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      The Dagesiiam Murder. Coscltjsios Of The...

      THE _DAGESIIAM MURDER . _COSCLTJSIOS OF THE INQUEST , On T «« _A . y _moraing , « tC „ .. Vu _. ck _, the i , „ irv into fee » . _jrt _. _™» murder of yolicc ran ,. _^ ( j l _; _Garke _» v as _resumed for the « xlh fee , Wore C C Z 3 : _%£ r * _*« . «« " _*« _KeysTa _^ elapsed since the _perpetration „ f the murder _excitcc _considerableintemt . " _•««¦« , _txcttce . Mr . B . W . ltawlfa _^ _s _, solieittir , of Romford , smtarei on « , epa «« , f _*? Cr _^ , tP arecr , s ( Wl 1 oiS still under tl . e strict _surveillance of the police , ) whilrt the l _\ . ! fec Com . _nuKsicuer _, were reprtsetited l . y Mr . _Snperintcndnni iearce , ofthe F division , and Mr . Superiuteudaut Mae quard , of the K divkUm .

      Police constable Gv * rge _Dunning , K 33 J , was the first witness . —He said , I havo been on < iuty at thc D _.-iseuhii : ii station about nine >« : eks . I recollect tlie night of thc 27 th of August . Between eleven end _twt-lve o'clock on _Hhit night 1 was a- the station in tlie back room , anil 1 _itard quarrelling between _Seijeant ? -jr _* ons r . nd liij . sister , who were at the time up stairs . 1 do not know vrhat they were quarrelling about , 1-ut I heard liciacrnse him of _eomrfhing . I could net distinctly under _, stand nhat it was , but the reply rations made to flint was "D « yoa mean this affai = l" _TThat affair he alluded to I do not-know . When ha said , " this affair V she replied , _"Jes , this affair , snd < _ithers too . " Tarpons then _negan to cry , and I heard r « more . I know that he wax crying , for he cried aloud so rhat I could hear him . I spoke of this to Sergeant _Tearsan , who was at the time in the charge room , and to Acting Sergeant Gorvan .

      By the _^ oroner—I heard Parsons and his _sister _qnsrrel'ing _when'I was in fhe street , nnd I then heard Parsons threaten to throw his sister down stairs if riie did sot hold her tongue . I heard no other threat . lhave told you all I h-nrd , to thc " _ne-t of my recollection , and all I reported to Sergeant Fearson . The Coroner—Do not you know that you reported to Sergeant Pearson that yon heard Parson ' s sister say , *¦ You know you are guilty -of it f " Witness—No , 1 did nei report those words . George Corvan , police constable 100 K , said I am _acting sergeant of police _-stitionsu nt D . _igenliam . On the night ofthe 27 th of _Ausrast I was on duty at the Dagenham station , Between the hours of twelve nnd

      ¦ one . Dunning , tbe constable , called , me to the stairs tci listen to Sergeant Parsons aad Ms sister quarrelling . They were np stairs , and the door cl < _-sed . 1 could not hear one word distinctly that they spoke . Dunning -Slated to me , while standing at the stairs , that Sergeant _Parso * . ' sister had said , " You know you are gsilty of it . " That Sergeant Parsons made answer directly , " In this affair : " and the sister replied , "Yes , and many more . " Sergeant Parsons ihtn called her a b h and hurst oat crying . Tbat is the report Donning made to me . I atn certain eveiy word I have stated is correct . By the Coroner—I heaid a noise as if some one was _orjiug when I was at thc l = ottom of the stairs . I could not tell if it was a mon or _wo-nan crying .

      Dunning was recalled , zed raid he had no recollection of making _ute of tie word ' g l'lty . " The Coroner—Why , yon repeated to me , word for word , in the yard of this houce , that which Corvan has now stated . I wag very particular in questioning you , and the statement now made by Corvan is exactly the Trport you made to me . Dunning—I don ' t recollect making nse of the word " guilty . " _Serjeant IVarson was next called , and declared that Dunning said to him , that rarsons' sister bad said to him , "You know you are guilty . " J alia Parsons , the _sistt-r was htre called in and sworn —She said , I recollect being at thc- Dagenham station on The night ofthe 27 th of Au . _sust , I was with my brother ¦ up stairs on that nig ht . His wife went away from him at her father ' s , at _BarkinEsHe . We had a few words on that night _concerning enr own family . I _fi _on't know how long we were quarrelling- , but should say about half an hour .

      Coroner—Do yon happen to recollect what you said to Mm during the quarrel ! Witness—I said very little to him during the time we -were quarrelling . There was no allusion made to the death of Clarke . I was in a _passion , and do not recollect faying anything about the murder of Clarke . I did not say tha £ he knew that he was guilty of it . Coroner—Will yon undertake to swear that you did not say £ 0 ? Witness—Yes , J . will . I do not remember having said _anvthing like that .

      Edward _Langlty examined—I am a sergeant of the detective _police , and cam ., to Dagenham on the 10 th of . _August . I recollect going to the spot where Clarke was murdered , in _c-mpany with _Serjeant Parsons , on the ISi _' , two _dajs after I _cemt h ; r- ; . On my return I picked np a handkerchief ( produced ) in a meadow adjoining _zhe Ss ! d where the murder took place . On attempting _topickitupiistutkto the ground , and then I found zhstiz was cl ' . _'tted with blood , us it is now . { The handkerchief was here produced to the Jury . It is composed of silk , having a blu ? ground , with a figured orange , yellow aad crimson border , very old , and much torn . _Thtie was a . _gxuLt _atiaatitv ef blood status upon it . ) By direction ofthe Coroner , Kimpton , Fams , Hickton . and Buriiy , the constables , who are nnder the serveillunce of tlie police , were here sent for from the _Dageniain station .

      Kimpton was fint called in , and , in answer to the Coroner , _s-Al , ha had nothing furth r to state , and that the last evidence he gave was the truth . The other men said , they hud nothing to Say in addition to thtir _previous testimony . The Coroner proceeded to address the Jury . If e said that the charge , which they had so long in baud , could only be viewed as a murd _. r o : a very atrocious and mysterious _character . The unfortunate young man , George Clarke , was but twenty years of age . He had only been in the po ire about six months , aud had come to Dageuh :: m but sis weeks before his death , in company with Hickton , from the poll- _e-wation in _Arbiiur-square . Xodunz particular occurr * d until the 20 th of Juue ( the night of the murder ) . On that evening it was proved

