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      Charge Of Attempted Poisokikg By A Wife....

      e or the purpose of lulling Terminin children's heads . - —Mr . Knox : What quantity would destroy life _?—ieflr . Leaton said that depended on circumstances _, ceff taken in small quantities it would be likely to act wan the constitution . e Tbe _Chathmax asked Hayward if he had any of pjhe apple pudding ?—Hayward : 2 Jo ; that was put , _iway , and I could not find it . ri A piece of toast was produced on which there _apnbeared to be a white powder , and Havward stated othat on the Monday at dinner-time Ms wife _brought ; dum some broth , in which there appeared something i white ; after faking 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 hira at tea-time _tl- _»« _ .. __ __* 1 * H ! . _ • 4 . . j .

      _sthe same day . —The Cliairman : Who served you iwith this toast ?—Hayward : My wife brought it up sstaws to me when I was ill in bed . The firsttime I _charged her with it she denied it ; the second time iishe said she bought the stuff , and she wished to ( shake hands and make it up , and said she would _bei have well to me all her life . —Mr . Pearson : Did she Bsay what she bought it for ?—Hayward : So ; she [ denies every thing . I found my constitution was ! going , and I thought it right to do something _, i Dr . Bibb was sent for by tbe bench , and _thechairi man having explained to him the charge , said they _i wished to know thenatnre of the poison . —Dr . Bird : I think it is not destructive of life , because tbe stomach will hardly ever retain it ; it will produce sickness , said be thrown ofij and therefore I do not think it would be deleterious on that account . —The

      Chairman : But still it was administered with intent to destroy life ?—Dr . Bird : _Jfo doubt of that . —Mr . Pearson : Iftaken 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 sahL of corrosive sublimate a small quantity would be sufficient to destroy life , but enough of this he thought could not be retained on the stomach . —Mr . Knox asked if it was notoften usedfor medicine . —Dr . Bird : We use it largely as an outward application . However often repeated , I think sufficient wonld not be re tained to be likely to produce death- It would injure the person , no doubt , as it would be attended with certain 01 effects , such as the vomiting , but not sufficient to produce death .

      Mr . Kxox a 3 ked Hayward if his wife bad ever threatened him?—Ifoywardsaidsheneverthreatened to do anything in that way , or to hurt him ; but she had been very violent when he had talked to her and reasoned with her . A . discussion took phce between the magistrates as to ihe course to he pursued , it appearing that , as the medical man thought the powder would not produce death , the case was not reached by tbe 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 might find bim dead and stiff in tbe morning , a warrant was issued for her apprehension . In the mean time the magistrates consulted Professor Taylor ' s work on poisons , which seemed to give a different complexion to the esse ; and when the wife was brought up she was charged with feloniously and unlawfully attempting to administer to her husband -white precipitate , with intent to kill and murder him .

      The Prisoner said if there was anything is the pudding or the toast , her husband put it there himself ; for she declared hefore God and man sbe did not . Hatwabb repeated tbe statement he had 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 be had not time ; but she said , ' Oh , you arc 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 he should not , and went up stairs . After that she said she bought the stuff for the children ' s heads . — Mr . Knox : Did you send 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 me some pills , and I took them . —Mr . Knox : Had you any suspicion on the Monday that she was poisoning you % — Hayward : I had not the slightest suspicion then . The prisoner was told she might ask her husband any question . —Tbe Prisoner : It is of no use for me to ask him any question , for if it was ever so wrong he wonld say it if it was against me . He turned me out 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 tbe broth , she took it awav and eat it herself . —Mr .

      _Knox : You give no account of where you got the powder . —The 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 thatgoes to the school , and is about nine years old . Mr . Bakeh , _jbx ., on being sent for , and being shown the powder , said 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 . —The chairman : Do yon sell it to anybody ?—Mr . Baker : Yes . —The chairman : If a child came in nine years old , should you let him have it ?—Mr . Baker : Yes . —Tbe _Chairman : Is it poison?—Mr . Baker : Oh , it is poison , and we write poison on it . We keep it done up in Id . and 2 d . packets , and it is usedfor children ' s heads . —The Bench : Do you think it wonld destroy life?—Mr . Baker : I think it would . —The ehauraan : You never knew a case of the sort ? The medical evidence is that it would not . —Mr . Baker : It would be uncertain ,

      because some might be retained on the stomach , though the party had Tomited . 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 ofthe powder , were written on the paper . ] Mr . Kxox asked Hayward if his wife could read ? —Hayward said a little , but she could not read writing . Editabd _PEBrwEB , 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 , of 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 the magistrates had consulted , the Chairman told tbe prisoner this was a charge of a very _Eeriousnatnreagainsther _. andtheyhadendeavoured to go into all tbe _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 Life And Property By A Ru...

      DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY BY A RUNAWAY TRAIN . On Saturday morning last a fatal accident occurred at the P * re > ton-s . « reet Station of _theWhite-Iiaren and Furness Junction Railway , which was attended with a melancholy lossof life . As the eight o ' clock down train was passing along the line from Barenglass to Whitehaven , on the part lyins between the latter-named town and the village of St . Bees , where the inclination begins to have a descent towards the town of about 1 in 100 , the dnver shut off the steam , and put on the convoy which , in consequence of the hoar frost lying upon the rails , failed to fake effect ; the result was that the tram

      proceeded ata fearful rate to _thesrat-on , at the extreme end of which it received a slight check from the S pieces , placed there to prevent engines from passing over the rails . It knocked down a yaid-wall , separating the premises of the railway company from tbe adjoining dwelling-houses , tore away the outer -wall of a substantial stone built house , occupied by Mr . Pennington , a respectable schoolmaster , carr ied away the whole ofthe kitchen belonging to _thebuild-Jnsv and broke through the partition wall between that apartment and the back parlour , and the . e loded . more than half of its huge bulk being within

      tbe ' re * ideace . 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 carriages on to the platform , fortunately without any injury to any of them . The rest retained their places until the train and tender were unhooked from the locomotive . The engine driver , stoker , and guard saved them-Bplves bv lumping to the ground the moment they

      perceived that an accident was inevitable . The most melancholy part of the affair is . that when the engine burst into the kitchen of Mr- Pennington , a little girl named Jane Pennington , about ten years old , the daughter of the occupier , was seated at the fire singing , and watching the preparat ion of breakfast for the family . She was instantly Imocked down bv the stones and timber forced into the room , and the off-wheel of the engine passed _writer bodv , crushing and _dreadfully mutilating

      her She was killed instantaneously . Herbrotcer , Matthew Pennington , about eight years old , had Sq _Sdherside and stepped _*»*• _* _" _££ _Se wall of which was the next moment thrust m _SSTtto fire-grate , ft * chimney , and household _Jnrnitnrt The child was thrown to the floor , and i

      taught by Mr . Pennington , he ana « s _™^ T _S , at the time the melancholy event happened . S 3 Tit transpired on any other working day the _ifanX vrould have been seated at breakfast f _^ m more disastrous . As it was , the scene beCa 33 _wasliSinghi the extreme ; amingled presented wasjus _^ 5 d fflimtur orna mass t ° _rfnme _^ c _nteX and children ' s wearing _apments , _^^ _Sln gme standing _ovec the

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      railway is an incline , sloping , to Whitehaven for nearly three miles , but at the gentle gradient of cne in a hundred feet . There had been a severe frost on Friday night , which had rendered the rails extremely slippery ; and the engine-driver states that although he used the ordinary precautions of putting on the brakes , and even of reversing the en » ine Ion ? before reaching the station , no effect was produced thereby . This statement , however , is controverted ; and it is alleged that no effort was made to check the speed of the engine , notwithstanding the ice upon the rails , until the train had arrived too near the terminus for the brakes to avail . The en-.. * •*• »_ - _« - » .- -

      gme-dnver , it is added , is not a skilled or practical engineer , but a stoker , recently promoted to the post of engineer from the Whitehaven aud Maryport line . In the afternoon of Saturday a coroner ' s jury was summoned to hold an inquest on the body ofthe unfortunate child , but after having been sworn and attending to view the remains , the inquiry was adjourned . The inquest upon the child was held on Monday and lasted five houn . The jury , after a long discussion , brought in a verdict of "Accidental death , in consequence of aa error in _judgment ot the enginedriver , and they considered that there is a great want of protection of life and property at the Furness and Whitehaven terminus . "

      Attempted Murder At Manchestergreat Sens...

      ATTEMPTED MURDER AT MANCHESTERGreat sensation was created at Manchester on Sunday , by a report that a man named Barnsley residing in the part of the town catted Gay thorn bad made a desperate attempt to murder h's wife . —On information being lodged at the _Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall police station , police-constable Anderson went to the scene of tbe shocking occurrence in search of Barnsler . He found the door of tbe house fast , and immediately proceeded to force it open . It appears that Barnsley had made no attempt to get away , for he was found up stairs . The policeconstable took him at once into cus ' ody , and without opposition conveyed Urn to the lock-up . By this time intelligence of the dreadful affair had got abroad

      amongst the neighbours , and an immense concourse of people had assembled round the door of the house , and their feelings were vented in execrations upon the prisoner as the police led bim from tbe house , and some fears were entertained lest the crowd should proceed to violence . —On Monday morning the prisoner was brought to the borough court for examination before tbe magistrates , and an immense crowd of people _attempted to obtain admittance . The bearing ofthe prisoner at the bar exhibited much indifference to the crime with which he was charged . —Mr . Superintendent Taylor stated the circumstances under which the prisoner had been apprehended . — Mrs . Margaret Jones was next examined , and said I live next door to the bouse of the prisoner , at 14 ,

