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      DEATH OF EARL GREY . _Inourlatcreditionsoflas _tweekweannounced the act of ihe death of Earl Grey . This week we present the reader with a somewhat lengthy notice of the man . and of the stirring events in which he had hanJ .-iiidlot " : — ,, Lord _Urey _' s character has beenbeforeihe world for a ! _oS period than that of a _„ y other pubhc _SLT If th * question be asked ,-who were his Site . *™* in office , with whom was he accustomed £ * _£ «¦ against whom was lus opposition directed ? " _w might find at one extremity ofthe list the names of Pitt , Burke , Wynilham , or _iox ; atthc other mav be seen those of Lord Stanley , Sir James

      Graham , " or Sir Robert Peel . Amongst the many remarkable neculiarities which distinguish thc career of Lord Grey , not only from all other Miuisters , but from most other men , is its extraordinary duration . Be began life about tbe commencement of the Amtrif-ui war ; lived through thc whole of that mereeiable conflict ; gave his sanction to the early proceedings of the French . Revolutionists ; opposed the war .. gainst republican France ; lived to see that ¦ war _LrousUttoasuccessfnlissucby England ; took a leading part iii the defence of Queen Caroline ; _luppoiied the emancipation ofthe Roman Catholics _tr _tcamc Prime Minister ; carried the Reform Bill ;—and retired .

      He was born at Fallowden , near Alnwick , in _Northumberland , on thc 13 tli of March , 1701 . He Trent to Eton at a very early age , and was iri the same class with Mr . "Wliitbrcad . From Eton be was iransfcrred to King's College , Cambridge , while yet under the age of 10 ; and he left the university before le reached his _l'Jfh year , with the view of making ¦ what was then called " the grand tour . " This he contrived to complete in less than two years , though si % visited France , Spain , and Italy . Hcjeined the suite ofthe Duke and Duchess of Cumberland , who -were then at Rome , and was present at the interview

      ¦ wMchiook place between the Dukeand the rope . But _politk-al cireumstances soon induced him to return to England . He had beea somewhat distinguishedthough not eminently so both at school and college ; _hisfiicndsuaturallyexpected from him the display of great talents ; and he , at all events , was not the man to balk iheir expectations through any want of confidence either inhis gifts or his acquirements . Nothing loth , t !; e _* i > _-f ire , he came home to stand tbe chances of a-Parliamentary contest ; and , although then only _SOyc-ir _* < _-f age , he was returned for the county of _ICnrt . hnir . Wl . _iiiil It , was rather inconvenient that

      _jteshoiiM be a minor . It was not quite correct that a gran . onnty should be encumbered with a member who o . _-. _ild neither speak nor vote . It was not an _aospicieusbeginingthat thegrcat Reformer—himself so sensitive on the subject of perfect representationshonl _^ commence his Parliamentary life by assuming a trust which the law forbade him to discharge , and _layin-r claim to a seat in tbe Legislature which the immaturity of Lis age rendered it impossible for him to fill . Bat Ibis was not the only strange circumstance which marked the commencement of his political career . The first occasion npon which he addressed the House of Commons was for the purpose of opposing Mr . _I'iit ' s well-known treaty of commerce with France . Peace , economy , and reform were words

      ¦ which iu Lis youth , as well as in his old age , entered largely into the composition of his speeches ; but with reference to the occasion before ns he had not found it expedient to take them up . It isto be remembered that Ids father had been actively engaged in the _itaerican war . This probably induced him to look both on America and France with deep suspicion and _district ; he , therefore , strenuously contended that oue of the objects at wliich France aimed was tC'm ono-Mi'iize tbe trade with America ; and thereby —amongst otherresults—to-raise her own navy , while she limited the operations of ours . He disclaimed any aversion to commercial treaties in . the abstract ; but he contended—at men usually do when they wish to ran counter to their professed principles—thatthe present case formed an exception to the general rule . Tbe nest occasion on which he came forward in

      Parliament was one more in accordance with his natural character ; and the disposition which he usually evinced to back up his relatives showed itself ev _6 nat ibat early age ; for his boasted consistency was as manifest in his nepotism as in every other -feature of his character . He is , therefore , found at that period bringing a direct charge against the Minister for having dismissed his cousin , Lord Tankc-rvilje , from the office of Postmaster-General "Whether the grounds on which that dismissal took place happened to have been sufficient or otherwise , it might be supposed that the accusation against the Minister would have proceeded with more effect , certainly with a better grace , from any member of the house lather than from a relative of the party _implicated ; but Lord Grey always made it a point of _cocscicncii to support a kinsman .

      The most memorable event intac early part of hia career was the agitation of Tm"liamentary reform . But even at that remote period , almost fifty years since , the question was no novelty . More " than 100 years ago Mr . William Bromley , member for _Hotwieli , brought forward a motion for reform ; and from the time of Mr . Bromley down to the days of Mr . Grey there were motions for a change in the representation of thc people , made at intervals of greater or less duration . _^ according as the circumstances cf the country might be more or less _disagtrons . In the year 1793 we had entered upon the most gigantic struggle in which this country had ever been engaged ; and that was deemed by the democratic parly a fitting opportunity for the formation

      of several societies through the agency of which _to-worktli ? various engines of political opposition . Amongst these wa 3 one called " the Friends ofthe People . " This association included many eminent "Whigs , though ilr . \ Fox did not think proper to join , it , and many men also connected with and 8 f 6 a bckiiguis to the House of Peers ; of this latter number Lord Grey was the last survivor Oa the 30 th of April , 1792 , he brought forward _Db $ first motion on the subject of Parliamentary reform , the principal petition in favour of it having proceeded from thc society called "the Friends of the Peoplo , " the p : roceedings of which association had already Teiry serionsly alarmed the Government . Tliis petition set forth the incongruities in our system of representation , and prayed for their removal , as well as for the restoration of triennial Parliaments , and the enactment of laws for

      diminishing the expenses at elections . Upon this and other petitions he founded a motion for a committee of inquiry , which , was opposed by Pitt , Jenkinson , _Tfyndliain , and Barke : the numbers oa a division betas 253 to 4 . 1 . After this the _question of reform waa not brought under the consideration of Parliament for many years . 'fhat Mr . Grey was a leading member of one ofthe earliest reform societies ; that he presented the most remarkable petition on the 'subject , « vcr laid before Parliament ; that } he origmated _, a -motion for reform thirty-seven years before-a _^ reform whatever -was accomplished , are facts _respwling which there caa be uo dispute : but to represent him as the rather of reform is to overlook the long list of members of Parliament who brought forward that question at various intervals between the days of Air . Bromley aoUthcse of Mr . Grey lumself .

