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      Guildhall. Robbery In A Police Court.—He...

      fftteCneers « < i drummer boys standing by in full uniform . He iad ad seen men punished with the cat , but they deserved it ; and ce sb should like to know what the seditious bill meant . Mr . Tarfardiey said the feelings of the prisoner were in unison with ) U < is owii . He must repeat that it was a most impertinent proeedeedirig for a tradesman to put such a bill in his window to ittntrract people to his shop , it was a most indecent eonrsa to idoidopt to " obtain custom . He could not say the prisoner hid ( iffeiffended against the law in attempting to tear down the bill I 4 tri > trictly speaking , ho thought it was an indictable o'fence to rtxhihibit a bill advising people not to enlist in the malitia ; and ,

      if hf ho came to strict law , the prisoner had a perfect right to tear llovlown the bill . He was sorry , however , the prisoner had used mijinv bad language ; he had no right to do that ! The Prisonerlilkle abused me first , sir . ^ The Prosecutor : Excuse ins , sir , but ratfothcrs have them stuck in their windows , and Mr . Yard-Ucvtey : I won't excuse you at all . I approve of the prisoners ccoiwiiduct . He is discharged . The Prosecutor—What am I to cdodo . Take the bill down directly , sir . The parties then retired . Attempt to Murder . —Robert Cuthbert , aged 33 , a printer , < ofof No . 8 , Middle Store-street , Stepney , was charged with stabibrbinsr Mary Lav / son , and attempting to murder her . The

      coinplplainant , a nne young woman , who was greatly agitated , said tlitlic prisoner was her half-brother , and on Saturday afternoon hdie came home intoxicated . Some time afterwards he looked viverv wild , and her mother observed him go to a knifeboxin the k'kitchen . Soon after this her mother and self began to prepare Him , and , suspecting that the prisoner intended something v , wrong , she was about to follow her mother out of the kitchen , it -irhen the prisoner put out his foot and attempted to threw her d down , but failed to do so . He then seized her round the waist a and made an attempt to throw her on the floor . She then disc covered he had a tableknife in his hand , and he forced her head

      1 back and drew the knife across her throat . She screamed aloud i for help , and laid hold of the blade of the knife just in time to < save a wound being inflicted in her throat , but in doing so cut 1 her hand severely . The prisoner appeared quite mad and j furious , his eyes glared horribly , and he ground his teeth . She struggled hard to get away from him , on which he made several stabs at her back . The knife fortunately was rounded at the point , and the blows did not take the effect intended . Her clothes , however , were pierced , as if the blade had been made with a tapering point . The prisoner continued jobbing at her with the knife as hard as lie was able , until two gentlemen who heard her screams came to her assistance and rescued her from

      his grasp . —Mr . Yavdley said this was a sad story of a brutal , good-for-nothing fellow , who had rendered the life of a good mother very miserable , and attempted the life of a kind sister . The question was , whether the prisoner was not mad ? If he was not so , and was to be made answerable for his actions , lie deserved severe punishment . In order that the position of the prisoner should be looked into by persons capable of judging of his state of mind , he should remand him for a week .

      Sbpt B Mbsb 4,1852. , The Stab Of Freedo...

      Sbpt B mbsb 4 , 1852 . , THE STAB OF FREEDOM . 55

      Makylsbone. Pocket Pickiko.—William Jack...

      MAKYLSBONE . Pocket Pickiko . —William Jackson and Robert Sutton were brought before Mr . Bingham , charged with having picked the pocket of a lady in Leicester-square . William Roach , an itinerant razor-grinder , said that on Tuesday last , as the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards were proceeding to their barracks through Leicester-square , lie saw the prisoners industriously occupied in probing the pockets of various ladies who were

      listening to the music , and Sutton succeeded in abstracting from the pocket of one lady a purse , which he immediately handed to Jackson , upon which witness gave an alarm to a police-constable , who apprehended Jackson , the other prisoner escaping ; but , coming to this court to-day to look after the welfare of ^ his comrade , he was apprehended , "" and placed in the dock by his side . Mr . W . P . Howe severely cross-examined this witness , mid elicited that he was a , sort of amateur policeman , and also that on a former occasion he had said nothing about the abstraction of tho purse , lull ' . Bingham remanded the prisoners .

