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    PROPOSAL FOR THE RELIEF OF TIIE UNEMPLOYED POOR , " BY SIE JAKES MURRAY . Merrion-square , Feb ., 18 i 5 . T-ie Mowing observations and extracts were subfniircd to several noblemen and gentlemen of different poiyacal op inions . The principles of this paper were recommended by Mr . O'Connor to flic consideration of the manufacturing employment meeting at the Royal Exchange on the 13 th inst . That gentleman nas several comfortable fairilicalocatca upon Lis own estate on the allotment system . Although it is not expected that an acre of ground added to each poor man ' s present resources , would remove every erU—Tet i s ™ " supplemental aid would Certainly better enable him "to bear the iBs he has , "

    and might greatly tend to prevent the temptation " to fly to others that he knows not of . " This consideration , with the general approval of those who lead the annexed suggestions , encouraged nicto submit them to the rulers and people of Ireland , in the hope that some modification of a simultaneous national plan may be adopted . This hope is strengthened ba ilie feeling now prevailing " that it is high time to do something effectual for this countrv , " or at all events to enable the country to do something effectual for itself . The allotment system is not a novel or untried proposal— nor is it pretended to be a panacea for every grievance . It wlD , if general all over the country , alleviate some ills , and prevent others ; and it will facilitate aU the educational remedies that have been loudly recommended in theory , but very limited in practice . It will enable millions of human beings to profitby the invaluable examples presented by the model larms of Glassnevin . Larne , and Deny , and

    by the precepts of Blacker , Johnston , and Leibig . . Mif desire of Killing attention to the allotment system is more ardently excited by late opportunities of observing the unspeakable advantages which the poor experience in health , comfort , conduct , and complexion , by air , exercise , recitsrtion , and domestic enjoyment , upon pieces of land of their own cultivation . This is particularly the case on the continent , and is becoming common In England . With these proofs recentl y iu view , it cannot surely be thought obtrusive to recommend the nation in which we live to effect a desirable improvement which no individuals ean possibly accomplish in a complete and cfliclem maimer . It is the duty of every observer to encourage the prevailing sentiment , that it is time to piny- . ssc peace at any price , to terminate cabal , litipit : cx . and contention between landlords and r «* f t " t r-.-- „ 's < Hrf ? , and to remove the cause of real or imputed oppression on the one hand , or of violence and j-eveuffc on the other .

    It isr . uw too late to wait for the partial benefits of iusuhued voluntary allotments in a few places , or to trust iLiogcthcr to the slow ameliorating progress of time . _ Some jrencral and entire improvement is imperative at this moment , particularly when wc contemplate -J : e forlorn hope of the excellent land eonunissienf-r ? , who " deeply deplore the difficulty which exisi > is suggesting any direct means of ameliorating the condition ofthe cottiers and labourers , " and end that section of their " report" by the following consolation : — " We have , therefore , felt ourselves unable to rcHoamcnd any direct measure for that purpose , viz ., io compel landlords to keep cottiers' cabins in icnastttfc repair , " The commissioners terminate thisscetTim by saying , "Wc trust the exposure of suc ! i a sr . te ot things may lead to its remedy . " This reiac-. iy of " exposure" isverv old , but it is also verv useless .

    L sucsbicilly , it should be the object of this empire to remove the causes of contention between rich and poo r , snd io rescue both classes from mutual distrust , enmity , and revenge . litnc , education , model-scliooh , humanity , and patienci , sre all very good things , and will confer invaluab ! c «> eu _ ts on future generations ; but the existing millions want food , air , exercise , shelter , clothes , and employmazi — tsant tliem now—cannot wait — will not wait , tavl sltould not wait . Lei us consider the justice and expediency of avast

    and magnanimous effort at this momentous period ; the old routine will do no good ; the industrial education of tJie present race of paupers , and of their ancestors , was prevented by unconimon circumstances ; ixicon & ioii causes produced their ruin and degradation , and , therefore , uncommon means must be employed io recover or to save them . Their state is the result of unnatural and extraordinary operations , and no natural or ordinary processes of * time or patience are adequate to remedy their untoward condition .

    PJUXC 1 PAL CAUSES OF IRISH MISERY . When ve consider the following causes , to which destitution has been generally attributed , we may better understand how far some modification of the principle hereafter proposed would be calculated to remedy the consequences : — IXTEMTEKAXCE . . This baaeful source of many sorrows formerly reduced the country to such a state that % wA men became Lopeless of improvement , and abandoned the people : a despair ; but now under the glorious Apostle of Temperance , the steadfast conduct of Irishmen prepares this nation for that social and moral ad"vaacensssi which is so richl y merited b y a sober populaika .

    COMBIXATIOX . How : er justified men may be in regulating their trades , yet the history of all ages and nations proves tie impolicy of intefering in the market of wages , or of fixing bounds to the terms or number of apprentices . Trade and manufactures should , at all tunes , be free , aad enjoy , like the subjects of a good Sovereign , universal and unbounded liberty . Now , above times , ilerc ought to be no force of restrictions when so many facilities exist which enable people to deal iu other places where no compulsory Unions can interfere . If the State will aid the nation in allowing every honest poor family laud , one of the conditions should be that the occupier docs not belong to any club or union to dictate prices , wages , or strikes from Work . A man may be arMdler himself , but he has no right to force others to be idle also .

    WAXT OF AGRICULTURAL SKILL . This general source of poverty arose from want of fixed it : n -c , want of Implements , and want of will . Give Pat a , long lease , and he will soon learn , and rapidly set a good example to others . Agriculture is now bcc-oiaing an art , a science . Hitherto it was only a blind ehanec kind of hereditary blundering . WAXT OF CAPITAL . . Farmers on a large scale require capital , and cannot pay i jeir workmen without it ; but labour itself is capital , aud a poor man , with every member of his family , „ n apply that species of capital if blessed with a spot of land ; therefore , every fit being ought to be put in a condition to work , and by that means to make sll his capital available to himself and to society .

    WANT OF EMPLOYMENT . When all depend upon precarious wages alone , all are contending in the market of wages ; but let the wife and children raise some domestic food at home , and the husband can then save part of his pay . If overtaken by illness Ms family need not be torn from their little " homes , as now , to be ruined by being plunged into a workhouse . WAXT OF DRAINAGE . _ This is an awful source of infertility in Ireland . The ' cost of effectual drainage is too much for poor farmers , already impoverished by high rents and short leases . But give every labourer an acre , and lie will soon drain and fence it , in an effectual and permanent style , when his tenure is permanent . This is one reason why this p lan should lie a national one , because small aud insulated experiments cannot be improved on a grand scale or scientific system .

    WANT OF MEANS . OF EMIGRATION . Emigration may be very well for those in circumstances to profit by it : but , as a measure of relief for the abject poor * it would cost four times more to transport and locate poor families abroad than would be requisite to open up comfortable resources forthem at home . SEEFIXS FOPELATIOX . This is enumerated as one of the most extensive causes of Irish poverty . If there were no surplus lands wc might listen to the cry of " surplus population . 'But whilst millions of acres remain , in " dog and manger" state , idle , useless to the owners and to the nation , there is abundant room for all our people , and for millions more . ABSENTEEISM . Slake xbe poor content , give them reason to be grateful and happy , and then the rich need not run away .

