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      DAMIEL O'CONNELL , THE FRIEND OF THE POOR . DANIEL O * C 0 XNELL , THE REVILEB OF THE WITBS AXD DireHTESS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . { Continued from our last . J Fiom this general charge against the people of England , -which it was necessary to place in its true lift " . I eome to your several charges against "English Fosr Laws , " which might , perhaps , hare experienced IroE yon some little mitigation ef censure , if yon had , by toy accident , happened to know that they were , too , A jsenca » Poor Lavs , as you will ( to your indignant surprise , I dare ray ) learn more circumstantially by-andby . The first tbin ? yon urge against our T < xit Iaws i $ ,

      tii&t they " interfere tei ' . h weges , " and that this is one of tfcfc thing * that " frightens" yon . As an Irish lawyer , you might bo txcused for your ignorance of these laws , bat not for a misrepresentation of them : and hers we bave s zneze fad to deal with , and bare ibe 'Written proof at hand . To the original poor law of the * 3 rd of Ei Sibeth , many acts bare besn added , relating to the relief and management of the poor ; and , in no one of the *? acts is there any anthority given to anybody to i * : erfere with the trapes of labour , cor is there " in any of tfae : u , nor in the original law itself , any countenance given to any roch interference . So that it appears that y < m havs been frightened by the ¦ w orkings of your own illumination . That , in many cases , the masristrates in

      K-ttl'ng the amount of relief , hare taken the amount of ihe wages of Ihe party into mete ; and that thty have , in most cases , mode the relief too small in proportion to the "wages ; aud that , in many cases , the employers cf iira-laboarera have , in order te ease themselve * at ttt expense of geaVemen sad tradespeople , given the J&K-ut-cts les in iro- ^ s and more in poor-raits ; all this is true enough , and it etrtainiy involves a misapplication of the powers of the poor-laws ; but -what charge do&s this imply against Iks poor-laves themselves ? And , af-. tr all , what is this evil ? whit does th ' is crookedvorking of self-interest amount to , compared with the frigir . fni evil of leaving thousands to peririi with hunger and cold for want of legal and sure relief ?

      Fjr " sick and maimed , " hoTcver , you vroulvl , it Bitiiis , have relief provided by "the StaU . " It is impcisible to know what } ou mean by the-State ; but at K-J rate , you would have them provided for by a cvmpuisory a « sea 8 Eient of some sort ; but not the aged , mr the hale , though these latter be without work , and without the mt-zns of obtaining food or raiment ; and . yon add , that you " believe" that " it was not , at /¦ si ic' . cnded by the poor-laws to provide for the wants of fcbii- clss * " When a lavyer is speaking of an ad of Parliament , and especially when its tendency is the Eurject matter of bis discourse , i * e should cot ' believe ' BE ; thii ; g about its provisions ; and , before you pronounced so decided a condemnation of this , the greatest Of ail cur acts < A Parliament , which , in fcict , furnishes & ;? c&t part of the mscVr . nery for cirr \ in ? on all our

      mt _ ri * al uiuirs , a . ud which raises ar . d disposes oi mere than stven millions of ponnds sterling in a ytar in Ecg ' 3 Ed and Wal * s ; before yon so boldly condemned tLis great act , year mind onsht to have tad left in it not itt smallest ground for 2 » : ; V / respecting the provisions . This belief is , however , trroneens ; for the act does provide , acl it clearly intends to r-ruvide , for this class of persons ; and , if it had not provided for them , it would have been nugatory at the time ; and if they * cre not provided for now , an army of fiva hundred tLoui&nd mtn wctiM But npLoid the Government of England for a month ! I thank God , that it does provide for their wants ; I think God , tbat it gives them a tv « i to relief , and that they knot ? and feel it . It is the i >* = a of peace ; it is the Crment of English society ; acd accursed be sJl those who would enfeeble it . '

      Bat , " the sick and maimed , " you would have the stale _ provide for these ; bui not for the aped ; and if there be , in " almost every viOa ^ e of Ireland , a dispensary * £ d in every cosuty tuwn an hospital , " there is provi-Eion already mide for the " sick and maihied ; " sotbat the Iriak poor have all that yen want them to have ! Glad to know it : It cert&iniy is news to me . I wish it may be true ! Tetthere must want a " dispensary " oi / ood and d . olhixg , or else we have been toid hk ; monslrc-us lies about the people eatmg stinking £ hell-fish , Eca-weed , and nettles , and about whole parishes receivlzg the extreme ur . ction prepiratory to death from starvation ; and about whola fimilic-s of females beiE ^ in a Etita atccrsp- ' ele naicdBrss ; 5 Lad our OWH ey . f 5 EUSt d » - Ctive nj , ind mine ssf ^ eialJv mast deceive me , whea I ihiuk I see . every month of my life , hundreds of squalid creatures tramping into London , by my door , without Shoes , stockings , or shuts , with nothing on the head worthy of tLe Lame of hat , and w- . th raga hardly safflcaeni to hide

      the nakedness of their bo-iies . ' However . for tte affed yon - » ii ] fays no provision . And mhj 1 rThi : is yocr reason tor this ? Pjr , cpon tfcs taee of tt = projMiiUcn , it noes ssiia U > be dictated by anything but Vial Ze . de ; r < css wlich you are constastly " exBresgisg towards the Irish people . Tcnr reasons are these ^~ 1 . That , by making provision for the destitute in oM age , > gu take u . ^ ay tiie gre ^ t in ^ noement to industry csA f ; --jiiiijj in { he daj .. < : ¦ / yotuh ; and , 2 . Tnat tou dtpr ^ rt th = o-jsdpsrenU of ihe aid of their C / liidren , who , Seeing 2 . pi jTiaiOH . ' or them in U-= j ; oor hv-cae , ~ vni } leave tfctlE ' to go to parish in its ¦ ' naked cel ' r" As to the £ : st of tiese T ^ ssona , it would «; equaliy good against a provision for the " sick and maimed , " ' if they hoppemd to be old . But are alt the labouring peoj > 5 e able , in j outh . to lay by something for old age ? It is * the decree of God tLat the hnmsa jaee . shall be sustained by labour ; ninefceilbs of iaboarjB pa £ rfal 4 a some degree ; very few of tts human race witt encoanier pain , bat from ~ necessiiy ; and none will , therefore , seldom encounter roorr of this

      pam thaxi is deicaaded Joj their prtgent tcaxis . To call npvn meu who are engaged in pursuits xot bodily pmin fid , X ) lay by , in their yoatfe . ist tie dajs of aid age . U xcasanae ' e and jist - bat to call upon the tiard-working mar : to do this , is neither . If ht do it ; as 3 , n England , be . to a great extent , aoes it , in five cases cnt of £ a , ftftsr all i ; if Le do it , vrhtre is the tDn ?* e ot pen to Ey ? £ k the praise that is his due T Bat if he have not , from vhatecer cause , been able t » - dc it , » r bave not dene it , he hss a dear right to s , proviBiea in oid age : be has spent his life and worn onu his- strexgtb in th ^ ^ E ^ vice of the comsaunity ; aed tb » £ pelactaate which EYrry ttii ) ti naturally feels to ask another for aoroething . is a sufficient security against his teing lazy ani 5 ? rotiijal in his youth , upon * cool eaicTdauon of the benefit

