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      Worship Street. Attempted Suicide.—Cltar...

      for the injuries done to the apparel of the same person ; and , in the third place , he should adjudge him to pay the sum of 20 s . or 20 days , for the injury done to the shawl of the woman Di sney . ^ Iaxslaughteb . —Packard Perry , who stood remanded on the charge of killing his wife , was re examined and committed to take his trial for manslaughter .

      WESTMINSTER . A Couple of " Gentlemen . "—Mr . Henry Hoof , of Madeleyhouse . Kensington , and Mr . Frederick Montague Martin , of 5 . A ., Sloane-street , described on the police-sheet as " gentlemen , '' were charged with being drunk and misbehaving themselves in the following manner : —They were found early in the morning upon the box of a cab driving through Brompton , and were stopped by a cabman , when Martin took the whip from the other ' s hand , and laid it about some person in the road . As the cab window was broken , Sergeant Timsley conveyed them to

      Walton-street station with some trouble , and while waiting for the owner of the cab with which they had driven off , a number of the constables were obliged to be called up to keep them in the station . The cab owner having arrived and received compensation for damages , & c , the defendants were told they were discharged , but no persuasion would induce them to leave lie station , and it was found necessary to turn them out , whent they created such a disturbance , by knocking at the door for admission , that they were at last pulled in again , in order to restore quietness , and were ultimately charged with this mirconduct . It was proved that Marthi had made use of the most horrible language to the constable . Hoof was fined 20 s ., or 14 davs' imprisonment , and Martin 40 s . or a month .

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      October 2 , 1852 . THE gTAR OF FREEDOM . 119

      The -Whig Leaders At Perth. At Perth On ...

      THE -WHIG LEADERS AT PERTH . At Perth on the 24 th a public dinner was given to Lord Panmure . A great number of notables were present , and the Lord Provost occupied the chair . When Lord Panmure ' s health had heen drank and that gentleman had replied , the Chairman gave "Lord John Russell and the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the word . " In his reply . Lord John Russell took occasion to attack the continental revolutionists of 1848 , and ri diculed the patented alarm of the Tories at the advance o democracy . He

      then proceeded to say : — " But , gentlemen , hi us look at what is this alarm which is attempted to be created at the present time . Does it mean that the people of this country ( who arc , in other words , tbe democracy of this country ) , arc seeking to addto their own power at the expense of the Crown or of the House of Lords ? Docs any one mean to say , really and solemnly that the people of this country are endeavouring to diminish any of the prerogatives of the Crown ? I really believe that nobody could stand up and say that that was really his opinionbecause the notorious fact is that at no time in the

      , history of this country have its people been more attached to the Monarchy , or more loyal and affectionate to the Sovereign . ( Loud Cheers . ) Well , then , does it mean that they are attempting to take away the lawful privileges which the House of Lords hold , and to deprive it of its part in the constitution of this country ? Now , I think I may appeal to my noble friend , who lately entered the House of Lords , whether he has ever heard of such an attempt , where it has been madc and what impediment there has been to the lawful exercise of

      any power or privilege which . by the constitution of this country the House of Lords possesses . Well , then , if it has been so , that at least is not the . charge that is made . It does not mean that the democracy of this country—and , be it observed , democracy has as iair a title to the enjoyment of its rights as monarchy or nobility—it does not mean that the democracy of this country is hi a state of discontent and disaffection , and is endeavouring to push down this constitution , and to deprive the other branches of that constitution of any powers which lawfully belong to them . That cannot bethat I think we must immediately say cannot for a

      moment be maintained . But it may mean something else : it may mean something else which it behoves us all to wish—that the democracy of this country—meaning by that term the people of this country—by increase of power , by increase of intelligence , by increase of wealth , has increased in that weight which they must have not only in this country , but in each of the countries of the world ; has gained an increase in that weight which is due to a people highly industrious , and earning a competence by their labour , physical and intellectual—employing their minds in the acquirement of knowledge , and in the forming and fostering of that

      public opinion which is so much the guide and government of this country . But , gentlemen , if these attempts to wmeh I have lately alluded are made , which , though they have existed , oiiht to be discouraged and resisted—this fair growth of the honour of democracy—this growth of intelligence—taw growth of wealth—this forming of opinions more enlightened and more calculated to carry on , in an enlightened manner the Government of the world—this is an increased power which

