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co > * 5 ET TO WILLIAMS AND BINNS . " . * ud Binns , the youthful patriots , ofisniy dared the tyrant' ¦ iron frown , «** msBly fertitude-such u shall crown ^ thi people ' s heartfelt thanks , mid note * & em *» £ " i ^^ d tnde - from throats ^ -crStae * emanate » nation ' s Toice , and show t > , » reople ' * strength , that lays in justice low , i ^ LKp " truth , the bine of all despots . t-I" frvniae flowers in some unsheltered spot , ^ ffbend teneaih the Mtwr pelting r . orm ; JKK- a r » da bust will shortly be forgoL TT ^^ is past—it ceases to deform . , " \ m wiil struggle thrown life ' * mingled doom , Z ^ tot that slier death 'tis youi > to bloom . S 00 ™* jAMM VEBKOJi . tasJh MalUffl , February 2 nd .
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SO >*> ' 2 T TO OASTLER . W « r tb "^ fact 017 e ^ *^ 1 friend ' 0 * ? ' w- . ., v Tf hica the labourers have nude known gS ^ ^ T ^ c ^ - ^ pla ^ y » hoTO tt- - ^ w Dersecutioni » nch as tend 5 SSfSS .-1 »* n ' . - ? ^ vTS-ares-asthertarirnoae dawn f ^ r rae both uadimm -d , while skies did frown . , £% truth trill soon or late defend < _ -T J «« ed the tyraDt views with unmixed joy ^ KS Wend dragged to the debtort cell , r * SW tw &e opp ^" ^ ^ * ° P y ' ^ SS liBied ) aught tha t on e ' er repel B ^ aSi tf trtth . or for a time destroy ^^ Tatfrsxa wtkh are invincible . James Yesso * . fcsi Jlfcjsi , Pctmsry 2 nd .
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X 2 E R IGHTS AM ? DUTIES OF MA > . Tuse— " Ben Block . " paeMa of w ^ e , je scions of fame , Ye f cresses : in liberty ' s Tin , t ^ ityiar sUnJard aloft . ac < i loudly proclaim " 7 ^' dntie = and light * of man . ITsS E = rcr « £ rs : * uajp * d us wiib life and With form , it ins % 1 cquilitr ' s shrine ; Iredx , j *» ' : se , and reason , united , conform , la bsilew the « &cred design . 3 fe be jKTer so rich , or neTer so poor , Tffc » Krer bis colour or creed ; t ^ j ^^ V is a right to one Tote , and no more , Hi ! person ' s his tirie deed . Ha Torid Is his country , all nature hit store , His religion should be to do good ; He thoBld " giTe up ku soul to freedom—and more , ** Ee shoald seal it , if need , -w . th his blood .
13 aa ihoTild be brothers , their principle * jure , To freedom and equity true ; rco efcen thsu act , be ihcy nerer so poor , As ye wonld they should do unto yon . tB ± , " freec £ aa , and rijht are the sanie at each « one , Itej are ehaajed not bj time or by place ; indie rho oppress ^ one country alone , h tbe tot of the hiaian race . Oo motto is equal rights and laws ( to call is freedom ' s call ; to ease , the ttuse , the common caase , AH fa each—« ach for all . Js oae imperially sionld Urwer , 5 m g 3 T ^ ri wiih iron ro 3 ; Irs peopk sre the » 0 Tereign power , Their Toice is the Toice of God .
ill forsmnieiifs bat tisir mstr ^ sjent , lieir nnndku e * to fulfil ; fie lsz-i ' s theii farm , and Heayen their bent , The law is the people ' s will . Then c ^ ird , tie noble , the trae , and the b » Te , Deaui caiiag , all perils well share , FntU crime and porerty , de » p-ot and alaTe , Shall be bus as thizgs that were . is a jasper or sliTe , who would wear such a brand , Ii no : fronbj is . freedom to bask ; Yii so charity cr&Tc—it is right Te dexiand—Xet bos ^ ty , bet justice , we ask . isd hxre : % we will , be oar fate what it may , Though car Taikys behold us no moTe : EnKLib . our guls shall be fed "with fresh Tictims each " day , isd ths scacald maj stream with our gtre .
D £ 3 onirsrd , ue cause « o holy and good , Bs : smmnoas ihe coble and brare ; TTho wsli no : for freedom yield np his life " * blood , DssrTa to be eTer a slave . Tia onward , again , at freedom ' s high call , Oar Charts t-o death we ' ll embrace ; Be sars ii ; as f ^ t sj one leader shall fall , AoothrJ daJl rise in iu * place .
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A NEW CHARTIST SOXG , El £ . ? . MXiD , 0 ? BIEMI . VGHAM . Tr . M— " Th- Bit of Biscay , 0 : " Lend rtar'd t _ e people ' 3 thunder , Aad ' . jtszIi heard the siorm , Taey treiab . od , sxd kaocied na . der , Aid guTe ua mock Rei ' - rm . Thfy frit the electric spark , "Which bsred corruption ' s ark ; B « t their Tell , they turned pale , A > izc toIsc ui irczCijin ., 0 . ' Thss cur good ih : p Britannia , Amongst the breakers lay , Poor bark : -we claj : y maLn'd her , With Whigs and Goffer Grey ; But lubbers all they proTed , And from the recks ne ' er moTed , TLere are they , till this day , Oa thy rocks , corruption , 0 . ' AUengUi the People ' s Charter __ Sho ^ a forth its beacon rays ! tie deepen now her water , Iiie uie around her plays ; Soon shall her Inbber crzyr , Rarign her helis to you ; Ghstrtirts braTe , ye must sare , Tls goed ship , Britannia , 0 ; Tia mora of freedom ' s breaking , Ve hail it from afar : Aid lot s compass taking , Osr elori . us S ' orthem Sinr ' . "Well soon the breakers clear , The port we e » on saall near ; 3 f ow we sail , with the gale , F « the Bay of Fieedom , O : ^ pilot , brare O"Co > " > oa : We sooa will gex on board , < ots ai ] -sce'ii crowd upon her , Aod get her richly Btored ; ilaan'd by a gallant crew , . Of Chartiata staunch and true , We £ >^ i riie , with the tide , To the sort cf Freedom , O !
