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      Charge Of Attempted Poisoxixg Bib! A Wif...

      for the purpose of killing vermmm children s heads . —Mr Knox : What quantity would destroy life ? - Jfr . featon said that depended on circumstances . If taken in small quantities it would be likel y to act on ihe constitution . The Chairman asked Hay ward if he had any of the apple pudding ?—Hayward : 2 fo ; that was put away , and I could not find it . A " piece of toast was produced on which there appeared to be a white powder , and Hay ward stated that on the Monday at dinner-time his wife brought him some broth , in which there appeared something Tvhif e ; after taking two spoonsful of it he felt sick , and said he could not eat it , and his wife took it away . The toast was brought to him at tea-time - mt •«*• : « ? t » nllllfll * Afl'Q lm * i « 4 «

      the same day . —The Chairman : Who served you with this toast ?—Hayward : My wife brought it up stairs to me when I was ill in bed . - The first time I charged her with it she denied it ; the second time she said she bought the stuff , and she wished to shake hands and make it up , and said she would behave well tome all her life . —Mr . Pearson : Did she say what she bought it for ' — -Hayward : Ko ; she denies every thing . I found my constitution was going , and I thought it right to do something . Dr . Bird was sent for by the bench , and thechairjnan having explained to him tbe charge , said they -wished to know the nature of the poison . —Dr . Bird * : I think it is not destructive of life , because the stomach will hardly ever retain it ; it will produce sickness , and be thrown off , and therefore I do not think it would be deleterious on that account . The

      Chairman : But still it was administere d withintent to destroy life?—Dr . Bird : Xo doubt of that . Mr . Pearson : " If taken repeatedly , time after time , are fatal consequences likely to follow?—Dr . Bird : Though repeated doses were taken , there would not be sufficient retained on the stomach to produce a deleterious effect . He admitted it was a matter of dispute with medical men , and said , of corrosive sublimate a small quantity would be sufficient to destroy life , but enough of this he thought could not he retained on the stomach . —Mr . Knox asked if it was doe often nsedfor medicine . —Dr . Bird : Wc use it largely as an outward application . However often repeated , I think sufficient would not be retained to be likely to produce death . It would injure the person , no doubt , as it would be attended with certain ill effects , such as the vomiting , but- not sufficient to produce death .

      yhr . Kxox asked Hayward if his wife had ever threatened him ?—Haywardsaid she never threatened to do anything in that way , or to hurt him ; hut she had been very violent when ho had talked to her and reasoned with her . A discussion took plnce between the magistrates as to the course to he pursued , it appearing that , as the medical man thought the powder would not produce death , the case was not reached by the act on the subject As Hayward said he considered he was in danger of his life , and as his wife had wished him dead , and had said many times she hoped she

      mig ht find him dead and stiff in the morning , a warrant was issued for her apprehension . In the meantime the magistrates consulted Professor Taylor ' s work on poisons , which seemed to give a different complexion to the case ; and when the wife was brought up she was charged with feloniousl y and -unlawfully attempting to administer to ber husband white precipitate , with intent to kiU and murder him . The Prisoner said if there was anything in the pudding or the toast , her husband put it there himself ; for she declared before God and man she did not .

      Hatward repeated the statement he bad before made ; and said when his wife wanted to make it up , she called him down stairs , and asked him to sit down , and said she had something serious to tell him . He said he bad not ti-ne ; but she said , " Oh , you are not in a hurry , come and sit down , and I will tell you—give me your hand , and I will behave well to you as long as I live . " He told her be should not , and went up stairs . After that she said she bought the stuff for the children ' s heads . — Jlr . Knox : Did yon scud for a doctor when you were ill?—Hayward : We talked of sending for a doctor , and I then said she could go to Mr . Mark's , and get me something ; and she got uic some pills , and I took them . —Mr . Knox : Had you any

      suspicion on the Monday that she was poisoning you IHayward : I had rtoc the slightest suspicion then . The prisoner was told she might ask herhusband any question . —The Prisoner : It is of no use for me to ask him any question , for if it was ever so wrong he would say it if it was against me . He turned me ont to get my own living . I had that powder for the children ; it is a good thing for children ' s rash , or anything of that sort . She declared that when her husband said he could not cat the broth , sho took it away and eat it herself . —Mr . Knox : Ton give no account of where you got the powder . —TlTe prisoner : I got it at Mr . Baker ' s . When I got it I sent one ofthe children for it , some time ago ^ -one ofthe children that goes to the school , and is ^ ibout nine ve ars old .

      Mr . BAKrn , jvs ., on being sent for , and being shown the powder , raid it felt like white precipitate , but he could not swear it without analysing it . He could not swear it was not mixed with something else . —Thc chairman : Do voti sell it to anybody ?—Mr . B ; iker : Yes . —Thc chairman : If a child came in nine vears old , should you let him have it ?—3 Ir . Baker : Yes . —The Chairman : Is it poison ?—Mr . Baker : Oh , it is poison , and wc write poison on it . We keep it done up in Id . and 2 d . packets , and it is used for children ' s heads . —The Bench : Do vou think it would destrov life ?—Mr . Baker : 1 think it would . —Thc chairman : You never knew a case of the sort ? Thc medical evidence is that it would not . —Mr . Baker : It would be uncertain , because some might be retained on the stomach , thongh the party had vomited . I think I know the writing on the paper , and that it is written by one of our young men . [ The word poison , and the name of the powder were written on the paper . ] * Mr . Kxox asked Havward if his wife could read ? —Havward said a little , but she could not read

      ¦ g . Ebwahd Pertwee , from Mr . Baker ' s , said the writing on the paper was his : he wrote poison on it . There were forty grains in it , which was a pennyworth ; he did not recollect to whom he sold it , or when he sold it ; they sold it- to any one who came for it . He should say there were not above fifteen grains in the paper now out of forty . After th « magistrates had consulted , thc Chairman told thc prisoner this was a charge of a very serious nature asainst her , and they had endeavoured to 50 into all the evidence to satisfy themselves , but further evidence of a scientific and medical character was required , and they should remand her .

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      Destruction Of Lifs Akd Property By A Ru...

