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      A SERMON BY TH E REV . J . R . STEPHENS , DELIVERED AT ASHTOX-L'XDER-LYXE , ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON LAST , MARCH 3 d ., IN THE MARKET-PLACE , { Concltided from our last . ) "Pray God 10 !> end down the bread of Heavenfood for the soul , food for the body , the one and the other at tl e saint ? time , that you may eat and drink , and prniiv ? God , and go on your ¦ way rejoicing . Hear how God . ttuka to h : s prophets , and how they are expected to talk to the people to ^ hom they are ¦ enL " The word of the Lord came to Zacbariah

      earing—Thns speaketh the Lord of Hosts sayiag — 2 ^ ow si utyour eyes fo r a moment ; biotout ef your mind , lor a moment , all the knowledge von have of tree reh ioa and Bible trotk , and just thisk how you . would expect God to talk i © his prophets when e nding a message t © his peculiar people . According te the principles of tut religion in which you liave been brought « p , yx » would expect that boa woold send his prophets to the people to put them right en the question , of Church Government whether they were to be governed in religion by Bishop * , orby Presbyter * , whether thec&urch conttgis cf BL « hops and Presbyters and Deaeoas , or sheiber it "was mace up of one body . You would expect that Cod « ould speak through iis propbet to has people

      of tie abstruse and mysterious doctrine of the Trinity . You woold expect that God would speak to ius ' pe ^ pJe on the mysterious subject of the connection , the uniuu of Che Divine aBd human nature in "the person oi Ju = as Christ . You . would expect that God woold speak through his prophet to the peo p le on the | . reat andimportani doctrines of justification Ly fauk , saociiiiceaon by the spirit , election and reprobation , tlie witness of the spirit , entire holi-¦ Xt e&y laid perfect love . < fcc Would not yon expect that to be GsJ's message through hi * prophet to bis people in a CEje of great danger ? "ttouid yon not supposf that tbe Church thus taught by tHs prophet iad Decome lax in its principle * , and had been iar gc-ne from its original puritv , its pristine

      simplicity and goo-oiess : This would be the way in which God would speak through his prophet to ' iis people , according to our modern notions , according to ouj moiern doctrine ^ according to our mo-¦ ixxu pmcUct- ? . and according to the m ^ dcm - < r < kv of l > eliet , * n . d p re ashing , and coiductintiiepresenldegenera :- and lit moralised state 6 f this eountry . ( Hear , Lear . ) But hear , my brtthren , for yourselves . L * t Go : h . in < rif , through hia prophet , speak to ¦ you . l £ t Gt > d spi ? ak , through his prophet , to the rulers Jmdprli . c-s ^ and to the great and rich men of our wn day . ' Thus saith the Lord of Hosts execute true jncsraient , and fbow mercy and compassion every in-. ni to his neighbour : oppress not the widow nor the iaihtnrts , the stranger nor the poor , and let none uf you imagine evil against his neighbour in

      your aeart . itat was Goa s word through his propLe ; to his people . That is God ' s word now through hi ; , prvphe :, in thia book , to us , and to our fellowc . iuuuycjeu ^ God requires o ( England , God requires oi iLe Parliament ot England . God reqnires of tLe Gv . vgrbnient of England , the magistrates o ! England ; the men of wealth , and statscn . asd influence , and power , and rank , aad dignity in England . Ged expects of ail of us , bat chiefly of these that are high and lifted up , that by our law * , fcy our uisutntii-ns , by o-ir customs , by our habi t * , by the oraiiiary usages of society we should , one to another , mi- each oae towards " bis neighbour , execute jucgHect , true judgment , and show mercy and compai-Mi-n t-very cas to his brother . ( Hear , hear . ) En ^ nsinie :. I is the spirit of modern legislation the

      * piru us ic-rcy . the spirit ef kindness , the spirit of lore ? ^ u , no . ) No ; ycu answer me -weil ; it is not 1 fcr spirit oi ij-giiih legislation for many , many , lj-by j eais btck nas been a spirit ef unkindness , a > , -.. -c _ . Lairtc and iii-will , a spirit breathing forUi i . v . : ; itg :. ut ueaih and destruction to the people at lai ,. r - , .... ls- u-en ft spirit b : g -with all the malice of tLe iiji « . j i ; ai pt , a spirit pmrnant with all the P *?' . , Ap ^ ijcn , of Alsttmon , ef Moloch , and of Bt-trhrbLb , the pnnce cf ihe devils . ( Hear , hear . ) The fpint of Ei ^ iiih legislation , the spine of English u » , uxe hpirit that fonxs our legislature has gone hlroad , . xtendicg itseii throBgh rank alter lank , jilj stution after station , nntii it has embraced tbe wLoir iaiid , and girdled the whole empire ¦ and thai spirit Las been the SPIRIT of HELLand

      , not tur SPIRIT of HEAVEN ; i ; has been the SPIRIT ui u , e DEVIL , in * : eBd of being , as it cngLi to Li . ve Let-n , tle miid ana benignant ^ p i ^ it oi tie Lie ^ et ; Guc in heaven . My brethren . I heed not tow ihij nr-y b-e taken . You may hear , or you may loxuehr . \ v u s . ay _ open your lips in praise of me , crymmuy u : en tlemin ccrscs sgidnstme . Yon xsay baaiLe : uiih apprc'bdiiffn anc pieasure . ottoc niay jf : a-n vithycni teeth , indcalldow-a veE » eaiice xjioij n . y Lt-ad . \ on may hear or yon may lorbtar . iocniK \ j . reet with yocr heanies ;" wcicome what 1 Bay a * . a < i ricings tf gres . ; joy to all people " ; or you maj Eay " a « ay with him , away with him away » i ; h ; lcL a icLow from the earth , < br he is not fit to h \ el" Ai . dl -Ronldnotbe fit to li \ e ; and no Minister oi Jesui Lhrl £ to iive

      - ^ r y t , whu is not ready to me ( Uctr , tr ^ ; : to cie as ne siancs speasmg tni xrath : to cde wheneyer he may be caught , or howeTwhe may attacked ; to Cie ; to cie with God ' s STord , —Goo ' s -uncying word—fallicg < rcm his L ' , carhsrd by the lour wines of heaven to tie ends oi tke eartL , v . Li ^ t Li * tot ^ c e lies cold , end his bones tre xnxig-ec -c : !; . tie clues o < the ralley . Thet is my csl } jfioiy : liti cuehtto be the chitf , Ihe only elorr cI . ^ ' 7 minis ter of the gospei that is ready and "WiLiDg tLat nu > honld wasLyocr hands in his b "' ood So enrrv ,- a . aii oi God has su , © e beftre ihe people ' znd > o m-itmnny mrn of God have to stand beiore the woti . j : Go- caahaTe free course , and ran acd be gior . nea . Br-.-thren , pray for men oi power ; pray lor nut-n oi a suuid mind ; fcr men of a dear head " pray lor men of a warm bean ; men of a feari- ^ s Kr tna of