      From this time forward we find him doing the usoal business of opposition , making the same sort of motions for which \ Yhig 3 out of office have long been remarkable and -with pretty nearly the same sort of success that appears to attend them in the present day * . _latheyearlSOGthefatherofMr . Grey becoming an earl , that gentleman assumed the title by courtesy of Lord Howick . On thedeath of Mr . Pitt the Tory party found it necessary fora fewmonths to withdraw from the conduct of public affaire ; and an Adminis tration _waj formed in which Lord Howick filled the post of First Lord of the Admiralty , the leadership ! ofthe Houseof Commons devolving on ilr . Fox , who held the seals of fte Foreign-office . Inafewmonths _, after his accession to power the ear thlv career of Mr .

      Fos was unexpectedly brought to a close , and Lord Howick became the Foreign Secretary . The "Whig Ministry of this period wasnot destined to be of very loe _? duration . The views which they took ofthe penal laws affecting the Roman Catholics were quite sufficient to ensure their downfall at the earliest moment that the Kin- ** - ; could possibly dispense with their services . It is well known that _tttfr laid claim to the privilege of ¦ ubmittingtheir advroe to his _Majestv on this subject from time to time—in fact , whenever they might , inthe exercise of their discretion , deem it expedient so to do . As the King would not hear of this , he gave them an abrupt dismissal ; the Portland Ministry was formed , and for twenty-three yeara afterward *} Lord Gray remained in Opposition . He

      ceased to o c a Minister on the 35 th of March , 1807 ; oa the 14 th of November in the same year he succeeded to his father ' s honours , and took his seat in the , House of Peers , having been for nearly twenty yeafsa distinguished member of the House of Commons . It rarely _happenstbat public men , considered merely as orators , prove equally successful in both _Hoojses of Parliament , and probably this circumstance arises , not so much from any inherent differences in the qualifications required for either , as from the fact that the majority of those who hare been most emi nent in the lower house are transferred to the upper at a late period of life , when ambition has perhaps gomewhat cooled , and the power of moving the pas-Slims sad prejudices of their fellow-men has been

      _oocsideraojy abated , this , however , was not thc case wiih Lord Grey ; he was only thirty-seven years of age when he found himself a member of the house of Lords : and , if he had not previously prepared his mind fer the task of taking a lead in its proceedings , hewas now in a condition to avail himself of all the adfimtages which opportunity and experience could _£ The assassination of Mr . Perceval in the year 1812 presented another opportunity of which many pawns thought that the Whigs might avail them-¦ •¦ _jeh-es ; but they possessed neither sufficient influ-« p with the Sovereign or the people , to form a MgMstry ; and the futility of attempting to induce _QMerate men of both parties to coalesce was most ¦ Str ikingly displayed in the total failure of every emit , proceeding from men of that stamp , to collect

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      and unite the elements of a _Govornment . Immedi ately on the death of Mr . Perceval , Lord Liverpool made an attempt to form a Cabinet ; this failing , the next step taken by the Regent was to send for Lord Wellcsley , who opened with Mr . Canning and others a series of lengthened _negotiations . Pending these , the House of Commons came to a resolution to address the Regent , praying that he would form an efficient Government ; and it was generally supposed , from the tone of the discussions which took place on that occasion , thatthe House of Commons were not unfavourable to the formation of a Ministry upon principles of moderate Liberalism . Neither the Whigs on the one hand , nor Lord Liverpool ' s friends on the other , would consent to act under the Premiership of the Marquis Welleslcy . The then

      Marquis of Hastings ( Lord Moira ) was next intrusted with authority to attempt the formation ofa Cabinet , and from his * known coincidence of sentiment with thc Grey and Granville party , it was thought that every obstacle to their acceptance of office would be removed ; but these noble lords , not content with the concession to them of full political power , demanded dismissals from the Royal household to an extent wliich had never before , under similar circumstances , been required . It may , however , be doubted that Lord Grey entertained a sincere and earnest wish to become , at that crisis , one of the responsible adviscrsof the Crown . Ho had denounced the principle , and frequently censured the practical operations , of that gigantic warfare in wliich the nation was then engaged ; consistently with his political creed it would have been difficult for him cither to

      bring it to an abrupt termination or secure its eventual success . To a concession of tho Catholic claims and to a reform in Parliament he stood irrevocably pledged * , but iu the year 1812 no project could be more chimerical than that of attempting to carry cither the tne or the other ; and , therefore , whatever may have been said respecting arrangements in the Royal household , nothing can be more evident than that the utmost amount of concession on the partof the Regent would not have enabled the Whigs at tbat juncture to carry on the business of the country ; his Royal Highness was , therefore , obliged once more to have recourse to thc colleagues of Mr . Perceval .

      These negotiations began in May , and the month of June was far spent before Lord Liverpool found himself authorised to announce to Parliament that he had formed a Cabinet . This Ministry lasted for fifteen years , and during tbe whole of tbat period Lord Grey offered to the greater part of its measures the most strenuous resistance ; but the triumphant close of thc war materially enfeebled every effort of the party in opposition , and thc hopes ofthe Whigs were then at thc lowest point of depression . An alliance with the Reformers , however , raised them to a less desponding condition . In 1818 Lord Sidmouth issued his memorable circular addressed to lords-lieutenant of counties , informing them that the law officers of the Crown wore of opinion that magistrates possessed the power of holding to bail

      persons found . sclling writings which were deemed , though not by a legal adjudication decided to be , seditious or blasphemous libels . The circular requested each lord-lieutenant to notify this opinion to the magistrates within their respective counties . This was a golden opportunity for a man like Lord Grey ; the circular had been principally directed against his friends , the Reformers ; he was an accomplished rhetorician ; he quite luxuriated when called upon to deal with any question of constitutional law , and , of course , it was alike agreeable to his feelings and his interest to place his ancient enemies in the wrong . In the attempt to do this be was by no means unsuccessful , and the fact that the circular was never acted on may in part be imputed to his exertions .

      The next memorable proceeding m which Lord Grey took any veiy active share was the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Queen Caroline , the consort of George IV . He was accustomed to reserve himself for great occasions . Unlike some noble and learned lords , it was not bis practice to descant upon every question , or address tho house sixteen times upon one subject . On the contrary , he never assailed an object unworthy of his hostility , or trifled with topics beneath a statesman ' s notice . That proceeding which has been popularly designated " the Queen ' s trial" was an event which shook the empire to its centre . Through every stage of the extraordinary conflict to which it gave rise Earl Grey stood forth as the champion of that unhappy

      princess , debating questions of law , which he understood rather better than her Attorney-General , and cross-examining wituesses with a skill approaching that of a professional advocate ;—one moment launching denunciations against the King ; another , more than hinting at an impeachment of the Ministers ;— -sometimes leading the arguments of counsel , often backing them up with authorities and precedentfci-no weapons were more bright and keen in that well-fought field , no spirit more undaunted , none whose blows fell upon the foe with more deadly execution than did those of _*} he man who has just departed from amongst us . The result of those proceedings was too remarkable to be even

      yet forgotten , though the details are too distressing to be remembered without pain . In the period which elapsed between this great event and the dissolution of the Liverpool Ministry few occurrences seemed to call for the interference of Lord Grey . He sanctioned the recognition ofthe South American Republics , and thc commercial policy ofthe Huskissou school . It was his practice to make annual speeches in favour of what was called " Catholic emancipation , " and in 1800 had been a strenuous opponent of the Irish union ; but when in power he was greatly addicted to bills for Irish coercion . Hence , though less variable than Lord Brougham , his rules of consistency admitted of very many exceptions .

