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KggQ 8 . — Death TBOH Owr « . —On Sainrday . . tShK snJBques * was bead at the Court HouBe before TduTBlaekburn , on -new of the body of Hannah Pijrsen , an infant two days old , who died under the fjjmng -circumstances : —The child was born on Wednesday * and the surgeon ¦ who attended the —faker dnrinz her confinement , had sent her some S ^ njcTihHS j giTjDg : Btriel directions to the . woman to teep ibeinfrom the children . Notwithstanding" this ruction , however , sheading the opiate , agreeable ^ M ^ the child being , cross , dissolTed -one of the pills in Us food , and though it was only a very small one , ftsooQ « nt the ehfld io sleep , from wnich it netei « oiB again , ^ s P * "womanpwho lies Yery ill , « a who , we understand , is of xather weak intellect , ^ js not able to give * ny account of the matter , and Ab Jury returned » Terdict leaving tho question
AssArars . —On Monday , Benjamin Perkins was Sued 20 s . and costs for an assault oa one of the P ^ ce on Saturday Bight .. On the same day , toat-( iiey Wainwright was fined 40 s . and costs for an EBproToied assault on a female in Erkgate , on Saturday night . They were both sent to Wakefi eld % : month in defoult of payment . ScsDiT Gambling . —On Monday last , & young Isd named Henry Mitten , was brought before the jasristrsws at the Court House , on the information of one of the police , who had caught Mm playing at Tgjeh and toss , with several others , in Skmuer-lane , ™ &mday afternoon . He was fined 20 aand costs , or secuo WakeSdd for a month .
Cbcott to Asutiis . —On Saturday last , William Wear * , Joan Barret , and John NichoU 3 , aIl of OUpj , fenDas , "fferc summoned to appear before the Leeds borough nagiatrates , on informations laid against jltem by the Leeds police , for cruelty to animals in crowding calves in iheir carts which they were Imsw Leeds to selL Two of them had sight cakes in each can , and the other six , and in one instasce a calf had been trodden to death . They were each convicted Jn the penalty of ten shillings , win eleven shillings costs in each case ; or in default cf payment to go fourteen days to Wakefield .
iHsaEra to Stsu a Pic—On Monday last , two men named George Mitton and Jeremiah Foster , were charged triih having killed a . pig , the property of Mr . Thomas Servant shopkeeper , Park-lane , wish intent" 1 o " steal the carcass . The prosecutor had three pigSj *** & ie ^ P * ** Marlborongh street , and soon after eleven on Saturday night , in conseqneace of hearing a noise , he went out , and saw tiro men ran from the direction of his pie-stye . A Harbour who came up identified one of these as the prisoner Minon , and the other prisoner was found in his company , both their shoes bearing testimony that they hadoeen where pigs were kept . -The pig ¦ ins found io have been killed in the stye . They irere committed lor trial .
Thb Hystkbt or txb Holy Poker . —Headjuglej u Fkoroffe , " near Leeds , was the scene of _ a ceremoDjf last Sunday morning , rather more curious than impressive . The Churchwarden of the place , it appears , is an ancient lady of somewhat heathenish same , sad a notice had been posted near the church door , in her name . And in reference to th « pexfonatsee of the musical portion of the divine services . ! £ be Reverend Incumbent of tie ** Ticsrage" has Jong been known to entertain some rather peculiar BDnoas touching this matter ; and , so inflamed was ie on this occasion oy holy zeal , thai he seized ihe i » 2 j poker io demolish the offensive announcement . " Bsi alas I for the tsbuj of mere human effort , STen with apostolic authority in its end : the holy poker was broken in the collision . Pope sang , a inndred years
ago" What dire events from trmrog causes Spring . " iie rape of a simple lock from the head of the fair BeHads brought forth and set in motion all that BtpematHrnal agency which the poet has immortali » d in one of the most charming poems in the "Eagush language ; and tie case before ns wonld ibnosi induce ns ± o agree with , the still older saying , fiat Woman is the mother of all eriU" We have 3 »! heard , indeed , what dire cooTuIsions followed fee catastrophe of ihe holy poker ; we hare not heard vbeiher &s comet shook its "horrid hair , " or wagged its " tail , in tok « n of wrath or pleasure ; ire have bo ! heard -whether the reverend incumbent
rftce ** Ticarage" -performed the ceremony in full tisoiucals , or in the academic gown ; we hare not "baud how far the excitement of the dies irae interfered with the wonted solemnity of the subsequent ferviees ; we bare not heard eTen whether the pee tXBl placard was destroyed as well as the holy poker , or if ihe still more peccant "Virginal churchwarden wDlhaTe to 4 o penance in a white sheet—emblem of her own purity ; but we hopeaad trust thatAe reTerend incumbent , &efoTe "he next dovh ride abroad , ? and sends np his card with " Hedingley ~ $ i axage " -engr&Ytsd upon it , vnll - provide against all " ^ Howard"" oonlinsfiacjes by supplying the church ymh another , a belter , and a stouter poeeb .
Straietg Bbass . —On Monday last , two men named James Ksy and George Brown , were brought lip at lie Court Honse , on a charge of hsring stolen i large quanifity of brass bn 3 hes , from the mill of Hessrs . Croisdale , woollen manufacturers , Holbeck Ibeir 2 S 3 weighed about 6 * 51 bs . Tae mill was locked yjafeon Saturday night , and on Sanday morning it wasfonnd toiaye been entered tirougb the roof of the engine iouse . The prisoners were appre-Jgnded xtnder the following circumstances : —Jlessrs Jceept Sbsley , -of the Sra . of Kinsley and Kay ins founders , Meadow-lane , deposed that he was ellsdop on Sanday morning about fire o'clock by & 9 pnsaner Brownwho asked if he bought old
, teis , and said he had some to selL He replied that is ( Sd , andinqnired in rewcrn , the reason for coming fr : sen It at that lime , to whieh Brown replied H 3 J fluy were gohig oo ^ and wanted the mi » ney . He tcea-ffffighed the brass , which cam © to some 35 s gaaid he had only 10 a . by him , but he weuld wirow file remainder of a neighbonx , and w * nt < rat It $ &' purpose , and to eItb infonni . tion to the Tjjwe . He did not then meet with a police-* oser , and on his . return Brown had ^ one . vraj . In the afternoon he ^ ot assistance and earned fee brass to the police office , giTiag information JS to how he bad become possessed of it j and in ine ibe pris