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4 £ P £° GY FOR a THIEF , OK THE iLLE OF M DiTl > -E RIGHT" A MASK cL V £ R THE INIQUITIES OF THE = a £ AT . By a Bbjtish Iskaeutk . Oxford ^ « 2 J Aldeai Corn 2 JirkeU ^ J ^^ k * a som ewhat unceremonious attempt tta rr C iU ; iie worid ue tbieTes , and that as fiah 'V f ^ P ^ -o are , by their own account , at $ l ? i * t i the tmerbh . community , by " the Grace ^** , ' ud "Bight DiTiiie , " are robbers by vj ^ i bo the rest of mankind are eoaoelled to robbers the
4 by necessity . The book is certainly ^^ acre upon present state of things , and Walft 15 "fer ? DCe to ( acts , that those who ire isi ^ J ^ i 510 ^ to be great and noble , founir » , . Spires , and the benefactors of onr race , * 2 i ihatv !? aosJ P « » robbers aad cat-throatsj *^ feml ^ y < ione lhe same * cts ^ tbose ^ ° jpj ^^ sted as great and glorious , on a more if vTjl 81511 ' ' * woald hare c # me doirn to as , »^ m heard of them *! ail , with a rery different ** i 2 i »* mJ ttey now iMame- we recomde ^ j ?* ? . " ?? clerer hit to the especial ooosi-*^ £ j \ '"h 0 advocate the hanging of little , "> Wtt lhe honouring of great ones : — fc * . ^ l ]* S » ^^ i" » g Aoam , u Ttoxuaeo * * fle » te ^ s ^ T * P ^ er Ete . They could not resi ** the r ^ T ^ . and e tole the apple , As l ong ae they w ^ we nicy consiiej one a ber 0 aad »> . oti ) er 4
rj sT& « v *^ ^^ " * " ffeak « nough to tte&I * WOf nD rigLt ^ thon * s « ro ^ b 7 *«» , ; w everything , they were counted criminals . U t > t ^^ * ° e ^ aae , that they -were incited ^ Wt ?^ ?*» d 9 ra ¦ — H * " P ^ ted , and ^ i » irHh y " ^^^ ^ ia 1 tte cunning of the *« n erery out »^ * tal « , and of cobtm h »
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mut bestow more of hit cutting on great thierts than on petty one *; thi * * ceordingly eonstitutea great thieTei to hare more of the deril in them than little one * , which therefore readers tkem . more detilish , and more to be dreaded . " The following « xqnisite specimen of regal hones ' . y cannot be too generally known . Who wuuld not embalm , in the deepest recesses of the heart , the memory of . such excellent princes I" Erery one ha * read of the great embarrassments of the Prince of Wales , Duke « f York , and Duke of Clarence , ( the latter , however , must be exempted from all charge of haying enjoyed any of the proflu arising from this trannction ) . These embarrassments were the consequence of their frequent debaucheries , and
erery lource in thii country was tried from which it was thought a supply could be raised , sufficient to arert the impeading atorm which hung otct their heads ; but all endeaToun failed . As a last resource , a loan was attempted in Holland ; and Messrs- Bonney and Sonderland , then of Qeorfe-yard , Lombard-street , were appointed notarial agents for the Terifioaidon of the bonds ; and the late Hz . X . Hainmenl « y , ot Pall Mall , banker , was to receive the sabscriptions , and to pay the dividends thereon , to the holders , on the joint bonds of the Prince of Wales , Dake of York , and Duke of Clarence ( the latter merely Jtnt hii name as a further security to the bonda , and to please his elder brothers i . The sum intended to be raised was about one million sterling . After some slight interruptions th « negotiation , for this loan was confirmed : it was U bear six per cent , interest , and the revenues of their royal highnesses were to be invested in the hands of
the late Dukes of Northumberland and Portland , in order to ensure the due payment of interest and principal . A large portion of the money , to the amount of nearly half a million , had been received by the Princes , when the revolution in France , in 1792 , presented aa opportunity to resist the payment of those bonds which bad been circulated , and even the interest due upon them was relused . Daring the revolution , some of the holders of these bonds escaped and arriTed in England ; and , as their last resouroe , they » ade numerous applications to the Princes for the interest due to them , if it were not quite conrenient to discharge the bonds in foil , bat their applications -were fruitless . The holders of these bonds , finding themselves unjustly treated , Mr . Martignac , one of the original subscribers to them , made an application to the Court of Chancery , and the affair came on by way of motion . HoweTer , the matter was shirked , and the distressed refugees were never benefited by it
Now follows the , despicable part , and the suspicious conduct , ( relative to these bonisj of the then Secretary of State for the Home Department Under the specious pretext ot enforcing the Alien Act , this gentleman caused the whole of these injured claimants to be taken and put on board a vessel in the Thames , which was stated to be ready to sa . il for HeJJand . This vessel , howererycast anchor at the 2 *» ore , for the professed purpose of waiting to receive the necessary papers from the office of the Secretary of State ! " The heart rending destiny of these unfortunate victims now only remains to be told . Although no
charge was preferred against them , they were thus unceremoniously Bent out of the kingdom by the decree of arbitrary power . From the list of twenty-six unfortunate creditors of the Princes , fourteen were traced to th& guillotine . The other twelve perished by another concocted plan of the hirelings of power . The two principal " money lenders , Mr . Abraham and Sir . S ' un&on Bc * as , of the Hague , were endeavouring to maintain their shattered credit , and actually paid the interest due upon these bonus for two years themselves ; but thty were finally ruined , and one of the brothers put an end to his existence by a pistol , —the other by poison . "
At pa . se 12 , "we have some excellent re » ark « on the way in which history is taught . We quote them for the benefit of all who are interested in the instruction = of yoa ' . h : — "The history o . ' Englar . d ought to be taught very differently to children than it has hitherte been . It is the duty- of those who teach it at once to unmask the real character of kings and their courtiers , and continually to remind the children of the fable of the frogs who were punished by Jupiter tor wishing for a king , that Providence in like manner punishes the weakermiuded nations of this globe who cannot rest contented until they have kings and courtiers t j strip them ot all good things . Then a new and more enlightened generation would rise np , who would blush to read how their forefathers could have so tamely submitted to a few despicable tyrants and blasphemers , for daring to assume the words " grace of God" and "right divine " as a cloak to their infamy . This is the true light they
ought to be viewed in , and yet parents are weak enough when they pat tie history ot England into a child ' s hand to point out to him , with a corrupted notion « f glory , the portrait of this monster ; for instance , telling thechild , " Jhat is the great and glorious William , surnamed the Conqueror , " while his servile heart secretly beats with pleasure , as he repeats the high sounding word Conqueror . ' ~ It the child were to say , but how cruel be was , the answer would be , " oh ! we must not say those things , my dear , it is all for the best ; God gives those men power to govern us by his divine grace , " or any snch nonsense ; instead of teliing the child piainly the truth , that he was a bastard , a usurper , and like most of those men in power , a robber and an inhuman monster . I repeat again , until history is taught fairly to children , and the- infamy of the great nnveiled to them , they will ever continue to imbibes religious fear for their ppreasors , and consider liberty and freedom a reproach . "
At pa ? e 21 , the hireiinss who disgrace the Christian priesthood , come in for a pretty hard blow from the Ismaclite ' s clenched fist , and with it we must close our notice , t * g ^ iufi oar reader / 3 to bear in mind , that the author do ? 3 not apologise for thieving in the abi-tract , bat only contends that if great men become robbers because they like it , much may be said for those who only rob because the arrangements of society forbid them to live without doing violence to Borne of the acknowledged principles of common honesty .
