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      EMPLOYMENT OF CHILbSEN IN MINES AND MANUFACTORIES . The First Jlerort of tke Commissioners appointed to inquire into the employment sn < i condition of children and ysong persona ~ n mines and manufactories has been reeenfciy laid before Parliament . It is a folio ¦» bine book * of moderate sis ? , comprising some 269 pages of leter-press ; and it is illustrated by a number of woodcatd , which exolain much better than a typographical descri ption the principal points to -which the Commissioners dsssire to direct the public attention . The Commission -was appointed by the Queen , on the 20 th October , ISiO , in compliance with an address from the House of Commons , which was moTed by the bene-Tolent lord Ashley ; the Commissioners being Thomas TTooke , Esq ., D ? . Thomas Southwood Smith , together ¦ with Leonard Horner , Esq ., and Robert John Saunders , Esq ., two of the Inspectors of Factories .

      Since the presentation of the First Report , -which is exclusively confined to a description of the condition of children and young persons employed in . mines , the Second Report being intended to be devotsti to the condition of children and young persons employed in manufactories , there have been also laid before the two Houses cf Parliament , by command of her Majesty , Parts L and II . of the Appendix" to t& 9 First Report of the CominiBaionera . These are two huge blue folios , one of them containing exactly 900 pages , and the other S 86 pases . These Appendices contain in detail the evidence -which is abstracted and analysed in the report itself .

      Part I . ia illustrated -with some lithographic sketches of man , of women , of children , employed in what -tra may term " brute labour" and " brute transport . " There are -women harnessed to coal carts , asd dragging teem through seams of coal from twenty-two to twentyeight inches , only , in height—working their burdens some backward—others forward—over ; he dismal perforations , rather t **^ roads , with a dip of one foot in three , to one foot in six . This infamous , this disgusting , this unsmng employment , is exacted at this day , of wretched , bat miserably paor and untiriEjrly industrious wemen (!) in sume of the mines of Scotland , and tie north of England , under circumstances to " which . it present we can scarcely trust ourselves further to fillule . In mines in . Lancashire , boys are employed , some in E .-Gshing , others in dragging leaded coal trucks through those miserable seams or gsileries , —the pushers

      fcecomicg bUd , frosa the friction of their heaos against the tracks , the draggers maimed from hauiiEg it on their hands 2 nd knees;—and both these employments are b&biceil I la aiiaes at Rochdale , and in t ^ e vicinity of Preston and Macclestirld , miners wort -at the coal is positions , a ^ -i under restraints and cocfiteme ^ t , cs to space for their exertions , which ihock belief , but are terribly exemplified in the rude but elective lithogrsohs at pp . 158 , &c , of Part I . One of the men shown , ( and cf zil represented in the cuts it is said ( p . 159 } that " they gectndly Wc-rk naked , " is as destitute cf aJ hscilisents a 3 a native cf the "Washington Islones . Ho was fennd working "ia a mine of not more than from eighteen to twenty IhcLls in thickness His chest was brcuibt down so its tiniest to rest upon the tb ^ b , and the Lead b-.. nt downwards nimoit to the kcee I" . '

      But even nearer io ~ 3 the practices detailed seem quite t ^ stressing as thc-so we havj glanced at above We have felt rnucli diScuitv ia selecting from the large mass cf testimony adduced a f-. w psssr ^ -s that would givesn adequate idea of the condition of lbs miners ; but the follotrins , which relate to our immesiate neigk"benrhood , will be found to possess a painfu " . interest The Sab-Commissioner states that " initmces of

      oppressively hard work performed by young females pre- trcukl rather be in the pit , where I am thrashed some

      sente-. l themselves st collieries Etai xi - ^ rnb ' .-y . Tte evidence of Er ' nbeth Bay . and of Azn and Erzibeth Egfley , is deserving cf especial notice , tee more bo because I believe both the cider of these witut ^ ses to be resr-ect '; ble and credible , and both gav ^ - their evidence ¦ with "iiiucii good f .-fclinjj and propriety . The work of Elizabeth Day is rendered mere severe by her taring to hurry pirt of tbs ' wDj us h : ll with leiukd corves , a very rcrnTUil circnnisUr . ee . Tne Ejglejs me , however , doing tho ordinary work cf harriers in thrir colliery . 1 ; is 2 l ^ rge , "R-ell-TsntiiaUd , and weIl-:-jguiit » rd one . but c-wlnir io tlie hizi of I ' . e ctrres . v . hidi \ reizh 12 £ cat ., it is work very f , r bsyc-cd the strengih ( . ¦ ' ftniales at any s £ « , especlal-y f-jinsita cf iiste-. n and eichteen years oldT After taking ths ' eTidence of thu Wo Ezgleys I saw them both at tiisir w « rk . . aad tunied their corres

      and a ! so r-erformc-. l the work they had to- do at the bank face ;? I c-. n ^ oi enly c ^ . rrok . rate their statements but ha ~ e co bfciitaii . 'n ia a £ diug that were they gilley-Elaves their work ccuid E--t be n ^ orc o-. presiive , aud I beiieTe woald not in all probability be to much so . Elizabeth Egg ' ey , the younger , who is rot abare Hfzeen , ¦ whilst doing wist is coiled tupping the ccrves , lifted a coal which must li ^ re wc-i ^ btd at least .- - haniired pounds . It measurvd thirty inches in leucih , and tec by seven inches in thickness . This she lifted from tht ground and placed ou the top of the c ^ rve , tbove three feet and a half h ; ch . She " afterw ^ rdB lifted a still larger one . The loir ^ ir oce was li ' tcl in tea oidiniry coutk of her work . Tfcis girl was working for her father , who "c \ is itizisiuig by Et the tiiiic . " J . C . SyiEons , Esq . Bzvori . § 117 : App . V-.. 1 ., p . 152 j

      EliZibblh Day . s ^ td Seventeen , Wv . xkirg ia Messr ? . Hopwosd ' a -p t t . t B ^ msley : " 1 hare b ^ tn ittrly nice years in tbe pit . I trapped for two yes .. 3 Tsh = n I first ¦ west , and I b-T ? Lurried tver sinc-e . I hava hurried for my father unt : i 2 year ago . I have to . help to riddle and fill , and sometimes I have io 311 myself . It is Very hard for ma at present I hsvs to hurry by myself ; I hsve Lurried hy myself goi&j fist on tLree years . Before thr 2 ! I feiid my sister to Lnrnr -srtUi . ^» . 1 im-te to hurry no hill u-ii 2 » « = e icacltd cortes , quitt as much up aa * nrn , bvit net m ^ ny haTe to hurry up hiil with the loaded eotvti . When I riddle 1 hold the rlidle , and have tw shake the * h . ck cut of it , and then I throw the

      res : into the corre . We aic-ays hurry in trowtrs as you saw us to day when you wtre ia tbe pit Generally I work naked down to ihe \ riii . tlike the rest ; I had my shift on to-day when I saw you btcaosa I had bad to wait , and wsa cold : but generally the gir ' s harry raked down to the waist . It is Tery bard work f- > r us ail ; it is harder work than we cugbt to do a d ? a 3 . I have been lamed in my ancle , and strained in my back ; it caused a treat lump ones in my ancle-bone . ** i J . C Symons , Eiq ., Evidecce , No . So ; App . Pt . I ., p . 2 i 4 , 1 23 . ) Ann Eggley , harrier in Messrs . Thorpe ' s colliery , eigbteeujKirs old : " I hurry by mys .-lf , aad ta 76 dene so for long . I ks : > vr the corves are very heavy ; they are the biggesi coitcs ivnywheia about , The woik i 3 far

      too hard for me ; tha swea » runs tff me ali over some- . never forget , " _ Eny 3 the Sub-CtirumlssioneTs , " ft-: fir . t times . I am very tired at night . Stm-tinus whtn we urfjrtnnatti crr-nture ; uf rhia clui-st that I r . ivt - ^ -iih ; it get homs at nizhi we have not power to w ^ ah us , and w : is a boy of about eicht ytars old , who locked at me then we- go to bid . Sometimes we fkllcalesp in thfe as I pas-d through with : in expression of countenur . cf ch 2 ir . Father sai i lssi night i : was both a aliims and the most aKj-. ct s . ^ -1 idioiic—Vi ' ke a thing , a creepfuj

      s disirraie for girls to work as we do , bat there was norght else for us to do . I have tried to get vis-Jin . ; to do , out onld not . I begun to hurry when I wa 3 £ = T n , and I hive been hurrying ever since . I have been eleven ygara in tLe pit . The girls are always tir-ii . I was poorly t ^ iee this winter ; it was with headzchs . I hurry for Robert Wurgins ; he is cot akin to n : e ; I riddle for t : m . We all riddle f-jr . thsm except the litdest , whea th-.-re is txvo . I am quits sure that we work constant ?^ fsrclve hours , exeepJ Saturdays . We weai trowfers and stilts in th ; pU , and great b ; g sboea clinked aci na . ile-3 . liie girl .- never work niked to the waist in cur pit . The men don't insult m ia the pit Ths conduct of tie gtris ia the pit- is good fenojgh sonibtiin&s , and sometimes bid encu ^ h . The" mtn do