f ^ a ^ oner ~ Ksj went to bis bonse , and said lseDtyoa Eome brass ihis morning , for which yon o&Ijshu me ^ en shillings ; giye me ihe remainder , " jfr . Kay Oris partner ) was lhen present , and he Kpitaeprisoner in conversation until on cmcer was I ^ a ? 1 » and he was gi-ren into custody . A female w - * naghbonr toSinsley deposed thai she was * j » on SnBdaj m&niing a Mile before five o ' clock , » aww the prisonrJ Eay hand a basket oT ^ r a wall Jf rl ^ L ?^ l latter took * ° - ^ i ^^ J 3 - f *^ -Y * GroBcale ioentified the property prodnced «**« D 4 nigioh ? mselfajid brothel . Theprifconer ' rA ' & *« jes , sz-id tiiat he committed tbe robbery i . £ &request of ihe wirnes » KinsleT . who described
* ^^^ epremises , and lent him a key to open the Cot t ; Browne called witnesses to prove that be was ^ wiole <> f . * be sight on Saturday , nntu he ^ ii "ilitdap on Scaday morning , about half-past fer , i -y the vzher prisoner , who told him that he ~* HlU £ iam to go tadIseil some brass for him . Buth pssaen ^ w . ere . coainitied lor rrial ; bail being acegsed fc t Brown . Kay was previously on bail to * &rtti emflir charge at tht next sessions . ^ Pazs l igh x £ E £ — On Monday last , the dock at ^ € ean iiouse w& 3 filled by » party of lads , ** epa 2 y » \« m Woodhouse and Woodhouse Carr , ^ " ^ f « eii iged by Superintendent James , with | g ? « meai td ina prize fight , at Miles HiD , ^ wood , oa SDDday morning . Their names ^ J « Jb ^ i ^ ckray and James Norton , each ? £ ** J& rs of * # ?« and scarcely higher than the if ? *» h Pnncij ^» ls : John KetcLer , Ftako holder
SW * frederit * Fixterbj , James Gawthorp , fgf Biwk , Va Taylor , BJchard Metcalfe , ~^^ ¥ ' ** Ti " **** StOlwell , Epectators , — ^^ J » ter iad bee-. > * daitied to bail , and were Q >» ^ ° wcom e etidti . te- Mr . James introduced " ^ is a re ^ nlar ^ fioorish of trumpets , ^ i ° m Th umb > £ O i * of * ty le , and was ^ r pamenlir in impre ^ ng npon the magisijng ^ alE ^ C s . MnsgraTe ani . JBaiaes , that inoon-V »^ ** " inform auon" which he received i «> isftJm SaB ! ja I morning ilio tbe neighbour' ^ fvZ fc P * ** with twelve or fourteeo officers , toc ^ ji ^ ° ? yFSTe coun ted , and t be rest on foot , fe& th 11 ^ X armed with t'otJassea . They ^ so " oV " 8 L coimtIy - 'a ail directiOiV * and jibont : Js ^ e « r ^ s ' r y ^^ ™ * "' P a bill » Tcry i ftft eW ^ a ^^ cons isting probabi ^ of two or ^» t » rir lirlM > at ^ A" * ejected io a field , . S % ^ £ Was f ° nned , and two of them having & # *»— . T ^* to Bffht- thera was also a smaller ? wilicn fonnd that the
log l ^^^ 111 he afterwards a Wko ^^* £° ?> g « n at B . > aetiin » ; in fact , ^ fotin * S ; , ^ Capturing one ©* ihe doga , which H ^ H lMed on tbe table ms front of the ^ ee ^ g S ^^ fi noation strong as lol , ' writ" of the ** seaa ^? lfficnlt to 8 ei his fot «* Mar toto ^^ JBaECBvenng that he w »?« * ble ^ H ^^ t iwa Present out of tbe yery J »^ ge fc ^^ Et ^ f ^ together ; -in / a « t , IrW ^ Lril " ^ ^^ captured iff A 5 ? ^ M -S * ? wflwaldinfc » t some distance , ^ ^ S ^ ij 1 ^ - The seyeral defendants ^ ^ a si ^ r ?^ ° 1 tbe-rsMons officers who had i f * % W ^ i *^* * & * uresent at the fight ; 1 "SL ^ sffi ^ i *? 1118 Emitted their sharl » N feKSL ^ ^ elaas said they were ] &fceen tSJiI ?' - one <) Htfor a walk ' F ^ O of tkT ^ lj ^ 1111051 ^ walcn * 1 » P - ' ^^» tes X ^ rT ttev 6 * o ° neregating- The i S ' tod ^ te ? ^ ^^ ^ e case to the { watwB-SS ? ftey-WDnld accept baH in i £ 20 ^ *«« « S ? £££ ** " * them '
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Si&LLijfG a Wash Stasd . — On Monday last , a woman named Mary Graham , waa committed for trial , for having stolen a- painted wash-stand , from the shop-floor of Mr . Bradley , in St . Peter ' s-Bquare , She was apprehended while offering it for sale at Mr . Thomas ' s , in York-streei . Dog Fishtihg . —On Saturday last , Wm . Halmley of Hunalet , was fined tea shillings and costs , for haying been found fighting dogs , in that township , r » few days previously . Inquest . —On Monday evening an inquest was held at the Court House , before Mr . Blackburn , on the body of James M'Go wan , an infant six -weeks old , who Was found dead in had on Sanday rooming , without any marks of violence . The parents reside in Middle-row , Camp-field . Terdict . — * Died by the yisition of God . "
¦ Robbkbt . —DuriDg the night of Sunday last , some thieves broke open the shop of Mr . J . Knibb , general dealer , in Maxket-Btreet . They obtained a booty of £ 10 in value , consisting ofcoat 3 , trousers , waistcoats , hats&c . HOLMFIBTH- Cobs-Law RKKiAi .-TniB Whig ba . it 1 b taking very badly here . A petition to do something with the Corn Laws ( we can hardly tell what ) was got np a few weeks since by a few of the League trnok manufacturers of this town . Tho petition sheets have been sent on their travels to pick up as many signatures as the charitably disposed please to give ; but we understand that very few have yet been obtained , and it lies in a very ricketty state , scarcely any body inquiring after its welfare . This apathy , on the part of the public , has given great offence to it * advocates , who begin to
say that" if Mahomet will not go to the mountain , the mountain must go to Mahomet . " Being determined to have some signatures from some quarter or another , they had the petition sheets taken to the CaMnist Sunday School , so that the scholars could sign . The say-xny-thing and do-nothing gentlemen -of Holmfirth refused to sign the National Petition , on the ground that the bulk of the people were not intelligent enough to comprehend the meaning of their Charter . Undoubtedly , they will admit that Sunday School boys and girls from five to ten years of age , have sufficient intelligence to comprehend the meaning and effect of a repeal of the Corn Laws . The Chartists-of Holmfirth , are no advocates for " dear bread f but we are glad to Bee that they are tired of Whig nostrums and cold to any measure that is not connected with the attainment of their natural and political rights .