      Rowe-street , Gaythorn . I was sitting in my own honse yesterday evening , when I heard loud shrieks coming from the next house , and a cry of " murder . " The prisoner and his wife lived there . I ran immediately to their back-door , and attempted to gain admittance , but found tbe door was fast , and I knocked and called as loudly as I was able ; but for a time no one answered me . I heard Mrs . Bamsley ' s voice and I thought she said , " Oh , dear , don ' t murder me , for the sake of our child 1 " Afterwards I heard her exclaim , " Oh ! 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 aa I was able , for the purpose of stanching the blond , 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 be 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 the prisoner up stairs , lying on tbe 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 he did not propose to offer any further evidence on this occasion , but would simply apply to the magistrate to remand the prisoner until that day week . —The prisoner was accordingly remauded 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 _.-e-We iearfl that the prisoner is a boiltr-maker by trade , but has been out of work for five frsk months . He is 42 years of age , and his wife is 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 bis wife .

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      The War against Rent still continues to be waged , in various parts of the country with varied results . Present appearances give rise to the belief that a winter campaign is in preparation which will find work for the police and the troops . The following from the Cork Constitution will give an idea of the manner in which this novel warfare is carried on : — " A great deal ofthe corn which was being conveyed away from Sir George Colthurst ' s bailiffs on Sunday , the 3 dth ult ., was subsequently thrown on the sides of the roads at Ballymountain on the appearance of the military . Early on Monday last twelve men , with six horses and cars , belonging to Sir George , proceeded to Ballymountain , with a view of bringing back the corn , The parties who

      had it in charge refused to give it up , when orib of tbe bailiffs had 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 ears were loading , whistling , yelliRg , 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 would be exposed to had he persevered in having 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 thus 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 tbem beyond all danger . " The accounts from other parts of the country indicate an equally wide spread determination on the part ofthe producers ofthe crops not to surrender to those who claim the produce of their toil on the ground of then- abstract right to the soil on which they were grown . The Nation 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 indepndent subsistence , waxes fiercer and more fatal . The Sunday or nightly 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 arc _^ the bulletins which daily reach us from tho agrarian war that is now vigorouslv 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 , and acting by the only means at its disposal , d is

      is doing its work well . It merits , an 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 the 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 in turn to use her name—lending no very constant or effective aid to any one . The nocturnal plundering' — tbe ' impious Sabbath breaking' which the landlord press so constantly

      bemoans—these grievous misdeeds are 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 withthe decalogue , and fined the parties concerned five shillings Irish enrrency each ; As the struggle grows fiercer , so do the denunciations of the landlord press , levelled at all who share or sympathise in it . Lying epithets are daily vomited at us , and constant misrenresentations " of our principles ventilated under

      the choice titles 'Robbery' and 'Communism . ' We have 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 propertv held through his starvation is robbery —then and not under other circumstances . We believe that there ia 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 hand , the Cork Repot ter , a quast " Youn" Ireland " journal , advocates the primary and salted _unoerativeaess of . the great principle

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      Pay your debts . " "Our contemporaries of the press , who write in a fierce and denunciatory strain on the subject of rents , would do well to remember that there are persons who positively have nothing else to live on-persons , too , who are not all ' robbers ,- and ' spoliators , ' and ' oppressors / but people who are subject to the vices and possessed of the ordinary virtues of humanity . We are not landlords , nor of the landlord class , nor under any sort of 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 especially excluded from its application . We have , moreover , a firm conviction that all human society is held together by the bond of this sacred ordinance , and that any country in 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 , with disappointment and disgust , in one instance with sincere pain , lately perused , in the _columus of some Irish newspapers , direct and earnest appeals to the tenants of Ireland , which , however meant , will assuredly be taken , by those to whom they are addressed , to mean an advice universally and 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 ' repudiated . '" Meanwhile , the landlords are very generally endeavouring to set "their houses in order , " by f ranting , on the compulsion of the time , large _reunions 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 .

      SANGUINARY COSFLICT—ONE POLICEMAN _KILLED ,

      AND FOUR WOUNDED . On Sunday night , about eleven o ' clock , Constable Hall , or 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 of a number of cars , oh the same road , followed by between fifteen and twenty men , who appeared to be armed . This display induced him to send to the _Mountbolus 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 rooming , the tramp of an approaching party , accompanied by horses " and cars , was heard . This

      induced Constable Halt to range his Bmall force , leaving six on one side of tbe barrack , arid keeping his own four men in front 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 tbe party—who was John Eeyes , of Caparogan , near Clonasioe , stepped forward and said" Constable Hall , don ' t you know me ? Why am I to be stopped ? lam but removing my crops and cattle , which are not under seizure ? The constable in reply , stated that tbe _transaction seemed very suspicious , and said he was determined , at least , to take down the names of the parties implicated in

