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CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A BARRISTER . On Saturday last George Soane , Esq ., a special p leader , 6 , Pomp-court , Temple , appeared before Alderman Humphrey , at Guildhall , on a gammons to answer the charge of haTing starred and illtreated bis female servant , Jane Wilbred . The girl ¦ w as brought from the hospital in a cab , and re mained in the alderman ' s private room until called upon to give evidence . Joh » Sieveks said : I am clerk to Mr . Phillimore . I have seen defendant ' s servant several CHARGE OF f ! PTTET . TV A / invcT a
times at Pump-court , Temple . I saw her about the end of last . March , or the beginning of April . She appeared to me to be in a very emaciated state ! I have seen her at intervals since . On Friday I gaw her on the staircase with her hands on her stom ach , holding it up . As sue appeared very ill , I asfced how she was , but I received no answer On the following day ( Saturday ) I saw her again in the evening in Mr . Phillimore ' s roam . I obtained some food and placed it before her , and she was soon after given over to the care of the laundress ef the chambers , Mrs . BelL
Mr . Johs George Philumorb , a barrister , said I live in the same house as defendant , inPumpcoart , Temple . In consequence of information I went to Mr . Fry , and , after some conversation with him , . we resolved to see defendant , and require an explanation . Mr . Fry accordingly went up to defendant ' s chambers , which are above mine , and in a few minutes returned with defendant . I addressed him in the presence of Mr . Fry . and told him it was extremely disagreeable to speak to a person of his station upon such a subject as that I was about to mention . I informed him that from certain statements I had heard I must insist upon it that the female servant then with him should be delivered
into my custody , and that if he refused to do so he must take the consequences . He asked me what specific charge there was to make against him . I told him that of having half-starved the child , and ¦ ef beating her cruelly . I believe I told him at the same time that I only heard the charge about halfan hour previously . Defendant said , "If I give the child up it will seem like admitting the truth of the charge . " I said I would not consider it any such admission , and that I would prevent my clerk and those around me -from making any immediate charge against him . He then went up stairs , ar . d in a few minutes returned with the girl . I took her by the hand , and led her into my room . I sent for some food for the unfortunate creature , and then went to the defendant atid told him that the girl should be placed under the care of the laundress until she was so far convalescent as to be enabled
to return to the union . Defendant made some objiction to this proceeding , but at length gave way . I then sent for my laundress , and gave her the necessary directions for the disposal of the girl . I was going away when defendant made his appearance ^ again , and said his wife was determined that the girl should not remain with me , for ill as she -was she would get up and take the child to the -workhouse , in company with my clerk . I said that I conld not allow the girl to leave my custody as I ¦ was now responsible for her . On Monday I thought it rigat that a physician should be called in . Dr . Marsden was sent lor , and he visited the girl . 'When the defendant heard that Dr . Marsden had seen the girl he said he wonld do anything to assist- her . When I first saw the girl she was in a irmlitful state of emaciation . Her cloihes were ¦ wretched , and altogether presented the appearance of the most squalid misery . She ate the food placed before her with gre » t avidity .
Mr . A . A . Frt , a barrister , living in the same place , corroborated this evidence . Mrs . Elizabeth Bell , the laundress , said : I saw the girl about a year and a half ago . To the best of my belief she appeared then in a good state of health , being fat , and in good condition . On Saturday last 1 received her into my care , and I took her home , washed her , and put her to bed . I gave her some bread and meat and porter . I found she was in a very Slthv condition , her gown was very
dirtv , and likewise her person . While I was washins her hack , I observed several marks between her shoulders . They were severe bruises . I asKed her what was the matter , and she said she had been beaten . There was no vermin about her . I also observed that her bones were almost coming through her skin , and she could not hold herself upright from weakness . She remained at my house , 20 , Cursitor-street , until Tuesday , when she ¦ was removed in a cab , and I went with her to the hospital .
Dr . W . Mabsdes , Burgeon to the Royal Free Hospital , said—I saw the girl at the house of ? he laundress on Monday evening last , at Mr . Phillimore ' s request . She was then in a most exhausted condition . The pulse was scarcely perceptible . 'The extremities were very cold and livid . The respiration was feeble , and she was unable to speak . It was with difficulty that I got her to answer my questions at all . I made a careful examination of her , and came to the conclusion that there was no disease in existence . It was a case resulting entirely from want of food . Such must have been the case for many months , otherwise the girl never could have been in such an attenuated and low condition as slie was when I first saw her . I ordered
some light and nutritious food to he given her in ¦ v ery moderate quantities , and advised her immediate removal to some hospital . She was taken to the Royal Free Hospital in the Gray ' s inn-road on the following morning . Her pulse is now better . The discolourauon and cqldne 3 S of her extremities is in some degree , subsiding , and I consider her to be slowly rallying . I am quite satisfied that if she had been longer neglected , she must have died . She could not have existed in that state many days longer . It was entirely owing to want of food and ¦ w armth There were marks of violence on various parts of her bodyparticularly about the neck and
, shoulders . They had not been inflicted by anything very hard , such as a stick , for if that had been used the bones must have been broken , as there wa 3 nothing to interpose between the skin and bone I have been in the constant habit , during the last twenty years , of seeing cases of extreme distress , in many of which the parties have died a few hours after their admission into the hospital , but I i-erer saw a case at all approaching the appearance presented by that g irl . I could not have believed that a person could be so reduced and live . She was certainly the most perfect living skeleton I have ever seen in the course of my life .
Alderman Hcmphebt said it was now necessary that the girl should be brought forward . Two of the officers of the court accordingly went out and returned , carrying a chair , in which the girl was placed On her appearance in ceurt a deep rovoluntarv groan seemed to rise from every one present . ' She was supported on pillows in an easy chair , and placed by the side of the presiding alderman , who had to put his ear close to her mouth to catch the feeble sounds which she ottered with great difficulty and at long intervals . Her replies to the questions asked only reached the ear of the alderman , who in turn repeated them to Mr Wood , the chief clerk , in aloud voice , that the public might hear . We give her statement precisely in her own words as it reached the court . Jive Wilbhed said—I am going on for eighteen .