      not msuit taa' gins wiUi us , but 1 thick tht ; 7 do in Eose . 1 . It-id . No . 113 , p . 252 , 1 . 1 G : B . izxbbth Egcl = 7 » &ixte = n jei-rs old : "I am s := ter to t £ e last wiuitvs , 1 Lurry ia -ihe same pit , ara work for iiij- fa"Jber . I frd ir , y work very taueh too hard for me . I hurry alcne ; it tirvs me ia my ^ rms aid back rc ^ st . VTe go to trork between four and f re in the r ^ cmii ;?; if -we are not there by ha f-pait £ ve , we are net allovred tv go down at alL We come out at four , £ ve , or sis at nigbt , as it Inppezs . V »" e stop in generally twelTe boura , and S 2 m 6 time 3 longer . Vte have to hurry only froic the bant face down to the

      horseback and bacli . I aia sure it is vary tsrd work and tiits us very much ; it is too hard for girls to do . TYe Ecrueimiss go to sleep f-dc-rs we gst t 3 i-sd . " tliid . >* o . 114 : p . S 52 , 1 . 4 i-: —Jaaie 3 Eggley , aged forty-five , sarat pit as tie above : " I hsve six girl ? , and only one young boj eo $ c ^ d ecsagh to com-.. * to the pit . I ciD ^ -oi uo vri th ' .-ut Esuddug my gi . is to the pit ; the eldest is eitbteen , :. si the Ecconi s : xie-ea ; they each turry s ^ oai ; it is hard work for them , to bs sure , but mine Ish .- ' Sj , > . cU - ^ itii it . Ttty do coiUpls-in of ^ cisg ti ^ & 3 Bo ^ i = tiiii ^ . I don ' t like their coming covra , tut I hzTB haU on-.- An : ; , at home , ind I caar . oi get " any work for her to « Jotiioueh I c-m cet nothing I haTet

      ; , Z . ~ 7 ~ . < - v ^ ;• -. ; — - " -s , - x . * , --. _ -4 cw _ ; - stance u three score y . ; rds : Ihurrvj tr rd n . s : a brings mo 12 los . per JS rretk ; and A is a bv : iij ,.-. f-, - *« a . " , L . irry nv ours- ' v-s" \ IMd S ' o 37 * - S %££ ? £ L ^ S £ ^ J& ¦ &U £ M % * Hz- ^ ZiBBB P it , t B ^ s l ,-y : " I am fifteen years old ; I ai ^ yS £ nd dca , .. ' : . " ami lio ? i

      ur-. ss is y-iu savr me to-cuj—nuked down to the iraist r ^ i ~ : th u-oUK-rs oe . I wurk f ;> r Jame 3 :. ; artin , who is no reiiti ^ -a , but i ; e is tL-a gsttisr who Employs me . " / I : : 4 . X .-. SO : p . HI , 1 . An , —Ustty - -lalleEdsr , of tbe £ - "i . ' calif try : I "ifis elsvca izst 2 fov = rster ; I alfra-ri

      ? -f ' ?• i : " - - L " > ^ 9 ^ % J B - > ** ns , by cam * Am Ar ^ er . wto r « 8 down wilk ua K-tD-mTa ^ y . Ihnrry ia ihepitTi-a-Kss ui tLii upon the clarch fci ^ ess . - the weara her breeehes vshtn zBonuas ; I jutots > vcrk nskrii . ao ^ n to tae w : ^ t , sad th . . c 83 do ^ , and whjJe at work , and conies ' op the ma u .:. . - ^ 3 enjas aau tae gtr . a I fctow i ^ irry m vne ? - .-o « . Iapped wuh us iaihe dateh i ) arn ^ tS ; vrh ^ . be = f ^^ 1 ^ Ioi ( L ^ 8 !> -. V *> v 1 - 2 ;~ Cf - ; : i ^ . vnsb e burrk-i W : ; h us in the s ^ ewnyas we do . B-:= y .. tg-. u thtrteun years : "I have been m the pit -mchont iho-s or tuckiags . tT > d Xo ' p 10 " 1 tc-out £ 7 d yCu 23 . Sometimes tho corres run easy , ard 5 S )—( Set also wlt-esits ^ os . 17 ' " G 0 $ " 30 ' sr 'V 1 oliier times c ^ t ; i : tires us much sometimes . V > ~ e hurry 50 . 73 . 1 > - > - > - , ">—

      with cur tij ^ icis on , sr = d nsked to ths ~; i = t ; atid soiaetit . rs T ? e take cur trc-ussrs eff , and hurry in oar shvns . The girls do not tike their tmiiers off , but tl ; ey tire rjsktc down to the TTiist" ilbid , No . t-1 : t , 2 ^ 5 , 1 . ± 2 ., S-.-s tko witnessesXos . 10 , 42 , 73 , 97 , 101 , 12 S , 15 i , 2 C 3 , 255 , 363 , &r . In ths coai-nila ? 3 in which ths seams of coal sre thin the children a .-isost universaiiy harry en all-fotirs with the belt and chain . G- ^ or ge Dyscn , coal-owner , Stacnisston : the Je ^ s hurry with 2 . belt and chain on aH-. 'ou . a . Thirty-eight yeara ago they had no bslts or chains , but used to run along on one band and feet , and pull the corns with the other hand ; that ws . 3 much worse for Uuetn . -Ibid Ka S 3 : p . 213 , 2 . 39 . }—See witnesses , Kos . S 3 , 52 / 77 . ' 82 , et esq .

      In same parts of this district girls are quite as comjBonly employed in dragging coals in this nnx ^ iu rs £ -05-3 . « They hurry with a belt and chair ., as well as t ru "" fajs Mr . Thomzs Peace ; - " there are as many ghisas-to , " * ? m Pk > 7 & Pbont here . " QXd . ye , S 3 .- P .

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      I 233 . 1 . £ 0 . }— " One of the most disgusting sights I I have ever seen , " taj 3 the Sub-Commissioner , " was 1 that of young f-wales , dressed like boys in trousers , i crawling on all fours , with belts round their waists , and j chains passing between their legs , at day pits , at ¦ Hunshelf Bank , and in many small pits near Holmfirth i and New Mill * . It exists also in several other places . " 1 " Whilst I was in the Hunshe'f pit the Rev . Mr . i Bruce , of WadBley , and the Kav . Mr . Nelson , of Ratheri ham , who accompanied me , and remained cutside , saw ! another girl of ten yearB of age , also , dressed in boys ' it fothes , who was employed in ' hurrying , * and these I gentlemen saw her at work . She was a nice-looking ¦ little child , bat of conrse as bia > . k as a tinker , and with ! a little necklace ronn-1 h ' .-r throat . "

      i " These ch'J- . -e ;; h ; tV 9 twenty-four corves a-day to ! hurry out of 1-Ls den , and conseqn-. rtly have forty-1 eicht time 31 > }< as 8 alona the g ^ te , Wr . - \ - h ia about the ' size of a toltr-bly large drain . I would beg particularly i to call your attention to the evidence of the man&ger of i this colliery , No . 23 , whose evidence respecting the i number of girls employed by him was distinctly disi proved by Harritt Morton , No . 38 , au intelligent ' girl , who seemed to feel the degradation of her lot i so keenly that it was quite painful to tike her evi-! deEoe . . - - _ _

      • ' In two ether pita in the Huddersfield Union I have seen tbe same sight . In one , near New Mills , the chain , passing high up between the legs of these two girls , had worn large holes in their trousers , and any sight more disgustingly indecent or revolting con scarcely be imagined thin these girls at w « k . Xo hrothel can beat it I to ^ k their evidence afterwards , when they were sent to ice washed snd ri-ersed , and one of tfeem , at least , was evidently cramiui-il with Ler evidence . " ( J . C . Symons , Esq ., Report , § 113—11 G : App . Pt . 1 ., p . 1 S 1- )

