside , warehousemen—1 { . F . Long and W . II . Job , Limehouse , saw mill owners—T . W . II Smart am ] E . C . Hill , Cramborne , Dorsetshire , sur geons—W . Simpson and G . Boyes , York , stoekbrokers-V . and J . l'rotlieroe , Bristol , coopers—T . Huffani andD . Wcstawav , City-road , tailors—If . and H . J . liellingiiara , Strand , chemists—T . II . Hailfield and T . Bailey , Barton , lipon-lrwcll , Lancashire silk dvers—G . Gregory : illd Co ., Fislicrtun Anger , Wiltshire , millers—J . Watson and T .
Jackson , Leeds , millers—G . Blogif ami L . Samuel , Buck lc-rsliury— . 1 . Ilcdilin and V . Parkinson , inn ., Leeds , sharcIirokcrs-J . Luinax and S . Kay , Hall-fold , Lancashire , cotton spinners—T . Bull aud * W . N : isli , Jliiiories , provision merchants—G . Jones and J . Walker , Birmingham , ironfounders—J . and II . E . Boucher , Birmingham , drapers—E . A . and J . . Scwcll , Fore-street , CWppIegate , toy merchants— W . ami J . Wilst . ii , Xeiv Bond-street , linen drapers—J . Smith and J . 'W , Browne , Swindyn , Wiltshire , attorneys—G . AV , WatMns and G . Gauudry , Oxford-street , oil ivarehoiiFeiiieii— C . Adshead and J . Gorxlhaiiil , Leicester , commission agents—J . Bale aud Co ., ( Jhisgow , Mine merchants— Kirkald y and London Shipping Company .
SCOTCH SEHDESTUiTIOSB . Archibald Coupcr , jun ., Glasgow , salesman May 18 and June K , at tivohv , at the office of Mr . Young , " writer . JSlasgow—( Jenrge Sanderson , roliugion , Olnyniw , liaker , -May SH and June S , at two , at the chambers of Mr . Robertson , solicitor , Edinbui-gh .
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LosnoN CoFi'EBASii Eating-IIolse-K eei'eiis Association . —The annual dinner on behalf of this useful ami philanthropic institution took place on rue-day evening in the . Freemasons' 'Tavern Unwanbgof 300 goitlcmrn sat down to an excellent ai ' . < l substantial dinner , uudcr the presidency of General Sir Da Lacy Kvans , M . P , BiiAChit Ui ; . —A western editor , speaking of the Oregea question , says— " ]} we must have a ° , k-t us l < c ftiiind crm—in a posture of di-feuce—and at ' east with our national pantaloons braced up . "
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GLASGOW . Dn . Doxski . lt versus the " Grebsock Advertiser . "—On Tuesday week there was decided here before the Lord Justice Clerk , and a middle class jury , thelongpendinslibe ! case of Dr . F . JU . Donnelly , against the Greenock Advertiser . So long back as November , 1 SJ 3 , the doctor was called on about midnight to visit some dying stranger in an ordinary lodging house , but before the doctor arrived , the man died , and because the usual fee was charged and paid , out conies a paragraph in the Advertiser , describing the occurrence so as to lead the public to believe , that the doctor had with his own hand p icked the dead man ' s pocket ! For several years previously tho doctor had submitted to a seriesof malignant atlacks from thisioarhar : and ' the only assunable reason
for its sua ' nifcless . abuse / was , that the doctor was a native of poor ruined Ireland , and felt for hev wrongs . On the appearance of the said paragraph , however , he came to the resolution' of calling t ! . e libellers of the Advertiser to an account for their infamous conduct . This he did by bringing them into court , and claimed £ 500 damages . In the course of the trial it transpired that the parties move immediately connected with the Advertise ) ' were not wholly to blame in getting up the base falsehood , for which its supposed proprietors were about to be trounced . It appeared that a batch of certain sneaking petty tyrants , who pull the wires behind the screen in the notorious Greenock police office and the anti-chamhers connected therewith , concocted the lie , for which , after paying all cxpenees , they must hand the doctor one hundred pounds sterling .
( , .,. „ - New Zealand . —A parliamentary return , of considerable importance , relative to the affairs of New Zealand , is just delivered . It consists of copies of a correspondence which took place last autumn , between Lord Stanley and Mr . G . F . Young , chairman of the New Zealand Company , respecting an application made by the company for a government loan of £ 150 , 000 , to enable it to carry out the views for whicli it was formed . Lord Stanley agrees to recommend to parliament that it should <; rant the New Zealand Company a loan of £ 10 U , 000 , subject to certain conditions , and the company , though greatly disappointed at not receiving the full amount for which it applied , agrees to accept the preferred £ 100 , 600 on the terms which Lord Stanley , as colonial secretary , proposes . The New Zealand Company feels the strongest conviction , that the loan it lias obtained wiJJ go far to restore prosperity to the colony .