Irecollect being in the West London L-nlon . On the ISth of July , going on for two yearsi ago I left it to go to Mr . Sloane ' s . I recollect that Mrs . Sloans came to the Union for me . Mrs . Sloane agreed to take me into her service . 1 never received any wa « e 3 . Mr . Parker , the governor of the West London Union , went with me to Mrs . Rloane ' s It was at 6 , Pump-court , Temple . I did all the work except the cooking . I had to clean the offices , make the beds , run of errands , and also to wash the clothes belonging to Mr . and Mrs . Sloane , and those of a young lady living with Mr . Sloane as well as my own . I had to wash generally once a week . I had only one bed to make for the voung lady used to take a sofa into one of the SSin " rnoms and sleep there . She was living
there all the time I was in Mr . Sloane ' s service . Sv bedroom was a litUe room between the young SsSES&gg fcut after three months they took . away the pillow and I had to use my own clotbes instead . At first I had a blanket , counterpane , and sheet , but tney took away the blanket , and I had onlv the sheet and counterpane . It was Mrs . Sloane did this . J used to got bread and dripping and coffes for ureakiasr , and meat and potatoes for dinner , and also tea and bread and butter in the evening . That was only at first . A few months afterwards they gave me only a little bit of bread and mustard for breakfast , with coffee nnd carraway seeds . It wa 3 often eleven and twelve , and sometimes one o ' clock in the day before I got even that , and I never had
anything before tnat time , though I rose to mv work as early as six o ' clock in the morning . There was a cupboard where they kept the bread . I never could get to it , but if I could find pieces of bread left out I used to eat them I had or , ly for my dinner a little bread and broth with a quantity of mustard in it . When there was not mustard they gave me pepper msnen quantities that it used to burn my moutn . The last time is rjr ^ tfrMW ^ ^ lJtTle bread and pepper or mustard , but they £ « JSd nJTKoW meTnything to drink with it . I TO net wen allowed to take any water . I could SgeJ Sit without Mrs . Sloane . ^ me . and Aawnnldheatmeif I attempted it . Mrs . Bloane beat
Soften to beat me . She frequently me because I have worn the sleeves of my shift on my annB in the morning while I was doing my work , contrary to her orders . I used to wear them over my arms because I was cold . That happened n early eyerj wonting . I was beaten besiaea that
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ss ^ sssseasw ittlenf th « b » smsh T e accused me of drinking a Eiw' ^ -iS thattw vrasJ > eaten .-Mr . Clarkson objected SmSn ?^? i ? *<* ™ Y implicate the uetenuant . -. Alderuian Hmnphery said that what tne girl had first told him implicated Mr . Sloane in the highest degree . It will bo necessary , although extremely disgusting , to use the girl ' s own words :-Jane Wilbred continued : My mistress said once to me that I must eat some of my own dirt . I said I would not , and , was determined not to do so . She called Mr . Sloane , and he came and held me while she forced some of the dirt down my throat . ( The whole of the persons assembled in v ...... « . -
court here burst into aloud and long-continued yell of indignation against the defendant . ) The witness continued : Mr . Sloane beat me the first thing in the morning . He asked me if I had enough to eat , and I used to say ' Yes . " I did not complain , because I thought ! cohW not get any more from them than what they gave me . I did not think of going to the union to complain , because I did not know where it was . The young lady U 3 ed to cook for Mr . and Mrs . Sloane . They used to have sometimes roast and sometimes boiled beef . I used to wait at table , though they did not give me anything to eat there . After dinner the
meat U 3 ed to be put away in a cupboard in the sitting-room , and I was not allowed to go into that room unless Mrs . Sloane or the young lady was with me . The witness had for some time spoken with increasing difficulty , and it was evident she was becoming exhausted by the length of the examination . —Mr . Clarkson rose to cross-examine , and said : When did Mr . Sloane beat you . —After a long interval , the witness whispered to the Alderman , " Mr . Sloane beat me about a month ago . " After replying to this she appeared to fall asleep , and became perfectly unconscious .
Db . Marshes , who had been attentively watching the unfortunate girl ' s appearance , here rose , and said the cross-examination must bo discontinued instantly , as in the present condition of the girl she could not possibly sustain it any longer . — Mr . Clarkson here said , that under the present painful circumstances he would willingly forbear putting any further questions in the present state of the unfortunate witness . He believed that when the case came to be further investigated , it would present a different aspect than that which it now appeared to wear . —Alderman Humphrey : Mrs . Sloane must also appear on the next occasion to answer this serious charge . Bail was , after some hesitation , accepted , and Mr . Sloane was bound over , himself iu £ 200 and two sureties of £ 100
each , to appear and answer the charge next week . During the foregoing examination stimulants were found necessary to be administered to the girl to keep her from fainting , and at the close of the proceedings she was conveyed back to the hospital in a caii , under the care of Mr . Robertson , the house surgeon .
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ExTKAORnisAHr Charge of Abductiox . —At the Dover Police Court , on Monday , — Maresca , mate of the Neapolitan brigantine 1 'Oriente , lying in Dover harbour , was brought before the magistrates on a charge of cruel treatment to a Spanish girl , whom he induced to elope with him from Gibraltar , under a promise of marriage . Mr . S . M . Litbam , the Spanish consul , stated that the Oriente had put into Dover harbour from damage in the late gale , when the complainant , whose name was Carlatina Gracia Perat , claimed his protection under the following circumstances . She stated that she -has a sempstress , living at Gibraltar , and that while the Oriente waslyingat that place , sue became acquainted with the mate , who , under a promise of
marriage , induced her to leave in the vessel , but that he shortly behaved to her with great cruelty . In consequence of this statement Mr . Latham said he placed her in lodgings , and wrote to the Spanish Cousul-General in London , who replied that he could do nothing in the matter , but if she was sent to London , he would endeavour to get her sent home hy the Peninsular Steam Company . Mr . Lathan tisen obtained £ 310 s . from the mate , and sent her hy railway to London . On the following day she returned with a letter from tho consul , stating that she had serious charges of assault to prefer against the mate , which must be done before the magistrates . In consequence of this communication he ( Mr . Latham ) had caused the part es to appear
before the bench for their investigation . The complainant , a pretty girl of about twenty years of age , whose black eyes , olive complexion , black Spanish mantilla and headrdress , proved her to be a daugh ter of fi » ir Andalusia , then ( through an interpreter made the following statement : — " I became acquainted with the defendant at Gibraltar , when he offered me marriage , but there not being time for the necessary forms for the ceremony before the vesselleft , he induced me to go on board , promising that the ceremony should be performed on the arrival of the vessel in England , whither she . was bound . lie showed me a will , in which be had left me , in case of his death , 4 , 000 dollars , which induced me to believe his promises About four or
five days after the vessel lelt Gibraltar , the mate desired me to get up and work , which I was unable to do , as I wss suffering so dreadfully from sea-sickness . He then pulled me out of bed , and behaved with such violence , that I told him I would claim the protection of the Spanish consul . He then took a knife and threatened , if I did so , he would kill me and throw me overboard in a sack which he showed me . " She then detailed further acts of cruelty , the last of which , when be knocked her down , was witnessed by the pilot ( a Folkstone boatman ) who brought the vessel into the harbour . The prisoner ( through an Italian interpreter ) in defence taidthat when at Gibraltar the complainant expressed a wish to go to England that she might get to the
Havannab , where she had friends , in consequence of which he offered her a free passage , but denied committing any assault . Mr . Latham further stated that complainant left throe dresses and other clothing , on board , which defendant denied . From communications by some of the crew , he believed she had been subjected to great cruelty , but the men refused to give any evidence before the captain , who was brother to the mate , as they were certain if they did so of being killed and thrown overboard when at sea . The object of the complainant was to get back to Spain , and if her clothes were given up , and a sufficient sum of money paid to denot believe she wished
fray her passage , he did to prosecute the assault . Defendant said the clothes , with other things belonging to the captain , were lost from the cabin when the vessel sank in harbour , but he would try to find them . He thought , however , the rich gentlemen before him were better able to pay her passage back tban himself . Ultimately the case was adjourned till , if possible , some amicable arrangement might be made . After leaving the court , we were informed that when complainant went on board she had long beautiful black ringlets , but that during a heavy storm she was ordered to cut them ofl as a propitiation to the Virgin Mary to appease the tempest . —Dover Telegraph .