      of parochial provision in his old ags . "With regard to ycur second objection ; nameiy , that by making a provision for old age , yon deprive ihe i % ivjemi , parents ef the aid of their children , who , seeing the " naitd ceil" provided for them , wili let them po to it ; with regard to this matter , you appear to regard the Irish psople as being CiMb ' . e of setting at defiance , and as hkeiy to set at dcSince , not only tbe laws of naive-, bat also the esoress ana a hundred-times-repeated laws of God . ~ So Tiry high cocipiinaent to your countryman . ' ~ So very BtroDg proof of the sincerity of your belief in that " generosity , " that " active aitd practical eanzpassicn for Die poor , " and that " deep sense of reiigiaa" widen we xhall presently see you aicribing to thesa ! Bat you , ' as & laicier , might have told them one fcfcisg , aad Unce you did not < Lo i » , I will ; and that ia , that if neither tie laws of nature nor those of God could induce them

      bo far to honour their father and their mother as to k : ~ p them from the poor-hou 3 e , the poor-lavs trouid ecmpdifiem to do it , they having ihe ability ; and if they haz-t not iht tlility , how can poor-laws deprive the parents of their aid ? As a lawyer , you ought to liave known that those poor-laws which you so Vehemently decry , compel all persons , being able to do it , to maintain their indigent / after * , moders , grandfathers , grandmothers , children , and graiid-chi ' . dien . This is what yen ought to have toid your Dahlia audience , though it might cave cost you the loss of some of those valuable eieers , wticnyon obtained by tiiis suppression oftfce trziUi , and by supplying its pise © with the " nnked cell , " existing nowhere but ia your imagination . Ether you did not knov the laic as to this matter , or S ou . did krone it . It ihe former , you ougat to bave known it before you made th ' -s speech ; and if ( he latter , I decline to characterize your conduct .

      But , Sir , in your anxious haste to narrew the effect of poor-laws , you forgot that , besides the sick , the maimed , and the aged , there were some other parties "who are , however , by no aie&n 3 overlooked in that Bolt TY&it , for not believing in which we shall presently find you condemning the ' infidel" to be dealt * ith in away ¦ ' to supersede aU legal punishment "; namsly . the tcidor , the orphan , and the stranger . In your comprebe-asiTe scheme of " active and practical compassion for the poor , " you will make no provision for these ! The Eaelish poor-laws , which d » Dot cry , « ' Lorfi : Lord V but which do h-s tciil , make provision for them aU ; &r . < l well , indee <\ , is it tliat Ifcsy do , 01 thousands upen xijcusainas at Irishmen would , at this Tery moment , be dying and lying dead from starvation ; and that , too , if y ^ ur cottrir . e be sound , without having the smallest ground fur accusing the English ef injusti&e or craelty .

      The lite of' seWemsni yon represent as an instrument of oppression . Yo-r story about yearly servants bung obliged to be one mc-nth out of employ , in order to preveat them from gsinins a settlement , is mere romance , the thing being impossible ; because the whole of the bnsiness in all tie farm houses in the eonntry must , in that ease , be suspended for a month ; and , to believe that this can take ulsce , you must know about English farming as littla as , for your sake , I hope you know about ou * poor laws . In some case * , fox the reason here astiratd the master will hire the Bervant for some days less tbaa a year ; but \ i much oftener happens that this ssrt of bargaia is from the wish of the servant , who does not , in general , wish to " lose his parish ; " &nd , at this moment I hare a country-boy living with-me , whose mother wonld net conaeat to his coming unless tije

      baisain was such as not to cause him " to lose his parish . " This , * t once , scows the light in which the uxrldxg people view the poor laws . Instead of deeming them a bond of " ^ awery , " a * you choose to represent them , they deem them the tiiU o / their right to their patrimony . And with regard to the compelling of married people to stic k to ikeir parishes , it is a great good , isstead ot being an evil ; it being evident that people in that state of lifc will be , in aU respects , more careful of Bieir characters , and will be more likely to be » f better pataaitMi , ifjwidaat amongst those who know them , Bub if wsajdtiag about from place to pisca . If they gultttuftruoUua , and become chargeable to another , « Kkeiy tobe so , the poer laws expose them not to opiiiiMliiii . Tfflt **""**—thf" in the light oi' -tfu ? stranger , " Tetters tbem if necessary , and take them home to their parish . Weil « Mld It have been , Sir , f . ; r the tlion-WBdTflt pOQtVWr-sMKstf freeholder * of Ireland , whom

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      the " Libbbatob" saw driven off the estates , as the price of that " Emancipation" which gave Aim a seat in Parliament ; well would it have been for these poor sacrificed creatures , if there had been an English law of settlement to compel the savage landlords to keep them ; aud in that case , indead , they -would never hare been driven off the estates , &nd , finally , as they were , exposed ta all the horrors of famine and pestilence . We now come to two assertions , which , from their character , and from one and the same term Wing applicable to both , ought not , fvr a moment , to be separated , namely , 1 . That , in the town of Shrewsbury , you saw placards , on which were inscribed the words , " Vagrants ami Iriih LaboCEERS whipped out of ihe toicn ; ' and , 2 . That " Mr . Sturges Bourne made an impioivment in Ihe law ; for HE provided thai , after the Irish laboubee was whipped , heihould be sent home . "

      As you positively assert that you saw these placards at Shrewsbury , 1 must suppose that Shrewsbury is in Ireland ; for I am sure you never saw such a placard in Eii ^ and , Ibis town is certainly in Tipperary or Connsught , or somewhere : at any rate , I assert that you never saw it in an Erglish town . As to the second of this couple of assertions ; first , in no bill ever brought in by Stubges Bourne is there one singlu word about " Irish labourers , " and in no law that is now in existence , or that ever teas in existence , is there any provision for , or one word about , the whipping of Irish labourers . Therefore had you not said that the matter oi tbis speech was the fruit of your " daily thoughts , nigfctJy nmsiogs , snO morning meditations , " I should have concluded that it was the subject of a dream , or an effusion , emanating from an exhilarating draught at Bellamy ' s .

      But suppose we were to disregard the sufferings of the Irish here ; were to let them die in the streets , instead of stnding them home , we should only ba acting upon your oich princip ' e ; for you propose to leave the stranger , even in his own country , without any relief at alL But how can you , Sii , reconcile with your profession of a desire to see the two countries cordially united ; how can you reconcile with this profession this assertion , that there is a law , in England , authorising the whipping of Irish labomers before they be i-cnt home 1

      I hope that some one has told you the ktory , and tha : want of time prevented you from looking after this lave . Toe falsehood being bo entire , it net having a shadow of truth to give it countenance , I cannot help hoping that this is the case . I see , in the couisa of the year , many hundreds of them going off to Bristol in very commodious caravans , drawn by good horses , smoking their pipes , and full of your admired " teild merriment . " Never are they whipped , and there is no law for whipping them , in any case , iu which an Englishman would not be whipped .

      Equally destitute ef truth is the assertion , that "clergymen of the Church of England bave sicxim , that , cral of every tvcaity women of th « poorer classes , that were married by them , nineteen ucre pregnant" No clergy , man in Eogland ever swore this , aud no cne ever sail . it . liif Isle is a gross uii-jrepresenlatiou of evidence giv ^ n be fore a committee of the House of CuniinoBS in 18-: ? , when the oversrstr of PeJham , in Hertfordshire , told the committee , that nearly the whole of ttw youi . g Toni'E Svre pngnant before they wrre married ; be-CiUSe , beilig tot poor to pay the exper . &s of Ihe iccddir . j

      they generally put it off , tiV the parish was g ' . ad to pay for \ L But was thiB the fault of the poor iawb ? . No ; but , as was shown by the smie evidence , the fault of the t-iais which made the fanners unable to p : ; y the labourers a sufficiency of wages , and that this latter made the labourers so poor , that they were unable to get married before the pregnancy became obvious to the parish efflcers . Thus the poor laws , instead of being the cavx of this shame to the young peeple , actually cam * in and prevented the children biing born out of wedit- ^ k .