"As for the priests of onr own country , I can only tell them that I never heard of St Peter or any of the apostles going out a f # xhuaUng , * er to steeple chases : or that their belief was fashioned according to the greatness or smallness of their livings ; or that they tver refused any deceased person a Christian burial , beciu ^ e he had not lef t suffic i ent money behind him to purchase a small piece « f consecrated ground in a church-yard . Until it is proved that the apostles did all tkese things , we cannot at least consider our priests as their successors ; and if it is proved that they also did those things , people ought to be ashamed to acknowledge themselves their successors . "
" * Only imagine for one moment St . Peter out a f ( x bunting , on a spirited horse , hollowing behind a pack of hounds , and after clearing a hedge , tumbling into a ditch on the other Bide , and all the rest of the apo&ttes leaping over him . "
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A Pipe . —A pipe ! it is a great soother ! a pleasant comforter . ' blue devils fly before its honest breath it ripens the brain—it opens the heart ; and the man who smokes thinks like a Sage and ac : s like a Samaritan . —Sir LyUon Buticer ' i Night and Morning Pleascuss op Statesmen . —Precions to the statesman are the moments he can snatch for the common pleasnres which are strewed over the earth—meant , apparently , for the perpetual enjoyment of all its inhabitants . The child gathers flowers in the meadow , or rnns up and down a £ reenbank , or looks for birds' nest 3 every gpring-day . The boy and girl hear the lark in the field and the linnet in the wo ^ d , as a matter of course : they walk beside the grow in e corn , and pass beneath the
rookery , and feel nothing of its being a privilege . Th « sailor beholds the stars every bright night of the year , and is familiar with the thousand hues of the chaDging &ea . The soldier on his march sees the sun rise and" set on mountain and valley , plain and forest . The citizen , pent up in the centre of a wide-built town , has his hour for play with his little ones , his evening for his wife and his friend ? . Bat for the statesman , none of these are the pleasures of every day . Week after week , month after month , he can have no eyes for the freshness of nature , no lei « nre for small affair ? , or for talk about things which cannot-be called affairs at all . He may gaze at pictures on his wall ? , and hear music from the dravrine-room , in the brief intervals of h ") 8
labours ; and he may now and then be taken by turprise by a glimpse of the cool bright stars , or by the waving of the boughs of some neighbouring tree : he may be beguiled by the grace or the freak of some little child ,, or struck by some wandering nower- ? eent in the streets , or some effect of sunlight on the evening cloud : but , with these few and rare exception ** , he loses sight of the natural earth , and of its tree intercourses , for weeks and months together ; ind precious in proprotion—precious beyond his utmost anticipation—are his hours of holiday when at length they come . He gazes at the crescent moon hanging above the woods , and at the long morniDg Ehadows on th « dewy grass , as if they wonld vanish before his eyes . He is intoxicated with the gurgle of the brook upon the stones , when he seeks the trout-stream with his line and basket : the whirring of the wild-bird's wing upon the moor ,
the bursting of the chase from corer , the creaking of the harvest-wain—the song of the vine-dreEsersthe laugh of the „ olive-gatherers—in every land where these sounds are heard , the / make a child once more of the statesman who may forgone © have # ome forth to hear them . Sweeter still is the leisure-hour with children in the garden or the meadow , and the quiet stroll with wife or sister in the evening , or the gay excursion daring a whole day of liberty . If Sunday evenings are sweet to the labourer , " whose toils involve but little action of mind , how precious are his rarer holidays to the state-labourer , after the wear and tear of toil like his—after his daily experience of intense thought , of anxiety , and fear ! In the path of such should spring the freshest grass , and on their heads should fall the softest oF the moonlight and the balmiest of the air 3 of heaven , if natural rewards are in any proportion to their purchase-money of toil .
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THE CHINA QUESTION . ( From the Timt . J Six weeks or two month * ago we were assured , with much exultation on the part of the Wlii * newspapers , and reiterated sneers , that oar dispute with China , which ought never to have taken place at all , washappily , nay gloriously , settled ; that his Imperial and Celestial Majesty had sunk under the fears inBpired by the British arms ; that he had , through hts Commissioner , submitted to all the demands of Admiral Elliot ; that three millions sterling had been lodged m the hands of some British authority or other , God knows what , as compensation to tbe
opium merchants for their property , and to the Queen of England for her insulted honour ; that u security for the future" had been " tacked to indemnity for the past" by the grant of such concessions on behalf of the commerce of Great Britain as should be dictated by Admiral Elliot , who was described as reigning paramount over the councils of China . " Such , " solemnly remarked the Downmg-atreet newspapers , in contemptuous mockery ot : he Duke of Wellington— " such aTe the great results accomplished by means of 'little wars . '" Well , then , we are to be thankful for great results it eaems—that is to say , after wo are sure of having achieved them ; but , with all deference , not till then .
. Now , where are the proofs of such vast victories And whe * were they effected , and where ! On Saturday last we published the contents of our own express from Marseilles , which anticipated all the Government and other overland despatches , bringing down the Chinese intelligence from Chusan to the 24 th of Ootober , and from Canton to Macao to the 3 rd of November . It thence appears that no new sacceises had been obtained , nor change of any sort experienced , since the date of the former gossipping and blustering correspondence ; that as for the old successes , they were all what may be termed "fudge ; " that as for the treaties signed and concessions granted , not an atom of negotiation , had « 0
much as commenced , so oar " security for the future" was in the nature of moonshine ; that our " indemnity for the past" was pretty much in the same predicament ; that tbe three millions sterling were precisely where they had ever been—namely , at the bottom of the Celestial exchequer ; that bo far from Admiral Eiliot reigning paramount at Ptkis , he had been forced to leave Chusan with hia tail bstween his legs , either driven by force of circumstances , or by stress of humbug , and had repaired to Canton , the furthest extremity of the empire : to what good end , or with what result of the value of a single box of opium , still lies over for the speculations of the curious .