      the movement before be would let them _pasa . Keycs again expostulated ; but the constable evinced a stern determination at carrying out his purpose , when the former exclaimed , " Armed men to tbe front 1 " There was an answering motion , which was immediately succeeded by a volley of fire-arms , causing the death of Sub-Constable Patrick Mortimerinflicting mortal wounds on two others of the party , seriously injuring Constable Balfour , of Mountbolus , on the right hip , also perforating bis pouch-box with several slugs , and depriving Constable Hall of three fingers of his left hand . Four shots were immediately returned by the pob ' ce , and it is supposed with deadly effect . One of tbem was discharged by Sub-Constable Mortimer , after receiving bis death wound .

      two by Sub-Constable Gleeson , though be had his thigh broken in two places . Sub-Constable Doyle was dangerously wounded in tbe 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-tliird of tliem were armed-The police retreated to their barracks . It is supposed that the mob succeeded iu carrying away all the property . It is believed that some of them have been either killed or wounded , as traces of blood were found on the road . - After the parly had gone away , information wan 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-Inspector Cox , of Frankford ; Hill , of Mountmellick ; O'Mallie , of Tullamore ; 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 , fire arms were found , which appeared to have been recently discharged . Three of tbe inmates of Keyes ' s house were arrested , but they assume utter ignorance of tho transaction , though the butt-ends of several candles were found in the house ; and persons can be produced to prove to the loading of the 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 he 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 , wont 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 ihe 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 tbe body 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 Frankford , with other medical gentlemen , 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 crrps and cattle from his farm , which is in the neighbourhood of Clonaslee . —Leinster Express . An inquest was held on Monday at Tullamore , when a number of witnesses were examined , principally , of course , on the part of the police . The jury came to the following verdict . — " That Patrick Mortimer had come to his death by a wound inflicted by a bullet fired from a gun or pistol , on the morning of Sunday the 14 th inst . ; and that John Keycs arid Joseph Keys had been feloniously assisting in committing the said murder . " The coroner instantly committed Joseph Keyes ( who had been taken by Mr . Coel for trial , and descriptions of John Keycs , who has absconded , have been

      forwarded all over the country . The magistrates then proceeded to take informations against the other parties charged , and decided on remanding them until Monday next . _Constabulary B-EiXFOBCEMEM . —A strong reinforcement of police was ordered from Dublin to the King ' s county immediately on the accounts being received of the fatal collision there on Saturday . Compulsory Demand fob Work . —A proof of the will but inability of the 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 County Clare and other distant parts ofthe country , at the railway worka near Galway . They endeavoured to force themselves on the steward , who called in the aid of the police to disperse them .

      Cultivation of CmcoRT . —The Clonmel Chronicle contains the following : — "An English capitalist bas visited Tipperary to take a large piece of land for tbe purpose of cultivating chicory . He requires several hundred acres of the 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 . " Tae Potato Cnor . —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 Imsn Linen Tbade . — The linen and yarn trade ofthe north is in a very prosperous condition .

      Yousg _InELAsn Re-orgasisation . — The nation 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 new organisation . The Repeal Association . — Dr . _O'Higgms , Roman Catholic Bishop , of Ardagh , has promised Mr . John O'Conneil his aid , and that of his clergy , in the attempt " to repeal the odious union . " The rent for the week was £ 30 . Dismissal of the Obaxge Magistraci - . —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 Boden and his worthy abettors ofthe Dolly ' s

      Brae tragedy . TnE Barricaded Chapel at jVexacii—This chapel still continues nailed up . Although the people gave way so far as to allow Mr . Power to perform the funeral obsequies of the late parish priest . It was , however , strictly exacted that Mr . Power , and no one else , should be the celebrant , Repeal Assocutiox . —The correspondent of the Times says : —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 , tbe time appointed for the meeting to take place , scarcely fifty persons _hadassepablvd

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      in the hall ; and the "leaders" { Mr . J . O'Conneil and Mr . Hugh Connoll y , ) not wishing to make their appearance till things put on a brighter aspect , remained within the committee-room for another halfhour , hy which time the meeting was augmented by an addition of fifty more of' tho " great unwashed . Wo estimated the pence taken at the door at Ss . ou , and were much amused on our entrance by observing _sereral persons claiming admission on the ground of their being enrolled members of the association by the payment of Id . a piece on the previous Monday . The platform , as at the first meeting , was almost deserted . Upon it we observed Mr- I' Malum ( the chairman of the former week , ) Mr . H . Connolly , Mi-. J . O'Conneil , M . P ., Mr . Kelch