Tiid Garrison of Stdxet . —Considerable excitement prevailed in this city yesterday morning , by a report that the soldiers of the garrison had refused to obey orders , and had knocked off duty . The rumour turned out to be partially true . Some time ago , a general order was received here , altering the regulations under which the troops are rationed , and discontinuing the allowance of grog . These regulations it was attempted to be put in force yesterday morning , but the men turned out of their quarters en manse , about half-past eight o'clock , heaving away their bread into the barrack-yard , and refusing to do duty . Tlie gates of the barracks were closed throughout the day , and his Excellency the Commander of the Forces * with his staff , went down at an early hour to endeavour to rcrall the men to obedience . Curing the day , however , an arrangement was wiulo , under which the grog allowance was to be comjnucd , ami the troops then returned to their former discipline . — Australian Journal , Dec . 2 , 1845 .
EXKCUTIOX at Algiers . —An Arab , named Ah-Bou-Ameur , condemned to death by the council of war for his complicity in an assassination perpetrated by a band to which he belonged , expiated his crime on the 23 rd of April , at Blidah . The arrival of the culprit the preceding evening , between a double row of Gendarme . " , had put the little town in quite a fermentation . The m-xt morning an immense crowd assemb ' ed in the liois Sacre . At 9 _ o'clock the condemned was conducted to the plaee of execution . He set out from his prison with a bold , swaggering , and almost feverish step , but almost immediately relaxed the firmness of his behaviour , and muttered prayers to Allah . In face of the mass of French and Arab head * through which he passed , as if into a furrow , whicli immediately closed upon Iiim , he appeared especially struck by the immense eoncourse of his cobdievers . AYlien the sentence of the
court was ivad aloud to the multitude , he requested that his body might be transmitted to his tribe . This last prayer being accepted , he expressed a wish to be executed quickly J he then knelt down , and turning his eyes towards the mountain of ^ luuzaia , bis cradle , lie continued to pray until the reverberation of the 12 musket shots which were fired to punish the assassination of the Zouave Sauvagna . The crowd then dispersed in silence , and the corpse of the guilty Arab was carried to the Mouzaia . On the 24 th of April some travellers , who were crossing the Chiffa , were astonished to meet a horseman who carried before him a dead body riddled witli tails . They learned , on enquiry , that this was tlie very Aral ) whose deatli we have been describing . The horseman was his father , and was then carrying the corps « of his son to his own tribe , in order that funeral honours might be rendered to it , according to the Mahometan ceremonials . —Riris nriut .
Meeting at Southampton against Dkatii Punishishmb > "ts . —On Saturday a public meeting was held at the Victoria-rooms , for the purpose of petitioning tlie l . egililtllieto adopt such measures as in their wisdom they may consider necessary for tlie immediate and total abolition of puuisliineiit by death . The proceedings throughout were most enthusiastic and unanimjus , and not a single dissentient voice being heard amid the numerous assep . ib ! a ;; e that was prc-: ent .
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PiiMsiiMENx ok Death jn Amubica . — According to the last received New York papers , Mr . Titus of that City , had just reported , from tho proper committec , a bill to abolish capital punL-hmeiit . It is MS follows :
" an act to abolish capital punishment . " The people of the State of New York , represented in Senate and Assembly , do enact as follows : — " 1 . The punishment of death is hereby abolished , and in lieu thereof , any pi rsun convicted of any crime which , liy the laivs of thu Siatu now in force , is punishable With death , shall be confined , in the Stole TriBon , iu solitude , and at hard labour , for the period of his or her natural mv . " 2 . This Act shall take effect on the first day of January next . [ The Bill is a pattern for brevity : somewhat different therein from some of our Acts . ' ]
Mil . WoCKIIAUKXIKDEWI UMTNlGENSTOItBEN fell down Stairs tlie otuer day , and broke his name into three pkcia . —Jiostou Post . —Ami we think it was very cruel in you to put such a name together again . —TV . l . Com . Adv . —Wo didn't ; it was regularly set and splintered by an eminent practitioner , who declared it to be a mosi beautiful case of compound fracture . — Huston 1 ' ost .
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AMERICAN WORKING-MEN'S MOVEMENT . EMANCIPATION OF LABOUli AND THE LAND . We have received copies of Young America , to the llth of April inclusive , each number containing cheering reports of the progress of the Agrarian movement . In the "Ami-Rent Region , " the principles of the New York reformers are making ereat progress . In l ' cniiaylvaniathe movement progresses admirably . A daily journal , entitled the Dai . y Din-¦ patch , published at Pittsburgh , liiivaig a circulation
ot 3000 , has declared for the frecdinn of the public lamls . In Philadelphia an Agrarian paper is isbout to be established . In Indiana the movement is gaining ground . ' Among other places ( in Indiana ) an Agrarian society has been established at New Harmony . During the first two weeks of April , mtctings were of nightly occurrence in New York , and an entire column of Young America is each weukdevotcd to announce acts of ' . Forthcoming Meetings . " We recently announced that Mr . IUnsom Smith had declined the honour of nomination for the mayorship oi New York , on a second solicitation he was , however , induced to accent the call of the reformers .