      . The same may be said of your statements relative to the letting out of the English labourers to hire to the highest bidder , and of all tt » other degrading measures adopted by overseers . They are abuses vf the po o * laws , and not evils created by the poor laws : they have arisen out of recent alterations in those laws , and not oat of those ibwe thimseivcs , as is char from the fact , that those laws existed for about two- hundred years before ary of tbese evils and oppression ? were ever Leard ot As to the farming of the poor , sapposing it to be done upun just principles , what is it more than putting chit ' dre / s to be booried by the year ? If cure fcw taken th'it the contractor do whfit he ought to do , there is nothing either ocjost or ( Jcrrading in this ; aBQ if he do Dot di > his dnty , and the poor people complain , the payers of the rates have no interest , and can have no inclination to uphold him iu hi * wrong-doing . So that this is a > enectly futile objection to poor laws , of which , however , this species of ooutnet forms no essential part .

      3 f unr next statement is , that " an cons *? ieuce of the poe-rlaws , the ? iB . "ESr ( irew > o blazing in LryUind fiom north to south , " The cause of these Ores it well known ; it is openly avowed , it is specific ; and it is , that the farmers do not give ihe- lobovrrrs so much itxyK- * as they sai- ihr ? ou-jht to have . This is notoriously , the cause . In maay cases the Jires h * r « stopi-ed whea- the wages have b * sn raised ; and bav > e be&uc Bgar-i-wuen the ire ^ ts have been loicerez . T 4 us has , indeed , been the case alT sver the country - -r . nd , in tho faca of the >* e Weu-kDOWa facts , coniiinrisg- aUo that the poor- la ^ a iBVi existed abu « t two haadred aad forty ysarj , and never produced such effects before ., it required , certainly , nutMng short of a JPzb ' An uva'ience to embolden you to descaibe the fib . es- as " a a -nieqwimi- of the poor-laics ; " after which , wb > need & wonder if you ¦ jfsm * to 3 sc-il > e the natioaa } debt ami the cnolera mor-OKks to the po « -law 3 ?

      You have k » wn " commtt * e- atter committee sit in vain , to diacovti some way of making an etF ? eU ^ amelioration in tbs poor-laws . " Eave you , indeed ! aud so have 1 too . B » th * S maybe an arguiaent i » favour of the poor-laws . Lord Cost- saict that Mag >' a Cttaiiia ttm so »» trtmg afeliozrxa be OTt-rceme by puny acts of P-iriiaoeat : * ' aud the ume may be said Of Old Betry ' s pot , r-l 3 w . But , do yos know what they mean by *¦• am * Xoraii 3 * V I will taW you : taking ajxiy th-e relief . This is what tiiey have been trying at fur about tweuty years . 3 ot they find tb » law " too strong a fellow for then * .- It is the il agna Charts of the working people ; it is writtt n m thoir hearts ; the writing desoemxs from tbo heart ef the father to that of the saa ; and vw ' J' forbid t&at it Ehould ever be effaced ; . for , if ever that day cora « , Er giisb . suaisty and English manners , and English fcapp iness , will all be effaced along with it , and tfcs wori d will lose the example of a working . people , such as it n 3 Ver had in any- other councy upon eaiii .

      >* ow , Sir , bafcee I coi ne to your general and sweeping dsannciatioB * again st the Snglish poor-lawa , let me , is finishing tfease j articulas assertions and argument *» just put MideT y our eyes- ono remaining assertion : it is this- ; : " A ] lothecariss to supply the poor with isedicines are kira I , whose interest it is , tfcit the sick p * er should- di * as soon a& possib ' e , in order that they may be at the Itsi expense for medicines . " This , too , was the resuife of \ our " thoughts by day , your iausisgs by ni ^ hW . aBd yc -ur morning meditationa , " was i : ? M ^ you , Sir , s * d us x again see this your insinuation upon p&pwy and not change colour , anything addressed to you , tfcoug ] i by a pen a million times as eloqcanSas mine-, mast " oe wholly thrown away .

      Leaving you t * -consid er of . to think , muse , and meditate od , the figBJ » yon . make bafcre English man , with this insinuation on your lips , 1 . now come- to your sweeping assertions relative to the effects of the p < x > rlaws > and to the-picture which jou-give as oi the people of-. tetwo cous&iea bo much ia favour of'the Iran . Ycst told your abesaing audieace , that the poor-laws made slaves of the English working-people ; that it com ? l 4 te ) y destttyed ikeir character for inieperidence ; tbatfyon preferred the wild nj&rivitni of the Irishman to the half-su&a , half-miser&bfa tones o £ the English slase to the poor-laws ; that the Irishman certainly haii his distress ** £ indeed !] , but then he haa his hope * [ cf what ?]; he endured much misery , but then he ente : > iainsd expectations of redress- L :

      Here , it se * ms , there was " great aheartng ; " and wall there might , if the matter tonvcyed surprise a * agreSaklc to your » udienc 6 as it does to me . Well , then , here yoa wipe away the bwsy charge ot our poor " halfr sulty , half-mi « erable" sieves- having made the Irish p-jor ! And if this really be the rtat © . of the Irish people 'and who can doubt it suace you Eay . it is >; if they bav-e those caeering hopes anG Spwery eapectAtiona ; i { they save in youth wherewithal to support them in age ;; if they have dispensaries ia . all the Tillages , ard hsispitals in all the county towns j and if Aey be las un&r such happy circuastancea tfeey natuii 51 y must be ) wild- in . ¦ merriment ; this being ( as we now kn * w it is ) thei ? state , then , upon my word , if they still coiae bere In moct with their mirta oar paee , " half-sulkj * - soala , I

      shall be for giving theli Iirdes a little fiiking , a « Shreu-sbvry ; for " Tnlted Kingdom" here , at" Umtod ! Kingdom there" thero , they are not to coiae here with ; their " wild merriment , " and taunt us with our " half-1 r aistrable" tones 1 However , when I get upon the same | floor with you , wewiilsoonmakeanequittjisleadjustment ! as to this matter , at aiiy rate . You shall move and I will second a bill , which when it becoae a law , shall be called the Act of Reciprocity , giving you power to whip all tas " hail-miserable" English slaves that go j to Ireland , and me power to whin all the youths of < l wild merriment" that come to Englimd . This would set aU to righta in a trice : you would preserve your 1 green island" from the contagion of the sulks ; and if I did not deal ours of the . " wild merriment , " there skould be neither whalebone nor whipcord left in

      England . But now let us [ and soberly , if it be possible ) bike a more minute look at tbese general sssertiena made by | you . They , taken fairly and without exaggeration , | amount to this : that tbe English poor laws degrade a . people , destroy all i » dfpei » a > nce spirit , and , in fact , ! make them slavet . Before I come to ask you how these j assertions are sustained by the comparative condition ; and character and manners of the English and the Irish , tyon will perhaps permit me to ask you how MOSES i same to make such ample provision for the indigent j , poor ; how THE Apostles came to elo the same , and

      I to establish tbe order oi Deacons for tbe express pur-I pose of superintending the tables at which the poor | were relieved ;» bow the Catholic Church came to I receive all lands and other real property , as well as ; rifts in money , in Ihe nume of the % > cor , and in no other ; name ; how that ciht . ch came to allot one-third F ^ } of tbe tithes te the poot , \ fhich in Ireland , yen say , the ' Pro ' cstaiit parsons " jiched '' from than : you will , ' < perhaps , permit n ; c to atk you how all this came to be , ¦ A poor law , that is to say , regular rtliefto ihe indigent , liave a natural tendency to degrade , break down the spirit , and enslave men ; for , mind , the act Of Old

