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      arising from terror , together with other causes . Mr . Lewis ? ' who appeared for tiie defendants , cross-examined the witnesses for an hour . Sergeant Underhill said he witnessed the descent on Wimbledon Common . The horse was exceedingly hotwhen at alligl'ted , and perspiration was rolling down its shoulders i but it stood quiet . A gentleman jmnpud oa it and ^ illoiy ! i aTray . He knew little ^ of the ordinary habit of horses ! After I the hearing of this evidence , Mr . Lewis addressed the com * ' contending that no cruelty had been proved or practised m ' i poitevin having been cautioned by the magistrate that fy the i - (* . _ .- — ^ auwaw 4- f \ fv n i- \^ e \ . * . \ ¦« - »*» J . I-v _ _ _ _ _ I

      law of this country he was liable to three months imprisonVut ' if convicted upon this charge , and need not answer any cries ' tion that might criminate himself , said he had had one i « or ^ \ three years , and the other four or five . One had cone m one hundred , and the other one hundred and fifty time ? . He im < l ! m ade altogether between five hundred and forty and five him- i dred and fifty ascents . The horse started quietly on the ? M I ult ., merely moving its legs once or twice as living animals I would do . When it came down it always fed heartily . Th « * liors ¦ was fed when suspended for trial ' by the authorities at I Paris , between fifteen and twenty hours , in his opinion it ' d'd not suffer anv pain hy the ascents . Witness had conununi- cated to Mr . Simpson that he had had the permission of foreign powers to ascend , and that the proprietor of another establish- I

      ment in London had written to him word that the Ko"al i Society for Prevention of Cruelty had given their sanction ! Mr . Thomas denied that any permission had been riven by ! them . Mr . Thomas wanted to know whether , on one occasion I a horse of his had not bled at the nostrils after an ascent ? < Mr . Poitevin said he did slightly , but was uninjured , and ate j directly afterwards ; but this was owing to the altitude of the 1 balloon . In answer to an inquiry from Mr . Arnold M Poitsvin said that it depended upon the rapidity of the descent as to the heat or coolness of ' the body . Mr . Arnold . —If von

      are cool on amending , when you have descended have you found yourself in a violent perspiration ? Mr . Poiteven . —No Mr . Arnold directed the officer to examine the ponies , which ' had now been standing four or five hours in the court-yard , in ' order to ascertain whether it was the bandages and slings tWt ! heated them . Sergeant Underhill returned and said they were I very cool and comfortable . Madame Poitevin confirmed her '• husband ' s account A number of other witnesses were called ' for the defence , including veterinary surgeons , whose evidence i

      went to show that slinging for a period of years was a common practice with horses , and attended with beneficial results . The general testimony in other respects was excul patory of the defendants . Mr . Arnold said he should reserve his decision in this case sine die , but would communicate with the parties when he had gone through the evidence . That although the evidence had been to show physical pain on the one sicfe , and to rebut it on the other , another question arose to which Mr . " Lewis , he thought , might have addressed himself—that of a horse being placed in a situation of risk , and deprived by his position of the means of assisting himself in difficulty . It was a different matter if a rational being pleased to do it . If a man

      were to place a child in such a position that in the moment of danger it could not assist itself ,, it was a question whether it would not be cruelty ; and the question arose whether an animal strapped up in case of anything going wrong it would not be dashed to pieces . The court then adjourned .

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      HALIFAX , YORKSHIRE . A " Pot-eouse" Patriot axd his Ladye-love !—On Thursday , the 2 nd instant , Mary M'Cloud ( or M'Leod ) an Irish TCOman , was brought before the Mayor and Borough Magistrates of Halifax , on the following charge . It appeared that Mr . Cockroft , better known as "Lord Dolloper" ) the commander-in-chief of the Halifax " Smashers , " together with , another person , was drinking at the Crispin Inn , the evening

      previous , along with the prisoner p . nd some otner " nymphs of the pave . " After they had sung love and patriotic songs , and poured out their libations to the jolly god , until outraged reason laid down her sceptre and abdicated her throne , the "worthy patriot engaged in timorous intercourse with the lady from the Emerald Isle . The reader must draw upon his imagination for the particulars ; we can only record that suddenly Mr . Cockroft discovered that his "own true love" had been

      ex ra-fraternal , having walked ofi with ms purse , containing £ 5 4 s . " His lordship" gave chace , and succeeded in capturing the lady , at the same time bawling lustily for the aid of a po liceman . A policeman named Crook came to his help , and the patriot and Peeler between them walked off their prize to the police-station , where she was searched , but no money found .

