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THE SORTHERjtf STAB,. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1841.
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- * - ———¦ SONGS FOB THE MILLIONS . Ko . 1 . Jffllicms arouse ! the voice of freedom cries , And liberty re-echoe * back the call ; fe sons of toil , from slavery ariae . ' Unloose your fetters , and shake off your tbralL Jyntits * re slackening their m&d career , Jteir gnilty soul * axe paralized with fear . fpiih firm resolve your sacred rights dexi&nd , la ™« . n » y rectitude pat forth your claim ; ghow til your lore for horns and fatherland ; jUsicre from infamy your country's Dame . JJe wise , be jost , your holy cauae is good ; Ye mil obtain it -without shedding blood . Ye are industrious , yet aore distressed ;
Te are eaduring , yet your grief is graat ; Tour generous hearts , altho' ye are oppress'd , Seek not the devastation of the state . Your soul ' s desire is pure , for ye would fain JSlot oat base slavery ' s ignoble stain . A cation ' s roice dist inct , and dear , tnd lond . Witi might } force is heard throughout the land U comes like thunder bursting from a cloud ; Ho tyrant ' s minions can the shock -withstand ; Its theme is freedom—freedom to the slave , Food to the hunger'd , honour to the brave . O ! virtuous liberty , thou shalt be ours ; Terror of despots , tyranny ' s destroyer ; JCot usurpation , nor her thousand powers , Shall quench -within us thy ethereal fire . We strwele nobly , for -we pant for thee ; "We TO&e in skackles , yet our bouIb are free .
We see before us all thai gives us might , Sure harbinger of harmony and love ; Wisdom unfolds a gleam of glorious light , Refreshing as tie rain from heaven above . "The streams of knowledge , swift as rushing -wind , . Axe pouring pure from out the hnman mind . Hope . ' millions hepe ! for soon ye shall rejoice ! Corruption ' s cure already is applied ! Tyrants are deaf , bat Qod fe * th . heard your voiee ; So lsngsr can your pleadinp be denied . As sound of cannon o ' er the ee * n booms , By force anchect'd the reign of freedom comes . Be . vjamis Stoti 68 , Silver-street , Manchester .
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THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCULAR , No . £ 5 . J . Cleave , Shoe-lane , London . This noble , though , humble , ally in the glorious csnss of Democracy is , we are happy to perceive , par-cms its onward march , and , if properly enecmraged , cannot fail most efficiently to aid in the anse oi nghi and justice . Tiie Dumber before us , besides other highly interesting matter , contains the People ' s Charter entire . Thus every working man , for the charge of a single halfpenny , can procure for lijjnself and his family an authentic copy _ of this most—this all-Important document ; acd we sincerely
trail that the whole of the masses will gladly &T ^ themselves of the opportunity . Wo perceive thai the whols of the back numbers are in print , and can be obtained for one shilling ; a work , at the price , containing so l&rge an auaosms of real useful infornaaoE , we are not acquainted with ; and we hope tjjai every Chartist will &id in its circulation . We think that the separate numbers might be most excellent to be presented as rewards to the more advanced scholars in oar Sanday and day schools ; tad also advise tb . it soms person should have & few of each for sale at every public meeting . We hope all engaged in the Ckartist agitation will teach and practically carry out these suggestions .
GOVERNESSES , OB MODERN EDUCATION By Madaks Riofret . Jane . No . 6 . London and Paris : 18 il . We have received No . 6 of a work , bearing the above tide , whieb , as far as w « are able to judge from tie contents of a part having neither commenee-BjenJ or conclusion , appears well worthy of public eacoT ^ agemeiit . The authoress appears endowed not merely with talents which eminently qualify her for the task she
has under : aken , and with a correct and refined taste , which , is evinced by the judicious selection of her ttateria ! 3 , but also -with those elevated , moral , and religious feelings , withost which , the m ; st talented instructor of the young muss be a curse instead of a Wessing to tae rising geae ^ arion . While the "work ¦ eoiitiiiaes to be what the number before us warrants cs in believing it , we most cordially vr ' ah h success . TneTe is an article npon " Conscience and Education , " V > -winch parents and instructors cannot pay too - math axiesacn .
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ELECTION QUIDDITIES . BT C 0 L 05 EL SIBTHOSPE . Lorf John Rus 3 ell had better take care : for running his had against the timber duties , he ought , considering the vast deal of property that will be sacrificed , to be brought to the KocV , like his ancestor , and if he depended on me he certainly would . As it trss he nearly lost his po ll in the city . Touching the " timber dn&s , " what does he t >"" " > is to become of the veooien imu uf old England ? Dom he fancy that foreign timber -srosM keep ont French cannon balls . ' Notwiihstanding that I am a Tory to" the backbone , Sfii the spinal marro-sr , if that ' s all , I most sjy it
neeaecl no £ ? K > st to tell how th * contest must terminate in the Tovei Eamleix The Conservatives , more ' s the piij , had not a shadow ef a chance . As rare as I ehall one -day or other relum to CLzy , though never to eoirnon mad I hope , so sure did I feel that Clay wsuld be returned to enrich the soil of S : Stephen " a . It was VeU , fey-the-way , that Lushinpion h ^ 4 no occ ^ ion to P-t up for this district , as , if he had , he would have met vat only half-and-half discpies , despite of all bis ¦ willingness to advocate final ifine-cle ) " measures . " Xashy relied mainly on the "beer - interest , but his toraiiTssp-porters would have drunk his do-srnfal with a * frailest alacrity .
I : is astenishicg how Mjerly " drowning men eVxi at siravrs . " lord Jchc , d—n him , gnsps at r . f 2 Ta , as bting that mo 4 e of carryina out his Corn-U-sr principles likeliest to tell , for which he was nearly Kst " neck and crop , " out of the city . It is a cornton to think that when his hantsl oi iniquity is rips , he - « iii reap & deviiiEb . rich regard . Mirbt « -3 got on pretty well in tie boroushs , but irhna th = y came to the ¦ ' dirty acres" the po : li tell a ray Q ^ erent story ; iBssmnch a 3 in almost every tetace , a Tory is per&ed at the top of them . The atj >« r ; cfcj , thank God , are ihrathing them like blazes , sad really turn ont to be fiaer agricultural philosophers t ££ a I eon ]^ have anticipated .
Tse press has bsen damnaye all through the elections I sin at-t to fwbej , but ) ying I have long forsworn . Tory Mj am , I confess that tie Times is too ba ^ , the Gl&e atroaousiy given to tuning round , and the Sub , icsteid « Ec-Vet alttricg its course , as" true 5 un" never Mould , is the mest er « i : e Inmiuary i iraow of ; and Tritli all my prediiection for the Standard I caEnot con-EJfcr it as a model of truth and hontstv , but , to srive » w eTl 1 dne " eXactJ 7 re ^ ersa In short , Tim xua .,, e to tx-prest those in-R-ard feelings trhich assure Hie o . the mperiority of a Sibifccrp to the scribes of the oinerent j ^ ratla .
