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      for the purpose of killing vermin in children ' s heads —Mr . Knox : What quantity -would destroj life ?—Mr . Leaton said that depended on circumstances If taken in small quantities it would be likely to act on the constitution . ? Wn ?* " *??* afed Hayward if he had any of the apple padduigf-Hayward-. So ; that was nut away , and I could notfind it . 9 v A piece of toast was produced on which there anpeatfdto he a white powder , and HavwYrHf £ fS | at on the Monday iWta ff ^ lum some l » roth in which there appeared sonS ? ng white ; after taking two spoonsful of it he felt sick , and said he could not eat it , and his wife took it away . The toast was brought to him at tea-time the same day . —The Chairman : Who served you with this toastJ-Hayward : My wife brought it up stairs to me when I was iU in bed . The first time I : or ge p ^ po 5 eofkpgTermininC hildre - she . ids . »^ - - ^ ox : . ^? t quantity would destroj life ? -

      charged her with it she denied it ; the second time v i ^ she hm ht th . e stuff , and she wished to snake hands and make it up , and said she would beliavewelltome all her life . —Mr . Pearson : Did she say what she bought it for ?—Hay ward : No ; she denies every thing . I found my constitution was going , and I thought it right to do something . Dr . BiHDwas sent for by the bench , and thechairman Laving explained to him the charge , Said thev wished to know thenature of the poison . —Dr Bird * - Itbink it is not destructive of life , became the stomach , wiU hardly ever retain it ; it will produce sickness , and be thrown off , and therefore I do not think it would be deleterious on that account —The Chairman : But smi it was administere d with intent to destroy life ? -Dr . Bird : So doubt of that—Mr Pearson : If taken repeatedly , time after time , are fetal consequences likely to follow ?—Dr .

      Bird-Though repeated doses were taken , there would not be . sufficient retained on the stomach to produce a deleterious effect . He admitted it was a matter of dispute with medical men , and said , of corrosive sublimnte a small quantity would be sufficient to destroy life , but enough of this he thought could not be retained on the stomach . —Mr . Knox asked rf it was not often used for medicine . —Dr . Bird : We ss& it largelv as an outward application . However often repeated , I think sufficient would not be retained to be likely to produce death . It would injure the person , no doubt , as it would be attended with certain ill effects , such as the vomiting , but not sufficient to produce death . Sir . Exox asked Hay ward if his wife had ever threatenedhim ?—Haywardsaidsbenever threatened to do anything in that way , or to hurt him ; but she had been very violent when he had talked to her and reasoned with her .

      A discussion took p > ce between the magistrates as to the course to be pursued , it appearing that , as the medical man thought the powder would not produce death , the case was not reached by the act on the subject . 4 s Hayward said he considered he was in danger of his life , and as his wife had wished nnn dead , and had said many times she hoped she might find him dead and stiff in the morning , a warrant was issued for her apprehension . In the meantune the magistrates consulted Professor Taylor ' s work on poisons , which seemed to give a different complexion to the case ; and when the wife was Drought up she . was charged with feloniously and unlawfully attempting to administer to her husband white precipitate , with intent to kill and murder him . The Prisoner said if there was anything in the pudding or the toast , her husband put it there himself ; for-she declared before God and man she dffl uoL

      Hatward repeated the statement he had before made ; and said when his wife wanted to make it « p , she called him down stairs , and asked him to sit down , and said she "had something serious to tell bin . He said he had not trne ; but she said , " ? Oh , you are not" in a hurry , come and sit down , and I will tell you—give me your hand , and I will behave well to you as long as I live . " He told her he should not , and went up stairs . After that she said she hou « ht the stuff for the children ' s heads . — Mr . Knox : Did you sead for a doctor when you \ rere ill ?—Hayward : We talked of sending for a doctor , and I then said she could go to Mr . Mark ' s , and get me something ; and she got me some pills , said I took them . —Mr . Knox : Had you any suspicion on the Monday that she was poisoning you £ — Hayward : I had not the slightest suspicion then . - The prisoner was told she might ask her husband

      any question . —The Prisoner : It is of no use for me to ask him any question , for if it was ever so ¦ wrong ho would say it if it was against me . He turned me out to get my own living . I had that powder for the children ; it is a good thing for children ' s rasli , or anything of that sort . She declared that when her husband said he could not cat the broth , she took it away and eat it herself . —Mr . Knox : You give no acconnt of where you got the powder . —The prisoner : I got it at Mr . Baker ' s . When I got it I sent one of the children for it , some time ago—one of the children that goes to the school , and is about nine years old . Mr . Bakek , r ex ., on being sent for , and being shown the powder , said it felt like white precipitate , but he could not swear it without analysing it . He could not swear it was not mixed with something else . —The chairman : Do you sell it to anybody ?—Mr . Baker : Yes . —The chairman : If a child came

      in nine years old , should you let him have it ?—Mr . Baker : Yes . —The Chairman : Is it poison ?—Mr . Baker : Oh , it is poison , and we write poison on it . We keep it done up in Id . and 2 d . packets , and it is used for children's heads . —The Bench : Do you think it would destroy life 1—Mr . Baker : I think it would . —The chairman : You never knew a case of the sort ? The medical evidence is that it would not . —Mr . Baker : It -would be uncertain , because some might be rctaiued on the stomach , though the party had vomited . I think I know the ¦ writing on the paper , and that it is written by one of our young men . [ The word poison , and the name of the powder , were written on the paper . ] Mr . Kxox asked Hayward if his wife could read ? —Hayward said a little , but she could not read writinn .

      Edward Pebtwee , from Mr . Baker ' s , said the yniting on the paper was his ; he wrote poison on it . There were forty grains in it , whicli wa 3 a pennyworth ; he did not recollect to whom he sold it , or when he sold it ; they sold it to any one who came for it . He should say there were not above fifteen grains in the paper now out of forty . After the magistrates had consulted , the Chairman told the prisoner this was a ehurge of a . very serious natureagainst her , and they had endeavoured to go into all the evidenie to satisfy themselves , but further evidence of a scientific and medical character was required , and thev should remand her .

