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THE GH1APE3T HOUSE m THE K1MD0M FOB GHILBEEK ^ DEESSES 01 ALL DJESCEIPTIONS. V
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CBALLEK 6 E TO CURE BLINDNESS . " ? ' .- - ' " ' - , MR . BAXTER , late of Hull , ( please to observe the name , ) who has restored to sight so many iundred 3 of indiriduals , many of whom have been bKndfor a number « f years , begs to announce to his Tiends in Scotland , that in consequence Of the many lriYitataons ne Ms receiTea thai h © intends to visit Glasgow early in October , and will make a tow throneh most parts of Scotland , and will pledge nimself to cure all external Diseases of the Eve Dimness " of Sight , &c . without blisters . bleedinV seton , issues , or any restraint of diet . Cataracts 1 cannot enre , * 3 1 make no use of an Instrament to any Eye . In cases of AmaurosiB I S ? i 1 KJ " ^ H ?** H * fte & 8 t application that I make to the Eye , and I will not detain anv patient longer than one hour .
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HOLLOWAT'S UNIVERSAL FAMILY OINTMFNT . Copy of a Letter from Herbert Mayo , Esq : ^ a . s ., Senior Surgeon to Middlesex Hospital , « ni Profeswr of Anatomy and Pathology , King ' s Coliege , London , See . &c . To Thomas Holloway , Esq . _ Sir , —Wni you excuse this informal answer ? Tht Ointment which yon hav « sent me has been of use in ALL the cases in which I hare tried it ; send me if you please , some more in a few days' time : I have en » ugh for the present . Yours truly , . H . MAYO .
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A PUBLIC TEA TO MESSRS ^ WILLIAMS AND ^ BINNS , IN > THE A ^ EMBLY ^ BOOTHS , SUND £ rLAND ; 7 W MONDAY , % EPT . % mi . 4 PUBLIC TEA -will bo giVeh to these ^ Grentlomen xi . by their friends , as a mark of « sieem for their invaluable gerricea inihe Cause ofthePwpler ' ¦¦ ' : ¦' -.: Two Splhkd * p MsBiLs wQl be presented to tlieih by tho Female Chartists oaliie > c © OBi * B . ; That true aad glorions thampipn of Democracy . JFxaugvs O'CoNKOJt , Esc ^ , Tias promfsed to attend , and " the Evening -j rill be enlivened % Speeches , -Recitations ^ and . Songs . v . \ . " . ' ' " " ' A BALL will be heldatthe close . : Tickets Is . each . None to be S 61 d after Saturday the 28 th . ' - ¦ ¦ - ' ¦ " - ' ¦ ; . ¦ ¦
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L-EEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS ^ r NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the next GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS - of the Peace for the Boroueh of Leeds , in the County of York ^ will be holdeivbeforo Thomas FtowEU Elxis , the lounger , Esquire , Recorder of the said Borough , at the Court House , in Leeds , on Friday , the Twenty-fifth Day of October , 1839 , at Nine o ' clock m the Forenoon , at which Time and Place all Jurors , Constablss , Police Officers , Prosecutbrs . » ltnesses , Persons bound by Recognizances , ahu others having Business at the said Sessidiis , arc required to attend . . ^ . ' ; And Notice is hereby also given , that all Appeals "will be heard immediately on the opening of the Court ; and that ill proceedings under the "HighVay Act will be tak « n oh the firgt day of the Sesaious . By order , ' . ' " > JAMES RICHARDS 0 N ; Clerk of the Peace for the said Borough . Leeds , 20 th September * 1839 .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MTGHAELMAS SESSIONS . N OTICE J 1 S HEREBY GIVEN > tlat the Alicnaelmas General Quarter Sessious . of the Peace for the West Riding oi' the County of York , ?? v £ op 8 ned at Kuare 8 l > rpagh , on Tuesday , the loth Day of October next ; and by Adjournment from thence will be holden at Leeds , ou Wednesday , the 16 th Day of tho same Month / at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of each of the same days ; and also b yJurihe ?" A < Iiourument from thence , will be holden atbheffield , on Monday , the 21 st Day of the same Month , ^ at Eleven of the Clock of the Foreiioon , when aJUurors , Suitors , Persons bound by Recogni-^ nce , and others having business at the said several bessions , are required to attend the Court on the severalDays and at the several Hoars above meutionea > - : C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , W akefield September 20 th , 1839 .