Patent Law Kefobm . — On Monday night a public meeting was held in Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , of the Inventors' Patent Law Reform League . Mr John Ellis presided . The Chairman , at some length , detailed the proceedings which the League had already adopted . The second report of the ' provisional committee stated that a deputation of members of the association had been appointed to present the petition to her Majesty , praying her Majesty to direct immediate measures to protect inventions at the Great Exhibition , and to reform the patent laws , as agreed to at the public meeting , held on the 23 rd of October . The report then went on to state that the petition was transmitted to Sir George Grey for presentation to her
Majesty . On the lltR November the deputation was received by Sir George Grey and Mr . Labouchere . The government having requested statements of the views of the committee , they were accordingly sent to the Home office and the Board of Trade . ? . In conclusion the report said the committee found that to carry out the purposes of the League with energy and spirit , it required some extent of funds . They appealed , therefore , to the public for support ; and they trusted that inventors and friends of reform would come forward , and not allow the cause of reform to be crippled for want of funds . Several resolutions in accordance with the object of the association were passed , and the meeting separated . Shipwreck of xs East Indiamas . —On Saturday information was received at Lloyd's of the total
loss of a French Indiaman , La Meuse . on the night oftbeothinst ., between Whitsand Bay and Cape Pornwall By the exertions of the coast guard and policemen of Whitsand Bay , who launched a numher Of boats through heavy surf , the crew and naWngers were safely taken on shore , with the exertion of one cabin passenger , who was drowned in ^ ttPmntine to iump into the long boat , and leaped JMf hSmik Soon after the boats had left , ^ sbsssssk sFSEu Jsg 3 feJ : driven ' ashore . The cargo is valued at £ 80 000 The Wallasley Magazines .-A gentlenunof LiverpooWrote the other day to a d » W ™ admiral , and as brave a man as ever held her Majesty ' s commission , requesting his opinion as to the effect likely to be nroduced by the explosion of 700
tons of gunpowder situate within a mile ana a nan of the north of Liverpool . The answer was characteristic , and to the point , and comment upon it is unnecessary . . It is as follows : — " Sir , —The explosion of 700 tonB of gunpowder would blow you all to the devil , but to what distance tha explo 3 ion would do damage I cannot tell you . " The Rev . Mr . Bennett has resigned hi * preferments » the Church , of England ,.
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LIVERPOOL The special winter gaol delirery for the southern division of Lancashire commenced on Monday at Liverpool , before Mr . Baron Alderan and Mr . Justice Talfourd , the latter presiding in ptoceof Mr . Justice Coleridge , who was unable to attend owing to indisposition , Casb of Mr . Threlfau ,. —FonoEHY . —William Threlfall was indicted for having , at Liverpool , uttered several forged bills of exchange , with intent to defraud the Hull Flax Company . Mr . Bliss , with Mr . Blair , appeared for the prosecution , and Mr . Serjeant Wilkins for the prisoner . —After a consultation amongst the learned counsel , Mr . Serjeant Wilkins rose , and said , that , acting not only
under his advice , but of his own free will , the prisoner wished to withdraw his plea of Not Guilty , and plead Guilty . —Mr . Justice Talfourd asked the prisoner if he wished to plead Guilty ; and he replied in the affirmative .- —Mr . Bliss said , that this was a case of a peculiar nature ; and , in order , that the justice of the case might be properly met , it would be necessary that ho should give his lordship an outline of the facts . The prisoner was charged with the offence of forging and uttering . They were ready to produce no fewer than thirty bills of exchange , for £ 32 , 811 , which had been uttered by the prisoner , all of wjiich were forgeries . Besides these , there were thirty-six others , with four in addition , niiiking , altogether , forgeries to the amount
of £ 113 , 801 . That was prior to the time of his apprehension . Since then fifteen other bills had fallen due ; and , upon presentation , were discovered to be forgeries . These amounted to more than £ 20 , 000 . The entire number of the forged bills was 115 , altogether amounting to £ 133 , 000 , all of which they were prepared to prove the prisoner had uttered with a guilty knowledge . —Mr . Serjeant Wilkins , in mitigation , said it was right his lordship should be informed that , although the bills were forgeries , bills to the extent of £ 113 , 800 had been taken up when they arrived at maturity . At the time the prisoner committed the forgeries , he bad no idea of defrauding any oneand this was proved
, by the fact that he had met every bill which was due up to the time of his apprehension . Ho had borne a most exemplary character , and though he had done a most illegal and foolish act , ho had never intended to commit any moral crime . Notwithstanding all the disadvantages arising from his apprehension , the prisoner ' s estate would yield a dividend of 12 s . or 13 s . in the pound . —Mr . Bliss admitted that out of the £ 133 , 000 of forged bills about £ SO , 000 had been paid by the prisoner , but still there was a large amount which had not been paid . Sentence deferred . William Threlfall whs brought up for sentence . —His Lordship said , he had availed himself of the interval to read the
depositions in this case , and he had found that the prisoner was a party to a gigantic scheme of forgery aiid fraud . It had been urged in his behalf that he had been enabled , to a great extent , to prevent the consequeuces of his act by taking means to provide for the instruments on their becoming due , but he could not allow for a moment that this circumstance materially reduced tho guilt of the crime . There was still the chance , nay , the strong probability , of his being unable lo meet these bills , m which " case it was fearful to contemplate the tremendous loss , and perhaps ruin , which might fall upon innocent persons whohal advanced money on the faith ol these bills . Many persons had , in times now gone by , died a shameful death for only a small portion of the which fell to his share
guilt . He rejoiced that the law was now changed , but still the prisoner must atone for lua crime . by years of degradation and guilt in exile . A severe punishment was necessary for the protection of the commercial interests , and for the security of the best resources of the country . The station in life of the prisoner doubtless made the task , he had to perform more lamentable , and the punishment more severe . The good character he had hitherto borne was no palliation . Where the crime was so clear , and consisted of a system of fraud elaborately contrived and systematically pursued , it was far from decreasing his guilt . The sentence of the court , therefore , was that the prisoner be transported for the term of fifteen years .
