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      A * Erglish Noblekah being at Aix-la-Ch » pelle , and wishing to be incognito , ordered his black servant to say that he wu a Frenchman . Mungo , therefore , whenever any inquiries were made as to his master , made answer , "He is a Frenchman ; *' adding , ( by war of making the tale more colourable ) , " and so aa L " A mah at a Faib was asked if his horse was * timid one . tt Kot at all , " said he ; " he frequently pends the whole night by himself in hi 3 own stable . "

      Nor Mikcikg the SIatteil—The Rev . Mr . Robert-80 n , Kilmamock , was ofien annoyed by « ne of ihos ? busy bodies , who take charge of every one's business bat th * ir own . One day , when preaching upon the besetting sins of differenj men , he remarked , ttsinjl a well-kn « wn Scotch saying , Every ane , nvy fii # n ' 8 , hai their draff-pock . Sume hae their draffnock hinging afore vhem ; ithers , again , hae their flr * ff-poek hinging aiuni tliem ; bat 1 ken araan that « ifa in mj ain kirk , tiurt b *» draff-pocks hinging » * innui ' flvm .. An' wilt doyoutiuak that is ! A' body kens wha I mean—sae ither than Aadro Oiiphaut . Xaird of Loyan .

      March op Obthogeapht . —In a village , not a lundred miles from Axminsier , a si ^ n-board , displaying ine following unique composition verbatim ^ literatim , hangs over the door of the principal mercantile establishment : —" Nicholas A , licensed to sel , bear . ale . cyder , tee . coffy . baccy . And Snuff , to be drunk , on the . premises . "— Western jMtninatj . If Mes would only be determined to overcome a difficulty , they would " fir : d it but half performed before they thought they had commenced : it is the want of exertion , and not &biln . y , th&t make so many men ansuccessful .

      The coxvKSSiTio ^ a company w& 3 interrupted by a man , who asked impertinently whether ihere had ever been a stronger man in the world iLaa Hercules . " You yourself , " 8 aid one , "for you iave brought in Hercules by the bead and shoulders . ' The Cou . ntsss op SuTHEB . LAK » was a very beautiful woman , and celebrated by Waller under the name of Smeharis 3 a . When she was advanced in years , she asked him in raillery when he would write such fin * Terses on h » r a ^ ain . "When jour ladyship and I axe young again , " said he . A . Clesgyhas in the north , very homely in his address , chose for his text a _ passage in the Psalms —** I said in my haste , all mtn are liars . " " Ay , " premised his reverencf . by way of introduction , " ye said it in your haste , Djvid , did ye?— £ i " n ye hid been here , ye might have said it in your leisure , my man . "

      PilSCB A 13 E&T suVserilxss to ihe Blind Asylum , and also to the Arylum for the Deaf and Dumb , hii Koyal Highness very feelingly expressing himself as to a proper provision being mace lor the English people ; ill of whom , he has the most convincing proofs , uedeaf or blind , and very often both ! Wellisgto * has been to India and back , and therefore ib excellently well qualified to be a : the head of the Trinity-house—thai bouse being essentiaiJy of a nautical character , and having within , its

      jurisdiction many important naval matters . Princ * Albert has crossed from Calais to Dover , two or three times , and therefore is qualified in a supreme degree to take precedence of seme dozen or two old naval officers ; who , having the misfortune to be barn in England , are no * at all qualified to know the stem from the stern of a ship , and require , of course , to have a German young gentleman to teach th-m the art of navii ^ 'Jon , and to disunguis . h between frae English Channel and the Red Sea . What a farce-iovhig deg i = John Bali .

      Losd Stanley made , it is repcrted , a complaint the other day , to vhe Committee of the CirLon Ciub , of the iudecorcuE conduct of une of the vsa . iurs , who in removicg the cheese after diccer , obserTed in a tone which the rat nobleman conceived to be ironical , " Your Lordship is , I perceive , very fond of chute 1 " It was a matter in dispute the other day between Prince Albert ' s German riding master , Herr Meyer , « nd an English groom attached to the Royal stables , whether the Prince placed his feet in ridiug fufilcient-] y far in the stirrups . After an angry di ? cu .-= ; oa of some minutes , tbe Englishman clenche _ d t ? -e argument by a reqneK that the German would by all Beans , recommend his master to ride- home !

      Suppebt Wir . —A man " a 11 : tie tbe better for liquor , " as post Madden used to have it , was gliding his way along Gowcr-streer , on . . Monday morning , the pavement being like a piece of glss > . At length he fell down jus ; as a policesiiu wao approaching the Fpot , who said to him , goodhumourediy , " 1 say , old fellow , I must take you up for s . id ' mg upon the pavement . " To which he -that vr . » s fljor d said , with iha greatest sang frold , " I viaii you vould , for I cannot get up by myself . " An Isnocest Witness —Maxwell , a witness examined on ins trial of tbe W-iilacss a : the Old Bailey , recently was cross-exiuiuied by Mr .

      Phillips—I did not sleep any last Eighi . 1 passed the nUht in a room in a house- I did not inquire if it was the station honse . 1 rather doubi iuas it was . Ithmkit was , but Laid not inquire . I had no curiosity about it . It was an unusual thing K » r sn © to find myself in a strange room . There were men aad womtu there . The men had cov . s and ixonsers . Some o » them had blue coats with figures On them . —ilr . Phillips : Were they policemen f I did not ask them . —iir . Phillips : Do you know who the gentleman was who came into the passage yesterday shouting as loud as could be ! I have been told it was myself . I had drank a little .

      Sober Ale . —A collier living at Crane-moor , find ing that several of his neighbours around him were in the habit of brewing their own ale , memioaed the circamstance to his wife , who at once said they might as well do the same , and have a drop a drink i't bouse as well as them . Thi 3 being agreed upon , a stroke of malt was forthwith purchased- The co ' - Iier , on going to his work in the morning , left his wife ba .-y making preparations for brewing—a j . 'b , mind you , which sne never before had been put to . At night homo cornea Johnny , big with the idea of being Easier of some strong ale , and direct to the brewing-tub he inarches . Finding it full , and nothing short of eignteen gallons , Johnny , with a COUBtenalice marked with disappointment , siiil quite in good humcur , turned to his fatigued wife and said , Al tell the wot , lass , ah thkk thaaze made ta much ou ' t V " Well , ah been thiukin soa ms sen , an' av thrawn a kit full aght . "—Bamsley Correspondent .

      Thb Bishop op Losdox has been preaching against Socialism and duelling . The Reverend aineenrist was v * ry severe in his comments on the one , and adducsd numerous ~ k 2 iing pro " of 3 of the enormity of the other . Wh y does he not favour us ¦ with a sermon on the abuses of the Church ! Cogest . —A conntry editor in the State of New York complains that ladies' bonnets now are so small thai they will hold hut cue face at a time . Paw . vbsokee , the new Luster purchased by Prince Albert , i 3 said to be intended as a present for his uncle . TaE Tesastbt of the Marquis of Bristol have recently presented him with sliver candelabrum ; a ^ a hint , perhaps , that the mideri > ta . adic ^ of the noble Marquis needs " lighting np on matters in general .

