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The Bermondsey Murder. Re-Examination O7...
the bishop of the diocese as a day of humiliation , in which ~ ca . se the prisoners would be brought up on Thursday instead . They were then remanded until Wednesday . Mrs . Manning stood during the whole examination , but her husband remained seated , except when some of the witnesses were called upon to identify him , when he stood up for a moment . The proceedings did not terminate until near five o ' clock , when the prisoners were taken back in the van to the gaol .
WEDNESDAY . The court had much the same aspect as on the last occasion , except that the number of ladies present on the bench and through the court was greater than we have yet seen . At three o ' clock the van was despatched for the prisoners , who were Brought into court at a quarter past . They were dressed as on Saturday , and bore much the same appearance in health , Mrs . Manning looking quite well , and her husband still pale and sickly . He did not , however , seem so dejected ; he walked tnore buoyantly to his usual seat , and soon was observed to laugh somewhat merrily at some remark made to him by his solicitor , Mr . Binns , who , with Mr . Solomons , had taken their seats at three o ' clock . Neither the magistrate nor the professional gentlemen for tbe prosecution were then present , nor did they enter the court for some time after the
prisoners , and aU other necessary persons appeared in their respective places . During the delay , which , we believe , was occasioned by the absence of Mr . Bodkin , Manning held rather a long conversation with Mr . Solomons ; and Mrs . Manning ' s complexion , generally good , rose to a still deeper hue . She threw off her mantle , and changed her position , sitting with her back to the bench , by which she had an opportunity of glancing occasionally at her husband . . She also appeared in good spirits , and "was several times observed to smile . At ten minutes to four o clock the magistrate , Mr . Seeker , took his seat on the bench , and was followed by Mr . Hayward , solicitor to the prosecution ; but Mr . Bodkin did not appear . The prisoners were then desired to rise . They both did so , which would lead to the belief that although Manning was still looking ill , he did not feel so , otherwise the same application would have been made as on the last day for
theperaiissioaofthecourtto sit . Mrs . Manning on rising , threw np her veil . The evidence of Mr . Coleman , the landlord , and Mr . Griffin , the clerk of the Bank of England , was then read aloud to them previous to affixing thcir signatures . . . Mr . Moxay , superintendent of police m Edinburgh , was then examined by the magistrate , and repeated the evidence t hat he had already given at the inquest and also at this office . When the witness came to relate w * at Mrs . Manning , in her conversation with him , said respecting her husbands ill treatment of her , particularly at Taunton , even to the extent of threatening her life , Mr . Solomons observed that that was not in the depositions , and ought not to be inserted . He submitted that ¦ whether for or against the female prisoner , the
conversation should be inserted comp lete as the witness stated it . —Mr . Binns objected toany statement that had nothing to do with the charge against his client . —Mr . Seeker agreed with Mr . Binns that it was unnecessary to take down anything that was antecedent to the transaction . —Mr . Solomons said , that if that were so the depositions already contained much that was antecedent to it . They contained part ofthe conversation that witness had with his client , and he contended that it ought either to he taken down complete or altogether expunged—The Magistrate was of a different opinion , and ruled accordingly . —The evidence of Mr . Moxay , when concluded , was read over to him and signed . Both the prisoners seemed to listen to it withmuch attention , and atthe close their faces were flushed as if they had been excited by the relation of the facts it contained .
Mr . Hammoxd , Clerk of Messrs . Eellick and Co ., stock brokers , was called on to give fresh evidence . He stated , in reply to Mr . Hayward , that on the 20 th August he went to the Bank of England to stop the £ 100 note , dated 5 th of June , 1 S 49 , which had been given to the person who represented him self as Mr . O'Connor . In reply to Mr . Bodkin ( who entered at this period of the proceedings , halfpast four o ' clock ) he stated that he was shown at the Bank of England the said £ 100 note , and recog nised it as that which he gave to Mr . Bassett ( deceased ) , and which he saw Mr . Bassett give to the person representing himself as Mr . P . O'Connor . He recognised it by the number and also by the endorsement These two circumstances enabled him
to swear it was the same note . There was no one present when he gave the note to Mr . Bassett . He had not the least hesitation in saying the prisoner at the bar was the person who received the £ 100 note from the hands of Mr . Bassett as Patrick O'Connor . His evidence having been read over , he signed it . Mr . SrEVEXs , the stockbroker , was called , but did not appear , upon which the magistrate inquired if he had been duly served with a summons , and the police-officer answered that he had served him with one and that he at the same . time said he weuld come . He went for him since the court met , and was told he had gone into the country . The prisoners were then remanded to two o ' clock on Thursday next .
Mr . Bixxs and Mi * . Solomoxs both applied to the magistrate to order that the moneys , to which there was no other title , should be g iven to the prisoners to enable them to procure eminent counsel to defend them , the sum that had been awarded being utterly inadequate . The magistrate declined to interfere further , observing that he declined with less reluctance as there was another authority which might be appealed to in the matter . The prisoners were then removed .
Trial of ihe Maxxixgs . —The next session of the Central Criminal Court , at which Mr . and Mrs . Manning will be tried for the Bermondsey murder , will commence on Monday , the 22 nd of October . The presiding judges will be the Lord Chief Baron , Sir F . Pollock , Mr . Justice Maule , and Mr . Justice Cresswell , and , in probability , therefore , the trial will take p lace before that first-mentioned judge . Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Parry have been retained to defend Mrs . Manning , and Mr . Sergeant Wilkins and Mr . Charnock , it is said , are , or wiU be engaged on behalf of the male prisoner . A retainer on behalf of Mrs . Manning was sent to Mr . Clarkson , but that gentleman had already been retained for the prosecution by the Treasury Solicitor . The counsel for the prosecution will be Mr . Bodkin , Mr . Clarkson and Mr . Clerk . It is not known , as yet , whether the Attorney-General "will lead the case for the crown .
( From our Tiiird Edition of last week . ) During the last few days Inspector Yates and Burton have discovered some important additional evidence respecting the murder of Patrick O' Connor . On the last examination of the prisoners a bricklayer ' s lad was called to prove the selling of the lime to Manning , and on being pressed he said that he could not positively swear that he was the man . Barton ascertained on Friday that the daughter of Mr . Wells , the bricklayer , was in the countinghouse when Manning entered that place in an impudent manner to write his name and address for the lad to carry the lime . She took particular notice of the man , from the manner in which ho conducted himself ; and she informed Burton that she was confident she could identify him again . In consequenceof that Inspector Yatcsobtainedanorder
from Mr . Seeker for her to visit tho prisoner , "when the prisoner was placed among twenty others n one of the yards . She instantly pointed him out as the party who purchased the lime ; her evidence therefore , will be conclusive on that point . H . Fermar the girl who washed the house for Mrs . Vanning on the Saturday after the murder , also " visited the prison , and identified her among other female prisoners as the person who employed her . The prisoners wiR be brought from the gaol to the Southwarkpolbe court , at three o ' clock this afternoon , and after the additional evidence has been taken , they wiU be remanded until a week before the October sessions of the Central Criminal - Court , when aU the depositions of the witnesses witt be read Over to them , aud they wiU be fully committed for trial .
