Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 22nd July 1848, Edition 1 of 2, Page 2, tiuoiTrepmidttttt*

Page 2
Page 2
2 of 8

On this page

  • Departments (3)
    • asDiire mma
    • tiuoiTrepmidttttt*
    • Sui ¦ in in - m — Ev£ ¦ !• - . -.-" ¦ .: -ij The oi f aMi'c pi aci.iic ¦:! gy? t' • . -:. v. -; ?] Ji " S "¦§ Me?sr*ll :i-:J L. t'EKRY aud E^ 1 ¦ ' .' ¦• il : - ?&^yy| Co.,thscoutirriedd.-iis:iiiiifor
  • Adverts (6)
  • Text (11)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Ad

      ^ ek-wors , entitled , theT - S ^ l fKlKSU . ( one nuudre 4 and ' . * ti . tv-nve thou 3 uai Jopu-t of which nave beun V $ . & \ . audfficeiitunw eaio and b-,: b repute of tnew Medicines hive induced some unvrmcip teri persons to as-« 4 iue the mime of ; BKRY bw ' - closeiy imitate tne utle ot the Work aud names of tiie M . diiir . es . The public " berebjc ctmnedthat euch P ereo as t ? " " U n 5 / n of eoatiwted witb the linn of R . and L . PbURY and Co ., o ^ Iwdon , who do tot visit the Province * , an 1 *™ 2 % Z te eoaralted peri . udly , or by letter , at tueir fistsbUau Beat , » , &mru »^ oxford-street , London . TWEMT-FirrH EU 1 T ° ^ ^ ntutmted by Twenty-six AnMomiCHl Engravings C . fM-i umaiyJEi « - «*• i «*«* r . " / BjwftWf * to ** "W ° 19 S Da ? eS , price ff WttTE l ^^ Zt ^ , n . 6 d . In postige stamps . _ . „» , «

      Untitled Ad

      Untitled Ad

      Roial Sivisos . —Pablic cariosity wiil bs docm ^ d to dwappointmenc as regards the Fill of ths late Princes * Sophia . Her Royal Highnesslek no do : u-Eisntsaffi .- ienUy complete as could legally be considered a will and testament , but at tLe g ame time it is known that the Prinoes 3 made tha most liberal provision for Captain Girth daring her life . The residue , therefore , of her property would give a most erroneous notion as to the extent of her aocujnuJaliyns . Latterly , the extent o ! the Prince-a ' a expenditure could sot hare been mire than £ 3 000 JHesr , wails btr . income was pro&sbjy pot less tuaa # 16 , 000 .

      Untitled Ad

      Ml—aBBSBB ^ BBJMBBP ^ PiWfl *^*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ £ AMED THROl / GHOUT TilE GLOBE . H OLLOWATS PILLS . A CASE OF DROPSY . F * ti-aot of a Letter from Mr William Gardner , of Hanging HauSQton , Northamptonshire , dated September 14 th , 1847 . To Professor Holleway . Sib —I before informed you that my wife had bean tApuek three time 6 for the dropsy , but by the blessing of Ood upon youruills , and hBrpemTeranee intakingthsm , the water has now been kept off eighteen months by their neans , which is a great mercy , ( Signed ) Williak Gaidneb ,

      Untitled Ad

      UNDBR ROYAL PATROHAGE . PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COPOHS , In Ten Minutes after us ? , and a . rapid Care or Asthma and Consumption , and all Disorders of the Breath anuLung . ? , is insured by DR LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . The truk w . in < l- rful powers of this remedy have called forth testimonials from all ranks of society , in all quarters oi the world , tiie iollowing hare beea just received : — MORE CURE ? OP ASTIIMATIC COUGHS , ASTHMA &C-. IN DORCHESTER . Gentlemen , —The yreatly increased demand by persons of allclaFsesin this towu and neighbourhood for Dr Locock ' s Wafers , is one of ihe strongest proofs of their excellence , and that they are peculiarly adapted for the relief and cure ot pulmonary affections . They hare been of singular benefit in innumerable cases of cough , but principally their extraordinary efficacy has shown itself in asthmatic cases , whether recent or of longstanding . As your appointed spent in this town , I have « reat plea , in bearing the above testimony , and in confirmation of my statement , I bare the names of individuals to whnn reference can be made , ( Signed ) Jajus Frqvd , Chemist . —Oct . 23 rd . 1837 .

      Untitled Ad

      Bbighton — -ADum tnreeo ' cock on Saturday morning last , a m ^ at terrific storm ot thunder and light-Ding burst orer this to » n , awakening the inhabitants filmoBt univerguliy from their hlumbarg . At tha firat ou < bunt the whole horz-. nwas ono light . In a few minat b , oewc-vtr the whole ot tha sky became black , and fla-fbPB ol lightning and claps of thunder alternafc d wita esca other ia a manner fearfully antol . Anhiiugh no da < nsge was done ia the town , the neighbiiurhood vras mtse fortunate . In the valley on the north side of the South Downs , the storm was of i > reater violence than ever before remembered . At Ham ' s Fiirm , tear Stone Pound Gate , in tbe parish of lluratpierpont , a o < iro was struck by lightning , sod waa soon reduced to aaliea , with all its contents . In an adjoinim ; out-building a horte and a calf were burned to death- Ham ' i Farm . is in ihe occupation of Mr Burten ^ haw . A . oaimney at Uurstpierpont was also tstriick 6 y the lightning aod split into fragmeats .

      Untitled Article

      STATE CHURCHES AND THEIE EFFECTS . TO THE EDIT 0 « OF THE HOBTHHN BTAE , Sir , — Toe pres . nt excited Mate of society in Ejropo led to the compilation of a vrark entitled ' RtmiDiBcuitces of Royalty , ' from which , with the exception of a f « w in . contrevertibie observations , tbs reader must draw his own conclusions . It iB In reference to this affair that I wish to address you , having had an opportunity to pe . rate it ; and I am satisfied that its content ! are far more

      argumentative , as simple extricts , than all the logical reasoning otherwise adduced . Looking back , as I now calmly do , en tUe multifarious lines of cruel tyrants who rated the world . I fool actually astonished how mankind could have Buffered bo long and bo patiently under such Sailing yokes . Ho raver , it mast be allowf d that though vice is vice in every grade of existence , it shines with thu most hideous luitro in tha obaraotec of princes and rulers ; and whether we view those tragic b . ubaritltn as the avenging of personal injuries , or the Inability of man to hold absolate stray with prudence , the world oan not but reprobate luch otuel and ferocious domination .