    BXCERTAIX TENURE . Lease national lots of land at 20 s . each , and you rescue its tenants from idleness or-vice , there will then be no business for " VaL M'Clutchy" or Captain Rock . 2 fo lease , no Improvement . A long tenure creates comforts and keeps them .

    EfcnLirr or half measures . To abate existing misery and prevent the further growth of poverty in Ireland , require some out-a 7 id-9 ttt measure at least as effectual as that which was applied to emancipate the slaves ofthe West Indies . ^ Experience has proved that temporary alms , chaliiy sermons , poor-houses , and prisons do not cure or prevent pauperism . It is a growing opinion that the present poor-houses rornish no prospect for the future amelioration of their inmates , owing to the want of trades or industrial information .

    It is , tiii-rcfore , the interest and duty of Government to efe ' ect a complete change in the moral and social habits , resources , and happiness of the people , wt becomes absolutely necessary to abandon all useless and temporising expedients , and " since the poor agU never cease out ofthe land , " to apply a portion e * th | i _ a > itself to sustain the indigent , and to employ them m working for their own support at all Ofterk a * Cam 0 t ' ****** ^ P ^ ^ frHa The competition in aU trades and manu & ctures is now so greaVand the capital and knowledge - of B ^ bommg . traders are such _ toxnakedouttfol i-Bft distant the hope of forcing forward fectories in

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    this country , where a vast number of artisans are already unemployed , or working so frequently under great disadvantages . But there is in every district of Ireland " ample scope and verge enough . " for one general manufacture , the products of which glut no market , compete with no superior capital , entail no infirmities of body or mind , always obtain a ready market , and contribute to the support , health , peace , and comfort of old and young . This universal and primitive manufacture is the manipulation of an allotment of land by every poor man for his own use and benefit , and that of Ms wife and children . It is too true that in the present state of things , half-starved labourers , hired ' for half wages , and that commonly for only half the year , give but half work in return to their employers , and the land is

    consequently only * half cultivated . On wet days , and during slack seasons , when labourers ean obtain no work near home , they wander forth to seek it abroad , or become the dupes or instruments of idleness and vice , whilst their families are deprived of any means of app lying their minds and hands to useful purposes . On the contrary , it is well-known that poor men enjoy ing the blessings derivable from a patch of ground , however useless and barren hitherto , can soon turn into a garden the spot which they may call their own , make it produce ten times the quantity of nourishment it had formerly yielded , spend in its effectual culture those days in which they cannot earn wages elsewhere , and thus furnish to their families employment , recreation , air , exercise , health , and comfortable crops , the grateful fruits of their own labours .

    When the spade is wielded by the owner himself , it becomes a wand of enchantment , changing the aspect , aud even the nature of the allotment , calling up a succession of the necessaries of life , as if by magic , from a soil so thoroughly improved . The millions of industrious China proclaim this truth for ages . The patient and enduring exertions of the zealous proprietors and their children overcome all obstacles ; surpassing the powers attributed to music , they not oidy " soften rocks and bend the knotted oak , " bit they convert the acorn into the oak itself , when now , at last , their long lease leads them to hope that their childrens' children may yet enjoy- the trees planted by their humble ancestors .

    As all other trades and manufactures are already overstocked by numerous workmen , it becomes a matter of vast importance to that class to advance the condition of the rural labourers , so that they may be able to afford to purchase those comforts of life of which they arc now almost entirolv deprived .

    ALTERATIONS ESSENTIALLY NECESSARY . To effect objects so essential to the peace and happiness ofthe people , it is proposed thatthe present poor-houses shall be new-modelled , and converted into asylums and hospitals for lame , blind , aged , and infirm , and for all persons deprived of mental or physical capacity , and that an area of at least twenty acres shall be procured convenient to those establishments , so that the inmates may enjoy some useful exercise and uhcontaminated ah- —for want of which the persons now go closely confined become , pale , exhausted , and indolent .

    The present ill-chosen sites and clustered confinement of many workhouses seem more intended as a test of tlie tenacity of life than a " test of poverty . " Ii is further proposed that no children shall be suffered toremam in contact with the veteran , illconducted inmates of poor-houses ; but that the young of both sexes shall be placed , at fair rates , with honest families in the country to learn some useful calling or industry . To accomplish a magnificent improvement , a magnanimous effort , worthy of a great nation ought to be made , and made in a manner suitable to the

    occasion . Our enlightened empire bought from the planters of the West Indies a number of slaves , who were considered to be the property of those planters , and paid twenty millions in a lump for them . Those twenty millions were paid away without any prospect of pecuniary return , rental , income , or repayments It will not be denied—for it has been proved by a long and patient inquiry—that two millions and a half of human beings suffer more privations—cold , hunger , and anguish—in this island than our black fellow-creatures endured in the islands of the West Indies .

    Let , therefore , the rulers of this great empire make another munificent effort , and as fhey purchased slaves from the planters , let them purchase acres from the landlords . Let these acres , purchased by national means , become national property , to be subdivided into suitable allotments , and granted by proper commissioners , in each district , to indigent labourers and worknien ata moderate rent , on long leases , and subject to such conditions of good behaviour and other considerations as may be thought necessary . It appears by the last census and valuation of Ireland , that it contains , in round numbers , above twenty and a half millions of acres ; that about thirteen and a half millions of these are arable , and six and a half millions uncultivated ; that the annual value of all arable and uncultivated land amounts to thirteen and a half millions pounds sterling , which is an average of about thirteen shillings per acre .

    Ordinary districts valued at 10 s . per acre , and twenty years' purchase , would be £ 10 , price paid for the line or cost of each acre , or £ 1 , 000 for every allotment of 100 acres , which would be sufficient for each single location of poor , because it is more economical to spread these humble plantations at convenient distances , so that the men might be near farmers , to work for them when it can be obtained , and when work is scarce , to have their own small holding near at hand to employ their time . The thousand pounds thus obtained by landowners for 100 acres on some remote border of their estates

    would relieve them from incumbrances to that amount , so that they would the better enjoy the remainder of their property , which they could call their own , when released from mortgages or debts . No rational objections have been urged against the principle of this proposition , except the Malthusian idea that allotments would increase paupers , and make them multiply iuthc country ; but that reasoning is founded in error . First—Because idle creatures increase more than persons busily and profitably employed . Second—Because it is unnatural to refuse relief to

    existing beings , through the fear of some remote oi contingent disadvantages .

    ~ PROPOSITIONS . Although no price would be too high to secure the peace of Ireland , yet we do not ask for my pecuniary gift—we only seek a yearly loan for five years , which can be undoubtedly repaid within ten years afterleaving a valuable national property , or rental available for ever , to sustain the lame , blind , and infirm , who are unable to work for themselves . If ordinary land be procured at twenty years' purchase of 10 s . per acre , and be improved by the labour of the tenants themselves to pay 20 s . yearly for ever , such investment would be profitable even to individuals and capitalists , but infinitely more so to the state , by many other public benefits , direct and indirect .