Defbacdino the Excise . —Benjamin Francis Milnes was indicted for obtaining money under false pretences , with intent to defraud the Excise . —The defendant in this case was an officer of Excise at Bolton , with a salary of £ 100 a year . It appeared from the enactments of various acts of Parliament that the duties of officers of Excise wei-e very clearly defined , and orders renderiug them still more plain were issued from the Board of Excise from time to time . It was the duty of tho defendant to furnish the applicant for a license with a notice which , while acting as an instruction to the trader , would also operate as a check upon himself , and show that he was not entitled to receive any money from the person so applying . Instead of doing this , the defendant did not deliver the notices to . the various applicants , but gave them viva
v : cc information , and received from them various sums of money , of which he gave no account to the authorities , though he entered the different amounts received in a pr . vate memorandum-book of his own . —Several witnesses having been examined , whose evidence proved various acts of frand , the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Mr . Justice Talfourd , in passing sentence on the prisoner , remarked on the great enormity of his offence . Employed as he was in a public capacity he had taken advantage of a most respectable class in society , and by his conduct exposed them to most serious consequences for a breach of the Excise laws . He had acted , he could not doubt , under a cloak of hypocrisy , and the intellectual accomplishments of which he hail shown himself to be possessed only aggravated the offence of which he had been found guilty . His Lordship then sentenced him to be . transported for
seven years . Burolarv at Manchester , — Charles Taylor , aged 30 years , was indicted for a burglary on the 17 th of July last at Manchester . Mr . Pollock prosecuted and Mr . Monk defended the prisoner . —The prosecutor , Benjamin WilkinsoD , is a beerhousekeeper in Manchester , and upon the night in question the prisoner , accompanied by another man , named Fimlo ( tried and convicted of the offence at the last asaizes ) , were drinking in his house . They left about eleven o ' clock . About three o ' clock next morning Mr . Wilkinson was awakened by a noise below and by the smell of something burning . He went down stairs and found the door open . A large jug containing ale had been carried away , and an empty purse stolen from the till . In the room there was a piece of print being consumed . Just previous to this time a policeman had seen the
prisoner and Pimlo going towards the prisoner ' s house with a jug containing something . On seeing him they laid down the jug and ran away . It was found to be Wilkinson ' s , and had contained ale , but this was spilled on the ground . Pimlo was apprehended in Taylor ' s house , but Taylor himself was not in ; he left the town and had not been apprehended till lately . It was suggested that the print found burning in the prosecutor ' s house had been ignited to afford light whilst the robbery was going on . —The prisoner was found Guilty ,-rBefore passing sentence the learned baron asked what punishment Pimlo had got , and wag answered' twelve months' imprisonment , but there had been a previous conviction against him . The judge ( jocularly ) : " lie was a lucky man not to have been tried before me—I would have transported him . " —The prisoner ( this being the first offence ) , was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .
Felonious Assault and-Robbery . —Henry Giblin , 16 , Edward Carr , 18 , John Callaghan , SO , and Mary Jane Williams , 18 , were charged with having feloniously assaulted and beaten William Edward Webb , and robbed him of eleven shillings and a hat . Callaghan was also indicted for receiving . —It appeared that Mr . Webb , the prosecutor , on Sunday night , the 22 nd of September , at half-past eleven o ' clock , was going along Dean ' s-gato , Manchester , when he met the prisoner Williams , who spoke to him and asked for something to drink . He went with her accordingly to some vaults , and , after this , ongoing along she pushed him into an entry and he felt her feeling his pocket . She coughed , and two persons rushed in , one seizing him by the
throat , and tho other holding his arm . He was struck and thrown down , and became insensible . On recovering he missed his watch pocket , containing eleven shillings in silver , it being quite torn away , and hia hat . Ho ono was by at that time . lie went to a policeman and gave information . Subsequently saw his hat in possession of Wintersgill . He was quite sober . —A witness named Rosanna Clary spoke to the fact of having seen Carr seize the prosecutor by the throat while Giblin knocked him down , and also to having seen the female prisoner with Webb previous to his being
knocked down . The two men then ran away , and the girl went to her own house ; and she also saw the prisoner Callaghan , who was at the door of his own house , which is opposite tho entry , at this time pick up Webb ' s hat , and give it to hi 3 wife , telling her to take it into the back kitchen , after which they shut the door , and went in together . She subsequently gave information of this to the police . —The learned judge carefully summed up the evidence , and the jury found Giblin , Carr , and Williar as Guilty , and Callaghan Not Guilty . —Previous convictions were proved against all the prisoners who were convicted . —His Lordship sentenced them
all to ten years transportation . Burolart . —Abraham Wild , Samuel Jackson , and Henry Ashworth , were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling house of John Berry , of Oldham . There was another prisoner , named Greenhalgb , implicated in the transaction , bui he pleaded Guilty . The prosecutor is a pawnbroker at Oldham , and hia shop adjoins his dwelling-house-. On the night of the 26 th of August last , between ten and twelve o ' clock , his premises were- entered by means of some person removing the cellar grating , and getl ing through tho aperture ,. & ratf quantity of arti-
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cles were stolen , and amongst them two « ets of Deads . .. The prisoners lodged together , at the' house Ot a person named Margaret Porrow , and she dJJ the night of the burglary overheard them talking together on tho subject of tho means b y which the nouse had been entered , and the property which nad stolen . On the following day the prisoners , in company together , disposed of various portions of the stolen property . One aefc of beads they gave to a young woman , who was subsequently apprehended on the charge of being conneoted with the robbery , she having the beads round her neck at the time , ine prisoners were found Guilty . Jackson and Ashworth were sentenced to transportation for ten years each , aiid the other prisoners to two years ' imprisonment each .