« is a great Eatisfaction to me that Grnlly . thonghhe Icught hard , " got his " bellyfull" at Ponte&aet lite llooi as he traa , he exprtssed bis readiness to support ' tne Dew-fangled con doctrines of the Government , but ' uieresult , I fancy , , ^ 1 pr 0 Te jnch a Woa , ia ^ g .. iread . ' ??* - * a » " « rtll fcffvctually deter him from " coming to I ? f S 9 & ^" in a turry again . Besides , mark the poeti- j a- jastic » of hia defeat ; those who attempts » pu others , deserve to be GuV { y ) d (!) themselvk y > Ub reference t * the ejection , we may tmly say , in ! tieia nscageef Scripture , " ilaay are called , anything but 1 f atiuBtn , , but tew are chosen . " 3 Iacy were there who i * T ' Jet tct fe-sr , compaxativrfy , arrived at the trin- I ' * .- ' " * -M le ' addition to their misfcrtnne , they ' - P » . '; » eU-fio « ed" to boob . '• d
_ 4 * " ^ s : Bii = tie corn question as deepl y as most i an- " a ** are > " * mj iD 0 ' lr } e ' € - terd corns and soft I ' Lttar conis aEd cheap coins , to ssy nothing of ffl ^ -eHwef ; bnt mij I never eat hot rolls again , if I can ~^ rstsn < i what benefit is to result from importing out ' Wmern leave ; f Tuln ajjro » d . To me the contest between i ^^ actarers and agriculturists , ist . " pull devil h * ker ~ j wK ^ aaaJto f ether . One thing is certain , yec «< woaid i tet f rise , —Satirist (
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? LATEST FROM AMERICA- ; Two vessels have arrived at Liverpool from New j * «» . . the packet snip England , Cassia Waite , with , «; ew lork papers to the 23 d ; and the packet Ehip «« nck , Cipiain Palmer , with dates from the same : ^• J to the 27 th , the latter ship having made her HT-^ " ! the ex traordinary sborfc space of fifteen ** ¦ The England has forty-four passeDgers . In tie proceedings of Cor . ^ ress on the 24 th ult ., p ^ f ^^ a , relaiive to the effince of M'Leod , took Tie following resolution offered by Mr . Floyd , " « e ailsd for cossideratioa -. — the
&i *^! lTed | ~ * t the ^^ ideai of United TeH * » e requested to inform this house whether any Sf ? . 1 * th& army of the United States has , since " - * -n of March last , been directed to visit the £ *• -. oi ^ ew York for any parpse connected with |~ - mprisoninem or trial of Alexander M'Leod , . *» * - so , to communicate to this house copies of the " •^¦ EcaoBs to , and report of , such officer . " crSiLW' arter recapitulating the circumstances « £ aerwn : cb . ihe proceedings against M'Leod had h-VK '^ r ' Fa 5 d ' "" ^ 3 ^ e general impression tha t a ^ a oautary c-ficer had been despatched by the
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treasury department to interfere in the fcriaL The beU « f had caused much excitement and indignation , wbich would , however , be removed by a denial ofihefact . Mr . In ^ ereoll followed , and spoke for nearly two hoars . He went over th « whole ground of the M'Leod affair , the Caroline rebellion , and all other matters connected with it . He then fell upon the letter of Mr . Webster to Mr . Fox , and criticised it at great length . As a constitutional lawyer , he affirmed that the positions assumed by the secretary were grossly erroneous , and that without the least necessity he had capitulated to the British . He '
( Mr . IngersollJ said this capitulation was a stain upon the country which comld only be washed oat by oceans of blood . After expatiating with much warmth against the heinous crime of Mr . Webster , he E&id there was one chance left , which wa 3 , for the former to acknowledge his error . He next attacked the st \ le of the letter , and contended that the beautiful structnre of tbe sentences was incompatible with the nervous style of the statesman . He endeavoured to show that both the late and present executive had acted with more firmness than Mr . WebsteT , and that the latter was the sole cause of the humiliating condition in which we now were .
Mr . Alford B » id tkat , however much he differed from the present Administration on som « points , on this he agreed with them . He approved of the letter of Mr . Webster to the British Fox , and maintained that the former had not stepped asida an inch from the course commenced by Mr . PoinsetL He thought Mr . Webster deserving of the appellation of " Well done , thou good and faithful servant of the Republic . " Mr . Cnshing followed at great length , condemnatory of the subject being debated at that time , and the further proceedings were adjourned .
Ba ?» x of the United States— The present officers of this institution givo formal public notice that an application will be made to the next legislature , for certain amendments and alterations in their charter } by changing the name and style of the corporation and body politic , and of the locaHon thereof , and . by redncicg tbe amount of its capital , and for such alterations and amendments as may be deemed advisable , all of which will bB set forth in their memorial . That tho name and styJe of tbe said corporation shall be " The State Bank of Pennsylvania , " to be located in the city of Philadelphia , and that its capital shall be reduced to a sum not exceeding fourteen millions of dollars .
^ Meath Counts-. —Mr . O'Ccnnell , has been returned for the county Meath , with Mr . H . Grattan —Mr . Corballis , the late Liberal candidate having retired in favour of the Learned Gentlemen . Ge-vcisb Blarnet . —Mr . O'Connell , in a letter addressed to the Da \> lin Electors , says : — " The enemie « of Ireland have triumphed , but be not daanted , my friends , a petition will unseat the exterminators of yourselve ? , and your holy and facred religion . Ireland cannot bear my absence from tho House at this crisis , even for a moment ; I have therefore accepted the representation of the honest men of Meath . "
Serious Charge ! \—Hcrraid Prerard , a fine boy of 15 , was charged at Hat ' . on Garden Police Office , by Mr . Ocock , of the firm of Whiaborae and Ocock , chemists and dru ^ ists , of Judd-street , Bronswick-square , with having stolen from the till three half-pence . The prisoner was apprenticed to the prosecutors by his father , who is an officer on halt-pay . A short time since the prosecutor was fined by the magistrate for assaulting this boy . The prisoner declared in his defence to the present charge thas the half-pence had been given him by his master to purchase milk for h ' B breakfast , but he preferred laying it ou : in another way . He was , however , committed for trial .
