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      ¦ _<^ _as * ' — i _ _- ' ; : — _jffijONES' LECTURE AT DERB 1 . The following letter from Mr . Ernest Jones has _fippeared in the Derby _Reporter , of the 4 th instant , in reply to stxtgftttes on a lecture delivered by Mr . JoneB ia Derby . TO SHE EMIOB OF THS " _SfeOMER AKD CHEOSICK . Sat , —A friend has forwarded me a copy of the _Dsrby Reporter , ot _t-he 6 t"h of September , containing aa article signed "A Working Man , " purporting to be a stricture on > a lecture delivered by me in Derby .

      I cannot _bui-eXpress mv surprise that the so called " " Working -Man" should have waited until I was absent to mafeeSiis attack , and never have forwarded me a copy - -of the paper ,-if my fact s ana figures were , as-he-says , so very " astounding , ! seeing that every one-was invited-by both the f _^ iman aud myself-to mount the p latform , »* _^~} ° . g ? T tions they might have to make against airything 1 h _thSe _^ i donbts « to _youranonymoustorresponden * - being a " working man , " for I believe a _Sma / would have had more sense than to

      _- _uuift- _™ _uauu , _. _„« r . HAnAiindAH have " _advanced such arguments as _sre propounded in Ins Icttef _' and more candour than to havo uttered fake-hoods , ' which , if he was " an attentive _listener " as ho says , must be premeditated ana _ratentioiTaL I challenge the " Working Man " to throw _« £ the mask . Perhaps we shall find him prove to _-Jje some broken-down manufacturer , who vainly endeavoured to prop bis ruinous speculations by catting down the wages of his factory slaves . Bat -whoever he may be , and though he may have thought that , in the hurry of a political tour , I should not have found time to answer his tirade , 1

      beg to trespass on your columns for a brief space , and to assure your correspondent that , ere long , I shall be again in Derby , and hope , on that occasion he will have the courage to mount the platform , instead of publishing falsehoods anonymously when I have -left the to wn . In reference to what falls personally from _ihe-pen of jour correspondent , it may be disposed of briefly under two categories : firstly , falsehood ; secondly , vague assertion . He adduces a number of figures , endeavouring to invalidate certain arguments 1 derived from our

      increasing poor-rate . I asserted , that in tho return for Lady Day , there had been an omission of 55 _. 1 S 3 paupers , as proved by the corrected return since published . Gan he deny that ? I maintained that the meio fact of a few names being plucked off the charity-dole of monopoly , by disease ( as in 1819 ) or by stricter legislation , was no sure test as to the prosperity ofa people . That the criterion was not merclv how many are relieved , but what is the condition Of those who are not relieved ? how are those Off who Still toil at Starvation wages * how is the interior ofthe hovel , the cellar , and the garret ? I maintained that misery might be spreading among shopkeepers and working men , though the niggard ipor of the workhouse turned more slowly on its ninges . I assert that this is the case—that wages have fallen , and that misery has been increasing _throughout the country during the last fifty years . Can he deny that ? He does not even attempt it .

      I asserted that the transient briskness in trade now existing , was merely owing to the disturbed state of ihe -Continent , where internal convulsions have paralysed manufacturing industry , and afforded the English manufacturers the opportunity of supplying the void thu 3 created , without the fear of competition . ; but that , as soon as the Continent becon es settled , the old competitive system will resume its coarse , which was suspended by the revolutions of ' -IS , aud that the English manufacturer can then keep open the markets of the world only by underselling his foreign competitor . How he will be enabled to do this without driving down the _wagrs . of his workmen lower than they have ever yet been , it behoves your , correspondent to show .

      And I beg here to remind him that taxation in England is 35 s . per head ; on the Continent 9 s ., 7 s . and 53 . _^ m thc United States os . ; that the power of machinery is being rapidly developed abroad - that the necessaries ef life are infinitely cheaper than they are here ; and 1 repeat the statement I made in Derby , that therefore as soon as the Continent becomes quiet , a fearful reaction must inevitably take place in the position of our -working classes , and that wages must fall lower than they havo ever yet been . Tour correspondent never touches on this—he evidently sees this—his letter convinces me that -he does—he is preparing the public mind to submit to a reduction of wages—this is the entire drift of his argument , or rather ofthat of his friend , Mr .-Mathetes .

      In order to give a colouring to his attack , the pseudo " Working Man " utters what he must know to be deliberate falsehoods : he represents me as . having said ** ' that free trade had produced pauperism and crime , " and " that free trade would produce dire ruin to the country . " It is false . I stated that free trade was a salutary measure ; I exhorted the people to resist every proposition that tended _towards ii restriction of its principles ; but I maintained that free trade could not uphold our sinking commerce , because free trade could not check the competitive industry of our continental rivals , — that our commerce had hitherto been maintained only through a reduction of wages , and that a further reduction must be the result of increased competition on the Continent . Tour correspondent says nota word in reply to this , but * meets it with the argument ofa coward—falsehood .

      What I ascribed mainly the misery ofthe country to , was the monopoly of the land ; and here , again , yonr correspondent tries to slip over my arguments by another perversion of the truth , —permit mo to observe , a wilful perversion , for he says he was an " attentive listener . " He says , adverting to my lecture , " the land must be split up , I suppose , according to what he means , into so many equal parts , and all kinds of property must be equally diviled . " Now , I distinctl y stated " that I believed an _e-jual division of tlie soil of any country among thc pnple to oe impracticable , and , if practicable , I _be-Hzxid it would never be beneficial , for I considered it natisarg for thi _wcti-lting of « community that a large portion of the population should be employed in

      trade , _commerce , manufactures , arts , science , and literature . " These were my exact words , and they must be in ihe recollection of all my hearers . He observes , " If we all started fairly to-morrow , the industrious , active , and enterprising men would go a-head of the idle , ignorant , and improvident ; and we should soon come to the point again of ' too few capitalists , and too many labourers . "' I don't know what he means by " starting fairly ; " but I do know , that under the system he upholds , it is the "idle and ignorant" who " go a-head" of the " enterprising and the active ; " it is the hereditary landlord who goes a-head ofthe active , enterprising , and industrious labourer ; it is the monied capitalist who , lounging on his sofa , speculates on panic ,

      and turns starvation into gold , —who revels , listlessly on the blood and sweat of millions , —it is this man , I say , who ' goe 3 a-head" ofthe poor operative with his 7 s ., Cs ., and 5 s . a week , with his day Of weary toil , his life of hopeless misery , his old age of workhouse degradation , and his burial by pauper charity ; it is under his system , not tbat , as he says , " one man fructifies the labour of a thousand ; " but that a thousand fructify the idleness of one 1 It is under the system your correspondent upholds , that the small shop-keeper is heing devoured by the wholesale dealer , ruined by poor ' s rate , and crushed by the competition of the longest purse ; the small farmer pnd thc small tradesman are disappearing more rapidly every year , and the

