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OLD PARR'S LIFE PILLS . r ~ HE READERS of the Northern Star ar « -L particularly requested to read carefully the following account of the BENEFICIAL EFFECTS of PARR'S LIFE PILLS , in Leicester and tht Neighbourhood : — The following facts have been mentioned to Mr , J . F . Winks , the Agent for PARR'S LIFE PILLS , in Leicester , who has preserved the ' name and residence of each of the parties , which he is ready to produce : — J . C , Oxford-street ,. Leicester , aged 44 , had been ill two years , of a kind of influenza . The club surgeon said he was in a consumption , and would never recover . He began to take these Pills three months ago , previous to which he had been confined to his bfd six months . The Pills first brought away a great deal of offensive matter , and then he gradually recovered . Can now walk about without a stick , and thought it his duty to make it known . He called again afterwards , and begged that his name might not bo published , as it might offend th » club doctor . The wife of Mr . Brown , in Fleet-street , had been in a low way for some time ; she- took the Pills regularly , and soon found her spirits more cheerful ; and her sight and hearing , which had been affected , were improved . She said they were pleasant to take , not causing a sickly feeling , or givinn the least pain . Miss Evans , Chatham-street , is a mender in a warehouse . Had been much afflicted for several yeara , and notable to do more than two hours work in a day . She took the Pills , and soon was improved in health , and " could see much better . Sae now works her regular Sfcours . Mr . Henshaw , of Bagworth , had been long subject to palpitation of the heart , and could not walk uphill . Had the advice of an eminent physician ia Leicester , but was not better till he took these PillS i but now is quite recovered . The wife of Mr . J . Frost , at t he same place , was so tormented with a cough , that she could not sleep . She had taken the Pills , which had done her , her husband ' . said , a " world of good . " * Mr . R . Vann , of Belgrave , had been ill five years of palpitation of the heart . Had been in tha Infirmary , and under several physicians and surgeons . Haa been gradually improving since bo took these Pills , and is now able to work . Mrs . Turner , of Whetstone , had found them verf beneficial for the scrofula . . FROM MR . CLARKE , OF fETEHBOEOL'GH . Peterborough , March 27 , IStl .. " Gentlemen , —During the last fortnight I baf 9 sold nearly one hundred boxes of Parr ' s Life Pills , and the good eit ' ects produced by them have been most astounding . One person who ha *) been many years dreadfully afflicted with a scorbutic complain'i stated , that he felt certain from the good they had already done him , that if he could only remain quietly at home , instead of being obliged to go to work , they would completely cure him . Another person who had a bad knee , said that they had done her more good than all the doctors . In fact , I nave no hesitation in saying , that if your extraordinary medicine required such aid to bring ii into notice , which in this part of the world it does not , I could with ease obtain a dozsn more such cases , with tn » names and addresses of the parties . " I remain , Gentlemen , " Yours respectfully , " J . S . CL ARKE . " Spring and Fall . —The spring faud fall of thfr leaf have been always remarked as penod 3 vvnett disease , if it be lurking in the system , 19 sure to snow itself . The coldness of winter renders torpid the acrimonious iluids of the body , and in this state ot inactivity their evil to the system is not perceived , but at the spring these are roused , and if not clitckea , mix up and circulate with the blood , and thus tne whole systom is contaminated . These pills , tasea three every night for two or three weeks * will rid ""* body of all that is noxious , and produce health ana comfort . Persons troubled with scorbutic affections are strongly advised to try them at this time or tno year ; in a few days , they will perceive the P ?^ er ™ j clearing properties they possess , and thus beluduc *" to continue them . Recently , a femark-ible caso where a gentleman was so dreadfully affl'Cted wiw a scorbutic disorder as to be quite unsightly , oy » patient undeviating course of these pills , Saw systehas undergone a thorough change , and his sKini now as fair and iound as of a healthy child . , ¦»« . fall of tbo leaf is'also a time when the system , relaxed by the heat of the summer , would be '« " # " * ben ? fitted by a few weeks' course of the Pllis ir ? or three every night ; these will clear off sour and Daa humours , which heat invariably generates . ¦» liver , which generally gets sluggish , will be P ™ ri healthy action / and thus be able to perform . »» functions allotted to it ; the body altogether vW . «" re-invigorated , aud prepared to undergo was **' * change the winter may bring on . , Many other cases have been mentioned by Pff who have purchased the pills . l ^^ 6 ' . n : ^ extensive and increasing sale of tins *> medicine , is the beat proof that can be desired m » . highly it is appreciated . j in Sola by most respectable Medicine Venders , _ Boxes at Is . lid ., 2 s . 9 d ., and Us . A list A # S and further proofs of the value of this . »«»«»» may be seen in another page of the Northern *
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The Hartford ( U . S . ) Courier says , tliere is an -editor in that city whose ideas are so lofty that be is obliged to chase them up to the garret , in order to catch thtm ; and then they often escape through the scnttle . A CcyxEcncur Josathas , ia taking & walk with his dearest , came to a bridge , when he * honestly said , after paying his toll ( which was one cent ) , " Come , Sake , you must pay your own toll , for just as like as not I sbin't hare you ayter all . " - A Tost YoTsa , celebrated for his stupidity , having been charged with coinijiuing an assault at an election , the . magistrate enamiarily dismissed him , with the remark that ho wm not going to disobey the decalogue , which declared , Thoa shalt not commit a-duli-Tory . "
Campbell , the poet , lately received a request from a young lady to write Eome ' . hing " original" in her album . He answered as follows : — ** An original something , dear maid , yoa would win me To write—but how shall T begin ! For I ' m sure I hare nothing original in me , Excepting original sin . " " Ah , Follt ! " exclaimed the Qneen , " Albert is ench a dear creature , you don ' t know . ' - "So I am told , rejoined Poll , the dearest creature in your Msiesty ' 3 dominions . "
EPIGHAM OX MISS A > " 7 ? E BRBAD . " Toast any girl but her , " said Jfed , With every other flutter—I'll be content with Annie Bread , Bat won ' t hi ye any but her " —American Pajier . How to see tocs Wat . —Mr . Mackenzie told me several anecdotes ; one of Lady Yarmouth . She "was at a large dinner , seated , at ^ no great distance from a rich clergyman , and some , bishopric having jast failea in , hs carelessly expressed a wish that lie were so lucky as to be named to it . " Do you expect it ? "' sn'd she to him . " No , indeed , I do not . " he replied ; w I fear I am not so fortunate . " — ** What say you to a bet ] " said she . " I'll bet you five thousand pounds that you will get it . " — " Done , " said the clergyman ; and soon after he had the vacant see . —Swinburne ' s Courts of Europe .