      * pmt ; pr ^ y men : are full the Holy Ghv cf Ouui ana of go © d works ; and with such inen ad bit yet be well in England \ S itaoEt such nn , that will come npen us which i * foretoia ia tne copter ob : of which my text is taken " 1 Oppress not the widow nor the lather >«« the « na . gtr nor tie poor ; and let none of you imagine evil a ^ a ^ H ins Liuther in his heart . " 1 have not so mnciU ; >< iy cfcuii ^ t any one law in England It ¦ wo uiu n . « : er but htue , comparativei y " ^ . aking , tkou fc ti ud « e V ^ i one bad iaw , we ought never to rest uu u was got ria of ; it would not matter much comparatively peaking , had we only one , two , three ' nsii do

      wur , or -a a ^ zen , or a zen , baa laws in Eneiasd . Y > nit 1 complain of , whit 1 object to , ^ hit I denounce , what 1 will never rest tin til I see destroyed ie , that the spirit of all cur laws is a spirit fcrea-uung natrcd u > Uie poor . The weakest , instead « f hanng a back stay , goes to the walL ( " \ ve " i trb-ostf tnat are down are kept down , and sent lower aad lower , and lower ; and below the lowest depths , these oevus contrive x « find a lower stilL That is vhat 1 complain of ; and I wish the people of Fjiftonn to keep this coastantly before their minds - for bxUe ot no good wiii ever accrae by the enicti ment of one good law for tie reformation or correction of a bad one , unless we breathe another pint into our legislation . We must , as individual e ^ one for h

      anen , e ^ y imself , and every one to his » eiRbW-we must haye a cleanr , and a rounder ino » ledge of what God ' s law is , and what his comxn « mm . enu require of its ; and haying found that © ut , we must carry iV-where ?—to the counter—to fije workshop—to the Jennie *—to the looms—to the cut clusm&cr—to the pay-table—to the fireside—to the exchange— to the hnsongs—to the jelling booth—to the Parliament—to the cabinetto iha council—to die tlrone . It most be one * nd the seh-tame spirit ; and that is the spirit ¦ vhica ieads us to Doto others as we would that other * should do unto mi ; " and that spirit must per . ¦ rade the whale land Jrom the least even unto the greatest . ( Hear , hear . ) We &hail never be right

      ¦ ontil we gK it . ( Hear , hear . ) >* ow , God « ays we are not to oppress the widow . How cowardly as veU a * how wicked it is to oppress those that cannot -withstand n *' . Wicked men fhiwV the widow is ¦ weak because she has lost her prop—the pillar on -whose strength , she reposed ; the oak , around which the iary was entwined , is broken ; the lightning has ¦ haaered it , and she stands alone , without a protector , without a protider , and we , in ourwickedxjess , and in our folly—we think that widow powerleas , because she has no earthly friend . We think those fatherless and motherless children powerless becavse they have no earthly friend . We think those stranger * powerless , because they haye no wrthlyfnnid . True , they hare not : but God L .

      toerr mend m heaven . True , they haw notj but Cod is a father to tho * fatherless babes : God is a iusb ** d to that lonely widow : He s * es them when Ciej weep ; and not a tear they shed falkth to the fronnd . They are put-aye erery tear they shed * put into God ' s botfle . They ihed many ; they drop thict aoiu last ; and they trickle down their cheek * , an , their lonelineas , aad in the solitode of thed ? misery ; but God sends his angel to wipe off the tear and put it into his bottle ; that bottle , when £ Ued with tears wrong from the broken hearts of the ¦ widow and of the fatherless , is poured out as the fire « f God ' s vengeance ; aad it conies down like molten lead Tipon the headg of their tyrants and oppressor * Tkey are weak , manward ; but they are stronz ' ta !

      cuee G © 4 a Iheir avenger . Now we hare God ' s eesmnaud , Goa ' s threatening , God ' s awful anger , all ottered and sent _ fbrth against us if ^ sq _ be that we oppress the widow and tbe fa 8 ierle * a , And shall it ie wrong—shall it be held to be etil—shall it be ac-• oonted sinral in these times Dre-eminently Christian —in these times" boastingly and conspicuously declared to be the " latter day glory of the Church . f Jesns Christ "—shall we in these times , these data oi the Son of Man , when , as our minittant tell us , the Gospel is taking the wings of the morning and flying t ^ the ends of the earth , so that a . mation is born in srcay—shall we , in these days of Co-pel light , and Gospel prinleges , and Gospel power—suan we , in England , the Zion of our Xcael , the citadel of God ' s authority and dominion < till we , is this land of all other lands in the

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      world * shall we oppress the widow aud the father ^^ . and afflict the stranger and the poor as we hav- ^ < Jooe in ttet damnable—that atrociously , inferne'jy Qam . nable , and ever-to ^ be damned Poor Lav ? Amendment Act : ( Hear , b * ar , hear . ) Or that Act 1 have not a word to say . 1 have r . < yw < k > Be > Again and again I fcave brought it to this Vook $ again and again I have brought the base metal to the tonchstone , and have foond it was not gold . I-have put it into these scales , ^ the Bible ); 1 have weigbea it before you , aad it k&s been found wanting . I have pat it into the balasoe ol constrtutional law , nmd common law , and c&oonical law , and statute ¦ law , and common sense , and universal experience , and . universal feeling ; and , in all those balances

      having been weighed , you have tonnd it wantiDg . That law wars against every manly breast—every womanly bosom ; that law wars again-t a father ' s heart— against « mother ' s love ; that law wars against our babehood , onr childhood , our girlhood , our boyhood , enr maidenhood , our manhood , and oar old age . That law wars against the green sod « n which w « e tread ; and against the blue sky that beam * miWaes * , and peace , and love ~ apon us . That law wars against the earth and against the heavens —against man and ogaifist God ; anil , therefore , that Jaw is to be resisted by all who fear God , even unto the death . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) 1 have been well understood by you on this subject ; and I hope I shall make myself well understood by others oa

      this subject , tkougb . not quite so soon as you and I have been led to expect . A new leaf in the history of the oppression of the people , and the persecution of one or the unworthiest —( no , no)—but most sincere of the friends of the peopk —( hear , hear , hear ) —has . been turned over by your enemies . I have been held in bonds that have kept me at home now for some time ; and I ma ^ e up my mind , because I was an Englishman—because I wished to give thnm fair play , though they w ^ re not giving me fair play—because 1 wanted to take the field against all odds , as well as against all corners ; 1 made up my mind , from the day I was pkced in arrest , to the hour of my trial , not to open those lips directly upon the snbject before the people —( hear ) ;—

      and I think 1 have kept my word . ( Aye . ) You could , newr get me to any of your meetings ; you could never get m « to say a word about it ; and just at the moment , when I was about to prepare every thing for toe coming trial , expecting , as 1 knew the government had sent down its emissaries irom Downing street to Hyae , . Ashton , Oldham , and Manchester , as well as to the neighbourhood of Leigh , expecting from all thk that we were to have the great question of the New Poor Law as it stood connected and identified with my position to it , discussed and decided in a couTt of justice—^ at that very moment , on Friday _ laM , 1 received notice from the parties connected with the prosecution , that they are not ready !! ' ( Hear , hear . ) They ha \ e not ha ' l

