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      in the Borough ot Leeds , contributing to the Highway Rate , authorised to be raised and collected under the Powers and Provisions of an Act of Par . liament made and passed in the Sixth Year of tte Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth , entituled "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Highways in that part of Great Britain called England , " will be held in the Vestry of the Parish Church , at Leeds aforesaid , on Saturday , the Twenty Fifth Day of March Instant , at Twelve o'clock at Noon , to nominate and elect for tho Year ensuing , a Board of Surveyors for the Superintendence of the Highways of the said Township of Leeds , for tho purpose of carrying the Provisions of the said Act into Effect , and in such manner and form as in and by the said Act is authorised and required . JOHN WALES SMITH , 1 JOHN GOODI 3 ON , I GEORGE HAMMOND , | JOHN KIRK , > Surveyors . ROBERT WRIGHT , I JOHN SELLERS , GEORGE HOGG , J JOHN YEWDALL , ) Overseers of the Poor JOSEPH BROADHEAD , Vof the said Township RICHARD GARDNER , ) of Leeds . Leeds , 17 th March , 1843 .

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      A CURE ! FOR ALL !! holliway ' s ointmkkt . hollowat's pills . EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A CASE ABANDONED BV GUY'S , THE METROPOLITAN , KING'S COLLEGE , & CHARING CROSS HOSPITALS . This fact was sworn to this 8 : h day of March , 1842 , Before the Lord Mayor , at the Mansion-houde . SUMMARY OF AFFIDAVIT . WM . BROOKE , Messenger , of 2 , Union-street , Southwark , London , mtketh oath and saith , that he ( this deponent ) was afflicted with FIFTEEN RUNNING ULCERS on his left arm , and ulcerated sores and wounds on both legs , for which deponent was admitted an out-door patient at the Me * tropolitan Hospital , in April 1841 , whereho continued for nearly four week * Unable to receive a care there , the deponent sought relief at the three following hospitals : —King ' s College Hospital in May , for five weeks—at Guy's Hospital in July , for six weeks ; and at Charing Cross Hospital at the end of August , for some weeks more ; which deponent left , being in a far worse condition than when be had quitted Guy's , where Sir BRANSBY COOPER , and other medical officers of the establishment had told deponent that the . only chance of saving his life was to LOSE HIS A RM ! The deponent thereupon called upon Dr . BRIGHT , chief physician of Gay's , who , on viewing deponent's condition , kindly and liberally said , " / am utterly at a loss what to do for you ! but here is half-a-sovereign : go to Hr . HOLLO WA Y , and try what effect his Pills and Ointment will have , as I have frequently witnessed the wonderful effects they have in desperate cases . You pan lei me see you again . " This unpredjudiced advice was followed by the deponent , and a perfect cure effecUA in three weeks , by the use alone of HOLLOW Ar » PILLS and OINTMENT , after four Hospitals had failed ! !! When Dr . BRIGHT was shown by w deponent , the result of his advice and charUy » W said , " / am both astounded and delighted , / flj * thought that if I ever saw you again alive , it would w without your arm . I can only compare this Cure to > a Charm !!! T . „ B worn at the Mansion-house of ihe City of JUHW « this 8 th day of March , 1842 , WM . BROOKE . Before me , JOHN PIR 1 E , Mayor . In all Diseases of the Skin , Bad Legs , Old Wounds and Ulcers , Bad Breasts , Sore Nipples , Stoney ana Ulcerated Cancers , Tumours , Swellings , Gont , Knenmatism , aad Lumbago , likewise in cases of Pilfl 9 r | ° Pills , in all the above cases , ought to be used witb inj Ointment ; as by this means cures will be « fltf' : . with a much greater certainty , and in half the tun that it would require by using the Ointment aiooe ; The Ointment is proved to be a certain- remedy w the bite of moschettoes , Sand-flies , Chiego-foot , iaw 5 ' and Cocobay . , _ j Burns , Scalds , Chilblains , Chapped Hands , ana Lipa , also Banions and Sofx Corns , will be immediately cured by the use of the Ointment . . THE PILLS are not only the finest KBg » known when used with the Ointment , but as a ue eral Medicine there is nothing equal to them , nervous affections they will be found of the S * ^ , service . These Pills are , without exception , «" finest Purifier of the Blood ever discovered , & »» OUGHT to be USED BY ALL !! !

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      "S"OBSSHIBB SPUING ASSIZES . ( CvJitinued from our fifth page J Thttb 5 Dat , JLakcb 16-Before Mr . Justice Qjl'ma n * Eii Harpin , 25 . pleaded paTltj to a eharee of having sioIpd a hcrfeT , &i Tbornbill the property of Ibchard CardweiL He was sentenced to be imprisoned for eighteen months to hard labour .

      I 2 JTKVT TO HUBD * B . James Crah ' ree * 26 \ . -w » s indiced for having , on the 11 th of February , last . comnrttf > d an H ^ gravated assault on Elizabeth Cop p er , in an iudecent and bnital manner with a hedge siake , wivh intent to kill and ronrder her . Mr . TFilsiss and Mr . Pashlet were for the prosecoiron ; Mr . utkbemj dtft-ncea the prisoner . The prosecatrix siat-e-i lhat on the day named in ihe indictment she iiad gone oat of the house for somf milk , and on her return home she was accosted ly two men , who , after using some brutal «> xpr-s sons threw heron the ground , ihrnst a hedge stake np ier person and left her there . She was greailv injured bnt contrived to walk home wjih the srake still sucking in her body . The entire deiails of the case are totally nnfit for psblication .

      Mr . Otekekd addressed the- jury for the defence , arguing that there was some uncertainty as to the identity of the prisoner . The Jury retired for a short time , and afterwards returned a Terdict or Gnilty on the second count , namely of attempting to do some ^ nev ^ us bodily harm . Robert AUdnson , 24 , was next chared with having on the 21 st of November , siabb . id and "wounded George Woodcock , at Hipperbolme-ctnn-Brighonse , near Halifax , with intent to maim and disable him . Mr . Roebuck prosecuted , and Mr . JBuss defended the prisoner .

