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. ' .. TRAGICAL EVENT , On the 6 th inst ., Mr . 3 . W . Button , the eldest gun of the Hon . J . W . Button , of BUbury-house near jiirford , G loucestershire , and grandson of Lord Sherborne , with three other gentlemen and some guides ( headed by the enterprising Jobann Lauener , ef Lauterbrunneii , } left Interiachen to bunt chamois amongst the mountains of the Denies Oberland m ihe neighbourhood of the Blumlis Alp and Junggiu . The day succeeding their departure they ^ rere detained by inclement weatherat some chalets , only inhabited hy cowherds in the height ot sum--mer . On the Sth they proceeded to range a district between the Schikuora , and the Tschmgel--fuwn for chamois . Daring the day two of the party iue
left and returned to Interiachen , being tirea or snort , leaving Mr . Button and Mr . Robert Ward Jackson , a gentleman from Cleveland in lorfcsliire , who alone were anxious to pursue it . On the morning of Friday the 9 jb they left at four a . m . a chalet , wfere they bad slept , ia the Seventh *! , and proceeded over the Furke , a pass separating the Jfienthalfrom the Seefinenthal ; them * itbc went along over a large tract of snow , the extreme head of the Kienthal , and crossed an mtermedmc ridge Of steep rocks into the Gamscbithal , which is a « - Iratarv to the KienthaL Some chamois , being deserted at a great distance , the party remained at a certain point , whilst Lauener took a long circuit , hopin" to drive them in tbe direction of the rifles . TJpUds of an hour and a half ^ s ^ mred to
accomplish this , which was an unsuccessful attempt , on account of the chamois having scented iiim Upon the occasion of the par * leaving thenpome Ofview to join Lienor the following sad accident occurred .-Mr . Dutton , being sta ^ y cobi , gave to rifle to a guide to carry that he might more effectually use his Alpine staff in descending dwgonally the steep incline of the mountain , covered with loose slaty deposits upon its rocky face Mr . DuttoT having slipped whilst « lw *» foot upon a piece of rOTk , feW ' his left thigh and hip , and at the same moment the guide , who was lmmediatelr hawnd him , carrying bis rifle , stooped to break his fall and prevent his sliding down the slope . The fastening by which the leather sling the rifle wasnot and
¦ pas attached to strong , slightly out of repair . Mr . Datton was seen endeavouring to improve it upon two occasions—one , the day before ; the other , on the fatal morning . The movement of the guide in order to save Mr . Button , had the effect of causing a strain upon the sling more than it could bear . It accordingly gave way ; the rifle fell from him and dropped down the slope , pointing straight up it . All tho party , viz . —Mrl Barton , Mr . Jackson , and the three guides , were then close together . Scarcely a moment had elapsed when one barrel went off , and tbe ball must have passed amongst them ; scarcely another moment passed ere the second barrel went off ( the rifle not being more than a distance oi about five yards . )
This second explosion was with more deadly effect , for poor Mr . Button was shot through the stomach . His first request- was to be carried down to the snow , and to the edge of it , therefore , he was taken . Mr . Jackson having endeavoured to staunch the wound as best he might with few materials , immediately despatched one of the guides to Interiachen , to Mr . Button ' s travelling companion , tbe Hon J . C . Murray , with a request to proceed with medical aid to the village ofKien , tbe first pb . ee down the Eentbal where any , even rode , accommodation was to be obtained . Mr . Jackson being informed by the guides that some materials might he obtained from some chalets at a moderate distance sent another guide off for the purpose of re
gainins it . After waittug above an hour , one man arrived with two poles and a sheet , bringing word that it might be some hours before further assistance could be got . This being the case Mr . Jackson deemed it better to commence transporting his companion with the four individuals the party then consisted of . They bad first to ascend 1 , 000 or more feet ( this be-ins abont 7 , 000 feet above the sea ) to repass the before-mentioned ridgo of rocks , and then to descend for nearly two miles diagonally ever saow , which towards the bottom was extremely slippery . Whilst passing over it the cowherd saw at a distance one of the cows in rather a dangerous position , and in spite of bribery ,