      Thodgh Albekt was never in cold water until he feii in the other day , in the gardens of Backingham Palace , he managed , when in his own country , to get into hot water very frequently . SlKGCLAR IXSTA 5 CE OF ASIMAL SaGACIIT . — Learned pigs , and calculating dogs , and fortuneteliing posies , are familiar objects to the mind cf « very one , for there are none who have not in their younger days witnessed with delight the exhibitions ¦ of such wonderful wonders . But tha * . a gocss could be made amiab ' e , intelligent , and tractable was never dreamt of " in the days when we went gipsying " nd will , perhaps , be doubted now , though it ha * been dene , and may be witnessed every day in our atreeis . Tflomas Turner has a fine goose which follows him like a well trained dog * to any part of feis or the neighbouring towns . It is curious to see tie goose waddling along wkh a large bull-dog after its master , two or three mi ] e 3 from honje , and to hear it " give mouth" if for a moment its master be

      America * Satire . —An American journal of a late date has tire following : — " We learn from an English newspaper that , on the occasion of the < 4 aeen entering Brighton , a gentleman was thrown from his korse with gBeatviolecee , ticrongh coming in contact with a jlg x and very Berioosly injured . Thank Heaven . ' we hare no Bttcil terrible fiiet in our OOBJiHT J" .

      A PALACE TOAST . Here ' s Ball and his purse ; we'll next toast hia ears ; May they increase in length with his increase oJ years I Ah AxsajCAj ' i Oraaou op his Copntbytckh . — We are the most excitable people on the face of the globe ; our feathers are rampled . quicker th * n & inrkev ' 8 . We cannot , it seems , debate a debate&ble question , comprising a single point of national importance , without forthwith talking of war , and placing ourselves , like Tom Cribb , in an attitude » r a fight . —Nob Fork Mirror , Feb . 6 . Titles . —If men were to consider their own digsitjae men * they weald spurn at titles , and look oa them as " : nick-names . " Titles aad orders , it is trae , are very harmlea » -things , but they produce a kind of foppery in the human character , that degrades it ; talking about its bine riband , like a little girl , and showing its new garter like » child .

      THES 5 IBS more killed by JBlemperane * than by ffee BTTord : ^ ro ^ -shot is effective ammunition . War abb the Posi-office stamp * like kxy sehoo ! boys ! Because yon aro obliged to lick their basks to make them stick to their letters .

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      Robert HolUnd , father of Tbomai Holland , who had bees apprehended on a warrant for conspiracy was also committed . ~ / .- * The next prisoner plaeai at tbe bar was Edward Marshall , a sawyer , against whom 8 t > Charles Shaw «* id there would be no evidence offered . His appro-, hension was entirely bit own fault , and had been brought on through hi * attempts to defeat the ends of justice . Green had been sent to Fleetwood-on-Wjwe to see who would obtain a letter sent there for one of the murderer * , and while Green was there , Marshall , who was a unionist , went to the Poat-offlee , and representing himself to be the party for whom the letter was addressed , obtained possession of it Green supposed that be was the party and took him into custody . The magistrates told Marshall he was discharged u connected with this offence , but it would be for the Post-office authorities to consider whether he ought not to be proiecuted for obtaining a letter by means of false representations .

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      ? NEW POOR LAW AND THE RURAL POLICE . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Rochdale was held in the Butts , a vacant plot of ground near the centre of the town , on Saturday week , at five o clock in the evening , to petition Parliament against the Poor Law Continuance Bill , and for a total repeal of the Poor L » w Amendment Act ; and also to petition the magistrates assembled in General Quarter Sessions , to be holden at Preston , on the loth day of April next , to rescind the order for introducing the constabulary force into this county . Large placards , announcing the meeting , made their appearance on the walls of the town early in the week .

      At tbe usual weekly meeting of the Chartists , the subject was brought under consideration , the parties getting up the meeting ha-Ting fully ascertained that it wai the wish of a portion of the members present that a resolution for the Charter should be proposed at the meeting ; but a resolution to the contrary was ultimately agreed to , advising them , however , to attend , and put one of their own friends in ths chair . The originators of the meeting were tbe middle-class tradesmen and nhopkeepers , Whig , Tory , and Radical , composing the select vestries of the various townships . The poors' rates have become so excessively heavy , inconsequence of the introduction of a useless , dangerous , and expensive police force into our peaceful district , that it is become exceedingly difficult to collect from an impoverished people the exorbitant rate required to support them .

      At the appointed time to take the chair , from twelve to fifteen hundred were present , cbitfly of the working classes , and consequently Chartist * . The persons intending to take part in the proceedings ascended the waggon , the place appropriated to the speakers amongst whom were Mr . T . Holden , Mr . T . Wilkinson , nn'i a few of their Tory friends ; John Bright , Esq ., Mr . W . W . Barton , and other Liberals ; and Mr . James Taylor , late M . C , Mr . Tb , omas Ltoesey , Mr . James Sharp , and a few working men , Chartists . Mr . Barton came forward f propose that John Roby , Esq ., take the chair . It may here be well to remind our readers that this is the Mr . Roby who has acquired so much unenviable notoriety by his treasonable speech delivered at the Ashton Conservative dinner , which , if had been uttered by a poor Chartint , instead of a wealthy banker , he would doubtless have be « n safely located on the felons side of one of our county gaols .

      The Chartists , however , were not the men to suffer Mr . Koby to presida over a meeting of their own order , after the unmerited abuse and slanderous attacks so repeatedly made by that gentleman upon them . A working man moved an amendment , which was seconded by a number of voices , that Charles Howarth , a working man , take the chair . Mr . Barton put the amendment , as usual , fltsst , when a forest of blistered hands wtre held up in the air . The motion followed , and exactly two were wishful for Mr . Roby to preside .

      Mr . Howarth was handed forward into the waggon , and opened the proceedings by reading the placard calling the meeting , aii . l observed , he was proud to witness them assembled together once more , to assert their detestation and abhorrence of the New Poor Law , and the rural police . He congratulated them upon having obtained the co-operation of a portion of the higher order , and regretted that they had not come forward at a time when their tffurts might really have been effectual . It was not tao tirst time they ( the working classes ) had met to petition for the repeal of the New Poor Law . Those petitions had been laughed at and disregarded . It was a disgrace ta the leading men of the nation to allow the necessity of a poor iaw at all , whil » t fifteen millions of acres of land remained uncultivated . He should not detain them farther with any remarks of his own , and hoped , as they had elected him to the chair , they -would beatttniive , and give to every gentleman , a just am ) impartial hearing . } Ir . Hot DE . \ rose to propose tbe first resolution : —

      "That it is the opinion of this meeting that the Poor Law Amendment Act is b . isetl upon wrong principles ; that it is highly unconstitutional , injurious , and oppressive , both to tbe rate-payers who are compelled from want to apply to the parish for relief , more particularly as regards the extraordinary and unprectrtvntfcd powers given to ths Commissioners , to carry tbe ab » v « obnoxious law into effect ; and this meeting pledges itself to use every legal and constitutional means to oppose such Act . " Ho hoped the meeting would give him credit for sincerity , when he told th » m ha had come twelve miles that day , to the neglect of his business , to be present upon the occasion . He regretted the wealthy and iufluential should absent themselves upon so inipertaut

      a question as the one now before them ; it was whether or not the aged aud defenceless poor had a right to & subsistence in the Und of their nativity . It hai been said by the advocates of this Bill , that it worked well in tbe agricultural districts ; he had been informed by the best and most competent authority , no less than toe Lord of the Manor himself , who had recently been in Kent , that he bad found , on inquiry , this law had beon the means of redncing the wages of the labourer . Notwithstanding the palpable misrepresentations of certain parties in high quarters , heart-burnings and discontent prevailed , and its entire abolition was sought for ; he concluded a short and energetic address with protesting against the unprecedented powers of the ComtuUsioners .