The Gasde . nes ' 5 Privileges . —The question was once asked by a very beautiful woman— " Why is a gardener the most extraordinary man in the world ?" The reply given was as follows : — " Because no man has more busine 3 on earth , and fce-also chooses good Grounds for what he dees . He commands his Thyme ; he is master of the Mint ; and he fingers Penny-royal . He raises his Celery every year , and it is a bad yeaT indeed that does not bring him in a Plum . He meets with more Boughs than a minister of state ; he makes more Beds than ihe King of
Frasce , And has in them more genuine Roses and Lilies than are to be found at a country wake . He makes Raking his business more than his diversion , but it is an advantage to his health and fortune , which few o : bers find : his wife , moreover ^ has enough of Heart's-esse , and never wishes for Weeds . Disorders fatal to others nerer hurt him ; he walks , and bnsile 3 . and thrives most in a consumption ; he can boast of moie Bleeding-hearts than you can , and has more laurels than the Duke of Wellington . But his greatest pride and the greatest envy of his companions is , that he can have Yew when he pleases . "
East to get Rich . —Nothing is more easy than to grow rich . Ii is only to trust nobody , to befriend none , to get every thing , and save all we get ; to stint ourselves and every body belonging to us ; to be the friend of no m ^ n , and have no man for our friend ; to heap up interest upon interest , cent , per cent . ; to be mean , miseralie , ar . d dtspised for some twenty or thir-y years ; and riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment . We jlue too apt at times to blame others for mismanagement , saying that , if we had been in their
places we would no : have doce so asd s ° ; wnen , there can be no manner of doubt , if we had been in their cases , we sLoufci have done just the same . Before passing a vote of censure on those unfortunates it is necessary that we not only make ourselves acquainted wnb ail the circumstances of the case , but that we be also exercised with the same feelings . So very different a coacliisicn are tbo = e apt to come to , vrhose minds are ai liberty , to wha ; those are "whose judgments are burthened with the care of ihe maner , aad fezr of the result .
The Chinese . —The representations of tue ? e remarkable people and their country upon porcelain , or " china , have been usualiy condemned as illdrawn and faithless , but unworthily so . Lord Jocelyn , in his account of ihe Chinese expedition , observes , * Since I have seen many ef the houses and temples of the Chinese , the paintings on the oli China imported into En ^ iand , struck ine as the best delineation of thebuildiugi and f ^ ures of the ? e extraordinary people ; and it is wonderful how correct thev are ia the maia features . "
Ikbia > ' Scpebstitio ' . —From a piper just printed by order of the House of Commons , it appears tba * there are no fewer than 641 attendants upja the idol ; at Juggernaut ¦ Among these are 100 cooks , 20 ' keepers of the wardrobe , and two persons to paint the eyebrows , 6 lz . Individuals are also appointed to watch the s ' urubcrs of the idol , the time whea it , cucakes , & .:. < tc . i A Lawyer ' s Faith . —My brother and I were \ subpoenaed as witnesses -upon a trial at Warwick . The attorney promised to reimburse the expence , the contenders being poor . My brother and myself went in a chaise . We woe thecause . I was obliged to bear ail the expenee , and never received a shiliir ;? . So much for the faith of a lawver . — Wlliiam Huiion ' s Zife .
TiBT Teue . —The tie which binds man to his brother man is oiuer than the annals of England can reach ; and will endure when the names of Peel and RcsseJ shall be alike forgotten . —Times . The DiviL among the Printers . —In 15 ( 51 , a ¦ work was priaiei entitled , " Ihe Anatomy of iht Mass , " aad i ; contained 170 p 3 ge ? , accompanied -with errata of nXeen pages ! The author , ( wfco was a moukj ) in aa advertisement prefixed to the errata ., states , that the devil , to ruin the fruits of his ¦ work , emp-oyed two very malicious frauds , by Sr ^ t drenchiDg the manuscript in the kennel , reducing it to a most pitiable state , and rendering some parts altogether illegible , and then obliging the printers to commit such numerous blunders , jiever before equalled in so small a work ! To combat this double macb-uation' of Satan , he was obliged to re-peruse the boik , and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil .
The Last Americamsh . —A famon 3 physician practising in Pennsylvania , having prescribed a Strong dose of nitre to a patien ; labouring under a severe cold , it caused = o profuse a perspiration during the night , that he was faand drowaed the next morning . Egg Nog—Mixt J ^ lep . —The Exchange Hotel , 8 , BroaJ-itreet , is making ; : self famous fur its ogf > nog and mint juleps . They be ^ an on the juleps yesterday , aad the way the atiic ' . e v . -ent was a ca-j ion : o sinners . The peculiar quality of these delicate liq - . ids ii the aromatic fliTour they posses .-as they pass the ps : ; : inx lips . They are both truly the nectar of the gods . — American Taper .
A Good Morning ' s Wohk . —The following is from a communication of one of our Borneo corre ? pendent 5 , lately received by us : — On a morning of las : October . ii ; rao of Srpang took his hoe and commenced his usual operaiicn ? . He roiled bnt a few minutes , when his instrument came in contact vriih something of ur . usaal size and resistance . He took ¦ op the roek of c { fence , aid . giv ' i . ng is a passing glance , threw it aside ; but while tjllisg away , his thoughts rciurned to the discarded stene , wht-a a remembrance of its unusual heaviness arrested his attention . He again gave it a more strict scrutiny , by washing , rubbing , &c ., and having concluded it ¦ worth preserving , delivered i ; to the Kung-si . After a few oays . the latter brought it to Sambas , and sold it to the Saltaa for i > , OG 0 Java rupees . Tne rock oi offence proved a miss of gold , . vreisnini between thrte and four cattit-s . —Singapore Free Pr ^ ss .
The Pjuxteiu— " I pity the printer , " siid mj nnc ! e Toby . " iit- ' s a pc-or creafnre , " rejoined Trim ' ** How so ! " said my uncle . " Because , in the firsplace , " continued the Corporal , looking fell at nn uncle , " because he must tEdeavour to pka ; e even body . In the negi'Vc-nce of ' a moment , pcrtiaps small paragraph pepf upon him ; he has-: iiy throw ; it to the compositor , : t is inserted , aad he is ruinec to all intents aad purposes . " ** Too ranch the case Trim , " said my uncle , with a deep sigh ; " tcomuch—the—case . " "An ' , please your honour , ' continued Trim , elevating his voice , and striking hue an imploring attitude . " ' , please your honour thi ; is not the Trholo . " '" Go on , Trira . " said my ui : ele feelingly . " The printer , sometimes . 'Vpursued th : Corpora ! , "hits upon a piece that pleases hie : mightily , and he thinks it car . net but go . down with his subscribers ; hut , alas J sir , who can calculate the human miad ! He inserts it , and it is all over with
Mm . They forgive others , but they cannoi forgive a printer . " He has a host to print for , and every cue sets up for a critic . The pretty Miss exclaims , * Why don ' t he givs ns more poetry , marriages , and bon-mots 1—away with these stale pieces . ' The politician clips his specs on his nose , and runs it over in search of a violent invective ; lie finds none ; he takes his specs off , folds them , sticks them in his pocket , declaring the paper good for nothing but to born . So it goes . Erery one t&inks it ccght to be printed expressly for himself , as hs is a subscriber ; and yet , after all this complaining , would yon believe it sir , " said the honest Corporal , flapping his hands beseechingly , " would you believe it , sir , there an some subscribers who do not hesitate to cheat the printer out of hi 3 pay ! Our army swore femoly in Flanders , bnt they never did any thing so bad as that »• - * ' ^ Xijvcr ! " said uncle Toby , emphatkally . —American paper .
