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POETRY FOR IRELAND .. «< Wert taou all that I "wish thee , great , glorious , and -free , First flo-srer of the earth , and first gem of tha sea—I might ban thee ¦ with prouder , happier brow , Bat oh I could I love thee more deeply than now ? " No f thy chains as they rankle thy blood as it runs , But makes thee more painfully dear to thy aona ; ¦ RTiose hearts , like tbe young of the desert-bird ' a nest , Prink lore in each life-drop that flows from thy breast !" THOMAS MOOS . E .
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Shahe on the rulers , who for lengthened yean Bare laughed at Ireland * woes , aad mocked her tears gh&me on the nobles , who have spent their store Of ¦ wealth on other than their native shore ! ghame on the priestly craft and mitred head , lost robs a nation of its daily bread ; TSTiose pampered pride begets a sad reverse , And makes a Christian Chnrch a country ' s curse ! ^ Yhat i hath not Erin spirits bold and brave , yostin the rush of waron land and wave ? HtT 8 not her sons in fiery combat stood ,
Per jjjgrate England shed their dearest blood ? Bath she sot names recorded on the scroll Of immertality ' B eternal roll ? Is Grattan blotted out from history ' s page ? Or Corran ' s glory set in half an age ? Poth she not fcnrn "wiVb . more than British glow At honour ' s call , and melt at tales of -woe ? Poth not her minstrel wake a strain divine , Ani ^ rho , bni Moore , is Sard of Beauty ' s shrine ? Foremost in battle , loftiest on the lyre , And ret oppression damps . her noblest fire !
Hea this , oppressors . ' the Almighty ' s ban Will sorely sconrge yon , and his winnowing fan Cleanse the foul blot which your misdeeds have brought , By wrong on wrong , and cruelty o'erwrought . Ko lonier prate of ill-begotten right , your every word is perjury black as night 1 Ihat which was wrung by arms , and filched at first , Host be again restored , or trebly curst . ' And they who grasp the firmest , must at last Be swejt away by retribution's blast J Hear this , oppressors I—hear it while ye may !
A nation ' s thunder broods on your delay ! Jfot always shall the supplicating cry Bell o ' er the British Channel to the sky , And roll in rain ; v only in return Waft back fresh fnel for revenge to barn ! Jfot always shall a prostrate people plead , And beg for justice fools will not concede ! So , no ! the red Tolcanic fire within Shall one day burst , their liberty to win ; " Bat Ireland hath the germ of glory sown , . And shall be bcanty ' s gem anil freedom ' a throne . ' Bsxjaxix Gough .
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A SOKXET , TO SB . E 5 GAX 1 , OF THE TTyiTEBSITY COLXEGK , 4 ) n roaring fhi leiler irTierein he stales if 7 could raise the mtnxs io corns io London , he irotdd operate grattalovsv , ichich I irdend as soon as the " needful" be acquired . . Aid me , ye tonefal nine , in jjratefol strains To sing of Dr . BngalTs generous soul , Who knows my helpless state—would disenthrall , Unpaid , rny fettered hopes from palsy ' s chains , As I am low in plight , and small cf means . _ Should I contract , in time , some debts but small , Hay 1 by gratitude erase them all ; Sat if in after-times my purse regains The situation it was formed to held ,
I will requite you for the plenitude ¦ Of goodaess that your feeling lines unfold . But I consider , to receive an offered good From generous minds , half pays in sterling gold , The rest is paid in heartfelt gratitude . James Te : rxo : s South llolton , Dec . 21 st , 1 S 41 .
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THS CORN LAWS AND EMIGRATION . Because our lords have taxed the staff of life , The working man , his children , and his wife All slave together , yet they must not eat—Toil gives an appetite , but brings no meat ! The price cf bread by law is kept so high , "That what we earn suffices not to buy . But , why is this ? what makes our bread so dear ? Far cheaper 'tis abroad than it is here ! Yes , but a tax is laid on foreign grain , To make our home-grown corn its price maintain ; And naif-fed men may toil , and starve , and die , That idle lords may lift their heads on
hfgft-* We might bay cheap , but landlords want great rents To spend in keeping grand establishments . Their feasts , their- fancies , jewels , balls , and plays , The poor man ' s nakedness and hunger pays . The tenant says , if corn comes duty free , Twill bring down prices hers , and ruin me : Taxes and rents in England are so high , I cannot sell so cheap ujsu could bay . Pensions , and perquisites , all other prices Mast corns down too , save luxuries and vices . The hone&t fem >> amflTT ^> m must emigrate , And leave poor peasants to increase the rate . Unless our lords consent to live on Ies 3 , And pride succumb to humble happiness . ' J . TTatkijcs .
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THE SOCIAL REFORMEKS' ALMANAC for 1 S 42 . Leeds , J . Hobson ; London , Cleave ; Manchester , Heywood ; Glasgow , Paton . and Love . A modification of the Poor Man ' 3 Companion aad Political Almanac to the views , uses , and purposes < if the Socialists . The principal new feature being ¦ a memoir of the Socialist Lecturer and Missionary , Mr . James Rlgbj , which we give : —
K £ 3 iOIB O ? JAXZS iJGBT , DEPrTT GOTE £ > 'OB OF 3 "SIH 2 BZT COJfcHCSITY . The subject of the following Eketch affords a striking fflastration of the extent to which perseverance , industry , and benevolent intentions , can overcome the difficulties of an originally defective education , limited means , and an inferior position in society . In these respects , bis career is at once instructive and cheering , aad offers the strongest incitement to others occupying a similar station in life to copy his example James Bigby was born in S&lford , in 1 S 02 . Bis f&ther , Thomas Rigby , had a large family , —twelve children ; and was for many years in the employment of Joseph Brotherton , Esq ., the present member for tot'borough . At the early age of seven years James
commenced to work in a cotton mill , and attended a school on Sundays , established by that gentleman for the purpose of educating the children who had been discharged from the church Bchools , because their parents wore " white hats , " and avowed themselves reformers . In this school Mr . Bigby formed an acquainfc--saeewith the late Rowland Detroaer . A strong friend shjp grew up between them , which was of the greatest sarice to the young scholar in deciding the tone and direction of his future career . It was a maxim conti-EaHy in the mouth of the lamented Petrosier , that " eTery man should do something to make the world ktte * for having lived in it ; " and the saying sunk deep in Qiemind of his ycung friend . He continued thus J&ercsteiy occupied in labour aad receiving occasional
asiracScm until he reached the age of sixteen , when he * as apprenticed to Mr . Joseph Smith , plumber and gazier , of Ssiforfi . No sooner was he relieved from tta drudgery of the mill , than the effects of his friend -Detrosier ' a maxim became evident in his conduct The loir mental condition of those he had left behind frfrn in S » mill excited his warmest sympathy , and impelled to fixations to reduce the comprehensive and benevolent fcSMa to practice . His first attempt for this purpose * « the establishment of a school for twelve factory °° 7 h for whom he found books , slates , pencils , and , to short , every description ef school apparatus , gra" ¦ "ously ; adding to this his equally gratuitous services
a communicating to them such knowledge as he himself « w « qoired . in a short time he was joined by another y « ng man in this " labour of love , " and by his assistsjjce wa » enabled to extend the sphere of his usefulness . They took ^ larg e room , and furnished accommodation ff neadT sixty pnpfla , ail of whom were tanght npon ~* Principle , and provided with the necessary ^ aas for pursuing their studies . In a abort time they * ° sud thst more applications for admission were made Joa n they had the means to accommodate ; and having , athe meantime , heard a lecture on the necessity and ? £ *?* tages of female education from l > etrosier , Mr . iugby determined ta * * rtrt the -means for imoartinK
fraction to tkat sex also . He therefore secured addij"fc « teachers , engaged larger premises in Factory-lane , i" ^ J . Ba teinan , Esq ., and changed the name Sfom the " Rigby School" to tba " Mutual Instruction - "aStaaon . " The arrangements were entirely remodel * Si »«« Porate body was formed j and a small weekly * ai * criPtion wupaid by each member to defray the aeoeaiI 7 expenses . The labour of the teachers , howf *^> continued to be gratuitous . A library of on * £ *™» d and twenty Tolomes was formed by the euntri-RSaoM of the members ; r !> j »»» for instruction in read-* Bg , writing , accounts , music , and elocution , irere . g naed under the general superintendence of Mr ¦~ P > y as president . While thus engaged ineomnrafkating instruction to the young person ! whose ?» Ma&on had been bo wofully neglected in early *« > Mr . Rigby ' s attention « u directed to the agitation
