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      _Jbx -members of Parliament to enable them to secure a seat in that house for the purpose of obtaining some dirty star or garter—( a laugh ) , or a peerage , or the more idiotic purpose of obtaining a baronetage . ( A iaugn . j Many meehanics were above that sort of practice , and it wja do the peers good to go more to the hustings _>« nfl mix with _sucn mei " Sow that the _sutgect had been this resolution shouldhe expunged . _^ after _vvarmiig now gravely given , _Oiey solmnly adhered to the _rcsolution , _ihej _muit not blame hhnif he called on them on _anwlydayto enforce it , his confident opinion _Deing , thatin almost aU elections , _espeoally _eounty elections , both peers and prelates largely concerned themselves { Hear , hear . ) ¦ that he had oftebeen

      _tj _, . _hot ££ regretted so n obliged to _cafl on the house not to stultify itself . Why , there was ftcarcely a society of mechanics in the country that would allow a resolution to remain on their books which it was their constant practice to violate . It might be very true thatthe Government were not more interested in _maintaining this resolution than Hon . Members in general ; bnt one Minister was as good as fifty members behind him , for they would only look to their fugleman and vote ac-» ordingly- He had no _^ objection to let peers go to the hustings , for they would learn there what they could not become acquainted with in their retirement . But let the house act on the principles of common sense , and either abrogate this resolution or carry it into full _effect . The gallsry was cleared for a division , but none took place , the resolution having been adopted . Mr . _Chame-ms broug ht up the reportof the Address to her Majesty . On the question that it be read a second time .

      Mr . Hdme regretted that , though her Majesty in the Address was congratulated on the prosperity of the finances , there was no mention of any relief for the people , ether in the shape of reduced taxation or in the diminution of duties imposed upon articles of primary necessity essential to the support and employment ofthe lower classes . He considered the conduct of her Majesty ' s Government on the question of Tahiti deserved the thauks Of the country , for they had shown firmness , nrst in demanding the _reparationywliich the honour of our flag required , and next in settling thatreparation amicably . He Hoped that what they had done would consolidate that good understanding between England and France which was so necessary to the maintenance of peace throughout the -world . He trusted that he should yet find Ministers combining economy and retrenchment with those principles of free trade which some lion , gentlemen thought ruinous to the country , _Jiat which he believed to be absolutely necessary for its welfare and for the development of its resources .

      Mr . "W . WruaAMS discoursed on the necessity ot economy and retrenchment , as the financial condition of lhe country was by no means so prosperous as it was stated in the Address . He condemned the vast amount of our expenditure during the last year , and defied the Government to justfy it . Mr . S . Cbawfoed regretted that the speech did not contain a promise that a measure should be immediately introduced into Parliament founded on the recommendations of the Commission on the Tenure of land in Ireland . He never knew the state of Ireland so lawless as it was at present ; and it would be impossible to improve it tin some law were passed regulating the condition of landlord and tenant . He fully agreed in that paragraph of the Address which spoke . of the subordination and loyalty of the poorer classes in England ; but he must not conceal from the house that there was an increasing discontent among the labouringpopnlation arising out of the « peration of the _Sew Poor Law .

      Mr . _Waelace , although oftering no opposition to the Address , wished to guard himself against being supposed to acquiesce in the continuance of the income tax . Sir R . Peei . said that nothing could be more cautiously worded than the Address , for it bound no one in any matter whatever . It only-suggested certain thing * , and was not meant by her Majesty ' s Government to commit any « neupoa that subject . Nothing could be more unjust ' Joan to do so , and he never should hold an acquiescence "inthe present Address to bind any Hon . Gentleman to _« ote for the continuance of the income tax ( hear , hear ) . Mr . _TVakiey thought tiie improved discipline on the * ther side gave a pretty clear intimation of what the result would he ; and he could anticipate with tolerable accuracy the fate of the consideration which would be siren to the subject of the income tax —( hear , and a

      laugh . ) A property tax -would receive the general approval ofthe people of tbe country , and he believ ed a more popular tax could not be proposed ; but the Right Hon . Baron would find a large portion of the community averse to the continuance of a tax upon incomes deriv able from trades and professions ; they _werejif opinion that if a sliding scale was applicable at all to taxation , it was strictly applicable to the difference between incomes derived from real property and those derived from trade . The Sight Hon . Baronet would find a renewal ofthe tax _mitepresent- _^ _apeexceeainslyunpopular . If , however , fhe Bight Hon . Baronet would remove those taxes which interfered with the operations of trade and commerce , those taxes which injured labour , and pressed upon the necessaries of life , probably the . present system of taxation with respect to income would he borne

      -without complaint for . a short time longer . The Bight Hon . Baronet seemed to infer , in the Address , that no distress prevailed amongst the masses of the people ; but he . ( Mr . WaMev ) believed that at the present moment the greatest possible distress and privation existed amongst the unskilled labourers , although hon . members saw little of their deplorable condition . It was impossible to picture their calamities and sufferings so as adequately to describe them Ihear , hear ) . He trusted tiie Bight Hon . Baronet the Secretary for lhe Home Depart ment would introduce ahill to alter the law of settlement , and that a committee would be appointed to inquire into the real state and condition of the class of people to whom he" alluded , in order that their circumstances might be made known to the house and tiie country . The Koyal ¦ peech certainly contained but little of promise ; but he

      was glad to find that several measures , of which no intimation had been given in the speech , had heen announced by the members of her Majesty ' s Government , and amongst them the bill to which he had just alluded . He was glad to find that the bill was to he introduced at so early a eriod , b » t it would give him much greater gratification if fhe Bight Hon . Gentleman would abolish the law of settlement altogether . It was impossible to depict the horrors , the miseries , and the tortures which were endured by the poor under the existing law . What . was fhe common practice 1 "When . a labourer who had gone to a distance and married and reared a family happened to die , his wife was frequently obliged to apply to the parish for relief . What was the answer given to her application ? We * n give you a loaf or two of bread , or a shining , hut if you come again we shall give you an

      order to lie received into tbe house , and , when the tune prescribed by law expires , we shall pass yon home . " Home V says the poor creature , " What home ! " The reply isi "Tour husband ' s settlement . " The poor woman then says , - "Why , he came 100 miles from where I am now living , twenty years ago , and I know no person living In fhe country , and never saw one of his relations . " The answer of fhe relieving officer is , "We cannot alter fhe law ; we are under the necessity of acting in this manner ; and if yGU apply again , we shall pass you to your settlement . " Would the poor woman apply again ? No , she would rather suffer aU the miseries of starvation , and sBow Iter offspring to die from starvation , than apply again , when such a threat was held out . He knew that it was fhe intention ofthe Bight Hon . Bart , to mitigate this « tH to some extent . The Mil of last session went a

      considerable way towards mitigating the present evils , hut he trusted fhe Bight Hon . Bart was now prepared to go further , and that he wouldmeet those evils in ab _« ld and mas culine spirit , and put an end to such a state of things { Hear , bear . ) Her Majesty ' s speech contained no intimation with regard to the Poor Laws . That question was _stiU unsettled , but it was impossible for the law to remain much longer in its present state . One fact was worth a thousand suppositions or hypotheses , and he would state what had occurred under his own observation on Saturday last , as a specimen of what was continually occurring in all the Poor Law unions of England . Apoorlabouringman of good character , only twenty-six years of age , died in a state of extreme misery in a parish in this county . Six _weitobefore , _mBWifeliMDeenlivhig at the parish of Iver , inBnckingbaroinire . They there became chargeable , and

      during three weeks an expense of some 40 s . or 45 s . was incurred . But just before the three weeks expired , finding that lie was to be passed home as a pauper , be went to another parish , where a furnished room was procured , the -furniture in which was not worth 2 s . The parish authorities of Iver took fhe man and his wife out of their lodgings and carried them to the door of the overseer of the parish to which they belonged , and said— " Here are the parties—we have brought them borne to you . " Immediately after this they were allowed to return to their lodgings again . . The poor man being out of work , and Mb wife being ill , they were reduced to a state of most miserable privation . The man said at last , " You must go to the reUevmg-of & eer —we must have some sustenance or we shall die . " Now let the house look at the consequences ofthe size of the unions , and not allowing

      relief to be administered in the parish as in former times . The woman , in a state of extreme feebleness , left her home , her husband being at fhe tune without either money or food , aud proceeded to fhe relieving-officer at _JEDingdon , a distance of five miles . She there stated their distressed condition . The officer said that she must go to the doctor , and if he gave an order for relief , tho should have it From Hillingdon she travelled to Uxbridge , and saw Mr . Rayner , the district doctor , who promised to go to the cottage . The poor -woman then returned home without having procured anything to afford her husband the slightest sneconr , having travelled a distance of eleven miles . The medical man arrived a

