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    • ANOTHER "STBIKE-PLOT!"
    • CRUMBS OF COMFORT.
    • 2To 3&eaaev& am? <2?orr^{Sponrrem^
    • 1 MELANCHOLY CASE OF STARVATION i IN YORK.
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      ^ jessto & * people" announcing the fact that per tras henceforth to be -under his raan&ge-^ nd eem tronl ; and limning ont the course of ¦ got a * " * VT ieshonl dpnisne . J * - ^ a -jras made to Mr . O'Cohsob to the effect J * hB iDigo' become part proprietor if he chose ; la at once and decidedly declined ; declaring ^ iB 5 bo nld be amp ly repaid for any serrice he ; & perform by flie aid and asastanee that -wonld ^ ne to &e ? ^ ^ tlieir eOTSe from tile * ' adT 0 * * in the caimans of a daily organ . It was then ^ L ^ to place £ 100 at Mr . O'Coxxob ' s disposal * ^ T gipeiided in advertisements and placards , 9 moo Mr . CCfficnm's assumption of Editorial jS -- This proposal , too , he declined ; declar-- ^^ aJ be would hvne nothing to do with the ** r * rfihe esiahhshmtnt ; nor finger a farthing nffllCw « y ~ . ¦ , j ^ ey in any shape . At the szme tans he gave t , p ^ -j a list of places to which bill-advertisebe

      rs jm ^ it sent . jiLS theo , -SPSS the nature of Mr . O'Coxsob ' s ^ aou triih the Evening Star . For many Tishe -wrote almost the entire "leaders f perf ^ Qiiff his serv ices at hom e , some six miles from ' S « " a 330 " sending in his " copy" at his own ° ^ tjj , ' labours -were immense . He often -wrote f ^ " -Wus of matter ; seldom less than two *" doiZand it work

      - - This work -was p .- -was . ^ T ons ^ Bbt i ^ lethim try . w _ ihe Leeds Snarlsr , " any one who has i -ly read she taper might hare seen at a glance , ^ - sxeal cbj 5 * - ' ^ ^ e eoJEinencenieni 5 wasj - > T = pr £ » 3 ° * Chsrdsm , but the maintenance of ^¦^ rssil Tax . " Lately read the paper" 1 How ' ' ' ¦ . i Secs ^ ss knijj&f by ihe Conservatives 1

      ^ 3 ^ . sss bo &a feE ° ' Wfl 0 peone d the above , . ^ jgs things-as facts , of which he is totally f ^ - ^ TfaB senience above quoted from his list : 5 j , 0 W 5 that he never read the paper ; or he * M h JTe iD 0 Wn * k ** bef ° re Mr - O'Cossob ' s -ana to & * ^^ Repeal Journal 11 and it ^ ' = that while Mr . O'Coxsob was 21 and nn his dutiesthe be

      t ^ s » jsfo , gentleman - 7 " ^ fegisb ' iishment who did perform them , glider , and so far committed the paper ^ jos o ! Repeal , and of course Mr . O'Cosjstf ^ hai gentleman felt himself bound to call s S pabliaher of the Evening Star to state 23 i ifca articles in q 3 es £ oB were not im ( Mr . tPCactra ' s )' - ' - So much for its * real object frsa the commencement" !!

      * It seecs , " ays oar Snarkr , " that Dr . Sleigh aDake of BrcKiKGHjkS ' s tool , has been the Editor ^ jiSe Peargus O'CafSOB ha 3 dons the puffing cfjaraneat . " ^ pure , unmitigated , deliberate , paljsbleiis ; for what pnrpose the reader will plainly psreQTs . b j ? j e paper ha ? Idit i-3 , 500 . " True ; and who told ¦ rea ? Who told the people ? Mr . CPCo-sob . And i tbere any thmg wonderful in a n ^ a > paper , and

      epe < 3 i 2 jsBejr < fo % ? 'a £ f 7 * JosiDg £ 3 , 500 dnring me first six months of its existence I The True Sun is ; £ 21 . 000 in almcsias short a space of time as the Beany / Star lost only £ 3 , 590 . And yet , no one etet hinted ihat it was Tory money that the Tnie Sim hid lost , though it took the Tery side upon the Con Iaw question that the Evening Star took Tien rmiet Mr . O'Ccxnob ' s management . The Loot SnarJer ~ kncTrs well , that so far from its being

      jq anisiial thing for nem papers to lose money , it 13 iK-cnirBsJ for ou > papeks tobe minus ! He knows cat &j espsnence . Bis own paper has reached is rkTeoib volume : will he state how many wealthy jssmsit has nanedl and how much it has lost fv ~ ijyear of its existence ! Dare he do this ? and csr he name the means that have lately had to be rsoriea * to , Jo ke » p it in being ! Tne Evening Star Eiot the only paper that has lost £ 3 ^ 500 ! ! -

      AjjbTil uho has lost the money ! asks the Snarler 1 Tss red losers are the real proprietors of the paper , iioaf mho ere cevoeating in Us columns l High Tory prkisples . ** ' The oljecl and aim of this ¦ ffiifal deHbasie lie is plainly apparent . The nd JoKf teas the former preprielor , save and ospt Trial he got back asain when he sold the japa to its present High Tory" holders ! And sa how tie miserable foci answers himself . If the

      lajer vas advocaHng Toryism , when nnder Mr . PTossob ' s manageioejit ; and if ihe Duke of JrcKEfGHiM had "his tooP Dr . Slogh , npon s u Editor , in the name of the gods icTict teas ihe ssj of t } te Sigh Tories ' buying it out 0 / Mr . Cr'Cossos ' s hands 1 Whatever could induce them » oka lBii step ! Just see the stupidity of the brainless ass ! The "High Tories" had the jsper ; they hsd the " High Tory" Bi . Sleigh as Xfiiorof ii ; they had Mr . O'Co . vsob helping him ; thsy had the paper doing the work of the Tories efeciturfl g ; sad jet , ihe Tories were such fooliias ififcnj tis paper from themselves FOB themselves , & jsi it trat of Mr . O'Coxsos's hands ! I

      xhs above paragraph 13 not the only one the Swier has , relating to Mr . O'Cossob , and his ' jzffrom the Tories . In his paper of the previous * = & , he hid his Sing at O'Cossob and the Carlion oui . indeed , it is iis common practice . JTAy , the sada will eoou learn . ~ 8 xmg digwsed of the Evening Siar , by relating a M , sB about the connection that Mr . O'Cossob Ss had wiih lie establishment , we have now to £ al wth ^ ie dmy-soaled wretch who has raked ^ gsiher the oundle of lies we have been leplyiag to .