      centralisation of wealth ii leaving but two classes in the country—the immensely rich and the miserably poor . It is the monopoly of the land which bars the only pathway of safety and progression ; to this , and not to free trade I principally ascribed our social evils . How is it that your correspondent says nothing on this head ? " I showed , from government returns , that there are eleven acres of productive land for every family in the United Kingdom , _reckoning _/ _" « to a family , and thence argued that the soil of the country was adequate to the support of the population—that the small farm system might be beneficially applied , — that its tendency would be to raise the wages ofthe mechanical operative by relieving the artificial labour market of its competitive surplus , —that our

      poor law , criminal , and sanitary expenditure would thereby be lessened , and home trade be created ; for home trade depends almost entirely on the prosperity of the working classes , and it will be evident that these , and these only , are the means by whicli such prosperity can be established and maintained . It is thus that the shopkeeper and the working man would be snatched from the jaws of ruin , and the downward tendency of our social system experience a salutary reaction . Can your correspondent deny this ? Will he tell me why the people should 3 tarve , when there are eleven acres of good land for every

      family ? Gr will he deny the premises ? If so , I challenge nun to the proof . It is to these points your correspondent should have directed his attention : tho _nocessary declension of our foreign commerce by foreign competition ; the inability to uphold our manufacturing supremacy , except by a further reduction of wages ; the absolute ruin -which such a reduction must occasion ; and , on the other hand , the great remedial measure , the placing the people on the land , which affords adequate mean- - for national prosperity , and tho only guarantee for its continuance . _Xot one word has the " Working Man " said on all these points !

      I now proceed to analyse the lucubrations ofthat profound reasoner and philanthropic Christian , who rejoices in the name of Mathetes , and _wij 0 _jg E 0 large ! v quoted by your correspondent—and to judge of the _' sack bv the sample , I find him endeavouring to establish * the fact that the interests of the labourer and the capitalist in this country cannot bo opposed to each other because there is no definite line' of demarcation " between rich and poor . He reisonsthus : — _, _,-..,, Tonttffiint fix upon any limit , ana say , above it all are rich , b 4 owiJ all are poor ; for if you tod upon any such _Uimfe th *; p \ , sigfBo » 9 t ' » halfpenny would make the diffe-

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      "" _TTTnnn and a poor man . _tfh & t berence between a _* * icll _" r thatthe rich _oy theirmonocomes , then , ot the "" J _^ _S _,, or « Who are the rich ? poly of power , keep _« _j jr uponi ag constituting wealth , Whatever _«»«« } _™ tolimlt , that the gain or loss of there are many so ne _* " m one class _jntotbo other _, sixpence w _^ remove tn _em _^^ _^ _mahtinctton i There can _^ _™ opp ° rich from the poor by ateoad and if we cannot _sepjra _^ assert } onj that one class and _ifr _^ _aoie _^ th ( J other ) . yag ( Je _aeoiBmatio ,, u ? - H _„^ XtSon of wealth is so infinitesimal from the W _**? , e _- _S _£ toe possessor ofthe minimum of property , m , K _£ ? o « men t upwards and downwards , through the _hnie series ofthe gradation so incessant , it is impossible _Xrn can be any casual antagonism in a community , as of rich and poor : ! . * _-, that the poor Mil be tkt < WHW « Of the wealth of the rich , or the r ich be tfie cause of the poverty of Ihe poor .

      .. What is the cause , then ? I would simply ask the writer this question : if he lays a hundred pounds weight on the shoulders of another , does he lessen the pressure by adding fifty or sixty ounces underneath ? The writer then goes on to inveigh against all compulsory rise in the rate of wages , by combination , strike , or other means . Granting that strikes are a costly remedy—that they oppose a greater evil by a lesser one , why does the writer , who inveighs against a compulsory rise , not inveigh as well against a compulsory fall ? As it is , the capitalist commands a competitive labour surplus hy drawing the population from their natural labour field , the land , into thc factory districts , and there again he throws fresh myriads _jmt of work by the

      development of machinery . Capital _enanies him exclusively to wield mechanical power ; and , surrounded by his rattling armour of machinery , ho turns upon his victims , and says * . — " the monopoly of the land forces you to rush as beggars to my factory-door , —my machine power enables me to do without your labour , —I am growing rich , but I am not satisfied , I will be richer , still , —I will curtail your wages , and pocket the difference , —you canjt refuse , ( according to MatheteV own words ) ' it is better to work for a little' ;' than to have ho work at all , '—for you have no alternative but starvation , since I monopolise machinery , and my brothermonopolist monopolises the land . ' If you grumble , there's the jail ; if you resist , there ' s the bayonet . The writer , however , not content with the height he has already reached , actually caps it with the following climax :

      The capitalists and the accumulators of property , are not only innocent o ! any oppression ofthe poor , of being in anj respect or degree the cause of their poverty , they aro , in truth , their best "benefactors . They absolutely become rich hy "benefiting them , by supplying them with all that they want on the best and cheapest terms . The prosperous manufacturer , is he , who by attention , skill , and industry , turns out the best and cheapest goods , who makes the cheapest calico for the labourer's shirt or his wife ' s gown . Unfortunately for his argument , the cheapness of the calico is based on the cheapness of wages—and little is the use Of hats , gowns , shirts , and coats being cheap , ( cheapened for a foreign market , ) if the labour of the workman is cheapened in a still creater ratio—and the cheaper the * goods that he requires are , the less able is he to satisfy that requirement . It is , therefore , we see the hatter hatless , the shoemaker shoeless , and the labourer foodless .

      " The benefits of capital" says Mathetes , " may be made still more evident . In ancient times when ivheat was ground into flour hyhanumiUs _, it was the constant work of one man in sis to grind flour for the six . Consequently one-sixth of the food was consumed in the grinding . " " The food was consumed in the grinding . " That is , the labourer received his hire—he had a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work—the producer of wealth did not starve himself . But now , according to his own words : "" Sow , six men in a steam flour-mill will grind food for sixty thousand , so that only a ten-thousandth part is now consumed for the grinding . The meaning of wbich is this : the power of machinery is monopolised by the capitalist , and made to act as the oppressor of labour , instead of its assistant—few men now live by the production of that wealth which formerly afforded employment and maintenance for many .