      Harriet Morton— " 1 r . m nearly fifteen years old , and began to work in Webs-ter ' s pit when I was going in ten . I ' vo always worked in Webrttr and Peace ' s pit ; I have hurried all the tiino ; I am tbe oldest girl there . There aib seven regular fcurrers , who are girls . Tfcere are six boys who hurry . Two of us are employed at each corve both full and eropty . When the corve is loaded , one of us is havnesbed with a belt round the waist , and a chain coir . e 3 from the front of the belt , and ptisscs betwist our l ? gs , and is hooked on to the ccrvo , and we go al-cg on out hands and feet , on all-fours . I do so myself , and a little boy \ u * hes bthiiid . We wear trousers always ; . s -whtnyou saw ur . " 1 J . C S > nions , E * q . Evidence , Xo . 33 : App . Pt . I ., p . 233 , 1 . 66 . )—Aim Hoeuf— ' ^ I am turned of thirteen years old . I hurry thcfsaaie as tbe last sirl , in TV cb * texts pit I draw the corvo with a ch ^ Jn and belt Trfrs ia a little girl , my sister who rushes bthiiid . We have twrnty-four

      corves to go ia and out with every day . Sarah' Muorhcu ? 3 ' gets' as well as hurries ; she gets and hurries eight corves a day ; I uoa't liku working in the pit so very well ; I woukl ratfceT not do it . Having to pull so hard in tbe pit makes me poorly sometimea . " ilbid . Ko . 3 y : p . 2 Si , 1 . 1 G 1 > lary Holmes , aged fcurtt < .-n and a half . Meal Hill . Hepworih— "I have been tight yeara woriiri ; in pi ; 3 , I have always hurried ; I never thrast much . 1 always hurry as you saw ni 3 , with a belt round uiy waist and the chsvin through mylcrs , 1 hurry s ; . in tbeboaiv-aatts . I always wenrlad's cluthis . The trousers ckn * t set tjm at all . It tires me middling : my back doesn't acbe ut all , nor my legs . I like beici ; in pit , a : ii don't want to tio nought i-lse ; I never tried to do anything ehe . Sometimes I get cold bj its being so wet ; the wet covers my ankles . lam sure nobody baa told me what to say . Sometimes I stop a-: d fill the corves after the getter is gone . I don't knaw hot * - long 1 ihiU slop in the pit . I am sure I

      timi 8 . and work in the vrtt , than do anything else . " ( I ' . i ' . i No . 2 S 3 : p . 295 , 1 . 22 . i Er ^ mZir Hvaley , att-. l th-rtt-en : " I west into a yii to help before I was liva years old . I used to thrust ; I didn't do it long . I harry now witli a b'lt and chain in the broa < i-g . it € S . There . ire :: o rails there . We have to hurry full corves this W 3 y up biJi as vreV . a 3 down . I do this myself , and I iiaTe sixteen runs a day . fotwhich I have Is , There are i ^ irla il-. at harry in the &ame way , with belt and c ' oaii :- Our breeches a : e often torn between the legs ¦ with tbe ciii ' m . Th « g . r l = ' breeches are torn as ofien as ours : tL ^ y 22 5 torn n ariy a tir .: o , and when they are coiii ? a ' onz we cac ses tii-.-iu ail between the legs naked

      — I hare oftea ; rsid that girl , Mary Ho : nies , was no to dsr . She dfctit's it ; tut it is true for all that " " ( Ibid . >* o . 2 S 4 ; p . 235 , L 3 S .: —Gtorge Hirst , collier , awvd thirty-two . « iirs-: rs . St ^ r . hfcld add Bripgs ' s G ; a Pit at Low ' c-. muion , Kukbuit-n : - the children hurry with belt and cbiin , the c > =: u patina between thtir k-gs ; srirls and al ) . It prLvi ; i'i ; ev > sc :: ; e pocr foiks to bring their giris to pits , and I have seen maDy who have m ? . de reprc-iblc women , and for aught I know useful wives . I don't know that the girls have any more- imj u iecce than the ether girls tLat ire brought up in other ways . It i 3 trne that tbt-y all have impudence . " ilbid . No . £ y 4 .- p . 2-jl , 1 . 10 . 1

      Buadforo a >' d Leeds . —AccorniDg t 9 Mr . Thomas Markley , £ UT < .: i % n . Wih-. ien , it is ths common practica to employ g-rls in that neighbourhood , and "the ? have a ctnin or brlt about the v . aist , which passes between tfee lejs tf tl . d female , and is hooked on to the ¦ vraggon of coals , which they fail from the place -where the iEtn wurk to the bottom vt the shaft . I skouid alao raid that the men in tho pit vrork perfectly naked . " ( W . R . Wood , Esq , Evidence , > "o . 61 ; App . Pt . II ., p . h 23 . 1 , 9 ) . Halifax . —In this district , in which , as has been shown , the seams of c « il in many of th * i mine 3 tue not more than fourteen inches in thickness , ani rarely exowi thirtj-, the space at the -workings is Eometime 3 too small to allow the adult clliers to crirry on their operations even in a stooping pasture ; they are obliged

      to work "lying their whole length along tbe untvon fl'Or , and supporting their her . ds uyon a board or short ; crutch : " as ia shown in the illustrative woodcut at p . j eo , in Part II . cf the Appendix . When they are able to obtain a littlsmorespr . ee . they work " silting upon one heel balancing their persons by exttuding ths j o-her . ^ ' In these " low , dLrk , heuttd , and dismal ' . chambers they work perfectly naked . " ( S S . Seriven , j Esq . R-port , sec 40 : FigB . 4 , 5 , 6 : App . Pt 11 ., pp . 63 , C 4 J . The narrowness of the space in which all the operations must be carried on in these mines of course mate-1 rialiy tsifiaences the labour of the children acd youj .-g ; persona . Fcrtunateiy bnt few children are neede . l in ; them as trappers , but those that are employed , as in ' uioit other districts , sit in perfect darkness . " I can

      \ . sjT ; z pecariitr to the place . On approaching and Eueak- ; i : ; g to him he slcnk treaibiing and frighteue . ! i-: ; : o a corner , under an impression thit 1 vras about to du him Bome t-o ^ iiy iiijury , andfroni ¦ vvLicb . neither coaxing wur iemptiti > . n 3 -wouiu draw him out" ( Ibid , { K 7 : p . 72 ., i In this district tbe loaded corvts drawn by the tur-1 rlcrs W £ i ? h from two to live art . ; these carries are mounted upon four ca .-t-irc : i wheels of five inc ' -es ia d : anirt = r , there beiE ^ : n gt : > .-ral :: u raih from the head- . : n ? 3 to th-.- main- ^ ites . Thb cliildren have to drag , ih ^ se carriuges through pa ^ s-igcs in Eos > e cases not iiiore ; thu ^ fiura sixteen to twenty inches in height . Of course to ^ vCoiEplish th : s the youngest children must craw ] on their hauas and f « : t io render their labour the iii < . re ' < easy , tas Sut-Goniniiisioner states that " they buckle round their uaSred persons a broad leather strap , to whit-Ii is attached in froat a riug and about four fett of cbaia terminatina in r- h ^ i . k .

      i " As s . _ oa f .-i t ^' . y ^ . ' . tr the main-gates they attach tLtis harness froi ^ . the corve , change their position by Setting DcbirtS it acJ bec- 'iEt ;' thrust = rs . * The vthide is ihcapiac-Tlup nth ; rail , a c ^ -. dle ia stuck fast bj" : i pitce of H' . -t ciij . azd a-ay tiey run with prodigious c-icr : ty tu the t . v-icr , pzisbing the load with taeir h ^ ads and h ^ n-1 ? . . Fig . o . i The C ( . u ; : nanu tLoy Lold over it at every curve and angle , C ' - 'iisideriiu ; tLtpace , the uueveuness of tie fkors ' , aud rails , aud tho mu-J , water , and stones , is truly a = t ^ r ! isb : r : ? . Tae you ^^ er cJ ' . iliiren thrust in pa : ra . " < S . S . Scrivra . Eiq , K ,-p . rt , §§ 40—52 : App . Pt . IL , ( p . C 5 , gc , ; . I John jlarrfen . aged e ! . ;! it snd a half , Wike-line P . t : ! " I hurry a ' diZrii and r ^ relva corves a day , [ that is ' twenty to a e \ 2 .-nj ; my brother Lawrence helps me , I ar . d Wo havo to hurry the corves about 200 yarde . " ! S . S- Scrivc-n . E-. q . EviucEce , 2 \ o . 42 ; App . Pt . II ., J 113 , 1 . 14 ) . Jusr ; .. u Hiril ^ -cll , aged Un years , Wfcj fh ' P :: : ' I hurry u . -at fo : t 3 corvts a-day ; thty veigh !

      ^ ; y . . ^ I ^ 'V , i ^ . ^ aw . _ , ij n ... i : > - weik-o : of tue carves 13 ivb » t two _ cwt ; It i * tut ) y ^ rds f oai tbe pit ' s Mtutu io the w ^ -rsmgs ; ! . ~ . ury .. ' .. out sevtateen Cvrvts a- < iay ; 23 ? ' ' " = ma .: : .., ; ; . ; : ^ at is too much , ;> ut th-. H" r : re iiiunJ ta do If lit-U . N <> . 14 : p . 105 . 1 . 17 ) . V . ' w . D ? soc , aged fourteen , il . ssra . Abraham and ChrJie .