At the meeting of tlie Association on the 1 st of April , amongst several new members enrolled was a Mr . John Cotton Smith , an ex-member of the legislature of Connecticut , and a former governor of that state . Young America of April 4 th conlains the first of the "No Vote ! , No Musket ! " letters addressed by Fkarous O'Connor , Esq . to the British Chartists , accompanied with the following excellent editorial remarks : — NO LAND ! NO ItlFLB !
It is lucky that we have some men in Congress who can keep up with the intelligence of the age and the progress of common sense , and who therefore can sen that it is too late in this eountr . v for ambitious men to acquire power by eompell ng landless men to lose their limbs or their lives in fighting for landlords . War , the game of kings and tj rants , could be played ns long an there was one man in a nation to assert that the working peopie were not born to be landless slaws ; but the game is now up . The free soil doctrine is ' spreading with almost telegrahic speed iu Europe and America ; and what impudent deiiinnogue hereafter will have the fate to ask men who know they are robbed of tlioii 1 doai'ost right , to fight the battles Of their plunderers ? Let those who would fan the flames of war for the benefit of land thieves beware of tlie vengeance of those who see freedom ahead , should they be the means of" despoiling the glorious prospect . Mr . Benton is not one of these . Again \ w ha 3 raised his
voice fur peace . Again he has shown , and that by new evidence , that according to the humbug laws and treaties of nations up to this time acknowledged by the two governments , an adjustment of the Oregon dispute ought to be settled on the 49 th parallel . Iu this he has evinced true C < Waj , ' < - * rrhivh it would be well for his opponents to imitate by abandoning their bravadoes . ' By an article on the last page to-day , it will be seen that the masses of England have raised the cry of "No Vote , no Musket ! " The first thing tlie people of England would do with the vote if they got it , would be to vote tlit \ nselves a farm on their own soil . Therefore the interpretation of their present rallying try is , " No Land , noMuslcet ! " and that , our own war dogs may rest assured , would be the cry of the landless here if they should succeed in tlieir designs . Land-lords hereafter roav iiglit their own buttles , and the landless will not be idle while they are carrying on their game .
Passing over for the present a mass of interesting matter , articles , addresses , letters , resolutions , &c , some of which wo may heri'afier extract , we proceed at once to state something of the
GREAT MEETING IN THE l'AUK AT NEW IO 11 K OP MANY THOUSANDS OF LACKUNDERS DETERMINED TO HAVE THE LAND . This most important meeting took place on Thursday , April 9 th . and will long be remembered as the first great UeinonsU'ation of the American poodle in support of a true Republic . We give Young America ' s account of this important gathering : —
MASS MEETING FOR A FREE SOIL . Never was I so much at a loss for words as now , in desiring to notice appropriately the great meeting in the park on / Niursduy , in favour of a landed democracy . To say that the meeting was a highly interesting aud important one , would be doing small justice to the subject : to avii > that a peaceful meeting pregnant with consequence ? , so important and beneficial to the human race , whs never before held since the dawn of civilisation , I think would not exceed tlie truth . What took iilace in Itnlv , when the people of that country were
endeavouring to regain their foothold upon th « cavtlt , it is impossible to tell ; for when we see our own movements and doctrines so misrepresented here under our own eves , it is easy to conceive , through aid of the clue ttfibrued us by the " romance of history , " that the Free Soil principle was aa well understood , ' and as clearly enunciated , by tht Plebeians of Rome as by the National Reformers of ' Hew YorU . Since those days , however , if there ever has been so large a meeting , iu any country , as that held in the Park ' on Thursday , for the express purpose of ' placing the rights of a people on the only secure aud eternal basis o { a Free Soil , history is entirely silent as to the event .
It was not , however , the numbers present at this meeting , so much as the distinctive character of thu assemblage , and the fact that the people pvesent came on purpose to consider the subject of a landed democracy , that gave it important * . Tl ; e object of the meeting mis dis . tinctly stated in the Mammoth handbills , COO of which were posted iu all parts of the thy , and in advertisements in most of tbe city papers , and the result was a , convocation of the most intelligent and thoughtful of the useful classes of this overgrown metropolis . At half-past four the meeting was called to order by Henry Beeny , who nominated the President . Benjamin Perkins nominated a Vice President for each ward , and William Arbuthnot nominated Secretaries . The following officers were uhosun on the respective motions : — President—JOHN COM . MEHF 0 RD . VlCE-PltESIDENTS .