      A lucky thoua-ht suggested itself to the beer-bemuzed patriot : fene might have dropped the purse while being pursued , he immediately went in search of it in the company of the policeman , and to his great joy , Crook " hooked" it . Having heard the evidence , the magistrates committed the prisoner to the Wakefield House of Correction to await her trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions . Some of "his lordship ' s ' followers are

      begranjng to look rather blue , and are asking each other how loug they are to be led by such men ; and whether it is not hi gh time to begin to think and act for themselves ? So be it . ' * Lord , open tKe eyes of the blind ! "

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      Deat h fbom Jumping- Off Shakespeare ' s Cliff . —An inquest " ^ as held on Monday at Dover , on the body of a soldier named ¦ puon , who met his death by jumping from Shakespeare ' s Cliff , the preceding evening . Yerdict , * " Temporary Insanity . " Supposed Hydrophobia . —A man was seized with illness at Beadin g last week . When a lad he had been bitten by a mad dug , and as lie now had a perfect horror of water , it was supposed he had been attacked with Hydrophobia . It was not so , however , and he has since recovered .

      Bartholomew Fair . —Bartholomew Fair closed on Monday . The Lord Mayor and some City Officers attended oa Friday according to ancient custom , but its glories have for ever depart ed . A Curious "Weddixg took place at New Church , Isle of Wight , » ast week . The bride was 75 years of age , and the bridegroom 40 , and very deformed . The " old lady shuffled to church on crutches , and was desired bv her intended benedict to " look up

      and not be ashamed , " and to " never mind being laughed at . " On his return to Hyde , the husband made himself j-o conspicuous that the police locked him up for the night in the station . „ An Old East Ixdiamax . —A p-irfc of the rudder of the East * ndia ship Hindostan has been taken into Wiiitstable by the diving cutter Mandamus , Gann . The ship lies sunk in the Queen's Channel , and was lost in a heavy gale , January 11 , tSQ 3 , consequently has been under water nearly 50 years .

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      ^ co ^ "T : ~ LaSt r ^ ' Keea ' mi * ™* er -uutnee of transportation , made his escape from Sorin < vnVl ; l County Gaol , and lm not since been heard of a P 8 ^ toittORDi sAKY MARBiAGE .-On Wednesday , the 1 st ins * 'u ^ d K \ dlUrC h ° H « ly Trinity , in this t o ™ , there w r > KvT ^ ? 4 /! 1 ° f arde 1 llt loverethe toWe being S ^! i ^ _ ¥ Previously given his consent . The first marke

      SS ' TC are told , thirteen year , ago , the bridegroom oa i-i-u occasion being only fourteen years of a"e UNiocs Dkath op a Pony . - A pony , which Inid been nrssin-- sevcra days from Stamford , was found at length , 8 t ^ C K ^! ? f tomof ***** diteh U ' ^ ci ^ S ^ & ° J- * ^ fU ™ tlmt lC 0 d not bs 88 eu bv persoii p a »* ug . xi is Ddievcd the pony was frightened by the li-ht-S - ' , itb ; . terr 01 > ' bolted " through or over , the K taUmg into the ditch- on the other side , where it was buried

      Beeach of Pkojii . se of Marriage . —An action was + rie < l on ffe v W T of Recordbrf ™ fo *^ j ! a . i , iau Lsq ., lor a broach of promise of ' marriape . It whs - few ff that 8 he ? ; f , years of *> & > ^ was the augxiter of a farmer near Rochdale , who had died since th * action was commenced . The defendant , who was 27 , was als 0 L busing at Rochdale as a currier and leather dresser . Tdloncumt had now married another lady , havin « - deserted the ^ ntift , who was endente . The alleged promis ? of ^ Z ^ *** proved by the pla . ntiff ' s brother , and by other evidence ! Aix . Lollest addressed the jury for the defendant . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff-damages 50 / . J * DY ' ^™^ 7 pondoni