      , Mr . B . M'Garry ( publican , ) with two Roman Catholic clergymen , _tfot one Roman Catholic bishop , not one alderman or member of the towncouncil was visible . At half-past one o ' clock tho chair was taken by Mr . P . Slcvin , 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 tbe meeting was £ 30 . Dreadful Murdsr . —As Mr . C . Gage , agent over the Eadrim property , was riding into Ferbane on Monday morning , he was fired at and shot dead . A farmer was walking by the side of Mr . Gage at the time . It is stated that two shots were discharged at the unfortunate gentleman . His body was removed into Ferbane to await an inquest . Mr . Gage was late y obhged to institute proceedings against several defaulting tenants .

      ji . _vcoMBEBED _iustates Commissios .-A meeting of the Privy Council was held on Tuesday afternoon at Dublin Castle , tho Lord Lieutenant presided , when the rules and regulations for the government of the proceedings ofthe 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 , tho commissioners will bo in full operation , and already the agents of tho creditors of some estates have taken "the necessary steps to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the act for the sale of those encumbered properties . For some weeks past rumours bare prevailed as to the existence of some fatal defects in the act , which , it is alleged , cannot be worked for any practical purpose . A little time will show whether there is any foundation for such rumours .

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      - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . ( Concluded from the Second page . ) SAXGNY . —By a curious coincidence , it appears that two prisoners deeply implicated in the late insurrectionary movements escaped , the one on the 6 th , from tbe hospital in the Viehweide , at Dresden ; the other on the 9 th , from the House of Arrest at Leipzic . The first was Meier , ex . Burghermaster of Frauen ; the other Dr . Frank , of Vienna . Meier , who bad been permitted to remain in the hospital although perfectly 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 presi . dent at Stuttgart ; and now a Tefugee in Switzerland , has written here to give a statement of tbe utter destitution tbe political fugitives have sunk into that are now in that country . Iu consequence of this letter tbe democraticparty in tbis 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 bas prohibited them under the severest penalties .

      . BAVARIA .-In the Munich Chamber on the 9 th Zwohl , the Minister of Justice , proposed that de . _puties of the police should have 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 the assembly . The Minister also proposed that no public meetings in tbe open air should be allowed to be held within a circuit of fifteen English miles round the hall of tbe _Chambers during the session ; that political unions should not be allowed to place themselves ia connexion with other political unions , either at home or abroad , nor to form or correspond with _SUChi

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

      THE AUSTRIANS . ( From the' Morning Chronicle . ' ) The Vienna mails , of the 9 th and _lOib instant , have arrived . The intelligence they briug is a confirmation of tbe report of the execution of thirteen Hungarian noblemen . The details which we publish below , respecting the death of Count Louis Battbyani , had caused a most painful sensation at Vienna . This tragic event was the all-absorbing topic of conversation . ' Count Louis Battbyani / says the 'Ost-Deutsche Post , ' 'bad voluntarily surrendered to Prince Windischgratz . He was one of the members of the deputation from Pesth iliat 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 his 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 pro . duced by the report was visible in the countenances of all , and many looked anxiously forward to the morning fixed for the execution ; for although the energetic measures of the _slite 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 the Holz Platz . A rumour suddenly spread through the crowd that Batthyani had attempted suicide in prison . It proved true : but either the band of tbe unhappy man or his energy failed him . Though he gave himself various wounds he did not deprive himself of life ; be , however , escaped the rope . Twelve hours later , at nightfall , he was led out and shot . As yet it is a mystery what influence procured tbe 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

      _Jmza ! or long live my country ! A fearful silence pervaded the multitude at this solemn moment , Some ladies , apparently of the hi ghest classes , endeavoured to steep their handkerchiefs in the blood ofthe dead man , hut 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 employed were Jagers . The silent multitude were much moved . It would appear that the substitution ol 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 , be advanced without support to the place of execution there was a large assemblage of _people on the Hom ' ok . 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 , ' theugh reputed a ministerial journal , condemns the execution of Count Battbyani in strong terms , , A litter 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 fob lowed hira 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-hound , a tiger , a hyena ; I am ready to take upon myself the responsibility of my acts . ' So much is be feared that the officials in Pesth trembled for their lives because they had not hanged Btttbyani at once instead of postponing the execution for twelve hours . Haynau is said to have been greatly incensed when be heard of tbe postponement .