ttra ahort-fime bill for tb * factory -workera , which -was «* nt that time commenced by Richard Oastler , the « r . 6 . S . Butt , the late Michael Thomas Sadler , and T ** ^; and seeing how materially such s measure would aid bia endeavours to elevate the mental and
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moral character of that class of the population , by leaving them more time for the acquirement of knowledge , he directed his attention and energies to this question with Ms usual zeal and activity . The Mutual Instruction Institution having secured a solid standing , enabled him to devote much of his time to this object ; and , in conduction with other friends , a vigorous agitation was carried on by means of public meetings , lec tures , petitions to Parliament , &c , for the purpose of influencing the public and the Legislature . The end of these exertions will no doubt be recollected by most of the readers of ibis memoir . Instead of passing an efficient ten hours bill for all , as was originally
advocated by Mr . Owen ( the father of the movement on this subject ) by the late Sir Robert Peel , who became th « Parliamentary leader of the question , and more recently by Mr . Rigby and the parties mentioned , the Legislature passed an act requiring eight hours work from children under thirteen—an act which experience has shewn to be what the sincere friends of the factory labourers prophesied it would be , quite impracticable , and a hardship both to the operative and the employer . Justice has yet to be done in this respeet ; but what has been effected in the face of the tremendous opposition which Mr . Rigby and his coadjutors had to face , testifies to the energies of their exertions , and assures ultimate
success . In the year 1829 Mr . William Pare visited Manchester , and announced a course of lectures on the Means for Removing Poverty and its Causes without Injury to Person or Property . The lecturer elucidated the leading moral and economical features of the new views of Bociety ia such a manner as , combined with several private interviews , to win over Mr . Rigby to the support of that cause , of which he has since that time been an ardent , persevering , and eloquent advocate .
The first movement made in this direction by Mr . Rigby , was in connection with Mr . Joseph Smith , to found a Co-operative Store . The intention of these stores was to purchase gooSs with the deposits of the shareholders , - * t the wholesale price , and to sell them at ordinary retail prices ; the profits being designed for the formation of communities of united interests , npon the plan laid "down by Robert Owen . However welliDtantioned these institutions were , it was soon found that in consequence of the poverty of their members , the system of giving credit which arose in consequence of that poverty , and other causes , that they presented very little hope of realising the object for which they were formed ; and the Salford Society having engaged large premises which they could not profitably occupy , Mr . Rigby and some other friends took them , and
converted them into a school and Mutual Instruction Institution . Upwards of three hundred persons joined this institution , -which was like the preceding , supported by small contribntianB , the labour of the teachers being gratuitous . The managers of this institution commenced the practice , since so generally adopted by Lyceums , &c , of giving tea parties , balls , and concerts , to the working classes , at a cheap rate . In these exertions they- were encouraged by the countenance and liberal support of Lady Byron , the Misses Pearson , Sir Benjamia Heywood , Bart ., Sir Thomas Potter , J . Fielden , Estf , M . P ., J . M . Morgan , Esq ., William Clegg , Esq ., and others . This institution laid the foundation of a new public opinion in Salford , and gave a tone and elevation to the working classes , which they never previously possessed .
In 1833 , Mr : . Sigby was elected by the members of the institution to represent them at the Co-operative Congress , heH this year in London . The reports of its proceedings shew him to have taken an active and leading part .. He lectured to various societies in the metropolis and its vicinity ; and while his warm and fervid advocacy of the rights of labour and the advantages of education made a strong impression on his auditors , the new and extended sphere of observation which was then opened to him for the first time , doubtless exercised a beneficial influence on his own mind , " and prepared him for the yet wider circle ot usefulness in which he has subsequently distinguished 'hiriUjoif ,
Shortly after his return from this Congress , Owen and Fielden farmed the National Regeneration Society , composed of manufacturers , merchants , and workmen , for the purpose of creating a pablic opinion in fsvoor ot limiting the labour in factories to eight hours per day , by general consent of the employers , and without reference to governmental or legislatorial influence , A number of missionaries to explain the views of the society were appointed , among whom was Mr . Rigby . He costinned engaged for twelve months in ttiis capacity ; and though the object of the society was not attained , there can be no doubt but that through its instrumentality sound views on various important questions of national economy were made plain to and popular among all classes of the community . labours
TJpon the termination of these Mr . Rigby returned to his former situation with Mr . Smith , and continued to devote his leisure hours to the Salford School . In the course of time a public opinion in favour of Mr . Owen ' s views was formed ; and , at length , Mr . Smith built an elegant institution for the express purpose of advocating these views , which was opened to thB public in January , 1 S 36 . In the various departments connected with this institution , as lecturer , teacher , and manager , Mr . Rigby took a conspicuous par t . It was shortly alter it was opened that the writer first had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with him , and , through his instrumentality , with the views which ho so earnestly and eloquently advocated . That event had the double effect of laying the foundation of a warm and lasting friendship , and of enlisting all our sympathies in favour of , and exertions for , the promotion of the same
cause-Mr . Rigbys life since , may be read m the progress of the society of Socialists . When in 1837 the Central Board and New Moral World was removed from London to Manchester , Mr . Rigby was appointed one of the members of the Board . His strenuous and gratuitous exeitions in connection with those of Messrs Smith , Jones , Fleming , &c , gave the cause an impetus which no amount ef opposition or obloquy has since been ahle to obstruct For upwards of two years , Mr . Rigby thus gratuitously devoted his exertions to further the interests of the cause in which he had
embarked ; bat at the Congress of 1838 , he was elected and set apart to the office of missionary together with several others . " In this capacity be was successively stationed in the Leeds , Liverpool , and Birmingham districts ; and had just returned to the former a second time , when he was nnanimonsly called npon to take the superintendence , of the Establishment of the society in Hampshire . . In this . situation , his urbanity of manner , conciliatory ' spirit , and practical knowledge of the world , have proved of invaluable service to the society He possesses the affection of the members and the esteem of all around him ! and ha « shewn in this new
and trying position as much ability to understand and carry forward large practical measures , as he formerly did in elcquenUy expounding and enforcing those " principles he is now an honoured instrument in reducing to practice . Mr . Rigby has been married many years and has had six children , of whom two only are now living . In concluding this brief outline of a life , every step of which has been marked by the purest and most untiring benevolence , and which has been productive of an amount of public and elevated benefit far beyond the apparently narrow limits of his original humble position , we cannot avoid saying a few . words as to the principal characteristics of the mind which has effected so much for itself and others .