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      Betsy only C 3 rae to supply the place of the certain and regular parochial relief , before secured to the people by the statute as well aa the common and the canon lava . — You will , I dare say , answer , by eaying , that if Moses , the Apostles , St . Austin , Pope Gregory , and the makers ot MagDfl Coarta , bad been aware of the manifold blessings of stinking shell- fish , sea-weed , nettles , and agitation , they would have made an exception aa to tbe " green island . " Well , but the mere colour cannot signify much in such a case ; and then let me ask yon , whether yon deem the people of the United States of America to be degraded , destitute of independent spirit , and slaves ? ( To be continued in our Ttacl . )

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      INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT—MOJiDAT . ( Before Mr . Commissioner Bowen . J RE OEOBGE COXWAT MONTAGU , ESQ . A RATHER EXTRACB . DINAKY CASE—The case iBvolve ^ an immense mass of \ t « paity , and debt * to a very large amount . The insolvent ( who appeared to be about seventy years of age ) had been in prison ever since the year 1827 . His debts and liabilities were stated on the schedule to be about £ 23 , 000 and his assets to meet this sum , a shadow . The . cause of his insolvency he attributed to his long imprisonment , i-c The detainers at the Queen ' s Bench were very heavy . His discharge was opposed by Mr . Woodroffe on bebalf of a l&dy named Mary Elizabeth Rudd as executrix , fee .

      The insolvent supported his own petition , and « bjected in limine to the opposition , and aaid Mrs . Rndd had no locus standi in court , and called on her to prove her debt . Documents were then put in by the Learned Counsel in proof , and the c-ise proceeded , by which ft appeared he had given a warrant of attorney , dated May , 1 S 30 . Mr . Woodroffe—Looking at your schedule , Mr . Montagu , I should suppose that you imagine yourself a victim of imprisonment for debt ? Insolvent—I do , indeed , Sir . air . Woodruffe—Have you not received , since you have been in priEOn , the sum of £ 26 , 500 ? Insolvent—No , Sir , not BOffiuch . Mr . Woodroffe—Look to your special balance-sheet Insolvent—I labour under great disadvantages in not having the assistance of counsel .

      Mr . Woodroffd—You hav « been badly advised in not having one of my Learned Friends to assist you . Insolvent—I paid £ 4 . 890 law costs in a Chancery * uit . My estates involved property to the amount of . £ 200 , 00 « and odd . Mr . Woodroffe—I see from your schedule that you bave won at " play , " from 1827 to 1841 , the sura of £ l 500 . Insolvent—That is an error ; the date ought to be from 1 S 21 to 28 il . Mr . Woodroffe—How much did you win in prison ? Insolvent—I lost £ 1 , 000 by play in prison . Mr . Woodroffe—Then you found some clever fellows in prison , eh ? Tbe insolvent looked at the Learned Counsel , and than a . t the Learned Commissioner , and made protestations as to his motives .

      Tbe Court desired him not to talk so much if he wished to have his ca * e property investigated . Mr . Woodroffe— What did you lose by card 3 7 Insolvent— £ 3 . 5 « 0 . A long examination then took place as to ths disposal ef £ 6 , 000 he had received in one sum whilst in prison . He was questioned whether be had not received a coatiderabie sum with hia first wife , te which he answered in the negative , for she had only ono gown , &c ; h » d as to the little boy that was befort marriage . ( Boars of laughter . ) She was only a carpenter ' s daugbtsr . He had married , since , a Miss Campbell .

      Mr . Robins , solicitor , stated that the insolvent's property had been vslued at £ 210 , 000 , which property was situate in Wiltshire . His life interest had been valued by Mr . Morgan , the actuary , at £ 30 , 000 . Ho stated that Mr . Flight got £ 18 , 000 , by raising annuities , and the insolvent nothing , as tbe charges swallowed up all . Mr . Robins denied he was a debtor to the- insolvent's estate . Mr . George P . ulniore opposed in person , and proved a debt of £ 500 . He ; the craditor ^ was formerly a draper ia Bocd-street , b * t waa now himself a prisoner for debt The insolvent said he Aid not owe th » debt , and de-Died that he had lost wvth . Russell , ths ceULrated gambler , a few years since so much as j £ l , SOO in the Queen'a Bescb .

      Mr . Woodroffe , in his address to the court , complained of the insolvent ' s conduct in remaining in prison for so long a period , and now coming up , after he had spent every farthing , and had nothing iuft for his creditors . Since his imprisonment , he had received in hard cash no les a snm than £ 12 , 00 * , and had fritttered a life interest worth £ i ) 8 , 000 . and all he had paid to his boaajidg creditors had been only £ 1 , 800 , and , therefore , he charged him with malting away with £ 11 , 000- in prison , which ought to have been divided amongst his creditors , and which , had it been properly applied , would have paid 40 s . in the p ^ undhe owinj ( as it was stated in his schedule ) ¦ wbcii he went to prison is 1827 only £ » , 0 SO or £ 6 , & 00 . JJr . Padmore fallo-wed , aiid said the insolvent hinl teen connected with all fch < s notorious gamW ^ rs that infest London , which had been ? the principal causa of his ruin .

      The insolvent addressed the eourt with much energy , and said that having such great expectancies he had a right to spend the money if ae pleased . He had hoped to have pai * his creditors , but had been disappointed in his expectations . The insolvent having been sworn to his schedule , The Learned Commissioner gave judgment Addressing the insolvent in a . very marked manner , he said , " I am sorry to be obliged to remand a person atyoua advanced time of life for a period much longer than usual . Since I first took my suat on this bench , " said tbe Le&rnel Coraraiasioner , " I never met a casa that

      called more strongly for the court ' s marked reprobatio » . Your balance-sheet proves that , but for your perverse disposition , all your creditors could have been paid 20 s . in the pound . Considering your case so discreditable , and it affording such a dangerous example generally , i fml bound , notwithstanding the duration of your funnier confinement , to adjudge you to an imprisonment of two years ; within , the walls of your pri * on ) , at the suit of some one or more of your creditors , from the date of tho vesting order , and not within any rulesor liberties thereof , for making away with property . "

      Tbs insolvent was guarded by two oi the Quean ' * Beech tipstaffs back to prison , greatly dejected .

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      TO THE MEN OF NEWCASTLE . Lancaster Castle , July 20 , 1841 . Ml WORTHY Friends and -Constituents , Right gallantly and well you did the work ! Your conduce in the late election surpassed my most sanguine anticipations . It has outshot everything hitherto known in the history of elections . You have flung into the shade wealth , rank , station , local connections everything that ignorance worships , and that commands the homage of slaves and parasites ; and you have chosen for your represectaUve an oppressed Victim of tyrauny , wkose only home , at the moment you chose

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      him , was a felon ' s cell—and whose only claims of your suffrages were his known love of justice , and sufferings in tbe cause ofhuinanity . How am I to thank you , men of Newcastle ? On the word of an honest man , I knew not how ! I lack both ideas and language for it . If your beaten townsman , Mr . Ord , has found you deserving % t his thanks for giving him the benefit of some eighty or one hundred bands , how-am I to return you adequate thanks for eleven thousand hearts and twice aa many hands ? for you , one and all , I believe , gave me the benefit of both hands . Indeed , I cannot thank you as I should wish , nor shall I attempt it—not , at any rate , before we meet face to face in Newcastle , which , God willing ! shall be on or before the 24 th of October next ; and then , mayhap , your representative , inspired by the

      presence of his constituents , may be able to express the sentiments which now animate him , and which make him pant for the hour when he shall be free to assist in completing tbe work you have so nobly begun . Till then , you must be content , my friends , to take the will for the deed . And meanwhile the country will not , I hope , fail to do you justice;—for as it was the country in general , and not you in particular , I always sought to serve , no was the honour you conferred upon me intended for tbe entire country ' s benefit , and not for my individual aggrandisement Yes , men of Newcastle , you have established for yourselves a claim on the country ' s gratitude . You are fully entitled to 'ta beat thanks . You have set an example , which ,, if followed by every other city , borough , and county at the next

      general election , will prow , the means of carrying our Charter without the sacrifice of a single life , or of a shilling ' s worth of property ! and which ( had it been successfully imitated at all the recent elections ) would have , ere this , unlocked all our prison doors , and made it impossible for any Ministry to carry oil the Government another three months without cenoeriing , ' the whole of our demands , as set forth in the People Charter . If tbis has not already happened , the fault was neither yours nor mine . You have done ali that one constituency could do , and I bave dune all ( during the last seven years ) that one man could do , to get the work done ; but I bad ho cordial support from any quarter . The next time , mayhap , I thall , aud ii eo , the people of England will owe it to the glorious example you have fiet-I am , my Friends , Ycnv devoted Representative and Servant , James Bronterre O'Brien .