Street Robbery ai Manchester . —John Diggles , Thomas Exten , and Andrew M'Nalty , were found Guilty of an assault and robbery . —His Lordsnip , in addressing them , said ; "You were convicted of a barbarous robbery upon an old man whom you have left almost dead . As for one of you , who did not take part in the violence ; and , in compliance with the jury ' s recommendation , as well as from my own view of the case , I shall make a distinction in your case in the severity of tho sentence I am about to pass . You Biggies and Exton must each bo transported for twenty years , and you , " M'Nalty , for seven years . " --M ' jSalty , in a dogged mannor : You may as well give me ten : I would as soon have ten as seven . —This he repeated once or twice ; but his lordship not distinctly hearing him , said , " What does he say ? " —Prisoner : I'd as soon have ten as seven . —Baron Alderson ( complacently ) : Well , you may , if you like .
Busnino a Muck . —Anthony Hart was found Guilty of running a muck . —Baron Alderson said You have been convicted of an assault , but your reason for doing so is not very plain . You appear to have run a muck through the streets of Manchester with the scythe of yours , iu a state of frenzy or insanity , or from the effect of tho liquor in each , having lost that which , perhaps , you never very clearly possessed—your senses . For this offence you must be imprisoned six months . Bukolabt . —S . Kidgway , a soldier , wos found of
Guilty » burglary at Aahto . i-undcr-Lvne —Ilia Lordship said that the prisoner had been convicted of breaking into tho house of an aged and lonely man . He had found his way into the chamber of this man , and taken a portion of his property . The offence was one of the most disgraceful that could be committed by a British soldier . Had he committed any outrage upon the gentleman into whoso house ho hid broken , nothing less than transportation for life would have been his portion ; but as there had not been violence , the sentence of the court was , that he be transported for seven years .
ATTEMPT TO MUUDKR AN INFANT . —Ann Billl , 30 , was indicted for attempting to murder her illegitimate child , James Ball . —It appeared from the evidence of Richard Wright that on the 24 th of July last he was going towards the Promenade ut Southport when he was arrested by observing the sand in one place newly disturbed and some blood lying on the same place . On removing the sand he discovered a child upon its back . He returned to Richardson's house , whence he had come , without taking up the child , and it was subsequently taken out by a witness named Mercer , who , together wiih Richardson , was called for the prosecution , and corroborated the finding of the child . 1 c was a male child , and perfectly . naked . Mercer took the
child to his house , and ik lived until the Mond . iy after . The Rev . Mr . Newsham , Catholic clergyman , baptised it by the name of J . ime 3 , and the child was attended by Mr . Barren , a surgeon , until its dtath . The surgeon subsequently examined the prisoner on the samo day upon which the child had been found , and was of opinion that she had heen delivered within a few hours of that time . Mrs , Statter told the surgeon in the prisoner ' s pn > sence that she had acknowledged the child to be hers , and had told her that it was born in the petty ( privy ) , and that she had taken it to the hills , and there buried it in the sand .. The pretty was not more than 200 yards from where tho child was found . It appeared from the evidence of Jonathan Burland
that ho had seen the prisoner coming o \ it of tho petty on the evening in question . She had something with her covered up , and a man named John Howard saw her coming the same evening from Bui hind's back door and go towards the sand-hills , and she had at that time something with her . A person named Molyneaux had accused the prisoner of being in the family way , but she denied it . However , she subsequently said that she did not intend to make any baby-clothes , for it would come into the world naked , and it should go out of it miked . — This statement the prisoner denied in court when called upon for her deten . ee . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and his lordship , after remarking on the barbarous nature of the crime , which was so
very near murder that it » ft-as difficult to say that it did not actually amount to murder , sentenced the prisoner to lie transported for life . Manslaughter .-Samuel Healey , aged 29 , was indicted for the manslaughter of Eliza Clegg . —The prisoner was employed as an overlooker in the mill of Mr . Edmund Howard , of Rochdale , and the deceased worked in a room of the factory of which the prisoner wa 3 overlooker . She had been in Mr . Howard ' s employ for four years . On tho 13 rh of August last the prisoner went to the deceased while she was at her usual work , and asked her why she did not keep her roving-frames regularly going ; to which she auswered that she did keep them going as well as she could , and that she could do no more .
Upon this the prisoner told her to go home . She &aid she would not , but would see Mr . Pilling , the manager , which she subsequently did , and , by his desire , returned to her work , the manager promising to see the prisoner about it . When she returned she found the prisoner had brought another person to her work , and she was again ordered . by him to go home . On her refusal , he took hold of her and pushed her towards the door of the room , where she laid . hold of an iron rod affixed to ¦ the bell at the top of the mill . The prisoner pulled her away from this , nnd pushed her on to tho stair landing ; : ind , on her laying hold of the handle of the door , he forced her from it , and threw her downa flight of nine steps . He followed her , and a scuffle took place , when she was thrown down another flight of steps , and fell with her head against the wall at the
bottom . She was picked up perfectly senseless unable to stand , or even to swallow some water which was offered to her . On examination , the surgeon found all the symptoms of compression of the brain , and a wound on the back part of . her head . She died at six o ' clock on the same evening . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —His Lordship , in passing sentence , observed upon the danger of placing power in the hands of uneducated people . The prisoner ought to have performed the duties of his place mildly , and with Christian charity , towards any one occupying a position under him , especially towards a woman . He was bound to protect those who were unprotected , and therefore , notwithstanding that he took into consideration that he had been in gaol since August , he felt bound to pass a severe sentence , which was that he be imprisoned for nine calendar months .