    One million expended in the year 1816 , would purchase 3 , 000 acres in each of our thirty-two counties , and leave four thousand pounds to procure gardens for as many artisans near towns . This would organise 100 , 000 allotments , and return £ 100 , 000 into the treasury , in 1847 , when a second million would be borrowed for a second similar allotment for that year , and so on for five years ; or until all the labouring and manufacturing poor would enjoy a garden of one acre for each family . When the yearly rental pays off the principal and even interest , if demanded , then the future rents to be applied to the support of the institutions for those helpless poor , who can do nothing to assist themselves .

    Ibis would relieve farmers and all other classes from the heavy burthens they now sustain—burthens which are already almost insupportable . ( To be concluded in Surnext . )

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    The Hampstead Murder.—Adjourned Inquest....

    The Hampstead Murder . —Adjourned Inquest . — The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . James Delaine was resumed on Monday morning before Mr . Wakley , M . P ., and the same jury as assembled on f ' onuer inquiries . The rush to gain admittance into the rooin was terrific ; so dense was the crowd , that some of the jurymen could not obtain admission until positive orders were given by the coroner to the police to ciear the passages . The prisoners , Thomas lleiiry Ilychcr and James Hooker , were brought into the room in custody immediately after the coroner had taken his seat . Thomas Henry Ifocker appeared very composed , and nodded to several persons in the room . James llocker looked pale and distressed . Inspector ShackcII , of the detective police , was first called , and said—I am stationed at Scotland-yard ; I have seen two persons in custody on the charge of being concerned in the murder of James Delame ; I first saw them on Wednesday- morning . I heard of

    the murder having been committed , and examined the place , when I was convinced that a murder and robbery bad been committed . I afterwards went to No . 55 , Whittlebury-strect , Euston-square . I examined the different drawers , having heard that the deceased had a watch in his pocket at two o ' clock on the day of the murder . I found in one of the drawers of the deceased ' s room a great number of obscene prints and a bundle of papers , which I now produce . One of the papers related to the description of a certain watch , its number , & c . I have seen the watch since . After obtaining possession of these papers , I proceeded with Inspector Partridge to No . 11 , Victoria-terrace , Portland Town . We examined , a back bed-room occupied by the two prisoners . On searching the room , which was in a dirty state , we found a number of papers and two obscene prints . Inspector Partridfee found a shirt sleeve , which was saturated with blood , and also a silk button . The room was then locked , and I proceeded immediately to the father ' s residence . Tins was about three o ' clock in

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    the day ; he said his son James had just left . I asked for the clothes bis son had left there , atthe same time picking up a macintosh . I asked if it belonged to his son Thomas ; and he said that it did . The macintosh was stained with , blood . I now produce it . I asked the prisoner ' s father when Ms son last wore it , and lie said that he went out with it on about seven o'clock ' on Friday nig ht . The macintosh was here minutely inspected by the coroner and jury . There were two large blotches of blood , beside smaller spots . —Examination resumed : I then asked to see the prisoner ' s linen ; his father and mother were both present when I asked to look at the linen which he pulled off on Saturday morning , llis mother gave me the shirt , which I uow produce . The wristband and part of the sleeve were torn off ,

    and it was in the same state as now . I examined it , and found on the left wristband blood . I afterwards found thepartofashirfc sleeve which , on comparing it with the shirt , I found exactly corresponded with it . I also found some stoekings ' belonging to tho prisoner , Thomas llocker , which were stained with blood . I told the father that I must take the things away , and lie said , "That is what I expected . " Prisoner ' s father then told me , that his son Thomas had informed him that he had borrowed £ 12 of Mrs . Edwards , of Bath-place , New-road , which he was afraid was not true , -and . wished me to ascertain whether it was true or not ; he further said , the prisoner had given him a sovereign , but if his tale was not true , he would immediately give it up to me . I

    asked if his son had taken out a stick with him on the night of the murder , and he replied that he did , and lie gave it to me , which I now produce . ( The stick is a black ebony cane—not a very formidable instrument . ) Mrs . Edwards informed me that she had not lent the prisoner any money , but that she had received two letters from him , which she gave to me . On comparing the writing , it exactly corresponded with the letter sent to the deceased signed " Caroline . " On searching the prisoner ' s room , 'I found an answer from Mrs . Edwards to one of his letters . —In answer-to the coroner , the prisoners both said that they had no questions to ask this witness . — Inspector Partridge repeated the evidence he gave at the police-office . He added—on Wednesday , the

    26 th , I took Inspectors Shackell and Haynes with me , first to Victoria-terrace ; wc searched the room : there were two cupboards in that room ; in one of them I found a wristband with a portion of a sleeve of a shirt attached to it , I have fitted the part of the sleeve which I found with the prisoner ' s shirt , and it matches exactly . In another cupboard I found a pair of shoemaker ' s pincers , which 1 now produce ; they were lying in the prisoners' room ; they were not concealed , and do not appear to have any marks-of blood upon them . From Victoria-terrace we went to No . 18 , Charles-street , Portland Town , and searched the room occupied by the prisoners' father ; we found a pak of trousers which had spots of blood on the bottom of the legs and on the knees ; the trousers

    were lying on the bed ; they were not concealed . Prisoners' father told me that the trousers , marked with blood were worn by his son Thomas on the Friday evening of the murder . I also produce a waistcoat belonging to the prisoner Thomas , which I understood from his father aud mother was worn by Thomas on the Friday evening . There arc small spots ef blood on the left side . The waistcoat ismuch torn . —J he Coroner : — Who found the coat?—Inspector Shackell : The coat was taken off the prisoner ' s back after he was in custody . — Inspector Haynes examined : I live at No . 11 , Peter-street , Westminster . I attended the examination of the prisoner Thomas Hooker ' at Maryleboncstreet Police-office on Wednesday last . I afterwards , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , accompanied

    Inspectors Shackell and Partridge to No . 11 , Victoriaterrace , the prisoner Thomas Hooker ' s lodgings . I assisted in searching the room , and on the sideboard I found a button , which I now produce . It is a silk button . I afterwards accompanied the two prisoners to the father ' s lodgings , aud from what I then heard I was induced to goto Clerkenwell Prison , to see the prisoner . Mr . Kilsby , the governor , at my request , sent for the prisoner , and 1 desired him to pull off his body-coat , which he did , and I now produce it . I also desired him to take off his trousers and drawers , which I also produce . On the coat , trousers , and drawers there is a considerable quantity of blood . The knees ofthe trousers and drawers had a quantity of blood on them . I examined the prisoner ' s person , but found no wound whatever to cause blood . I should

    say that the marks of blood on the knees were very likely to be caused by the head of deceased falling against the knees o the accused party . The right hand cuff of the coat was also stained with blood , and it appeared as if a bloody hand had been put into one of his pockets . It appears as if the cuff of the coat had been washed . I have not the least doubt but that the button which I now produce belongs to the coat which I took off the prisoner ' s back . —The prisoner declined asking this witness any question . — Inspector Grey , and police ^ constablo James Thomas , were next examined , but merely repeated the evidence they had formerly given . — -Mrs . Sdwards examined : I ani " a married woman . My husband at present is out of business . I live at Bath-place ,