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As TxqcEsr was held before Mr . H . Wakley , at the Plough Tavern , Museum-street , Bloomsbury on the body of Judith Bospidnick . the wife of a dairyman , residing at 20 , in the same street , whose death was reported to he attended with suspicious circumstances . The deceased had been addicted to habits of intemperance for some time past , which having undermined her constitution , a violent attack of diarrhoea carried her off in thirty-two hours . The suddenness of her death gave rise to some malicious reports , highly injurious to the husband , and at his earnest request the above inquiry was instituted . Several nei ghbours attested to the deceased being ill some considerable time previous to her death , and their testimony was corroborated by Mr . Thornton , a surgeon , who had attended her ; and the coroner having addressed
the jury onthebad feeling that could originate such a rumcur , they immediately returned a verdict of "Natural death , " expressing themselves . satisfied that the report was entirely without foundation . More Graveyards Closed . —In consequence ofa communication from , the Secretary of State , Messrs . Ashbyand Child , the churchwardens of the extensive parish of St . Ann ' s , Westminster , have resolved to close the graveyardsj three in number , within that parish , against aR future interments on and after the 15 th inst , , MacatjLav ' s Hisiobv seems destined to have the same run in Germany which has brought it triumphant through so many editions in England . The Tauchnitz copy lies on aU tables . It is already a a classic book , greeted with universal praise , while cnriously enough , Carlyle , whose spirit is so German , i § scarcely known beyond the cream of Uttroti .
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BOW STREET—Indecent Exposurr . —An elderly well-dressed man , named ThomasErskineGrant , described as an annuity-broker aud agent , residing at No . 1 , Salisbury-street , Strand , was placed at the bar before Mr . Jardine , charged with indecently exposing his person to two children . —Richard Wood , a lighterman , stated that about four o ' clock in tbe afternoon of Sunday he was attending to his barges at tbe bottom of George-street , Adelphi , known as the dark arches , when he saw the prisoner at Mr . Haynesman ' s wharf with two female children , his trousers being open before tbem , and seeing that he was observed he walked away , followed by the children . On meeting with the constable on the beat ,
andstating what he had seen , the officer considered there was not sufficient to take the prisoner into custody , which induced him to follow them to another wharf , where he again saw him expose himself to the children inside the folding doors of the steps leading to the Adelphi-lerrace , and the chihlre having run away apparently frightened , he took the prisoner into custody , and handed him over to the constable . In answer to a solicitor , who attended for the prisoner , the witness said he was a candidate for the situation qf beadle , but it was not on that account that he had come forward , but for the good of society . The evidence of the witness being partly confirmed by the constable and a porter employed on the Adelphi-pier . —Mary Anne Rollins , the elder of
the children , who was accompanied by her parents , said she with was her younger sister and an infant in Salisbury-street , when tho prisoner made them a present of a few walnuts , after which they went into Adam-street , where he followed them , and on arriving under the dark arches he gave them apples , still following them until they arrived at the steps leading to the terrace , where he acted in the manner described by the witness Wood , which caused them to run away from him , being much frightened . _ The younger sister of the witness having given similar evidence , the solicitor informed the court that he had not attended professionally , but was on terms if intimacy with the prisoner , who was remarkable for his kindness to children , not having any of his
own , although a married man , and he believed he was totally incapable of acting in . the disgraceful | manner described ; but in consequence of his labouring under an infirmity he went under the arches , where persons seldom pass , being entirely ignorant that the children were near him . —The prisoner admitted that he was in the habit of giving fruit to children in the streets , as was well known to persons who vend it , and his only object in going to such a retired place was for relief , which he very often required , as could be proved by his medical attendant , from the nature of his complaint , and he had left his house for a short time intending to return in a few minutes . Several householders , who had known the prisoner for years , came forward and proved that he had lately been married to a lady much younger than
himself , and that he always bore a most moral character . —Mr . Jardin said , that it was a very painful case , particularly as the prisoner not only moved in a respectable station , and , for anything that he knew to the contrary , supported a spotless character ; but he could not for a moment entertain the least doubt of the testimony given in support of the chargCj without imputing the most improper motives to the witnesses , in whose evidence there was not the slightest contradiction ; and such being the impression on his mind , he considered he would not be doing his duty impartially if he did not put the law in full force , by ordering the prisoner to be sent for three months to hard labour in the House of Correction . The prisoner , who seemed electrified at the sentence passed upon him , was then removed from the bar .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET . —Heartless Case of Desertion ' . —Frederick William Mcholl Crouch , of Surrey House , Surrey-lane , Battersea , music composer , was summoned for having deserted and made no provision for two illegitimate children , of which he was the father . —Mr . Chubb , solicitor , of Terulam-buildings , appeared for the complainant , and said the case was oue of a most painful nature . His client had been seduced from a comfortable home ( the complainant was at the time in . the service of the late Sir Francis Burdett , as lady ' s maid to Lady Burdett ) , under promise of marriage . Indeed some form of marriage had been gone through with the defendant , who represented himself as a single man . She had borne the defendant two
children , and at the end of July last she and her children had been suddenly deserted , and left in a totally destitute condition . The complainant could nowhere be found , but it was well known he had absconded with a female pupil , with whom he was now cohabiting . The defendant was in circumstances of sufficient affluence to enable him to support his offspring . He was a concert singer of some note , and known as the author of " Kathleen Mavourneen , " " Dcrmot Astore , " and other Irish songs . —Police-constable Scott proved that he had served two summonses personally on the defendant at Battersea . —Elizabeth George , of Jfo . 2 , Fitzroystreet , the mother , was examined . She had lived with the defendant as his wife for some time . She
had been taught at first to believe that the defendant , who then lived at Portland-chambers , Great Titehfield-street , was a single man ; but she had since found out he had a wife and family living . The marriage ceremony of the Roman Catholics had taken place betweenthem . The defendant had deserted her since July , and had done nothing towards the support of his children . The defendant had robbed her of the little property she had saved and oi her furniture , and had left her totally destitute . —Letters were then put in and read , in which the defendant addressed the complainant as his "beloved wife , " and they were directed to Mrs . Crouch . —
Mr . Hardwick wished to know if there was any other proof of the complainant and defendant having lived together as man and wife ?—A gentleman , named Williams , came forward and said that he knew the complainant and Mr . Crouch had lived together as man and wife for a considerable period . Mr . Crouch always recognised the complainant as his wife , and witness had often heard him call the two children his own . —Mr . Hardwick said the evidence was sufficent to justify him in making an order on the defendant , but he could not go beyond the limit fixed by the law , which was half-a-crown per week for each child . An order was made at once on the absent defendant .
CLERKESWELL . —The Mad Dodge . —William Grindley , olios William Grice , alios William Edwards , who represented himself as being the son of Captain Grindley , of the 43 d Light Infantry , was placed at the bar for final examination , charged by Mr . Isaac Jacobson , a jeweller , of Oxford-street , with stealing a valuable dressing-case . —The particulars of the case have been already detailed . The prisoner , on being p laced at the bar , bellowed and blubbered like a child , as at his former examination , and paced backwards and forwards . —Some further additional evidence being taken , —Mr . Combe asked the prisoner whether he had ever gone by the name of Grice ?—Prisoner : Ifever , oh never .