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      EXECUTION OF THE BISHOP OF EUMELANDS MURDERER . Rudolph Uahnaptel , the tailor , who murdered Bishop Von HaUen and his houskeeper , in the episcopal residence at Frauenborgh , was executed early on the morning of the 7 th insi ., on the bill about a mile from that town , near the Elbing-road . The judgments pronounced in both instances by the cr iminal tribunals concurred iu sentencing him to suffer death by the whe « l , commencing at the lower extremities and proceediug upwards ( von tinltm <* uf . J The sentence was Confirmed by the Royal iisaent , dated the 15 th ult ., to which a new form waa given . In the late reign it used to run thus : — " We have read the sentence , and order the execution . " The present King has adopted the following phrase : — " We have read this sentence , aad shall leave free course to the law .

      The prisoner behaved in a very regardless manner for a long time , and showed nothing like remorse or coutrition until after the sentence of the Court in the last resort was made known to him' A marked alteration then took place in his conduct On the 28 th ult ., when the Cabinet order for his execution was read to him be was so agitated that he could not speak . He then willingly received the spiritual assistance of the priest . The day before the execution he confessed , and received the sacrament . The Elbing Zeiiztng gives the following ncownt of the execution : — At hulf-pust four in the morning the prisoner was removed in a cart from Braunsberg under a secure escort , and arrived about six o ' clock at the place appointed for th » execution .

      k . crowd of persons , exceeding 10 , 000 , had assembled by day light from all parts of the diocese , aad it is worthy of remark that men ) than one-half of the COtleOted n ) a *» consisted of females . The delinquent having lilighteti from She car in a very low state , a restorative draught was administered to him , after which he was- conducted to the scaffold . These , on his fetters being struck off , he kiualed down with the accompanying priest aud prayed . The chief off the Braunsberg tribunal then read the sentence , whieto ordered the execution by breaking on fcbo wbeil from b « lovr upwards , and clssed with an aUdrcaa- tu the three- executioners present in these words— " And now I deliver him to you for the-due fulfilment of ( . bis judgment- "

      On hearing tuis the makfastor looked round to the priest , ea&k again on hi » 1 iote » , and ejaculated »• short prayer . TSen rising , ho laid himself , with calm resolution , on tho scaffold , and , refusing the assistance of tile fcXecutientirSi placed his limbs in tho required position . This done , lie said with a . firm voice— " God bave mercy on Jivy pi > or soul ! " One of the eX' -cutioaera covered his fate with a cloih . The terrible operation by tho wheel now commenced . In ten miuutts tiie wretched man was dead } and the body was deposited in a coSti prepared to receive it . The spectators look ml on in a calm , orderly : manner , preserving a silence suited to the awful scene before them , and the crime of tbe sufferer . When all was over , they dispersed quitMy ,. but apparently under the inflaouee of deep emotion .

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      LIBERALITY OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES . A Correspondent writes thus : —A great cumber- of ihe working classes-have lately sent in their claims-tothe overseers of the various- parishes of the Tower Hamlets , amongst whom in a friend of mine , ( a Mr . Rogers . ) Yesterday morning , on leaving home , be desired his wifa ; if the landlord called , to tell him that he ( Mr . Kogers ^ bad-sent in his ' Claim to be registered . Shortly after the landlord called ; to whom the wifa delivered the information requested by her husband , when the following dialogue commenced : —

      Landlord—What is your hustiMd , a Whig or Tory ? Wife—I don't koow the meaning ef eitber one or the other . Landlord—It you cannot tell me -what his politics a » e , can you tell me 'who he would havo voted for , had . be had a vote at the late electioa ? Wife—Yes , Sir , Mr . TUomgiBon . Landlord—Mr . Thompson ! why , then , your husband is a downright Radical ; ho shall not live in this house any longer than the end of the- month : then taking , a pen aud ink , he wrote the following notice : —

      Mr . GEoaaE Rogers , —Sir , I hereby give you notice to quit , aud deliver up , possession of the bone * you now hokt of ; me , No . 11 ) 9 ., Heath-street , Coauaercial Road , on . or before the 2 . 4 tU of August , 1841 . Wai . S .. Francis , Landlord . Dated the 2 £ ihof July , 1 & 41 . Now , this- Mr . S . Francis ia-. a broker , residing , in Ratcliff Highway ; and , in future , I hope every Radical of the Towers Hamlets wil ! ., shun him and his shop as they would tue devil and- hell . No doubt , this Mr .

      Francis caliarhimself an hcuset , upright , a : id Louourabloman . Now , I think , . h requires no logic cS mine to prove that be must baa downright blackguard , or otherwise be would not ba guilty of such a bast ) and tyrannical , tuction . Thio , with ten thousand , similar Instances ,, shows the &Ul&cy of the ballot without Universal . Suffrage , ( as . in a limited constituency the political opinlona of haiiseholders would be , known ) , and landlords in general would act a similar trick , especially , when their tenant's opinions would be in direct opposition to that oS their own .

      In conclusion , I nrjust say , that no max * can bean honeslroan , to deny lii ^ -fWiow-nian tbe excise of that to which the laws o £ hiB Country entitle him , and tbe principles of justice damonds of him .

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      BOW-STREET . Xnuna Watsot ) -waa placed at the bar an a charge of destitution . It raptared that she had b « eu taken into custody by a polise-oflicer , who , having sejn her leaning against a doorway in Kin ^ --3 tre *» , Westminster , thought she was . a prostitute , and under tbat impression desired ber to walk on . It was-tben about one o'clock in the stoming , and the woman , in reply to tbe policeman , said tbat she waa friendless ; that she had no where to go , and was completely destitute . She vras thereupon taken to the station-house , and the inspector , after inquiring more particularly into the circumstances of ber case , sent an officer with her to St . Margaret ' s workhouse . On arriving there , however , tbe officers attached to tbe workhouse aciaally refused to admit tbe pear girl , and the person whom the policeman saw said , < ' We don't tako ia poor people at auoh late boors , and you know it . "

      Mr . Hall thought it very extraordinary that the officers of St . Margaret ' s workhouse should act in this way , and . sent a messenger to request the relieving officer to come to the court . S '> itj 2 > tima afteiwatds an officer belonging to the workhouse attended before the magistrate , and said that he had been Bent by tbe relieving officer ( who waa then engaged in giving relief to paupers ) fo ascertain what information Mr . Hall required . Mr . Hall inquired how the paupers obtained admission to the workhouse ? Tbe person who attended for the parish said it was the business of the overseers and Mr . Elliot , the master of the workhouse , to admit them . Mr . Hail asked if there were any orders or instructions against tbe admission of casual paupers found destitute during the night , or if there was any order that poor persons should be refused relief at night when they appeared in a state of destitution f

      The officer did not know the instructions given , but he said he would ask tbe overseer tbat question . Mr . Hall remarked that » person who could answer such a question ought to have given his attendance in the court . If there were any such orders or instructions they were of a most scandalous nature . If there were not , tbe person who refused to assist destitute people was a heartless individual , and had no authority to act in sucb a Hianrjer . The officer asked if tbe womin belonged to tLe in question ?