      "The sketch given in p . 79 -fiz . 4 , is intended to represent Ann Ajiibj ^ -r and Wiiiism Dyson , the witness L = t quoted , fcurrifcxs in Ideiszs . Ditchford and Clay s cj ; l : erv at Eliasd , in the act of being drawa up cro * s-I ^ ppta npon the clatch-iron by a woman . As soon cs they arrived at tbe top the handle was made fast by 3 bolt drawn from the upright post ; the woman then grasped the hand of both at the same time , end by iniin force brought them to land . The corve on these ocoaaoiiS is detached from the hoots to render the load lLjhier , " . ; S . S . Seriven , Esq ., Report § 26 : App . PMLr-fil . )

      " Girls from five to eighteen perform ali the work of boys . There is no distinction whatever in thair coming u » the shaft or going down— in the mode of hurrying or thrusting—in the weights of corves , or in tbe distances they are hurried—in wages , or dress . Indeed , it is impossible to distinguish , either in darkness or the gt ' es in which they labour , or in the cabin before the br . u-J light cf day , an atom of difference between c-ne tez ozi , the ether * ' Ibid § 9 " , p . 73 . ]

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      Betty Harris , aged thirty-seven , drawer in a coal-pit at Little Bolton :. "I have a belt round my waist , and a chain , passing between my legs , and I go on my hands and feet . The road is very steep , . and we have to hold by a rope ; and , when there is no rope , by anything we can catch bold of . There are six women , and about six boys and girls in the pit I work in ; it is very hard work for a woman . The pit is very wet where I work , and the water comes over oat clog-tops always , and I have aeen it up to my thighs : it rains in at the roof terribly ; ray clothea are wet through almost all day long . I never was ill in my life but when I was lying iu . My cousin looks after my chUdrea in the daytime . lam rety tired when I get home at night ; I fall asleep sometimes before I get washed . I am not so strong as I was , and cannot Btand my work so well as I used to do . Ibvre drawn till I hove had the skin off me : the belt and chain is wowe when we are in the family way . My feller [ husband ] has beaten me

      many a time for not being ready . I "were not used to it at first , and he had little patience : I have known many a man beat hia drawer . I have known men take liberty with , the drawers , and some of the women have bastards . " ( J . L . Kennedy , Esq .. Evidence , No . 90 : App . Pt . II ., p . 230 , 1 . C 4 . )—Ellen Yates , drawer , Sridgewat ' -r Colliery : " Ia sixteen years old ; draws 180 yards ten or twelve times a day , sometimes more or sometimes less , just as it happens ; draws with the belt and chain ; the tubs are not on wheels , we sled ' em [ draw them on sledges ] . " ( Ibid . No . 96 : p . 232 , 1 . 49 . ) —Rosa Lucas , nearly eighteen years © Id , drawer at Mr . Morris ' s , Lamberhead Green : " What distance did you draw ? Twenty-three score yards in length . That Is 460 yards each way , or 920 yards ? Yes . How many times had you to draw this distance . ? Sixteen and sometimes eighteen times . [ Taking sixteen times , she would have to draw 14 , 720 yards daily ] ' ( Ibid . No . 92 p . 231 , 1 . 57 . )

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      the day did nottliminish . The Cishel and Cahir band was met .. outside . ' the town by the Tippeiary ; they were accompanied by thousands . The procession entered the town about half-past one , each band playing in succession their favourite airs ; after playing several times up and : down the town they retired to the market-house Room , where they continued to play until dinner . The Coffee Rooms were fitted up for the occasion , about fifty persona belonging to the band sat down to a neatly-dressed dinner , and enjoyed it with that feeling which Temperance can so well bestow on her favourites . The town has been thrown into great confusion , in consequence of a large body of masons having endeavoured to prevent , men from Fethafd of the same trade from working for the Rev , Robert Carey , who is bnilding some small houses in the vicinity of thatown . They proceeded in a large body to the place where the building was going on , and prohibited the strange masons fr « m continuing their work . The mayor quickly got

      intimation of what was going on , and lost no time in calling out the police force that were at the time in the barrack , and proceeded to the scene of tumult But so determined and numerous did the opposing party appear that hia worship , conceiving the party of police inefficient ( a large number of that body being out of town in consequence of the exhumation by the peasantry of a body supposed to be that of a policeman , who committed suicide iu Cahir some time back ) sent word to the commaading onlcer to have a party of military ready to turn out in casd of necessity . His worship then proceeded to arrest the ringleaders of the aggressors which be succeeded in dsing , and lodged them in gaol , there to remain until they procured good solvent ba il . He also stationed a guard of policemen where the works were going on , and commanded them to protect the strange masons until the time arrived for their leaving off work , which had the desired effect of protecting the inon from violence .

      IVes tpoiit . —On TTednesday night last , Captain Scale , of the Coronation , of Cardigan , fell overboard his vessel , at < this qufiy , and was drowned . An inquest has been held on the body , before John F . Bourke , Esq , and a Jury . It appeared , from the evidence of one of the erevp , that the deceased bad rfctumed from Newport that evening—that he was intoxicated when he arrived , and that he bad not been more than twenty minutes in the vessel when a boy cried ou » that he was in tbe water . Dr . Bourke . deposed that he found two contused wounds on the side add back of the deceased's head , but that death was caused by suffocation from drowning . Tfee . Jt-Ty found that deceased had ' come to bis de ^ th by falling overboard while in a state of intoxication . "

      Sudden Death . —A few dnys since an extraordioary instance of sudden - death occurred at Killideri . Pat Ford , who residod at . the above place , went to his bed in apparently good health , and on the next morning was found quite dead . Mr . OGraciy , the Coroner , held an inquest on the body . The surgeon who attended deposed that in his opinion the deceased died ' by the visitation of God . " A verdict was delivered acsordingly .

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      and four o ' clock : by that time he bad prepared a flre in the harness-roooi , and they then burnt some of the limbs . Tie man destroyed tie limbs , and cot him ( prisoner *;; " Andi" added he , " that ' s true by the God who made me ; " He then proceeded- ^'' It is also quite true what I have said about Susan Butcher being tbe cause of my destruction , and also the manner in whibh Jane destroyedherself : she stuck herself just as Lord Castlereagh did . I gave the man the sovereign I agreed upon , and he promised to come again the next night to take the body away . He said he could make it away by patting it into the water , and tying a weight to it . I think he said a half stone weight , to sink it I took the ear-rings from her ears , and the ring from her

      finger . It was my wife ' s wedding ring . I was never married to her . I took those articles , as well as her clothes , to Woolwich on the Wednesday following , and gave them to Susan Batcher . I told her what had happened , and she said she was glad to hear it , as she was now out of the way . I took Butcher seme tea and sugar , and also some cream . I don't know where tbe man lives that I have been speaking of , but I believe it is somewhere ia the ueighbourhood of Brompton . Butcher is . a very bad woman , although she said she would act as a mother to my boy . I declare to God that -woman would have been alive now but for Susan Butcher , who haa been toe source of all my misfortune ^ . " ¦ •¦ -. ¦'" ¦ " . ¦ . : - ''¦ :. '¦ .- '• ' '• " - . : ' •¦"" " . - . ; .

      The prisoner then turning himself round and addressing the audience said , "Ladies and gentlemen , I wish you all very good night . I have a great deal more to say , but am too much fatigued to say it now . " He was then removed from the bar . Mr . Doane assured the Court that the . defence he had considered it his duty to make had not been suggested by the prisoner , but arose entirely froth hia ( Mr . Doane's ) perusal of the depositions . The prisonei had never mentioned a word upon the Bubject to hia solicitor . A large concourse of persons had assembled in the street opposite the court , and as soon as they had learned that tha prisoner had beea convicted their cheers were vociferous ,

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      EXTRAORDINAKY CASE OF SUPERSTITION . At the adjourned sessions for the county of Esses , held last week , a gipsey , named Louisa Dolton , aged 30 , was indicted under very singular circumstances for stealing two sovereigns , three half sovereigns , iiftoen half crowns , forty two shillings , and five sixpences , from'Miss Kannnh Quiver , at Ugley . Mr . Rodweil , who appeared foe the prosecution , said tha circumstances of this casu ¦ wero of a singular and extraordinary nature , and he should call attention to a faw facts which , unless they were proved by cvidencd inacourtof justice , they would hardly believe . The prosecutrix was a widov , keeping a shop at Ugiey Green , and she had a daughter who was the principal witness in tha c ; ise . At Easter last she was m a bad

      state of health , whether from unrequited love or uot he did not know , when the prisoner got access to her and induced her to believe that she was spell-bound ; but promised that on payment of a sum of money , and by perfsrmiu'j certain mysterious and magical arts , sue should be relieved , in this way she obtained 2 s . the Ei-at time ; and she then eaid , if 10 s . more were given her she would consult a book . It was given , and she then handed hor two pieces : of paper , stuck across with pins , which she said would have the effect of removing the spell . She called again a few days after , when she produced a bag , and asked to liave filled with salt , and she also stated it would be necessary for a Eunyof money — £ 7 or £ 8—to be put into . ' the bag . The young woman brought £ 2 or £ 3 down stairs , and put In- ' to