Teddt Fltxs ' s Blisd Pig . —Teddy Fljnn , a big Monster man , locating in the classic regions of Lower Shadwell , with a string of "retainers" as ! long as the tail of Daniel O'ConneU , or the American | sea-serpent , marched into court soon after the doors ' were open , at the Tower Hamlets' Court of Rtquests , ! apparently intent on someihini of vast importance . : Upon the names of " Fiynn against O'Donnell" beisg | called bj the crier , big Teddy and Jerry O'Donnell , ^ a six-foot coal-whippe r , came in front of the bench . ; Teddy—Pkzeyer Wurtehups , it ' s a poor lone widdy * I am , God help me , wid a family iv tree childher , ! widbcut mintioniug the two pigs an the tcm cat , an ( it ' s a murtheriEg hathen that same O'Donnell is , to i be aftber tearing a man ' s jacket to paces in this kind 1
, oway . Teddy was requested by the Comtnisionsr ; to stale to tbe Court the particulars relative t » the 1 destruction of the jacket . Teddy having moved a ( large quid of tobacco from his month , and earefully i deposited it in the crown of his " fantail , " assumed ; ani ' . ade of the '" Member for all Ireland" when i about to hold forth , caaelj-, he folded his arm . * , 1 placed his right foot some half yard in advance , of iha other . From his statement it appeared that ; ' he ( Teddv ) had provided accommodation lor a couple of pigs in tbe rear of his domicile , one of which , ; like the author of " Paradise Lost , " was blind . The i fences dividing the tenements , it seemer ] , were like I Mr . Ferguson's " four-and-nine , " in a somewhat i dilapidated state , hence Teddy ' s tvro grunters were
enaW&d to visit thtir neighbours without restraint . Jerry O'itonnell , the defendant , occupied the premisfs next door , and his small domain behind exhibited s flourishing cro p of " pratees . " It further appeared tb 3 t Teddy ' s two porkers rrere in the habit of paying frequent visits to Jerry ' s plantation of " Donovans , " and , by inserting their snouts in the soil , managed to turn many fine roots bottom upwards . L pon one occasion , whiie thus engaged , Jerry chaueed to espy them , and , seizing a mopstick , ho rushed out , and inflicted summary punishment ou the intruders . Jerry whacked away with his cudgel ,, the swine howled lustily , and the row soon brought ont Teddy 1 'lynn , between whom and Jerry afigbAtOOkpia . ee , which ended in the plaintiff ' s jacket bcinu lorn from his bsck , the alleged value of which ( 4 s . ) he now sought to recover . Commissioner—I don ' t see bow the Coart can assist
you , for one seems as much in fault as the other . Teddy—Och , - blood an' ouns ! only hark at that ! Sure , I'd jist sot down to me dinner , wid the childher , when , all in a snddint , I heerd a mighty screeching , an' wirit oat , an' found that bJaggard Jerry a wallopping me poor bbnd pig with a broomstick . u Aizy , Jerry , " £ tz I , " rcaiimber tbe crathur ' s get CbnsrhianfaliDg ^ likeyersdf . ' Wid £ baf , yer Wurtchip , be hot me a murtherin' whick , an' thin we had a bit iv a fight , an' he split my jacket . Jerry , ; r . defence , said the plaintiff ' s pigs were continually rooting up Lis garden , though he had often cautioned him to keep them on his own premises . The Commissioners were of opinion that Teddy had no claim upon the defendant , and dismissed the summons . The " ione widdy" and his friend ,- ? left the office bi Hy indignant at the decision , observing that it formed another strong instance of the necessity of " repaling" the Union .
H LB . EF 0 B . D . —SOMNAMBVLISH ExTRAOEDI . VARY . — A most extraordinary ease of somnambulism occurred in this cuy on Friday week . Wo can vouch : or the facts as we are about to relate them , as they transpired wiibin our own cognizance , and ail the parties are personally kneiva to us . On Friday mwaiDg , at half-past fire , n residenj in Vfidew&rshstreet was awakened by the violent ringing of his door-bell . Not hearing any serraut answer & second r . Dg , he rang his beii for the msa servant , vrhirii , howeTar , was not answered . He then jumped out of bed , aud pulling aside the window-blind , saw what he believed to be his own horse , saddled and bridled in the street , and held by a strange man , habited as a labourer . Marvelling what could huve
brought his horse so unexpectedly to his door a \ so early an hour , he left his chamber , and , ai th « bottom of the stairs , called aloud to his man servant . One of the female domestics replied thai he had gono down at five o ' clock with the intention of soinj , on the horse to WithJDgton , to see & cow which he was : o look at for his master . The master then returned to his bed-room , threw up tbe window , and , ob inquiring the man ' s business , the reply was , " Your man , sir , has been thrown from his horse in the meadow ; I was just going by and saw him on the ground , hi 3 foo ; Hanging in the- stirrup , bis face cut and bleeding , and the horse standing quieijy by . I fear be is much hurt . I led him to my house near the turnpike , and there he is now . My wife has
lignted a fire , for he is sitting in a chair shiver : Dg with cold , and cannot speak . " The master immediately requested the messenger to lead the > . orse back , and turn him into the meadow asain , and Bta-ted that assistance WDuld be forthwith sent . A surgeon ar ; d or . e of the domestics were quickly in attendance . The man was found exactly in the state described . The surgeon carefully examine * the body , and happily found that no bone of him was broken , and no other perceptible injury than the wounds on the face . He was then led home , apparently insensible , only answering to every question put to him , " i don ' t know . " He was conducted to his bed-room , undressed , and put to bed ; his eyes all the time being wide open , bnt fixed , and the pupiLs being mnch dilated . At nine o ' clock he awoke , and the first question he asked , occasioned by his feeling his cheek sore and bleeding , and observing his clothes not in the position he had placed
them the over night , " Where am 1 ? WLat ' s the matter V He positively had not , and he ha 3 not np to the present moment , ihe slightest recollection of a single circumstance that had occurred £ rtm the moment he dropped to sleep on the prcvions night to the moment he awoke at nine o ' clock in the morning . We may state that it waa his intention the previous night tog _ oto"WithfngtOD i and for this purpose Le had pat 6 d . ia his pocket to pay the gates ; but he had not , and has not now , the least remembrance of rising , dressing himself , knocking at tho girl ' s door , unlocking and unbolting ihe door , walking down the street to the meadow , unlocking the gate , catching the horce , saddling and bridling it , falling cS , beiDg picked np , led to the man ' s house , being examined by the surgeon , led heme , and put to bed—of all these events he is perfectly oblivious . We may add that he is a steady sober person , and we pledge ourselves fc-r the truth of the ca = e as we have ie-ated it . —Ilenfc-d T&us-
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Vsar IwoRTAyr . It will be interesting to mothers , and , indeed , to all the Queen ' s loyal subjects , to know that the little Princess Royal has passed two important epochs of her infancy—namely 11 ehori-eoatlng" and " weaning ; " the former took place a short time ago , and the latter within the last few daya . —Globe . National Debt . —( From Tuesday ' s Gaxetle . )—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt , in pursuance of tbo Aot
10 th George IV ., c . 27 , sec . 1 , that th « actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof , for the year ended the 5 th day of April , 1841 , by the sum of £ 1 , 851 . 917 5 ? . HJd . ; the Commissioners for the reduotion ' of the National Debt hereby give notice , that no sum will be applied by tiwm on account of the sinking fund , under the provisions of the said Act , between the 7 th day of July and the 10 th day of October , 1841 . S . Higham , Controller-General . National Debt Ofiice , July 6 .