      The monopoly of machinery is as great an evil as the monolopy of land : these are the two great crying injuries against which the working man has to contend . The two great sources of wealth , land and machinery , are in the exclusive possession of a few landed and monied capitalists , and tbey dam up the stream as soon as it would flow over their own boundaries . Truly may Mahetes say : " capital is the reservoir of labour . " The capitalist , depending on foreign markets , is independent of the reaction low wages have on home trade—and , therefore , the shopkeeper may be ruined and the working man may die , as long as the capatalist can extend his manufactures and secure his profits . To increase these profits , the writer next endeavours to blind his readers as to the source whence theykire mainly derived ; for , he

      argues , all thafc limits the profits of capital , tends to a decrease in the demand for labour . Supposing this ( though no assertion can , by itself , be more illogical ) ivhere capital draws its profits out of decrease in wages , as under our present system , it is clear that the increase of labour cannot benefit thc working class as a whole , since , in the same ratio ia which labour increases , wages fall . This is exactly the case in England : from trying to forco an artificial market against foreign competition , the English manufacturer is obliged to sell at a cheaper rate , in order to realise the same annual profit he is obliged to manufacture so much more than he did before at the higher price , and to lower the wages of his workmen , which he does , as experience proves , in a still greater proportion . Here is the secret of our misery , disease , and crime .

      The existence of this misery and evil your correspondent never attempts to deny ; but in his attempted explanation of its cause he observes : — There is no mystery about the matter , it is simply this that labour _increases faster tlian capita ' . ; that , ii _£ a certain time , a thousand working men arc produced , hut only capital sufficient to employ eight hundred . How does your correspondent make this out ? Within ten years the revenue from thc land has increased by fourteen million pounds sterling per annum ; the number of agricultural labourers has decreased since 1811 by 300 , 000—capital _Aast ' ncreased faster titan labour , yet the wages of the agricultural labourers since 1807 have fallen from 15 s . per week , and advantages rendering them equivalent to 25 s . per week , down to 8 s ., while cottage rent has doubled within the same period .

      To advert to our manufactures : the personal wealth of the country has doubled within the last thirty years—the population takes fifty years to double its numbers—here again _eajiital has increasedfaster than labour , and yet the wages of the workmen have fallen in the same period by threefourths of their amount ! How does your correspondent reconcile this with the wild assertions of his friend ? And this is without reckoning the undeveloped capital—the twenty-eight million acres of uncultivated land—the twenty-seven millions of that which is cultivated , consisting in wood and

      pasturage—nay ! without reckoning the loss occasioned by unwilling idleness—for increased labour power gives increased production , and _thua increases capital , where , as in our country , the raw material of wealth , the soil , lies half neglected , and all monopolised I Now , sir , admitting , as he does , the existing misery of the people , what ia the remedy your correspondent , through his friend , suggests ? According to him , no blame is due to the capitalist—it is all the fault of the working man . But-your correspondent has a sovereign panacea for all our evils ;

      The capitalist or manufacturer is not at fault -, surely , it is through no oppression of his ; it is through no tyranny of capital , thatthe working man marries early , that his powers are vigorous , that his wife is prolific , that his children are numerous , stout and healthy , that they all grow up to men and women , that they have to work for a living , and that it is better to work for a tittle than to have no work at all ? "When men and womeu will not deny themselves pleasure for the salce of their own offspring , when no considerations of prudence restrain the passions , thero is neither sense nor justice in laying the consequences of fiueh selfish indulgence upon other men . —He has had the pleasure of getting children , itis nothing but fair that upon himself and wife should faU the more unpleasant task of keeping them .

      I blush for human nature in reading that gros 3 and bestial paragraph . It speaks for itself . It is the language of Satan marking the misery he has created ! I can easily believe it is not owing to the capitalist that the poor man's child grows up " stout and healthy "—alas ! it is owing to tho capitalist that he lives a withered wreck , and dies an early victim . Read the statement of Doctor Guy , of King's College , London , of the average longevity of the working classes in those towns where the capitalists hold their courts : —In Leeds ifc is nineteen years , in Preston eighteen , in Bolton _eighteen , in Manchester seventeen , in London seventeen , in Liverpool 15 ! while one out

      of every thrce-and-half deaths over fifteen years of age among the working classes is due to consumption !—Celibacy is the remedy of your correspondent—of course he is a bachelor himself . What ? Is marriage " selfish indulgence " for the poor and not for the rich ? Is the rich man ' s daughter born with a golden wedding-ring on her finger , and the poor man ' s child with the brand of barrenness ? Are the rule 3 of nature a nullity , and the dictates of God a crime ? Is the Bible a dead letter ? and the command of the Creator to our first parents but a mockery and a snare ? Are the people to live in celibacy , in order that tho rich may riot in lust ?

      The question is not , as your correspondent states , whether tho workingman shall force others to keep his family , but whether others shall be permitted to prevent bim from keeping thafc family himself . This is just what our social system does , by the monopoly of land and machinery , keeping a competitive labour surplus , a host of unwilling idlers , and reducing wages to starvation-point to swell the profits of a few capitalists . Ebw then , sir , I place my plan in opposition to his ; ho -says—though yonr -wages * may . be lowered , don't combine - _^ to raise , theni—if you can ' , live on the wages we choose to : pay _^ don't marry ,

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      don't have children—you , the million _^ forego the endearments of domestic life , tb <> sm ng partner and the prattling child—hay- ** , ' happy homes-cultivate no domestic _) virr _^ ea ave none to _gfoare your hopes or .,, so * -, ' Dhe your sorrows—live the . solitary hermits of a factory-hell—let the nation degenerate ar . d the species diminish , let the . land grow mora silent and more dreary , let the people decay beneath aeocks of gold , let the lifo of man ho a libel on the law of God—that we , tho few , may bave our profits , and revel in our lustful paradise . But I say : " Be fruitful and multiply ;" where * God created mouths , he has created food to feed them . According to Mathetes' plan tho people would decay—according to mine they would regenerate—by his the land would gradually sink into a frowning desert , peopled by a few emaciated slaves , and echoing merely with the whirl of

      machinery—by mine it would be turned to a smiling garden , decked with gay cottages , adorned with waving fields , and ringing with tho song of labour and the laugh of childhood—according to his plan , commerce itself must languish and expire—according to mine homo trade would flourish , and our ports still open to the produce of the world . Let the people choose between the two . And now a word for you , Mr . Mathetes ! -I believe in the Gospel-you don't ; I am a Christian-you are an Infidel ! Tou wish to destroy the happiness of man-I try to restore it . I have pro \ ed that there is plenty in the land for all , were it fairly administered-you have not denied _^ m _^^' -you have , like all your order , tried to blind your readers by _Suoblatey . and to silence your , opponents by _falsehood and calumny _J-JOU can ' _^ silence , me You shall always find mo ready to meet you and all vour class with the press , the pen , and the platform , _w in Iny other way tbat circumstances may

      Mr Editor , I conclude by informing your correspondent that I shall be most happy at any time to meet him or hia allies in that same Hall in Derby , in which he states he was " an attentive listener , " but proves himself to have been a false reporter . I am , Sir , Your obedient servant , Ernest Jones .