      One of the worst features in tha history of tyranny and oppression , is that cf employing superstition and its pr : 6 B * hood for the maintenance of the roynl apotht-oitU . To those forms , whether hoathen , Infidel , or Christian , was applied the name of religion , with psnal injunctions for any attempt to d ffer with tba state in opinion . But the world was as yet unread ; and men being nnable to judgo both individually and collectively , were led by the dictates of a few . Therefore , when idolatry was banished from gloves aad temples , men were told that it was driven from their abodes ; whereas it was only trans furred to regal palaces , where living beings became tbe objects of adoration , instead cf eenseleso blocks and * toacs . To all this a aierceuary clergy gave sanction ; and the present generation must be astonished to bear it asRertc ' , that it was considered Dot oDly ceDsistent with human juatlco , but ploaaing in tho eye of tho Creator , that hecatombs of his rational creatures should be facrificed successively , for tho preservation of the divine right on earth and the honour of religion .

      H . » wav . r wa nwy rail at tho ubsuroitj of tbe Greolan and Roman ceremonies , in tbe times of Btatue . worship , we cannot help being surprised at tbe manner ia wbich royal men and women made use of Christianity , , as a means of carrying out their molt Infamous and Oppressive dictates . And well proved has It been , that thcr <> never was s more terrible instrument ia the hands of lyranay than Christianity . From domineering in one quarter of Europe , to assisting absolutism ia another , it gave its oanotlon to the most sanguinary sad brutal act *—suc h as were calculated to neutralise the very eesenee of religion in the earth . Still nag it tolerated , notwithstanding thete proceedings , until nothing was crime when done by its sanction , and nothing virtue when practised without Its liberty ; and tho Certainty of future ealvatlon depended on popular obedience , in tbe meat explicit leaie—a principle which must render even the most pusillanimous monarch absolute .

      Religion thus , from age to age , became tbe handmaid of regal power , and waB Hied to promote regal influence , eves where private and mere unreasonable pasaloni were concerned . Thu » , seoilarly speaking , it forfeited all o ' aim to confidence in tho minds of iibraiend charl < abie m n : and justly bo , sinco It web no longer tbe religion f the heart , as established by its divine founder , but tbe ligh'of bigotry and tbe torch of despotism . Tbe Mahometan schism boo" pasaed in'o the hands of tbe Siraoen caliph e ; and well they knew bow to applj a doctrine , tbat for tbo mestpart pandered to autocratic lust and imperial oraft . The Greek separation was laid hold of by the Russian monarch , afl tbe most Kpacleusflmllisry to his authority . Tbe western stccBalon , known ia England as the reformation , was grasped b . v ttie British kings , and applied in almost the same sense bb dngraded Christianity had been In tho other countries of Europe , during tbe same centuries . And thus w » fiad each tyrant desperately supporting some religious formula , for self-exaltation , under tho pretence of defending a faith .

      The greatest b ' ow ever struck at Christianity , In its physical sesse , was the so-called reformation of Lather , since which time we find it gradually declining , The intolerant and dogmatic spirit is all exploded , or osly confined to a few weak and narrow-minded people—tbertm nant of that r&ca who burned the hers tie and musacred the Jew for tbe love of Ood , and would still do the tamo , if they bad the power . Many provinces In the world , formerly Christian , are mow < . nly nominally so , an < lmtnv Others are become qaite deistieal ; ana even In England , with ell its boasted h athen missisns , there are sections of Boolety who are utterly neutral in points of rdligiouB

      belief . Now this does not arise from a wilful abandonment of religion , on th * part of the people ; but it it tbo certain coasequesce of tbe degradation to which Christian ministers reduced their tenets , in coffering them , for the sake of money and pre f erment , to be associated with the hydra monstrosities of corrupted monarebs . ^ he olious distinctions cf a court cannot be exercised ia a chnrcb , without creating popular disgust . Hi < nce tbe graluql treasing off from tbo observance of rali ^ ious practiced , which , considering the-awful distinction mode between tbe sti'e and the people , in houaea of worBhip , must neoin to the latter a mere delusion ,

      The necessity ot some superstitious auxiliary to ' ' e-¦ pctic monarchy , cannot be better proved than in tbe blow Btrach at Christianity b y Lather , Tbe meroent thin restraint was taken off , tbe people began to question tbe divine right of the ruler , and tbe result wps the scaffold to tbe first Charles , the stcond next in descent from her who established the reformed principles of religion . How this light electrified Franc , may be read in the turbulent reigue of the fourteenth , flfc-entb , and sixteenth Louises . ffh n it burst into a revolutionary r ? ge tbat beheaded the king . and deluded Europe tilth blood . Tbe volcano nassubseqaentiycovered with coke , but not extinguished , because tbe agitatlve power bm radically national as it Is now secular . The decline of Christianity wag fearfully allowed by divines to be true ; and what was not then noticed , tbe decline of monarchy was a « certain , though gradual . It required trenundeut armies to support

      states , maintained at tbe expense of those whom it was intended t 9 oppress , and cost tbe world millions of lives and mousy to endeavour to avert the approaching crisis . But still monarchy was too evidently on the decline to De any longer questioned , and only co because physical Christianity was also foiling , ¦ However , the result will be beneficial to all , as the spiritual portion mill still remain , » consolation td mankiad , skimmed oi its fashionable dregs and courtly dress , proving to tbo world that it required neither armies ,, emperors , crusades , persec tlont , nor anathemas to establish its permanence . We may , therefore , look upon Luther as tbe first who ot tempted to drag superstition and tyranny from their in - famous embraces , and it only rcquirsB one change more to complete the trno reformation . The momo » t churchmen are deprived of temporal power in Europe , monarchy will be virtually at an end In this worid .