      i ^ t usasi hua , then , what right he has to accuse a ? mm ol reeming pa 1 Be , of all men in the "fforld ] Hj , wiose every crumby and every stitch , is fv&asei with the wages of prostitution J He , who ^ otabitetopmin hishead , noraragtoput onb ± 3 t ^ ck , ont what is bonghtwith money derived from the » i of ins powers of mind to those heprivateJy hates ospse 8 , and contemns ! BE has hired himself to » 25 idioeacj of measures and plans he in private of

      l 5 does not agree with ; and whose evil ^ s is is folly aware ; - he ha 3 prottituttd ^^ for pa , and Bves on the wages of infamy ; ^ - "xl the beef sticking in hi ? teeth , and the liquor ^ . ^ iieiroia his mouth , purchased Ly such means , ^ BE venture to bring acinsations of venality Hiffist parties whose only fault is that they are jnst f ** H « ili 2 r oto convictions , and advocate in pub-**™*™ &sures and plans which HE AVOWS IN ^ STYATE n m »

      ^^ Parscakrise somelitttlfi . Kot long ago the g ^ r of TrJnch he is Kitor , had lost so much * a : j ' ^ I ^ Setorscouldstand it no longer . Several C ° ^ iad f one to ihe wall . It was brought J **™ " ** for sale . It was advertised for sale . h ^ 3 h WeH known to us bid for it . They ^ p for it ^ 5 ^ price was &x&i on > and T *" - « . Thes it was that the Malthusians v < n

      Jjjjf ™ " * . An ofi ^ r was mads that if the }; C ^ Y ^ M advocate doctrines to which the ^ i . "< * teCT * P * o * ea > asd for which t ^ wOait iid acquired what name it had ; an SssJblS * that U tMs COa 3 d ^ e ' moiie 3 ' jae ^ J aBd fl » Paper Bhould be upheld . Hs jt ^^ J , T « oeived the price . He went in as , lie Tax and f ^ nu co ^ pttip , " -wsis t > ifi ofhis

      jj ^^^ WB nnr policy- He had certain s ^ J * » Hi # * pp He tried his hand . He * 2 r * . « aea-J The "Fox and < 3 oose" Gub ^^ v 8 : £ 300 debL ThemoneJ adTaaoed % ej D ^ . * r 5 ' « JD > ' was wasted . In lapse of time U j * 13 >* &S * i He was then kicked ont of the H 3 $ & 5 !!*?> Mid he has since hecn obliged to tu eejjt ^ 5 P League for the means of exis-^ ^ fif ^^ the P 01111165 "wretch wll £ > dares Cjiij . - : v . Obssob receiving pay from the Carlton ^ i ^ k fte F ? 16 note - Whe 11 tWs hired sjpj , ^ a proprietor . " and in the receipt of

      "SWs jyfrwa the two leading members of the "Sites ! ^^ ° f ? ° Hcy was " thb scffhage . " B ^^ ° ^ jL Sn 2 ni € e ' 5 " Household Suffrage , " g ^^ a&ige " , u Complete Suffrage "; the ** S ^ ^^ P 6 OT oiber , Nothing but the « oaid ^ g S ? 4 ^ Withoat the Sufeage nothing K * ° ^ . O i how he did fickle the ears of

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      the groundlings about M the Suffrage . " But the baft did not take . The people were not with the " - ^ oxes . " They conldjnofc be won over . Tiie scheme died of inanition . The SHpply-money stopped . And what are the tactics now ? The Suffrage never heard of I The League extolled to the skies ! Recommendations to put , the Leaguers into parliament , particularly Bbight Johk of Rcchdale ' in the teeth

      of former recommendations to send no one there but Suffrage candidates . Advice to the League to court the working classes ; not for " the Suffrage" , but for the Repeal . The upholding of the League in every particular ; and in none so much as in the inventing and circulating all the lies and attacks upon Mr . O'Cosrob and the Star that he can possibly rake togetber from all parts of England , Ireland , and Scotland !

      With each sale has gone the maa ' s former principle . He becomes the hired scribe of first one set of men-j and then another . What little talent he has is prostituted for pay ! and as he is paid , is first developed one course of policy and then another . ' 3 t is not often that we meddle with him . Foi months together ha 3 he been allowed to have fall fling . ; and a fling he has had ! His paper has been composed , on an average , fully one-third , of attacks

      of all sorts and sizes , and forms , upon Mr . O'Connob and the Northern Star . Whatever he could cnll from any quarter has bepn carefully cnlled . His pages for the last three years is a faithful record of the efforts ef faction , through the press , to uproot O'Coxnob from the hearts of the working-people and put down the Northern Star . During the most of this time he has been nnmolested . His , however , stuck up 50 invitingly this time that we could not forbear the kick ' ! !

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      TO THE PEOPLE . Fbiems , —How get the subscriptions on ! What 13 the prospect of your doomed victims' families , thi 3 cold weather ? Stir ; stir ! The work may be hard ; but the time shortens and it must be done . You mnst not be shamed in the eye 3 of the whole world whichi 3 looking on . You hiht make an effort ; a strong and determined effort ; such an one as you never made before . The struggle is for you , and yon must not sacrifice the stragglers .

      From Mr . O'Connor ' s letter I learn a piece of law which I did not previously know . It teems that one expensive difficulty—that of getting the "Conspirators" to Manchester—may be shifted from your shoulders to that of the enemy ; the conditions being that the parties be tried and convicted and sentenced in their absence . How far this may suit the inclination of many of them , I cannot say . I know they shall not convict me , without my having a word with them about it . But , in any caso , if convictions do

      take place , and if imprisonments follow , the families must be loo " ked to . Many of them will have no means of helping themselves at all ; and these yon must provide for . Where they have the means of living by their own labour , I think they ought to do so ; but scores are likely enough to be utterly unable to do thb ; and these are legitimately your poor , whom you are ooundto maintain . And you have no right to permit the patriot props of these households to be ~ knocked away , withont first satisfying them that provision has been made .