      time enough from the 13 th of November to the 7 th of ApriL There was not time enough lor a mighty government of a great nation , -with all the Bow Street officers , and spies , and police , and the secret service ¦ money . to set them a goiztg ! What ! not time enough Irom 13 ih of Nov . to 7 th el Apnl for such a government to get up such acase ! ! TLey are not rea ^ y , they have net had time . It is rather more than they thought it wa » . Yes , 1 £ 0 t notice on Friday last , from Her Majesty ' s government iLat I am not to be tried ar the next Liverpool Afeizes . ( Hear , Lear , near . ) My trial is pet off ; my trial is removed ( great emotion ); put off , 1 know not till when ; removed , 1 know not whither . 1 expect now to have to be tiragfced to London ; 1 expect to be put to the

      additional expense , inconvenience and hardship of having to convey a hundred or two of witnesses to London , instead " of taking them a few yards from from their own door to LiverpooL " But inis is English law , and English liberty , as that law is practiced , and that libeny favoured &nd indulged by a lib e ral government , ( rlear , hrar . ) 1 only " mention it to you that ncne of you may be disappointed ; that cone of you may wonder when the day corces ; that none of jou Eiay—receding this int ' elli ^ i-nce through any other channel than myself—receive anything nke a false impre ^ on fn . m the L-icts of the _ ea .-e . This is my last day in A-hton for the present . Theysha'n ' t baKlkice ; 1 meant ittobethe last day , and it shall be the la » t day . ¦ I meant to go elsewhere , and 1 will go elsewhere . 1 mesnt to

      emp ; oy my time in anotner way , and 1 will employ my ume in another way . I meant te go on with your work , and 1 will go on with your work . ( "God speed him . " ) If the government clen ' t choose te have it in their way , they shall have it in mine . ( Hear , hear . ) If they don t ctoose to have it at their own time , they .-hall have it in mine . ( Hear . ) Have it they shall ; the truth , tie whole truth , and nothing but the truth , so help me God . ( Hear , hear . ) I will , my . brethren , 1 will' ' cry aJocd , and not . < pare . " It is ratlier hard . I consented very much p . gniust my own will , to come at large . 1 hi \ 3 much raiher have gone to pritcn : for this reason—not because I woui ¦ ¦ : rather be in than out—but bt cause 1 never like to make Iree with what doe * not belong to me ; and , if

      my bail had been forfeited , 1 cotld not have ixade ; Lai good which those men promised in my name ; aud , therdore , under any othe : circumstance * , ratht r than have been at liberty on bail 1 would have gone to pri-< snn . *>*; . » rially ns fhnt bail was so exorbitant . But I consented to be liberated on bail m order that ihe government might not have it to say that 1 was stupidly resolved , by cving into prison , to en-ate a great deal more of public sympathy in my favour . 1 cid not want that . 1 thought , as " I had " bei-n takm , the thing should go on in its regular way ; and if they would let me out on bail , I would come out on bail . If they wanted to try me , they should tiy me . Bpt now it is rather too bad that 1 must ekln r ' go to priss-n until they choose to try me , or consent to be

      liberated on bail , and Lave that exorbitant bail hanging over my bead . It is rather tuo bad . ( kV lti ? , it is . '') However it is all right . Perhaps I know the reason why I am Hot to be tried at Liverpool . I did hear , yesterday , that another man , an Ashtonian , ( a voice " "LIGOINBOTIOM ' ) would * tand in the dock at Liverpool instead of Stephen *; and there are many much more unhkrly things than tl at . But whelier on bail , or in gaol ; whether in or out ; whether free or bound ; though I be bound the word of God is not bound . Carry it about with you ; read it one to another ; talk of it by the wav . Godsajs ' Oppress not the widow nor the fatherless ; the stranger nor the poor ; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in his heart . " But they reV&sed to hearken , as they refuse in these days .

      ( Zecharuh yii . 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 . Bat they refused to hearken , and pulled away the shoulder , and stopped their ears , that they should not hea-, - Yea , tney made their hearts as an adamant stone , lest Cjey . yhould hear the law , acd the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former "prophets : therefore came a great wrath from the Lord or hosts . Therefore it in come to pass , that as he cried , and they would not hear ; so they cried , and I would not Lear , faith the Lord of hosts : But I scattered them with a whirlwind amoDg all the nations whom they knew not . Thus the land was desolate after them , that no man passed through norfetnrned ; fortheylaid the pleasantland desolate .

      Now it follows from this—nothing can be clearer ; it needs not another woid to make a deep and lasting impression of its truth and certainty upon your minds—it follows from thi * , that if a nation , by its laws and institutions , ccmmi' 8 acts of injustice , tyranny and oppression upon the poor , and especially upon the widow , the fatherless , and the stranger , that God ' s anger will be kindled against that nation ; God ' s vengeance will be poured out upon that "people ; destruction from the hand of God . as be here declares , by the whirlwind ; the whirlwind of Ms vengeance will Wow upon tfcat land and sweep them away from the face of the earth . If I have spoken , from time to time , here and elsewhere ; if 1 have been plain and bold in

      what I-have said : if I have said strange thing ? , words which mace the people shudder ; wordri whickmade the land to ghake and tremble ; the words have not been mine . 1 have not ppoken my own words : I have not said my own say ; 1 have not invented Biy fables out of any own imagination ; I have not addressed you in words calcBlated to excite . your passions ; and inflame and throw into p hrenzy and madness t&ose feelings that are easiest narrowed up and soonest aroused oy men who have the power of speech at their command . I have done nothing like this . I have only said to you time after time , ' The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it . " Hare I been wrong in so doing ? God is our judge . He ii my witness and yours : and I leave it is his

      hands . I know that he has a controversy with England , became I know him to be a God of justice , anal a God of truth ; & God of righteousnesj and mercy . I know he has a controversy with England , because the laws ft-nfl institutions of England are laws of violence aad institutions of blood . If we had nothing in England but the factory system to curse us , that would destroy us as a nation . If there had never been a law passed against God and man in England since it was a country but the Poor Law Amendment Act , that Act alone would damn us a * a nation ; as a nation it would destroy us ; as a nation it weuld annihilate us , for there is more than enough in that law to make the sea open ob either h * nd , and swallow England , leaving a wide waste of waters along the illimitable depths of ocean , eutof

      which our lovely speck of earth had once appeared . And so surely as there is a God in heaven , who now looks down upon us , so surely will that destruction corns which u mentioned in the chapter I have read to yoa . r often think , my brethren , that all that has been done ia England , of late years , to stop that day of vengeance , will prove to have been done in tain . I recollect that when tke question of the Emancipation of the Negroes of the West Indies was agitated in England , I said at that time ihat God would not allow us to emancipate those slaves , and to escape his yengeance . I always said that the deeds of blood , which had been doneb / Englishmen towards their black brethren in the We-t Indies , would be answered by deeds of b ' ojd back again upon their own heads , tuid I believe it will be bq jet ; and , from all tlie tokens of the times—