      ' Govern yourselves , ' was the answer given by the popular mt <) to tbe privileged classas , as told by Tolney , in fail' Rains . ' There hhoald be no dark p ortions in the hiBtory of monaicbs and ruU r «; ttu-y should bo all vir . tuous persons , Betting the best examples to those whom they govern . An individual with tbe leant immoral or deceitful tendency ii perfeotly unsulted to ba b ruler . State quackeries , pageantries , and court tricks are quite unnecessary in a well ordered o institution , but ( bey are only appendages made use Af to dazzle the vulgar and ignorant , and blind them to tbe aberrations of an idiotic t knavish faction . From what we reed of the very few good monarch ! who reigned in this world , and of ttieir having bad pr sporous rrigns and contented subjects , we can justly infer , tbat the ; are unfit to govern others , who aannot govern themselves , Fbawcib Suuivau . Manchester , July 2 ad , 18 ft , ' "

      Untitled Article

      MOBDERO ? A ItATHBB BY HIi Two DaOGHTEKS . — The inhabitants of this town were at noon on Satnrday last thrown into a state of unusual excitement by the reported murder of an old man , named Joseph Stubbs . by his daughters , Sarah and Abigail Stubbs , On hastening to the spot , we were shocked to realise the truth of the rumour . The following are the particulars gleaned from Mrs Stubba , widow of the < Jeceased ; and aa we do not design to exaggerate tbe real facts of ttie case , whatever they may be , weshall give tier statement to ui . Mrs Stubb Buya : — 'Mj two daughters , Sarah and Abigail , who live with me , had been doing some washing , whioh came to a f w shillings , and I gave each of them a shilling as their share . Tina did not appear to satisfy them , for they

      commenced abusing me in a most Bhatneful manner . Their father , who was present , interfered and took my part , when I told my husband to put their boxes in the street and let them go after them . On hearing this Sarah and Abigail went up stairs , and nay husband followed them , but he had scarcely reached the tfip of tbe siaira when be wag hurled down , and fell violently on hiB right temple , I was just turning in at the door from the street when it took plase and hastened to my husband , who died in n few minutes , I was much contused at the time and hardly knew what took place . My Quabaod was very kind to me , and we scarcely ever hud au ill word 1 The foregoiag is Mrs Stubba * account , who may have epoken to the bait of her knowledge , but as she was

      afanost deprived oi all consciousness at the time and aa other statements are put forth , we are bound to say the general opinion is that great violence was used by the daughters , after the old man felL The word of a person , who , if he was net present , had the means of fining erery informataoa , confirms several statements made to as , but tor the RCOUracy ot which we caoaot pretend te answer-that the old man wan , w ale ljuifi : at the bottom of the stalra , kicked and beaten with a poker or aome Buch instrument . The two daughters generally bear a bad dumicter and have done so for some time past . Their o nduot to their parents has been uniformly bad . aud those who have any knowledge of them are barelj earpriaed at tbw areadful act , which thoogh perhaps not Dreme .

      ditated , displays an amount of hardened feelina such as we have seldom met with . The unfortunate dewwed iw about suty years of age , and earned a hyelih . od by lethng out donkey and mule carriages . The accused have b 3 en _ take 3 into castody by ' In specter Yountf , and an inquest is expected to be held on Muadaj .-Ilarrogate Advertieer . EXPBNSE 8 OP THE tiPBCUt CONSTiBLES-Pmm oflicial returns farniaked to thei mthmiriir tT county of Middles , it appears that th . « ! providing the special coafffi KafefES ^ vrtbittmud bsd ^ mn a ^ Sfi od " -

      Untitled Article

      TUB TRIAL OF MR ERNEST JONES . TO THE EDITOB OF TDE D 4 II . T NET 78 . Sib , — Everv good ra « n will jimttfy the g ivernmens in taking necesanry legal meaauri-B for preserviug order and previDtiPg stditien . But we ou ^ ht to watoh its modt of dolpg BO . I adml * that many apeeobes of C / JsrciBte have been rash and unjustifiable , and tbat eomo cbech upon ' open and advimjd' words , appearing to load to violence , &sy bo desirable . But I conceive that the AMorney « Gtincra l , in his speech againt > t Ernest Jones , baa over-aoted bis part , and loosed tbe rein over fate imagination , instead of tying himself down to simple facts « nd tbe words actually uttered , sb humanity aa will no justlco would have dictated to a mind not itself

      Influeacort by the exagKeratloas artging from recent ptnio . Was It hussane to subject these men to trial by ft jury of 'H * J P ' rB 0 B 8 wbo had , on the oocaslea of the offaooo charged , been put into an unn ? ceaaary state of alarm leat their property Bhould be destroyed by the opprebeaded riot . The defendaats were in th condition of etaie prisoners , and it has bees usual to postpone the trial of euch persona until there has been tiena for passion to subside . Ie was never intended by tboae who sot up the central criminal court fir the mors speedy judgment of common off . ucol that it should da . prive state prisoner * of tho detayna neadfal foradiipnBiloRat 9 trial . Bu ^ ^ or this eiz . w eekly court the trial mu * t have waited until tho next , even the subaeqnent , county aasizB , oud the jury would then have comprised a fair proportion of the county frceholdera .

      Was there not absurdity in the Attorney . G-aeral maintaining that it is moro dangerous for an unlearned and exoited mob to ll « en to the Ruarded words of a man of education than to one who talked their own rude lingo : ! C ommon seBBe will say , No—for moat part of tbe more learned speech would fly over their beach si mere unknown sounds . Wae it truo and fair to tell the jury tbat Jones adviaed the people to resist tho authority ol thn constituted ffwer ^ ment of the queen—tbat queen to whom he I'a . d sworn allegliince . What was thiB but ad aavtanditm perversion of truth ? No Chartist hsfl cvei

      talked of deplaning the quftn . Wbj coup'o tbe ides o Charttr and Chartiots with the overthrow of tbe mo uorihy ? Tbe Charter wai drawn up by enlightcnei end poflcnijblo men ; and it was revised by too lwt Daniel O'CunnclI , tbo Rrost apostle of moral forco orly It in ndv cuted by tenBof thouisnda of tho most p ^ acoabl people in the realm , inoluding many of the pence lsvlni Qaahera and oxemplar . ' miahters of rellgUn , wbo di n it , like the Attorney . Gcner&l , cenfiae themselves ti saying that'It may be good , ' , but contend that it 1 goirj . Thero is eothing in the Charter hostile t R yalty .