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" V ¦ . ¦;¦ ¦ ; " ' '' " TOEpiG ^ o ^" ' - ; , ; . ; '¦ ¦ ' /¦ '¦ V '' ¦ The ' -Augsburg Gazette says , that Admiral Stopford bad declared his jPureoSe of , entering , the DardaheUes , should any . djno pi" the three events oceur ^ -first , in case ; 6 f Ibrahiin's B ? at v-er With two daughters
the eldest twenty-fay © . years 61 Y age , committed suicido at the Tayqrn de . las Cuatro ¦ NacioBes , at Barcelona , ;/ on tho morning of tlv 0 28 th . August , with . a , razor he asked his daughter to eive him , ana with which he &st cpblly shayed hinisflfi v Accounts f roni . Constantinople ^ mention , that the British naval ofiicers in that city hadreceived orders to join the fleet at Tencdbs Immediatel y •';;¦ : whoV-ceit wasinferred that a demonstration at Alexandria was intended . Asia Minor , is iufegted by banditti , and ; carayans are ; escorted by large bodies of troops .
.: The Jiaryest in France seems / to have- been less productive than the public accounts transmitted to this country led us to suppose . V- The price of bread in Paris is vevy higW « M . tho quartern loaf ; and disturbances have occurred in the . prOTiiiceS i similar to tlioso winch were raised iti . La Roehello and other French ports , some months ago , to prevent the exportation of grain to England ; ' , ; THESpanish Chamber of Deputies have chosen tho yitrarLiberal Calatraya for their President . Theyhaye also voted-an-address to the Queen , congratulating her on the late eveiiia in Biscay and Navarre , ' Jextolling Espartero , and promising to ratify his treaty at Bei-gara , and : tQ proceed iinmer diatci y to the favourable . consideration of a law respecting the Biscayah fueros . Tho Queen , it is said , intends to publish a general amncstyv
Affairs in Switzerland are still in a troubled state . Tha Gorman Swiss of . the Upper ValaishavO declared . | their resolutioiito resist the constituted authorities . A scuffle oiisucd , between tho-police and thopopulace , a policemanAvaskilled ;; Inconsequence of the disorders at' Zurich , it has been proposed in the Great Council of Lucerne , to prevent tho Diet frommeeticgin that city this year . ' A pew evenings ago , as -an English gentlernau ' Was walking with a fi-iond throHgh the Rue St . 'Honorc , they were jostled by three men of the lower
orders at the cornel- of the Rue dc l'Echclle ; and , on their complaining of siich conduct ; one of the assailants took a cane out of the hand of the English gentleman , and struck him over the face several times , whilst another hit his companion so violently in the mouth as to break ono of his teeth . Fortunately , !! , patrol of the . police was passing at the time , and arrested the offenders ; -who , it as to " bo lipped , , Wiirbo-well . puni&h 6 d ' . forlh'eir : cpnduct ^ - ; -Wp ' : <; anrip ' t help observing , that . in no European capital is there soJittleaceoinmodation and . civility , slicwu ; to each other by passengers in the streets as in Paris . — Galignam ,,
The . political journal of Toulonso contains an account of the circumstances attendjn # the visit of the Duke of Orleans to that . town . The .. Prince , of Coui ^ o , visited the field of battle ; and was attended by Marshal Clausel , who explained the positions and details of the action ; At the close of their conversation , and in the presence of . all , the Prince asked— " Was the Alarshal aware of tke events of Paris ? ' ? "Most certainly , " replied Marshal Clausel j "and he did well to pretend hot to creditthem . Wellington sent an officer , to acquaint hini with peace
being concluded , but without any official document from tho" great army , ThoAiarsbal sent him back , saying ho might shoot him according to the laws of wan" "That , " rejoined the Prince , "is themost characteristic trait of . tho battle . Marshal Soult gave i noblo example in not Withdrawing ' ¦ /• it was au act of patriotism and devotion . " Such is the judgment passed on . the useless slaughter of twenty thousand men after peace -was signed , by tho French Marshal pretending not to belioye tho fact of which he was duly informed . — Morning Chronicle .
The Arbroath Ileraldpi ' the I 3 th instant mentions the death , by a remarkable accident , of Mr . James Walker , of A rbrpatliHf" Mr , Walker : had been in Montroso on business ; and while returning in the oTcuing ( of the 12 th ) on horseback , -a yivid flash of lightning startled thtf ' animal when ; passing the bridge at Rossie Mills ; and , after rearing and plunging for a moment , it sprung over tho parapet-wall of the bridgo iinto tho den below . V The fall , wo are informed , is nearly thirty feet ; andldr . Walker survived the accident only a / few minutes ^ . The hors e was killed on the spot . Thi& most lamentable evont
has thrown a greater , gloom over the entire commu ^ nity of Arbroaththan any similar occurreuco within pur memc > ry , M * r Walker was an active aridenter prMng merchant , and as a public man his place will uot be easily supplied : lie took a . warm interest in every ; thih ^ relating to the prosperity of the biirgh . As a > lagistrate > hie brought to a discharge of ms duties a degree of impartiality , ; talent , and perseverance rarely surpassed ; and if he -had not been removed from a sphere of - usefulness , It is generally understood ho would have been choBen Chief Magis ^ - trate at the next election . " ¦ r
Death of Rijnjeet Singh . — By . tho overland Mail from India , arrived on . Saturday morning , bringing Bombay papers of the 1 st of August , we learn that the t ? Old Lioii of the Punjaub , Runjeet Siugh v tlied , after a protracted , illiiess ,: at Lahore . Riinjeet 3 ihi ? ll » was OUO Of th > most extraordinary of the many distinguished characters who figure in the modern history <» f India . From an origin still more obscure and less ^ respectable than that of Mehemct Ali ,-ho raised himself by the force of hi 8 genius to the throne of oivo of the most powerful kingdoms On the Indua . v His death ,. at the present : moment , is an © vent Of obnaiuerable importance .