At Chusan , where exists the most tangible and enduring , and that a fatal , evidence of the fortune by whicn this expedition of Lord Palmerston has throughout been visited , there were landed from the British men-of-war upwards of 3 , 600 soldiers , Englishmen and Indians . But of these , little more than 2 , 000 ( 2 , 036 ) remained fit for duty , when tbe accounts came away . Sixteen hundred of our fellow-Fubjects had perished or were disabled , without having seen the face of au enemy worth speaking of . Bat why did Admiral Elliot quit the northern coast of China , where he might enjoy , or enforce , if it so pleased him , an easy access to the seat of
Government , and ihe most fit centre of negotiation The prevailing belief upon this matter is , that the Admiral yielded , with credulous weakness , to the persuasions of the Chinrse Ministers , who did not much relish his near neighbourhood to the capital , and that under their sinister suggestions he crowded sail for Canton at a season of the year when his return northwards would be difficult or impossible , and where he might bo kept sitting " like / mpatience on a » onument , " uutil it raited the chicanery of the Court to play off some new set of malpractices upon the noodJedom of Lord Minto ' * brother .
Then what has been the fruit of this famous expedition , seat forth and maintained at an expeuce of near £ 000 , 000 sterling , to make an example of the so-cailwd swindlers of Cauton , and teach them to swallow poisou with a betttr grace hertAfter ! What has Admiral Elliot done ! How mach of our Chinese quarrel has ho settled t How much money has he sacked in ihe way of compensation to our merchants f What regulations in favour of British trade has he wr « sted from the Chinese Government f How , and to what extent , has he repaid the coEt to which his twenty ot thirty ineffective pennants have put this much gulled
nation f Not to the amount of a single sous . At the rate he ha 3 gone on , under , it is to bo presumed , the instructions of Lord Palmerston , Admiral Elliot may be two or three years longer among the Chinese seas , giving opportunities to military and naval gossips for sending home cock-and-bull fabrications about the doings or non-doings of the gallant Admiral , until certain unwelcome visitors from the Western Fide of the Atlantic , with a large assortment of stripes and stars apon their flag , fulfilling the predictions of Commissioner Liu to hiB master , shall disturb the gallant Admiral in his dreams of settlement with China , and salute his squadron after a different fashion from that practised by the miserable junks .
Upon the whole this melancholy war has been produced by the culpable negligence of the Foreign Secretary of England , in the three years during which he totally failed to send proper orders to Capt . Elliott for his guidance throughout a difficult and embarrassing state of our relations with the Government of Canton . The war measures , again , eo useless in their origin , have in their execution proved feeble and discreditable , not a single step in advance towards a pacific settlement having been accomplished since the arrival of the British fleet upon the shores of China . Wo hope a balance-sheet will be called for by one or more of our financiers in the House of Commons ; that on the production of a debtor and creditor account the couutry may be made distinctly sensible of what she has gained in return for what she has sacrificed by this immoral , unsuccessful , and disgraceful contest .
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BEKMOND 8 E 7 .-A meeting of the working classes took place on Sunday la ^ t , at Dock Head Chapel , Bermondsey , when a large party sat down to a comfortable tea , and in the evening were addressed by two of their company , who shewed in a very clever and feeling manner , that the objection and indifference to Christianity was owing to the system of Priestianity taking its place ; and so long as the people dealt in proxies in matters of religion , and paid the man for speaking , thinking , and praying for them , bo long would they remain ignorant of true Christianity , and glares to ignorant and designing men . A 3 tbe promoters of these Sunday meetings will be held up to scorn and ridicule for desecrating the Sibbath , and depriving the priests of their authority in matters of religion , we hope that the liberal part of the community will give them their countenance and support .
GREENOCK . Mechanics Institution . — Defeat of Bigotet , a > d Triumph of Libehalitt . —Ever since the erection of the building for the Mechauics' Institution in thi 3 town , there has been a continual struggle , between the narrow-minded and bigoted minions of the clergy and the moneyocracy on the one side , and the liberal , intelligent , and independent portion of the working classes , on the other , as to how its affairs should be managed , and in whose hand 3 their administration should be vested . This contest , which has been characterised throughout by alternata victory and defeat to both parties , was terminated on Tuesday evening last , by the complete and unqualified triumph of the working men . The several interim committees , who have
hitherto managed the affairs of tbe institution , were successively engaged in drawing up a constitution for its future government , which constitution having been completed , a meeting of the subscribers was called for ihe above named evening , in order that tbe result of the committees' labours ' might be submitted to them . The committee , who have held office for some months back , ( by whom the con-BtilUlion WES finally completed , ) having been elected in an illegal manner , at a packed meeting of the subscribers , and consisting exclusively of tho nominees of the illiberal and priest-ridden portioa of the middle and upper classes , had contrived to frame the articles regarding the purposes for which the building was to be used , and the
qualification for membership , eo u to deprive tbe working classes of a full participation in its benefits , to exclude them from all share in its management , and to place it entirely in tho hands of a despotic and jesuitk : al faction . In their efforts to accomplish their nefarious intentions , no means , however despicable , were left UEtriod . AU who dared to dissent from them , or question the authority of their ipsi dirit , were denounced as Infidels , Chartist ? , and Socialists ; as men devoid of principle , who wished to apply the property of the subscribers to their own advantage , and to tbe furtherance of tbeir own views . For some time previous to the night of meeting , a number of individuals , ( the Committee of the Mechanics' Library , ) who
determined to rescue the institution from tbe grasp of the worthies to whon we have alluded , bad drawn up and published a code of laws , wkich they meant to propose for the adoption of the subscribers , in opposition to that prepared by the illegally elected oonmittee of the institution , who were held up to public obloquy and scorn in every possible Bianner . At the meeting , on the evening above-named , a working man was put into the chair , in place of a magistrate . The code of laws drawn up by the working men was carried by » large majority , with the provito added , that it should be liable to amendment in detail . It was also agreed that the Hall should not be let for any parpose on the Sabbath ; and a proposition that the Hall should not be used for the dissemination of any prin * iplei ton-
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trary t © thosd of Ou-istianity was negated by a larjre majority ; the argument in opposition to which proposition was , that there was so mueh difference of opinion , m to what was and what was not in accordance with the spirit of Christianity . A new committee was then elected , composed of working men , and all of Liberal principles ; and , after giving thre « cheers for th « Charter , three for Feargus CTCoonor , &o ., the meeting separated . MANCHESTEB . —TEHPERANCE .--Th 6 temperance cause ia Manchester is progressing rapidlv
amoDg the Caartuta . The following persons wish to have their names attached to the address of Mr . Henry Viacfot % the Rev . W . Hill , &o .: —Mr . James Leecb , President of the Provisional Executive , and Chartist Missionary for South Lancashire ; Mr . Thomas Davies , President to the South Lancashire Delegate Meeting , and Treasurer to the Local XJ <* f ™ d ; Mr . Henry Nuttall ; Mr . James White ; Mr . Joseph Lenney ; and Mr . Matthew Green . The latter are members of various committees , and zealous and active individuals .