      George Woodcock deposed , that on the day in qoestion he was driving his waggon from BraofoT . 1 to Briiihou 3 e , at eighteen minntes past eleven o ' clock at tight , and having caJled at Wilson ' s public-house , and gone through ihe toll-bar , somebo iy whom he had known as working on ihe r- ^ sd pasted him , and be went on . About 400 jards from the-wi ' -bar , ihe man that had passed him turned to the horses , and cried , ** whoa "—witness , in ihe mean lime , sining on the waggon shifts . The horses plnnged forward .

      when the man struck at witness with u urawa knife , aud said , ** Do ' st thon see this 1 " W u-jr ^ s re plied , ** Get off ; I want to have nothing . . j do with th-e . " PrisonerStid , Come up , or eke IV pot it inio thee f and he then stabbed him in th ^* ¦¦ h side ; after that he threw him down ; but he e < - up . and a struggle took place , the prisoner saying . *• If ih » u does not deliver np , I'll ran it inio the * . " Tn ^ y were then against a wall ; and witness received aitogeiher four cuts—the last only penetrating through th * cloihes . but he distinctly felt the knitc cut him .

      Some witnesses were called , who bore out , in its mam particulars , the statement of the pro .-ecutor ; bm some discrepances were brought oui in cro .-3-exammanon , Mr . Bliss addressed the Jnrj for the prisoner , ano coaUnsied that thrTe was mot that certsimy m the identity which would warrant them in finding the prisoner guilty . He also called a witness who gave the prisoner a good character , and who denied that within tbe last fonr years he haa ever been working on the highway . Th * Jury retired , and after an absence of some iime retn-ned with a verdict of Guiky . Sentence dt-f erred .

      Joseph Mason , 25 , was indicted for having , on the 22 i . d of January last , ai Skehon , m ihv North Hiding , bnrjrfarioEslT and feloniuu-j ' y broken 'uto the dwelling hon ? e of Talmas Carr , wirh inttui o Ettal therein . Tke indic ^ m ^ nt Juriher charged the prisoner with having fin da gun at life prosecutor , ¦ with indent to murder him ; aDd al * o With bavin ; : eudeavonred to ext&rt money from aim . > lr . Blanchasd was for the prevention . Tae prisoner was ucdefen ^ ed . The charge wa 3 in a great measure supported by tbe fridtDoe of a man named Turner , a prisoner in **»* Oastle , to whom the prisoner , afitr hi ? commit : al , had made a viva voce ratem ^ nt of the are amstaiices nnder whicn he had been appr ? n-nctd ; and whom he also told that it was himstif { the prXsoner ) who had actually fired the gun on the aight in q jesiioD . Tne prosecutor , in iria evidence stat-d that the gun ¦ was fired by another man , not in enstody .

      The Jury retired to con > idtr their verdict . Th » - prisoner was fouT 2 d G « ilty of fhoot ng * iih inient to do « . me grieTon ? bodily harm . Sent-er ^* - deitrri ^ -d . Boberi Sudpe , 32 . J ., hn Hancock , 30 , William Hall , 22 , and George Stony , 21 , were ii , aicted 1 or havjug , on the gih of February iart , burglariously euim d the toll-bar house at Broom Bar , near Rotberhum , from whence they stole the sum .. f three pouuds n silver , the property of Pickles R- berts . William Prassley , charged wish the same " cff . iice , was admilled eVidprce . Mr . Wruass and Mr . Pashlt n ? rs for the prose < runflii ; Sir Gkegobt JLtTris defeaded ih- pri-Boj . erRud ^ e ; Mr . Hkatos appeared for Haucuck and Hail ; and Store ? wasundef ^ -nde '; .

      Pickles Roberts Geposed that abon ; one o ' clock in the morning in question , he was disturbed by a horse arriving at ins &&ie i he go : op std went out to open the gate , and whilst do . ng so , on torn < ng roncd he saw four men en foot , and the prisoner , George Storey , on horseback . The four men t > n foot c&me from ihe corner of the house iy the garden door , and one of them went np asd struck him on the bead . That was the prisoner Hall , who then shonted ** Go at him . lad * . " The m 3 n then goi off the horse , and the whole par'j attacked him . Thty struck him several biows , and three of the inei ) then went into the house , the oihtr two being left to guard him . Hr got away from these , and en . gpttksg into thehonse . saw a tall man teaTcLing th » 5 hoosf . There "was a fire bnrniES , and the man had

      a JsiAsrn . Rudge , he belitved , was the man "who was searching ihe dravper . He receiTed * e veTal other blows in the honse ; and saw there Hall and Sttrev . In ransankiflg the house th--y obtained £ 3 5 s 7 d . The mea had ill velveteen and fn » tian jackets on , and rap ? tied under the chin . — The wife of Roberts corroborated bis statement , and identified Pressley aud Roberts as two of the men m the honse , and described the' third as having a hatchet on hfc shoulder . She asktd them not to hnrt her hnsband , and Rudge said they wonld not if she would come out and i * U them where the money was . She then got the lantern wh : ; h he held in his hand and held it tip to his face , in crder to know him again . Could not speak to ai > y of the men except Presiley and Bodge .

      Presslcy was the next evidence called , and hr deiaDed rhe wnole circumstances of the attack ana Tobbsry , corroboi ^ ting in cv ^ ry particular , the statement of . Roberts and his wife , la ftr 0 .-3-exa . 1 niEa tion he said he might have bten engaged hi ten or a < Joz n robDeries , but conld not teil how many pigeons he had sioien . He admitted that he expected to receive one half of the reward ( £ 150 ) , which had been offered . Evidence wa 3 then gone into on another indictment , in which the prisoners were charged wiih a similar attack and robbery at AJdwick Bsr , on tbp same morning , and within about three qnarters of an hour of the robbery at" Broom" Bar .

      The barman and hi 3 wife detailed the circumstances of ihe robhery , and the constable ( Mr . Bitnd , of Rr 3 therhim ) who had apprehended the parties , described tfce property fonn ' d , which coniissed of skeleton k « y .-, picklocks , caps to tie nnder the ebin . is . He eL = o spoke to the statement made by Pxessle ^ . The ra ^ e for the prosecntion bein ^ closed . Sir Gregost Lewis and Mr . Hbatox addressed the Conn on bebaif of their respective clients . The prsoners were all found Guilty . Rudge was sentenced to be transported for twenty years ; SJid the ihr ^ e other prisoners for fifteen years eaeh . Joseph Mason , who had been found guilty of fihooling st , with intent to do grierons bodily harm , to Themes Carr , was sentenced to be trajjsj > arted for twenty years .