Maliciously Wounding . —Luke Lloyd was indicted for having , on the 26 th of Ootober , at Manchester , assaulted and feloniously cut and wounded John Worrall , with intent to maim , disable , &o , — Mr . Sowler prosecuted , and Mr . Joseph Kaye defended the prisoner . —The prosecutor ia a young boy , and the occurrence forming tho subject of inquiry had originated in a quarrel between hia mother , who is a widow , and the prisoner . Tho prisoner had made overtures of marriage to prosecutor ' s mother , which she accepted . On the night of the transaction , whilst ; at a neighbouring house , she learned that the prisoner had a wife still living . This led to a quarrel between the prisoner and the woman whom he had been attempting to deceive , and the prisoner offered some abuse towards her . Her son , the prosecutor , on coming home in the
evening , learned that the prisoner had been ill-using his mother , and went to speak to him relative to it . The prisoner admitted that he had acted as alleged , and said he would serve the prosecutor in the same way . They quarrelled , and prisoner knocked the prosecutor down ; and , in the souffle that ensued , stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife . —Mr . Kaye , in an able speech , addressed the jury on behalf of tho prisoner . Ho contended that the evidence as to the use of the knife by the prisoner was altogether too doubtful to warrant a conviction . He called three witnesses , who deposed ; to being near the prisoner during the whole time the atrugglo was going forward , and thatthoy did not see any knife in his hand . —Mr . Sowler rep lied , and the learned Judge having instructed the jury on the case , they returned a verdict of Guilty . —Sentence deferred .
Horsk Stkalino by a Littlk BoT . —James Barlow , a well-looking boy , fifteen years of ago , was indicted for having stolen a gelding , with saddle and bridle , the property of Snmuel Boden . Another count laid the property as belonging to Henry Lomas . Mr . Lonias , at a fair near Leeds , last summer , purchased a horse , which he lent to Mr . Boden until the following Bury horse fair , on the 18 th of September . Accordincly , on the day named he attended the fair , and placed tho horse in the stable , and then went into the fair toi look for his friend , Mr . Lomas , whom ho shortly , met , and they went together to look at the horse ; but found that it had been taken from the stable . From circumstances
which subsequently transpired , little doubt remained that it had been stolen by tho prisoner . On the 20 th of the same month Mr . Boden ( he being on horseback at tho time ) , met the prisoner riding a horse on the road between Stockport and Buxton . The prisoner made off , and Mr . Boden followed , and they galloped for several mileB , until they came to the bottom of a lano , to- a gate , which the prisoner ' a horse refused to leap . Here the prisoner jumped off , left the house in the lane , and made across tho fields , but was subsequently apprehended . The horse , left in the lane was not tho same aB that stolra . from . the stable at Bury , as tho prisoner , it wa * eho . wa > , itad . changed that one mth
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a farmer for an old gray horse , and £ i to boot , but on riding home , the gray horse falling lame , h 0 turned it into a field , taking in its place the herse whose swiftness the prosecutar had tested whilst pur suing the prisoner . The jury found tho prisoner Guilty . There wa 3 another indictment against him for stealing the horse which he had taken in place of the gray one , but it was not proceeded with . A prior conviction for horse stealing , twelve months ago , was then proved . The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years . ¦
Bioamt . —Margaret Leech , aged 39 , was indicted for having , at Liverpool , feloniously married George Armstrong during the lifetime of a former husband . She pleaded guilty , and told a pitiable tale . She had been married to her first husband ten years , but he had only lived with her five months at first , when he was in the police force . He then sold up some little property that she had , and deserted her . She had heard , when she was married the second time , that he was dead . Mr . Gibbs , the governor of the gaol , said there was reason to believe that the prisoner ' s statement was true . She had been four months' already imprisoned , and was further sentenced to one week ' s confinement .
Anne Ityne , alias Carroll , a woman 47 years af age , was also indicted for bigamy at Liverpool . She also pleaded guilty ; and her defence was , that her first husband hud eight step-children nearly a » old as herself , and that both he and they were in the habit of ill-treating her . Her second husband had promised to take her to America , but she was living with the first when he caused her to be nppn bended on the charge . —She was sentenced to imprisonment for a month .
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TYRANNY IN FRANCE . A considerable sensation is created , both in Pam and the provinces , by the vast number of arrests which are daily taking place on the pretext of the plot at Lyons . It is remarked , that es regards tt . i . mysterious plot , not one word of explanation has hitherto been given by the public , and many imagine ihat the affair is got up merely as a pretext to enable the poiice to seize upon any persons whom they may consider dangerous or inconvenient . It will he remembered that the plot was first spoken of at a period when the coutitry generally was uncommonly calm , but when a good deal of agitation was created in the upper ranks of society by the quarrels between tho President of the Republic and General
Cnangarnier . At that time a diversion was wanted , and , quite apropos , the discovery of the Lyons plot was all of a sudden announced by the Ministerial papers . Since then none of the details of the plot have been announced , though , if they exist , they must be iu the hands of the police ; but still there is hardly a town in France where pt-rsora have not been snatched from their friends and families , and thrown into prison , where they are kept au secret , and without an idea of the charges brought against them , As an instance in which these arrests are effected , and the slight grounds , or more properly speaking the total absence of grounds on which the police proceed , we may mention the case of M . Lesseps . This
gentleman was formerly a member of the Assembly , but he has been guilty within the last few weeks of starting a journal called the Vole Universel . Attempts were made to put down the journal by means of prosecutions , bat the injustice was so glaring that the government became alarmed , and for want of . any better pretext M . Lessepa was arrested on the charge of being implicated in the Lyons plot . Since his arrest ( a fortnight ago ) , M . Lesseps has not been allowed to see any of his friends , nor has he been examined before a magistrate , but he has contrived to write a letter to one of the newspapers , in which he declares that he is not only entirely ignorant of the existence of a plot , but that he has no acquaintance in , nor
connexion of any kind with , Lyons . " 1 defy , says M . Lesseps , " not only the courts of Lyons , but ail the tribunals in France , to find that ' I have any relation , I will not say of a political character , but any relation of any kind , even as a private individual , with the department of the Shone , the city of Lyons , or wjih the departments which surround that city within a circumference of forty leagues . Tne circle is large ; but still I believe that I do not advance too much in declaring that during my whole life I have neither written or received a letter from it . At all events , I affirm the fact as respects the last three year 3 to the present day . Surely this is peremp ^ tnrv . "