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      Caution To Snuff Takeks — The Neighbours...

      Caution to Snuff Takeks — The neighbours of a woman named Perron , of Saint Georges-sur-Eure , department oftheEure , were surprised to find her dead in her bed three mornings a ^ o . The judicial authorities were immediately called in , and it was believed that she had been murdered ; but on a medical examination of the body it was found that she had died of congestion of the brain , caused by taking snuff to excess . ' ,, , p . the ldrh

      Lake of Haarlem . —A letter from Haarlem , oi , says that the works for draining the lake were being pushed on with great activity . An enormous mass of human bones has been found on the spot , where , according to a topographical chart drawn up in 1513 , stock the unfortunate village of -Nieuweinkerk , which in 1533 was swallowed up by an irruption of the North Sea , which formed the immense lake of Haarlem .

      Early Closing of Shops at Wasdswoeth . —A wellattended and very spirit public meeting for the promotion of this object in all trades was held at the Assembly-rooms , Wandsworth , on Friday evening week , and was presided over by Dr . Lonstaff . The Duchess of Ejest Steadier . —On Saturday last a conclusive effort was made to bring the wreck of this unfortunate vessel beyond the limits of low water , and which met with partial success , for though the position in which it was sought to place her was not wholly attained , yet there appears every probability for believing that the place she now lies in will be her resting place till broken

      up . Grape Disease .-A letter from Wiesbaden of the 22 d , states that the disease in the vines has declared itself with great severity in the whole of the Bheingau . In some clis - tricts two-thirds of the plants are attacked . What is remarkable is , that cabbages , beetroot , turnips , & c , in the neighbourhood are also affected by a disease before

      unknown . Australian Wool . — -Thirty-seven bales of Australian cashmere wool were landed last week at the Southampton docks from Havre .

      Caution To Snuff Takeks — The Neighbours...

      A village Burnt Down . —On the 6 th oflast month a fivii ^ broke out in tho Australian village of Met : den near Stemanmnger , which destroyed 117 houses and the church . An Unenviable Situation . —During the Herefordshire election , one of the county magistrates exasperated the popnh ' ce of Ross . They laid violent hands on their calumniator , hurried him to the third story of one of the highest houses in the town , threw open the window , and there held h j si suspended by the hinder part of his pantaloons , with his head downwards , till he shouted " Free trade for ever !" xae man was greatly indebted to his tailor .

      ahe Shell Fish Season , which is now drawing ; to a dm I O ^ ose , mis been rather an unfavourable one , as for as the Hampshire trade is concerned . Great numbers of crabs , lobsters and craw fish , on their way to Hamble , in Hants , died on board the vessels that were conveying thorn owing to the heat and stagnancy of the water on board . Fkmale Heroish .- —During the late gale a barge drifted on shore near Cawsand beach , and the crew , two in

      number , not knowing tho , coast , and considering they were wrecked , threw themselves overboard and attempted to swim ashore . It being just after nightfall , and a heavy sea running at the time , their situation was not noticed for some time , but eventually a Mrs . Oliver , perceived their peril and rushed into the water . She succeeded in rescuing both men ( who were very much exhausted ) from a watery grave . Having gained the shore restoratives were used , and they are now convalescent .

      Gruel Treatment of the Pooh . —A man named Pincott had an ailing child attended by one of the medical officers of the institution in York-road . " The child took worse , kit could obtain no attendance until dead . For expressing his indignation at such neglect the father Avas refused the medical certificate .