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      DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY BY A RUNAWAY TRAIN . " On Saturday morning last a fatal accident occurred at the Preston-street Station of theWhitehaven and Furness Junction Railway , which was attended with a melancholy loss of life . As the eight o ' clock down train was passing along the line from Ravenglass to Whitehaven , on the part lyiusj between the latter-named town and the village of St . Bees , where the inclination begins to have a descent to--wards the town of about 1 in 100 , the driver shut off the steam , and put ou the convoy which , in consequence of the hoar frost lying upon the rails , failed to take effect ; the result was that the train proceeded at a fearful rate to the station , at the extreme end of which it received a slight check from the S pieces , placed there to prevent engines from passing

      over the rails . It knocked down a yard-wall , separating the premises of the railway company from the adjoining dwelling-houses , tore away the outer wall of a substantial stone built house , occupied by Mr . Pennington , a respectable schoolmaster , carried away the whole of the kitchen belonging to the buildin ? , and broke through the partition wall between that apartment and the back parlour , and there lodged , more than half of its huge bulk being within theresidence . The passengers who had come by the train , seeing that they were passing through instead of halting at the station , became greatly excited , and several of them leaped from the carnages on to the platform , fortunately without any injury to any of them . The rest retained their places until the train and tender were unhooked from the locomotive . The engine driver , stoker , and guard saved

      themselves by jumping to the ground the moment they perceived that an accident was inevitable . '•¦! The most melancholv part of the affair is , that i when the engine burst into the kitchen of Mr Pen-1 : 1 nington , a little girl named Jane Pennington , about &l ten years old , the daughter of the occupier , was if seated at the fire singing , and watching the prepara-^§ tion of breakfast for the family . She was instantly £ j knocked down by the stones and timber forced into W the room , and the off-wheel of the engine passed M over her body , crushing and dreadfully mutilating W her She was killed instantaneously . Her brother , II Matthew Pennington , about eight years old , had M fit quitted her side and stepped into the parlour . M the Wallof which was the" next moment thrust in , > % with the fire-grate , fire , chimney , and household m furniture . The child was thrown to the floor , and ? M tha heated srate and burning coale , coming in

      con-: Wf tact with Ws forehead , he was much burned anu ? " 7 otherwise injured , but not , it aeems , mortally . fe : The terminus being situated in a populous portion S of the town , a crowd soon collected on the spat , who IP : rendered prompt assistance to back the engine and §? pitricate the body of the poor girl from the rums . ' Mi Saturday be " 1 D& a hoMay for tbe ** ool children IP faneht by Mr . Pennington , he and his wife had not IP arisen at the time the melancholy event happened . If lad it transp ired on any other working day the fe ^ holefamily would have beeu seated at breakfast , fe and Inconsequences must , in all probability , have IP bmTstill more disastrous . As it was , thescene fc presented was distressing m &e extreme ; a mingled Ife SnasTof stones ,. mortw , household furniture , , orna-» t ments , domestic utensils , and children swearing ap-£ « with the great engine standing over the wira ¦ " —

      L kSse ? parel . me grc « " . ««> . ~~« -o !* Sp ? week , belching forth vapour , smoke , and fire Pf- ae ^ uW the accident * variously stated . The

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      ireianu . The "Wae aoaixst Rest still continues to be waged in various parts of the country with varied results . Present appearances give rise to the belief that a winter campaign is in preparation which will find work for the police and the troops . The following from the Cork Constitution will give an idea of the manner in which this novel warfare is carried on : — " A great deal of the corn which was heing conveyed away from Sir George Colthurst ' s bailiffs on Sunday , the 30 th ult ., was subsequently thrown on the sides of the roads at Ballymountain on the appearance of the military . Early on Monday last twelve men , with six horses and cars , belonging to Sir George , proceeded to Ballymountain , with a view of bringing hack the corn , The pnrties who had it in charge refused to give it up , when one of the bailiffs had to call for the assistance of constable Aldwell , of the Upton station . The men got

      two loads of the corn filled , which was in charge of a man of the name of Sullivan , at BaUymountaiu , and were just in the act of moving for home , when a horn was blown , and at once hundreds of persons were seen running , some on horseback , from all directions towards where the cars were loading , whistling , ycllinjr , and shouting in a most terrific manner . Mr . Dillon , the agent ' s clerk , who accompanied Sir George ' s men , seeing the great danger both he and his men would be exposed to had he persevered in having the corn removed , had to order it to be unloaded at once , and the men and horses to drive off as quickly as possible , tnkin « another road different to that which they came , and thus evade a number of persons who were by this time assembled on the road by which they had come ; Constable Aldwell , with two farmers of the neighbourhood , kindly went with Sir George ' s men until they saw them beyond all danger . "

      The accounts from other parts of the country indicate an equally wide spread determination on the part of the producers of the crops not to surrender to those who claim the produce of their toil on the ground of their abstract right to the soil on which they were grown . The Nation defends the proceedings of the tenantry , without qualification . Mr . Duly says : — " Week after week the war between landlord and tenant—on the one side for pauperising rents , on the other for the means of independent subsistence , waxes fiercer and more fatal . The Sunday or nightly abstraction of crops—the bloody affrays with bailiffs , drivers , and all the other agents of our nefarious laud system—the bloodless murders ,

      on a larger scale , by unlimited extermination—law in aheyance or contempt , life in perpetual peril , property become booty—these ate the bulletins which daily reach us from the agrarian war that is now vigorously and with fluctuating success waging in the south , and fast getting levies in every other portion of the island . The movement against our present landlord system , founded in natural justice , and acting by the enly means at its disposal , is doing its work well . It merits , and is obtaining , the attentive consideration of all sensible men here and in England . It is not a jacquerie—a system of arson or assassination—but a deliberate struggle for the right of subsistence—a rough protest against the idle imbecility of the workhouse—a simple and

      sustained effort for ' laud and life . ' Operations so decided and extensive must soon force the question to a settlement . The law at present looks silently on , and watches landlord and tenant , tax-gatherer , and perhaps creditor , struggling for the cropallowing each in turn to use her name—lending no very constant or effective aid to any one . The ' nocturnal plundering' — the ' impious Sabbath breaking' which the landlord press so constantly bemoans—these grievous misdeeds are perpetrated , and the law has been a sleeping accessory before , during , and after—unless , indeed , in a few instances , where a bench of landlord magistrates found that labour on the Sabbath was penal under some very old statute enacted in conformity with the decalojue , and fined the parties concerned five shillings Irish currency each . As the struggle grows fiercer , so

      do the denunciations of the landlord press , levelled at all who share or sympathise in it . Lying epithets are daily vomited at us , and constant misrepresentations of our principles ventilated under the choice titles 'Robbery' and ' Communism . ' We have said , and we believe , that the farmer who omits any means of ensuring his sustenance from the crop which he ha 3 reared commits a grievous crime . We have said that rent is not due until , or unless , his support is guaranteed from it . We hold that property held through his starvation is robbery then and not'under other circumstances . We believe that there is great difference in the criminality of occasional homicide committed in these affrays , for life and its means , and of wholesale murder by extermination—in favour entirely of the former . " On the other hand , the Cork Repot Ut , a quasi " Young Ireland " journal , advocates the primary and sacred imperativeness , of the great principle