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HOUSE OF LORDS . —Fridat , April 23 . Petitions "were presented by the Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Zetland on the subject of lay patronage in Scotland , and by Lord Deanian for the abolition of church-rates . In answer to the Marquis of Salisbury , The Marquis of Normakby said be ms extremely unwilling to put off the Drainage of Buildings * Bill ; bnt in order to meet the wishes of the Noble Marquis , he would consent to report it pro forma , and deter the further consideration till' Tuesday next , for the purpose of introducing a clause to extend its
provisions to Scotland . In answer to Lord Lyndhurst , The Marquis of Normaxby Baid it was not intended that iir . Vizard should hold conjointly the offices of solicitor to the Home-office and secretary to the bankrupts in Chancery . In answer to tbe same Noble Earl , Lord Do"Caxno > ' Baid he was not aware of recent claims which had been made against the owners of mines ¦ which were submarine , but he would stake inquiries on the subject Adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Friday , April 23 . Mr . Alexander , the new member for Antrim county took the oaths and bis seat . The Nor th Midland Railway Bill , the Chard Canal Bill , and the Clifton Bridge Bill , were severally read a third time , and passed . Mr . Fox Maule moved that further proceedings on all bills for tbe recovery of small debts be postponed till the 10 th of May . Alderman Copeland opposed the motion . Parties had gone to a great deal of expenee in bringing these measures before Parliament ; they bad been for several years -waiting for a general bill , which appeared to be as remote now as tver , and they hid no alternative but to proceed with these locai bills . After some discussion the House divided , -when there appeared—for the motion , 40 ; against it , 39 .
Mr . Lucas gave notice tba : on Tuesday he should move Imx leave to bring in a bill to authorise the stoppa £ 8 of the wages of labourers in Australia , to the extent uf one-fourth , in repayment of the expenee of their passage to that celonv . Mr . Ewart gave notice that on the 10 th of May be shuuid move for leave lo bring in a bill for the better ru&nagement of lunatic asylums . On the motion of Lord Teignraouth the second reading of the College of Maynooih Bill was postponed till tbe 19 th of Mar .
The Honsa went into Committee on the Administration of Justice BilL On clause 7 , which related to the transfer of the fands belonging to suitors from the Court of Exchequer to tbe Court of Chancery , Sir E . Sugden objected to the clause , on the ground that it ¦ would diminish the emoluments of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery , a great portion of which was derived from the commission he received on tbe transfer and deposit of stock in the public funds . The Solicitor General thought that it -was injudicious to mix up tbe question of the emoluments of the accountant-general -with the transfer of f uuus belonging to tLe suitors to the proper court .
Mr . C . Buli-er said it it was clear , from the discussion that bad taken place , that the Accountant-General eied oat his salary bv receiving a portion of the commission paid to the broker for the preference given to that broker . He trusted , after that had keen stated , that the House wouid no longer permit a public officer to be paid in so discreditable a way . ( Hear , hear , ) If his salary-was insufficient , let it be increased in a proper and legitimate manner . Mr . Briscoi : thought it extremely proper that the Accountant-General tbould be paid by a commission upon the tui :: s invested in the public funds . Mr . O Co : ^ ell suggested that the Court of Chancery should appoint a broker of its own at a fixed salary .
Lord J . Russell wa 3 not aware , until the discussion had taken place , of the manner in which the Accountant-General was paid . He should be glad to attend to any suggestions made by the Hon . and Learned Gentleman prtsent , to put an end to such a system . The clause was then agreed to . On clause 19 , for appointing two additional equity judges , Sir E . Scgdkn thought one newjuJge would be enough until they had ascertained how the system worked . He thought the apuoinctuent cf five equity judges in all , while there wero only three common law courts , would lead to great inconvenience and confusion . Mr . Pem . beb . to * concurred in much of -what ha-2 fallen from the Hi ^ ht Hon . Gentleman , but be was iKt disposed to oopo .-e the clause .
Jir . C . Bulller . ¦ wo uivl support txs clause , because he looked upon the measure as on * of a serious of beneficial alttrilijns . Tbe Hun . xuid Leaxr . td Gentlem&n quoted s = Veial casts lo show the irjjury and loss that had been inflicted upon suitors through the protracted and expensive nature of the proceedings in tbe Cjtirt of Chancery , and the rctnlt of which in practice vras found to be the compromise of CO out of every 100 suits . In answer to Mr . Aglionby , The Attor . vev-Ge . veBaL &s : < 1 be nnderstood that some alterations were contemplated in tbe Six Clerks ' Office , and he "would add , that the Lord Chancellor , with the nssiitance of some of tbe most eminent men ia the profession , was preparing a series of regulations which would be found most beneficial to the suitors in that court and tbe public
Some discussion took placs on the c ' ause for fixing the salaries of tho two new judges at i' 5 , 000 per annum each . Mr . Pehberton suggested that the salary should be £ 5 . 000 . Mr . Hume said £ 5 , 000 per annum ou ^ ht to purchase the services of any lawyer . The Government had been reproach <« l vrith extravagai . ee , and now it was proposed to increase the expenses of the country . Tbe clause was then agreed to . la answer to Sir E Sugden , LiTi \ J . KusSELL said he did not think it "would be eSDcdient to introduce any legislative measure to prevent Masters in Chancery sitting in Parliament On clause 56 being read , the object of which was to eTarjt compensation to the officers of the Court of Exchequer who might be affected by tbe Bill ,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the introduction of a clause hi its stead to exclude Mr . Scarlett , who had recently been appointed to the office of a Master in the Court of Exchequer , from compensation . Mr . Pejiberton said , if compensation were not granted to ainbe persona affected by the Bill , it would be rejected elsewhere . Lord J . Russell said he should never consent to any transfer of the right of that House to originate money clauses to the House of Lords . After a lengthened discussion the clause , amended so as to include Mr . Scarlett , was carried by a majority of 73 to 70 . The House then resumed . la answer to Lord Mahon , who inquired whether it was intended to make any reduction in the ' number of convic ' s on board the hulks , which had been doubled within tbe last two years ,
Lori J . Russell si : d be fully concurred m the recommen ^ ution of ihe Transportation Committee , and also in the spirit of the resolution of the Noble Lord , and it vras the intention of ths Government to carry tho recvn : niecdations of that committee into effect as soon as it was practicable . Sir R . Peel said tl . e qu < - s ' . ion vras one of the greatest importance , more especially now that the system of capital punishments was being done away with . He hoped it would meet the immediate attention of the-Government . The House then went into Committee of Supply , and a vote for £ 21 . C 27 : 000 vras taken . Court of Chancery ( Ireland , Bill wasrea . 1 a second time . Adjourned at a quarter btfore one o'clock .