      ought not to be crushed , but ought to be encouraged and maintained . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) But I will say more—I will say this , that the manner of dealing with that increase of the powers of democracy could not be according ^ the old system of restraint with which I was but too familiar during the last few years alter I bad entered Parliament m 1817 and 1819 , winch , besides all the faults of an irritation , promoting that discontent which it was intended to check , proved utterly powerless , and had much the same effect as

      if persons were to attempt to dam up your magnificent river with the view of preventing an inundation—or , to use a simile which applies perhaps more properly to the present time , as if persons were to lock up all the gates of the railroad , with , the hope that the express train would be stopped in its course . ( Laughter and applause . ) Well , then , that is not the mode in which this increase of the power of democracy ought to dealt with is , by listening every complaint ? by

      considering every grievance , and by giving a legitimate and legal organ to that power and influence which otherwise may be mischievous , irregular , and injurious . ( Loud cheering . ^ That is my way of dealing with that which is complained of —this increase of democratic power in this country . After expatiating at considerable length on tho blessings of Free Trade , the noble lord resumed Ms seat amidst much cheering . The other toasts were speedily disposed of . and the party separated . ' . * '

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      < lady , who was very modest and submissive before marri < ige , was observed by her friend to use her tongue pretty freely after . " There was a . time when I almost imagined she had none . " " Yes , " said her husband with a sigh , " but it ' s very long since . " ' Where there ' s a will there ' s a way , " says the old proverb , and Shakspere ' s marriage was a curious proof of this ; for in the days of the great poet it might have been said , Shakspere is the Will , and his wife Hath a toayl

      A Flat Fish . — " I really can't sing , believe me , sir , " was the reply of a young lady to the repeated requests of an empty fop . " 1 am rather inclined to believe , madam , '' rejoined he , with a smirk , " that you are fishing for compliments . " "No , sir , " exclaimed the lady , " I never fish in so shallow a stream . " A TELJssvArmc Hoax . —A farmer travelling by rail from Dublin to Atbloue a few days ago , got out of the carriage at the railway station at Westmeath , leaving his umbrella behind him , and entered another . On reaching Athlone he discovered his loss , and was informed that he might recover it if he sent a

      telegraphic message to Muilingar . He proceeded to the office for that purpose , and while having the message forwarded , a wag , who had secured the umbrella , slily approached and hung it upon one of the wires of the telegraph , at the same time remarking that he thought it would come very soon , and immediately after pointed it out to the owner . The countryman expressed his astonishment at the rapidity with which the umbrella had travelled , examined it to see that it was not injured in the journey , and departed , declaring that " the wires bet ail ever he saw before !"

      Qualified Forgiveness . —Heard from a Sunday schoolteacher just now an illustration of one kind of " Christian forgiveness . " Improving upon the day ' s lesson , the teacher asked a boy whether , in view of what he had been studying and repeating , he could forgive those who had wronged him . " Could you , " said the teacher , " forgive a boy , for example , who had insulted or struck you ? " " Y e-o s , sir , " replied the lad very slowly , " I—guess—I—could ; " but , he added , in a much more rapid manner , " I could if he was bigger than I am ! " Isn't there somethin g of grown experience in that?—Knickerbocker . Osly Oxe Creation . —It was tho opinion of Geoffrey and of Ctrvier that there never hud been but one creation . Dr . Knox , who was formerly well-known as a , popular lecturer on anatomy in one of the extra-academical schools connected with the

      University of Edinburgh , declares himself , in the course of a volume he has just published , entitled , "A Manual of Artistic Anatomy , " to be of the same opinion . " I believe , " he says , " all animals to be descended from primitive forms of life , forming an integral part of the globe itself ; and that the successive varieties of animals and plants which the dissection of the strata of the earth clearly sets forth , is due to the occurrence of geological epochs , of the power of which we cannot form any true conception . "

      " Why Don ' t you Steak Out !"—¦ From the impossibility of making our present ministers say what they mean , or even what they do not mean , the observation that was made by Talleyrand of a celebrated nobody may with equal point be turned round upon them— - " Ces Messieurs ontund grand talent pour le silence . "—Punch Madame Pfeifeeh was at Sambas when the latest number of the Singapore Free Press was printed , and was about to proceed to Pontianak en route to Batavia . She had visited the wild an independent Dyak tribes on the banks of the Lufar and Batang Lufar rivers , and on the Sekaniet mountains .