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      pres ? wZwriff « ° Ur ^ temporaries of the ^ A ;^ £ : z ^ z ^ s £ s 2 S tSve on * PWSOnS Wh ° P 0 ^ ivel - ™ "Stag iS ' ° , F f ° ' iW ' ^ are n ° t '«*¦ R *« s P ° i ' . ators i and ' oppressors / but peotheordin ™ S . ?> ectt ° vices and possessed of lords lr $ ? T 5 f h « m ? nity . We are not landof oSon X «;^ i " . ° > nor undev ™ ysort us ShZt } a- ? ndlord class ; but ifc occ « rs to Mo , fnti otw . dlme Vre ^ ' ° n » manding us to unto «? -2 i 7 WOuld ^ they sh ° » M ^ even t \ h li 7 i ™ 6 yefc t 0 learn that landlords , even Irish landlords , are especially excluded from sapphcation . We have , moreover , a firm conSt ? V ?* £ 11 Lumail socety is held together by the bond of this sacred ordinance , and that any country in which it comes to be disregarded and set at nought wi pay a fearful retribution for its crime S , y your debts . " « On , n » nfn L - ^ .,..

      wTivUSf r 8 et - at defianco ^ th impuni y . We lave , with disappointment and disgust , in one instance with smccre paifir lately , pemed m the columns of some Irish newspapers , direct and earnest appeals to the tenants of Ireland , wWch " w ° e trant ' i ! , a 5 SU ^ Iy De taken , by ' thoS to SSl % . addresse ( l , to mean an aSvice uni-Sltaw ^ v ^ 11 ? 10 defraud and Ptondor their landlords . Neither is it the landlord who is wiiZTTT * - Thr 0 U S * Ws creditors him if S A He cannot pay the debts due from Mn , n ft !^ , ^ , ^ ' repudiated . '" Meanwhile , the landlords are very generally endeavourmg to set "their houses In order ' ' by granting , on the compulsion of the time , btrso reauctions in rent which but for such compulsion would most probabl y have never been heard of It is evident that a great social revolution is taking place in the country . °

      SASGBISARY COXFI 1 CT—ONE POLICEMAN KILLED , AND FOUR WOUNDED . w » SundayiiMit , about eleven o ' clock , Constable Hall , of the KiHonghy joint station , King ' s County , received private information that a party of men had passed the cross roads , in the direction of Clonaslee . In a short time after , his attention was attracted by the passing of a number of cars , on the same road , followed by between fifteen and twenty men , who appeared to be armed . This display induced him to send to the Mountbolus station for assistance ; and he was accordingly strengthened by a reinforcement of a constable and five policemen . Between the hours of two and three o ' clock this morning , the tramp of an approachine nartv .

      accompanied by horses and cars , was heard . This induced Constable Hall to range his small force , leaving six on one side of the barrack , and keeping his own four men in front with himself . The advancing body was now nearly on a line with the barrack , driving in front about fifteen head of cattle , when the constable called out to the leaders to halt . Upon this the man that seemed to direct the movements of the party—who was John Keyes , of CaparoRan , near Clonasloe , stepped forward and said . " Constable Hall , don ' t you know me ? Why am I to be stopped ? I am but removing my crops and cattle , which are not under seizure ? The constable rareply , stated that the transaction seemed very suspicious , and said he was determined , at least , to take down

      the names of the parties implicated in the movement before he would let them pasa . Keyes again expostulated ; but the constable evinced a stem determination at carrying out his purpose , when the former exclaimed , " Armed men to the front . ! " There was an answering motion , which was immediately succeeded by a volley of fire-arms , causing the death of Sub-Constable Patrick Mortimerinflicting mortal wounds on two others of the party , seriously injuring Constable Balfour , of Mountbolus , on the right hip , also perforating liis pouch-box with several slugs , and depriving Constable Hall of three fingers of his left hand . Four shots were immediately returned by the police , and it is supposed with deadly effect . One of them was discharged by Subonstable irtimer

      C M- , after receiving his death wound , two by Sub-Constable Gleeson , though he had his thigh broken in two place 3 . Sub-Constable Doyle was dangerously wounded in the groin . After the exchange of shots , the assailing party passed off with great rapidity from the scene of bloodshed . It is said that the party consisted of between 150 and 200 persons , and that one-third of them were armed . The police retreated to their barracks . It is supposed that the mob succeeded in . carrying away all the property . It is believed that some of them have been either killed or wounded , as traces of blood were found on the road . After the party had gone away , information wan conveyed to all the surrounding police stations in this and the Queen ' s County , parties from which places wereatKilloughywithout delay . Measures were immediately adopted to arrest the murderers Orders were sent to all the . surrounding police

      stations , whe Sub-Inspector Cox , of Fiankford ; Hill , of Mountmellick ; O'Msllie . ofTullamore ; and Mr . Read Cox , inspector of the King ' s County , were early in attendance . The country was scoured , and eleven persons arrested , against whom , it is said . evidence of a very strong nature can be produced . Some of them had blood on their clothes and shoes , and in the house where they were captured , fire arms wove found , which appeared to have been recently discharged . Three of the inmates of Keyes ' s house were arrested , but they assume utter ignorance of the transaction , though the butt-ends of several candles were found in the house ; and persons can be produced to prove to the loading of the corn . A gun recently discharged " was found in Keys ' s house . Blood was found on the road near the police barrack ; it was that of one of the opposite pnrty , who is supposed to be mortally wounded . The door of the police barrack Was riddled , and the walls present the Impressions of many bullets .

      Colonel Dunne , M . P ., and Major Fox , went to Killoughy at an early hour , and took the depositions of the wounded policemen . John Julian , Esq ., crown solicitor , from ParsonVtown , also attended to make the necessavy inquiries . James Dillon , Esq ., senior coroner , was also promptly in attendance , but as it was impossible to obtain a respectable and intelligent jury in the neighbourhood , he directed the btdy of Mortimer to be removed to Tullamore , where he was to hold an inquest on it . The wounded poUcetnen have all been lemweil into the county infirmary . Dr . Thornton , of Fr ; mkfoi d , with other medical gentlemen , were in attendance , and rendered every possible aid to the sufferers .