1 William Green . 10 . Heavy Urehcr . 2 . John \ V . Keyeaer . 11 . George Arnold . 3 . William llowe . 13 . G « orge Wiudt . i . Charles B . 'Burton . 13 . Israel Peek . 5 . Samuel Webster . 14 . Andrew Potter . 0 . Danid Oakley . 15- William Mann . 7 . Samuel M . Jaues . 10 . Daniel Delauey . 8 , Jouas R Uruer . 1 < . William Jlarston . y . David lUai'Sl ) . 18- ° hn l » e la Montanye . Secratauies—Gilbert Yale , jun ., Robert Truusdale , Nicholas Tallman , Harman lvroel . The President stated the object of the meeting , and then called upon Mr . Uyckinan , who gave Ms views more at length , and very much to the purpose . The 1 ' ivsidcnt then announced that Mr . JSriins , from the Comn : ittee of the National Reform Association , would read an address and resolutions , which he did ns follows : — ADDRESS .
The Committee of the NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION beg leave to report to their fellow . citizens—That in their opinions a highly important crisis has arrived in the history of our government , a crisis fraught With tho most serious consequences to the welfare ol' the people of the present and ' future generations . The glorious revolution of ' 70 developed new truths in the science of civilized government and asserted for tlie people rights never before ( so far as history informs us ) asserted under suuh favourable auspices , as to popular inrellistnec , territory , and other circumstance * . But somo most essential rights so asserted are yet only in prospect . Therefore the revolution is not completed . We have tlirjwu of t' foreign rulers , but have retained loviiign systems . We have assumed . tliu right to govern
ourschvs , but we have not yet governed justly . Wo have declared an equality of rights , but we have not practised upon the declaration . Strange though it may seem , it is no less true than strange , that we have mistaken Slavery ( or Freedom , Let it now and henceforth be proclaimed to the world , that there can be no freedom where any . nan is coerced by any sort of force or necessity to labour for another ; that to be i ' ree , a man must have a sovereign anil inalienable right to soil enough to subsist upon . We assert , Uicn , thu EQUAL BIGHT OF MAS TO THE SOIL , and DEMAND its restoration to the people . We ask that all the people may possess equal rights , iu practice as well as theory , in order that all may have tlie best possible opportunity for the pursuit of hap piiifiss . We demand a free soil for a free people .
In all nations where a monopoly ot the soil has existed , no matter what the form of government , the mass of thu people have been held in slavish dependence by the few . Seventy years experience has shown us tbat « government , never- so rcnublienu in other respects , is powerless to secure freedom tu a people among whom . \ Monopoly of the soil is tolerated . We might refer to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey , to Tyrol , to Norway , to Spain , and to b'rance , for evidence thiil tbe nearer the approach to sill equal right to the soil among a people , the better and more independent is the condition of that people ; and lo Russia and to England for evidence , on the other hand , that the lewer hands the laud is in tho more wretched is the condition of the labuurinir classes . But we need not leave our own
country tV . r testimony on this subject . Tke monstrous , the glaring anomaly here staves us in the face throughout our land , that the condition of the working people becomes more and more depressed in exact ratio with the progress of invention , improvement , and the means of production . In Oregon , for instance , with tho least of those advantages , labour is best paid , because there lhe people ( tit present ) have the land ; while in New York , where industrial improvements lias been carried to the greatest extent , here tho Wi . risers are most depressed , because the greatest proportion of the people aiv landless . Thus tliu plain and simplii solution of the difficulty which lias prevented some of our politicians from fulfilling their promises and realising tlu-ir expectations when the ) would , ami others , perhaps , from doing what they could
is LAND MONOPOLY . In various ugus aud nations the Iti { , 'ht to tiio Soil lins been asserted by wise men ; but generally when Unpeople became powerless through a monopoly of gradual growth . Lyeurgus partially established the principle in Greece : tho Gi'aeuh ! made an uniueossl ' ul atti-mpt to
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establish it in Rome ; Speuce asserted it in England ; Paine and others in Prance ; Jefferson and Skidinore . in America . There is more or less of good in all that these men have done and written for a Free Soil , and it would be strange if we could not profit by and improve ; upon their labours . Never , perhaps , was there so good nn opportunity of peaceably restoring the Soil to the People as now exists in this infant Republic . Never , in fact , was there so good an opportunity for establishing the Rkpub lic ; for a Republic can no more exist with a La ded Aristocracy than a Monarchy can exist without one . Let the Right of Soil be asserted , then , till the whole world shall be regenerated by the all-saving principle . If any one principle can regenerate a world , it is that of a Free Soil . It is tll « downfall of Despotism . It is a sure basis for a Republic . It solves the great social problem , how to make individual coincident with a national prosperity . Ours , ihen , be the glory of establishing a Landed Democracy .