      CROWS COURT-FErDAT . John Whiilaker , Jan ., was charged with having maiiKoualy killed and maimed certain sheep , the propti y of Thomas Smith , of Conitbrough , near I > onri » ter . Sir J . Lfwiij and Mr . Wilkiss were for the pro seen aon ; the prisoner were defended by the Hon . J . S Wobilet and Mr . Wxlk . er . T- prisoner was indicted under the provisions of the 7-. h and 8 tb Geo . IV . cap . 30 . which enacted that any person who shall kill , maim , or wound , any caule , sheep , or other beast , shall be deemed guil y of ' elony . The prisoner is a butcher at Conisbroa » h , and the pro .-ecutor is a farmer at the

      rame place . BBrtug a period , extending from thv month of ^ ovember to the February following , Jar . bmnb fcufijea senoua lossts in his sheep , sixteen or seventeen having been Sound in his field , dead or dying at different times , from the tffects of strangulation , which iad no doubt been done wilfnliy The principal witness against the prisoner was a lad named CheEtcr , who iad been m his employ and who deposed to facts and admissions by the prisoner which went very far to establish hi = fuilt—but the position of this witnesa as a discharged sen-ant , of course raised a certain degree of suspicion on his testimony . He was , however , corroborated in sSfte points by cta « witnesses .

      There were twenty-two witnesses forthe prosecn Con , and thirty-five forj tlie defence . The trial wa < proeeedinit at half-past six last night , when Mr Wortley was commencing the defence . 5 UBSID 2 ABY COURT—Thubsdat . BbJdtb Mr . Xnoieles , Q . C John Beniles , 22 , pleaded Gnfliy to having stole ] a saddle and oriole at Leeds . Wiliiam Blakebrough and Samuel Wilson , v ; h lad betn out on bail , were chargea with a conspi racy and now Mr . Hardy was for the prosecution ; the prisoner were undefended .

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      Tnis case arose out of the serious disturbances thaf took place last summer . On the evening of the loth of August , Thoma 3 Horner , the engine tender to Mr . Simeon Townsend , of Thornton , was in the yard of his master ' s factory , when the prisoners came into the yard with a large crowd . Blakebrough asked Borner if he wonld allow him to draw the plugs , and ho told them he would not . Horner w-nt to see his master on the subject , and when he returned he said they must let the plugs alone , and he would let the steam off . Blakebrough , in the presence of Wilson , said they would draw the plugs that night , or else they would bring 10 , 000 people the day after . Blakebrough then knocked * out one of the plugs and Wilson followed his example . The iast named prisoner attempted to knock a third plug out , but he could not do so , and he scalded his foot .

      The prisoners in defence denied the charge , aoi called witnesses as to character . Gnilty of the conspiracy . —To be imprisoned tw < months to hard labour . Wiiriam Collins , 66 , who had been out on bail was charged with having , on the 5 th or 6 th of Octo bar last , at Bradford , stolen a mare pony , the pro perty of James Waddington . Mr . Moxteith was for the prosecution , aod Mr Wilk . ins for the defence . Tne prosecutor is a dealer in milk at Bradford and the prisoner is a boat hauler , at West Haddlesey near Selby . The prosecutor two or three week ; bsfore the 5 th of October last , bought the mare , ant about nine o ' clock in the evening of that day he pui

      it into a field near his house . He fastened the gate , and next morning , about six o ' clock , on going tc take the mare out of the field to work , he found she was gone , and for several weeks afterwards he heard nothing of her . He made search for the mare and on the 11 th of October she was taken to Selby tair . and there sold by the son of the prisoner , he having sent him to do so . After the prisoner was taken into custody he made a statement in which he said he bought the mare on the Wednesday before Seiby Michaelmas fair . He could not , however , nave done so , as the prosecutor had the animal at work on that day . * When she was taken away the mare had a long tail , but when the prosecutoi fuund her the tail was cut .

      Air . Wilkiks addressed the Jury for the prisoner , and called several witnesses to prove that the prisoner had purchased the mare of a man named John Smith , who said he lived at No . 3 , Marsh-lane , White-street , Leeds , Th ^ Jury retired for a few minutes , and then found ihe prisoner Not Guilty . Samuel Murgalroyd , alias Waierhouse , 22 , Bwas charged with having on the 13 th of September , 1841 , at Bradford , nnlawfuily married Hannah Cotson , Mary Murgatroyd , his former wite , being then alive . Mr , Pickerimg appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . Walkeh defended the prisoner .

      The prisoner is a person in humble life , and in 1838 iived at Bradford . On Christmas Day in that year he was married in that town by the Rev . John Butierfiold to Mary Firth , bnt far some reason or other they did not live together . On the 13 th of September , 1841 , the prisoner was married by the name ot Samuel Waterhouse to Hannah Cotson , and when they presented themselves before Mr . Butterfi ^ ld , he asked the prisoner where his former wife was , and he replied she was dead . It was , however , proved that she was now alive . When Mr . Young , the constable of Harrogate , apprehended the prisoner , he admitted that he had married the two fr-male ^ - —Guilty . To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in WakefiJd House of Correction for &ix calendar months .

      Theophilus Bachelor , 22 , and William Brown , 37 , were charged with having on the 19-h o ! December la > t , at Kryton , broken into the dwelling-house of George BicRera , aud stolen therefrom iwo silver table spoons , one desert spoon , and two silver teaspoons . Mr . Baixes was for the prosecutiou ; Mr . Blus dt-fended the prisoners . The prosecntor is a farmer living at Fryton , near Hovingham . and on the Ifiih of December left home to go o York fair . At DJght , about eleven o ' clock , Mrs . Bickers and the rest of the family retired to rest , leaving all the deors and w ; ndows fastened . About hall-past five o ' clock next morning , Jane Wheldon , servant to Mrs . Bickers , who hadslt-pt

      with her mistress on the night of the robbery , was called up , when , from some information she received irom the other servant , she found that the dairy had been entered through a wire window , thai three g ' ancbions were broken off , and that a great quantity of provisions had been taken out of the dairy . Upon making a further search , it was discovered that some silver plate had been carried eff , that the wearing apparel had been disturbed , and a pair of stockings stolen . Two days afterwards the prisoners were apprehended by Mr . Atkinson , the constable in the streets of Stockton , and in Bachelor ' s pocket were found several articles of plate belonging to the prosfcutor . He had previously sold the pair of stockings to Elizabeth Waine , a shopkeeper

      at S ockton . Bachelor stated in the police-office that they found tho plate on the York Road , about six mile ? from Thirsk . He was asked if Brown wa 3 with him , and he said yes , which Brown did not deny . They made a similar statement before the magistrates , and Brown also said he had met with Bachelor at Belper , in Derbyshire , about a week previous . In addition to these facts , it seeaas that the day before the robbery , Mr . Bickere saw Bachelor and another man at Fryton , and on the following day both the prisoners were observed on Wass moor . On the 26 ih of December , whilst the prisoners were confined in separate oeih in Stockton ,