The principal feature of Mr . Rigby ' s character—( and in saying this we feel we shall have the spontaneous assent of the thousands who know and love him)—is , his power over the affections of those with whom he comes in contact . As a lecturer , he was less distinguished by depth of reasoning , extensive research , or rigid logic , than for the fascination which his varied , apt , and touching illustration of his subjects , and appeal to the feelings of his auditors , universally excited . The wri ^ r , who was associated with him constantly during a long period of the early ages of the Boaalista' agitation has witnessed with wonder the
effects of Mb oratory upon crowded audiences ; now melted to tears by bis pathos ; and , anon , moved to irresistible langhter by his quick but always kindle humour . Perhaps no man who ever lived so long and so constantly-hi public life made so many friends or bo few enemies . We doubt whether be has any of the latter . " Take him for all in all we shall not soon see his like again ; " , we are certain , that , in closing this sketch , we merely give ntterance to a heartfelt wish which exists hi many thousand minds , —may he be long spared to" pursue his useful and truly noble career . ' ' -
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GIiOSSOP . — Akcieti Fobestby . —On Saturday last , Ccufi No . 70 , of the Ancient Order cf Foresters , held their anniversary at the house of Mr . James Collier , Commercial Inn , Rose-Green , Glossop , ¦ when upwardB of eighty of the members partook of an excellent and substantial dinner . HORSFOE-TH , —The members of the Evening Star Lodge , No . 40 , in the Leeds District of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows , assembled on Christmas-day to celebrate their anniversary at the Horse &nd Jockey Inn . The ( tinner was served up by the worthy cost and hostess , Mr . and Mrs . Craven , in a fixst-Tate Etyle .
STHOTTD . —The weavers in the Borongh of Stroud a few years ago had £ 2 0 s . 6 d . for weaving v ? hat is eailed a stripe cloih , it is now wove three yards longer , when any can be got , at 12 s ., which is more than 16 s . in the pound less . Ani mark , oat of the 12 s . there is 8 d . or sometimes Is . to bs paid out of that for setting _ to work , besides the man's own trouble , and 2 s . for quilling . Sometimes the poor man is a month in performing the task , and sometimes less . The reason he is longer in wearing the thirty ells is because it is made out of what in Queen Elizabeth ^ reign was called waste , but it is better known now by the name of ilinge , and he is often told by the nincompoop in the wool loft not to come troubling him any . more for a month . Inquests . —On "Saturday week , an . inquest was taken before J . G . Ball , Esq ^ C » roner , at the Clothiers' Arms Inn , Nailsworth * on the body of Philip Barnfield , of the parish , a £ Hoxsley , weaver ,
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who died , it was said and thought by many , from starvation ; but the verdict was , "Died from natural causes , accelerated from the want of proper nourishment . " Mr . Ball said he had held thirty-three inquests in thirty days , and the undertaker , or in other words , the coffin-maker to the Union , makes from a dozen to fifteen coffins a week . —On Friday last , an inquest was taken by G . Barnett , Esq ., at the Boot Inn , Horsley , on the body of Thomas Jones , but adjourned to the Black Horse Tiltups Inn . The fac ' s of the case were these : —Poor old Jones , like inoffensive old Barnfield , wa 3 a pauper . He received his bread from the relieving officer , and his son Jack , when the victuals arrived , generally took the liberty ef helping himself first , which caused a good deal of quarrelling between them . Jack ,
though young m years , was old in iniquity , and was constantly in the habit of robbing his father ; but this was the last . Jack jobbed the old man in his side with a walking-stick , which caused his death . A postmortem examination was taken by E . Bowen , Esq ., with the assistance of Thomas Stokes , Esq ., surgeon , whose evidence went to prove that the old man had had a chronic disorder ; bat from the injury he had received in the side , acute inflammation was occasioned , which ended in mortification The Jury returned a verdict against John Jones , for the manslaughter of his father , and against Ann Jones , the mother , for aiding and abetting the said John Jones ; and they were both committed , on the Coroner ' s warrant , to take their trial at the next assizes for the county of Gloucester .
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Chkistmas Stuffing tor Geese and Pigs . —On Tuesday afternoon thirteen geese , which had been landed from the City of Aberdeen steamer , on the Aberdeen wharf , at St . Katharine ' s , and were intended as presents to various individuals in London , were inspected by an Excise waterman , named Young , who found them to be unusually heavy , and on opening one of them , he found it to contain a bottle of over-proof whisky , which had never befora passed under the eyes of the Customs or Excise . This discovery induced him to oat open the others , and they were all in the same
conditionthere was a bottle of real Ferintosh m each * Young seized the geese and their contents , on behalf of our Sovereign Lady th « Queen , and removed hia prize to the Excise-office . A number of fine young sucking pigs have been lately seized , with their insides filled with Scot-jh whisky ; and on Satardayuo less than thirty Dutch turkeys were captured in front of the Custom-house , which were stuffed with Hollands gin . The geese and turkeys from Scotland and Holland have carried an unusual quantity of whifky and geneva , and the young pigs have contained the same stuff for the purpose of carrying on the Christmas festivities .
A Patriabch . —A well-known character , called " Old . Blanket Hall , " died lately at Witney , at the advanced age of 120 . He lived in the reigns of seven Sovereigns . His great age may be partly ascertained by letters patent granted him by Queen Anne herself , and the old gentleman prided himself on a fine portrait cf her Majesty , given to him many years ago , by one of her old stewards , Earl Harcourt . He was much pressed to join the Teetotal Society , but the venerable patriarch shook his head and said , * it was too late for him to begin , and that he had belonged to the old school toolongforany such change to have any good effect on him . A threatened distraint for poor-rates was the immediate cause of his somewhat sudden decease . To some individuals who wished him to join the teetotalers he left his pump and rain-water butt . — Oxford Herald .
Englishmen working for Fovrpekce a Week . —Every day is making awful disclosures of the unparalleled sufferings and total destitution of the working classes . These disoloBures contain facts which cannot be contemplated without feelings of the greatest horror . On Thursday night the skeinsilk dyers held a public meeting in the Social Hall , High-street , Whitechapel , to adopt some plan calculated to rescue their fellow-workmen from their present frightful distress . Mr . Weekly presided . He &a \ d that the men who worked at the skein-silk dye-trade were not receiving on an average , eight shillings a-week , and that they were enduring the most frightful distress . Mr . Edmonds said , that three hundred belonged to that branch . Borne of
whom earned eight shillings , others five , and many not more than three shillings a-week . It was stated that they were worse off in 1 S 2 G . That he denied , for he conld prove that they were now paying 40 pei cent , more for provisions than in 1826 . So wretched were the weavers that they were compelled to conceal the boiled potatoes from their children , lest from hunger they would devour them before they were cooled . Mr . Sydney said that he was most for tunate , because be had live days work in the week . In houses which employed only twelve bands they were tolerably well paid , but were thirty or sixty hands were engaged the men often received but fourpence a week , as those houses gave but one
day's work in the week . Mr . Bo ] ton said , he knew numbers without homes , without food , and without covering . It is impossible to read these details without horror . It is truly heartrending to consider , that in a land where upwards of £ 70 , 000 has been expended on stabling forhorsep , that hun . an beings stamped with the image of the living God should have but fourpence a week for their support . It is past endurance to bthold one noble lady enjoying a pension of £ 4 C 0 , 0 l : 0 a year . Some othernoble personage £ 50 , 000 ; this ' bishop £ ] 5 , 182 , and that bishop £ 19 , 000 a year , while the people , who in the hour of danger should be their country ' s hope , pride , and bulwarks , are daily and hourly decaying and disappearing in premature graves , through dire want and actual starvation .