      At length the Ministiy , which had continued since the death of Mi . Perceval , gave up the ghost when it lost its head , andthe King sent for Mr . Canning The Duke of Wellington , Lord Eldon , Sir R . Peel , and the rest of the higher Tories threw up office : it therefore became necessary to make overtures to the Whigs . But Lord Grey was impracticable . It is difficult to imagine that he was influenced by any other motives than these : —Mr . Canning , though disposed to Roman Catholic relief , to freedom of trade , and to a liberal foreign policy , was deeply pledged . against Parliamentary reform ; and the public , though pretty well accustomed to political tergiversation , would be scarcely prepared for a coalition between the most redoubted champion of reform and the man who often exerted his unrivalled eloquence to make thc house rally round Gatton , Old Sarum , and Hazlemere . But assuming that these

      difficulties could have been surmounted , there were personal considerations which render ed the prospect of coalition hopeless . Lord Grey had by that timo attained a station in the political world which , according tb his own judgment at least , entitled him to reject any subordinate situation in the Cabinet ; Mr . Canning _^ already held the chief office , and had been commissioned to form a Ministry . The short-lived Government which that gentleman was enabled to organise did not , however , enjoy the support of Lord Grey ; but the accusation brought against him of having joined the Tories was at least unjust . When the Wellington Ministry soon afterwards came into office , Lord Grey certainly assisted them to carry the -Roman Catholic Relief Bill , but upon that occasion he did not adopt tlieir doctrines ; on the contrary , they were converted to his .

      The accession of William IV ., thc declaration of the Duke of Wellington against Parliamentary reform , thc unsettled state of England , the revolution of the barricades , and the oft-repeated complaints against rotten boroughs and aristocratic influence , led to a demand so general and so peremptory for a change in the representation of the people that Lord Grey was enabled to place liimself at the head of a Ministry pledged to " reform , to retrenchment , and to non-interference . " With respect to the last of these , however , it may truly be said that England was never more intimately connected with the internal affairs- of Spain , Portugal , Poland , Turkey , Holland , and Switzerland , than during the Ministry of _jEari Grey . He meddled in the domestic

      concerns of almost every European state ,--without conferring obligation or exciting respeet . His retrenchment—exercised upon the salaries of over-worked clerks—left in a great measure untouched the larger branches of the public expenditure ; and never for a moment interfered with the exercise of that patro . nage which filled almost every department of the state with his sons , his brothers , his nephews , and his cousins . In his administration the Reform Bill was carried ; but so likewise was the New Poor Law . For the one he obtained some applause ; for the other he and his colleagues receive the undying maledictions of the poor . Of his three great pledges he left two unredeemed . Respecting the third , he certainly never showed any unwillingness to perform

      his promise , though that performance was stripped of some portion of its grace by the circumstances of the times . It could not be said that he gave reform ; the people took it . Political unionB thundered at the gates of the constitution , and he , in surrendering the citadel , made terms which were designed to give perpetuity to Whig domination ; but which , in a few years had the effect of restoring his opponents to the undisputed plenitude of power . On the 22 nd of November , 1830 , ho kissed hands as First Lord of the Treasury , and on the 9 th of July , 1834 ,- he finally withdrew from the service of the Crown ; but in the month of May , 1832 , he was for a short time out of

      office , owing to the successive defeats on the subject of reform which he experienced in th © House of Lords . . The failure of all attempts to orgauize at that time a Conservative Ministry , and the clear understanding that the King was prepared to create as many peers as wonld carry the Reform Bill , replaced Lord Grey in office , and enabled him to accomplish one ont of his three great undertakings . The abolition of negro slavery was doubtless effected during his Ministry , but it was not one . of the measures to which he had specifically pledged himself . At a cost to- the country- of £ 800 , 000 a-year he emancipated the black population of the West Indies ; and as to the restraints which his Cabinet imposed on the pauper population of England , the public havo been

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      furnished with ample means of estimating those during the last ten years . The session of 1834 commenced with pretty plain indications that the days of Lord Grey ' s Ministry were numbered . Mr . Ward ' s celebrated motion , mado on the 2 _* 7 th of May , for appropriating the surplus revenues of thc church , decided the fate of the Cabinet , though its ultimate dissolution did not take place for nearly two months after the resignations to which that proceeding gave rise . The character of Lord Grey ' s administration , and the measures it adopted and passed , affecting tlie real" liberties" and interests of the people , will be best learned from the following extracts from the " address" with which the "Poor Man ' s Defender " greeted Hi retirement from office : —¦

      TO _LOBD GREY . Normandy Farm , 2 Sth August , 1831 . Mt Lord , —I was in hopes that I should not so soon have had to count the eleventh Prime Minister , who had figured on thc stage since I have been a spectator of their at once stupid and mischievous acting . The time of vour strutting in buskins , not with a dagger of lath , faith ; bnt with a veal sharp instrument : your time of strutting has , however , I thank God 1 been short , though full of mischievous measures ; full of hostility to thc best rights and interests of thc people ; marked at once by extreme imbecility , and by arrogance extreme . There have , I perceive , been found creatures in Northumberland so silly , or so base , or both , as to present to you addresses ,

      expressive of approbation of your conduct as Minister . This address of mine will be of a very different description . When the savage sentence was passed on me in 1 S 10 , you expressed your pleasure . Since you have been in power , you have endeavoured to give me a second chapter , on a similar subject . You arc now a fallen Minister , and I am what I always have been . You deserve no sparing at my hands , even on my own account : that however , would not have induced me to take the trouble of writing this letter . Itis what the working peoplo have suffered under your sway * , it is their wrongs , and not my own , that fill me with resentment against you ; and that induce me now to exhibit your ministerial career in its true light to the -worm . I had rubbed ont the old

      scores ; I had done justice upon you and your associates , as far as related to myself ; and the account was squared up to the month of August , 1831 ; and 1 have nothing to complain of with regard to myself ; but a great deal to complain of with regard to the people of England , aud especially tho working people , to defend whom against powerful wrongdoers , is my very first and most sacred duty . First of all let me remark upon your pretence of old age and infirmities . " Old ago . '" __ WJiy I am as old as you ; and have done more work in every year ofmy life since I was ten years old , than you have ever done in your whole life-time . Old age , indeed ! why , I am just on the eve of setting off to make the tour of fertile and unhappy Ireland * , and perhaps