      Again , what right had the Attorney . Qencral to bo ; tbat even u successful riot in this country Would neoep sarily oauio a Republic , on tbe Freaob pattern , to be se up' ? He bad not ; a tittle of evidence to sepport such ai assertion . Both he and the judge said that ' nogrie vancft was dieouosed , ' and yet he had jost said , * at th mootlnir tho Charter had been mooted . ' Why th Charter itself is an apppal agninst many well bnowi grievances . The people met bb its svowei adherents , am it would have been ne ^ dl ^ B to re . arguo its details Their intention vat , as In most of our public meetings to sbon that certain principles arecoaenrredin by thoe assembled , and such a purpoie it not illegal Then , as to a ' gonriral rlslopr on a certain day , ' as th Attorney . G « aer « l a 6 sert » , there wbb no evidence to shot tbat pnytbing more was intended tnan me » Hnft » on tb semftdBy . tosbowhoweenerallypublicfeelingisinfavou of th ? Charter

      The Attorney . Genpral says , If the government hal t < yiel ( l | property and lives wouH have been sacrificed b ; tbe vjolene » of tb # mob . ' How so t The legislature wll in tbe end yield' every point of the Charter , as the ; ' yielded' the Reform Bill , an-i why any more violence ii one case than in thooth r ? But nark this mao ' sincon oistinoy . Ho had before said that a surctssfnl mol wouid fmitato tbn people of Frnncff . Now is it not noto rlouB-that the Frr-n ' . h revolution of Fflbruarj wa » ef {•> oted without the least violation of property , and thatni life was snorifiood except in resisting llleg"l violence oi tho psrt of Loulfl PhlHop ^' s retainers ? Why should no me obtain—not a Ravolutlnn Add a Republic—that il do demanded—but a reform in the representation of thi p * ople , without the destruction of any one ' s property o : the fiht'ddiDir of any one ' s blood .

      Tho Attorney-GonernFfltalk of 8 'bondofWoou mi on exaggeration , usprt to exa ' perato the feolings of tho jury . There was nothing concerning a ' bond of blood' in iho evidence to give the imputation the l east degree of sanction . Tht-n , let me ask ihe Attorney Gsnerat , bow d ! d tbe calling out the m'litnrj at Bradford and Halifax prove that Mr Jones's projected journey to the north was 'to etclto the people to rebillion ? ' Are not the military often called out merely to suppress street rows , where the pnlleo are not numerous enough ? How could the culling out nf the military prove an evil Intention in Mr Jonon , who was not t ero at the time ? His distinct do . elaration , that 'Noblnw need be uruckln tbio country , ' ouuht to have forbidden « uch a chnrge , which , from a Whl * A'torncy-Qcneral , was illogical , inhuman , and disgraceful

      Ajrn'n I B" < y that , ia vindicating public order , we hare a riyht to demand a strlet regard to humanf'y , moderation , nnd tru'h . And , much as I blame many Chartists forint'rnp 2 rate words and acs , that oan only del- > y tho Charter ' s becoming law , I any delibsratc-ly « hat the Will ? govornmpnt are them « elv'jR most to be blamed for ary ontbreaks , either hero or in Ireland . Why have they withh .-lr ] the suppremlon of that great wrong , tho Trl * h church , and the enactment of remedlaljmeaBUrefl , until Mr O'Cohnell ^ ho would have helped thtm to do all poane . ably , is - ' ead ? Why have f-ey delayed to correct the reany acknowledged thftcte in tbe Reform Bill ? Of what

      valuo sre tooi intentions ? Wo nave walten long in vain for their fruit—where is it to be found ? Then tho tree must and will fall ; ftvrn of itself . But nature teems to bnvo provldrd , in order to fill its place , the new Peel echoal of Draotlcal-expedionry statesmen , whose creed And praotloe la not to pcraple at doing seemingly [ neon , (¦ latent things whea ? v <* r state neoessity clearly called for them , and tben todo them rffectually , and not by halves . Ru « sell would have k- ? pt back free trade In corn for twenty y . ars . Peel aciompUshs 4 it out of hand , soon as the necessity called , anri tti

      Untitled Article

      Tiie Chartist Convictions —On Wednesday week the six Chartists , who were convicted of sedition at ( he late assuVsof the Central Criminal Court , vrera severally removed fmm Newgate to the gaols in which they are to undergo ( heir respective terms of irapri tmnmenti Jones , Sharp , Veraon , Williams , and Fuaiell , were taken to the new Westminster Bridewell , and Loonev , whose offence was committed in Surrey , to the House of Correction for that county , in IIonemon {? er « lane , where they will be severally detained until the two periods of imprisonment to which they were sentenced havecxpired , and until they have entered info thfl sureties required by the court to keep the peace for five years after their discharge .

      Seditious Songs —A few dajs neo . at the Calton police-court , a poor weaver , named Eadio , residing in the Hiuh street , was charged with sineing seditious eongs in ( he public-streets , It appears that , on the previous evening , some of the loyal inhabitants in the eastern district had stiven information to one of the constables stationed in the vicinity , that Eadie was vending . Bongs of a very questionable and seditious character . Tbe policeman , to make sure of the fact , attentively listened while the ballad singer was doing his best to make himself audible to thoie who surrounded him ; but the vigilant guardian of the peace could hear nothing more seditions than the d jiDg confession of aome unfortunate woman

      under sentence of aVath for poisoning her husband . The lynx-eyed officer , however , observed that the ballad-ginger was busily occupied in disposing at the same titae of some other ballad , whioh did not appear to correspond with the dying confmaion ; and to satisfy his doubts proour- da copy , which proved to be nothing less thma 'Lament fnr John Mitohel , ' extending to the lonutk of twelve doegrel verses . The unfortunate street vocalist wa 3 immediately taken Into custody , and , as already etated , examined on the charge of 8 in £ in& seditious 8 onj ? 8 , and with creating a crowd in the street . He waa found guilty , and fined in the sum of 7 < i . 6 i ., and in default of payment to be imprisoned .