      : tlie oag , but uw prisoner said it would be impossible to complete tbe cure without £ 7 or £ 3 ; and ' she then brought down tlifit suin of her motiier ' a . It vras at'first ; distinctly stated that sho v / : is not to take the money j away , but it waa anaiiged that , the prisoner shOuld ' tijte j the b ;; g and briug it back at eleven . o ' clock the next I day , and if she did not the youn g woman waa to get j a sharp knife and cut her ( the gipsey ' s ) throat . She , j however , forgot to come back , but was afterwartls I apprehended 10 or 11 juiit-s off . Possibly ,, iu the course , of the evidei . ee , iacts would come out tbst would ! create a smile ; but they must recollect that weak and j Eervous people—not the strong rniuded—were selected for these purposes ; and the law was for the protection of the weak in mind as well as those who were weak in body , against the fct"ong . I Hannah Guiver , rather a good-looking young woman , 25 yeats of ago , was then examined . She said—I live

      I with my mother at U gley Green ; she keeps a small shop . On the 26 th of Marchj on a Saturday , tto prisoner came to the shop , and told mo she would toll me a few vTords that would be a benefit to me ; I gave her Is . ; she had a book with her , and she looked into it , after which she said if she told me by the book I must give L * er another Is . > I gave it her , and she then said I was u ; ider a spell but if I gave her half a sovereign she cctild and would break it in nine days . ( Laughter . ) sAe then gave me a piece of foolscap paper with sonu ''tbiDg on it , two pics sticking across one another , whi . "Jh I was to burn at the nine days ' end . She then lt >/ £ » but she called again on the 1 st of April , when she ea W sho bad been working the things beautifully for me . Y'Loud laughter . ) I said " well . " On tha 4 tfa she called . W-ta . and , taking a bag from her pocket , aakedfor a ha . vtfciU- of salt ; that was in the koeping-room , as she e ^ "to Bhi wanted to speak to me

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      in private , and I toot her out of the ¦ hop I put the salt in , and she then asked me to put as much gold as I eoald into the bag , which I was not wilting to do at first , but she said she did not wish to take ft out of the bouse . I ttien fetched down two fioverefgns ^^ and tttrea half sovereijjns belonging to my mother . She said that was not enough , and I could make it np between £ 7 and £ 8 if I liked , on which I . fetched down fifteen half-crowns , forty shillings , and five sixpences . I tied it in the bag , after which she said she most take it till eleven o ' clock the next day , when the spell would be broken ; she said she would bring it back by " ualf-paafc eleven , or I might get a sharp knife , aad "when I saw her again I might cut her throat I did not ase ha again till she was a prisoner at Newport . She was to have brought the money to the house of Sasan Smith , but she did not come . I told my mother of it and she gave information to the pollee . '

      Cross-examiried by Mr . DowUng—The condition on which I parted with the money was , that if she did not bring it back I was to cut her throat ; and , of course , I thought I had a right to do sa —( laughter . ) the piece of paper she gave me was foolscap— ( laughter . ) When she told me , on the 1 st of April , that she had been working thiiigs beautifully ' for me , I could not understand what she : meant—whether she had been working the stars for me or not— - { laughter . ) ¦ : ^ ; ¦;¦• ' .-, . . .. ' ¦ ' . ; . " ; . " . " ,: " -,. . ' Mr . Dowling—Now , allow me to ask yon , was ¦ there not a little unrequited love in the case ?

      Witness—I do hot know what . She said it waa a spell , and that I should tae obliged to » p sorrow by spoonsful if I had it not taken off—daughter . ) It ia immaterial to any one here whether it was love or not . There was a young man for whom I Iiad a regard , but I do hot know that he had acted unhandsomely to me . I do not know whether we had parted company for sometime . The Chairman said he thought it was quite enough if it was made out that she bad cause for mental anxiety . ' . ' ¦¦•'" ¦ . ¦'; " . ' ¦• ; ' " ' ¦ ¦¦ ' '¦ ¦ . . ••• ¦ '¦" ' ' " : .. ¦ . ' " ' •¦; ¦¦' ; "' ¦ ' ' .:. '

      Witness—I had cause for mental anxiety . I was twenty-flVe in Octeber last . I take care of my mothet ' a shop , and attend to her business , and she has noi reason to find fault with my conduct at all ; we sen grocery , flour , and bread ; I never get scolded by niy mother for making mistakes . I gave all this money under the idea of getting myself better ; if , I had go 6 quite well , I should have had no objection to her keeping the money , if I cetild have got my mother ' s consent . ¦" . ' '¦ . ¦ ""' " ¦'¦• ¦ . ' ; ' . " . ; ¦ ¦ .. By ihe Court—The prisoner promised me to bring the money back the next day . Ee-examined—My mother never gave her consent to parting ' . ' with tliat £ 7 ; she was to bring the money back . : ' '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ; . > : ¦ ' ¦ ¦ : ' - " - ' ' " ¦ . ¦ . ¦ : ¦ ¦" . " '

      Mr . Dowling—Or you were to cat her throat--( laughter . ) ^ : The Chairman—This was an extraordinary condition , because if she did not bring it back , she would not be tfiere to have her throat cut . ( Laughter . ) ; Elizabeth Guiver , the mother—I recollect that in the begmaijag of Marcfiiny daughter was in a bad state of health , andliad been so some time . I saw the prisoner in my shop , and I had some conversation with my daughter about it . When I went to look for my money I found it all gone ; there was £ 7 10 s ., tw 6 sovereigns , three half-sovereigus , fifteen half-crowrig , forty shillings , and five sixpences . I gave information to > the police ; I had seen the money all safe the day it was ¦¦

      taken away . " ' .- " . .. ; - .. ' . : ..- - ;' . . \ James Syer , a police constable—I was on duty at Heyden in April , when I received information of the case , and on the 18 th I saw some gipsies , in the parish of Great Cbishall . The prisoner ' s husband was driving s . cart , and I saw the prisoner with him ; I took her into custody . She denied at first that her name waa Dolton , but afterwards she confessed it . I told her I took her for obtaining money under false pretences . I searched her husband , and found this bag on him * [ Bag producedj and Miss G . said sbe believed that waa the bag into which the salt was put ] On the rdsd to the station-house , her husband said he did not care if it did net transport her , and she said , " Do you think it will ? " ' ¦; " ¦ . ' •• • ' ¦ ¦ . " ' . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ' ' ¦"" . " . "' . "¦ . ¦" . " - ¦ ' . '

      The examination before' the magistrates was put in . The prisoner then said , she went into the shop for B quarter of an ounce of tea ; the young woman and her sister smiled , as if they wished her to Bpeak to them * and she then said , "You do not look' - . happy , and I think it is about a young man . ' She said , it was , and she should not mind what she gave if she could have hitu . Sha ( prisoner ) said she would do all she could * lo for her , but she must have some money . She gave her some , but she did not promise her the day or the hour she would carry it back She was ill and very poor j but she was woriiing round there to carry tlae money back . '¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦¦; . . . ; ' ' . ' ; ' . ; This Wai the case for the prasecution .

      Mr . Dowling then addressed the Jury for the prisoner . He said , if questions of this sort were to be matie subjects for inquiry in courts of justice , they would be occapietl with them every day in the year , for there was ; not a ; day in which persons Who were in love or in ill-health , did not apply to the " wise woman" for her advice ; but were : those who went there to buy their spella and advice , such as they were , to turn round and prosecute them for felony ? Could they doubt the object of the prosecutrix or her mother was not the benefit of the public at large , but the proceeding was a sort- of pressure on the prisoner 0 ? her bu&batid to get the money back . This was nothing more than a girl going- \ o a wiaa womanj who was supposed to have influence over supernatural

      aflairs j and though the law was to protect the weak against the strong , a person grown up to twenty-four years et age , and conducting the business of her parent , was not to ba considered an idiot i and if she chose to pay a fancy price for / anything she was not to be protected by a criminal prosecution ^ because afterwards she did not like her bargain . If a persph saw a whip in a window , and the tradesman insisted on having £ 5 for it , if be chose to give it , ard ofberwards found it worth only 2 s . 6 < L Was the tradesman to be prosecuted as a criminal ? Loalc at the Strawberry Hili sale—there were old things not worth sixpence , but persons were willing to pay eaormoua prices for them to complete their libraries or curiO 9 ities , and it would be hard

      on Mr . George Robins if when he went to make up his accounts , eome-. ' of the noblemen should demand their money , er prosecute him . Their present chairman had many bronzes which to an antiqaarian were of great value , but which he ( Mr . D . ) or the Jury might Hot be disposed to value highly ; hufc cultivated minds enjoyed them , and probably when ia Rome he might have given ^ £ 50 for a small piece of brass , but he wouidthink it unwise to say , "If yon do not give me my money back ; 1 will prosecute you *?' Here . this girl went to the prisoner , who performed very absurd things , but which she . was willing to pay for , and was she now to turn round and prosecute her as criminal ? She was not to turn round and say , •« I am not cured—your advice ia valueless , and