      There is another part of O Connor's letter to which I invite specially your earnest contemplation : the second , contemplated , League Outbreak .. I have means of knowing that this is fact . Tnat emissaries are already abroad and at work . The same orzfty game is being played as before . The " dodge" is to bring the Chartists in for it ; and , in fact , if possible , to make them do it . The work of tampering has

      already begun again . Letters and secret agents are gliding about cautiously and stealihily inciting the people to regret the opposition that was offered by the rational among their leaders to the last League-trap , and to incense them against those who saved thousands of them from destruction , and the country from a worse state of ruin tha-n even that in which it is . Thus it is

      hoped will a plan be formed of impatient , unreasoning , and consequently short-sighted suffering , on which their scoundrel operations can be successfully carried on . I know that letters are now circulating from hand to hand , and that parties are most bnsy in private conversations , denouncing O'Connor as a cow ard for not" coming out" on the last occasion to " lead

      on" the people . I know that these letters , and some of the parties thu 3 bu «^ r , are those on whom O'Connor ha * bestowed , and very recentl y t o o , what I think to b « ill jndged and certainly ill deserved commendaiieus . O'Connor will find oat in lime who are his friends , and the people will find out who are the traitors . All will come in good time . Things are hastening to a denouement .

      It is useless to ask me whence I have my information . I have it ; and I know it is correct . Those who know me best know that I never gp ^ ak , but upon velvtt . - I never level my gun till 1 am sure of my game . I name these things now to pnt jou on your guard . ATTEMPTS ARE NOW BEl ^ G MADE TO GET UP ANOTHER STRIKE . Attempts will be made to get up incendiary fires . Every effort will be made by the soulless , bloodless , muckthrifts to raise the wind . The trap will be , as before , gilded with a

      Hpeciousness of seeeming ; your best feelings will be invited to betray yon . The " Charter" and the " Rights of labour" will be again made the watchword ; and the ebject is now , as before , to destroy you The last " move" of this kind did much . It wrought moTe mischief to the cause than all other evils which have befallen us for the last ten years . It might have been yet more successful but for "that bl—ted watchtower" — " that d—d Northern Star that spoils every thing . " 1 quote words which will be known by those who

      used them . I warned you last year , against the trap that was then laid for yon . 1 told you it was a trap . I knew more than most of you did . I have better opporinniijes of iB © mng . I have more eyes than most of you hare . Many of yon however chose to listen to the big mouthers who " wanted to bring it to a finish * ; and you have found the " finish " they brought it to for you ! They plumped you overhead and ears into the League trap ; and there some of them left you . You saw nothing , and heard precious little , of them , while the danger lasted

      The infernal trap is again being baited ; and , from their skulking hole 3 , they squeak by letter about my cowardice , and about O'Connor ' s cowardice 1 I warn you now again . The enemy is on the ywi vive . If yon be again let in for it , " don ' t blame me . 1 may not , for some time , have another opportunity of warning you . I do warn you now . Another str 3 ce will be attempted . Failing that , every means will bo tried to excite or force you into violence . A League Scamp , whom I know more of than be thinks I do , sent here this week for insertion in the

      Star ,-a most insidious incendiary address to the Colliers ; seeking to get them out . " The Scamp thonght his assumed calling , " A labourer in the Mines , " would ensure him attention here . Poor fool ! He knows nothing of honest working men ' s habits , or ho would not have attempted the trick . 1 warn him not to try it again , even if I should be " locked vpf which . 1 presume I shani . But if 1 be , the " Watch Tower" will not be deserted . I shall leave on it one whose Jeyes are too quick , and whose aim is too steady , to " miss fire" at a single robber of them all .

      I have been in North Lancashire this week . I found them a set of fine fellows . Just what Chartists fchonld be . u Up to the mark , " but yet cool , prudent , and discriminating . The complexion of Chartism in this district was never so healthful as now . It is much improved j and I attribute the improvement mainly to the fact ihst the poverty of the people since the " plug-drawing , " and for a snort time before , has protected them from the predatory excursions of the lice on the

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      beetle ' s back , " the tramping paid agitators—the " bring h to a finish" men . They have steady firm , and good leaden resident among them ; and under their judicious arrangements and advice , they are now presenting to the front of faction a more certain and telling opposition than they have ever previously done . I aever saw finer fellows than the Bacup " Lads . " They are an honour to our cause and nflsct no small credit upon the gallant Beesley , of whose brigade they form a portion . The meetingB there on Sunday were well filled , though the bills announced a tax of threepence , which 1 much regretted the necessity of . On Monday and Tuesday I should have been at Accrington and Clitheroe . But euch is the intensity of middle-class sympathy

      that m neither of those town ? , nor in Blackburn could a room be had for love or money . I therefore lectured on Monday and Tuesday evenings , in a small chapel , kindly lent for the occasion by the Rev . Mr . M * Phail , Baptist Minister , of Hound Coat , a sort of" Central point ' near no place ; about two miles from Accringtou and four from Burnley . The distance was too far for the "lads" who had work to travel on a cold night , and returo after ten o ' clock , having to rise again at five for work ; and those who had no work were kept out by the three-penny tax at the door , an arrangement which I am sorry wa adopted . These causes made the meetings at Hound Coat thin ; but they were of the right sort who came . I learned much about tha la : e strike in North