—Mr . Combe : I have got the certificate of your baptism here ; you were christened William Grice ; you gave your name William Grindley , and William Edwards , which name will you go by ?—Prisoner I don't care which—any name you like . —Mr . Combe : It is immaterial . Your father ' s name was John Grice . —Prisoner : I know nothing of that ; my father always told me my name was Grindley . —The depositions having been fully taken and read over the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial , and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute . —He was taken from the bar crying , and conducting himself in a wild and distracted manner , which was evidently assumed , and he was conveyed to Sewgate .
MARYLEBOXE . — Burglary : . - — A man named Weston Still was charged with a burglary and robbery to the amount of nearly £ 40 , at the residence of Mr . J . Goodwin , 2 fo . 9 A , Adams-row , Hamji-Stead-road . —Prosecutor gave evidence which went to show that at seven o ' clock on Sunday evening he went out , and on his return he missed from a drawer in his first floor front room £ 30 in gold , £ 5 or thereabouts in silver , and half a dozen silver spoons , all of which property he saw safe an hour before he quitted home . Upon the discovery of his loss he immediately repaired to the station-house and there made known the particulars to the inspector on duty . The prisoner was a journeyman carpenter , and was engaged by him on Wednesday last to mend some flooring , and he had also employed his wife
as a charwoman . An attempt had been made to break open the door of the hack room adjoining the one alluded to , and he found the blade of a chisel close to it , the handle of which had broken off in the endeavour to effect a forcible entry ; in that apartment a much larger sum than that which hehadlost was deposited . —The chisel was produced , but no one was able to identify it as belonging to the prisoner . —Mason and Lockerby , police constables of the S division , and another witness , were examined , and the evidence given by them afforded a strong presumption that the prisoner and another person not yet in custod y , were the persons by whom the property was stolen—The prisoner , who declared that he was innocent ofthe robbery , was , in order to afford time for the officers to inquire more into the matter , remanded till Tuesdaynext . ¦
WORSHIP-STREBT . _ Yiole . v t Assault on a Police Coxsrable— A powerful fellow named Samuel Rice was charged with the following unprovoked and brutal assault upon police-constable Carn ® y » £ 'k w h 0 had sustained such serious injuries that his life was placed in d anger . It appeared from the statement of the constable , who presented himselt in the witness-box with his head bound ud , and m such a state of suffering and debility that fie was scarcely able to give his evidence , that while on duty m Me-street , Hoxton , shortly after twelve o clock on the preceding night , he heard the sound of footsteps advancing rapidly behind him , and at the same moment received a heavy blow under the right ear , which felled him to the ground , and rendered him insensible . He remained in a state of total unconsciousness for upwards of an hour , at
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ti , p mroiration of which period ho found himself in { £ SSer to which he had been removed id JS tS and bleeding profusely from a dangerous Snd on \ he tempi ! occasioned by . his having £ ilnfa-ward on his head , which came into violent Sni with the edge of the kerb . From the sod-EXd stealthy manner in which he was attacked he wasYnable to distinguish the person of his asniknt but two tradesmen , who had witnessed the «« c !» , ir were in attendance to give evidence as to S soner's identity .-Jfr . Frederick Birchmore , a tradesman in the ; neighbourhood , positively
der , (« cd to the prisoner being the person who committed tbe assault under the circumstances de-^ ri bed and Sergeant Saunders stated that , from information derived from the last witness , he succeeded in tracing the accused to a house of bad reoutein the vicinity of Old-street , and took him into custody . —A certificate was handed to the magistrate from Mr . Coward , the divisional surgeon , to the effect that the constable was suffering from a severe scalp-wound and also from an injury ofthe iaw and that he considered his life to be in danger . The prisoner declined offering any defence , and was remanded , to ascertain the result of the constable ' s
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THE CURRENCY QUESTION . 10 THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —1 have long wondered that the pages of the Star has been silent on this important question , as in my opinion , next to that of the land , it is the most important of Jill social questions . The one contains the elements of production , the other , those of distribution . With these two questions properly settled , every other necessary and needful reform would speedily follow . Without a propel settlement of them all other reforms would be
comparatively useless . We have now arrived at that stage in the agitation of the public mind when a discussion of tho social question must supersede the political , or be added to it . . It is imperatively necessary that a people seeking political power should have a clear knowledge ofthe powers that oppress them , as well as a knowledge of the proper means of redressing , permanently , their wrongs ^ , . R ' : was a- ' want of this knowledge on the part ofthe French people that caused the efforts ofthe real reformers to fail , and returned such a
set of scoundrels to the National Assembly . Let the reformers of this country be prepared , and let the public mind be prepared , with just and permanent plans of social reform against the day of their political emancipation . I had intended to have written last week in reply to Mr . Brook , of Huddcrsfield , but was prevented by other circumstances . My excellent friend , Mr . Culpan , of Halifax , I see has done so , but as his letter is of too general a character , and does not grapple with the fallacies of Mr . Brook , I have thought proper to forward you tbe present
communication . Mr . Brook seems to think that we are about speedily to be invested with political power , judging , I suppose , from the position lately assumed by certain of the middle class . Now , for my part , I have no faith whatever in this party . I have watched their movements long and closely , both at home and abroad , and I have ever found them to be the most implacable enemies to real reform . Indeed , how can it be otherwise ? Can we expect a set of men who live immediately out of the labour of others to assist in destroying the very means by which they live ? That some paltry alteration will be attempted by them , and probably carried , I have no doubt , but it will only be just sufficient to render that without
party omnipotent in the government , adding one iota to the real liberties of the people , or freeing them from the domination of capital . Mr Brook says , he has observed with pain , that there are some p > rofcssed democrats who have a hankering after some wonderfully improved sort of paper money . Now seeing as he admits that the present system is so very bad , I cannot understand why an improvement in it should give him so much pain . However , Mr . Brook , himself , solves the difficulty , when he states that these professed democrats propose setting themselves up as bankers , and beginning to live on usury . Pray who told him so ? I am firmly convinced he never heard it from professed democrats . He has seen the evils resulting
from the present absurd and unjust money laws , which evils he has associated with the paper on which the stamps have been impressed , instead of the nature and character of the stamp which gave the apparent value to l * e paper . Only think of a nation throwing down their tools and commencing the profitable business of bankers . The idea is enough to frighten any sensible man out of his wits . I am happy , however , to inform Mr . Brook , that the intention of those said professed democrats is directly the opposite of this ; that their intention is to break up the entire system of usury in all its forms , and make money what it ought to be , -ihe representative of real wealth , and not as it is at present , the mere representative of faith and credit ,
which the slig htest unfavourable circumstance may destroy , and with them their representative , and , by so doing , doom thousands to unwilling idleness aud starvation . But , says Mr . Brook , the best thing to be done with this pernicious system is to let it alone . I believe , says he , that all the reverses of the reformers , and reactions of the despots , and their dupes and tools , are fairly to be ascribed to the loanmongeriug and funding system , —but the best thing to be done is to lot it alone , & c . The only thing desirable for all honest men is , that it be as free from fluctuation as ^ possible , says Mr . Brook . No doubt this is very desirable , but there is another thing which we professed democrats think it should be free from , viz ., ilie grip of ' usurers .
