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THE BLESSINGS OF INSTRUCTION The heart has tendrils lite the Tine , Whieh ronnd another ' s bosom twine , Oatspringing from the living tree Of deeply-rooted sympathy ; ¦ Whose flowers are hope , its fruits are tliSSj Beneficense ite harvest is . There are some bosoms dirk and drear , Which an anwater'd desert are ; yet there a curious eye may trace , Some smiling spot , some verdant place , ^ fcere little flowezsrthe woods between , Spend their soft fragrance ail unseen .
pespise them not , for wisdom ' s toil Has ne ' er disturb'd that stubborn soil ; Yet care and culture mifht hare brought The ore of troth from mines of thought , ± ni fancy ' s fairest flowers had bloom'd Where ttnth and fancy lie entomb'd . Insult him not , his blackest crime May , in his Maker ' s eye sublime , In spite of all thy pride be less Than e ' er thy daily ¦ waywardness ; Than many a sin and many a staia , FiHgotten and Tjnpress'd again .
There is m eTery human heart Some not completely barren part , Where seeds of truxh and love might grow And flowers of generons virtue blow , To plant , to ¦ watch , to water there , This be our duty , be our care . And sweet it is the gro : wth to trace Of worth , of intellect , of grace , In bosoms "where our labours first Bid the young seeds cf spring-time burst , And lead it on from hour to hour To ripen into perfect nower .
Hast thou e ' er seen a garden dad In all the robes thatXden had , Or vale o'erspread with streams and trees , A paradise of mysteries ; Plains with green hills adorning them , like jewels in a discern ? These gardens , rales , and plains , and hills , "Which beauty gilds and music fills , Were ence but deserts , culture ' s band Has scatter ed verdure o ' er the land , Aoi smiles and fragrance rales serene , Where barren -wilds ¦ osnip'd the scene .
And such is man , a soil which bnedr , Or sweetest flowers , or vilest weeds , Flowers , lorely as the morning light , Weeds deadly as the aconite ; Just as his heart is train'd to bear The poisonous weed , or floweret fair .
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DUSItTTf . —( From our own Correspondent ^—The new cprporatioa is about to levy a borough rate , amounting to the enormous sum of £ 7000 a year , for the openly avowed purpose of providing pensions for the omeera of the old corporation , in order to make way for the hungry orators Of the Corn Exchange , It is not known as yet , how the impoverished citizens will pat np wiih this new tax , or whether they will snbmit to it at ali . The repeal rem is falling o £ , aad unless the orators are pro-Tided for , there will be a rebellion in ihe camp . The tribute too was woefully deficient this year , which accounts in some measure for this attempt at a borough rate . Had the tribute been as ample as
iereiofbre , the rate would not hare been mentioned this year at all events ; bur , the deficiency in the amount of the tribute deprived the Liberator of the jnraB 3 of retaining tbe same number of roaring Biiellites which he has heretofore done , and even the reduced stiff are now placed on short allowance . Tneir sheet anchor is the repeal delusion , and like dying misery they hold fast to the las ; moment . They will allow no one to help them on with the agitation of that question , they must keep it and all ite profits to themst Ires . The weekly sums received by tbe Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , during the last year are , according to the reports published in the newspapers , about £ 350 , which is equal to £ 18 , 200 . Of the manner in which this
large sum has been applied there is no account nor never will . To be rnre it may be that tke old trick wfll be practised on the pubiic , vhat of appointing auditors whs are wholly incapable of distinguishing between the debh&nd the creditor side of an account current , men who npon former occasions certified thai there was a balance of £ 73 6 s . llfd . doe to the Liberator including the parceil £ 100 which were lodged in the Tralea branch of the national bank . Wei ! , after all , there is not much of this money finds its way into the pockets of ihe Liberator , as the Bays , the Steeles , the Daunts , the Fitzpatricks , ihe Ayers , the Fitzsimons , the Frenche ? , sad the Reynolds have all a pull out of it , so that comparatively little of it reaches the poor Liberator m the
ead , although he has the name of receiving the whole . The people are beginning to ask what has become of ihe £ 10200 !' -Bm no one feels disposed to answer &s question . Poor Coyne , of Capei-sireet , who Spied some weks since at ihe Unmi . -al Suffrage Association , and subsequently at the Loyal National Bepeal Association of Ireland , at which latter place he disclaimed . all connection with the Universal Suffrage Society , has been dreadfully beaten by the Bepealers , because he was suspected of Chartism , while at the very time he was beaten he had a certificate from tie president and a letter from the secretary , both stating that he did not belong to their society . Nothing wonld satisfy the moral-force O'Connellit& ' B , but the life of Coyne , and they really
mve placed his life in jeapordy ; after knocking him down they kicked him in the abdomen , and damaged Mm so much that there is little , Tary little hope of his restoration to perfect health again . It i 3 evident to every one here that Mr . Coyne brought himself into this trouble by his own cunning and vanity . He admits himself that he accompanied "Mr . Thomas Aikins , the east-cleihes nan , to Henry-street , on the night of the attack cpoa air . Lowery , the Chartist missionary ; that although he held Mr . Lowery ' s principles , yet he was afraid to take part with him . lest it might iDJure him h the way of his business . That he was subsequently appointed hatter to the Lord LienUnant , and wa 3 afterwards appointed , in conjunction with Mr . Lanrenson , whostrnck Mr . Lowery , as one of the valuators of the North Dublin Union under the
Poor Law Act ; that these appointments were given to him by the Government which persecuted the Chartists ; that he was one of Mr . O'Connell ' a stalking horses at the late municipal elections , and withdrew a ; the bidding of his leader : that when the election of Poor Law Guardians was approaching , Mr . Cope attended a meeting of the Chartists at Mr . O'Higjrins ' s , and professed himself a flaming Chartist ; tnat having been called to account by the CTCoBnellites , he disclaimed all connection with the Irish Universal Suffrage or Chartist Association ; that by these efforts to play the double game , to keep in with the Chartists and with their bitter enemies , be has lost the confidence of both , and ¦ was kieked bj ihe O'Connellites into the bargain . Honesty is the best policy after all . It is a fcolish thiug to have a whisper for everybody , and a secret to tell everybody which nobody else Ehall hear .