      The Tale of a House . —A story has been running round the papers , about a sporting character receiving of a gentleman a large price for a horse that had a most magnificent tail , and that tail turning out , after the purchase , to be a false one that had been stitched on for the occasion . The Betting Houses proceed on exactly the same system . They get large sums of money upon their horses by flourishing about them the most magnificent tales , and when the poor dupe has kept his horse a day or two , he finds out that he ' s been sold with a false tale .--" Punch . "

      A Moral in Money —At Genoa , certain French five-franc pieces have been found with the motto , " Deiu pnnira la France , " on the edge , instead of "Dieu protege la France . " . We doubt not the the realisation of the prophecy , " God will punish France ! " And how ? . Why , by causing the slaves of France to crown Louis Napoleon their Emperor . How Imperator Stork , with his crown on , will gobble the frogs!—Ibid .

      How to Bbuisb youii Oats . —Send them by a cheap Excursion Train , and if , by the time they leave tho railway , they are only half as well bruised as the passengers , you will have no cause to complain —Ibid . WnoNOi on the pace of it . —We have seen a little book with the title of ' French made Easy . " We cannot believe this of a noble nation like France ; for , under their present despotic ruler we should say it was decidedly the " French made Easy . "—Ibid . Missing , since the 15 th of October , 1 . 851 , the Surplus Fund of tho Great Exhibition . Any information concerning the above will be gratefully received by the Nation . —Ibid ,

      Fifteex Hundred Miles in a Thousand Kocij * . —James Jones , the young podestian who undertook to perform this feat at the Borough-gardens , Manchester , completed his task on Satuday morning , at ten o ' clock . Mr . Thackeray is about to deliver four lectures at Manchester , previous to his departure for New York . Crucibles for Melting Gold have been imported into Southampton in great numbers from Havre lately . They are des tined for the gold regions , and are formed of a kind of iron stone , vsrv hard and infusible .

      Exhibition of 1851 . —The City of London Committee have announced that the medals , certificates , and jurors' reports , nresented to the exhibitors by her Majesty's Commissioners , are to be distributed at a meeting ro be held at the London Tavern , on the 1 st of October . Foktififications . —The Master-General of the Ordnance lias desired that tho Isle of Wight shall be put in a proper state of defence , and strongly fortified : therefore , a large number of guns of heavy calibre will be sent , for th ;\ t purpose . This undertaking ; will cost the country afc least sixty thousand pounds . The Choleiu . —The reports from Warsaw , to the 21 st , show only two deaths and only two deaths and one new case ; 34 persons remained still under treatment .

      Inquest o > : the Hon . Majos Fobester . —Oh Tuesday Mr . Wakley resumed the inquest opened at the King ' s Head Tavern , Margaret-street , Cavendish-square , on Saturday week , relative to the death of the Hon . Major Forester , who had died suddenly on the previous Thursday night at his town residence in the Cavendish-square . The iury after a short consultation returned the following verdict : " ' that tho deceased died from the effects of opium incautiously administered by himself , in the absence of written instructions from his medical attendant , "

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      Suicide at St . Luke ' s Lunatic Asylum .- —On Saturday afternoon Mr . W . Baker held an inquest at this asylum , respecting the death of Eleanor Shedloek , aged 34 , who committed suicide there by hanging herself . The jury returned as their verdict l ! That the deceased destroyed herself whiie in an insane state of mind . " New Masonic hall in Liverpool . —On Thursday , at noon , the foundation-stone of anew hall lor the brotherhood of Liverpool was laid by the Mayor ( Mr . Lifctiedaie ) , in the presence of a numerous assemblage .

      Great Free-trade Baxqukt at Manchester . —At a meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League , held at Manchester on Tuesday , it was resolved that a great banquet should be held in the Free-trade Hall on Tuesday , the 9 th of November next , to which Mr . Cobden , Mr . Bright , and all the leading Free-trade members of the House of Commons shall be invited . Memorial of Wellington— A subscription has bsen opened ui Manchester for the purpose of erecting a statute to tho memory of the Duke of Wellington .

      A Wo-iixi Shot by her Lover . —At Newport on the 24 th ult ., a middle-aged woman , named Etheridge , was shot at bv her suitor , named Samuel Greening , formerly the guard of a coach , and' latterly the assistant of Miss Etheridge ' s blind father , who keeps a public house and large market garden , a short distance from the town of Newport . Narrow Escape on the Birmingham and Oxford Kailway . —A few days since a number of men employed on the Oxford railway works , at Birmingham , had a narrow escape of their lives by the falling of a large wall which has just been built , and back premises belonging to some houses in Templerow .