    New-road . I know the prisoner Thomas Henry Hocker . I have not lent the prisoner any money within the last fortnight . He has not applied to mo to borrow any . I know the handwriting of the prisoner Thomas Hocker . The three letters now produced are in his liandwriting . I saw the prisoner the Monday night after the murder . He had then the watch now produced ; I never saw him with a watch before . The prisoner also had a ring on his finger , but I cannot identify that . I never saw the prisoner wear a ring until after the murder ; he represented it to me as being a brilliant . The watch cither had a gold chain or an imitation gold chain attached to it . I have known the prisoner Thomas about ten weeks . I think that I saw him the

    Tuesday previous to the murder . I say positively that I have never lent liiin any money . —Inspector Shackell said there was a young woman present , but she coidd only depose to the same facts as Mrs . Edwards , and she was particularly anxious that she . might not be allowed to sec the prisoner . —The prisoner Thomas here showed evident marks of anxiety and mental suffering . —Sarah Jane Philp . jAVhen this witness entered she requested that she might not be allowed to see the prisoner , and several persons stood up to screen her from him ] : I reside with' the last witness in Bath-place , New-road , St . Pancras . I have no profession or occupation . Mrs . Edwards is not related to me , but 1 live with her . I saw Thomas Henry Hocker the last time on Monday last ,

    about eleven o clock at night . I went with him to No . 15 , Portland-place . [ The witness here nearly fainted ; she wept bitterly . ] Sir Oswald Moseley resides at 15 , Pnrtland-placc . Prisoner left me at Sir O . Moseley ' s , and I slept there : he then went away . I saw the prisoner before , on the Tuesday previous . Thomas Hocker showed me a watch on the evening I last saw him . He told me he had bought it ; he told me where he bought it , but I do not remember . It had a chain , but I cannot say whether it was gold or silver ; it was , I believe , the colour of gold . [ Four watches were here produced , and the witness identified the one which was given up by the prisoner to the police as the same which he had shown ner on the Monday night . Thomas Hooker , who had previously

    reniamed unmoved , here covered his face and shed tears . ] The prisoner also had a ring on Monday night . I have seen the prisoner with a watch and ring before . —Mrs . Edwards : Then I am deceived . — ' The coroner here requested Mrs . Edwards to retire , and the examination was resumed . — -Witness : I saw the prisoner Thomas Hocker on Friday week , about ten minutes past nine o clock ; he was then in Portland-place , at Sir Oswald Moseley ' s ; he was in the housekeeper ' s room . Mrs . Maria Edwards was present at the time ; she is sister-in-law to the last witness . I expected the prisoner to meet me that evening . I cannot exactly say how long he was with me , but ho did not leave until half-past eleven . He left the house in Portland-place alone . During the time he

    was there lie showed me a watch and a ring . I believe they are the same as produced . The . prisoner remarked that the ring was too large for his finger . He told me that he had bought the watch that day , but did not say when he had become possessed of the ring . The prisoner on the occasion that I have been speaking of had on a black coat and trousers and a macintosh . I did not notice that he had on any new clothes . I cannot state what colour the macintosh was ; it was a dark colour , I should know it again if I was to see it . I did not notice any blood on his clothes ; but he told me there was some blood on his shirt-front , caused by his master having cut his nose in play . I understood him to mean that the prisoner ' s employer in the City had made his nose

    bleed ; there was no wound . [ The macintosh was here produced , which the witness immediately identified as the one worn by the prisoner in Portlandplace on the night of the murder . ] I did not sec any blood on the prisoner ' s clothes ; there was dirt on them . He told me that he had just come from Orafton-strect . He had no stick or weapon with him . Prisoner had never mentioned cither the name of Cooper or Delarue tome . The letter now produced is very much like the prisoner ' s handwriting . He did not mention the name of any person that he had been with on thc _ Friday evening before he eametojne . On recollection , prisoner said something about his brother James and a young lady with whom he was acquainted . He did not say anything about his brother being with him . on the Friday night ;

    he did not say anything about his leaving London for a short time . I think he told me that he was going to Dulwick on the foUowing' Tuesday . Prisoner did not appear at all flurrieu or excited on the Friday night . I had never seen him with a watch before that night . Prisoner never called me Caroline . ¦ I never heard him mention the name of Caroline either in connection with himself or his- brother . I do not recollect that the prisoner ever called on me so late as on the Friday evening . I have known him about ten or eleven weeks . I never saw the prisoner with a large stick in his hand at any time . The prisoner declined asking this witness any questions . —Mr . Wm . Watson examined : I am a baker residing at Windmill-place , Tumham-green , conducting a business for Mr . Drew . I knewtheprisoner Thomas Henry Hocker ; he is a teacher in a school . His parents at present lodge with me in Charles-street .

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    Portland Town ; my family resides there . I did not see the prisoner on Friday evening ; I saw him on the Saturday evening . My wife told me that the prisoner s father wished me to go up stairs ; , this was about eleven o ' clock . I did go up stairs in the room ; there was the prisoner Thomas , and his father and mother . Thomas showed me a pair of boots , and whilst I was taking a cup of coffee , I alluded to the Hampstead murder . Prisoner ' s father said , "Itwas a cold- blooded murder ; I wonder who could do it . " The prisoner said , " Oh , don'tlet us talk about this , " and began to sing a song . I afterwards had a glass of ale and a glass of rum , which Thomas gave money to his mother to pay for , observing , "We do not always do it in this way . " I remarked that I was Imnnv to sec the family so united , after a quarrel

    which had taken place . Prisoner afterwards showed me part of the sleeve of a shirt , which had some blood on'it . He accounted for it by saying that he had been romping with some girls . His father said he did not know what Thomas had been up to . Whilst I was up stairs , the prisoner came in , and he said , " Oh dear ! what a talk there is about a gentleman having been murdered near Hampstead , and a love letter found in his pocket ! " When I heard who tho murdered man was , I believed , from what had occurred , - that Thomas Hocker was the murderer . The deceased and Thomas Hocker were on most intimate terms . Having strong suspicions from what I read in the . newspapers , and what I had heard , that Thomas Hocker was concerned in . the

    murder , I gave information to Police-serjeant Scotney , which led to his apprehension . The two prisoners for the last four weeks have been in the habit of taking their food at my house . I was only at home , however , on Saturday nights . My wife was at home on the nig ht of the murder . 1 never saw any ring or watch in the possession of Thomas Hocker before the murder . . He had for a length of time been in the habit of carrying about with him a heavy yellow coloured stick . I never saw the deceased at my house . I have seen him two or three times . I have seen the prisoner frequentl y of late . I have strong suspicions against Thomas Hocker , but I believe James Hocker is as innocent as the child unborn . None ofthe Hookers ever asked me to conceal any

    clothes , or not to give information to the police-Thomas Hocker ( father of the prisoners ) , of Charlesstreet , Portland Town , sworn " : I am a ladies' shoemaker . I never saw Delarue , but have heard his name mentioned by my son Thomas perhaps fifty times . I had " a misgiving of the person who bad caused the murder when mv son told mc that he had taken a watch out of pledge . He told me so on Saturday evening , while we Avere walking from our house to Marylebone-lane . I saw tlie watch again on S unday , when he said he had taken it out of p ledge . Iwaspresent when my son came to get a [ pair of . boots , on the morning when he was taken into custody . ( The trousers and waistcoat were shown to the witness . ) To the best of mv belief these are myson ' s .