CAEUSLE . —Diabolical Case of Asso * . — Daeixg Attempt to Defraud the York ai ? d Loxdos Fike 15 SCHA > TB CoMPA-VT . —On Saturday Bjornii . g , the " 12 th infant , about two o'clock , an farming fire broke out in the premises of the Angel Inn , English-street , Carlisle , occupied by ife . Christopherson , a widow , who , with her daughter , Frances Chrii-topherson , and Mary Blayloak , servant , were the oniy inmates . The fire was fct discovered by a police officer , named Robertson , who immediaitly proceeded to alarm the inmates , b&t he knocked very loudly at the door for twenty or twenty - five minutes , before the door "was opeoed . After ihe delay we have mentioned , Mrs . Chlhlbpherson opened the deor . The flame 3 were
BOW spreading rapidly through the house , and a number of persons had begun to collect . The police force , with the fire engines , were sooi on the spot , » nt the firs was raging so furiously , that it wa 3 found necessary to rescne the inmates by getting them out of one of iho front windows . The fire engines being admirably -worked , the fire was got under in about an hour , but not nntil the greatest alarm had spread over the neighbourhood , in the safety of the adjoining propeity . On one sde of the Angel Inn is the Joiners' ArmB , occupied by Mr . Little ; and on the other , a milliner ' s aad draper ' s shop ; and behind , a number of stables , almost immediately communicating with the Coffee House Hottl ; and to add to the alarm , the wind
Was blowing Tery hard at the time . Had the fire not been discovered at the time it was , and the greatest exertions made , property to a grezt amount must have been inevitably destroyed , and , in all probability , many lives sacrificed . As soon as the fire had been got under , Mr . Graham , superintendent of police , entered the premises , and from what be Caen observed , felt fatty convinced that the premises O&d beenwilfnUy set fire to . He immediately took Mr ? . Christopherson , her daughter , and servant into CBstody . At eleven o'clock the prisoners were iroueht for examination before the Magistrates at
the Town Hall . On the Bench were Joseph Ferguson , Esq ., George Saul , Esq ., Thomas Salkald , Esq ., and John Dixoa , Esq . Mr . Graham , snpernitendent of police , Btated in the course of his evidence , —I found the flooring in several rooms had been broken np , and peats , sticks , and shavings ftnxcd up together . In one of the rooms where there is no fire place , the peats wero on firo fci a corner . In another room the combustibles * ere placed on the niiddlo of the floor ready for aghting . I saw a chest of drawers—the drawers * tre token out and piled on a table , and testing % * inst one of the bedsteads—the drawers were
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empty . Under the table on which the drawers were placed , was a large quantity of shavings and peats . In the same room was a press , and inside were a number of long pieces of split wood set up sideways . In one room a portion of the boards were torn up and split , and mixed up with peats and shavings , ready for lighting . In the kitchen and bar , the ceilings were torn and shavings hanging through . This was also the case in one of the upper rooms . From all that I observed , there had been a systematic attempt to burn the premises . Mrs . Christopherson told me that her stock was insured for £ 50 , and the furniture for £ 300 .
Mr . Stordy ,- agent , in Carlisle , for the York and Lendon Insurance Company , stated that Mrs . Christopherson effected an insurance with him for £ 350 , and-Block £ 50 . She paid the insurance and got the policy ; it was dated some time in October . Mary Blaylock , ( one of the prisoners ) said she wished to make a statement . Mr . Ferguson told her , that what Bhe said would be taken down , and might hereafter be used against her .
She said— -I have lived with Mrs . Christopherson since Whitsuntide . She insured her furniture in October , and I assisted her about the 1 st of February , in getting the chips and things ready and getting the fires on . She wished me to do it . We got a large iron thing and an axe , to raise the boards—ohop them to ma ^ e on the fires . I assisted her in all she desired me to do . We had three fires on in tbe high rooms —two on ths second floor in the first room . They were made on yes ' . eraay forenoon , about ten or eleven o ' clock . They were made ready for lighting . Three fires were made on in the back room of
the second floor , they were not in grates , but on the floor . There , was a chest of drawers in the back room , part of them were taken out and placed in the first room . There was a fire made in the kitchen and one in the back parlour , and one in tbe press as Mr . Graham stated in the back bed room One below the stairs . I went with her when she lighted them . We lighted three fires ; and after that we went into the front room . The smoke was like to suffocate us before we got in . I think it would be about half past one I think I have nothing more to say .
By Mr . Ferguson—Did your Mrs . say what this was for ? Witness—For the Insurance . By Mr . Ferguson—Did the daughter know of this ? Witness—She knew , but took no part in making on ihe fires . Mrs . Christopherson , said—The girl was the first who proposed it to me . Her husband is in America and Ehe wished to go to him . The prisoners were then removed for further examination , and ordered to be kept in separate confinement .
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CONFIRMATION OF THE WORST ACcounts from india by the g overnment organ . "We fear that there is now little hope of any mitigation of the deplorable accounts from Afghanistan . At a -late hour yesterday we ascertained that the intelligence received at the office of the Board of Contronl more than confirmed the worst statements in circulation ; but , as it appeared that these accounts merely echoed the impressions of the Indian Government , - formed without official or anthentic information , we adhered to the hope that the local authorities had been misinformed . Many private letters caused us to abandon that hope , which , though wanting an official character , are traceable to certain
and trustworthy sources , agree in giving the following outline of the sad disaster . On the 5 th of January , the British force to the number of about 4000 men , quitted the entrenched camp of Cabool under a convention agreed npon by Major Pot linger and Mahomed Ukhbar . The terms of the convention are not described further than that these terms guaranteed the unmolested retreat of the British to Jellalabad , with some equivalent advantage to be given to the insurgents , for the assurance of which advantage six British officere—the names of only three of whom we knew ( Messrs . Webb . Walsh , audConolly ) —were retained as hostages . The convention , however , as must have been apparent to every one acquainted with the perfidious character of the
Afighans , was made only to be violated ; for the British had scarcely appeared outside of their entrenchment ? , when they were attacked by the whole Affghan force , probably ten times their number ; they fought their way , however , through a long and dangerous defile , to the point at which it narrows most , . at the Kourd Cabool Pass , about ten or twelve miles from Cabool . Here their position becoming utterly desperate , they dismissed the women in their company , surrendering them to an Affghan escort , who carried them back to the city . At Tezeen , a little in advance of the pass , General Elphinstoneand Colonel Shelton were made prisoners . This loss of their chief officers , and the severe defeat which probably caused it , was naturally followed by
the disorganization of tbe army ; and the rest of we attempted retreat was reduced to a series of desperate and desultory struggles , in which the immense superiority in numbers of the enemy , and their occupation of all the strong positions , enabled them to destroy the whole army in detail—a few stragglers alone escaped , almost by miracle , to Jellalabad . Among these was Dr . Brydon , who reached the Ia 3 t . named place in an exhausted and almost dying state , on the 18 ih , a fortnight after the commencement of the fatal retreat . It was Dr . Brydon's misfortune to witness the fall of seven of his brother officers , among whom are named Brigadier Anquetil , Major Ewart , and Lieutenant Sturt . He also witnessed the capture of General Elphinstone and Col . Shelton ( preof that the first had sot died , as was reported ) , and the
disorganisation of the army . We have not seen any particulars of his own escape . Such is the latent and most complete , and , we believe the most accurate , account of this melancholy affair , so deplorable in itself , and so unfortunate in its political influence , By this time the honour of the British arm 9 has no doubt been fully vindicated ; bat at what expense ? At the cost of rendering the occupants of the gale of India for ever the implacable enemies of the British name . The mnrdei of Byrnes and M'Naghten must be avenged , the treachery and cruelty of Mahommed Ukhbar must be punished , or the whole of our Indian influence will be shaken to its centre . But how can this be made appear otherwise than unjust and tjrannical to the wantonly invaded Affgbans ? Such are ever the retributive consequences of the first deviation from the right path . —Standard ; Friday . '
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THE NECESSITY OF UNION . TO THE EDITOB . OF THE NORTHERN STAB . " When the native Chiefs in India are in divan together , and tbe spbject of getting rid of their European tyrants is in discussion , the unanimous resolve is this , « Murder ( hem !'"—Sir Johw . Malcolm . Sis , —England &ni India are in extraordinary positions , and will have to undergo extraordinary purifications . They are in some measure paraUeld eases India has been tyrannised over and plundered by a handful of foreign oppressors by the want of organisation and union ; and England has bound her neck to the yoke , for causes precisely ' similar . Both are about to throw off the chains of slavery , but I feel great
anxiety for the fate of our gallant soldiers in the East I left my old regiment , " tbe sixteenth Lancers , ' in 1 S 36 , at Cawnpore , and many , since that time have bitten the dust in Afghanistan . A great portion of the rtgiment were ** lads "' from Yorkshire and Lancashire , and a more intelligent set of men never girded on a sword . I have left many friends there , and was in hopes of their return home this year , but I fear the state of affairs in the East will prevent it They are much wanted in poor old England . . . ¦ I know you have little space for correspondence , but a few . lines on the snbjectof strict union m&j not be inapplicable . I will tell ? ou how tbe authoririea have governed India . On recruiting for the native regiments , or " Sipatees , " they took especial care to enlist men of different " creeds" and « ' castes . "
Generally one third were Mohammedans , another third Hindoos , and the remainder usually consisted of a mixture of all creeds and " Pariahs , " or no creed at alL When the Mohammedans wer * dissatisfied , the Hindoos and Pariahs were arrayed against them ; when the Hindoos were rebellious \ and they frequently were so ) , the other two-thirds were slipped at ihem ; and the same with the Pariahs . Hitherto this has been the mode of " legislation , " but the people are about UNiliHG , and tbe game is well nigh played out in India . To save our lives there , we must be firmly banded together , otherwise we shall be massacred and cut off in small detachments . Three years ago I warned the Government of what has taken piece in Cftbool , but 1 might as well have warned stocks and stones . _ ......