      DESTRUCTION OF LIFS AKD PROPERTY BY A RUNAWAY TRAIN . On Saturday morning last a fatal accident occurred at the l re 4 on-5 Te ? t Station of the Whitehaven and Furuess Junction Railway , which was attended with a melancholy loss of life . As the eight o ' clock down train was passing along thc line from Ravenglass to Whitehaven , on thepart lying between tbe latter-named town and the village of St . Bees , where the inclination begins to have a descent towards tbe town of about 1 in 100 , the driver shut ofi the steam , and put on the convoy which , in consequence of the boar frost lying upon thc rads , failed to take effect ; the result was that the tram proceeded ata fearful rate to the station , at the extreme end of which it received a slig ht check from the b

      pieces , placed there to prevent eng ines from passing over tbe rails . It kcocked down a yard-wall , separating the promises of the railway company from the adjoining dwelliug-hcuses , tore away the outer wall of a substantial stone built house , occupied by Mr . Pennington , a respectable schoolmaster , carried away the whole ofthe kitchen belonging to the building , and broke through the partition wall between that apartment and tie back parlour , and there lodged , more than half of its huec bulk being within tbe residence . The passengers who had come by-the train , seeing that they were passing through instead , of halting at the station , became greatly excited , and several of them leaped from the carnages on to the platform , fortunately without any injury to any of them . The rest retained their p laces until tue train and tender were unhookedfrom tbelocomotive . The engine driver , stoker , and guard saved

      tnemselves by jumping to tbe ground tie moment they perceived that an accident was inevitable . # The most raeUvncholv part of the affair is , that when thc engine burstinto the kitchen of Mr . Bennington , a little girl named Jane Pennington , about ten years old . the dauckicr of the occupier , wjs seated at the fire singing , and watching tbe preparation of beakfast for tbe family- She was " » stan t . y knocked down by the stones and timber forced into the room , and the off-wheel of tho engine passed over her body , r rushing and dreadfully mutilatinn her . Sbe was killed instantaneously . Hcrb , ? V ^ Matthew Pennington , about c ght ycrs cd ,, nao just qnittfd her side a *? d stepped inw the pailonr . the wall < f which was the next moment thrust in . whhlbe fire-rate , r-re , chimney , ami household fhrnhut . The child was thrown to the floor and « h » kr « tP < l ? nte and burnins coals , coming in con

      tact with his forehead , he was much burned anu otherwise injured , but not . it ? eems , mortally . Theiera . - . i . wb « . ngsiiuated in * populous ^ ruo-i ofthe town , a crowd soon collected on the sp ;" , wno rendered prompt assistance to back tbe engine ana extricate the body of the poor girl from tue ruins . Saturday being a holioav for tbe school children tau ° ht by Mr . Pennington , he snd his wife had not arisen at the time the melancholy event nappeneo . Had it transp ired on any other working day the « hMP family would have been seated at breakfast , Idie Sqnences niust , in all probability , have SltiU more disastrous . As it was , the scene SS was distressing ia the extreme ; a mingled SSrfitonU mortar , household funuture , . orna-Ss ! domestic utensils , and children ' s wearmgap-? areb with the great eng ine M °¥ «* 'be wreck , belching forth vapour , smoke , and fire . mUmof ^ accident ia variously stated- The

      Destruction Of Lifs Akd Property By A Ru...

      railway is an incline , sloping to Xeuul 7 ~ nearly three miles , bat at the eentlF \ S ^ a ? n r for ia a hundred feet There ITa ££ grad , ent oh Friday night , ' whichW ^^ aS *" tremely slippery ; and the enZ ^/ , mls ex although he used t £ ordin-SP ™ "I- states th *> on tbe brakes , and even % f *?^ oa W «* S Ion * before reaching the stati ™ K , D £ the CiW > ducedthereby . ThlsLite ! £ r ' u effeCt « ° - verted ; and itis * £ ed 2 n «* fc ver lscontr ° - check the <« u >» , iJ * 1 - no effort wa § made to iceuDonthfrSu ^ - "P * . notwithstandin g the S ^ A ^ « VMw t prfe Z . II J ' a s oker gentl y promoted to thp post ^ engiueer from the WhiXen and Ma ' ry *\ * " ... ^^^^^^

      In the afternoon of Saturday a coroner ' s iurv * . < summoned to bold an inquest oa £ 111 Vthl SSSSXi S * aftC V a been ^ orn ' ltd foumed . t 0 " ewthe remaiI » s , the inquiry wasad-The inquest upon the child was held on Mondav and lasted five houn The in ™ , »„; » 1 ' j . nuay « sion hrnncrln- ;„ V 4- ? l ry after a'ong discuscona £ nS r averdl ^ " Accidental death , in E ? Zf ? f « " > r > jud . ment ot thc enginedriver , and they considered that there is agYeat wantof protection of lifeand property at theFurness aud Wmtehaven terminus . "

      Attempted Murder At Manchestergreat Sens...

      ATTEMPTED MURDER AT MANCHESTERGreat sensation was created at Manchester on vunday , by a report that a man named Barns ' ev residing in the part of the toan called Gaythorn ' had made a desperate attempt to murder b s wife .-On information being lodged at the Chorlton-upon-Medmcfc town Hall police station , police-constable Anderson went to the scene of the shocking occurrence in search of Barnsler . He found the door of tne house fast , and immediately proceeded to force it open . It appears that Barn ? ley had made no attompt to get away , for ne was found up stairs . The policeconstable took him at Once into mis - n / Hv anil mHhnnt

      opposition conveyed him to the lock-up . Bv this time intelli gence ofthe dreadful affair had got abroad amongst the neighbours , and an immense concourse ° Art ,- * assenj bled round the door of the house , and their feelings were vented in execrations upon the prisoner as the police led him from the house , and some fears were entertained lest the crowd should proceed to violence . —On Monday morning the prisoner was brough t to the bnrougb court for examination before the magistrates , and an immense crowd ol people attempted to obtain admittance . Tbe bearing ofthe prisoner at the bar exhibited much indifference to the crime with which he was charged . —Mr . superintendent Taylor stated tbe circumstances

      a ? , 7 ^ prisoner had been apprehended . — Mrs . Margaret Jones was next examined , and said : 1 live next door to the house of the prisoner , at 14 , Rowe-street , Gaythorn . I was sitting in my own house yesterday evening , when I heard loud shrieks coming from the next house , and a cry of " murder . " The prisoner and his wi e lived there . I ran immediately to their back-door , and attempted to gain admittance , but found the door was fast , and I knocked acd called as loudly as I was able ; but for a time no one answered me . I heard Mrs . Barnslev ' s voice and I thought she said , " Ob , dear , don't murder me , for the sake of our child 1 " Afterwards I heard her exclaim , " Oh I the job is done—he has

      murdered me 1 " Soon after that the door was opened by Mrs . Barnsley , who was bleeding profusely from the throat , and I carried her into my own house . I did not examine the wounds , but applied a wet towel to them as soon as I was able , for the purpose of stanching the blood , and held it to her throat until the arrival of a surgeon . —The knife with which the attempt was made was produced in court , and appeared to be a large case-knife . —Police-constable Anderson said he was informed of this affair about six o clock on the previous evening , and went immediately to the hou-e of the prisoner . Finding the door fast , he forced it open , and found tho prisoner up stairs , lying on the bed . He appeared to be partially intoxicated , but was able to walk to tbe police station . — Superintendent Taylor said that Mrs . Barnsley was in . a most dangerous state * from four

      incised wounds in the neck , and one in the right hand , and it was uncertain yet whether she would be recovered so as to be able to give evidence . Under these circumstances be did not propose to offer any farther evidence on this occasion , but woutd simply apply to the magistrate to remand the prisoner unt'd that day week . —The prisoner was accordingly remanded until Monday next ; and it was understood that a magistrate would proceed to the infirmary for the purpose of taking the depositions of his unfortunate wife , who it is feared may not recover to give her evidence in person . — -We learn that the prisoner is a boikr-maker by trade , but has been out of work for five < r six months . He is 42 years of age , and his wif-iis upwards of 30 . They have one child , about four years of age . The only motive assigned by the prisoner was that he had had words with his wife .