      _ihitt the deceased went on duty at nine o ' clock with hii brother con-tablss , and proceeded to his beat . The _la _« t constable he was seen in company with was sergeant Parsons , about half-past nine o ' clock . The sergeant was then in the road on ' horseback , and Clarke on foot , and at this time the wife <• £ Sergeant Parsons and his sister came silting . _3 ! rs . Parsons complained of beirg t = red , on which the poor fe'lo v , Clarke , who was in _gotid spirits at the time , _. _Stred to lift her on the sergeant ' s horse , bus did not do so . Clarko and Parsons were left together , and the tonner was not seen again until _lialfpHS-t ten o ' cloek , when he was met hy a man named Luke White . That was the last time , so _f-ir as the evidence went that the deceased mis seen alive . He was missed at one o ' clock in the morning-, and at six o ' clock he was

      reported a < ini .-sing . The body , as the Jury were aware , was not _discovered ur . _» _U four days alter , when it was found iu the corn-field where the murder took place . Iu reference w the mtdical evidence he ( the Coroner ) wishid particularly to draw their attention to that _portion of tlie _case , as it was most important , _cltarly prating that the _icardcr was tne rt _^ _-ulx of r _^ vtii _^ fc . The murderer "was Oct _saiisStd with _killing his victim , but mangled him in a frightful manner _i-een by the Jury , snd detailed iu the medical evidence . Had the _deceased heen killed in an ordinary quarrel , or in ihe performance of his duty , his assailants w .. u ! d h . » ve teen satisfied with inflicting on . _fciin a _s-ingie 1 * 1 , w or cut , such ss had been described , and there left _in-n , but « hen the Jury reflected on thc horrible wav iu «« hirli the unfortunate man

      was mutilated , they could come to no other conclusion than tiiut this most atrocious murder w _&» _tlieresultotre-Ttngs . The Leariie < i _C- _» r <« _K-r here proceeded to read ever the r «>] a » inou < evid . _nca , commenting on it as he proceeded . With r « _-ferci » e t the evidence of the police , he raid it appeared clear th-. t during portions of the _niglit of tl _>? _murkier _SeigenSU _Parsons was not on dutj . What became « f Parson- between halt-past ten o ' clock and twelve on that _lsightsmd betneen ons and six o ' clock the next _ui'Tuin _? did not ftp * " ar , nor did Parsons exhibit any _disposition to inform _tiicJury . A _^ aiu , the constable i'utfcv endeavoured to «• : ¦"* e it appear that he was not on _iJ : jtv « , n thc nig ht of tlie murder , having , as he said , got i : ru : ik at Uo : cf < _.. r < I , -and that he was in bed from tive . _rVSoek hi the aftvra _.-on of tlie 29 th of June uuiil six

      o ' _clock tbe nest inornin . - , _^ h n he heard that Clarke was _ru _' _ssiug . Xow , this was % _« . _sitivcly contradicted bv Kimpt-j . i r . _tid h y Parsons iiiuwclS who said Butfoy came to the stn _: ;< n = * _t r =-. el » 'c o ' clock and said "All li ght sergeant . " If _ituttby could prove that he was really is bed , why then liis time would be account- d " or on th n _% ht of the _inur der , but if he did not , then th re must be some suspicion attaching to his _conduct . They had i- proved Uiat en ihe morning after the murder , when Clarke was _reported to be missing , that Parsons left the station _hosse with con-6 t . tbleKimptOB , and before he had pruceeded 200 yards from the station , he _proposed to Kimpton what talc they were aU to stick to iu _reference to his being < : _ii duty on tiie night of themurdtr . _Xo . v , that had struck liim ( the Coroner ) as heing a very str . iug and su-picious cii

      _cumsrance in the case . With reference to the conduct of the police generally in the case tiiere wen- no words strung enough to express the disgust which every light minded uersou must feel at their ct nduct . Ms applied hi « _observations to those policemen who had been guilty , to say the least of it , of wilful aud c jrrupt pei jury . The unfortunate circumstance was , _th-it these very men , thc servants ofthe public , had in the first instance bctn engaged in _trac-nig out tlie perpetrators of the deed , and iu forwarding the ends ofjustice , but they had been _theprinciale means by which the ends ofjustice had been defeated . They had been engaged to ascertain wbo were

      _thaperpatrators of the dialiolical deed , and they had done every thing iu their power to _suppress the truth . In const quence the greatest ifficnlty and mystery had been thrown around the case , Int it would be for the Jury to -onsider whether there was suspicion founded on the evidence enoug h to warrant them in returning a verdict of wilful murder against iome person or persons . If they did not think the circumstances sufficiently strong to _iacnl-ate anv person or persons on a charge of wilful murder , then it would be their duty to return an open verdict . With these remarks he ( the Coroner ) « ould leave the case in tlie hands of the Jury , knowing they would come to a proper conclusion .

      ~ The Room Wasthen Cleattd Of Strangers,...

      ~ The room wasthen _cleaTtd of strangers , and after consulting for upwards ofan hour the Court was re-opene d when the Coroner announced that the Jury had sg _*« d to a verdict of "Wilful murder agaiust some person or _perMni unknown , "

      ~ The Room Wasthen Cleattd Of Strangers,...

      Mr . Rawlings , on the part of Sergeant Parsons , wished t .. know whether Parrots wns to remain under the surveillauce of the policenny longer . Mr . Superint « ndant Ftarce said , h « had no authority to _answer that question . Thc Coroner said , he wmiH undertake to say that not only Sergeant Parsons but the whole of th _« men who had sworn falsely would ba indicted forthwith for _ptrjury . Tbe proceedings in this most extraordinary case then terminated .

      Roisoxisgs In Essex. Last Fiiday, An Adj...

      _rOISOXISGS IN ESSEX . last Fiiday , an adjourned Inquest on the bodies of Joseph an James _Cnetham , alleged to have been poisoned by theivmotber , was resumed nt Clavering . The following are the circumstances of the case , as sworn tointhecvidenceadducod , which we briefly recapitulate _, because considerable time has elapsed since the first _apprehension of the prisoner , owing to the long adjournment * of the investigation : —In the beginning of _Ansust a farmer , named Newport , was brought before the magistrates at Saffron Waldon for the affiliation t © him of theilhgitimate child of Lvdia Taylor . Pending the short discussion which attended the business , _suspicions were accidentally created that th « child ' s life had beau tampered with , and the inquiry was sufficiently _pushed at the time to warrant the apprehension of Sarah

      Chesham , the prironir , upon charge of thig attempt . After tuo examinations , which elicited those extraordinary particulars of which the public is already in possession , the was committed to take her trial . The gossip of ihc _nthrhbourbood , however , fed nnd stimulated h y these remarkable _proceedings , soon took such a turn rs to lead to further investigations . Humours were current that tie prisoner ' s own children had died by poison , and so probable was the tale tliat the coroner issued his warrant f . _* rlH < _- «« humalioii ofthe bodies of her two tons—aged ten and eight years respectively—which had been interred in one coffin in January last . These bodies were found to confcin arsenic enough to kill a whole family . An _inquei-t was accordingly held upon them , which was

      adjourned till last Ft iday . In the interval the investigations of ths police resulted i . - . the obtain ' ng of some extraordinary information , which seem to impart a deeper shade of atrocity to the transaction than was at first believed . _Among the witnesses examined at the adjourned inquest . wasPbilip _Chesham _, theeldest son ofthe accused woman , who answered the questions put to him with such evasion and evident reluctance , that the Jury openly expressed their conviction that he had been tampered with and had perjured himself . A similar suspicion was entertained respecting the evidence given at the pravious inquest by another son , John Chesham , who was again called in and _subject to an examination , which elicited the following _circumst-inces _.