      ilr . F . Wu . KI . nson seconded the resolution , which being put . was carried unanimously . Mr . Barton proposed the secoud resolution : " That it is tho opinion of this meeting , that the county constabulary force is useless , expensive , and dangerous , aad is more calculated to disturb the peace of the country , than protect its inhabitants—that the expenco of supporting such an establishment Is bo enormous , ikatit must eventually fall back upon the property in laniis and houses , and very much depreciate their value—that it is foreign to the feelings of Englishmen , and threatens to annihilate every vestige of civil liberty riy introducing a power over which they have no coutroul , and which , if persevered in , will lead to consequences dangerous to the welfare Of this kingdom . "

      John Bright , Esq . rose to second the resolution . He believe : ! a poiice force to be necessary both under tliis and every other , kind of government . There were times of political excitement , which required stringent measures to aliay the temporary disquietude of the country ; but ho believed a force , similar to the one esta !* iiihed at preseut , waa , above all others , calculated to ferment disturbances and create discontentment amongst the people . He couiu well imagine the feelings that -would animate tho bosoms of the starving operative , when viewing these conservators of the peace , perambulating our peaceful towns and villages , to support whom , additianal taxes had to be imposed . Already had they cost the township of Scotland £ 308

      Is . 10 iL ; C : mtleton , £ 213 15 s . 5 d . ; Blatchworth and CiUlderbrook , £ l » 6 lls . lod . ; Wardleworth , £ 8115 s . ; Wuerdle and Wardle , £ 206 10 s . j and Butterwortb , £ 250 . What services bad they rendered the pariah for this enormous expenditure of tho public money ? Why , none at olL Indeed , there was nothing for them to do ; he had seen them duriug the last winter , in the various iuus , comfortably , and be would add , wisely , enjoying themselves ; but as there were eountlesB masses of our industrious population unable to acquire tbe means to supply their physical wants , aad the poor rate-payers were crushed beuuath the weight of taxation , to support a body of men unncessary , useless , and uncalled for , he most cordially seconded the resolution , which was carried as before .

      Mr . James Taylor next addressed the meeting in a speech of sarcastic eloquence , lashing the middle clats for their selfish treachery , and charging them with being the cause of the establishment ef the police . It was moved and carried . "Taat the petition to tht . Lords , be presented by E * rl Stauhope , and to the . Commons by John Fielding . " After a - » ote of thanks to the Chairman , a show of hands was taken for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; three cheers were given for the Charter , and tkree for the people ' s uavanquished advocate Fearcm OConnor .

      Mr . Holden proposed three cheers for the Duke of Wellington , which were responded to with tremendous groaning . Mr . H . observed that these Chartists were an extraordinary lot to make friends of .

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      TOXUSSBIRfi flrtUKO ASBIZES . . CROWN COUR 1 \ Satobdat , March 20 . THE LATE CHARTIST PROCEEDINGS AT SHEFFIELD . ' PtlirFod ** war thit , morning placed at the bar , charged with sedition , conspiracy , and riot , at Sheffield . The indictment also stated that a true bill was found against the prisoner for this offence at the Spring Assizes , 1840 , and that he did not appear and answer lb , ei charge at those Assizes . On tbe prisoner being arraigned , he pleaded Guilty . ' "Mr . "WlLKlNS , who appeared as counsel for the

      prisoner , said—My Lord , I beg to state to your Lordship that the prisoner is sincerely penitent , and has seen the error and fo \ ly of his ways . I believe this man , along with others , was led into these proceedings by a Frenchman , who went amongst them , distributed money , assisted them in the manufacture of arms , and excited them to an alarming extent I am happy to say the feeling with regard to Chartism is nearly subsided , and that the punlshmento which nave already been inflicted , have had » moat salutary effect . Under thes « circumstances , I hope your Lordship will not think it necessary for the end * * t justice that a severe sentence should bo passed .

      Baron Rolfe—This man was , I think , indicted with others . The Hon . J . S . Woktlet , who appeared for the prosecution , said—If yeur Lordship wishes I will state the general nature of the case . Mr . Wjlkins—I had rather his Lordship would read tho depositions himself . The Clerk of Arraigns said—The depositions are in my office ; I will send for them , if your Lordship pleaBes . The Learned Judge said—I should like to have them . . ' ...- . The depositions were accordingly sent far . Mr . WiwaKS—I hope your Lordship will . not feel yourself bound by the deoision in former cases . If I may be allowed to suggest to your Lordship , there does not now exist the same necessity for signal punishment that there did then . -

      Baron Rolfe—That is true : but it would fce a rather dangerous d « ctrine to be allowed to prevail that if several persons jointly commit the same offence , if one gets away for a time from justice , that the ethers should be punished , and he should escape scot free . ' On reference to the indictment , it waa found that Foden was indicted alone . Mr . Wilkins—I am Bare , my Lord , If lam well informed in this case , on the pact ef the prosecution there is no desire to press for a strong punishment against this man . Mr . Wortley—The authorities consider that having proceeded against others for the same offence , they ought also to proceed against him . Mi . WILKINS— Knowing vengeance cannot be the object of the law , but merely tbe benefit of society , I do trust that your Lordship will ka as lenient as possible .

      Biron Rolfe —At present I do not understand the case . It would be a great scandal onmeif I Was U give an opinion without knowing something about the facts , of which I am utterly ignorant I know nothing more than appears in the calendar . Mr . Wilkins—I would also mention toyonr Lordship that the prisoner has been already three months in tbe Castle , and a month in custody ou a previous

      occasion . His Lordsuip then retired to peruse the depositions . On . his Toturn , about half an hour afterwards , Mr . Wilkins said—Before your Lordship proceeds to pass sentence , allow me to state that , I understand from Mr . Noble , the Governor of the Castle , that the prisoner has behaved exceedingly well since he has been in gaol , and made hltnaelf useful as as assistant , schoolmaster amongst the prisoners . The prisoner has also instructed me to state that , having been a baker nearly the whole of his life-time , he is extremely susceptible of oold , and during the term of his imprisonment , he is anxious your Lordship should permit him to remain in this gaol . The Clerk of Arraigns then said—Prisoner at the bar , you stand convicted of a misdemeamour , what have you say why the Court should not give you judgment for that offence ?

      Foden—No , 1 do not think I have anything to tsy more than the Learned Gentleman has said . Baron Rolfe—Well , what your coumsel has said for you is , that you are penitent , and exceedingly regret the course into which you have been betrayed , but I cannot pay any attention to such observations . You were indicted with a great number of others a year ago , for a most violent sort of seditious proceeding , and for which , after reading the depositions carefully through twice , I cannot find the shadow of a justification . Tbe objects you had in view were so desperate ,

      and strike so entirely at the root of society , that I do not wonder at finding very severe sentences passed on the otbar persons convicted . You , for a time , escaped the vigilance of justice , but , although now the excitement on this subject may have in some degree subsided , I cannot think of more mercifully dealing with you because you evaded justice , and are tried a year or two afterwards , than if you had been here on that occasion . You have already been three months in gaol ; and the sentence of tho Court is , that you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year and nine calendar months .