Here follow quotofcioHs from a number of documenls showing the progress of Free Soil principles from 1 S 29 to the prcicnt time . These quotations , extending over two columns of Young America , would occupy more room than wo have to spare . After giving ' these potations the " Address" proceed *; and concludes as follows ;—Thus the Free Soil doctrine is a progressive principle : a living and growing fact : and the measures necessary to ita final triumph ave simple , practical , and well defined . Stop selling tlie Public Lands , let thft state and the nation limit the amount of the land that any one may henceforth acquire , secure the inviolability of the homestead , aud the work is done : you have established the Republic on the unimprognable basis of a LANDED DEMOCRACY .
Well had it been for the Republic if our Legislators had listened to tho first call on this subject ; . well bad they even listened when Jackson spoke . The State of New York might have been spared the darkest chapter of her history , The nation might now have been more surely unimpregnablu to the world , and instead of the chance of tightiuBtor Oregon , the CONTINENT might havo been ours without striking a blow . Let us delay no longer the establishment of a Landed Democracy . We will scfiek no longer delay . Already the land is tilled , the workships nrc tilled , the mines are wrought ,
an A the ships are navigated by LANDLESS MEN , who have scarcely a chance of escape from servitude , and whose children must inevitably be what the children of labour in England arenow ! Already is the agricultural population scattered and the mechanical crowded in cities that capital may monopolize the roads aud saddle the producers with Rents . Disregarding the warning voice of a Jefferson , we have " become piled up in large cities as in Europe , " fliid gone " to eating one another as they do there . " Our duty to our children cries aloud for Reformation . We must put an end to the Landed Aristocracy and save the Republic ,
The present system enables the rich to absorb the proceeds of labour through rents and mortgages . Let each family have one Homestead and no more , and let all the surplus land be held hy the people for- those coming of age . Ko longer tben will there be rents or mortgages . Under our present system the workers have but to receive with one hand from an employer and pay over with the other to a landlord . Let them be their own employers and their own landlords , and save a double tax . Under the system we propose , flmployin (? farmers uould secure freeholds for all their children , which not one in ten of them can do now ; wages fanners would be enabled to set up for thctnfelvrs on tlieir own freeholds as soon as they could procure the necessary stock aud materials ;
mechanics would get out of the cities instead of crowding into them , till all could have their freeholds both iu and out ; men who work underground in tiie mines would havo better pay or they would stay upon the surfaee ; seamen would have butler pay , better treatment , aud better accommodations , or they would stay on shore ; no longer would men enter a Navy or Army to be ordered about by officers not of their own chousing ; and tho rich , who now squaudcr the proceeds of others' labour , , though deprived of some of their luxuries , would find it a greater luxury to con-usne the produsts of their own labour , and would find their advantage in the general weal , and in the security of si competence , instead of the chance of superfluities . A LANDED DE . UOCUACY then , now and for ever !
RESOLUTIONS . Resolved , —That with die facts staring them in Hie face of gradually dccrea > ing mean ' s among tl > e producing Classes , in proportion to the increaee of tlio powers of production through their own ingenuity , it is disgraceful to legislators that they have not discovered a remedy for a wrong so palpable . Resolved , —That where there are large prisons and poor houses in a country that has fertile land uncultivated , they arc an evidence ofmisgovernment . Resolved , —That if all men have an inalienable right to life , liberty , and the pursuit cf happiness , as we firmly believe they have , it must be that they have an inalienable right to use the earth , without which life caunot be sustained , liberty preserved , or happiness enjoyed ! therefore no man , or set of men , ought to be allowed to monopolize hereafter more of the soil than could be possessed by every citizen who desired it .
Resolved , — That the land of the world belongs to the people of tbe world , and that no government has a right to do anything with the land , but to secure it for the equal use of its citizens ; therefore , not another acre of the public lands of tlie United States ought to l ) e sold or appro , printed to any other use whatever than the sustenance of " freeholders . Resolved , —That here ifter we will consider all legislators who uphold land monopoly or neglect to use all- their powers to abolish it as robbers far more culpable than plunderers of moreable property . Jtcsolved , —That as land traHlc is productive of destitution , misery , and crime , we must hereafter regard anj man who buys land for any other purpose than his own or his family ' s cultivation as a . land . stebler .
Resolved , —ihat land monopoly isthegreatcst , ) olitica evil that exists in any civilized country ; that therefore thepeopleof each country ought to limit the amount of land to be held by individuals , and that it is the duty of the United States to set an example to the nations . . Resolved , —That it is the pvoper business of government to secure aud protect the natural rights of the people ; And as the right to the soil is the right of which the largest portion of the people are now deprived , it should be tiie h ' rst business of the coming Constitutional Conventioa of New York to secure that right , so far , at least , as it may be done by preventing any future monopoly , Resolved , —That the homestead of every family ought to be exempt from all liability for debt ( as in Georgia and Texas ) , and transferable only to a landless person . Resolved , —That we regard the working men of the world as our brethren , and their idle and luxurious taskmasters as our enemies .