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      Mr . Ha ^—**»• does pretend inhabitant of ihe i ^ rish ; but , nevertheless , the pariah ought to relieve casual paupers under such distressing circumstances . The prison' waB Peor ^ * oand dertitnte in the utreeta . She iHto . behaved with no impropriety , and she was rery properly & » & */* & to the workhouse ; but they refused to take her to , ° setter * her . I want to know who gave such an order , »>* who authorised the persons at too workhouse to act ill KuC . a a manner , because it is very discreditable , and ought «»¦ be made known to the public t The person who attended foi the oversew * vJ ™ a , that he would go to the workhouse and mention to tu £ proper authority what the magistrate had said . Cpon this * the individual left the court , and in the course of an hour ' s time , the overseer came to the court , and Mr . Hall ordered the officer who took the girl into custody to place her again at the bar .

      The magistrate then explained to the overseer the nature of the case , and stated that tbe young woman was a poor servant girl who had left her situation , and having no friend in London , and being quite destitute , was compelled to wander about the streets in the night time . Notwithstanding such distressing circumstances she was refused admittance into the workhouse . He ( Mr . Hall ) now wished to know if there was any order against the relief of casual paupers . Tbe overseer said tbat tbe person to whom the officer had applied could not bave given the girl relief , but if he had been there he would have admitted her . He thought the Inspector was to blame in not sending to him instead of applying to the person at the workhousa Mr . Hall asked if the person at the workhouse was not allowed to exercise some discretion , and if he was always obliged to communicate with the overseer before a pauper could be admitted .

      Overseer—In cases of complete destitution we take the applicants in . Mr . Hall—Well , this young woman is entirely destitute . Overseer—I do not know about this case ; nor do I even know the name of the girl yet . Mr . Hall then stated that her name was Emma Watson , and that she had coma from Hertfordshire . It was stated that she had lately been in the service of Colonel Daniels , in Camden Town , bat had left her situation about a fortnight ago , and having no friends or relations in town , and having spent all her money , she was now quite destitute . The result of the inquiry was tbat Mr . Hall , after expressing his sympathy for the condition of the girl , advised the overseer to admit her iirto the workhouse , according to the rules and regulations laid down in such cases .

      The Overseer promised to obey the instruction of ttie magistrate , and the parties left the court .

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      TO THE QUALIFIED BRICKS AND MORTAR OF THE UiXlTED QUEENDOM . Mb . BRICKS , —I scareely feel satisfied , as a vrorm of tho earth , that you should take upon yoursel ! so much , and so far exclude me from a supply of the niaferials out of whicb you , through my excavations any labour , are permitted to exist . Kgow ye uot , that were not the worms to refine the earth ani purify tbe soiJyby a process which you yourself coald not perform— -the ingredients out of which your qualification arises , would so far ceaso to exist , that tbe land would beewne poor , impure , useless , and void . Show me a yard of land iinpurifled by the labour of the worms , and I will show you a piece of poorer soil .

      I assure you , Mr . Bricks , year qualification , without the worms reSning , is dead and useless . Bricks cannot be made without labour , nor can you make them without clay . Worms can live by use- of the soil , but extract the worms and the bricks will * fall into dust . The wind of the North will scatter ite' substance—tbat your hard-dried stripped extractions- will become useleas , void , and nal-t , while the bare substantial upon which you now stand , will become rather weak and insecure . I feel confident , tbat should you still go on in the power of your ignorance , the wornsa- yoa so much labour to extinguish , will prey upon your Vital powers , and yoa . through vreakaeas , will fall a prey to their devouring appetite , i . e . the extinguishing of class-monopoly .

      Mr . Mortar , the matsrials out of whieh you fora * a subsistence is nothing more than a compound of maladministration ; tbat which the worms reject , yoU ' accept , \ nd by so doing you besome more and more th « sompanions of tbe wonas you sneeringly persecute ; ituprusou , and kill . The worms are too wisetopartake at . poison ; therefore , howsver sweet the suifaoe of the evil may be made , without t&e fruit tbe worms will sot devour poison . Worsts- are of the earth earthy , an 4 can without you live ;¦ whereas you , without their lal ? eur , would not be able t-y subsist .

      Vhe worms ars a living etessr-of excavators—punfiers t cleansers , and ^ modellers cf imperfections upon the earth ; and without the living , all things would be useless . If you will destroy your own strength , power , aud 3 tibstance , destroy tho worms , the poor , rejected , despised , persecuted , and imprisoned worms , aad you yoursalves will quickly , become- a mass of corruptible matter * obnoxious to tbe eye , detestable to tbe taste , and despicable to the presence of all creeping worms ; therefore , as a wonnl cry ^ suffer aie to live , that I may yet fulfil tbat command given by God , " Bo fruitful , multiply , and replenish the earth . " Aad by so doiag , you will < ww find me A » Useful Wohjs-

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      Rbleask ov a Victim . —Thoma ^ Drake , of Thornton , a poor old veteran in the Bradford troop , has been discharged from- Boveriey ' hell' before the expiration- of his term of imprisonment ; His friends intended to welcome his return by a dinner , instead of whiofr it has been wisely considered to present him with-ar subscription , which we hope will be sucb as to do honour to all concerned . Poor Duffy , the Whig victim ,, who was last week lyi-ng 60 dangerously ill in Leeds , is somewhat recovered , although still confined t& his bed . Mr . Hick has received tbe > following subscriptions , which have been haaded over to the proper quarter vr- s . d . Mr . Josh . Hob 5 on , Leeds . „ 10 0 A Friend ditto ... 0 3 Mr . Stocks ditto ... 0 6 M r . George Myers ditto . . „ 0 3 Mr . Bleasby ditto- ... 0 6 11 6 It is bui fair to state that many of our excellent Chartisi frwnds have paid their personal respects to the injured invalid , aad have contributed to his necessities . We hope this-wiil continue . A Msn&ter . —A misoreant , residing at Hanwell , Middlesex , named John Gavel , a master , carpenter , was on Friday , finally , examined before the Rev . Dr . Walmesley , and other magistrates , on a charge of having repeatedly violated bis own daughter , a child seven years of age . A surgeon ,, who was presens ,. proved tho completion of the crime , and the monster was committed to Newgate far trial . The particulars are of too horrible and disgusting a natuie to be published ..