      that and the north of Scotland , too , to which I did not go before ; and , it is possible , and not altogether improbable , that if you creep to the roadside in the first or second week of November , you may see me brushing aloDg by the " boothics" in the neighbourhood of your home , and hear me swearing that I will perish rather than see thc labourers of Sussex and Surrey and Kent , brought to the state of those of the border . " Old age , " forsooth ! You are not much older now than you were when you became Minister . There is , indeed , all thc differenco in the world between a sheep or an ox that is four years older than another sheep or ox ; but , then these have got their full growth , * the sheep is full-mouthed at five years old , and after that begins to lose his teeth * . and it is pretty much the same with the ox : but it is not so with man ; four years out of seventy arc not what four yeara are out of five . But . after all ,

      the strange thing is that you should become so old and so feeble in so short a space of time . When you became Minister _j'ou were all " vigour . " In your very first speech there was "vigour , vigour , vigour , " at every turn . You began your career by a vigorous augmentation of thc number of bayonets . That waa your first specimen of vigour . Your next vigorous step was your special commissions , the history of wluch is written iu the hearts of three or . four hundred husbandless wives , and three times the number of fatherless children . In short ,- you were all "vigour ; " all "vnidtcotion of the law ; " ono instance ofwhich latter was the prosecution of me by that Denman , who has now been made a lord . Curious enough thatyou should be all vigour , until your relations and dependents were provided for , and that then you should become , all at once , so old and so feeble !

      However , old or young , strong or feeble , I thank the Lord God that you are no longer Minister : and I thank the King that he has graciously given you time now , in your old age , to reflect on _tiioaots of your administration '; to reflect onthe _| caseofpoor Cook of Micheldever ; to reflect on all the circumstances attending the affair of Thomas Goodman ; to reflect of the state of the husbandless wives and fatherless cliildren in Hampshire , Wiltshire , and Berkshire ; to reflect on the case of the Dorsetshire labourers ; to en joy for thc rest of your life the sight of the " boothic " and "burgoo" system ; to study thefeelosophy of the north ; while we , here in the south , bless God Almighty that we shall never see or hear more of you or your " vigour . "

      Your administration with regard to tho press has been far more hostile , more severe , more destructive to the liberty of thc press than that of any administration of four times the duration , since the time of Ellenborough aud _^ Gibbs and Perceval . Your taxing oflicers have had three or four hundred men put into gaol in a year for selling papers unstamped . This was to " vindicate the law . " What law ? Why a law which you , and your whole party , particularly Brougham and Lord Althorp , opposed with all youi might _y You called it unconstitutional ; you called it tyrannical ; you divided against it again and again ; and , not only have you suffered it to remain in full force , but you did what your Tory predecessors had not done : you have put it into execution to thc very

      letter , and with the utmost vigour , calling yourselves all the while , a reforming and liberal ministry . This law , which you vindicated so vigorously , and which you had opposed with equal vigour , as being unconstitutional and tyrannical , * this law was one of the Six Acts , two of which have expired of themselves , while the four worst remain in full force . The act under which all these writers and publishers have been crammed into gaol , was passed along with the rest of the famous Six Acts , in thc extraordinary session of the year 1819 , about six months after the passing of Peel ' s Bill and about five months after the Manchester slaughter , and just about the time that the clerical magistrate , Parson Hay , was preferred to the great living of Rochdale , in addition to his living

      in Yorkshire . This act , Mr . Hume has always called " Cobbett ' s Act , " it __ being manifestly , and almost avowedly , an invention for the purpose of extinguishing my Register , This act forbids the publication of any paper , containing news , or intelligence , or political discussions , oftener than once a month , if it be in numbers , or in a series of any sort . Once a month was not enough for nie . But the act graciously allowed a publication once a week , or oftener , provided thepublication contained twosheetsandaquarter of paper , each sheet being twenty-one inches long , and seventeen and a half wide , and not containing any advertisements . There was another condition ; namely , that if the thing had not a stamp it should not be sold forlessthansixpence . Before _tuisacfc waspassednien might publish at any time , at any price , on any subjcvv uuuiuers wimuuir

      , . mum , uuu a . stamp _, _xiieumy disadvantage of such unstamped paper was , that it eould not go free of postage . The Tories seeing that this act did not succeed in its object ; that is to say , that the Register lived and thrived in spite of it , very sensibly suffered it to remain a dead letter ;• but , the liberty-loving Whigs , who had put on the semblance of opposition , tooth and nail , to this act , not only suffered it to remain in full force ; but such was their desire to " vindicate thc law , " that they availed themselves of this veiy act to cram the gaols full of those who were endeavouring to oppose them ; not by open trial by jury did _yoxi proceed , out by your taxing men at Somerset-house , and b y your police-magistrates , who punished without any trial by jury . In one instance , indeed , the case was suffered to come before a jury , in the case of thc

      Poor Man s Guardian , published by Mr . Hetherington in the Strand . Thc jury decided that the sale of the publication was legal , and they acquitted the defendant ; though , I believe , nearly five hundred men had been put into gaol by the magistrates , when their only crime was the vending of this publication ! And yet you have been a mild Minister ! You talk of your good intentions ! You talk oi ' _your love of liberty , and your anxiety for the happiness of tho people . In the case of Mr . Cleave , editor and proprietor of the Police Gazette , your Attorney-General pursued him in the Exchequer , while he was suffering in gaol , committed by the magistrates for the same offence . Your last act was truly characteristic of your whole

      career ; I mean your praises ofthe Poor-law project , and your volunteer offer to move its second reading , which was so admirably sneered at by him who has been your real swamper . There was something in this last act of yours , of which , upon my soul , I have too much mercy to speak of in terms in which it ought to be spoken ot ; and , therefore , I will only say of it , that , in aU the tame acts of all the tame men , of whose conduct I have ever been an observer , this was the very _tamest , _acd the very lowest . About that act I shall say nothing more to you , having , as to that disease , another noble patient under myhands , the benefit of whose treatment will , I trust , be extended to those ofhis whole order , who may be similarly afflicted _.

      But , will I allow you no merit as a Minister ? Faith 1 not one particle : not one particle of merit . You havo repealed not one bad act , and vou have passed not one good ono ; and a great number that I think very bad . To be sure , there have been some repeal of taxes ; but these aro not sufficient to be felt sensibly by the country , while the encroachments on the rights and liberties of tho people have been greater , and far greater , than during any twenty years previous to your coming into power . But have not you given us the Reform Bill ? You owe us the

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      Reform Bill ! You Give ! We took it , if you please ; and you held back as much as you dared venture to bold back . In the first place , you could not have kept your place for a week , if you had not pledged yourself to a reform of the Commons Houseof Parliament ; and , what is more , that pledge would not have got you into power , had not the Duke of Wellington ( for what reason God only knows !) volunteered that declaration , which made him so odious in the country , and without which he might have remained in his place the people always hoping , even I ( the last to have hone in such a case ) hoping , that a good worrying _„_ . ; . _„

      would , at last , make him tack shortly about , as he did in the case of Catholic Emancipation , and do the thing at once , and effectually ; and until he actually made that declaration wliich shut out all hope , I had more reliance on the Tories than I had on the Whigs-, because , if the former did it , there would be no shuffling ; no deceit ; no perfidy ; no pretending to give , and withhold at tho same time : and , God have mercy upon this peoplo ! what shuffling , what complexity of trickery , what a showing of the gingerbread , and then drawing it back , have this people had to behold during the last four yeare ! what projects of reform , and what real aggravation ot abuses ! ..