COGXEBBMOTJTB — Ctjmberlanb Eastsr Sessions . —Impobtant to Dsutobs . —It may be remembered that , previous to last sessions , a complaint had been made to the Secretary of State for the- Home Department , by a Mr . Thomas Dixon , who was at that time confined ia the Carlisle Gaol for debt , of certain indignities to which he bad been subjected by a Mr . Johnson , one of the Visiting Magistrates . His complaint was in substance as follows : — " I Am persecuted by one of the Visiting Magistrates of this prison , Mr . Johnson , of Walton House , under circumstances which I shall briefly state to you : Mr . Oliphant , who is a relative , and has always been a sincere friend of mine , although in a delicate state of health , came down to sec me
a few days &so , not only as a friend , bat upon particular business ; before , however , he c&TUft into prison he inquired of Mr . Omdge , the Governor , if he might have a luncheon from the Bush Inn , and partake of it with me , to which the Governor assented , reminding Mr . Obphaut that no spirits were allowed . Mr . Johnson happened to be going out of prison at the time , when a waiter from the Bush was bringing the laucheon in , and he then not only sent tbe turnkey to examine what we had got upon the tray , but remonstrated with the Governor for allowing debtors to partake of luncheons with their friends , and requested that it might not be repeated . In his capacity of one of th # Visiting Magistrates , he called upon me on Saturday last , accompanied by the Governor , a friend bein g with me at the time , and J candidly told him I had
written to the Secretary of State . I also added that a poor debtor , to wile away his time in his confinement during the day , was tuld by Mr , Johnson that be should not continue to play upon his flute 2 and that be , Mr . Johnson , had upon several occasions actually , without knocking at the door , intruded upon the privacy of unfortunate debtors , who had their wives with them at the time . " In consequence of this complaint , Mr Johnson agreed , at tbe last Session , that the Magistrates should refer the matter to the Home ; Secretary and to request that he would send down an Inspector of Prisons , to esquire into tbe complaint . But instead of allowing this to be done , the Visiting Justices write to the Secretary of State on the subject , to which communication they receive the following answer , a copy of which was , to their astonishment , received by each of the Magistrates : —
Whitehall , 19 th January , 1842 . " Gentlemen . —1 am directed by tbe Secretaiy of State , Sir James Graham , to acknowledge the receipt of year letter of tbe 5 th instsst , and tbe accompanying documents ; and to inform you , that the explanations given as to your conduct , collectively and individually , are quite satisfactory . " It appears to Sir James Graham , that it is not necessary to order a special visit of the Inspector of Prisons ; but Sir James Graham is of opinion that it will be proper to admonish tbe gaoler who has permitted many irregularities , in direct violation of tbe prison rales , and must be forewarned that such , irregularities should not again oceur . " 1 have tbe honvur to be , " Gentlemen , ' Your obedient servant .
• ' S . Ji . Phillips . * ' To the Visiting Justices of tbe Ceonty&aol , Carlisle . " This , to say the least of it , appeared very suspicious conduct on tbe part of Mr . Johnson , for he first requests the Magistrates to write to the Secretary of State * requesting him to send an Inspector of Prisons to enquire into his ( Mr . Johnson ' s ) conduct ; and then , afraid to trust the matter in their hands , he and his brother Visiting Magistrates write to the Secretary ol State , throwing the odium off their own shoulders on to those of the Governor , against whose conduct no complaint whatever had been made to tbe Magistrates . In coDBtqaence of this , tbe Magistrates in Quarter Sessions assembled , last week , at
Cocksnnenth , insist oa the whole correspondence being published ; though this is in direct opposition to tbe orders of Sir James Graham ; however the magistrates properly considered it right that the whole fchould be published . This gave rise to a long and animated debate , which lasted for npwsrds of five hours , aDd which ended in ihe appointment of two additional Visiting Justices , Mr . Briggs having moved that three new Visiting Magistrates be appointed for the ensuing quarter . This was met by an amendment by Mr . HofMns , to the tiFeei that two additional justices be added to the "visiting committee , whieh was carried by 12 to 10 . "We cannot refrain from making a few remarks on one portion of the report sent by
the Visiting Magistrates to Sir James Graham , and which is as follows : —** Wetheundersigned Visinng Magistrates , bej ? to state , for the information of Sir James Graham , that in consequence of information , Major Wild had heard from John Keay , late a prisoner confined in gaol , that great irregularities were going on within ihe walls of the gaol . In consequence of this a special meeting of the Visiting Justices was held to investigate inio ihe affair _ ; and the following is the result of their enquiries : — * That several convicted prisoners were working in the garden for the Governor . That the matron had aJemale convict working in her bouse . That Mr . Thomas I ) ixon , a prisoner confined for debt , bad a friend to dinner and proviaon introduced for him .
That poultTV are kept by tbe Governor . '" The report is of great length relating all the particulars of their enquiry which was instituted , ltt it not be forgotten , on information received from a convicted felon , a man of depraved habits and general bad character . Mr . Brown , in the course of the discussion well remarked , on the subject of searching the tray containing the luncheon for Mr . Dixon and his friend , there was no occasion for this ; any other genti eman might be in the same position as Mr . Dixon , and such conduct would not fail to be the source of gr ^ at annoyanee—{ hear , hear , ) If the party were a felon , but there was no power given in case of debtors , he might be searched for any dangerous weapons , &o ., be might have concealed . But what weapons was a debtor likely to Introduce at Carlisle , in the folds of a beefsteak ?—( lanshter . ) Would he bring in gunpowder
in anapplfc-pie 1— Irenewed cheeejng . ) He could not understand the motive of the search—bnt perhaps ihere might have been spirits I Tiat , however , Mr . Orridge had pat to right by telling Mr . Oliphant that do spirits were allowed—and how was the fluid to be tested 1 Were the turnkeys to be judges whether what was admitted was wine or not ? He had himself tasted wine at public diuaera , which certainly contained a large portion of spirits—( laughter . ) Were the turnkeys to be jadges low mnca was to pass aa wine ? He would defy them to tell it either by tbe sight or smell , and therefore they must taste it . Ma would suppose the three turnkeys were present when it was brought in . All three would taste it to see if it was wine , and thus three glasses would disappear—< laaghteT > -bnt a doubt might remain , bo they wtmld taste again . Whatironld become of the poor debtors' wine I
BAXDf&LE" ? . -- meeting to take into consideration some of the elanses ^ f the Factories' Bill was held in the Catholic School Room , on Sunday la ^ ij Mr . Peter Hofy in the chair , when a petition was read , whieh on the motion of the iter . H . J . Cook , seconded by Mr . John Widdop , iras ananimouriy Carried , praying not only for the alteration of the B ? U before the House , bnt for the restitution of the focur hundred thousand pounds which the government Of this country reeemd from Prance in 1825 , for the education of the Catholics of this country , bnt which it withheld and still keeps on the ground that if they give it to tho proper owners they wfll be encouraging Popery .
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jj % ^ " m , ... — Towards the close of the business at the Gloucester Assizes , on the 8 th , Mr . Sergeant Talfcurd announced , evidently to the great satisfaction of the judge , that a speial jury casein tbe list would not be tried ihis assizes ; it would have taken until the end of the term , there were 3 , 000 ispuea to be tried . Mr . Justice Erskinesaid it would be pretty amusement for the judge who might be fortunate enough to go that circuit in the summer . WiicHcsxi-x . —At Cornwall Assizes , Bodmin Fred . Peter Hatton , a country looking bumpkin , was indicted under the 9 th George II ., for pretending to exercise witchcraft , and thereby obtaining the sum Of 3 s . from one Jenny Francis . The prosecutrix was an old woman who had consulted the conjuror
respecting a lost heifer . This case was made out , and the jury , under the direction of the judge , returned a verdict of hot guilty . It was then stated to the evident BHrprise of the Learneo Judge ( resswell ) , that there was another indictment upon which the prisoner must be tried , and it turned out , indeed , that there were four against him for the same off . noe . In the next case also , the learned Theban " had been consulted by a person who had had cattle die in a suspicious manner—an intelligent and respectable looking fannv-t , -who ought to have known better , named Not tie . Tbe directions which the prisoner had given to detect the person snspBOted of having poisoned them , were as follows ;— " When
yon get home , kill the calf ( which was one of the cattle ill ) and take out his heart . Yon must stick this heart full of pins , and , writing the name of the person you suspect , must pin it to the heart . You must then roast and bura the'heart to a cinder , and whilst this operation is going on you must read over the 35 th Psalm three times . " On receiving these instructions , prosecutor asked what he had to pay 1 The prisoner replied , that he usually charged £ 1 for this job , bnt that he wonld charge him only 10 s . The money was paid .. The prisoner waB found guilty upon this indictment , but an arrest of judgment was moved on a technical objection to the form of the indictment . The prisoner had to be tried oa a third case , which waa postponed .