      Keys was tenant to the llev . John Baldwin , of Castlecuff , and he was removing his en ps and cattle from his farm , which is in the neighbourhood of Clonaslee . —Lcinstcr Eiqu-ess . An inquest was held on Monday at Tullamore , when a number of witnesses were examined , principally , of course , on the part of the police . The jury came to the following verdict . — " That Patrick Mortimer had come to his death by a wound inflicted by a bullet fired from a gun or pistol , on the morning of Sunday the 14 th inst . ; and that John Keyes and Joseph Keys had boon feloniously assisting in committing the said murder . " The coroner instantly committed Joseph Keyes ( who had been taken by Mr . Coe ) for trial , anil descriptions of John Keyes , who has absconded , have been

      forwarded all over the country . The magistrates then proceeded to take informations against the other parties charged , and decided on remanding them until Monday next . Constabulary REixFoncEMEXT . —A strong reinforcement of police was ordered from Dublin to the King ' s county immediately on the accounts being received of the fatal collision there on Saturday . Compulsory Demand for Work . —A proof of the will but inability of the people—of the poor people—to obtain employment was afforded last week by the appearance of a body of upwards of 500 men from the County Claro and other distant parts of the country , at the railway works near Gal way . They endeavoured , to fovce themselves on the steward , who called in the aid of the police to disperse them .

      Cultivation of Chicout . —The Clonmd Chronicle contains the following : — " An English capitalist has visited Tipperary to take a large piece of Land for the purpose of cultivating chicory . He requires several hundred acres of the richest soil contiguous to a railway or river , as he will export the produce to the English market . Should ho settle dowu here he will build a manufactory for preparing the chicory roots , and give a great deal of employment . " Tae Potato Crop . —The reports of this crop are less unfavourable . It is now generally admitted that not more than one-third of a very productive crop has been destroyed by the blight . The Irish Linen Trade . — The linen and yarn trade of the north is in a very prosperous condition .

      Young Ireland Re-orcanisatiox — The Nation refers to the preparations for an aggregate meeting in Dublin on an early day in November next , which is called . " the first step" in the new organisation . The Repkai Associatiox . — Dr . O'Higgins , Roman Catholic Bishop , of Ardagh , has promised Mr . John O ' Connellhis aid , and that of Ills clergy , in . the attempt" to repeal the odious union . " The rent for the week was £ 30 . Dismissal of the Orange Magistracy . —Notwithstanding the threats of the Orange forces there has been no general demonstration of opposition or of public feeEng in the reference to the dismissal of Lord Roden and his worthy abettors of the Dolly ' s Brae tragedy .

      The Barricaded Chapel at Nenagh . —This chapel still continues nailed up . Although the people gave way so far as to allow Mr , Power to perform the funeral obsequies of the late parish priest . It was , however , strictly exacted that Mr . Power , and no one else , should be the celebrant . Repeal Association—The correspondent of the Times says : —The second meeting of the revived Repeal Association came off on Monday , under circumstances still more chilling to the originators of the new movement than those which characterised the meeting of the previous week . Up to the hour of one o'clock , the time appointed for the meeting totakeplaee , scarcely fifty persons had assembled

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      SidMriluf ri I ; * '' ( Mr / j ; 6 'Connell SnomnSf H ? nnolly ' > wis W to ™ kc their B ° 'lU things put on a brighter aspect , re-Civ ^ M ft ^^ tce-room for another Lalfbv AdS W " Ineeti "g *™ s augmented S . h « i » w ° . fifty more of tho . " groat iin-ZSft . 5 ° i lmatcdthe Pence taken at tho tZol \ t £ " - were mu < * a ™" ^ on ouv en-E ? n tt ] S f ™* ! Peons' claiming admisrf rt £ \^ ° r nd ? f their ^ cin S enrolled niembe " JS * " , ^ the PP »» of Id . a piece on moZa T ^ ° nday - , T 1 * P latform , «» at the first Z i % Tn a ? J 0 St deserte < * ' UP ° n it we observed Mr ' H Pnn ( i SS ? " ™"" of the former Veok . ) % : . \ r Co"no y . Mr . J . O'Conncll . M . P .. Mr ^ :-, - .. . .

      SS S ^ H I ^« iS SSSSia - ? fc nf Wltil effectas the «» t ™ - the Endrim property " was ridfaJ ' St $% Xl ° Z Monday morning , ] 10 was fired j a " ^ shot de-vd A farmer was walking by the side of Mr r „ ? " n feS £ fe «^ S moral into Pcrbano to wail an inquo * , tb GaB 6

      x . « uu » B «« u X . STATKS uommissios . —A meeting of at Dublin tastle , the Lord Lieutenant presided when the rules and regulations for the ircramS of theproceedingsof tKe Encumbered Elates Commissioners were submitted and approved of . This sanction by tho Privy Council w £ s necessary ! to enable the commissioners to commence their duties In . a week or two , the commi 8 sioner 8 . will bo in fuli operation , and already tho agents of the creditors of some estates have taken the necessary stops to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the act for tho sale of those encumbered properties . For some weeks past rumours have prevailed as to the ¦ ex istence of some fatal defects in tho act ,. which , it is alleged , cannot be worked for any practical purpose . A little time will show whether tliore is any foundation for such rumours .

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      FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE , ' , ( Concluded from the Second page . ) SAXONY . —By a . curious . coincidence , it appears that two prisoners deeply implicated in the late insurrectionary movements escaped , the ontonthe 8 th , from the hospital in the Viehweide , at Dresden ; the other on the 9 th , ' from the House of Arrest at Leipzic . The fir&t was Meier , ex . Burghermaster of Frauen ; the other Dr . Frank , of Vienna . Meier , who bad been permitted to remain in the hospital although perfectl y convalescent , contrived to climb over the garden-wall , and then to escape almost in sight of the guard . Frank having been allowed an interview with his wife , changed clothes with her , and passed the gates undiscovered , and also got safe .

      HAMBURG , Oct . 7 . —Mr . Loewe , tlie late president at Stuttgart , and now a refugee in Switzerland , has written here to give a statement of the utter destitution the political fugitives have sunk into that are now in that country . In consequence of this letter the deroQcraticparty in this city has just appointed a committee to collect subscriptions for those unfortunates ; similar subscriptions will take place over Germany , with the exception of Saxony , which most inhumanly lia . s prohibited them under the severest penalties .

      BAVARIA .-In tbe Munich Chamber on the 9 th Zwohl , the Minister of Justice , proposed that de . puties of- the police should have special places assigned to them in all meetings of societies and unions ; thai these deputies should be empowered to forbid the continuance of . a speech , or , if necessary , to dissolve the assembly . The Minister also proposed that no public meetings in the open air should be . allowed to be held flithin a circuit of fifteen English miles round the halt of tbe Chamben during the session ; that political unions should not be allowed to place themselves in connexion with other political unions , either at home or abroad , nor to form or correspond with such .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . HORRIBLE MURDERS ! FOURTEEN HUN

      GARIAN CHIEFS-SLAUGHTERED BY , THE AUSTRIANS , ( From the' Morning Chronicle . ' ) The Vienna mails ; of the 9 th and 10 th instant have arrived . The intelligence they bring is a confirmation of the rep . irfc of the execution of thirteen Hungarian noblemen . The details which we publish below , respecting the dfath of Count Louis Batthyani , had caused a most painful sensation at Vienna . This tragic event was the all-absorbing topic of conversation .

