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    • SUICIDES AND INQUESTS. "~~
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      House Of Lords.—Liomay, Nov. 22. The Duk...

      3 k Srf 4 ^ ¥ tlie . Tesolution he put the question to him-* ft ' ^ J . ' , v r e 5 ? S 0 ^ msta ^ es , would Sir R . Peel have d 0 Qe if ^ had been still alive ? and he assured the hou se on his honour that he believed , from the best of his judgement , and his intimate acquamtance with the feelings of that Statesman , he would have framed a far better resolution , but one in the same spirit . ( Cheers ) # e then sent the draft resolution to Lord John Russell , with whom n e \ pas happy to say he had been in cordial and friendly communication ( Ironical laughter from the Government benches , and loud cheers . ) The

      answer of his noble tnend was , that he approved of the resolution , but he suggested the insertion of the third clause , viz ., that the house srould be ready to take into consideration any measures consistent * ith the principle of free trade that might he snhmitted to the house by the Government , in order to show that the movers of the resolution did not wjsh to offer any factious opposition . ( Hear . ) He ( Sir James Graham ) thought the suggestion admirable , and the clause was inserted . Such then , in fact' towords the close of Tuesday night ' s

      debate , afresh amendment by way of compromise had been introduced by rhe noble lor" the member for Tiverton . Between these three distinct documents tee opinions of the house were divided ; and now , according to his suggestions , the course most reasonably to be taken by the Opposition and the Government would be to recognise in the words already intimated the recognition of the free-trade principles , without having a chink open for future compensation , and without wounding unnecessarily the sensibility of the existing Government .

      Mr . Gladstone rose to say a few words with respect to the question raised by his right hon . hon . friend . He found that even up to that moment some progress had been made towards a settlement of the whole question , and he ventured to hope that they would agree to the suggestions of his right hon . friend with regard to the insertion of certain words in the amendment proposed by the noble lord the member for Tiverton .

      Xow , the whole question that was before them , related to only two of the changes of policy and feeling which had taken place in the house , and it was now proposed in order to perpetuate that policy to make a change in the first resolution , from the phrase— " in a great measure , " to the word " may . " He did not think that any objections was to be taken to that change , and therefore he should confine himself to the words proposed to be inserted in the second resolution . He

      was not willing to preclude the Government by an anticipatory motion from bringing forward on this subject . He thought the most acceptable course would be for the house to adopt the course . Mr . T . Duncojibe said , that for the nine parliaments duriug which he had set in the house , he never before had seen it so trifled with . ' First of all , they had been made fools of , just as if it had been the first of April , on Munday night last , when the motion for the call of the House bad been adjourned . He confessed he should like to have

      seen the face of his hon . friend the member for Montrose when he saw iii the papers that his motion had been withdrawn . The quarrel , as he thought , very pretty as it stood originally , but with these amendments upon amendments , he was quite of opinion that the country would be puzzled . There was the original motion of the hon . member for Wolverhaniton , and the amendment of the Government , and so far the course was plain ; bnt then came the motion of the noble viscount the member for Tiverton , and now they had something more recent from Carlisle ? He should like to ask that noble lord how it

      was that he had becomnied possessed of that motion from the right hon . gentleman , the member for Carlisle ? The conclusion the coutry would come to on the subject would be , that the gentlemen below , the "Whigs , —and he heartily wished that Whiggery were about to be hurried with protection—were not yet ready to occupy the places of the gentlemen opposite . He supposed tht hon . baronet had been replugged for the occasion . The best course would be to take the hon . baronet at Ms word , and adjourn the house , | to give the right honourable gentlemen time to settle amicably their little differences . After a few words from Mr . Catlet and Mr . R . Palmer ,

      lord Palmerston hoped the supporters of the Government , and those who were once favourable to protection , seeing the hoplessness of any attempt that might be made to a reversal of our present commercial policy , " would at once bow to the force of circumstances , and accept the amendment which he had proposed as altered by the right hon . hon . g entleman the member for Carlisle . For his own part he was quite ready to anopt the alteration . He therefore hoped both the original resolution and the amendment proposed by the Government would be abandoned , and his own resolution , as amended , unanimously adopted . '