¦ K oMAJiCB in Real Life . —A case presenting features of more than ordinary interest , and strongly vindicating the maxim that crime seldom fails co result in its own punishment , occupied the Insolvent Debtors' Court oa Monday , before Mr . Commissioner Farrel . We allude to the case of an Insolvent named Edward O'Shaughne&sy , whose petition was opposed by Michael Hallinan , of Charleville The facts detailed in evidence are briefly these : — In 1837 or 1838 O'Shaugbnessy , who waa understood to be in oomfor , table circumstances , feigned a passion for the daughter of Hallinan , a girl of prepossessing attractions , and in manners superior to many of her grade . He won her affections but to betray them , and cast his victim a broken-hearted
wanderer on the world . Under the solemn promisa of marriage he overcame her virtue , as it was stated , forcibly , and she not being desirous of prosecuting her destroyer , or exposing herself to the bitter taunts of her acquaintances , resolved to emigrate to America . She proceeded to i he United States , where she obtained such employment as her industrious habits in farming fitted her for , but destiny cast O'Shaughnessy again in her way ; he offered her marriage , the offer was accepted , and the ceremony solemnized in due form , according to the ritual of the Catholic church , by a priest of New York . He lived but . three mouths with her , when he abandoned her in the midst of strangers , returned to Ireland , and after some time attempted
to marry another woman—an attempt which he failed to accomplish through the ministry of aCatbolio clergyman , but in which he was successful by obtaining that of a Protestant clergyman , who either entertained no scruples upon , or who was not thoroughly acquainted with the matter . His first wife , after having endeavoured , without success , to support herself in America , waa compelled by tbe pressure of distress to come home and seek an asylum in her father ' s humble abode . She was received with paternal kindness . But Hallinan conceived that her husband was bound to support her ; and O'Shanghnessy residing in the neighbourhood , he had him served with a civil bill process for the maintenance of his wife . O'Shauehneasy appeared
and defended the process . He denied that he had ever married her , and had well nigh succeeded with his defence , when , strange to say , two witnesses were forthcoming , who were present in America when the marriage waa solemnized between the parties . They came forward , deposed to the facts , went through a searching cross-exam inatien , as well at the hands of the assistant-barrister , who was evidently surprised at the incident , as at the hands of Q'ShaughneBsy ' s solicitor . The force of truth prevailed , and a decree was granted agaiuBt the double betrayer . And , " most strange of all in this eventful history , " tbe debt for which he was detained in this instance was on a decree for £ 10 ., obtained against him for tbe support of a child , the fruit of another amour ! The Learned Commissioner
intimated that this was one of the most extraordinary cases that had come before him in his . experience . No defence was set up against the crushing weight of facts stated , the petition of the insolvent was summarily dismissed , and he was sent back to gaol . —Cork Examiner , British Gratitude . —A Strange Evkktfol Histort . —We abridge the following statement from Mr . Oa 8 tler s Fleet Papers of this day . It will remind our readers of the case of Nelson hunted into his ship by bailiffs , and the Duke of Wellington imprisoned in his tent by Duns , both for debts really due by the country : — " Oa the 29 ih of April , 1839 , a firs « t-rate Indiaman , passing the Straits of Malacca on her voyage from Bombay to Wbampoa , laden
with cotton , opium , and general merchandise , was signalled by a country ship , * I have important information to communicate . ' Our captain , the hero of our tale , went on board the stranger . The 'information' was as unexpected as ' important . ' Her Britannic Ma jesty ' s superintendent at Canton had been cast into prison by Lin , the high commissioner of the emperor of China . Every British subject in Canton had been siezed and imprisoned by the Chinese high commissioner—British property was confiscatedopium was not only prohibited , but seized in the Chinese ( raters and destroyed . Hostilities were commenced by China against England—the British flag was insulted by the Chinese ! No British force was there , naval or military . Sixty eight British
merchantmen , valued , with their cargoes , at more than seven millions sterling , were then navigating the Chinese seas . Six thousand British subjects were afloat or on shore . Not a corporal ' s guard on land —not an armed schooner at sea , to defend those lives or protect their property . The union jack of England waved submissive to tbe imperial flag of China : Such was the * important information' which Captain Frazer , of the Good Success , communicated to Captain Douglas , of the Cambridge , in the Straits of Malacca , on the 29 th of April , 1839 . It was not likely that a- British sailor , who bad been trained under tbe pendant of old England , could hear such tidings with indifference . . Douglas had not trod on EngliBh soil lor many a year , but the honour of hia
father-land aud the British Mag was prized by him more than wealth or life . If so Queen ' s vessel was at hand to defend her Majesty ' s subjects and their property , he knew that the Cambridge , though built for trade , would , if well fitted , stand the brant of war . Personal inconvenience and losseB were un heeded : he instantly and chivalrously resolved to alter bis course for Singapore , leaye there tbe opium ( which had been prohibited by the Chinese ) , and equip himself with men and gons for actual service . He did so ; he had wealth—he spent it . In that enterprise he laid out about £ 5 . 000 . Manned and armed , on the 21 st of May , 1839 , the Cambridge sailed from Singapore , bearing the flag of England , and the well appointed vessel arrived at Macao oil
tbe 7 ih of June . There Captain Douglas heard oi the release of Captain Elliot , her Majesty ' s superintendent at Canton , with whom he immediately communicated . Elliot rapturously received Douglas as the saviour of his countrymen—considered the Cambridge a God-send—engaged her for eight mouths , at the sum of £ U , 000—appointed Captain Dongias a magistrate of the outer waters—and placed the protection of British honour , iives , and property in his hands . Under these circumstances , £ H , 000 waa a small sum for the hire of the Cambridge for eight months . When she had fewer men and guns , she had been chartered by the honourable East India Company , to convey tToops to the Indus , for one month , at £ 2 , 600 . In erder to prepare the