      Lancashire ; many very interesting facts which I may sometime tell for the good of the Lpague . I learned also some other " small facts , " which in due time I shall unbottle . Meanwhile , let me repeat once more , though it should even be the last time the warning I have so often given you . Watch well your leaders ; and beware of the big talkers they are your worst enemies after all . I am indebted to the kind and gentlemanly courtesy of Mr . O Connor ' s attorney , M . Turner , Esq ., of London , for the information that our trial is fixed

      for Wednesday , the 1 st of March , and thai the Attorney-General is to prosecute in person . This will give me a day or two longer than I expected ; I shall not now need to be hi Lancaster before Tuesday . I name this especially to my Hull friends ; many of whom I dare say will be at our little ' * Bethel" on Sunday , intending to give me the " good bye" grasp of the hand . I shall not now come to Hull on Sunday . My " lads" must do without me and leave me that day ' tis the only one I shall get—for a little rest . On

      the Sunday following , I shall have been six years with them : I was desirous to spend that anniversary with them , and I thank the Government for the unintentional indulgence . The address , therefore , which I intended to deliver in onr Church room on Sunday , I reserve antil the Sunday following : and I name it now to prevent disappointment . If I escape the tiger ' s den , I shall take an early opportunity of taking personal counsel with the people of the many districts to which I have received , invitations , and of others who may wish to " hao a crack wi' me . " If I am " caged , " I shall at all events go with the satisfaction of knowing that I

      leave the Star in safe hands till my return ; that itB brightness will neither grow dim nor faint in my absence . I shall know that I have done my duty ; and I shall stalk into my gloomy domicile with more satisfaction than any one of the League millocrats , of whose tools I am the victim , will feel when spreading out his feet upon the hearth-rug of his mansion " built by blood . " I am , as ever , Your faithful friend and servant , Wm . Hill . Northern Star Office , Leeds , Thursday , Feb . 16 th , 1843 .

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      P . S . —Friday Morning . —It is seldom that , a Postscript accompanies any letter from me ; but I mnst give you to this a mournful one . Fot many years , the sum of my domestic and personal happiness has been restricted solely to the endearmentB of a daughter whom I almost adored , a father whom I revered , and a mother-in-law whom I love . About sixteen months ago , the light of my eyes departed from me ; my daughter escaped , and went home . I have never recovered the shock I then received to my natural feelings and constnuLion . I never shall . The " old folks" were then " my all" . My father was infirm and subj ct to much severe indisposition ; but he was—my father— . No one who knew him

      could help loving him . All did love him . I did more : I revered him . I had great reason so to do : I shall never see his like again . He had been " poorly" for some years . That is to say , long continued industrious activity had done its work ; an exeeJlent natural constitution had given way ; and ihe " infirmities of age" pressed on him somewhat heavily . He was in his 72 nd year . I left him " toddling about the house" in his customary manner yesterday , after onr frugal noon-day meal , when I camo np 10 the i-ffiee to write my letter to you- I had finished it , and the paper had gone to press but a very thort time , when a mex ^ enger arrived in breathless haste to summon me . 1 ran into the street , leapt into the firat coach I saw ,

      and bade the coachman " drive for life ; he did so but vainly ; I was too late to catch his dying breath : it was gone . He was a corpse in his chair . If , then , the fiends of faction have viadictive punishment in store for me , they have here a fine scope for exultation . Their devilries will fall npon a lacerated mind ; but , though lacerated , they will fiad that it has not lost its elasticity ; though bowed , it is rot broken : it will resist the pressure , and repel the blows , of tyranny with as much vigour as though its natural firmness had not been softened by the rending asunder of its ties . The wailings of the widowed mother , who is some years older than my father was , at her supposed prospect of a speedy severance from me also , may form but a melancholy accompaniment to

      the necessary duties of '' preparation for trial which I have jet to begin . May it please God , only to give me health for the next week ; and ihen they shall BOt yet prevent me from being " ready " . The poor old man often wept at the approach of the trials , and expressed his conviction that if 1 should be imprisoned , he should nevermore see me . It was his constant theme of conversation ; it preyed hard upon his mind ; it galled and fretted him severely ; he was too weak for is ; and I doubi not that he adds another u > the long list of murders by the devilish system Whether ihe old woman and myself may be also added , remains for proof . But it is only oy multiplied misery that their enp can be filled . It is filling fast , and may soon run over . Wm . Hill .

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      Leigh Glbevb . —We have it not . Joh . n Thornton . — We think it uould be adviseable for as many as purpose to conduct their own defences . "A " Member of the National Charter Association" suggests that a Defence and Victim Fund be forthwith opened in ev « -ry locality—each member , who possibly can , subscribing one halfpenny weekly , and striving to induce >> ome other friend or relation to subscribe weekly a like sum . This fund to be kept open as long as there is one vietint needing support ; and let the proceeds be equally divided between the Defence and the Victims'f am Hies . G , OF SowF . BBY .-Cr . J . H ., news- agent , Hartshead , Sheffield . A Readeb . — Write to the Horse Guards .

      Will Mb . Kidd send his address to his old friend , William Daniels , of Lasswade ? TiiOWBRiDSE Chartists . — We thank them for the article which they have sent to us , and for their kind expression of opinion . The party , however , to whom they reply would feel his vanity flattered by their notice . We treat ihe document with the contempt it merits . M . Griffiths , of Worcester , would be glad to hear from Mr . Leach and Mr . Cleave . Mb . J . O . Iiamo . nt suggests that the first assembled Conference of National Delegates amend the People's Charier by in troducing into it a clause providing more efficiently than is now done for the due moral and business qualifications of M . P / s .

      Ashtok-djjdbb-Lyne . — We have received a commu ' nicationfrom this place without any signature or confirm -ition whatever . We never give insertion to articles on such grounds . J . Colquhoun , Glasgow . —His correspondence has always met with every atttntion : it has at times been curtailed , when circumslqnc : s rendered it absolutely necessary . Did he see the piles of letters we are obliged to cut out , he would then know that he had " no room to complain . " Will Mb . Wm . Jones , of Liverpool , send his address as soon as possible to Mr . John APFarlan , of Northampton ?

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      BtrBLET , York . —The £ 1 given at Birmingham was not a loan : it was a gift , collected for that pur-P ° sfi and has not lobe repaid . Mb . OConnob ' s reasons for not replying to many letters of invitation are set forth in his letter of this week . Besides the Sums handed over to Mr . Cleave by Mr . O'Coniior , for the Defence Fund , this week , he has received another remittance of £ \ from Suttonin-A .-hJield , on Wednesday morn % ng , nnd i , lfrom Bristol Chartists , —too late to be acknowledged m Mr . Cleave r s weekly account . Mb . Arran ' s letter , Bradford , has been safely delivered . William Cuttell , Holmfirth . —Write to Mr . O'C , and direct your letter to be at this office by Monday next .

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      The money sent from Holmflrth noticed for the Defence Fund should have been for Mrs . Ellis 3 s . 2 d . J . W . R ., Worcester . —At 7 Jd . each , and postage of the two 6 d , making in the whole Is 9 d . J . M'Whinsie —The parcel was sent ; if not direct to Paton and Love , to Mr . John Cleave to be inclosed to Paton and Love .

