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officers and drummer "boys standing % in full uniform . He had seen men punished with the cat , but they deserved it ; and hs should like to know what the seditious bill meant . ' Mr . YaiNlley said the feelings of the prisoner were in unison with his own . He must repeat that it was a most impertinent proceeding for a tradesman to put such a bill in his window to attract people to his shop . It was a most indecent course to adopt to obtain custom . He could not say the prisoner had offended against the law in attempting to tear down the bill . Strictly speaking , he thought it was an indictable offence to CGs . r . w ond flrmiTniPT TlfWC efa-nrtinrv Ivct - !<« JV . 11 ., „ : <* -r-r
exhibit a bill advising people not to enlist in the malitia ; and , if he came to strict law , the prisoner had a perfect rWht to tear down the bill . He was sorry , however , the prisoner had used any bad language ; he had no right to do that . The Prisoner-He abused me first , sir . ^ The Prosecutor : Excuse me , sir , but others have them stuck in their windows , and Mr . Yardley : I won't excuse you at all . I approve of the prisoner ' s conduct . He is discharged . The Prosecutor—What am I to do . Take the bill down directly , sir . The parties then retired . Attempt to Murder . —Bobert CatJibert , aged 33 , a printer Middle Storestreet
of No . 8 , - , Stepney , was charged with stabbing Mary Lawson , and attempting to murder her . The comp lainant , a fine young woman , who was greatly agitated , said the prisoner was her half-brother , and on Saturday afternoon lie came home intoxicated . Some time afterwards he looked very wild , and her mother observed him go to a knifeboxin the kitchen . Soon after this her mother and self began to prepare tea , and , suspecting that the prisoner intended something wrong , she was about to follow her mother out of the kitcheif , when the prisoner put out his foot and attempted to threw her down , but failed to do so . He then seized her round the waist aud made au attempt to throw her on the floor . She then
discovered he had a tableknife in his hand , and he forced her head hack and drew the knife across her throat . She screamed aloud for help , and laid hold of the blade of the knife just in time to save a wound being inflicted in her throat , but in doing so cut her hand severely . The prisoner appeared quite mad and furious , his eyes glared horribly , and he ground his teeth . She struggled hard to get away from him , on which he made several stabs at her back . The knife fortunately was rounded at the point , and the blows did not take the effect intended . Her clothes , however , were pierced , as if the blade had been made with a tapering point . The prisoner continued jobbing at her with the knife as hard as he was able , until two gentlemen who heard her screams came to her assistance aud rescued her from
his grasp . —Mr . Yardley said this was a sad story of a brutal , good-for-nothing fellow , who had rendered the ' life of a good mother very miserable , and attempted the life of a kind sister . The question was , whether the prisoner was not mad ? If he was not so , and was to be made answerable for his actions , he deserved severe punishment . In order that the position of the prisoner should be looked into by persons capable of judging of his state of mind , he should remand him for a week .
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MAKYLEBONE . Pocket Picking . —William Jackson and Robert Sutton were hrought before Mr . -Bingham , charged with having picked the pocket of a lady in Leicester-square . William Koach , an itinerant razor-grinder , said that on Tuesday last , as the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards ' were proceeding to their barracks through Leicester-square , he saw the prisoners industriously occupied in probing the pockets of various ladies who were
listening to the music , and Sutton succeeded in abstracting 'from the pocket of one lady a purse , which he immediately handed to Jackson , upon which witness gave an alarm to apolice-eonstable , who apprehended Jackson , the other prisoner escaping ; but , coming to this court to-day to look after the welfare of his comrade , he was apprehended , and placed in the dock by his side . H }\ W . F . Howe severely cross-examined this witness , and elicited that he was a sort of amateur policeman , and also that on a former occasion he had said nothing abont the abstraction of the purse . Mr . Bingham remanded the prisoners .
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Caution to Snuff Takers . —The neighbours of a woman named Perron , of Saint Georges-sur-Eure , department of the Eure , were surprised to find her dead in her bed three mornings ago . The judicial authorities were immediately called in , and it was believed that she had been murdered ; but on a medical examination of the body it was found that she had died of congestion of the brain , caused by taking snuff to excess .
Lake of Haarlem . —A letter from Haarlem , of the 13 th , says that the works for draining the lake were being pushed on with great activity . An enormous mass of human bones has been found on the spot , where , according to a topographical chart drawn up in 1513 , stook the unfortunate village of Nieuweinkerk , which in 1539 was swallowed up by an irruption of the North Sea , which formed the immense lake of Haarlem .
Eaely Closing of Shops at Waxdsworth . —A wellattended and very spirit public meeting for the promotion of this object in all trades was held at the Assembly-rooms , Wandsworth , on Friday evening week , and was presided over by Dr . Lonstaff . The Duchess of Kebt Steamer . —On Saturday last a conclusive effort was made to bring the wreck of this unfortunate vessel beyond the limits of low water , and which met with partial success , for though the position in which it was sought to place her was not wholly attained , yet there appears every probability for believing that the place she now lies in will be her resting place till broken up .