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      THE MINER'S OF THE NORTH . . 10 THB EDITOB OF TUB NORTBKKS STiR . Sir , —The coal owners are , it appears , just beginning to awaken from their long and undisturbed repose , in respect to the numerous accidents which so frequently occur in their collieries . "Up to tho present time , whatever the nature of those accidents might be , seemed not to affect them in the least , they relied upon the select machinery of a coroner 8 inquest to settle all by the stereotyped verdict of " accidental death ; " and now that the Miners' Inspection Bill has become law , they are taken by surprise , when told that they are sub jeefc to a penalty if they neglect to apprise the Secretary of State that an accident had occurred at their collieries .

      This mode of reasoning will be apparent , when it is announced that at an inquest held lately at Norwood Colliery , near Newcastle-upon-Tyne , the master had never so much as thought of writing to Sir George Grey in accordance with the act that an accident had occurred . Oh , no ! he was in happy ignorance of his duty , and thus exposed tho owners to the penalty of not less than £ 10 , nor more than £ 20 , as . ' specified by the fifth clause in the act . Again , a Mr , Knowles was brought up by the coroner in respect to an accident in his pit , and of which he had also neglected to forward an account to the Secretary of State . Ho also professed his

      ignorance of the provisions of the bill , although he attempted to cover any intended negligence , by averring that he was quite in favour of tho bill passing , < fec . Yes , no doubt those gentlemen speak tho truth when they stato that they were ignorant of the provisions of the bill ; most likely they understood the bill would be nothing but a bill , land that ifc would remain a dead letter on the statute book . Confiding souls ! they expected , I dare say , the coroner ' s court would hide all as heretofore ; therefore they express great surprise , when told they have laid themselves open to a penalty far non-observance of the conditions of the bill in question . But the above are not the worst features of the

      case . There is a colliery also near this town where a poor collier got burnt so badly that a few days of pain and suffering terminated his existence . Yet not only was the requisite notice to the Secretary of Stato neglected , but even tho coroner ' s inquest dispensed with ; and thus the questionable verdict of a coroner's inquest was refused , and the cause of death never inquired into , All theso instances goes to show the utility and necessity for the bill , for if they put in tho plea of ignorance this time , they cannot always benefit ; hy such plea . With respect to no inquest being held on the poor man who was burnt , there cannot be

      any justifiable reason assigned for that neglect , seeing ifc is an imperative duty of long standing'foi _* all such cases to bo investigated , and , however the other cases of neglect may be disposed of , that of not subjecting the cause of Mr . Blackburn ' s death to the scrutiny of the coroner ' s court must not be overlooked . The great anxiety necessarily manifested by thc colliers for the practicable exemplification of the bill , which has been passed to afford them relief from thc manifold ovils of badly ventilated mines , will be fully borno out by the following letter , which , along with many of a similar character , are daily being sent me , but which arc too numerous to publish : —

      Crow Trees Colliery , Durham , September 30 th . Deae Sm , —I am authorised by the workmen ot the colliery , to request you to write to the inspectors , who may have heen appointed under the recent bill for the mines of this country , and to inform them that this colliery is in a most deplorable state , in regard to the ventilation , which is ruining the men's health daily , and the masters are making no preparations to remove tho evil . Hoping you will let us know how you have proceeded , and what likelihood there is of this monstrous system being altered , so that we may riot be hurriod to a premature grave , wliich must be our lot , if no alteration takes place in this colliery . Yours , & _c , To 31 . Jude . B . W . I forward you the writer ' s name , but , for obvious reasons , dare not make it known .

      Thus are tho miners exposed to the certainty of ruined health and loss of life through the cupidity of their employers , and the tardiness of the government , in carrying out the provision ofthe bill , by not appointing inspectors instanter . However , it is to be expected thafc no further delay will take place in the appointment of tho necessary number of inspectors , so that the miners may have the full benefit of the measure as speedily as possible , inasmuch as delay in such a case means death to them . It is with pleasure I forward , also , an account of the manner with which the workmen of Unsworth Colliery treated the absence of inspectors , & c . The pit having fired , and burnt fivo persons , some of them very badly , the workmen became alarmed ,

      and resolved , to a man , not to work another day till an examination of tho pit was made . Accordingly , the master complied therewith , and the result was , that the place where the fire originated was condemned , the men determinately avowing thafc they would not work in that way any longer . Their unanimity secured the respect of their employer , for he at once fell into their view of the caso , and granted their request . Thus we havo the results of the union of sentiment and tho harmony of action among the men of thafc colliery , and similar results would no doubt follow , if the miners would but let those examples instruct them . It is a sad alternative to recommend , but where life is at stake what man , and who values property , the well-being of

      himself and family , would hesitate how to act under such circumstances ? But it is only by the whole number of workmen in a colliery , so ~ aoting , that good can be done , as the following will show . At Heaton Colliery a fire occurred a few days ago , and , although but little damage was done , and only one man slightly burnt , yet tho whole body of workmen beoame alarmed , and justly so , for the pit is literally full of inflammable gas , and but for a fortunate circumstance ( the lire having , as it is termed , " knocked " itself out , ) two hundred men and boys would have perished on that occasion . The major portion have , however , returned to their work ; yet , there are some who havo not done so ; but being few in number their secession is not heeded , and the pit is at work every day , except when the presence of gas is so abundant as to alarm them

      afresh , which is not unfrequently the case . Here then wo havo a pit so highly charged -with this inflammablo mixture that the workmen are in continual danger of being blown up , and no one dares to interfere . There is no authorised person to step in and proclaim the pit as being unfit for men to venture into . The sooner we have tho Inspector the better for the miners ; for , by the provisions of the "Miners' Inspection Bill" such pits would meet that doom to which they are justly entitled . Intending to register all such cases that como to hand , I would entreat of the miners , either to communicate with your Journal direct , or to forward if more convenient , such reports to me , taking care to send nothing but what is actually _truo , and to give their names as a guarantee for the authenticity of the same . Yours , & c , . ¦ M . Jode .

      A Survivor From Ins Royal George, —The G...