Boyish Magnanimity . —On goiag to school , Frank Trueman sat next to Charles , with a view of showing him the figure of a vessel which he had drawn upon a slate , when a boy named Smith , who occupied a seat behind them , pointed out an error in the drawing ; Frank had , he said , made the vessel go against the wind , and no vessel , with sails , could do that ; a steamer could do it , but she must have no sails set Charles was appealed to , he having been for some time on board a ship of which a near relative was the commander ; but the little fellow hesitated , not likiog to tak * part against Frank , after what his mo : her had said the day preceding ; he , however , felt bound to speak the truth , and he said , therefore , that some vessels woa ) d sail within a very few points
of the wind , though , not exactly agaiDst it . Each of the disputants claimed this decision as favourable to himself , and Charles added that neither could be said to be quite right nor quite wroDg ; if a vessel was to be drawn as if standing to windward , they might certainly make her flags stream behind . Here the master , who had several times called * silence , ' Bummoned the three boys by name , and Master Overreach , who sat on the next foim , exclaimed with ill-natured exultation , Won't you catch it V But what he said , and the manner of it , were not unobserved by the master , who directed him to be Bent up als " , much to his discomfiture . On being
questioned , Overreach said the boys had been quarrelling about the wind , but he totally exonerated himself , and imputed the largest share of blame to Charles , who was thereupon ordered to hold out his hand ; but just as he was about to receive what boys usually ; erm a pancake , Frank stepped forward and declared that he would not suffer another boy to be punished for him ; he alone had been to blame , and the statement of Overreach was entirely false . He then related all that had passed , and the truth became so apparent , that the master sentenced Overreach to receive the punishment about to be inflicted upon Charles , and the others were dismissed . —Parley ' s Penny Library .
A Case op Starvation . —On Friday last , a man , named Stephen Futter , and his wife were charged before the county magistrates at the Shire-hall , Norwich , with exposing their son , William Futter , a boy twelve years of age , to starvation , through cold and want of food . Mr . ^ Edmund Slingsby Drury Longe , of Catton , who had made full and particular inquiries into the case , having been sworn , stated—That from information I received I proceeded on Fr iday , the 11 th of December , to the cottage now oceupied by Stephen Futter , situate in the parish of Catton , where I found William Futter , a boy aged twelve years , the son of Stephen Futter , lying upon a bedstead , with only some wet straw and an old CiOth to cover him , in an out-house or shed
attached to the said cottage . The rain was pouring through at the time , and the boy was suffering , and had been suffering , from cold and want of nourishment , and to the best of my belief the boy could not have jived many days longer , bad he continued where he was ; I applied for an order to have the boy admitted into St . Faith ' s Union Workhouse , to which place he waB taken on Saturday , Dec . 11 . Mr . Priestley , surgeon at St . Faith ' s Union , deposed —I atteaded at St . Faith ' s Workhouse on Saturday , December 11 , and found the boy William Futter suffering from extreme debility , aggravated by neglect , and apparently suffering from want of the common necessaries of life . I saw the boy half an hour after he was brought into the workhouse , and I think if he had not been , immediately attended to he must have perished . The boy has kept his bed ever since he was admitted info the house . I examined
him and found he was wasting front want of food . His right arm is rheumatic , and he will never regain the proper use of it . He is too ill to attend here to-day , and has scarcely the power of articulation . Yesterday he could hardly walk across the room . Stimulants will be necessary to enable him to appear at the sessions , and it is not probable that he will be able to appear next Saturday . I consider him still in a very dangerouB state . It appeared farther that the tmnatural parents bad a design to starve the boy , and that be had been for some time previously supplied with food by Mr . Longe . The prisoners in defence said with great indifference , that they did not consider that there was anything the matter with , the boy . As it appeared to the magistrates very probahle that the boy would not live , they rems nded the prisoners till the following Saturday , w ^ nen it was expected some of the neighoours would ? j . ttend .
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LtVBRPooi . Workhouse contains , at the present moment , a larger number of inmates than it eyer held before . There are now nearly 2 , 000 paupers in the house . ; ,. ; . ¦ . ¦ ¦ . » ¦ ••¦; -. - . ¦¦• • . ¦ ^ , -U-v- " v ; ; o \ ¦ _ A Discriminating Preceptor . —A schoolmaster in Cornwall , advertising his establishments says : — "Every boarder must be supplied with a Bible and Prayer Book , a knife and fork , three towels , and a silver desaert spoon ; all of which * except ihe books , become the proprietor ' s perquisite on the pupil quitting school ; " The conscientious pedagogue seems to think that the Bible and Prayer Book may be welt for the pupil : Ae prefers , however , the steel and the Silver . - ¦ - .- ¦ - : ,: - ' ' -: ' : ' ^ ¦ ¦ -. : ¦'¦ ¦ : ¦ : "¦ . ' ' . ¦ .: ' ¦ .. - . ¦¦ ' ¦
^ Not Ba » , if Tbub . —The Bishop of London ^ a Bhorttime since , made a speech to the chapters of St . Paul ' s Cathedral , against the wooden block pavement which the chapters thought of putting down round Sfc . Paul ' s Church-yard . When the Bishop had finished , the Rev . Sydney Smith rer plied to him thus— " After the speech with which your Lordship has favoured < us , I will only say , lhat Ithink there will be no difficulty in putting down this wooden block pavement , if we can only lay all our heads together . " i ;
Hydrophobia . —A lamentable instance of the effect of this fatal malady has occurred within the last few days to a respectable working man occupying asmall cottage about a miler norfch of St . Albah ' s . His name was John Harding . Jn the month of October last , whilst ; in . the act of holding a Btick before a dog near his cottage , the animal suddenly snapped at it , and in doing so the animal slightly grazed his wrist . Very soon after , the dog was shot , and although Harding felt a presentiment that he should ultimately fall a victim to the insidious disease of hydrophobia , he studiously avoided all mention of his suspicions to hia friends , anxious , as he said during his sufferings , to prevent uneasiness in their minds on the subject . He continued in hid usual health until Saturday evening , when he felt a painful sensation in the arm and shoulder , and early the
following morning other symptoms presented themselves , which exciting alarm in his friends , medical aid was called in , and subsequently several gentlemen of the medical profession attended , who did every thing in their power to alleviate the patient ' s sufferiugB . On Tuesday morning the sufferer refused all liquids , and appeared agitated at the sight of his tea ; the symptoms gradually increased , and in tho afternoon he became so violent that it was found necessary to have recourae to a straight waistcoat and othor means of restraint ; He foamed at the mouth , his tongue being constantly in motion , and his poise at 120 , still at times he was perfectly sensible , and a few minutes before eleven p . m .. his sufferings were terminated in death . He was in the 26 th year of his ago , married , but fortunately has not left any family to deplore his Io 3 s .