CtHape Disease . —A letter from Wiesbaden of the 22 d , states that the disease in the vines has declared itself with great severity in the whole of the Rheingau . In some districts two-thirds of the plants are attacked . What is remarkable is , that cabbages , beetroot , turnips , &c , in the neighbourhood are also affected by a disease before unknown . Australian Wool . —Thirty-seven bales of Australian cashmere wool were landed last week at the Southampton docks from Havre .
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A Village Burnt DowN .-On the 6 th of last month a hw broke out in the Australian village of Metzlen near btuinamangar , which destroyed 117 houses and the church . An Unenviable Situation .-Daring the Herefordshire election , one of the county magistrates exasperated the populace of Ross . They laid violent hands on their calumniator , hurried him to the third story of one of the highest nouses in the town , threw open the window , and there held him suspended by the hinder part of his pantaloons , with iiis head downwards , till he shouted " Free trade for ever !" 1 » ie-man was greatly indebted to his tailor .
Ihe biiELL Fish Season , which is now drawing to a close , has been rather an unfavourable one as far as the Hampshire trade is concerned . Great numbers of crabs , lobsters and craw fish , on their way to Hamble , in Hants , died on board the vessels that were conveying them owing to the heat and stagnancy of the water on board . Female Heroish . —During the late gale a barge drifted on shore near Cawsand beach , and the crew two in uutnoer , not knowing the coast , and considering they were wrecked , threw themselves overboard and attempted to swim ashore . It being just after nightfall , and a heavy sea running at the time , their situation was not noticed for
some time , but eventually a Mrs . Oliver , perceived their peril and rushed into the water . She succeeded in rescuing both men ( who were very much exhausted ) from a watery grave . Having gained the shore restoratives were used , and they are now convalescent . Cruel Treatment of the Poor . —A man named Piucott had an ailing child attended by one of the medical officers of the institution in York-road . " The child took worse , but could obtain no attendance until dead . For expressing his indignation at such neglect the father was refused the medical certificate .
ihe ^ late Emperor of China . —As to the character of laou-Kwang himself , intellectual and moral , we must judge mm as a Tartar prince . We have been struck in the course of reading his life with the resemblance of his mental character and habitudes to those of a late English monarch . " He would have shone , " says Dr . Gutekff , " as an honest farmer ; and in any position of life where solid qualities , but not a bright understanding , were required . "
French Troo ' ps in Italy . — The Monileur contradicts the announcement of some foreign journal that the French troops which garrison Home and Civita Vecchia arc about to bo withdrawn .
Destructive Fire . —On Wednesday morning at a few minutes before two o ' clock , a lire , attended with a considerable destruction of property , broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs ,-. Wigram and Co ., ship builders , of Blakekwall . The lire when ' , discovered had obtained a strong hold of the stores , a building of upwards of 150 feet long , and contiguous to the mast-house and steam machinery depot . After some time the . flames were extinguished . The damage is thus stated : the greater portion of the store-houses destroyed ; a portion of the mast-house burned ; a considerable quantity of timber and stores consumed ; and serious injury to the steammachinery , &c .
A Delightful Honeymoon . —At the Marylcbono Policecourt , a few days ago , a Paddington hawker , named Thompson , was sent to prison for three months for a brutal attack upon his wife , to whom he had been married about a month , and whom he had repeatedly ill used during that period . A Eunaway Bridegroom . —The old proverb , " There ' s
many a slip ' twixt the cup and the lip , " was verified the other day at Brixton , where a young woman named Hall , had prepared everything for her marriage ; but at the appointed hour the bridegroom was not forthcoming . Miss Hall had accepted £ 30 , as compromise with the father of her illegitimate child , and with £ 10 of this sum the dear one had departed for the - diggins . " .
Indecent Assaults . —At the Westminster Police-court the other day ^ Warwick Phipps , a police-constable , was coinmitted for trial , for indecent assaults upon two married women . Fraternity . —Mr , Meagher , in a speech at New York , said that if the British Government would accept the exchange , he would go back to captivity for ten years , to procure the unconditional release of Smith O ' Brien /
General GAPdBALOi . —Letters from Peru , of the 28 th of June , mention that Garibaldi had returned from Lima , from China , and allege that the Government of Ecuador had offered him the command of their troops to oppose the principal at attack of Gen . Fines . The- Earl of Falmouta expired , after six month ' s illness , on Sunday , at his residence in St . JamesVscmare .
A foreigner , named John Aronc , lias been committed from one of the Police-courts , for sending threatening letters to Lord Malmcsbury , and Lord Pahnorston . In these letters he said that his case would be sealed in the blood of one of her Majesty ' s ministers in the lobby of the House of Commons . St . Mark ' s HosPiTAL . —The ninth anniversary festival of the subscribers to the auxiliary societies in aid of the funds of this charitable institution , better known as the Fistula Infirmary , was celebrated on Monday evening in the large dining-hall of the Highbury Barn Tavern .