      • few minutes afterwards ; and his exclamation was , " You are starving ; you are in -want of the necessaries of life . " He gave an order on the relieving-officer , and the poor woman had again- to walk a distance of five miles . And what did she then receive ! An order for 3 s . worth of goods on some grocer . She received the value in goods . _TJiemoney wasnotgiventoher , to enkhle her to purchase _Jthatahe really required . She then had to proceed _bomt , having _walked a distance of "twenty-one- " -rules in a state of * suffering and disease . ' And this was what Hon . Members hadthefony , orthe wickedness , or the cruelty , to can _tm-mshing relief to the destitute poor . ( Hear , hear . ) -The man ' s constitutioB was broken down and destroyed

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      for want of food : lock-jaw afterwards came on , and on Tuesday week he , died . Now he ( Mr . Wakley ) asked , was that state of things to continue ? Did the gentry , the nobility , a & d the Wealthy people of England believe that their lives and property could be secure so long as the poor of England were thus treated 1 ( Hear , hear . ) Was not such a system pregnant with danger to them every moment of then * lives ? Lid they believe that the millions of England could he satisfied under these eircumstances * ? Gould they expect the people to yield cheerful obedience to the law 1 He ( Mr . _Waltleyl ' said they could not ; and he would say , further , that they ought not to be advised to do so . If they werenot . discontented , and if they did notmanifest their discontent , they would be unworthy the name of Englishmen : and it was impossible to expect

      that in tunes of danger they -would exhibit that courage and manliness which they had displayed in former times . He trusted what he had said wouldinduce the Right Hon . Baronet to make some inquiry into the subject . The Right Hon . Baronet , during the last session , shewed himself desirous of modifying the law . He listened most attentively and considerately to every suggestion made to him , and did not reject them from any preconceived opinions or prejudices , hut gave them a most calm and attentive consideration , stating the reasons which induced him to oppose them . He begged the Bight Hon . Baronet to investigate the case which he had brought before the house , if the same state of things did not prevail throughout England . _Ifsuch should be found to be thecasej the Bight Hon . Baronet could not hesitate to introduce a

      bill toaltcr such an odious and abominable state of the laW . In reference to the present position of- ¦ Ireland and the " liberal Irish members , " Mr . Wakley said - . —The remarks made by my Hon . Friend the member for Rochdale have recalled to my mind -what is going on in Ireland , ' and what is stated in the address to her Majesty respecting that country . It appears to me that the statement in the address , and the fact of what is going on in Ireland , arc rather inconsistent . ( Hear , hear . ) The address states that all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects ' are yielding a cheerful obedience to the law , yet the house has been informed by the Hon . Member for Rochdale that a large portion ofthe population of Ireland is in a lawless state . With respect to the grievances' of Ireland , one would

      be anxious for bygones to be bygones ; and I have no desire to follow the course adopted last night , and rake up old grievances for the purpose of producing discord . ( Hear , hear . ) My belief is , that the Right Hon . Gentleman at the head of the Government desires to do justice to Ireland , and I hope that the Right Hon . Gentleman ' s friends will let him do justice . ( Hear , hear . ) I sincerely hope that the benevolent intentions of the Right Honourable Gentleman will not be thwarted by those who ' sit near and around him—that is to say , by his ordinary supporters . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) It certainly does seem strange that it should be stated in the address that _evei-ything is going on satisfactorily

      in Ireland , and that discontent has almost disappeared , while we find that only on Monday last- a resolution was adopted at the Repeal Association intimating to the Irish members tliat they need not attend to their duties in this house . The resolution states— "That , however desirable it may be that a discussion should take place in the House of Commons with a view to expose the injustice of the proceedings connected with the late state trials , this association is so deeply impressed with a sense of the hopelessness of obtaining redress for tbe wrongs of Ireland from tbe Imperial Parliament , that we cannot recommend that the Irish members should be callediupon to attend such discussion . " I agree with those who consider that Ireland has been an ill-used

      country ; but let ns anticipate better thongs . ( Hear . ) I must state that since I nave been in the House of Commons , though , the Irish members have made loud complaints against our conduct , and though I believe we have merited their complaints , yet I have never seen proceeding from the Irish members any series of measures such as they would place on the table of their own Parliament , supposing they had one in College-green . ( Loud cries of " Hear , hear . " ) Now , I do say , thatin this respect they have not been _acting justly by us , or wisely by themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) If they would frame such measures as they might deem best calculated to promote the interests and welfare of Ireland , and submit them to the consideration of the Imperial Parliament , and if the Imperial Parliament incurred the responsibility of rejecting them , my firm

      conviction is that the people ol _England would demand repeal , and concur with the Irish representatives in obtaining it because the English people love justice , and do not desire to see any portion of the population in a state of persecution . They regard Ireland as a persecuted country , and as not placed under ' equal laws . In my opinion , tbe wrongs of Ireland remain to this hour unredressed , and in order that I and other English gentlemen who desire to do justice to Ireland may be relieved from the difficulty in which we are placed , I would conclude by expressing an earnest hope that the Irish members , without delay , will frame such measures as they deem best calculated to promote the interests of their country ; and then , if they should be rejected , the responsibility will be on our heads . ( Cheers . ) .. The report on the Address was then agreed to , and the Address was ordered to be presented by the whole bouse to her Majesty . The bouse then adjourned , at a quarter to ei ght o ' clock .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS—Thursday , Feb . 6 . No business -was done , their _Lordshipu merely as _aembling to accompany the Lord Chancellor in pre scnting the Address to her Majesty .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Thursday , Feb . 6 . The business of the House of Commons commenced at half-past four o ' clock by the reception of her Ma jesty ' s-answer to the Address , which the house presented to her Majesty in person in the course of the afternoon .

      IAW OF SETTLEMENT . Sir J . Ghaham said be bad already intimated his intention to bring in a bill to alter and consolidate the laws of settlement .. If the house would not object , it would be most convenient if he took an early opportunity to introduce that bill ; he , therefore , proposed to introduce it on Tuesday next . He had also mentioned yesterday thatf _^ t was bis intention to move on Tuesday se'nnight , for leave to introduce a bill for the regulation of medical practice . A long discussion took place on a motion made by Lord G . Somerset , for leave to bring in a series of bills for consolidating tbe clauses of different bills relative to companies , lands , and railways . Leave was given to bring in the bills .