      about an hour and a half after Mrs . Atkinson , the wife of the police officer , had served them with their breakfasts , she heard Batchelor say to Brown , " We shall be liberated to-day if no person comes to appear against us . "—Brown asked Bachelor how be knew that . Batchelor said the mistress had been telling him so . He also added , We must stick to the same as we said before the magistrates the other dEj . We came through Yarm between three and four o ' clock on Wednesday , but we must know nothing abont theother concern . " Mr . Bliss in addressing the Jury for » he prisoners submitted that the evidence was not such as to

      warrant a conviction . The Jury found Bachelor Guilty and Brown Not Guilty . The prisoners were further charged with having , on the 20 th of December last , at Coxwold , broken inro tfce dwelling-house of Joseph Spenceley , and stolen therefrom five silver tea-spoons , two silver salt-spoons , and oiber articles . Mr . Bukshabd and Mt . Whabtok were for the prosecution ; Mr . Bliss defended the prisoners . Tue prosecutor resides at Shandy Hall , near Coxwold . On the night of the 20 th Dec , Mrs . Spensley was the la ? t person up , and she retired to rest between ten and eleven o ' clock , haying previously gone round the

      hou-e and ascertained that the doors and windows were all fast . On the following morning , about seven o ' clock , ^ Jin Easton , the prosecutor's servant , informed her mistress that the honse had been broken into , and it turned out that an entrance had been effected through the scullery window . A quantity of pia . e , linen , and provisions was discovered to have been stolen . On the day in question the prisoners were seen within two miles of Coxwold . The other evidence against the prisoners was similar to that in the last case . Some of the prosecutor's property was found in Bachelor ' s possession the day after the robbery . The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty .

      Bachelor was sentenced to be imprisoned in Nortballerton House of Correction for twelve months , and Brown for nine months . The Court lose about half-past seven o'clock .

      yaiCAY . Be / ore M . T . Baines , Q , C . Joseph Sutcliffe , 30 , William Sharp , 22 , were indictea for having , on the 7 th of Febmary last , at rioribowrazn , burglariously entered the dwellinghons = of Mr ? . Mary Andenon , and for having stolen therefrom 13 ? . 6 d . in znonfj , some silver spooas , and a pair of Eugar tongs , her property . Mr . Ijvgham was for the prosecution ; the prisoners were undefended . The prosecutrix is very infim , and has a granddaughter residing with her . During the night in question , while they were in bed in a room on the gTound floor of the house , they were disturbed by a noise

      in the room above , and shortly afterwards three men entered the bed-room in which the two females were , two of whom held them down in bed until the other nflsd the drawers . The prisoners had a light with them , and one of them had a horse pistol , with which he threatened to shoot them if they made any noise . They were in the honse about ten minutes ; the prisoner Sharp had his face partially blacked , but the prosecutor knew him and could identify him as the man who had the pistoL Sutcliffe was identified by Miss Anderton , the grandanghter of the prosecntrix . The principal point raised was that of identity ; the Jury , however , considered this sufficiently proved , and found both the prisoners Suilty . They were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years .

      Robert Brentnall , 22 , was charged with feloniously stealing a horse , the property of Thomas Aidam . Mr . Aspisail was for the prosecution ; Mr . Bliss defended the prisoner . The prosecutor resides in Hall-gate , Doncaster , and iB a livery stable keeper . On the 21 st of Oct last the prisoner hired the horse in question to go to Pontefract , bnt instead of going there it appeared that ho rode in another direction , and

      afterwards _ sold the horse at a place near Swanwick , in Derbyshire . In consequence of not returning it at 'the time he ought to have done , he was taken into custody . The parties had been for some time acquainted , and had had transactions together in horse-dealing , there being , at the time of this hiring an alleged balance between them of £ 2 lOfl . The prisoner , when before the magistrates , made a voluntary statement to ihe tffect that he had borrowed the horf * ; that he w nt to Pontefrac * , from thereto Wakeficld , and 1 hence to Chesterfield ,

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      to seehi 3 wife ; that the horse fell with him after riding him six miles from Chesterfield , and severely cut his knees , in consequence of which he sold him , and sent the saddle and bridle , with a letter to the prosecutor , informing him thereof , and telling him that he would provide him with another horse , for that the one he had engaged was so injured that he could not get him home , and he had sold him only for as much money as the balance was between them . Mr . BHsb succeeded in establishing these facts , and . the Jury withont retiring , found a verdict of Not Gnilty . . f Job Collin , alias Wood , 22 , was indicted for that he , on the 1 st or 2 nd of November last , at Hatton , did feloniously steal a blaok horse , the property of Thos . Heeaom . Mr . Hall and Mr . Wbarton were for the prosecution : Mr . Roebuck defended the prisoner .

      The prisoner was found Guilt y , and sentenced to be transported ten years .

      H 6 RSE STEALING AT LEEDS . John Benlley , Thomas Taylor , and John Carr were charged with having on the 5 th December last , at the borough of Leeds , feloniously stolen one mare and one horse , the property of Robert Ripley . Mr . Ellis and Mr . Hill conduoted the prosecution . The prisoners were undefended . The prosecutor is a livery-stable keeper at Leeds , and on the 4 th December last , the prisoners , Bentley and Tayior went to engage two horses for the following day . Prosecutor was not in , but his son said that if they would call again , he would ask His faiher if they could have them . They called in about anhourafterwards and the prosecutor ' s son informed

      them that they could be accommodated . He asked then their names , and Bentley said they called him Buckton ; that he was a reporter at the Leeds Intelligencer \ and was going to Huddersfield to a meeting . Taylor gave his proper name . The two prisoners went for tho horses next morning , and the prosecutor asked Bentley and Taylor their names , and the Bame tale was told him as on the night previous to his son . The same morning the two first-named prisoners were eeen in Pontefract ; Carr was with them . Bentley exchanged the mare

      with a person named Tankard for a grey horse , In the afternoon , they left Pontefract and went to Dj ncaster *; and from information which Air . Etches , police-officer , received he went to the public house wore the horsea wore aud saw Bentley and Carr . He asked them where they had got them , aud Bentley taid they were hi 8 ; and that Carr was his man . Bentley afterwards , however , told him where they had got the horacs . The casi ! was very clear against Bentloy and Taylor , and the Jury returned a verdiot of Guihy . Carr was acquitted .

      Bentley was sentenced to be transported fifteen years , and Taylor to nine months imprisonment to hard labour . : The prisoner Beiitley had previously been convicted of felony at Leeds , in 1839 . George Reed , 21 , Thomos Crownshaw , 18 , aud Henry Smith , 16 , were charged with a burglary in the house oi" Sarah Hawkesley , at Eoclebfield . — Guilty . One year ' s imprisonment each .