      1 will prosecute you . " What difference was there between this case and that of a medical man ? He came , in and said , "you must take my pills and draughts , you must rub in my lotion , you must try my plai 8 ters , " and they went on till their shelves were filled with bottles and boxes , and they found thenuolves worse than they were before —( laughter)—and thencame a bill longer than that jury panel ,-which " they-must' pay-( Laughter . ) Yet did they eve ? hear of ; a doctor being called oh to auswerfor this ? That case ; was in fact worse than this , because here the young woman could exercise her own discretion on the deception practised upon her understanding ;; but the doctor carue and shook his head , as if there was anythitsg ia . it , felt fcha pulse , looted at the watch , and practised all that mummery which was usual when thero was nothing more to do than to drive a road for his fortune through the . patieut ' s bowels— ( laughterj^—and they had no means of de t ecting or judging of it , fjr they

      knew nothing of what ho was about . : Here this girl , who was capable of conducting her mother ' s buiineas , had a full opportunity of seeing whether the advice wag worth what she gave far it , and like a person who bought a thing at a fancy price , it was at her own risk . The girl confessed there was some unrequited love ia this matter ; tbe . gipeey saw the romance-of early affection playing aboat the mins of a loat fiearfr—( iaughter)—there was a smile of invitation ; and the young girl desiring the return of the wanderer , looked to get the shepherdess to bring him back to the Md . whtn all was to be well . —daughter /) A young girl in love viewed everything in an absurd light ; and here she called in the prisoner ' s aid , and was in the situation of a person who bought an ' . ' old macuaeripi not worth 6 lI . at a high price ; or the doctor wtio did the parent no good ; it was a mere purcbasa , and the person was not guilty of felony who sold advice which might be ' valueless . :

      TheChairman said , ¦ tha only question was , - . whether the prisoner obtained the money feloniousiy—whetlu r the taking was with a felonious . '' intention . -Did this woman at the time she went into ' the shop cook up this story to get possession of the money •' . feloniously . ? There were several cases on this subject . There ' was onain which' a person went to a coach-maker ' s , and said he wanted n chariot to go into the North ; the coach-maker let h'm have it , and he went andsold . it "; that wasa mere cloak to get possession of it , and he was convicted of the felony . There was another case in which a person got possession of bank notes to change , but walked off and did not bring them back ;

      andit was held that that being a false pretence , there was a felonious intent to get possesion of the notes It appeared to him that tbia case went all fours witfr that . The prisoner specially stated Bhe would bring the money back—there waa no borrowing ; and it appeared to him to be a trumped up story of this ingenious woman to get possession of the money from this young girl , who was suffering under ' great ' mental anxiety . The young girl might not be bo clever as thia woman , and he hsped she never would be , for bM tad . not made a good use of her talents . It appeared to him that the case came within the description of larceny . - .- . " . . ' . ; : : " . .. ¦ \ - ... ¦ . .-.... -. . - . ¦

      The Jury asked the prosecutrix whether , before she gave her tho money , the prisoner positively promised to bnngitback ? The witness said she did . Thei . 'Jn ' ry found the prisoner Guilty . The Chairman briefly addressed the prisoner , and sentenced her to be " Transported for seveu years . " The Court ordered the money ft > un 3 on the prisoner to be restored to Jdrs . Guiver .

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      IHELALTD . ( From The World ' s Correspondents . ) Ardjiore . —At the petty sessions on Toes ^ ay the magistrates presiding were S mon Bagge , Walter John Carew , and Gerald Fitzgerald , Esqrs . The only case which excited any interest was at the ptesecution of Darby Mahouy , Daniel Hayes , and Michael Mulgan , three Ducgarvan bailiffs , for a rescue and assault against Thomas Mansneid and thre ; of his sons , juid two of his uaugkters , who reside in ylieverue , in the county of Waterford , under a decreo at the suit of Mr . Rich-ird D . Hudson , attorney , for five shillings , the amount of an I . O . U ., passed him for a sessions fee . Thebailiffs swore bard , but admitted that the . defendant . was an unfortunate poor old man , and that all ho had was a pig , which they seized , and that he offered eeven

      Shillings in part payment , which they refused . It also appeared that the decree was twelve shillings , aa there was an addition of seven shilings for the cost of the decree on the five shilling 1 . O . U . ' The Magistrate said they had no rigLt to rescue , and took the irrformation of the bailiffs , but at tbe same time remarked that it was a bards-hip to have n-fused the soven -shillings offered by the defendant , and that it would go in mitigation , and it was a further hardship to have so much costs to pay on such a trivial debt , besides 2 s . Gi ' ., the bailiff ' s fees . There should be some cbeap way of recovering small detts . It would be a f boon to the poor if all dtbts under twenty shunugs were recevemble at petty sessions , ia the same manner as wages , for independent of the expence , there is a great loss of time to tho parties nnd witnesses atte : din *; quarter setsi ^ ns , a great distance from their residences .

      CaSTLEB . m :. —Several fatal accidents havo o ' ccurre-1 in this neighbourhood during the last fow days . Last week an inquest was held a " . Kilraoveo in this county , before Richard O'Grady , Esq ., and a jury , on tb . « body tf Bridget DufiVy , a child who bad been suffocated while in bed with its parents . Doctor A . Dillon deposed that death was caused by suffocation , and the jury retuined a verdict in accordance with that opinion , but expressed thtir belief that the &uffijcation was accidtut . il ; and a f ^ w days since while a wan named Coury was sitting in his « 'tt at Brookiawn , the horse buddeiily took flicht , and plunged and kicked so violently that b . 3 was thrown from it , the wheel pa ^ sictj

      over his leg r-nd thigh , and inflicting a severe lacerated wound . Inflammation shortly after set in , and a& there was no mtdic . il assistance sought for or afforded , the poor man died in grt at agony in three days after the accident . An icquest was held oa Saturday btfore Juhn F . Bourke , Esq ., coroner , and a jury , in the parsh of Ki ' connnon , on tbe body of Pat > ieginfy , who had died from the effects of ii . jurios inflicted en his person by Andrew Cleary and ethers . It appeared from tbe evidence that a fight took place iu a fchabctn house between the deceased and several others , and that his death was caused by the fracture of his skull on that occasion . A verdict in accordance with the facts was

      returned . Mou . ntmeluck . — "Who ' ll stop Jacob the white Q-iaker ? i v . sk the qucs ' . ion in the iiwst dolorous mood , for if an end be not speedily put to that boy's ptregrinations , the good old toast of " sweethearts and wives" will become ; i fares . What think you ? Although this lily-coloured Friend is tbe last person in the world whom you would eelect to sit as an Adonis , Nature having endowed him with an uuique pair of fcpiiidifcsLanks and a human face divine , " which looks as if it were diurnaily bathed in the preserved essence of ginger , it'll he has made more havoc among the L ' -arts of tke sweet Quakeresses , mat < is , and matrona . of AIotmtnioJHck :, Uran If a Hundred DT 0 W 8 , RttWjje * , or CAldweils csrne in the way . Bat as "there are more things in Heaven and earth than are dre : smt of in our philosophy , " it would bo foolish to express astonishment at anything which happens now-a-days . Imprimis— a lady , tho meek and devout spinster sihter of our

      inspected , am ' ., alas ! depressed fellow townsman , Mr . Bsale , led tbe w ; : y , by abandoning hercelf to the guidance of the new s- - ct-ir 3 . in , and tending hi . 'u in his wiiitlcrings hither a . d thitLer , Thtn the wife of Mr . Thoniis P— left a duating and now distracted husband , aud six or s-jven lovdy littlo P—s , dL-s ^ ite of ai ! remonstrances , prayer ? , and er . trcat ' . £ 3 to tbe contrary . "What a . unnatural mother ! " methinfes I hear all your readers exc :: iim in full chorus , lut such is the icfluL-nce of this estLusiacm , fanaticism , insanity , or wtiitever you pl- ; a . ' -L- to call it . Avay , then , flaw tLe gifferi and accomplished . Miss Twacker , l-:: tving , aa Barney Brallaghaa woulj ^ . \ y , many an aspiring young bachelor " all alone fo to diu" of tha disappointment . Xt-st , a rusy chetktd and f-us .-m girl named G .-e , in the Bervico of a nspectaMe townsman , joined the ranks , but lime- would fail to enumerate all tlie heroines itIjo have offered up tberuselvua at the shriivj cf this new idi'l , un ' . I wil ! only coiiciuvio a 8 I bc ^ an . -with asking " Who'll stop Jacob the whito Quaker ?"