      Drilling the Poucb . —The Secretary of State has given orders to tbe Commissioners of tbe Metropolitan Police to have all the constables drilled in the exercise of the smallsword , in consequence of the late disturbances , which have caused tbe men to have cutlasses distributed among th m . The Commissioners have Beleokd two oonetables from eaou'divi * aion to perform thnt duty , and they nave been for aome time receiving lessons from Mr Angelo , to perfeot them in tbe exercise of the cutlass . Suicipb ok tub South Dbyin RAiiiTfATi—On Sa « turdav , the 15 th of July , a polioeman uaniod Farley , who had been pbaut six weeks employed at the new station . Ivybridge , destroyed himself while on duty , by siccing on ono of the transoms of the railroad just

      previ us to ibe approach of the * l 30 am . up-train . The deceased selected a portion on the Plymouth aida of the Slade Viaduct , where there iB a curve * o abort that command of the road cannot be had beyond a distance ot a few chains , and it w& « therefore , impossible for the teir .-fied engine-driver to arrest the train in time to prevent the fatal Gccurrence . The guard-iron of tho engine struok Farley ' s head , killed him lDBtantly , and flung hi * body under I * thlTT' £ . f train ^ a 8 imiuediate ! y backed , and the body picked Up and conveyed to Ivybridge ? % 7 ti Ot > Sed Dei , lbury ' near Newton ;' he IS LTd 2 l h ye * r 8 > f a 8 e « and ^ married . It ia In h 2 nnnfr ?** v ™ ™™™ » ome attachment . Hri it « r ? S J ™ f 0 Un , ? ^ ttcn dooumunt full of KK £ S ' reftiiring t 0 hi 8 bknded act

      Lieutenant Law , of the 83-d regiment , has com-Si T ^ \ ^« " « " » " •? with his fowling Piece , at his quarters' in Castlecomer , Ire'aud . He ZZ k ! rn L . * . < ilct of tsmpwary insanitf , Drought on by siokneBs . „„ 7 . 8 m 0 D £ the AraHa permits a mm to divorce any ot hI 8 wives wbo do n . ^ make good bread . I lie salary of tfee secretary to the Uuohy of Lan-^ Jo ri" £ 10 and bisal ' o ? r . 'VM » to Boand receive it * 7 J \ 3 i , Id .

      Asdiire Mma

      asDiire mma

      Untitled Article

      MARLBOROUSH- ^ TREET . —On Tuesday two fwhionably . drees young men , who assumed the names of Jain-s Morley and Arthur Bradley , were brought before Mr Bingliam , the first , charged with having ' wrenched oil a knocker from the door of J « p . 89 , St Jamta ' s-street , and the last with havlnj ? rung ueveral door-bells violently . Police constables , C 181 and D 177 proved tho chargca . — Mr Blnglium said , it was &t first his intention to have 8 ent the defendant ! to prison for seven days for being riotou ? . If he had so determined , the imprisonment would no doubthave been mixed with a little hard labour , and this would have taught them tbe danger ot conducting themselves in euch : i disorderly way in the public streets . However , as he had been informed that such a course had not yet been adopted at that Court , he should not begin in this instance , but he could assure the

      defendants , nnd he begged they would tell all the fr . ilick . some young gentlemen of their acquaintance , that in future cases he should try the effect of a short imprison * ment with a little hard labour . He should fine Merley jfS for having a stolen knockerin his possession , With reference to Bradley , who bad violently runa at several doors , bis conduct was not to be eicuced . This violent ringing mUht have a fatal effect on invalids , if any were in the house , and he should request the defendant to recollectt'iat what whs sport to him and bis companions , might be death toothers . He should fine him 50 s . for the offence . The defendants , who appeared to have plenty of money , paid the money and leJt the court . The defendants it wns reported had left a distinguished party of fashionables in Green-street , just before they were taken into custody .

      MARYLBBOSE . —John Newmsn , a labourer , aped 80 was charged before Mr Broughton with having caused the death of Ann Fitzpatrick , a woman with whom he had boen cohabiting as his wife . From the evidence adduced , it appearod that between twelveun& one o ' clock on Tues ^ day morning policeman 132 D , while on duty at Lowerplace , WillbBden , was attracted by the screams of de . ceased . He immediately ran to the bank of the canal an . l saw the woman Pitzpilinek iti the K&tw . She struegkd for BomeminuteB to keo » hersolf afloat , but soon Bimk and was drowned . The deceased waa beard to say to the prisoner , who was standing upon the bunk of the canal while she was struggling in tbo water , ' You rogue Newman , you have done for me ! ' The man and woman had been noticed quarrelling shortly before , adjacent to the canal . In his defence , prisoner a aid the deceased threw herself into the water . —Remanded for a week

      MANSION HOU 33 .- Jane Gaviu was brought b 8 fOre tho Lord Mayor , upon the charge of having attempted to oxtort monoj from a gentleman in the City . —The prisoner it appeared , called with a child in her arms , at the coml plainant ' s counting-house , on Saturday , and aiked for a gentleman who had formerly been there , bpuu fceinir told thathe had gone away , she said , ' Oh , faith , then you will do as well , * aud banded to the complainant a vaper soliciting subscriptions for a person afflicted with sore eyes , Believing tliat be bud been humbugged bv a tormerviMtorr . no curried tuo very same baby lie refused to take the pet : tion into his' bumble consideration ' and told her hU candid opinion of her character and trade . When the door was shnt in her face she retired for a little wlnlf , but it was only thnt she miirht nroiiava heraeif for a more vigorous attempt upon his pocket . Finding that tlare was more difficulty in naiuinir admit

      umce on ner second application , she cried 6 ut , < Jh ucon m , soul , if you don't let me in , I'll leave your child at the door , for you know as well as I do that it ' s your own ( Lau Khter 5 The Lord Mayor : Did you evor s ^ e the wo . man before ' -Complainant : Never ; and when I told her she was an impudent impuotor , she said . 'You n , T V ? ' and eVt ' ry one Ba ? 8 Its like you . I hen called a policeman , and gave her into custody . The prisoner ' s husband , when she was deposited in the station-houee , called to beg for her liberation , and said Bneliadmaue tho false ehurgo when she was lushr ( intoxicated . )—Tbo Lord Mnjor : Is her husband here » - Tbe prisoner : He ' s no husband of mine . He ' s only a man that lives with me . —Tho Lord Muyor : She is a most grosB and dangeroun impostor , and I shall put Uev out of tho way of doing much uaischfef fur some time . Prisoner , you must go to Bridewell for six weeks to hard iRhnur