Cambridge for action , it was necessary to clear her . Captam Douglas , therefore , bought another vessel , the Mermaid , and loaded her with part of his cargo . It was three months before a Queen ' s vessel arrived Meanwhile , Captain Douglas commanded on that station , and upheld the honour of the British name . Tne boats of the Cambridge were in action with Chinese batteries and junks . Twice was Captain Douglas wounded . In former services he had received two woundB . His gallant and intrepid conduct obtained the thanks of her Majesty ' s superiniendant—of the commander of the forces who arrived on tbe coast—and of Lord Palmerston . Douglas was successful for his country . ; but he was so obsoxjous to the Chinese , that he and the Cambridge were proscribed by the emperor—nay , 7 , 000 dollars were offered for his head . Captain Dongias was , therefore , obliged to sell his ship , which he did ,
at a loss < tf > £ 5 j 00 Q , and to leave the trade , which was to him an additional and enormous loss . In all , he estimates the difference between serving himself aud his country , on * that almost fatal emergency . ' at £ 30 , 000 . He was never paid the £ 14 , 000 which Elliot promised 1 Instead of that sum her Majesty'a superintendent gave Douglas only , £ 2 , 100 . Tie Booses of Lords and Commons ue taanfemg ihe soldiers and Bailore who fought against the Chinese . Captain Sir Joseph Abraham Douglas , knight , having suffered losses to more than the amount of his ample fortune , in taking upon himself to defend the British flag , in China , when the celestial monarch had triumphed , was not , indeed , captured in China ; be arrived safely in England—he was complimented , honoured and rewarded , and as I have told you .- — On the £ : h of February , 1843 , a gentleman was brought a prisoner to the place— -he was lodged in the next cell to mine—that prisoner ia Captain Sir , Joseph Abraham Douglas , knight II "
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Lord Chamberlain ' s Office , April 6 . —The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty ' s Household has appointed : William Wordsworth , Esq ., to ba Poet Laureate to her Majesiy , in the room of Robert Soutbey , Esq ., deceased . A Young Woman named Sarah Paisley , has been committed to Bedford gaol ; charged'with the wilful murder of her late husband , by poison . She is supposed to have made away with a former husband and two children . Singular Good Fortone . —A Thbifty Wipe — An old pensioner , of the name of John Dean , residing in the neighbourhood of Haley Hill , has recently experienced asiq ««) ar reverse of fonune , under rather extraordinary circumstaneea . It appears that John had been blessed , aa it now turns out , with a remarkably saying and frugal wife , and such was her ^
disposition to save that John was always suppposed by his friends to be iu rather indigent orroumstanoes , and very short of money . A tew day * ago , however , John ' s wife was' so ill that no hopes were entertained of her recovery . She called her husband to her bedside , and told him that if he looked in a certain place he would find an old stocking , and on his bringing it to her she proceeded to draw from it a consiherable number of sovereigns , counting out ten for each of her children , and the remainder , amounting to upwards of £ 200 , she presented to her astonished husband . She has since died , and the now comparatively rich old man has deposited the hard savings of years io a respectable banking-house ia this town ; and has every prospect of spending the remainder of his days above the reaoh of pinching poverty . —Halifax Guardian .
Hoax at Bath . —Some ingenious but mischievous wag , relying upon the credulity of that mass of gullibility , the public , causod the city to be well posted OQ Saturday with placards , announcing that the first experimental trip of the aeriel machine would be made from London to Bath on Monday , conveying , as its freight , no less a personage than Mr . Roebuck , oar M . P . The bill went on to say that the journey was to be commenced in London at one o ' clock , and was expected to be accomplished in about twenty minutes , and that the machine would alight on Beechen Cliff about half-past one , Bath time ! Then followed a London date , and the imurint of LyonB and Reed , Dean street , Soho . " This piece of waggery was but , adapted to make April fools of those
who were fools already made , and hardly did we credit the opinion of some of our friends , that numbers of persons wonld place confidence in the announcement , not seeing through the hoax . To our surprise , Hampton Cliffs , B eohen Cliff , Beachen Hill , Lansdown , and other eminences , were , at the notified time , crowded with open-mouthed , widestaring , patient , wonder-loving gullibies . The speculations of the assembled crowd were very amusing ; the probabilities of Mr Roebuck ; accompanying the fflrial machine being eagerly discussed—here : by a knot of greasy members of the company of cordwainers ! there by a group of sni ps , whose observance of Saint Monday is proverbial . The sanguine dispositions of the
female Bex , of course , brought not a few of the fair admirers of our Hon . and Learned Member , to swell the throng of wonder-waiting gapers . Besides the numbers congregated on the cliff * , there were a great many stragglers in tbe neighbourhood , who had only half swallowed the tempting bait , and who , believing the possibility of the thing , but doubting its probability , hovered about the approaches to the cliff which was to be the scene of descent , in a state of self-satisfaction and security at onoe amusing and ludiorous . Indeed , it may be affirmed that the majority of the good people of Bath were held in a btate of suspense between their incredulity and their fear of losing a sight of so unusual a speotable as the descent of this rara avis . This " glorious uncertainty" disturbed , we are told , the domestic
arrangements of more than one family , the salon & manger being deserted for ihe roof the house ; or , in other cases , a member of the family acting as sentinel , while the remainder of the household were engaged at their mid-day meal . To keep up the joke , its contriver or contrivers , now and then discharged a cannon , on which the waiting mob strained necks as long as cranes to catch a glimpse of the supposed coming machine . Half-past one passed , and the Ariel made no sign ; two , three , four , five , and six o ' clock came , and passed also , hat no indication appeared of its arrival . Nothing now remained to the disappointed expectants but to decamp without beat of drum , and to return to their homos , sheepfaced and chopfallen , which they did amidst the jeers of all who beheld them . —Bath Gazette .