The Goloen Goose . —Tkat old age is not always accompanied with a proportionate amount of wisdom is & fact which is placed beyond all doubt by tbe following instance of gullibility : —0 n « day last week a decrepit old farmer , seventy years of age , of Bradworthy , on whom Providence had bestowed more money than wit , was bamboozled by a gang of gypsies into the belief that his age and infirmities were the result of the malicious influence of a witch ; and persuaded him to advance them £ 53 , which would dispel the web of enchantment which entwined his existence , and restore him to the health and vigour of the comely age of twenty-four . The offer was eagerly accepted ; the farmer retired to his bed , and dreamt thai the much-desired metamorphosis was already accomplished ; when lot on waking in the morning , " a change came o ' er the spirit of his dream "—old farmer Osborne was as old as ever , and £ 53 poorer , hi 3 riches having " taken to themselves wings and flown awaj" with the gypsies . — Western Times .
Impediments j . v Tbateu , i . vg fbom London to Dublin . —That large portion of the public which travels between London and Dublin via Liverpool , is mide to suffer great inconvenience , to the extent , occasionally , of being kept in Liverpool twelve hours , by the private disputes between thu Grand Junction and the Crewe and Chester Railway Companies . The Post-office directs the Irish letters to be carried on the Crewe and Birkephead Bra » ch Riilway , instead of as heretofore , on the Liverpool and Manchester line . By this route there is a saving of twenty minutes , which is of great importance in the despatch of the Irish l « tters . Accordingly , a
carriaaa wv . u the letters leaves the London train at Crewe , whilst the passengers are carried ou to Liverpool , where they most generally arrive just in lime to see the mail packet under-way—able sometimes in open boats , with danger and discomfort , to reach it ; but often left behind to await the evening packet . Though tho I ' ost-office can over rido tho disputes of ths railroad companies , and compel the conveyance of letters , it has no power to direct the conveyance of passengers ; and the public interest is thus sacrificed to the wrangles of two companies , which , blind to their own interest , are thu 3 cultivating—not the good will , but the hostility of the public .
A Snug Boeocgh . —Dungannon waB the place where the volunteers of ' 82 held their memorable meeting , and it will henceforward be famous as the borough which , in these Reform days , can defeat a Reformer , and send the juvenile Lord Northland to Parliament upon the 6 treugth of seventy-two votes . Let us not be mistaken , the borough of Dungannon , although a large p « nd tolerably thriving town , can just boast of 124 free and independent electors . Now , in the late contest , fifty-two voted for Mr . Falls , the Liberal candidate , which left the hmiseof Knoxseveuty-two voteB , giving the promising peer an overwhelming majority of twenty over his Whig or destructive opponent . And this 18 what har little Majesty from the throne is schooled by
her Ministers to describe a 3 " an appeal to her people . " To continue this state of things the newborn foe of monopoly , Lord John Russell , promulgated his ' fia-ility" doctrine , and denounced further organic changes . Good right Isave Gatton and Old Sarum to complain that they have uDJustly been consigned to shedule A , while Dungannon survives , ' a prosperous borough , " for the convenience of the Raufurly family . The possession of thi 3 pocket borough has been a fortune to the Knoxes—nothing less than a mine of Potosi . It has been the golden key which opened the portals where coronets and pensions were to be found . No wonder , therefore , that they should bo afraid to let it slip from them , and that they should contemplate with awe the
prospect Of losing » privilege which they have turned to &uch advantage . The people , however , are beginning to perceive that they can never expect any change for the better so long as thi 3 system is suffered to endure . In every locality like Dungannon , where a mockery of representation exists , and ttie franchise is confined to a few individuals , the member will o > ve his seat to aristocratic influence , or else become the nominee of a set of jobbers , who , upon condition of allowing him to prosecute his selfi-h designs , will securo bribe ?—either in money or places—for themselves and their relations . Duncannon , with its 124 electors , h a bitter satire upon th > > immortal Reform Bill of Lord John Russell . — World .
The iv ohixation at Glasgow . —The Scottish Patriot , speakina of the sp ; rit-sHrriD » proceediogs connected with the G asgo \ velcciion , say ? , " thehometruths brought lorward on the occasion , were , wo dare say , rather unpalatable to our fashionable corruptionists , and , therefore , tbe mercenaries who pander to their taste , thought it moro consistent with their interest to suppress sentiments so unpopular wilh their patrons . Thanks , however , to the progress of intelligence the elite of our Glasgow aristocracy were compelled for once to listen quietly to addresses which they would have yelled down in their assembly rooms . The whole of our speakers spared neither Whig nor Tory misrule—they laid bare the injustice and rapacity of the ' exclusives '
with a fearless hand , amidst the plaudits of at least fifty thousand of their fellow-citizens . But it W 3 « during Mr . Moir ' s extraordinary speech that the scene became intensoly interesting . Tho thrilling eloquence aud powerful satire of that distinguished advocate of freedom , while he exposed the duplicity , extravagance , and tyranny of the Whigs , told with irresistible effect on " all present ; tbo multkudo rent the air with bursts of acclamation . The Whigs at first " looked scorpions , " but latterly the rueful aspect of tka crest-fallen liberals betrayed the mortification they felt , While the loud lau > jh of the Tories , excited paitly by tbe wit of tbe speaker , and the castigation
he was inflicting on the hypocrites , and partly by the loug faces which they had assumed , added much to our amusement . It was , however , when the show of hands was taken for the respective candidates , that a deep lesson was taught to the philosopher and the stateman . There stood a dense mass of discriminating men who felt that they had a right to be recognised as freemen ; consequently , when Mr . Oswald was put , the hands held up for him were ' Uke angels visits few and far botweon . ' The people knew him to be an old narrow contracted Whig , half a century at least behind tho spirit of the age . Mr . Dennistonn had a show considerably larger , because he is believed to ba much more democratic
; han his aniiquate-t colleague . Those exhibited for Mr . Campbell were still fewer than Mr . Oswald ' s ; tJiey were iiko the grey hairs in a joung man ' s head , out 1 here ana there , because the people knew him to be a politician of the fuadal school ; but when Mr . Mills and Mr . Moir were respectively put , there waa a forest which the haughtiest Tory or the proudest Whig in the empire would have envied . Upon the whole , this was a glorious day for Chartism , and one which neither its adherents nor opponents will soou forget . "
The Bcr Jo . ves —The boy , Edward Jones , who , it will be remembered , has on three different occasions effected a most mysterious entrance into Buckingham Palace ( and , according to his own account , a fourth , but on which occasion he escaped without dttectiou , ) wa ? , on the 14 th of last uioiiU ! , liberated from TothiU-Eirset gaol , his period of imprisonment baviDg expired . Whilst in prison , we are told Joues behaved remarkably well . He wa 3 quiet and orderly , and evon exemplary in his conduct ; so much so that the governor had not in any ono iug-tacce causs of complaint . Since the liberation Oi' this youth , who ha ^ gained so much notoriety , he has been frequently seen on Constitution-hill and in the immediate neiaiibouiliOGd of Buckingham Palace ,
which being communicated to the authorities , orders were given to the police to watch hi 3 movements , which wa 3 accordingly done , but there wa 9 nothing in his manner or behaviour different from those who daily frequent the parks in hopes of obtaining a sight ol royalty . Still , it appears , lie was deemed a dangerous character , and meditated another entrance into the palace . Without , therefore , going into details and rumours of suspicion , we may state that he has been taken quietiy in hand by the proper authorities aud placed on board the Diamond emigration sliip , bound to Australia , we believe , or some other of ho English co . ' onies . We hear that this adventurous youth left home in good spirits , and not altogether against bis consent , but on leaving
repeated his wishes tbat something should be done for him in this country , as he would rather remain at home than go abroad * Jeues has written on mere than ono occasion to Mr . Hail , of Bow-street , requesting that worthy magistrate to prevail on the Government to do something for him , but his applications to Mr . Hall were not answered . It is thought these applications were in consequence of the boy being desirous not to be a burdtn to his parents , who are poor but industrious and honest persons . On the day Jones left the prison , one of the agents or managers , of a minor theatre ( his father says ) called and offered him £ 4 per veek to appear on ths stage for a fortnight , and , at the end of thf . t time ^ a benefit , " bnt the boy declined exhibiting hifiisei ! fox so short a period .