      BOW . STREET . —Threo youn ^ men , named John Bid . well , John Nold , nnd William Follet Lynge , clerks employed in tl-. e Foreign-office , Do = vning- street , were placed at the bur before Mr Hall , the first being churgeil with assaulting a constable of the B division , and the others with disorderly conduct , and obstructing tbe officer in the execution of his duty . Mr Snell , a solicitor , said he was instructed to iidmit the assault upon tho constable , con . teodinc that the obstruc'ion was caused by the harsh conduct ot ' tbe oflicer toffiirds the young mnn ho had in custody . —Mr Hull ordered euch to pay a fine o . " £ 5 , or a niontli'n imprisonment , rite tines wore immediately paid , »)« d tbo prisoners were discharged ,

      Untitled Article

      ' —W ^^ " ^—MM—————MMMM —> THU . - . LER STJKM IN Kl-JNi ' . On the nighfi of Friday last a ihundeif sform visited thin neighbourhood , wbicb f > r inten-ity ftud iluratim hns not ba < qml . 'ed in this vioinity for many years . It commenced between ten and elerea o ' clock with diat mt mutterings of fcbunder , and waa at its h-i'ht from about two to four o ' clock on Saturday morning . In several instances serious damage and extensive alarm , was caawd by tbe lightning . Tie following have come to our knowledge : — ^

      At the County Lunatic Asylum at Barming-heatb , nt-ar this town , the brewer , named Briseldea , and hiB wife ,. who , ocoupy the lodgaon the north-east end of the building , had a narrow escape . , Th « li ghtning struck the chimney , dmingoff the pet + and breaking a stout piece of Kentish rast-atoo ? on the top . 16 ran along the roof tearing off several slates , displaced several stones orer the lintel of the door , passed down the cast-iron frame , of the bed-room window ,. smashing the gla'B , and into the room , where it eet fire to tbe curtaina . It tben escaped by a wire connected with an outer donr , for the purpose of allowing it to be opened from the inside of the lodge , and was thus discharged into the earth , oom > pletely fusing tt ) 9 wire ia itscourse . , Briaelden and bis wire were in bed in the room , a ? d wore naturally much terrified .

      At Lenham the lightning set firs to ft barn , belonging to W . Btldwin , Esq ., of Sr , rde Hill > and io the occupation ef Mr Wi Goool , and destroyed it , together with tbe lodge adjoin ^? , and a quantity of c » rn . The cattle were fortunately rescued , but a dog and 24 chickens were burnt . The dweiliHg-hoase bad a narrow escape , the tiles oraoking frota the beat , and wai ofily eared by bucketB of water being thrown orer it . At Chaliock , a barn and out buildings , belonging to Lord Sondei > , occupied by > lr Per . per , worn destroyed . In the barn were about fifty quarters of wheat .

      At Asb , near Sandwicb i a fire waa occasioned by the lightning at . Esuit-gtreet farm , occupied by Mr Coleman , by which I he barn containing thirty quarters of wheat and various implements are totally de-Htroyed , together with the » tab e * and lodges , The bui dings were injured in tbe Phcsoix and Royal Exchange offices , the stock in the Norwich Union . At Ryarsh a cow was killed ,, belonging to Me Phillips . In the Earl of Romney ' s Park , near this town * two oaks were splintered . At Thurnham entne hop poles were Bbivered , ant } the plantn oi oohtib killed . Tbe cottage of the gardener of T . Hyde , Etsq ., near tbi « town , was ftruck by lightning , which displaced a large plate in tbe chimney .

      Maxims is a Thunder Stohm—Aroid being under trees—but be near tbfm ; do not . avoid rain . When in a room avoid the firen ; de , which would bring yon mt 6 tha ' peishbourhood of the highest pari of the bouse , viz—the stick of chimneys . The bell-wire , fhe grate the fireirons—are bad npighbnurs . Nay , the soot of tbe chimney is not a jrond one , especially if it h » 9 ever caked together . by taming . Go to ih © middle df i be nora and ait down , if not near a lustre , or anything hanging from tbe ceiling . Avoid mirrora or gilded mouldiDE 8 ;—ifai < &fone Journal .

      Untitled Article

      ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE . At tbe Assizes held at Buckingham on the lith inst ., Jaraea Johnson was indioted for having , on the night o' the 14 th of June , or thn moroihe of tbe 15 tb , Mfirimidj ««> t fire to a barn aad stables , the property - of William Bigff , tbe elder . ; Mr O'Maliey and Mr Sanders appeared for the pro * sectjtinn . From the evidence it appeared tbat about bslf-pasj twelve o ' clock on the morning of the lS ' . h of June the m > asecut n r was ? I » rmed , and on looking out saw fl . mm bursting through' the tiWof is barn , wbioh abuts on the high road , and has on > tbat side a window , from which loose straw , bangs « nt . ¦ At » little after twelve the prisoner , who had been , permitted to sleep io the barn of Mr Simmons , a farmer , for whom he

      occasionally wo > ked , called Mr aimmons and his daughter , find told'them ( hit ! kb ' 6 re whg a fire fit Mr ? Bias ' s . The two farms are about half a mile apart , and eepara «» d by > uneven ground , ; , the line of sight from the barn of Jvlr Bigg to the bars in whioh tbe prisoner slept i » intercepted by a born , twenty feet high , and the ( limes to be Been from the barn of Mr Simmons must have ri « en to a very considerable height , WStn Miss SiHsmons left her father ' s house sh « could not tell where tbe fire was , and it was not until she bad got to a piece of land fifteen feet highee than her father ' s homestead that she cnuld determine where it wan . The prisoner declar d that he was awakened after he had been anlern in the barn fop about an hour aad a half , at a little after twelve o ' clock , by the craeh of a fal'ing beam , and that on ' tearins

      oat' of ' the barn be saw the naui ' S at Bit *' a farm . It ) turned out , however , that the dp » r of fhe barn was careful y fastened with a h * wp nnd . peg , thai the pri » soner bad lighted his pipe at the Trooper pablic-houaa at'h alf past eleven on the ntgh ' t of r be 14 'h , and that at twenty minut « s te twelve he hud asked for a Hghfi for his pipe and had been refused it at another public h > ufp , which was about a mile and ; ¦ & quarter frost Mr Simmnns ' s fiym by the nearest way . and ^ about a mile anda half it ' the road by Mr BUe ' s farm ia taken . Farther inquiry showed that about elsbt o ' clock oa theevening of tbp 14 th the prisoner met one Garment in the village of Aidbary , a mile and a quarter from Simmons ' 8 farm , and said to him , ' Rather roneh