      ' Count Louis Battbyani , ' says tbe 'Ost-Dentsche Post , ^ ' had ' voluntarily surrendered to Prince Windiscbgrnlz . . He was one of the members of the depuiatiqn irom Pesth iliat waited upon the Imper ial Commander-in-Chief to effect , if possible , a peaceable solution of the struggle against Austria . Since then he remained a prisoner , and his name was scarcely ever mentioned . Suddenly it is upon every lip , and the report is spread that Batthyani is sentenced to die upon the gallows . The effect produced by the report was visible in the countenances of all , and many looked anxiously forward to the morning fixed for the extcution ; for although the energetic measures of the . state of siege set any great

      demonstration at defiance , still something unusual was expected—either an act of mercy or an act of despair . The morning came , and the dawn broke upon an assembled multitude of many thousands round a gallows erected ou the Holz Plafz . A rumour suddenly rpread through the crowd that Batthyani had attempted suicide in prison . It proved true : but either the band of the unhappy man or his energy failed him . Though he gave himself various wounds he did not deprive himself of life ; he , however , escaped the rope . Twelve hours later , at nightfall , he was U'd out and shot . As yet it is a mystery what influence procured the substitution of powder and lead for therope . Common report says that the wounds in the Count ' s neck prevented the rope being used . Batthyani , however , walked , it

      seems , with a firm step to the place of execution ; and , before he fell , shouted in a clear voice , Eljen a haza ! or long live my country ! A fearful silence pervaded the multitude at this solemn moment . Some ladies , apparently of the highest classes , endeavoured to steep their handkerchiefs in the blood of the dead man , but were driven back by the guards . ' Another account says : — 'The Count appeared very emaciated , and if possible paler than usual ; he nevertheless walked with a firm step and calm countenance to the fatal spot . The soldiers em ^ ployed were Jagcrs . The silent multitude were much moved . It would appear that the substitution of powdtr and ball was not a modification of tlie sentence , but a necessary consequence of the wounds inflicted upon himself by tlie Count . '

      Lloyd's ' , says •— ' The condemned was dressed in a suit of full-dress black . Though evidentl y very weak , he advanced without support to the place of execution there was a large assemblage of people on the Horaok . Having uttered a short prayer , the roll of the drum was heard , a sharp volley , anu all was over . The crowd then separated . ' ' The ' Presse , ' though reputed a ministerial journal , condemns the execution of Count Battbyani in strong terms , A ktttr from Vienna of the 10 th , says— ' You must not chide your correspondent if his letter con .

      tains nothing but accounts of executions . Bathyantsonly led the way ; many others have folowed him to the scaffold . On representations being made to Haynau against these executions , he replied by holding out the parchment which con . ferred unlimited powers upon him . ' They style me , he said , ' a blood-hound , a tiger , a hyena ; I am readv to take upon myself the responsibility of mv acts ? So much is he feared that the officials in Pesth trembled for thtir lives because they had not hanged BUlhyam at once instead of postponing the execution for twelve hours . Haynau is said to have been greatly incensed when he heard of the '

      postponement . . * * The official ' Gazette of Pesth' of the 7 th pub ; lishes the sentence as follows : — 'Louis Count Bat . thyani , native of-Presburg , aged ' . 40 years , a Catholic , married , avowing in part , and legally conrated of having , in his quality of Prime Minister of Hungary , taken , executed , or caused to be executed , measures greatlj . outstripping the administrative limits of Hungary , as guaranteed hy tbe laws oi

      March ; of having weakened the legal bonds between Hungary and the hereditary States of the Empire established by the Pragmatic Sanction ; of having created dangers threatening violently to overthrow the constitution q ! - the State ; also oi aaving , after having resigned on the 3 rd of October of last year the post of Prime Minister , by joining the ranks of tne insurgents , by making a public appeal to armed resistance , by re-assembling the Diet dissolved by nis Maf-aty , fortified , and meiatwned the cause of the

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      revolution ; has been for tbe crime of high treason sentenced to the confiscation of all his property , and to death b y strangulation ; and , after confirmation and publication , that sentence was carried out to-day . in , a * * 1 AND R « "fAt . C 0 U » 0 IIi OF WAR . 1 Pestb , Oct . 6 , 18 i 9 . ' W bile the afcove tragedy was in course of operation , a wholesale slaughter was being perpetrated at Arad where tbe following Generals were hanerd - Count Leiningin , Aulich , Damiawieh , Lahmer , Knesich , Nagy Sander , Pottenbent , Schweidel Torok , Vecsey . The following three were shot ' as a particular favour—Ernest Kiss , Aristidcs Desowffy and Lazar . The particulars of these execulions have not yet been made public .

      Pesth , . Oct . 7 . —I have just heard that Paul Nyary has been caught . ( Paul Nyary is , after Kossuth , the mo 3 t eminent parliamentary mau of the revolution . ) This evening a Catholic clergyman of Mezoha > ges was also shot ; and , unless i am miiinfowned , the same fate is reserved for Csanzi . Vienna , Oct . 10 . —The all-absorbing topic of conversation continues to be the capital punishments inflicted at Pesth . The particulars of the last hours of the ex-Premier of Hungary , as related to you yesterday , have been substantiated by later accounts , and the contradictory evidence of the Pesth papers explained away , by the circumstance of the types having been set at an early hour in the morning , and the journal published while the gallows wer « yet standing . It appears that the Count was shot in

      the afternoon of tbe 6 ih , having disappointed the hangman in the morning , by wounding himself in tlie tbroat with a sharp instrument , conveyed to him by a friendly hand . Accounts differ as to the means through which he received the suicidal weapon . It is supposed a French abbe furnished him with it ; others maintain tbat the last service tendered by an affectionate wife was to enclose a poniard in a parcel of fresh linen destined for . the use of her captive husband . Be this as it may , the priest was arrested on suspicion of having aided and abetted the design . Csanzi will , it is thought , share the fate of Batthvani .

      Batthyanyi ' s wife has retired to Tot , a secluded country seat , the properly of Count Stephen Carolyi , in the vicinity of Pesth . She is accompanied by her sister , Countess George Carolyi . Countess Batthyanyi is said to have brought her husband seven millions of florins as her marriage portion . The executions still continue . One of the army chaplains was amongst the latest victims . It is rumoured that the late minister Csanzi , and Baron Clessenak have been hanged at Pestb .