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A Desirable Colleague . —Sir Frederick Pollock , in canvassing his constituents the other day at Huntingdon , called upon » publican who eamo to him across * yard , hia faandB filled with a f uantity of pint pots . Being thus encumbered , the elector was unable to receive the usual ealoation , and made his apology ; upon which Sir Frederick geod-numouredly remarked , " 0 , never mind , my friend , you are a greater man than Lord John Russell . You can carry your measures , I see . All the world knows Lord John cannot . " Dreadfol Fihb at Deptford . —On Saturday a destructive fire broke out in the workshops of Mr . Knott , builder and agent for the Kent Fire and Lifo Assurance Company , near St . Paul ' s Church , Deptford . The firo first appeared issuing from a
quantity of shavings in a workshop at the rear of Mr . Knott's dwelling-house , at ten minutes before four o ' clock , and by a quarter past , the flames burst from the front windows of the house . Mr . Burton , usher of Greenwich police-court , who was passing to the railway on hia way to London , rushed into the house at the risk of hia own life to save that of Mr . Knoit , who was confined to his bed with the gout . Mr . Knott refused assistance , and seemed indisposed to leave the house . He was , however , removed by Mr . Burton and another person out of the house to that of a neighbour opposite . Mr . Burton then went back to the burniug house , atid succeeded in securing the cash-box , valuable papers , and a quantity of plate and other property . There
were fifteen houses between the railway and an opening which separated the buildings to the northward . Four of them are destroyed—namely , the extensive premises of Mr . Knott . Mr . Blake , an oil and colourman , Mr . Brown , a painter , Mr . Martiu , a carpenter , and Mr . Cookie , a cooper in the London Docks . A good supply of water was immediately procured , and four engines from her Majesty's victualling yard were promptly on the spot . One engine from the London Firo Brigade , No . 20 of the Weit of England Ofiice , and No . 22 of tho London Fire Establishment . The engine D 16 was the fi-st from London , and reaohed
Deptford iii thirty-five mmutes after the fire was dis covered . A largo body of tbe R division of poJice was immediately on tho spot , followed by a strong detachment of S-he 15 lh Regiment of Foot . These , assisted by the parochial ofBcerd , preserved a vast deal of property , and gave full effect to the operation of the engines . The churchyard was made available in depositing vast quantities of property belonging to the houses ( eleven in number ) where danger of fire was likely to reach . Several of the houses were full of lodgers , and the scene was most distressing . About seven o'clock , however , all danger of the fire extending was at an end , and the goods were being taken back to some of the Louses .
Throwing a Pigs-Head at a Jew . —A powerfully-built Leadenhall slaughterman , named Perkins , was charged before the Lord Mayor , on Saturday , with assaulting Aaron Benjamins , an old Jew cloihasman , by flinging a pig ' s head at him in the purlieus of Leadenhall-murket . Aaron , who cultivated a beard like a horse ' d mane , having been sworn on the Old Testament , stated that as he was progressing homo to Petticoat-lane with a * ' pag" full of treasures on Friday afternoon , in passing Leadenhall-market , the defendant , who waa accompanied by two or three other slaughtermen , hailed him ; complainant immediately went up to them with the hope of picking up a bargain , when the defendant produced a pig ' s-head from under his ar > roi > . and
asked him what he would give for it , he ( complainant ) refused to have anything to do with it , and was walking a svay when tho defendant thrust the abomination iu ' . o hi 3 face . Ho took no notice of this and went away , but beforo he got the distance ot twenty yarde , the pig ' s-head struck him a violent blow in the b&ck ot" the neck , and upon turning round he saw the defendant laughing . Tho Lord Mayor asked tlm defendant what he had to say in his dufence ? The slaughterman eaid ho could not deny having thrown the pig ' s-hcad at the Jew , but he maUo use of bad language , and called hint
iur ' amous names , which aggravated him to do what he did . The Lord Mayor—You hear that Mr . Benjamins ; you nsed bad language to tho defendant . Complainant—S'help ma Cheovah , yer Lordship , I never shpoke a vord , not a shinglo vord . The Lord Miyor requested the partita to step outside and try and settle the aff ** ir ; after the lapse of a few minutes thoy returned , not having becu able to make the matter up , the Jew wanting too much . The Lord Mayor then fined the defendant 10 j . and tho costs . Aaron , upon hearing the decision , pushed forward and held out his hand for the money , bat , upon being told that it went to the Queen he looked dreadfully crest-fallen .
Dublin Election . —We will be expected to say sonK \ h ») g about iho City Of Dublin Election , and we therefore has ; en to fuifil our duty . Tho contest has been a ; i extraordinary oue , and given birth to an extraordinary concatenation of circumstances . When tho tidings first reached us that Pierce Maliony had taken the helm in his own hand , it did not require the intercepted Clarendon lettor to indicato ; iow matters were likely to terminate . Th « concocter of tho Leiiister Declaration and the chum of " West Briton Rice , " whose progress through life , or be is much belied , has been tortuous and time-serving , was not exacily the person to make the best champion for a repeal candidatv . The gasconade of A'laliony in seeking the " extirpating Grogan " in the halls of Greeu-btreet , that he might
m : ike him " eat hia leek " is only a little lees ludicrous than the anxiety of tho aforesaid Grogan to convince the town by issuing a green paper ukase that he had no intention this season of exterminating the Roman Catholic subjects of Queen Victoria , and that all the blame of having reported so foul a Elander Bhould remain at the door of the penny-aliner of Sanders . Bribery and undue influence , with the unpopularity of the Whigs , have also tended to place ministerial candidates beneath their Conservative adversaries ; but all these circurastauces would not have conspired to have had this effect but for the prevalent opinion that the contest had more to do with men than measures , and that it involved
not so much rights to be achieved as places to be procured and protected . To be candid , except high-sounding professions , and past servires , the ca . udida . tes who etuod upon the liberal side gave us little to hope . They were evidently bo hampered with ministerial manacles that they found themselves unable to be explicit or definite upon any eu > ject , and wo could only gather that they were likely to sustain the Whig ministers . We trust that tho present defeat will prove a useful lesson , and warn those who cujay the publ . o confidence that it is dangerous to surrender to party the energies which ought to be devoted to the regeneration of a nation . Tho following is tho state ot the poll at tho close : —
West ( Tory ) 3060 Grogau ( Tory ) 3051 O'Connell ( Whig ) 2977 Hutton ( Whig ) 2953 Majority of West over O'Connell « 3 Grogan over Hutton 93 The excitement during tho election has been tremendous , and many outrages have been committed , we regrot to say , by tho mobs of the respective parties , and we fear that consequences mnro fatal might have been looked for but for tho admirable arrangements of the efficient Commissioners of the Metropolitan . Police , who are entitled to tho thanks of the community for their untiring exertions . — W » rld .