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      FOB THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ a . d . From S . M . W ., Falkirk : proceeds of a raffl * 0 17 « _ the Chartists of Plymouth , per J . Rogers 10 0 _ David Riishforth 0 0 6 Collected by E J . aud J . M ., Holme Mill 0 11 0 Wm . Mortimer , Milt Bridge 10 0 From Nottingham , per Richard Hawkins ... 1 0 0 _ Heckniondwike . per Mr . Penny ... 1 10 0 „ B . Bulmer , Lofthouse 0 1 0 ^ the Chartists of Idle , near Bradford ... 0 3 0 „ Sowerby , per Wm . Stancliffd 1 10 0 _ Nantwich , per T . Dunning OS ) 0 « a few friends at Ea 3 try , by Sandwich , H- ' -nt ... ¦ ... , 0 5 6 _ G F ., Vale of Leven 0 10 „ a Friend , Todmorden ... ... ... 2 6 „ Sabdtn Chartists 0 5 0 FOR MRS . ELLIS . From S . M . W ., Falkirk : proceeds of a raffle ... Q 6 0 FOB P . U . M'DOUALL . From S . M . W ., Falkirk : procecdB of a raffle 0 5 0 FOR MR . PETER FODEM , SHEFFIELD . From the Somers' Town Victim Committee 0 12 0

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      Ocr last week ' s article on the " March of Machinery , " has produced , as we anticipated , a great sensation amongst the producers of woollen cloths . Many have been the shruggings of shoulders and shakings of heads , during the past week ; and many have been the surmises and inquiries as to what will become of the parties so surely to be displaced in the labour market by the " new" and " improved" machinery .

      We have heard of the sayings and doings of one little knot of producers which are deserving of some little note . They were met together , as scores of working men now have to do , to hear the Northern Star read ; and of course the article in question became the subject of more than ordinary attention . Gloomy were the forebodings , and despairing were the conclusions that many of them arrived at . They thought they saw ctteb buin staring them full in the face . At length one man , an old man , bid them not to be completely cast down ; not to sink into the earth at once ; but

      to look the matter full in the face , and Bee if there was not some means or other that could be adopted to make these new means of producing wealth work to the advantage of the workers . " Let us reason on this matter , '' said he f , " here , on one hand , is a machine capable of aiding in the production of wealth . Suppose that by its means ono hundred pound ' s worth is produced in one year , aud the cost of keeping it in repair is ten pounds . Then there are ninety pounds clear gain to those who get it . We have on the other hand , a Bishop , who takes from us some £ 30 , 000 a-year . But he produces nothing .

      Which do you think we could do best without , the Bishop , or the Maohine V We have Mrs . Adelaide ako . She gets from us £ 100 , 000 every year . What does sho produce ! Anything 1 Is she of any use , as far as production of wealth is concerned 1 . Is she as useful as the Machine ! Which woald it be wise for us to dispense with , suppose it should come to be a question as to whether should go , Adelaide , or the Machine ? For my part I would keep the machine . I would try if it could not be arranged so that I could have m y s hare of what the maohine produced ; and then I fancy I should not be so very much against machinery . "

      There are some very queer points put here ! What does the reader think about them I We hardly dare venture to express an opinion about some of them . Good God , —where are we getting to—and what will become of us 1

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      I f Abridged from the York Herald J This week the deaths of a mother and her infant son have occurred in this city , under very painful ! circumstances . The death of the former was caused from want of the common necessaries of life , and ! that of the latter from exposure to the cold aiid irregularity of food- On Monday evening , an inquest was held at the workhouse by John Wood , Esq ., the coroner , on view of the body of the mother , whose j name was Mary Clegg . I The following witnesses were called : — Mr . John Gnmshaw deposed—I am the master of the workhouse of the York Union . The deceased i came into the workhouse about a quarter before ten 1 clock on Saturday evening . She was accompanied : by Mr . Hodgson , the relieving officer . The house , was fall , and the case being urgent I went to the 1 chairman of the board , and arrangements were I made by supplying a male pauper with money to 1 get lodgings to make room for the deceased . She 1 appeared to me to be intoxicated , and the relieving ¦ officer stated to me that she appeared to be in that I state . I ordered her to be put"to bed , thinking , that i on the morning the effect of the liquor would be gone off , and that she would be better . She had ; neither meat nor drink on Saturday night . Two ! women slept in the same room with her , who 1

      j directed to look after her . On Sunday morning I ' found herin the same state as on the previous evening , I and knowing then that it could not be from liquor I j sent for Mr . Thomas , one of the surgeons to the I Union . It appeared to mo as though she had taken i something injurious , and I told the woman to bring her pockets to me . On examining the pocket I found a paper containing white powder , which I gave to Mr . Thomas , the medical officer . Therewerealsoin her pocket IHd in money , and four pawnbrokers' tickets . Mr . Thomas brought some medicine which he desired me to administer to her , and said if the first dose did not make her sick , I was to give her the other in twenty minutes or half an hour . I gave her thft first dose which caused her to be at first sick

      and then quite stiff ; she turned up her eyes and her feet became quice cold , in consequence , I did not give her any more . She turned stiff in about t&n minutes after the medicine was given to her . In about half an hour Mr . Thomas came again , and I told him the effects his medicine had produced , and that I had not given her the second dose in consequence . He told me I had acted very properly , as he said he believed the woman was dying . I think he attended twice after that during the day . She continned ill' all the day , and she died about three o ' clock this afternoon . A woman named Margaret

      Davies , eat up with her all last night . Mr . Thomas attended once to-day , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , but he said there was no chance for her living . She never was out of bed after she came in . The night she came in I asked her where her husband was , and she said " seek about . " That was all that was intelligible . I guessed her a # e for the purpose of filling up my book , to be thirty-five years . She was quite a stranger to me . The pocket and other articles which I now produce , are those found upon the deceased as I before described , and also a black leather pocket-book .