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      WORKHOUSE DISCIPLINE . The conflict on Monday night between Ferrand and Sir James Graham was curious in its character , and not a little disgusting in its details . On that evening Sir James Graham—who obscurely int , imated that the erection of a treadmill or tread wheel in an union workhouse as a test of the sincerity of the pauper applicants for relief was not alltogether detensible on the principles of humanitysaw no objection to the erection of a mill worked by band-power for the same purpose , no matter whether it were to be worked by a winch or by hand , or whether it were intended for tho , tearing of rags or for the grinding of corn . As another Hon . Member , from whose position as a county member and a country gentleman we should have expected better things , seemed to entertain a similar opinion , and even eulogized the handmill as " the least severe and the best

      mode of providing labour for paupers , we are induced to furnish the public with certain evidence , which we have collected from the reports of tho Inspectors of Prisons , for the double purpose of showing that the handmill is at once an unequal , an inhuman , and a dangerous punishment , and of inducing the boards of guardians in different parts of the country to abstain frem following the pernicious example which has been already Bet them in the parish of Lambeth , and which would have been set them in the Union of Halifax also , bad not the remarks of Mr . Ft rrand worked a marvellous conversion in the opinions of the Right Hon . Baronet , who is eiiher the master or the puppet of the Poor Law Commissioners .

      We do not expect to be contradicted when we advance our first proposition—that it is impolitic to leavo it in the power of the subordinate officers either of a prison or of a workhouse to increase or diminish the amount of labour imposed upon the unhappy wretches placed under their superiutendance , without either the consent or the privity of their superiors ; and yet it is made evident that this power C 3 n easily be exeToiiod by any person who has the management of a handmill , by the following extract from the testimony given by Mr . George Smith , governor of Huntingdon Gaol , before the Lords Committee on Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales : — kl

      I have a small hand-machine I constructed , which 1 have occasionally placed men at , as an enxplojment , who are unable to tread the wheel , and who , from some bodily infirmity , appear to be unfit to tread the wheel . Invariably , after they have been at it for a few hours , they have made application to be allowed to tread the wheel , notwilhitanding their infirmity , and with society , rather than in a state of separation . " Of what description is the machine ?—/< is a small hand-crank engine turned with a winch . " What power does it require to work it !—One man . ** What weight 1— We can alter the pressure from the pewer of a child to the power of a giant by ALTERltiG THE CENTRE SCBtW Of the tWO Wheels that come in contact with each other .

      M Do you attribute the wish of the prisoners to return to the treadwheel to the desire of society , or to the greater irksomenesa of the labour of the hand-machine \—I endeavour to set the machine so that it is isot more laborious than the treadwheel . If a person who is employed at the hand-machine can work that from morning tonight without taking his jacket off , and if a man at the treadmill cannot work at that without perspiring with his jacket off , I conceive that the machine is tbe lighter labour ot the two . " — ( FirBt Report of the Lords' Committee , pp . 1 S 5166 )

      But will the hand-mill be the lighter labour of the two , if " the centre screw of the two wheels" be altered by a severe and savage task-master J Considering how tightly the bcrew has been driven into the poor for many years past by the Poor Law Commissioners and their familiars , we have an invincible rppugnance to confiding the control of this crank to any person who has been brought up in their cruel and unfeeling school . We are not inclined to accuse those who are intrusted with the care of the convicted felons in the General Penitentiary at Millbank , of any disregard of their sufferings . They have , however , ereotedia handmill for the purpose of grinding corn and drawing water in that huge and ungainly prison ; and -what is the evidence as to its operation and effects furnished us by the Inspectors of Prisons for the Home District in their Fourth Report , p . 21

      ?—u Tbe taskmasters and wardens remarked that the hands of the prisoners trembled for some time after they had been working the crank of the machine , which unfilled them for a time for their work , as tailors , Bhovmakers , &c , on their return to their cells . " This is some slight proof of the effect produced by the handmill on the nervous system ; but there is another passage in the same report , but on another prison—to which we cannot at the moment refer , but which is firmly fixed in our memory—distinctly stating , that all spinners and weavers are excused from this punishment , because it destroys their

      feelings of touch , and so disqualifies them from pursuing their usual occupations on their discharge from gaol . And yet it was in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire that it waB recently proposed to establish the handmill , not as a punishment for convicted felons , but as a test for Buch unfortunate spinners and weavers as the distress of the times may have thrown out of employment ; and to that proposition Sir James Graham not only offered no objection , bnt positively gave his sanction and support , nntil he was awakened to a sense of bis inhumanity by the pointed and startling attacks of Mr . Ferrand .

      The evidence which we have already quoted is pretty strong as to the cruelty and the impolicy of this punishment ; but it shrinks into positive insignificance when compared with that which , we next feel it our duty to Bubmit to our readers . This mode of punishment was tried for Borne years in the County Gaol and House of Correction at Bodmin , in Corawall . On tbe 3 d of April , 1838 , the keeper ot that prison addressed the following report on tbe subject to tbe Chairman and other Magistrates assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace , holden for that county at Truro . The document is rather long , but will repay well the trouble of a perusal : —

      " In making this , my quarterly report , I regret to state that during the past quarter there have been more oases of sickness among tne prisoners than lor

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      a very considerable time . It has been confined almost exclusively 10 the male prisoners convicted of felony , particularly those who have laboured constantly at the handmill , which has evidently produced much debility , end consequent illness . * ' " / have ever considered the handmill as a severe , as well as an unequal , kind of labour , but I have certainly never observed till tbe past winter its effects so manifest , and this I think may be attributed to one or two causes—namely , either the length and severity of the winter may have induced colds , and thus have rendered the men unequal to the labour , or they may have been kept more constantly employed at the bandmill than heretofore , although I am not prepared to say that such has

      been the case . 1 feel it , however , necessary to state to your worships , that having for many months had a large number of prisoners of this class , I have , with a view of conforming as nearly as possible with the provisions of the Gaol Act , kept the felons more exclusively employed at the handmill , rather than mix them with other flosses of prisoners ; but there bas not been more corn ground , nor has the mill been kept longer at work , than heretofore ; unless , therefore , the weakness and illness has been brought on in the way I have mentioned , I am quite unable to account for it ; but it may be satisfactory to your worships to be informed , that the surgeon concurs in the opinion I have expressed . Before closing this part of my