8 ELBY . —Atrocious Cruelty os the part of the Poor Law Officers . —A poor man named Wilson , arrived at Selby by a steam-packet on Tuesdav , 2 od inst ., and feeliug himself unwell , called at a pubhehouse near to tbe landing place , and informed the landlord thathe was entirely destitute of money . In a short time he became so bad as not to be able to leave the houso ; flnding which , the landlord applied on his behalf to the assistant overseer , and also to the relieving officer of the Selby Union , neither of whom did anything for him . The poor fellow ' s case has also been made
known to the guardians of the poor , and they also have declined rendering tho mau any agsiatance : the answer returned by the Guardians was , that the landlord of the inn must take all the responsibility upon himself , and one of the overseers ( a very humane man ) Mr . George Lowther , a methodist preacher , intimated that in the event of the man dying and the landlord not having ( at his own expence ) caused every attention aniJ nourishment to be administered to him , that his affliction required , he would be chargeable by a coroner's inquest . So much for humanity and the Poor Lawn , if such they be .
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A few Penny Pieces make a man " very oharitable" —small things make a great result . An Unfriesdlt Man is like a lemon— if you squeeze him , you only get acidity out of him . It is now , we delievb , definitively settled , that Mr . Wightman is to replace Mr . Justice Littledale . Fire , —A fire took place lately at Messrs . Strutt ' b works , Belper , which was soon put out by the females , with the aid of the engine men . The Property ot £ 20 , 000 , left by Mr . Evana to th « charities of Kilkenny , is about to be placed under the board of charitable bequests . A Reward of j £ 100 has bken offered for the apprehension of Houston Wallace , charged with the destruction of the Lucy .
Earl Manveiw' residence , Thoresby Hall , was broken into on the 3 rd instant , and a considerable quantity of property stolen therefrom . Thk Teetotallers appear to be progressing at Mansfield ; they have just issued an address to the public on the subject ot temperance . The worthless statesman may turn his coat over and over again , but he will not bo able to hide the hole . No fewer tuan eight fires took place on the 4 th inst ., in tho metropolis , and property to a serious extent was consumed . Sir Astley Cooper , who has been dangerously ill , is no much better as to warrant tho hope of his speedy recovery . The youngest Daughter of Princo Canino ( Lucien Bonaparte ) , ib about to enter a French convent at Rome .
The British Association havo determined that tho meeting , which is to take place at Plymouth , shall commence on the 12 th of July , and terminate on the 17 th . Georgr Edwards , late or No : 19 , Shaftesburyterrace , Pimlico , a retired muster butcher , has , by his wili , bequeathed to the Butchers' Charitable Institution , a legacy of £ 140 . Best Mode op Suicide for Ladies . —Wear thin shoes , lace with a bed-winch and rope , and you may kill yourself without being suspected . —New York Herald . Distress in London . —Sa great is the distr »? 8 ia tho City of London at tho present time , that it is contemplated to raise a public subscription to relieve it .
In February , JW 5 , John Hooper , bishop of Gloucester , was burnt before the door of his cathtdral , in that city , during tho reign of Queen Mary . Forgery . —At the Central Criminal Co « rt , on Friday , Richard Moore , aged 30 , was sentenced to fifteen years transportation , for uttering a forged note for £ 5 , of the Salop bank . The name of Mr . Blake , a land agent of Galway , tho sou of Sir Valentine Blake , of Mcnlo-castle , appears in the Dublin Gazelle as a bankrupt . Hits defalcations are stated at £ 20 , 000 . Sudden Death . —On the 4 , h instant , an inquest was held on the body of Mr . Thomas Winch , of Shepperton , who died suddenly whilst in Church . A verdict of * ' Natural death , by the vibitation of God , " was returned .
The total import of Wheat during the month ending the 5 th January , consisted of only 38 , 076 q larters , of which 3 . 384 quarters were from our colonies , and 34 , 692 quarters from foreign countries . Another Case . —At the Bame Court , on the same day as above , William Latham , formerly a dresser of Halifax , was sentenced to transportation for fif eon years , for forging a bill of exchange for £ 137 13 s . Fibe—On Sunday night last , about twelve o ' clock , Camberwell old church was completely destroyed by tire—nothiug but tho bare walls being left standing .
The Shipping Gazette says— " We ara informed tlia " , a . considerable ruim has been awarded to the proprietors of the James Watt , as compensation for the loss sustained by them in consequence of the detention of the vessel . " Thk Morning Herald , speaking of Lord Morpeth'a Irish Registration Bill , says , " the principle involved in ita postscript is the principle of Universal Suffrage . thinly concealed and covered over with a nominal five-pound qualification . " The Guardians of the Boston Union , at a Board held on Saturday Ia 6 t , ordered The Fenny Magazine , The Saturday Magazine , and Chambers' Edinburgh Journal , to be taken in regularly for the use of the inmates « f the Union House . —Lincoln Oax .
Melancholy Shipwreck . —We regret to learn that , ou Wednesday night , a small sloop , which was in the habit of conveying stores from Fife to Granton Pier , sunk near Burntisland , and a man and boy , who were on board of her , perished . —Edinburgh Courant . The monks in Switaerland ( Canton of Arg » u ) are bsing dislodged by the military authorities , having received in many instances notice to quit in twentyfour heurs ; the convents are to be sold ; it was said that the nuns had taken an active though secret part in fomenting the late disturbances .
Man Frozen to Death . —On Sunday morning , the dead body of a young man , name uuknown , was discovered in a lane leadiug from Kingston bottom to Richmond . It was supposed the deceased had sat down to rest himself , and that he had fallen at-lecp , and became a victim to the extreme severity of the weather . Nottingham . —Not withstanding the immense number of cu :-ups made , and the outcry respectiug foreign cotton hosiery , there is no branch of the Nottingham trade that has remained so free fiom fluctuation as the old full fashioned cotton hose trade . Wagos are certainly very low , but employment , liko the demand , is constant and uniform .