      RUSSIA . The Czar-has ordered the standards taken in Hungary to be sent to Moscow , there to be exhibited in the Pdlaceof the Crimea , and afterwards to be carried through the principal streets of the city in solemn procession . They are finally to be deposited as trophies in the Georgian Saloon of the Grand Armoury . There were altogether sixty-four standards .

      ITALY . Rome , Oci I . —The so-called amnesty graciously conceded by his Holiness is now coming into full operation , and tbe consequence is , tbat hundreds of individuals , hitherto unmolested , have received summary , notice to depart , if they do not intend to pass the remainder of their days in a prison . Amongst the foreigners who are included in this wholesale banishment is Dr . Millingen , an English medical officer of distinction and experience , having served some years with tbe British army in India . This gentleman has been in the habit of residing alter nately at Rome and Albano , ' and was so much esteemed in tbe latter town that he was elected a

      magistrate , and chosen for one of the officers of the national guard ; in both which capacities , he discharged lns . duties with z-al and efficiency rendering important services to the town during the late trying and difficult circumstances . When the capital was in imminent danger of attack , and the republican government called upon all able and willing men of the provincial national guard to hasten to itsdefence , Dr . Millingen answered the appeal by marching witb a part of his company to Home , where he reported himself to General Avezzana , then MinisUr of War , who placed him under tbe command of General Garibaldi . Under this active leader there

      was plenty to be done ; and tbe English officer accordingly ( ought v . ith bis Albanese volunteers in the first engagement at the Porta Sau Pancrazio ; and , after the defeat of the French , took part in the rout of the Neapcli-ans at Paleslrina and Velktri . When the republican caxise was annihilated the doctor returned to Albano , and was of eminent service to the French troops quartered there , by his experience in tbe moda of treating the fever , from which the soldiers suffered much during the summer heais . By a recent and arbitrary notice Dr . Millingen has been forced to leave bis resideuce , without any motive being assigned for such a proceeding , althsugh it is easy ta be guessed .

      Garibaldi is said to be on his way to J Video , tbe scene of his former exploits . II presence will afford fresh courage to the persevering defenders of tbat city , now seven years besieged .

      GREECE . Several Hungarian exiles , among whom were four members of the Hungarian Diet , had arrived ai Athens in the last Constantinople steamer . Princess Belgioso had also sought refuge at Athens .

      TURKEY . Since the departure of Prince Radz ' vil all parties here have been in a staie of anxious suspense , awaiting the answer of the Emperor Nicholas .- The Sultan and his Ministers remain unshaken in their resolution of abiding the consequences ,. whatever they may be , of having resisted the demands of the Czar . It is a remarkable sign of the liberal feelings which at present prevail amongst the Turks , that the Sbeik-el-Isleem , the head of the Mussulman religion , has compelmented Sir Stratford Canning on

      the manner in which he acted in the question of the extradition . In a former letter I mentioned'ihat the Sheik-Bl-Isleem had approved of the conduct of the Porte in resisting the demands of Russia . He said , that according to the dictates of the Korrn , it was forbidden-to refuse hospitality , to those who were in distress , or to withdraw ' protection from those who were in danger from their enemies . The head of the Maliomedan church says that the British Ambassador has acted in this spirit , and that consequently his conduct deserves the approval 61 every true Mussulman .

      CIRCASSIA . . Letters from St . Petersburg , received in Hamburgh on Friday , announces the fall of the Circassian fortress of Achulga , the residence of Schamyl , after a desperate and protracted resistance . Our readers may remember that the first successful attack of the Russians \ vn recorded in 'The Times' a short time ago . On the 29 th of August tbe assault was renewed , after three day ' s useless negotiation , every inch of ground being fiercely contested by the besieged , who fought with obstinate braverv . The

      defences were covered with heaps of dead bodies . The loss of the Circassians was estimated by the Russians at 1 , 000 men */ te ? ,-exclusivc ' of those wounded , and 900 made prisoners . Schamj'l was not to be found ; he had contrived to escape witb one of his sons and one of his mistresses . Another ofjiis sons , and his lawful wife , were slain , and a third-son was taken prisoner . Schamyl himself was wounded in the arm by a musket ball . The siege of Achulga , thus successfully terminated , had lasted eleven months .

      CANADA . The affairs of Canada have once more assumed a turbulent aspect . ' Montreal , Sevt . 26 . —I hasten to inform you that news has just reached here that the riots at Bytown have been renewed . The two parties have met and a ierrlble conflict ensued . Numbers have been dreadfully wounded , and eight lives are already reported to be lost . The greatest excitement is breaking out in this city , and as we hate not yet obtamed details of the unfortunate collision , we fear that much worse results are yet to follow . '

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      A Fatal Pipe of TonAcco . —A melancholy check to . the boisterous mirth of a party of men who were accompanying a steam threshing machine to HolbeacbJ March took place at Wadpolo last week . One of the party ' , named Charles Wyles , after lighting his pipe , expressed himself , in a thoughtless manner , in reference to the narcotic effects of the tobacco , that he should be in heaven immediately . He attemped to ride on the shaft of the machine , fell down , and the ponderous weight passed over the length of his body , squeezing him to death . A BiSB-x black entered a book store , and , whha very consequential air , inquired , "Hab you a few quires of a letter paper of the berybest rate fora gentleman 1 to write lub letters on ? " " Yes , " " S ' pose ( said he ) my stay at de Spring may be about two or three weeks . Gib enough quires to rate four letters ,

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      railway is an incline , sloping to Whitehaven for nearly three miles , but at the gentle eradiW nf £ . Friday night , which had rendered the raffi e £ tremely slippery ; and the engine-driver bWps iu although he used the ordinary precautions ^ , 1 ^ on the brakes and even 31 ^ X 28 ? lone before reaching the station , no effect was nrn ' aShlUS f a ^ ¥ "o effort was made J , wfnnn rt M ° ^^ P ™ ' notwithstanding the ice upon the rails , until the train had arrived too ^ J fe * " ™ " ( ° , *» «* es to avail . The en inedrivert is added nril ^ y , an fading -. 1 ^ . ; WlruIZ . /' T ne « ly three miles , bu at L « Si . Z& J

      g- , , is not alk led 0 praS engineer , but a stoker , recently promoted to t ? e port iiLM SmCer fr ° m the White& « en and ilary-In the afternoon of Saturday a coroner ' s iurv was summoned to hold an inquest ou the bodi ofTne JttnSo C v ' \ h Ufcafter - havin 8 b 8 ^ in aid f oumed . t 0 Tiewthe remmns » tbe inquiry wasad-, JR f in £ "es \ . Up ( m tha cLild w * s held ou Monday , Son hS I ?' ™ " - J Hw *> after a long discuS sion , brought ma verdict of " Accidental death , in consequence of an error iu judgment ot the enginedriver and they considered that there is a great Tawf P ™ tectl 0 n ° f Meand property atthe Furness and Wintehaven terminus . "