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THE HORRORS OF TRANSPORTATION . At the Liverpool Assizes , on Tuesday last , one Geo . Robinson , alias Saxon , pleaded Guilty to tbe charge of having illegally returned from traDsportion , and when brought up for sentence entered into a long and singular statement , which waa listened to by a crowded court with great attention . From this it appeared , that in 1820 , being then but eighteen years of age , ba bad been convicted of a highway robbery at Pendleton He received sentence of death , but was finally transported for life . He had , however , an irresistible desire to return to hia native land , and sometime after bis arrival at Sidney made an attempt to escape by swimming off to a brig lying In the roads , and succeeded in concealing himself below until she was at sea . She
was driven back , however , by Btress of weather , he was given up to tbe authorities , received a hundred lashes , and was sent to a penal settlement , first at Hunter ' s River and afterwards at Macquarrie Harbour . He described bia situation as intolerable , without any communication with bis friends , shut out from tbe world , and with bardly a hope for the future- He determined again to make an attempt to escape . He left the colony with several others . Three days after they were attacked by tbe natives ; several of tbum were wounded , and all their clothes and provisions were carried off . To go forward in this condition waa almost hopelessto go back was to suffer again a punishment of 100 lashes , and condemned te work in a gang reserved for the worst criminals , They resolved to go on . They
lost themselves in tbe Blue Mountains and wandered about naked sixty days , living on what they could pick up in the bosh or along tbe shore , to which they were finally conducted by another party of natives . They were then near tbe site of Port Pnilip . Here they fell { n with another tribe , by wbeoi tney were tafceh and given up to the authorities . They were conveyed to Coal River naked aB they were . They there were allowed a blanket to cover them , but even this they were obliged to leave behind when they worn shipped on board a Government vessel which was taking coals to Sydney ; and , but for some canvass wblob they were allowed to have to cover them , they would nave to lie naked on the coals in the hold- They were landed in this plight at Sydney . There public charity supplied them with
some clothing , but one of his companions , for six months , bad nothing but a pair oftrouatrp . They were sentenced to receive 100 lashes , and to be sent back to to Macquanie-harbour . Their wretched state was such , however , that tbe first part of the sentence was not inflicted , the medical man having made a representation that prevented it He remained at Matquarrie-harbour some time , when be again , with some ovhers , got away in a whalebeat . and ran along the coast for nine days , l < aviDg made a sail by fastening together the shirts of tbe party . They were obliged , by want of provisions , to put into Hobart-town , and were again sent back to Macquarrie-barbour . and placed on Big Island—the depot for tbe worst offenders . He described the horrors of this place as feeing more than language could paint
Several , he said , bad committed murder that they might be removed to Sydney for trial , though certain that after this short respite death would be the punishment of their crimes . He told a singular tale of one Pearce , who bad attempted to escape with several others . Pro-visions failing , they were obliged to sacrifice one to save the rest All perished in this way , till Pearce and another alone remained . They watched , each conscious of tbe other ' s intention , for forty-eight hours , until Pearce got an opportunity of killing bia companion . He was taken , aud again escaped with one Cox , whom he also killed , and for this he was finally executed . At this horrible place the prisoner said he remained for upwards of seven years , when ho was sent to Hobart-town . He strain escaped on board a vessel ,
and concealed himself till she was twenty-one days ufc sea . Tbu captain , however , gave him up ou bis arrival at St . Helena . He was sent back to tbe Cape , and thence to Robin ' s island , where he worked for seven months , with 25 ib of irons upon him . He was then seut to Macquarrie- harbour . His conduct , duriog a s ale on the passage , recommended him to the merciful consideration of the authorities , aud after the lapse of three years he was allowed to come back to Hobarttown . and finally obtained a tickat of leave . He still , howerer , longed to see his native land . He escaped on board an American whaler , in which he crnlscd for several months , but the eaptain intending to give him
up at the first opportunity , he took advantage of the vessel touching at New Zealand to take refuge with the natives . By them he was well treated , and finally got an oppoituDity of entering without suspicion Oil board a vejsel bound for Boston ; hence be wrought hia passage to Quebec , aud tbouce to Greenock and Liverpool . He had since been living at Manchester , and gaining an honest livelihood by the labour of hia hands . He protested that since his original offence his conduct bad bees that of an honest man . His sole wish bad been io see his native land , and be expressed a hope that bis sufferings and bia good conduct would recommend him to the merciful consideration' of the authorities .
Mr . Baron Parke said the tale which he had related would , he trusted , help tfl dissipate any idea that might be lurking in the mind a efany -who might hear It , that transportation was a light punishment . It was bis duty simply to pass on him the sentence , that be should be transported again for tbe term of his natural life . Tbe prisoner bowed respectfully , and waa removed from the bar . The appearance of this ; man was calculated to procure credence for the history be related . There was a remarkable expression of suffering and hardship In bis countenance , and there waa something moving In the manner in which he received tbe sentence test waa to consign him again to the honors be bad been describing .
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NORTH WALES CIRCUIT—Chesteb , April 10 . CROWN ^ IDE . ( Before Mr . Justice Maule . ) MURDER AND BAPfi . The trial of James Ford , for the murder of Samuel Shaw , being fixed for this norniug , the court waa crowded to excess , the enormity of the crime exciting considerable interest , j On the Learned Judge arriving in court , the prisoner , a fall-faced robust man , aged twenty-three years , was plaoed at the bar . ] He appeared totally indifferent to the position in ] whioh he was placed . He was charged by the name of James Ford , late of the township of Mottram , joiner , with the wilful murder of Samuel Shaw , by giving him divers mortal wounds , bruises , and contusions , and by throwing him on the t < rou < id , j whereby he lingered from the 1 st to the 8 th of October last ; , and then died . The prisoner pleaded not guilty .
There was also an indictment charging the prisoner with a rape on Hannah * the wife of the said Samuel Shaw , on tho day above-mentioned . The Attorney-General for the Palatine , and Mr . Trafford , wore for the prosecution ; and Mr . Temple and Mr . Townsend were for the prisoner . The Attorney-General having stated the case for prosecution , ; Mrs Hannah Shaw , aa elderly female , not of a prepossessing appearance , was then called , and she stated that her husband was a shoemaker , living at Long-lane , on the borders of Derbyshire . On Saturday , the 1 st of October , witness accompanied her husband to Mottraoi , sod after making a few
purchases , they called at a public-bouse , where her husband had a glass of ale and a pipe of tobacco . They then went to the Angel Inu , I where they met the prisoner and several other persons . At this house 'hey remained until about twelve o ' clock , and had come drink . On being about to l « ave the house the witness Baid she would try to find Mr . Eltringham , who lodged with her , and ask him to accompany them home . The prisoner heard this , ?> nd said he would aocompahy them . Witness , her husband , the prisoner , and a person named Hopkinson then left the house { together , and walked along the road as good friends . When they had got a short distance a peison came up on a horse , when the prisoner asked him if his horse would
carry double , and if he would let him ride f The man said he would rather take up the young woman ; but Hopkinson asked to be taken up , and the prisoner assisted him on tbe horse ! Immediately on their going off the prisoner began to take liberties with witness , on which she desired him to desist . Her husband hearing ! it turned round and said , " What's up—cannot you be quiet 1 " The prisoner then went up to her husband and knocked him down . She got up , and seeing the prisoner beating her husband , she screamed out " murder !" The prisoner then again knocked her down , and whilst on the ground he beat her so that she lost her senses . _ On her recovery she found herself in an adjoining field , and the prisoner standing
near . She then started home , the prisoner going with her part of the way , and earnestley entreating her not to tell her husband what had passed . She reached home as it was coming daylight , and awoke Mr . J&Uringham , desiring him to take notice of the state she was in , being obliged to pass through his bed-room , in order to reach her own . She then went to her husband ' s room , and found him lying in bed quite insensible . She immediately sent for Mr . Smith , a sur ^ eou , who attended her husband until bis death , whioh took place on the Saturday following . The witness stated that when they left the Angel Inn , at Mottram , her husband wa 9 rather the worse for liquor ; but she , the prisoner , and Hopkinson were sober . Her husband did not stiike the prisoner at all .
Several other witnesses were called who corroborated the evidence of Mrs . Shaw , and the dying declaration of the deceased was a so given in evidence to the effect that , as he was coming along the road from Mottram with his wire and the prisoner , the latter attempted to take liberties with her , and on his telling him to desist , the ( the prisoner ) knocked him down , and beat him about the face and head with a atone until he became insensible . On his recovery h * did not see hio wife about , and walked home . Thfl shirt the prisoner wore on the night of tne attack was produced , and was marked with blood . Several persons also deposed to the prisoner confessing that he bad made the attack on the deceased , and the surgeons proved that he had dieql of an effusion of blood on the brain caused by a wound on tbe back of his head .
Mr . Temple addressed the jury in an eloquent speech of considerable length , contending that the probabilities of the case were , that the attack had been made in consequence of an attack from the unfortunate deceased for some Supposed liberty he had taken with hia wife , and he called—Mrs . Wagstaffe , who had the ; care of the Angel Inn on the night in question , and who deposed to the witness Shaw , her husband , and | Hopkinson , leaving the house in a state of intoxication , and that the prisoner had left before . ( The Learned Judge having summed up , The Jury found a verdict of guilty , but recommended the prisoner to mercy . : His Lordship « aid he had no power to mitigate the sentence—that belonged to another power . The trial for rape was not proceeded with , and his Lordship deferred passing sentence .