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      The War Against Rest Still Continues To ...

      The War against Rest still continues to be waged in various parts of the country with varied results . Present appearances give rise to thc belief that a winter campaign is in preparation which will find work for the police and the troops . The following from the Corf- Constitution will give an idea of the manner in which this novel warfare is carried on : — " A great deal of tbe corn which was being conveyed away from Sir George Colthurst ' s bailiffs on Sunday , the 39 th ult ., was subsequently thrown 011 the sides of the roads at Ballymountain on the appearance of thc military . Early on Monday last twelve men , with six horses and cars , belonging to Sir Geonre , proceeded to Ballymountain , with a

      view of bringing back thc corn , Thc parties who had it in charge refused to give it up , when one of thc bailiffs ha ^ l to call for the assistance of constable Aldwell , of the Upton station . The men got two loads ofthe corn filled , which was in charge of a man ofthe name of Sullivan , at Ballymountain , and were just in the act of moving for home , when a horn was blown , and at once hundreds of persons were seen running , some on horseback , from all directions towards where tho cars were loading , whistling , yelling , and shouting in a most terrific manner . Mr . Dillon , the agent ' s clerk , who accompanied Sir George ' s men , seeing the great danger both he and his men ffould be exposed to had ho

      persevered in bavins the corn removed , had to order it to be unloaded at once , and the men and horses to drive off as quickly as possible , taking another road different to that which they came , and tims evade a number of persons who were by this time assembled on the road by which they had come . Constable Aldwell , with two farmers of the neighbourhood , kindly went with Sir George ' s men until they saw them * beyond all danger . " The accounts from other parts of the country indicate an equally wide spread determination on thc part of the producers ofthe crops not to surrender to those who claim the produce oftheir toil on the ground of their abstract right to the soil on

      which they were grown . The Aaffon defends the proceedings of the tenantry , without qualification . Mr . Duffy says : — " Week after week the war between landlord and tenant—on the one side for pauperising rents , on the other for the means of independent subsistence , waxes fiercer and more fatal . The Sunday or ni"htly abstraction of crops—tbe bloody affrays with bailiffs , drivers , and all the other agents of our nefarious land system—the bloodless murders , on a larger scale , by unlimited extermination—law in abeyance or contempt , life in perpetual peril , property become booty—these are the bulletins which daily reach us from the agrarian war that is now vigorously and with fluctuating success

      waging in the south , and fast getting levies in every otHer portion of the island . The movement against our present landlord system , founded in natural justice , aud acting by the only means at its disposal , is doing its work well . It merits , and is obtaining , the attentive consideration of all sensible men here and in England . It is not a jacquerie—a system of arson or assassination—but a deliberate struggle for thc right of subsistence—a rough protest against the idle imbecility of the workhouse—a simple and sustained effort for ' land and life . ' Operations so decided and extensive must soon force the question to a settlement . The law at present looks silently on , and watches landlord and tenant , tax-gatherer , and perhaps creditor , struggling for the

      cropallowing each m turn to use her name—lending no very constant or effective aid to any one . The ' nocturnal plundering' —the 'impious Sabbath breaking' which the landlord press so constantly bemoans—these grievous misdeeds arc perpetrated , and the law has been a sleeping accessory before , during , and after—unless , indeed , in a few instances , where a bench of landlord magistrates found that labour on the Sabbath was penal under some very old statute enacted in conformity with the decalogue , and fined the parties concerned five shillings Irish currency each . As the struggle grows fiercer , so do the denunciations of thc landlord press , levelled at all who share or sympathise in it . Lying

      ep ithets are daily vomited at us , and constant misrepresentations of our principles ventilated under the choice titles 'Kobbery' and 'Communism . ' We bare said , and we believe , that the farmer who omits any means of ensuring his sustenance from the crop which he has reared commits a grievous crime . We have said that rent is not due until , or unless , his support is guaranteed from it . We hold that property held through his starvation is robbery —then and not under other circumstances . We believe that there is great difference in the criminality of occasional homicide committed in these affrays , for life and its means , and of wholesale murder by extermination—in favour entirely of the former . " .. _ _

      On the other band , the Cork Repmtet , a , quasi " YouO" Ireland " journal , advocates thc primary and sacred imperativeness of the great principle

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      Pay your debts . " " Our contemporaries of thc press , who write ma fierce and denunciatory strain on the subject of rents , would do well to remember 1 uat there are persons who positively have nothing else to live on-pcrsons , too , who are not all ' roboers , and ' spoliators , ' and ' oppressors , ' but people who are subject to the vices and possessed of tue ordinary virtues of humanity . We are not landlords , nor of the landlord class , nor under any sort ol obligation to the landlord class ; but it occurs to us that there is a divine precept , commanding us to do unto others as we would wish they should do unto us , and we have yet to learn that landlords , even Irish landlords , are especiall y excluded from its application . We have , morcove i- a firm

      conviction that all human society is held together by tbe bond of this sacred ordinance , and that any country m which it comes to be disregarded and set at nought will pay a fearful retribution for its crime . Moral obligations are not set at defiance with impunity . We have , ffith disappointment and disgust , in one instance with sincere pain , lately perused , in tho columns of some Irish newspapers , direct and earnest appeals to the tenants of Ireland , which , however i » eant , will assuredl y be taken , by those to whom they are addressed , to mean an advice universally arid systematicall y to defraud and plunder their landlords .. Neither is it the landlord who is robbed in most cases . Through him his creditors are defrauded . He cannot pay the debts due from him , if the debts due to him be ' diated . '"