Resolved , —That we abominate that game of tyrants called war , and that bafore any eitizjn is called upon to tight he ought to be put in possession of a homestead lor his family . Unsolved , —That would foreign powers send their landlords here to fight for Oregon , or for any other purpose , we might be disposed to endeavour to rid the world of their loathe some presence ; but should they force their lacklanders here we would receive them as friends and invite them to take homesteads among us . Resolved , —That in view of the rapidly augmenting pauperism and crime consequent upon our overstocked wages slave market , we consider tho governmunf uf this fity intimately connected with the Free Soil movement and will therefore vote for Ransom Smith . ind . lames Maxwell , men pledged to the principle , for . Mayor and Alms House Commissioner , and for the Free Soil candidates fur Charter Officers .
Resolved , —That we will use every effort to elect pledged Free Soil delegates to the Constitutional Convention . Resolved , —That Thomas II . Binton , of the Senate of tbi- United States , and Hobcit Smilh , H . P .- JfeVnck , Folix McConncll , and Andrew Jolmson , of the House of Representatives , ave entitled to the respectful consideration of the landless and all liberal men , for their efforts towards a Free Soil . While tho address was being read the audience listened with the utmost attention , though many iu the outskirts must have heard it imperfectly . The address and resolutions were put collectively aud were adopted by a unanimous aud universal shout of Aye ; not even a whisper of dissent being heard on the negative .
The President then read and offered a series of resolutions prepared by himself , deprecating a war about Oregon and approving of the conduct of the congressmen who have endeavoured , to avert it ; hitting oll ' vcry neatly " Gen , Wawliotomawko , " the Senatorial 5440 man and eulogizer of " France , its court and king ; " and condemning the conduct of the Governor and members of the Legislature from this city in the ease of Mike Walsh . On these resolutions he made a long and excellent speech , at the close of which tlie resolutions , niiich were good in themselves ( though covered in part by the resolutions of the committee , ) were put an ! carried , * but are necessaril y excluded by our limited space , as well as much other matter rclatinK more inimediutrly to the objects of the meeting .
At this time tbe audience had become so large , that it was thought best to have a speaker at each end of the large platform prepared for tho occasion ; and as a considerable portion of tho audience were of German origin , one of them spoko in the language of that people . Soon the audience became too Iaige even for two speakers , and a third commenced on this City Hall steps , and from this time till near the close of the meeting a succession of speakers was kept up in the three positions , eai-h division of thu nudieuco alternately vending the air with shouts of applause , as the Free Soil prospect , in its vari . ous aspects , was opened to them . Thu speakers , during the afternoon and evening were the President , Messrs . RyeUnian , O'Connor , Kriege , Bronson , Truutwein , Ratid , J 5 vaus , Urclier , Arnold , Gould , Manning , J } j | es , Murill , Gla 6 er , Zuopner , and perhaps others not recollected . Our reporter has notes
ot several of the speeches , which I shall endeavour to give an abstract of next week , but with no hope wf doing ¦ juatiue to thu truthful mid uloqueuc appeals mafic on this occasion . ^ ^< rtF ^> . The paper containing the promised . \^ ti ' act of "; tlie 'Cx speeches has not yet reached EiigIaiid / r'IJ . ilj'jtSa" for ¦ ' / \ ^ the Aurarinn Demrcr . us ! A'iuo times , riiy ^ for . the . ' " > . L 5 brave New Yorkers ! < T * Ms $ K L ¦ / JwV
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Meeting at plymotjtii against the irish coercion bill . On Wednesday evening a public meeting called by the Chartists was held at the Mechanics' Injtitute , Princes-square , for the purpose or petitioning Parliament against the enactment of the Irish Coercion
TV 11 Mr . Symoxs , amason . was called to the chair . He stated the object for which the meeting had been convened , namely , to petition the Legislature against the enactment of what he regarded a very cruel and uniust measure with respect to Ireland , The provisions of the Coercion Bill , to consider whicli they had mot ) were of an arbitrary and tyrannical character ; such as Englishmen ought not to see imposed cither upou their Scotch , Welsh , or Irish brethren . It was that they sympathized with their Irish brethren that led to the holding of the meeting . The working men had ,
before issuinji a notice calling the present meeting , waited upon some of the gentry and shopkeepers ot the town to ask them to get up a meeting , for the purpose of opposing the passing into a law of this iniquitous Bill ; but these parties declining to call such meeting , and no other parties coming forward to do se , they had felt that there was no alternative but to get up a meeting themselves , or neglect their duty in respect to their brethren across the Channel at a moment wlien , of all others , they were most deserving of sympathy . The chairman made some observations on the bill , and concluded by calling upon Mr . O'Brien .