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r I — MM" ! lllWMUlll !¦!¦¦¦» ¦ ! I . ^ -4 aMUWM «« MWk » N man named Makin lived about 13 D yards from jh « re . Knows the place where the body was found . Tij © body was found about 200 yavda from the place where I lived . At the time I was coming with my wife from St . Helen ' s the church b ^ Hs were ringie ? It was half-past six o ' clock . Went from my h «? n 39 to Makm ' s for alight ; came back , and heard a noise , a great shouc , and closed the door . Iheard the Bhout two or three times . Never heardasoise like it before , I was startled by it , and told my wife to look the door , as I was very much alarmed . The voice was more Hie that of a man than of a woman . ....
Thomas Littles , a collier , was employed m sinking a coal-pit on tbe 27 th of Novomber , near the turnpike-gate . Went between eix and seven o clock in the morning to George Morton to borrow a spade . Morton , looking through the pantry window , pomteg down the field and said , " Thomas , what ' s yonder r Witness went into the field , and found a woman near the hedge , about four or five yards from anothei field . She was lying on her left side , covered with blood . Examined the body and found the throat cut—it was aut deeply . There was a cloth m the wound—a white pocket-handkerchief torn—one part in the wound , and another on the ground ; the park
of the handkerchief on the ground was not bloody The body was dressed in black . The olothes were covered with Wood . Her bonnet was on ; the bonnet was tied under the ohin . She bad gloves OS , which were bloody . Turned the body and found a pair of sciBSors , with a chain and a thimble . I went down the field and told constable Glover what I had seen . Put the things which I found in my pocket . The body was removed ; saw it afterwards in the Ecole 3-ton Arms : There were two distinct pieces of the handkerchief . The witness ur . derwfcnt asom ^' r . ** lengthend cross-examination , but nothing important was elicited .
William Glover , a constable at Eccleston , met the last witnesB on the morning of November 27 . Weat in consequence to tbe body , and found a bloody rag near it . Found a thimble under the body ; found no knife or instrument . Removed the body to the tccleston Arms . Pat the thimble in my pocket . ( The witness produced the articles . ) Removed the bedj about half-past eight in the mornie ^ . William Storey , superintendent of police for the district of St . Helen's . — Knows where Chad wick liveB . ( Witness pointed oat in tho *> lan Cnadwick ' s and Makin's ! iouse , and also Gin-lane . Ghadwick' s house is at the corner of Gin-lane . ) On the mo < a » ing of the 28 th went in search of Buckley towards
Ashton , about six miles from St . Helen ' s . He was coming towards St . Helen ' s with hia father and his wife ' s mother . Met them about two miles from St . Helen ' s . Putted up the h ^ rsa , and came alongside of Buckley . I said " What have you done to your wife 1 " He said he had lost her . 1 said it was rather strange he should lose h' 8 wife . He made no reply . I then searched him , and found in his pocket a large clasp- knife . I opened the knife , and observed blood on the blade . I asked him how the blood came there ! He said it was not blood , but red paint . I then asked him to pull off his ooat . He did not do so , and I pulled his co . % t off . Found his shirt besmeared with blood . I vaid
" This is enough for me . " ( Tue shirt was product-. ! , the wristbands were stained with blood . ) I s-. i'i , " This is enough for me ; I now charge you with tbe murder of your wife . " He told me that he had occasion to go into a field ; she walked on , and he lost her . I toek him to the lock- 'ip , examined hint , and found six half-crowns ia Mb uooket . Examined his trousers , and he said " These are not the trousers I had on yesterday . The bl »» k trousers I wr > re yesterday are at home . " I proceeds to bis lodgings . Went to his bed-room and took possession of his coat , waistcoat , and trousers ; they were in a box . Marks of blood were on the cuff of his coat , on the left arm , and on the left pocket of bis trowsers ; on the
waistcoat no blood . The articles were preseved . I sas * a candlestick in the sitting-room ; marks , of blood were on it ; it was the one now produced . Saw marks of blood on three half-crowns , uow produced . Examined the olothes on the Monday ; on the Tuesday he ( the prisoner ) knocked at tire cell door . I opened the door and went in . I a « ked him what he wanted He said he wished to see Mr . Wood . I said notbicg to induce him to make any communication to me . Mr . Wood , his old master , had been a friend to hmi . " He had something very heavy upon his mind , which he wished to tell him . " I told him that he could have no communication with any person without my being present . He said , " You may be present a
you choose . " I then went for Mr . Wood . On my return I met Mr . Greenall , the magistrate . I had Some cases to dispose of before Mr . Greenall , and after dieposring of them 1 told that gentleman about the prisoner wishing to see Mr . Wood . The prisoner had no opportunity of seeing Mr , Greenall . The prisoner knocked at the cell , and expressed a wish to see Mr , Greenall .. I called Mr . Greenall into tha cell . When Mr . Greenall came into Che oell tbe prisoner commenced making a statement . After hoaring a portion of his * statement , Mr . Greenall said , " You had better tell me nothing , as it may be used against you . " The prisoner turned to me and said , " Twas I who did the deed . I hope yon will ba a friend to me . " I replied , ' *! can't befriend you , " He said that he and his wife wenttothoBird-i '
-tha-Hand on Sunday night . They remained there a short time , and had each a glass of rum . They left the public-house as the St Helen ' s church bells were ringing . After they had walked a short distance they heard the St . Helen ' s coach coming . The coaci generally arrives at twenty fiv& minutes to seven . He proceeded to say that after the coach passed , his wife began to browbeat him about a girl that ho ha i seen in Wigan . They walked- on a little further , and she continued to browbeat him ; she followed him , and continued to browbeat him again . He took his knifeoutof his pocket , and jumped upandstabbad her in the throat . He said the knife found in his possession was the knife with whioh he stabbed her , and , having done so , he took out of her pocket three half-crowns . He said he did not know how to get out of the field , but he met with two men and two
women . Mr . Scudamore , assistant-surgeon to Mr . Garton , of St . Helen's , in November , 1842 , examined ( ha body where it was shown to him by the constable , Glover , in a stable at the Eooleston Arms , where the coroner ' s inquest was held upon it . He found & large wound in the neck ; it was a cut about three inches in length , and two in depth . It cut the carotid artery through , and went between the fourth and fifth vertebras of the neck . The wind-pipe wag severed . The wound was partly a ntab and partly cut . I attribute death to the sudden loss of blood from the division of the carotid artery . Death must have been instantaneous . The wound might hare been produced by such a knife as that produced .