      J ;^^ -- ^ *>** com ^ Ox tae Cologne ( xazelte writes on rh * 2 nd iust . : ~ ' -The lo-. l comimtteooi health has unanimousl y agreed to combat tie ciio . um with gunpowder . Application has been made to Geueral iwtaea , tae commander of the fortress , who has iust had me misiortune to . loae his consort by cholera , to make an attempt to purify tae air by discharge of artillery , and lie has declared ms readings to comply with the request , if the permission of tae civil government an be obtained .

      xMpo&tattok o ? Sattussxakes . —Among the extraordinary amvals with which we have been lately favoured from Am-ric-i none peraaps has excited nioro sensation than tha importation into Liverpool of thirty-six rattle-snakes , which came over in t ' . yo iiirgo cases , accomiJanied by their owner Mr . Van Gordon who caught them on tha Alleghany mountains . Borne difficulty existed on board in keeping the cases from being " broached ' " as the ship ran short of water , and the sailors hearing afizzinf noise inside the cases thought they contained bottled porter ° Austmax Fear op the Bible . —A Breslau journal announces the arrival there of a freight of biblus , all under sealwhich had

      , oeen seized by the Austrian government at the Missionat-y Society ' s depot , and sent oat of the country . The New JBattersea Park Bridge . —Tiie piers , foundations and fastenings of the suspension bridge are' now nearly completed . J

      Heavy Thunder Storm . —On Tuesday afternoon , the metropolis was visited by a heavy storm of thunder and lio-htnin " accompanied by a very copious fall of rain . ° ° ' Qualms op Conscience . —About a twelvemonth ago , a lady residing in the Chapelside , Dundee , was robbed of a gold watch , chain , and trinkets . All the inquiries made through the police and otherwise proved iueftoctu-d , and they were given up as lost At a late hour on Monday night , a knock was heard at the door , which was partially opened to the extent of the night-chain , and enquiry made as to who knocked . The reply was a small

      box handed in without a word , or any one been ssen , which was found to contain the above articles in every respect as when they mysteriously disappeared a year ago . The Great Britain . — -This noble vessel was spoken at 8 o ' clock in the morning of the 25 tli ult ., in iat . 42 , 87 , Ion . 12 by the brig Lisbon , from Lisbon . The Great Britain ' was crowded with sail , and going at the rate of 13 knots an hour . An estimate of time and distance gives her , so far , 10 knots an hour . —Liverpool Standard .

      Vehdict of Felo de Sb . ~ Aii inquest was held at Thurston , on "Wednesday week , on the body of a young soldier , named Cock who hanged himself on the preceding evening . The jury returned a verdict of felodese , and the body was accordingly buried the same night . The Cholera . —Two of the superintendent medical inspectors of the General Board of Health have been directed to watch the progress and threatening * of cholera , as was done on its former progress—Dr . Sutherland and Mr . Graineer .

      The Crops in bouxn Wales . —The weather , with the exception of a few thunder-storms , has been extremely fine for the harvest . The principal bulk of the wheat is now housed , and the crops are acknowledged by three-fourths of the farmers to

      be a full average . Gerjiax Emigrants in South America . —The German emigration newspaper , called the Awicanderer Zeitung , says , "One item of intelligence in the last South American mail is rather startling ; German emigrants to Peru are articles of sale , and arc advertised in the papers as merchandise . They are the

      remains of a baud of emigrants who some time since was induced , by the representations . of an agent , warned Bodolfo , to sail for Lima ; the « nter $ riso totally failed , and sixty of the men took service in the army . Gfcaeral Flores had purchased 120 for the Ecuador expedition ; a landed proprietor had bought eighty for his estate ; forty were working on the guano islands ; 100 had died , and fifty , left in the hands of the agent , were advertised in the paper as ' for sale . '

      A Rival to Jenny Linu . —A Swedish lady , of the name of Westerstrand , is like to rival , if not to eclipse , the fame of Jenny Lind herself , if the report in the Musical Gazette be true . In a late number of that journal there is a letter from Heir ReiU sub , of Berlin , who says that " she possesses the art of singing in perfection ; her organ is peerless as to quality , and as to charm , in its compass rising to-F . Altissimo . " This young lady is to commence her German career in the Opera House , Berlin .