M . Lesseps is certainly a curious conspirator , if , as he says , be has neither acquaintance nor correspondence within 100 miUs of the city in which he is said to be conspirin ;; but , be thai as it may , he will not be able to make the assertions much longer , as he has been sent off to Lyons since writing the above letter . Among others arrested as being implicated in the Lvons conspiracy is M . Desolme , editor ol the Republican de la Dordogne , who was seized at Bordeaux . The ground of hia arrest is thus given by the Republican de la Dordogne : — " M . Desolme has undergone hi » last interrogatory . The juge destruction placed under his eye the original of the letter found at Agen , in the office of the Radical , and which the Court of Perigneux claimed irom that of Lvons , to which it had been sent . This letter
advised the editor of that journal to foment an insurrection in the Lot-et-Garronne , and assured him thai the Dordogne would join in the movement . M . Desolme declared that he never wrote nor dictated that letter , which was essentially contrary to his views , and to his manner of regarding the opposition to be made to the restricted electoral law , and to the intentions of the citizens with whom his position placed him habitually in contact , But that letter which he never wrote , and of which he knows no ' thing , lias M . Desolmt ' s signature attached to it Our editor , the victim of an abuse of confidence , has declared that he does not know the author of the forgery . Notwithstanding all this , M . Desolme has been remeved from the prison of Perigneux to that of Lyons . "
There are numerous other instances in which the evidence of guilt is as slight as in this case , but in which the unfortunate parties are still kept in prison . Many of them have been already incarcerated for upwards of a month , and , as stated by the" Siecle , " the plot of Lyons is covering France with misery and with tears and ia exciting the worst passions . "
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. — ' — ¦> l . THE FLAX . MOVEMENT . We have several times drawn the attention of our agricultural readers to the important aspect which this question is assuming . It is therefore with pleasure we state , that facts have recently come to our knowledge , which place the success of the plans for rendering flax a very prominent article in tho home manufacture , in a more promising light than ever . Mr . Uvight , M . P ., and other gentlemen connected with the Manchester manufacture , have taken up the matter , and are about to furnish the Board of Trade with full particulars concerning the cost of converting tho flax into a proper material for home manufacture , and with samples of the product . A process for this purpose has , it seems , been discoveredwhich will greatly cheapen the material , at
, tho same timo superseding the necessity of steeping and hand-scutching ; and already some of the Manchester manufacturers are ready to become buyers . The consumption which this will create will be equivalent to the produce of 360 , 000 acres © f land , whioh , added to the demand already existing for our linen manufactures , makes tho total consumption equivalent to the production of between 800 , 000 and 000 , 000 acres . When it ia remembered that hemp , flax , linseed , and oilcake , are imported into this country annually to theamount of nearly £ 10 , 000 , 000 , all of which' may be grown in this country and Ireland , and when wo add to this that the produce of 350 , 000 Irish acres is needed to supply the demands of the Royal and Commercial Navies of « reat
Britain , as well as for all the manufactures for inland purposes ( exclusive of linen ) , thus constituting a market at home for the produce of 1 , 210 , 003 acres ( only 04 , 000 being at present under flax cultivation ) , the vast importance of the question , to the agriculturist , to the manufacturer , and to the entu-e community , will need no illustration . The facts speak powerfully for themselves . —Leicester Chronicle . The following circular has been addressed to several influential noblemen and members of parliament , by a gentleman connected with this locality , ana ic is to be hoped will meet with the support its importance demands : — " Sib , —By the Act 25 Geo . III ., cap . 62 , sec . 16 , an act passed previous to the
introduction of steam power , landlords are empowered to "rant leases in perpetuity of sites for mills and manufactures , to be worked by water-power . The attention of her Majesty's government haB boon directed by me to the importance of extending , this act , in order to enable landlords to grant leases in perpetuity of sites for mills and manufactures , to be worked by steam-power . As this is a matter of general interest and importance , as affecting the increase of flax manufacture , I . venture to solicit your advocacy of the proposed extension of the act referred to , which would doubtless have included steam-power , had such existed at the date of its enactment . —December 2 nd , 1850 . "—Dovmpatrkk Recorderr
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^———m ~ i — " *— - h—m ¦ — ^^ mm ^» THE RECENT STRIKE AT THE ' CRYSTAL PALACE , On Monday , at Marlborough-street , William St . ua » r a journeyman glazier , again appeared before ' . ^'" gham , charged with having by threats and Fn i -M On endeavoured to force Mr . Charles f > bu »?<; r , &c ., to make an alteration in his moda ° l ""' yjng on hia business .-Mr . ttippoh took ? Sf ° J 5 ? tion 8 t 0 tho proceedings . He con . ~ JJ + £ at * by ho ««* « nder which the proceedings Ji fn ; n fK WOmagistpates were required to adjudicate on the caso , au a nofc Onc .-AIr . Bingham said the Legwlature most certainly intended that one metropolitan magistrate being skilled
, a and experienced person , should have authority to do what could only be done by two country justices . He believed the objection now taken was untenable ; but rather than there should be any doubt ho would , if required , adjourn the further hearing , to obtain the attendance of his colleague Mr . Hard wick . Up had stated that it was essential to have the charge disposed of on its merits , and not got rid of in technical grounds . —Mr . Itippon obected that whereas Mr . Fox was in partnershi p with another , the charge laid the ott ' ence as committed but against one . —Mr . Uingham overruled the objection . —Mr . Humphries then proved his caso by ^ the evidence of the witnesses called on the previo ' us examination . '—Mr . Bingham postponed judg-¦
ment until next day . - On Tuesday Mr . Bir . gham gave judgment in the caso . He having overruled the objections raised by the defendant ' s attorney , said : It having been proved that on Friday evening , the 22 nd of Jfov ., a body of nearly fifty glaziers quitted the employment of Messrs . Fox and Co ., the contractors for the building in Hyde-park ; that on Monday morning Mr . Fox received a letter from the defendant , in which , after characterising the communication , as strictly private , he proceeds , " I wish to mediate successfully , if I can , between you and your men . If I am successful , I shall be happy , and the matter shall rest where it is ; if not , you must sustain
the consequences . He then goes on : " This is to inform you that unless you consult me as to the proposal of your manager , Mr , Cochr . ine , to the glaziers / and come to a fair and honourable arrangement with the glaziers in youv employment ; that they not only shall be enabled to cam a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work , but put such work in as shall bear inspection and satisfy all , the following advertisement shall appeal in the London papers of to-morrow morning " : — L ; William St . Glair , pronounce that the building ia Hyde-park is being botched by a system of subcontracting ; that it will , therefore , be worthless and unsafe ; and that the nation will be disgraced unless this matter is looked into . ' Now , this-is nofc