But if Mr . Brook think that the only thing to be desired is , that it be as free from fluctuation as possible , and , at the same time , concludes ¦ that the best thing to do with it is to let it alone ; it follows , as a matter of course , that it is as free from fluctuation as possible , otherwise he is not consistent with himself . But is it free from fluctuation ? I think Mi-. Brook will hardly be bold enough to assert that it is ; and if it is not , ( and I assert , and am prepared to prove , that it is tho most uncertain and fluctuating of all the institutions in existence , and that so it will continue to be so long ' as it rests on a metallic base , ) then is he bound to assist in making such alterations as will free it from fluctuation . He draws a figure of a person going to California
and bringing home a million of sovereigns . With the manner in which Mr . Goldhunter spends his money Mr . Brook and I shall not quarrel . Every man that consumes any portion of tho wealth of society without producing something equivalent to it , is nothing less than a robber , unless he is incapacitated through age and infirmity . It , is tho effect of this million of sovereigns , after it has been put into circulation , that we shall differ about . Mr . Brook asserts , that if the quantity of money before was twenty millions , this extra million brought over by Mr . Goldhunter , will reduce tho valno of the twenty millions five per cent ., or , in other words , will have reduced tho purchasing power of every sovereign to nineteen shillings . Now this is a
great truth , which I wish to be borne in mind , as it will be of the utmost importance in the future stages of this discussion . By thus reducing the value of gold , says he , every holder of a sovereign will have been defrauded out of a shilling ; but though the above statements are abstractedly true , they must be taken with certain , explanations . If the producing power has remained stationary during the time that the extra million has been put into circulation , then the statement is true ; but if the producing power has increased in the same proportion , then the purchasing power of the twenty millions will remain the same as it was previous to the introduction of tho goldhunter ' s million . This question , therefore , has two sides ; one , if an
increase be made to the circulating medium without a corresponding increase ofthe floating wealth , the purchasing power of the circulating medium is reduced in the exact ratio of the addition made to it . The other , if the floating wealth ,, of the country is increased without a corresponding , increase in the circulating medium , ' ofpurchasihg power , the value of all the floating wealth of the country will be reduced in the exact ratio of the extra quantity produced . If wc keep these facts in our mind they will materially aid us in discovering how , and why it is that the people have been eternall y sinkiV while the monied classes were rising in tho ' cxact proportion as the people sank . Having said this much by way of explanation . I
shall now turn back to Mr . Brook , where I left him mourning over the loss which an additional million added to the circulating medium would cause to the holders of money , and ask , who are these same moneyholders ? certainly not the working classes . No — they are the tax-eaters , the Jews , and the moneyjobbers ; and as Mr . Brook has shown , that whatever they gain we lose , so , on the contrarv , whatever they lose wo gain . If , therefore , th e extra million reduces the purchasing power of every sovereign to nineteen shillings , it must , as a necessary consequence , raise the value ef every nineteen shillings' worth of labour and its products to one sovereign , which will be equal to a tax of five per cent the income of
, upon every state pensioner and tax-eater , and others who live upon fixed incomes inasmuch as they will get five per cent , less of our products for their money . Supposing the annual taxation ofthe country to amount to fifty millions the purchasing power of that money beinc reduced five per cent ., will bo equal to a reduction of too muttons' and a half of taxation . In other words the industrious classes would have to give two millions and a half of their products- ^ return tiZ money when brought into the market . It is / an invariable rule through the world , make a thing scarce and you enrich those who deal in itlmake t abundant and you destroy their profits . ButS ShtV % "'W * lon and this pavfof 2 3 S ? r W ? TO t 0 -. be moref « "y entere lintohere ? os ioL UleaVeitftnd g ° - *• * " *?¦ o-
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Ttt . Bfates that" were all the other institutions of < Jc \? S they <>« g ht t 0 be ' the „ 1 u T antltjr ° { * ? 0 fflf the slightest moment . " I am not aware ShrthalK Brook is a Communist , but that , in m Son hi the most perfect state of society that KEd of man has yet been able to conceive ThisSe of society would require a ess quantity of money than any other , and yet the quantity would be of the utmost moment . Each locality would have productions peculiar to itself , the sur-Xs of which would have to be exchanged for ? he surphTs of some other locality . Some commnn measure of value would therefore be required , whfoSS be exchanged into all the surplus pro-£ t ? of society . This measure of value must be Sfnuuan ity to all the . surplus or disposable
wMlth of society . And as tne producti ons m »«• SvincS ^ ? a £ or of the artificial wants of society , the medium by which it was circulated must increase ui Sal proportion ; or if the floating wealth decreased , themoney must decrease m the same ratio , otherwise confusion would arise ; that portion wno mi ght bo holding money in the one case , or ffooas in the other , getting an advantage over the others . With regard to his second proposition , it isa sellevident truth , and therefore needs no debating . There is a certain amount of wealth in existence ; there are two parties struggling for it , —if the one gets it the other will be without it . Take tan from twelve and two will remain . That is Mr . Brook s position , who will dispute it with him ?
And as for his third proposition we are apparently agreed , —with this exception : —that knowing it to be an evil of such magnitude he would still continue it in existence . He deals with tho currency somewhat like a fond father scolding his turbulent and erratic son , and when any oho proposes strong measures he hugs him to his breast , and seems to love him all the more for his vices . The best plan , m my opinion , of dealing with a system fraught with so much evil , is to destroy it ; root and branch . Mr . Brook must take a decided course as to what part of the present currency laws he will defend , as it will be perfectly useless '' to" lay 'down the details ofa new plan until the old one be fairly discussed , I have therefore purposely avoided the attempt . ' C . SUACKMION . Queenshead , near Halifax .
Ten Hours Bill-Law-Makers And Law-Breake...
