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GRAND FESTIVAL AND BALL IN BEHALF OF THE INCARCERATED POLITICALVICTIMS . A FESTIVAL and Ball , with incidental Concerts , will be given at tho Social Hall , John-street , Totte * ham-court-road , London , on iSlonday , Jan . 11 th , li $ 41 , to augment the funds of the Victim Committee . Tea on the table at Five o'Clock . The ball will commence at eight o ' clock precisely , and will bo under tho direction of an experienced conductor . An efficient band is engaged , and the ball will consist of quadrilles , country dances , Spanish waltzes , &c , &c . Double tickets to admit a lady andgeutleman to tea . festival , and ball , 2 s . Gd . ; single ditto , Is . 6 d . ; double ticket , for ball only , Is . 6 d . ; single ditto , Is . Tickets to be
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OLD PARR'S LAST WIU . & TSSTAIKEIfT , A MOST singular document has recently been brought to Tight , and is now in the possession of the Rev . Wm . Abthee , of East Peckham : it appears to have been written by the celebrated OLD PARR , who attained the almost incredible age of one hundred and fifty-two years , and who left this document to a relation : it is written on parchment , and although upwards of two hundred years old is in an excellent state of preservation the following is an extract : — - "These do certifie yt ye undermentioned ia y « method of preserving health , which by ye grace of Almighty God has caused me to attain to my mirtculous old age . Albeit in my youth J was afflicted with ye Bloody Flux and King ' s Evil , but which all left me by using some dayeB ye herbs as herein written . " . Here follows the receipt : —
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44 , ALBION STREET , LEEDS . TN CASES of SECRECY consult the TREATISE J . on every Stage and Symptom of the VENEREAL DISEASE , in its mild and most alarming forms , just published , by Messrs . PERRY and CO ., Surgeoas , No . 44 , Albion-street , Leeds , P-rivate Entrance in tho Passage ; and i , Great Charles-street , Birmingham , and given gratis with each Box of PERRY'S TURIFYlNa SPECIFIC PILLS , price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and 11 s . per Box , containing a full description of the above complaint , illustrated by Engravings , shewing the different stages of this deplorable and often fatal disease , as well as the dreadful effects of Mercury , accompanied with plain and practical directions for an effectual and speedy cure , with ease , secrecy , and safety , without the aid of Medical assistance .
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Royal Wisdom . —We are not to -wonder it the £ reai wisdom of Royal personages in after life , when we reflect what foob they are made of in their infancy ! What is it "Wokth 1—It is to be regretted that Royalty is not sold by weight , people might then purchase it as they wanted it ; a sovereign's itorth , assuming it to be twenty shillings per pound , would i £ t a family a generation at least ! Akothkb Office 1—The appointment of " rooker " to the Princess Royal is not held in the light exactly of a sinecure , bat one of active employment , the Royal brat requiring to ha kept in continual moiion , as the only means of subduing its squalling , which ¦ would be otherwise almost continuous . The old saying does not apply to the Princess Royal of " a silent child being a thinking child . " Royalty seldom thinks . '
Very like Truth !—The reason foi deferring , as is asserted , the Royal christening until after the meeting of Parliament , is said to oe to afford the House of Commons the opportunity of " making the baby a present . " This , we must say , does not seem unlikely . Prisce Albert ' s Suppeut Tricks !— " Prince Albert , attended by Tiscount Melbourne and several of the distinguished guests at the Castle , enjoyed the diversion of skatbg on the ice at Virginia Water . " Beware , oh Prince ! that slippery field May other fruit than pleasure yield-One crack ! and in you go . We ' re bought you dear , so take advice . And trust none other than the ice You broke a vear ago .