      The official « Gazette of Pesth' of the 7 th publishes tbe sentence as follows : — 'Louis Count Batthyani , native of Prcshurg , aged 40 years , a Catholic , married , avowing in part , and legally con . victed of having , in his quality of Prime Minister of Hungary , taken , executed , or caused to be executed , measures greatly outstripping the administrative limits of Hungary , u guaranteed by the laws of March { of having weakened the legal bonds between Hungary and the hereditary States of the Empire established by the Pragmatic Sanction ; of having created dangers threatening violently to overthrow the constitution of the State ; also of having , after having resigned on tbe 3 rd of October of last year thepoat ot Prime Minister , hy joining the ranks of the insurgents , by making a public appeal to armed resistance , hy _re-assembling the Diet _dissolved by bis Majesty , fortified and maintained thecause of the

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      revolution " ; has been for the crime of high treason sentenced to the confiscation of all his property , aud 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 , 1819 . ' _"Vi _hiie the above tragedy was in course of operation ) a wholesale slaughter was being perpetrated at Arad where the following Generals were banged : — Count Leiningin , Anlich , Damiawich , Lahmer , Knesich , Nagy Sandar , Pottenberg , Schweidel , Torok , Vecsey . The following three were shot , as a particular favour—Ernest Kiss , Aristides Dcsowffy , and Lazar . The particulars of these executions bave not yet been made public .

      Pesth , Ocv . 7 . —I have just beard that Paul _Nyary has been caught . ( Paul Nyary is , after Kossuth , the most eminent parliamentary man of tbe revolution . ) This evening a Catholic clergyman of _Mezohagges was also shot ; and f unless jam misinformed , the same fate is reserved for Csanzi . Vienna , Oct . J . O . —The all . absorbing topic of conversation continues to be the capital punishments inflicted at Pestb . The particulars of the last hours of the _ex-Premier of Hungary , as related to you yesterday , have been substantiated by later accounts , and the contradictory evidence of the Pesth papers explained away , by the circumstance of the types having been set at an early hour in the morning , and

      the journal published while the gallows wen yet standing . It appears that the Count was shot in the afternoon of the 6 th , having disappointed tbe bangman in the morning , by wounding himself in the throat with a sharp instrument , conveyed to him by a friendly band . 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 an affectionate wife was to enclose a poniard in a parcel of fresh linen destined for the use of her captive husband . Be this as il may , the priest was arrested on suspicion of having aided and abetted the design . Csanzi will , it is thought , share tbe fate of Batthyani .

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

      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 car . ried 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 , Oci 1 . —The so-called amnesty graciously conceded by his Holiness is now coming into full operation , and tbe consequence is , tbat _bundrrds of individuals , hitherto _unmolested , have received summary notice to depart , if they do not intend to pass tbe 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 India . This gentleman has been in the habit of residing alter nately at Rome and Albano , and was so much

      esteemed in the latter town tUat he was elected » magistrate , and chosen for one of the officers of the national guard ; in both which capacities , be discharged his duties _witb z _^ _al- and efficiency rendering important services to tbe town during the late trying and d . fficult circumstances . When the capital was in imminent danger of attack , and the republican government called upon all able and willing men ot 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 him under tbe command of General Garibaldi . Under this active leader there

      was plenty to be done ; and the English officer accordingly fought witb his Albanese volunteers in the first engagement at the Porta San Pancrazio ; and , after the defeat of _Jhe French , took part in the rout of the Neapolitans at Palestrina and Velletri . When the republican cause was annihilated the doctor returned to Albano , and wa » 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 recent and arbitrary notice Dr . Millingen has been forced to leave his residence , without any motive being assigned for such a proceeding , _although it is easy t 9 be guessed .

      Garibaldi is said to be on his way t o M Video , the scene of his former exploits . H ' presence will efford fresh courage to the persevering defenders of that city , now seven years besieged .

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

      TURKEY . Since the departure of Prince Radz ' vil all parties here bave been hi a stale of anxious suspense , awaiting the answer of the Emperor Nicholas . The Sultan and his Ministers remain unshaken in their resolution of abiding the consequences , whatever they may be , of having resisted the demands ofthe 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 _comuelmeuUd Sit Stratford Canning on

      the manner in which he acted in the question of the extradition . In a former letter I mentioned tbat the Sheik-el-Isleem had approved ot the conduct of the Porte in resisting the demands of Russia . He said , that according to the dictates of the Korrn , 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 ol every true Mussulman .

      CIRCASSIA . Letters from St . Petersburg , received in Hamburgh on Friday , announces ihe fall ol the Circassian fortress of _Aehulga , 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 bravery . The

      _ne . ' ences were covered with heaps of dead bodies . The loss of the Circassians was estimated by the Russians at 1 , 000 men killed , —exclusive of those wounded , and 900 made prisoners . Schamyl was not to be found ; he had 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 hall . Tbe siege of Aehulga , _tbua _success _' tully terminated , had lasted eleven months _.

      CANADA . Tl > e affairs of Canada have once more assumed a turbulent aspect . ' Montreal , _Sei-t . 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 bave been dreadfully wounded , and eight lives are already reported to be lost . The greatest excitement is breaking out in this city , and as we have not yet obta _' ned details of the unfortunate collision , we fear that much worse results are yet to follow . '

      A Fatal Pipe Ok Tohacco.—A Melancholy Ch...