JUen day , April ' 26 . Sir G . Strickland presented a petition from SiAdleworth , with 6 , ocG signatures , ta _ kia ? notice of the declining state of our manufactures , aad praying fora revision of the import duties . Tbe Hon . Member presented the following petitions : —One fromHuclderstield , c implainiug that chaplains were appointed to Poor Law Unions and paid at the expente of the ratepayers , Uiis practice operating as an indirect mode of extending the Established Church at the expense of persons -who diJ not belong to it ; one from a place in the West-Riding of Yorkshire , the name of which wa ^ not audibly stated , preying for a repeal of the Corn Laws ; and one from the Guardians of the Todmorden Union , complaining of the expenses to which parishes were subjected in defraying the ebargo of vaccinating the children of tbe poor .
Mr . Christopher presented a petition from a Board of Guardians in the city of Lincoln , praying that they might be invested with a discretionary power to grant out-door relief iu certain cases ; and another petition complaining of the arbitrary powers of the Poor Law Commissioners . The great and long expected business was tho committee 9 ! i tbe Iridh Registration ( and Qualification ) Bill cf the Government . Tee Speaker having left the chair , Lord Howick rose to move aa amendment upon the first clause . Be laid it down as a principle , that tht > basis of the county franchise is not occupation , but property j the £ 50 tenant'B franchise ia England being no real exception from that principle , since £ 50
renting is itself iin evidence of considerable capital . The best franchise for an Irish county voter would , he thought , be a rating on a Certain amount beyond all charges and the rent specified in the lease . The tenants' temptation to put their values unreasonably high for the sike of their votes , would bo counter-Tailed by their desire to avoid paying too heavy a rate . The excess on which h * would propose to require a rating , in order te confer a franchise , would be an excess of £ 5 beyond the rent and other charges . The " beneficial interest of £ 10 , " contended for by Mr . OConnell , after tbe deductions which that member prof * ssed to allow , would not be unfairly represented by this £ 3 rating . There were some persons , not included in the £ 8 leaseholders' test , whom
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this £ 5 rating would admit : tboae , for instance , who paid a very low rent for a property not rateable in all at to much as £ 8 , but yet yielding to the holders a profit of more than £ 5 beyond that low rent- But aa he was aware tbat on tbe other band there would be many voters whom the £ 8 leaseholder ' s test would admit , feat whom bis £ 5 property rating would exclude , be was disposed to move also another change , admitting a large class of voters—a cfeange which would substitute , for the Government proposal of a rating on a lease at a low rent , a proposal of a rating at a higher rent , but without any lease . Tbe circumstances of Ireland , however , were so
different from those of England , and her general wealth so far inferior , that the English £ 50 franchise would be too high for Ireland . What the proper amount would be he was not yet prepared to state ; but it sheuld be an amount which w « uld give a constituency at least as numerous as that which existed immediately after the Reform Act All he should now ask of the House would be merely to consent to the principle . He then moved to omit those words at the end of tbe first clause which abrogate the beneficial iuterest franchise created by the Reform Act , for the purpose of enabling him , in the second clause , to define that beneficial iuterest by the £ * rating propounded in the earlier part of his speech .
Lord Morpeth said , tbat though tbe proposals of Lord Ho wick might have been unobjectionable if moved as additions to the franchise provided by the Bill , they would not be eligible as substitutions for that franchise-He believed that the test proposed by the Government was the most advisable , and by it he was prepared to abide . Mr . C . Wood observed , that Lord Howick ' s object was to avoid that sweeping disfranchisement which the Bill proposed lo inflict on all the existing vottrs , many of whom the new test contoiued in tbat Bill would not reinstate ; and the amendment proposing to omit the words of disfranchisement would leave certain classes of the present voters still in existence , without preventing Ministers from afterwards adding their own new qualifications also . He then showed the result which , according to the returns , the plan of an £ 8 Kiting would produce : it would disfranchise no less than one-sixth of the £ 10 voters in fourteen of the Irish unions .
Sir C . Ghet opposed the amendment , which he said was much more than a verbal matter . Mr . C . Wood added a few words ; after which , Lord Stanley rose . Ho agreed with Lord Howicfc that an undue and unnatural diminution of tbe Irish constituency , from tbe amount intended by tbe Reform Bill , was not to be permitted . It was assumed thai such n diminution hail already taken place . Mr . O'Connell , however , bad expressed his opinion during the progress of the Reform Bill , that it would nut bring the numbers up to 30 , 000 . There waa so great an excitement on the first registry after that Bill , and so little
opposition , that the numbers amounted to 52 , 000 . They still increased , nominally , till the octennial period ; and then , of course , they were reduced by the striking off of many thousands . Yet at this day they ¦ were between 40 , 000 and 50 , 000 , exceeding by many thousand persons the numbers which the Reform Bill was framed and expected to yield . When he should see an alarming " diminution of the constituency , he shonld gladly co-operate with Lord Howick for the redress of that evil ; but ho would not , because some gentlemen declined to grant leases of ttxeir property , consent to inundate the constituency by letting in voters without any property whatever .
Mr . O'Connell instanced several counties in which , though registration had been , stimulated by contests , the number of voters was , in hia opinion , unreasonably small in proportion to their population . Lord Howick called himself a wellwisber of Ireland ; but he would better have evinced his good wishtB by moving to restore the 40 s . freeholders , than by aiding the opposition as he liail jnst been doing . Lord J . Kcssell said , that when the Legislature had taken up this subject , there was a very general feeling that before it deult willi the question of registry it ought to settle tho question of franchise . He [ had thougkt £ 5 the proper amount ; be had given way to the proposal for £$ , in the hope that this important matter might thus be settled , consenting to endure , ft > r so great an object , tho taunts directed against the Government . He had been anxious to retrieve the error committed by a great party , who had preferred
their own triumphs to the tranquillization of Ireland ; Uit it now appeared that his hope was to be thwarted . He did not consider thii amendment to be much inor » than a question of wording ; but he was not disposed to concede it , because it would introduce inconvenience into subsequent clauses . He cited same of tbe printed returns , to prove the inefficiency of Lord Howick ' s proposal for a £ 5 test , it was of no use to talk of future red rets for tbe evil of excluding the Irish from representation : the present was the time to remedy that defect If it were intended to disfranchise them , that should be done openly and expressly , and not in this indirect and tortuous way . England , ho was persuaded , wished to see them honestly and f : virly represented , and not defrauded of their rights . You could not , without exciting great indignation , withdraw tbe franchise bestowed upon them , and take a step which would justify an angry spirit in Ireland .