      times ; they will not , let one live hardiy . I will give them a——— good warming . You will bear 8 ome > thing afoot before long / It ' also appeared tbat at eleven o ' clock op the same night thn tirisonefWAQUd b > purchase lucifeca at the house of one Sarah Delt , and when she asked him .-what . he wanted with then said , ' I do not w . int to set no place on fire , nor bam either . I am ng"in ? topping , and want to make ft good fire in a lane Bear Simmnna ' s . where there are some good furze boshes . ' It was also shown that tho prisoner bad some time back had a quarrel with a son of Mt B g >> about gathering some turnip taps , and at the fire bud said to him , ' I will have turni p topsand old wood ; oi . '

      The prisoner , in his defence , denied that fas had moS Garment , and pointed out gome additions made by two of the witneses to the , statements made by them before the mszistratea . Tbe jury returned a verdict of Guilty . The prisoner was then sentenced to be tr&nspozted : or life .

      Untitled Article

      Scioidbi—On Monday an inquiry wsa Eons into before _ Mr W . Carter , at the Swan Hotel , Stookwoll , touching tbe death of Mr John Thomas Perkini , ng'd forty-two years , a gentleman well known in tbeeoiitntifio world , who destroyed himsell on Fri « day evening last , at his private ro ^ idenoe , No 20 , Stookwel . l place , South Lambeth . E'ijibeth Sunderland stated tbat tbe deceased was iiernnde . He was a widewrr , and for some time pant , witnosg had observed a marked change in his . manner ., Witncsn aotedas housekeeper , to thedeceaa <> d , who carried ob an extensive business ^ No . 39 Dadl- y-street , Soho , &i a fanoy card manufacturer . Deceased waa likewise the inventor of fcmacbinefor cutting papei in , large quantitifs , for whioh he had obtained a patent , but from aome cauae t ' is bad proved a failure , ultimately ending in s loss-of rjpwards of

      £ 3 , 000 . He had since invonted another maohine for suddenly stooping railway trains , which several gentlemen of celebrity had seen and approved of , but owing to his heavy losses jie was unable to carry it i ut . On Friday last the deceased came home from his plaos of business very low spirited . About nine i . ' cloek witness was called by deceased , whom sbe found standing at the street door . He Bho « k hands with witness , and afterwards kissed his son . They retired to the front parlour , and soon after witness went iati the room , and discovered the deceased lying on the il or inaen . ible . A bottle inti wine * Kla ^ swvre on iiie table , and on examiniDg tU 9 former it was labelled ' laudanum—poison . ' A sunteor was called in immedia ^ lv , bat deceased expired the following morning a > . five o ' -lock . Other witneseea having been examined , the jury returned * verdict ( A ' Temporary insanity . ' - .

      Supposed Suiojdk bt a Gini .. r-On TJiursdar itw * on inquest waa held in Salford , before Mr Kuitef , thQ county coroner , on the body of a girl named Sarah Anne Cassidy , sg- ? d thirteen , years , who lived witb her parents in Salford . It appeared froaj the evidence given that on Tuesday morning , last deceued'e mother , whit bad been lately confined , got up at an early hour for tbe purpose of getting a cup of tea , and on goin £ to the cupboard found that a quantity of sugar bad been talwnouc of tl . e bowl . Tbe docf aae < i was at thk time out of the house , but on her return the mother charged her with Btealing ths sugar . Slio denied that she had done eo ; but whilst

      lifting her bands , and proteeting energetipal iy h « innoieuce , a quantity of * u > ar dropped either frora her hands or eomo parts ot her clothes in which it was concealed . The mother of tho girl , who at this time had gone to bed , t > n seeing the sugar Mi ,, observed that whence « ot up she would see about it I and on mukiDg this Mbseiva ' . ion s&e turned on her aide aod fdi asleep , but when she awoke her daughter had lefc tbe hou « . and w » 8 not he&rd , 01 Until Wednesday , when her body was found m the rives at ttie Tnrostle Neat . It was supposed the girl threw herself into the water when she left home ; but as no evidence was ufcred . on tbis poinMror * diot of found drowned waa retur . ed .

      Retbidution . —Iq the Dublin Court of Queens Ranch , a fortnight aao . an evicted tenant of Mr St George , M . P .. for Gal way county , obtained a verdict of £ 434 damages and costs against hie landlord , for an unlawful se zure of hid cattle and creps , and tot false imprisonment . An Ahcibnt Coin —An anoi&nt silver coin of the reign of Louis I ., who succeeded Charlemagne in 184 ? was found iu a ' ratri' two mile * west of Armagh , a few days ago —Limerick Examiner . ExiRAOBDiNAiir Fbat —Roberr ffrmtes , of London , on Monday week , at Knowle , near' Bristol , accomplished tha extra-irdt ' oa / y feat of leaping 1 , 000 hurdles in three hours , nMloteen tjjinuk'fu ftndtwefltf seconds '

      Tiuoitrepmidttttt*

      tiuoiTrepmidttttt *

      Untitled Article

      itEj . cUd of a cnAiiriir at bti-iUtuitu . ( Froxi the Daily News . ) On Sunday Morning a disturbance touk p lace in tha vicinity of Manchester-road , Btadford ft district where a great number of Chartists reside . It nppear ? that the police , who hava been for . soroe time on the look-out for tbe notorious ' Wat Tyler , the Cha-Mst blacksmith , ' who had made a great number ot pik * -8 for sale , had got intimation that be bad returned to his domicile in Adelaide street , Manchester-road , from whioh he had been ahHent some six or seven weeks . In conat qcienee , four of them went to the place , unarmed , to eflVct bis capture , but no sooner was their mission made known in the neighbourho > t \ than a hue and cry was raised , and tbe neighbouring