      repu Meanwhile , the landlords are very generally endeavouring to set "their houses in order , " by granting , on the compulsion of the time , large reductions in rent , which but for such compulsion would most probably have never been heard of . It is evident that a great social revolution is taking place in the country . SAXGUI . NAHY CONFLICT—ONE POLICEMAN KILLED , AND FOUR WO 0 NDEO . On Sunday night , about eleven o ' cl-ck , Constable Hall , of the Killoughy joint station , King ' s County , received private information that a party of men had passed the cross roads , in the direction of Clonaslee . In a short time after , his attention was attracted by the passing cf a number of cars , on the

      same road , followed by between fifteen and tiventy men , who appeared to be armed . This display induced hiin to Rend to the Mountbilus station for assistance ; and he was accordingly strengthened by a reinforcement of a constable and five policemen . Between the hours of two and three o ' clock this morning , tbe tramp of an approaching party , accompanied by horses and cars , was heard . This induced Constable Kail to range his small force , leaving six on one side of tbe barrack , and keeping his own four men in ft ont with himself . The advancing body was now nearly on a line with the barrack , driving in front about fifteen head of cattle , when the constable called out to the leaders to halt . Upon this the man that seemed to direct the

      movements of the party—who was John Keyes , of Caparopan , near Clonasloe , stepped forward and said , " Constable Hall , doo ' t you know me ? Why am I to be stopped ? I am but removing my crops and cattle , which are not under seizure ? The constable in reply , stated that the transaction seemed very suspicious , and said he was determined , at least , to take down the names of the parties implicated in the movement before he would let them pasa . Keyes again expostulated ; but the constable evinced a stern determination at carrying out his purpose , when the former exclaimed , "Armed men to the front 1 " There was an answering motion , which was immediately succeeded by a vlley of fire-arms , causing the death of Sub-Constable Patrick Mortimer - idflicting mortal wounds on two others of the party , seriously injuring Constable Balfour , ofMountbolus

      on the right hip , also perforating his pouch-box with several slugs , and depriving Constable Hall of three fingers of his left hand . Four shots were immediately returned by the police , and it is supposed with deadly effect . One of them was discharged by Sub-Constable Mnrtimer , after receiving his death wound , two by Sub-Constable Gleeson , though he had his thigh broken in two places . Sub-Constable Doyle was dangerously wounded in the groin . After the exchange of shots , the assailing party passed off with great rapidity from the scene of bloodshed . It is said that the party consisted of between 150 and 200 persons , and that one-third of them were armed . The police retreated to their barracks . It is supposed that the mob succeeded in carrying away all the property . It is believed that some of them bave been either killed or wounded , as traces of blood were found on the road .

      After the party had gone away , information wun conveyed to all the surrounding police stations in this and the Queen ' s County , parties from which places were at Killoughy without delay . Measures were immediately adopted to arrest the murderers . Orders were sent to all the surrounding police stations , whe Sub-In ^ pect nr Cox , of Fraukford ; Hill , of Mouiitmellick ; 0 'Mallie , ofTuIlamore ; and Mr . Read Cox , inspector of the King's County , were early in attendance . The country was scoured , and eleven persons arrested , against whom , it is said , evidence of a very strong nature can be produced . Some of them had blood on their clothes and shoes ,

      and in the house where they were captured , hie arms were found , which appeared to have been recently discharged . Three of the inmates of Keyes ' s house were arrested , but they assume utter ignorance of the transaction , though the butt-ends of several candles were found in the house ; and persons can be produced to prove to the leading of tbe corn . A gun recently discharged was found in Keys ' s house . Blood was found on the road near the police barrack ; it was that of one of the opposite party , who is supposed to be mortally wounded . The door of the police barrack was riddled , and the walls present the impressions of many-bullets .

      Colonel Dunne , M . P ., and Major Fox , went to Killoughy at an early hour , and took the depositions of the wounded policemen . John Julian , Esq ., crown solicitor , from Parson's-town , also attended to make the necessary inquiries James Dillon , Esq ., senior coroner , was also promptly in attendance , but as it was impossible to obtain a respectable and intelligent jury in the neighbourhood , he directed the bfdy of Mortimer to be removed to Tullamore , where he was to hold an inquest on it . The wounded policemen have all been removed into the county infirmary . Dr . Thornton , of Frsnkford , wi ; h other medical centlemen , were in attendance , and rendered everv possible aid to the sufferers .

      Keys was tenant to the Rev . John Baldwin , of Castlecuff , and he was removing his crops and cattle from bis farm , which is in the neighbourhood of Clonaslee . —Ldnslcr Express . An inquest was held on Monday at Tullamore , when a number of witnesses were examined , principally , of course , on the part of tho police . The jury came to the following verdict . — " That Patrick Mortimer had come to his death b y a wound inflicted by a bullet fired from a gun or pistol , on the morning of Sunday the 14 th inst . ; and that John Keyes and Joseph Keys had beon feloniously assisting in committing the said murder . " Thc coroner instantly committed Joseph Keyes ( who had been takcn by Mr . Coel for trial , and descriptions of John Keyes , who lias absconded , have been

      forwarded all over the country . Thc magistrates then proceeded to take informations against the other parties charged , and decided on remanding them until Monday next . Constabulary REiXFoncEMExr . —A strong reinforcement of police was ordered from Dublin to the King ' s county immediatel y on the accounts being received of the fatal collision there on Saturday . Compulsory Demand fob Work . —A proof of the will but inability of tbe people—of the poor people ^—to obtain employment was afforded last week by the Appearance of a body of upwards of 500 men from the Connty Clare and other distant parts ofthe country , at the railway works near Gal way . They endeavoured to force themselves on the steward , who called in the aid of the police to disperse therrr .

      Ccltivatiox of CnicoBT . —The Clonmel . Chronicle contains the following : — "An English capitalist has visited Tipperary to take a largo piece of land for the purpose of cultivating chicory . He requires several hundred acres of thc richest soil contiguous to a railway or river , as he will export the produce to the English market . Should he settle down here he will " build a manufactory for preparing the chicory roots , and give a great deal of employment . " , „„ . Tab Potato Crop . —The reports of this crop are less unfavourable . It is now generally admitted that not more than one-third of a very productive crop has been destroyed by the blight . The Irish Linen Trade . —The linen and yarn trade ofthe north is in a very prosperous condition .

      Yoexo Iuelasd Re-organisation . — The Mlion refers to the preparations for an aggregate meeting in Dublin on an early day in November next , which is called " the first step" in the now organisation . . . The Repeal Association . — Dr . O'Higgins , Roman Catholic Bishop , of Ardash , has promised Mr . John O'Conneil his aid , and tTiat of his clergy , in thc attempt " to repeal the odious union . " Tbe rent for the week was £ 30 . Dismissal of the Orange Maoistkaov .