      report , I respectfully beg leave to explain my objection to the use of the handmill as a prison labour . In the first place , the position of the body when so employed is unnatural , and likely to produce determination of blood to the head . In the second place it frequently produces faintness aud giddiness , and instances have occurred of the prisoners having be < n thrown over the handles ; and although no fatal consequences have ensued , yet they have sustained serious wounds and bruises : this is particularly liable to happen to the prisoners when first employed at it . And , finally , it is a decidedly unequal kind oflabour , inasmuch , as it is impossible to tell accurately whether every prisoner does his part ; I have repeatedly watched them when at work , with a view to detect the

      skulkers , but J confess I have ntver succeeded satisfactorily , and the prisoners themselves know they cannot be detected , and thus the willing man is worked off his legs , whilsttheidler and , skulker-goes unpunished i have ma < ie several alterations in the handmill within the last year or two , so as to regulate the motion , and render it less irksome to the prisoners , and I am satisfied that it never worked better than at present ; but worked as it now is , I am quite convinced it is objectionable , for the reasons 1 have assigned . I therefore respectfully submit the subject lo your worship ' s consideration , either as regards the continuance or abolition of this kind of labour . " We have great pleasure in informing the public that this appeal to the humanity of the justices of Cornwall was not made in vain ; for it is stated in the 6 th Report of the . Inspeotors of Prisons ( p . 176 )

      that they ( the Justices ) came to the resolution of putting an entire stop to handmill labour in the House of Correction at Bod mi n ; and with this evidunco before it , we now ask the House , unwilling as it was to listen to the just complaints of Mr . Ferrand , whether it will again allow the penniless , friendless , hopeless , houseless , and it may be guiltless paupers of this country to be the victims of a punishment which the magistrates of Cornwall , after mature examination and inflection , have abolished as too severe and too pernicious even for the coovioted criminal \ We pause for a teply . Even as a labour test this handmill has no value ; for , according to the testimony of the humane gaoler at Bodmin , " the willing man is worked off his legs . " whilst the idler and sk ulker goes unpunished . " — Times .

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      counties i > f Wexford and Kilkenny . Up to this date they have conducted themselves peaceably . Rumour has it that they are about proceeding to take possession of the poor-house and turn out the inmates . The Mayor and authorities are on the alert , but as yet we see nogiounds for apprehension that any outrage will be perpetrated . The military , we are just informed , have got directions to hold themselves in readiness to repel the threatened attack on the poor-house . "—Morning Chronicle .

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      ^ OUSE OF LORDS—Thubsdat . The Bishop of Hereford presented a petition from the clergy of a rural deanery in Salop , against the union of the sees of St . Asaph and Bangor . The Right Rsverend Prelate also presented a petition from the diocese of Worcester , in favour ef church extension . The Marquis of ClanricaRde presented a petition from Leeds , complaining of the Somnauth proclamation . Lord Dacre presented a petition complaining of the tenth ; article of the Washington treaty . Lord Lyndhurst presented a petition from the Law Institution , complaining of the inconvenience of hoiking the law courts at Westminster .

      Lord Brougham observed that this was a subject that of late had attracted much attention amongst the members of the legal profession . Although he did not deny some of the inconveniences that were insisted upon , he still confessed tnat he had a very strong prejudice in favour of keeping the courts at Westminster Hall , where they had sat for time out of mind , j He would remark , also , that there was one greatjadvantage in their remaining where they were , namely , their contiguity to the Houses of Parliament . ! Lord Langdale thought that his Noble and Learned Friend would not deny that the subject was one that might be very properly inquired into . Lord Brougham had no objection to inquiry , —on the contrary , he courted it , and did not fear the result of it . i

      Lord Lyndiiuust pointed out the advantage which resulted from the members of the bar being kept constantly in ! the courts in which they practised , watching the proceedings in cases in which they were not immediately engaged , and gathering experience from all that passed before them . He knew from his experience that Counsel would not attend the courts except in leases in which they were immediately concerned if ( the courts were brought into the vicinity of their Jown chambers . A proof of this was

      afforded by the practice of tbe Bar when the Court sat at Lincoln ' s Inn . There were then few Counsel in court beyond those engaged in the case actually under heating—all the rest were occupied in their chambers , whence they could easily be summoned to the court wden their services were actually required . He thought that this was a decided disadvantage . I He concurred , therefore , with his Noble and Learned Friend ( Lord Brougham ) in deprecating a ( removal of the courts of law from Weatmiuster Hall ,

      Lord Campbell perfectly coincided with the Noble and Learned Lord upon the woolsack 1 as to the advantage derived from compelling counsel to attend in jcourt . To the working barrister attendance in court afforded at once a moans of increasing hia experience and ef relaxing his mind fi om the severer studies and labour of chambers . " All work and ; no play makes Jack a dull bny . " It was highly desirable that the barrister should be drawn Iroui his chambers to the court , where , if he only criticised ! the Judge , or cracked a joke with hia fellows at the bar , he was still in a field to add to his practical knowledge and experience , without any severe or irksome labour of the mind . He ( Lord Campbell ) was therefore strongly opposed to the

      proposition for removing the Courts of Law . There was a prestige in the vt-ry name of Westminster Hall , and he sincerely hoped that nothing would be done to remove the law courts from within the walls of that venerable « dtfice . Under any circumstances , jhe should decidedly object to their being removed to Lincoln ' s lun-Fields . That noble square was one of the lungs of the metropolis , and was aa useful as it was ornamental . He should deprccite any proposition that would cover it with bricks and mortar . If the proposition , were to carry the courts to Alsatia , and so to 6 weep away the impurities of Whitefriars , ho should not so strongly object to it ; but he hoped never to see the admistration of . justice removed from Westminster Hall . The petition was then laid upon the table .

      Ihe Marquis of Lansdowne gave notice that he would to-morrow ( this day ) move that there be laid before the House copies or the communications that had taken place between her Majesty ' s plenipotentiary in Chiua , and the merchants and other persons conerned j in the trade with that country . He presumed that there would bo no objactioa to the production of ) this correspondence , or at least so much of it as had already become public at Canton and in this country . The Ear ) of Rosf . bery gave notice that he should to-morrow ( this day ) call their Lordships' attention fora few I moments to the commission which her Majesty haa issued to inquire into the Poor Laws in Scotland . '

      The Marquis of ClanmcaRde observed that tbe paper , for which he had some time since moved , with respect to the operation of the Poor Law in Ireland , had not yet bean returned- Ha wished that it should , if possible , bo presented to the House before Easter . Tiieir Lordships then adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . This waB the night when Mr . Sharman Crawford should have brought in his bill for Complete Suffrage Pail lament , and it was generally understood that the House was counted out to get rid of it .