      Death fbom Breathing Common Gas . —A man named Thomas Hears , aged 38 , lately met his death , from an inhalation of gas , whilst at work on a lamp , at Higher-terrace , lorquav . Exmsiva Robbery . —At Lambeth police-court , on Monday , James Lmstead , a draper ' s assistant , was brought up on a charge of plundering his employers to a large amount . ¦ Above £ 100 had gone within a month .

      bWEAjtnr a in of tue New Siieuiffs .- Alderman Carter and Mr . Ooll , tho new sheriffs , were sworn in at Guildhall on luesday . Desertion of a Vessel by the Captain and Chew . —On Tuesday morning , Sept . 21 , a brig , apparently from the Baltic or some one of the eastern ports , was observed sailing of Copmslrn , near Kirkwall . She was in full sail , having even her royals set , and veering about in such a manner that the people on shore suspected ( and , as it eventually proved , right ) that no person was on board . Three men went off from Deerness , and on boarding the brig found about eight feet of water in the hold , not a single individual on board , nor any boat to be seen in the neighbourhood of the vessel .

      FlIlE ALONGSIDE THE DevONI'OHT DOCKYARD . —Oil Tuesday at about three o ' clock in the morning , the Camel lighter , alongside the Dcvonport Dockyard , was discovered to be on fire . The alarm was raised by some fishermen who were passing the yard . The aimers of the dockyard were immediately roused and steps taken for extinguishing the fire . It was at firs ! , pro posed to run the vessel across to the West Mud , and scuttle her , to such a height had the fire attained , and she was removed from her mooring for that purpose , but a constant and energetic supply of water from the h ' refloat , ultimately rendered this step unnecessary .

      A Young Man Suffocated . —An inquest was held on Tuesday evening , before John Edmonds , Esq , the coroner for the borough of Plymouth , and a respectable jury , on the body of John Hochin , a young man , 18 years of age , who cam b y his death under very singular and peculiar circumstances . Hochin was a seaman on boaad the merchant brig Eleanor and Grace , of Plymouth , and being in the vessel where a fire was made in the hold , for the purpose of finding out a leak , was smoked to death . Verdict " Death from suffocation . "

      Fatal Quackery . —On Saturday , can inquest was held at the the King ' s Head , Middlesex-street , Somerstown on Frederick Stubbing , aged two years . Anne Stubbing , the mother , said that two months back deceased was seized with purgin" and vomiting , when she took him to the Royal Free Hospital , where he was medically treated . As he did not recover under that treatment , she brought him to a Mr . Hardinge , whom she imagined to be a medical man , and who lived near St . Pancras Church . He Rave deceased a powder , and a potion obtained from herbs . Last Sunday , Mr . Hardinge said deceased was

      dangerously ill , but ho never advised witness to take deceased to a medical man . The following morning deceased expired after a severe attack of diarrhoea . Witness paid twopence for the medicine she had of Mr . Hardinge . Mr . Davis , the summoning officer , said that this was the second case of the kind which Mr . Hardinge had been mixed up in . He was not a medical man , although he displayed a large brass plate , with " Professor Harding" oil it . He was an herbalist , and a mesmerist . Dr . Wilson performed the post mortem examination . Deceased died from exhaustion , the result of diarrhoea . If a

      medical man had been called in life would have been saved . Mr . Davis—Mr . Hardinge is one of the notorious Dr . Coffin ' s disciples , I believe . The jury returned the following verdict , with the subjoined addendum : — - Deceased diedfrom ^ liarrhcea and the want of proper medical aid , and we ( the jurors '! express our disapprobation of the , conduct of Mr . Hardinge , who presumed to practice medicine , and prescribe remedies without having any legal medical qualification ; and his not having called m a medical man when deceased was dangerously id was an act demanding our highest censure . "

      Another Extensive Fire u BEiaioxDSEY . — Yesterday morning , shortly before one , a considerable loss of property by fire , and very narrow escape of several persons happened in Bcrmondscy . It originated in the lower part of the premises of Mr . Williams , Grange-road ; and although only a lew minutes elaspscd before the iiotherhilhc , London brigade , and other engines arrived , the house ( a ginger-beer manufactory ) and its content : ' . , were enveloped in names . In two hours the alarm subsided : but all Mr . Williams ' s stock and

      other property were destroyed , and the adjoinging . houses damaged . The house was insured in the County and Koyal Exchange ofliccs . The cause of the tire is unknown . DiF . Ficur . Ty of the Press . — The Printer in want of two lines to fill the column I

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02101852/page/7/