    This ring I found on Friday last , and gave to the officers . I found it amongst the cuttings ofthe . leather for burning . I was taking a handful to bum , when I found the ring amongst them . The cuttings were rolled together on the floor beneath one of the windows . I had never seen the ring before . I never had heard of the ring before . Thomas left his home at halfpast six or a quarter to seven o'clock on the Friday week . He had dined and taken tea at home , with his mother , myself , and brother . We took tea about four , and after that lie was occupied in reading and a conversation with us . . I do not recollect that he took anything with him . It must have been fully half-past six when he left . James was working until twenty minutes after eight that night ; then he

    changed his clothes and washed himself before lie left the house . That would take him twenty minutes longer . The brothers hardly ever went together . Thomas was in the habit of using a very large stick , wliich he said lie had lost three weeks ago . He had brought it from Sheffield some two years before that time . My son had no watch or ring before last week . He had not worn a ring before I found that among the cuttings . He represented to me for some time back that some kind friend was going to lend him some money , and he told me that he had received a note from Mrs . Edwards , stating that she would lend him some money on Sunday night , but he said he should go on Friday night , and hoped he should get it . I said she must be a jrreat friend to lend a stranger £ 10 . I

    never knew Mrs . Edwards before this affair . Before he went out he said that if ho were successful in getting the money ho would return home earlier . I saw him again on Saturday , morning at ten o clock . That was his usual hour of coming to breakfast . He seemed , as usual , cheerful , and after he came into the room he pulled money out of his pocket . I understood he had got twelve guineas , and I congratulated him , and said , "I hope you'll be careful with it . " On that night going to Marylcbone-lanc , he said he had got a Match out of pledge . I said , " Better keep your money in your pockets , or it will slip through your fingers . " I recollect the time Watson was there , and he told us of the murder , and dwelt on it some time . My son , Thomas , said , "Don't talk more about that . It ' s a gloomy subject . " He showed his

    shirt sleeve to Watson and us , but I saw no blood . Thomas was very intimate with Delarue , but I never saw him in my life . ( The letters so often mentioned were exhibited to witness . ) I know writing greatly like this ( then bursting into tears ) . —I believe it to be my son Thomas ' s writing . I never saw letters addressed to " James Cooper , Esq ., Hampsteadroad . " Mrs . Watson was at home nearly the whole of the Friday evening . I have beard my son call Delarue , Cooper , and afterwards he has told me that his name was Delarue , and not Cooper . I expressed my suspicion that any respectable man should deny bis name , or use another ; and he accounted for it by saying he was somewhat eccentric . I believe my son was acquainted with him for three years . —The

    Coroner ( to prisoner ) : Is there any question you wish me to ask your father ?—The Prisoner : Everything my father has said is quite true . I have nothing to add . —Daniel Delarue identified the watch and ring as his late brother ' s property . He was not aware why he should be called Cooper or Curteis . —The brother , James Hocker , was discharged from custody , and then examined as a witness : The prisoner is my brother , and I sleep at 11 , Victoria-terrace , but have my meals at 17 , Charles-street . I took tea at home on Friday evening , and my brother then handed me a slate , on which was written " Jem , I received a note from Mrs . Edwards tills morning , stating that ten sovereigns will be at my disposal this evening ;" and he then added that he would be at home in

    tolerable time . He left not later than seven . It was quite dark . I did not sec that he took any stick with him . He came home between two and three o ' clock , and the noise he made on coming into the room awoke me . He said , " Well , Jem , I ' ve been successful ; I ' ve got tho money that I so long expected . " He then took off his coat and waistcoat , and showed me the right sleeve of his shirt , and said , " I ' ve been skylarking , Jem , as you see , I ' ve had the sleeve of my shirt torn off . " I said , "How comes that about ? " He said , " I ' ve been"to Sarah Cock ' s , " a young girl I had heard him speak of before . I forgot to say that he showed me some money , and said , " Here are twelve sovereigns , that ' s two more than I expected . I rose in the morning , and went off , and

    he came over to Charles-street , and began to dispose of his money by giving father some and mother some . He was in their debt , as he had been out of work . That day passed over without any allusion to Mr . Delarue . At night Mr . Watson was invited up . We were all in high spirits at the idea of having so kind a friend , who had enabled us to li quidate a few debts . Mr . Watson ' s statement is perfectly correct , with this ' trifling difference , that I said also , "That murder was a gloomy subject , and out of place then . I saw , when going to bed , the watch that has been identified as the property of Delarue . He said , "You see it ' s going . " He some time ago pledged a watch for £ 3 , and I thought it was it . I read in the newspapers on Sunday of the murder , and then

    thought it was Delarue . I could not sleep that night , for I was so excited ; and my brother said to me , " What ' s the matter ? " But I did not tell him then . At four in the morning I told him , and he said , " Who is it ? " I told him I thought it was Delarue , and he turned very pale , and said , " I must get up ; but you must get me a pah' of old boots . " I went over to Charles-street , and when I returned I could see that he had been crying , as I was myself . We then went over to Charles-street , and my mother said the body has been owned by his brother . -Thomas then said , there would be no utility in his going to see the body , as he could give no clue to tho murderers . The letters were shown to witness , and he said that it might be the liandwriting of his brother , but it was not his

    usual style of writing . I have heard him speak of " Caroline , " and say the poor devil , meaning Delarue , was embarrassed . T know of no one going with him on Friday night to Mrs . Edwards ' s . I do not know tlie Cocks ' s , or where they live . My brother often met Delarue at the corner of Honry-gtreet , Portland Town , usually of a morning . About seven months ago he gave my brother £ 5 . I heard from my brother that Delarue had been robbed of a gold watch-chain and ten sovereigns . —The prisoner had nothing to ask of witness . —James Hocker ' s examination continued : My brother and Delarue ' s usual

    place of meeting was on the side of Primrose-hill , just opposite to Henry-street , He first became acquainted with the deceased by meeting him there . —George Leveridgc , in the service of Mr . Windgloss , newsvender High-street , Portland Town : On Friday night , at or about half-past seven , he was at the bar of the Swiss Cottage , and saw the prisoner come in , seemin « 'ly much agitated , and ask for the parlour . He ( Leveridge ) then left the house . —The coroner then briefly summed up ; and [ the jury , without retiring , returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder against Thomas Henry Hocker . —The witnesses were bound over to appear at the Old Badey , and the inquest-room was cleared .