      A Survivor from ins Royal George , —The Gloucester Journal records tho death of James Ingram who was a native of tho county , and had for a Ion " period kept a roadside public house , called the Fox " on the top of Woodford-hill , about midway between Gloucester and Bristol . He entered the navy at au early age , and was on board the Royal _Georire of 138 guns , when she sunk off Spithead , in the summer of 1782 ., About 300 brave fellows were saved among whom was Ingram who had been on board the ill-fated vessel from the time of _herheimrnut into commission , ,

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      Wlbu-JUU uu v _» w . 0 _ _. Hamburg , Oct . 8 . —At mid-day on the 6 th , the Danes , probably thinking that they should find only a small number of dispirited Ilolf _teiners , made a Eally from Fric driohstad ; , but were repulsed w ith so much energy thatthey were glad to retreat , leaving their dead upoh . tne field . WuBTBHnuRa , Oct . 1 ' . — Thb National Assembly has called upon the government to have nothing to do with any intervention in Hesse Cassal . Philadelphia , Sept . 28 . —Tim Slave Question . —N otwithstanding tho recent pacificatory measures in nonffress between the north and the south , tho w

      7 ¦ _liiuutmiuv — - - LATEST ' FOREIGN NEWS . . _CasseIi , Oofc . 8 . —The garrison court has heard M . Oettker ' s case , and ordered his immediate release . " Col . Hildehrand has returned to OasBel , The Elector threatened to dissolve the army in caso of disobedience , and call in foreign aid . Ilaynau is ordered to carry out the decrees with all the power at his command . All the newspapers arc again suspended . Hanan , Oct . 7 . —The judges have seen the Elector , who was very wrath , and menaced hu visitors with imprisonment should they oppose the execut ion of the decree . : , . . . Aliona , Oct . 8 . —The expedition against iriea * richstadt is abandoned . The _guns were withdrawr ithout hindrance on the evening of the oth . .

      flame Of dissatisfaction and disunion still blazes in the latter region . There is a new and strange movement in Georgia , where thc Governor , Mi * . Town , has called a State convention—the delegates to be elected November 25 th , and the convention to meet December 10 th . The Govenor says in hia proclamation : — «¦ Your institutions aro in jeopardy , your feelings wantonly outraged , your social organisation derided , your honour deeply wounded , and the Federal Constitution violated by a series of aggravated measures all tending to the consummation of one object — the abolition of slavefy . '

      More than one of the South Carolina papers exhort Georgia to take the load in disunion , adding that " South Carolina will follow her example . Governor Quitman has convened the Legislature of Mississippi for tlio 20 th Octoboi * next with a view to advance tho peculiar policy now spreading at the south . The Southern Press ( a southern organ at Washington ) declares " that the point of endurance is passed —the destiny of the south is decided—she -will not submit . " South Carolina , which is the hotbed of disunion , will of course call a convention . Thus three States are about to be agitated , but it may be predicted that there will he much sound and fury , signifying nothing ,

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      LATEST HOME NEWS . Steam-Boat Explosion and Loss of Life at London Bridue . —On Thursday afternoon , between four and five o ' clock , a terrible accident happened on board the screw steam . boat known as the Erin ' s Queen , lying off Cotton ' s wharf , London-bridge , by which the head engineer was instantaneously killed , and the lives of two or three others greatly jeopardised . The vessel , which belongs to Messrs . Henderson , Oglebie , and Co ., of London and Belfast , arrived in the river on Tuesday last , and after discharging at the above wharf , she was reladen with her return cargo . On Thursday evening , at five o ' clock the hour appointed for the steamer to start ,

      the crew were busily engaged in getting the steam up . Whilst so employed it was perceived that one of the screws ef the '' slutch hole '' was rather loose , when John Ferguson , the engineer , and two other men , proceeded into the engine room , for the purpose of repairing the defect . The unfortunate engineer having desired one of the stokers to hold a light for him , he was in the act of screwing up the bolt , when ifc broke , and almost instantaneously the steam and boiling water rushed out with such force as to blow tho poor fellow as far aft as the bottom of the cabin deck . Tho man who was standing at his elbow with the lamp , although 9 truck on tho arm hy the iron bolt , managed . to rush up stairs , as did also another of the crow , and , strange as it may seem , neither received the slightest personal injury . Ferguson , the engineer , on the contrary , was

      quickly covered with boiling water , and , owing to the clouds of steam , some time elapsed before any one could * descend to render the least assistance . At length Captain Silly and several of his crew descended , when they beheld the unfortunate man lying on the floor of tho engine room , so scalded that when touched his flesh peeled from his body . A medical men was quickly iu attendance , who pronounced life quite extinct . The deceased has left a widow anJ two children . On Friday , Mr . W . Payne held an inquest at tho Vestry-hall , _Horsleydown , on the hody . 2 _fo new facts were elicited , and the jury returned tho following verdict : — " That the deceased was accidentally killed through using a spanner to turn the screw ofthe slutch hole doov , and recommended that the doors whenever practicable should be placed inside , to prevent a similar casualty from occurring .

      Accident at the South-Western _Railway Works . —On Wednesday morning , Edward-Cuff , a labourer employed by the South-Western Company in their factory at Nine-Elms , wa 9 in a place 'near ono of the engine houses , where there is a largo copper or cauldron for boiling and cleansing what is called the " waste" woollen- and cotton stuff used in cleaning the engines , when he was asked by the men in the joiner ' s shop to turn on the steam into thc pipes that heat their shops , and to do this he mounted on to . the copper , and by some means fell into it sideways . Ho managed to jump out , but in a most horrible state , being scalded with the hot water and oil in a dreadful manner , and . in his agony tore his jacket off , bringing skin and flesh

      with it , beforo he could be prevented . He was taken to Guy ' s Hospital , where he now lies in a highly dangerous and pitiable state . Alleged Murder of an Infant by its Paresis . —On Thursday a long inquiry was instituted before Mr . Baker , at the Queen's Head , Fleet-street , Bethnal-green , relative to tho death of Rosina Wasniak , six weeks old , who was alleged to have been murdered by her parents , Gaspard Wasniak and Deborah Wasniak . Tho father of the deceased is a native of Poland , and was in the 4 th Polish Infantry at the timo of the invasion of Poland by Russia . Tho jury gavo in thoir verdict , " That the deceased was found dead without any marks of violence , but there was not sufficient evidence to show how . the death was caused . "

      _Shockisg Colliery Accident . —Fourteen Lives Lost . —Manchester , Oct . 10 . —Intelligence reached hero to-day . of a serious and very shocking accidental ; a coal mine in Oldham , but I have not had time to ascertain the exact details , The first reports were that lightning had ignited the carburetted hydrogen gas iu the mines during a thunder storm yesterday , and caused an explosion , which had resulted in the death of a great number of the colliers . Another account , which seems more probable , is that some colliers were at work in one of the bays ofthe pit , lighted by a patent Davy safety lamp , and that a piece of coal they had separated from the roof fell on tho top of the lamp , destroying the gauze which covered ifc or forms the upper thus left

      portion , and that the light being exposed tired the mine . It appears , however , that a fearful explosion took place , and that the fire blazed so fiercely for somo time that the workmen could not be set at liberty . The mine belongs to Mr . Butterworth , of Oldham , and is near the centre of the town . The reports of tho number of persons killed vary—one heing that fourteen dead bodies had been taken out , up to four o ' clock this morning . Another statement is tbat cloven dead bodies have been taken from tho mine , and thafc ten other colliers have been taken out so burnt and exhausted , that ifc is not likely they will survive many hours . Tho mine is said to have been sunk two years , and to he imperfectly ventilated , no air pit having been sunk parallel with the shaft .