Mr . O'Brien , a schoolmaster , and who was at one time secretary to the late Wm . Cobbett , addressed the meeting at considerable length . He contended coercive measures would most inevitably fail in producing any beneficial eft ' ect in Ireland , it had so failed with respect to secret societies and other associations which it had beer , attempted to put down with a strong arm , but which had increased the more , in spite of the inteferenee of the law .- ( Hear . ) Ills experience as an Irishman , and as one who , in travelling through the country with the late Mr . Cobbett for the purpose of inquirinj : into the state of the people , taught him that if this Bill were to pass into a law , it would utterly fail of effecting any good , but on the contrary , lead to an increase of those very crimes of assassination asd murder , against which its provisions were more particularly directed . The great evil afflicting Ireland was the mode in which the land was managed . The speaker was of opinion
that improved modes of holding land , and improved cultivation , would do more to satisfy the Irish ; people than any mere legislative enactments . As an Irishman , he implored Englishmen to sympathise with jlis country , and assist his countrymen to resist the imposition of the tyrannical Bill now before Parliament , la the course of his remarks the speaker said , that when he accompanied Mr . Cobbett to Ireland , that gentleman went there with the view of collecting information for writing a book , to be entitled " Ireland ' s Woes and Hopes , ' and which lie had not completed when he died . Mr . O'Brien concluded by moving , " That this meeting views with feelings of stern disapprobation the attempt , 'made by her Majesty ' s Ministers to pass } the Coercion Bill for Ireland , as being a flagrant violation of the privileges of the subject , and as not being at all calculated to redress outrages , or to eradicate the injustice of which the people complain . " This being seconded ,
The Rev . Mr . Alduich , a clergyman of the Established Church , supported it in an eloquent speech , in whicli the Bill in question was said to be of a nature so tyrannical that it would scarcely be borne with in Poland or Russia . Mr , Kobektso . v moved the adoption of a petition to Parliament . Which was seconded by Mr . Tremayne , and carried unanimously . Mr . O'Brihn proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman , he at the same time begsjed to return , on the part ot his country , bis sincere and heartfelt thanks for the deep interest manifested by that meeting in her behalf . The last expression was cheered with loud cries of " We do feel interested for her . " The vote of thanks to the chairman was carried unanimously , after which a working man whose name was not given , bore honorable ttstimany to the patience of the Irish under their afflictions , and showed the utter uselessness of the means about to be enforced for creating peace amongst them .
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THE OREG ON QUESTION . IMPORTANT NEWS FROM TIIE UNITED STATES . Li vF . nrooi . , Toesday , Mat 12 . — Important accounts from Washington to the 21 st ult ., and from New York to the 23 rd inclusive , have been received this day by the packet ship Liverpool , Captain Eldridu ci . '¦" . . ' We learn by these advices that the Oregon notice passed by the Senate had been amended by the House of Representatives . The amended form was rejected by tlie Senate , then insisted upon by the hous e , and , ultimately , committees of conference were appointed by tho two houses to compromise the dispute . The members' of the Senate Committee were Messsrs . Berien , ILiyward , and Corvvin ; those of the House Messrs . Ingersoll , Owen , and IBUi ard . - ¦ ¦ ¦
Iloi'SE op Representatives , April 17 . — Tho house proceeded to the . consideration of the Senate resolutions of notice respecting the termination of the joint convention respecting the Oregon territory , and Mr . Robert Dale Owen , of Indiana ( a son if Robert Owen , the Socialist ) , moved two amendments to tlie Senate resolutions , which had been agreed upon at a caucus of the democratic members held last evening . The alterations proposed by these amendments are as follow : —In the first resolution , at the close of it , after the word '' earnestly , " strike out the words " and immediately directed to renewed efforts for the amicable settlement , " and insert "directed to the importance of a speedy adjustment" In the second resolution , after the words " That'thc President of tlie United States be , " strike out " and he is hereby authorised at his discretion , " and insert " authorised and requested . "
Mr . Owen having offered these amendments , moved the previous question , whiGh being sustained , cut off all debate , and brought the house at once to vote on the adoption of the amendments , which were carried by a tote of 99 Yeas to 87 Noes , so that a change of seven votes only would hare reversed the decision . The resolutions , as' thus amended , were adopted by Ui Yeas , 41 Noes . On the first vote there were 36 members absent ; on the second , 37 . The resolutions , with the phraseology used by the Senate , and the amendments of the house , in parallel columns , are as follows : —
«¦ Resolved , ifcc—That by tho Convention concluded the 20 th ( lay of October , 1818 , between thu United States of America and the King of the Unitid Kingdom of Groat Britain and Ireland , for the period of ten years , and afterwards indefinitely extended and continued in force by another Convention of the same parties , concluded HiH Gth day of August , in the yrar of our fcwd 1827 , it was agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America , westward of the Stony or Rocky mountains , now commonly called tho Oregon territory , should , together with its harbours , bays , and creeks , and the navigation of all rivers within the same , be ' free and open' to the vessels , citizens , and subjects of the two Powers , but without prejudice to any claim which either of the parties might hare to any part of the said country ; and with this