      inhabitants wore mastered in a few minutes . The . police . found their man , and seizjd . his person , but the handcuffs with whioh they were provided provtd too small tor bis brawny wrists , ind they failed to secure them . Wat effected his escape . In returning to the Court-house the polios wera very roughly handled . bein « beaten wita bludgeons and hit witb stones , by wh'ch they were vory severely injured though they esoapsd with their lim . A number of special constables were immediately called out , and a detachment of the militury wera m ; irchfid to the New Inn , at th « end of Manchester-road , to be tf . edy in case ; ot need , The civil force then paraded up Mancheater-road and traversed > everal of the adja cent streets , where crowds of persona wereta&eeniblt d ,

      and during their perambulations they apprehended five persons , between the ages of 18 and 30 . for havinn taken part in the afivay . All this occurred during the tirae of divine eervice in the forenoon ; and a * tbt » affair became more generally known considerable anxiety as to the future ponce of tbe town was felt in many quarters , especially when considered in connexion with the circumstance that on Saturday last gr < - 'en placards were posted in tbe town of Bradford , announcing that Mr John West , 'one of the commissioners elflCCtd by the Chartists ef Endand , ' would deliver a lecture on Odesll-moor . near Wibsry , on Sunday afteruoon , at four o ' clock : and that he would also address tbe Char istsof Bradford in aa open spaco of ground opposite the Philadelphia

      chape ) , in Wap ^ ing , en Monday ovenintr , a t seven o ' clock , on tho subject of the People's Charter , when a collection would be made for the defence fund . With reference to tbis latter agannibly tho magistrates of Bradford have caused notice to he civen of the illegality of the meeting , and of their determination to prevent it from takina place . In order to oarry out their views the special cocrtab'leY ' and military were ordered to bi- on duty at five o ' clnck . ¦ Soeopt ot the more earnest of the Chartists had declared their intention to persevere in holding their meetin ?; but it was not eXDoeted that they wnuid suroeed in their obieet . Yesterday afternnon , after tbe magistrate

      had baen to view the site of th * intended place of meeting , aod to concert with the officers corowand ing the military bere as to the moat suitable arrnnuemvnts to be adapted with regard to tho projected evening meetinu , the ; attended again at tbe Courthouse , when the Beveral person * who had been appre bonded for riot and rescue wen ? brought up for examination—namelyi John Breaks , of Wike . shoptoaker , aged 29 ; Mark C ^ kerham , of Horton , wnolcomber , 23 ; John Spencer , of tbe same p laop . mechanic , 22 ; John Mears , of the nanio place , woolcomber , 19 ; and Barrett Long , ' of the Barne place , rail ! worker , 18 .

      Thb ChartistDistbbbakobsat BnADTORD—Faur of the five men who wer * examined before the ma . gistrates at Bradford , on Monday , charged witb riotin tr , and assaulting the police on Snnday morning , were fully committed for tria , namely . Barrett L ng , John Spencer , John Mears , and Mark Cockerton , all oCIIorton . Tho fifth man , John Breaks , shoemaker , was discharged . In thp ctnme of Monday afternoon , tbe magistrates main various arrangements for the effectual preservation of the peace , and for preventing the meeting of Chartists which had been called for seven o ' clook in tbe evening , to be held in the npgn spaoe in front nf Philadelpbia chapel , Wappinevon th&e&tt side of Beadfo'd , In tbe vicinity of the canal , Kbear Mr John West addressi

      the pe iple on the subject of the Charter . About bis o ' clock , the Mayor of Bradford ieft the court-house , with . Cnlonel Tempest , Major Tempest . Mr Rand , and Mr Pollard , macerates , on horseback , followed by about sixty of the rppuiar police force , armed with cutlasees , and some 260 special constables witb tbeir truncheons , each wearing a white belt on bis arm , and marched to the intended place nf meeting . Thee tbey found a waggon placed fnr tbe speakers , in whioh some children were playing , and a tew straying parties of men . Tbe men were eoon removed by the pilice , actinc under the ordfrs of Mr Leveratt , tho chief constable , and the ground waa kept clear for the rest of the evening , the people look * ing on fr » ra the fourfenn or fifteen different streotsor

      avenues which diverge from the plain , neither Mr West nor any other person essayist ; to hold a we ? ting or to address an assembly . About half-pant seven a rnroonr reached the civic aurhoriiiea who remained ia Wapping , that a meeting wa * abrmt to take place at Bro imtield ? , about a mile distant , nn the south side of the town . Bat true to the object for which fcLey h&d assemble' ) , ihe prevention of tke meeting in Wapping , the civil force wa 9 not withdrawn ; but a squadron nf Dragoon Guards and three companies of the 52 nd Infantry , who had bten for ivio or three hiur . * under arraa . were called out , under the command of Major Davit * , and despatched with two tnaEiBtrRt « s to Broomfie'de , which waa

      Boon cleared when it wag known that tbe military werfl app oaobiiig . When the people bad been dis persed there , the military , returned to the court * hotne ; and aa the evening waa rapidly advancing , orders were given to clear the BtreetB and to prevent the asHemblace nf smsU knots of persons therein . About half-past eight the magistrates and police evacuated tbeir position at Wappingr , but on leaving they carried with them the unclaimed wrftggoD , which bore the name of a neighbouring milter , and it was deposited in the yard ef the court-house . Subsequently , the police bad orders to clear the [ ublictiouseB , and to enuso tho neople to retire to their homes .

      Untitled Article

      ' ¦ 2 THE ^ NORTHERN STAR . July 22 , 1848 . Ml—aBBSBB ^ BBJMBBP ^ PiWfl *^*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

      Sui ¦ In In - M — Ev£ ¦ !• - . -.-" ¦ .: -Ij The Oi F Ami'c Pi Aci.Iic ¦:! Gy? T' • . -:. V. -; ?] Ji " S "¦§ Me?Sr*Ll :I-:J L. T'Ekry Aud E^ 1 ¦ ' .' ¦• Il : - ?&^Yy| Co.,Thscoutirriedd.-Iis:Iiiiifor

      Sui ¦ in in - m — Ev £ ¦ !• - . -.- " ¦ .: -ij The oi f aMi'c pi aci . iic ¦ : ! gy ? t' . -:. v . - ; ?] Ji " S "¦§ Me ? sr * ll : i-: J L . t'EKRY aud E ^ ¦ ' . ' ¦• il - ? & ^ yy | Co ., thscoutirriedd .-iis : iiiiifor

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 22, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1480/page/2/