Sir R . PEEL said the Noble Lord had done what he usually did whea his case was peculiarly defectivehe had made a general declamation on popular rights , to raise a . cheer behind him ; and , under the cover of that cheer , he had retirbd from further discussion , and fancied be had made a successful speech Referring to the expectations entertained by tbe framers of the Reform Bill , and by Mr . O'Connell himself , with ro-. " pt-ct to tbe numbers of tbe Irish cohstitueccy , he showed that these numbers did now far exceed all those expectations . But if the numbers were really diminished , wlia ^ were the remedies proposed ? In thirty-two Iri > h counties , the Governtneut proposed tha same uniform franchise which belonged t * the borough j
excluding property , and giving everything to occupation . If property were excluded from the county franchise in Ireland , how ctiuld it be retained in England ? And what c mfidence could be placed iu tho legislation of a set of Ministers , who , after taking time to f ' . eliberato throughout tho recess , had brought forward such a measure as this , suddenly changing , two or three days ago , their £ 5 to an £ 8 qualification ? He vindicated , by reference to the testimony given in 1825 by tbe leatiing C . itholics , tbe di > franchisement of tho 40 s . freeholders under the Relief Bill ; and conducted by strong ' y declaring his opinion that the conduct uf Ministers on this question had disentitled them to the confidence of Parliament .
Lord Howick said , his object was not , as had been suggested by Ministers , to restrict the franchise , but to enlarge it . He -wished to preserve the eld principle of a property qualification , and to add other qualifications also . S . tR . Peel corrected some errors in Mr . O'Connell ' s statenitnts by reference to reported passages of that Member s speeches : in the c » urse of which quotations , a good deal of laughter was raised by the perusal of tome of Mr . O'ConneHs old invectives against his present allies . Lord J . Russell and Lor . l Howick mutually explaiucd—if a little conversation , rather bitter than otherwise , can be called expla . ua . tory . The House then divided , aud defeated the Ministers by a majority of 21 : tha numbers being 291 and 270 . . <* A little discussion ensued as to the next day of sitting .
Lori J . Russell proposed to adjourn till Monday ; but to this delay the House would not consent , aud Wednesday was ti . na . Uy tixud .
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LABOUR ; ITS STRUGGLES , AND ITS ' REWAKDS . The general notion in London Las been , that the country labourers are ignorant crtaturea ; tbat they have no st-r . tinunt at all relative to political rights aud liberties ; that , like cattle , they ki , ow when they are hungry , and that their risings ami committing acts of violsn . ee resemble , in point of motive , the feelings which animate cows or . oxen , when they break out of a barren field to get into a rich pastuiL-. Such , too , are the opinions which oar Mjni tc > sand . Members of Purliament have entertained towards these producers of tbe food and the wool ami the wood of the couctry . Proceeding upon these opinions , they have adopted schools without
nmuoer , aud the distrjoutiuu of minions of pamphlets , the main object of ail which Las been , to persuade the labourers that God never intended anything but potatoes for them to eat , and that it is grievously sinful in Vhetn not to be content with such diet , though they see the fields and the meadows covered with corn anil with cattle , created by their own labour . It has also been fashionable , amongfct tven Uiu working classes , to look upon the country labourers , particularly those here in the South , as being totally ignorant with regard to public matters , and as Luin o' utterly unable to be made to understand anything about the political causes of their misery ; and of course not knowing the leastin the ¦ world about Parliamentary iUform .
Such opinions were never entertained by mo for sny one moment of my life . I from my childhood have known the country labourers well ; arid , in conversation as well as in writing , I buve always maintained , that they well understood the nature of their wrongs and the causes of their misery ; and that the day wouicl come when they would endure that misery no longer . Now , then , for the circumstances connected with this petition , which 1 have spoken of above . In the month of September , or early in October , 1 S 30 , when scarcely a petitien had recently been Bout
up fo r Parliamentary Reform , the labourers of the parish of Wonston , Bullington , and Barton Stacey , ( the whole three coataining a population less than one thousand five hundred souls , ) met at the hamlet of Sntton Scotney , where they agreed to n petition to the King , and subscribed two or three pence a piece , to pay tie expences of a man to carry it and present it to the King at Brighton , where the King then was . The man cko ^ eu to go on foot this dStance of sixty miies . waj ? Joseph Mason , of Bullington , of whom I shall have to say a geod deal by-and-by .
flbe petition was signed by ITS labouring men of the parishei of Wonston , Bulliugton , and Barton Stacej . } Whtn Joseph Mason arrived at Brighton , he went to tbe ieiidence of the King , expecting-, and justly expecting to exercise ais right ' to petition the King . »'
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In this only he was in error ; that is , thinking the right existed , and was something real and not a sham . Instead of being permitted to petition the King , be was told that which is contained in the following copy of a note sent to him by Herbert Taylor , to help to pay whose enormous salary be had been working all his lUe-time : — " Pavilion , Brighton , October 21 , 1830 . " Sm , —I have received your letter of yesterday , inclosing the petition which you have been deputed by certain persons belonging to the working and labouring
classes of thti parishes of Wonston , Barton Stacey , and Bullington , near Winchester , to present to the King , and 1 beg to acquaint yon , for the information of those who have signed this petition , that the Secretary of Stato for the Hume Department is the proper and official channel of such communications to his Majesty . I therefore return the petition to you , and "Z am , Sir , " Your obedient servant , "H . Taylor . " ,, " Mr . Joseph Mason , Bullington , Hants . "
To come to London , and then to go home , was another hundred and twenty miles , or thereabouts . He , therefore , went to a gentleman at Brighton , whom he knew to nave been born and brought up at Winchester , gave him the petition , and the insolent note of Herbert Taylor , in order that the former might be sent to the Secretary of State . This gentleman sent the two papers to his brother , who lives in London , and he brought the papers to me , to know how he ums to get them to Peel . After looking at the papers , and hearing the whole story , I said , ' Give me the petition : let it not be disgraced by being hawked about in tbat manner a time will yet come when Englishmen may petition something other than Herbert Taylor and Peel' When Joseph Mason was drawing up this sensible petition , anil when he was tramping a hundred and twenty miles
on the bnsiness of presenting it , he little thought of that condemnation to death , and that transportation and slavery for life , to which he was to be sentenced in about two months from the day on which he presented himself at the palace of ' the King ' s most exceUenl Majesty' at Brighton ! He little thought , that being one of a crowd who extorted a few shillings from a farmer or a parson , and of which he neither extorted nor took any part , would be to commit an act of ' high ' ¦ way robbery , ' for which he should be dragged from his wife and family , eondemued to death , and sent into slavery for life J Such , however , was tho result ; and the Englishman who can hear the story without feeling his heart swell , and feeling the blood boiling in his veins , deserves to perish from hunger , and to be feod for tbe fowls of the air .