      Ike late Ejlpeiuhi of Cjuxa . —As to the character of Taou-Kwang 'Iimu / . clf- intellectual and moral , we must judge him as a Tartar prince . We have been struck in the course of reading his lire . with the resemblance of his mental character and habitudes to those of a late English monarch . ; i He would have shone , " says Dr . Gutzlaif , " as an honest farmer * , and in any position of life where s ' olid qualities , but not a bright understanding , were required . " ' FitENCtt Troops in Italy . — The Monilem- -contradicts

      the announcement of sonic foreign journal that the French troops which garrison Home and Civita Vecchia are about to be withdrawn . Destructive FiRK . —On Wednesday morning at a few minutes before two o ' clock , a lire , attended with a considerable destruction of property , broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs . Wieuam and Co ., shin builders , of Blakckwall ing to Messrs . Wiguam and Co ., ship builders , of Blakckwall

      . The fire when discovered had obtained a strong hold of the stores , a kidding of upwards of 150 feet long , and contiguous to the mast-house aiul steam machinery depot . After some time the flames were extinguished . The damage is thus stated : the greater portion oi ' the store-houses destroyed ; a portion of iho mast-house burned ; a considerable quantity oi timber and stores consumed ' : and serious injury to the steammaehinerv , & c .

      A Delightful Honeymoon .- —At the Marylebonc Policecourt , a few days ago , a Paddington hawker , named Thompson , was sent to prison for three months for a brutal attack upon liis wife , to whom he had been married about a month , and whom he had repeatedly ill used during that period . A Runaway Bridegroom . —The old proverb , " There ' s

      many a slip ' fcwixt the cup and the lip , " was verified the other day at Brixton , where a young woman named Hall , bad prepared everything for her marriage ; but at the appointed hour the bridegroom was not forthcoming . Miss Hall had accepted £ 30 , as compromise with the father of her illegitimate child , and with . £ 10 of this sum the dear one had departed for the diggins . "

      Indecent Assaults . —At the Westminster Police-court the other day , Warwick Phipps , a police-constable , was com - mitted for trial , for indecent assaults upon two married

      women . Fraternity . —Mr . Meagher , in a speech at New York , said that if the British Government would accept tho exchange , he would go back to captivity for ten years , to procure the unconditional release of Smith O'Brien . GE > ai 3 jAL ' Garibaldl—Letters " from Peru , of the 28 th of June , mention that Garibaldi had returned from Lima , from China , and'Age that the Government of Ecuador had offered him the command of timir troops to oppose the principal at attack of Gen . Firres .

      TiiS Earl of Falmouth expired , after six month ' s illness , on Sunday , at his residence in . { St . James ' s-square .

      A foreigner , 'named John Ai'one , has been committed irom one of the Police-courts , for sending threatening letters to Lord Mahnesbury , and Lord Palmcrston . In these letters he said that his case would be sealed in the blood of one of her Majesty ' s ministers in the lobby of the House of

      Commons . St . Mark ' s Hospital .--The ninth anniversary festival of the subscribers to the auxiliary societies in aid of the funds of this charitable institution , better known as the Fistula Infirmary , was celebrated on Monday evening in the large dining-hall of the Highbury Barn Tavern . Cholera . —Magdeburg , August 25—The cholera-has unhappily broken out here " . The onicial announcement has been made to the medical men , and cholera lazarettos have been established , and other precautionary measures have been adopted .

      The attention of the numerous visitors to the Clyde , aUhis season , has been attracted by a steam yacht lying in the dock of Messrs . Tod ancl Macgregor , the well known steam-shipbuilders . The embellishments of this vessel , which will be ready for sea in a week , are of such a gorgeous character as to-lead to -the belief that in -thisrcase the power -of wealth and the ingenuity of man could go'io " further . ' "It is intended for the Viceroy of Egypt , during his excursions on the Nile .

      Caution To Snuff Takeks — The Neighbours...

      A Wi : w Caspar Iiaussr , says a Berlin correspondent of the Independence , who has just been discovered in a house of correction for boys . On the 10 th of this month the police learned that one of them , was chained up in an underground chamber of the house , and a domiciliary visit accordingly took place . The officers found a , boy of 15 chained to a heavy log , beside

      lay a pailinsso on the floor . The lad had escaped twice from the house , been retaken and condemned to this carcere duro , where he had spent ten days , fed upon a weak broth , and beaten with a rod : The police brought him out into th / fresh air , upon which he staggered and fell as if taken with vertigo . Ho has since been placed in an orphan house , and his case is to be brought before the authorities .