      Ne . nagii . —I am sorry to inform you that outrage and incendiarism scill prevail ia tisis district . On Saturday evening , three ta ^ n entertd a field ai Lisbonny , the property of Mr . John Cuumr . ghuiJi , of thin tuwn , :-. nd beat a workman , of the raina of Walsh , with fctynes , until they were a ' arme'l by the sbouthi : j of two cr three women , when they decamoed . Bsftivcen ouo and trvo o ' clock « ui thf ) jiczt d . iy , a man tKtir- ;( l the dwelling houst-of Mr . John Cu ! < nin-.. haiu , tho abovenamed , and deliverni a tb . reatijr . ag notice to his maid ser « -anr . tj givu to Ler master . Aa constable Pettr Coury , of tMs town , and three sub-con 3 tab 2 es , were on y- ? . trole , in tbe i ; - ; - ; hb . 'U : boud of Bawn , tht-y . observed a flash e > f a yan nt ; -- > me iHstance from them , and w ^ re in the act of cautiously approaching the spot , when a woiniin t-: » v « thc-.-tUrm , ; : nd the rockites ( four in

      uuiu'¦ er ; -ll-.-a , pursue-1 by the police , ^ to BuccteJed in ap-pri-b .-TKiing tw-j u ( them , named Kealy end Ry . au . Tee Linitiy appsoach «> f the police i > 7 cvente ( i , : t is prni-ubi-. ' , another : alui-. ion to tae KUffitc-r of attemi-ts at asoiissinuiitu , now so prevaii'iit , iu this distuiveil locality . Suiae ir . cer . ; V : ar / maliciously set fire to tLe d-weiiing-house of J . iiiuj ishuintra , in ths town ol Toomavara , tte £ ; Tt :: ur part of which was ca ;\ -uined , and , wcra it not that it was discovered so s : < ni , it is difficult to calculate what tUa extent of the injury to property might have bte ;\ On Thursday ni ^ rht sume maliciously disposed ptrsons < 2 fs : rojcd anew p * cu £ r ' : on the Ian .-Is of Bjl 3 i .-: curba , the . £ ; vpeity of Thomas Keniiedy , of same place .

      Limerick . —A young man , named Patrick Wnls ' a , was found britbi-d iu blood , at ; m early hour on Sunday evenim ; last , m a cirt , tne horse : e polite £ t . ; tiou . Ii j \ v ; : s t-pevchlesa and sme-irt-u v . 'Mh c'jie , "wiiicli ;;' so diiti ;; urti tha vehicle . Siirtjfoh Tii ' -: nas \ Vi ' kii-. 8 :. 'n , wiio was kcown to bo in the liergJibi'urhouJ , wrss-:-. t ci : ce ic-r . t 'for , tut life waa ex'ir . ot I f _• : ¦ •; his iirs ¦ va . i . This c-.-ritlonif n , w 2 : o Was examine . ; at- tbe iiiquoi . ( iPi-csed tb ^ t dcr . th was cau ^ r ! by an ixttnsivu v ,- i . u ::. i p :: ^ Uii obiiquuiy through the ru-ht cyel : yx , tx : ; vr . ; : z ;> . ' "lo' . uru i . n the forehead , and throuch vrl : " fh tbo l : r :: i'i w .. s vir . blc .

      Pat-. sonstuw . n . — tx : i ' ., \ oi : ii ]> -aiit Elopement . Thedi-oi ' -.-. st evui : t vl . ich I-:-i occtur ; -d herj during the l ^ t d :: zcn jc-- . its , b : irri : ; £ r i-f c -u- 'sp Lord . Kosse ' s lievtil ta be su ; T :-v-i-r : tiy v ; :-vli \^ t ^< . \ at i-iece of njachiiitry , happtiied on ;? Jtur : iay l- ^ t . A Fr-. rch hidy of . great personal charms got fresh h-r > . - ; at one of the posting houses , druve rai » idiy uu to T , co rea . dence tf a young cenUcrncn nan-i .:: U--n , s ; nt in hex- name-requesting an hitsrvk-w ; c . T . uich hi ilfede his uppearar . ee with ! :: 3 carpet V-.-.- ' , bolri-a into tho carriage , tlrove cff . aii >; uov .: > . 01 tl : e jartita , s . i-.-ai ^ e to sj . y , htive been heart ! of tii ^ ce . Tiiis " spiriting away" of t' .: e young geallc-msn uss , j . s you m- ^ suppose , c : iussd quite a si-ijsat ' on . 1 f-.-rbsa ? giv : ns- : i ; - . n : ts , hoping that the parties niay " turn up" aud account &jr thcmsfclves before licit veifc .

      Stradbally . —Tee ex-fcTisive populatiou of Stiadbally , Ballylar . ten , Kiil ,. Ne-stown , " Kilniacthomas , Bonmahon , and the surrounding coucty bad a demonstration in support of ths causa of Iicper . l on Sunday last . A deputation from Waterford attended on-the occasion . The Rev . Iilr . Casey , Catholic Curate , was called to the chair amidst lirud clivers , and Pierce Power , Esq ., cf Carriek Castle , was accented secretary . Several auaresse 3 W 6 re delivered aud a number of resolutions wore passed . Tipperaey . —On Sunday Istt our town present-ed a cfcefr ful scene . From an early fccur in this the morning great numbers arrived from the surrounding districts to witness tbe precession of tbe Temperance bands of Caahel , Cahir , and Tipptravy . AUhoug ' a , unfortunately , the vrea' . her waa unfavourable , and rain fell at intervals in heavy showers up to cne o ' clock , tho tr-a < -s of people resembled to witness thu proceedings of

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      GOOD , THE MURDERER . The trial of Daniel Good for tho murder of Jane Good , or Jones , took place on Friday , in the Central Criminal Court The place was crowded to the invasion of the vtry Judges' seats ; suverul women , even young ladies , were among the auditory ; and tho number of bavristerB was great .. Ou the bench were Lord Denroan , Mr . Baron Alderson , Mr . Justice Coltman , and the Recorder ; and by their side were the Pufco of Sussex , the Chevalier Bunsen , eeveral Aldermen , and Mp . John Deuiiistouu , M . P .

      With Good , Molly hia reputed wife was placed at the bar ; whicuboth the prisoners approached with a firm and confident step , and both pleaded "Not Guilty . " Molly Good waa removed ; and the trial of Daniel proceeded . It was conducted by the Attorney-General ; whose statement , with the evidence which followed , ' added little of interest to the facts already known , only that they were marshalled iu a more skilful order . Lydia Susarmah Butcher now appeared to admit that her intercourse with Good bad been more familiar than she formerly confessed . Thomas Sales , tho waiter at a

      public house at which Good called ufter the murder with Mary Good , overheard him nay that she '' would not bo troubled with that ——— any more . " The son was brought into court , but he was not examined , apparently from iv spirit of forbearance . Mr . Doane , for the defence , reminded the Jury that the cafte- ' agftihst the prisoner rested entirely upon circumstantial evidence , and that there was ho proof that the woman had not destroyed herself ; while there was a total absence of all probable motive . Tlie Attorney-General waived his richt of reply .

      Tbe Chief Justice , in summing up , likewise reminded the Jury of ihe-necessity , of caution in judging on oircurastantial evidenco . That the deceased met whh her death by violence appeared to be clearly , proved by the medical ¦' . ¦ witnesses ' , who declared their opinion that death was occasioned by the severance of the windpipe , tha carotid artery , and the jugular vein , and that the body was iDitantly drained oC blood . If Bhe had destroyed hersi'lf , it was moat improbable tbat a man with whom sbe had long been living oil iutimate and friendly terms , instead of calling ussisUince , would pvoceed at once to dismember the body . Tiio Jury retired at half-past seven o ' clock , and returned into court at five minutes past eight , whea the foreman ironoHnced a verdict of •¦ Guilty- '' :