      London Labour . —A writer in the Daily News asserts that a sable riding boa , " from tub to finish , " costs in labour 9-M .: its selling price is £ 3 . 3 s . ! A Philanthropist . —An anonymous individual has assisted the Chancellor of the Exchequer to " make both ends meet , " by sending him 440 postage stsmips . " " Civilization " rx India . — The Madras Circulator reports

      progress on the introduction of g . is : — " We see lamp-posts in course of erection in silinost every direction ; and i' « r lighting them , they ;; re , wo understand , classified into tiivisiens , Co , responding with the jioi ; co-srations . In the > = aine journal , native merchants advertize their wares . Thus , ( J . Mooueapah , Moodelly recommends his English bottled ale , &c , and Kajuhgopaul , Vencatachella , Chetty & Co ., announce the particulars of sale by auction of their " superior long cloths , "

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      ( The New Vice-Chascellou . —The appointment of Mr . John Stuart , Q . C ., to the Vice-Chancellorship , vacant by the death of Sir James Parker , has been confirmed . Mr . Stuart is chiefly known as a violent Tory , who has made hiras .-lf especially prominent by ids strong opposition to Chancery Reform . Legacy to the Queex . —it appears that the late Mr . Neild has bequeathed to the Queen nearly the whole of his property . It consists chiefly of land , scattered in various counties , and is valued at £ 500 , 000 .

      Death op Mr . G . R . Pouter . —A valuable appointment has become vacant by the dearli of Mr . G . R . . Porter , of the Ho-. rd ot irade . I he deceased gemlcmaii died at Tonbridge Weils . xlis disease was brought on by not taking sufficient exercise , or allowing himself sufficient relaxation from the duties of his omcj . The Moicioxs . —The Latter-day Saints are prosecuting the propagation oi their peculiar notions with characteristic

      industry , and , it would sacra , with no want of success . Aiuou " ' us in Wales they have obtained not a . lew converts . Wo observe that they are now labouring energetically in spreading tl-eir doctrines in Norway and Sweden ; that they have prepared an edition , in German , of the Book of Mormon ; and that they have established a weekly paper in Hamburg , for the better advocacy of Latter-day Saintism among the dreamy Germans Letters from their settlement in the Salt Lake " district ot Western America , report that tiic worldly affairs of the Saints

      are promising , lheir corps were abundant ; woollen factories have heen erected ; new sett ements are being made ; su <* ar manufacturing f . iom boot-roots was about to be comuieiu 5 d ; an t tlie raising of cotton tor home manufacturers was about to be tried . Whatever may by justly said of this fanatic body in other respects , it must be said , and with truth , that the great energy and determination they have shown in ibrmino-. their plans has been equalled by their industry in carrying them out . —Monniotdk iltrakl

      The Potato Disease . —At the last sitting of the Academy of Sc-enci 3 s several couimuuie-itions were lvad on the potato malady and the means of prevention . M . Brierre of tJaint-Michel-en l'Hcrm informs tiic Academy that having perceived tuat the disease prevailed to a gruatei- extent in lands which had not been at any time covered by the sea than in those which wow known io have been formerly orcrflowod , imagined that by the audition of salt he could " prevent the mfiady . He thereto prepared a strong mixture of salt and water ' , in which he placed his cuttings for several hours before

      planting them , and when the crop was gathered in all tiie potatoes were sound . —M . Bayard , of Chaseau Gonthier , st-ites that he had come to a conclusion that the disease was caused by an excess of vitality in tiie seed . He therefore in troduced a pea into each cutting . The peas vegetated quickly , - but without injuriously retarding the growth oi" the potato , and when the potatoes were gathered they were all perfectly sound , whilst from the cuttings wichout peas which he had planted in a portion of the ground nearly all the crop had the malady . He supposes that the earlier vegetation of tiie peas had carried off the excess of humidity , and thus saved the potato .