      Mr . Robert Hodgson deposed . —I am one of the relieving officers to to the York Poor Law Union . It was on the Tuesday or Wednesday in last week , that I first saw the deceased . She came with two children to the room which I use as my office in Lendal , stating that she was ill , and that her husband had deserted her , leaving her with two children , and he taking one . The woman appeared to be delicate , but I was not altogether satisfied with her conduct . I thought it necessary to make some inquiry about her circumstances , and being still dissatisfied with the woman ' s profession of being ill-I afterwards fetched Mr . Thomas , the medical officer , to examine her in the room . He returned with me and examined her . He said that the woman was Dot well , but she did not appear so ill as she was profeB 3 ing to be . I gave her money to obtain her

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      lodgings . She asked for relief . I gave her Is . 6 d . and recommended her to see if she ! could obtain lodgings in the Water-lane ; and if she informed Mr . Thomas where , he would attend her . I saw no more of her until Thursday afternoon , when she again came to my office . She stated { that she wan obliged to leave her lodgings , I gavejlier Is . 6 d . more , and advised her to obtain fresh loggings . On the Friday forenoon she was brought to mj office again by Key , the policeman . Her conduct seemed very strange , and my first impression was that she was not sober . She uat there for some considerable time , and I told her as I had relieved her on the previous day she could not want any thing then , and told her to be going . On getting upon her feet she

      had a 1 the appearances of a peron completely intoxicated ; she reelrd very much . In the ennrse of a minute or two a female brought tjie dec . ^ a < ed ' s infant into my office aga . in , and said the motner was not fit to take care of it , she haa nearly thrown it down in the street . I desired the woman to take charge of the infant , and let it have proper support . The deceased had taken her seat on Mr . Brearey ' s step , and a policeman was sent for to remove her , which was done , and he took her away . On the same afternoon I met the person who had the charge of the infant bringing ! it bjck to the mother ; the child was given to ; the mother . On Saturday I attended at the Guildhall to be present when the charge was preferred against

      the deceased before the magistrates . Mr . Chalk stated that she was too unwell to be brought up . He recommended to the Lord Mayor that she should be discharged , and that we had better assist her on her way . In the afternoon I met with K « y , aud it was agreed that he should obtain lodgings for her until the Monday , and that I would pay the exp » nse Incurred in her support . I accompanied ; Kt ? y to the Sta'ioa-house , and the woman appeared to have altered very much , and appeared scarcely in her reason then . I sent ior Mr . Marshal ) , one ofth * medical officers . He saw her , and propahly from a representation of my awn , he did not refommend anything at the time . 5 said that I thought she waa an imposter , and I thought that she had had drink .

      No medicine was ordered . She was ' . then l' -ft at the station , I myself taking charge of the infant . Key said if I would take the infant , ! they would manage with the woman . At about nine o ' clock in the evening , I was sent for to the police station . Mr . Chalk directed one of his men to place the woman outside the door , she was uol a prisoner , and » ha should not remain longer there . I then had her put into a cab , and again sent for Mr . Marshall , who examined her whilst she was in the cab . He stated that the woman was extremely ill , but he saw no immediate danger . I then had the deceased driven in the cab to the workhouse , where I left her . The elder child went with the woman who took the

      infant on the Friday , and remained with her unfil to-day , when I brought her to the workhouse . On Wednesday I asked the deceased the usual questions for filling up my application book , and she gave her name Mary Clegg , and said her husband had deserted her . She said that she had been at Hull , and that her husband had taken one child with him . She professed to hare no home , and did not fay what her husband was . She said she was a Lancashire woman , and if I remember right , she said that her husband was an Irishman . 1 don't recollect her age she gave , but it was under forty years I know . The deceased did not make any complaint about want .

      Mr . Richard Thomas deposed—I am one of the surgeons to the York Union . I saw the deceased first at Mr . Hodgson ' s office on Wednesday afternoon last . T hy , woman , upon my examining her , appeared certainly to be somewhat Jill , but not seriously so . She said she ha < I been in Walmsate and applied for some lodgings there , but was refused in consequence of her being ill . I told her I would give her some medicine upon her getting lodgings , and Mr . Hodgson gaveher money and desired her to apply in the Water-lanes for lodgings . ' I also told her when she had obtained lodgings to let me know and I would visit her . She came to my house in about an hoHr afterwards and paid she kad obtained lodgings in the First Water-Jane , and I then gave

      her some medicine . She had not been long gone when she returned and told my servant to let me know that she had been turned out of her lodgings , and that she had obtained other lodgings in the Middle Water-lane . The deceased soon afterwards came again and told me she had been turned from there also . I told her I could not interfere and she must rmdjavour to obtain lodgings , but in the event of her not succeeding , she must apply again to Mr . Hodgson , the relieving officer . I also told her that if she would let me know when the got lodgings I would visit her . I never heard or saw her again till yesterday morning , when I visited her . 1 was tent for to the workhouse . I came immediately , and knew her to be the same

      person . In consequence of the messenger telling me that it was supposed the woman had taken poison or something of that sort , I took' some medicines with me . On coming to the workhouaa I found her in bed , aud it appeared to me that she certainly had not taken any corrosive or narcotic poison , as there were no symptoms of that kind , but Mr . Grimshawe told me that the woman , on coming in , appeared to him to be intoxicated . Her appearance and her state generally ; led ma to suppose that she was suffering from the effects of intoxication . Mr . Grimshawe also gave me some white stuff which he said had been found in her pocket . I gave medicine to Mr . Grimsbawe to administer to the deceased . It was sulphate of zinc . I put it into a mug and

      desired him to add ax table spoonsful of water , and then to give her one half . I expected that would operate as an emetic . I did not expect it to produce any other effect . If the whole had been given at once it would only have had the effect of increasing the vomiting a little . I did not expect that it would make her stiff , or produce coldness at the extremitieu . The medicine was not calculated to produce such an effect ! as that . — On my second visit , within an hour afterwards , Mr . Grimshawe said he had not given the deceased the other hair' of the medicine in consequence of the effects which had followed the first , jl . told him ( and I am now of that opinion ) that under the circumstanoes he had acted quite right in withholding the other half . At the time I went in on my second visit the deceased was vomiting , and I examined the matter that was ejected , but I could not detect

      anything there like spirits . From that I became of opinion that she hid not been intoxicated . I therefore cannot account tor the state in which she was when she entered the workhouse , that is , the apparent state of intoxication . I cannot state with any confidence the cause of death , but if I was to hazard an opinion I should say it arose from ( serous ) apoplexy , from inanition , that is general debility arising from the want of the necessaries of life . IThere were symptoms to indicate that disease , and ; there were also others that were wanting . If she had taken opium it would have had the contrary iffuct . The white stuff which Mr . Grimshawe gave jme I ascertained to be merely sub-carbonate of soda , which is not injurious . It was common washing soda , which would only have produced burning at the stomach and retching , and that only in case it had been taken in a large quantity .