      Susan Green stated that on the Thursday night previous to the last sitting of the Jury she heard the boy John Chesham ( supposed to have been tampered with on the former occasion ) talk to Cole about tbe eridence he was to give at the inquest . The boy replied , "Oh , I know what to say , for my master ha 6 told me . " The Coroner . — Where does Cole work 1 Witness—At Mr . Thomas Newport's . ( Great sensation . ) The boy , John Chesham , was here confronted with the witness , and denied that he made such a statement . Coroner—Do you mean to say you do not recollect speaking to Cole in the presence of Mrs , Green ! The boy—No , I don ' t ; but Cole spoke to me . The Coroner—What did he say f Tbe boy—He told me to mind what I said at the inquest . The Coroner—What did you say then ? The hoy pertinaciously denied having made any reply , and na persuasion or

      threats could induce him to say another word on the subject . The Coroner , addressing him . said—It is very evident to me that you have been tampered with in the most _unjustifiabla manner , and it is confidently stated that your master is tho person who has interfered with yon . It appears that your master is a person named Wisbey , and at tbe pn sent moment sitting in this room as a member of the Jury . ( Much seniation here manifested itsel in the Court . "Wi 6 bey declared that he had done nothing with the boy , further than counselling him to tell the truth . Mr . Spencer , a Juryman , said—Mr . Wisbey , it seems to me that you allow your servants to take a liberty with you which no _servant of mine would

      i dare to take with me . When that boy , John Chesham , left this room on the last inquiry , he touched you on the arm looked up in your face and smiled . You theu said , * ' Well done , boy , you did it very well . " The Coroner ( to _Wisbey)—Ihavenod-ubt you made that remark to the boy , and thatcouW not have been done without an object . It was a strong remark to make , because it was the conviction ofall present that the boy had committed perjury . In answer to other questions Wisbey prevaricated very much , and Mr , Spencer expressed his conviction that the conduct of Wisbe y had been disgraceful , and that his criminality had been increased by the fact that , as a Juror , he had sworn to do justice .

      The Coroner ( addressing the boy)—Now , can you tell me who it was who spohe to you about the evidence jou should give in tbe course of theinquiry ? The boy persisted that he had forgotten all ahout it , and as it was found impossible to draw ( _rowi him anything that would tend , to the clearing up the mystery , the Coroner dismissed him . Similar unwillingness to give evidence was shown by almost every witness examined on this occasion , notwithstanding the fact , that if the facts alledged be founded on truth , the accused woman seems to have bad the reputation of a professional prisoner , ready to put any disagreable or expensive object out ofthe way "for a consideration . " The Coroner summed up the evidence , after which the Court was closed , and the Jury remained in deliberation for an hour and a-half , when the Court was again opened , and The Coroner said—From certain circumstances which

      have been disclosed , and of which until just now I was perfi ctly ignorant , the Jury as well as myself feel that a further _adjournment is necessary in ord .-r that evidence may be obtained , which will in all probability prove of a very important and conclusive character . The investigation was adjonrned for five weeks .

      Manslaugthek By A Policeman. A Protracte...

      _MANSLAUGTHEK BY A POLICEMAN . A protracted inquiry has been held during the past _wetk at the New Inn , B .-irrington , Gloucestershire , before J . Barnet , Esq ., coroner , and a jury , regarding the death ot Iteuben Bushby , who died from the effects of a blow _« iven by James Probert , a constable belonging to the rural police , at the Fox Inn , AVindhurst , ion the fith inst . Some particulars of the occurrence havealready appeared in our columns . The inquest lasted five days , terminating on Friday last , and from the voluminous evidence adduced , it appeared that the unfortunate affair happened on the evening of what was called Barrinston feast , which brought together a large number of the labouring inhabitants of the neighbourhood " , and iu the evening ofthe day in question a party of these were in the parlour ofthe Fox

      Inn , but there was no riot among them during the time , nor were any of thein drunk . The deceased and another man of the name of Clifford were of the party , and on some dispute _arisinc in reference to a l > rol « eii glass , whicn the men who broke it refused to pay for , the landlord of the inn called in the pi-lice . A Sergeaut Adams and the accused man Prober ! entered the room , and shortly afterwards Probert , without , as the witnesses declared , any provocation whatever , struck Busby on the liead with his stafif , and felled him to the ground in a state of insensibility . On being removed , and a surgeon summoned , it was found thnt Busby was severely injured bythe blow , and , in fact , he never rallied , but expired the next day . Probert also struck _Cliffard so as si riouslj to injure him . On being called before the coroner , Clifford di _p-. _is-. d as follows : —

      I am a pig and sh « cp dealer at Great _Rissington . I was t Great Barrington on Sunday , the 6 th instant . 1 went into tbe parlour of the Fox , about six o ' cloek . I was net tipsy . I remained about half an hour . I went out , ond on my return , about nine o ' cloek , I went into tha parlour . I had not been tbere two minutes , when a young policeman struck me a blow which stunned me . I recollect nothinp afterwards . I do not know where 1 had the blow . When I went into the parlour , at nine o ' clock , I saw no row . There was loud talking , but no _fighting . I was standing up filling my pipe , and wasabout to light it , when 1 received thc blow ; I did not _n-ake any noise , or threaten any one ; there was no _fightin-. ; while I was iu thc room ; I am sure I hr . d done nothing to pr .. roke the _p'Oicmmji . I heard no words pass between the policeman and any one else . I did not know thc . deceased Busby , and I am not aware of any Other pe- soa having been struck but myself .

      Mr . Cheatle , who was called in to attend on deceased , said : Sunday night , the Cth inst ., lord Dynevor ' s keeper came to me about 11 o ' clock , and requested my immcd ate attendance at the Fox Inn , Windrush . I went there immediately , and on arriving saw the deeeased , Reuben Busby , iii a state of collapse , and insciifible _, labouring under some injury of the brain . 1 proceeded to ascertain the nature of his injuries . I found on thc top of the head a contused wound , about two inches in length . The wound was from the crown of the head , and directly across from ' . he centre extending down on the skull bone , which was exposed to the touch . I could not then trace thc extent of the fracture ofthe skull , j _discovsred it was a compound fracture . From the nature of tke symptoms I considered the injury to be ofa fatal character . I had recourse to all the ' expedients wliich were in tny power for the relief of the patient , who was then labouring under compression of the brain , and apparently in a dying state . I had uo hope of saving his

      life . I found there was great excitement , and I did what 1 could iu allay the irritation . I _illtei . dtd ilUo on Clifford , n ho appeared to have received several blows . He had an injury on the left eye , another on the nose , nnd another on the right-side of the htj . d . I left nt two _o'dot-k on Monday morning , and returned between seven and eight . I found Iteuben Busby was dead then . I made a _postmortal examination of the head of the deceased on Tuesday , thc Sth instant . There was Mitli ' usiou of blood on the substance ofthe brain immediatel y under the fracture , _thc-cxlstence of whicli alone produced the symptoms which occasioned death . There was extravasated blood between the skull and the pericranium in the vicinity of the fracture on either side . I _consider the injuries I found must have been the result of unusual violence . A violent blow over the head might have occasioned such a fracture and injury . A right-banded blow with a weapon of the length and size of the staff before m * mighthaveproduced the fractures and injuries

      Manslaugthek By A Policeman. A Protracte...

      I found . I consider the staff a dangerous weapon for any man to strike another on the head with . The Coroner having summed up , the jury consulted for some time , after which they returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against James Probert , the policeman , " who was accordingly committed on the Coroner ' s warrant for trial at the ensuing assizes .

      Fire And Loss Of L1fb At Freston . Ahout...