      —Notwithstanding the threats ofthe Orange forces there has been no general demonstration of opposition or of public feeling in the reference to the dismissal of Lord Rodcn and his worthy abettors of the Dolly ' s Brae tragedy . The Barricaded Chapel atXe-vagi ; . —This chapel still continues nailed up . Although the people gave way so far as to allow Mr . Power to perforin the funeral obsequies of thc late parish priest . It was , however , strictly exacted that Mr . Power , and no one else , should be the celebrant .

      Repeal Association . —The correspondent of the Times sayf : —The second meeting of the revived Repeal Association came off on Monday , under circumstances still more chilling to the originators of the new movement than those which characterised the meeting of the previous week . Up to the hour of one o ' clock , the time appointed for the meeting to take place , scarcely fifty persons had assembled

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      in the hall j mid the " leaders" ( Mr . J . O'Conneil and Mr . Hugh Connolly , ) not wishing to make their appearance till things put on a brighter aspect , remained within the committee-room for another halfhonr , by which time thc meeting was augmented by an addition of fifty more of the " groat unwashed . " Wo estimated the pence taken at tho door at 8 s . 0 d ., and were much amused on our entrance by observing several persons claiming admission on the ground of their being enrolled members of the association by the payment of Id . a piece oa the previous Monday . The platform , as at the first meeting , was almost deserted . Upon it we observed Mr . J . " Mahon ( tho chairman of the former week , ) Mr . H . Connolly , Mr . J . O'Conneil , M . P ., Mr .

      lvelcb , Mv . B . M' Garry ( publican , ) with two Roman Catholic clergymen . Sot one Roman Catholic bishop , not one alderman or member of the towncouncil was visible . At half-past one o ' clock the chair was taken by Mr . P . Slovin , tide-waiter to the corporation . —Mr . John O'Conneil , of course , made several speeches after his usual fashion , and upon the whole , not with bad effect , as the rent announced at the close of the meeting was £ 30 . Dreadful Murdisr . —As Mr . 0 . Gage , agent over the Endrim property , was riding into Ferhane on Monday morning , ho was fired at and shot dead . A farmer was walking by the side of Mr . Gage at thc time . It is stated that two shots were discharged at the unfortunate gentleman . His body was removed into Fei-bane to await an inquest . Mr . Gage was lately obli ged to institute proceedings against several defaulting tenants .

      E . vcmiBERED Estates Commission . —A meeting of the Privy Council was held on Tuesday afternoon at Dublin Castle , the Lord Lieutenant presided , when the rules and regulations for tho government of the proceedings of the Encumbered Estates Commissioners were submitted and approved of . This sanction by the Privy Council was necessary , to enable the commissioners to commence their duties . In a week or two , the commissioners will be in full operation , and already the agents of the creditors of some estates have taken the necessary steps to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by tho act for tho sale of those encumbered properties . For some weeks past rumours have prevailed as to the existence of some fatal defects in the act , which , it is alleged , cannot bo worked for any practical pur . pose . A little time will show whether there is any foundation for such rumours .

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      FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . ( Concluded from the Second page . ) SAXCNY . —By a curious coincidence , it appears that two prisoners deeply implicated in the late insurrectionary movements escaped , the one on the 8 th , from the hospital in the Viehweide , at Dresden ; the other un ( he 9 th , from the House of Arrest at Leipzic . The firht was Meier , ex . Burghermaster of Frauen ; the other Dr . Frank , of Vienna . Meier , who bad been permitted to remain in the hospital although perfectl y convalescent , contrived to climb over the garden . wall , and then to escape almost in sight of the guard . Frank having been allowed an interview with his wife , changed clothes with her , and passed the gates undiscovered , and also got safe .

      HAMBURG , Oct . 7 . —Mr . Loewe , the late presb dent at Stuttgart , and now a refugee in Switzerland , has written here to give a statement of the utter destitution the political fugitives have sunk into that are now in that country . In consequence of this letter the deraocraticparty in this city has just appointed a committee to collect subscriptions for those unfortunates ; similar subscriptions will take place over Germany , with the exception of Saxony , which most inhumanly has prohibited them under the severest penalties .

      BAVARIA .-In the Munich Chamber on the 9 th Zwohl , the Minister of Justice , proposed that deputies of the police should bave special places assigned to them in all meetings of societies and unions ; that these deputies should be empowered to forbid the continuance of a speech , or . if necessary , to dissolve tb « assembly . The Minister also proposed that no puMte meetings in the open air should be allowed to ' . e held within a circuit , of fifteen English raiies ruuiid the ball of the Chambers during the session ; that political unions should not be allowed to place themselves in connexion with other political unions , either at home or abroad , nor to form or correspond with such .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . HORRIBLE MURDERS ! FOURTEEN HUN GARIAN CHIEFS SLAUGHTERED BY

      THE AUSTRIANS . ( From the ' Morning Chronicle . ' ) The Vienna mails , ofthe 9 th and 10 th instant , bave arrived . The intelligence they bring is a confirmation of the report of the execution of thirteen Hungarian noblemen . The details which we publish below , respecting- the death of Count Louis Batthyani , had caused " a most painful sensation at Vienna . This tragic event was the all-absorbing topic of conversation . ' Count Louis Batthyani , ' says the 'Ost-Deutsche Post , ' 'had voluntarily surrendered to Prince Windischgralz . He was one of the members of the deputation from Pesth vhat waited upon the

      Imperial Commander-in-Chief to effect , if possible , a peaceable solution of the struggle against Austria . Since then he remained a prisoner , and bis name was scarcely ever mentioned . Suddenly it is upon every lip , and the report is spread that Batthyani is sentenced to die upon the gallows . The effect produced by the report was visible in tbe countenances of all , and many looked anxiously forward to the morning fixed for the execution ; for although the energetic measures of the state of siege set any great demonstration at defiance , still something unusual was expected—either an act of mercy or an act of despair . The morning came , and the dawn broke upon an assembled multitude of many thousands

      round a gallows erected on thc Holz Plalz . A rumour suddenly spread through the crowd that Batthyani had attempted suicide in prison , It proved true : but either the hand of the unhappy man or his energy failed him . Though he gave himself various wounds he did not deprive himself of life ; he , however , escaped the rope . Twelve hours later , at nightfall , he was led out and shot . As yet it is a mystery what influence procured the substitution of powder and lead for the rope . Common report says that the wounds in the Count ' s neck prevented the rope being used . Batthyani , however , walked , it seems , with a firm step to the place of execution ; and , before he fell , shouted in a clear voice , Eljen a

      haza ! or long live my country 1 A fearful silence pervaded the multitude at this solemn moment . Some ladies , apparently of the hi ghest classes , endeavoured to steep their handkerchiefs in tbe blood ofthe dead man , but were driven back by the guards . ' Another account says : — ' The Count appeared very emaciated , and if possible paler than usual ; he nevertheless walked with a firm step and calm countenance to the fatal spot . The soldiers em . ployed were Jagers . The silent multitude were much moved . It would appear that the substitution of powder and ball was not a modification of the sentence but a necessary consequence of the wounds inflicted upon himself by the Count . '

      ' Lloyd ' s' says : — ' The condemned was dressed in a suit of full-dress black . Though evidently very weak , he advanced without support to the place of execution ; there was a latge assemblage of people on the Horaok . Having uttered a short prayer , the roll of the drum was heard , a sharp volley , and all was over . The crowd then separated , ' The' Presse , ' though reputed a ministerial journal , condemns the execution of Count Batthyani in strong terms , A bitter from Vienna of the 10 th , says— ' You must not chide your correspondent if his letter contains nothing but accounts of executions .