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      from all the appearances of things that ean or may be gathered from what we see around u » , I am often ready to thiHk that this will be the end of England also . There is more blood upon the doorsteps of that parish , office behind this market-place—there is more blood upon the door steps of that parish officemore blood upon the door steps of every parish office in England , of every workhouse , and of every foundling hospital—there is more blood on the door steps of these " nouses , which ought to be houses of mercy , sanctuaries to which the poor and the destitute can fly for refuge—there is more blood cs the door steps of these houses than ever was shed on the field of Waterloo—aye than ever was shed during the whole of the last tremendous European

      war . _ Thef 5 is more blood on the walls of yonder mills in Ashton—and in every other tQNvn where the factory system has reared its hateful head , and sent down its hellish smoke and fire upon the peoplethere is more blood upon these factories , than ever was shed in the time of the civil wars in England . God says , " Whosoever sheddetb . man ' s blood , by man shall his blood be shed . " God ' s Word says that ; and 1 believe , as it is the intention of God that the murderer should , at the hands of the law , receive punishment for th « taking away of life , so national sins—sins of murder , murder committed by the law—I believe that these national sins , that those national murders , will have to be visited by God with an awfal retribution upon the nation . It

      is not for me to say—and God forbid that 1 should appear to you as if I had the power or the incliuaion to say—that the time ol Goa ' s forbearance and mercy is utterly gone by . 1 can only tell you that . from the signs of the times , then > is no hope for us . I am sure of one thing , tlnre is no hope in England —thrre is no hope from England—there is no hope " rom England ' s Crown—there is no hope from England ' s Government—there is no hope Irom England s Parliament , or from England ' s Princes . There is no hope from the capitalists , the mill owners , the manufacturers , the merchant" , or the landlords . There is no hope irom the rich , from the great , or from the mighty ; and the peopld nr « like sheep wivhont a shepherd , unless and until God hini » elt

      comes down and leads the way . 1 believe in that God who has often aforetime led the way for his people : I believe in that God who carne down to Mosps at the burning bush : I believe in that God who weirt before Meses in the pillar ol cloud by day , o i , P iUar of fire b T * ' 6 "t : 1 believe iu that God who sometimes shews his mercy and his majesty at one and tbe same moment ; the majesty making the mercy mere conspicuous , because the inercy was more imperatively required by the emergency and the p . vreinity ot those on whose bfhalt it was to be exercised . 1 believe that God sometimes * hows

      his power and his love at one and the same rime ; that sometimes He shows his might , and mercy , and majesty together , lilting up the one , and pulling down the ot : ; i'r ; lifting up the poor and ihe needy , and pulling down the Iohy from the high .-eats they have usurped . If that bn God's will to England , and 1 hope it is , —if that be God ' s will to England , nnd 1 pray that it may be ; I pray that it may be ; 1 pray that it tuny be ; if thai bo God ' s will" to Englaad , there are scmn thm must come down . ( Hear , hear . ) You have men that go about and amongyou from time to time , that trll you they dont want to bring anybody down . These " nv . n are cither wilml

      impostors , tning to catch a fleeting popularity ou the one hand , und to escape personal danger on tinother , or they tire iguoraut , aud know nothiug at all about the business on which they profess to be sent . There are those who must come down . The mountains must be brought low , and the vallies must be raised . The poor , p . nd the needy , the stranger , the fatherless and the widow must be lilted up . They must have a back-stay ; something to bear them up . wi . en they are up . They must have their rights , their rights in ' the soil ; their rights from the soil ; their rights upon the . soil : their rights to have as good a house as they can do with ; their right to have as much food as evk-r they cuu eat ; their righr to have as much clothing as they need to

      wear . And why should they not have a lew ornaments too ? J hate , 1 abhor , I detest , as much as I despise that kind of treatment el die poor that begins by finding i « ut how little it is possible fcr & poor man to j-absiht upon , and then giving him just about half as much ; leaving to nature to take the chance of keeping him alive . Be not deceived ; God is not mocked ; the poor ou ^ ht to be comiorted ; they ought to be cherished , revived , and liftw- up . We ought to treat the" poor and the needy , the fatherless and the widow ? , national : ) - and parochially , just as we treat a little child ol our own that is sick . How we bear with ii thousand ways that we would not bear with if it was well . We say , "it is sick , poor thing '; it cannot help it , it is the teeth that plague it , nnd make it

      cro ? s . "' It does not mean to be cross ; and we bear with it because it is sick ; and we will deny ourselves rather than the child shall go Without . And if Goj haw given to any of yoii a cripple iu your lamilies , why , at is the pet lamb in al ihe flock , poor liule thiLg . See how the motLer hugs it ; how proud she is ol that little deformed thing . And see bow the brothers und sisters .-tand up for it . See how the sisters dress ir . and how the brother fighs for it . They won ' t allow anybody to put upon that little rnpple boy . >" ow , us we iirat ; i cl . ila ui home tLat ; s « cripple or sick , with more tenderness , ami kiudnps « , aud love , than ail the rest put together ; so parochially nnd nationally we ought to tr-nt the poor and the needy , the fatherless and the widow . Is it

      not enoDjth that that lonely widow has lost her husband : Is it nut enough that that little orphan girl has lost her larher and her mother , and is thrown friendless upon tbe world ? Are we to oppress her ? Does God send us parish officers , as j . arisU officers ; or does he send us Guardian ? , as i'oor Law Guardians , to take that young maiden—became she has no lather or mother , because she has no brother to stand up for her—to take that young maiden , and put her into a machine , which they call a '" holdfast , " something like a uiilory or a stocks , for the neck and the banns ? Doi-s God tell us to take that maiden and put her iu the * holdfast , '" and then apply the shears , and crop oQ her curls and locks from her head , that she would almost rather die than lose ? That is

      done undt-r the >> e-w Poor Law . ( Shamo , shame . ) Does G » d Aimiglity allow us power to refuse to allow a man to see his wife , though she wa . s on her death bed ? ( "No , no . ") Does God allow us to refuse letting that man stay with his wi : e till she died ? But this i . s done under the New Jr " oor Law !! ( Great emotion . ) Talk of arming ! Talk of violent and inflammatory language !! That is violent language , if you will ! The sight of a young woman , 19 years of age , in the holdfast , and the shears cropping off her hair ! that is inflammatory language , ii you will ! The sight oF yonder wife , as she lies a dying , and the husband forbidden to see her—that is violent language , if you will ! The sight of Mary Croker ' s liule daughter sent over the

      waters to the Cape of Good Hope , to bo told as a slave in the plantations there , and she knowing no other than that her daughter was safe , and alive , ana well in the workhouse—that is violent and inflammatory language , if you will ! The sight of the widow Deegan shuddering ou tLe brink of that pond of water after she had been refused relief , and atlaslpluBgiog into the water , and drowning herself , rather than go again to be denied , rEther than knock agaia at the door , and be spurned from the presence of those proud oppressors—that ii violent language , if you will ! ! ! Talk of arming ! ! Would to God that every man , that every woman , that every child—would to God that every man in England were in this matter , even as 1 am . ( Hear , hear