entreat ies , and threats , left the party to continue , as best they might , their difficult route rendered much more so by their being so greatly overweighted . Further details would only prove that , after passing lie snow , their route was still steep and fatiguing , so much so that it occupied , from first to last , nearlv eleven hours to convey the wounded man to HienJ He bore the whole journey with the most patient and determined resignation , being from the first convinced that the wound was mortal . It was , indeed , always too evident . Mr . Murray , with two medical men , had arrived shortly before tbe party reached Eles , when their united opinion was that nothing could sare him , and that had the accident occurred where medical aid was close at hand life
could not be prolonged more than one hour . The hall had entered theunder part of ihe right thigh , and , proceeding through tbe intestines and bladder , had come out under the left rib , near the hip . Mr . Button expired , after continuing to bear -up -with the most admirable fortitude , at nine a . m . on Saturday the Iflih . Ills remains were conveyed to Interiachen tbe same day , and were interred ia tbe beautiful little Protestant Churchyard of Stieg , one mile distance , being followed to the grave by tbe English visitors , among whom he bad during Ms stay excited a lively interest .
Death Of Ax Imposter.—The Essex Herald S...
Death of ax Imposter . —The Essex Herald says Most of our readers will remember the history cf an extraordinary imposition practised by a young -woman of Chelmsford , who excited the commiseration of the charitable , and , on ber removal from hospital to hospital , fairly puzzled tbe faculty as to the nature of ber complaint , ber case being regarded in the professiont . 1 journals of tbe metropolis as a phenomenon in medical practice , until at Brighton it was discovered that all these h'deous wounds were produced , and this torture inflicted , by hydrochloric acid or spirit of salt , artfully applied by her own hands . Ber name will no doubt hereafter find re cord amongst some future history of extraordinary impositions ; and we have now to add , as the moral
of such foul celebrity , the last sad chapter in her deceptive career . Consigned to tbe union bouse , after her detection and expulsion from Brighton Hospital , she only emerged from it on Tuesday , and shunned by ber neighbours , and those of her own class , and half-maddened , it would seem , by their insults , she perished on Thursday , closing , there is little doubt , a life of imposture with suicide , having on that day been found drowned in the river , near Bishops ITall Mil ! . On Friday an inquest was held CD the body , before C . C . Lewis , Esq ., at the King William , in Xew-streer , to which house the body had been carried when taken from the water . Elizabeth Ginn said , the deceased was her daughter—a single woman , aged twenty-three last February
She list saw her alive on Thursday morning , when she left the bouse after kissing her and biduing her good-bye , saying that- she was going to Halsread to find employment at the silk factory . Witness gave her Is and some bread . She had never worked at the silk factory before , but she had met two girls in the union , where ste went on being brc-ught from Brighton Hospital , and tbey told her that if she went to them at Halstead she would get work . She had been in tbe union ten weeks , and came out last Tuesday to -witness ' s house . On Wednesday she Started for Halstead about half-past twelve , but she took a wrong road , and went five miles out of her
Kay , and therefore came back at night , when a party of boys came and played rough music , which upset ler , and that , said her mother , was the cause of her deathi—The Coroner : Why did the boys come and play the rough music ? Witness : Their mothers set them on to do it , because of what she had done . She would bare left me that night , but I persuaded her to stop with me . —Maria Ginn , a younger sitter , deposed : Since the deceased came out of the union she stated there were two jonng women who persuaded ber to go to Halstead , and tbey would ask their master to employ her . She did notknow how those girls came to be in the Chelmsford Union . One of them was named Susan Garden . On