intended as a vulgar threatening to intimidate you , but the candid advice of one of your workmen , who has the honour to be a gentleman as well as < i glazier , * ' The glaziers who had quitted tho works on Friday evening , the 22 nd of November , having been requested to attend the following Monday afternoon , to receive some arrears of pay , the defendant , accompanied by nearly fifty of them , desired to speak with Mr . Fox . Mr . Fox having inquired and ascertained of the defendant that his name was St . Clair , refused to have any communication with him j whereupon the defendant , clenching his fist . as Mr . Fox swears , extending his arm and hand in the manner of a man who speaks emphatically , as the witnesses for tho defendant swear , said , " Then you will ( or you may ) repent this . " On behalf of the defendant it has been con tended on , the merits , that the letter addressed ! o Mr . Fox , including the proposed advertisement , is merely
a piece of friendly advice , mediation , or criticism ; that it contains nothing in the way of threat , intimidation , or molestation , and that there is nothing menacing in the circumstance of a person accompanied by a body of fifty dissatisfied men , saying , with outstretched arm , to one who hud refused communication with him , " Then you may repent it . " The bare statement of these propositions is almosi of itself an answer to them , for it seems to me trifling with language to say , that there is no threat or intimidation in announcing to a builder that unless he consults an interested adviser on the subject of his own prposals , and comes to an arrangement which , in the opinion of- that adviser , is fair and honourable , he shall be exposed in the newspapers , as the constructor of a botched-up , unsafe , and disgraceful edifice . Nor , with ro 3 pecfc to what passed at the interview with the prosecutor , does it seem to me at all material whether the fist
was presented , or only the arm outstretched and open , hand ; or whetbur the words U 9 ed were " you shall repent , " or " you may repent" of this . The gesture and language obviously had reference to the letter which had been received in the morning , and the repeiitauce which it was intimated the prosecutor might come to feel was to be occasioned ; by the loss of character and property which might reasonably be expected to follow the threatened exposure in the newspapers . I am clearly of opinion , therefore , that the defendant has , in the language of the statute , endeavoured to force the prosecutor , by threats , intimidation , and molestation , to make an , alteration in the mode of conducting his business ; that the offence was complete in the letter which the prosecutor received , and was confirmed and
repeated in what passed at the subsequent interview . To put any other construction on the de * fendant ' s proceedings would render a dead letter a statute which has been a great advantage to . workmen as well as employers . It is to be regretted that tho defendant has overlooked the fact that this statute has abolished all the restraints to which workmen were formerly subject , and , short of intimidation or violence towards man . or master , hus given them the uncontrolled management ; of their own affairs . It is to be regretted that they have overlooked the fact that no instance can be found of any attempt to regulate the rate of wages by violence or intimidation that has not proved in a short time disastrous to the workmen . But it is still more to be regretted that the interval between the summons and hearing , which gave the defendant an opportunity tore-consider the course he had taken , did not enable him to see it in its true
light , and to express his contrition at having , from want of reflection , been led into a proceeding , of which it is not too much to say , that it is to the full as dishonest as it is unlawful . . The judgment of the court is , that under the 6 th George IV ., for this offence , ihe defendant be imprisoned for two months , without hard labour . —Mr . Rippon , with the view , as was understood , of appealing against this decision , required to be furnished with a copy of the judgment and conviction . —Mr . Bingham , was not aware that the law obliged him to give more than a minute of the conviction . —Mr . Rippon . begged to remind the ' court that the fifty men who accompanied the defendant had been sent for by the foreman of the works . —Mr . Bingham said he had stated that circumsianco distinctly in his judgment . He considered , however , whatever might be the nature of the request the defendant had to make to Mr . Fox , it ought not to have been made at a time when he was accompanied by a body of fifty persons .
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INTENDED PUBLIC MEETING AT BIRKENI 1 EAD ON THE PAPAL AGGRESSION . — ANTICIPATED EIOT . Liverpool , Tuesday . — During the past week , in consequence of the breaking up by violence of . their recent attempted meeting , and the refusal of tho magistrates to call another , the committee appointed to make arrangements for such meeting have met day by day , and at length determined that it should bo hold in the open space in the market square , ia order that no complaint of want of room for nil parties attending for legitimate purposes , should be urged . The meeting has been accordingly called for Friday , the 13 th inst ., by John Laird , Esq ., chairman of tho Board of Commissioners of
Biikenhead , in compliance with a requisition of the clergy and laity , most respectably and numerously signed , and yesterday the placard convening such meeting was duly issued . The committee had , after determining upon the day and place of meeting , dispatched invitations to tho members for South Cheshire ( Sir Philip Egertoii and Mr . Toliemnche ) , together with others of tho leading gentry of the county . It had never , we are informed , been imagined by tho committee , in making these arrangements , but tbat they would be supplied by the authorities with a force ample to protect the meeting , from such an interruption as took place at their former meeting , and it was to their surprise that at two o ' clock yesterday , after their placard
had been published , they received a communication from the magistrates in the form of a written resolution , to the effect that they had received intimation , and evidence that the meeting would bo resisted , anil sorious commotion created , which would be ' likely to lead to a breach of tho peace , and that therefore they , the magistrates ; would hold those who called it responsible for any calamity which might take place . The mag ' stratcs also stated their objection ' to . the Market-square as being an unfit place for holding such a meeting . The deputation of this committee summoned to meet tha magistrates to have ' such resolution read to them , expressed their surprise and regret at'the intimation conveyed to them , and asked ' fo be supplied with
tho evidence mentioned , in order tnat wey mignt be prouared to make such arrangements as they should deem necessary to protecUhe meeting from interruption and violence . . Tbis information however , was refused to be given , and the deputation then addressed a letter to the magistrates , statmg that under such circumstances , as they were determined that a meeting . 3 ho . uld be held , only two SSSStm *« w <> P ett t 0 them ; one was to apply toT George Grey for " a military force to pre . serve the peace , and to enable them to exercise the rights of Englishmen in meeting publicly to memoral ise the soverign , and the other was to apply to them ( the magistrates . ) The latter course thej had determined upon in the first instance , and ia tho event of their Application being refused , to lay
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. Mabinkr ' s CoMrAss . —The fltur de Us was made the ornament of the northern radius of the mariner's compass in compliment to Charles of Anjou ( whose device it was ) , the reigning King of Sicily , at the time when Mavio Gipja , the Neapolitan , first employed that instrument in navigation ' wflotis and tycriet ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 14, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1604/page/7/
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