TEN HOURS BILL-LAW-MAKERS AND LAW-BREAKERS . The Ten Hours Bill is law ; then why is it not practised ? There are still districts in which it is wantonly and openly violated , and there are magistrates in England who have sanctioned the ^ violation . Never was there a measure agreed to by parliament of greater importance , or fraught with more powerful results . I confess it was humiliationwhen fathers appealed to the legislature to protect their daughters , sons , and wives—it was , on the part of the workers , a declaration of their own vassalage ! Anroof . stronsr as holy writ—that all "free-born
Englishmen" were not freemen . No matter—the bill was passed—received the royal signature—and was heralded into existence with all the solemnity of power . Yet it is a bill and no bill—a law and no law . In one district . the relay system is interpreted to be law , in another it is declared to be illegal ; as circumstances stand a < j present it only serves to perplex us . And how is this ? The act of parliament inexplicit ! If so—let her Majesty ' s Attorney-General give the unmistaken and unmistakeable interpretation , and let Sir George Grey enforce that interpretation . It is grievous and annoying for workmen to be compelled to hold meetings , keep up committees , and hire gossiping lawyers to plead their cause before interested magistrates . Are countrv magistrates more powerful than ' narliament ?
if so , give up law-making and end the farce , and we will know what to do next . Who violates the law ?—a band of merciless unprincipled money-making cotton lords , fellows who have neither the education of gentlemen nor the decency of labourers . I have just returned from a iourney of ten miles on foot , expressly to see how England looked . I still see here and there along the old pack horse roads , the last standing stones of decayed cottages ; and I have walked with an intelligent man of sixty years of age , who has given me a complete history of the past and present . These cottages were the abodes' of an industrious , frugal , manufacturing peasantry , who loved their country and maintained their families . The
aggregation of manufactures have swallowed up their descendants , and made nine out of every ten factory slaves , poor , decrepid , miserable , starved wretches , whom the legislature , in a fit of remorse , pitied and promised to protect . These cotton lords , too , are themselves the children of labourers , many of them born in humble dwellings , whose mansions , I this day saw , and noticed footmenandflunkies lounging about their coach-houses and stable-yards . Thoy cannot afford to run their factories ten hours a day ; it is wrong to interfere with labour . Disband your servants , you proud and senseless Mammon-worshippers—turn the wine out of your cellars—sell your horses and dogs . Limit your desires within
reasonable means—live once more in a cottage , and allow your workmen to exist , and see then if you cannot live by running your factories ten hours a day . Foreign competition , you cry ; home competition , by no means . Spinning jennies and railway scrip have given you . i rapacious appetite for fortune making , and you always measure your success m business by the fortune of your neighbour , and not by your former possessions . Wrong to interfere with labour yes , it is wrong , and you have been the aggressors ; you have coined the coinable blood of England into gold , and looked vacantly round without observing industry in rags and patience in despair ; and when you have chained the slave to your footstool , you
look " Sir Oracle , " and exclaim , " Don't interfere with labour—it is wrong to interfere . " Wrong , you cormorants ; would it be right for tho landlords of England to unite together , turn the peasants and farmers off their lands , and drive them into the sea ? And is it right for a few men owning factories—a few cotton Barons—to turn their hands off at will , and work them when they please , and as long as they please ? Oh ! the factory operatives can refuse to work . How well you know tho mockery and cruel irony of your words ? Refuse , indeed—to look at an empty cupboard , and be told to go to the workhouse . Refuse to work , did you say ? to be turned out of then- miserable dwellings and see their
palefaced wives and little ones starving beside them , and imploring them with tears in their eyes to go to the factory ? Refuse to work ! and let you have their beds and bedding for rent , and turn them out on the turnpike , shiftless and penniless ; hang the key of their tenantless dwellings up in your countinghouses , turn over the pa ? es of your ledger , and feel how independent it is for " a man to do with his own as he likes . " The factory operatives may curse you in their hearts , but obey they must ; the magistrates who refuse to protect will bo but too ready to punish—tho basfcile , the gaol , tho handcuffs , and the police , are all prepared , and " property must be protected . " " The law is on our
side . " Ohow lwish the workmen of this district had manhood about them . Were they like Magyars or savages I would havo hope ; but as it is , these poor , shirtless slaves must kneel and kiss the hand that smites . them . What can they do ? Their strength is- exhausted , their frames shrivelled up , and the law a mockery . And what of our parliament , who know tho law ; who enacted the bill to protect children and women ? Edmund Burke , that sublime and commanding "emus , mourned over the fallen grandeur of chivalry m Fi-aace vjhen . the populace of Paris humiliated Marie Antoinette , and made monarchy obediently humble . He exclaimed , " The age of chivalry is gone , - that of sophists , economists , and calculators
has succeeded , and tho glory of Europe is extinguished for over . " What would ho have said if ho had lived until now in his own chosen England , the cowntey of his pride and adoration , and seen the law trampled under foot , and humanity outraged by a small knot of factory masters ? What would he have said if he had seen the very si gnature of royalty spat upon by a Lancashire cotton-spinner , and tho will of that House , from which hispeb ncera * o was recruited , laughed at and held in surly defiance I have no reason to mourn over tho fate of chivalry ' but I can sorrow over England ; her workmen in bondage , and her parliament are imbecile I have ever believed that the parliament of England was omnipotent , and allegiance was tho wice of Dtnt ^ n .
turn . I do know that a parliament once regulated the succession of royalty , and made William Prince 0 f ^ \ - \ also know tha * it interfered with Church property , and commuted tithes . Oftener than once it has suspended the . Habeas ( V pus Actfor Ireland and England . The Sisters boas with what ease they can put down revolu ion yet they cannot en force the law against a few fi rebel millowners m Lancashire . I say . lhame 0 n such a ministry and more than shame on such a parliament . As for the poor slaves who submS tl such a cruel usurpation of power , and such a con temptiblc abuse of it , I suppose we must pity them I am dear sir , yours faithfull y ! Samuel Kydd .
&M4«Tssaas Rfm? C A ^ M ^ N H»3 Memorial...
& M 4 « tssaas rfm ? ^ ^ h » 3 memorialised the SSa Office on the subject of tho treatment , & 0 oftS Chartist prisoners , and touching tho death of WH lams and Sharp ; ' and that good would K £ Jrl s ^ ffa ^ AtwSS SmEnrShar n ST """ ^ MeStffe
The Late Chartist Victims, Williams And ...
THE LATE CHARTIST VICTIMS , WILLIAMS AND SHARP . ( From tho Sun of Thursday . ) Recently , among the many distressing inquests held on occasions of sudden death by Cholera , it may have been observed that several Chartist prisoners have been destroyed by this terrible epidemic during the period of their incarceration . We would particularly direct attention to these eases , because we regard these unfortunate men as having been subjected to very cruel and unjustifiable treatment—treatment which , inasmuch as it terminated in painful and premature death , we cannot term otherwise than as something very near akin to deliberate assassination . Let us take as a case in point , perhaps the latest instance of this melancholy ill-usage
recorded in the public journals , the instance ot Alexander Sharp , a person implicated with Williams , Fussell , and other Chartist agitators . On the 12 th of July , 1848 , the time of his first entrance into the . place -of his confinement , namely , Tothillfieltls Prison , this unhappy man , recently deceased , was known to be in excellent health ; and would in all human probability have still continued in existence , but for the unjustifiable punishment to which he was subjected during his lengthened incarceration . From the particulars elicited before the Coroner , it would appear , that up to the llth of August , 1849 , the prisoner was exempted from the customary prison employment of nickinir oakum , in consequence of the payment of
five shillings weekly by his relations . Since then , however the usual p ittance not being continued , he was required by the deputy governor to pick the ordinary allowance of oakum . On refusing to com ply with this requisition , Sharp appears to have been conducted as a criminal before the visitlncr magistrates on the 20 th ultimo , when those authorities , by some extraordinary perversion of the power entrusted to their keeping , ordered him to receive for the next six days , as nutriment , a certain quantity of water , and on the average about Ulb of bread per diem , and to receive this in a state of uninterrupted solitary confinement . # Be it observed , this was the decision of the visiting mamWatfis . it the very time when cholera had
appeared within the walls of the prison . The result was only what mig ht have been naturally anticipated . The abrupt change from full diet and plenty of exercise to a wretched diet of bread and water , and solitary confinement , produced a violent attack of diarrhoea , which ended at last in death by Asiatic cholera . When these distressing , and we must add , most disgraceful circumstances were elicited from the different witnesses summoned before the coroner , it was very pertinently inquired by one ofthe jury , how it happened that the deceased had either to work or pay for his exemption when his sentence did not include hard labour ? The reply given byoneof theInspectorsof Prisons wasto the effect that , for the sake of prison discipline , the local authorities were empowered to force such an alternative upon a prisoner , referring , in
corroboration of his statement , to the Act 4 th George IV ., chap . 64 , sec . 38 . So , for the sake of prison discipline , a supplementary punishment , apart altogether from the decision of the court of justice , is at any time inflicted upon an unfortunate prisoner by the local authorities , and in the event of a refusal of compliance is severely enforced by the visiting magistrates ! If this be permitted to ' continue , then are the sentences pronounced by judges in open court mere humbug . We insist upon the necessity for the abrogation of this 38 th section of the 4 th George IV ., chap . 64 . Until the law be modified in some measure the public will be liable to hear of repeated instances such as those of poor Sharp and his companions—men subject to treatment so cruelly superfluous that they are driven into the jaws of death through the ghastly medium of the Asiatic Cholera .