Court of Exchequer . —( Saturday . )—Dunn v . ArvGELA Burdett CouTTS . —The court was occupied a great part of the day with a case in which the wdi-known Mr . Dunn was plaintiff in an action for false imprisonment . Miss Burdett Coufta appeared as a witness , and was examined at considerable length by Mr / L' unn . —Verdict for defendant . In the Central Criminal Coort , on the 4 th inst , two woioeii were separately tried for the wilful murder of their infant illegitimate children . In both caseB the jury returned verdicts of " Not Guilty . " One of the prisoners is a widow ; and the body of tho child was taken from a sexton , as he was about to inter it , by a policeman . Several marks of violence were perceived on its neck and face .
Public Executions . —Mr . Rich has given notice that on Tuesday , the 16 th of February , he will move for leave to bring in a Bill " to prohibit the public ercculion of criminals , and to provide for their execution within the gaols in which they may be confined , before duly appointed authorities , and a limited number of witnesses . " / * Thames Policb . —Thursday , the Srb , being the day appointed for the re-examination of Captain Robert Williman Cook , tbe master and part owner of the schooner Aligator , and George Wakeham , the chief mate of the name vessel , charged with the wilful murder of Wilhant Sago , an apprentice , the prisoners were put to the bar before Mr . BallantiMO . Ihe prisoners were committed for trial .
Unequal Taxation . —The railway proprietors pay one-eighth of a penny per mile , the stage-coach proprietors one-fourth , and the postmasters threefourths of a penny for every passenger they carryin other words , the individual coachmaster is taxed twice as heavily , and the individual postmaster six times as heavily , as the great joint-stock oom-¦ ptMim . —Lmdon paper .
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St . Albak ' b Election . —At the final close of the poll , on Tuesday , the numbers were : — LordLisUweKWhig ) ... 236 Mr . Cabbell ( Tory ) ? . 194 Majority 42 MomiouTHSHiRK Election . Mr . Tracy , the Liberal candidate , has resigned , and the representative of the Carlton Club and the Duke of Beaufort , Mr . Octavius Morgan , will , without opposition , be returned for the county . No Boy Chijinby-swjjbps Allowkb . —By an Act of Parliament , passed in July , 1840 , on and after the 1 st ot January , 1842 , a penalty of not more than £ 10 nor less than £ 5 is imposed upon all persons who shall compel or knowingly allow any young person , uder the age of twenty-one years , to ascend a chimney for _ the purpose of sweeping it , or for extinguishing the fire therein .
Fire . —On Saturday night an extensive fire broke ont in the warehouse of Mr . Johnson , a cabinet and bedstead maker , Long-alley , Modrfields . Through the exertions of the neighbours and a strong party of the city police , the stock of the shop was saved . On an inquiry it was ascertained that the fire had originated through a defective gas-pipe in the warehouse . Mr . Johnson is insured in the Sun and Union fire-offices . Dr . Channinq , in his lecture on war , proposes to alter altogether the military equipments of officers and men , to strip them of all their finery , so attractive to the vanity of the young—to remove all gaudy colours , all laces , feathers , epaulettes , &c . &c , and to adopt , the most Bombre colours for uniforms , as best suited to the dreadful trade of human carnage . This , he thinks , would check , considerably , the love for military career .
In a village near to Barnsloy , there is living what may be justly styled an industrious man ; at theyillagechuroh ther « , he undertakes the following duties , vie : clerk , sexton , gives out the psalms and hymns , leader of the singing in the orchestra , plays 6 < U £ -v ) O ] once ]] o , and tolls the bell for service . There ia a Btill more industrious man living in a village near Lincoln , who , to all the above professions , adds those of grocer , baker , parish constable , and blacksmith . The " Gazette db Tribunaux" reports the trial
at Tours of a young Englishman , named Alcock , who had robbed his employer , a banker at Nottingham , of eight hundred sovereigns , and fled to Boulogne , and thence to Tours . The offence , for which he was tried was travelling with a false passport ; but the most interesting feature in the affair was the refusal of the French authorities to surrender him to an English polioa-offioer , " as the English Government could never be prevailed upon to deliver up a refugee from France undor similar circumstances . " The prisoner was only fined fifteen francs , and discharged .
Lord Cardigan's Trial . —It is stated that the fitting up of the House of Lords for the trial of Lord Cardigan will cost £ 2 , 000 . Tlie public ha ^ e thus to pay £ 2 , 00 t because Lord Cardigan was pleased to call out and shoot Mr . Tuckett . This is a piece of feudalism rather too irrational atid costly for our times . Cardigans should be relegated to the . Old Bailey . A dozen duels b y Peers in the course of the year would be attended with an expence and interruption of the business of Parliament that would compel the public to call for an abrogation « f the absurd privilege of tho Peers .
—Exammcr . Sudden Illness or the Duke of Wellington . — The Duke of Welliagton was , on Friday evening , eei&nl with sudden indisposition in the House ot Lords . The Noble Duke , as ia his custom , occupied his usual seat before five o ' clock , and appeared to be in good health and spirits , conversing cheerfully and familiarly with the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Ellenborough . About a quarter after five o ' clock , the head of the Noble-Duke was seen suddenly to droop forward , as though he were hinting . His arm was immediately laid hold of by the Earl of Aberdeen , who , assisted by Lord Eileriborough , removed him instantly from tho House . The following bulletin was issued on Saturday : — " Apsley House , 6 th Feb ., 1841 . —The Duke of Wellington has passed a quiet night , and is butter this morning . -J . R . Hume . "
Cost of the Rural Police . —The overseers and select vestries of the townships of Butterwonh . Castleton , Spotland , Waerdale and Wardlo , ami Wardleworth , have memorialised the magistrate * ot Lancashire to take steps for the abolition of the new constabulary force in that county . They state that since the very heavy increase of the county rate , mainly occasioned hy the introduction of the new force , the ovor&eers and collectors have found ihe greatest difficulty in collecting the poor-rate , so as to meet the various demands upon it ; that the ratepayers aro serious sufferers from this additional tax , which , if persevered in , will involve in ruin many industrious families ; that tho memorialists aro of opinion , that the oondition of the people in those townships require that some means of alleviating their distress should be adopted , and that nothing appears more likely to forward that object than tho relieving them from the expenses of the constabulary force I—Nottingham Review .