      HOnSESTEAMNG AT SHEFFIELD . Robert Henderson and Jeremiah Barlow , who were tried a few days ago , and acquitted of horse stealing , were Indicted for having , under fake pretences , obtained a mare from Francis Pawson . A demurrer was put in to the indictment to the effect that the prisoners having been clearly acquitted of a felony , they could not be tried for a misdemeanour arising out ot the same facts . Mr . Pashlet . supported the demumr ; and Mr . WORT LEY argued against it . Numerous precedents and authorities were cited , and a rather laughable circumstance occurred during the argument One of the prisoners leaned over the reporters ' box aud , evidently fearing the case was against him , said , " Tell Mr . Pashley to call my witnesses to character . "

      After the argument , the Learned Judge was anxious for time to consider the point ; aud an arrangement was come to that ^ the prisoners were to be discharged on their recognizances to appear at the next Assizes . Of course they wore " content to be so bound ; " but the poor fellows knew so much of the proceeding , that when they Went down into the dock they expected to go back again to the Castle I This concluded the criminal business .

      NISI PRIUS . —Saturdat , March 20 . ABBEY V . FETCH . Mr . Alexander and Mr . Addison appeared for tho plaintiff ; Mr . CRiiSSWELL and Mr . ' Watson for the defendant . Tho plaintiff is a farmer residing in the neighbourhood of Pickering , and the defendant is the widow and executrix of an attorney at Kirbymoorside . Tho action was brought to recover damages for r . n illegal and excessive distress . The defence was that £ 1 , 089 12 s . 6 d . was owing on a balance of an account for rent , an < i that the property seized only realised £ 900 . Tho jury returned a verdict for the defendant .

      • DOE DEM . METCALFE « . METCALFE . Mr . Cresswell and Mr . Watson were for the lessor of the plaintiff ; Mr . Alexander was for the defendant . This was an action of ejectment , to recover possession of an acre and a half of ground iu the township o ! Thwaitfe , in the North Riding . The question entirely tarntd ^ pon the words " and appurtenances " in a deed , and , accordingly , the plaintiff was npnBUited , with leave to move , by which the case will betaken iuto one of tbe Superior Courts of Westminster . SCARBOROUGH V . PICKERING . An undefended action . —Verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 50 .

      BRADWELL » . TOUNGHUSBAND . An undefended action . The plaintiff is an iron founder at York ; the defendant a mill-might at Richmond . —Verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 30 8 s . 3 d . Two or three other trifling cases were disposed of , which occupied the Judge and jury until ten o ' clock , when the Assizes closed . About half-a-dozen causes were withdrawn , and made remanets .

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      . ? VWWWS ^ - ' . ' . * . **^ . ' — . ^^»—^~~^^ - ~~~^~~ x ' A Brute . —A man named Whitehouse was fined 40 a , at Queon ' s-square Police-office , Loudon , on Saturday , for having kicked and beaton a poor lad in the street . , At Maidstone Assixes , Mr . Seward , a man of some opulence , residing at Sitttngbourno , who was indicted for forgery , did not appear . His bail was estreated . Female Burglars . —Two females , sisters namad Hampson , ( one 15 , the other 20 years of a # o ) were oommitudto Newgate ou Tuesday week , on a charge of burglary . The High Sheriff of the county of Derby has appointed the Rev . Thomas Sing , Catholic priest of Derby , to be his ohaplain during his year of office . — Derby Mercury .

      Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Sir James Dowling , Chief Justice of New South Wales , to the office of judge of the vice-admiralty court of that colony . Soap uadi op Flint . —The manufacture of ailex soap , which was put a stop to by the Excise a year or two ago in England , has sprung up , aad is flourishing in Ireland . There is an extensive manufactory at Cork , under the management of the patentees . Tobacco . —The amount of duty paid last year on this article amounted to nearly £ 2 , 859 , 000 . Of the three kingdoms , the respective proportions of duty are—England , je i ^ S . OOQ . - Ireland , £ 613 , 000 ; Scotland , £ 273 , 000 . . . _ .. . '

      ^ A HAm Retort . —A certain Whig ' R&diaa . l magistrate of Shropshire recently pressed a Tory gentleman of his acquaintance to define the term •'• Whig . " The brief and pointed reply was , "a Whig is a tyrant in office , and a rebel out o ? it . " The querist very speedily left the company , stomaching the definition as he best could . —Salopian Journal *

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      A Hare RffiterorAtiTfi . —Oil Wednesday week , as one of tho ^ down trains was passing between day-cro 8 » and Chesterfield , a hare sprung into the tihes-pan of the engine , and was completely roasted . —Sheffitld Atisrcifry . V ' The jGlENKjtAL Ktd , Tndiaman , sailed , on Wednesday nbnring , the" - 17 th inBfc ., from Gravesend , with four hundred troops , for India . The soldiers went on bdard ' on Tuesday , in high spirits . The General Kyd is a fine ship , and has every accommodation for the troopa . Death prom Fighting in a Workhouse . —On Wednesday , two of the paupers in the Mile-end Workhouee , belonging ; t « the Stepney TJnioii , had engaged in a pugilistic rencontre , and ona of them inflioted such severe injuries on the' other , ' that he 4 ied a few hours afterwards . -

      Loss of Four Lives . —On Friday night , a vessel belonging to owner Thomas Pumfrey , on her return from Bristol to Upton-npon-Severn , laden with stone , was lost , and the crew three men and a boy , al } periahed . The latter was the son of the owner . — Cambrian . ¦ . : Steel Ork . —A" New Discovery . —The National Intelligencer says , that , in the town of Duane , in Franklin county , a vein of magnetic oxide has been discovered , which , on smeltiug , yields a'substance possessing all the chemical properties of manufactured steel . Juvenue Thieves . —Two very small boys , named Thomas and Stones , were sentenced to three months

      imprisonment at Guildhall , London , on Saturday , " for having stolen a piece of mutton from a butcher ' s shop in Barbican . On , being searched the epicurean young prigs were found to have ajar of the best description of pickles in their possession . . BuRGLARt . —Two notorious burglars were . committed for trial at Union Hall Police-office , London , on Saturday , charged with having broken inti a house in Little Surrey-placo , Blackfriars , and stolen some silver spoons , ana other articles . They were apprehended at a house which they inhabited along with two prostitutes .

      Sixteen war-steamers are ordered to be built , six of the first class and tou of the second , all to be armed with guns of ten-inch oalibre . Several of these will be laid down immediately , and the frames of the whole converted without delay , so as to be ready against tho engines are prepared . —Naval and Military Qaxelte . Sikgular Death . —A . child was kUled in a very singular mannor on Wednesday week . A man was walking out of Vine-street into Ropent-Rtrect , London , carrying a large cheese upon his head , when three little children ran against him : one of them tumbled ; the mau endeavoured to step over her ; the cheese fell from his head upon the child , and killed her on the Bpot . An inquest was held on Thursday . The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " with a deodand of Is . on the cheese .