So imperatively necessary , indeed , is wholesome nutriment , or rather , we should say , generous diet , for the prevention ofthe spread of this destructive epidemic , that we'do seriously believe it to be a duty required from us by the common sentiments of humanity to supp ly with better food than ordinarily the wretched inmates of our places of incarceration . This , at the very least , we conceive to be a temporary duty forced upon us by the occasion , if we are not also imperatively called upon for such a relaxation of the confinement of the inmates of our gaols as would enable them to breathe more frequently and more freely than usual the invigorating air of heaven . So far from striving in this manner to ameliorate the condition of prisoners at
a period when a terrible disease is decimating the population , our local authorities are onl y diminishing the already paltry amount of exercise and nourishment . If our prisons are not the filthy aud miserable receptacles of crime which they were in a previous generation , before tho sublime philanthropy of the benevolent Howard shed its purifying consolations into those lairs of sin , and dens of affliction , these occurrences , which have of late saddened the heart of the community , show sufficiently well that there is still great room for improvement . They tell us that we must not boast prematurely of changes that are still incomplete . They demonstrate that our vaunted benefactions are , up to this moment , rather nominal than
actual . They cry out in voices that are but too audiblo for that interference of the Press which has become the precursor of all the interferences of Parliament . Listening to these inarticulate but still easily cognisable appeals , vising from the silence and the solitude of our prisons , we feel , that in speaking as we now do , we only acquit ourselves of a deep and heavy responsibility . And earnestly do we trust that tho Members of the House of Commons will perform their part in the beneficent labour of innovation , by bringing under the consideration of the Legislature , as early as possible in the approaching session , these sudden
and melancholy deaths from Cholera of several of the Chartist prisoners . Common justice , common decency , common humanity , call for some speedy interposition , so that the community may not be pained by a recurrence of such calamities . If prisoners are to be required to labour during the time of their incarceration , then , in God ' s name do not ridicule the majesty of the law , and set at naught the sanctity of justice , by sentencing them to imprisonment without hard labour , yet rendering them liable at the same time to be compelled to work , or in the event of their refusal , to be so bitterly punished as to perish prematurely 1
Shocking Suicide By A Cleugyman. — Consi...
Shocking Suicide by a Cleugyman . — Considerable excitement has prevailed in the village of Malvern during the past week , in consequence of the Rev . Peter Hall , a visitor , lodging at Mr . Nash ' s , Castle-house , having cut his throat . The rev . gentleman , who was about fifty years of age , and had been visiting Malvern for some months past , committed the rash act in his bedroom on Tuesday week , in the presence of his lady , who , in endeavouring to prevent him , had her hands cut . He was immediately attended by MivWest , surgeon under whose care he lingered until Monday mornin «
wneu no expireu . At tne time of his committing tho rash act Mr . Hall was under medical treatment . The St . Kathabine ' s Wharf . —It is the intention of the General Steam Navigation Company to make the premises known as the St . Katharine ' s Steam Packet Wharf , adjoining the Tower , which they have had leased to them by the St . Katharine ' s Dock Company for a lengthened period , the means for conducting the general business ofthe Company with reference to the arrival and departure of their l 3
nm 1 ^ ffl \ fflrei f W * S ™* ' P ° rtion ot this traffic has already been removed from BlackvfL ° , th St : Kat J h'Yine ' s Wila , 'A including the vessels trading to and from Havre , Hamburgh , and the Belgian ports ; and in furtherance of this ob-] 1 h ^ the intention of the company to remove , on the 30 th inst ., the remaining portion of the trade SB ? 'T . ' ** »* * ho Brunswick Wharf , Backwall tothc St . Katharine ' s Wharf , i ihe ma-UOtfornia gives a list of tho cities already founded in the gold region :-Frcmont . w
& T a' ( tUose - tlu ' eo cities a w as yet uuin-TunhlL ^' T '^ , ' Wcbstcr ' S « w ™ , luolumne , Stanislaus , Stockport ., New York of the Pacific , Benecm , Martinez , Napa f 0 l- sale ) Sonon St . Louis , San Rafael , and Wcelto , SSJos S others east and south of San Francisco y Pbince . Casino ( Lucien Buonaparte ) tho Kt « President of the Roman Republic , is to be enter tamed a a soirhat the Town HauJfc BbAKn " on Monday Evening next . ¦""^«' anam A ^ syarasa . ' -jsi-B
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com . Makk Lane , Monday , Sept . 17 tb . -The supply of P „„ v , wheat to-day was only moderate , and t . n of tK « ,, «\ . which was taken offpretty freely by the ni \ u rsatZ f . ?' advance upon last Monday ' s prices . Foreitn w ? n >„ t s reader sale , and was Is dearer . For good WrXLT bcttter sale at last week's prices . There was raui ..,. a demandfor foreign barley for grinding , but not hum ! , i ? re in n ew English , which as yet comes only sparinATI market . Malt dull and rather cheaper . New bean ,,. i peas held much the same . Bye almost nominal Th was more inquiry after good fresh oats , which sold omtf readily , and 6 d . per qr . dearer , but no iinprovemeW $ middling and inferior sorts . First quality of linseed cili . met a retail demand , In rape and carrawav semi . alteration . The current prices as under . J u " ° BamsH . —Wheat . —Essex , Suffolk , and Kent , rail < n ,. 12 s , ditto white , 34 s to 48 s , Lincoln , Norfolk , and w ° shire , red , 30 s to 3 Gs , Northumberland and Scotch wS " » 0 s to 35 s . ditto red , 30 s to 34 s , Devonshire and So ' mcri , shire , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to —s , rye , 22 s to ojic barley , 24 s to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 25 s , Angus -sto « Maltordinary , —s to -s , pale , 52 s to 55 s , peas , grev , 7 w 27 s to 29 s , maple 29 s to 31 s , white , 24 s to 2 « s boilws * » S