      FIRE AND LOSS OF L 1 FB AT FRESTON . Ahout half-past eight o'clock on Friday night an alarm was given by various lire bells that the size house of Mr . Hibbert , in Stanley-street , was in flames . Immediately on the fact being announced , the Are brigade , with tbe hose reel , was on the spot , 0 ** _-ing to the _combustible nature of tho materi'ils used in tbe works , the flames soon got to an alarming height , illuminating the neig hbourhood to a very considerable extent , and being visible in almost every part of tbe town . The Victoria engine , and the engine of Messrs , Her . rocks , Miller , and Co ., were on the spot a short time afterwards , but a considerable time elapsed before either engine was got into play , and a still further time before they wero effective .

      In the mean time the fire gained a rapid ascendancy , every portion of the building being soon under the uncontrolled dominion of the flames , nnd it then became evi . dent that no portion whatever of the stock or property beyond the bare outer walls could be saved . Attention was of course directed to saving Mr . Tickles '( the _Sove-reign ) mill , the west wall of which is close np to the size house . The very thick substantially-built walls of the mill proved impervious to the fire , and tbat property Wf » s raved , as were also the cottages adjoining . The close ticinity , not only of thc Sovenign mill , but of Mr . Paley _' _e and the extensire premises of Mestrs . _Horrocks , Miller , and Co ., gave to the fire , at one time , a very threatening aspect . Towntds half-past ten o ' cloek , however , owing to everything combustible in the premises having been burnt d , the flames abated .

      The size-house , in which the fire originated , is entirely gutted . The whole of the apparatus , stock , ite , it entirely destroyed , and nothing but the bare wall remain standing . It would be difficult , as yet , to estimate the loss , but we understand that there was a considerable _qunntity of warps on the premises . The stock and building are insured to pretty nearly their full value . The cause of the fire is not ascertained , but it commenced in the top , or fourth story—a room used for drying " warps , which is done by means of steam pipes . The most melancholy part of this unfortunate ocur . rence is tho untimely death of Mr . Pickles . He was pretty early on the spot after the alarm was given , and feeling naturally anxieus for the safety of his property , was in his mill when the fire raged most violently .

      From the fourth story ofthe factory is a passage orer a portion of the size house to the- 'Devil , ' or blowing room a detached building , T his passage wa * fire-proof excepting the floor , which was flagged . Mr . Pickles was standing at this passage with an overlooker at his mill , of the name of Robert Wilson , when , stepping forward , the flag upon which he had placed his foot immediately snapped , having heen cracked by the intense heat , and Mr . Pickles was at once precipitated into the midst of the flames , nnd falling through the fourth and third stories alighted on the _second floor , uttering as he went

      down _oisly a faint" oh ! " A spiral name for a moment hid the unfortunate man from tho _sifiht of Wilson , but on its subsiding the latter saw the body of his master stretched on the iron floor below , then glowing with a white heat * This agonizing sight was , however , soon concealed from him , by the falling of portions of the roof and flooring , and the rising of a dense column of smoke . After the flames had subsided the ruins were searched , and tbe body of the unfortunate man was found , sadly burned ; the arms , legs , and faee being dreadfully scorched , the latter , indeed , heng almost wholly obliterated .

      Forgeries On The Continent.—Ten Years Ago The Prussian Government Made Application To The French

      Forgeries on the Continent . —Ten years ago the Prussian government made application to the French

      Auinonues To Uiu In Uut-Uvi Ring Tue Uei...

      _auinonues to uiu in _uut-uvi ring tue ueiinqueiiis , ana in 1 S 41 sent to Paris a _speci ; 1 officer to make , in concert with the police of this city , the necessary inquiries . But all the exertions made were fruitless . Early in 1842 , a despatch from London made known the emission of forged notes of the Commercial _Company of Belgium , and , in consequence of the information thu * given , a woman , named Danelle , was arrested at the Prefecture of Police , while applying for a passport , which there was reason to suspect was intended to facilitate the escape of a _forger . On searching her house at Passy , a press , witb tools and materials used in making false notes , were seized

      and a man who called _himself Pressel , an architect , a native of Stuttcardt , who had been introduced to the woman Danelle at London , by a man named Romanzow , with whom she lived as his mistress , was arrested . It wassoon discovered that the notes ofthe Commercial Company of Belgium were forged by the same hand that produced the false Prussian notes . This was Romanzow , who was in Danelle ' s house at Passy when it _«& - _, first entered by the police , but made his escape to his own private lodgings in the Rue dts Fosses Monsieur le Prince , where he destroyed every trace of his malpractices , and then made his escape . In the course of the searches at Passy , as in the Rue des Fosses Monsieur le Prince , a strong likeness of Romanzow in oil colours was found . Of this

      portrait the police had lithographic copies made and distributed , and the Bank of England published a large reward for his arrest and conviction . Two years elapsed without any recurrence of these forgeries . At last a man calling himself Linder , went to M . Bouchon , a money changer in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs , and asked for French money for ah English bank-note for £ 100 . M . Bouchon suspected the note to be false , and at the same time remarked the strong resemblance between Linder and the portrait of Romanzow , of which he had a copy . The man , perceivinc the suspicions of M . Bouchon , at once lushed out of the shop , leaving the bank-note behind him , which after all proved to be genuine . The declaration made by M . Bouchon of this strange

      occurrence , led to a conviction that Romanzow had returned to Paris , and the Perfect issued orders to his officers to redouble their vigilance in seeking out this able and dangerous foreigner . Suspicion soon afterwards fell on two men , living in opposite quarters of Paris , under the names of Rene and Germain . Warrants were issued , and a commissary of police went with one to a small apartment , at No . 35 , Rue _d'Anjou St . Ilonore , where he found the man living under the name of Rene , but who was at once recognised to be Romanzow , who did not attempt to deny either his identity or his culpability , for flagrant proofs of liis crime of forgery lay all around . He is young and of prepossessing person and manners . Ue protested that he never meant to do harm to

      individuals , but only to avenge himseif of governments for having been despoiled of his own fortune by an iniquitous judgment . In his possession were found thirty-two Bank of England five-pound notes , and twenty-five sheets of water-marked paper , which he declared he had himself manufactured , besides various tools and implements for forging , _including several engraved copper-plates , one of which was for notes of the Bank of France , not finished . Whilst this seizure was being made , another officer went to the abode of Germain , whose real name is Knapps , at No . 5 , Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne . This man , as well as his accomplice Romanzow , ia a native of Rhenish Prussia . lie was in bed , with loaded pistols within his reach , but the officers came

      upon him so suddenly tbat he could not use his arms against them or himself . He also made a full confession , and gave up many , papers , & e ., whicli will become evidence . Jf the two accomplices are to be believed , they have lately issued false paper to no ereater amountthan 40 , 000 f . —Gdlignani . Tho Two Forgers , Theodore Heriveg , alias Romanzou or Raumanzow , and Knapps , have un der gone several interrogations before the examining magistrates , and several witnesses havo also been examined . It appeared that Roinanzou scarcely ever remained in one apartment more than a quarter ofa year . The preliminary proceedings ave likely to occupy several months , on account of the evidence which will be required from several foreign countries .