      By a Juror—I could not have detected poison in the matter that was ejected by the deceased without analysing it , unless it had bem prussic acid . Tnere being no further evidence then ready , the inquest was adjourned until the following evening , when Mr . Chalk , the superintendent of [ police , and Charles Weadley , a policeman , were examined , and proved that the deceased had been found ; wandering in the streets of the city , and bad been taken to the police station , where every attention was ' paid to her . Both of them thought her intoxicated . ' Mr . Marshall , another of ihe midical officers of the Union , corroborated the evidence of Mr . Thomas , previously given . i Mr . Thomas was then further examined and said : I have made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased . On removing the skull cap I found that the vessels of the membranes of the brain were

      very much congested , and on taking out the brain there was a considerable quantity of cerum at the base , viz , between three and four ounces . The latteral ventricles of the brain were quite tilled aud distended with a stmi ar fluid . I also examined the abdomen and took out the stomach ; it contained a very small quantity of dark coloured fluid , which had a strong smell of wine . I had ordered her a small quantity of wine on Sunday . All [ the organs and the entire viscera in the body werje in other respects quite healthy . I have no doubt the causa of death was the effusion of cerum on the brain , which , by compression on the brain would produce

      apoplexy . In my opinion the disease had icome upon her very gradually . The peculiar breathing in case of serous apoplexy , and the lota of sensibility were very much wanting in the case , but the other ay nip-, toms were marked enough . A very frequent cause of 1 the state which I found the brain to be iny is starv-1 ation and want , and it will very often arise from external injury . There was no evidence of external injury . I am quite of opinion that the long conutinued privation must have been the oauae of that state of \ the brain . The state of apparent drunkenness whioh was exhibited on Friday and Saturday was occasioned in my opinion by the disease which was going on in the brain , as I have described .

      The Coroner said , suppose the witness or any other medical man had an opportunity of administering the proper medicines , and taking the proper care of her , did he think it probable that her lite might have been saved J The witness replied there was a probability of it , but he did not think it was a possible base at all . I don't suppose the disease had any existence at all on the Wednesday , or if it had it was in so slight a measure that it was not to be detected . I think that the disease had been coming on for a [ very long period . I don't think that if she had been properly provided [ for and attended even from Wednesday it would have prevented the disease and death at this moment . I was not sent for to the Workhouse on Saturday night , at all , that I am aware of .

      Mr . Brearey asked tho witness that from the con gested appearance of the braiu whioh ho had cies cribed might it not have been produced by drunken ness !

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      W , t ieso—It would have been an exoiUng cause ; in would bring the predisposing cause more speedily into operation . . Mr . Brearey inquired if there had been a tendency to that predisposing cause in the brain previously , aud if the deceased had been drnnk on Friday , would that have materially accelerated her death ? Witness—Doobtle . 39 it would . Three or four ounces of blood congested on the brain is a large quantity . . , By ihe Coroner—I a-n of opinion that the deceased died of serous apoplexy . Some other witnesses were examined , but they stated no new facts , and Mr . Wood , the coroner , summed up the evidence to the Jury at great length . , Tiie Jury then consulted together for a few minutes , and returned the followiug verdict : —

      " Died by the visitation of Gad , to wit , serous apoplexy , and ' ffo think it right to express a hope that both Mr . Marshall , the surgeon , aud Mr . Hodgson , tho relieving officer , will be more attentive m future . And we are of opiuion that the police offiot-rs are deserving our commendatiou for their kind and humane attention to the deceased . "

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      DEATH . On Thursday evening , rather suddenly , at his house m Barstow-street , Leeds , in the 72 nd year of nia age , Mr . John Hill , of this town , late a grocer w u ? n" 1 l 5- L ? rn 8 ley « and father to the Rer . W . Hill , Editor of the Northern Star . On Friday , February the 10 th , Julia Goulborn , of Manchester . She was an affectionate wife , a kind mother , a faithful friend , and a sterling Chartist , and by her death the Association , together with her tamuy , have sustained a severe loss .

      ELOn Tuesday , the Hth instant , at Dew 3 bury , Thoa . Oldroyd , Esq ., solicitor , in the 52 nd year of his age . a gentleman known to most of bifcpipfefafo fi ia njff ^ county , and whose kindness aud'irbWUjjajlSl ^ him to be universally respeoted ^ a ^ Jbe ! 5 vBdU _^ lfc % JS him the poor have lost a feeling ^ n $ & ^ oj ^ jthtftOTrrf >;\ \ of Dewabtny a valued and fain&U f euj ^ ' ^ Km ^ y / , relatives and numerous friends a , Ka ^ 'iiiAptBflSisiUivy dwwr . 1 m ;^ 5 T £ ; H ^* m H ' vVs MMStKiMOW

      Another "Stbike-Plot!"

      ANOTHER " STBIKE-PLOT !"

      Crumbs Of Comfort.

      CRUMBS OF COMFORT .

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      1 Melancholy Case Of Starvation I In York.

      1 MELANCHOLY CASE OF STARVATION i IN YORK .

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      On the 13 th inst ., at the Catholic Chapel , Richmond , by the Rev . R . Johnson , Mr . James Ward , of that place , to Mips Tophatp , of Melsonby . On Monday the ISth instant , at St . Peter's church , Leeds , by she Rev . Mr . Oxley , Mr . Robert Thorrold Taylor , nour dealer , to Elizabeth , only daughter Mr . William Helliwell , clock and watch maker , all of Leeris . '

      Marriages.

      MARRIAGES .