Cnoi . EKA .- ~ Jiagdebi . irg , August 25 —The cholera has unhappily broken out hero . The official announcement has been made to the medical men , and cholera lazarettos have been established , and other precautionary measures have been adopted . The attention of the numerous visitors to the Clyde , at this season , has been attracted by a steam yacht lyinff in the dock
of Messrs . Tod and Macgregor , the well known steam-shipbuilders . The embellishments of this vessel , which will be ready for sea in a week , are of such a gorgeous character as to lead to the belief that in this case the power of wealth and the ingenuity of man could go no further . It k intended for the Viceroy of Egypt , during his excursions on the Kile .
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A aew Caspar Hausek , says a Berlin correspondent of the Independence , who' lias just been discovered iu a house of correction for boys . On the 10 th of this month the police learned that one of them was chaine ;! up in an underground chamber of the house , and a domiciliary visit accordingly took place . The officers found a hoy of 15 chained to a heavy locf , heside
lay a palliasse on the floor . The lad had escaped twice from the house , been retaken and condemned to this careere duro , where ho had spent ten days , fed upon a weak broth , ana beaten with a rod . Tha police brought him out into the fresh air , upon which he staggered and fell as if taken with vertigo . He has since been placed in an orphan house , and his case is to be brought before the authorities . A new Placet was discovered by Mr . J . R . Hind , at Mr . Bishop ' s observatory , Regent ' a-park , at llh . 30 m mean time , on Sunday night , the sixth he lias detected during the past five veara
Suicide m Hanover-Square . —On Wednesday an inquiry took place before Mr . Langham , deputy-coroner for Westminster in the drawing-room of No . 4 , Princes-street , Hanover-square , respecting the circumstances attending the death of Mr . Thomas Taylor , aged 53 . On Saturday he retired to bed about eleven o ' clock , the servant placing his night light for him . On Sunday morning , as he did not make his appearance , the servant knocked at his door , but receiving
no answer she turned the latch and found him hanging inside close beside it . She called to the footman ,, who held him up while she cut the cord , and a surgeon was sent for , who on his arrival pronounced him to be quite dead , and that lie had been so for some hours . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity .
It appears that the medical officers of St . Pancras have detained in the insane ward of the workhouse several persons quite sane ; one of these , a man named Cunmiington , threatens the parish officers with prosecution . ^ Ah Earthquake at Siu .-The following is an extract from the log of the Tropic arrived in the Downs : — " On the 17 th of July , 7 . 20 a . m ., being then 70 west from Jamaicaa
, severe shock of an earthquake , continuing nearly two minutes , the water being quite smooth , and wind very light , ship goingtwo and-a-half miles per hour , and steering W . by I \ . when the shock commenced on port quarter , and progessing forward , ended on the starboard bow ; the ship had then lost her way , and the watch below ran out of the forecastle declaring Ik
iron tanks ( each containing 400 gallons of water ) were dancing 'tween decks . While the horrid rumbling noise continued going along under the bottom the sensation on deck was that of a ship tearing over rocks at a violent rate ; in a few minutes the ship was quietly gliding through the water at three miles per hour . "
We regret to announce the dcatli of Mr . Allen , the landscape painter and secretary to the Society of British Artists . Mr . Allen had for sonic time past been suffering from a complaint which was supposed to bo disease of the heart , ' but the effect was not such as to preclude him from attending to his ordinary avocations . On the night of Wednesday week he retired to Led in comparatively good health , and on the following morning he expired in loss than half an hour after he awoke .
Death in the Pot . —From the last report of the Analytical Sanitary Commission , published in the Lancet as records of the results of microscopal and chymical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed b y all classes of the public , it appears , with regard to vinegar and its adulterations , that out of 28 samples , purchased at the houses of various retailers , in different parts of the town , and the productions of almost every maker of any note by whom the entire metropolis and its suburbs are supplied , only four out of the above number were free from sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol .
SuDDiss Death , of Mr Thoslys McQuuak . — It is with regret , " says the Sheffield Free Press , " that we record the death of our worthy townsman , ¥ iv . Thomas McQuhae , of the " Old Cock , " Paradise Square , which took place on Tuesday morning last . Many an eyd will bo dim when it reads of the death of honest " Auld Tarn , " and many a tongue will say , in the language of his iavourite poet :
" Go to your sculptured tombs , ye great , In a the tinsel trash o' state ! But by the honest turf I'll wait , Thou man of worth ! And weep the ae best fellow ' s fate E ' er lay in earth . " Emigration from Bribtol .-TIic ship Ycllorc has loft this port for Melbourne , freighted with a largo number of passengers and cargo for the all-absorbing gold-diggins . The passengers numbered nearly 300 , aud their departure occasioned quite a sensation in the citv .
Captain Shepherd . —On Tuesday , at the Mnrlborough-strect Police Court , a gentleman applied to Mr . Bingham , for an order to deliver into his keeping tho captain , who is at present in keeping for want of sureties . Mr . Bingham was very glad to hear that the captain ' s friends had done that which it would have been more desirable had it been done some . months ago . He would readily do all in his power to get Captain Bhephei' placed in proper hands .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1694/page/7/
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