      Both tho prisoners have made a fuil confession . Romanzou states that , after having so narrowly escaped from arrest on the 0 th January . 1832 , he made hi _< way into Italy , where he lived for four months upon a sum of money that he took with him . Fearing an application for his extradition , he returned to France , _tlvnking he wou'd be able thc more easily to conceal himself there . His resources were then reduced to two genuine Bank of England notes for £ 100 each , and conceived for the first time the idea of imitating them . But the difficulties lie had to contend with were so great that he was for two years working assiduously before lie could succeed ; living inthe most parsimonious manner upon one ot ' the notes being obliged

      to keep the other as a model . At the end of thc two years he found that he had produced a perfect forgery , but not daring to trust tl . e uttering of bis false notes to any third person , he _wsued them himself , and in _tlrie days exchanged twenty-six ofthem for £ 100 each at different money-changers' offices , lie then stopped , till he saw the effect produced upon the Bank of England . At the time of his last capture , ltonianzou was engaged , with the assistance of his accomplice , Knapps , in _mainifacturiii' ; a greater number of notes of tbo Bank of England , with the intent , as he says , of raising 100 , 0001 ' ., with which he hoped to get over to America , and there live an honest life .

      A " Characteristic" Note . —The president ofthe Institution , Mr . John Paley _, jun ., presented , on Tuesday last , to the museum of that _seciety an autograph letter of his Grace the Duke of Wellington . The advice contained in the characteristic and piquant epistle is so _excellent , and so generally applicable , that wc present our readers with a copy " of it ; "London , Feb . IS , 1 _S-13 . —F . Al . the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mrs . C- — . He really regrets mueh that ho has not been able to read her letter . He entreats her to write in a plain hand , in dark ink , and in a few words what her commands are . Airs . C , , Liverpool . " — Preston Chronicle —[ We beg the especial attention ofour correspondents to the excellent advice of "The Duke" ' as to " plain hand , " "dark int , " and "ftw wmk . " ]

      Re-Organization Of The Chartist B0d1 At ...

      RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE CHARTIST B 0 D _1 AT EDINBURGH . A meeting of those favourable to the re-organization of tlw Chartists of Edinburgh was held in Cranston's Temperance Hotel , on the evening of the 10 th instant , The meeting was numerously amrespectably attended . Mr . Archibald Walker was unanimously called to tho chair , and Mr . JonN Grant appointed Secretary , protein . Thu _CiMiiiMAif , in a brief , but comprehensive address , introduced the business of thc evening , — namely , to take into consideration the best means of resuscitating the Chartist cause i \ . Edinburgh . He was willing to > dopt any moans that might be thought beat _, by the majority of the meeting for giving new life and vigour to the cause , but was of opinion that the only effectual means for gaining the

      desirable object they had all in view was , the establishment in Edinburgh of a branch of the National Charter Association . He then read copious extracts from tho Hand-Book of the Association , entreating the meeting to give the subject their serious consideration . A _highlyiinteresting discussion ensued , in which many ofthe tried friends of the Chartist cause took part . A number of young and new friends were also present , who strenuously supported the opinion of the'Chairman , and warmly eulogised the principles of the National Charter Association , stating it : is their conviction , that nothing short of a national movement would secure to the unenfranchised portion of thc United Kingdom their political _rightB and privileges . .

      . , , Mr . William _Asdbrson , in an energetio speech , proposed the following resolution : — That it i _« the decided opinion of this meeting , that the Chartists of Edinburgh would advance tho principles contained in the People ' s Charter more successfully were they to unite themselves ns a branch of the National Charter Association ; and being _canvinced that , by this _mcanB alone , our political rights can be obtained , this meeting now agree to form themselves into a Branch of tbe National Charter Association . He remarked , that one cause of the apathy which had characterized the working classes in reference to the enforcement of their political claims was the _Beasen of comparative prosperity which marked the premiership of Sir Robert Peel ; but thiB indifference

      be considered highly criminal . Instead of relaxing their exertions in seasons of prosperity , it was the sacred duty of the working classes to bring tlieir resources to bear with greater eflect on thc important question of their political enfranchisement . Altera warm appeal to the meeting in support of the principles of the National Charter Association , Mr . Anderson concluded by again moving the resolution . Mr . Johk M'Donald cordially seconded the resolution . . It did his old heart good to witness the presence of so many young and enthusiastic friends , but they would find themselves all the better by an infusion ofthe old blood amongst them .

      Mr . Morton was willing to abide by the decision ofthe majority , but for his own part , he thought that a great national movement would end in a great national failure . ( The speaker then alluded to the declining state of the Odd Fellows' and Rechabites' Sick and Burial Schemes , and argued that it was in consequence of their grasping at too wide a sphere that they fell so much in the confidence of the public . ) He thought the machinery too unwieldly and unworkable ; but he trusted that his fears would prove visionary , and , for the sake of the good cause , he would offer no opposition to the resolution .

      Mr . Alexander Grant then addressed the meeting . He remarked that the preceding speaker had sadly confounded cause and effect . Even admitting for the sake of argument that all were fact which had been stated in reference to the Odd Fellows and Rechabites , he denied that the alleged event of success was in consequence of the fchemes being national , their decline did not occur through but in spite ot their existence as National Associations . He thought the machinery ef the National Charter Association admirably adapted for securing the enactment ofthe People ' s Charter , and he was more and more convinced by every day ' s experience , tbat nothing short ofa national movement would secure to the working classes their legitimate share of Parliamentary _representation . As to the alleged unworkableness of the machinery , he _confidently gave it as the result of the experience he had in matters of

      the kind , that five hundred members could be menaged as easily as five dozen if proper business habits wore adopted , and strict attention paid to the minutest details of the scheme . He was convinced that the present was a peculiarly favourable for urging the claim of the Charter . The repeal of the Corn _Lawshad occupied public attention in places o l * thc more important question of the Repeal of class legislation ; but since the fate ofthe Corn _Laws was considered as setled , for three years at least , what other question so fit to engage the attention of the working classes as the question of their political freedom—the question of their complete arid constitutional right as men and citizens , in opposition to their present degraded and abject state of political slavery . He was assured that they _ would acquit themselves in the struggle with that intelligence for which they had obtained credit , and which certainly could not be devoted to a nobler and loftier

      cause . The Chairman then put the resolution to thc meeting , when it was carried unanimously ., ' Upwards of fifty individuals were immediately enrolled as members of the Edinburgh branch of the National Charter association . The Chairman having read the law in reference to the appointment of- members for tbe management of the affairs of the branch ; the meeting proceeded to the election of nine members to form a general council , and the _apointment of a sub-Treasurer * and sub-Secretary . Il was carried unanimously , that a report ef the proceedings of the meeting should be forwarded for insertion in the Northern Star ; the People ' s Journal ; and Douglas Jerrold ' s Newspaper .

      A vote of thanks was tendered to Mr . Walker for his efficient conduct in the chair , and to Mr . John Grant for his valuable service as Secretary to the meeting . The meeting then broke up at a late hour , highly gratified with the proceedings of the evening , and in high hopes of the ultimate success of thc People ' - Charter .

      The Land. Finsbury Literary And Mechanic...

      THE LAND . FINSBURY LITERARY AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE , GOSWELL ROAD . The elegant lecture room of this Institution , was densely crowded on Sunday evening , September thc 20 th , to hear a lecture from Mr . P . M'Grath , on the " Land and its capabilities , " Mr , T , Shorter was unanimously called to the chair , and briefly introduced the . Lecturer—whose first appearance at this institution , was heartily welcomed by the enthusiastic greetings ofthe auditory . The lecturer said , prejudice had instilled into the human mind from infancy , that the land was the property of a few aristocrats , and hence the difficulty of inculcating thegreattruth , that the land was the property of thc whole people .