      CnARGE of Attempted Poisoning by a Soldier , — Tho adjourned inquest was held on Monday last , when the accused was committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the county of Dorset . [ The particulars of this caso will be found in the sixth page . *) Dreadful Accident by Machinery . —A shocking accident by machinery has been received at the General Hospital , Bristol . . Some men were engagod in taking down an engine at the Great Western steam-ship yard , when the shaft fell upon

      a poor fellow named _Miggs , and mutilated him in a shocking manner , placing his life in the most imminent peril . When received at tho hospital ) ho was in a state of collapse . His right arm was torn away , and only hung by a piece of flesh , his ribs and several of his other bones were fractured , and lie had received extensive injuries of the head and other parts of his person . His arm wa 3 immediately amputated above the injury , and his other ailments promptly attended to , but he lies in a precarious state .

      Tue Great Fire in Mark-Lane Three weeks had on Friday morning elapsed from tho timo the disastrous fire in Mark-lane broke out , and even at seven o'clock in the evening a great body of flamo remained in various parts of the ruins , so much so that tho firemen were obliged to be actively engaged in pouring water upon them . In somo places the fire was still ten feet deep . Thirty men have been daily employed , under tho direction of Mr . Toplis , his assistant , and Mr . Mackay , ono of the engineers of the Fire Brigade , in removing _salvage from tho ruins . Up to Friday _evening they

      had recovered about six tons ot Italian homp nearly twenty tons of ironwork , and Boldiers' muskets and sabres . They also recovered about fivo tons weight of buffalo horns , 300 bags of turmeric two tons of madder , ono ton of chicory , twenty tons of jute , two tons of horse-hair , about £ 1 , 000 worth of pigs' bristles , and an immense quantity of cloth and soldiers' clothing . Ifc is expected that it will take at the least another fortnight to get the remainder of the salvage out . The ruins at the present time present a singular appearance , for owing to vast qunatites of shellac having become melted and afterwards set together , t he men are

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      unable to break it , and during the day they work completely under it . The army accoutrements that have been extricated are nearly all destroyed ; and the splendid Oriental vases , sent as presents oy Indian officers to their friends in Englandi haye _ ail been melted . There are still known to be 1 U 0 pipes of oil in the ruins , forty cases of castor _' oil ,, and six tons of loaf sugar . The bristles known tobe in the premises when the fire occurred were worth £ _Jmy . Tho surveyors to the fire offices anticipate _^ _ettfng about three times as much property from the rums as they bave yet recovered . , ¦ _x - _ ... _ . _ _- _" between _•« . « _. _* . i _ *• I . j . v . _« _Jn _*» _-M-mxr -arnrlr

      Fire at Islington . — On Friday morning , four and fivo o ' clock , considerable alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Gibson-square , Islington , by the discovery ofa fire on the premises of a gentleman , named Lee , residing at No . 10 , _Milnerstreet . Mr . Leo was aroused by the smoke and crackling bf burning timber . He hastened up Btairs and alarmed the family , and they fortunately , but with great difficulty , escaped over the roof of the house . . Although there was a good supply of water obtained , the fire could not be extinguished until the premises were burnt out , and considerable damage was done to the adjoining houses .

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      SOUTHWARK , ~ Mons Police Brutalitt _.-Cornelius Bowen , a respectable looking middle aged man , was brought before Mr . A'Beckett on the following charges- . —Policeman Gingle , 109 M , stated that while on duty at the corner of _Fishmonger-allev , High-street , at half-past one o ' clock in the morning , he saw the defendant standing at a coffee-stall , with several women . They were talking and making a noise , and he desired the defendant to move on ; when he refused ,, and threatened to throw some coffee at him if he meddled with him . He ( the policeman ) then went towards the defendant , who seized him by the c ollar , tore his

      coat , and in tho struggle they both fell to the ground , but he succeeded in taking his assailant to the station-house . The defendant contradicted the policeman ' s statement , and called forward two witnesses on his behalf , who gave a very different version of the transaction to that alleged against him . One of the witnesses , Robert Martin , stated that he is an engineer , in the employ of Messrs . Barclay' and Perkins , and that he is a perfect stranger to all the parties . That ho happened to be near the spot at the time , and saw the defendant taking a cup of coffee at the stall , and heard him talking to some other man , but not in the manner to disturb the neighbours . That he ( _ivitness ) then observed the policeman come up and order the

      defendant to go oh , who at the moment was drinking the coffee ; and the latter made a reply , that he was disturbing no person and that he did not see why ho should be interfered with . He ( the defendant ) then placed his empty coffee cup on the stall , when the policeman , without uttering another word , rushed at the man and knocked him down on his back , and a bottle being in his coat pocket it was smashed , and ifc was only surprising he was not seriously injured . The witness added that the conduct of the policeman throughout was scandalous , and thafc the defendant committed no offence to justify such brutality as that which was inflicted upon him . —In reply to Jfr . A'Beckett , the witness said it was untrue of the policeman to assert that

      thero wero a number of women on the spot at the time , there being only two females present ; that the defendant might have been talking rather loud , but not at all in a tone to disturb the inhabitants . He ( witness ) distinctly saw the policeman rush at the man , and knock him down in the way described . Another witness confirmed this evidence . —Mr . A'BeekUfc said that it wa 9 necessary that policemen should be protected in the execution of their duty . In this particular case , however , it appeared that there were no just grounds for the policeman ' s interference with the defendant while drinking his coffee , and that instead of the latter committing tho first assault , it was proved by two competent witnesses the policeman was the aggressor ; that the public must also be protected from such conduct as that described , and therefore , under the circumstances , he should discharge the defendant .

      . BOW-STREET . —Embezzlement .-Samuel Simpson , a young man in the employ of Messrs . Schoolbred and Co ., linendrapers , of Tottenham-courtroad , was charged with embezzling the sum of 20 s . —Mrs . Harriet Kerchid deposed that on Saturday last sho went to Messrs . Schoolbred to purchase various articles , and the prisoner was the young man who served her . The bill came to £ 1 6 s . 4 d ., an invoice of which the prisoner gave her . —Arthur Benman , cashier , stated that it was the prisoner ' s duty to bring at once all monies which might be paid him , and at the same time a copy of the invoice given to the customer . Upon the first witness leaving the shop on Saturday afternoon last the prisoner brought witness 6 s . 4 d ., pretending thafc that was the amount he had just taken . His invoice was also for 6 s . £ . —Mr . Bowen , chief clerk in the firm , gave the prisoner into custody . —He was committed to take his trial .