A Fact . —It is important to know that , in the journey from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle , ihe Princess Royal slept nearly the whole of the way , and never once called for the " bottle" til ] ¦ Within half a mile of her destination . Nurse Packer amused herself , part of the distance , by picking her teeth with a pin ! " Looking atter Him . * —The Queen has , in almost every instance , aceomoan ' . ed Prince Albert on his skating excursions to Frogmore ; she believing that keeping an eye upon him was the best means of preventing the possibility of his making a slip . Promotion fos Deserts . —Military men say that Prince Albert was created a Field Marshal on the principle of a Dutch auction ; he was put up very considerably beyond his value , in the first instance , to find the level of his worth at last .
J <\ APXI > 'S XSJ > PAP J Retrenchment at Windsor Castle . — "Theinferior branches of her Majesty ' s household are in a Ftate of much disquietude , owing to some new regulations about to take place , in consequence of the necessary increased expences of the royal establishment , by which the hoard wages and " perquisites of the class referred to will be materially diminished . " Kaplans ^ d pap ' sail the rage at tke Castle , now The nurses ride ' cock-a-hoop , " feather in cap ; Bat the " beautiful babby" is bremDg g precious tow ,
For the slaveys must pinch to buy Maptins and Pap . ' Cooia , scullions , and kitchen-maids , all in a stew are met , With coachmen and footmen—each big-whiskered chap—And making wry faces ; tie shocking ungrateful set Grumble at paying for Xapkins and Pap . ' Oh , what a sad turmoil has the young Princess Jiova ] Caused in the Palace through " screwing the rap ,- ' * Sure the kettle won't sing , without fnel to make it boil , And how can she thrive without Napkins and Pap ? Tis a cruel bad thing , when you ' ve grown fat and weasy , To be stripped of your " perquisites" all at a rtap ; But do like the Whigs , my friends ; take the thing easy , And don't quit your places for Napkins and Pap ! * Anglice—squeezing out money .
Pating 0 > "e s Debts . — He Fpent money like "water , " said a fellow . " Then he liquidated his debts , rpplied a friend . —Boston Post . Charitt . — " I fear / ' said a country curate to his flock , " when I explained to you , in my last charity sermon , that philanthropy rras the love of our species , you must have understood me to t-ay ' specie , ' which may account for the smalluess ol the collection . You will prove , I hope , by your present contribution , that you are no longer labouring under the same mistake . "—New York paper . Anagrams . —If the reader were to transpose the letters contained in the title of our youthful Queen , Her Most Gracious Majesty Alexandria Victoria ! he would find That the following anagram might be formed of them : —"" Ah' my extravagant joco-seri-Gtis Radical Minister . "
A Spirited Repx . t . — " Doctor , " said a hard-looking brandy-faced customer yesterday to a physician — " Doctor , I'm troubled with an oppression , an nneasiness about the breast . What do you suppose " the matter is ? "' " All very easily accounted for , ' said the physician—" you have water on the chest . " " Water 1 Come-, that'll do well enough for a joke , but how could I get water on my chest , when I haven't touched a drop in fifteen years ! If you had said brandy , you might have hit it V' —Neic York paper . Advice . —In entering a printing-office in cold ¦ weather , always walk in boldly , and shut the door after you . A Him . — " Recollect , Sir , " said a tavern-keeper to a gentleman who was about leaving hi 3 house without paying the reckoning , " recollect , Sir , ii you lose your purse , you didn ' t pull ii out here . "
Romantic . —iliss Mary Ann Prettyman , quite a pretty-looking girl too , was arrested ia Philadelphia a few days since , and committed to prison , for stealing Eve sucking pigs . Election Joke . —At the late election in this city , an old and well-known , gentleman presented himself at the window where he had voted for twenty years . His Tote was challenged by a young whipper-snapper , who officiated , and who knew that ihe old gemleman differed in politics with him . " It is necessary for you to swear that you have lived in this ward more than tea days , '' said the challenger . " Why you know that I have , " replied the" voter , u for more than a year ago you came to my shop and purchased that hat you hare on , and have never paid forityet . ' —Saturday Courier .
An agreeable and pleasant companion is a person who in argument differs from nobody , agrees with everybody , and will accept an invitation to dinner or supper from anybody . Modest . —We find the following in the Neve Orleans Crescent— " The gentleman who left his penknife upon our table is requested to call and sharpen iu The World Coming to an End . —Yesterday , two brothers were seen shaking bauds together in the street .