The Chestekfield Union . —We have heard , with equal surprise and disgust , of an instance of petty tyranny in th ' e Chesterfield Union ( Derbyshire ) , which has escaped the notice of the Times , but which we , tho opponents of the Times in its wholesale and Hndiscnminating attacks upon the New Poor Law , beg leave to recommend to the instant attention of the Somerset House Commissioners , if they wish the country to believe that they are appointed for other and better purposes than the receipt of their salaries , —and that one of those purposes is to make amends for the occasional harshness of their own minutes , by the repression of harshness in others , when perpetrated at the expence of the uufortunate recipients of public relief .
We are told that , at Chesterfield , all women entering the workhouse are stripped of their stay « , and that a room is set apart for the receipt of those essentiai articles of female attire , where they are hung up , and ticketed , —the unfortunate owners being covidemried to do without this necessary support to the female frame , during the whole time of their residence in the workhouse , in the barbarous hope of shortening their stay by this ingenious refinement of persecution . We are told that women , who have been accustomed to wear stays all their lives , are to be seen crouching in every possible position that can affc-Td a momentary relief from the inconvenience which they experience—resting their heads upon their hands , and their elbows upon their knees—or
leaning against the walls in silent suffering . Aud all this for what object ? By what authority ? Not by the law . Not by any legitimate exorcise of the authority of the Gnardians—for ' they would have just as much right to make people sleep in short bed ? , or to stretch them out till they fit long onesor to order them to stand upon oae leg while eating their dinners , as to rob them of any accustomed , and innocent , comfort . It may be necessary , in justice to tho working population , to eouple a provision for persons out of work with conditions sufficiently irksome to prevent people fron . throwing themselves upon the rates , and Iiviu 2 at the eiDOuce of the
poorer ratepayers * when by proper exertion they could earn a livelihood ior themselves—but confinement , work , restrictions as to diet and hours , are all that the law coateniplaies , or allows . Much even of this isharskand unjust , under a system , which denies to labour that free agency , which the law , by one of its least justifiable fictions , assumes it always to po ssess ; bat as to tormenting poor old women , in the hope of forcing them to quit that . home , which otrght to be a place of refuge to the aged , the fact i 3 sc , monstrous , that we should , not have given credence t o it , had we not received our information from persons , whose accuracy we cannot douUt . — Wedsy Chronicle .
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The Eastern Question . —The new treaty for the settlement of the affairs < , f the East was signed , OH Tuesday afternoon , at the Foreign-office , by th « representative ? of the five powers—Austria , France , Great Britain , Prussia , ana ' Russia . Poor Lord John . —It is confidently stated that the Tories mean still to oust ; Lord John Russell and Alderman Wood from the citty , on the ground that the polling books of some particular ward were wholly kept back at the election for party purposes It is moreover rumoured that "Little Inuiality" is to be pitch-forked into the House of Peers .
Thb late Cbnsits . —A Bath paper states that tbe Census has caused considerable annoyance in that fashionable city . Several ladies , hovering en the shady side of thirty , have endeavoured to evade it by abruptly retiring to the Continent ; and ose elderly dandy , hopeless otherwise of escaping the inquisitorial scrutiny into bis age , actually took up his abode in a hackney-coach , in which he was driven about the city throughout the obnoxious M&nday night ! We understand that the Bath census reveals oue astonishing fact—namely , that of all the unmarried spinsters there , scarcely one hftB grown & year older since it was last taken ! Not a few bachelors , too , still stick at the same age which they owned to in 1831 !
More Poor Law Atrocities . —The Times of Wednesday last , publishes the following letter " s" Sir . —An unprecedented sensation having taken place in this neighbourhood respecting the examination of females at the Union-house in Downhammarket , Norfolk , and upon inquiry finding the same to be true , I _ wrote to the Poor Law Commissioners stating the facr , and also transmitted a copy of the complaint to the Bishop of Norwich . An inquiry took place yesterday before Mr . Twistleton , an assistant commissioner , at the Union-house , before a full board , and the result is that I fully proved the case beyond a doubt . Very ereat efforts have been
made to hush up the matter , otherwise , instead of two cases , I have no doubt many others might have been proved . It appears that the young man , Ward , who assists the Union surgeon , and the Rev . E . J . tlowman , have been carrying on a system of examining young girls , aa soon as ever they have been admitted , in the most indelicate manner . This Her . Gentleman , who speaks and talks so highly of the beauty of this Poor Law , is the very man who wrote a letter ( I think in tho Globe ) reflecting on some observations made in The Times some short time since . I now lay the whole examination before you to publish what part of it you may think proper . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Henry Palmer . "
Whig Household ApPoiSTMEma . —The Earl of Surrey has been gazetted captain of the yeoman guard . The absurdity of these household appointments iB exquisite . Why , his lordship wont even see th « corns he has just been appointed to command , before he will be called upon to resign it , and his pay wont pay for his new uniform . As for Lord Marcus Hill , ho having been in office before , Will be spared the expense of getting a new embroidered coat . Joking apart , the recent change is one of the drollest blunders that the Whigs have made . It is understood that in order to spare the Queen any mortification in contesting the point of the " ladies in waiting , " de noio , that immediately on Lord John Russell's being out-voted in the Commons , all
the wives , sisters , and cousins of the present Ministers will send in their resignations , to be replaced by the "friends of her youth , " the Duchess of Northumberland , the ladies Jenkinson , and others . On dil , that if tho Tories are succa ^ sful , the Earl of Liverpool and the Duke of Beaufort are to be tho lord steward arid the lord chamberlain , and that most probably Lord Castlereagb , will again be vice-chamboriain . The matter which is most discussed is whether Prince Albert ' s household is to be held political . The Whigs , of course , would declare an attempt to make ft so , the most infamous , cruel , unjust , tyrannical , unconstitutional thing in the world
—a thing so bad , that no one , not even a Tory , could imagine it even in a dream ; but what if tho Tories should follow the Whigs' own precedent , with Lord Grey at the head of them 1 His lordship , in spite of William tho Fourth , apd in defiance of Qieen Adelaide , would meddle with the household of the Queen Consort , and compelled her Majesty to dismiss her chamberlain . It was in vain that the Queen appealed to the King—the Minister was too powerful for tho Crown , and both King and Queen were obliged to submit , though the latter resented the interference so much that she did without a chamberlain rather than receive one of the Premier ' s appointing . —Cheltenham Looker On .