      . ,,,,,, Sir E . B . LvTTOJT thought it very important that they ' should adopt that form of words that would best satisfy the house and the people out of doors ; and it seemed to him that the great principle under consideration was most likely to meet the general approbation of the house under the form of Lord Palmerston ' s amendment . The Marquis of Gbanby could neither agree to the motion nor to any of the amendments . The Chancellor of the Exchequer made some observations with regard to the imputations cast upon him ty several of the

      preceding speakers . He had done everything in his power on behalf of the land of England , which he believed to have been unjustly treated by recent lepisfation ; at the same time that he must confess that thatletrislat ? onhad , asfaraS cheapening provisions was concerned , coutributedtothewel & re of the working classes . With regard to the motion and amendments before- the house , he refused to give up the question of compensation , " but between the proposition of the government and that of Lord Palmerston he saw no real difference

      whatever . ^ LordJ * Russell suggested that from the various amendments before the house , a motion mig ht he drawn up calculated to reconcile all parties . „ ,. ,. , . Mr . Cobdex ridiculed the idea of compensating any particular me After an indignant speech from Mr . Newdegate , Mr Villiers rejected anv modification of his motion , and pressed for a division . Mr . Barrow and Mr . Stanhope spoke a few words , and Sir James Graham withdrew his motion for adjournment .

      The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he should not be able io bring forward his financial statement on the day he had intended for that purpose ( the 26 th ) . , . . , •« * v i Mr . Serjeant Shee then obtained leave to bring in a bill this day on the subject of tenant rig ht . The order of the day for the adjourned debate on commercial legislation was then read , when , , , 1 . ' ft 4 i „ The Chancellor of tho Exchequer thought that after JieResolution proposed by Lord Palmerston , and the opinions expressed in favour of it , it would simplify the course of the debate if he ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) withdrew his amendment . Tbe ' amendment having been accordingly withdrawn ,

      After some observations from Mr . Booker , Mr Osborne , who com pared Disraeli to Danton , from Mr . Ball , Mr . Philhmore Mr Bontinck , Sir W . Page Wood , and Sir John Pakmgton , the de bate was adjourned , and the house adjourned also , after the trans action of some formal business .

      House Of Lords.—Liomay, Nov. 22. The Duk...

      Colliery Explosion , —An inquest was held on Monday on a collier named James Farnworth , of Singing dough , near Bolton , who had lost his life by an explosion of gas in a coal mine . The deceased worked in one of the coal mines of Messrs . Knowles and Stott , at i & mgmg Clough , and on Wednesday last , after leaving the face of coal , at which he was working , he returned with a naked candle . A quantity of foul gas accumulated in the place instantly exploded , and he was much burnt . He was carried home , where he died on Friday . Fortunately none of the other workmen were injured . The jury were Of Onillifin t . hn . f . FsTntirnufVe rirw + l , „ r „„ „„ 4 .:.. „ 1 : i _ 1 . ot opinion that Famworth ' death entirel to his want

      s was y owing own of care , and found a verdict of « Accidental death . " # Frightful Occurrence in Aldermanbury . —On Saturday an inquest was taken by Mr . W . Payne , the coroner , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , as to the death of Henry Pincher , aged 41 . He hadbeeh in the service of Messrs . Chadwick , of No . 7 , Dyer ' s-court , Aldermanbury , velvet edgers , and , although his residence was at No . 31 , New Ivy-street , Hoxton , he had been allowed , from the great pressure of business , to sleep in the house in Dyer ' s-court , for the last iew ni ghts . On Wednesday night , about 12 o ' clock , he went

      to the top of the house to turn off the gas , and there is a weli-staircase all the way up . As he was coming down , he afterwards said , he was reaching over the well to turn off a branch of gas which was in the centre , when having a lantern in the other hand , his foot slipped , and he fell all the way down the well-hole . Upon the noise being heard , some of the persons in the hdhse went to his assistance , and a surgeon was sent for , who advised his immediate removal to the hospital , where he was seen by Mr . Fletcher , the house-suageon , who found fractures of the thigh and knee-cap , as well as severe injuries to the head . He died on Thursday . Verdict , " Accidental death . "