Logic—The editor of a paper in fjoyidencej United StateB , lately irifpfnied his readers that the ladies always pull off the left stocking last . Thisy as may be supppsed , created . some littlb stir amongst his fair readers , and while in positive terms they denied the statement , they at the Bametinie declared that he had no business to ; know it , even if such was the fact , _ and pronounced him no gentleman . . He proves it , however , by a shortiirgumeht . "When one stocking is pulled off first , there is another left on—and pulling off this is taking the left stocking offlast . " / •• : ¦'
¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ - . ; ,, ; . HOME . ¦ ¦; ; . . : : - . Fire . ^—One wing of the extetisiy . 6 dye-vroTks 6 f Messrs . Henry M ontoith and Go ., at Barrowfield , near Glasgow , was on Friday totally destroyed by fire . The flames were observed between twp and three o ' clock , and every effort madoby the people near the spot to extinguish ; them , but withont effect , as the part . of-tho ^ uildiugs in which the fire brigitiated was completely burnt down . We Jiave not learned the value of what has been destrbyedi but that of course will fall upon the insurance coin , panies . It is likely a number of the workpeople ¦ will be thrown out of employment for some time . T ^ -ipafedonian Mercury .
Irish Ip ^ ntity .- —The fbllowing hand-bill was stuck up in Dublin , July 31 , 1784 : — " This is to certify that I , Daniel O'Flahnaghan , am not the person that was tarred and feathered by the liberty mob , on Tuesday last ; and I am ready to give twenty guineas tp any one . tnat will lay idle fifty , that I am . tb , e other man . who goes by my name . Witness my hand this 31 st ( lay of Julyr-DANiKL ^ 'Flannagiun . '' : - : : <; / ' .. ¦ ¦;¦ ; y . ; . ; ' .. V It may perhaps not be ^ uninteresting to our readers to know that the attempt to establish , the manufacture of bobbin-net by machinery at Lyons is ^ sidered a failure in that country . A : dispute arose sbihe tinie since cohcerning Wages between the English workmen in that city and . their masters > The consequence has , beeiu / . that the greater part of the machines remaining idle have become rusty , and theV are now reinoving to Lisle to be set to , work by Englishmen drawn : from this ' : vicinity . —Nottinijr ham Journal . , ) . - ;¦ ' " .
The latb Gales . —The Vernon , 'together with the Blmheim wxiEdiribiirgfi , returned to Spithcad oh Sunday , in ' consequence / , of the .. heavy gales in the Channel , Tho following letter from Captain Denny to Mr . Green , the managing owner , jnentidris particulars of tl ^ e Ijrip . The letter is dated from St . Helen ' s on the 10 th : — " I fancy , from the weather last night , . yoii will almost Expect to hear \ ve have put back ; it was ho . use beating about against a South-west gale and sea ; I have every reason t ° be de . lijgbtedf . 'nith' the Vernonts performance under canvass , I put out . , the , steam " directly the breeze freshened ; an ^ oil taking ; off the floatSj we had to lie to about half an hpur . which bronght Hbr Majesty ' s ship Blenheim close to us . We then si « t
all sail we could carry , and trimmed all sharp when we had the most gratifying pleasure to see the Vernon hot only , forereach , but gfl to windward fasit . - ' , Tk& JE £ n ^ urgh , % the ; iiiiiQ -wo got all trimmed , was about tpree miles a-hcad . -We gained on her every tack she made , till she was only one mile and a half from us , and the Blenhe ' xtn three and a half miles dead to leewardv 'Had the wheels been unshipped , I have no doubt we should have done even better . ; The Edinburgh is also at auchPr here j put the ¦ lilenheim ^ is 6 till' fiintside ^ but ' dpihg no good- The Ternon was very easy in the nirfits .