Dreadful Coal Pit Accident . —At a coal * pit accident belonging to Messrs . Job and Page Taylor , at Darlaston , a frightful accident occurred on Tuesday morning . Three men and a boy were descending to their work , when the skip on which they were standing , before their heads were lower than the mouth of the pit , got detached from the rope , and they fell a depth of more than thirty yards , ¦ They were all pitiably mutilated . Henry Itch , who has left a wife and six children , was killed on the spot ; and two others , Henry Sedley and George Whitehouse , without families , have died sinco . Richard Si ' mcox , the boy , is in a dangerous state , with both his legs and one arm btobm—SiaffbrdshireExaminer .
Singular Death . —A lady arrived in Exeter last Monday week , bringing a female servant with her . On the day after her arrival the latter broke a looking-glass . She became greatly alarmed at the trifling accident , covered the glass over with a handkerchief , and turned it to the wall that she might not see it . She expressed , her conviction that it foreboded a life of trouble and misfortune , and could not dismiss the subject from her mind . She said " she should never prosper in the world again . " Haunted by this idea , she became sad and dejected ,
and went to bed on Wednesday , two days after the accident , poorly and miserable , retiring earlier than usual on account of her illness . The next day she was worse , and her mistress desired her nob to get up . On Friday one of the most experienced of the medical gentlemen of the city was called in . He found her free from bodily pain , but suffering under a perfect prostration of strength and spirits ; She continued to sink till twelve o'clock the next day , when she expired , a victim to tho absurd superstition of the dreadful consequences of breaking a looking glass . !—Hampshire Standard .
Shocking Catastrophe at Southampton . — -A fine youth , about fifteen years . of age , named Hewitt , a son of the coachman of the Southampton and Bath mail , and an apprentice to Mr . Ball , brass-founder , was on Monday repairing , with another apprentice , the gasometer at the gas works near the Itchen river . As they were obliged to breathe gas while they were at work they were desired to walk into the open air occasionally . Unfortunately they neglected this request ; and when Mr . Ball , their master , went to the works at half-past two in the afternoon , he found one of his apprentices , \ yho was his brother , lying on his back insensible , and the boy Hewitt suspended over a reservoir of water , through which the gas was passing , and only prevented from falling bv his less beins fastened between the person of hia
fellow apprentice and the gasometer . Mr . Ball , on seeing the dreadful situation of the poor youths , immediately dragged his brother away , and on attempting to pull Hewitt away also , he lost his senses by inhaling from five or six jets of poisonous gas , and relaxing his grasp , the poor boy fell into the water . Nearly one hour elapsed before he could be taken from the water . On being taken oat , medical assistance was procured , but all attempts to restore him to life were useless . The youth Ball recovered by means of the medical aid which he received . A coroner ' s inquest sat on the body of Hewitt , and the Jury returned a verdict of" Died from suffocation " and that Mr . Ball was deseryiBg of censure for suffering two youths to work in a dreadful atmosphere without causing assistance to be immediately at hand in case of an accident . " .
Fatal Accident on the Liverpool and Manchester Rai lway . —It is with deep regret we have to state the particulars of another fatal railway accident resulting from that long-acknowledged evil , the permitting of railways to cross thoroughfares long ago dedicated to the convenience and accommodation of the public . The Newton Junction , which takes its name from the junction there formed between the Grand Junction and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , is confessedly one of the most dangerous spots connected with railway traffic in the kingdom . In addition to the two curved lines branching from Liverpool and Manchester to the Grand Junction line there is the main lino leading between Liverpool and Manchester , another line
communicating with Messrs . Turner and Evans s colliery at Haydock , and a fifth line leading to the chymical woikV of Messrs . Muspratt and Co ., as also innumerable . branches connecting the whole together , and effecting a union between the several railways . The Grand Junction and the Liverpool and Manchester Kailway Companies use every effort for securing a degree of safety to the public . A large number of policemen and pointmen are on duty day and night ; bells , signal lamps , and other means of giving netice of the approach of the trains have been adopted ; but , netwithstanding these arrangements , and the general vigilance displayed by the company ' s officers , accidents are a matter of much too frequent occurrence . This has . in some
degree , ansen from the circumstance of two roads crossing the railway within a distance of 200 yards of each other , one leading from the Vulcan Foundry and the other from Messrs . Muspratt and Co . ' s works ( establishments employing a vast number of labourers ) , to the town of Newton . Shortly after five o ' clock on Tuesday evening , James Taylor , a fine lad between twelve and thirteen yeara of age , the son of the lock-keeper at Warwick-locks , on the Sankey canal , was sent for some milk to a shop , or provision store , on the Newton side of the rail way ; he was accompanied by another lad about his own age . Their road lay on the line leading from Messrs . Muffpratt's works across the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . On reaching
the gate opening on to the railway a , very long lu ££ 3 Ke train from Manchester to Liverpool was passing along the line on the side of the road on which they were standing . They quietly waited until the last waggon had passed them , and then , fearing that the passenger-train from Manchester would be upon them , they rushed across the line , thinking by so doing to avoid the possibility of an accident . At this moment John Dawson , a pointman , stationed on the side of the line to which they were running , saw the Liverpool and Manchester five o ' clock passenger-train approaching at its usual rate of travelling , somewhere about thirty miles an hour , and he and another of the company ' s servants called to the lads , but were unable to make item
fully acquainted with their danger ; the one lad sprang across the line almoBt in front of the engine , and , by a " hair-breadth escape , " * . voided the threatened destruction . James TayV or , the deceased , who was not more than a yard behind his companion , jumped right in the front of the engine . It struck . him mth dreadful and dea > . h-like violence . So soon as the train had passed , hir . body was ( bond in the centre of the rails at a dista ; ace , as afterwards measured , of thirty-six yards fro ? j the spot at which he received tha blow . Both his \ egs were cut off by the wheels , and his head and o »' fler parts of his body
were dreadfully mutilated . He was lying quite dead in a pool of blood . No assistance , of course , could be rendered to him , ar , d be was carried a lifeless corpse to that home w * . rich he had left not more than half an hour before in all the pride of _ youth and perfect health . The inquest was held on Thursday afternoon . The jury returned •^ verdict of "Accidental Death , ** with » nominal deodand on the engine ; they »' . so unanimously recommended that the Railway Company should erect a- foot bridge across the * railway , and requested . thecoroner on their behalf f , make known their wishes in that respect to . U » 4 ' . rectors of the company .
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_ YnxfrpAUr Explosion and Loss op Three Lives . —An explosion of fire-damp took place at Horn , near * Halesowen , in the colliery of Mr . Attwood . A man named Churchill , another named Jones , and aboy , were in the pit , and feJJa sacrifice . Their bodies have not yet been recovered ^ repeated attempts weremadeon Wednesday last to descend the shaft , but the atmosphere was foand to ; be too impure to sustain iffe , and the attempt to recover the bodies was necessarily abandoned . When the explosion firat commenced the fire spread with fearful rapidity , consuming all the wood work in the pit , together ^ with the rope 3 , &c , and could not be extingjoished for several days / Five horaes were io the mine at the time , and were , of course destroyed . —Worcestershire Chronicle .