      ( Loud cheers . ) Yet true it is , at least so says history , that about the year 10 GC—a certain royal person came over to this country , took tlio land by force from its peaceable legitimate possessors , the people , and 'divided it amongst his retainers , who aro now called Barons —( hear , hear)—but he ( Mr . M'Grath ) would ask , could rapine , spoliation , and bloodshed , give cither right or title to tho lands of this country ? ( Loud cheers . ) Yet some twenty or thirty thousand did claim and hold the broad acres of this kingdom , to the great detriment and injury of the toiling millions —( hear , hear)—and in Scotland the whole land was held by some three thousand persons , and there one of those parties , more valiant than his fellows , ( the Duke of Hamilton ) had not scrupled to

      state how he held it , he did not profess any right divine , or heavenly patent , no he drew his sword , and nourishing it , said , ' tis by that I hold it , ' and he ( Mr . M'Grath ) belcived that w « s the only right by which any of tlicm held it . ( Cheers . ) But was not this a _sc-indalous perversion ofthe right God gave toman . ( Great cheering . ) At me is coming when men will be acquainted with their _agrarian ri g hts , and then there must be % change . ( Much applause . ) America , was already awaking to that knowledge , —( hear , hear)—she had obtained her political rights , and would _doubtlessly soon obtain her social rights . ( Great applause , ) Mr , M'Grath next proceeded to shew the great capabilities of tho soil , and in so doing , quoted largely from Mr . O'Connor's work on

      Small r ; rrms , which was mueh applauded . He next proceeded to demonstrate that a man could support himself and family in c _iinf ' ort , from the produce of two acres , and illustrated bis subject by liviug facts , much to the satisfaction of his audience . The lecturer said he was aware , that somo held , that any man sot bred to agriculture , could not cultivate the lnnu effectually , but this was entirely fallacious , as was well evidenced ;} by the Northampton allotments , whicb were cultivated in a superior style by shoemakers , under the presidency of Dr . Faber . Again , at Sheffield , a Mr . Ledley , a mason , is cultivating a SlHftll plot Of griMMd Oil the System propounded " ! _^ Mr . Feargus O'Connor , ' and producing 2 000 fold more than his neighbours . Well , if . shoemakers , and

      masons , made such gcod aericulturists , what was to prevent the mechanics of London , ov anv other large town , from following their example . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Linton , a large manufacter at Selby ( Yorkshire ) had recently written a letter in tbe Leeds Times , in which he offered to prove from his own practical experience , on a plot of land held by himself at Selby , that a man and his family could be maintained i ' rom the produce of one acre of ground , in a tar superior manmr to what any mechanic could , even though he was in possession of the bost Leeds wages , and constant employ . ( Loud cheers . ) The lecturer next entered into a most minute and lucid statement of the principles of the " Chartist Co-operative Land £ ceiety , " _wjd clearly demonstrated its working _abj-

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      _lify , and was rapturously applauded . The League and free trade papers | had been most TiruJent in their opposition to that Society , whilst tne Tory press had betrayed an _omnious silence , notwithstanding this , they had extended its emancipation to almost every part of the United Kingdom , and their barque was now floating _onwards , over the stream of popularity . ( Much cheering . ) The delusion of increased trade , by means of foreign order , had not diverted the people from their _righhteons object , true they had been promised " plenty to do , high wages , and cheap bread , " instead of which thev had obtained scarcity of employ , notice of reduction " of _waees , and dear bread . ( Much applause . ) The present manufacturing system appeared

      to him a most murderousone , as the Census showed , that in the manufa-turing districts , 500 out of every 1 , 000 persons died before they arrived at the age of five years , and the average duration of human life wasonlyseventeenyears _. whilstintheagriculturaldistricts _, to wliich the Chartist Co-operative Land Society wish to send the people , the average of human life was forty-five years , this had been proved by the British Association for the Advancement ef Science , at their recent meeting , and how was this ? why , the wretched mother was compelled to go to slave in the unwholesome atmosphere of the mill , and leave her child , to be murdered by another , consequently drugs was administered to quiet the poor thing , and those drugs frequently contained a considerable portion of

      poison , then was he not justified in denominating our manufacturing si stem , a murderous one ? ( Great cheering . ) The talk of creatine a foreign trade was moonshine . There were several nations that could now manufacture sufficient for fhe whole world , and to use the _language of Mr . R . R . Moore , " for the moon as well , " the only way to create trade waB to place thc people on the soil , and thus raise an home market , the people being at once producers and consumers . ( Loud Cheers . ) The capability of the soil to ensure happiness and plenty ( said the lecturer ) was well illustrated by James Silk Buckingham , in his ably lecture on tbe six states of America , wherein he showed that the possession ofa small quantity of land , brought with it , not only food and clothing for

      the body , but for the mind also , ( hear , hear , ) then look to Jersey , there the people had no dread of being compelled to resort to the use of Indian Corn , no fear of Poor Law Bastile ' s . Why ? Because they bave plftts of land to cultivate for themselves , ( much applause , ) and never woultl the people of this country have permanent happiness , until such times ns they re-possessed their natural element—the soil . ( Loud cheers . ) The Chartist Co-operative Land Society , gave a great security , to its members , by allowing them to select its officers , and by means of its trustees of whom their able representative , T . S . Duncombe stood at its head , ( great applause ) they had endeavoured to get enrolled , and made application to Tidd Pratt , for that purpose , but it was refused . Mr . Duncombe hud obtained a new act , since the _parsing of that they had again applied through a Barrister-at-law , but with no better success , however thoy were still resolved to have all the

      security the law could give , and they had come to the determination of Registering it under the Joint Stock Act , ( hear , hear . ) Mr . M'Grath concluded his highly instructive address , by appealing to all who wished well to his fellow-men , to come forth , and join the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , and resumed his seat amid the most vociferous cheering . Mi ' . Daniel Hofkins , a Teetotaller , said he much approved of the principles of co-operation , and by sobriety and co-operation , he had obtained a house near the White Conduit , and was bo well pleased with Mr . M'Grath ' s . lucid and able address , that he was ready to put his money down for a share in the society , ( Cheere . ) Mr . Walter Cooper said , he had been prepared to ask some questions and make some slight objections , but Mr . M'Grath had already _answered his questions , and removed his objections , and now the pleasing duty devolved on him oi moving a " vote of thanks to that _gentleman'for his very able

      discourse . f . Marriot in seconding the motion , said he had listened with peculiar pleasure to the discourse of M'Grath , and he trusted , that the lecture would be published and sent forth to the world , and if it were , he would be most happy to subscribe for ten copies , and sure he was , it would be reprinted in America , and thus illuminate both , hemispheres . ( Great cheering . ) The motion was adopted by acclamation . Mr . M'Grath in responding said he would consider the _suggestion thrown out by Mr . Marriott . The meeting then dissolved . '

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      Consumption Op The Lungs And A.Sthma , A...