    . Co ¥ „ b tn let r so frequentl y referred to , and signed " Caroline : "— ~ " My Dearest James ;—! have s » often resigned myself to your will and embrace that I find myself in a situation which makes it necessary for me to leave home shortly . I would rather die than doubt either your word or your honour : yet do not , oh do not be ashamed to own me . If you cannot at present give me the title of wife , conceal me from the cruel finger of scorn , Heaven has been my

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    witness that I have loved you but too dearly . Let me be happy in the conviction that you will one day restore mc to your arms for ever . Ease my suspense by . meetins mo to-morrow at the place where , alas ! you have always made me happy ; yet not so if it will put one smile of hope and comfort on my countenance . You can render me for ever light-hearted and happy , or for ever heart-broken and conscience-stricken . Oh , that a bended knee might procure lUC trie former lot . —Ever yours , "By Miss F . " Caroline . " James Cooper , Immpstead-ioad . "

    Further Examination or Thomas Hocker , at Marylebone FoM CE-counr ;—Tuesday being the day to which the prisoner Thomas Henry Hocker stood remanded , on the charge of murdering James Delarue the court and its approaches were crowded to excess by persons anxious to catch a glimpse of lum . He was brought from the New Prison at halt-past eight o ' clock , and p laced in one of the cells in the rear of the court . He shortly afterwards requested to be supplied with pen , ink , and paper , for the purpose , as was stated , of writing hia defence , and lie was so occupied up to the time of his being brought before the magistrate . At a quarter past twelve o ' clock , the prisoner , Tkomas Hocker , was brought in and placed at the bar . Mr . Rawlinson ( address ing tho prisoner ) said—Before any fresluevulence be

    , taken the evidence taken against you on "Wednesday last will be read over to the witnesses . Do you wish to say anything ? I thought you appeared about to speak . —Prisoner ( in a cool and indiflei'eut manner ) : No , sir , I do not wish to say anything . I beg to say , however , that I should wish you to see the waiter at the Swiss Cottage Tavern . He was present yesterday at the Coroner ' s Court . —Mr . . Rawlinson ( to the Inspector ) : What can he prove ?—Inspector Gray : He is a witness the prisoner wished to have called to speak in his favour , but he cannot prove anything of advantage to him . —Is he here ?—No , sir , he Is not , but we can have him here if you think proper . The witnesses before examined were then re-sworn , and their evidence read over to them by Mr . Fell , the chief clerk .

    Inspector Shackell was the first f reshwitness caiieu , wiio repeated the evidence which he gave before the coroner and jury at Hampstead . —Inspector Haynes was next called , who also repeated the evidence he gave at the inquest . —Mr . Rawlinson : During the time ( he prisoner was taking off his clothes at your request , did you make anv remark to him , or lie to you ?—Inspector Haynes ; No , sir . —Mr . Rawlinson : What , did you say nothing about the blood on the clothes ?—Inspector Haynes : No , sir . The evidence of Inspector Partridge and the other witnesses , given before the inquest , was then nrocecded with . Inspector Gray and Constable Thomas having also given their evidence , as already reported , tho prisoner ' s father , Thomas Hocker , was sworn . The prisoner ,

    who had up to this time maintained the most apathetic composure , seenied to lose all his indifference at the sight of his father , and was on the eve ot fainting , when a chair was placed in the dock , and he fell rather than sat upon it .- The feeling was only momentary , for almost immediately he rose , and stood again erect and calm as before . The poor father suffered more than he , and he was humanely accommodated by the chief usher with a clnur , placed in such a position that ho could not see his son . He added nothing new to the evidence given before the coroner . —Mrs . Edwards was called in . She stated that she had never lent and never promised the prisoner any money . —Sarah Ann Pliilps : 1 have known Thomas . Hooker for about ten weeks . —Mr . Rawlinson : How did you become acquainted with him ?—Witness : Am 1 obliged to answer these questions?—Mr . Rawlinson : Yes , certainly . —( The question ,

    however , was not pressed . )—The witness then stated that she had met the prisoner on the night ofthe murder , and he showed her a watch and ring . The watch he stated he had bought , but he did not account for the possession of the ring . The watch was that now produced , but the guard was not'the same . The letter signed "Caroline" is like his handwriting . The remainder of her evidence was exactly similar to that given before the coroner . —William Watson recapitulated his evidence of the conversation which had taken place in the elder Hocker ' s house on the Saturday evening , in the presence of the brothers . During the whole period of this witness ' s examination the prisoner was busily engaged taking notes ofthe proceedings . At that part of Ms evidence where he

    stated that the prisoner said , in reference to the " happy meeting" that evening , "We don't do it always in this st yle , " the prisoner smiled , and again when the witness referred to the torn sleeve which the prisoner had shown him that night . —James Hocker did not add anything material to the facts already detailed by him . One slight difference was in the words used by witness to his brother at the time of his being taken into custody . When the duplicates were being given to the policeman , witness observed one for a watch among them , and said , " Why , Tom , I thought you had taken the watch from pledge ? " He replied , " No : the fact is , Jem , Delarue gave me the watch at ten o ' clock on Friday morning . " His brother , when he could get an

    engagement , taught writing and music in . private families . —George Levcridgc , newsman , sworn : He saw the prisoner on the night of Friday , February 21 st , at the Swiss Cottage . He pushed up to the bar , but witness saw him sufficiently long to know him again . — Mr . Rawlinson said that he had determined toadjourn the further examination of witnesses till the Tuesday following . The prisoner mi ght , if he wished , say anything ; but ho cautioned him , that his words would be taken down and used elsewhere . —The Prisoner : I will say nothing to-day , then . —At this moment the waiter from the Swiss Cottage arrived , and being sworn , said : A man came into the parlour and asked for a glass of rum . and water ; he paid me out of a shilling , and I noticed that he wore a sort of dark cloak , 1 have looked at the prisoner , and he is

    not the man . —Prisoner ( with a very peculiar smile ) : 1 am the man . —Mr . Rawlinson ( astonished ) : Why , this is the witness you called for . —Prisoner : I have no witness . I want the thing to be correct . I am the man . —Mr . Rawlinson : Very well . The case is remanded till Tuesday next . —The prisoner , in the event of this being his last examination , was prepared with a roll of manuscript , but whether a defence or confession none could know . He has reserved it , however , till the next examination , lie was-uncommonly cheerful , with the slight exception mentioned above , smiled frequently , and gave snuff out of his box to those around him who were inclined to try a pinch , and strange though it be , his box was often in requisition . The prisoner was then removed to Clerkenwell prison .

    Strange Go » duct of the Prisoxeu . — After the termination of the coroner ' s inquest on Monday , and the return of the verdict of Wilful Murder , the prisoner withdrew to a private room with Willoug hby and Jackson , the warders ofthe prison , and Serjeant Gray , G 12 . He appeared there totall y unconcerned . His father and brother , James Hocker , were allowed to see him . In the course of the interview , his father ( who was deeply affected ) remarked to him that the evidence was very strong against him , and trusted that he would be able to prove his innocence ; but urged him to preparcfor the worst . He replied that he was fully prepared for the result , whatever it might be . His father then alluded to the disgrace that had been brought upon the famil v . He remarked

    that he was sorry on his father ' s account , and that he was indifferent what became of himself . His father shed tears , and every person present was affected but the prisoner . Hocker subsequentl y stated that if twenty policemen had seen him commit the act of which he was alleged to be guilty , he would not move a muscle of his countenance ; and said that he should conduct his own defence , for that he had not money to pay counsel . In the course of his conversation Hocker familiarly handed about his snuff-box , and partook of some half-and-half . At the termination " of the inquiry , Hocker was conveyed privatelv , in the custody of Willoughby and Jackson , with Serjeant Gray and two policemen of the G division , into an omnibus hired for the occasion , by which he was taken to the New Prison . Upon hearing that he was not to be led through the immense crowd which was in front of the Yorkshire Grey , he expressed his thanks to the

    scrjeant of police . On his way to town he entered into conversation about the different lo calities in the neighbourhood of Hampstead , and , in reference to his absence from chapel at the New Prison that day , remarked that he supposed the chaplain would be able to do without him . The omnibus reached the New Prison about a quarter before six o ' clock , when Hocker was immediatel y delivered into the custody of Mr . Kilsb y , the governor . He was taken to the room where prisoners are usuall y placed on admission , when he wanned his hands by the fire and smiled . He then took some snuff , and Ottered llis snuff-box to a person present , after which he was conveyed to the infirmary . After the prisoner left the admission-room , the head clerk observed to Serjeant Redmayne , of the G division , " I don't know what murders will come to now ; here is a man brought in on a verdict of Wilful Murder , and he has come smiling . "