In 1822 , 1 was at Hyderabad , when a furious battle took place between the Mohammedans , who were in almost a state of rebellion , so ihey were made to dtslroy each other 1 Spies and emissaries were sent among them and so successful were they in their holy mi * sion that the Arab caste » f Mehammedana and the Puttans , another caste ( one breaking tbe egg the big end , the other the Uttie end ) , turned out of the city under the walls , and left seven thousand dead on the plain I to , the great deligbt , amusement , andinstrectloii of the Engluii oendemen , who tiawed tide whole scene from thB top of toe British Beadenees 1 Afltr that fhe » vxre gtuet enough ' The respective leader * , Schaik Dailah and Eneas Bahander , fought hand" to hand ; the former was killed on the spot , the latter died tbe next day of his wounds . Now my dear iriends , the Chartists , let na b » ¦ warned by the fete of the Arabs and Puttans ; let the Whigs ana Tories go to loggerheads , and tee will eojsy
thesporf . : Mid-He classes , join with the working classes on fair term ? and in all sincerity . Ton cannot get the repea , of . Va » Com laws without us ; bat if we gave you t > Repeal on Saturday nisht , we might whistle for the Carter on Monday morning . But let us bar' the Charter , origfes , snout , and all , on Saturday , r fla yon ahall hare the Repeal on Mouday . On no otr ^ r termi
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can ^ we join you , and if you are sincere , you will not hesitate one instant . " Union and no surrender" } s our only motto ! ' A Woolwich Cadet . P . S- I see the Chartist Tricolour is Aloft , and it should be thrust under the " Plague" noses everywhere and on all occasions . . xnricbester , 7 th March ., 1842 .
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CROWN COURT , Fki » at , March 11 . Be / ore Mr . Baron Rolfe . THS ESCRICK MURDER . AH the avenues and passages in the Castle were crowded for upwards of an hour before the opening of the court , by parties anxious to hear the above trial . Great inconvenience was sustained by parties who had business in the courts , in consequence of the pressure of the . crowd and the difficulty in other respects of obtaining admittance . Mr . Barou RoiFB took his seat soon after niae o ' clock , and immediately afterwards * Jonathan Taylor , aged 60 , was placed at the bar , charged with the wilful murder of Ellen Taylor , his wife , by strangling her , at Escrick , on the 26 th of October last . Mr . BainilS , Mr . Wilkins / and Mr . Pashley were counsel for the prosecution ; Sir Gregory Lkwin and Mr . BlaNSHabd were for the prisoner .
Mr . BaiNES stated the case at great length . He felt sure that the nature of the charge would of itself ensure the serious attention of the Court and Jury . The statement he had now to make he should endeavour to render as clear as possible , in order to enable them to see their way dearly through , —not entering into long detail , bnt giving such a general outline as would serve for the purpose he had stated . The unfortunate deceased stood in tbe relation of wife to the prisoner at the bar . They had lived upon a farm belonging to Lord Wenlock , about two miles from Escrick , and within a few miles of this city . Until about four years ago the prisoner bad lived with hia wife and family , the latter consisting of four sons and three daughters ; one daughter was married , and did not reside with the
family . The prisoner and the family until about four years ago lived in harmony together upon the farm , which consisted of a&out 215 acres , and up to that time the prisoner had the management himself . He then seemed to have formed a connexion with another woman , which took him to Hull , where he lived separate from bis -wife for a considerable time . Their noble landlord , commiserating the feelings of the family , went to Hull , where he sought out the prisoner , and prevailed on him to become a party to an agreement , by which the management of the form was to be placed in the hands of deceased . A copy of this agreement waa tiven to the deceased , who deposited it in a drawer in the house . After a time the prisoner returned , and remained with the family a short time . He left them
again , and again he returned ; and the footing on which he lived for the last two or three years was , that he was permitted to be there , but to take no part in the management of the farm , and still less to take any money , a shilling or two being given to him at a time , for which he lent a hand at busy times . On the 26 th ef October last , the day of the murder , it was necessary that the -whole of tbe family , with the exception of the deceased , should go away from the house , to a distance oi half a mile , where they were engaged in the potato field . Not only were the whole of the family engaged there , but they had also called in the assistance of several persons in the village . On the evening previous the prisoner had intimated his intention of going in the morning to Selby ; and accordingly , on
Tuesday rooming , he got up before daylight , and went out The rest of the family breakfasted together , and about eight o ' clock they went to the potato field , with tbe exception ot one son , who joined them about nine o ' clock , and at that time he left his mother alivo and perfectly well . At twelve the family returned from the potato field , and on going into the house they found their mother quite dead , lying upon the hearth , near the fire , and the lower part of her person burnt A bunch of keys was lying beneath the deceased . Medical men were sent for , who arrived about half-past ttrelVe o ' clock ' , in the afternoon , and their testimony was , that from the appearance of the bddy , they had no doubt that the deceased bad died abo'it two hours before , and might have been dead
more . Consequently her death must have tiken place about half-past ten , a matter to which the jury would have to direct their attention , as it would show , whoever was tho murderer , the deed was committed between nine and half-past ten . Some further inquiry then took place , ana observations were made , the result of which was , tbat from certain marks upon the neck and / ace , the deceased had come to her death by choking or strangulation . There were also bruises upon the head , and bums upon the lower part of the body . And it would be shown that from the appearances of these burns upon the body , they must have been inflicted after deceased was already dead by other means . The family looked about the bouse , and went to a drawer in which at eight that morning the deceased had been seen
to lock upabont £ 3 in silver . The drawer was found locked , but the money was gone ; and the key cf the drawer was lying under the person of the deceased on the hearth . The keys were perfectly bright , notwithstanding the fire he had spoken of . It was now his dnty to state some facts to be submitted on tbe part of the prosecution , in erderto fix the guilt of the crime on the prisoner . A few weeks before the murder the prisoner met a person named Kirk ; end stated to her tbat he should soon return to Hull again . She said " what for ? " and he replied , " why , you'll see . " On the 8 th of October , the sum of £ 70 was paid to the deceased by a perosn who had bought some stock of her , and that sum was taken by her , in the sight ff the prisoner , into a room where she had . formerly