In about a month after Joseph Mason ' s failure to get his petition to the hands of his most excellent Majesty , ' those risings for increase of wages , which had begun in East Kent , had extended themselves into Hampshire , and they finally reached the parishes , in about the centre of which lies the hamlet of Sutton Scotney . Of the part which this petition-carrier took in these risings , 1 shall have to speak by-and-by ; but first ' let us see who and what he was . His parents had , for generations , been labeurers ; be was born in oue of these parishes . He had a brother whose name is Robert , who was not married . Joseph was married und had one child . They lived in the parish of Bullington with their mother , who had been a widow a good many years , and who fo und , in the great and skilful labour
of her sons , in their rare sobriety , in their great industry and excellent m * ral character , safe protection from want , from all need of parochial relief , and front all those miseries which are the lot of mothers who have children of a different description . Besides the work which these two young men did for the farmers in the neighbourhood ^ thay rented a piece of ground ,, consisting of about thrfe acres anil a half , which they cultivated mornings and eveniogs , and at times when they had no other -work . They kept a cow , fatted a pig or two , and , therefore , as there was but one child in the family , they were a great deal better off than the labourers in general . Therefore ,- it waa not mere hunger tbat induced them to take a part in the risings . They were induced , even if voluntary , to do it from a
sense of duty towards their poorer and more unfortunate neighbours . The object of the risings was , not to commit acts of violence on anybody , and uo acts o violence were committed ; not for the purpose of com ' - mittiug acts of plunder , for no acts of plunder took place ; but solely for the purpose of obtaining a sufficiency of food and of raiment , and of fuel to make life bearable to those whose labour produced all tho food , all the raiment , and all the fuel . Yet , for taking tho mildest and most inoffensive port in these risings , these two excellent young men Were , under the Special Commission which Grey advised the Kiug to give to Vaughan , Parke , Alikrson , Wellington , Denman , Sturgua Bourne , and Serjeant Wilde , condemned xo death , AND TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE !!!
In order to do justice , as far as I um at present able , to all the parties concerned , I will here refer te au account of the trials in Hampshire , us afterwards published by the Curate ot tbe parish of Stoke Charity . I will draw no conclusions myself , and offer no opinions ; but will simply state the facts as published in the account of the trials . Joseph Mason , aged 31 ; Robert Mason , aged 22 ; wero first indicted for what they called robbing one C . illender , Sir Thomas Barinys bailiff . There were . bix others indicted along with them ; there wore a thousand persons or more in this rising ; but , as far as one can judge from the report of the trial , the whole burden of the inquiry was about the two ilasont . The jury , however , acquitted them both . In their defence , buth of
them denied ever having touched any money ; and both said , that they wero pressed by tho rest of the people , and compelled to go with them ; and there was no evidence brought to show that this was not true . Having escaped here , they were almost instantly clapped into another indictment ; and the next day were put up « n their trial for robbing W . Dowden . Here Joseph was caught , but Robert escaped . On tha same day , howover , ho was clapped into another indictment , whim the Reverend James Jpllitte , curate of Barton Stacey , swore , tbat he waa robbed of Jive shillings , aud that Robert Mason was ono af the robbers . This parson swore that he gave the rive shillings out of fear . Robert Mason said , in his defence , that he had not taken the money , nor participated in it : that he
bad betn compelled to go tilong with the rtst ; and ' that if tho lawyer who had said so much against him had been in the road , with a smock-frock on instead of that gown , arid a straw hat instead of that wig , he would now be itinding at the bar , as he was ; that an honest man he had always been ; an honest man he btill was , and an honest man be would ever remain . ' Mr . Wm . Wickham and Mr . Janus Wickhain , the two principal landowners in the neighbourhood , gave him , as they before had given bis brother , tha best of characters . Mr . Enoa Didama did the same ; the jury most strongly rtcommended him to iuercy ; but , like his brother , he u-as condemned to DE . VTH , AND TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE !! Always when these Masons ware tried , up came tho Atory about tlio Briyhlon petition '—Cubbttl .
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LORD CARDIGAN'S HUMANITY : Ui
LUCKY TOM MA . CAULAY . Coleridge in one of his works expressed regret that the Ecience of casuistry had fallen into neglect—that branch of moral inquiry to whicb . huge tomes were devoted by the divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Jeremy Taylor , he complained , was the last of the casuists . Had Coleridge survived till this time , he might b-VJ hailed with delight the reappearance of a casuist in tbe Whig Secretary at War . Mr . Mucauluy ' u exposition of the case of the Karl of Cardigan to the House of Commons was a master-piece in this line . The conduct of the Earl was analyzed with tha utuio 3 t BubtUUy : the possible , the probabis , ami the improbable motives to his whipping Private Rogers by way of a voluntary at the close of divine service , were
all reviewed iu detail . On the whole , Jw . Wacaulay inclined to the opinion that the Earl was to bla-me ; but he arrived at this conclusion with characteristic di ! li < ieiico , and expressed it with the hesitation of a . man who , having studied under Sir Roger de Coverley , knows " much may be said on both sides . " But Mr . Macaulay has come an age too late . Simuel Taylor Coleridge is no more , and with him the admirers of casuistry have died out . So decided ia the aversion to casuistry in this age , that oven tho Downing-strest journals have taken up the cry against the luckiesd wight who has attempted to re-establish that branch of study . The Gfo&e protests that Mr . Ma&tulay's conclusion is erroneous , with mucU ^ more confidence than it declared the rumour that Lord Bi-lhaven ia to ba
superseded in tbe office of CommiBsioner to the Genera ] Assembly to be unfounded . The Chronicle rountily asserts thatfe "Mr . Macaulay went out of-hisway to volunteer a tribute to the humanity of the Earl of Cardigan ; " and that " Mr . Macaulay ' s statement was either irrelevant or untrue . " The Chronicle does not pretend to decide which ; and as the two qualities are not incompatible , delicately leaves it to be inferred tbat the statement may be both . The Chronicle is lit tbe pains lo marshal a formidable array of figures in opposition to the decision of Mr . Macauiay : and , ufter mature tit-liberation , we rather incline to the opinion that thu Chronicle is in the rigkt . To only one of the Chronicle's conclusions do wo demur—¦•• His laboured tribute to Lord Cardigan ' s humanity , and his questiona !) Je endeavour to shelter his Lordship ' s indecency under precedent , in order to weaken the feeling whici
his outrageous conduct was calculated to excite , tva altogether unworthy of . Mr . Macaulay . " For " unworthy" we would read " worthy . " The question with regard to Lord Cardigan ' s humanity is , we admit , uat an easy one : no microscopical inquiries are . His friends say , "No man . in the Eleventh Hussars has been punished with the lash since 1839 "—argal , bis Lordship is humane ; it was sheer humanity that made him in such a hurry to punish Private Rogers—he was anxious tbat the poor fellow should have it over . On tbe other hand , Lord Cardigan ' s adversaries say that "it is understood Lord Cardigan received instructions from head-quarters to diminish tbe severity of his punbl . uients ; " and Sir Charles Dalbiac ia said to have reconied Lis opinion that " Lord Cardigan ' ^ command had been characterised by unnecessary harshness . " So , possibly , the hurry with Private Rogers may be owing to his Lordship ' s lung abstinence from the infliction of
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punishment having made him hungry to get a man whipped . Lord Cardigan seems to be like pitch—*• defile * every man who handles him . Last week , ft sentimental journalist expressed apprehension that "the connection with Lord Cardigan might prove fatal to Prince Albert's peace . " This week the connection with Lord Cardigan has opened the mouth of the Downing-Btreet journals against their own Secretary at War : " the little dogs and all , Tray , Blanche , and Sweetheart , how they bark at b | A ! " Having retrenched an unfromUe Chronicles worthy , we must transplant it to our own lucky , and use in future the designation unlucky Tom Macaulay . Exiled from Windsor , and carped at by the Globe and Chronicle , it is clear that his planet has passed its culminating point" The day of his destiny ' s over , And the star of his fate hath declined . "
It only remains to be added , tbat" Even we , the story hearing , With & sigh can cry poor Tom I r-rSpeclator .