though it bleW ; excessivelyhard at times ; Wefound ho other incpnVe . ience from , the wheels beyond the detention . A little water came thrpuglK but that we can safely prevent . Were it not for lumberirg the deck , 1 should like to niighip them , to have a fair trial with the Edinburgh , which is , I uhderstand , Tas fast as any ship ia tlie navy , . Tlie man-ofwar had a . ^ reat-fidraumgc o'Ver ' us in roofing and workiiig , Ayhich must . be' added to tho ¦ Fh ' n'iHi ' s capacity .. . 1 think slio is decidedly tnoro ¦' wea ' trerlv and . dtcidedly faster than- the Serlnqapmta m ^—l . he Vcmon again tailed from PortsuvOuth ou . the 17 th . ¦ . ¦ . ¦• . ¦ .- •¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - . ¦ - ¦
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' I ' ANTi-SlAfJii usiiw ;— - At the meeting of the - Golchegter Boaird of Giiardians on the lOth inst ., a poor woman , named Frosty aged 75 , applied for relief , whoi on being questioned "is to her . family , states that she ; had had cleyeri ; children ^ of \ vhom one- was dead , all tho snrvitors were mstrried : theeitles ^ Kesiah , had no child ^ Sarah , the secoiid , had ton ; Joseph , tho ^ third , eight ; Mary , the fourth , six ; John , the fifth , eight ; Maria , the sixth , three ; Ann , the seventh , orje ; Jaines , the eighth , two ; Martha , the ninth , eight ; and George , the tenth / four ^ -fifty inalL ; ,. ¦ - ¦' ., ' :. - ''¦' - ' ¦¦ . - » .. - ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ , :
_ ¦ Elopement ; Ex * RAORDiNAny ij ? DoBiiN . —A veryinteresting young ladyj niece to a , Q ^ Cr , elopod a few nights since with , a follower , of Egculapius . At-a late hour a hearse drove up iicaf ; to the mansion of the lady ' s ; father , and On a given signal ; the fair pne fluftered ;* hrough the shrubberies jj ^ moth-like , and reached the arms ^ frher-s < iot * 5 ^' = ^ ety , ensconced . s » he \ va 8 in the liearsei ; Pittsuit wasunavaiUng , for . the hymeneal knot was ; tied before the jacusih quo whither they had fled was discovered . - ; ; - In the Central "Criminal CoUbt , on Tuesday , William Napierj was tried on a charge of obtaining
brandy on which duty fhad not been paid , froni the Customhouse warehouses at the ' London Docks , by means of forged orders . There were five indictments against theLprisonei ' ..- ¦ ; He was acquitted On two , the proof of nis handwriting to the orders being defective ; and no evidence was offered oil the remaining charges . On Wednesday , George Smith was coHvicted of assaulting and robbing a Keni farmer i on his return at night from Leo races to Ins residence at Eltham . Two other menij not in custody , were implicated in ther crime . Smith was sentenced to fifteen years'transportation . ¦
Death .-t-Oii Thursday morning a fine girl , four years of age , met with her death under very distressing circumstances . A baker in Gauzie-strcet , Paisley , whose house was infested with mice , on iruesday atternoon ; mixed up a small quantity of arseuib in a cdkb . Part of it had been eaten byj the mice , and the remainder \ yas put iri a place where it was supposed no perspn could have access to it . The . little girl was in the habit of Visiting the baker ' s shop several times every day , and , happeriing ; to see the cake , atoit . In about two hours the ett ' ects became yisible , ' and medical aid was instantly procured , but without" effect ; as she died on Thursday mornint — Scottish Pilot ' - v- :-
Stupy in the French Army . —The following facts ' ( sujsiheJVouyelliiite ) show thai the taste for study ^ . becoming very general in the army . In 1836 , 3 ^( . pnicerH and 96 non-commisBipiied officers of 38 regiments of infantry and cavalry , executed topographical works ; in 1837 , -812 officers and 473 noncommissioned officers * of 75 regiments , took , part iu such occupations ; aiid in 1838 , the number so engaged was 1101 officers and 659 non-coinmissipned officers , belonging to 49 regiments . . Dartford Powder Milljs . —The proprietors pf these works have generousl y made an allowancei to each of the widows of the five iiMfortunate sufferers by the late explosion of . twelve shillings per Week tor hfe , with coals and potatoes during the winter , besides defraying the funeral and other expenses
, arising out ot the accident , The wages of the men were . not Us . or l $ s . per week , as was recently stated , but from 25 s . to 28 s * per week . : ¦ Floods in ScoTLAffD . i-Throughout Scotland , the rivers were swollen to an unusual height by the late rams , andmuch datnage done to the crops . In Edinburgh , on Saturday , the weather is described as . absolutely disastrous "—strong winds with torrents of ram which continued during the . whole of Sunday . The fields Qii the banks of the Water of Leith , the Almond ^ and the Avon , were flooded , and a "considerable breadth of crops" destroyed ; Iii Peebleshire , Stirlingshire , RpssshirOjSutherlandshirei Invernessshire , and AberdeenshifeV the same tempestuous weather prevailed . . Perthshire did not Buffer so much , but considerable damagetWas / 'done . '