      Thus , then , no merit liad you in entering upon the subject of reform . You had abandoned the cause of reform several years before : the reform was forced upon you , or you were forced to keep out of place ; reform and Downing-strcet ; or no reform and the "boothies" and the "burgoo "; this was your choice , and you _choso the former . And , having entered on the subject of reform , didyou not give as little as you possibly could ; and were you not prepared to give less ; were you not prepared to confine the suffrage to tweaty pounds instead of ten , when the detection took place , at the time when the _Pis-aller Parkes was carrying his whispers about ? Nothing was ever more clearly proved than the fact , that you were prepared to assent to tho raising of tho suffrage to

      twenty pounds , when the remonstrances of the great towns in the north scared away the project . A twenty-pounds _^ suffrage would have made the House of Commons infinitely worse than itwas before , scarcely any man would have had a vote , except the immediate dependents ofthe aristocracy , and the taxdevourers of various descriptions . That this was your intention is beyond all doubt . Whatever fools may do , I take the will for the deed , and deny you any merit at all , on thc score of the Reform Bill . And now , my lord , in what plight do you leave the country , over which you have been ruling for pretty nearly four years ? You leave it more heavily burdened with debt than you found it ; you leave Ireland with a Coercion Bill , whicli was not thought

      necessary when you came into power ; you leave men s minds totally unhinged with regard to the municipal governments of the country , and , whicli is of much greater importance , with regard to the fate ofthe established church . It is your Ministiy which has , for the first time , ventured to put forth those opinions relative to the revenues of the church , which must inevitably lead even the labouring people to inquire into the origin of property ,- you have passed an Act , which totally abrogates a great branch ofthe ancient con , stitution of the country ; your colleague Brougham and you by fair implication , have appealed to the law of nature from the law of the land , and also from the law of God ; you have set thc working people to discuss the question of who ought to have the land .

      Instead of bringing us back from the point to which we had been misled by thc bwoughmonger Parliaments , you have hurried us along into additional innovations ; like Jack , in the " Tale ofa Tub , " instead of carefully selecting the abuses and removing them , you have been engaged in tearing tho garment to pieces ; so that at this moment you have brought us by what you sillily call following the " spirit of the age ; " aphrase so foppish and so foolish that , after hearing it , one wonders at nothing that comes from the lips of the same man * , by pursuing this jack-o ' - lantern , which you call the " spirit of the age , " and by dragging us alone after you , not a man of us knows what is going to take place ; and in the minds of all

      ranks the word property becomes to be a subject lor examination as to its true meaning ; which , of all things in this _iworld , is the most menacing to the peace ofa community , and the stability of a government . You complained of the difficulties with which you were surrounded , and who was it that made the difficulties . You yourself made the difficulties . The people wanted a parliamentary reform , but they did not want one that would throw the voting into the hands of tho monied-aristocracy , thc sister-services , tho pensioners , the sinecure-people , the tithe eaters , and all the swarms that live out ofthe labour ofa people . They wanted a House of Commons that would take off tlieir burdens : you gave them one , a majority of which were interested in keeping the burdens on .

      Ill dismissing you for ever , I have to obseryo , and I trust that it will bo remembered by the nation , that you resigned your office because tho Irish Coercion Bill was made softer than you wished it to be ; and that your very last act was , yeur unqualified approbation of thc Poor Law Bill . Go , then , with the recollection of these upon your head ; go , and whenever your name is mentioned , let the people recall those things to mind ; you will say that you had a right to want a harsher Coercion Bill for . Ireland ; that you bad a right to praise your Poor-Law Bill : true , and I have a right to hate you for it , and to rejoice thatyou no longer have power : and thus ends my address to you , forming so striking a contrast with , the addresses which you have received from the fools of Newcastle andthe fools of Morpeth . Wm . Cobbett .

      For one or two years after he ceased to be Minister , Lord Grey occasionally attended the House of Lords ; but about ten yeara ago it became evident to his friends , and but too manifest to the world , that the time had arrived when he ought to seek a repose suited to his advanced years . His latter years were not embittered by much bodily pain or marked by any great diminution of intellectual power ; and at an age exceeding four score he sank into the grave , having survived long enough to feel that his reputation was beginning to fade , and the events of his life to

      become matters of history . Thc proximate cause of his Lordship ' s death was an attack of paralysis ; but for some time past his health had been visibly declining ; the greater portion ofhis numerous family were therefore in attendance at the moment of his decease ; and it will be a melancholy satisfaction to his friends to learn that he quitted this life with as little of corporeal suffering as could reasonably bo expected to accompany the last struggle that human nature is called upon to endure .

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      WORSHIP-STREET . MosdaV . —Forbidding the Bahns . —A respectable young man , named ltichard Gower , who stated himself to be a master butcher , lately _carrying on business in Kent , applied to Mr . Broughton , the magistrate , under peculiarly embarrassing circumstances . The applicant said that he hud had the banns regularly published some time since , at Shoreditch Church , for his marriage with a young woman , resident in that parish , but he had since met with an accident which had caused the postponement of ths wedding until now . On Sunday morning , however , h » repaired to the church with his intended and friends , but , to his utter astonishment , the minister refused to marry them , alleging as his reason that some person , said to be a policeman , had in the mean time been there and given notice that applicant was already a married man .

      This he declared to be utterly false , for he had no wife , and never had been married , and they could not tell him the name even , or anything' about the person , who was said to have now forbidden the marriage , except that he was in thc dress of the police . He now wished to come before the magistrate here to have the matter cleared up . —Mr . Broughton did not see how he could assist the applicant , but it was strange that the person who had for . bidden the marriage should be so wholly unknown . The applicant , ha supposed , was aware that if already married aad his wife living he would be liable to transportation if lie married again . —The applicant repeated , that he never had been married , but he said he _Jiad-Iatcly discharged several men from his employ in Kent , and it was possible that one of them might have turned policeman , and

      practised this malicious trick against him , —Mr . Broughton said he had no jurisdiction in . matter , but he desired Fitzgerald , one of the warrant officers of the court , to go with the applicant to tlie church and ascertain if he could who tlie policeman was that was said to have interfered to prevent the marriage . —Fitzgerald , upon his return from the church , reported that the marriage had heen solemnised in his presence by the Rev . Mr , Matthias , the bride groom solemnly declaring there , as ho had done before the magistrate , that he had never been married to any other woman . He could not learn thc name or any description ofthe man who had forbidden the marriage , for the clerk said that when he came to the vestry and gave the notice there were many people waiting , and in the hurry no particular notice was taken of him _.