    Destructive Fire at Greenwich . —Shortlv before eighto clock on Sunday evening a fire , involving the destruction of property to the amount of from £ 40 , 000 to £ 50 , 000 , occurred on the extensive premises belonging to Messrs . E . II . and G . Enderley , patent rope , twine , and canvas manfacturers , East Greenwich . The fire was first found burning in the rope-walk at the rear ofthe factory . An alarm was soon spread , and notwithstanding the secluded situation of the premises , assistance in a very short time arrived . The factory was a ' strong brick building of about 140 feet long by forty feet deep , facing the river , nearly opposite Blackwall-stairs . This range included the

    dwelling-house ot Mr . C . Enderley at the cast end , the contents of which were nearly all destroyed . The entire of the range of premises forming the manufactory , including the dwelling-house and the greater portion of the rope-walk sheds at the rear , are all down . — Of the main factory , which was a noble building overlooking the Thames , in fact the most prominent object on that side of the river between Greenwich Hospital and Woolwich , nothing remained but its lofty watts , which in the course of the day were blown down with tremendous force by the wind . The machinery it contained was most extensive , and its immense value can be better judged from the fact that its completion has occupied a space of ten years The firemen went into the ruins at an early hour

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    ascertain whether any of it had escaped injury , but the whole was found to be destroyed . , The loss , we are assured , exceeds £ 40 , 000 . It is clearly proved that flames were first seen raging In the store-room in the rope-manufactory , which was detached from the main building , where there has not been a light for several weeks . There was a considerable quantit y of manufactured goods deposited there , which were seen perfectly safe a few nours before the outbreak . The supposition is , therefore , that the fire either arose from spontaneous combustion , or was wilfully raised by some incendiary . In the course of Monday the ruins were inspected by the surveyor of the district and those connected with the Imperial and Royal i Exchange Fire-offices , and from their report we learn

    the exact damage done to tue property . The factory , or waterside premises , containing joiners' workshops , spinning , card , and loom-rooms , is totally destroyed . The hemp and spinning rooms over the engine and boiler-house are burned out , and the iron roof has fallen in . The engine-room beneath is considerably damaged . The weaving workshops , fronting the factory , arc greatly damaged ; the . roof bus been partly demolished by the falling of the opposite walls . They contained twelve weaving looms , worked by machinerv , which are all damaged . The dwemV house of Sir . Enderley , jun ., on the north side ofthe

    factory , is partly damaged by fire , and most part of the furniture and its contents destroyed . The stores at the back , where the fire commenced , with part of the rope manufactory , are destroyed . The former building was about 70 feet in length . The rope gallery , adjoining tin ? manufactory , is a quarter of a mile in length ; about 100 feet is gone , and but for the firemen cutting off the communication , the whole would have been levelled to the ground . The amount of insurances effected on the property does not , wc understand , exceed £ 6 , 000 , while the total loss is between £ 40 , 000 and £ 50 , 000 . Upwards of 2-50 workmen are thrown out of employment by this calamitous event .

    Shocking- Deatu of Miss Jaxe Chester . —An inquest was held on Saturday upon the remains of this lady , who was in her 84 th year , at the mansion . of her brother , Sir R . Chester , near Hertford . Ifc appears that the deceased , on the previous Tuesday , about three o ' clock , had gone into the kitchen , where she directed one ofthe servants to go uo stairs . While left alone the saucepan on the fire boiled over , and the deceased endeavoured to remove it , when ker shawl caught- fire , and she was immediately enveloped in flames . Her cries for assistance were heard by the servants , who endeavoured by every moans to extinguish the flames , but could not do so until the unfortunate lady bad been most dangerousl y burned about the anus , face , chest ,, and lower part of the body . The deceased continued in the greatest agony till twelve o ' clock at night , when she expired , having been perfectly sensible to the last . The * jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death .

    Extensive Fire . —On Sunday afternoon , a some , what serious fire took place in a range of buildings in the occupation of Mr . Evans , bookbinder and fancy stationer , and Mr . W . Leader , coaehmaker , itt Berwick-street and Noel-street , Oxford-street . The accident was occasioned by two children playing with a lucifer match in Mr . Evans ' s workshop ; having ignited it they threw it among a mass of paper shavings and ran off . The place was soon enveloped in flames , and although the engines of the London Brigade , the County , and West Of England offices wore promptly on the snot , the conflagration was not got under until Mr . Evans ' s workshop and . stock were destroyed ; his warehouse" and the goods in it had been much damaged , and considerable

    damage was also done by fire and water to five con > tiguous houses in the two streets abovemeutioncd . Most of the property was insured . Strasoe Apprehension . —A theft was committed , at the farm of Struthers , near this town . ontheStk of December , of a man s grey body coai ; aud Alexander Fletcher , rural police-officer , residing at Ru carton , having ascertained that the party who was " wanted" on this occasion was William Leister , labourer , formerly farm-seryant at Struthers , proceeded in search of this individual , when he learned that he was just about to enter into the interesting stale of matrimony . As the officer was not aware of Leister ' s place of residence , he could find no more

    fitting opportunity of reaching him than by repairing to the place where the marriage ceremony was about to proceed on the evening of Friday , the 7 th Feb . He stepped in just a few minutes before the minister , and most effectually forbade tlie banns , by abstracting the principal party concerned , who , instead of being carried before the altar of Hymen , was brought before the Procurator-fiscal , Mr . Andrews . The constcrnation of Leister and the marriage party can neither be pictured nor described . On the lOtha precognition of the case was taken . The pawnbroker with whom the coat had been pledged identified Leister aa the person who had pawned it ; and he was ultimately committed , on Tuesday last , to Ayr gaol , till Vibe rated in the course of law . —Kilmarnock Journal .