27 s to 30 s , beans , large , new , aas to ass , ticks 27 s io •)« , ' harrow , 29 s to 32 s , pigeon , 32 s to 34 s , oats , Lincoln ami Yorkshire , feed , 15 s to 21 s , ditto Poland and potato 17 s to 24 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 25 s , Scot ? feed , 17 s to 23 s , Irish feed , and black , 15 s to 21 s , dittd potato , 17 s to 24 s , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , nm ^ J Essex , new , £ 27 to £ 30 per last , enrrawny seed , Essex , „ ' 28 s to 34 s per cwt , . rape cake , £ 4 to £ i 10 s per ton , n ., ' seed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per suck ofisoib * * ship , 28 s to 30 s , town , 38 s to iOs . " > Fobeign—Wheat , — Dantzig , 40 s to 48 s , Anhalt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditte white , 38 s to 44 s , Pomeranian rud 3 Gs to 41 s , Rostock 38 s to 44 s , Banish , llolstein , and JFriesland to 35
/ SOs s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and j ; , - „ 32 s to 34 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s to 30 s , Marianopoli , and Iiel- ' dianski , 80 s to 34 s , Taganrog , 30 s to 32 s , Brabant and French , 34 s to 36 s , ditto white , 3 Cs to 42 s , Salonica , 3 i /« to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 20 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , Wismar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 22 s to 24 s , EastFriesland , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , 14 s to 15 s , Danube 14 s to 15 s , peas , white , 26 s to 28 s , new boilers , 2 Ss d 30 s , beans , horse , 25 s to 20 s , pigeon , 31 s to 33 s , J > Vntian , 21 s to 23 s , oats , Groningen , Danish , Bremen , ^ d Friesland , feed and black , lis to 16 s , ditto , thick and brew 15 s to 22 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , ]; s to 17 s , flour , United States , per 1961 bs ., 21 s to 23 s , Hani , burg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig aud Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French nor 2801 bs ., 32 sto 35 s . l
TYeekiv Average fob Septsmbek 8 Wheat , 44 s Cd barley , 2 fis 9 d ; oats , 18 s 4 d ; Rye , 25 s lid ; beans , < Jls 2 d peas , 29 s 7 d . Aggregate Average op the Six Weeks . — Wheat 45 s lid ; barley , 26 s 3 d ; oats , 10 s Od ; rye , 26 s 3 d : bcans ^ 31 s lOd ; peas , 29 s lOd . ' Duties . — Wheat , rye , barley , peas , beans , oats , and maize , Is per quarter ; flour , 4 Ad ptr cwt . ; clovcrsed , 5 s per cwt . Corn Exchange , Mark Lane , Wednesday , Sept . 19 The arrivals of graiu fresh in this week are moderate . Every article is held firmly at Monday ' s rates . Arrivals this week : —Wheat—English , 1 , 960 quarters foreign , 5 , 320 quarters . Barley—English , 320 quartersforeign , 6 , 600 quarters . Oats—English , 3 , 210 quarters : Irish , 230 quarters ; foreign , 10 , 510 quarters . Flour—12 , 5 j ; j sacks . BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7 d . to 71 d . ; of household ditto , ad . toCJd . penlbs . loaf .
CATTLE . SMnnriELD , Monday , September 17 . — The supplies of foreign stock in to-day ' s market were somewhat extensive , but of very middling quality , especially as regards the sheep . From our own grazing districts the arrivals ot beasts fresh up this morning were seasonably good , both as to number and quality . As the dead markets were well cleared of their late supplies , the weather more favourable for slaughtering , and the attendance of buyers somewhat on the increase , the primest Scots , Devons , ix ., commanded a steady sale , at prices quite equal to those
obtained on Monday last , viz ., from 3 s lOd to 4 s per 81 lis . A good clearance ot most other breeds was , cftected , tlionpli in some instances , at a slight decline in the quotations . With sheep we were heavily supplied for the time of year . On the whole , the mutton trade was firm , and last ' . Monday ' s currencies were fairly supported . The primest old Downs went at 4 s to 4 s 2 d ; half-breeds , 3 s lOd to 4 s per Sib ? . Lambs are now nearly out of season . That description ot stock moved off slowly , at about last weeks prices . Prime small calves sold steadily , at full-prices . Otherwise , the veal trade was henvy . Very fmv pigs were on offer . The sale for thein was slow , at last week ' s currencies .
Head of Cattle at SJirrnFiEU ) . — Friday . —Beasts , SI 5 ; sheep , 10 , 400 ; calves , 305 j pigs , 300 . Monday . —Beasts , ' 4 , 232 ; sheep , 31 , 850 ; calves , 169 ; pigs , 210 . Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the onal ) . —Beef , 2 s lOd to 4 s Qd - , mutton , 3 s Od to 4 s 2 d ; veal , 3 s 0 d to 3 s 8 d ; pork , 3 s 2 d to 4 s Od ; lamb , 4 s Od to 5 s Od . Newgate and Leadeniiau , Monday , Sept . 27 . —Inferior beef , 2 s 6 d to 2 s 8 d ; middling ditto , 2 s lOd to 3 s Od ; prime large , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 4 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s « d ; large pork , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s W & 1 to as 2 < i ; middling ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd ; prime ditto , Ss 8 d to 3 s lOd veal , 3 s Od to 3 s Gd ; small pork , 3 s lOd to 4 s 2 d ; lamb ' , 3 s lOd to 4 s 8 d per Slbs . by the carcase .
PROVISIONS . London , Monday . —The arrivals last week , from Ireland , were 18 , 370 firkins butter , and 370 bales bacon ; and from foreign ports 6 , 810 casks butter , and 770 boxes and bales bacon . The transactions in butter , during the past week , were to a fair extent , at fully the rates of this day se ' nniglit for general sorts ; and on the finer descriptions an advance of full Is per cwt . was realised . Dutch , 81 s . Prime fresh cured bacon meets a ready sale on arrival , but other sorts move very slowly . English Butter Market , Sept . 17 Our trade is firmer for new-made butter , at 2 s per cwt . more money ; but no improvement whatever applies to stale goods . Dorset , fine weekly , 84 s to SGs per cwt . ; do ., middling , 06 s to 74 s : Fresh , 9 s to 12 s per dozen .