      Attempt at . Murder . —A most extraordinary attempt at murder was made upon an unfortunate female named Caroline Smith , on Thursday week . She was walking in Tooley street with a young man , a sailor , on the evening of the day just named , when a person , having the appearance of a master of a trading vessel , came upon them suddenly and knocked the young woman down , and attempted to cut the woman's throat with what appeared to be a penknife . He was driven away by the sound of approaching footsteps , aud ran down a lane towards the water side . At present the affair is wrapped up in Bomo mystery .

      At Staffordshire Assizss , George Nixon was indicted for the murder of Joseph Ball , at Burslem , in Auguat la « t . Ball was an engine-tenter , and his duty waa to watch the engine-house of the Jackfield colliery at night . One evening his body was found , horribly mangled , in a cavity in which revolved a large wheel used for working off the wator from the coal-pit . It was proved that the prisoner had marks of violence about his fact , on the evening when Ball was last sesn alive ; that he complained of having been beaten at Burslem ; that he had mentioned some quarrel which he had had with Ball ; and that he said at a public-house , to one Tunstal ! , that he was convinced that he had pushed " one of the Balls "

      into the fly-wheel race . TunBtall said , •* Then you must have killed him * " To which he replied , "No * I think not , for I only pushed him into the water , ( in which the wheel revolved , ) and then ran off . " As he accompanied this remark with a laugh , and appeared intoxicated—which moat of the party seem to have b ^ en—Tunstall thought he could not be in earnest , aud no attempt , therefore , was made to assist Ball . Tho prisoner stated before the Coroner who held an inquest ou the body , that he had Rcen Ball OB he passed the engine house , and that Ball had threatened to kick him if he did not go off , but that they had parted without any blows . He was sentenced to transportation for life .

      Rate of Paupers in Counties . —In a return just made in ths House of Commons , the counties are arranged according to their highest rate percent , of paupers relieved to the population , and the agricultural county of Wilts has the honour of befne ; at the head of the list , thus surpassing every other county in England and Wales in the number of paupers as compared with the population . The proportion in many of the Welsh counties is also very high ; in the manufacturing aud northern counties it is tho lowest . The following list denotes the proportions :

      —Wilts , 14 per cent , on the population . Dorset , Sussex , Merioneth , Radnor , 13 per cent . Bucks , Essex , Anglesey , Montgomery , 12 . Bedford , Oxford , Hampskiro , Suifolk , Carnarvon , Denbfgli , Flint , II . Cambridge , Devon , Huntingdon , Leicester , Norfolk , Somerset , 10 . Berks , Hereford , Hertford , Kent , Northampton , Westmoreland , Cardigan , Carmarthen , 9 . Gloucester , Lancaster , Surrey , Warwick , York , ( E , R . aud W . R . ) Brecknock , Pembroke , 8 . Chester , Cornwall , Cumberland , Durham , Middlesex , Northumberland , Nottingham , Rutland , York ( N . RJ , 7 . Lincoln , Monmouth , Salop , Worcester , Glamorgan , 6 . Derby and Stafford , 5 .

      Explosion in a Coal Mine . —The town of Hamilton and ita neighbourhood were thrown into great consternation on Tuesday wsek , on hearing of an extensive explosion of fire-damp in the coal-mine near Quarter , accompanied with the loss of eleven lives . It appears that about eight o ' olock that morning , the breakfast-hour , there wore six men and a boy in the mine , all of whom must have perished instantly by the explosion . On the alarm being given , the overseer of the mine not being at hand , seven men , who were outside of the mouth , rushed thoughtlessly into the pestiferous atmosphere

      of the newly-exploded mine . Three of them were dragged out alive , and four dead . Unceasing exertions were made to relieve the mine of the noxious vapour ; but it was not till Wednesday morning that tbe bodies of the first seven sufferers were recovered . Some of them were shockingly rnaUgled by the explosion , iu a way that shewed that the death of the whole must have been instantaneous . Of the eleven who died , nine were married , and have left widows aud families behind them . Tho proprietor of the mine , the Duke of Hamilton , on hearing of the event , immediately sent pecuniary assistance to the families of the sufferers .

      Extraordinary Charge of murder . —Harriet Lon ^ ley , a fine-featured young woman , twenty-one years oil ape , was charged at Hatton Garden police ? office , on Saturday , with the wilful murder of her infant , under circumstances of the moafc heartrending nature . Sergeant King , of the N division of the police , stated that , on Friday evening , about the hour of eight , the prisoner called at the stationhouse , and delivered herself into his custody on the charge of haying murdered her offspring , at the same time expressing a desire for witness to walk with her a short distance , and she would point out the spot where the body would bo found . She appeared so distressed in mind , that witness bad not the slightest doubt of the correctness of her awful

      admission , and he accompanied her to the New River , in front of Owen-row , Glerkenwell ; and she then said if search were made th « re , the lifeless remaiua of her babe would bo discovered . Witness caused the water to be dragged , and , in the course of two hours , tho body was taken out . The unfortunate prisoner afterwards informed witness that the child was born three weeks ago at Maidstone gaol , where she ( the mother ) was imprisoned for vagrancj ; and that when it was a fortnight old she was liberated , but had no home to go to . She had applied to various parishes , but at none could she ebuiu relief . On the day she committed the act , for which her life , she said , might pay the forfeiture , she went to the overseer of Saint Marylebon

      e , and was told that nothing would be done for her , as she did not belong to them . Hungry and tired , she afterwards wandered about , scarcely knowing whither she waa going , her sole attention being turned to her poor babe , whose cries for food were , working her up to a pitch of madness—her breast having that day ceased to afford tne little creature her wonted nourishment . She , at length , found herself in Owen ' s-row , and , sitting herself on the stop of * door , she again and again put her infant to her bosom—it sacked in vain , the springs of nature bad dried up ; and being no longer able to witness its » ufferiugs , Bue , in despair , flung it int » the stream , and saw no more of it until it was brought out by witness . Mr . Combe said it was a

      most awful and distressing case , and he asked the accused if she was anxious to Bay anything ! She said she was not ; adding , that what Sergeant King had said was strictly correct . Distress of the worst description had driven her to the commission of the crime . Had she been able to have procured a morsel ol bread to have satisfied the cravings of her child , it would , now have been alive . She endeavoured , bat was not able , to procure it evea that ; and a mistaken notion of humanity prompted her to put an end to its misery . In answer to the worthy Magistrate . Sargeant King said that the usual means were used by Mr . Edmondson , Burgeon , of Clerkenwell . to restore animation , but without effect . Mr . Combe said he should remand tiio pykoner until next Saturday , when she would be coamuUed .