A Fair Retort . —An Irish countryman went one day to the Protestant clergyman , who happened to be his landlord , with his " first year's rent . The clergyman said it was all quite right , bat that Pit had made a little mistake in forgfeUing the Churchraie . "' Nut at all , " said Pat , " for , please your Reverence , I never went to your church at all , at all ; the parish priest christened my baby , and £ ave ns religious advice . " " Tha ; may be all very vreii , " replied the p-trsrm , " but my church door was open all the and
year , no one would be more welcome than yourself , Pat ; and i ; was no fault of mine that you did not come—so you must pay the cess . " Pat did not understand this logic , observing that one Church was quite enough for him . The parson reiterated his a ' ft Umenis , saying that it was ail nonsense to be listening to the opinions aai advice of other people , so he must pay . Pac , still unconvinced , saidie would consider of it , aud call a ^ ain next day . In the mean time he put his wiu to work , aud drew up a bill against the tarpon in the follow !^
manner : — " Your Reverence , " Dr . to Pat Malloney . ¦ " To shoeing your Honour's horses for one year ..... £ 2 10 ? . " He presented this bill , apologising at the fame tim that he . had qnne forgot it yesterday . " Forgot it : exclaimed the parson , with am 2 zement , '" why mai you never shod my horses—I send them three milt to an Orange farrier , and I am not going to pay vo for nothing . " " That may be , " retorted Pat , " ' bv my stable door was opsn for your horses every d 3 ] and it was no fault of mine that you did not sen them to be shod ! So this pavs the cess and we ai quits . "
Brandt Twist . —S ^ me time ago one the itineratiE £ knkhts of the thimble , who board and bed , night and day , in the houses of their customers , had been employed in an ale-house ; the guid wifej by mistake , handed him a bottle of brandy along ¦ with his porridge , instead of small beer . Snip had not proceed far in the process of mastication , when he discovered the error , but , recollecting the usual niggardly disposition of his hostess , continued to ply the cuttie with his wonted dexterity , although the poignancy of the liquor cached him occasionally to make wry faces . The landlady , observing bis distorted features , exclaimed " Fat ails your parridge the night , Lourie , that you ' re thrawin' your face , an' lookin' sae ill pleased like I" " Ou , gin ye kent that , " replied the tailor , " ye w ^ dna be very weel pleased , mair than me . "
The Laxgcage of Teabs . —Respecting a certain worthy clergymen who was remarkable for the lachrymose effect which his preaching always had on himself , a friend of Logan ' s one day observed , that it was rery odd tie doctor always cried when preached . * Not at all , '' said Logan , " for if they put you up yonder , and you found you had as little to say—my sang i you would greet too . "
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LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS . SATURDAY , Jakuaby 2 . AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AT HBADIKGLEY . Edward Mason , 28 , Nelson Gleva ^ 23 , and John Walton , 16 , were charged with a not at He&dingley , and with violently assaulting Robert Coates . Mr . Hall conducted the prosecution , and Sir Gbegort Lewin the defence . The prisoners are navigators , and were employed at the new Water Works , on Woodhouse Moor . The following are the circumstances , as elicited by the examination of the witnesses : — Robert Coates is a youth of about thirteen yesx 3 of age , residing with his father , who keeps the New Inn beer-house , at Headingley ; on the 2 nd of November , he was sent by his father to a bay-stack ,
in a field , to fetch some hay . He was returning with a truss of bay on his head , which covered his eyes , and when about twenty yards from the house , he was knocked dowD , without being able to tell by whom . On risiisg , he saw the three defendants and two other men standing near him , who , in answer to his enquiry as to what that was for , said " it was for sport . " One of the men then went into the house , and was joined by others who were there , by whom he was again set upon , knocked down , kicked , and otherwise ill-treated . The skia was grazed off his temples , his cheek laid open , and he was much bruised in various parts of his body . He called out , and the men then went away . He recognised Walton as one of the men then present .