furthc-r provision , in the second article of tlie said Convention of theOtli of August , 1827 , that cither party might abrogate and annul the said Convention , ou giving notice of twelvemonths to the other contracting party;—that it has notv become desirable that the respective claims of the United States and Great Britain shouldhu definitively settled and that said territory may no longer than need be remain subject to the evil consequences of the divided allegiance of its American and British population , and of the confusion and conflict of national jurisdictions , dangerous to be cherished peace and good understanding of the two countries , and , therefore that steps be taken for the abrogation of th * said Convention of the Cth of August , 1827 , in the mode prescribed in its second article , and that the attention ot ' the Government of both countries may be the more
earnestly ( Senate Resolution . ) ( Hoose Amendment . ) and immediately directed directed to the importance to renewed efforts for the of a speedy adjustment of amicable settlement of all all their differences and their differences nnd dis- disputes in respect to said putes in respect to said tir- teiritory . ritory . "And be it further re- " Sec . 2 . And be it fursolved , tbat the President ther resolved , that the Preof the United States be , ar . d sident of the United States he is htavby authorised , at be authorised and requested his discretion , tu give to the to give to the British Go-JJritisli Government tlio no- veniiuent the notice retiee required by ils said quired by its saiu second second article ( or the ab- article for the abrogation of rogation of the said Con- the said Couveution of the vi ntiou of the Gth of August , Cth of August , 1 S 27 . " 1827 . "
Washington 1 , -Apiul 20 ch . —The Senate has to-day refused to coiu-nr in the amendments of the House of Representatives to their resolutions respecting the 12 months notice . The vote was 22 in favour of concurring in the amendments and 29 against . Unless , therefore , the house recede from its amendments , no notice will be ^ iven this session of Congress . April 21 . —Mr . Allen moved that the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the House of Rojii'O'ieiitativos , but the Senate refused by a vote of 31 to 20 . On the 18 th ult . the Oregon Occupation Bill passed the House ot Representatives ; Ayes , 103 ; JN ays , 46 .
Tub Charges against Mr . Webster are reported to have fallun into universal discredit . On the 20 th ulc . a message was received fiom the President , in the house , in response to the resolution calling for the accounts of the disbursement of tke secret service fund , which Mr . Webster was accused of having appropriated in part to his own use , and in part applied to improper purposes . The President refused to send the accounts' vouchers , and replied that by a law of 1810 this fund had been used by the President , upon his certificate only , without any account or statement of the object ; that the amount used
during Mr . Webster s administration of the State Department was only 5 , 109 dollars ; that he could send President Tyler's certificates , upon whicli the money was drawn , but that they would furnish no means whatever of judging of the propriety of the expenditure , or even of its objects , in a case of impeachment a committee could exiiminc the confidential papers , but the executive would not , upon any light occasion ,, allow them to be . published , for it would destroy tho object of the fund . He had not yet used any of the fund , but should not hesitate to do it . it" occasion required . No President would use the fund except in extreme cases .
Mr . lngersoll then alleged that Mr Webster proposed a special mission to settle the Oregon question and make a commercial treaty . Mr-. Webstisv had denied this , and Air . Adams , being appealed to declared as chairman at the time of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , that Mr , lngersoll ' s . allegations were uttt rly untrue and unfounded . Serious Itiors took place at Brooklyn on the 20 th nit ., and following days , in consequence of the Irish labourers having struck for nn advance of wages . The iiien assembled in large numbers , and the military had to be called out , and were , according to tho last advicfcs , actively engaged in quelling the disturbances .
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Novel Wat of Circvlatlkg Nmvs . —The Figaro of Berlin , savs a German journal , not wishing to get into trouble by the publication of a piece of scandal , lately inserted the following notice : — "A terrible piece " of news for M . , director of—— , is now in circulation . As we cannot publish it without dauger to ourselves , and as the public ought however to be informed of its purport' , we have given orders lo our povier to relate in all its details the said intelligence to whatever- persons may think fit to make inquiries . We pledge ourselves that the details arc all correct . " This article not having received the authorisation ot the censorship , the journal has been cited before thu Criminal Tribunal . The person alluded to however had been already dismissed from office .
The Ice of the Neva broke up on the ni « ht of tho 10 th tilt , and in the afternoon oftfc llth had become so far cleared away , that the governor of the fortress of St . Petcrsburph crossed thu river in a boat under a salvo of artillery , announcing that the uavi « ation was again open . The river has this season been impassable for only 117 days , bcim ; not more than 14 days longer than tho shortest period within the last 121 years .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 16, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1366/page/7/
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