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    BANKRUPTS . ( From Friday ' s Gazette , Feb . 2 S . J James Welch , Ring-cross , IIoUow . iv , licensed victualler —J . and C . Green , Borough-road , Southwark , corn-dealers—James Brodie Gordon and Robert Gordon , Poplar , coopers—William and James Dees and James Hog- ! , ' , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , builders—Mary and Francis John Raw . lings , Cheltenham , - cabinet-makers—John llalpb , Bath , innkeeper—James Dalton , Salford , Lancashire , joiner-Edward Bayley , Cheswardine , Shropshire , apothvearr ,

    BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , March ith , 1815 . ; lewis John Kicolay , Woolwich , Kent , draper— Thomas Sletchcr , Southampton , plumber—James Hart , Greenwich , builder — William Ilardwick , Ilolborn , draper — Robert Clark , jun ., Paradise-row , Rotherhithe , wharfinger—Ely Walker Orowther , Scanimonden , Yorkshire , woollen-clotiiniamifactm'iH '

    DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . R . Robinson , Strand , coal rm erchan t , first dividend of 2 s . in the pound , on Saturday next , and three fbUowin ? Saturdays , at the office of Air . Groom . Abclmvch-lane , City . J . Langhorn , Berwick-upon-Tweed , banker , firs : dividend of 10 s . in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Baker , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . T . Dunn , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , grocer , first and fina - dividend of Gs . 5 Jd . in tlie pound , a n y Sa t urday , at the office of Mr . Baker , Newcnstle-upon-Tvne . W . Cock , Bungav , Suffolk , grocer , fifth dividend of W . ia . the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr , fohett , Sambrook-court , Basinglmll-strcet . J . II . Denison , Nelson-square , Blackfriars-roaaV < J >' S > . dividend of 6 s . in . the pound , any Saturday , at the office ot Mr . Green , Aldermanbury , .. M . W . Vardy , Newbury , Berkshire , bookseller , Brstai . vidend of 8 s in the pound on new proofs , and second dividend of 3 d in the pound on all proofs , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . GrahamColeman-street . .. .

    , S . Eccles , Manchester , cotton-manufacturer , first dmdend of 8 s -Bd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the oSco of Mr . Pott , Manchester . C . Ridings , Manchester , cotton-manufacturer , first aiudend of Is 4 jd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the oftce of Mr . Pott , Manchester . . J . Coles , New Bond-street , jeweller , first dividend « 8 s Id in the piund , any Wednesday , at the office of w . Graham , Coleuian-street . . S . Eccles and C . Ridings , Manchester , cotton-iuaoutac turers , first dividend of Os Gd in the pound , any Wednes . day , at the office of Mr , Pott , Manchester . . M . Martin , B r is t ol , up holsterer , first dividend of va in . the pound , any Mondav , at the office of Mr . Miller , Bristol . R . B . Palmer , Bath , " watchmaker , first dividend otosM in the pound , any Monday , at the oihw of Mr . Mulct , Bristol . W . aud P . Charters , Merthyr Tydvil , Glamorgans hire , tea-dealers , first dividend of 2 s 10 d in the pound , any Jlon < da at the office of MrMillerBristol

    y , . , . T . Parr , Liverpool , painter , ' first dividend of Is fid in [ the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Cazenove , wvcr ' pool . ¦ * ,. W . A . Mearns , Aere-Ianc , Clapliam , ale-brewer , firs ] : dividend of Is 3 d in the pound , on Saturday next , and tnree following Saturdavs , at the office of Mr . Groom , Abchurctilane , City . " . W . L . Dore , Egham , Surrey , innkeeper , first and fi"aj dividend of 4 s 2 Adin the pound , any Saturday , at the oma of Mv . Green , Aldermanbury .

    dividends . Ma r ch 25 , R . Graves , Edward-street , I Virtmaii-square , saddler-March 28 , T . tfl . Ford , Rochford , Essex , vi « a * u « —March 25 , W . Wood , T . and R . Smith , and J . Stem , Workington , Cumberland , bankers—April 8 , V . Roberts , jun ., Farslev , Yorkshire , merchant—March 29 , Yu ^ "P field , Oldham , Lancashire , machine-maker—April 5 , " Walker , Birmingham , hatter—April f > , J . Wilson , sen ., W . Newton , J . Wilson , jun ., II . Newton , and G . Wilson . Derby , colour-manufacturers—April 5 , G . Harvey , Handsacre , Staffordshire , spirit-merchant—April 5 , M . Cooley , Spalding , Lincolnshire , tailor—April , 5 , R . R . Timings Birmingham , grocer—March 15 , It . Thelwell , Manches ter , silversmith—March 25 , C . D . Broughton and J . J . Garncti Nantwich , Cheshire , bankers . CERTIFICATES TO HE ORAKTED , CtftEss CAl'SE BE SHOWN TO

    THE COtiTRABY OS THE DAY OF MEETING . March 25 , A . N . Annini , Scott ' s-yard , Bush-lane , Citj < merchant—March 28 , II . D . Williams , Sou t ham p ton , plumber—March 23 , J . Martin , High-street , Shoreditch , tallow-chandler—April 1 , A . Briclcson , Clarcstrcct , Ch » y market , cheesemonger—March 25 , W . Vallance , LivcrpoWi merchant—March 25 , T . G . Martin , Cold Harbour-hm-, Camber w ell , wine-merchant—March 25 , AY . Oliver , Dallington , Durham , printer—March 25 , II . D . Watkins » = » J . limes , Manchester , lead-merchants—March 25 , T . 1 ™?*' son , Manchester , calico-printer—March 25 , T . Scdgw U > , Leeds , * grocer-March 25 , T . Wright , Tunstall , StaUo tashi r e , earthenware-manufacturer—Marcli , 25 , T . Swift an J . A . Hensman , Copthail-court , Throgmorton-s treet , >» " brokers .

    PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . , , J . Bath and W .. Estwick , Charles-street , Drui ? -U « jV paper-stainers—J . Orniston andT . Backhouse , Sheine «< haraess-makcrs-J . Silcock and N . Lowe , Birrani gna r plane-manufacturers—T . and H . Taylor , Liverpool , BOO ' sellers-C . Ironside and J . Napier , Bahia-W . Moore am * J . Gatlift ; Huddersfield , share-brokers—S . Brabner aw * J . Atkinson , Liverpool , attorneys-J . Ingo , W . Doeg , Pratt , and W . S . Haswell , Newcastle-upon-Ty ne , snip brokers—C . and W . J . Cross , Manchester , commissio n * agents-G . Wilson and J . T . Nottle , Hartlepool , D urnauu ironmongers—T . C . Gibson and G . Burnett , Nen castie-o Tyne , coabfittcrs-G . Glanvile and G . Plunuuer , . L ? e ° ' linendrapers-T . M . and II . G . Sutton , Liverpoo l , wsu rance-brokers-J . Maxey and W . Doughty , Maidcnnea u , Berkshire , cabinet-makers—R . Leach and S . lai * 1 Bury , Lancashire , cotton-waste-dealers—E . P . T ^" ™ j E . P : Turner , jun ., Birmingham , coal-merchants-- Crips and H . Kemp , Leicester , drapers-J . Walker an « W . E . Boddington , Chesterfield , Derbyshire , surgeons W . Rawlins and R . Adkins , Leighton Buzzard , coacn makers—W . Thomas and D . Rees , Swansea , Gtamorj * shire , Urne-burners—J . Passman and J . Storey , " * ton-upon-Tees , curriers—W . Bagshaw and T . tv ? o ' Liverpool , timber-dealers .

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08031845/page/6/