      A kew Placet was discovered by Mr . J . E . Kind , at Mr . Bishop ' s observatory , Ksgent ' s-park , at 1 lh . 30 m mean time , on Sunday night , the sixth he has detected during the past five years Suicide in Hanover-Square . —On Wednesday an in-¦ v qmry took place before Mr . Langham , deputy-coroner for Westminster , in the drawing-room of No . 4 , Princes-street , Hanover-square , respecting the circumstances attending the death of Mr . Thomas Taylor , aged 53 . On Saturday he retired to bed about eleven o ' clock , the servant placing his

      night light for him . On Sunday morning , as he did not make his appearance , the servant knocked at his door , but receiving no answer she turned the latch ancl found him hanging ' inside close beside it . She called to tho footman , ' who held him up while she cut the cord , and a surgeon was sent for , who on his arrival pronounced him to be quite dead , and that he had been so for some hours . The jury returned a verdict , That the deceased destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity .

      It appears that the medical officers of St . Pancras have detained in the insane ward of the workhouse several persons quite sane ; one of these , a man named ' Cuiumington , threatens the pariah otKccrs with prosecution . An Earthquake at Ska . —The following is an extract from the log of the Tropic arrived in the Downs : — " On the

      17 th of July , 7 . 20 a . m ., being then 70 west from Jamaica , a severe shock of an earthquake , continuing nearly two minutesj the water being quite smooth , and wind very light , ship going two aud-a-half miles per hour , and steering W . by N . when the shock commenced on port quarter , and progessing forward , ended on the starboard bow ; the ship had then lost her way , and the watch below ran out of the forecastle declaring the iron tanks ( each containing 400 gallons of water ) were dancing 'tween decks . While the horrid rumbling noise continued going along under the bottom the sensation on deck

      was that of a ship tearing over rocks at a violent rate ; in a few minutes the ship was quietly gliding through the water at three miles pcrdiour . "

      We regret to announce the ucatii of Mr . Allen , the landscape painter and secretary to the Society of British Artists . Mr . Allen had for some time past been suffering from a complaint which was supposed to be disease of tho heort , but the effect was not such as to preclude him from attending to his ordinary avocations . On the night of Wednesday week he retired to bed in comparatively good health , and on the following morning he expired in less than half an hour after he awoke .

      Divirpi r TV TT-TW PnT TiVnm lliplnct l'PIVIJ'f nf fLo Annlw . Death im the Pot . —From the last report of the Analytical Sanitary Commission , published in the Lancet , & s records of tho results of microscopal and chymieai analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes , of the public , it appears , with regard to vinegar and its adulterations , that out of 28 samples , purchased at the houses of various retailers , in different parts of the town , and the ^ reductio ns of almost every maker of anv note by whom

      the entire metropolis and its suburbs are supplied , . only four out of tho above number were free from sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol . Suddsn Death of Mr Tjjojias McDuiiae . — . » It is

      with regret , " says the Sheffield Free Press , " that we record the death of our worthy townsman , Mr . Thomas i McQuhae , of the " Old Cock , " Paradise Square , which took : place on Tuesday morning last . Many an eye will "be dim l when it reads of the death of honest " Auld Tarn , " and many f a tongue will say , in the language of his favourite poet :

      " Go to your sculptured tombs , ye great , In a the tinsel trash o' state ! But by the honest turf I'll wait , v 7 Thou man ' of worth ! And weep the ae best fellow ' s fate E ' er lay in earth . " Emigration fikki Bristol . —The ship Ve-iiore has left -thisrisi port for Melbourne , freighted with a large number of passen-mgevs and cargo for the all-absorbing gold-diggins . The

      passen-Migers numbered nearly 800 , and tneir departure occasioned quitaite : a-sensation in the city . Captain Shepherd . —On Tuesday , at the Marlborough-streeteet Police Court , a gentleman applied to Mr . Bingham , for an orderdei to deliver into his keeping the captain , who is at present is in keeping for want of sureties . Mr . Bingham was very glad td tc hear that the captain ' s friends had done that which it woulouh

      have been more deshabk had it been done some months a ^ ca ^ o ; JIe would readily do-all in his power to -get'Captain 'Sjiephexheri placed in proper hands ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_04091852/page/7/