SuDpiEN Death .- — An inquest was taken oh TueBday evening before Mr . Waklcy , at the house of ; Mr . faber , banker , No . 58 , Russell-square , on the body of Ann Newman , aged 51 , a nurse in the above gentlemanls ¦ family . ¦ - . - It appeared that about eleven o ' clock on Monday morniiig the deceased was In the act of dressing Mrs- Taber , when she suddenly fell with her head across her mistress ' s shoulder , and before medical aid could be procured life was extinct . — Verdict— " Natural Death . " . Phenomenon at Sea . —On Wednesday inoirning
as eeveral Boston fishermen were oystering pu B . urnham Flats > they were astonished by the appearance in the airpf a dense mass of large flies , so thick and extensive as to obscure the view of the clouds . Tho flies fell , on the decks iii very great quantities , and thoso which settled on the men bit or stung them so severely as to compel them to make a hasty ; retreat below , Some of the boats were at -a considerable distance from the others , yet all were visited at the same time ; so that , as the men believe , this " plague of flies" covered a space of more than » mile . —^ Boston Herald . ¦ . ¦' ¦'¦¦ ¦ .
On Thursday , ; thirteen ineh and twp boys were charged by pplicemen with sleeping under the Adelphi arches . The constable said ; that persons having hay and straw lofts under these arches are much annoyed by vagrants sleeping therej k $ thW pull put tho M y or straw to make themselves beds with and in some instances | . orce ppen t ^ doopg ^ o get in . The majority of the prisoner ^ were " old vagrants , " and were committed for a month ; but the _ two boyis were kept back . One of them was afllicte'd with a complaint in his eyes , and Mr ^ T \ yyfordsaid he would endeavour to get himintothe Greville Street Hospital . The other boy said he had slept under tho Adolphiaiehes foif three' years —long chough , tho Magistrate jocularly observed to entitle him to relief from St . Martin ' s parish .
Five Lives LosT . ^ The schooner Byron , of Newcastle , from North Shields , bound for Inverness with a cargo of coals , was totally lost about eleven o ' clock on Sunday ni ght on the rocks ; of Embo ^ two miles ^ st of . Durnoch . The crew consisted of the master , John R . Smith ; the matej William Mackay , a native of rimrso ; three seamen , and a boy : ; and these , we deeply regret to add , with ; the exception of the mate , have all perished . During the ni ght of Saturday > nd Sunday , it blew a perfect gale ; on that coast from the N . E ., and accompanied - -ynitx rain - ; and when night fell , the darkness was excessive , bo that the larbatness light was not observed until the
vessel had got to the north ; of it and into the DurnOch Frith ,- An attempt was then made to . veer round , but this was found to be impracticable from the futy of the gale , and all the canvass but the fore ^ top-sail ¦^ mg gonoi Shortly after this the schooner " struck the rocks on tho Em bo shore , and very sodii went to pieces . The mate wandered about the fields near thejshpre until day-light , wheny nearly exhausted . he found his way to ; the . Mansion House of Embo the residence of Mr . Brander ^ ho : treated him with the greatest kindness atnd attention . Mr . Brandcr immediately proceeded to the shore with his farm servants , in the hope of saving the remainder of the crew , but ho trace of them could be discovered .
Northern Political Union . —A large meeting of tho Newcastle Branch of the Union , took place on AVeduesday evening , at the Cock Inn , ; Saint Nicholas s-square , Newcastle . 1 'ho secretary read several letters , and- among others one from Birmingham , informing the Union that the Democrats of that important town Trejre carrying Joint Stock Compahiesj and their concomitant exclusive dealnig , into something like : effect . This announcement was received with much satisfaction by the meeting , t ? i 1 * 1 S on * other proof that the public mind of Lnglaiid takes a , sitnilar bent in all parts pf the country , without any precpneerted plan . When the Lorn Law , humbug was .-started tnewhole people from John O'Groats t < ithe ; Land ' s End rejected"the , tub to the whale "—wheii ; the Birmingham authorities ( and they are punished for it now ); outraged the right : of public meeting : and : Dorsbrial seenrttv .