      Batthyani ' s only led the way ; many others have followed him to the scaffold . On representations being made to Haynau against these executions , he replied by holding out the parchment which conferred unlimited powers upon him . ' ' They style me , ' he said , ' a blood-bound , atiger , ahyena ; I am ready to take upon myself the responsibility of my acts . ' So much is he feared that the officials in Pesth trembled for their lives because they had not hanged Bmhyani at once instead of postponing the execution for twelve hours . Haynau is said to have been greatly incensed when he heard of the postponemeat .

      The official ' Gazette of Pesth' of the 7 th publishes the sentence as follows : — Louis Count Batth'aid , native of Presburg , aaed 40 years , a Catholic , married , avowing in pare , and legally convicted of having , in his quality of Prime Minister of Hungary , taken , executed , or caused to be executed , measures greatly outstripping the adiuirvutrative limits of Hungary , as guaranteed by the laws of March ; of having weakened the legal bonds between Hungary and the hereditary States of the Empire established b y the Pragmatic Sanction ; of having created dangers threatening violently to ovedhrow the constitution of the State ; also of having , after having resigned on the 3 rd of October of last year the post of Prime Minister , by joining the ranks of the insurgents , by making a public appeal to armed resistance , by re-assembling the Diet dissolved by bis Majesty , fortified and maintained the cause of the

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      revolution ; has bsen for the crime of hig h treason sentenced to the confiscation of all his property , and to death by strangulation ; and , after confirmation and publication , that sentence was carried out to . day . ' The Imperial and Royal Council of War . ' Pesth , Oct . 6 , 1849 . ' While the above tragedy was in course of operation , a wholesale slaughter was being perpetrated at Arad where the following Genera ' s were hanged : — Count Leiningin , Aulich , Damiawicb , Lahroer , Knesich , Nagy Sandar , Pottenberg , Schweidcl , Torek , Vecsey . The following three were shot , as a particular favour—Ernest Kiss , Aristides Desowffy , and Lazar . The particulars of these executions have not yet been made public .

      Pesth , Oct . 7 . —I have just heard that Paul Nyary has been caught . ( Paul Nyary is , after Kossuth , the most eminent parliamentary man of the revolution . ) This evening a Catholic clergyman of iVfezoha-rgcs was also shot ; and , unless 1 am misinformed , the same fate is reserved for Csanzi . Vienna , Oct . lO . —Thc all-absorbing topic of conversation continues to be the capital punishments inflicted at Pesth . The particulars of the last hours of the ex-Premier of Hungary , as related So you yesterday , have been substantiated by later accounts , and the eontradictory evidence ol the Pesth papers explained away , by the circumstance of the types having been set at an early hour in the morning , and

      tbe journal published while the gallows were yet standing . It appears that the Count was shot in the afternoon of the 6 th , having disappointed the hangman in the morning , by wounding himself in the throat with a sharp instrument , conveyed to him by a friendly hand . Accounts differ as to the means through which he received the suicidal weapon . It is supposed a French abbe furnished him with it ; others maintain that the last service tendered by aw affectionate wife was to enclose a poniard in a parcel of fresh linen destined for the use of her captive husband . Be this as it may , the priest was arrested on suspicion of having aided and abetted the design , Csanzi will , it is thought , share the fate of Batthyani .

      Battbyaiiyi's wife has retired to Tot , a secluded country seat , the property ot Count Stephen Carolyi , in tbe vicinity of Pesth . She is accompanied by her sister , Countess George Carolyi . Countess Batthyanyi is said to have brought her husband seven millions of florins as her mavriage portion . The executions still continue . One of the army chaplains was amongst the- latest victims . It is rumoured that the late minister Csanzi , and Baron Clessenak have been hanged at Pesth .

      RUSSIA . The Czar has ordered the standards taken in Hungary to be sent to Moscow , there to be exhibited in the Palace of the Crimea , and afterwards to be carried through the principal streets of the city in solemn procession . They are finally to be deposited as trophies in the Georgian Saloon of the Grand Armoury . There were altogether sixty-four standards

      ITALY . Rome , Oct 1 . —The so-called amnesty graciously conceded by his' Holiness is now coming into full operation , and tbe consequence is , that hundreds of individuals , hitherto unmolested , have received summary notice to depart , if they do not intend to pass the remainder of their days in a prison . Amongst the foreigners who are included in this wholesale banishment is Dr . Millingen , an English medical officer of distinction and experience , having served some years with the British army in Indfa . This gentleman has been in the habit of residing alter nafely at Rome and Albano , and was so much

      FSteemed in the latter town that he was elected a magistrate , and chosen for one of the officers of the national guard ; in both wbich capacities , he discharged his duties with z » al and efficiency rendering important services to the town during the late trying and difficult circumstances . When the capital was in imminent danger of attack , and the republican government called upon all able and willing men of the provincial national guard to hasten to its defence , Dr . Millingen answered the appeal by marching with a part of his company to Rome , where he reported himself to General Avezzana , then Minister of War , who placed bim under the command of General Garibaldi . Under this active leader there

      was plenty to be done ; and the English officer accordingly fought with his Albanese volunteers in the first engagement at the Porta San Pancrazio ; and , after the defeat of the ' . French , took part in the rout of the Neapolitans at ; Palestrina and Vclktri . When the republican cause was . annihilated the doctor returned 10 Albano , and was of eminent service to the French troops quartered there , by his experience in the mode of treating the fever , from which the soldiers suffered much during the summer heats . By a recant and arbitrary notice Dr . Millingen has been forced to leave his residence , without any motive being assigned for such a proceeding , althaugh it is easy te be guessed .

      uaribaldi is said to be on his way toM Video , the scene of his former exploits . H ' presence will afford fresh courage to the persevering defenders of that city , now seven years besieged .