Melancholy Occdrrence . —A , woman named Mary Stuart , or Peebles , residing in the Wallace FetB , was found lying lifeless in bed ; betwixt her two children , oil the morning of Thursday week . It is thought that she died from utter starvation , her husband , James Peebles , a labourer , having deserted her yrithouVmaking the smallest provision for her or her family . She had become sickly , and had received a small sum for her support from the Kirk-Session ; but the man returned , and the poor woman ' s pittance was withdrawn . In this helpless condition , with increasing sickness , the cold-hearted villain again abandoned her ; and , after disposing of the whole of her household effects , she had to have recourse to the cold hand of charity , which , in her distressed condition , she found it impossible to do . — Dundee ^ Advertiser . ' ¦" . '
Pahsons ? Fees eo& Funeral Sehvjce , Baptisms , & «?—The amount received by clergymen for reading the funeral service over their deceased parishioners , for the erection of tombstones , &c > , varies in almost every parish . It is usually regulated by a scale of fees , hung up in the vestry room , which at some period has been agreed to by the minister and parishidners , and afterwards been confirmed by the vicar-general . The confirmation of this officer has been supposed to give great weight to the document , to invest it , some persons have declared , with ' all the authoritrof positive law . ' In the recent Hackney Church Kate case , the scale which gqvernathat parish was prbdilced in evidence . One of its regulations is , that 'for every corpse removed out of the parish , to be paid the whole dues to the minister ,
churchwardens , clerk , and sexton , as if buried in the churchyard . ' Dr . Lushington declared that regulation to be { 'illegal from beginning to end ;' that the vicar-general ' s authority ampunted" to nothing in such matters ; and that the fees usually demanded by clergymen at interments , marriages , &c , were mere gratuities , destitute of any legal sanction , and could not be enforced . The opinion of this eminent judge ought to be generally knowiu as tbe _ common impression ^ among the clergy is , that their title to these fees is as well grounded as their right to tithe , and they usually exact the one with as much pertinacity aa the other . Their own impression of right mutt be beyond a doubt , or they would never take , as is customary , a fee for the interment oipmmia . —MQrnitiq Chronicle .
Bevebley Town Coonc / l . —Bubning op a Letter FROM THE < iu BEN ' S SECRETARY OF StaTE- ^ A few weeks ago , the Beverley Town Council sent up a memorial to the Home Secretary , to remonstrate with him upon the nomination of several gentlemen of Conservative principles to be justices of the borough . Sir J ; Graham ' s answer came in due course , informing the Mayor that the Council had nothing whatever to do with the recommendation of justices ; and at a meeting of the Town Council , which was forthwith convened , the Mayor in the chairs Mr . Alderman Simpson moved that the memorial sent to the Home Secretary , together with his answer , be read , which was done ; and then it was moved by him , and seconded by Mr . Fussoy , that tb . 6 reply be entered on the minutes . Mr . Daniel Boyes moved ,
as an amendment , "That it be committed ta the flames , as aa insult to the Courioil ;' ¦ and this was seconded by Mr ; Edward Page , and carried by ten to three ; and the beadle was called in , and the letter handed to him by his Worship , arid he forthwith put it into the fire , to the great amusement of the audience . On a division , there appeared for the burning-r-Mr . ThomasiSandwith and Mr . John Jackson , aldermen and justicesi of the borough j Mr Daniel Boye . 8 , Mr .: Charles Breretbn , Mr . Edward Page Mr . William Farrah , Mr . Bell Robinson , Mr-James M . Robinson , Mr . Wm . Hodgson , and Mr . Richard Carter , councillors ; and the whole ten Liberals . Against it—Mr . Thomas Simpson , Mr . Wn . FuSBey , aad Mr . George Stephenson , grocer ; Tories . ' . ¦ " ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ - : \ - " ; ¦ ' '¦¦ ' '¦ - ¦• . •;¦ . - ¦ .. ¦ . ¦' ' - . '¦¦ ,
Wondekful Instance of Sagacity . ijir a Dog .--About eight months ago , a gentleman belonging to this city embarked at Port Philip for Scotland . In the bustle and confusion of preparing for so long a voyage a favourite dog disappeared about a couple of days before the vessel in which he returned left Port Philip ; and as all the inquiry he was able to make turned out U be fruitleaa , he was under the necessity of leaving his four-footed friend behind him . He arrived in Edinburgh about two months ago , and , wonderful to tell , within the last three weeks was surprised by a visit from the animal he had left in Port Philip about eight months before . Upon inquiry it turns put that the dog had gone aboard of a ship on the eve of sailing for London ; that once aboard , he resolutely refused to be put ashore , and by dint of sheer resolution obtained a passage . On
hia arrival in London it ia ascertained that he visited the lodgings formerly occupied by his master , aud , failing in discovering the object of his search , immediately disappeared , and was not again heard of until his arrival in Edinburgh . Familiar as we are with instances ' of the affection and sagacity of the dog , this is perhaps the most extraordinary example on record . His going on board of an English ahip many thousand miles from home , his refusal to quit it , his visit to the former lodgings of his master on his arrival in London , and the journey from London to Edinburgh , rank the subject of this brief notice as one of the most wonderful animals of his species . The gentleman to whom he belongs is well known in Edinburgh , and is the son of a gentleman who , within the last twenty years , has filled various offices of civic dignity . —Scotsman . .
Ikish Electioneering . —Mr . Thomas Clarkson has published a letter to the Lord Mayor to contradict the " ridiculous romance" to which Mr ; O'Connell gave currency at the previous Repeal meeting , about one Reilly , a coal-porter , whose ^ gallantry " was said to have converted the said Clarkson from a Tory to a supporter of Mr . O'Connell—* ' The simple facts ( says Mr . Clarkson ) are , that Reilly was one of a furious mob , who , in order to coerce me to votj for you , attacked my house , and by vdllies of pavingstoues smashed not only all of " the glass but the wood-work of the sashes of the windows in froiit ; and that being anxious to avoid a collision , but determined to defend my person , I armed myself with a gun , and endeavoured to escape from the back of my house , but was : intarcepted by some of the most daring of the mob breaking into the rear of the premises : the foremost of whom was the * sober and
industrious Riilly , ' who was wounded when endear vouring to seize me . He was by this means placed hors decombat , so that Inever was ia his power for a moment . I did , however ^ fall into the hands of his associates ; who appear to have been mostly coal-porter a , towhom you ^ or your committee , as it would seem , let tne cars hired ; for the election , and on which your own name appeared most conspicuous ; I received from the * patriotio body of meB , ' as they are called at the Corn Exchange , such treatment as I was led to expect . They robbed me of every artiele in my pockets ; they teok most of the pockets themselves too ; my clothes were torn to rags ; I was bruised by blows from fitt 3 and , sticks ; a naked knife was held to my throat ; and I was at length dragged violently into a dark cellar , exactly under your own tally-room , where I was threatened with instant death . It was under these circumstance , Sir , tkat you obtained ^ my vote . " ;
Dbeadfitl DESTiTDTiON . ~ On . Thursday evening week , Mr . Higgd held ah inquest at the Grange Inn , Carey-streetj Lincola ' s Inn ; Fields , on view oC the body of Elizabeth Symonds , aged 45 . It appeared from the evidence of George Wood , of Grange Yard , Carey-street , that deceased lived with one of witness ' s tenants in Grange Yard ; About ten ofclock on Wednesday morning , information was brought to witness that it was believed deceased had died suddenly . WitnesB accordingly went to her room , and found the door locked . He knocked and called , but deceased did not answer . Hie then broke She door opes , and found deceased ! dead , arid in a . kneeling posfeure before the fire-plac * . A knife and » piece of wood were lying near her , as if she had been