      _MARLBOROUGn-STREET . Monday . —Chabob or Felony . —John M'Carthy was brought up in custody on a warrant for feloniously receiving one gold bracelet , of the value of £ 50 , the property of tlie Hon . Colonel Pepyg . The prisoner was apprehended yesterday , on his being discharged from the new Westminster Bridewell , where he had boen Imprisoned for fourteen days for drunken and disordely conduct . It will he recollected that about three weeks ago a quantity of plate and the _braseletin question were discovered to liavo been stolen from lord Cottenham _' s residence , No . IC , Parklane ; and on the 8 th instant a man offered for sale tho bracelet , broken into pieces , at the _Bhop of Mr , Louis

      Keyzor , ot _Tottenham-court-road , dealer in gold and silver , who , suspecting that it had not honestly been come by , told the man to wait in the shop , and went for a coustable to glvo him Into custody . The man , however , during his absence , decamped . In the course of tho day a female , who has since given tho name of Mary M'Carthy , and proves to bo thc prisoner ' s wile , went to Mr . Kcyzor ' s shop , and asked for tho money for tho bracelet , on which she was given in charge , and being brought to this court has _sinco stood remanded . The polic » tracing out that the malo prisoner was in Westminster Bridewell , Mr . Keyzor went , thero , and immediately identified hiin as tho persou who had offered the

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      _bracilet for sale . Tho prisoners have for some considerable time past kept a petty marine-store and rag shop in Peter-street , Soho . The police having obtained some clue to the parties who actually committed the robbery , there will , as a matter of course , be a further remand . , , _. .. „ .. I . rri _„^ . An _« a * . (» nftnsidera-

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      IXQUEST AT _STRADONE . In reference to thc man who was shot by the police , in thecounty Cavan , on the night ofthe 12 th , under the impression that lie was one of a party of " Molly _Maguires , " the following is the verdict of the Coroner's Jury on the body : — "We find that tho deceased , Thomas _Ticrncy , came by his death at about half-past seven o ' clock on the night of the 15 th of July , 1845 , in the townland of ' Lavy , parish of Lavy , county of Cavan , by a gunshot wound inflicted on him by Constable William Fanner , of the _constabulary stationed at Stradono , and that there was no sufficient cause to justify him in so doing . " Tlie Coroner immediately after issued his warrant

      for the arrest of Constable Farmer , and he was committed a prisoner to Cavan gaol . Repeal Association . —At the weekly meeting of this body on Monday last , Mr . O'Connell read an advertisement which appeared in a London paper , signed by Thomas Daly , calling a repeal meeting . Now , as this Thomas Daly , and others , liad refused to abide by the decision ofthe Repeal Association jn Dublin , they had no longer any connection with it . He then moved thatthe name of Thomas Daly , of London , be expunged from the books , and that he bo considered no longer a member . Motion passed . Mr . O'Connell rose to make his speech for the day . Ho at once intimated that as ho would not be here for some time again , he should , at the risk

      of repeating some of his recent remarks , take a review ofthe Parliamentary proceedings in the present session , and then the hon . and learned martyr did inflict another edition of his stereotyped list of grievances on the assembly . The Parliament , he told them , had done nothing or next to nothing for Ireland . To be sure they gave Ireland the Maynooth Bill , but after all what signified it ? Let them sec how that measure was received by the English people . The dissenters in a body exclaimed against that trifling act of justice ; they exhibited their bigotted hatred to the Irish , with whieh he had frequently charged them . The shouts raised in England over that bill showed that the government were actually more favourable to this country than the peoplo of England were ( hear ) . The dissenters received no less than - £ 30 , 000 a vear

      as Regium domm ; but when was one of them lieard objecting to it" on principle ? " Ah , he held them in thorough contempt , with a little admixture of execration . Nothing had been done for Ireland . Mr . O'ConneU next adverted to the Ballinhassi g massacre which he denounced in unmeasured terms . He concluded by giving notice of his intention to go off to Derrynane , and there draw up no less than 11 Acts of Parliament to be submitted to the committee for approval . One of the threatened acts is for repeal of the union and another for the taxation of absentees . Tom Steele delivered a curious speech , in denunciation of Mr . Nicholas Murray Mansfield , the proprietor of the Dublin Evening Packet , whom he called an " assassin , " an " instigator of assassination , " a modern " old man of the mountain , " 4 c . The week's rent was announced to be £ 319 . 18 s . Id ., and the meeting adjourned .

      MURDER . On the night of the 9 th instant , two men , named John and James Cleary , went to the house of a farmer named Patrick Dunphy , living at Rahard , in this county , and wore in the act of stealing his pigs when Dunphy heard them . De then went out and told them he would prosecute them ; upon which the two Clearys attacked him , and beat him in so unmerciful a manner that he died on the 15 th instant . The two Clearys were arrested in Waterford on the 16 th instant , where they were concealed for tho purpose of escaping to America .

      Conviction for Murder . —At the _Tipperarr Assizes , on Wednesday , Denis Lacy was convicted of the wilful murder ot Daniel Sullivan , in July , 1813 . The Chief Justice passed sentence of death upon the prisoner .

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      Hyde Miners . —Rascally Doings of the "Justasses" of Hyde . —The annoyance and insults to which the Miners late in the employ of Messrs . Swire and Lees have been so long subjected , still continues . Every stratagem is made use of by the black-legs to excite the men on strike to commit breaches of the peace , when , if the poor fellows venture to speak , they are instantly pounced upon , and brought before the . magistrates . On Monday last one man and five females were brought before Thomas Ashton , Esq ., and — Sidebotham , Esq ., charged with "riot and intimidation . " Mr . Brooks appeared for the coal kings , and W . P . Roberts , Esq ., for the prisoners . Mr . Brooks , in opening the case , described Dukenfield as having been for a great

      length of time in a very excited state . He then called witnesses to depose to the state of the town on tho evening of Wednesday , the ICth of July . Joseph Little , special high constable of Hyde , deposed that Ralph Holden , the male prisoner , had had some drink , and was amusing himself b y giving a few scores of children who were following him bits of '' Toffy , " which he ever and anon threw among them , causing them to shout "huzza , " and otherwise to be very riotous , " thereby creating great alarm in the breasts of the respectable inhabitants . " Little proceeded to describe the way in which he induced the male prisoner to promise to go home , and the shameful manner in which he broke his promise , by again pulling out the " Toffy . " However , ho again