only one feeliug of disgust and determinatipn pervaoed , the' entire land—and . ¦ i ndw : whenStheGutter baseness of tho bradipg : tools of oppression is made qianifest . one spirit of action has takeu Kold over the whole ; country ; a spirit , that will shortly place the questionof political righta . upon an entirely new footing . The ine ' ii' of Birmingham , also , announced that tlioy had set aside ; the dissemination of trabts , in order to counteract thei influence- of the nieiidacioHS ^ Whig and Tpry press . A resolution was then unaiiimbusl y agreed tothat a . tract committee be formed in Newcastle , for the purposei of assisting the Democratic press—to / refute ; the lying calumnies of . the hirefing newspapers , whose " name ia legion . ' The committee was formed accordipgly wjth orders to produce tracts fPr the consideration of the general meeting ; of delegates , to be held oil oaturday . The following sums were handed in ' : — Gramlington , 9 s . ; Goachmakers Union , 6 a . ; Newcastle Branch , 13 s . : ; ; ' : : -
Murder oip a whole Family . — On the loth instant , a man named Romain was convicted by the Court j ) f Assizes for the Indreet Loire of the murder of a family named Boileau , at Biffe , near Tonrs consisting of the husband and wife , and $ heir daughter , in January last ; and also . of a previous attempt to murder a M , Petit Nau , with w > om he had two y ^^ e lived as a servant , as lie afterwards did witb . Bojaeans The latter : crimo ^ v a 3 an act o { ^ . S' ^ ' ^ ? hav " > g ^ "ed-inpaying R in some wages ; that were due to himf The second ¦ SSlf ! fw- nt 10 ^ ^ attributed : ta the instigation ofa man . and his wife , named Mirebfia , « whrt that
fl ^ omp « u a robbery liad been imputeci to them by the Boileausyand had declared that if iheV heard ^ any one murdering them they Sl ^ evei S [| " ™ t «« give evidence ¦; fe MSeSs ami < & h % hinf 6 adJ 01 » lnS that of the Boileaus ; and the , wall between them was so thin tliat no no , se could tako ^ place ^ in the one without being heard in he ; other .: ; ^ Mirebeans confb « ed tl ^ t £ y hear ^^ noise in the . night on whiclv tho murder <^ the Bojleaus was committGd , but attributed it -to- a tamily quarrel , winch frequently occurred' As no positive evidence against the Mircbcans could be ^ "S&uJSdSSi ^ -- ^ tviaL ponmin
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A Good Chance . —In a ^ shop window in thia oif » Pristol ) is-exhibited ; a . -whole-lengtlt ; engr aSg U her Majcstyii ltt a splendid' frame , ticketed with ih * somewhat equivocal notice , " To be disposed of W ^ ay ; ofV « hancel' ^ Xet ; l * nnce Albert took mf 7 Bristol Paper . ; / -BiGAirv ^ -L ast' Wednesa ' ay night / Dodgson and Davidson ^ iwo- of the new police in Bury ,, appreheiideda man ; " named Thomas , Sharrocks , of Bury overlooker-of ' j ) pwer-lppms , on a charge of bieamv ' andon proof ; of ' the ^ fajstsconneeted -with the tfaiisaption being made ) beforei Air . E . Grundy ap d Mr Hintoiij he ; was committed .-tp the New Bailey ; to taka his trial at the ehsuihg quarter sessions :: . 'Tlie facts are , perhaps , Vthft strangest connected ; with ^ case of bigamy on record . About four years aero Shan-APt .
married his first wife , Betty . Hibbert , at-RadcIifto andvit ^ appearsthey :. lived togethercontfortably it seems ^ -however he thought aniother wif ^ would make his happiness and hia household complete ; and be accprdingly suftceeded in persuading a young woman about ; . 18 years ; of * ge , of prlpossessini appearance , nnknowh to her parents , to become the secondwife , and they were maTried on the : 28 thof * v J ir ^ r % ^ ngeness pf the > . transaction is , that the ^ rst wif © went to her husband ' s second marriage , pmciated as bridesmaid , ; and actually pulled her own wedduig-ring from her finger , and with that ring the ceremony was performed . This is the first transaction of the new police : in which the had tha
y hearty co-operatipn of the lower classes ; and when the man was apprehended , he and his two wives wer « living very comfortabl y together , all the parties apparently unaware of the degradation to which they were reduced ^ for on the apprehension of Sharrocks , h es ;'; thought . it hard tho law should interfero with him if they were comfortable . " ; After Sharrocks had ^ beon , committed , and had been removed to the station , ho was . visited : by both hie wives ; and the fellow there boasted that no mkn ever had twfi . better wives at orioe , and that when hecam « back he . would stick to them through life ,, and los » his last drop of blood in their defence . —Manchester Guardian . ' ' . < ¦ ¦¦ .: . , :. \ ., ¦• ¦ . ,: ¦ . ¦ ¦ - ¦¦¦ :