      Mr . Cobden comnlained of the omission of all reference to agricultural distress in the Queen ' s speech . He believed that legislation was at the bottom of that distress ; and therefore . he proposed that on this occasion , as on all former occasions , there should be a committee to inquire into the cause of it . If the Hon . Member for Somersetshire , to whom be had communicated bis intention of proposing such a committee , would agree to support bis proposition , they could compel the Government to grant it , as tbe gentlemen on the Opposition side ot the house who had voted for such a committee last year would , if joined by the Hon . Member for Somersetshire and

      his Parliamentary friends of the Protection Society , be too strong for the Right Hon . Baronet opposite to resist them ; all he wanted was the fullest , the fairest , and the most impartial inquiry . He would give the Hon . Member a week or a fortnight to consider of Ms offer : and in case the Hon . Membersheuld refuse it , he should feel it to be his duty at the end of that time to renew bis motion of last year . Mr . Miles acknowledged the . courtesy of Mi * . Cobden , but feared the kind concert which he proffered , and therefore must be permitted to decline it . His - _^ cultural friends had no intention to apply for such a committee . "

      Mr . M . Gibson said , it would be remarkable if tbe house , after all its experience , should reject tliis proposition for a committee . A corn law was not a corn law without a committee on agircultural distress . There w & at present a new corn law . There was distress consequent on it . Wh y was there not , as on all former occasions , a committee on agricultural distress *? Mr . G . Bankes declined the coalition with the Anti-Corn Law League which had just been proffered to him by its founder , Mr . Cobden , and assured him that be would oppose the appointment of suck a committee as he had proposed . Mr . Bright asserted that the speeches made by those gentlemen who called themselves the defenders

      ofthe agricultural interest must convince every one that they were but boilow supporters of that interest which _tnej undertook to defend . They said that our recent legislation was the cause of agricultural distress . They were themselves , however , parties to that legislation which had produced that distress . They ought , therefore , either to enter upon inquiry and retrace their steps , or else go home to then * estates for the purpose of reducing their rents to meet the distress which bad resulted from their own unwise legislation . After abitter attack on the conduct pursued by the landlords , he proceeded to attribute to our present restrictive laws the wretched and impoverished condition of our peasantry , and the wild and uncultivated condition of the land in many parts of the country . In his recent visit to _Bnckinghamshire , the first tiling whicli

      met his view was land on which you could not employ a sythe for the numberj of ant-lulls , and the next was the multitudinous chimnics of the union workhouse at Aylesbury . All classes of agriculturists were coming to a condition in which they would soon spontaneously come forward to demand a repeal of the Corn Laws . The farmers were scarcely able to pay then * rents , and the labouring population was increasing so fast , that employment could not be afforded them . Even now there was a fierce competition for that employment at scanty wages ; and , though the landlords-would do nothing to protect the labourers against that competition , they came forward in that house and asked for protection for themselves against the competition of ( foreigners . Mr . S . O'Brien observed / that he was prepared not only to vote for such a committee as Mr . _Cooden had recommended , but also to serve upon it , if it were

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      appointed . He reminded the Hon ; Member for Durham , that to get into a passion , and to employ a : bull ying tone , was not the mode to convince the gentlemen of England ofthe truth o f his doctrines . If Mr . Bright thought that , by such language as he had used that night , he could set the labourers and tenantry of England against their landlords , he would soon hnd that he was lamentably mistaken . * _^ ' Mr . Villiehs expressed his surprise that the gentlemen opposite should have refused the option which had been given _f _^ em that evening . He contended that it was owing to the intervention of Providence , and not to any relaxation of the restrictive system , that we were now safe from the dangerous consequences which that system always produced . Sir R . Peel declared that he would not be drawn

      into this unexpected discussion upon the Corn Laws , which had been brought on without any regular notice . The conduct of Mr . Cobden , and . ofthe gentleman who followed him , was full of courtesy , and therefore he listened with the more regret to the vituperations and taunts which Mr . Bright'had thrown out against the landlords of England . It could not be stated with truth that the agricultural interest generally was suffering distress . Different districts in England , Scotland , and Ireland might be in different degrees of comfort ; but ; even where there was distress , it was not occasioned by therecent alterations either in the Cora Law or in the tariff . That distress could hot be' relieved by legislative interference ., A return to the protective system would not cure it , and even if it would for a time , he would not be the man to re-ihtroduce it .

      Lord J . Manners asked Mr . Bright to consider how much fiercer the competition for employment among the labouring classes would become , if , in addition to the competition in the home marketi- there was a fresh stock supplied from foreign countries . Mr . Beothkrton contended that we had now . an increasing population—that that population must be fed , and that it could not be , fed much longer without ihe removal of our restrictions on

      commerce . The Queen ' s speech was then taken "into consideration , " and after some business of mere form the house adjourned . "* ' "' . ' v * . , * t ; , „ ¦ _-., _] .. Friday , Feb . 7 . . _•¦'"¦ ¦••¦ '¦ ' ¦ ¦; The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour . After the presentation of some petitions , and'the giving of notices of minor import ; . the following conversation ensued on

      -TOST OFFICE ESPIONAGE . - Mr . T . Duncombe , seeing the noble Lord the Member for Liverpool ( Lord Sandon ) in his place , wished to put to him a question with reference , to the appendix to the report of a committee of which the noble Lord was chairman last session . He referred to the secret committee that investigated the practice of opening letters at the Post Office . That committee had annexed an appendix to the report , and that appendix was ordered to be printed with the report . The latter had been printed * shortly after it had been drawn up , but to the present hour they had not got the appendix . He had sent several

      times to the printer ' s to obtain it , and also the report ; but-he was told that the report could not be had , because it was waiting for the appendix , and that the appendix could not be had , because it was waiting for the proof , which was in the hands of a member of the committee to be corrected . Now he ( Mr . Duncombe ) insisted that after the committee laid this report on the table their functions ceased , and they had nothing more to do _^ with the report or the appendix . He was in possession ofthe appendix by special favour of the Speaker , but he wished to know from the Noble Lord why it was kept back , and in whose hands it was ?

      Lord _Sanhon said that the committee had entrusted the task of arranging and classifying the documents whicli constituted the appendix to the Hon . Member for Kendal , who had taken great pains with the subject . Those documents still remained iiv the hands of that Hon . Member , and he ( Lord Sandon ) was sure that whatever obstacles remained in the way ofthe publication of the report would soon be removed . ' "¦ Mr . aT . S . _DcNCOMBEjexpressed a hope that no further time would be lost in presenting these papers to the house . Lord Saxdojj said that as far as he was concerned certainly no time should be lost .

      GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENT— -TUB INCOME TAX . Sir R . Peel rose and said—Sir , it may be convevient for me now to state the course which I intend to pursue on Friday next . I believe it will be competent for me , without moving for a committee of ways and means , to take the course of movinga resolution to continue for a further period the laws which impose a tax on income . But as that is not tbe usual course of late years , 1 propose on Wednesday to adopt the followingproceeding—viz ., to move for a committee of ways and means , and then in the committee of ways and means , on Friday next , I shall propose a resolution to the effect , that the laws which impose a tax _*^ income in Great Britain , and the law which imposes an additional Btainp duty in Ireland , should be continued for a further limited period . That is the nature . of the resolution I propose to move in committee of ways and means . ' ; _*>

      Mr . Hcme : —Will the Right Hon . Gentleman explain to the house what are the taxes he intends to remit ? ' "' * Sir R . Peel . —I propose on Friday to enter into a general review of the subject , when ! will state what course I intend to take , but I cannot enter into any explanation now ; I will give the fullest statement on Friday next with respect to the nature of the proposals her Majesty ' s government intend to adopt .