Mr . Samuel Smith , surgeon , of Leeds , was called in to see Coates on the 7 t £ of November ; he found him bleeding from a wound in the jaw , and understood that he had been in that condition for several days ; he also found several severe bruises and contused wounds in different parts of his body , and he considered him in great danger , owing to a peculiarity in his constitution . He succeeded in stopping the effusion of blood in a couple of days , and since then he had recovered . On cross-examination , Mr . Smith said that the complainant would be subject to bleeding extra , in case of any exertion , or slight injury to his person . Mrs . Coate ? , the mother of the complainant , remembered her son going , in company with a
servant , for the hay , on the night in question ; there werft several navigators in the house at the time ; they wanted some ale on trust , which she refused to let . them hare , but taid she would give them what they paid for ; they afterwards asked for more , wh : ch she refused ; tbe three defendants were there a : tlat time , and , shortly afterwards , Walton and two others , not now present , went out . Walton , after being absent a short space , returned to the door , and shouted , " War , out J" upon which all the men , who were in the house , went out , and amongst them Mason and Glew . She then went out , and saw the men kicking her son , who was laid on the ground , upon which she cried out ,
• ' They are killing our lad , " and one of the men took her by the sleeve and pushed her violently away ; her husband then went out , and the navigators attacked him . Mr . Rhode ? , a neighbour , came to his assistance , and they got her husband by the sleeve and dragged him into the house ; Mason aud G ] ew struck him at that time . The door of the house was th . n attempted to be shut , but Walton and two others prevented it by pushing them away , and the whole body , consisting of eleven or twelve , rushed in . Tney were very riotous , and after they got into the house , and she told them they hail killed her son , they told her to make a less noise , and said , " If they had killed him they would bury him . "
The constable of Headingley identified the three prisoners as being of the party at Coates ' s house on the night in question ; they were very riotous , and he did not take them into custody then because he dare not . This closed the case for the prosecution , and , after a long address by Sir . G . Lew in for the prisoners , the jury found them all Guiky . Walton -was sentenced to five , and Mason and Glew to four , months imprisonment in Wakefield House of Correction .
GROSS CASE OF CRUELTY . Elizabeth Grainger , the wife of Thomas Hower Grainger , attorney , of Leeds , was placed at the bar , charged with an aggravated assault on her own son , Thomas Grainger , a child six years of a » e . The trial created the most intense interest , and the Court W 3 S crowded to excess in every part . Sir Gkegouy Lewi > and Mr . Hall were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr . Pickering for the defen ct . Before the case was gone into , Mr . Pickering
took an objection to tnc indictment , which contained two counts—the first for an aggravated , and . he second for a common assault . The Learned Counsel contended that as the offence charged consisted of a series of assaults , each assault was a separate offence ; and , therefore , his Learned Friends out ; ht : o elect upon which charge they would proceed . After a lengthened argument , and having heard Sir Gkkggrt Lvsvi . n in reply , the Recorder overruled the objection , and the trial proceeded . The following is the evidence adduced ;—
Mary Avison—I am wife of Wm . Avison , and live next door to Mr Grainger ; 1 know the little boy Thomas , child of Mr . and Mrs . G . I remember the child coming home from York about two and a hall years ago ; it seemed then in a very good state of health . About eighteen months ago , was in Mrs , Grainger's house ; she was there and the little boy , I saw her take and jolt its head again 5 t the wall and against the table ; it was done very violently ; she swere , and said she wibbed the child was blazing in hell-fire , and said som * diy she should come to some
bad end for it ; I saw the child was much worse for it , and I said to her , "Oh , Mrs . Grainger , how can you do so ; instead of praying for blessings to come on your children ! " I left the house at that time , but on other occasions since , I have frequently seen the child walking backward aud forward in the yard , whilst the other part of the family were at breakfast . I have seen the child with bruises on its head and on its person , and seen it running down with blood . I have often given the child bn ad , when it has come to me in want .