      GREECE . Several Hungarian exiles , among whom were four members of the Hungarian Diet , had arrived at Athens in the last Constantinople steamer . Princess Belgioso had also sought refuge at Athens .

      TURKEY . Since Ihe departure of Prince Radzivil all parties here have been in a sfafe of anxious suspense , awaiting the answer of the Emperor Nicholas . Thc Sultan and his Ministers remain unshaken in their resolution of abiding the consequents , whatever they may be , of having resisted Ibe demands of the Czar . It is a remarkable sign of the liberal feelings which at present prevail amongst the Turks , that the Sheik-el-Isleem , the head of the Mussulman religion , has compelmented Sir Strafford Canning on

      the manner in which he acted in the question of the extradition . In a former letter 1 mentioned that the Sbeik-el-lsleem had approved of the conduct 0 the Porte in resisting the demands of Russia . He said , that according to the dictates of the Komi , it was forbidden to refuse hospitality to those who were in distress , cr to withdraw protection from those who were in danger from their enemies . The head of the Mahomedan church says that the British Ambassador has acted in this spirit , and that consequently his conduct deserves the approval of every true Mussulman .

      CIRCASSIA . Letters from St . Petersburg , received in Hamburgh on Friday , announces ths fall of the Circassian fortress of Achulga , theresidence of Schamyl , after a desperate and protracted resistance . Our readers may remember that the first successful attack of the Russians was recorded in 'The Times' a short time ago . On the 29 th of August the assault was renewed , after three day's useless negotiation , every inch ' of ground being fiercely contested by the besieged , who fought with obstinate braverv . The

      defences were covered with heaps of dead bodies . The loss of the Circassians was estimated by the Russians at 1 , 000 men MM , —exclusive of those wounded , and 900 made prisoners . Schamyl was not to be found ; he bad contrived to escape with one of his sons and one of his mistresses . Another of his sons , and his lawful wife , were slain , and a third son was taken prisoner . Schamyl himself was wounded in the arm by a musket ball . The siege of Achulga , thus success ' fully terminated , had lasted eleven months .

      CANADA . The affairs of Canada have once more assumed a turbulent aspect . 4 Montreal , Sevt . 26 . —I hasten to inform you that news has just reached here that the riots at Bytown have been renewed . The two parties have met and a terrible conflict ensued . Numbers have been dreadfully wounded , and ( i ght lives are already reported to he lost . The greatest excitement is breaking out in this city , and as we bave not yet ob :, i ned details of ibe unfortunate collision , we fear that much worse results are yet to follow /

      A Fatal Pipe Of Tobacc.—A Melancholy Che...

      A Fatal Pipe of Tobacc . —A melancholy check to the boisterous mirth of a partv of men who were accompanying a steam threshing machine tollolbeach March took place at Wadpole last week . One of the party , named Charles Wyles , after lighting his pipe , expressed himself , in a thoughtless manner , in reference to the narcotic effects of the tobacco , that he should bo in heaven immediate ' y . lie attemped to ride en the shaft of tiie machine , fell down , and the ponderous weight passed over the length of his body , squeezing bim to death . A dandy black entered a book store , and , with a very consequential air , inquired , "Hab you a few quires of a letter paper of the bery best rate for a gentleman to write lub letters on V " Yes , " " S ' pose ( said he ) my stay at de Spring may bo about two or three weeks . Gib enough quires to write four letters .

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      THE ItlGUT OF MAGISTRATES TO FLOG APPRENTICES .

      PUBLIC MEETING AT MANCHESTER . A crowded and exciting public meeting- was ' told in the Corn Exchange , Manchester , en Thursday evening , the 11 th inst ., for the purpose of expressing ( as the advertisement stated ) "their disapprobation of tho cruel and unjust sentence passed at the Town-hall , Sal ford , ' upon Thomas Bailey , la to an apprentice to Messrs . J . and J . M . Worra ' ii , dyers . This man was sentcuceu to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour , and to be flogged , \\\ m has since been acquitted at the Court of Queen ' s Bench . " Thc meeting was principally composed of working men , but Mr . Councillor Ilcywood presided , and opened tho proceedings . The circumstances which le I to tho meeting were these . Some months cilice thi workmen of the Messrs . Worrall , dyers , struck for higher wages , and an apprentice named Thomas Bailey absented himself atthesametime . The Messrs .

      Wovrall , of course , had no remedy against the journeymen , but thoy obtained a warrant against the apprentice , and at tho close of the week before last ( on Friday ) the offender was brought before Mr . II . L . Trafford ( the stipendiary ) and other magistrates of Salford . Mr . W . P . Roberts , attorney , Vis employed by the dyers' union to defend the youu » man , and urged that as he was bound npprenticeat tho age of seventeen , and was now twenty-three years of age , the indenture was no longer binding upon him . On the other side it was urged thai Flie apprentice , having neglected to make his election at the age of twenty-one , or on attaining his majority , he had forfeited thc power , and could not subsequently do it . Mr . Trafford ( the magistrate ) took the latter view , and said that the prisoner , having neglected to make his election , had no right after committing the offence to turn round ami picad it then . Mr . Roberts urged that there was no ollenco under the indenture . That document became void

      on the apprentice attaining his majority , and no written document being made subsequently to continue the apprenticeship , the magistrate bad no power under tho statute . It might be said that the prisoner was working under au implied cwuvact , from week to week , and that he had 110 right to desert and leave his employ without notice . If that was so , let the magistrate punish him for that ; but in such case he could only inflict upon him the penalty for having broken a civil contract , whereas under the indenture the punishment would be a penal one , imprisonment with hard labour . These arguments were over-ruled—the magistrates declined even to lot the case stand over till the judgment 01 a- superior court could be had—and the prisoner was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . It was discovered after the you ; , t ; man had

      gone to gaol that the cSmmitmciit contained an additional clause , " and to be corrected , " which his gaolers are said to have told him meant ! - tobe flogged with the cat-o ' -nine-tails , " and that before he left thc New Bailey prison they should " have a go at him ! " Mr . Roberts being apprise J of these facts by the dyers , went to London on Saturday , found Mr . Justice Talfcuvd in chambers , and obtained an nafcecis corpus to remove tho prisoner irom gaol until the legality of tho sentence could be raised . On Tuesday the argument befni-o Mr . Justice Tnlfonrd tool ? place , and resulted m ihe liberation of the prisoner , who , by the instrumentality of the electric telegraph , was aware of thc happychange in l \ is destiny half an hour after the learned judge had pronounced his decision . The Chairman , having opened thc"mceting , called under these circumstances ,

      Mr . John Tekb , secretary to the Dyers' Union , moved the first resolution : — " That this meeting deeply regrets the continued obstinacy of tho Messrs . Worrall , in not having acceded to the just and reasonable claims of the men late in their employ for that advance of wages conceded by tho other employers . " Mr . Txeii gavo the history of the strike , stating in effect that the wages of tho dyers having been reduced through a competition among masters from 23 s . per week to 14 s ., the men had been compelled to combine in self-defence , and their combination and the remonstrances which they had been able to

      urge to masters , had induced thc majority of them to advance tlic rate of wages again . Messrs , Worrall , however , had stood out , and hence ihe present proceedings in reference to them . The speaker went on to deprecate turn-outs , except as a last resort ; but contended that when a class of men like the dyers found their employers were crushing them down to the position of paupers merely from a foolish and wanton system of competition they would bo guilty of neglecting a moral duty which thoy owed both to themselves and society ' if they did not resist .