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      ATTEMPTED MURDER AT MANCHESTERGreat sensation was created at Manchester on Sunday , by a report that a mau named Baras'ey residing in the part of the toim called Gay thorn had made a desperate attempt to murder h s wife . —On information being lodged at the Chorlton-upon-Med-» u n ** * P ° ^ ce station , police-constable Anderson went to the scene of the shocking occurrence m search of Barnsley . He found the door of the house fast , aid immediately proceeded to force it open . It appears that Barnsley had made no attempt to get away , for he was found up stairs . The . policeconstable took him at once into cus'ody . and without

      opposition conveyed him to the lock-up . By this time intelligence of the dreadful affair had got abroad amongst the neighbours , and an . immense concourse of people had assembled round the door of tbe house , and their feelings were vented in execrations upon the prisoner as the police led him from the house , and some fears were entertained lest the crowd should proceed to violence . —On Monday morning the prisoner was brought to the borough court for examination before the magistrates , and an immense crowd of people attempted to obtain admittance . Tbe bearing of the prisoner at tbe bar exhibited much indifference to the crime with which he was charged . —Mr . Superintendent Taylor stated the circumstances

      under which the prisoner had been apprehended . — Mrs . Margaret Jones was next examined , and said : I live next door to the house of the prisoner , at 14 , Rowe-street , Gay thorn . I ' was sitting in my . own house yesterday evening , when I heard loud shrieks coming from the next house , and a cry of " murder . " The prisoner and his wife lived there . I ran immediately to their back-door , and attempted to gain admittance , but found the door was fast , and I knocked and called as loudly as I was able ; but for a time no one answered me . I heard Mrs . Barnsley ' s voice and I thought she said , " Oh , dear , don't murder me , for the sake of our child ! " Afterwards I heard her exclaim , " Oh ! the job is done—he has

      murdered me ! " Soon after that the door was opened by Mrs . Barnsley , who ^ fas bleeding profusely from the throat , and I carried her into my own house . I aid not examine the wounds , but applied a wet towel , to them as soon as I was able , for the purpose of stanching the blood , and held it to her . throat until the arrival of a surgeon . —The knife with which the attempt was made was produced in court , and appeared to be a large case-knife . —Police-constable Anderson said he was informed of this affair about six o clock on the previous evening , and went immediately to the house of theprisoner . Finding the door fast , he forced it open , and found the prisoner up stairs , lying on the bed . He appeared to be partially intoxicated , but was able to walk to tbe police station . — Superintendent Taylor said that Mrs . Barnsley was in a most dangerous state , from four

      incised wounds in the neck , and one in the right hand , and it was uncertain yet whether she would be recovered so as to be able to give evidence . Under these circumstances he did not propose to offer any further evidence ou this occasion , but would simply apply to the magistrate to remand the prisoner until that day week . —The prisoner was accordingly remanded until Monday next ; and it was understood that a magistrate would proceed to the infirmary for the purpose of taking the depositions of his unfortunate wife , who it is feared may not recover to give her evidence in person . —We learn that the prisoner is a boiUr-maker by trade , but has been out of work for five cr six months . He is 42 years . of age , and his wife is upwards of 30 . They have one child , about four years of age . The only motive assigned by the prisoner was that he had had words with his wife .

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      THE MGIIT OP MAGISTRATES TO FLOG APPRENTICES . PUBLIC MEETISoTt MANCHESTER . _ A crowded and exciting public meeting was held mtlie Corn Lxchangc , Manchester , on Thursday evening , the 11 th inst ., for the purpose of expressing ( as the advertisement stated ) "their disapprobation " of the cruel and unjust sentence passed at the Town-hall , Salford , upen -Thomas Bailey , lato an apprentice to Messrs . J . and J . M . Worrnll , dyers . This man waB sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour , and to be floarged , who has since been acquitted at the Court of Queen ' s

      Bench . " The meeting was principally composed of working men , but Mr . Councillor Ileywood presided , nnd opened the proceedings . Tbe circumstances which ioi to the meeting were those . Somo months since ta ) workmen of the Messrs . AVorrall , dyers , struck tor higher wages , and an apprentice named Thomas Bailey abscntedhimselfattliosametime . The Messrs . Worrall , of course , had no remedy against the journeymen , but they obtained a warrant against the apprentice , and at tho cloae of the week before last ( on Friday ) the offender was brought before Mr . II . L . Irafford ( the stipendiary ) and other magistrates ' of Salford . Mr . W . p . Roberts , attomov , was employed by tbe dyers' union to defend thn vonn < r mnn .

      and urged that as be was bound apprentice at the age of seventeen , and was now twentv-thrco years of age , the indenture was no longer ' binding ' ujion him . On the other side it was urged that the apprentice , having ne glected to make " his election at the ago of twenty-one , or on attaining his majority , ho had forfeited tho power , and could not " subsequently do it . Mr . Trafford ( the magistrate ) took the latter view , and said that the prisoner , having neglected to make his election , had no l'i « ht ftftoi ? commuting tho offence to turn round and plead it then , Mr . Roberts urged that there was no oflence under the indenture . That document became void on the apprentice attaining his majority , ' and no written document being malic subsequently to continue tne

      apprenticeship , the magistrate had no power under the statute . It might be said that the prisoner was working under an implied contract , troin week to week , and that ho had no rMit to desert and leave , his employ without notice . If that was so , let tho magistrate punish him for that ; but in such case he could only inflict upon him the penalty for having broken a civil contract , whereas undcv the indenture the punishment would be a penal one imprisonment with hard labour . These arguments were over-ruled—the magistrates declined ' even to let the case stand over till the judgment of a superior court could be had—and the prisoner was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . It was discovered after the young man had gone to gaol that tho commitment contained an

      auaiuonal clause , " and to be corrected , " which his gaolers are said to have told him meant " to be flogged with the cat-o ' -nine-tails , " and that before ne leit the Aew Bailey prison they should " have a go at him ! " Mr . Roberts being apprised of these tacts by the dycis , went to London on Saturday , found Mr . Justice Talfcurd in chambers , and obtained an haleas corpus to remove the prisoner from gaol until the legality of the sentence could Iks raised . On Tuesday the argument before Mr . Justico Talfourd took place , and resulted in the liberation of the prisoner , who , by the instrumentality of the electric telegraph , was aware of the happy change in his destiny half an hour after the learned judge bad pronounced his decision . The Chairman , having opened the meeting , called under these circumstances , ¦