      POOR LAW UNIONS . Mi-. M . Sutton moved that a select committee be re-appointed to inquire into the administration ofthe law for the relief of the poor in the unions formed under the Act 22 Geo . III ., c . S , see . 83 , the Gilbert Unions , and to report to the house their opinion whetherit was expedient that the said unions should be maintained . The motion was agreed to , and the following Hon . Members were appointed to serve on the committee : —Mr . Barneby , Gaptain ' Peahen , " Mr . Thomas Duncombe , Sir R . Heron , Mr . Colville , Sir Wm . Heathcote , ' Mr . Beckett _Denison , Mr . Wrightson , Viscount Barringtori , Mr . Manners Sutton , Mr . Strutt , Viscount Marsham , Mr . Labouehere , Mi * . Wakley , and Mr . Protheroe . After ordering some returns as to the attendance of the Poor Law Commissioners on their duties , and passing a number of resolutions respecting the conduct of private business , the house adjourned at six o ' clock . '

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      . CLERKENWELL . Mosdav . —Charge of Bioamv . —Curious Scene . —John Cullen , a stonemason , was broughtup on remand , charged with bigamy . —On Saturday the prisoner was brought up , charged with refusing to maintain his lawful wife , Sarah Cullen , who , on that occasion , detailed a series of cruelties practised towards her by the prisoner . Becoming destitute she was at length obliged to take refuge in St . Pancras workhouse , and the prisoner altogether deserted her for the last nine months ; and during that time lived with a young woman , to whom , as his lawful wife deposed , he was married . The charge of " refusing to maintain " merged into the greater one of bigamy , and the prisoner * was accordingly transferred from the defendants' to the felons'dook . —Mr . Cator , overseer of St . Pancras , by whom the first charge was brought , produced the certificate of the marriage of the first wife . —The prisoner was on that occasion most insolent , and when apprised of the _eevious

      nature of the charge , and of its consequences ii found guilty of it , said , he knew all about it as well as the magistrate could teU him . —The first wife swore she was married to him in a Roman Catholic chapel in Dublin . —The prisoner set up the plea that sueh a marriage was invalid ; but it was , of course , overruled at once . —This day the person said to be his second wife , having much- 'of ., the Gipsy-look , and being rather handsome , was placed in the witness-box . Upon being sworn , she exclaimed , pointing to the prisoner , "Thatis not my husband .-1 was not married to that man . "—Mr . Greenwood : What was your maiden name?—Witness : Overl . —Mr . Greenwood :- 'Do you know the prisoner!— "Witness : No ; I _jjnn't say that I do . —Mr . Greenwood : Have you not been married to him —Witness : No . —Mr . Greenwood : You state that positively 1—Witness : Yes , positively . —Mr . Greenwood : Have you never seen the prisoner before ? —" Witness * . Yes , I bave seen him . —Mr . Greenwood : Have you never slept in the with him _trWitness

      same room - : Never . —The certificate was handed in , describing a marriage to have taken place iu St . Marylebone Church on the 22 nd of November , 1840 , between John Cullen , a stonemason , and Mary . Overl , spinster . —Mr . Greenwood : Does this certificate refer . to you '—Witness : My name is Mary Overl , and 1 was married at the time aud place the certificate states to John Cullen , a stonemason ; but the prisoner is not that man _.-t Mr . Greenwood : Then , where isyourhusband '—Witness I cannot tell . —Mr . Greenwood : When did you see him . ?—Witness-: Not for the last nine months . —Mr ; Greenwood Did he run away!—Witness : He did . —The clerk , reminded the witness that perjury was a transportable offence , and advised her to be cautious in what she stated . —The woman seemed greatly confused , and said nothing . —Mr . Greenwood ordered her to be again sworn , and the oath having been a second time , administered , the magistrate asked her if she stiU persisted in saying tlie prisoner was not her husbaud ?—She said nothing , —Mr ..

      Greenwood : Did the ceremony of marriage ever pass between you ?—The witness was silent . —Mr . Greenwood repeated the question , but the witness maintained a rigid silence . — Mr . Greenwood : You have been sworn to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth . I ask you once more , have you not been married to the prisoner ' —Witness t Am I obliged to answer that question!—Mr . Greenwood : You are . —Witness : I never was . —The witness had reluctantly ndinitted that her place of residence was Cooke _'* - row , St . Pancras , when the landlord of that house arrived the parties were again brought into court . The landlord swore tliat he always understood the prisoner to be her husband , but he could state nothing positive on the subject . —The witness was again placed ia the witness-box , but she refused to _^ answer a single question . —The parties

      were again removed , bnt soon after Mr . Cator , overseer of St . Pancras , stated to the magistrate that the second wife wished to give her evidence . —The prisoner was a third time placed in the dock and the woman in the witnessbox , when , after much hesitation , she admitted having been married to the prisoner , and having . lived with him as his wife for some years after their marriage . She had two clnldren by him , arid the certificate produced referred to the second marriage / The first wife ; _came " toi ' th ' _eir residence demanding support from the prisoner / who never denied that she was his wife . —The prisoner , when asked for his defence , in a subdued tone of voice said he had nothing to Bay . He shook his head in a dejected manner , and was remanded for the production of witnesses to tbe first marriage , when he will be committed for trial .

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      WOBSHIP-STKEET . ' MONDAT . -rTlIB _LA'IB MURDER AT BETHNAL-GREEN . — James Tapping was placed at the bar before Mr . Bingham , at" Worship-street Police Court , foi < final examination , charged with the wilful murder of a young woman named Emma Whiter , the daughter of a silk-manufactuver in Bethnal-green , to whom he was paying his addresses , by shooting her dead with a pistol . Tbe excitement produced by die examination of this prisoner wasniostextraovdlnary . Long before the opening of the doors of the court thousands of people had . congregated in the street , and when the prison van drove up the pressing of the mob to get a sight of the prisoner , who had expressed his intention of making a full confession of fhe circumstances of the transaction , accompanied by the exclamations of the men , and the screams and faintings of the women , was terrifying . The instant the prisoner was placed at tlie bar , ( which he entered with a firm step and composed air ) the court became

      densely packed _withpeople of both sexes , numbers of whom were standing upon the benches and every available ledge from which support , could be attained , and every witness examined had to undergo a hard struggle to obtain ingress to the witness box . Mr . ' Cummingg , the surgeon who performed the postmortem examination of the deceased ' s body , was _re-exftmined at considerable length , but as it did little more than strengthen the evidence he gave before the coroner , it is only necessary , to say that he produced two leaideh bullets he had extracted from the young woman ' s head aud neck , and expressed his opinion that they had been the cause of death . The witness described tlie deceased as a handsom _^ and remarkably fine made young woman . During the examination -of this-witness an incident occurred whicli excited the commiseration of all present . When he arrived at his description of the wound in the deceased ' s throat , the prisoner ' s younger sister , a girl

      about eighteen years ot age , who had stationed herself near the door of the clerk ' s office , and had been watching bis evidence 'with intense anxiety , uttered a piercing scream and fell to the ground in hysterics . She was immediately carried out by the officers , but it was at least twenty minutes before she had returned to consciousness ; on doing so , she declared that she did not know who was to support or what would become of the family , now that the prisoner was gone , for he had always been a kind and aft'ectionate brother to them . It was stated that the prisoner had supported by his exertions his two orphan sisers a long time past , and when he heard his sister's screams , he seemed much hurt , and watched her out of tbAcoiirt with visible emotion . Serjeant Backhouse hav-Mg ? -produced a bullet mould , Robert Perkins , ii gunmaker , in . Sale-street , Bethnal-green , said—I was a neighbour of the prisoner , whom I have known for some years :

      the bullet mould produced is mine . On Saturday week last , at four in the afternoon , the prisoner brought the pistol produced ( that found b y the body of the deceased ) to me , _> to have the top brass work of it repaired , saying that he wanted it as soon as possible , and that I must bring it to him at the Rising Sun , in Waterloo Town . I finished the repairs in an hour and a half , and left it with the prisoner at the house he had told me . On the next day ( Sunday ) , he again called upon me , and asked me to cast four bullets for him to fit the pistol , which I did in the course ofhalf an hour , from' the mould now produced , and took them to him at the Rising Sun , and he paid me fourpence for them . The prisoner then asked me for some percussion caps to fit the nipple of the pistol , and I gave him , I think , about seven . I asked him what he wanted the bullets and the percussion caps for , and he told me he was going to a shooting match tlie next day . ( The