Cross-examined by Mr . Pickering—I have not been in Mrs . Grainger ' s house lor some time ; she is a woman given to drinking habits ; 1 hare seen her a * , times the worse for liquor . 1 have known the cb . ' . ld two and half years ; it appeared to me always to be a healthy child , and I dare fay had a good appe ; ite when it could get anything to eat . I know the child was afflicted with an inward complaint ; but I do not know that it was particularly duty . 1 told Mrs . Grainger that Mr . White , a medical man , had said , the child had need of cloth binding round its body .
Abraham Hill—I am a weaver , and am 13 years old ; I have been in the habit of running messages for Mrs . Grainger for about half a year . 1 know her child ; I have seen her put a peggy tub in the coal-hole , and put him in the tub , and then ordered me to pour cold water down through the conl-« ra * e into the tab ; the distance the water would have to fall would be aboat five feet . The chid * vis naked , and stayed in the water about half an hour ; she then took it out , before which she struck it with a rolling-pin over the back , and the b : ow fe ' litd the child mto the lub . She tb'zii tcuk it out and laid it on a chair , and kneeled on it . She then took it up and threw it down on the floor . I was in the house all the time : the child fell on us face , and when it go : up it h \ d its face in a corner . That is the oniy time I ever saw her ill-use the child ; it is now going in seven years old .
Cross examined by Mr . Pickering—I have beci : frequently in the house , and this is the only time 1 ever saw her ill-use the child . What 1 mean by kneeling on the child is , that she put he ? kwees on it . I do not know -what mouth it v ,-a 3 in . When I was before the Magistrates , it was to speak * in Mrs . G . ' s favour . Alice Ellis—I am w ' . fe of Geo . Ellis ; we used t « livo next coor to M ;~ . Grainger ; wo lefi tliree mon \ li » ago ; vre lived there about two years and ^ even months . 1 know the little boy Thomas . J have seen her slap it oa the face many times ; she used to strike him o :: each side many times together ; I know the coal hole in her house ; I saw the last witness pour wa : er down the grate , but did not know what he was pouring it on . 1 have frequently
se-. n the child ; its ntck was marked with the finger and thumb . Mr . Grainger did not stay at home ivhen he was well—he was absent in the day time . I have frequently spoken to Mrs . Graiugerabjuther usa ^ e of the child , and told her it did no good ; I have frtquently heard the child fcreani so much as to be forced to leave my own house , to get out of the hear-!! . ' # They have two other childreo , one about five aud the other three years old . O ; i several occasions 1 have given the cliiid bread , and once Mrs . Grainger brought the bread back and threw it down into my kitchen , telling me to keep my dirt . When I have been ia her house , I have seen the other children getting their victuals , aud Thomas walking about in the passage . She used to tell me that the more 1 took up for the child , the worse she should use it .
Cross-examined— I know the other children of Mrs . Grainger's ; I have had them all under my care ; I have not heard a reason assigned why the child was- pinched of food ; Mrs . Grainger always said it had plenty to eat . I believe ehe had a great deal of trouble with it . Bryana Winn—La the summer before last I was in Mrs . Grainger' 8 house . I saw the child ; it was in a chip place ; it had dirtied the chips ; Mrs . Grainger ordered it to bring some chips for her to
light the fire ; the chips dirtied her hands , and she struck the child on each side of the face several times , till large marks rose . I saw her on a subsequent occasion throw him down on the floor , and kick him with her foot ; the child dare not cry ; on another occasion , she took it and threw it 3 or 4 yards into a corner , and I thongbt it had broken its neck by falliug on the stone floor . She then ordered the child to bring her some more chips ; it did so and went back from her , when she took up a table knife and threw at him , saying she would be the death of
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—— . it . The child has frequently come to me for bread , which I have alwayB given to it . Mrs . Grainger told me she always beat him for it , and reprimanded me for giving it to him . She said she should beat him every time he came ; she used often to wish it was dead . Cross-examined—It is about a year and a half since the occurrence with the chips ; the room in which it occurred is about four or five yards square . I have known Mrs . G . two or three years . We have not latterly been on good terms . She summoned me before the magistrates for an assault . I have never said that I would be revenged on her . Hannah Lancaster—I have known Mrs . Grainger for about a year aud a half . I worked for Mrs .