been in tbe habit of depositing her money , bnt no longer ; for since the return tf the prisoner , the place for keeping the money had been changed . He saw her go into that room ; Bhe closed the door ; and he had no reason to believe but that the money was in that room . On the day of fie murder tbe prisoner went oat before daylight , having announced his intention of going to Selby . He was never seen by any of bis family previous to them going to the potato field ,- but a person who belonged t >» mill in the neighbourhood , and who Cad rec ived instructions from one of the sons to call for some barley , came to tbe house at half-pait nine , at the back door . He was going to open the door , "when he found it opened from within , and the prisoner stood before him
upon the threshold . The man said he had come for some basley . The prisoner said that he could not have any , because they were all away at the potatofield . The miller then said , " Where's the mistress ? " and the prisoner replied , 'why Bhe ' s at the potato field too , and you most come again to-night or to-morrow morning . " This man perceived that the prisoner seemed particularly anxious that he should not go into the house ; and his evidence would show that very near to the time of the murder the prisoner was upon the spot where it was committed , and giving a false account of his wife , because he must havo known that she never was at thfa potato field at alL At a quarter past ten the prisoner was seen going in a direction from bia own honse towards Selby . not
by the ntual road , but along a private track , in which private track was afterwards found a buttle of rum ; and tbe quantity in the bottle found corresponded with that which was in the bottle in the house previous to the murder . Besides this there were taken three pounds in silver , the agreement before referred to , and a policy of insurance , all from tbe same drawer . He had now brought the narrative down to naif-past ten , when tbe prisoner was seen proceeding in the direction be naa stated . He should next trace him to Selby , where he arrived about haifpast eleven , and it would be shown that he . could have no business there , because he spent the whole of his time in a public-house and . au eating-house . He left Selby at a quarter past two , and proceeded
towards home . When on the road bo was met by a miller named Leedel , who first communicated to the prisoner the information of bis wife ' s death , and on which his demeanour would be described by the ¦ witness .: After leaving Leedel the prisoner went towards his own house ; but was met at the- Lodge gates by a woman , who ' " told * him- that some one had suid tbat his wife must have fallen down in a fit . The prisoner said that was very likely , because she had beeu complaining of a pain in her head for two or thiee days past . The daughter would tall them that her mother was perfectly well , and had made no- such ( complaints in her hearing . The prisoner then went home , and saw his eldest daaghter , -who is atoat thirty years of age .
She said to him " Have you been at home to-day , father ? " He said , " No , I have not ; I went out before six o'clock this morning and went to Selby , and I have been there all the day . " A woman named Jane Brabbs asked him what time be got to Selby ? when he answered tbat he reached ibat place about half-past eight A » inquest was held , and on the evening of tbe first day the prisoner made a statement to two persons as to the manner he had passed his time that day . He Baid h © -vreat out at six © . ' clock in the morning , and called U > see Lord Wealock ' s gamekeeper , to ask him for a couple of rabbits to take to bis niece a& Selby ; that be could see nobody there , and so he waited an hour , and then came hose . That account was notenly incoBsisteztt with the other , but it would be shown that
the keeper ma at home that morning at seven o ' clock , and thai if the prisoner had gone , as he bad said , to tbe dog kennela , he moat have found him there . As to therabbita ' the niece at -Selby would state Unit she had never hear J of such a thing , nor had she spoken to the prisoner for a year before . At the back of the prisoner's house Wis a large dog , 'which always barked furiously when -Btrangeni approached . That dog waa heard to bark when the miller went tbat morning , but never after * # ards by "which it waa evident that no stranger h » d gone near the bouse that -morning . The Learned & ntleman having thus given an outline of the case , ' . aid he Joined with his friend on the other side in intreating the Jury to dismiss from their lnmds whatever they migfethaTe previously heard upon the subject , and form their judgment exclusively on the evidence produced © n oath before them . If they had any reasonable doubts of the prisoner ' s guilt , they would give him the benefit thereof , and acquit ; but if they baa no men reasonable doubt , lie felt it to be Ms duty to
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call upon them to do their duty manfully and faithfully to their country . . . . Tha examination of witnesses was then proceeded with , and every particular of the Bt-it ' inent of the Learned Counsel was corroborated by the testimony of about thltty-witnesses , by whom a complete chain of etrong circumstantial evidence waa farnisaeflv Sir . Gregory LEWiNthen ^ daressed the Jnry for the prisoner . He « aid he hadnow the honour to address twelve men { com the West Biding of this county , and that ensured him of two things , the one that he should receive ^ patient attention , and the other that this case would be most fully and fairly considered by every in , dividual memVer of that Jury . A fellow-creature was now on his trial for his life , with them was the issue of
life Mid death , and upon their verdict depended whether he went away a living man fromthat bar ; or whether he at once entered into eternity . He made thisr observation notthot he thought for a moment they would be without that feeling which would suggest itself to his own mind , viz ., the duty of giving every attention to the case from beginning to end , bnt he did it that they might be able to bring all tbe faculties of their mind to bear . upon it , because he never had seen a case brought before a court of , justice where it at > - peared to him the judgment of the faenhies of the Jury were more required to combat difficulties and doubts than the present . They had to consider first of all whether the deceased came by her death by violent means committed by some personand on that point
, he stated that he had seldom seen a case -wrapped up With so much Difficulty as thia , because they had it in evidence that the appearance -which presented themselves to the medical gentlemen after death BaJght be occasioned by other causes . than those which suggested themselves to these medical men . The question was , did M--8 . Taylor die by the haM of the prisoner or did she die from being burnt to deattii frpm the accidedtal catching fire of her clothes ? After alluding to the opinion of the surgeons , be contended that from the deceased being found lying near the fender ^ the niark might have been produced on her neck by falling from the effects of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere created by the accidental burning of the clothes , which it was suggested and admitted might be prodnced fey smoke and flame
acting upon the air ; and which causes persons to become insensible and dswn they fill . Arid where was she found ? close to the fender with this mark upon her , and a tumefaction or swelling on her face , which were perfectly eonsistent with all the facts and circumttances of this case . He next submitted that no motive on tho part of the prisoner in reference to this trahaction bad been proved , and he stated it bad struck him as the most unlikely and unnatural t * iing in the world if he hart committed tbe murder that he should then have quietly walked to Selby , and there deport himself as he had done . He then remarked on the fact of the cap being undisturbed . What 1 did he strangle her , then adjust her cap , then set fire to ! her , and then put tke : ropes oh the ; cupboard