      remonstrated with him , and again the prisoner promised to go home ; but a second time he violated his promise , so that he was compelled to take the prisoner into custody ; when behold there was a cry raised , " Will you let him go to prison V and foremost , from among the ranks of the little " Toffy suckers , " rushed the prisoner ' s wife , who erica out , — " If you take him , you must take me ;" and struggled with the constables to get her husband from them , becoming so violent , that the officers , who by this timo had been aug " mented to three , secured both husband and wife by putting the handcuffs on . Subsequently , Mr . special high constable Little , at the instigation of some of the bystanders , agreed to take off the manacles and

      allow them to go peaceably home , determining to procure warrants for their apprehension , in conjunction with four others , who , from the evidence of the policemen , were shouting most vociferousl y , but not committing any acts of violence . Mr . Roberta made a most powerful appeal on behalf of his clients , tear ing to pieces tho flimsy statements of h _« opponent , as to the case being one of " riot ; " and in the course of his remarks alluded to the joyous feelings usually manifested by children when released from the factories , which he designated " dens of iniquity . " On this , the chairman , who has concentrated in himself the triple functions of magistrate , coal king , and cotton lord , stood aghast , and seemed to have been shaken from all sense bf propriety : for . lavine

      aside his magisterial dignity , he entered into a defence of factories , stoutly denying they were what Mr . Roberts had termed them ; and for a time , his whole soul seemed absorbed in defending what to him has been a source of immense wealth . Ms . Roberts having concluded his address on behalf of the prisoners , called Mr . Charles Parkinson , who materially contradicted tbe evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution ; showing clearly that the disturbance , such as it was , originated from a woman of thc namo of Shaw , who is connected with the black-legs , having hung out a handkerchief on a polo tlirough her window , as a token of triumph in a Jaw case which she had at Ashton ( though , by the bye , it was dismissed from her non-appearance ,. Little or

      no notice was taken of this till the _childrencaruefrom the factory , who began to' flock round the door inquiring the cause ; and on learning tho case had been dismissed by the Ashton magistrates , they set up a shout . One of the knobeticks then commenced fiddling , and tho women dancing ; but , strange to say , the policemen , though they saw the dancing , knew nothing about the fiddling , nor did they know anything about the handkerchief being suspended from the window of Shaw ' s house , although it was seen by hundreds of others . Mr . Brooks having replied , and stated that he should be satisfied with the prisoners being bound over to keep the peace , the magistrates consulted together for a short time and ordered

      each of the prisoners to find sureties to keep the peace for six months , or in default to be committed to Knutsford House of Correction for one month . The whole of the prisoners having stated they were too poor to nay the costs , which amounted to £ Q , were removed , and are now in durance vile . There were several other cases summarily disposed of by fines of £ 210 s . each , or imprisonment for one month . One man was discharged , there being no evidence against him , although he had been kept in the lockup nearly two days . I may just as well state that convictions have been obtained for gross assaults by the knobsticks , but the fines have not exceeded five shillings , ' !

      Dbstructise Fire At Finsbury. —On Monday...

      Dbstructise Fire at Finsbury . —On Monday , shortly after eight o ' clock , a fire of a very alarming character was discovered burning upon the premises belonging to Mr . Hall , a cabinetmaker and carpenter , situate in Bath-placo , Tabcrnaclc-snuaro , Finsbury . Whilst the neighbours wero engaged in pouring water on the fire , it extended to the adjoiuing workshops in the occupation of Mr . ltynar _, a French bedstead-maker . Thc stock in trade deposited therein was of quito as inflammable a naturo as that in the premises of Mr . King ; and in tho brief spaco of ten minutes both buildings and their contents were completely enveloped in flames . The firemen were unable to get the completo mastery over the flames beforo half-past nine o ' clock , and not before both workshops were gutted , and tllO IVllOlO of thc stock in trade consumed .

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      Melancholy Accident at Sp , « , " _^^ i on Tuesday the 15 th instant , _tft _'O gale , with a heavy sea , when tlm . »{ s a lortW ? _Coctaie , William Ov _cb _Zmt " *?* , _* _fir to Helmsdale , the shackle o ff 2 1 Ct v _£ gave way , thc main boom and _sEV llect & got adiilt , on which _tta _w _. _tJ _j _^ JJ _^ rail with a rope to make fast to t le ih _* tlle t _* i | boom , when he was jerked into the sei I n Ml sheet . Every wooden thing _moveabl , ! _xxVt _^ hove overboard for hint to seize hold of i _^ H swimming astern , he coolly called to th , vl _4 shove over the boat ; before this could b » I CV (! , V f . ever , the poor fellow had sunk to rise no Z _!' - llo f < was a most respectable and industrious J ,., ' k prime of life , and has left a widow ami il _ri' ' _- _•' . children .- £ rfiH 6 _i !> _-p / t Witness '" ce Melancholy Accident at s _» . _TT" _^^^

      Shocking Mutilation . -About _eWifc „• „•„ , he night ol Saturday last , a tcrrib i _, S I took place in the village of High L ' _ostcr _S ? T _** mow . It _appcai-s that a married man n ' _-im ? ,. _^ _I * limn Eve , having been detected in an h 2 )* '•• macy with an unmarried woman , the _"l-ounln " !''• was put in requisition . As soon as Eve WiT discordant band coming towards his _cotta-re _ll ' i ll 4 sharpening his bill-hook in thc most _deliueraie in ner ( notwithstanding the earnest entreaties nf _' i" ' wife to desist ) , declaring to lier that "hcwJii tl ! i the first b-y — down if he could get _nStl As soon , therefore , as the rough music aiipmi _, i i ' i Eve rushed out and struck at a man named \\\\ ' Fuller , who was blowing a horn , * the latter boin _^ left-handed man , raised lus arm to protect his W ? l the bill-hook fell with such force upon his wrist tl I it cut the bone completely through , a sniaJl _pjlj flesh containing the tendon of the thumb on-kit

      , , _;„«¦ « l . n _nna , _t / . _»/ . ll . n .. _fl'l . _i II . ' . ' . "Wit . ing the parts tether . The poorsullcrcr _lviBimZ diatcly conveyed to Mr . Parritt ' s , the surgeon _ivV in the presence of Mr . Parker , surgeon , of lln tfiMl Broad Oak skilfully amputated the arm below tin elbow . P . C . Jameson secured the offender m j lodged him in the cage , * lie was in the course of \\ 1 night delivered into the custody of SupcrilltcniW Redin , and by him taken to tho Dunmow noW station ; but although Fuller at present seems to U going on well , it is not expected that he can am _<< _- « to prefer tho charge against the prisoner before tha magistrates for two or three weeks . The bill-hook ia extremely sharp . Fuller is a single man ; the iui soner Eve has one child .