Seduction and Bigamy . —Joseph Norris , a man of mature years , of solemn countenance , and most grave deportment , was charged with the two-hid offence of seduction and bigamy , at Lambeth policeoffice . It appeared that a young woman named Jane Green applied to Mr . Norton on Thursday , for a warrant to apprehend tho prisoner . Mr . Norton requested her to explain the circumstances , when she stated that the prisoner was a shoemaker , and devoted his time on the Sabbath to preaching in the highways and byways . Jane not being on good terms with her brother ' s wife , consented to live with the prisoner and his second wife . He became at once her preceptor and spiritual adviser ; he taught her to read the Bible , and explained to her passages
of Scripture ; and , at length , believing that bo good a Bian intended no harm , she yielded to his wishes , and her ruin waB the consequence . Prisoner then forsook his home and his wife , and took his poor doluded victim to live with him . He afterwards cast her off , and she found herself despised and discarded by her friends . The magistrate toll the girl , that through her own weakness , she had involved herself in ruin . Had 6 he made the charge when her betrayer first indecently assaulted her , he might have been punished according to his demerits ; but for the seduction , wicked as it had been , there was no remedy but by an action for damages . Tho prisou <> r was then charged with bigamy , and remanded until further evidence could be obtained .
The Failure op Messrs . Keasley , Tanners , op Bermondsey . —Since the bankruptcy of Messrs . Wright , tho bankers of Henrietta-street , Coventgardon , no failure has excited eo much astonishment , or has been attended with suoh melancholy results , as the failure of Messrs . Keasley , the tanners , in Long-lane , Bermondsey . The firm was considered the richest in that part of London , and tue horses and harness were exceeded by no house in town , or , perhaps , the world . The Messrs . Keasley had for a long series of years carried on one of the most extensive trades in Bermondsey , or within five miloa of it . The liabilities of the firm are variously stated , as amounting from £ 160 , 000 to £ 250 , 0 » 0 . The chiei
creditors are reported to be Messrs . Streatfield and Lawrence , leather-sellers , of Lime-street , to the amount of £ 17 , 000 ; Mr . Sharp , currier , of Russellstreet , Bermondsey , £ 7 , 000 ; tho firm of Warren and Co ., blacking-makers , £ 20 , 000 ; Messrs . Boucher and Mort ; m < sr , leathor-factoin , of tho now leather-market , Bermondsey , £ 7 , 000 ; Mr . Vousley , who keeps a public-house in Long-lane , £ 200 , for a cheque which he cashed , besides a large amount owing by the men , who " used " hia house . The consternation which this bankruptcy has caused is great , and has placed out of employ all , or nearly all , the men . Messrs . Keasley are also said to be the contractors to Government tbi' the patent leather belts .
Whig Government . —I waa passing by a farmhouse the other day when , in a dry gutter at the sunny side of a hedge , I saw a cat , which I immediately perceived was weak with some kind of suffering . She made a feeble and jueffictual attempt to catch a large fly that was buzzing about her , and , when she saw me , Bhe staggered a few paces up the road , but soon turned aad looked very wistfully at me . She was nothing but skin and bone , and could scarcely keep on her legs . I could not resist her mute appeal . I went to the houss and toldithe farmer's dame that her cat was very weak with want and must soon die unleasshe served her . The woman said — " Who worth her ! ehe may catch mice . " Now tho poor creature might have cleared the place of
mice—at any rate she was too feeble to catch them now—and whether this woman , surrounded by plenty , would listen to my appeal , I know not , but 1 felt at tho time , that I could hare put tho poor cat out of her misery , which would have been more humane than to let her linger in the panga of starvation . I am in the habit of reflecting much on the cruelty of our Whig Government , and I could not help but turn this incident to account . The unemployed poor of this country are hungering to deathneglect is sometimes murder . Our factions have plenty to riot in and think not of the wants of the people—who , were they to take of tbe plenty they have produced , would be punished for theft by tho plunderers of it . Work hat failed , and they are wort
reduced by want so as to be unable to , rwmonstate with government and we shall be tola the poor are idle , and wish to live on the labours of the industrious—they must depend on Providence and their own rerouroea . Do the rich depend on Providence , or on the resources of the poor which they have deprived them of ! Cats should not be kept to starve ; let alone men , women , and children . Our factions not only hunger the people , but they are g » ilty of cruelty to animals—this very cat waa a victim of the Whig Government . The reader may laugh , if he b « so barbarous ; but I can prove it . The heartless depravity of the Whigs hardens all ranks and degrees beneath them , except the people wko wffar . —Ctrretpondent ,
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Lawsuit fok a . Skull . —The son of the celebrated French physician , M . Pinel , has instituted a lawsuit for the recovery of his father ' s skull , which had been preserved by M . Esquirol , » distinguished pupil of M . Pinel ' s , as a memorial of his matter . M . Esquirol is recently dead , and the son of ihe great physician now puts forward a claim which he had hitherto waived . Sudden Death . — On Saturday evenijjg , Mr . Edward Mouks , of Mersey-street , Liverpool , who had been ailing for some time previous , fell down ia a neighbour's house , and instantly expired . He was in the 62 d year of his age , and from a quantity of blood found in hia louse after his decease , it is supposed that he ruptured a blood vessel and had gone out for assistance , The inquest held on Tuesday , on view of the body , found a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God . "
Stereotyping bt Galvanism , —From the German papers it appears that the eleotro-galvanio process has been applied by Herr von Puiikammer , the editor of a Berlin periodical called tho Tolhfreunde , to the making of stereotype plates for letter-press printing . The saving is said to be considerable , as the value of the sulphate of copper precipitated is trifling compared with tho expenca of casting plates in type-metal , especially as the copper plate may bo taken out of the sulphate trough when very thin , and can be ma . de of any desired thickness by laying a coat of melted lead ou the back .
Murdeh at Hokfield . —Since the boy Rii . igo has becn-conveyed to Gloucester , his coat has t ^ en examined , and it is now discovered that it contains a great many distinct spots of blood which aro not to bo mistaken : the sleeves are particularly ' . narked , and the lining of one of them has been torn out : the lining of the pocket of bis trousers was also bloody . —Bristol Times . List op Sheriffs fob 1841 . —( From the Gazette . J—Cumberland , J . Robertson Walker , of Gillftarron , Esq . ; Derbyshire , J . B . Bowden , ot Southtfate House , Esq . ; Durham , William Russell , of Brancepeth Castle , Esq . ; Lincolnshire , Sir J . C Tborold , of Syston Park , Bart . ; Northamptonshire , Sir R . H . Gunning , of Horton , Bart . ; Nottinghamshire , Henry Smith , of Wilford , Esq . ; Staffordshire , Thomas Cartwright , of Hill Hall , E q . ; Yorkshire , Frederick William Thomas Vernon Wentworth , or Wentworth Castle , Esq .