Brutality exercised under the New Poor Law Act —Every day brings clearer proofs to light of the necessity oi abrid ^ ikg , or lather taking aw » y altotether , the despotic powers reposed in the Somerset House Bashaws , by the infernal Poor Law Act , and of confiding the direction of Unions to locally appointed Guardians . Lord John Russell , it is known , introduced a Bill to continue the sorvices of the flint-hearted Potentates for a period of ten yeare longer ; but finding the House and tho country against him , ho withdrew it , thereby throwing out a glimmering of hopo that ho would , in another Session , listen to tho voice of humanity , and giv < 3 to every district the right of managing its own paupers . Should , however , tho Tories succeed to office ,
from what fell from Sir Robert Peel , the iniquitous Aot will continue to operato with its present frightful severity . The Hon . Baronet was for continuing the services of the Magnates , for a period of five yeara lon ^ or , so that he would have all the horrors of the system maintained , and with the leaven of Toryism infused into it , who shall yay that it would not work with worse effect ? The once independent spirit of tho industrious classes is already gone . A labourer , for instance , who needs perhaps but trifling assistance to enable him to rub through a protracted wiaicr , is tionied relief . He is told— " There IS the Uiiun ior you ; you and your children will be received . " The applicant is pennyless ; he has no work ; and at length is compelled to part with the
few scrap 3 of furniture he has been scraping together for years , and go into tho bastile , from which the appliance of a few shillings would have saved him . The result is obvious ; ho became a confirmed pauper ; hi 3 spirit is cowed ; for he knows that , let him leave the Union when he may , he has no home , no furniture , and that he must become a wanderer . This is ono of the evils oi' the Poor Law Act . But let ua complain of , or rather point out other grievances , in order to show the ferocious spirit in which the accursed Poor Law Amendment Act is carried out . No later than Monday last , an inquest was held at Deptford touching tho death of a woman named Skfclton ( Skeleton would have been by far more appropriate ) , whose death it was alleged , had been
caused by starvation—starvation m a land thai has been called " the admiration of the world and tho envy of surrounding nations . " This poor creature , it appeared had not even a bed to lie upon . She lived with a man named Dew , who was as badly off as herself , and who exerted his utmost to procure for her the means of subsistence , but without success . Latterly a little tea aud dry crust were all the poor creature had to support her enfeebled frame . At length Daw applied to Harman , the relieving-oSicer , to obtain admission for Skeltoa into the Union . By this man Dew was sent before the Board , -when one of the " gentlemeu" ( Heaven save the mark ) , brutally said— " I am suro you won ' t have it , " ( meauinj ' , we suppose , an order for admission . )
Poor Dew was then told by tho " geutleman" ot this beautiful Board , to go to a hospital , and named some party who would givo him a recommendation for Skelton . In fact , it was clear that they wished to get rid of the woman , and cared not whither she waa sent , so that she did not trouble the parish . Tho woinan . it is true , was diseased , but she required nourishment rather than medicine ; aud here the relieving t > ffioer and the ' *¦ gentlemen" of the Board—the humane gentlemen—violated the orders of the Commissioners , which expressly direct that relief shall be given first , and inquiry made afterwards . Harma ^ however , inquired first as to whether deceased was the wife of Dew , aud finding that sho was not , ho would do nothing for
her 1 So the woman was deHied relief beeause she lived with a man in a state of concubinage . Why , if all persons were to be denied admission within the pale of right , who live in a state of ad til eery , some thousands would cut a very sorry figure , if they were called on to show their " marriage ceremony . " Harman informed the Coroner , that if " Dow had stated that he was not married , the case would have been different . " So that , believing deceased to be the wife of Dew , he refused her admission to the Union , and the presumption is , that if he had known that she was oiily histrn ) l , she would have been admitted Oh , Mr . Harmaii , get up a better tale when next you appear before a coroner . The jury were disgusted with the evidence to meet the case , and very
properly begged for an adjournment of the inquiry . One witness , a woman in whose house the deceased and Duw resided , told the Jury that the latter almost starved himself to supply the wants of the deceased ; tliat ha was a man of excellent character , industrious and sober ; albeit , he was driven from pillar to post , and at length the emaciated partner of his misery died at his side . Is it not scandalous that the poor should be thus treated , that they should be thua insulted—deliberately insulted by parish officers 1 There rarely was , before the institution of tho Bastile in England , a case of a humaru being dyingfor want of thenecessariesof lif » , wbobud made application for relief . To those good old days of pauper management , we hop © the country Will another in to
return . There is case -day s reaper , affording a beautiful illustration of Union management . At an inquest hold on two children w > jo were suffocated in bed in Lambeth workhouse , evidence was given by a woman named Scott , tha * , she had not only suckled the two infants when , alive , two others also in the same establish / jent 1 The woman confessed that ' she was not ' compelled to suckle all the infants . This may ba the case ; but owght such a thing to bo su ffered 1 Could the unfortunate children—four children— have received sufficient nourishment to sustain life from the breast of one woman ! The thing is impos ? ble , and the caso affords a delectable specimen of tr . odera workhouse management . —Weekly Dispatch ,
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Canvassing oi * thb Moobs . —^ FeytheT , " said a fanner ' s strapping wench , on his return last week from llochdale market to bis sheep farm in the moors of Spotlaod , " Fejther , there's bin a felley heer sin yo ' wen ' n off this mornin ' . ** Well , an \ wot did ho want ! " asked the farmer . "Want!—he sed he wanted yo ' r suff rinV for a member o'Psrliamcnt . " The dale he did ?—bnfc jo * # au him none I jeewse ?" "Nowe , mi mother eed we hadno' one i ' th' heawso , for yo'd ' n ta ' en ' em o'toBoby Bank , at Batohda ' . " " Weil , an' wot sed he then ! " ** Sed!—he set up & gurdo'iaighin ' aSiv . Jie'd ha' brasted , till 12 eet th dog lose , » n'then he ran like ewd Nick ; but ho laatt bwdth cwot laps be'ind him !"—Manchester Chronicle .