      Alliteration Ex ^ os-ordinary . —" She eighteenth letter of our alphabet , II , ia the icitial of Kusseil , tho champion or Reform and Retrenchment , who Rode Rampant into power , aided by Revolutionary Rhetoric , Riots , Romage , aud Rebellious Rows , Reducing Bristol and is ' ottmgham to Ruins . This Ravenous Rabble Ravaged , with Ruthless Rapacity , the houses of tho Refractory Tories-and Radicals , — committing Robbery and Rapine . Russell is now a R&iler against Reform—a Relentless , Remorseless , Revengeful Renegade—a Recusant ; . Reprobating Ksforaers and Repudiating all further Reform—Rafusing to Redraw the grievances of 1 , 300 , 000 Chartists , whom he designates a > Babblement , and Raucourously , Boguishly , and Rigourously , Reproaches them as Revolutionists .. The Rational Radicals Ridicule his Ricketty ,. Rambling Rattleheaded policy , and look upoa . him as a Recanting , Raving , Retraetiug , Rambling , Rancid , Ranting , Rascalion , and , * Runagate member of the Rump *

      Brighton * Jiuur 26 . —Yesterday , on the arrival af the passengers-by the first railroad coaches , a report was spread that a ehockiag accident had oocajred to one of the red vans ( Pooock ' s ) , from Londoa and it web said that the dmeiand guard were almost killed , and the passengers , three or four of wiom came on by the railroad train , mftch injured . It appears that the van , which is the only night conveyance to Brighton , left at the usual time , laden with about sevea tons of luggage and aight pas-8 engexs . On proceeding down Reigate-hill , the skid was put upon the wheels , when the van , which was groaning under the immense weight , broke dowB , crushing the wheels , and falling on one aido . Thft drtVAl * nnnf € T \ lA . 1 vi OHVOrt fhomaolvad W *» { lim **!****

      off , but met with 6 everal severe injuries . The passengers , inside and out , were dreadfully injured by the heavy boxes , &o ., in which they were literally buried . On extricating them , one an elderly gentleman residing at Reigate , and who had adopted the conveyance to get home the same night , was at first thought to have been killed on the spot , but was found only to have been stunned . Another had his htad cut and bruised ; a third the calf of his leg extensively iojured ; in fact , none escaped Without severe injuries . The gentleman who lived at Roigate , after he had recovered , very kindly offered his

      house for the accommodation of his fellow passen-( qers , and took charge of a young man who waa seiously ill , and who was proceeding to Brighton for a change of air . As soon as the passengers were released from their perilous situation , assistance was procured , and as it was impossible to move the vehicle , it was necessary to dig out under the lamp , which it was feared would set it ou tire . Vans were forwarded in the coarse of the day to bring the luggage to Brighton , amongst which were two tous oi salmon , the non-arrival of which spoiled tho dinner of numbers of individuals . It is rather singular that another of the red vans broke down ftt tbe samepa . e the previousmg \ U

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      A Foot . —The National states that as a lad * # Rouen was walking on the boulevards of that ^? two or three days ago , an elegantly-dressed you *' man , who had been noticing her for some time witi ? very tender looks , suddenly slipped a letter intoC hand , exclaiming— " Madame , I can resist no Ion *? accept this letter , or I die . " The lady was at fi frightened , bat , recovering herself , tore up tfee lettl without reading it . Upon this the young man knSt at her feet , and , taking out a pistol , said—" To ! this weapon , madame , and destroy my life witltiL for it would be a burden to me which you have Tet dered insupportable . I cannot live without ? o £ , ' ove . " A person who was passing by knocked £ pistC . l ont of ths hand of the prostrate lover , and * , moved the lady , who was jnuch affected , into t neighbourly house , leaving the ypung madman sffll on his knees in the middle of the boniovards .

      Truth bt Mistake . —The present king ot ' . PrusSi is accustomed to walk ont m the plain item tf % private gentleman , and ia reference ts this habh ihs Dorf Zeitung relates an amusing anecdote . Asbk Majesty was strolling about in the nei ghbourho » 3 of Sans Souoi , he met a woman scolding and beathu an ass , yoked in a milk cart ; the donkey was obstinate , and showed no disposition to move . Tb * king asked her why she put herself in such » n » 8 ion ? "O , Sir , I must make haste with my BulT and this stupid animal stands still here , in spite ^ all I can say to him . If I am not in time with my miS at Potsdam I shall be ruined . But I know W whim . If I had any body to fake hold of him tj the ear while I beat him behind , he would then g » on . " The king seized the ass firmly by the ear , aS the milk woman applied the lash unsparingl y to h { , rump . The donkey , getting into a trot , proceeds on his way without further urging , and the now woman dismissed her unknown assistant with i thousand thanks . When the king returned frort his walk , he gave the Queen an account of the servi «« he bad performed . Her Majesty appeared it have some scruples about the decorum of such ad . ventures on the part of her royal consort witfc milk wonjen , and she said , "Dear Frits , doings of this sorf might do very well for a Crown Princt but it . is quite a different thing far a king , " 'g my dear , " interrupted the monarch , " it is notaia * out of th « way . I assure you that my father h « helped forward many an ass in his time . "

      Murder at Exeter . — The body of a young gentleman named Bennett , was on Saturday last taken out of the river Exe , close to the city , H » via& missing daring the day , and from its being known that he had been in the neighbourhood of tha spot where he was foiind , a search was immediately instituted , and at half-past five the body was take * up . His watch and money were gone , and frofl the appearance of his head ii

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      Fr&m the London Gazette of Friday , July 2 £ . BANKRUPTS . William Newton and John Newton , MaccIesSeld , silk-throwatera , to surrender August 3 , at one , Sep . teniber 3 , aft eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basiag . hall-street . Solicitora , Messrs . Crowder and Maynard , Mansion Howie Place ; official assignee , Mr . Pennell . William Butterwertb , Peckham , com-merchanV August 3 , September 3 , at half-past eleven , at the C (/ mt of Ban&ruptcy , Ba » inghall-street . Solicitors , Memrs . Rhodes , Beevor , and Lane , Chancery-lane ; official assignee , Mr . Caiman , Finsbury-square . Joshua Butterworth , Bermondsey , . leat ^ her-factor , Ansuet 3 , at twelve , September 3 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-atreet . Soliciton , Mesars . Rhodes , Beevor , and Lane , Ciiancery-Iane ; official assignee , Mr . Cannan , Fiaabury-square .

      Thomaa Llngham , Cross-lane , gt . Mary-at-Hill , winemerchant , July 30 , at half-past twelve , September 3 , at one , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Basingball-Str € 8 t > official assignee , Mr . Graham , BaaiugbaH-street . John Fox , Miuories , tailor , July 30 , September 3 , at twelve , at-the Court of Bankruptcy , Basingball-street Solicitor , Mr Biggenden , Walbrook - , official assignee , Mr . Turquand r Copthall-baildings . John Morris , Eari ' e-court , Leicester-square , cowk « 9 per , August 4 , at twelve , SepttmLer % , at eleven , at tha- Court of Bankruptcy , Basingball-Street . Solicitor , Mr . Saiith , Barnard ' s Inn ; official assignee , Mr . Graham , Basinghall-street-Gbailes Strutton , Nine Elms , Surrey , timber-merchant August 3 , at one , September 3 , at two , at Ua Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street . Solicitors , Messra . Newbon and Evans , Wardrobe-piaee , Docton GomnKjns ; official assignee , Mr . Turquaud , Copthallbuildings .

      George Ba'dry , jan ., Ipawich , innkeeper , July 31 , September 3 , at tw 8 lve , at the Angel Inn , Bury St . Edmund's . Solicitors , Messrs . Waynian and Green , Bury St Edmund ' s ; and Messrs . Walter and Pembeiton , Symond ' s Inn , Chancery-lane . Henry eunliffe , Green Hawortb , Lancashire , shopkeeper , August H , at ten , September 3 , at eleven , at the Town Hall , Prestoa . Solicitors , MeBsra . Wigle * worth , IKdsdale , and Craddock , Gray ' s Inn ; and Mr . Hobinson , or Messrs . Wilkinson and Kenyon , Black burn , Lancashire . Benjamin Coleman , Liverpool , stockbroker , August 6 , September 3 , at ono , at the Clarendon Roomi , Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . Cross , Liverpool , and Alessrs , Vincent and Sherwood , King ' s Beneh-walk , Inner Temple ;

      Joba Green and William Green , Wetherby , Yorkshire ; timber-merchants , August 6 , September 3 , tt eleven , at the Guildhall , York . Solicitors , Mean * Johnson , Son , and Weatherall , King's Bench-vralJr , Temple ; and Mr . Leeruan , York . Riobard Westhead , Waterloo , Lancashire , victualler , August 5 , September 3 , at twelve , at tbe Clarendoa Rooms , Liverpool . Solicitors , Messrs . Holme , Loftua , aud Young , New Iun , London ; and Mr . Yates , jun ., Liverpool .