      hear . ) Then it should soon be settled —(" Aye , aye , ")—and then it would be settled without a blow . ( "Aye , it would be so . " ) Talk of violent and inflammatory language !! K o tongue can utter words half so keen , half so cutting , half so harrassing , a * the deeds that have hewn done under that damnable , and thr ice accursed law . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 know not , my bretkren , how those judgments are to be inflicted upon England . God says that England is to be made desolate if Englishmen continue to break his law ; if Englishmen continue to violate his commandments , and to refuse to have him to rule over them . Let God take that matter into his own hands . ( Very great emotion . ) Bat if England is to be saved , and 1 hope she is , then

      read the next chapter to that from which 1 took my text , the 8 th chapter of Zechariah . 1 have shown you this afternoon , in few words , how the word ot Go * ought to be preached ; where and by whom , and in what way it ought to be spoken . 1 have shown to you how God wills that bis word should run and spread among mankind . 1 have shown you how that word should live in us and run through us in all our actions . I have shown you that where a people or a nation refuses thus to have God to reign over them ; then he will deal in anger towards them , and will bring down indignation upon their

      heads . Ibaveshownyeu that with God is all power in heaven and in enrth ; and that not one jot or tittle of his law shall by any means pass away until the whole of it is fulfilled . r > owlefitbe our prayer that the word and the law of God may come to us in mercy , and not in judgment ; in loving-kindness and not in wrath : in pitifulness and not in indignation . Let us pray , let us hope , let us work—and it has always been my aim to work to this end—let us pray , and let u * hope , and let us work in such a manner a s to become instruments in God ' a hand of working out tie national salvation of our country . ( Amen from several voices . )

      A verse er two of a hymn was then sung whilst a quarterly collection was being made , after which Mr . Stephens pronounced a blessing upon the people , and the assembly moved away in the most orderly manner , evidently much impressed with what they had heard . The services concluded about a quarter pastfive o ' clock , and Mr . Stephens preached at six o'clock is the same place to a very large assembly .

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      IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES , AT IPSWICH . ( Abridged from the Ips wich Adoertize % . j l w v ° nr ™ ingweelt ' a lar 6 C meeting of the Working -Classes ^ was held by ^ * iMioi ofthe Mayor m the Town Hall , for tne l purp 0 Se of hearing addresses from Mr . ^ . Gill , and Mr . John Deegan , of the Nation Convention . The time of holding the meeting w ^ 8 even o ' clock in the

      evening ; u r u l > i ' at bour the Hall rapidlv filled , and before the Speakers commenced , the place was densely or iwded . A small knot of the lowest deft , scrtjnon of Tories stationed themselves at tbe lower part of the Hall , and brought the most disgusting means into play , to interrupt the peaceable aad orderly proceedings of the evening . The object of throwing the speakers into confusion—which was intended—was , however , easily frustrated , and the Tory attempt recoiled upon the heads of the

      authors . Mr . R . Boolev was called to the chair . Mr . W . Gill appeared before the inhabitants of Ipswich , as one of the missionaries deputed by tbe Convention of the industrious classes of the Kingdom , to promulgate the principles of the Great Charter . ( Hear , and cheers . ) Since the period when the VV bigs and Tories first commenced their peculiar doings , the proceedings on both . sides had been but a fight , or a struggle between . two . factions to determine which should " rule the roast . " ( Laughter . ) But the objects of himself and brother delegate , and of the people—were to deprive each party of the power of continuing their plunder a power which the rich and powerful of both factions had followed out with terrible pertinacity . ( Cheers . ) HU object was to show the people that they had a

      natural aud inherent right to govern themselves ( hear)—and if that truth were admitted by the meeting , then would they allow him to draw their attention to those immutable priuciplea he called particularl y upon them te support , and to expose the pretext exhibited to delude the men of tuis country from allegiance to themselves . ( Hear . ) At the time of the French Revolution , when the spirit of liberty was manifesting itself through the whole world , the tyrant factions having power in their own hands , commenced tfacW cruel and Vilnndy crusade against the people . ( Hear . ) Yes , no sooner did the French soldiery return from a successful struggle in America , and devote , theraselve « to the spread of liberty in their own land , the inhabitants of France than rose as one man in their support , and he ( Mr . Gill ) well remembered that their

      own tyrants in England began to urge on their crusade against tlie spread of liberty in this country . ( Hear . ) You . well kuow the reaulw , for you felt them , and still feel them . They increased the public debt of the country hy this crusade , beyond the enormous sum of £ 500 , 000 , 000 . ( Hear , hear . ) He had said the people had felt the result * of this system of coercing liberty . If they had not experienced its full effects , they soon would feel the bitter consequences of those bloody and destructive wars . But he would leave the revolution of 17 J 8 , an . 1 pass eu to that of 1830—their nearer neighbour in point of time . At that p . riod it was ridiculous in him to tell them liberty was triumphant in the

      land ef the Gaul . ( Hear , hear . ) The effect of that liberty in France was felt in England , and he recollected Brougham , when standing as a representative for Yorkshire , saying , " that if any tyrannical monster in England dartd to introduce any proposition so detrimental to the happiness and liberty of the people of this country as had been doue in France , he hoped that before the sun set in the heavens his head mi { : ht be rolling in the dust . " ( Hear , hear , and a loud nois > e tYom the Tories at the bo : t » m of the Hall , who now commenced a disturbance . ) But Brougham securely seated hini .-elt for tbe NYest Riding , and then entered into an unholy league and alliance with the enemies of the

      whole nation , to keep down the spread of liberal principles in the country . ( Hear , hear . ) Yes ! at that period , the "Whig Aristocracy formed an alliance to gull the labourinp classes , as well as to control them hy force —( hear , hear ) —and the labouring classes were guilt d as the plan had been laid , although they must have known full well that their enemies were tie most despicable faction tnat ever governed , or attempted to govern , this or any other country . ( Loud applause . ) From that timefrom 1830 —ho would pass to the pre . sent moment , and say that now an attempt was making to tk-lurie the people , of England , at . d that by a class of men who , while professing friendship , were the deadliest

      enemies the people ever had opposed to them . ( Hear , hear . ) They hid their design under a delusive n . a ^ k—they w ere , the secret foes of tbe people , but not less 'dtudly than secret . ( Hear . ) He had been informed that the people of Ipswich bad hten honoured recently by the . presenc- of un individual who had been on a vim tn the town ai . d and amusing himswlf with spouting forth on the question of the Corn Laws —( loud cries of " hear , hear" )—and let him ( Mr . Gill ) say , that he held those lawu , with all other ? , which oppressed the poor and increased the wealth of the rich in equal detestation with Colonel Thompson . ( Hear , bcar . J But when he saw a man like him come forward and

      use the confidence of a people to delude them with false result . " , then he would say , and did say , that that man , let him he whom he may , was one of iht people ' s most deadly enemies . ( Hear , hear , and loud applause . ) No man could declare but that tht pre .-ent odious system of the Corn Laws bv which the price of hread—without which no man could exist—was raised to a price of exorbitance—no man could pay but that those laws were a crying evil — ( hear)—but still those laws were the result of a bud legislation , one of the many evils which had flowed from one scurce , and being so , he would inquire , was it best to try to seize the axe and lop off one ol the branches of a corrupted tree , by repealing the