FRUIT AZD VEGETABLES . Covent Garden Market , Saturday , September 15 . —This morning ' s market was but moderately supplied with both fruit and vegetables , considering the time of year , with a middling trade doing at the following prices - . —Raspberries 4 d to 6 d , and mulberries 4 d to Sd per pottle ; peaches , and nectarines , 6 s to 12 s per dozen ; cucumbers , 4 d to Is per brace ; melons , Is to 3 s 0 d each ; French beans , 0 d to Is 3 d ; plums , 3 s Gd to 4 s 6 d ; greengages , 7 s to Ss ; damsons , 4 s Gd to 5 s 6 d ; apples , Is 3 d to 3 s Od ; pear ? , Is Gd to 5 s Gd ; and onions for pickling Is 3 d to 3 s per halfsieve ; red cabbages , Is to 3 s , white , ditto , Od . to lOd ; ami horseradish , 2 s to 8 s per dozen heads ; turnips , Is 6 d to 2 s ; carrots , 4 s to 5 s Gd ; onions , Is to 3 s ; and greens , 2 s 3 d to 2 s 9 d per dozen bunches ; hothouse grapes , ' Is 6 d to 4 s ; foreign ditto , 6 d to Is 3 d ; pineapples , Is Cd to 7 s .
SEEDS . London , Monday . —Nothing of the slightest interest having for some time past been done in clover seed , prices must be regarded as quite nominal . Canary seed was in lively request this morning , and rose fully as . per qr . Mustard seed was plentiful , and rather easicv to Yjnv . Rape seed brought fully as much money as on this dav week . Winter tares were Cd per bushel lower .
WOOL . tor , Monday—The arrivals of wool have been laiire within the last few days , and comprises some quantity froiu Australia , and other colonies . From tbe Cape there is about 2 , 000 bales , exclusive of Algola Bay , which semis 652 bales . Van Diemen's Land has furnished some few hundred bales , Taganrog 43 D bales , Port Plillip about 2 , 00 » . and Bombay COO to 700 bales , Germany , & c , contributing the rest . The public sales commenced on Thursday evening , at the Hall of Commerce , and full 40 , 000 bales will be put up . The series will last for four weeks , and at present is off
going fairly . Liverpool , Sep . 15 .-Scotch .-Tbe demand for Laid Highland wool is still limited as well as for white . In crossed and Cheviots there is little doiir * . The late dip is coming to baud more freely , and with a better selection ho shall no doubt have more doing Laidlligliland wool , per 241 bs ., 8 s to 8 s Cd : White HL-lii !? , ? 4 « 4 ° ' «*• »!*« Crossed , do ., unwashed . 9 s bd to 10 s ; Do . do ., washed , 10 s to l 2 s ; Laid Cheviot da , unwashed , Ws to 12 s Cd ; Do ., do ., washed . Its to 1 / sCd ; White Cheviot do ., do ., 18 s to 23 s Gd .-lmpt . vi 5 for the week , 1 , 142 bags ; previously this vear 882 s ba ^
, , . Foreign . —Ihe public sales commenced in London on ' die LStn inst , at which the quantity to be offered will be little short ot 40 , 000 bales ; so far the attendance is good , and prices obtained fully equal to the last July sales . There has been a fair business doing here this week in washed Peruvian—Imports for the week , 720 bales ; previous this year , 36 , 921 bales .
HAY . Sim-nriELD , Sep . 15 . —Meadow , old , 43 s to 75 s ; clover old , CDs to 95 s ; straw , 2 Cs to 32 s per load of thirty- *! - trusses . J
COLONIAL PRODUCE . Sot . au . —In the West India market 907 hhds . have be . T disposed ot , including 150 hhds . of Barbadoes , at steadv prices . j , 429 bags of Mauritius were chiefly sold at fullv former quotations-low to good gray and yellow , 35 s tV . 39 s 6 d ; brown , 31 s Cd to 34 s per cwt . 2 , 700 bags of Ucn-al realised previous prices-grainery sorts , 8 Ss Od to 40 s i « r J ° w * ° fir , o 1 'eWow , aud 45 s Gd for low white- , Benares . 54 s fad to 40 s for low to good middling white . 4 S 9 bags 24 boxes of Ceylon sold , low to middling yellow , 31 sSdto ^ sCdpercivt . A cargo of about 1 , 801 ) boxes of yellow llavannah has been disposed of at 22 s 3 d for a near port . Coffee . —o 00 bags and casks of plantation Ceylon were chiefly brought m above the market value . 42 bales of ™ w «? ' %° 0 ftcl'cd and disposed of-finc ordinary yellowish garbled , SGs per cwt .
. ™ - - " . ' - "'tot is flat , and a reduction of fully 3 d per - » , 1 W ™ n ^ " « . ed \ ° J'ellOTvish t 0 nMdlinB aud white vie .- wW * . ° pei ' cwt * Si , les amounted to «» > JUfi * * ' nb » uthnlfsold ator after sale . 0 f 933 Imum * pei-cwt ' P ' y sold at former iirices , Ss 3 d 1 n « l ^' r " 1 5 l « , lnles c 0 mmcilcedon Tuesday moraine ; and I ™ . j iVnnn , 3 S 7 Phages , of which 23 , 900 were ' Wack , ; , and 11 , 000 green . There were 18 , 700 packages of cmk-ou . t . I , w " Upw . ; ' 2 . 000 chests of old imports , andtiuO V chests imported by the East India Company inlSUuml d previously , flic sale has proceeded with great heaviness ; ¦ the importers have been compelled to buy in largely , aud , d «¦! £ „ S i"P refuse' 1 in several instances to make any ly tows , the withdrawal of entire marks has in consequence : e SShVSfl ^^"" I nflii Company ' s congou sold with th spirit at 8 Jdto SJdper pound , and a few of the old im- upoi ted parcels at 9 d , but the bulk of these have still to be be Brought forward . With respect to other teas , the mmntitv itv
reaurett has been so small that quotations generally re- remain unaltered , fhe quantity passed was 13 , 000 packages , cs , and ofthese 2 , 700 chests sold .
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„ . lUUTII . Kepstcrcd , John Frost lVJIcock , son of Thomas Wileock , ek , secretary ofthe National Chartist Association . .. „ DEATH . At Monk Frystone , near Terry-bridge , Yorkshire , of off Asiatic cholera , Henry Hancock , late of Hull . DccoaseiLsetU wAftr n ? J ' and well known amongst the Chartist-list t , , « if „!" , , i ? hesterandotIlerPlaces ; be was veryceryy mu ttunedauliii prevailing epidemic , and left Hull out om » qnmPnl " ^ i ? « W " ^^ WaS takcn » l tl , C tl , ee ™' ° ' V ° "k intone , ivhere he lingered Uiirty-sic-siss « ° e f . ' t : wd exPlrcu on Sunday morning , the 9 th inst . J hi Jhttt was a tuie democrat , aud his loss will he felt by his friends ^ ds , ? , both social and political .
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Printed by WILLIAM MDER , of No . 5 , Macclcsfield-strcetrce :: l 'he Parish of St Anne , Westminster , at the Priutmi : tini : i :
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A < r' i ° . ve ! lt Windmill-street , Hayimivket , in the Cii Cin ^• ' ^ nstei ' . for . theProprietor . FEAltGUSO'COSKOltS'Oltlt 5 ' n « ' and P * Wisbed by he said Wiuiam Uider . oh . aa uie oaice , m the sa > uen etiud . parish . —Baturiayriajv September 22 nd , 1849 ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 22, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22091849/page/8/
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