      The Accident on the London and Brighton Railway . —An inquest was held on Monday evening , on the body of Mary Cloves , an elderly lady , the widow of the late Mr . P . Cloves , an extensive coal merchant in London . She has latterly resided at 18 , Regency-square , Brighton , and she was the most severe sufferer in the collision that occurred at Reigate Junction three weeks ago . A considerable amount of evidence was laid before the jury ; but that of most interest

      was given by the medical gentlemen who have been in attendance on deceased since the accident . —Mr . Benjamin Valance stated that the injury she sustained was a compound fracture of the after third of the right leg , with severe contusions . By a post most mortem examination , he found that the unfortunate lady had been afflicted with a disease of the heart , and he was inclined to regard that as the immediate canse of her death . He could not say positively that the shock which the system sustained in the accident did not facilitate the cause

      of death . Mr . Latham , a surgeon , agreed with Mr . Vallance as to desease of the heart being the actual cause of death . It was possible that it might take its rise in a shock ¦ , as to whether the shock accelerated the fatal termination , it was impossible to give any certain opinion . The jury , after some deliberation , gave a verdict of " Died by fatty degeneration of the heart , of long standing . " Suicide by a Pauper . —An old man , named John Heywood , who had been for some time in receipt of relief from the Manchester Union , committed suicide on Tuesday morning by drowning himself in a water-tub , at the George and Dragon public-house , in Garden-street .

      He had been in the habit of sleeping on a bench in the kitchen of this house for the last two years . On the Monday evening he told the keeper of the house , whose name is Brotherdale , that the eighteenpence a week which he had received from the union ' was to be taken away from him . He had an order for admission to the workhouse , but he declared he would not go in . He did not know what he should do for a shelter , as Brotherdale was going to remove , and thought he should cut his throat to make away with himself . Brotherdale left him in the kitchen when he went to bed , at half-past 12 on Monday

      night . At half-past 7 next morning he found deceased with his head in the water tub , and his legs hanging over the side . He was quite dead , but the body was still warm . There was no other person in the house except a little girl of four years old , and deceased could not have got into the tub by accident . Deceased was 68 years of age , a factory carder by trade , and was said to be disposed to work when he had an opportunity . An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday by Mr . Herfbrd , when the jury found a verdict that the deceased drowned himself under the influence of temporary insanity .

      Deaths- through Visiting Chelsea Hospital . —On Monday morning a respectable tradesman , of the name of Mr . Jeremiah Pearce , builder , who resided in Hart-street , Covent-garden , expired from injuries he receded on Saturday morning , the 13 th instant , while endeavouring to obtain admission to see the Duke of Wellington lying in state at Chelsea Hospital , l ^ o day is yet named for the coroner ' s inquest . —On Monday morning Thomas Wakley , Esq ., held an inquest at the Fishmongers' Arms , West-street , Seven Dials , touching the death of Charles Barton , aged 47 years , japanner . It appeared by the evidence , that the deceased went on Tuesday , the 10 th inst ., and was nearly suffocated , being in the crowd six hours and a half . On his return home he was taken ill , and died in a few

      hours . Mr . New , surgeon , proved the deceased died from the effects of extravasation of blood on the substance and ventricles of the brain . The jury returned a verdict accordingly .

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      Suicides And Inquests. "~~

      SUICIDES AND INQUESTS . " ~~

      Crimes And Offences.

      CRIMES AND OFFENCES .

      Uttering Forged Notes.—A Young Man, Givi...

      Uttering Forged Notes . —A young man , giving the name of Pierce , has been uttering forged Bank of England notes in Manchester , and there are at this time in the hands of Mr . Richard Beswick , chief superintendent of police in that town , one 101 . and two 51 . notes , all of which are forgeries , paid by this person . All that is known of the man at present is , that on Thursday last he went into Grosvenorstreet , Chorlteu-upon-Medlock , and engaged respectable lodgings . On Saturday evening he gave the servant woman a 10 / . Bank of England note , and asked her to get it changed . She obtained change for it without difficulty at the shop of Mr , Bracewell , butcher , and the mail having ascertained from where she had got the change , afterwards

      went to the same shop himself and got a 51 . Bank of England note cashed . It turned out that both notes were forgeries , and the other 51 . note , mentioned above , was sent to the police office by another person who had been similarly victimized . The man had ordered a o-ood stock of provisions at his lodgings , but never returned there after oetting his notes changed as described . The notes are tolerably well executed on watered paper , with the words " Bank of England" in the watermark similar to real Bank of England notes , but the paper has a rougher surface and much harsher feel than the genuine . The man [ is described as a light-haired , thin faced person , with bushy whiskers and effeminate voice , and as about 5 ft . Sin . high , and 30 years of age . The notes bear date " London , April 12 , 1852 . "