      Corn Laws , or strike at the root of the evil at once rhrough the medium of the People ' sCharler ¦? ( Hear . ) He would just revert to a simile used by Colonel Thompson in hia last lecture to show its fallacy . The gallant Colonel bad said , if a wood-cutter were employed to work for a certain number of days with a blunt axe , that the blunt instrument entailed a loss , but that were a sharp axe used , so as to facilitate the work , there would be a gain . So there would be a gain , he ( Mr . Gill ) was ready to admit that . But who wouldbe the gainer : ' Clearly not the emplojed , but the man that employed the labourer . ( Hear . ) Mechanical power enabled the inonied tyrants to absorb the multiplied labourB of

      mankind to themselves . It is true , that if the labouring classes obtained political power , it would increase their coroforta and render them free and happy , but it vras also an incontrovertible fact , that as mechanical power increased , the operative classes were under the necessity of being obliged to run yes , a daily race against it , which rendered them slave ? . ( Hear , bear . ) If the Cora Laws were therefore repealed to-morrow , the people possessed no means of restricting the increase of mechanical power within any limits , and' by the power which the repeal would give ts the rich , they would be tnab ) cd to increase that mechanical power from 600 million of times to 6000 million time ? , and then where w ould be found the happiness of the people ? ( Loud

      applause . ) This position could not be refuted . The manufacturing and the commercial system of the eountry both injured the people of the country . He would say , that all tyrant * should he attacked , whether high or low —whether nionied or landed tyrants —( hear )—and although the landed tyrautthe tyrant of a district , was undoubtedly a great evil , yet he was not so great a tyrant as the munied tyrant , for the inonied tyrant had the greatest power to inflict evil— ( hear )—for he could by one fell sweep crush all the working classes of England , by refusing to accept bills of exchange . ( Hear , hear . ) It was well known that in this country there was a private debt as well as a- public debt , consisting ofmonied transactions and obligations between

      individuals—Here the noise from the Tories , who had been very outrageous for some time , and frequently prevented the oteervations of the speaker being heard but a few feet only from the spot where he stood , broke out into opeu clamour . The Chairman said , he hoped that if any individual disapproved of the sentiments of the speaker , they would wait until the conclusion of bis oWrvation 9 , and then ccme upon the platform . ( Hear , hear . ) A Vo-ice—We want a gentleman in the chair , and sot you . A Voice— Why , that is Old Job Nunn , turn him ont .

      Mr . Goblin here mounted the table . He said , Brother Working Men , will you be disgraced by allowing a fellow like Job Nunn to disturb your deliberations—a mas , known a * he is , not to have even sufficient common sense to carry him through the world P Any man who would come into this or any other meeting , and insult a stranger , as the speaker has been insulted to-night by many , must be sent on such an errand . ( Hear , hear . ) A Voicb—Yes , and paid for it too . ( Hear , hear hear . ) After great exertions by the chairman , silence was at length obtained .

      Mr . Gill resumed—and after having detailed the principles of the People ' s Charter , said—Were the principles of the Charter thug detailed , carried out , the peace , happiness , and liberty of the country

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      would inevitably fol )* . ( Mr # Gillsatdown amidst great applause f ; om the meeting , mingled with uproai fr .- the Tories . ) * .. " .,. Mr . Deegan ( delegate from Hyde , Stalybriage , Glosso p , and New Mills , ) was then introduced by the chairman . ( Load uproar . ) Ho said—Mr . Chairman , Whigs , and Tories of Ipswich , ( loud noise ) I come here , not for the Bole purpose of addressing the working classes , hat for the purpose of addressing—and to dress—the Whigs and Tories themselves . ( Loud cheers and hisses . ) I am not come two hundred miles from my own home , for mv own interest—I come not here to fight with dung-hill cocks —( loud cheers)—or paltry lickspittles ; but I come to bring Fitz Roy Kelly , your

      / unrepresentative , to his senses . ( Loud cheering from the Radicals , and the most deafening noises from the Tories , which last was drowned iu three cheers being given to the speaker . ) I come heie to call that man upon the platform . ( Cheer ? . ) Is he here to-night ? ( Loud applause , mingled with groans . ) Both myself and my fellow labourer are come here to enlist those who hear me in sympathy for the labouring classes of the kingdom—we come here to-night to point out to you the way in which the House of Commons discharges its duty to the people , and of which by-the-bye , we have a fair sample , in the behaviour of the base , brutal , and bloody faction at the bottom of this room . ( Loud

      cheers and groans . ) 'Just so it is in the House . When a member has presented his petition , and some good man gets up to oner something iu its support , he is treated , if his intention be to support the views of the people , very similarly to the way I have been this night , by the gentiemeii yonder . ( Hisses . ) Oh , I delight to hear these hisses . They are more sweetly melodious to my ears , than tbe far famed music of angels , for I know that what I say festers in your hearts , ye hireling crew ! ( Tremendous noise completely drowning the speaker ' s voice . Cries of " Turn the Tories out , " and Go to the devil , " from all parts of the room . ) I come at once to Universal Suffrageand I ask youthe

      , , peopk of this town , and the agriculturists of this district , if you are not entitled to vote for the electipn of Members as will as your masters ? ( Hear , hear . ) If the rich shipowners you have about you , claim-to vote because ef weulth , and do vote , why should not the pour man have , a vote who guide * the shi p , from which springs the wealth , over the foaming sea of waters —why should not each man have a vote who braves the fury of the elements—why should not the poor man who rides upon the raging billows—why should not the poor man who voyages to America , to Africa , to the East Indies , aud to the West Indies , in order to bring the rich shipowner

      the riches he desires— why should not each poor man have a veice in making the laws ? ( Cheers . ) It' your landlords have the privilege of voting for Members of Parliament , because of their acres , why should not the poor maa have a vote also who tills the earth iu order that others may reap—who is under the necessity ef going forth day after day over the barren field , standing tbe " pelting of the pitiless storm ; " why should not , I repeat , the man that I saw this very day performing field work in the depths of the snow—why should . not he—why should not all have a vote equal and alike ? ( Tremendous cheers . )

      Mr . Goslin—I see that Tory Adams , of the Orwell Inn , is the leader of this noise . Tory Adams—You are a liar . ( Loud hisses . ) The Tories now commenced singing " God save the Queen , " to the total drowning of Mr . Deegan ' s voice . After some time spent in mutual cheers and groans . M r Deegan resumed- Universal Suffrage means that any man , 21 years of a ^ e , aud unstained with crime , > hali have a vote for the election of members . Tbe Ballot ireans protection to all classes of voters . Annual Parliaments , that every mau , like a good and faithful steward , shculd stand yearly before his constituents , and give a L'ood or bad account of

      hims *\ ^—ant * * ° r t'ie otner principles , I refer you to my friend ' s speech—but the whole of these makes up our dtm ; . nd for Radical Reform—forms the sum t- > tal of our political wants—composes , indeed , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheering . ) I , as a Radical Reformer , desire the whole of the people ot the Kingdom to be represented ; not such a representation as that which has for many years prevailed , Vint a full aud free representation , in which any mau can say with truth , " Now , I have a voice in making those laws 1 am called upon to obey . " ( Hear , hear . ) To accomplish this good , you must have men selected from your own classes of society—men of the . vame ftelings , the same opinions , tbe 6 ame principles .