attempting to light the fire . Surgicai aid was instantly procured , but it was found thatr life was eonapletely extinct . Deoeased was Buffering under consumption , and was ia a very destitute condition ; her only means of sabeistence being a trifle that she got every week by going as charwoman to the bouseof a friend in Cramer-street . Her husband had deserted her for several years past . Some time ago Bhe had applied to the pariah where she then lived , but all she ewald get consisted of a few coals and a loaf « f bread . Mary Ballantine , of Grange Yard , Carey-street , stated that deceased lived with her in the room where she waa found dead . Witness had been out of town a week , and did not return till after deceased ' s dwkth . Deceased bad l » en stoppisg with her durinc the last eight mooths
She often , wasted a crust , ana must have gone without , had not witnesd given her food . When she could sh » paid witness a shilling a week for being allowed to lodge with her , bat latterly she had not been able to pay ans thing for a Ions time . She was without the proper necessaries of life , bat could not be persuaded to go into a workhouse Sha was suffering from consumption . Thomas Godfrey , housesurgeon of King ' s College Hospital , stated that he was sent for when deceased was found lying dead . He did not believe that consumption was the immediate cause of her death . She was aftlicted with disease of the lungs , which disease would naturally be accelerated by want of proper nourishment . He believed deceased had died of convulsions . The Jury , after an inveBtigation which lasted nearly two hours , returned a verdict of " Natural death , greatly accelerated by want of proper nourishment . "
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Suichjb ^ f A Miser . —On Wednesday week , wretched ok' miser , who is said to be worth npwards of ilOiOOO , named Thomas Tattershall , of Stead near R < h "bdale , committed suicide by drowning himself in a w "ream of water near his own house . He had been ^ in a- ^ state of mind ^ for some months past , he havinc lav ^ lost £ 400 through the failure of a relative . Thedv 9 ( ieased was upwards of seventy years of age . - : -: V- , > ... - :: . ' . ¦ - '; . ' - ; ¦ f :: : c . "¦ :: . ¦ " . \ v ' . •' . ¦ Cacght in TiMEv-Sw ^ ae 1 Hey ward , axlerk in the service of the Manehv ^ ster arid Bolton Railway Co * pariy , was charged bet »® & * magistrates at the Salfori Town-HalL with t mbf 2 zlmg money to the amount of ^ 1 ^ 000 , the propi ^^ ' ^ y ° t ^^ his employers . He was parsued to Liverpool , and apprehend ®* on Wednesday morning in a yeb 3 ? 1 whiph had jast cleared the t > ort fbrJPhaadeJphu ^
Scene i » a CHvicH . —Tbe following ludicxons scene occurred a few weeks ago , at a village church aot a hundred miles from Stallin thorough . The clergyman , observing a boy in the gv Jlery behaving in an unbecoming manmr , reproved him . An old and worthy member of the church , in the plenitude of his zeal for order arid deeorum , insta ntly jumped up , and called out , " Bring the rascal do \> n , and 1 'ii kick hia a—e . ' * Kp sooner was . the threat uttered , than the young urchin was dragged dt wn , and handed over to the tender mercies of the old zealot for the honour of "God ' s house , " who , havix'g coma out of hia pew to paeet him , took him by tbe collar , and very plentifully applied his foot to tha boy ' s posteriors , to the no small amusement of the- congregation , and the" moral benefit of the offender , whom he told to " go in peace , ar id sin no morei "Lincoln Mercury . ; .
Barbahous Murder . in Hants . t—Southamptoit * Dec . 23 . — -Iritelligence has just been roceived here of a most barbarous murder , committed on a ser rant girl , by a party of three excavators , on the road between Winchester and Southampton . It appears that the young woman was walking towards Southampton , rather late last evening , haying been engaged as a servant to a family in this neighbour hood . She ; was accompanied for some distance on the road by her father , » nd when he separated from her she gdve him a shilling to go into a public house
on the roadside to rrefresh himself . While he was sitting there , three excavators walked in , one carrying a bundle , which the father knew to belong to his daughter . He , of course , took immediate steps to have them taken into custody . Several persons went immediately in search of the young woman , and found her murdered , which atrocious act was committed ( there is not the shadow of a doubt of the fact ) by the three rufBans who hid just been secured . , .-. 'V - ¦ ; . ¦/ _; , ; : ' : /¦/' . ; . ' \ .. ' ' - "' : ' ' : ¦ /¦ ' /¦ : ' ¦ '
Distressing . Loss of Life in the HumbSr ,- — On Friday morning last , a distreEsing loss of life occurred on the other side of the river , near New Holland . The schooner Stourbridge was coming up , having a boat in tow , when the painter giving way by which it was attaohed to the vessel , the Captain ; Jeremiah Smith , anxious to prevent its being lost ; * threw himself over the stern of the vessel into the boat , but unfortunately alighting with his back on the gunwale , ho was stunned arid fell into
the water ; the boat drifting away at the same time , his own crew were "deprived of the power to assist him , and after banging by the broken painter at ^ tached to the drifting boat , until seemingly exhausted , ho sank to rise eo more . It is lamentable to add that Mrs ; Smith was on board the vessel , aad consequently a spectator of her husband ' s melarieholy death . A light sloop was going down the river , with the wind in her favour , at the mement of the catastrophe , and although passing withiri twenty or thirty yards , those on board were deaf to the hail Of the schooner and the cries of the crew to
save their Captain . Threatening ob Hostilities between Enclahd and the United States . —We have reason to believe that a very serious misuriderstandingnoyr exists between the TBritish : Government and the United States ; arising on the one / hand from '¦ the .- , unwillingriess , of the American President to apologise for the detention of a British subject ( M'Leo'd ) on an unfounded charge ; and , om the other , fromthe alleged fact that vessels engaged in the slave-trade are notoripasly fitted out in American ports . Lord Aberdeen , as welearn , has written repeated arid decided notes on both these subjects , without as yet receiving satisfactory answers ; and * considering the' fresh obligations imposed on this country by the new atiti-slaVe treaty , it is much to be feared that something unpleasant may occur between both Governments . Our information on this subject is derived , from a most authentic Bource . — Morning Herald * . - .
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From the Lopdon Gazette of Friday , JDec . 24 . " . ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ; ; BANKRUPTS . : ; . ¦¦ ¦ Frederick Thomas West , Commercial-wharf , Commercial-road , Lambetbi coal-msrcbant , Jan . 7 , at two , Feb . 4 , at twelve ,, at the . Couit of Bankruptcy , Bising- - hall-street . Solicitors , Messrs . Stevens , Wilkinson , and Satchel ! , Queen-street , Cheapaide ; official assignee , Mr . Lacking ton , Coleman-atreet-buildings . Thomas Berriman , Peckhatn-grove , CambenveB , builder , Jan . 5 , at two , Feb . 4 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , BasiDgLall-street ; Solicitors , Mea « m . Tilleard and Son ,: Old Jewry ; offioial assignee , Mr . Johnson .- ' - ¦ ¦' . ' ; ¦' :. } '¦ .. ¦ . y '"; :. ; . ¦ ' : ¦]" :, . - ¦¦ . - . - ¦ ¦ .. ¦ . ¦• ' Charles Robottora , Holborn-hill , tavern-keeper , Jan . 11 , at two , Feb . 4 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street Solicitor . Mr . War ) tore , Castle-street , Hqlborn ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Fredericka ' -place , Old Jewry .