      ( A Lesson . —Since Viscount de Cormenhi , the veteran publicist , accepted the lucrative post of Councillor of State from the Government of Louis Napoleon , his wife , it is said , will not condescend to speak to him . Capture op a Monster . Whalis . —A whale , twenty-one feet long , and fifteen feet in girth , was recently caught near Harwich harbour . The captors towed it to Ipswich , where the whale was exhibited till tiic effluvia became so offensive that the authorities ordered its eemoval .

      Fearful Thunder Stokm akd Deluge . —The county of Worcester was visited during Saturday night and Sunday morning by one of the most awful thun -erstorms within the memory of man , and this has been followed by an enormous destruction of property , to an extent which might almost bear comparison with the recent destruction at HolmnrtLu Upwards of 2 , 000 sheep . ^ vere drowned . Emigration qv Mary Axx Hicks . —Mary Ann Hicks , who , it will be recollected , was expeded from Hyde Park by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , is about to emigrate to Australia ., Mr . Mark Lemon , the Editor of Punch , and a few other gentlemen , having paid her passage out .

      Moxster Executions are far from infrequent in China . A writer in the Hong Kong Gazette witnessed in Canton , on May 1 , the beheading of no loss than fifty three criminals , chiefly rebels . Fatal Fiiie . —A married woman and her two younsr children have perished at Plymouth by the bed-clothes having caught fire from a caudle which had been , incautiousl y ieit burning .

      KhMUSEHATiox o ? Art .- —Sir Edwin Lanusocr is said to have received from Lurd Louucsbrough , the munificent sum of three thousand pounds for his splendid picture v < f ' Monarch of the Glen . Flying Fish . —A few days ago , Mr . John Pollard , of Bacup , and others , captured at Biookpool a Hying fish , with four wino-s and two feet , and measuring in length o ^ iuci . es , and in breadth 27 inches . Mb . Alexa 2 ? deb So&ebvjwiE , well known by his writings under the signaiure of" One wiio lias Whistled at the Plough , " is about to saii ibr Australia .

      Oats . —A Glasgow paper describe a stalk of oats bearing the extraordinary number of -loo grains . ° A DEfr'EXOE foil tub D . " siiinTKs } . —Tho Ministers have postponed the meeting of Parliament to the remotest period . As no plausible reason has been ottered for this proceeding , We be '' to suggest that the Government , in postponing the assembly 5 Parliament , may be nciuaied by the . fcoiiug , that , as the liarvest has been rather late , the thrashing—which is inevitablemay as well be put oil' as Long as wossiblc—Pu . Ht 7 * .

      Uutios for the GoumxG-MousE . —It is peculiarly uuadvisaole ior the partners of any mercantile firm to travel ail together by railway , as iu that case tiic whole house runs n . imminent risk of being smashed . —I bid . Musuem 01 ? Puactical aind Oknamextal Akt . —A collection of works of decorative art , ionned under the auspices of the Board of Trade , and now permanently arranged in a suite of rooms , at Mariburough- ' iouse , was opened to the puhlic on Monday , and will continue open on Mondays and Tuesdays to all persons not students .

      Plate Eoubisi . y —tho iurtlier examiniiti-ui of Thomas Jootr , ( an Auicricai . ) , builur u ; i \ ir . iu . ittiicw i ' urster , lu . i ' ., ior is-rw . cic-upon-i »\ acU , wiio was eiMi'gud . with liavmg piiiiidcred uis mi-isver of plate to t . ie value of botvv ^ en & >\)\) and £ boy , t » -iok place at Marylebune i ' oiice-eourt last Saturday . The prisoner will be brought up again to-day , when the whole of the depositions will be read over , and he v . i ] i then be commuted . fo - ' trial

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1695/page/7/