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      UrrtlTT OF SMDKC 0 tIlTATIdlt . ~ On * w " i , ground , notexepdiMr . » q uarter of an acre . M pariah of East Lofirortn , Doraet . -iHwA fc Mr . France Champ , if ere produced , during tha i « season ,. tweatybuahelftof broad beane , taressaS of Swede turnips * one . sack of potatoes , auTi Tegetable marrow of the gourd kind , yieldujT i ? wards of 20 t m number , which weighed froaf fS to ei £ ht pounds each . On the same ground are » r growing thirty-eight apple trees , and fortv . u ! currans Dusnes © rtne teees being from

      , many Six u «» ght years' growth ; and also th » e is at we ^ t * luxurious crop of clover , on that part of thn inT *> whiehwis ocoopied by the beans . Here H& striking exemplification of the Take ot land 3 * properly , whiTated r nor b thin only a stimulus I iadu » trious men who have allotments granted to tfJ ! by kind , landowners , but it is also a proof thitrt allotment system ; if carried into effect , tS i ! highly ^ beneficial to tltt countryat large ; teSl ! encourageiindostry , destroy idle » nd dissolute hH& and render the peasantry « hee * ful and contend Sherboine Journal . . ""«« u-

      POVEBTT THE PaRBKT OP CfilHE . —At the if , sion hoaee , on Friday , a young man named RjpuS Winton was charged with having itole » » diS . pairs of stockings from the sBop of a baberdasW ^ the Poultry . The prisoner was seen to walfc ^ l ? the shop , take the bundle of stockings open ]* , * » walk out deliberately , without attempting to ^? observation or to hasten away with h'is pimrf » The policeman info whose custody he was Riven tvi > hat the unfortunate lad evidently committrf iki robbery for the purpose of being prosecuted . Go *? the turnkey of the Giltspur-street Comply j ^ jl those good ihclintd fellows who sometimes arc to j » found in situations of the kind , Baid that he ereati .

      pnwa me poor jaa , wno , fte oeiteTed , r * j ^ t i friend iu the world , and , having lost hia chwJl : could obtain no sort of employment . The turnkw added that nobody could have behaved ielt ^ confinement than the prisoner , who acknowJea » 2 his necessities were so great that he wishedvS 6 avedfrom perishing by transportation . Thsrein no sort of deception orflumbug * bouttue pootfeliow at all . Sir Peter Laurie— "I perceive that hThu been a prisoner before . " Gooch— He hag bam ^ J the Compter before . It was there I had thS ) , tunrty of judging of him , and I have ths wS compassion for him . " Sir Peter Laurie- " Whai were you in prison for , prisoner ? " PriBoner- " J ™ h ^ usebreakiDg , Sir . " Sir Peter Laurie- " w . l

      you tried ? " ; Prisoner— " I was , and convicted mJ (• eatenced to twelve months' imprisonment " ' sS Peter Laurie— " You were guilty V Prisoner- " ? was ; I deserved what I reciived . " Mr . Hobkt-What sort of housebreaking was it , for there « n saveral sorts ?» Pr . soner- " It was housobrc-akm at night in a house in Moorfields . There waaa excuse for it . " Sir Peter Laurie— " Were jou b want at the time ? " Prisoner— " By no means" Si Peter Laurie— " You had accomplices , I suppose ? Prisoner— " I had , but 1 was the only one punished ! Sir Peter Laurie— " Thty escaped , and I dare a . persuaded you to join in the affair V Prisoned "They escaped . I would rather say no more on tin subject . I have suffered the penalty of the law mi I came out on the 1 st of March , and have bea walkiB /? about ever since , for nobody will emph Sir

      me . " P . L . —Poor boy . ' there are thousamla ii the Bame condition . What is an unfortuflii fellow who repents the first act of detected d » honesty to do ? Every one is afraid to employ hk and be cannot lie down and starve . I believe tit evidence given by the Chaplain to Coldbath-fialdi prison , who said before a Parliamentary Coomittee , that he never lost sight of a prisoner after tho first introduction to prison until death or tTanaportatioB iuterfered . " Erisoner— " I am desirous of goinj ; out of the country , my Lord , and I know of no otha way of getting out , and I trust you will kindly assist me . Sir Peter Laurie— " I shall commit you for trial , and represent your case , and I hope that you may bo treated mercifully . " Gooch— "Bi conduct in prison has beenquite a pattern to others . ' Sir Peter Laurie ^— " He is committed for trial . b& him be treated kindly . "

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      From the London Gazette of Friday , March 19 . BANKRUPTS . Squires , J . and G . F ., Emmett-slreet , Poplu , plumbers , March 26 , at half-past one , April 30 , It twelve . Solicitors , Bum , Great Carter-lane , Doctorf Commons . Turney , N ., MiUbauk-street , Westminater , bak March 26 , April 30 , at two . Solicitors , Templer \ si Co ., Great Tower-street . Burkett , J ., Noble-street , Goswell-street , April I , at twelve , April 3 » , at one . Solicitor , Byulton , Norti ampton-square . Riloy , T G . C ., Bouverie-street , Fleet-street , bilt broter , A pril l , at eleven , April 30 , at one . Solidto ; ArdenRed Lion-square .

      , Barber , J ., Walwortli-read , Newington , pjiwnbroker , March 25 . April 30 , at eleven . Solicitors , Kiss and Son , Fenchurch-street . . Fletcher , H ., sen ., and Fletcher , H . juu ., Eaatington , Gloucestershire , clothiers , March 2 G , at twelve , Apri 30 , at eleven . Solicitors , Crowder and Maynard , Ma * ^ ion -h onse-placa Fhtb , J ., W ebber-strest , Iiambeth , licecssd vietoslla , April 2 , at twelve , 30 , at eleven . Solicitor , Diuimod , Siae-lane . Orchard , G . B ., Bath , upholsterer , April 5 , at three , 30 , at one , at the Castle and Ball Inn , Bath . Solicfton , Gilford and Flook , Bristol ; and Cook andSaunden , New Inn .

      Williams , D ., Llanelly , Cannierlhenshire , m teeper , April 6 , 30 , at ten , at the Cameron Arm Swansea . Solicitors , Bigg , Bristol ; and Bigg and Goldfinch , Southampton-buildings . ' ' "Wheeler , Ann Eliza , Clifton , Bristol , milliner , Mara 26 , April 30 , at twelve , at the Commercial Rotas , Bristol . Solicitors , Hartley , Bristol ; and White and Whitmore , Bedfoid-rovf . . Bryan , S ., Northampton , Hardingstone , shoe-maro facturer , March 26 , April 30 , at eleven , at the Dd phin Inn , Northampton . Solicitors , Britten , Nortfr ainpton ; and Blower and Vizard , Lincoln's Im Fields .

      Blakey , G . P ., Holmrlrtii , Yorkshire , draper , April 2 , at one , April 30 , at ten , at the George Inn , Hudderafield . Solicitors , Whitehead and Robinson , Huddersfie \ d ; and Clarke and Netcatf , Lincoia ' a Ins Fields . Crompton , P ., Liverpool , ironmonger , March 31 , April 30 , at one , at tbe Clarendon Rooms , Liverpool Solicitors , Robinson , Liverpool ; and Vincent and Sceiwood , Temple . Bell , W . H ., Kingston-upon-HuM , sead-crusner , March 30 , April 30 , &t eleven , at the George Inn , Kingston-upou-HuH . Solicitors , Holden , Hull ; ana Hicks and Harris , Gray' » Inn-square . ..... ril 39

      Coulter , T ., Doacaster , Ajpril 7 , at e leven , Ap , at two , at the Town-nail , Doncaster . Solicitois , Smi * son , York ; Mason and Colliflson , Dencaster ; » no Wigleaworth and Co . Gray ' s Inn-square . Smith , G . T ., and C . F ., Cheltenham , tailors , Blare * 30 , April 30 , at one , at the Boyal Hotel , Cheltenhiin ., Solicitors , Prldeaux and Son , Bristol ; and Hoiar and Co ., New Inn . f DISSOLUTIONS OP PABTNEBSHIP . J . R . Lyon and R . G . Holland , Sheffield , surgaon ^ l W ., J ., and P . Clarke , and J . Robinson , Manclieit « , g machine-makers-J . Labron and G . R . I ^ es , Leeto- g H . and W . Mutr , Manchester , tea-deal « rs . —T . B . ft «| bury and B . Smith , Manchester , tobacco-manufactuKfl . —A . Windle and W . Hadfield , Worsbro' Bridge , Yorkshire , working-chemiEt 8 . ^ J . Crontahaw ana J . Omemi , Haslingden . Lancashire , coUon-aanuCa * turers . ' ^ 1