      DISSOLUTIONS OP Fiin )» KRSaiP . A . G . Robinson and H . W . Blackburn , Bradford , woolstaplers . A . Henry , W . F . Scholfield , W . B . Johnson , H . Todd , and W . Firth , Leeds , general commission agents ; eo far as regards H . Toild . J . Staniland aud A . Staniland , Kingston-upon-Hull , shipbroke * R . Johnston and A . L . Saul , Manchester , stockbroker ! R .. Dierden and E . Dienlen , Newton-in-tbe-Willow * Lancashire ,, grocers . W . Hudson and J . B . Hudson , Manchester , calieo-manufacturers . W . S . Birch and H- Bircb , Salford , Lancashire , grocers . J . Milne , J . Travis , sen ., J . Milne , J . Milne , jun ., J . Travis , jun . & Travis , B . Travis , E . Travis , and J . Hoyie , Oldnam , catton-spinners ; so far as regards J . Hoyle . D . Draks and . W . W . Glover , Wakefield , tobacco-manufactureis .

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      From th » Gazette of Tuesday ^ July 27 . BANKRUPTS . Mary Wardall , lodging-house keeper , Carey-street , Blncoln ' s-inn , to surrender , August 3 , at half-past one , and Soptember 7 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street . Grabam official assignee Basinghall-street ; Webb , Carey-street , Lincoln ' a-inn . George Stanley , bitumin ous pavement manufacturer , Southampton , August 4 , at half past ten , and September Z , at twelve , * at tha Court of Bankruptcy . Turquand , Coptball-buildings , official assignee ; Lambert , Raymondbuildings , Gray ' a-ian . Jonas Bradley , iron-merchant , HuJderffield , Yorkshire , August 10 ^ at one , and September 7 , at eleven , at tbe Court-house , Bradford , Yorkshire . Walter and Pemberton , Symood ' a-inn , London ; Tolson , Bradford . .

      William Haskayne , ship-chandler , Liverpool , -Angasi 14 . and September 7 , at one , at the Clarendon-rooms . Liverpool . Leigh , George-street , Mansion-house , Iondon ; Leather , Liverpool . Thomas Porter , egg-merchant ^ Liverpool , August Ui and Septeinbei 7 , at two , at tho Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool .. Coxnthwaite , Dean ' a-court , Doctor ' s-commons , London ; Cornthwaite , Liverpool . James Woods , horse-dealer , Roundhill , Lancashire August 7 and September 7 , at eleven , at the Swan InDi Bolton-le-Mooxs . Cragg , Harpur-street , Red lionsquare , London ; Robinson , Blackburn . James Patterson , 'warehouseman , Cateaton-streeti London , August 3 , atone , and September 7 , at eleven , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy . Whitmore , official assignea , Basinghall-atreet ; Simpson and Cobb , Austinfriars .

      Benjamin Sarson , iron-nnster , Birmingham , Aagn « 3 and September 7 , at two , at the Waterloo-rooms , Birmingham . Cbaplin , Gray ' s Iim-square , Lo-don » Richards , BirmiBgbam Joba Lloyd and William Lloyd , cabinet-makert Atherstone , Warwickshire , August 18 , at two , at the Red Lion Inn , Athentone , and September 7 , at twerte , at the Newdigate Arms , Nuneaton , Warwickshire Hawkins , Biozbam , and stacker . New BteWe 1-ccurti Carey-street , London ; Power and Pilgrim , Atiwrstone . - John Heap , jon ., merchant , Manchester , August lh at ten , and September 7 , at three , at the Comml # - sloners ' -rooms , Manchester . Makiason and Sander * , Elm-court , Middle-temple , London ; Atkinson •»<> Saunden , Manchester .

      John Oratrix , machine-maker , Preston , August 17 i at two , and September 7 , at eleven , at tbe Townhall , Preston . Maybew , Johnston , aud Maybe * . Carey-street , Liacoma-inn , London ; Backh unt and Son , Preston . William White and Thomas Broad , wine and brandy merchant , Newport , Isle of Wight . Augu »» 0 and September 7 , at twelve , at the Bugle In »» Newport . Dimmcok , Sise-lane , Bajklerfllury , J / 0 Bdo tt ; Allen , Newport .

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      BROMTERRE'S PETITION FUND . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BR 1 TAJI * . Gestle * bn , —We , Mr . Jasies Bronterre OJBrien ' a-Election Cosumittee , Newcastle-upoE-Tyne . consider it our duty to Bubmit the case of tbat gentlemen to the-Cbartist body generally , confident th * t his nrst-ratotalents and services to tUe cause of British liberty will command the aid necessary to render his ererlioiw still , jDore powerful , by securing for him tbat representative authority wbich he tom legally invested vrith by a , u overwhelming majority , of both the electors- and nanelectors of this borough .

      It will be , however , unnecessary to enter into a fall detail : 3 uffice it to say , that immediately on , tbe declaration of the Retinaing Office ? , ( which was- , the iMPSt absurd and unjust afFiir evaa witnessed } ¦ one of Mr . O'Brien's committee rose and protested against tbe injustite of tbe deaision . The Committae then retired to their meeting room , drew up a formal protest , and appointed a deputation to carry it to tke Sheriff ^ who admitted , in tho-interview with the d » putationv what be bad admitted oa th « hustings , and v » bat was obvious to all present on the occasion , viz ., that Mr . O'Brren wo 3 indisputably tbe choke of a great majority of the cttiiiens of Newcastle . since tbe election , we ' . jibe commitbee ) have lost not a rasraent in prosecuting , tbe claircs- ot M « i O'Brieo . iegal proceedings uob now pending ; and we have already recearad the opinions of several esainent professional gentlemen , sii of whoa admit the obvious legality of 3 tr . Q-BrLoa ' s claims .

      The entiee expense which may be i&csrred will not exceed fraxt £ i 0 to £ 60 ; and , considering the magnificent mind , tbe incorruptible tieait , ami the indefatigable disposition of Mr . O'Bri « a—whos » abilities would be rendued a thousand-fold more powerful on his accession to . tbe Hwise of Commons—we rest with a certainty tbat tbis appeal will instantly procure a sufficient sum to . carry out tbis glorious undertaking . It would ba but a trifb for ev « ry distriot . Mr . O'Connor baa been appointed treasurer ; the contributions ahouM therefore bo forwarded to biai . Let every town aproznt a committee , witfe a sub-treasurer , and let the Government behold , by the activity and energy of our conduct , that we are worthy of the services of so exalted a patriot .

      By order of tiie Committee , John Mason , chairman , James Sinclair , sub-treasurer , No . 3 , Pipewellgate , Gatesheadon-Tyne . lit . O'Brien ' s election committee have got S . OOP copies ot his address , ( of the 23 rd June and of iiith at July , to tbe electors and non-electors of Newcastle , && , u corrected by himself ) struck off , in pamphlet form , which they intend to sell at Id . each . Any person may be supplied with any number , by applying to tbe Secretary , Jamea Sinclair , No . 3 r Pipewelljate , Gateshead .

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      S She not to bo an 6 THE NORTHERN TAB . * u ¦ 'I . T _ . , ' - ¦ . ¦¦ : . " ' "" ... . ' -- "'• " ^ . . .. . . ¦ ¦ ¦ - . . ^ »

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct861/page/6/