i Wision AT : SEA ; - ^ The . ship ^^ J 5 fo ^ bound for Sydney , ; Nevy . Spath Wales , with , emigrants , cam « m colhsion roth the Lord Goderieh passenger shift for Port Phnip ,: early on Saturday , mornirigj off th « ^^ 'ght ^; Shei ¦ was ; fallen in ^ itE by th * Melatde steamship-, belonging to the Dublin Steam Company , in . the ; greatest distres > , being almost itotaawecb , her bowsprit and ; Cut water haying been carried away , together with her foremast ; on « fluke of her anchor was buried ia > her bows ; th « other broke off / by the extreme violence of iihe con ' cnssion . . TheAdelaide took her in tow ,: and brought her safely to anchor off Gravesend on Sunday ; whence she ^ as towed , on Monday , 40 the St . Katharines Doefcs , to . discharge her cargov foi- tha
purpose ^ ; ornaymg aa overhaul , and the damaff * o-epaired . It was-most fortunate that the poor paa-Bengers ^ ere ^ u their berths ; had they been ; oi&h * deck at- the time of the accident , the conseenencet mignt ^^ havebeen ^ readful ; , The Xord Go < iertdh , mit uito Portsmouth , withloss of bowsprit and cutwater and other serious damage . The latter vessel had , been upwards of afortmght in ; reaching the Isle of W ^ ht , owing to the tempestuous : weather ; (' ¦ ' . buiciDE .--Satiirdayjught last , Mr . JosepbGrnnay Jandlord of ihe , Sur . John Falstaff , HiU ^ street , Birmingham , put an end to his existence ; For sbmi Ki ^/ fU Hj ' ^ su bject to angreattefldeney of blood to the head , and was obseryed to be particularly : dull , and rather desponding in his manner and
pbseryations ., . Np : apprehensionr , however , - wer « entertained ; by his family of so fatal * termination , and , consequently , no precaution wa . s deemed ne-SfSWQr / On tn « above night , he was in and about h ; s house as usual , a , ild at eleven o ' clock : he went up stairs _ tp his bed-room and in about an hour after , his wife and . servant girl went up stairs , when , to their great horror , they found him sitting in a twoarm chair , with his throat cut from ear to ear , and the room Qoyered with ; blood . He was nndressed . a B * ™* i »* d QV ™ PP osite a glass in order to < knt * Jf 4 % *™*^¦ a < t ^ Hi 8 ^ r was foundlying on the table . He ^ was . fifty : years ; of age ^ An Inquest was : held oa the bod y : on Monday , wheathe inn returned a verdict of ' Temporary Tnsanlty : " -- ^/ mingharn Journal . : ^ : ' , ' - ¦' - . ¦;
P ?? ri * V * f- tmvzsi ^ pus ^ DubKn Evening Pfist of last Tuesday says , ^ . There is no use any longer in disguising thematter , that in Ireland in shall have a lamentable failure , " We regret to add , that the accounts from the country are gloomy . One trom . the * ¦ Worcestershire Chronicle will suffice to show the general character of the accounta to which w ^ aUnde :- tfW « regret to say that since our last report the weather has been of a very unfayourabl « nature for the operations of the Harvest , which it has either retarded ; to a ^ great degree ; or prevented their wmg performed in a ^ rpPOTan ^ sni tab le manner . The great quantity ^ of rain which fell on Monday ^ mldurmg ^ the night of that day has caused tb » Severn to overflow its banks , and though , not ia nearly : sa great -at extent as at the last flood : onlr six
-: . w . eeKs . ago , considerable damage must hayi resulted to the late crppa . Scarcely a day of tb present month has : passed -over , witnout aome rain : and , under such circumstances , it jnust have been i ^ Sf ^ w ° ^** ' f » ? ' iu ; good condition . t rom ; Qmbersley , Hartlebnry , and the neighbbufhood / we ham great complaints of the Wheat sprouting ,, and t ^ Barley , iweunderstand , has also been wjur . ed materially ; : Indeed it ( bould not well have been otherwiae . The Hops , too , have suffered trom . the lato ram and attendant winds , andhav * Seen eadly . battered . ; Few new Hops , we should think , may be expected at our fair to-morrow , and no prime samples . The quality this year , like that Of the last , will be anythrug Uutgoodf— - ^^ P S" 0 ^^* Ma ^ rowgn-street ^ Office , on Friday , Morna O'Dwyer laid a comolaint amLin « t