      Lstrt Binraan then , having put on the black can . addressed the prisoner as follows : — " Daniel Good , you havo been found guilty upon the clearest evidence of a most foul and wicked murder ; perhaps , a case mere abhorent to tbs feelings of human- nature than the present , wss nevtjr presented to a court of justice , and it is a sad exaniple of the consequences , of a wicked and vic ious course of life- Thers is no doubt that it is owing to the indulgence of your inclinations for one woman after another , that being tired of the unliappy deceased , and ftie ' int ; that you could not enjoy to its fullest extent the fresh attachment you had formed , that you resolved upon destroying the unhappy woman who was the former object of your affection . No argument that I can u : e can aggravate your case . You coldly

      calculated long before the act was committed upon deDriving the unfortunate woman of her Kttle property , and handing it over to the fresh object of your attachment . . Many ; weeks before the . luurder you made a promise of all the deceased ' s clothes to another ; and only a fortnight before you pledged yourself to the young woman wto has appeared us a v . itness against you , in a much . stronger manner . Tfcera is no doubt that ou t ' : at Sunday night you enticed your victim to your stables , intending to t : tk « her lite , -and ' to Lido her afterwards from tho t ye of man . That place was entirely under your coiitroul , and you thought you migafc unseen dispose of the body ; but although you were not watched by any human eye , jour proceedings were brought to light in such a manner as to afford a painful

      wurning to all other crimiiials , and . showed how such Crimea might be discovered . It ia absolutely necessary that your life should bs-forfttited to the laws of God nv . d man which you have so grievously offeudeH , and yi- >) : r c ; ise tfII } have th ; s riggi-avntion , that you will le-ive tbe world urregretteil tnd unpitied by any one . I hope that no Englishman , on the day that will be fktal to y << u , will givo expression to his feelings of abhorreuco . at your crime ; but it is O ! uy a- proper ' aggravation in your case tliat you wiii not leave one behind ' you who will not think a good deed done when j our lifd is put an end to . You are oa the brink of another ' world , ami no human bein ^ ; s entUied to that . any- ft ?' low creature will be refused foraix'cnt'Ss for his sins . The nitrcy of God is

      as great as is your crime , ar . d I , nd by u , siiie ^ vf- reptntance oirt'r somu atoni'ineut for the awfui triiHs you have committed . Y < m can expect no mercy in tbis world , but I hope you will r ^ cciva it in another . I : now remains only for wie to j ... ss upon yon the iv-Fiul suiitf-nco <^ f . X . k . ' i law , which is , that you be taken henee to tha place whence you v ; ere brought in this . court , and thcuid to SMue- ' pi ' aco of- ex-.-sutitui , and there be hung by tbe neck until you are dual ,-and that your body be afcerwuvds biu-ibil in the precincts of the prison . May the L-. ' oMuVve nitrcy on your guilty gout . As so ;; n as tho ' earned Judge Lad concluded hia

      address , the prisoner , who f . pp . a ^ ed to be quite unmovod , b : iui , " I declare to . Almighty Godth-it I never tcc-k &v . ay tho ilia of that woman . Susan Butcher is the cause of oil my troubles , and the cause of that poor woman being lost . When v ^ e left Mrs . Hester ' s Ja : ; i ! d ' . clared tl ^ dt slio would deatrjy herself . " The trisi ; rer then procee < k-d- in a . very incoherent strain ; ra nss the conduct of Batcher , who ho described as always getting intoxicate ! . He then said , that after t- ' . ty t" ! i :: o from Mrs'Htster ' a hi .--l eft her ( deceased ; in tt : e btabie , an ' -i on his return she destroyed herself . He told ktr that he could not ioS' her sietp in the harnesssruom , in cousfc . Quaiico of the old gardener- telling eveiythi !' . r tliat l . e tiid to his master ; she was very angry about Butelier , and declared that she would drown

      herst If ; he told her that she should not fly in tho face of God , ; uul he prevented her going out of the stable ; he tl : oh shook down some hay in the stall where the trunk was found , and told her to remain there till he retamt ' l ; when ho returned , ho found her lying dead in tas same phce that he had left her ; Lev throat wns cut , and a sharp penknife , with winch she cut it , was lying by her side ; he did not know what to do when he saw her lyin « tieaiJ ; fce afterwards tlirsw the knife over HammersKiith Bridge into the water . When he went out of the . stable he iocked the door , but afterwards went biick ' , aDd covered her over with hay . On the Monday morning , a man ho . knew , who Bolti matches , rang tha bell , and he told hini . wbat Iiad happened , and ohowed him tii « body , and asked him what

      he had better do , nnd he said the best way would be to conceal the body- Ho ( prisoner ) told him that he would givo hici a sovereign if he would conceal it . The man came again oh tie same evening about seven o'ekek ) and brought a bag with aim ; he took him into the stable and gave him the axe ; he had previoueir asked him whether he had an axe or a chopper ; he also eave him the knife which had been ejpoken ' about . Ho then locked the man in the stable , and during his { tbe prisoner ' s ) absence he proceeded to cut tho legs and head off tbe deceased . Tlie man then tald him tbat he Lad better make a fire and burn the limbs , ob be ' could not carry them away so well aa he could the head ; He ( prisoner ) asked him to bury the limbs instead cf turning them , but be refused to do so . On the follow- ' ng morning the man came clown agajn between three j

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      TRIALS OF MOLLY GOOD AND RICHARD GAMBLE . Central Cbiminal Court , Saturday . This morning , at ten o ' clock precisely , Mr . Baron Alderaon and Mr . Justice Coltman took their seats upon tho bench of the old court , and proceeded to take the trial ofMolly Good . The Court was not near so much crowded as OQ- . FiicI&y , and the prices of admi&Bion to the gallery were lowered j it is said , to one-fifth "the price" that was demanded for the exhibition of Good . The Attorney-General , Mr . Adolph ' us , Mr . WaddiBgton , and Mr . Russell Gurney , ii ' . tjnded , on behalf of the Crown , to prosecute , and Mr . Ballantinp attended for the pr isoner . ¦ The Clerk of the Arraigns having read over the indictment , charging the prisoner with harbouring and comforting Daniel G > od , who stood charged with the crime of murder , the prisoner pleaded Not Guilty .. '

      Tne Attorney-General , in addressing the Jury , said it was highly important , for the'ends of public justice , tbat people should understand the enormity of tbo offenco which they committed in harbouring and secreting a patty who had comnntted so awful a crime as that of murder . It fieemed that the prisoner at the bar had comforted and harboured the man Daniel Good , who was yesterday found guilty of murder . He understood the defence to be set up was , that the prisoner was mairied to the man Daniel Good y ivv . d , if such proof was adduced , then the law very humanely provided that a wife could not be found guilty of harbouring the

      man whom she waa bound to honour , love , and obey . He believed that the prisoner bad , many years ago , gone through a certain form with the prisoner , but hid not been legally married to him ; and she had lived with him for a number of years . If , however , the prisoner had hiu-boureil Good under the sincere belief that she was his wife , and bound to do so , ho ( the Attorney-Geiieru . 1 ) did not feel it necessary for tha purposes of public justice , to advise the Crown to prosecute ; He bad conferred with bis Learned Friends , , and with the Learned Counsel engaged for the prisoner , and he believed sufficient had transpired between them to justify him in not offering any evidence against the

      prisoner . Mr . Ballantine thanked his learned friends for the opportunity they had offered him of laying some of the facts contained in his instructions bofore them , and for , the liberal construction they had placed upon the evidence he had intended to present on behalf of tbe p risoner before ths jury . It saved the prisoner the paia of a long trial in a doubtful case , which , in all probability , would have ended in a doubtful result . It was another proof cf the spirit of forbearance which , had characterised this prosecution throughout ; and he sincere y thanked hia learned friends for the course which , in their better judgment , they had thought proper to pursue . - . '¦¦; .

      Mr . Baron Aldeeson then remarked that , as the Attorney-General had not offered any evidence against the prisoner , it would be the duty of the jury to acquit her . It had been truly said that a woman . could not be convicted of a charge of harbouriag her husband , but in the event of the prisoner not having been able to produce evidence of her having been mam 9 d legally , she would have been placed in an awkward position , and not have been considered altogether guiltless : at the same time the court would have visited her witU a con 1 paratively lieht punishjn « ut , if it Had been shown that she bad gone through a certain form with Daniel Good , which led her to believe that sbe was his wife ;

      and , acting under that impression , bad considered it her duty to comfort him . It was important that a wrong impression should not go forth to tho pubtio that , in any future casa that may arise , where the circumstances might in aomo respects be of a similar kind , that this court would fail to inflict a severe punishment upon persons who Bhould be provod to be guilt ; of so serious on offence as that of interposing : difficulties in the way of the police when they were endeavouring to bring to justice a party charged with a murder of so frightful a nature as that which had yesterday occupied so much of their attention , and created so painful an excitement in the public mind .

      Tho Attorney-General said , in fairness to the prisoner , he would Btato that he believed a number of witnesses wore in court ready to bear testimony to the good character of the prisoner during the tj . tne Bhe had lived for many years in the neighbourhood of Spitalflelds . The . Jury , under the direction of the Learned Judge , then acquitted the prisoner . Mary Good was then arraigned for feloniously receiving three pieces of siik , tho property of Jane Jones , otherwise Jane Good . The Counsel for tho prosecution in this case declined to ofier any evidence , and she was acquitted . Kichard Gamble was next charged with feloniously receiving threo gowns , the property of Jane Jones , otherwise Good , and also with feloniously receiving two shirts , tho property of Samuel Spicer .

      Tug prisoner when called upon to plead , said , " lam not guilty of receiving the things , knowing them to buvo been stolen ; ' and in consequence of alike intiaiation ffomthe Attorney-Oeneral of the unwillingness of tho Crown to prosecute , the prisoner was acquitted .

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      c . ' " ¦ THEN OR T H ERN STlR , ^ ¦ . ' . - , ; ,,. - ' . . - , .. ¦ : . .:- - ¦ y ¦ - " ., "' .- -, J - ^\ : C ^ ^ ^>^ J

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 21, 1842, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct599/page/6/