      A Fatal Pipe ok Tohacco . —A melancholy check to the boisterous mirth of a party of men who were accompanyinga steam threshing machine to Holbeach 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 , tbat he should be in heaven immediately . He attemped to ride on the shaft of the machine , fell down , and the ponderous weight passed over the length of his body , squeezing bim to death . A dandt blaok entered a book store , and , with a very consequential air , inquired , " Hab you a few quires of a letter paper of tho berybest rate fora gentleman to write lub letters on ? " " Yes , " " S ' pose ( said he ) my stay at de Spring may be about two or three woeks . Gib enough quires to write four letters ,

      The Itlgut Of Magistrates To Flog Appbex...

      THE ItlGUT OF MAGISTRATES TO FLOG _APPBEXTICES . PUBLIC MEETKG AT _MANCHESTER . A crowded and exciting public meeting was held in the Corn Exchange , Manchester , on Thursday evening , the J lth insc _, for the purpose of expressing ( as the advertisement stated ) " their disapprobation of the cruel and unjust sentence passed at the Town-hall , Salford , upen Thomas Bailey , late nn apprentice to Messrs-. J . and J . M . Worra ' ll , dyers . This man was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with liard labour , and to be flogged , who has since been acquitted at the Court of Queen ' s Bench . " The _meetini ? was principally composed of working

      men , but Mr . Councillor Hcywood presided , and opened tho proceedings . The circumstances which 1 _« 1 to the meeting were these . Some months sinco th . 3 workmen of the Messrs . Worrall , dyers , struck for higher wages , and an apprentice named Thomas Bailey absented himself at the same time . The Messrs . Worrall , of course , had no remedy against the journeymen , but they obtained a warrant against the apprentice , and at tho close of the week before last ( on Friday ) the _cftWkr wns brought before Mr . II . L . Trafford ( the stipendiary ) and other magistrates of Salford . Mr . W . P . Roberts , attorney , was em « ployed by the dyers' uuion to defend the young man , and urged that as be was bound apprentice at tbe age of seventeen , and was now twenty-three vears

      of age , the indenture was no longer _binding upon him . On the other side it was urged that the apprentice , having neglected to make his election at the age of twenty-one , or on attaining his majority , he had forfeited tho power , and could hot subsequently do it . Mr . Trafford ( the magistrate ) took the latter yiow , and said that the prisoner , having neglected to make his election , had no right after committing the offence to turn round and plead it then . Mr . Roberts urged that there was no offence 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 the statute . It mhjht ' bc said that the

      prisoner was working under an implied contract , from week to week , and that he had no right to desert and leave his employ without notice . If that was so , let the mngistrate punish liim for tbat ; but in such case ho 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—tbe magistrates declined even to lot the case stand over till the judgment of a superior court could be had—and the prisoner was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . It was discovered after the young man had gone to gaol that the commitment contained au additional clause , " and to be corrected , " which bis

      t aolors are said to have told him meant " to be ogged with the _cat-o ' _-ninc-tails , " and that before he left the New Bailey prison they should " have a g o at him ! " Mr . Roberts being apprised of these tacts by the dycis , went to London on Saturday , found Mr . Justice Talfcurd in chambers , and obtained an habeas corpus to remove the prisoner from gaol until the legality of the sentence could be raised . On Tuesday the argument before Mr . Justice Talfourd took place , and resulted in tbe liberation of the prisoner , who , by the instrumentality of the electric telegraph , was aware of the liappy change in his destiny half an hour after the learned judge bad pronounced his decision . Tbe Chairman , having opened the meeting , called under these circumstances ,

      Mr . _Jon . v _TiiEfl , secretary to the Dyers' Union , moved the first resolution : — " That this meeting deeply regrets the continued obstinacy of the Messrs . WorraJJ _, in not haying acceded to the just and reasonable claims of the men . late in their cmploy for that advance of wages conceded by the other employers . " Mr . Teer gave the history of tbe strike , stating in effect that the wages of tbe dyers having been reduced through a competition among masters from 23 s . per week to Us ., the men had been compelled to combine in self-defence , and their combination and the ranonstvsmces which they had been able to urge to masters , had induced the majority of them to advance the rate of wages again . ' Messrs . Worrall , however , had stood out , and hence the present

      proceedings in reference to tbem . 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 theiv employers were crushing them down to the position of paupers merely from a foolish and wanton system of competition tbey would be guilty of neglecting a moral duty which they owed both to themselves and society if tbey did not resist . Mr . T . Wiieelhodse , in seconding the motion , showed how the Dyers' Union and Sick and Burial Society had progressed since its establishment four years ago . lie said he found that from 1834 to 1835 their contributions had amounted to £ 4 , 10819 s . 3 | d . tbat in the next vcar they were £ 3 , 319 17 s . 5 _Jd .,