The prisoner ' s statement before the coroner was then produced , and read as follows ;— " I went to church last Sunday afternoon . I came back again and got my tea , and had a pipe of tobacco . My wife wished me to take a walk with her . I told her to put her bonnet on , and she wt-. nt and did so , putting a small shawl on under her cloak- She told Mrs . Rigby to leave tho k ^ . y , saying , * We shall perhaps not be long . " We weat up the hill here She had been very poorly for two or three days , aud s-aid she felt-a little better with the walk . Wo went as far as the Bird-in-hand , and had a glass of rum each . As we got out , w « heard the St . Heleu ' a coach eoraio *; . I asked her if e-he thought yon waS
the St . H « leu' 8 coach \ She sa . < i she did not know . We stopped till the coach p ^ .- ^ ed , and it was the St . Helen's coach , and we w-ru ou aftor it , towards home . I have been out of work for a month last Monday . I belonged to the Odd Fellows , and got my card , aud went on tramp towards Yovkslrr . I went through Preston , Wigan , Blackbarn , and Manchester , and called at her aunt's where I married her from . I came lume on Sunday week , wwu to Liverpool on Wednesday , and came back by the coach A 8 we . were going back to St . Helen ' s on Sunday last , after the coach passed , I was telling
her about some sweetheart of mine I had seen ia Wigan . I had not seen her for two or three years , This m&de her jealous , and she began to bnwoeaS me and said I could look at ary body , or love any woman rather than her , and I ' m sure I never loved anybody but her . We came past the gate that leads to the fie . id , and I went into the field ; she followed me , and kept upbraiding me about this woman . I threatened her what Id do afc ht > r , if she did not hold her noise about it , as it was all nonsense . She kept going on , and I felt bo mad at her , that I pulled my ki ife out of my pocket and stabbed her . I don't know how it was , I ' m ^ are . "
This closed the case for the prosecution . Mr . James addressed the Jury for the prisoner , contending that he committed the deed under heated and excited feelings ; tbat in proportion as the ueceased was fond of her husband , in the same proportion would be her feelings of jealousy , for Which , as the evidence demonstrated , she had too much reason . The Learned counsel proceeded to show that the field had a thoroughfare where the body was found , and was of all other places the kosfc unlikely one which a deliberate murderer would select for the commission of the deed , The blowiitOO , was a lefthanded
- one , another reason why itrieas not dehberate , bat tho result of instantaneous p > ssion Ihe rag which ; was found in the neck was a proof that the moment b © had committed the act he rushed to her assistance to stop the blood , to he ^ I the wound . The Learned Jtjdqb : proceeded to sum np , status bis own belief that nothing had occurred to take the offence oat of the category of murder . He proceeded , at great lengUi , to read the evidence , which be commented on as he proceeded . The Jury found the p / koner Gailty of morder , but recommended him to mercy on the ground of his own statement .
His Lordship , in passing sentence upon the pri-Boner , stated that be would forward the Jury's recommendation to the Secretary of State , but he could hold out no hope of life . He advised him to prepare for that end which in a { fcttHtofrlte n&nll' < have to meet . . ' ^ " ^ "AFffSlV ' The prisoner , on the sentenc ^ rb ^^ e ^ pB ^^^ j ^ v peared not theleaat affected m . J ^^^ 00 ^ L ^ walked away with the greatesfre 0 jpop « 8 MeT ¦ <; &-.- § a w ^ JL VS 'A * - ' ¦ '• , *'¦• vA U i / aS V ** ' t ' - " S' •" •* ?* " * : « lif ' ^ l I u ..-i % '¦ = ?> i £ ! V . ... >* ^ - '* ' i ^ mSzl
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NORTHERN CIRCUIT-LIVERPOOL . CROWN COURT , Saturday , April 8 . ( Before Mr . Baron Parke . ) MURDER IN LANCASHIRE . Wilmot Buckley was indicted for the wilful murder Of Elizabeth Buckley , at St . Helen ' s , on the 27 th day of Nevember last . ; Dr . Brown conducted the case f&r the prosecution and Mr . Jambs defended the . prisoner . Dr . Brown baring stated an outline of the Case to the Jury , called the witnesses , in whose evidence the circumstances will be found more fully detailed . Jane Rigby examined .--My house is at the entrance of St .. Hel'n ' s , a little off the road . The prisoner and his wife lodged with us from March to the 27 th of November , 1842 . They had been married seven weeks when they came to me . Tbe deceased , Eliz ^ bah Buckley , was at home sVl day on tbe 27 th of November ; it was Sunday . The prisoner went to church in the afternoon . He returned a little after four . They went out after tea . Never knew them to have any difference . As she Was goin # out she said , " Mrs . Rigby , please to loaVe the key under the mug at the door ; Wilmot and I are going out for a walk , " They bad been accjiotomed to walk together on a Sunday . She wore a dark cloak and a bonnet . About six I went out . I left the key where she desired me . I returned a little after seven , and found the key where IUoit it . The prisoner oame home at a quarter before nine . The witness then proceeded to relate the account which the prisoner gave respecting the nou-arrival of the deceased . It was to the effect , that at the end of the lane he desired her to walk on , and he would overtake her ; that he could not find htr , and supposed she had gone to hoi sister Mary ' s hoube ; that hf went there , aud could not find her . Tne prisouer and his wife occupied a parlour and bedroom . When he returned on the night of the murder , he made a fire in the bed-room and then won into the house of Mrs . Barker , next door , and when he oame back he said she was not tuoie . ' £ ne prisoner and his brother-in-law then went out to try to fiud the
deceased . Witness went to bed atom ten , leaving the door unlocked . Did not hear the prisoner return thai night ; but he did return , aadsa | id , " Mrs . Ri tf by , I could not find her ; I have been everywhere at , ail likely to find her . Elizabeth could not intend to stop because she has left her keys in her trunk . " In the morning witness got up at about hail-past five o'clock , lighted a candle , and called out , " Wilmot , Elizabeth has not come ; will you' get up and go and see if ohe has gone to Asht on V ¦ He got up , had some breakfast , and went out about half-past six o ' clock . The deceased was near fair ! time of confinement . Witness did not see the prisoner until the inquest . ' 1 he body was taken to a t > tab ) t > adjoining , wi ere witness saw a white cotton handkerchief
belonging to the deceased ; it was bloody . Site had the handkerchief in her band when she put the body into the coffin . The prisoner is a painter by trade . He was in the habit of working ia the neighbourhood , and of being a week or ten days away at once . He had been away the greater part o ( the proceeding week . He appeared to be very civil always to the deceased . The deceased often told WllnOSS that Wilmot , if they met a young woman when they were out walking together , would look after her until she was out of sight . She said this in good humour , laughing , but said she did not like to see it . She
often complained of Wilmot ' s deings amongst the young women . A young maa in the neighbourhood raised a report about the prisoner having connexion with another woman while the deceased was at Manchester . Witness told deceased not to mind it , as she had not seen it . The deceased was not angry , but treated it aa a joke . Witness said ; " Unless you see a thing , never mind ; if you don ' t know the consequences of jealousy , I will tell you ; it damns many a soul , and commits many a murder . " ; Witness said this to deceased to prevent hex being influenced by the reports whioh she might hear . :
Peter Robinson examined . —I keep" the fiird-i'the-Hand public-house on the Moor . On the 27 th of November lasts he prisoner and his wife oame to my house about six o ' clock in the evening , and had a glass of rum and water apiece . They were to all appearance quite happy .. They generally came to my house on a Sunday . Never hoard of any jealousy existing between them . \ John Chadwiok examined . —On thei 27 th of November I was a groom living at Eccleston , about a quarter of a mile from tho Bird-i ' -the-Hand . A
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 15, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct477/page/3/
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