      ( Hear . ) You must have such men as these in the House , V-efore you can obtain wise and good laws , worthy to govern an enlightened community , like ibe people of thia country . But the people who are detcrmited to advoeate those principle . " , are opposed by their masters and the rich . They say the people are unfit to'hold political power , because of their ignorance . ( Hear . ) Good Heaven , with what a grace does this come Irom tho . « e who , having the poa-er of enlightening the people thtmselves , yet keep them in darkness . ( "Cheers . ) Well , then , if yoa are really ignorant , a * you are told yon are , I wish to see you enlightened . ( Hear , Lear . ) The

      nest mode of doing this is by the peru « al of good newspaper * , devoted to the cavi ^ e of the ptople , and the reading of wise books upon the science ot political eccnemy . Club together : add your own pence to that of your neighbour , and put ( -base and use every mean * to disi-euiinate and circulate such newspaper * und books , and you will , any one of you , be tar wiser than your master * ; and the cause of ignorance—if it attaches to you—be wiped away . ( Cheers . ) But friends , your masters not onlv say that you are ignorant but they declare that they are fall of knowledge and aliwist ? , ( Loud cheers . ) The Member ol Parliament cries out that he is the

      wisest ot the wise . ( Laughter . ) Why , I deny that , and I say I am ready to prove there is not a more unfeeling—a more ignorant—a more useless set of men—a class of persons more cartles * , too , of the best interests of the country , than the . < e very Members of Parliament . The proof of this can soon be shewn . There is their wisdom all » et down in the Statute Book . ( Hear , hear , ) Look at the various Acts of Parliament that have passed for years and years back , and then gee if I am right or wrong . Wh y , their measures we well know to be the most precious mass of nonsense—tbe largest maas of ignorant , heterogenous utuff ever put together by mortal men . ( Hear , hear . ) If they are not , I will never

      come to this town again . ( Hear , hear . ) I will only point out one instance to shew that I am right . I need not allude to the title of the Act , but it was pawed in the time of King George III ., of " blessed memory , " and it enacted , at the commencement , that whoever committed a certain offtnee , should pay a penalty , one-half of which should go to the King , and the other half to the" informer , and at the end of the Act the penalty was mentioned ; and what was ' ?—why , fourteen years' transportation ; bo that the Monarch was to be transported for seren years , and the informer seven years . ( Loud laughter . ) And now for another subject . It is an acknowledged truth that great distress exists in the country .

      Both the agricultural and manufacturing labourers are ill led and poorly housed . ( Hear , hear . ) The people are starving by hundreds and thousands , and yet net a single word has been said in the House with regard to the amelioration of their sufferings . ( Shame , shame . ) It will only be necessary in me to mention the name of the poor hand-loom , weavers to bring the fact of distress fully before you . ( Hear . ) Let me also refer you to Spital fields , the great emporium of weaving in the metropolis , where great disttwsprevails . "S es ! in that capital where Queen

      Victoria is enjoying her thousands upon thousands , numbers of her loyal subjects are dying for want of food—in that capital where there is a Lord Chancellor obtaining isauy thousands of pounds yearly from the pockets of the people , and getting a retiring pension of large amount when he leaves off buf-iness —( a laugh ) -in that capital where gits Lord John Russell , as Secretary of State for the Home Department , paid for doing nothing that I see but striking off from the list of Magistratef the name of Mr . Frost , who is as superior in intellect

      and ability to his Lordship , as the rays of the sun at noon are to the twinkling of tVe stars at midnight—in that metropolis , I say , thousands upon thousands are destitute not only .. of the necessaries but the common sustenance of " life , and nothing ia dene to provide them with adequate food . ( Loud cheering for several minutes . ) Should such a state of things be allowed to ge on ? ( " No , no . " ) You will all agree with me ; then , there should be at once some sure , radical , remedy applied to remove all _ this suffering , and all this political wrong P ( " Yes , jes . " ) The system must be altered , and therefore to perform this well , I do hot wish your energies to be expended as " they nave been for years past , in efforts that may indeed be called puny When tn ^ atntr t \ f * 1 iaiw «« nflrnn « .. ni * . - » ' . «¦ ' *¦» . ? ¦— j ts ¦ lucucukuai termination

      __ .- - — " * e w * " »<•« , put I wish you—I call upon you in the narne of your fellow-countrymen , to join in ope bond ofunanimity heart and hand-to get rid of the evils at once and altogether-to apply the axe to the rottea tree , and destroy the disease which runs through everv fibre of its frame . ( Cheers . ) My wish , and the wish of tnose irom whom I come is , to see peace , happinega , and prosperity among the people . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Deegan then entered on many other topics , and concluded a long aad animated speech by thanking

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      tbe Mayor for flie grant of the Hall to the purposes of the meeting ; He ( Mr . Deegan ) wished to save the nation from destruction , fey opening tbe poitals of the Constitution as wide and as free as the good and enlightened Mayor of Ipswich Had caused the Joors of fee Town Hall to be opened fer the objects of the meeting . ( Hear , bear ;) Long may that gentleman live enshrined in the affiictitins ef his fellow-townsmen , and while he pursued guch a line of conduct as- had characterised him through ki& Mayoralty , the good wishes and the blessings of tke people would rest upon him . ( I > oud cheering \ Before he left the platform , he begged to tV ^ fc them all for the attention which they bad h ? Stowed ouhisobservafions . . He even thanked t > JOge mild Tory well-behaved " gentlemen , " at > j , bottom of tbe -r * * "? 11 for ^ e - wfcee . credit , and

      . K * y ™ & * . filthy , disreputable s « t ( Loud cheers , drowning the yeU of the « gentlemen" to whom allusion was mar ^ ) ¦ DelgTK . ' ™ " * " * '¦** * " " ae ° «•'" ° ""> ^• g ^ sa . -s ^ ttssj-. s of confidence , ™ the National Convents : _» That this meeh&g „ epioion that the Members of the General Convention are entitled to the best thanks of the mdustnou > classes of the 0 Dited Kingdom ; and this meeting places its utmost confidence in them accordingly . " ( This was received with tremeudeus cheering . ) Mr . C . Bird seconded the resolution