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EXECUTION OF BARTHOLOMEW MURRAY FOR THE MUKDER OF MR . AND MRS . COOKE , AT OVER PEOVER Chester , Saturday Night . —The last sentence of tbe law was carried into eff'tct upon the body " of this wretched culprit at the City Gaol this morning . From the time of his apprehension in Ireland and his commitment on the charge , which at tha last assizes was brought so clearly home to him , his conduct had been uniformly good . The order for the execution was forwarded from the Secretary of State ' s office , and received by the city sheriff , W . J . Leller , Esq ., on Sunday . The announcement of its arrival made no alteration in the habit or manners of tbe unhappy youtb . He was locked up
every night in the condemned cell by himself , and is said to have enjoyed up to Thursday night , sound and unbroken sleep . Ou Friday morning the holy sacrament was administered to hiiri by the Rev . J . Carberry . Ho then appeared quite resigned to his ( ate , and deeply impressed with the urgent necessity of making his peace with God . On Friday afternoon he expressed a wish to see tbe prisoners who up to the day of his condemnation had been confined in th % same yard with him . He bade all an affectionate adieu . Between eight * nd nine o ' clock iu the evening he waa revisited by the Roman Catholic clergyman . He then undressed himself , got into bed , aud takuig his prayer-book in his band , with the exception of some short intervals , read the contents with marked devotion throughout the
night He dressed about four o ' clock , and partook of a hearty bte&kfast . The reading wf the usual morning prayers soon after commenced , the culprit , iu an audible voice , joining in the service , acid repeating word for word after the clergyman . The county authorities next conducted Murray to the looby adjoining the outer gate of the castle . He was there handcuffed , and the city sheriff aad his officers being announced , as waiting for the culprit at Gjovtr'a Sfcone , the city baundary , Mr . Duutttan conducted his prisoner on foot in that direction . A strong body of the city police , armed with cutlasses , attended to keep buck . the crowd . The unhappy man walked by the side of the priest , still repeating the prayers . His step was remarkably firm , and the gazj of a crowd of some thousands did not appear iu the least to affect him .
On the arrival of tbo county procession , at the boundary , a black railed cart , without springs , provided by the city authorities , was in readiness to convey the culprit to the city gaoL He was lifted into it by Mr . Hill , tho superintendent of the city police , and Mr . Haswell , the governor of the city gaol , and manacles having been fixed to his legs , the Rev . J . Carberry took a seat in the cart by the side of the culprit ,-both riding with their backs to the horse , which , after the true Tyburn style , was led by the hangman , a practitioner from Staffordshire . The governor of the city gaol headed tho procession , aud the sheriff , under sheriff , and a large body of officers brought up the rear . The crowd was exceedingly dense , aud the police constables bad great difficulty in keeping them back , so as to make a passage for the cart .
The procession reached the gaol as the clock struck five . The cart was taken to the back door of the prison , and Murray's manacles having been removed , he was conducted through the chapel , in which his coffin , made of plain undressed deal , was lying , to the cell at the foot of the fatal platform . The sight of neither the coffin nor drop appeared to affect him in the least On entering tbe cell he directly knelt down and continued his devotions . At half-past nine o ' clock a second breakfast was provided . Murray merely took a single cap of tea .
About ten o'clock the Rev . W . G . Eaton , tbe ceunty prison chaplain , paid the unfortunate man another visit . After shaking bauds with him , the revereud gentleman said , ' * Well , Murray , how do you feel ? VVhat is the state of your mind at present ? " Tne answer to which was , " Quite composed . " The chaplain then asked , " Are you prepared for the awful change . so shortly about to take place ? " Murray replied , " Yes , sir . " " Do you feel perfectly resigned to your fate ?" " , sir . " The reverend chaplain then teetered , his services to the unfortunate man , who , through Mb Carberry , respectfully declined them , at the same time thanking the reverend gentleman for his kind offer and the general attention shown to him during his lengthened imprisonment in the county gaol .
At length all bung prepared , and just as the unfortunate man was about to be conducted to the drop , the Rev . Mr . Eatou feelingly appealed to him in the following word ' s : ¦ — " Bartholomew Murray , I have obtained the permission of Mr . Carberry to ask you ft solemn question . The religious exercises to which you have been subject must have very deeply impressed your mind , and as you are about very shortly to appear in the presence of God , I do not require you to answer unless you do it in sincerity and truth . lathe sentence , for which you ave now about to suffer , just or unjust ?" Murray at once replied , " I huve no declaratiou % o make . " He was then conducted to the drop , and having ascended the scaffold with a firm step , ho knelt
with Mr . Carberry on the drop . After a few minutes spent in prayer , the executioner proceeded to adjust the rope . His pastor then administered the sacrament of extreme unction , and , turning round and shaking hands with Murray , said , " I am now about to leave you ., " to which he replied , in a firm voice , " I am satisfied ! God be with you . " The 3 e were his last word <<; in an instant the drop fell , and he died ¦ without a perceptible struggle . He was in the nineteenth year of his age . The body , after banging the usual time , was cut down and placed in a coffin . At night it wn . s privately removed td the Ca 3 tle , and , agreeably to tho provisions of the Act 4 Parliament , interred within the precinets , without Christian burial .
From the circumstance of there having been no pub ^ lie execution in Choster since April 19 th , 1834 , an immense concourse of spectators were collected together on the city walls . At the moment of the execution , twenty-five minutes paat twelve o ' clock , the crowd was exceedingly dense . Fortunately , no accident of consequence occurred .