      Suspected Robbery . —John Collins , a carman in the service of- Mr , William Bloomfield , carrier , carrying on business at tho King ' s Arms-yard , Snow-hill , was charged on suspicion with being concerned with others not yet in custody iu stealing a truss of cloth , value £ 150 , the property of his employer , —Mr . Bloomfield stated thafc the prisoner had been in his employ from a very early age , and consequently he was always looked upon as a trustworthy servant . On Friday morning last a load of goods was committed to him for delivery , portions of which consisted of trusses of cloth , to be left at the establishment of Messrs . Bull and Wilson , in St . Martin ' s-lane , and on his return ho informed witness that the property in question had been

      stolen from the cart , which he had communicated to the police at the station of this court , upon which inquiry was made , and ifc was found that the property missing- consisted of three pieces of the best cloth , being the most valuable of the lot , and not being the foremost in the cart , it must have been picked out from others of less value and less exposed , which induced him to give the prisoner in charge . Witness lost no time , but in the course of the evening offered a reward of £ 20 for the recovery of the goods . —Joseph Turner said that he was cleaning the windows of his employer , Mr . Bailey , 13 , Lincoln-inn-fields , on Friday last , when he saw a cart standing in the carriage way at the east side of the square , apparently about to start

      for the City , when a cab drove up alongside , and a man lifted a heavy parcel from the cart into ifc , and having got up * beside the driver , they went off at a quick rate . After a few minutes the cart moved on , and he heard nothing more of the matter , until he heard that handbills were circulated in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane offering the reward spoken to by the last witness , which induced him to communicate what he had soen to Inspector Dodd . Ho believed thatthe prisoner was the man who had charge of the cart when the occurrence took place . —The prosecutor informed tho magistrate that when the last witness was in attendance on Saturday evening last at the station , he identified the

      prisoner from several others , —Mr . Gilham submitted that there was no proof of the prisoner having any guilty knowledge of the robbery , wbich was perfectly clear from his having , without any loss of time communicated with the police that a robbery had been committed , instead of having absconded , had he been in collusion with the persons who had , unfortunately , been the cause of placing him in such difficulties . —Mr . Jardine considered that however long the prisoner might have been in the service of tho prosecutor , the charge against him was so full of suspicion , that thero was no alternative but to remand him for a week .

      MANSION HOUSE . — " The Silent System" os Begging . —Jeremiah Smith , a man of colour , who has been within the last three weeks begging in the most eloquent silence through the principal streets about tho Bank , was brought before Alderman Gibbs for having resolutely pursued his vocation notwithstanding the numerous hints received by him from the police and others . It has been the defendant ' s plan to squeeze himself with tho most impressive humanity into some public corner , so thafc without obstructing the passage of any one , he and his distress were seen by the crowd , and the first impulse a stranger would feel upon beholding such an object would be tho offer of relief . Sometimes his judgment directed him to the use of lanand then

      _guage , he told his story with apparent frankness and honesty which seldom failed to secure a hesitating victim . Ho has been in tho habit ot withdrawing occasionally from tho immediate scene of his profitable labours to the public-houses or beer-shops in the various thoroughfares , and there smoking cigars , which it is said ho ureatly prefers to tho old fashioned pipe of tobacco . ' When ho was apprehended he had three shillings in pence , and sixpence in silver in his pocket , and in his hand a half consumed Havannah . —Alderman Gibbs : _Jvow , you have been spoken to fifty timos about begging , and you can certainly get work in the cocks . Defendant : The work is slack in the docks , your honour , and I assure you I did not ask for a farthing of tbat money , people kindly gavo it me . —

      Alderman Gibbs : Exactly so , and whilo you get monoy in that way you will not work either in or out of the docks . Some gentlemen in the justice room said they could not resist the temptation to give the defendant somo coppers upon looking at the " _melancholy exhibition . —Alderman Gibbs said that the performance was no doubt perfect , and he was bound to prevent it from drawing for some time bv transferring ifc to Bridewell for the space of twentv one days , and by directing thafc the money found upon his . person should be used towards his support during that time . _'t > _uvu Paying Rather Dearly for a _Whisttv _ t _^ y ,., Kelly , aboufc 12 years old , was cha _^™ _hTaW broken open a locker in the _Clotles Markot _^ f _Cutler-streefc , withiutent tO Steal the content The prisoner had _^ been seen walking alone with tm " blinds , " a b ack and white dog and a firi both of which ho was _u the habit of u sing _inE _' trade of

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      theft , in whioh , although so young , he had been _^ _T " expert and successful . He carried a whistle _^^ he blew upon the approach of danger , and th « , •* _W ? " immediately answered by a rush from aL ° aiJ of Petticoat-lane thieves , and generally by a rl n _** The girl has _boen the immediate reci pient ? f > " swag , " and the dog was stated to be the hit ha enemy of the police and others who are inter * . * 5 in the preservation of peace and the _diminutil 1 robbery . Upon tbe present occasion £ mZ _? was disappointed , and hia whistle having been , * cured , he was unable to summon his friends to fl rescue .-Alderman Gibbs : Let him be taken -l C ? stairs and soundly flogged , so that he may _r-Z ** ber the day , The Prisoner ; Oh dear , don ' t _^ me , and III promise to cut away from y 0 u _!{!? gether .-Alderman Gibbs . * . So ; you must go alt taking with you a wholesome whipping . y » _thn-ff lw _nr _^ _t _AV -iai i _ _ * -. _TT '— - _^ _S

      Attempted Suicide . —A young man , who looked extremely ill , was brought up charged with having taken essential oil of almonds , for tbe purpose of destroying himself . It appeared that the defendanfj had , under the influence of drink , taken a dose of the poison , which was , however , taken from hia stomach at Guy's Hospital . He said he was sorry for having made the attempt , as well as for tfan abominable cause of ifc . Remanded . Robbery . —Richard Shaii , and Hannah Shail , hig mother , were charged , the former with stealing and the latter with receiving , a quantity of sil | j cloths , & c ., tho property of Mr . Hewett , linen draper , in High Holborn . —The male prisoner had lived in the prosecutor ' s service for ten years . On Tuesday be was suspected of appropriating somo

      linen dusters and a piece of silk , and a detect " ™ officer being sent for , he was narrowl y watched He left the shop in the evening with a parcel under his arm , and was followed by Sergeant Thompson to Shadwell , where he resided , and where the office ? took him into custody with the articles in his poses 9 ion .. Next morning tho officer went to tha prisoner ' s house , at 25 , Spencer-street , and found a quantity of stock , since identified by Mr . Ilewetfc which the prisoner ' s mother said had been _brought home : by her son . — Mr . Jardine remanded tha prisoners , accepting hail for the mother _MANSION-HOUSE .-Robbbby or Mr . Ccnai ton . _—H . Denham , who was apprehended by Haydon and Brettin the