Gko 3 s Brutalities u . vder the Poor Law . —A report having been made to the Board of Guardians , by Mr . Wier , the Governor , of undue severity exercised by the schoolmaster , Fuller , towards the children , notice waa given from the Guardians to the Poor Law Commissioners ; and on the following Monday , Mr . Main , one of the Assistant Commissioners , attended to investigate the charges . From this investigation it appeared that ho ( Fuller ) had used very harsh means in the correction of a boy , named Lilloy , and two others , varying from seven to eleven years of age , by a stick of £ ome substance , the blows from whi * h had left eeveral severe marks of
punishment . One of the children had been made to take off his jacket , and he was Jaid across the form . Tbe offonce 3 which they had > . committed were of ihe most trivial nature—one had neglected to learn his lesson ; a second had carried some Snow on his shoes into the school-room ; and the third had made a mistake ia an errand . Mr . Burgess , surgeon to the Union , and two other medical gentlemen , were examined , who gave testimony to the severe manner in winch the punishment had been inflicted . The case was then laid before the Chief Commissioner , and au order has been received that Fuller is to be immediately discharged .
Assault . —A pretty looking young widow , named Mary Catalla , residing at No . 9 , Clarendon-place , Somcrs * Town , preferred a charge of assault , at Marylebone police-office , on Saturday , against Don Naroifsa Aviles , a teacher of the guitar , 51 , Upper Seymour-street , Euston-squaro . From the evidence of complainant it appeared that defendant was ia possession of some papers and other articles which had belonged to her late , husband , and that on her applying to him ( defendant ) for the said property , % few days since , he not only refused to deliver it up , but th / u ^ t her with much violence into the road .
She wa < considerably bruised upon the knees and several other parts of her person , of which fact she offered to convince the magistrate , by allowing him to inspect" her should he think fit to do so . hi * Chadwiek smiled , and said there was no occasion for that , her statement upon oath beiug quite sufficient . The defendant denied haviag violentJy assaulted the complainant , who , as alleged by him , called him a rogue , and other vile names , before h « laid hands upon her at all . Several witnesses , prp and ton , were examined ; and defendant was convio'e i in the penalty of 203 . and coats .
Thk Fiu . nk . fort Geumaj * Paper of tho 11 th of January , 1841 , contains tho following marvellous prophesy : — " In the Frenoh Pyrenneea , Haut Com » mingo , there lives in great poverty and seclusion from the world , an old man named Bag de Milhas . who for more than half a cenlury has been looked upon by his countrymen as a prophet ; but he has not eften promulgated his predictions . In the year 1780 , he foretold the revolution of 1789 ; the rife of Napoleon in 1793 , and his fall in 1812 ; and in 1828 , he predicted the revolution of July , 1830 . Sinoe then lie has remained mute , until now , when he sends forth the following astounding prophecy , that in 1842 , a war will again breakout , in which Great Britain will be annihilated ; Paris reduced to a
mere spot , and priests and lawyers disappear . However crazy in its separate predictions this last prophecy may appear , it is creating a great sensation in a large part of France , amongst the superstitious classes . Bethlem Hospital . —A correspondence has taken place between the Marquis of N « rmanby and Sir Peter Laurie , the President of Bethlem Hospital . The Marquis , at the request of Sir Peter , appointed two physicians to examine into the treatment of criminal lunatics in Bethlem , that , as the minister officially responsible , he might be able to form an opinion on the subject . The physicians made tha inquiry , and gave in their report ; and Lord Normanby , in communicating the report to the President , thought it necessary to accompany it with
some additional observations , " not only on the origin of the complaint , on which some stronger language had been used by the Governors in their letter to tbe Noble Marquis than he thought was borue out by th © course of the examination , but also on the oonduct of some of the servants , and the condition of the patients ; the effect of which observations was to qualify the approbation he should otherwise have been supposed completely to share . *' The report , without the accompanying letter , was published in the morning papers ; and when Sir Peter ia asked why this partial publication took place , he very cavalierly answers , " The Committee being of opinion that the report of the physicians
founded , is it is , upon a careful and unprejudiced personal inquiry into the whole circumstances , should be sent to the Governors fo . * their opinion , without comment or observation , is the only reasoa that your Lordships's letter was not also circulated . " Sir Peter , wrapt up in tKe idea of his own consequence , deals with the Home Secretary as if hi » opinion were of no more importance than that of a blind fiddler ; and it became necessary for the Noble Marquis to remind him of the position in which he stood , and that Sir Peter wa 3 not justified in treating his communication " as that of an indifferent person , instead of the . opinion of one whose imperative duty is to watch over and correct any abuses in the treatment of criminal lunatics . " —
Morning Chronicle . On ftioNDAY morning ; at a quarter before six o ' clock , an explosion took place at the extensive distillery belonging to Messrs . Sealer and Evana , situate at Milbank , Westminster . It appears that the large still became overcharged and exploded , forcing off the extensive roof of the still-honse ; a quantity of spirits became ignited , and tho utmost alarm prevailed for the safety of the extensive building and stock . The fire-engines , with a large body of the brigade-men , were promptly in attendance , and by great exertions succeeded in arresting tbe progress of the flames . Considerable damage ha « been sustained to the building , but fortunately not any por £ oa received injury . "
Charge of Famishi . ng a Child . —On Saturday , at the Police-office , there were placed before Mr . Ruslitou an elderly man and woman , who were charged with having syttematieally starved a child . The male prisoner was the father of the boy , and the woman waa his housekeeper . 'There came forward , as accusers , several female neighbours of the . prisoners , and one of them bore in her arms a child apparently about twelve months old , bus in reality of the age of six year * . Ita face was of a death-like aspect , it was shockingly ' thin and shrunken , and when its limbs wrero exhibited , thereran a thrill of horror through most of the spectators , who averted their faces from the sight . The witnesses all concurred in stating as thair belief that the child was
starved , and they added that when it went into any of the houses of the neighbours , it would point to the bread in a ravenous manner , and refuse to go away unless food waa given , to it . It invariably acted in a similar way when it saw another child with any victuals . One of the witnesses , who had known the boy for three years , Btatel that it was * fine healthy child when she first knew it , and couli then walk ; but now it could scarcely go about , and waa generally confined to the garret . It ate greedily whatever food was given it . They oould not fay whether it had had a dieeaw that would produce emaciation . A surgeon who kad examined
the child stated , however , that it laboured under disease of the measntri * f lands . He judged so from the swelling of the abdomen and the voracity ef the appetite , both of which were tymptona of the disease . When the mesentrie glands are affected , nourishmcut is prevented from entering the system . The female prisoner said , "I have fed him till I thought he -would , have died . When he has beem tilled near to bursting , he wonld fly at a child with meat as though he waa-starred . " The prisoner * were discharged , but reprimanded by Mr . Rushton , for some slighter negligence and cruelty towards the child , which had beenjbrougak out in the ev »> denee . —Lntrptol Tmt $ »
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