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The Swell , the Costermo . nger , and the Donkey . —At , the Marylebone Police effico , en Saturday , Joseph Holden , an elderly man , with a serio-comic cast of countenance , was brought up , charged uadcr the following curious circumstances : —It appeared , from the evidence of a gentleman named Tufnell , that a few days ago , as his phaKon was standing in Great Marylebonestreet , a donkey , belonging to defendant , started off with the can to which it was harnessed , and dashed violently against tho vehicle of complainant ; the wheels became locked together , and on defendant being told by complainant that he was in fault for leaving his donkey and cart unattended , he poured out a volley of the grossest abuse , which caused a considerable crowd to
assemble . Mr . llardwick ( to defendant )—What have you to say to this J Defendant—Yy , please yer honourable Yorship , 1 did ' ut blow up the gin'juman at all , not by no means votsumdever , and ven I gaid b—t your eyes , and be d—d to you , I vos a speechefying to the ass , and no other mortal man living , b'help mo tatur ; my donkey ' s a wexry ' spe . ctab . le and voll-couducted ass , my Lord , aud I never knowed him to gallop off in this here vay afore ; I looks upon the hanimal as voa of my own family , aad ven ho dies I shall never get another like him for love nor money . The defendant here tubbed his eye with his frock sleeve , and " wipod away a tear . " He was fined 10 s ., which he speedily paid , and on quitting the court , said , " If there ' s a more betterer conducted ass than mine in all London then my name aint Joe H . olden , and that ' s all about it . "
How to Live by a Loss . —At Marlborough-s ' treet police-office , on Saturday , John Lewis , a raggedjbut exceedingly intelligent-looking little boy , about eight years of age , was charged with begging in the streets , a . nd -practising the following deception . A poJfce constable of the G division stated that as he was passing Greek-street , Solio , ho saw the defendant crying post piteously , aud complaining that hehad lost a sixpence in the kennel , and that when he went home bia mother would beat him for . losing it . Several persons , believing tho boy , soon made up his loss by setting a penny subscription on foot , and the moment he got . tho money he disappeared . In half an hour afterwards the same policeman saw tho boy again sitting on the step of a door in Coinpton-street . Ho was then crying as before , and attracted a crowd of pcisons about him to whom he was relating . that be ha < i lost somo of Lis mother ' s money , and that it had been
knocked out of his haud by another boy , who had struck him on the head . This tale was also believed by tho bystanders who were proceeding to give the boy money , when the policeman convinced them that he had trumped up the story , questioned Jjixn , when ho admitted that his account about losing the sixpence was all ' sham , " adding that his mother had sent him to beg , and threatened to give him a thrashing if he returned home without money . The boy , in answer to a question from the . magistrates , said , that ho never got more than two bob , and if he did uot get any money his mother gave him a clout on the head , but ho did not mind that . The mother , who had been called into the ofiioo , said that sha was a widow , and in great distress . The magistrate told her that if she was in distress she should apply to the- paiith authorities . The mother said she would do s , but she had . Y $ ry little hope of bucciB 3 .
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How to Accomplish -all . that we Attempt — My rule is deliberately to consider before I commence , whether the thing is practicable . If it be not practicable , I do not attempt it ; if it be practicable , I can accomplish it , if I give sufficient pains to it ; and , having begun , I never stop till the thine is done . —Dr . Hunter . *
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Christened at Yeovil Church , by the Rev . W Robinson , on Wednesday , the 14 th inst , Mahalath * O'Connor Frost , daughter of Wm . Tucker and Elizabeth his wife . . ¦ Born March 4 th , and duly registered , William Feargu 8 O'Connor Carroll , son of Margaret and William Carroll , cordwainer , No . 3 , Austin ' s Court Cumberland-street , Manchester . * Born on the 2 nd of Jannary , and christened on the 21 st of February , by the Rev . Mr . Clarke Helen Agnes O'Connor Vincent , daughter of AIex « ander and Margaret Chalmers , of the Teetotal Coffee-ltouse , Portobello , near Edinburgh . 'Christened at the Collegiate Church , on Snnday the 24 th of March , Ann O'Connor and Mary Frost twin daughters of John and Ann Lee , of Maa-Chester .
On the 28 th of March , Agnes , the wife of David Walker , of Sheffield , was delivered of a fine daugi . ter , which was baptised at the parish church and duly registered Eliza O'Connor Frost Walker . On Tuesday , ¦ the 10 th of March , Elizabeth , the wife of George Doig , of Bedlington , was safely d elivered of a son , who was duly registered George Feargus Doig , on the 28 th of March . Grace , the wife of Henry Burnett , 1 $ , Reform , street , Bradford , was delivered of a son on Sunday last , which has since been duly registered Emannel Frost Burnett . > In January last , Mary , the wife of George Flynn of a daughter , which has been registered Ana iU'Douall Flynn . Tuesday , April 13 th , the daughter of John and Celia Moore , of Trowbridge , was duly registered Celia Frost Moore , in honour of the exiled patriot , John Frost .
Eliza Frost , born November 4 th , 1839 , christened at the parish church , Dewsbury . Jane O'Connor Frost , born at Stockport , 16 th of March , 1841 , * and'duly registered ; daughter of George and Hannah Hall . On Thursday week , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . George Walker , tailor , Woodhouse Carr , near this town , gave birth to a daughter , who has been duly registered Harriet Feargus O'Connor . Mr . Henry Hunt , of the Friars , Lefcesttr , recently had a son christened Feargus , after the incarcerated patriot now in York Castle . On Tuesday , March 30 ,. 1341 , Mary Ann Bentley the wife of John Bentley , of Millbridge , was safely delivered of a son , who has since been duly registered Feargus O'Connor . Born , at Loughborough , April 9 th , Mary O'Connor , daughter of Joseph and Sarah Lester .
Born , recently , William Feargus , son of William and Olive Priestlej , of LoughboTOugh . Jane Frost Hemingway , daughter of Jofcu and Martha Hemingway , of Calver , near Bake well , was duly registered ou the 15 th instant , in honour of that noble patriot , John Frost . On the 22 nd of April , at Leicester , was duly registered , Mary Ann Frost Knight , the daughter of Samuel and Eliza Knight , of Eaton-street , in honour of that bold and unflinching patriot John Frost , Esq . the peoples' friend and tyrants' foe . On Sunday , April 4 th , the daughter of John and Charlotte Steward , was christened by the Rev . Mr . Benfather , Hannah Feargus O'Connor Steward , at Sprowsby Church , near Norwich . The Rev . Gentleman said—Is Feargus O'Connor so endeared to you ,
that you must have this child named after him Yes , Sir , and not only to me , but to thousands . And does the father like Feargus O'Connor f Certainly he does . And is Feargus O'Connor superior to the Bible 1 I do not know what yoa moan . I say , is Feargus O'Connor superior to the Bible ? I do not know what the name of Fearpa O'Connor has to do with the . Bible . Then I shall not name your child . That you can do as you please about ; but if you do not , there are others that will . I suppose , Sir , we may name our children as we like I I do not know that you may ; I think if you refer-to the Bible you would not have this child named Feargus O'Connor . With these words he took np his Dook , and said with a sneer , " Hannah Feargus O'Connor , " &c .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct704/page/6/
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