Henry Clark , Fleet-street , brash-manufacturer , Jan . 8 , at half-past twelve , Feb . 4 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street Solicitor , Mr . Wetton , St . Jaiues ' e-square ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederijk ' B-place , Old Jewry . v ¦ Ann Phillips and . Janies Phillips , Whitechapel-road , window-glass cutters , Jau . i , Feb . i , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street Solicitor , Mr . Henderson , Mansell-street , Goodman ' s Fields ; official assignee ; Mr . Green , Aldermanbury . -. '• ' ¦ " : ¦¦ .-. Robejt Kichards , Jamea Brisnt , arid James Coker , Sbadwell , rope-makers , Jan . 4 , Feb . 5 , at twelve , at theCourt of Bankruptcy , Baainghall-street Solicitor , Mr . Pike , Old Burlington-street ; official assignee , Mr Gibson , Basinchali -street
John Fowkes , Beeston , Nottinghamshire , grocer , Jan . 5 , Feb . 4 , at twelve , at the George the Fourth Inn , Nottingham . ¦ Solicitors , Mesars . Jones , Trinder , and Tudway , John-street , Bedford-row , and Mr . Brown , of Nottiagliam . " - . ';¦¦ V ¦; ¦ ... - . ' - ,. ; ' . ¦; . ¦ ' .. - ^ Tflomas Barnsley , ' Tipton , Staffordshire , engine maker , Dso . 31 , Be \> . i , at two , at the Waterloo Rooms , Birmingham . Solicitors ; ..- Messrs . Miller and Fallows Piccadilly ; and Mr . Hill , Birmingham . : James Ford , Briatol , cooper , Jan . 7 , Feb . 4 , at the Commercial Roobib ,- Bristol . Solicitors , Messrs White and Eyre , Bedford-row ; and Messrs . Beran , Bristol . . / ,. - >¦ ¦ ¦ , ¦ ¦ . ¦; ¦ ¦ : ' ... ¦ ¦¦ ''¦ '¦ ¦ : . . ; ' "William Horsnaill , Dover , carpenter , Dec 31 , at one , Feb . 4 , at twelve , at the Shakspeare Hotel , Dover . Solicitors , Mr . Kennett , Dover -T aad Messrs . Hawkins , Bloxarn , and Stoker , New Boswell-eourt , Carey-itreet Lincoln ' s Inn . : ¦¦ ; ¦ ¦ . ¦¦¦" : ' ¦ :. ' ¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ; '¦• ' : ¦ . '¦' ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ . ' ¦¦ '' : ' ¦ ' :.:
Thomasi Benrese , Spalding , lineolnshire , grocer . Deo . 31 , at ten , Feb . 4 , at one , at the White Hart Ins , Spalding . Solicitors , Mr . Edwards , Spalding , and Messrs . Tooke and Son , Bedford-row .
PARTNEKSHIPS BiaSOI . yED . . ' R Golton and E . Colton , King 8 tpri-npori-Hull j wbJp manufacturere . —J , Parlano and B . Buchannan , Liver pool , timber-merchants . —J . Watson and J . Bootb , Wath-apon-Dearrie , Yorkshire / eommpn-brewere — -T Rigby and O . Bigby , Liverpool ^ ( Kurt-owners . —P- Jbckson arid T . Malley , XancaBteJ , cpacti-nuViaew . ^ -Ch . Parke and R . P « rke , Whitby , Yorkshire , wobllea drapers—J , Harper , E . Harper , and G . Woodall , Tork , soap-manafaotarers . —A . Hall and R . Hail , Blackburn , Lancashire , grocers . —A . Roe- and A . Petty ; Cowling , Yorkshire , millers . —R . RothvreU andT ; Holcroft , Manchester , siUtthrowsters . —Di Smith and J . W . Holland , Manchester ^ pl umbers . ,
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From Me Gazette of Tuesday , Dec 2 * v . '"¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' 'BAKJtRIJPTS .. / ' . ; ' . . : ' ' ¦ _ '¦ . : ' Joel Sardine ? , commba , Newer , Bristol , to surrender Jan . liand Feb . 8 , at : eleven , at the Cwnmerdal rooms , Bristol ; Gingell v Henbury ; Meredith and Reeve * Lincola ' s Inn . , V :- ¦ . . ;¦ . " ; ' ¦ :- v . ' ?' '¦ ' - '; ; :,: r- : ; . "• : ; ' - ' . . I ' ' Jo ' in Stevens , brfakmaker , Limehouse , Jan . 14 , at two , and Feb . ' 8 , at eleven , at the Cowt of Bank ruptoy . Groom , Abchurch-lane , official assignee Tueker , Bank Chaahws , ILothbury . ' Bhomas Fitt Bails , coich and omntt « s proprietor , Baistori , Jan . 6 , at one , and Feb . 8 , at twelve , at the Cowrt of Bankrnftey . Pennell , official Msignee ; Gaunt , ¦ Kewgate-rtreet ' . ; '¦ ¦' ; ¦ ¦' - : '' r , ' : ¦" : ¦ .- . : v- .: ¦ - : ; . '' : : - - ; . ^ .: - ^ ' ; . .-
Josiah ^^ Close , tfov » inannfactom , Worcestsr , Jan . 8 , and Feb . 8 , at eleven , at tiiie Hop Market , Woreestae . Bedford , Gray ' s Inn-square , London j Bfidford ^ and Pidcock , Worceater . ' - - .. '¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' :- ¦' . '¦ .-- - "¦ ' ¦ .. - ' . ¦' : ' ;¦ : ¦' - . -. - . - _ J ¦''¦' -: ' Elliott rVhitaey , Boap-boUer , LlTerpooirjan . 18 , and Feb . a , at one , at the Clarendon-rooms , LiverpooL Booker , Liverpool ; Holme , Loftua , and To * Dg » New Inn , London . ' ;¦ ¦ ¦ - < : ¦ .. ; . ¦ ; ¦ - - . ¦ • ¦ . . > •;•; ¦ . ; ¦• . ¦ ¦ . - . - , / ; ¦' James Bedford , chemlBt , Hnnslet Moor-ride , Leeds , Jan . 13 , and Feb . 8 , at two , at the Comutsaion ^ rs * - roomfl , Leeds . Robinson and Barlow , Essex-street * Strand , London ; Ward asd Son , L « ed « . Samuel Shinglcr , linen-draper , Liverpool , Jan . 10 , and Feb . 8 , at eleven , at th « ClatendoB-tooms , LIverpooL Sale and Worthington , Manchester ; Baxter , LinoolnV inn-Fielda . London ^
Michael Marshall , money-scrivener , Chew Magaa , Somersetshire , Jan . 14 , and Feb . 8 , at one , at tha Commercial-rooms , BHstoL R . G . Bnrnfoot , end SL R . Borfoot , King s-Bench-walk , laner Temple ; Daviea and Foster , Market-place , Somersetshire . Amoa Proctor and Robert Proctor , coaoh-proprietora , Kingston-opon-Hnll ^ Jan . 11 , and Feb . 8 , at eleven , at tbe George Inn , Klngstoa-npon-Hnll . Bell , Brodrick , arid Bell / Bow Chorchynrd , Cheapaide , London ; Teinoeyand Sidebottom , HolL ; -::.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct735/page/3/
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