New America * Phintiju ? Machine . —The Phila delphia ( United States ) GazetU notions a new print ' iog machine , no ^ r in operation at Hanover , New Jersey , the inventisa of Mr . Tbvmaa Trench . The rags are taken to the mill and made into paper , which is ran en & reei and taken to the printing machine , which- prints six . spel » ling-books in one- minute , and three hundred books ur an hour . The types are eefc on an iron cylinder , and one revolution prints » book . The sheets are printed ou both sides at one operation , and the ink is supplied by a roller moved by machinery . The iaventor ia novr engaged on a machine that will print two com , ' mou Biblea in one minute . [ They eould , perhaps , invent a machine for compressing moonshine , and moulding it into farthing candles ; or for solidifying the colours of the . rainbow to supersede Ackerman's water-colour cakes . ]
Two Children S . dffocxikdv—A few days ago , an inquest was held before Mr . Csrter , at the Jolly Gardeners , Lambeth , on the bodies of Jane Elizabeth Reeves and Susannah Ellis , eaeh aged about two months , who were smothered in bed in Lambeth Workhouse . A female named Martha Scott had suckled the deceased , aa well as two other children . The deceased were placed in a bed with a girl named Sutty . On Friday night , Scots having suckled the deceased , they were both » ufc to bed , and then appeared in good health . The following morning they were found quite dead , and Sutty lying between them . They had every appearance of having been suffocated . It appeared that there was only one
sheet on the bed , which had been turned over the deceased , and Sutty was lying between the blankets . At this the Jury expressed much surprise . Sutty always behaved kindly to the children . Mr , Duke , the surgeon , stated that the reason why Mrs . Sootfc suckled four children was that , it having been found bad to bring children up by hand , and the mother of one being dead , the mother of the other , who is only sixteen or seventeen years of age , being rery ill , Mrs . Scott very kindly undertook , in order , it possible , to save the lives of the two children , to give them what succour she could . The Jury , after » short consultation , returned a verdict , " That tho deceased children died from suffocation , " but no blame was attached to Sutty .
Three Hours after Marriage . —Thomas Tyne was brought before Mr . Maltby , at Marlboroughstreet , under these singular circumstances . The defendant was given into custody for being drunk and disorderly at a wedding party the preceding evening , and the charge was sustained by the following evidence : —Policeman Fox , C 117 , stated that his attention was attracted to No . 3 , Thorn ' s-court , Duke-street , Hanover-square , by a quarrel , and the cries of " Murder I ' On going to the house he was told there had been a wedding that day , and that the prisoner , who had acted in the morning as father to the bride , had in the evening been found in a very questionable situation . The constable inquired if the bride was a consenting party to this novel
arrangement of matters , and not receiving a satisfactory reply , he said he could not interfere . Tho landlord of the house then gave the defendant into custody for being drunk and disorderly . When this was done , the faithless bride declared she would not be separated from her deputy husband for she liked him better than her legal spouse The bridegroom said he had met with his fickle rib not more than about four day 3 before he committed matrimony . Gn the evening of tho wedding day he went ont to made seme purchases , and to take places for the honeymoou trip , leaving his wifa aud her friend together . When he came home , to his great grief , he found his bride and tho defendant in a situation that no husband could tolerate . The
shock was so great that he swooned away , and did not regain a sense of his miserable lot for three hours . As soon as he came to himself he charged tho defendant with attempting to seduce his wife from him . Notwithstanding what had taken place , such was his love for the faithless fair , that if the prisoner would consent not to interpose in his family matters , he would forego tho charge . Ia answer to some questions put by the Magistrate , the complainant said he did not " disadmit that ho had been drinking , " as was quite natural on such a happy occasion , but he certainly was not drunk . The fit occurred through " study and grief . " All he wished
was to have undivided possession of his own lawful wife , and to prevent the defendant from coy ing her away . If the defendant would make that promise , ho would forgive him . Mr . Maltby put the question to the defendant , and he having giving a promise to keep away from both wife and husband , waa discharged . Tne wife soon afterwards made her appearance , and on hearing what had taken place , said she would not part with her friend , for she was not aware when taken to church that sho was to ba married to her present husband , and she wa ? so much taken by surprise that she allowed the ceremony to proceed .
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THE MANCHESTER MASSACRE . In reference to the vote of thanks , which was moved in the House of Commons by tbe present Lord Melbourne to the " Bloody" Yeomanry who on the field of Peterloo , indiscriminately cut down with " newly sharpened sabres" men women and children , when peaceably assembled to petition for a " redress of grievances , " the Whig Manchester Guardian has the following paragraph , which is an amusing specimen of lyiog by innendo . Tbe paragraph is going ** the round" of tbe Whig Press . To got rid of the odium attachable to Lord Melbourne for his memorable exploit , even though it should be by lying , is-an object worthy of being attained even by such mean 9 .
Here is the paragraph : — " It appears from the report of the Letda Mercury , that Mr . Hardy , in his speech at the Bradford nomination , made the following observations : — ' L » ok at Lord Melbourne . Lord Melbourne was Home Secretary at tho tiruo the people of Manchester were cut down , and moved a vote of tlianks to tha yeomanry . ' This statenitnt is a direct falsehood . The Home Secretary , at the period in question , was not Lord Melbourne , but Lord Sidmouth , and this is a fact which , if Mr . Hardy did not know , a very alight investigation would have
shown him ; and that investigation he ought in duty to have made , and not have come forward without it to endeavour to blacken the character ot a political adversary by tho utterance of a downright untratb . It is nothing to say , as possibly may be said , that Mr . Hardy believed the statement . Tbe man , who , to disparage on opponomt , mafces a statement , which ordinary inquiry would faave shown him to be vrithoutfoundation , ia only one degree less culpable—he is not at all less malignant—than the one who invents and propagates a aaked and deliberate lie . "
What M statement" is it , that the writer calls " a direct falsehood V The reader will imagine , and the writer intended that he should thus imagine , that the" statement" of Lord Melbourne ' s moving the vote of thanks in question was the " falsehood . " But this is not so t He does not dare to say this ; he only applies the term'" falsehood" to that part of the " statement" which represents Lord Msxbodbnk to bave been Secretary of State at the period named i and yet this is done in ench a manner as t » lead the reader to beliove that the whole of the " statement " is " false . " Cunning Isaac I Sue the gravi ty with
which he reproves Mr . Habdv for endeavouring to " blacken the character of a political adversary by the utteranee of a downright untruth , " at the very moment he is lyisg by inuendo for the purpose of whitewashing Lord MiaBOUBNB J What a " lecture " Mr Ha * dy gets , on the enormity of the sin of lying because Mr . Hardy happened to say , or happens to be reported to have said , that Lord Meibodbmb was the Secretary of State , when Lord Sidmouth oceupiad the stool of office ! To make this mistake is an attempt to " blacken the character" of Lord MaBouawBl
The facts are these . Lord Melbourne was not the Secretary of State at the time of the Manchester massacre . Lord SiDHouta was . Bat Lord Melbourne , ( then called " the Hon . Mr . Lamb , ") was a member of tho House of Commons ; * oi in that capacity , acting under instructions from the then Tory Government , moved that vote of thanks to the butchers for murdering the people , whioh wae passed by the " Hon . House" I Daro tho Manchester Guardian say that thia " statement , " is a "direct falsehood !"
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THE NORTHERN STAR . . ; , ' . : ¦ ¦¦ -., ' : . -3 tfS ^^ ^ = S == ^^^ ' ' . - ¦ ¦ - ¦ - . ' ... . ¦ " ' ' ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ " . - " ¦ ¦ ¦ * " -. " ' B——SBSBSi » ' i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 17, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct558/page/3/
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