      , Red Lion public-house , in Pearl . row , St . George ' s-fields , upon suspicion of having , in conjunction with two others , desperately assailed and robbed Mr . Cureton , of Aldersgate-street , _waj brought up for further examination . Mr . Humphreys attended for the prosecution , and Mr . WqdU ner appeared for the prisoner . The police-room was crowded . Mr . Humphreys requested a _fuj _* . ther remand of the prisoner , as he had so soma further information , which it would not then ba prudent to disclose . —Mr . Wontner could prove an alibi . The prisoner had been ill for some tinie _, and the imprisonment added to his indisposition . — Alderman Gibbs ; I shall remand the prisoner for a

      week ; and let him be placed in the infirmary , in which I have been given to understand he has been strictly attended to by tbe surgeon . —The prisoner was then taken down to the cell upon the ground floor , which he had scarcely reached when Haydoa informed the Alderman that there was a gentleman in the court who had been looking at the prisoner and at once identified him as one of a gang who had _en « deavoured to choke him with an instrument exactl y like that which was exhibited in the justice room on the last day ' s examination . —Alderman Gibbs immediately directed that the prisoner should be again put to the bar , and that the new complainant should enter the witness box , and the alderman narrowly bserved the countenance of the

      o prisoner when informed thafc there was another accusation against him . —A gentleman who appeared to be in great agitation then presented himself ; and , after a glass of cold water was administered to bim , said , " My name is Thomas Miller , and I am an artist colour . man and paint manufacturer , at No . 56 , Long-acre . It is now rather better than a month ago to the best of my recollection , since an attempt was made to rob me . One Friday evening I returned towards my house from Chelsea , along the _King's-road , I arrived at St . James ' s Park as' the clock struck twelve . I then made the best of my way from the park to Long-acre , where I have resided forty years , and as I was passing by Rosostreet , the entrance to which is a sort of covered wayI was

      , seized by three or four men . I saw an instra . menfc at the Bow-lane station house , havino _* a life preserver at the top . It resembled a walking stick , and appeared to be mada of a gut or something of a pliable description ; and with just such an instrument I was caught round the throat . " - Alderman Gibbs : Did one of the men at the corner of _Rose-streefc put the instrument round your neck ? Witness : Certainly ; and tho compression was so great that a person under its operation would feel as if throttled immediatel y . —Alderman Gibbs : Do not say what would bo the probable effect of the application _, of the instrument upon another person . Lei us know merely what its effect was upon you .

      Witness : I had a sense of suffocation immediately , and I was thrown with violence on tho kerbstone . Ono of my teeth was broken , and my chin was severely injured at the same time . —Alderman Gibbs : Looli at tho prisoner at the bar , and say whether tou know . anything about him . Witness . * I have " no hesitation in saying that the prisoner is one of those who attacked me . I have a recollection of the face from the strong reflection of tho gas lamp upon it . My recollection was so strong , that the moment I looked at him at the bar I was almost ready to sink . —The prisoner : Oh Lord , oh Lord ! Howwieked .-Alderman Gibbs : Do you apprehend that he was tha man who put ' the instrument round your neck .

      Witness : Ido—Alderman Gibbs : Didy oulose _anvthins I Witness : No . My pockets were tightly buttoned U P- I struggled , and struck one of my assailants , and I think I must have marked his face with mv knuckles . —Alderman Gibbs : How many were at you to the best ofyour belief ? Witnnes : 1 believe there were three at me , and that one was on the lOOk out . When I was assaulted it was a quarter past twelve to a moment . The prisoner : Oh , it ' s a cruel thing—a most cruel thing . _No sooner doe 3 one charge fail than another wicked _charire it brought on . Oh , I was not out of my bed at the time he

      speaks of . I- was seriously ill at the tir » e > and I can prove it . —Witness : I wish to see the prisoner with his hat on his head . The prisoner put on his hat . Witness ( having looked steadfastly at the prisoner : I cannot alter my opinion as to his identity . The prisoner : Ifc was only a ft **" - moments ago I had my solicitor here . Why wii not this charge brought forward in his presence : Oh , you may as well hang a dog as give hini a _bw name . I know nothing at all about these wicked charges . —Alderman Gibbs ; The absence of . vo _" ' solicitor will nob affect you at all . You stand remanded until the time I mentioned .

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      _COItX . Makmane , Wednesday , Oct . 9 . —Wehadalai *« e supp lv of English new wheat , wliich was taken offiather slow !/ by the millers , at Friday ' s deduction of ls to 2 s per _¦ The same decline took place on forei gn wheat where s ; i ! _i- could be effected . For flour thero was less demand , am ! French marks were 2 s per sack cheaper . New maliiiS barley is still scarce and wanted , and fine foreign for _ili * - tillers' use , sold pretty readily , but grinding sorts war * duller sale . Old malt is very dull , and no new yet at _isarket . Beans aud peas weut oft" very heavily at lower F « - ' unless very hue . We had not so many foreign oats attire * but a better supply from Ireland and coastwise Our buyers in consrauence held oil , aud the best qualities sold oa rather lower terms . _nuumreo

      CATTLE . Smithfield , Monday , October - .-The receipt of _be-i _**! - _' S _& Pr 0 " ' - >" mi _"S districts werf S ea _« .. _; . W ) fZ ?• Th 1 ™ ? l ernl _condition was by no _nift-nw hr * quest it 2 * 5 f _? ° mid Southerns were _msUU'lvrf Swtoff _tn n _£ PnC _, ' but St lnllst * - " * oWervea . ito- ; forbi . frti , n _n * . WaiU ° f lualit - . tlio highest srouurul ng * r _^ met a Rl _^ , ° XCeed ys 10 _J P _«* Slbs- l _*>* ' < _*** io 1 , t"' _' _- _afes wir SUle ' . and t 0 _oflfcet a clearance rather e . «» Ift _^ m ! accepted b y the salesmen . There _uas _ahw _* hfSfKvV . _- _? r of slu- - _* P on oiler as those exhibit ** ' ? _khI 2 _^ ' _"" "Sht . which if we deduct the foreign _sup-Bes , must be considered small . On tha whole , tlie "f _" ' ion trade ruled steady , at tha lato improvement in vf ; ihe highest fi gure fov the best old Downs was 4 s H I' - " " " . lbs . We had a moderate inquiry for calves , at about ¦ ¦ '• * nonary prices , The pork trade ruled steady , but \ w «»¦• no change to notice in the currency .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12101850/page/8/