      witness inserted the bullete produced hy the surgeon into the bullet mould , and expressed his conviction that , though there might be many moulds like it , those bullets bad been cast from the mould produced by the serjeant . ) The next fresh evidence produced was that of Thomas Crisp , a cabinet-maker , who said—About one o ' clock on Tuesday morning last ( the time of the murder ) I was in the taproom of the Rising Sun , when the prisoner came in and sat down very much dejected . One of his fingers was bleeding , and on my asking him how it _occurred , he said lie had had an accident and cut it . In a few seconds after , the prisoner suddenly started up ,, and running towards his brother Henry , who was present , exclaimed , " It cannot now be undone ; the deed is done , audit will tea mystery to all of you . " I then left the " room , arid was going , out of the' house , when one of the prisoner ' s sisters came in and inquired for the prisoner . I went to

      tlie room door and called liim out , and the instant he made his " appearance his sister dropped forward and fainted in his arms . The prisoner sat down in a disconsolate state in front of the bar , with his sister in his arms ; and when I went out I left them so . In answer to Mr . Bingham , the witness said , the observation made by the prisoner as to the perpetration of the deed , was uttered loud enough for other persons to hear as well as myself , and as soon as it was made the prisoner ' s brother privately questioned him , and instantly after , starting up , exclaimed , in the presence of the prisoner , who did not contradict him , "Good God , he has shot his young woman . " Hcthenhastenedbacktothe prisoner , and felt in his pocket for something , on which the prisoner said , " Ah , Harry , that ' s gone . " Witness then left . The man Bunn , who met the prisoner at the public-house an hour after the murder , in addition to his former evidence , said

      the prisoner was very depressed , and sat in silence at the end of the table . He also heard the prisoner ' s confession to his brother of having just committed " some deed . " When they left the public-house they met a young man named Capes , of whom the prisoner was jealous , whom he reproached very bitterly for his attentions to the deceased , and threw the whole , blame of the transaction upon him . Witness _followetrthe prisoner about for some time , and pressed him to go home with him to supper , but theprisoaev declined to do so , and said , "No , 1 will go home to my poor little sisters , and have supper with them . " Witness did not like to leave him in such a melancholy state , and saw him to his own home . There the prisoner sat down in a lit of despondency , and witness , finding he could not console him , left the place . —The man Capes

      part of whose evidence before the coroner wehave already inserted , deposed to sevoral acts of jealousy on the part of the prisoner towards the witness with regard to the deceased , and to the prisoner striking the deceased two violent blows in the face from this cause . But the witness declared to the magistrate that tliere were no grounds whatever for the suspicions the prisoner entertained of him . After the murder had been committed witness met the prisoner again , and was severely reproached by ium ; but these reproaches were accompanied by such incoherent expressions thatthe witness did notat the time think the prisoner was altogether in lus right senses . Other testimony of a confirmatory nature was then given , arid the prisoner , who was advised by bis solicitor not to say anything , was fully committed for trial _, i

      BOW STREET , Friday . —Destruction of the Portland Vase in the British Museum . —Yesterday , shortly before the closing of the court , a tall young man , about . twenty years of age , and of delicate appearance , was brought beoreMr . Jardine , in the custody of 119 A division ; and placed atth ' e " bar , charged with wilfully and maliciously breaking the celebrated Portland Vase in the Brit _i sh Museum . The prisoner , being placed at the bar , appeared _terysuUen and reserved , and regardless of the charge preferred against him , —Mr . Burnaby said—What is your name ?—The prisoner : I decline giving my name or' address . —Mr . Edward Hawkins being

      then sworn , said : Having heard that the Portland Vase had been broken , and that no visitor had come down stairs since tlie crack was hoard , he went up , and finding four or five persons inthe apartment , he asked them what account they could give of the ' circumstance ? They replied , they knew nothing of it ; and coming to the . prisoner , to whom he put the same question , he replied in the most deliberate manner , " I did it , " without giving any reason for such extraordinary conduct . Witness saw aU the fragments scattered about the room , and on looking about he found a large sculptured stono on the floor , with which the destruction appeared to have been committed;—The prisoner , who "dc _cJined saying anything , was remanded .

      CLERKENWELL . : ' Fridat . — Charge of ' Threatening to Murder . — —Mr . John James Schledcl , a merchant , living in _Harl'ington : street , Ilampstead , was charged with threatening to murder Miss Schledel , the daughter of Mr . George Pfeiller Schledel , a gentleman residing at 39 , Ossultonstreet , Somers Town . Mr . Schledel deposed that tho prisoner was his nephew , and on the previous night , he went to the door of the house , 11 , _Parkington-street , Islington , belonging to a gentleman named Evans , where his daughter was staying , and knocked loudly for admission ; he was refused , and witness coming up at the time , directed him to go away ; the prisoner refused , and his violent knocking at that time of night ( twelve o ' clock ) disturbed the whole street . Finding knocking to be inef .

      fectual , he commenced kicking at the door with all his might , saying he would murder witness ' s daughter , and witness felt confident that if he had got in he woHld have murdered her . —Miss Schledel , a pretty-looking girl of 18 , wearing a profusion of ringlets , deposed that the prisoner washer cousin , . and had threatened to knock her brains out on the previous day , with a poker . —Mr . Combe : Can you assign no reason ? — Miss Schledel ( blushing ) : He has been paying his addresses to me , and because I did not receive him as favourably as he desired , he threatened to knock my brail's out , and then to kill himself ; audi am afraid he will cany his threat into execution . —Mr . Combe after a private consultation with the prisoner ' s friends , committed him in default of bail , and ordered that the prisoner be closely watched while he remained in the cells attached to the court . " .

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      VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT , Fm 1 . Before Sir L . Shadivell . Wilson v . Wilson . —Charge of _Im-potency . —The Vice-Chancellor sat in his court at Lincoln ' s-inn specially to hear the remainder of Mr . Bethell ' s reply in this cause , which has occupied the whole attention ofthe Court for seven days , and now stands for judgment . The details of the case , so offensive to decency on both sides , bave become so notorious by former publication as to require only a general description to refresh the memory on the questions now presented for the final adjudication of the Court . The plaintiff is the adopted niece ot" the late Sir Henry Wright Wilson and Lady Frances Wilson , and the defendant the cousin of the present Lord Henniher . The

      marriage was solemnized in April , 1839 , the lady being represented as then of the age of forty-seven , and the gentleman seven or eight years younger . The lady ' s fortune consisted of about £ 8 , 000 or £ 9 , 000 per annum arising from estates in Yorkshire , Essex , Hampshire and Chelsea , and all her property was declared by the settlement to belong to the husband in his ' marital right except Drayton Lodge , in Hampshire , which was limited to the husband for life , with remainder to _thejvife for life , and afterwards to the heirs of the husband , and the Chelsea Park estate and a sum of 000

      _^ , . stock , which was secured to the separate use ofthe wife . The husband brought no fortune into the settlement . The parties lived together for severa months at Chekea-park , till . at length the conjugal differences , which had commenced soon after the marriage , and the state of _;¦ _Mn _^ _. Wfl _^' g _healthJ-. _wpre . _s _^ hy her as arisingfrom her husband ' s treatment , obhgedher first to go and reside in Gemany _. and finally to take , refuge in the house of her trustee and sohcitor , Mr . _Forater _.-and to institute a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court against Mr . Henniker Wilson , on the ground of lmpotency . The alarm produced in the defendant ' s _minfrby this proceeding brought him into