      in tbe third year £ 2 , 044 10 s . 5 d ., and in the vear 1837-8 , £ 2 , 144 13 s . 4 _* d . The total was £ 12 , 518 . Here was a little fortune subscribed , and it would have gone n great way in supporting these industrious and steady men in sickness and misfortune could it have been retained for that purpose ; hut here were the Messrs . Worrall trying to crush it . lie would show how they h . id applied the money , tbat tho meeting might judge how deserving it was to be supported . Thov had p ' . vid , during the four years , £ 8 , 532 3 s . 0 U , to men out of work , to keep tbem off the parish books —( cheers)—they bad paid to superanuated workmen £ 785 lis . ; and they had paid to the friends of deceased members , for funerals , £ 805 10 s .: total , £ 10 , 173 10 s . 9 d . ( Loud cheers . )

      The resolution was supported by Mr . _Dohertt _, and carried . Mr . SrorcKvmoved— " That tbis meeting expresses its strong disapprobation of the cruel and unjust sentence passed upon Thomas Bailey . " Mr . It . J . _RnuAnnsos ( bookseller ) seconded tbe motion , lie said it might be right to imprison an aprentice , but was it right 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 ofthe cruel and inhuman torture of the lash ? ( Cries of " No . " ) Mr . W . P . Roberts , the attorney , was called upon to support the resolution , and was received witb loud cheering . He said , it is one of our

      misfortunes , and a very great one , that the indignation some of us may feel—the desire to battle with oppression—is not participated in by tho working classes generally , but they meet us with their apathy , and so sanction the cruelty they ought to resist . I trust that a different spirit is coming upon us . I only look for England ' s salvation when the time shall have come that every working man looks upon an injury to his neighbour as an injury to him * self , and when they shall arise as one man to resist oppression , wherever it rears its head . ( Cheers . ) I only know it is a healthy work ( Laughter and cheers . ) I have been in it twenty years ; , ind I never felt happier , stronger , healthier—( loud cheers ) —than 1 do at this moment , and never felt heartier

      pleasure than 1 do now in meeting the oppressor , and daring , ' defying , and lashing him . ( Great cheering . ) Whenever the time shall have come that they so determine , the day of oppression has "one by for over . My friends , I had somo little doubt whether I ought to have come : I had some doubt whether I ought , because I have no wish to mix myself up in quarrels between masters and their men . I thought in this case at first it would he better to leave the masters and men to fight their battles out ; though if the question were one ot importance to them , and the working men were true to themselves , it was satisfactory to my mind that the vietory would be theirs . If the working classes were not true to themselves , it was

      perfectly clear to him they would he beaten , and that they ought to be beaten ; for under God's providence , I know of no better means of bringing meu to do their duty to one another than oppression when they neglect it . ( Hear , hear . ) I say I thought I should be out of place here at first ; but when I recollected that this meeting was one to protest against a cruel , oppressive , and unjust sentence , I reflected that I should be shrinking from my duty were I not to do so . ( Cheers . ) I am glad to sec you have welcomed this young man , Thomas Bailey , to the _meeting , and shown such generous sympathy for him . I was there when they had him before the magistrate . I saw him sent- to gaol , and I thank you and the high heart within I have been

      able to see him out of the " den of thieves . " ( Loud cheers . ) Hois at liberty ; ho is a proof of your power when united , of your weakness when disunited . ( Hear , hear . ) Recollect , if yon had been disunited you would have had , three weeks hence , the pleasure to h : ivo gazed on bis lacerated back . ( Cries of " Shame , " and great sensation . ) And for what ? As a learned judge said , and oh , bow my heart boat high as I listened to the words , " For a breach of contract—flog a man for that ?" Good God , that a young man who has just returned from the theatre , or some exciting amusement , after a little signing a little bit of a document , i called an indenture , stuffed in with all the conditions the masters may have chosen to give his in- s

      _structions for , tbat the signing of a document like this should subject a man , for merely neglecting his > work during a few days , to be thrown into prison , il and to forfeit hJ 3 manhood , by one of the most de- t grading punishments that ever human nature had s inflected upon it . What could that magistrate be t who should seek to put such a law in force , even if ¦< it be a law , and I contend that there is no such law . i I say that no sooner did the prisoner _comeMbejtwenty-one years of age , than he was _fseeJii'bhbesB . b for himself , that thatfrcdom remains with" hTnr _. janaYr , that nothing but the renewal o'f the _Engagement , n when he was of full age to judge for 5 iniSelf , | c 0 u 1 d ; ic revive its force . First of all 1 say that ' _the-Wtuffes ) l who was called to prove the case _affajns ' tt _£ e '; _pji-M soner , must have been known by the _^ gj st * $ _0 i 8 not to be the witness of truth , _because , _toaNfi |» bj paymaster _atilesawa , _Wpwali's , _TtWp _EsMlUp . 7 M .

  • 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/ns3_20101849/page/7/