Avison , and Mr . G . engaged me to wash for her . I know the child Thomas , and one day above a year since , I went between nine and ten in the morning ; I saw Mrs . G . and two of the children ; I inquired after Thomas ; she said he was in bed , and perhaps would sleep till dinner time . Mrs . G . soon after went out , and then I went up stairs ; I coald not see the boy ; but I called , and he answered me ; he was laid on the floor next to the window ; he was dressed ; he had a crimson frock on , and was not in a proper state for a child to be in ; I brought him down , and gave him some breakfast . Mrs . G . came in about twelve o'clock . The family sat down to dinner . Mr . G . was not there . Thoro&B did not Sit down ; she bid him to walk about , and he did so all the time the others were eating ; she then told him to turn to the wall . Ho turned to the wall , and put his hands behind him . I told her if the child did not get some dinner , I would not go to the
washiuA tub ; she said I had nothing to do with him ; why could not I get my dinner ; she said she did not think I had been so soft ; and when she saw I would not have anything , she called the boy to the table . I said I could not treat a dog ia that manner , and she replied she could have more nature for a dog than for that child . He then got his dinner . After dinner , Mrs . Grainger went out , and when she had gone , I undressed the child and washed it . The clothes wero stiff with blood , and were altogether very dirty ; he did not seem as if he had been undressed for a length of time ; the sole of his stockn stuck in his feet , aud appeared to hurt him when they were pulled off . 1 have heard the child cry for bread , and wheu Mrs . G . asked him if he wanted anything , he was forced to say " No , " and she would then say , " No , you brute , and if you did , you should want . " I never saw the child receive any good treatment .
James Macgregor—I am a policeman in Leeds , and in the month of October last , I went with Mr . Mason , the relieving officer , to the bouse of Mrs . Graiiiger ; we went concerning the child ; we found it in the cellar-kitchen , and was very dirty ; it was stripped in my presence ; there were several severe contused marks . Mr . Mason asked her how they came there , and she said he was used to falling . In reply to a question as to his size , she said it was in consequence of the mcazles . We took it to the workhouse ; it expressed a desiro for food ; it was stripped before the workhouse committee , and was nothing but skin and bone ; the hair was long and stood on end . There was some bread and butter prepared , and it ate it so voraciously as if it had never anv before .
William Hey woo 3—I am a pawnbroker , and was formerly Chief Constable , and during that time had occasion to go to Grainger's house on account of a charge of cruelty to a child . I saw the child on that occasion ; its head was covered with eores , and ^ o were the back part of the hand 3 . I asked Mrs . Grainger the reason , and pointed out to her some black marks ; she said she had beaten it . She was not before the magistrates on this charge then , but I represented the case before the magistrates when she was before them on another charge , and she promised to behave better to it .
Robert Craven—I am a surgeon in Leeds ; I am towu surgeon . In the month of November I was called to the workhouse to sec a child . I found it in a state of extreme emaciation , and the body covered with wounds and bruiser . I considered some of these might arise from the child having lain upon a hard substance ; the emaciation was caused by want of food ; I found no organic disease to account for it . The appetite of the child was voracious , and I told them to let it have its food regular , and rather more frequently than the others . It has improved in strength and appearanco ever since ; it has had occasional attacks of inflammation of the mucus membrane , arising most probably from change of food . The child has increased in weight very considerably . This closed the case for the prosecution .
Mr . Pickering then rose , and addressed the Jury in a long aud eloquent speech for the delence . It was evident , however , throughout his address , that the Learned Gentleman felt he had no ground to work upon , and that it was labour iu vain to attempt to clear his client . The Recorder having summed up , the Jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of Guilty . Mrs . Grainger was then sentenced to bo imprisoned for nine months in Wakefitld House of Correction , and at the expiration of that term , to find two sureties in £ ' 50 each to be of good buhaviour for two years longer . The announcement of the sentence was received with loud cheers by th © crowded court .