      CONSUMPTION OP THE LUNGS AND A . STHMA , AND THB POSSIBILITY OF CUBING THEM , TO TBE ED 1 TOK OF TUB _NOBTDEKM STAB . Sir , —The subjects at the head of this letter are of such general importance , that I flatter myself you will allow me ' space in your valuable Journal to bring tiiem prominently before the attention of the public . Itis strange , that in the middle of the nineteenth century , when chemical science has made such brilliant discoveries , and furnished us with « uch efficient remedies , there should still remain an impmslon on the minds of many well-educated persons , and even on a

      great portion ofthe faculty , that Consumption is incurable . This opinion was quite correct about fifty years ago ; for then , indeed , ' there was no known substance which wc could depend upon for the complete eradication of this insidious disease ; but now the caso is totally altered , eminent men , of first-rate talent 6 , have drawn from the world of chemistry the most valuable treasures , and placed within the hands of the medical practitioner , a host of powerful remedies , which may be said to act with certainty and specifically on various diseases , and , amongst the rest , in a prtemiuent manner , on Consumption of the Lungs .

      It tg with teference to the impression above alluded to , and with a desire to place the matter in a correct point of view , that I am induced to offur these observations . The question is decidedl y one of humanity ; for , if well-grounded hopes can be held out to patients , that they can be restored to health , instead of lea * ing thom to tbe gloomy anticipations of speedy dissolution , it is manifest , that this invigorating influence on the mind , will act beneficially on the body , and aid materiall y in strengthening thegeneral powers of the system . But to the point—is real organic Consumption of the Lungs curable ? I answer fearlessl y that it is , except in tlio last stage : for if we suppose the disease divided into three stages , two out ofthe three are as easily cured as auy other complaint . To be more explicit I mean to assert , that even alter ulceration has destroyed a

      considerable poriion of the lungs , they may be healed and radically cured , « o that the patient may live free from the disease to a good old age . This is not theory , bur the sober and deliberate _cpnclufipn of long _experience _, ardently devotod to a consideration of this destructive malady , and a minute _invettigation of all its symptoms and morb d characters , backed up by a successful treat _, ment of the most critical cases , on the principles shortly to he mentioned . Shit with regard to the third , or last stage , it would be madness to affirm that medicine in any shapo can stem the torrent of disease ; for here , disorganization of ihe lungs is so extensive , the ulceration ? are so deep and widely spread , that a sufficient portion of substance is not left to perform the necessary function of respiration . In such cases , all thut medicine can effect , is to mitigate suffering , not produce permanent benefit .

      Now the means to effect the desirable results above enumerated are not those which are generally pursued . The established mode of treating this disease is avowedly useless ; even the advocates for it freel y confess the fart , and lament sincerely , that their efforts are , in ninety _, nine cases out of a hundred , completely futile . So deplorable a want of power has led many first-rate phw Bit-inns to reflect whether other means c : tnnot be adopted to overcome this final complaint , and happily , their labours and experiments have not been in vain ; for thev now employ a mode of treatment , altogether different from the usual one , and proofs are occurring every ( lav that by this method , a very great majority of _prftieuis may be cured , who , by the common routine of practise , would have fallen victims to the disease ; this method is Inhalation .

      By Inhalation or Inhaling is not meant the funiujctioii of n room as is sometimes erroneously imagined , but the drawing in of medicinal vapours to the lungs themselves , by means of a glass apparatus , invented for that purpose . Thc process is at once soothing , pleasant and _ellii'acious , and differs altogctlior from any plan which _reijuires the slightest operation . Itemodies thus administered , escape the change that would otherwise be produced upon them by being taken into tbe stomach , wliich causes them to undergo the various processes of digestion , absorption , etc . and thus lose their active _property before reaching tlie seat of disease ; but by being inhaled nt once into the lungs , they come unchanged into imincdiat- contact with tho organs affected , precisely in the same manner as the common air of the atmosphere is

      received iuto the lungs , without undergoing any previous alteration . This mode of proceeding is tke only one that is consistent with reason , and in harmony with the principles wc adopt in other cases ; for if any external part ofthe body _iias received an injury , or become ulcerated we apply au ointment , lotion , or other substance , to tlie immediate seat of the ma'aily _, and thus speedily i tlVct its cure . Now , l / mf which the ointment effects foi any OIUward part , inhaling performs for the lungs . The system of IsuAtvrioK , therefore , involves no theory difficult to ho understood ; it Is merel y pl .-. in , common _SL-llSC di vested of all mystery and uncertainty ; for when the c -se of any patient is curable at all , it must surely ba by those means which gam a direct access to the very parts which require tlie remedy ,

      By the certain and powerful action Of medicines introduced mto the _lnnga by inhaling , wc find that ulcer , which are broken out into a state of ah « cM . can be com p . t _,. y healed ; and that tubercle , , _* ' _^ _" tl ir incipient stage , can be rem 0 ved by abso ptio without the usual 60 ftening down into ulceration at all * _trit , I "' IT ' ' \ _" t 0 be 0 bs _* - , rYe ** . that »» ' « _" _»! treatment , _s not _neghcted ; for disease in the lungs | , 'ways complicated , more 0 r _lsgg _. _wiUi _derangement 0 <

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      tried in vain , _Tiii . _^ J _^^^^^ almost every instance , of _^^ . _Tsthma i . treated . _Jito-r Itmayherebe observed that . _JJ _™ _* _^ ' _millte _- wine on this plan , and with Me tame ¦«»¦ as _STti _^ medicine , formerly used were not adapted o the end required ; its efficacy now entirely consists ( as « _oblrved at the outset ) in the «» G _^™« nt _""' * !! wliich modern chemistry has discovered , and which were totally unknown forty or fifty years ago . These remedies are now acknowledged by many eminemVmen to _botheir sheet anchor ( when used by thc way of Inhalation ) _

      for th « cure of Pulmonary Comp laints . " It would be easy to record a long list of powerful advocates for the _system , but it may be sufficient to mention the names of _Willson , Copland , Corrigan _, Coxe , Murray , Scudamore Cottereau of Paris , _Elliotion , _Hartrood _, Bran , and Thompson . The bare enumeration of such individuals as these , wha are at the very head of their profession , is surely sufficient to convince every unprejudiced person of the superiority of this method over that which has unfortunately been practised , with such loss of human life , up to the P _" _^* _- time . Perhaps I may be allowed to add my own feeble testimony , that few cases have come under my eare which I have not found the ImhawKo process fully equal to subdue- and reports dally received from patient * who are now under my treatment , both here and at a distance , render my conviction firm , that this method is destined to accomplish such favourable results , as no other plana

      would warrant us to eipcct . I consider it my duty to diffuse a knowledge of thia 6 ystcm wore generally among society ; for it is certain , that Consumption ic making greater inroads than « ver upon the population of these Islands , it being known , from authentic sources , that no fewer than sixty thousand individuals die annually from this scourge in Great Britain alone . Should you , Sir , think proper to aid my efforts , by inserting this in your paper , I shall feel myself highlyobliged , and beg to subscribe myself Your obedwnt Servant , Daniel Care , M . D . 02 , St ; Paul ' s Square , Birmingham .

      To Thi Bd1tob Of The Northern Star. Sir ...