      Daring Garotte Robbery in the Strand . —On Saturday , information was received that as Mr . Chalmers , of 12 , Cambridge-street , Golden-square , was passsng through Agar-street , Strand , he was attacked by a man of Herculean frame , who seizing him by the neck , cut * the guard-chain of his watch , and , throwing him violently from him , decamped with his booty towards Covent-garden Market . Several persons who witnessed the struggles of Mr . Chalmers , gathered round , and as soon as he recovered himself sufficiently to explain that he had been robbed , went in pursuit , The robber , however , who was joined by another in the market , got clear away with his booty .

      Uttering Forged Notes.—A Young Man, Givi...

      Poaching Affray on the Colonial Secretary ' s Preserves . —Two young men , residing in the neighbourhood of Droitwich , Worcestershire , named John Smith and Charles Cook , have been committed to Worcester County-gaol , on a charge of attempting to murder one of Sir John Pakington ' s gamekeepers by shooting at him . ' It appears that the keepers had found that on Sunday mornings poaching was carried on in the preserves , and accordingly on Sunday , the 7 th inst ., the underkeeper and two watchers lay in wait for them . About

      5 o clock in the morning the prisoners made their appearance , and Smith was seized by one of the watchers named Nott . Upon this both men attacked Nott , who received a violent blow on the head , and also had an arm broken with a gun-barrel . Smith also called to Cook to blow out Notts brains , upon which Cook put a percussion cap on his gun , and pulled the < rigger . The cap exploded , but not the charge in the gun , or Nott must have been a dead man . Both prisoners were afterwards taken into custody .

      Extensive Robbery of Jewellery . —Bristol , Saturday . —Information' was received by the police this morning that between the hours of eleven o ' clock last ni ght and half-past seven this morning , the house of Mrs . Woodhill , jeweller , No . 5 , Sion-place , Clifton , near this city , had been burglariously entered and the following very valuable property abstracted : about TOO gold rings set with diamonds , rubies , pearls , & c , 30 gold lockets of various sorts ' . 39 gold pencilcases ; a large number of silver pencil-cases , five gold chains and three gold necklaces , several silver butter-knives ; several gold brooches , silver chains , guards , & c , and a large number of gold pins set with precious stones . The police are making every exertion to detect the

      burglars , but at present they have not the slightest clue as to who the guilty persons are . From an examination made of the premises it appears that the back-door leads out towards Caledonia-place , and a wall about eight feet in height runs along this entrance to the premises . It is conjectured that the theives must have climbed this wall , walked along the top of it , and then dropped themselves into the area . There they found a pair of steps , which bad been incautiously left outside the premises , and by placing these against the back wall of the house they could succeed in reaching a square pantry window , one of

      the panes of which had been accidentally broken . Through the aperture thus made , one of the burglars , for it is evident there was more than one person concerned in this daring wholesale robbery , must have undone the fastening of tho window . Having thus gained access to the premises , they forced the lock of the shop door , entered , the sho , and nearly stripped it of its contents . It is supposed , although the inmates of the house did not hear any noise , that the burglars must have been in some way disturbed , for they left behind them a large number of valuable articles of silver plate .

      The Murder of a Farmer and his Wife near Stafford . — Committal of Three More Men . —Stafford , Wednesday . — After a protracted sitting , the magistrates , the Hon . and Rev . A . C Talbot and Dr . Knight , last Tuesday , committed Edward Welch , Charles Moore , and Peter Kerevan , for trial , charged with the wilful murder of John and Jane Blackburn at the Ash Flats near this town . Henry Blackburn , son of the deceased , as we have already stated , had been previously committed for trial upon the same charge . The exclusion of the press from the inquiry before the magistrates , prevents us giving an outline of the evidence upon which the accused have been committed . It is supposed that to-day Welch has made a statement throwing additional light upon the matter . It is expected that , in order to bring the principles to justice , one of the accessories will be admitted approver .