      Fatal Steam-Boat Accident . —Three Lives Lost , —On Tuesday forenoon an accident , unhappilv at * tended by the loss of three lives , occurred on the Rivet Thames , off St . Katharine ' s Docks , by the upsettin « ofa small boat , containing at the time four men be longing to the Culloden schooner , of Pembroke , lying in St . George ' s Tier . About half-past ten o ' clock , the Culloden , having discharged her cargo , an order was given for the men belonging to her to weigh the anchor , the captain ( Davis ) being anxious to _leavo the river as the tide was favourable . The boat be . longing to her was accordingly lowered , and the foi * lowing men got into it for thc above purpose , viz .:-. David Davis , 37 , mate , and brother of the captain ; Benjamin James , 28 ; Thomas Richards , aged 20 : and William Jones . They proceeded to the nioorinq :

      chain , and whilst in thc act of hauling in the anchor , the Prince of Wales and the Eclipse Margate steamers passed at full speed , oneoneitker side of the tier o _[ shipping . The boat was struck on one side by the swell , and before she could right , she was struck oa the otlier and completely turned over , the whole of the persons in the boat being immersed in the water , Boats from the various stairs at Shad Thames immediately put off to their assistance , but the water . was so rough from thc rapidity with which the steam * ers passed through it , that some time elapsed before they could reach the spot where the accident occurred . One of the poor fellows succeeded in catching hold of the mooring-chain and was saved , the other threa clung to each other and all perished . The bodies were found in about threc-ouarters of an hour .

      A Ruffian . — -Tho following circumstance occurred last tveek at Bourg . A man . named Bouet _. aged sixty , one , formerly assistant to thc executioner of Clullon _sur-Saone , lived on his pension in Bourg , at a small cafe kept by a woman named Foncet . A _remplaeaut ofthe army , who with others of the same class fie quented the liouse , having struck two little blows with his fingers on Bouet _' s hat by way of joke , \ m told by the latter , who took the matter in bad part , to beware of what he was about . The next day Bouet entered the cafe , and seeing the rcmplacant at breakfast , recurred to the affair of the previous even . ing , and uttered dreadful threats against the young man . A daughter of Madame Poncet , who kept the cafe , seeing a poniard-knife in Bouet ' s hand , anil fearing danger , ' stepped between the men , which

      irritated Bouet to such a pitch that he fell on her , and stabbed herfive times . The girl , with great presenca of mind , warded off the blows and received them on her arm . Her mother , coming in at the moment , rushed forward to save her daughter , and received a stab from the assassin in thelower partofthcstoniach , and fell bathed in her blood . All this had passed so rapidly that thc otlier persons present had not time to interfere . A romplacant at last rushed on Bouet , but received a dangerous wound in the side . Another young man , of great strength , then struggled for tlic mastery , and at last succeeded in disarming liim . The ruffian was immediately taken to prison . Tho wounded persons were removed to the hospital , but scarcely any hope was entertained ofthe recovery of Madame Poncet . —Paris Paper .

      SnocKixo Occurrence . —A few days ago , savs tha Perigord , a farmer of St , Cere ( Lot ) ' , happening to find his brother in a field collecting the roots ofherb _*) for his family for want of bread , said to him—" Gor to my wife , and tell her to give you something until I send you a sack of flour , " The brother delivered the message , but the wife refused to give him any aid . The poor man was so much affected at the refusal that he threw himself into a well and waa drowned . The brother , on returning home , hearing ofthe catastrophe , was so much exasperated , that he seized up an axe , and in a fit of fury , split his wife ' s skull . —French Journal .

      Accident on the Great Western _RAiLwr .-Bristol , Saturday Morning . —An accident occurred on the Great Western Railway , yesterday , to tlio two o ' clock down train , which it is marvellous did not lead to the most fatal results . The train , which vM driven by the _Mazeppa engine , left London at tlio rdinary time , and arrived at Bath without the occurrence of anything of an unusual character . After leaving Bath , it proceeded onward towards Bristol , till on its arrival near Salford . when it ran into a timber waggon , which was overturned on the down

      rail , lhe shock , as may be imagined , was a very severe one and the passengers were thrown against each other violently . The utmost confusion ani alarm for awhile prevailed . I am happy , however , in being able to state that , with the exception of a gentleman named Kennett , who was slightly cut over one ofhis temples , none of the passengers experience ! any injury . The stoker was less fortunate , as , in attempting to escape by jumping off the train , he was dashed with such violence against the ground as to occasion a fracture of his shoulder . He was immediately picked up , and medical assistance _promptl _* sent for .

      The late Fatal Accident ojt the _Ediniu'boS I and Glasgow Railway . —We understand that three i officers of this company were on Wednesday served i with indictments in Glasgow , to stand trial bofore n thc ' . High Court of Justiciary here , on the 1 st oi ii AugHst , on charges of culpable homicide . Two ol " C these arc in connection with the accident wliich , on _* _n the night of the 19 th of May last , so unhappily cost ti the life of Mr . Cooley , of Bn ' degate , Glasgow , in an special train , which he had hired to bring him through ! to Edinburgh . Tho third , we understand , is in-idieted in reference to the accident which took _placaict some weeks previously , whereby an engineer of an locomotive was killed , thc vehicle being overturned < J on the Almond Viaduct . On this occasion the rod ni connecting the engine with thc train fortunately Ij _) snapped , and thereby saved the passengers . — _Edin-iu burgh Evening Post .

      Suicide bt a Solicitor . —On Friday an inquesfstl was held at Upper Norwood , on the body of Edward _^ Mantle , aged thirty-five , solicitor ( place of business _sss in Gracechurch-strcet ) , who committed suicide on im Tuesday afternoon in his own bedroom , at Norwood , dl It was proved that the deceased was subject * o tonervous excitement of the brain , and the jury re _*?* turned a verdict that he had taken his own ' life . * Vi having been at tbe time in a state of temporary _•*• • _•* _* " sanity . Awsully _Suddhs Death . —On Sunday _morninlfiK between nine and ten o ' clock , as a man named Meahsll ing , a gun _stocker , residing in _Glouccstcr-strecUtt Commercial-road East , was proceeding _homewards-dsi he suddenly fell down , and before assistance arrived'ce he was a corpse . On Tuesday an inquest was hcWl at tho Bricklayers' Arms , before Mr . Baker and * ili respectable jury , when a verdict of Died by apoplwW ! was returned .

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      BANKRUPTS . ( From Friday ' s Gazette , July 25 , 1815 . ; Edward Philip Harding , Gravesend , _hosicr-ThornM _* Brown and Donald Brown , Billitor-street , City * ship » P _* r ™ oiga _Jaqucs , _Tofhill-street , Westminster , _plunil"' _^''" Johu _iNcvill Dumbrill , juu ., Eastbourne , baker-T .. of , f Valentino Holmes , Bristol , corn-fuctor-Ricliard Kicbo _ibm son , Stockton , bookseller —George James , Icami _ngW . _l _' _- Priors , Warwickshire , draper-Mauning AUen , St . l . c .- _' ' * _' Lancashire , butcher _.

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 26, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_26071845/page/8/