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      THE TRADE 8 ' UNIONIST MURDBRS AjT ASHTON . APPREHENSION 0 ? ANOTHER OF THE HXHLDB&BBS * Manchester , Saturday . The t-R-o atrocion * murders which vrera perpetrated hy members of the Sawyera Union , at Ashton-under Lyne , —one oa the 31 st of October , and the other on the 6 th of September last , —have led to the most determined and persevering efforts on behalf of the police of that township and Manchester , for tbe apprehension of the rsartits implicated , » nd no lesa than ten of tbe unionists have at different timea been brought before the magistrates aad committed to tbe Assizes for tbe part they had taken in the commisiion of the

      lastnamed murder , but the principals engaged in the flnt murder , that of GterHnd , succeeded in eluding the hands of justice till this vreek , when one of them was c&ptured in Dublin . For four months this man , whose name } s Thomas Holland , successfully baffled the efforts of the poiice to take him , though tfeey repeatedly obtained information eonoerninr him , and Superintendents Alcock and Green , of too Manchester > oUoe , under the instructions of Sir Charles Shaw , have traversed no less than sixteen English caunties in search of him , besides part of South Wales and Ireland . He was brought np for examination btiore two of the county magistrates at Ashton , this day , -when the following particulars relative to the murder , and the part the prisoner had taken in its perpetration , were elicited : —

      Superintendent Alcocfc stated that on tbe 31 » t of October , about five o ' clock , five sawyers , who were called " knobsticks , " cr " rats , " were on their way from work at Manchester , when they wtre attacked by a body of twelve or fifteen unionists , and dreadfully beaten . One » f them , whose name was Tnos . Garland , was beaten and wounded with some sharp instrument in such a manner as to occasion his death , and an inqaest isras afterwards beld on -yie-w » f tbe body at tbe Mancticitcr Infirmary , wheu & verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against Thomas Grimes , Thomas Roberts , and others . Repeated efforts were made , under the direction of S ' . r Charles Sluw , to trace the murderers , between that time aad the 6 th of December , whea the murder of Benjamin Copper , a sawyer ,, who wis shot whi ' st at work , led to more determined efforts , and the disclosures made by some of the witne&sea against the unionists engaged in this fieeond murder led to tlis knowledge that the prisoner Holland was

      concerned in tee murdtr of Garland , and after following him into Yorkshire , had from thence tt > some ef the iron mines in Sunlh "Wales , wheru he eluded their search , tb > y lost sight of him for some time , till at length ho was a ^ ain traced into Yorkshire , and from thence to Dubl'a , where he was at length apprehended at one of the quays . He also begged ta state that int his enquiries after the priscsvr he had seen a grea number of niaattr sawyers , fr ^ m whom h « le&rnt that the traoes' unions were very generally spread over England , Wales , zvA Irelund , anil the combination of these unions with each other was such as to cause a general dread amongst employers , both lor their lives ani property , if th ? y did not accede to all the demands of their workmen , threats buing constantly held out to them that unless they complied men woulrt be brought from a distance to irfllc : vesipeaEce upju them , and those who might accept work at reduced wuges , as had been Uie case in this n&ighbourhooil .

      Michasl Hemp . & sawyer , was then called and stated that he formerly belonged to the Sawyers' Union , and that be came ovtr from Salford to Abht-on on the 31 st of Oc : ober last , to look for wcrk . H « was met by a man who called hirostiian operative sawyer as became out of He ^ . nbottaurs Y ^ rd that day , wherahehad been fur work , and asked hia business . The man was very angry with him , aud lold him he had no right to go for work there without seeing the men belonging to the Union . Witness a : u-rwaxes accompanied tils man to the Tnicn club-house , the King ' s Band , where he saw a grt&t number of sawyers , and among them be saw the prisoner , Thoiuaj Holland . They said khey txpected same delegates from Manchester and Oidham , ¦ who wtre coniinir over to indueo ths knobsticks to

      leave the town . The sawyers whom witness met there ware vtry cross with him at first , and said he had better go back to Manchester , for there was no work there , and ' some of those who were working there shouid not i ! o it long . " Two men came to the club-house while he was there , from Mar . cliester ; this W £ is abcut noon . "Witness went there again about four in the afternoon , and the prisoner Holland % 7 as there then . Witneis did hear something ^ aid about a number of union i sts go : n ; to w--y-liy tbe knobsticks on their way from work along tho Manchester road . It was talked about and generally understood amougsttho

      sawytrs at the club-huuse . The prisoutr was among those Ulkiug abvut it , and seined to tw acting with them . There "was a great deal said in whispers . A p -r ^ on ciuied Grimes tras ; hvre , ami another named Huberts . Qrimts brcnght sometliir . ? like a tab !« leg with him under his coat , and witn « s heard him say " he wonld make sjme of the b rs dance a Djrmybn > ok jig with tbnt before mvrrinc . " One of the unionists biamtil him for sbt-vriD » it . and said he had do business to produce such a tliir . ^ in a public room . Witness saw Grimes Best day , and wa 3 thtn told by him— " We have done some cf them their job last nisht . "

      Patrick Keongh said he wa 3 a sawyer , snd lived in Ashton n-jw . _ On the 31 st October he "was living in MancLtittr , and about a quarter b-fore five o ' clock , when it was gptting dusk , left work in AsLton , along wi' . h his son , Jam-. s Ksough , and Joiin Harney , the deceased , Thomas Garland , and Patrick Kt-ou ^ h . When thsy had proceeded & little way ou the road , a number of men sprung from behind a cait , which was coming the opposite -way . and witness -ira 3 knocked down , &nd ssvert-ly beaten with sticks . There wtre about twelvu or fifteen men of the party icat attacke ;! them . When witness got up , he found Garland and bis other companion ? lying in the road , and their assailan ' s had run off , leaving them , as wituess supposed , for dead . Tbej

      went across the moor . All ths party were much hurt , and bled profusely , but Garland was tho worst , and they snpported him to a cottage near , to crave some watir , but could not get any , and they afterwards took him to a public-bouse , and gave kirn some b-.-er . Tbe blood teamed from him aa he went alon < . They afterwards took him to the Manchester Infirmary the siuie night Garland had with him , when be left . Ashton , a rod of iron , sharp at both ends , calkil a pricier . It was nearly a yard long , and was in a bag . He had neither the bag nor the pricker after they were ltf ' . by their assailants . The prisoner and Grimes wero among tbe men who attacked them . Witness never saw Garlacd after that iiish : till his death .