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      personal communication with the trustees of the settlement , ana anegotiation was carried on without the intervention of any solicitor ' on thepart of the defendant . Mrs Wilson ; " admitted that'the marriagcihad' been solemnized according to law , "but on her solemn oath denied that it had ever heen consummated , and on her solemn bath believed it to be on the ground of a physical infirmity of the defendant ; " and , further , that a communication was made to her shortly after the mamage , from which she had reason to believe tliat this was known to other persons , and which she mentioned to the defendant on several occasions . Under the advice of her friends she had submitted to a medical examination , and fortified her denial of the consummation of the mamage by the certificate ot

      Dr . Granville . Mr . Wilson , on the other hand , dehied the charge in the most direct and positive terms , and supported his declaration by the _^ certificates of several most eminent surgeons , alleging , moreover that the mamage had been duly consummated , * but at the same time imputing * the obstacles to the physical infirmities of the lady . This Mrs . Wilson most stedfastly denied , and went on to represent her distresses as not arising only from the cause before alluded to , but also from the general conduct of tlie defendant , which consisted of various and continued acts of purposed vexation , insult , neglect , rude treatment when alone , and contempt before strangers ; froni lengthened absence , without knowing where he was , refusal to visit her friends , never accompanying her ,

      and often passing her ' in the streets unnoticed , die . The defendant , however , declared that she wastreated with the greatest kindness and attention , and that the real cause of the connubial difference was a discovery of Mrs . Wilson that he had had a natural child sworn to him some thnebofcre the marriage . To this Mrs . Wilson replied ,. that such an intimation had never been made to her by any one , and that the allegation of such being the supposed cause of the differences was a mere pretence and misrepresentation set up b y him for obvious purposes ; but that about ten months after the marriage he took several letters from his pocket and told her one was from a wonian threatening to swear a child to him , but that she ( Mrs . Wilson ) turned the subject into ridicule , and used expressions to him whicli gave him plainly to understand it was impossible . The defendant endeavoured to falsify this statement by admissions and expressions made by Mrs . Wilson in _conversations

      with third parties , that she did not believe the truth of the circumstance which established his paternal character , or his capability , but this evidence was rejected by the Court . The plaintiff further contended , . that the peculiar language of the certificate ofthe _suneonswas not inconsistent with the allegation of inipote ' ncy . It would be an endless task to follow the mutual allegations and contradictions of the parties , which appeared to be pursued to the end of the pleadings with uncompromising bitterness . The case of the plaintiff was conducted by Mr . Bcthell _, Mr . Hodgson , and Mr . Lloyd , and the counsel for the defendant were Mr . Kelly , Mr . Stuart , and Mr . Willcock . The Vice-Chancellor at the conclusion of the argument observed , that as the case did not merely involve a right , but also affected the character ofthe parties , he should not dispose of it satisfactorily to his own feelings without reading minutely through the whole ofthe pleadings , and contrasting them with the evidence before he pronounced his judgment .

      Mm Ibffltum With- * '' Saturday's News Police, Legal And General.

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      QUERN'S SQUARE . . Satubday . —Assaulting a _Pcbiican . —Thos . HHch , an omnibus-time-office keeper at the Queen ' s Arms , was brought up , charged with assaulting Mr . Allder , publican , _Chelssa . It appeared from the evidence adduced , that Hitch was in the habit of attending the house of the prosecutor , and on the previous day , about two o ' clock , he had two glasses of liquor , for which threepence-halfpenny was charged . The money was missed at the time . The next evening some altercation arising about it , defendant began to abuse the proseeutor in a very offensive manner , and ended by striking him in the throat . Persevering in his violence , a constable was called in , and the defendant was given into custody . Fined forty shillings , or in default of payment , one month in the House of Correction .

      BOW STREET . Satorday . —Very Ladylike . — Mary Lee , a welldressed young woman , was charged with being drunk and incapable . A police-officer found her on Friday night in _Pall-maU , annoying gentlemen going to their clubs , and when he requested her to go home , she threw herself on the ground , and said she ivas at home . No persuasion could convince her to the contrary , aud she was taken to the station-house , —Mr , Twyford asked if she was a prostitute . —The policeman replied that she was . —The prisoner , however , declared that she was not ; she got her living by-honcst industry . —Mr . Twyford _r _^ VVell , you have been accused of very disorderly conduct , and of being a prostitute . —Pr isoner : I tell you , sir , I am not a prostitute Mr . Twyford . : The officer swears that you are , aud I am bound to believe him on oath ; you are committed for a month . —Prisoner : You are a nice fellow , you are ; why don't you send that d—d policeman to —— for a month ?

      GUILDHALL . , Saturday . — Two op a Tbade never Agree . — A very resx > cctably attired y ovmg man named Ch arlcs Knight was summoned before Mr . Alderman Moon , for annoying Mr . Simmonds , a foreigner , and . a medical practitioner , residing in Skinner-street , Snow-hill . The complainant stated that for several years past he had been the victim of a conspiracy entered into between the . prisoner and several other youmj men , who were in the habit of knocking him up , and sending hun to different parts of the neighbourhood , under the pretence that bis aid was required in eases of urgent necessities , and frequently he found his door placarded with curious extracts and lectures he had delivered on former occasions at ' various institutions . On Friday night last , between twelve and one o'clock he was aroused from his rest by a

      violent ringing at the street-door bell , and on his throwing up his bed-room window and inquiring who was there , the defendant culled out in a gruff manner , " I want you . " —The defendant , in answer to the case , said he bad been out to a party on the evening in question , and returning home rather late , he found all the inmates gone . He rang Mr . De la Mont's bell , and receiving no answer , he pulled the complainant ' s bell , thinking it would be heard then . He was aware tliat Mr . Simmonds had been annoyed in the manner that gentleman had described , but he assured the Alderman he had no hand in it . —Mr . Alderman Moon said , under these circumstances , he would dismiss the case , but at the game time he must tell the defendant that he had no right to ring the complainant ' s bell . —The defendant promised not to repeat the offence , and both retired apparently satisfied with the result .

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Saturdat , The Ruislip Moeder . —Charles Lamb , a pr isoner in tlie House of Correction , to which he had been committed for the offence of poaching , was brought up to this court on a writ of habeas corpus , to take his trial on a charge of having , in 183 T , murdered a youth named John Brill , in the parish of Ruislip . The particulars ofthe charge have been recently before the public ; the principal witness was George Sibley , a prisoner iu the House of Correction , who , it will be remembered , brought the charge against the prisoner ; founded , as he alleged , on the prisoner's own confession . Several witnesses were examined , but their evidence added nothing to Sibley ' s statement . Mr . Wilkins defended the prisoner , and the jury , after half an hour ' s deHberation , returned averdict of Not Guilty .

      Latest Shipping Intelligence. Shipwhjeck...

      LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . Shipwhjeck of Two American Liners , amd Loss op : Life . —By tlie packet-ship Stephen Whitney , which arrived at Liverpool from New York , in the early part of the week , we are in receipt of intelligence of the total loss of two fine ships , American liners , the Pennsylvania , 700 tons burthen , belonging to Liverpool ; and the Dorchester , 400 tons register , also of the same port , whicli occurred during the month of December , while on their passage to and from England and the United States . We are sorry to add that the wreck of the latter , vessel was accompanied with loss of life . While l ying-to on the 14 th she was struck by a most terrific sea ; it carried away the three masts and rigging , clearing her deck of every boat , and sweeping three men overboard , consisting of tho second mate and two seamen , who , melancholy to say , perished . For days the gale continued , the ship being dashed about , actually

      unmanagable , her rudder gone , and her hold half full of water . The remaining persons on board , forty-five in all , were saved by the ship Rochester . The Barque Thistle was totally lost near Lagan Point , on the 2 _* 7 th of hist month . She was on a vovagc from Glasgow to Demerara with a general cargo . " Tub _Bbitish Brig Dove was lost in the month of January last , while on a voyage from that place to Dominica . She was capsized in a gale of wind , the sea sweeping one seaman off the deck , and drowning two others below ; their names are Godfrey Brown , James Gardner , andSamuel Hogan ; the rest of the crew were nine days afterwards taken off the wreck by a passing vessel . Four other losses are reported on the books in the course of the wreck . Theschooner Lady Scott , wrecked on the Castle Sands ; the sloop Jane , of Lynn ; sunk off Salt-fleet ; the Ann , of Ipswich , wrecked near Whitby ; and the Napier , of Newcastle , lost on the coast of Spain , the master and one man drowned , and the rest of the crew were saved .

      The Ministerial Chanoes.—Mr. Cardwell M ...

      The Ministerial Chanoes . —Mr . Cardwell M P for Chtheroc , succeeds Sir G . Clerk , as one of the ' Secretaries Of the Treasury . The Hon . Gentleman entered upon his official duties this morning This appointment does not vacate a seat in the House ol Commons . —Standard , Saturday Evening . The Extbaokdinary . Charge at _Noitingham . — Fm _» AT . —The jury who . were summoned to investigate into the cause of , death of Hannah _Wilmot , have returned their verdict . The evidence went to prove most clearly that . the girl persisted in a statement on her death-bed , that . ' , her master had had connexion with her , and also that he had forced her to take powders to procure abortion , and to this statement , that ot the surgeon was added , that she had died from

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      abscesses on tlie . brain , which might or mi „ i have been caused by poison . The defence Jn , % x was , that the girl was ill , and her master not , ' i _^ _' to employ a surgeon ,., procured some powde , in >' administered them ; but that they were i ) mi' ' _"""i aperient powders . The governess covv _ohovat ' i _- statement . It being proved also , that the ' _^ not pregnant and never had been , nor _anvt- v , _% poison in the stomach ( which might be free ihi oi poison had been administered at some _pei'ioili _8 _** jury returned a , verdict that the deceased n * Wilmot , died from disease of the brain , but h o * a ' duccd did not appear . They , however , 5 ent J Phi master , who , on attending , was censured by the " ner for not calling in a physician , and for takin 5 * * case under his own hands . ° '• fie Destruction op a ; New Mill at Bi _„\ ckb _^ At about a _quarler past nine o ' clock on Sn _^' p morning , when the wind was howling with _ffi _frnvf noise beard tVivimcrhmifc rim _SWat j uicenoise

      _. n . was * ; , u nu _» _jic < uu _uuuuguuui , me town _n the sudden _disclmrge of distant artillery which ° _- ' speedily discovered to have _proceodod f rom the _tn ing down of an entirely new and unfinish ed jniii Bank-top , the property of Mr . William Dicki _^ _' iron-founder , « _Sse . The mill was what is called , •" eight-bay" mill ; the area of the spinning part _^ the premises being sixtjr feet b y eighty f " in extent ; and the mill four stories _jj- _? It appears that at about a quarter past nine o ' clof ' some men employed upon . the premises , and li » n dose by , observed one ofthe walls ofthe mill to bu yout ; and they were discussing the readiest means '? propping it up , when tlie gable end of the mill , w _, ° wliich the full force of the wind bore , was seen ?

      bend inwards ; and _becoming thus loosened from tt roof , the latter was lifted _upliy the wind , and [ a \ _C back again with great violence , went to pieces , an ' carried down to the foundation everything with « The destruction was instantaneous and com _pie _* . ' part only of some of the walls ~ iemain ing . The m ? first floor , beams , supporters , and the walls that fei ! with the roof were all smashed to pieces . The _n _^ of the engine house and boiler room were destroy _^ the thick iron beam ends being broken like _gW The damage done to Mr . Dickinson ' s property canny be calculated at Jess than £ 2 , 000 . Upwards of £ : { tj worth of glass was destroyed .

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      UllVJllY LAKE . In noticing tlie baUet of Les Danaides , _produced . ; Tuesday night , we do not feel called upon to lie profits ? - ; our antique illustrations . Wc have a right to assume t _!^ everybody knows that the fifty ( laughters of _Hanaus _lajried their fifty cousins , and that forty-nine of the _sen >'? _[ men were murdered'on their wedding night by their hriif _^ ' the fiftieth , Lynceus , being saved by the fiftieth lad y , * jj permnestra . Knowing so much , and also that the Dai ' wij'i ( as a punishment for tlieir misdeeds ) were contlemnci _^ Tartarus to fill with water a vessel constructed on j , principle of a watering-pot with the spout at the _hottr . _* there is but little novelty in the general aspect of the _hj let , and consequently but little interest . The _divciliu _, ' ments are performed by second-rate people ; and there il scarcely a single pas which may be considered a distinctive

      feature . B .. t , on the other hand , no expense seems _.-have been spared . There is a huge corps de _iKtllc _' _fy there are fifty bridegrooms and fifty brides , besides j host of supernumeraries , who figure as " Amaznsi Egyptian dancers ,. pviests , warriors , African slaves , il mons , furies , & c _, " all of whom are brightly dressed , _nj whose groupings _iVetiuently present a rich ami _impose _eotiB d ' _tt'iJ . In this ballet Mdlle . If aria , of the _Aewkti Royale , made her appearance before an English _auilience ' She is a prettily-featured young lady , if the " unchaa ' ments " of " distance " do not deceive us . She is s _mallfe stature , and slight and elegant in form , Her dancing i _* longs to the Dumilatre school , being easy and grnclfnl

      She obtained an encore in a series of circling Imtuids ic a pas de deux witli M . Vestris . The Madame l'inart _, _vtijj came out some little while back iu a _divertiiscmcnt _prepaid especially for hev , re-appeared upon this occasion ; audai one oftheDanaides danced an energetic pas with a _gen-Je man whose name we did hot ascertain , but she realised no great glory . Mdlle . O'Bryan and Madame Giubfei were seen in the second act , anil contributed a pair of solos . Among tbe _opposite _. _sex , M . Hoguet _, the _invtosa of the ballet , distinguished himselC the most . He petvi . nated the _anti-Multhusian Danaus , and did not mind _beiw laughed at for hts pantomime , which was amusing '} = t . traragaut . The house was very full , and the _ballel ' received with applause .

      - ASELPHI . A " dramatic anecdote , " in two acts , caUed ' Ihe S _& _k of . Fortune , was produced at this theatre on _Tliursdaj night , and with complete success . The " anecdote" is ox ' s of intrigue , and not ofa very agreeable character , _lieisgof the French school , in which the presumed frailty of _aaar . ried woman is the hinge upon which the plot tan ? . Upon Mr . Hudson devolved the duties of supporting ie piece ; and he was everything that could be wisheil . ' l & Wolgar , Miss i ' orteseue , Mr . Lambert , and Ilr . CoweH , al ! performed- their parts admirably . At the fall of tk ¦••• tain Mr . Hudson was ' called for ; but the spectators _? m not satisfied until they had seen Miss Wolecr also .