instead of putting them 04 . ' . ' tbe fire , which waa the most ready mode iof getting rid of them . The jury vere to ask themselves if such a thing was likely 1 After commenting on the evidence of seme of the witnesses , he said that it had been Suggested that the prisoner had gone back to tho house , committed the deed , and gone away again . A great deal of evidence had been given to show that if any persona had gone In the direction of Taylor ' s house they might have been seen . He would then ask why . teas not the prisoner seen ? Nobody did see the prisoner , and Wfay was it to apply to other persons , and not to the prisoner ? He goes in and comes out on that occasion , and yet he ia
seen by nobody near the house . He asked the jury whether they were prepared to say that Mrs . Taylor ' s death could not halve been : caused . by the union of carbonic acid gas with tho atmospheric air , and in falling caused the mark oh her neck , that she could not have set fire to herself , and that she could nob have died as he had suggested . ^ He made a strong appeal to the feelings of the Jury . He exhorted them not to tako away the life of the prisoner , unless the case appeared to them so clear and so satisfactory as to leave no reasonable deubt upon their minds . They were accountable for their verdict to their own consciences , to their God , and to their country . '
The Learned Judge then summed up the evidenco , ably commenting upon all the moat material facts that presented themselves . The Jury , without leaving their box , found the prisoner GUILTY . The Judge then put on the black cap , and pi ? oclamatien for silence was made . He passed the sentence of death in the following terms : — " Jonathan Tftylor ,- * - The Jury , aftar a long and anxious investigation , have returned a verdict of Guilty , which verdict mu 3 t " meet with tho approbation of every individual who has witnessed the proceedings of this day . They have found you to be guilty of the highest offence knoWn t > the law—an offence at which our nature most revolts—a crime too , which , in your case , ia attended with circumstances of extraordinary aggravation , ; The object of your guilt was not some stranger—was not a person against whom . you could have a very well-founded
ground of complaint—it wa , s the partner of your bed , the mother cf your offspriag . I cannot say more , and I mention that not for the purpose of upbraiding you , but for the purpose of iuggesting to you , that yours is a case in -which any hope of mercy on this side of the grave must be entirely fallacious , and I entreat you to employ the few days of your Jifo which yet remain to you , in attending to the instructions you will receive ere you will appear before that Almighty Judge before whom yon must soon be summoned . It only remains for me to say that for the crime of wilful murder , of which you have been convicte . " ! , you be taken from hence to the prison from whence you . came , aid from thence you be taken to a place cf execution to be hanged by the neck till your body be dead / and when dead , to be taken down and buried within the precincts of the prison after this your conviction according to the ttatuts , and may tbe Almighty have mercy on your soul . . ¦¦ *¦ . ¦ : * - . * . ¦ ¦¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ * ;¦ * : - •¦ ¦ :-
The prisoner appeared to be quite unmoved both during the trial and after the passing of the 8 entence . The Court rose about half-past eight o ' clock .
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OXFORD C 1 KCUIT . —STAFFORD . Crown Court , FaibAX , March iith . ( Before Mr . Justice CressvbelL ) Samuel Jacobs , a boy of 16 , was indicted for assaulting and woumiing Thomas Harvey , on the 21 st bf October last , and stealing from hia person a knife and 10 s . Mr . YaRDLE v conducted the case for the prosecution . The prisoner was undefended . . : From the evidence given it appeared that the prosecutor , a stout , hearty man , in the prime tf life , and more than a match , even-banded ; f > r two such assailants as the prisoner , was drinking in the kitchen of the Bull Inn , at Cheadle , on the night in question , when the prisoner came into the house , and was offered by him soiue bread and cheese . Soon afterwards the prisoner and the prosecutor left the bouse together , and
the prosecutor asked the lad where he was going 7 The prisoner replied that he had no home , and no place to go to , and therefore it was quite indifferent to him where he went The prosecutor accordingly took him by the hand , and they walked together ajong the road about a couple of milca , when the boy , haying looked cautionsly about him , remarked . "It strikes me , master , you have got money about you . ' * ' The prosecutor said that he had only got a few shillings , and that it was not often tbat a man in his situation of life had more , and they then walked along in silence together for about another mile , when the prosecutor felt a btunning sensation , and found himself at the same moment lying on the ground . The instant after he heard the reports of what seemed to him to be a
brace of pistols fixed iki rapid succession , and soon lost all consciousness . When he recovered hia senses , which was not till the day was beginning to break , he found that he had lost his hat , hia stick , his knife , and about 10 e . in silver . There were several severe gunshot wounds about his head , which , in the opinion of the medical men -who -were examined , could not have been produced by one discharge . The prisoner was seen at daybreak about a quarter of a mile from the spot where t * he prosecutor- "was wounded , and told the man who met him that he had just picked up a . knife , which was identified as the prosecutor ' s , and asked whether he had lost one . Tha party replied in the negative , and then the prisoner proceeded to tell him that he was walking f . pm Cheadle with a man the night before ,, and that , near the spot -where they then were tbe man was lired at ever a wall by a man with x pistol . He represented that he only saw the man ' s arm , and tbat the J > i 8 tol flashed in thu pan t directly after
wards a second pistol was pointed and ehot the maa with whom he was walking . Suspicion waa excited by his story , and . after some time bad elapsed he was given into custody . The hat 06 the prosecutor ywa discovered near the spot where Ss- was wounded , " lyifig in a ditch , and his stick was found outside of a sort of hovel where tha- prisoner stated that he had passed the aigbt Two oe three spots of Wood were also Beea on his arm ; but , as he was never properly searched , there were no means of ascertaining whether he had any weapons about him likely to base produced the wounds inflicted . A . shilling , however , and a sumot 7 s . 6 d . were picked up at two places , where he was observed to have stooped down for a moment aa ha walked along . ¦' "'¦ . ' '• ¦ ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ - .: . ¦ ' ¦ :. ' . ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ —"' : : ' :- : '" .- : ' ;" :-: : . ' ¦'¦' ¦' / ' : The Jury found him Guilty , and Mr . Justice Cressweul , after some remarks upon the enormity of the offence , directed Sentence of Death te be Recorded against him , but Intimated that ha would be Transported for Life .