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., « . « . - . . «^ . . . . Vs . ~^~ v ~ EXTRAORDINARY CASE . ( From the Western Luminary . ) A Coroner ' s inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon , at the London Ale House , in St . Mary Arches-street , btfore J . Warren , E « q ., Coroner , on the body of a weman named Sarah Uribble , -who had been found deatl in her bed on Saturday afternoon . The deceased was well known as a celebrated teller of fortunes . Tbis must be our excuse for trespassing upon our readers ¦ with some brief account of her manntr of living . She occupied a tenement in a back Court in St . Mary Arches-street , consisting of two rooms of the smallest conceivable dimensions , one on the ground floor , anil the other immediately over . The former of tiieso wus little better than a cold dark cell , as miserable and
comfortless as can well be imagined ; and it was here that the numerous visiters who came to seek for information of the good or evil flings in store for them were compelled to wait until the prophetess was at leisure to attend to them . The room above stairs was that in which the deceased ate and slt'pt , and in which she was accustomed to deliver her oracles ; and here , in fact , the whole of her time h » s been spent for several years past . To convey anything Hku an accurate idea of the scene which presented itself on entering this apartment would be altogether impossible ; it was a scene , indeed , of filth aud -wretchedness , which altogether defies description . In one corner of the room a space was partitioned oft' by a couple of deal planks , which served this singular being fer u bed , aud
here , with nothing but a heap of filthy rags between her and the floor , and with a miserable covering of the same description , she was accustomed to pass nearly every moment of her time . Ciothes or linen upon \ jer person she had none , if we except an old p ; iir of stays , which she vroTe next her bkin , and a piece of course fustian cloth , which was tied round her waist . A dirty brown handkerchief was thrown over her shoulders , and tied in a knot upon her breast , and ker head was covered witti a cap which she had never been known to change during the time she had resided in the house . Sho wore neither shoes nor stuckiu # .- ! , but , dressed lif % ve may use the termi as we have above described , she used to sit continually in tho place which we have called her bed , remaining
cunstantly m the samo position , with ( as one of tho witnesses stated ) " ber nose and knees together . " In her Led- place rrere found after her death , a great qu mtity of a' tick-3 of food , which appeared to have accumulated f < jr some time , and which there is much reason to fear had been purloined by serrant girls , who proba-My found it m T < t convenient to s-itisfy their curiosity at ttieir nia .-t ? ro' expence than , at their own . There were heaped together in ona heterogeneous mass , potatoes , turnips , aad vegetables of all kinds , fruit , butter , bacon , dripping , and a variety of other articles of a timilar description , which the dtceased was never known to have purchased , and the possession of which by her cau only be accounted for in the way we havo described . The onlv artides of furniture which we observed wore
two deal chairs , a smull table , a tea-kettle , aud some trilling vesstls of earthenware . There Were heaps of rags and dirt covering the whole of the apartment , and upon the mantelpiece a bottle which had contained rum . The window was completely covertd -with cobwebs , and the odour exhaled from bo much tilth was , as may weli be believed , intolerable . Ont thing struck us as curious ; it was an old tiu candlestick with a Seep bottom , which was entirely filled with the " snuffs" of candles , piled up so as completely to hide the tube in ¦ which the candle should havu bet , n placed . There was a tire-place in the room , but she had never been known to Lave a fire in it , and her kettle was boiled for her by a neighbour , who was p : \ id 7 d . a-week for her trouble . About thy room were scattered several packs
of her cirds , in which she pretended to read the tales with which she used to gull the simple fair ones whe resorted to her dwelling . The room was never cleaned , and £ he herself had never washed her skin whilo she had resided in the house . And yet , wretched as was her abode , Sally Gribb' . e had numerous visiters , many from among the more respectable classes of society , and on a market day especially , her ante-room was thronged with customers anxious to obtain admittance . She always pretended the greatest poverty , although , as will ba seen , a large quantity of money waa found in her apartment , and the necessaries of life were evidently supplied to her in abundance . The circumstances of her death will be better understood by the evidence given before the coroner , which we now subjoin : —