      _LYCEDJf . Xhe comic drama called Taxing Possession , HliicL - ? j ; produced at this theatre on Monday night , 1 ' _uvnisk-Keeley with a convenient opportunity for creating nurti . ment after his own peculiar manner . He represents a c « . tain Beatus Boodle , a . cockney traveller for a iisli-sauee and pickle warehouse , who , while pursuing his calling in i German _toivn , pun-liases a lottery ticket from a gar-jo : gipsies , which has been lost hy a young peasant nskd Karl , betrothed io Meta ( Miss Arden ) . The ticket turn ? up a prize , entitling the fortunate holder to the _iistlso ; _liatenhohl , on the banks ofthe . Dannhe , and all ' its » T , par . tcn . inces . The cockney , in liij'th . glee , goes to take \ 4-. % sioh , but in the meanwhile thepeasant , having _discover the loss he has sustained , manages to get the assiatau « _- ' the leader ofthe gipsies , and a plot is formed to sicken w

      silly bagman of his good fortune , by filling him with alardi and by worrying himalmost to death . The castle , in Uh last stage of ruin and dilapidation , has long been tlie _ha-iEt of the gipsies , arid they enter readily into the _scheca is annoy the new landlord . ' When he arrives he fiiids noftitf but a broken-down , bare , and desolate tenement ; hecar < get nothing to eat ; he is frightened out of his wits by ttf roar of wolves ; he is disturbed by . stories of tlie p ! s « being haunted : he is consumed b y fleas ; until at ler . _' _-i he is so harassed , and so disgusted with his property &! he resigns it , with a shriek of delight , to the rightful _ovz-3 ofthe lottery ticket—receiving two hundred flovins ir . -. ' . change ; fortified with which he cheerfully resume- te avocations in the sauce and pickle trade . Keeley , Uses the hero of these ' adventures , was quite at hotiw as if swaggering' ba * rman ' , hopping _^ and skipping about ir . it intensity of vulgar satisfaction when he learns his

      unapected good fortune ,. and groaning with agony and _perplexity - . is the annoyances and discomforts of _resiehce accumulate upon him . In such characters _Keelov haoften been seen , but he was never more diverting tiisr . is this . ' He managed at the outset to put tin : audience ir . _t _)» complacent frame of mind , and to raise a laugh hearty _n permanent , which at oiice placed the success of the pi ** beyond a doubt , i Mr . A Wigan was the principal _gkf upon wh im devolved the important task of teasing s ?' irritating the beset cockney ; and Mr . Craven was tis peasant -Karl . Mr . Meadows ' contributed _lai'gcly top comicality : lie played a stupid old seneschal . _peiTiKHll ? one idea , that of having placed the lost lottery ticket is ft salt-box . which he iterates with an amusing pertte !? until he becomes the bore and the horror of _everyone « meets with .. The piece , was perfectly successful , am . _«' notlce ' of repetition > vas hailed with a roar of

      _applaoM-STRAND THEAT 11 E . t . The popularity of Antigone was vouched for mi m _*>! night at this theatre * by an extravaganza , in whicc * j- _- principal features of the . great lyrical tragedy were { ' •'• raorously burlesqued . The travestied Antigone is wastaken "b y Mr . G . Wild ,-who wraps his capacious person 1 a ' classic Grek robe , ' and delivers mock heroics _toiwtaS 6 brother wh m the bulky maiden has ubersteu i « 2-debtors' prisoS . There was plenty of fun to divert W audience , who took up the parodied resemblances o . ~ < original readily enough , and accepted every morsel of s * _t and every broad witticism with a relish which knew _nbounds . Mr . 11 . Hall , who personated _Creou , gave _sM capital imitations of Tandenhoff _, Macready , and c _«^ O'Connell ; and sang some of the airs ofthe day . torto ; - - profaitely with grotesque words , in a vein of rich _^&' _- ' The guards and sages crowd the raised stage _accoi'Ms * copy ; and below is a similar fidelity as regards the etc-- which stand at the their 1

      sides and _tlu-ow up ar _]^ . style of droll exaggeration . Mr . Macfarren is not w'Vj _* * ten ; he is mimicked b y Mr . F . Ronier , who enter * - ; orchestra with bustle and importance , and draws _ott s J of white gloves with a pompous display of dignity , w his long hair hangs about his head after the _«» " " _' v : . accomplished prototype . His burlesque gestures tfiiB .:,. baton , in imitation of the energetic conductor , are too to be mistaken ; and he telegraphs to the _'"'" '• Vf ,. ! _,, ! chorus just as oddly and just as wildly . The final _»«* is a ludicrous paraphrase of the original stage- _^ ' ; V The pealing thunder is accompanied by rain , u l _* ° " ! uc ! Creon and his nobles throw up their umbrellas , down on their broadsides , and . so avert the wv atu _«' gods . There is a drollery in this whieh it is _'"'Pf-t' _% withstand , and the audience is in a paroxysm ,, ! Ut wi This extravaganza is from the pen of Mr . E . L . l » a » c | _p . who has wrung out several good puns for the ocl ? i _$ . while , at the same time , he successfully imitates aK _^ rangements of the bill , which he annotates _ininS 1 _-- ' * mimicry ofthe Covent-carden original . ¦

      . . . - . VICTORIA . _,,... , 5 A spirited little piece of diablerie has been p _*™ _- _*" , , , _* this theatre , in the enacting of which another nn « _-pj successful instance was given of the versatile uv _^ ' _- Miss Vincent . The title is , A Night ' s Frolic : '" _' ° * _% i < * Hundred Years . Nicksus , " a merry little devil , "' is ¦ """'¦ j . to have « a day out , " and , " having _nothingclse tpoft ¦ ' ; Satanic Majesty ; in the shape ofa "lively spark , t * . to torment Ludovk Franseil { Mr . T . n . Higgle ) - _» J " : _^ student of Manheim _, and make him false to life l r _„ . m Gretchen ( Miss Eliza Terry ) , and to commit in a _'"S _^ b sins-drunkenness , -infidelity , and murder , hut ¦ _« _% the first is really accomplished by the arts of tlie _¦<* - little devil , " the others are but nominal , and it B _f- _% strated by the result that the "devil is notso _bae _' r _^ is painted . " Harmony is restored , and wedded W' _fnllriWK . flip " nini . _xv 1 _if * l ., , l „ ..: ii >! ,.,. ••„ .,. _tnVfill his lier * *" ,,,. _)

      just previously , to V go below" for a century , oi _' ull _i for" by the audience , which bv-the-by is likely w » . nightly for some time . The piece is well got up , ' . _"i- 1 " the audience immeiiselv . T , nnn _&> Preskntatios of a Silver Cup to Mb . _^ _""Vof Lessee of the _Mahym-bohe TiiEATKE . -The eoiiiF .- _,,. the Marylebone theatre , and a few gentlemen in uii- j _^ bourhood , on Wednesday last presente d Mr . _^ lessee of the above theatre , with a _splenoia «« adu ! i . value oue hundred guineas , as a testimonial ol _tia- wt ration of that gentleman ' s conduct as manager ot J" _^ theatre . Upwards of 130 persons were present , in () ie several ladies ., Mr . Douglass returned tlianKs * M compliment in a neat , eloquent speech ,, an . it " _^ 3 (; iit . passed ofF witli tlie greatest pleasure to all _"""' _^ _La'aft Inscription on the cup -. —Presented to Mr . Jem- alK |« Feb . 5 , 1845 , by the company of the Marylebone _™ _w d few select friends , as a trifling mark of thtir appi _^ g , iia his talent and his urbane ' and honourable conaua nager . _^ - « .

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      _etreet , Haymarket , in the City of . _^ Office in the same . Street and _Parieh , _"' . _^ by prietor , FEABGUS _O'COUNOB , Esq ., _andp"u _^ ' _, _Wixuak Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charl _« wst _« et , u _$ street , Walworth , in the Pariah of St . Mary , _^ ton , 'in tie' County of _Sun-ey , at Hi « 0 _«« . _^ Strand , in the _FmihloiSt . Hwj Je _** _* City of "Westminster Saturday , _Trtuarj 8 . 184 * - '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 8, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08021845/page/8/