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MIDLAND CIRCUIT—NOTTINGHAM , March H , WILFUL MURDER AT MANSFIELD . John Jones , alias Samuel Mpore , aged 24 , was placed at the bar , charged with the wilful murder of Mary Hallam , at Mansfield , by cutting her throat with a knife . ' . ' . '¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' . ¦ .- ¦¦ ¦ ' / ' ' ¦ - \\ ' : ' : . " :.-. ¦ ¦• : ¦' . ]¦ ¦¦' ¦ '¦ \ V The prisoner , who is a fine handsome young man , formerly lodged with , the deceased ' s parents , and had for some time paid his addresses to her with success . A little before last Easter , however , the intimacy broke , off , owing to Br , me violence on his part , and the prisoner went to \ odge at Mrs . Wragg ' a in the same yard ; still , howevov , speaking to the deceased at certain times , loving her , as he soya himself , " to distraction . " She had , bov / ever , formed an acquaintance with another persop , which gave him great uneasiness . On Thurs-
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day , Dec . 30 , the deceased returned hout * from the country , aid at iaigbi about half-past eight sL *» went ' out into the yard , saying she would go and hear so . Tie news . She neverreturned . Seareh was made tot ^ b . ei'everywhere , until at last tha prisoner ' s shop , which is 1 ^ garret in the same yard , uoderevent inspection . By get ting on a table and chair a view through the vtrlndoV *>?* obtained , and there lay the lif-jless body of the haplet a girl , with her throat cut in many places , and the floor a pool of blood . The prisoner was apprehended in his lodgings within three hours after the girl had left home , and on the road to the lock-up confessed that it was he who did the murder that he thought as he could not
have her no one else should , and that he intended to destroy himself ; but his mind misgave him , and he was glad he had not done so , as ho ought to suffer publicly , as o warning to others . The only palliation he endeavoured to make was , that the crime was not premeditated i that it was done in a moment . He did riot wish to be defended on hi $ trial , and . actually at first plead guilty , bnt his Lordship would not receive the plea , and the people of Mansfield , who pitied his ^ situation , T raised a subscription to defend him . Mr . MILLER addressed the Jury for the prisoner . His Lordship then sununed up , and the Jury immediately found tfie prisoner Guilty of Murder . He was sentenced to execution .
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THE TENDER MERCIES OE THE WICKED . NEVV POOR LiW" ATROCITIES . We published yesterday tho particulars of a most distressing case of Poor Law maladministration at Windsor ;—a locality already too ; notorious for its fidelity to the principles , and entrgeiie conformity fa the practices , recommended by the spirit of jthe Somer ' set-house ; system . It forms i \ o inapt pendent to the new regulations for the government of workhouses on which we commented en Wenestlay , illustrating , a class of cruelties and abuses which those regulations do not touch , — -those inflicted upon unfortunate applicants for casual -. relief , . -. It was investigated during an inquest held at Kensington before Mr . Wakley , whose excellent discharge of . his duty as coroner in that and other places has already been of the greatest service to the
poor , by dragging into light numerous cases of oppression and misconduct which might otherwise have lain concealed , and bringing to bear upon them » thorough acquaintance with the subject and a hearty sympathy with the oppressed . Tbe public are indebted in a great degree to the exposures elicited through bis vigilance at Hendon , Kensington , and elsewhere , for those parts of the new regulations which go to mitigate the ; severity of punishments -within workhouses , to enlarge the powers of medical pfflcsra , and to facilitate the administration of relief in caaes of sudden emergency . We trasi that in the present instance the result of his judicious and determiried inquiry into the truth may be some provision for the better treatment of destitute wayfarers like Elizabeth and Jessy Willis , whose treatment we proceed to describe .
These two young women ' , both of them persons of respectable character and appearance , whose manner and deportment , in giving evidence , created the most favourable impression in the minds of all who "heard them , are the wives of Scottish * tottema 30 ns , brothers , who left them about three months since to ; go about the country in search of work . They remained in lodgings in Shoreditch , till compelled , a fortnight ago , to giye them up through inability to pay the rent . They then very property determined to follow and endeavour to find their husbands ; and , having beard of them from Oxford , set out on foot forthat place . Blizibeth Willis tebk with them her child , an infant , unweaned , ; though about two j ears old , which was
suffering hopelessly from disease of the lungs . They walked to Oxford in three days , and , failing to meet their , husbands there , retarded in the . same manner to London . They then heard ' that their husbands were at Windsor , and walked there on the 22 nd and 23 rd ulfc , but were again doomed to suffer disappointment . Down to this time they had supported themselves in their journics , and had obtained food and lodging by the sale of their clothes ; now they were completely destitute , and the child , in addition to its internal complaint , was labouring under an attabk of . the measles . They , therefore , applied for relief to the Poor Law authorities of Windsor .
Was there ever a case ( we put it to any one with the common feelings of a man ami a Christian to say )—Was there ever a case in which charity , more imperatively required a iiberal and generous measure of relief to be given ? '" : ¦ '¦¦ . '¦ - ¦ ' . : •• "¦ ' ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦"' : "' : ¦ . ¦¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ' - '¦'¦ " We pass over the delay which occurred previously to their reception into the workhouse . They were told that seven o ' clock in the evening ; ( when their application was made ) was too late an hour for the admission of casual paupers ; but the master of the workhouse says that this statement , which proceeded from the overseer ' s wife , was incorrect Be that as it may , they were admitted into the workhouse ( out-door relief having been refused ) at three o ' clock in the afternoon of the 24 th ult . • , ' ¦ - ¦ . -: ¦ ¦¦ ¦ - ; : ' : ¦ : :. ;¦ '¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ . :
On their admission they were placed " in a shed , with a brick floor , without a fire or fire-place , and with a tiled roof and no ceiling ; 'into which they were locked , and there they were kept , without being once let oat , till the morning of the 26 th—for two nights and part of three days . They had nothing to sleep upon except some planks on one side of the shed , without any sacking , and only straw for a bed . Their shoes and stockings being wet , they were obliged to take them off , and , as the workhouse people did not dry them , tney remained without shoea or stockings during the whole of their stay in fche ^ shed , and sat huddled together on the straw , for fear of getting cold by treading on the brick pavement . The child's clothing Was changed ; but the women ( who had sold a great part of their clothes upon the road ) were left as thinly clad as they came .
The food given to these unhappy travellers and their dying child , during the period of their confinement in the d « n which we hav « described , consisted in the whole of , three tin cups of gruel with sugar ; six ditto , with salt ; two pints of tea without sugar or milk , and thirteen scanty slices of dry bread , principally brown , like barley bread . For the child , they , had on the second day one piece of white bread , with a little butter on it , for breakfast , and a , little mutton broth for dinner ; and on the third day a tin of milk and dry bread for breakfast . This was ail . "On each of the two nights , " said Elizabeth Willis , 4 i that we slept in the shed , the child kept calling for tea all night , and on my asking the ward-woman for some , she on each occasion brought some cold water from the pump . " /' . "' ' ''¦¦ .... ; . / ' / " ' ¦ ; ¦ . ' . ' - ' ¦ ¦ . . ' :- . ¦ , ' . . : ¦ . . .