Catharine Vaughan , the wife of a shoemaker , residing in the same court-yard with the deceased , and she had lived there about eighteen months , and was in the habit of boiling ber kettle for her . She never had any fire in her room , and never had anything cooked , except occasionally a small bit of bacon which . witness dressed for her . Deceased used to sit continually ou a heap of rags in the corner of the room , which she called har bed , and witness had never seen her lying down on it She never wore linen of any description . She was in the habit of having tea twice a day , once between four anj
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five to the evening , and again about eleven o ' clock at night . A great number of females , aad many most respectable ones , used to come to her to have their fortunes told . Witness had seen as many as forty or fifty of an evening . Until within the last fire or six days the deceased was in the habit of bringing her kettle to the down-stairs room . During the last week she had been unable to come down , and witness had gone herself to tho room to fetch the kettle . The last time she saw her was on Friday night She bad been complaining of being ill , and witness had offered to send for the doctor , but she would not hear it Ou going on the following day in companywjth a person named Godfrey she found Mrs . Gribble de ' atj . , .
Elizabeth Godfrey—Had beea sent for on Friday night to render some assistance . She appeared to be very unwell , and witness remonstrated with her on her manner of living ; but deceased ordered ber to desist , as she did not want any preaching . Witness suggested that she should have a little gin ; and she answered she had not a farthing in the world , although she wished to have the gin . At this moment , in attempting to get away the table , a basin was thrown down , and a quantity of silver money fell out Witness spoke to her of the assertion of poverty which Bhe had just made ; but the only reply Bhe got was that there was £ 10 10 s . in the basin , and they wanted to rob her . Witness counted up the money , which amounted to £ 11 Is . Hd . John Gingham deposed to having been sent for on Saturday evening . He found Gribble dead . A basin was found inside the bed . It contained only £ 2 8 s . ljd .
John Shears , beadle of the corporation of the poor , stated that he lia < l , assisted by the other officers , made a search of the room , and they had succeeded in finding money to the amount of about £ 94 . Of this sum £ 54 12 s . Cd . was in sixpences , £ 34 Us . in shillings , and 16 s . in copper ; there was but one half-sovereign , and tUe remainder of tho sum found was made up of halfcrowns . About £ 11 was found , wrapped in an old pocket , under the bead of the deceased , but the greater portion of the money was found in two small baskets , in a corner of the cupboard , completely hid by cobwebs . Other small sums were fouad wrapped in dirty pieces of rag or paper , in other patte of the room ; a great deal of the money was quite block and cankered ; and had evidently not been disturbed for several years . The Jury found aver diet of " Natural death . " While tho old woman , lived , she was not known to have a relative in the world , but immediately on her death , and the discovery of the money becoming known , more than one person was found to claim kindred with her . The deceased was about sixty years of age , with large masculine features .
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Theft by a Steam-engine . —A wiseacre , who had seen a paragraph going the round , stating that some knowing fellow had put a fourpenny peice on a railroad , which the steam engine had flattened out to the size of a sixpence , bethought himself that he would try the experiment on a respectable scale . On Tuesday last , therefore , he spread out about the length of himself of fourpenny pieces at one of the crossings of the GJasgowand Ayrshire railway , not very far from home , and , with his head leaning over the wall , anxiously awaited the approach of the two o ' clock train that was to add a third to their value . But " the best laid schemes o' men an" mice gang aft agley . " Up came the " smoky devil" with his long tail , and as the rails were waxy with the hoar frost , the fourpenny pieces stuck fast all round the wheeb , and off sped the train with the treasure , leaving the '" go-ahead" coiner in a state of bewildered disappointment . He purposes selecting fine dry weather for his next experiment .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 9, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct361/page/6/
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