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      So far the Coroner ' s Inquest . The Poor Law Guardians , however , took the matter up , and at their moling on Thursday , after the mattter had been introduced by the Chairman ,

      Mr . OateB said that in consequence of the verdict of the jury commending the police for their conduct towards ihe deceased during the time she was in their custody , he thought it was nothing but right that Mr . Brings , the overseer of the parish of St . Sampson , should state to the board the condition in whi » h he found the woman at tho Statiou-house . Mr . UrigES then made a statement to the following pnrport . About seven o'clock on Saturday evening , one of the police informed him that Mr . Chalk wanted him . He went immediately , and Mr . Chalk told him that he had a person in his custody who had been charged with being drunk ou Friday near the post-office , and that she was acquitted by the magistrates on Saturday at twelve o ' clock . She

      was therefore no longer a prisoner of his , aud he wanted to know what was to be done with her . Mr . Chalk also stated that the relieving officer had been acquainted with the case , and he h ; td come down about two o ' olock , took away thu child , and said he would return soon after aud attend to the wom . au . He had no' -, howtver , come down since , and the woman was not drunk but serisusly ill . Mr . Briggs went to the guardian , ani stated to him in what condition the deceased was . He found her in the cell sitting on the floor , without a cap and without a shawl on her shoulders , sitting in the dirt and wet just as nature had relieved itself " He and the guardian went to Mr . Hick , the churchwarden , because he ( Mr . Brigg ?) knew if she had not

      proper attention paid her , they should have the game disgrace thrown upon them as was attempted in a ca ? e without WaJiagale Bar . He bbor j afterwards eent his own youug man for the relieving officer , and when he returned taid that Mr . Hod ^ on was oat and would not be in till half-past nine o ' olock . An order was then written out and taken to the station house , and he requested a cab to be sent fjr to go to the workhouse- Whilst he was aivisj » these instructions the relieving officer came into the station house , and he said the workhouse Wis lull . The police ( as we understood ) took her by tho shoulders and was putting her out , but Mr .. Briggs saw Bha could not use her lets ; they were trailed after her . He told

      Mr . Hodgson to take her to the workhouse and try to get her in , and if he could uot to try somewhere else . Tho relieving officer waa pressing Mr . Marshall to attend to tiie case . Mr . Briggs said he did not wish to throw any disgrace upon Mr . Marshall , but he certainly did think he did not act with that energy which was required . - Mr . Briggs had seen the deceased before taken out Of the coll , and his opinion was that she was not sensible ; she had the appearance of a person who was quite deranged , and when questioned could get no other answer than Mary , Ashton-under Lyne . H « thought it a pity she should remain in the condition she wa ^ . Mr . Kriggs saw her in the cab , saw her also pass his shop to go to the workhouse .

      The Chairman—What time did Mr . Marshall attend her 1 Mr . Briggs—It would be about ten minutes past nine o ' clock . Mr . R . Bell—Had he been there before ? Mr . Briggs—I was not aware that he had been there before . Mr . Dewse—What time was it you found the deceased in the state you have mentioned ? Mr . Briggs—Seven o'clock on Saturday evening . Mr . Oates—You did not sad any bedding or rags in the cell ? Mr . Brings—There was a sort of platform raised up ; I did not see the togs ; [ think it wa 3 a boarded floor ; there was oo fire in the cell .

      Mr . Oates stated that it was about half-past eight on Saturday evening when he went with Mr . Briggs to the station-house . He gave a similar account of the condition in which he found the deceased , and he thought it was disgraceful to th « polico to have a woman there in that situation . He had written at the bottom of the order admitting ttie deceased to the workhoase , that Mr . Hodgson bad not attended to the case in consequence of what Green had told him . Some sonversation' then took place , and , in the end .

      Mr . Pulleyn moved— " That the relieving officer be exonerated from all blame in the matter . " Mr . . H . Bell—Not altogether . He would be as lenient with him as possible , but thought Mr Hodgson was misled . He was of opinion that Mr . Marshall was the most censurable , and Mr . Hodgson in a little degree . He , however , should not like to pass a vote of censure , but to negative the motion . The resolution was ultimately carried by fourteen to four . Mr . Hodgson , the relieving officer , observed that he should not let an event of this sort pass without deriving some important lessons from it ; and he promised that in future no effort should be wanting on his part for the proper discbarge of his duties .

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      Inquest on the body of the child . Immediately after the conclusion of the above inquest , another was held by the same coroner ai the Lord Nelson public house , Wa ! mi < ate , on view of tho body of James Clegg , the infant son of the above woman . Mr . Hodgson was examined , and the former part of his evidence merely related to the application , nude for relief by . Vlary Cte ^ g , his relieving her , and placing the deceased under the care of Mrs . Daiby , o . Wulmgate . He then further deposed—At noon on Sunday I received a m ^ asa ^ e that the child was very ill , and I along with . Mr . Short attended him . immediately . I was not aware that the deceased was ill before . When the child was with the mother it erifd and appeared uneasy , but from tho manner in which she treated it that is not to by wondered at . The mother told me the deceased was three months old .

      Eiien Dalby , wife of Jamts Dalby , labourer , deposed—I toot the deceased on Friday for a short time . I did not then pprceive auy ailineut ub ^ ut it exnept cold and the hooping c < m # h . It took the breast , which I gave ic . I returned it to the mother on Friday u : ght , at six o'clock , and took it again on Saturday , about three in the afternoon , and continued to have charge of him until Monday morning , between one and two o ' clock , when it died . I washed him on Saturday night , and put him clean clothes on , as he was filthy . The deceased was very restless © n Saturday night , and I sat up with him ; he had a convulsion fit about nc 3 ii on Sunday . I sent for Hodgsoa and Mr . Short , and they attended . By Mr . Short's , order tho deceased had a little brandy and water to wet its lips with , which was applied accordingly . He was in a warm ba'h about three minutes by order of the surgeon . There was a succession of fits until its death .

      By a Juror—I . fetched pome medicine from Mr . Short ' s about five o ' clock , which was given according to his direction . The first time I saw the child was on Friday , when he was near St . Dennis ' s church wall with his mother . Mr . Short , surgeon , deposed to the weak stave in which he found the child , and the remedies which be directed to bo applied . I-u his opinion it had died from the convulsions caused in all probability by irritation of the bowels from the change or . "food and exposure to the Gold . The Jury returned a verdict of " Died of convulsions brought on by exposure to cold and irregularity of food . "

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      THE NORTHERN STAR 5 _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 18, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct638/page/5/