We have already referred to the complicated disorders under which the child was labouring at the time of their admission . On the day after their arrival the matron came into their cell and urged them to go away * The mother insisted that the doctor ought to see her child . The matron " told her he would not be there that day , and said , ' Can't you walk to Oxford to-day ?''¦ ' ¦ The niether said the distance made it impossible . The matron then pressed her to go to Reading ; she still declmed , justly obs ^ ving , that '' the doctor , ought to ; see her . chiid first " ... The- medical officer afterwards came , saw the child , stated that it bad the measles faypwably , ordered a white powdei for ft . which was administered dry upon the tongue ;
but did not order it any nutriment whatever . On tbat night the ward-woman told the mother t ^ a V " the doctor had said the child would be well enough for them to go on the next ; day ; " and on the fpilpwing morning " she came in again , and said , 'Ate you not ready to go ?'" from which tiiey considered they were compelled to leave . " They left accordingly ; neither money , nor . food , nor any other relief whatever was given them to carry them along the road , but the matron said at parting , ' My-good woman , there are plenty of Unions on the road . andyou caaget relieved at them all . " They arrived at Kensington about six o ' clock . in the evening , without : having tasted food , and wero then received and charitably treated iu the Kensington workhouse . But the next , morning tbe child died ;
Such is this paiotul and most revolting tale , which we may leave , as we have done so many before it , to produce its own effect , without any comment of ours . She facts are unquestionable , having been admitted at the adjourned inquest on Wednesday , by the , master and ward-woman of the Windsor workhouse . She verdict of the jury was as follows ; . — - ¦ - "Yfe find that the deceased died from disease of the lungB and mesentrio glands , produced by natural causes . In Eiving this veidibt ths ivuj cannot lefraia . from
expressing their indignation aad disgust at tha cruel and inhuman treatment -which -was exercised towards the deceased child and its-affiieted mother and . aunt in the Wiadaop Union workhouse , they having been locked into a p&ce haying a brick floor , with only a slated roof and no eeiling , and without any fire , during a great part of three days and two : whole ; nights , having beon fed during that period upon water-gruel and an insnfBci « nt quantity of \ biowB . taread , the mothwr of the child having at that Wbmi ' -a dying infant at her breaat "Tim « s > Friday . ; .. '¦'¦ . : ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ' ;• ' ¦ . . - ¦;¦ ¦ ' . - ... . \
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BHIPGEWATER ; UNION WORKHOUSE AGAIN I APPAUNG SICKNESS ANB MORTALITY . ¦ ¦ ¦\; - / ''' ' \ To ; iK 6 : Mdit 6 r : tf : fh *? ifnes . - ' , Sir , —Some circumstances which have lately occurred In this onion , and others which have come to my knowledge in the course of this day , are in themselvea sufliciently important to induce me to believe thai you will not object to such a recapitulation of matter contained in some of my late communicatioDS as may be necessary to a correct estimate of present occurrences .
I showed you that the Poos Law Commissioners , have , under their seal , " authorized their officials to pack eight beds for lying-in women ia a room not sixteen feet square ; to stow thirty-two poor men in a narrow roem twenty-nine feet long ; and , that , to cown these atrocities , they have , with murderoaa ingenuity , contrived to show how thirty-six helpless children may be packed into a low den twenty-two feet long , without any provision for separating those who may happen to ba suffering under small pox , measles , or fever . " : \ ¦ : : ¦ '¦¦ ¦" : - . ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ . ' ¦ . . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ : " ' : ¦ ' - ' -: ' •' ¦ ¦ : ¦¦¦' ¦ -. ¦ ¦¦ . : ¦ "'
As a further illustration of the Commissioners' system of providing for our unfortuQata fellow-creatures , I detailed a series of fat ^ outrages committed upon the unoffending poor in the Workhouse of this union , and brought this sickening detail down ; t « a period when the frightful number of one hundred and seventeen death * waa re « onied in the workhouse death-book .
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I showed yon that many of these deaths were aacribed by the medical officer to , " the dietary and the crowded state of the house ; that . reiterated applications had been made by him to the Board of Guardians for additional accommodation ; that " he had " begged earnestly , yet respectfully , to urge on the board the necessity of tbBi * most seriously considering" the want ofaccominoglfttion for the diseased poor ; and that his reiterated applications were rejected as " unnecasary and inexpedient " I . farther showed you that a medical committee was !^ t length appointed to examine the house , and aa . long other important matter that committee repdrted—• ¦' : ¦ ¦¦ ' '• ¦ •"¦ .: '" - ;; ,. ¦• . - . ; .:. ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ . - . - ¦ ¦ /; - ; ; - ;" :: -. ¦' :-.:-J' That they had discovered 111 cases of ' disease , maajf ofthe > . xofan infectious character , mingling with the dean inmates , without any order orarrangement forthetr $ epa ^ raium \ \ . - : ¦ . . ' .. ¦ ¦ . - ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦''¦ :- . -- • ¦ : ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ -
: ' -- '' ' ?^ - -tiO- ^ tfa ^; - ^ fR ; a ' rbo ^ 27 > n ( ' . b ^ 'l 5 ; - 'ttMi thai they found otter apartments bearing similar propor tiojislo the numbervf occupants . " ¦ ' ¦ On this occasion the medical attendant of the workhouse made the following official statement : — " I have frequently complained net only of the closeness of the children ' s sleeping apartments , but oteverjr sleeping apartment in ytblch I havp been a few hoars after the inmates of the house had retired to rest . It ouly requires one visit to be satisfied that thefceiid air which they areoUigedio breathe is high y . calculated to introduce disease where it does not exist , and to aggravate it where it does . "
At the date of communication I stated " that I had no intention of immediately resuming the subject , bat that within a few '• days of that period I had received a printed copy of the important communication which stands at the head of this letter . By referring to that communication you ; will perceive that the CommiHsioners ' system has broken down under its own atrocities ; that their workhouse is again ravaged by disease to a fightful ' extent rthat . !; additional premises' are to he hired , and the number of children in the workhousereduced . It futther appears that , notwithstanding the vast sacrifice of human life that had occurred in this jpeat-hpuso , the medical ' offieer now declares , ' that during the last six months mortality has been greater in the house than he has ever known it since his connexion with the estdblishinent ,- . particularly among : the aged and children . "¦'¦ ¦ ' •" ' - ' : ¦ ¦ " : ¦ " ¦ ¦ :: . ¦ ' ' - ' . . -: . • ¦ '¦ ¦ . ¦ :- ¦ ¦¦
Such was the working of the system as officially reported on the 4 th . of January last . On the 14 th , I visited the union workhouse , and was politely accompanied round the house by the vice-chairman and tha clerk of the nnion , "who yeiy civilly answered the fe'W ' inquiries which I -made . My own impression of that which passed under my view Will be best expJaiaed tfj the foUowing entry xbade at the time-in the visitingbook of the workhouse : ^ - " I believe every thing is- don © which can be effected by the governor and matron ; but the house is overcrowded to a dangerous extent . In several instances there are at least double the
anmber of persons sleeping in a room which there ought to be , or that can possibly be accommodated withoat a considerable sacrifice of life . " Shortly after this entry forty of the children were nightly removed to an old yrorkhouse , from which they were brought back eTery morning , aha kept all ; day , thus incurring the risk , and adding to the pollution , of this pestiferous establishment A number of poor persons labouring under different diseases were likewise occasionally brought from the neighbouring parishes into the house ; -which -wjuj thus charged , not only with its own concentrated bosbs of disease and suffering , but with a succession ef new objects . ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ' . ' f ' - ' - '¦ ' : ' .. - : ¦¦ :. "¦ : . . ' ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ .. / . ' : '¦ ¦ . ¦ '• • ¦ - \ ' ; :.. - '¦ ; ¦
I will now refer to such extracts from official reports as will enable me to bring before you , by means cf a brief summary , the present awful reality . . ^ ¦ : ' "Januaty 11 . —Medical Weekly Report—Two deaths have taken place since my last report , and many cases of measles have appeared . Many of the inmates are suffering from severe colds and coughs , which ; in my opinion , are ; partly produced by their going to church this cold weather without sufficient covering , fifty-dx sick , nine bead diseases . "January If ! . — -There should be a comfortable ward provided for a few cases which are now in the large infirm ward . They : are so offensive as to vitiate the air , and render it disagreeable to the other inmates . ; . ¦>' ¦ ¦ : '¦; ¦ ¦¦ . ¦' ¦¦ '¦ : - ' •'¦ - . - "" ¦¦ ' ' ' " ¦ ' v January 25 . —Itch has appeared among the inttmieB . I have beenlobliged to put : the itch cases in the vagrant ward , for want of belter accommodations Seventy one on thesickliatf T ::
" February 8 . —One case of small-pox has appeared since last week , and , for want of better accommodation , I have placed him in the men ' s sick ward ; which being full I have since been obliged to place other cases in the men ' s small infirm ward . v "The inmates should not be allowed to go to the church this seyere weather without sufficient cover ing / 1 ¦¦ ¦ ; .-: ;;; ¦ . : ¦ . ¦;; . -. ¦ . . ¦ .: - : ¦ ¦ ¦ . -. ¦ : : r + ys- ' -S :: "Ab 6 aham King , Medical Officer *!* February 22 . —Proceedings at the Board of Crdardians : ^ -Moved by Mr . Strangeways , and seconded by the Rev . Win . Jeffries Allen— - ; , " That it is expedient te adopt the advice of the medical officer , and . forthwith build a detached hospital for the reception of the sick pauper inmates of the workhouse . " , . ' - . . ¦ ; . ' . .. "¦" . ' ¦¦ ¦ . ' ; . ' .. " ¦ ; .. ¦ .: Whereupon it was moved , as an amendment , by Mr SotnetB^— /¦; ¦ : ¦ ¦ . ; . ¦¦ - v- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ : ¦ .. ¦ : '' ¦ '¦ .: ' ¦/ -- ..