a cook-shop keeper in Soho , named Durgan , for haying nnceremoniousl y brought bus too more than once lnunfnendly contact with theseat of his ( complaman ^ s small clothes . "X wiht ; yer hanner , ^ fe ^ f ° mplamant , « into the defindant ' s coli Bhopfor abasm of shupfe , and ; themishkessbrougnt me as ^ mitch as ^ camo to a tiippenyticket . : I tula mouthful , which , ; saying yer prismce , I ? put back agin , ty which manes , Mi 9 htress , i-saysJ , 'but . P ch ^ you durty blaegard , " says she , ^ you ' re a spy trom . Uie ^ opposition over the way ; the shupe ' s shffl ow ?? S ?> irtS ^ iW ^ *» -m atoth ^ Queen ' i own table . " « Dml a baste ever had fut oranythine ^ / -a ' " ^^ "«» 4 W bebaill'U ? nS ? S good wid a candle and a trifle ov pepper . '' Git out of me shoo . " Havft thft ri ; ffi ., vi ^> a JL fKifihj-L \^ . *
Dyer : This epithet . 1 suppose , offended you ? Conv pi quant f Above * bit , yer hanner : ¦ ¦ tif- ja , Irish m « . self-say 8 he v « and Pm sbrry fbxitVvihSX ,-S . ^ ^* ^ ** Wite , aa good ' as anotner S 5 f- * % . ^^ M " thim thatVflrt lrislr ii the scum of the . world , so git out wid ye , or may be h " mJtyP" y b . ««?„ ~^ Jl- ~ ii ~
D ^ : : Wl ^ f answ ^^ urg ^ d 7 y o 1 ^^ charge 1 Defendant : Plaze ^ ^ your wwtchip , he ^ said me Jn , pe ought , tp be called ^' cholera Ibroth ? ' ^ kase ; it ; : gavo : him the beUy-acheV - ¦ Says ^ I % mL sliupes me bread , andl pay ready money to mS butcher , so it ^ ^ not the likesWyou Sough t ^ IP ^^ - ^ make the pot boil wid ; and after a dale more bad « h me ? J ^ n me ?^ and ttirn « l him quietlySofthi fefSf Btta « 1 Btra *? ^ s of opinion tb ^ SS
^ Co ^ ppB ^ io ^—On Tuesday evening : ^ , publf Qmg waftheldria tfifi Assembly Rooms . Snidex * jShlSiW ^ - ^ m ^ r of estabu ' shing ; a Joint Stwik AssooiatVon . i ' or thepbrpose of supplying and enabling the Wprkingclasses to raise themselTef riSte-S ? 1 tlC * ' ^ enjoying the profits derived from their consumption . The meeting wa « very nunaerotw . lyatteiidea , and an earnest spirit was d wPl ^?^ . M *> Gamsby having been appointed t « » ne cnair , introduced the business . in a sensible and appropriate address ; after which Mr . Williams camsi lorward to dovelope his views on the subject of CooperaUonjhe ^^ gayoaibrief and interesting histprj pt the varipus jrreat efforts of the workine classes to
emancipate ; themselves from their thraldom . VH « proved tho power of the Co-operation principle , when rightl y ^ pplied , ^ ^ shewing thei . extent to which it existed ^^^ amongst the JeTyishpepple , and in the early t / hristian cpmmunities ; he then examined the variou * Slaiis of . Cooperation , or the principles ; : ppwhiieh Omt Si ^ ck ; Associations were gen erally est ablished , and contended that they were all too much in favour of the capUalists , and top little calculated to raise thy poor working man . He : contended thalt profits ought not to be tjaid ; merely according to the capital investedjtwnich would only make ; another middle clasi of the present , and from the better paidportion of to wprkinc class , at the expense of the poorer class . He contended that no consumption was the ; soures from which profits was derived , and capital was
unproductive without it ; that therefore the consumer was entitled ( as a consumer ) to areturn of one-half of theprpfits , derived on his : purchase . ; By a plan whiohne ^ submittedj of rogisteririg cbpsumefs , aud ; ascertaining the amount they might respectively expend , he showed that the poorest consnmer might , by toe profit oh his traded be put into pbssessioh of » Share and then become a capitaiisfc -Air . Williams supported his views , by various othWr . argunieiitS '"" After hi e address , which was listened tp with : great interest > M warmly applauded , Messrs , Huntley and Morion ,- of the Socialistdi eame : for » yard in 4 eferice of their views , and ptit ? sOveral questions-to >»•; W , Air . Binns-also stated that he had soine objections to' -pffer to t he views of Mr . Williams , « aa hot-. tinae that cvomASi it waa therefuro MSoI ; Vea . * V . adjourn the meeting a'Ul Friday oveiiii ) g . . : .
The Gh1ape3t House M The K1md0m Fob Ghilbeek ^ Deesses 01 All Djesceiptions. V
THE GH 1 APE 3 T HOUSE m THE K 1 MD 0 M FOB GHILBEEK ^ DEESSES 01 ALL DJESCEIPTIONS . V
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 28, 1839, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1076/page/2/
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