      Patrick Keough , son of the last "witness , Wis with Garland and his father on the night of the 31 st of October , when they were attacked by a number of men on the road to Manchester . He was knocked down , and beaten severely . Ht saw the prisoner among those who attacked them . He assisted Garland afterwards , though very wer . k himself . Garland was in a very shocking state—he " waa quite mashed up . " John Harney , of Manchester , sawyer * said he was one of the party attacked on the way to Manchester , by the Unionists . He saw them spring from behind

      the cart , and said to his companion , "Here they axe , boys—cow we ' re in for it . ' He -was struck down on his hands and knees in the ditch . "Witness saw the prisoner Holland there , and saw him strike Garland ( the murdered man ) with an iron instrument like that produced . He struck at Garland ' s head with it , and witness saw Garland , who was on the gr&und , put up his hands to ward off the blows . Garland cried ' ¦ Murder . " Witness did not sea Garland after , because ho did not go on to Alauchwiter , but ran back to Ash ton .

      Thomas Kadney , a lab ^ urrr , living at Ashton , stated that cu the evening of Sa ^ r ^ y . the 31 st of October , he had been working on AiUtuU Moor , and was returning hoiae along the Manchester road , about five o ' clock , when he heard a cry of " murder" behind him . It appeared to proceed from some one about fifteen yards from him . He turned round , apd saw one man on his hands and knees in the ditch , and another was down in the middle of the road . A great number of men , he thought at least a dozen , were striking at those who were down . The man who was doWn in the middle of

      the road rose up , and ran to tbe Bide of the road , when one of his assailants gathered up & stone and threw at him . Could not say whether the s : one hit him , but he felL The men who appeared to have been the assailants then ran off in bodies of three or four , in different directions , bat chiefly across the moor towards Droyladen . There were two or three carters passing With their carls during the attack , and one of th . m pkktd up an iron instrument like a sawyer ' s pricker , and carried it off with him . Witne 33 also picked up a pricker out ot the channel afterwards , and the iron instrument now produced was the siuue .

      Mr . W . Furnival , house surgeen to the Manchester Royal Infirmary , examined—Recollected the decaased , Thomas Garland , being brought to the Manchester Infirmary , on the 31 st of October , and admitted a patient . Made an examination of hia wounds that eveniug . He had several severe bruises and lacerations of the scalp . The upper part of his nose was fractured in several places , and he had also suffered a compound fracUre of the fore finger of his right hand . The ngbt hand and several part * of hii body were much bruised . The lacerations and bruises might all have been eaused by the Iron instrument produced . Witness advised immediate amputation of the finger , but Garland weuld not consent . Mortification ensued whidi brought on lock-jaw , and ultimately caused death . Witnew h * d made an examination of deceased * body after death , and could trace the cause of . death to nothing etee but the wounds onhis bodr in £ icte 4 on the 31 » t of October .

      Bichard Greea , superintendent In the Manchester police , stated that , in consequence of repeated directions from Sir Charles Shaw , he Lad gone in search of the prisoner , and had traced him at different times to Yorkehire , Shropshire , Wales , Fleetwood-on-Wyre , aad ultimately took . him in Dublin . This concluded the examination , and the prisoner , declining to say anything in his defence , was committed for trial , at the Liverpool Assizes , for the murder of Thomas Garlaad . * Another prisoner was then placed at the bar named Thomas HassaL There was no evidence to shew tkat he was engaged in the actual muitier , but it was shewn that be was one of the unionists engaged in plotting the attack , and he was committed ta the assizeg on the charge of conspiracy . ,

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      . —— " •¦— . -i From the Gazette of Tuesday , Uarch 23 . ;< . BANKRUPTS . ' Sanders , Frederick , licensed victualler , Hoxton OW , Town / Middlesex , to surrender March 30 , and Way j > at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Abbott , emcui assignee ; Ware , Blackman-street , Soutinrar * . ¦ L » mt > , Henry , grocer , Manchester , April l * and M = J 4 , at two , at the Commissioners ' -rooms , Maocnes ^ , ¦ Adlington , Gregory , Faulkner , aud FoUett , London , Claye and Thompson , Manchester . .. , Bradshaw , John , draper , Oswestry , Salop , Apm and Way 4 , afc eleven , Vt the Sh ire-hall , Shrewsbury Baxter , Linco n ' s Inn-fields , London ; Sato- « 4 W » thingtoB , Fountaia-atreet , Manchester ; u . ajw ^> " . Oaweatry . » . \ f « wi ••¦ Bloodworth , Edward , miller , Loughboroujh , Mara , 30 and May 4 , at twelve , at the Kin S ! . Lm ? & Loughboroagh . Etnmett and Allen , Bloomsbnry-scp »™> /;

      Hucknall , Loughborougn- „ h , t : ' ; ¦ Hunt , Henry , victualler , Birmingham , M « JJ » and May 2 , at two , at Dee ' s Boyal Hotel , BguJ . . ham . Chaplin , Gray ' s Inn-square , London ; uw" - *• ^ Birmingham . > ... , y . tr * f- Spenoef , William , tanner , CHarebtough , Nottingnsw | shire , April 2 . and May 4 , at eleveno *** s- , & White Hart Inn , East Betford ; Fox and Love , rw ^ tingham ; Mee and Big « by , East Betford ; Csmpowg and Witty , Issex-street , Strand . London . .., ^ 1 ffftrgwiws , Jamet , worsted tpinner . ^ B 3 I YorkBhire , April 1 , and May 4 , at one , at *>» * £ ? ¦ Hoi » Inn , Skiptou . YoTkdiire . Cragg , Harpar-nw" ^ RedLioniquare , Middlesex } Alcock , ^' P ^"' ^ . ^ ! " Boblawh , Peter , brewer , Wairlngt ^ Lw ^ , April fl , and May 4 , at twelve , at «^ ° SJ ? J 5 ? rooms , LirerpooL Norris , AUen , ^ . ^ Q i Bartlett ' s-buildings , Holborn , London ; Bay » J » " * " ^ n ^ ar . William , btush manulactufer . Leam ^ J j April « , at one , and May 4 , at eleven , at ^»^^ Bankruptcy , BausghaU-street ; Graham , officiti »»» " IUsliighaU- » teeetr BayU ^ l ) OTon » hire-squ » re . . j . ^ ^ * . Lea , James , butcher , Gloucester , April "JJ "" j ^ " ' at eleven , at the King ' s Head Hotel , G 10 ™* ^^ and Son , Serjeant's Inn , * leet-street , London ; vo

      G 1 wt ^ enry , buUder , Stafrord , Ajf T ^ jj ^ J at twelve , at the Swan Inn , Stafferd . tw *** WedlsJce , King's Bench-watt , Templo , London , 8 » fibrd .

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      _ Chxb « b of Raps against a SurseoN . —Mt . Josh-Llarke , a smr « eoa of good practice , residing in m i l * S *? ^ ^ ' beea heW to bail at fiUrylebone Police Office , on a eharge of having oommisted a rape upon the person of Mrs . Hall , wife of a compositor , whom he had been attending professionally . Tbe prisoner was called upon to am bail , himself m £ 500 and two sureties of - £ 2 M each . S ^ SAciTr ot Two Mulbs . —About two miles from the town of Ballymahon , in the county of Longford , Ireland , resides a gentleman who has in his possession two mules of the Spanish breed . They both regularly go to a pump placed in the yard , and while one applies his mouth to the spout / the other works the nandle by alternatel y raising and depressing his shoulder . When one has satisfied his thirst , he exehangsa with his companion , and returns the service ho has received . —Not aJonathm . butgenuini Irish .

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      d& ^ THE NORTHERN STAR . ___

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 27, 1841, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct372/page/2/