"That the consideration of building an hospital be postponed to this day four months ; " which amendment was carried , there being twelve for it , and only sir in favour of the motion ; three of whom were ex offieie Juardians , iociudirjg the mover and fleconder . /¦'¦ "February 2 i . —The diarrhad has recommenced its ravages in the house ; thirty-five persons have been seized in the murse of yesterday and today I Two more persons have likewise been seized with small-pox . " Thus it appears that in three weeks , from January
the 4 th , when the medical man declared that the mot tality in the house had been greater than he had ever known it , the number on the sick : list increased tcwa fifty to seventy-one , —that many cases of measles had occurred , —and that itch pervaded the establishment to such an extent that , from want of other accommodatio » , the persons afflicted were put into the ward which waa assigned to the casual poor . Thus itch and ringworm were to be inflicted on those whose distressed condition obliged them to seek for a night the charity of the Bridgewater Union !
Smallpox , too , bos broken , out amongst this- dense mass of disease , and a person suffering under it pnfc into ?• the men's sick ward , " with ten or a dozen other patients . Thia , ojf course , has been followed by other cases of smallpox ; and now comes the frightful diarrhoea . Thirty-five cases in little more than twenty-four bouts And these cases , too , mostly among the old and infirm poor , who , having been" obliged to breathefetid air , highly calculated , " as the medical officer says , . ' ?• ¦ . to intifoduee disease where it does not exist , and to aggravate it wflere it does , " are subjected for hoars to tbe piercing cold of winter , without auffictent covering , and are thus rendered infinitely more susceptible than they otherwise woold be to the attacks of att , or-any > of the fatal disease * whleh ' . '' ravage this workhouse .
Thus , Sir , it has been shown you , on the authority of official returns , jrhafc this detestable pesthouse , into which tha infitrxt > nd and helpless poor of forty parishes have been so recklessly thrust , is practically a matt for the propagation and extension of-contagiosj , under the special controul of those commissionera who , by the Vaccinatiou Act and the New Poli&a Act , ate appointed to carry out the sanatory regulations of the kingdom . ' ¦ . . ' ; . ¦' "• ' . '¦' ¦ : ; ' ¦ : : ; - . ;; " . - ¦ ¦¦ " - . ¦ " ¦ . .. /¦;¦;• Bridgewater , Feb . 24 . J . B 0 W . B » .
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And why all this ?;¦ . '¦ . Why was it that tiiis advance into a country ¦ which : had n ^ Invited oui help o * our iatetfetence ? To quell predatory habits ?• To scenre free passage to merchandise ? To defend aa ally ? To punish aggression ?¦ Nothing of the sort . It was to meet the advance of Russian influence . Russia was intriguing in Persia ,-was pushing her envoys into AffghanistaD » We met them by our own , and successfully—s » successfully that the Russian was fairly dsiven from the field * leaving ui at Jifeerty to form that warlike and then friendly nation iato an almosi impregnable barrier against her designs . A friendly frontier of almost impassable mountains , p « opled by brav « and hardy mountaineers—what moro safe and inexpensive acquisition to to an overgrown empire could th » heart of statesman
O ¥ R INDIAN FORTUNE ? . On this- melancholy subject the Times ot Friday has the following very just reflection : — ; " And so . ends the ffrst act of this most disastrous war . Bew of bur ; leaders can remember so heavy , none , probably , bo terrible , a reverse to English armi * And for all we have to thank ourselves .. We might have bad these proud and independent tribes as friends—we pretested to hare them for slaves . We : might have allied ourselves with the ruler whom they have- chosen —we preferred to set over them a debauched asd sanguinary tyrant of our own . We might have QompeUed our creature to rule them with equity and lenieacy—we chose-to tyrannize over and insult them . ' '
require ? Bat Russia was not oaly intriguing , bat advancing to Khivah—and win must be advancing too . And so we blew open the gates of Gbnznee , overran Affghanistan , compelled the sunendei of Dost Mohammed , made Lead K « ene a peei » and vaunted to Europe and the world the unconquerable power of English arms , and while the Russian troops were in fall retreat prided ouiselves on the skill and success of our demonstratios . We spoke a good deal to » toon . We were and till now have been , almost intoxicated with con scious power . Not only in Hindpst&n , but everywhere obstacles and enemies have Beemed to melt before OUT arms or our policy . Wisely or unwisely , justly or nnjostiy , it seemed that we had bat to move , and our
work was done ; till we had began to think , as with the nnhappy Chinese , that our will was law as well aa power , and that it was an absnidity to suppose ttat forbidden which British interest or glory seemed to require . At last has come a shock , and now , as it has not prospered , " men date call it treason . " May this retribution sufiice to make those feel what is right and wrong who would have been long enough in finding ft out while hurried onward by the popular excitement of Buccese . if such Is the cw , we will not say that we shall not most bitterly mourn over this dlsaster--for , very far from it—but we will gay that it is an event less fatal to British honour—nay , to British interests than the fatal and arrogant iMenribiUty from which iti arouses us . " " . ; - > . ' " - .. - ' - ¦ :-: : - ? : ;; •¦;; .: ' ¦ - ¦' , 'V r ? " ' :- ¦ -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 19, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct590/page/3/
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