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      IiEEDS . —Child Burnt . —On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the court house , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of a little girl named Mary Ann Lock wood . The parents of the deceased , who are very poor , reside in Vine street , Huuslet-lane , and on Monday afternoon , the deceased , in company with her sister , and a younger brother , was sent to gather the refuse sticks at the glass works of Mr . Joshua Bower . Whilst there she took her brother to a cinder heap to warm him , and when ; there a gust of wind blew the flames towards her , and set her clothes on fire . She was very much burnt , and died in the Infirmary on Tuesday . Verdict" Accidental death . "

      Sudden DEAfH . —On Wednesday morning an iuquest was held at the Golden Cross Inn , Sheepscar , before John Bladkburn . £ , sq ., on the body of Miss Sarah Stayner , a governess in the family of B . Holroyd , j Esq . Miss Stayner , on Monday , was taking tea wuh Mis- < Holroyd , when she was suddenly seized with an attack of appoplexy . Mr . Marsden , surgeon , wa ? instantly sent for , but she died in about two hours from the first attack . She waa about forty-six years of age . Verdict— " Died by the visitation of God . " Highway Robbery . —On Tuesday night last , about nine o ' clock , Mr . Jonathan Haigh , papermaker , of Horsforth , was stopped on the Otley turnpike road , while on his way home , by three men , who robbed him of a sovereign and about ten shillings in silver . :

      HUIiI * — Strike for Wages . —The ship-owners of Huil haying made an attempt to reduce the wages of their men , the men determined to resist the attempt , and also to demand an advance . The sailors felt that any reduction would be an equal injury to themselves and to all whose customers they were ; in this town , and therefore resolved upon the above course of action . Several public meetings were held ; in pur&uanoe of this just object ; and on Thursday evening , March 9 th , a publio meeting was held in the Large Room of the Mason ' s Arms , Chapel-lane . Mr . Lundy was unanimously called to the chair , and opened tho meeting in a few appropriate reinarks . The following resolutions were adopted unanimously by the hardy tars assembled ,

      who amounted to about 400 persons : — " That this meeting deeply laments the fact of an unnatural war between capital and labour ; bat feeling impressed with the conviction that the capitalists must ever be too strong for the labourers when disorganized , resolves , therefore , that a union of the sailors of Hull , be formed forthwith ; the object of which union shall be the- protection of labour Iby all legal means . " This resolution was supported by Mr . Arran , who showed that this question ot wage was one of vital importance to all classes of society—to the Queen , the premier and his colleagues , the Parliament , the aristocracy , the capitalists , the shopkeepers , as well as to the operatives and labourers themselves .

      Philosophy had taught in England " that in order that capital might receive a sufficient remuneration the wages of labour most be kept down . " The capitalists had sought to carry eut this doctrine to the utmost . This was wickedness and folly ia the extreme ;] and if this course was persisted in it would only end ia a complete breaking up of our social system . There was distress in this country , such as had never been known before—distress admitted by all parties . The causes of thiB distress were many—oar enormous national expenditureour burdensome state church—our extravagant

      system of rental ; but perhaps the principal cause of suffering to the poor was the system of endless reductions in the wages of labour . He called upon the men to be firm--to be men—and no longer submit to be slaves—( load applause ) . There were two parties toja system of tyranny—the tyrant who imposes , and the slave who submits to the imposition . He hoped , therefore , that they would resolve to be slaves no longer . He Bat down amidst loud cheers . 2 . " That ! this meeting feels further impressed with a sense of the hardships of those unfortunate sailors and their : families , whose lot happens to be involved in ihe freuueut laaiwuublc cases of shipwreck , re-

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      ' solves , therefore , that the funds of the proposed union , shall bei . ktwise availabable for the relief of such unfortunate persons . " Mr . Luncly , though in the chair , waa requested to support this resolution , which he did in a speech at once instructive , humourous and stirring . 3 . " That this meeting bega to express a hope that the sailors of of Hull , will make such " « demand as will be likely to meet the justness of the case arising out of the present emergency . " We understand that on the day following the above meeting the shipowners intimated their willingness to pay their men £ 3 per month , which is an advance of 5 s . upon the sum previously offered ; and , thuaia the struggle brought to a'speedy and amicable Uf mination . CLBCKHBATON .-The "mods" Lbaoxts Men . —Some time ago the Independents of Clecfe . heaton , who are all , or nearly ail , Corn L&vr Ifo . pealers , and members of the Anti-Corn Law League frequently abused the wicked Chartists , for holding their meeting on the Lord's-day instead of going to some place of worship . These same hol y and pious men got up a petition to Parliament for a total repeal of the Corn Laws , and the said petition waa announced as lying for signature in the Vestryroom , Red Chapel , Cleekheaton , by the Rev . Gentleman from the pulpit , on Sunday last , and ho called upon bis hearers to go and sign it .

      RICHMOND . —Police Opfice , March 13 . — Hemy Morgan , of Richmond , was brought before the sutiug Magistrates , charged by Mr . R . J ) or . Chester , one of the police constables , with having assaulted him when on duty . Fined 40 j . and costs or oue month to hard labour at Northallenon . '

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      ^ NISI PR 1 U . S COURT—Friday . CLOtJGH V . JAMES . This was an action to recover compensation in damages for false imprisonment . The case was going on when our reporter left .

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      LOSS OF THE CLIFFORD , SHARPE . IN TORRES STRAITS . The following two extracts of letters have been received ai Lloyd ' s : — 11 August 16 , J 8 J 2 . —Oa tbe I 6 ih instant , we were withiu the Barrier Keet , in Torres Straits , in company with the Clifford , bound to India . The Isabella was the leading ship , as her commander had previously been three times through the Straits , by the outer paspa ^ e , while the other commanders were going tor the first time . The Isabella having slipped her chain , we made sail for ihe anchorage under tho Bird Islands , aad at sunset , finding ourselves in from six to seven fathoms water , wo

      deemed it advisable to anchor immediattly . In coming to anchor , all the bhips , except the Gipsey , rounded withiu a cable ' b-length of the Isabella ' s 8 tern , the Somersetshire first , the Tomatin second . and the Clifford third , the Gipsoy ahead , and the whole as near eaoh other as prudence would admit . The Isabella anchored in six fathoms , the Tomatin in six and a-half , on the Isabella ' s bows ; the Somersetshire ia bix and a-half , 011 the Toma ' . in ' s starboard quarter ; and the Gipsy ahead of the Isabella , in twenty-three fathoms . Tne Clifford , on letting go her anchor in six fathoms , on the starboard quarter of the Isabella , distant about a cable ' s length , and teudiug to her anchor with sixty fathoms' cabio , unfortunately foil on a small patch of coral , not marked on the charts , bearing by compass southby-wcst-half-west from the westermost of Sir Charles Hardy ' s Islands , distant about three miles