      TO THI BD 1 TOB OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —The perusal of the Star of the 12 th instant _musr . have been a source of gratification to every member of the democratic body in the United Kingdom , and the knowledge of the triumphant entry and the enthusiastic recaption of Labour ' s emancipator , our Liberator Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., in Devonshire , should be a spur to the rousing up of any dormant energy that may exist towards a renewed agitation for man's natural birthright—the lasd and the Charter . Among the mass of rubbish with which the press of this country teems from week to week , it is truly refreshing to meet with such language as the following , it is a " green spot amidst the waste of waters , "—very " oasis in the desert , " and as Jerrold ' s newspaper will , in all likelihood he seen by a very limited number of the readers of the Star , I think that a portion of your columns might be worse occupied than by Mi quotation . Under the title of " Wealth and Want , " an article in the paper alluded to , says : —

      ' * Among the social and political speculations which have engaged tho attention of modern publicity , none are so Interesting as those which investigate the relative condition of the different classes of a community with a view to remedy tho glaring inequalities which obtain between property and labour . * * * Tha extremes of wealth and poverty maybe traeed up to political institutions , founded in . usurped authority , soframed as to deprive labour of its just reward . " Slavery , primogeniture , hereditary _pririh ge , indirect taxation , electoral disfranchisement , these are not necessary conditions of social existence , but are various modifications of that system which has heen called the 'law of the strongest . ' Statisticians estimate the annual surplus of wealth in this country at Fifty Millions ' , hut if ne place this amount to the credit of the nation , are we not entitled to put on the debit side the poverty and destitution of the great body of the people by whose

      labour this surplus has been accumulated f if the surplus is " evidence of high powers of production , does it not afford equal evidence of low powers of distribution » Suppose that the distribution had been equitable , so that the whole produced of labour had been the recompence oflabour ( as'it ou _; . ; ht to be , and as Adam Strith affirms was the case before land was appropriated and stock accumulated ) where would have been the surplus , ? Clearly It could not oxist , hut as full compensation forits absence , there would remain neither poverty nor privation among the working classes . Shall the beesannually consume the money they have collected , and thus sustain themselves in vigour , o * shall il be hived up for the use ofthe drones ! We perceive the produc . tive classes are compelled to subsist on the scantiest necessaries , while the non-productive classes fare sumptuously every day ? Industry can no _long-er sustain itself because idleness abstracts its earnings . "

      This requires no comment ; it proves that the Star is " sowing the good seed , " and will bring out those master minds of the present age who , seeing tbe existing state of society through it * proper medium , hare the manliness to acknowledge it and suggest the remedy , There are two suggestions in the hst Star , which I think caunot be too forcibly impressed upon the brethren of the Land Co-operative Society . The first is , the caution emanating from the Chartist hotly in Glasgow , against any infringement of the rules ofthe society , as such I am sure would damage the cause most vitally j the other is , the propriety of getting up a subscription to defray thc travelling expenses of our pioneer O'Connor . It is truly disgraceful that he should he allowed

      to be put to the expence he necessarily must in furthering the cause of the people during the many years he has laboured in their sen ice , and never accepted a farthing of remuneration . How different frem the Hepeal Quack , old £ . s . d _., whom our lovite O'Higgins is opening up so beautifully . It is all very well far Mr , O'Connor to think and know what a monument of gratitude he is raising within the breasts of so many thousands of his fellow-creatures , whose position he is toiling both bodily and mentally , so hard to elevate , s ill I would like to see a more sterling testimonial of the people ' s re « spect and gratitude , and I shall be most happy tc learn that the subscription is immediately set agoing , that I mav contribute my mite .

      I was present nt Mr . Doyle ' s lecture on Tuesday evening , and I must say that I never heard a more able , clear aud lucid _explanation than what he gave , of the rise , progress , and present position ofthe Land scheme , while hi * eloquent exposure ofthe evil effects of the law of primogeniture , entail , _& c ., Ac , and his powerful demonstrations against the system of robbery , tyranny and oppression which has existed for so many centuries by the aristocracy against the _working classes , brought : down the acclamations ofthe house , which was crammed to the very door . Mr . Doyle ' s reception must havo been most gratifying ; he mentioned that it was his first appearance before a Scotch audience , but it was such as ever to be remembered hy hira with feelings of . pleasure .

      Doyle is one of the ri ght sort , and I am confident hig lecture will cause many to think and join us in our regeneration . I am , Sir _. _yoiirti most olkdUr . t , Glasgo . v , Sept . 1 G , 1 S 4 G . T Pe . v

      Singular Cask Of Restored Aximatio**.— On Thursday Last There Was A Regatta At Southend, Ac-

      Singular Cask of Restored Aximatio _** . — On Thursday last there was a regatta at Southend , ac-

      Companied With A Variety Of Amusements O...

      companied with a variety of amusements ofa rustic character . Shortly after the conclusion ofthe regatta a party , who bad been out _fish-n _? in a boat some distance below the pier , discovered the body of a man , respectably dressed , iloating on the surface . Itwas immediately takenon shore to ihe Ship Tavern , where , after using tbe usual res _* o <* ative means for several hours , animation was at lenctb restored . It appeared that Lieutenant Drake , ' R . N ., had beeu walking on the pier , which is a mile and a quarter in length , and by some accident fell off unobserved by the spectators . He was borne away from tbe pier by the tide , and floated to a considerable distance tiU he was thus fortunately rescued , whilst in a complete _s-tatc ot * insensibility . Lieutenant Drake is now _conralescent .

      As AwFuri Case of Si _* ddex Death occurred en Sunday mornini : last , in the demise of Mrs Hendricks , thc respectabl e wife of Mr Hendricks the omnibus proprietor , of Church-lane , Whitechapel , deeply regretted b y all who were acquainted with , "Respectable" Thikves . -Crewe Special Sessions .- On h riilay , George Rodger * . Anthony _Beci-h , _riiomns . Moss , James Bland . a _„ d Benjamin Wild , all of Monks Co | ip *» hall , Hour sellers , were summoned to answer mtormations laid against them by tue special lush constable of Nantwieh . for _having m tlieir possession unjust scales . The seJes of

      lodgers and Beech , wero 3 oz . deficient in the balance , and Mom , Bland , a _„ d Wild , 2 w . each . Itodgers _, beech , and Bland , were convicted in the penalty _otods . and costs . Moss 20 s . am ! costs , and W ild GOs . and _costs . The fines were immediately paid . Tho latter person had been cautioned some time ago by the inspector . Great complaints havo been made by the mechanics employed nt the Railway Company ' s works , at Crewe , against the . breaddealers tiiere , tor not weighing tlieir bread -in being imrclinsf ( 1 lrom Uium ia their ( the purchaser ' s ) Presence , whicli would { _- " ve them an oppturtuiutv of as . ccrtaining who sold the most for money . —Liverpool Mercurv .

      Mr . _Waicu-. _vtuk Patriotic M . P ., asb Pr . oi'i . e ' 3 Cohoxeh . —On Tuesday eveuin . _*; _, a few friends , who are in thc habit of _frcquentm-i * tho parlour of Mr . Gilbert ' s the " Royal Oak , " Charles-street Fi ' _eldgate-strect , Commercial roan East , assembled for rhe [ jurpose of _consideriiit' the propriety ot" forwarding the subscriptions for thc _pm-iose of purchasine the release of Matthewson . Mr . Shaw , was appointed to tiie chair . In the course of tlio _cveninjr , the conduet of tlie patriotic ; member for Finsbuvy , was very much lauded , and it was ultimately agreed that , the meeting should adjourn to eight o ' clock , next Tuesday evening , when the subject will he entered into , and in all probability the landlord , will be appointed treasurer .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26091846/page/6/