      Fikes. Destructive Fire.—On Friday Morni...

      FIKES . Destructive Fire . —On Friday morning week a vast irregular mass of building , consisting of a cotton mill , a woollen mill , and a steam corn mill , were totally destroyed by fire at Elland , near Halifax . The work of destruction began at a little before 6 o ' clock in the morning , and had its origin in the third story of the cotton mill , where a man , when lighting it up against the arrival of the workpeople , permitted the match to fall upon some " cotton fly , " -which immediately igniting burst into a blaze . All efforts to extinguish the

      flames were unavailing , and the various floorings being greatly saturated with oil the work of demolition went very rapidly on . The mills were completely gutted in two hours , by which time two fire engines belonging to the Halifax and Keighley Assurance Company had arrived fiom Halifax , but too late to be of any essential service . The premises were the property of Messrs . A , and C . Pitchforth , of Elland , who themselves carried on the woollen mill , but the other portions were let off to tenants . It is estimated that the damage done is between £ 4 , 000 and £ 5 , 000 , the whole of which is fortunately covered by insurance .

      [ Since the above was in type , we have received the following particulars from our own Correspondent : —] The mills are the property of Messrs . Pitchforth . Tho first is occupied by this gentlemen as a woollen mill ; the second was in the occupancy of Messrs . Bakes , cotton spinners , and the third was used as a corn-mill , by Mr . Joseph Beaumont . The lire broke out in the cotton mill . Most of the hands had assembled , and the mill was in course of being lighted up , the engine being just ready to start , when by some accident yet to be explained , a quantity of cotton waste , near a gas-pipe , in the second story , became ignited . In a few minutes the room was in a perfect flame , the destructive element spread with

      amazing rapidity to other parts of the premises . An express was immediately sent off to Halifax for the fire engines ; in the meantime the alarm was spread through the whole neighbourhood . Hundreds of people were shortly on the spot , who , added to the mill-hands , formed an efficient corps . All were speedily at work , using such means as came to hand to arrest the devouring element ; but without effect . The flames bid defiance to all they could do , and speedily seized upon the corn-mill , which in less than fifteen minutes , and before half a dozen sacks could be removed , was one mass of flames from top to bottom . An immense quantity of corn was spread out upon the floor , which was seized upon and devoured in a few minutes . The flames

      bursting through the window and blowing off the roof , shot up to a great height , and presented a scene awfully grand and sublime . Illuminating the heavens like some huge volcano . By great exertions on the part of the people , the machinery in the low-room of the woollenmill was removed into the field adjoining . By this time the engines from Halifax , Bradford , and Keighley Insurance Company , and the Leeds and Yorkshire Insurance company arrived at the scene of destruction . From the breaking out of the fire to the arrival , not more than three quarters of an hour elapsed , yet such had been the rapidity with which the devouring element had done its -work , that the cotton

      and corn-mills were destroyed beyond redemption- Had the wind blown in an easterly direction , the woollen-mill would have shared the same fate . Under these circumstances Mr . Swaine , the foreman of the engines ordered the whole of the exertions to bo directed towards saving the woollen-mill , for which purpose a plentifull supply of water was at hand . The fire was eventually subdued in the short space of two hours from the time of its first breaking out , nothing was left but the bare walls , and a heap of broken machinery , piled in heas

      p amongst the smoky ruins . We understand that the parties are , to a certain amount insured . Messrs . Pitchforth are insured in the Atlas company , for 300 ? ., and in the Halifax , Bradford and Keighly insurance company , for 500 / ., upon the cotton-mill , and 500 Z ., inthe same company upon the corn-mill , Messrs . Bakes' are insured in ' : the amount of 1 , 600 ^ . in the Atlas company , and Mr . Beaumont is also insured to the amount of 700 Z ., in the Halifax company . Those insurances are , however , a mere trifle compared with the actual loss . ' . ' - , * '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27111852/page/5/