      The Chairman put the question , aad a few Tory hands at . the bottom of the room only were held up against its adoption . Three ckeerswere then given for tbe Convection , and thanks to Jtf r . Gill aud Mr . Deegan ; to which they each replied in a f « w w » rds . . Mr . Dkeoan proposed a vete of thanks to tbe Mayor , and he hoped that the proposition would bo received with cheers that might be heard to the remotest part of theBorough . ( Tremendous cheering- ) . The vote was carried unanimously , followed with three times threey which did full justice to the wishes of the proposer of the motion . After thanks bad been voted to the Chairman , the meeting separated . . A collection was made at the door in aid of the People s Charter . The meeting did not break up until ten o ' clock . r

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      An Appropriate . Name . —As one among many other singular coincidences , there is at'this time a man named Cain Abel , keeping the " Adam and Eve" tavern in Norwich . Oxford . —Murder by a Gamekeeper . — On Tuesday , Joseph Chapman , was charged with the wilful murder of James Trotman , in the parish , of Charlbury . itichard Claydon was the . first witness examined . He said— " I am a blacksmith , living at Cbarlbury . I knew the deceased , and I also know the prisoner . The prisoner was once a woodman , then he became a noacher . anrl then

      gamekeeper to Lord Dillon . On the 18 th of June last , the deceased asked me to go out rabbit-shoot-T $ jj . ^ recd t 0 do so - A man of the name Widdows , joined us ,-and we went together to the Wood-lane . The deceased and I had guns with oa Widdows and I separated from the deceased at the Wood-lane ; it . having been agreed that we should meet again . at a place called Harbridge-bottom . Widdows and ! goc there first , and sat down , waiting for the deceased . Presently the prisoner came up * and after saying something with an oath , he a « ked ° \ ^ W ^" 6 fo J ? -: I «« d"Fora

      ^ .. ; . , . rabbit . ' He said , "You shall have no rabbit tonight . I said , f « I will , if I can pousibTy kill it on the road . ' Soen after the deceased joined us . The prisoner axked him if he had a gun in his pocket H « said , " I have . " The deceased then said to the prisoner , " If . a rabbit was to cross this light I would shoot it before thy face . " The prisoner swore at him , and . said ,. " If you present that gun at me again , I will blow your brains out , " and he then put his gun to his shoulder . After this the parties separated for a short time . I then went into Mr . Lay ' s field , and beard some one hollow out

      and say , «* Claydon , Clay don , Dick , if you are in the wood , come out . " I thea went into tbe road where I saw the prisoner and his brother , and William Widdows . I said to the prisoner " Well Joe , what ' s the matter bow ? " He swore at the deceased , and asked where he was ? I said he wa » gone to Miss Phipp ' a field to see if he could get a rabbit The prisoner said to me , "Here , see , my Run is loaded , now . " I saw the gun had caps on then . So on a [*? r the deceased came np . The prisoner Sf * j £ ?_ - ^ >?* ^ . ? " tis pocket . The deceased saidWhat is

      ,, " that to thee ? " The prisoner said if he had not , he should not have one that jtiight Deceased said , « How do you know IK *' " S epnjmnersaid , . . « If thee didist"I'd / hoot thee . The prisoner ' s brother then pushed the prisoner s guB on one side , and "Joe , for . God ' s Ike don t shoot him . " The prisoner ' s brother then stepped about six paces into the road . The prisoner himstlf stepped back twice , and put bis gBn to bis nhooider , and swearing , with an oath | that he

      would shoot the deceased , fire * * v «> „„„ ., _ j -. v _ ,. ... would rtoot the deceased , fired the gun and shot him instantly . The deceased gave three groans and fell . The prisoner s brother was then on the further side ? M ? k "ft ? ! - ' " ° > Jo V Joe : Kttle did I think rabbit shooting would have come to this " \ Viddow 8 ran away , 1 walked away , I was afraid that he would shoot me if I ran . William Widdow . corroborated the statement of the last witness . The prisoner ' s brother deposed that the deceased and the pmonerpointed their guns at each other : that he witness

      ( ) gtepped up to them , caught hold of the prisoner s gun and threw it upwards . Claydon did the same with deceased * gun . The prisoner then stepped back a few pace , , and fired at the deceased , who fell , and almost immediatel y expired . The constable who apptenended Chapman , tVid him that V Tv ^ T d f 0 r the J ° ' " Tne prttoJS replied he did not know that , a * if be had not shot t ^ .. ^ ce « ed » the latter would have shot him . ^ lhamHoltham deposed that the prisoner had sSi to him tb at be inteuaed to shoot the deceased . Some other witness were called , who gave evidence of similar expressions having been need bv thP ! . « •«« , « ..

      and one ^ or two other witness stated that the prisoner had 8 aid that he should have been shot by U , e decea !» ed , f he had net himself fired at ' . the S Eyidence was givea as to the nature ef the wound . Mr . Casson , the steward of Lord Dillon , was called , hw name being on the back of the indictment . He stated that the prisoner was virv vigilant ln tbe performance of his du ( ies as a gamekeeper j that the parish of Charlbury was fcTof poachers ; and that a strong feeling of animosity existed against him there in conaeaoic ? TW ? Serjeant Talfourd addressed tbe j u 7 i SeatlenS for the nnsoner , and contended that the ^ £ d . go » oi accidentally , in coBKequenee of the ^ n terference of the prisoner ' s brother . M ? . JD 8 t ] c » Patteson summed up and after deliberating a iort time , the jury returned a verdict of « , „//„ 5 ^ lT f aD 6 7

      ErfT !* % ^ cea £ aS ffipttsis ^ sgz dtwrd the prisoner to employ whatever brief i * ^^^ B btbe rilof « f Bm in tb " worid t oncere repentance and prayers for pardon « hi ws sentence . The pmoner , who was about fifrv years of age , and . had remained unmoved . dSS A wnoieoi

      b ^ trial , 8 aid tbat he was prepared toX ? nd that the witness badsworn « £$% * £ & . The CtjstoD-r of Iw * ants' Bill tk 11 £ wing _ i fl the outline of the provisos ' ' offtj " k ! U ^ s ^ s ^ liSIS

      z . mat in all cases of separation **** t » r rf ' wberMhe gnardiatohip o&hSeti Sail V" ?** committed by the-wUlV a deSed £ fi V * t tkauttejnother ( except w \^^ £ ? F r . ^ otfeer rfdivdfce snail have "fixea * o ^ w £ f J ° 8 nieDt of adultery ) , a courjtot equiS SBfe , " * " ** ^^ m ^ MS ^^ S ^ fessjgS ^ SKE order for . the access ' rf& , fflj't ° wntc mate 1

      *«» , uu , we return of all wrif « nf IT '" issued at the instance ofTfJw f Aa * f ° * «>» 7 »^ tain possession Tlu ^ tr T" ^ * - yean ., the eourt or jS Si l * ° ^ elve shall be returnable sOl 6 whom 8 uch writ hy providing ffS acceTo ?^ *\ * - » PPHca « , exception beforesSgg wST" m ° ther > witk £ he

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      Sir John Peniston Milbanke was tried at Winchester on JJonday , on the charge of maliciously ^ tabbin ^ -Mr . Pocock , at a ball-room , Southampton . The evidence of evil intent being defecuye ^ he was acquitted .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 16, 1839, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1049/page/6/