      aud a halt ' , aud north-east-three- quarters-east from Haggeraioue ' s Island , distant about nine miles . Every exertion was made to get her off , but in vain , as the sea was washing over her weatherbeam , fercing her on the bank , and she at the same time striking heavily . At daylight , on the following morning , the sea having run high during the night , we found that she had made a bed for herself on the coral bank , and , under all the circumstances , we considered it utterly impracticable to get her off , aad we therefore advised Captain Sharpa , her commander , to abandon her aa a total loss , which advice he deemed necessary to adopt , but with the utmost regret . In our opinion , no blame whatever can be attributed to Captain Sharpe ; on the contrary , we think he has acted throughout with great caution , and done everything in his power tor the safety of his bhtp . "

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      IRELAND . Cfuom our own correspondent . ) Dublin , March 15 . RESISTANCE TO THE POOK RATE . —ALARMING INCURSION OF THE PEASANTRY . A numerous meeting of magistrates of the county of Waterford , was held in ihe Poor-house of Waterford , on Saturday , upon the requisition of Mr . Fleming , the collector of poor-rate ia Gaultier district , to consider the measures most expedient to be pursued for th « hvy of the rate , in consequence of tho general system of resistance amongst the peasantry , and the extreme excitement prevailing in that part of the country . A very largo police force had been employed : but although no open resistance

      hud been offered , very few seizures could be effected , aa the cattle had been drawn off to the sea side before the arrival of the police . Amongst the magistrates present , were the Earl of Huntingdon and Mr . Meagher , Mayor of Waterford , who acted as chairman . The meeting was private ; but the Waterford Chronicle states that the Magistrates decided against the expediency of calling out the military under present circumstances . From the same journal I take the followiug passage , which gives a very alarming , if it be not a greatly exaggerated , description of the state of the district : — " An impression had gone abroad that the cattle seized would be exported for Bale , in order to obviate the difficulty of procuring

      purchasers at a poor-rate auction in this country . The knowledge of this fact added tenfold determinaiion to the spirit of resistance by which the people were animated . * Were we to leap upon the tops of the bayonets , we will die before we let our cattle go , ' was a Baying we heard amongst a party of Guiltier men . At the very fiercest stage of the antitithe warfare , we never witnessed such a spirit of deadly hate to the law , and fixed resolve to resist it , through fixe and smoke and steel—an actual thirst for war , even to the death , rather than submit to the syBtem of legislation adopted by the collective wisdom of tho poor law authorities upon this occasion . Nor would it have ended in a mere temporary riot . The first shot fired , we have no doubt ,

      would be a signal for a general rising—an ' insurreotion' throughout a great portion of the county of Waterford . Notices were posted extensively throughout the country on Sunday morning , calling upon the people to meet at the scene of action on Monday , and to bring their hurleys with them . Mounted men were posting express to distant quarters at all hours tox- the last two or three eventful da-ys . Plans of attack and defence were discussed and deliberated upon , with a seriousness that bespoke a deadly resolve—men , women , and children , we ' re resolved to die upon their thresholds rather than surrender ; and , therefore , under these cirbrmstances . we consider the magistrates

      have well and truly acquitted themselves of the fearful responsibility thrown upon them iu the vain endeavour to uphold this most unpopular and universally detested law . There is one very unusual nature connected with this revolt , that the landlords in Gaultier are principally of the Conservative class we do not mean to Bay that this circumstance is at all ooBueot « d with the recent occurrences , and we merely point it out as the first instance that haa ever occurred within our recollection , where the population and landlords even of different creeds and politics were alike hostUe to the operation of l * w . *' From a second edition of tho Waterford Chronicle I have taken the following , which goes far to corroborate the representation made in the preceding

      extract : — " Four o ' clock . —Aa immense body of men , amounting to some thousands , armed with sticks and clubs , have just paraded the city , rending the air with their shouts . They are principally Gaultier men , rtunforoeu by utmtbci'd fruia tuu adjoining

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      o — Earthquake in Lancashire . —We learn that slight shock of earthquake was experienced about twenty minutes past eight o ' clock , on Friday morning last , through a considerable part of the district to the north-eastward of Manchester . Tnis convul . sion was indicated by a rumbling sound and a rather sudden shock , which induced many persons to think that some very heavy body had been suddenly thrown down in their houses . Its centra appears to have been in the chain of hills that separate Yorkshire and Lancashire , and it was more

      particularly felt about Rochdale and in the Tod morden valley , where in some cases it caused ooa . siderable alarm . We have not heard of it 3 having been perceived in the town of Manchester ; bat it was felt by several families living in the immediate neighbourhood , and more particularly at Cheethamhill . This shock forms the third that has been ex * perienced dunug a few years past , apparently having about the same range ; but the two former ( one of which took place on the 2 JHh of Augnsfc 1835 , and tbe other on the 11 th of June , 1839 ) mtt considerably more violent than the one on Fridaj morning- —Manchester Guardian .

      Melancholy Fate of a Brids . —The Provinct a Lyons journal , relates that about four o ' clock i a the morning of the 26 th ult ., as a wedding party werj returning to Ainay from Etroits , where the mar * riage-feast had been celebrated , the bride , a pretty young village damsel , stopped behind the rest foi some purpose unexplained . Having waited foi some time without her rejoining them , her friends went back to seek b . < T ; but , although they spread in every direction , and ra sed the whole of the day in exploring th «

      country round , they could gain no tidings of her At length , on the following morning , news wag brought that she had been found in the night by % stranger , bound to a tree , with her hands behind her , and with her mouth filled with sand , in 1 wood called Te'e d'Or . She was still alive , and medical aid was called to her relief , but she was irrecoverable , and died in the afternoon of that day . No cries of distress were heard at the time she was first missing , and , when taken down from the tree , the nuptial wreath , of oranp flowers was still on her head , and all her bridal

      ornaments were on her person . Upon a pest-morten examination not the -lightest trace of any other act of violence upon her could bo discovered except thai which caused her death .

      Tloral Atrti General Bnteuigence.

      tLoral atrti General BnteUigence .

      Notice Is Hereby Given, That A Meeting Of The Inhabitants Of The Township Of Leeds,

      NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Leeds ,

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      8 THE NORTHERN STAR .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 18, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct642/page/8/