      Mr . T . WiiEEiHousE , in seconding the motion , showed how the Dyers' Union and Sick and Burial Society had progressed since Us establishment four years ago . He said he found that from lKij-l to 1835 their contributions had amounted to £ i . IdS \ ' . h . 3 id . that in the next year they were ; £ 3 , 3 ]' . > Vis . old ., in the third year £ 2 , 9 i ± 10 s 5 d ., and in thc vcae 1837-8 , £ 2 , 144 13 s . 4 Jd . The total was £ 12 , 518 Hero wtis a little fortune . subscribed , and is would have gone a great way in supporting these industrious and steady men in sickness and niislbrUiuc could

      it have been retained for that purpose ; i-ufc hero were the Messrs . Worrall trying to crush it . Ha would show how they had applied tho v . ' . or-sy , that tho meeting might judge how deserving it was to bo supported . Thoy had paid , during the four years , £ 8 , 532 3 s . 0 d-, to men out of work , to kef ] ' thorn off the parish books —( cheers)—they had pai . f i . > superamiated workmen £ 7 S 5 lis . ; and they had paid to , ; tho friends of deceased members , for funerals , £$$ Ifis .: total , £ 10 , 173 10 s . 9 d . ( Loud cheers . ) . , Tlie resolution was supported by Mr . Doiiertv , and carried .

      Mr . Siorkv moved— " That this meeting expresses its strong disapprobation of the cruel p . tid unjust sentence passed upon Thomas Bailey . " Mr . It . J . Biwiardson ( bookseller ) seconded tho motion . He said it mi ght be right to imprison an aprentice , hut was it ri ght to employ that most inhuman torture—which the laws of England , he contended , never did , and he hoped never would know or recognise—the application of the cruel and inhuman torture of tho lash 1 ( Cries of '' No . " ) Mr . W . P . Robeuts , the attorney , wm called L upon to support tho resolution , and ' was received ] I With loud cheering . He said , it is one < d cur mis- « fortunes , and a very great one , that the intiigna * « tion some of us may feel—the desire to buttle withi

      oppression—is not participated in by the working g classes generally , but thoy meet ' us vifh theirr apathy , and so sanction the cruelty thoy might too resist . I trust that a different spirit is co « iiing uponn , us . I only look for England ' s salvation when theie time shall have come that every working man looksjig upon an injury to his nei ghbour as an injury to liim . iVt self , and when they shall arise as one man to resisfcjfc oppression , wherever it rears its head . ( Cheers . ) . ) I only know it is a healthy work ( Laughter anditt cheers . ) I have been in it twenty years ; and 11 never felt happier , stronger , healthier— ' ( loud cheers ) s ) —than I do at this moment , and never felt hearticrcr pleasure than I do now in meeting the oppressor , )!* , and daring , defying , and lashing him . ( Grcatati

      cheering . ) Whenever the time shall litive comenei that they so determine , the day * of oppression haaaai gone by for ever . My friends , I had some littletloi doubt whether I ought to have come : I had somonoi doubt whether I ought , because Ihavoi'o wish totoi mix myself up in quarrels between masters andnd , their men . I thought in this case at first- itwoulddcL be better to leave tho masters and men to fight theiruir ' battles out ; though if tho question were one otot importance to them , and thc working men weregroi true to themselves , it was satisfactory ' lo my mmrjnrl that the victory would he theirs . If the w ovkingng ; classes wore not true to themselves , it was pcr-crfectly clear to him they would be beaten , and thathat they ought to be beaten ; for under God ' s provwvi .

      deuce , I know of no better means of bringing merjaet : to do their duty to one another than ojiprcssioBioit when they neglect it . ( Hear , hear . ) I say I thoughighi I should be out of p lace here at first ; but when in ' . recollected that tins meeting was one to protcsitcs ) against a cruel , oppressive , and unjust sentence , eo reflected that I should be shrinking from my dutdut ; were I not to do so . ( Cheers . ) I am glad to sea see you have welcomed this young man , Thomas Bailejilcj ; to the meeting , and shown such generous sympataathi for him . I was there when they had him befoiefon the magistrate . I saw him sent to gaol , and ind thank you and thc high heart within I have bee beet able to see him out ofthe " den of thieves . " ( LovLom cheers . ) He is at liberty ; ho is a proof of yoi you

      power when united , of your weakness when dii dii united . ( Hear , hear . ] Itecollcct , if you had bed beee disunited you would nave had , three weeks henciencj the pleasure to have gazed on his lacerated baclbaeld ( Cries of "Shame , " and great sensation . ) And fed f << what ? As a learned judge said , and oh , ho- hoy my heart heat hig h as I listened to the vmrdfordih "For a breach of contract—flog a man fur thatttat ?? Good God , that a young man who has just ivturitcuritcc from the theatre , or some exciting ' amn » i ! ineniiieniii after a little signing a little bit . of a dot * umvtimeniii called an indenture , stuffed in with all m ¦> . cond . 'ondl tions the masters may have chosen to g iv-hisinisiri sti-uctions for . that tho signing of a doeuii-tit . Hbt likk

      this should subject a man , for mcivly neglecting hjig ha : work during a few days , tn be thrown h , l <> ( ii-woii-wobi and to forfeit his manhood , by one of the : ; -i > st dest ddi grading punishments that ever human nature hu-e ham inflected unon it . What could that magistrate late 11 who should seek to put such a law in force , oven iven it be a law , and I contend that there is no such lain , law I say that no sooner did the prisoner como to b to 11 twenty-one years of ago , than he was free to choochoooi for himself , that thattredom remains with bun , am , arr that nothing bnt the renewal o'f the engngemennnenn when he was of full age to judge for himself , con , con , ! revive its force . First of all 1 say that tho witnevitnee who was called to prove the case against tho piho pm soner , must have been known by the magistraiistraa not to be the witness of truth , because , being tling ^ tltl paymaster at Messors , Worrall ' s , when he said said I

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 20, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20101849/page/7/