      Mr . John Teeb , secretary to the Dyers' Union , moved the first resolution : — " That this meeting deeply regrets the continued obstinacy of the Messrs . "VYorrall , in not having acceded to the jusfc arid reasonable claims of the men late in their employ for that advance of wages conceded by tho other employers . " Mr . Teeii gave the history of tho strike , stating in effect that the wages of the dyers having beca reduced through a competition among masters from 23 s . per week to U ? ., tbe men had boon compelled to combine in sclf-defcnco , and their combination and the remonstrances whicli they had been able to

      urge to master , had induced the majority of them to advance the rate of wages again . ' Messrs . " Worrall , however , had stood out , and hence tho present proceedings in reference to them . The speaker went on to deprecate turn-outs , except as a last resort ; but contended that when a class of men like the dyers found their employers were crushing them down to tho position of paupers merely from a foolish and wanton system of competition they would bo guilty of neglecting a moral duty which they owed both to themselves and society " if they did not resist .

      Mr . T . "Wiveeliiol-se , in seconding the motion , showed how the Dyers' Union and S \ ck and Burial Society had progressed since its establishment four years ago . lie said be found that from 1834 to 1835 their contributions hud amounted to £ 4 , 10819 s . 3 id that in the next year they were £ 3 , 319 17 s . 5 Jd m the third year £ 2 , 914 10 s . 5 il ., and in tho vear 1837-8 , £ 2 , 144 13 s . 4 Jd . The total was £ 12 , 518 . Here was a little fortune subscribed , and it would have gone a great way in supporting these industrious and steady men in sickness and misfortune could

      it have been retained for that purpose ; but hero were the Messrs . Worrall trying to crush it . He would show how they had applied the money , that tho . nieeting might judgo how deserving it was to be supported . They had paid , during the fom- years . . ¦ tb , o 32 3 s . 0 d ., to men out of work , to keep them off the parish books —( cheers)—they had paid to superanuated workmen £ 7 S 5 lls . ; and they had paid to the friends of deceased members , for funerals , £ 8 ( 15 10 s .: total , £ 10 , 173 10 s . 9 d . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was supported by Mr . Doiiektt , and carried .

      Mr . SToiun-moved—" Thattbismcetingexpresses its strong disapprobation of the cruel and unjust sentence passed upon Thomas Bailey . " Mr . R . J . ItituAitDsoN ( bookseller ) seconded the motion . He said it might be right to imprison aa aprenticc , but was it right to employ that most inhuman torture—which tlie laws , of England Jie contended , never did , and ho hoped never woure know or recognise—the application of the cruol and inhuman torture of the lash ? ( Cries of "No . " ) Mr . 1 Y . P . HoMitTs , the attorney , was called upon to support the resolution , nnd was received with loud cheering . He said , it is one of ouv misfortunes , and a very great one , that the indignation some of us may feel—the desire to buttle with

      oppression—is not participated in by the working classes generally , but they ! 'ifieet us witli their apathy , and . so sanctiorf'tlie cruelty they ought to resist ' , ' I trust that a different spirit is coming upou us . I only look for England ' s salvation when the time shall have come that every working man looks upon an injury to his neighbour as an injury to himself , and when they shall arise as one man to resist oppression , wherever it rears its head . ( Cheers . ) I only know it is a healthy work ( Laughter and cheers . ) I have been in it twenty years ; and I never felt happier , stronger , healthier —( loud cheers ) —than I do at this moment , and never felt heartier pleasure than I do now in meeting the oppressor , and daring , defyinjj , and lashing him . ( Great

      cheering . ) "Whenever the time shall have come that they so determine , tlie day of oppression has gone by for ever . My friends , Ivhad some little doubt whether I ought to have came : I had some doubt whether I ought , because I have no wish to mix myself up in quarrels between masters and their men . I thought iu . thiscnsc at first it would bo better to leave the masters arid men to figiit their battles out ; though if tho question wore one ot importance to thorn , and the working men were true to themselves , it was satisfactory to my mind tbat the victory would lie theirs . If the working classes were not true to themselves , it was perfectly clear to him they would be beaten ; and that they ought to bo beaten ; f » r under God ' s

      providence , I know of no better means of bringing men to do their duty to one another than oppression , when they neglect it . ( Hear ,, hear . ) I say I thought I should be out of p lace here at first ; but when I recollected that this meeting was one to protest against a cruel , oppressive , and iinjust sentenco , I reflected that I should be shrinking from my duty were I not to do so . ( Cheers . ) I am glad to see you have welcomed this young man , Thoma 3 Bailey , to the meeting , and shown such generous sympathy for him . I was there when they had . him before the magistrate . I saw him sent to sraol , and t thank you and the'hi gh heart within I : have beca able to sec him out of the " den of th&vos . " ( JLoud cheers . ) Hois at liberty ; ho is : i proof of your

      power when united , of your weakness when disunited . ( Hear , hear . ) llecollcct , if . you had been disunited you would have had , tlpice weeks Jience , the pleasure to hare gazed on hi& lacerated back . ( Cries of " Shame ; " and great sonsation . ) . And for what ? As a learned judge said , and « h , how my 'heart beat high as I listancd to th » words , " For a breach of contract—fb » a man f » that ?" Good God , that a young man who has just returned from the theatre , or sonic- exciting' amusement , after a little signing a little bitot a document , called an indenture , stuffed in with all the conditions the masters may hanre chosen to give his instructions for , that the signing of a document like

      this should subject a man , for merely neglecting nU work during a few day . s , to be thrown into prison , and to forfeit his maakood , by one of tho most deg rading punishments that ever human nature had inflected upon it . What , could , that magistrate be who should seek to put such a law in force , even if it bo a , law , and I contend that there ia no such law . i say that no sooner did the prisoner come to be twenty-ono years of age , than he was free to choose lorhiinself that thatftedom remains with him , and that nothing but tho renewal of the engagement , when he was of full age to judge for himself , could revive its force . First of all 1 say that tho witness who was called to provo the case against the prisoner must have been known by tho magistrate not to be the witness of truth , becausp , bemgtha paymaster atMessers , "Worrall ' s , when tie said in

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      Octobeb 20 , 1849 . : " ' - ' ' ¦ ' " THE NORTHERN STAR i 'T : " ~ ' '__ t '* ' 1 :. i / ~ ^~ - ~ - ~ ' . L . ^ i lj— --- ~ _— - *_ -= «___ 7

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 20, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1544/page/7/