Wed-Hesnay she started to go there , but returned at Bight , having lost her way . She said baviug lost her way she sat down to change her shoes , and a gentleman coming op she asked him if he was going to Chelmsford , and if he would let her ride there . He did so , and put her down at the Plough at Springfield , she said before that she saw some water and had a great mind to jump in , but she thought of her mother ' s words when she parted , be a good girl , and take care of yourself . " When the boys came with the rough music she said , «• It ' s enough to drive one to do what thev never thought of . -It appeared that the girl was ' generally considered tobe of weak intdlect . -The jury , after hearing the remainder oi the evidence which related ] principally to the discovery of the bodv . returned a
Teraict oi r omm crowned . " With the exception of the abdomen , the body was covered with 4 irs some of them as large as the hand , from the wounds produced ty the deceased in her course of imposture New Customs Act . —An act to amend the laws relating to customs has just come into force . AH rules and regulations made by tho Commissioners Of Customs are delared to be valid . Henceforth all assignments of superannuation allowances «« shall he wholly void to all intents and purposes , and shall not be enforced in any court of laworeauitv . " This act prohibits the importation into the United Kingdom of any extracts , essences , or other concentrations of coffee , chicory , tea , tobacco , or any admixture of the same . Witnesses refusing to attend or sire evidence may be fined £ 50 . The
exqxirt duty of 4 s . per ton on coals is now repealed . All manufactured goods are to bo deemed to be the produce of the country of which tbey are the manufacture . Ko abatement of duties shall be made on aeconnt of any damajre received by any corn , £ & in , mea ! , or flour imported into the United *« igdoia .
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UELAXGHULY . ACCWhiSe ON I HE RIVER MERSEI .-KINB LIVES LOST .
Early on Sunday morning a party of friends , residing in the immediate ^ nei ghbourhood ot Bellstreet , Crostan-street , and Lower Karrington-street , in Toxi eth-park , started iu & h * atfr . mi the Potteryslip . for the purpose of spending the day at Eastham . The boat « " / £ *« charge of a boatman known by the name of 'Willie Cooper . The folding are the names of the parties who were on board . Mr . Blackie , William and Joseph Kackte , two youths , his sons ; James Saucer and William . Spencer brothers , aged five and seven yeaw ; Eliza Walker aged 17 , and her sister , Nancy M'Fall , aged 19 ; John Yond , Johnh %£ S Thomas Gerrard and John Gerrard , twins , aged 16 ; Rrehard Ashwortb , and Willie ( Wr lbe party proceeded safely to E * s ham , with sail full set , aituough the wind was blowing very fresh at tbe time . Alter . m ^ s ne th * d ™ in ! „ i * J ~ r _ j
convivial manner , they Parted on their rptnrn a little befote eight o ' clock in the %££ } ffSbH by this time had considerably freshened , and the adult por ion of the iwty were ail ; we believe , the worse for liquor . They took their places in the boat about ten minutes to eight o ' clock , and a roan named Charles Dean , a sail-maker , of Lower Harnugton-street , who was at the same time on the TV ^ « K ° ' Httl 8 distance ^ them , couottd fiiteen persons , thorn * from the strictest inquiries . made from the relatives of those who were saved , they can o „ iy remember the above-named parties . Ihe man Beane states that he was about loO yards behind , and his account of the accident is , that tbe boat in question was carrving too much sail , and from the main-sheet being fast , with the greai weight of canvas * the boat wag carrying caused her to duck , by which a large quantity of water was shipped , and tbe boat immediately swamped .
From Mr . S uperintendent Ri /> e , of the Liverpool police force , who chanced to be on board theEastbam ferry boat at the time of the oata-tror-he , we have gathered the particulars as follows : —At a few-minutes after eight on Sunday evenin , as the ferryboat was about leaving the Eastham slip , there was considerable alarm created on board by a cry raised that a number of persons were struggli ng in the water . Mr . Ride , with several others , ran forward and found such to be the tact , and it wa « remarked that a sailing boat , which hut for a few moments previously had been seen to leave tbe Cheshire shore , at the distance of about one hundred or one hundred and fifty yards in a-Ivance of the packet , was not observable on the water . A friend of Mr . Ride ' s , Captain Stebbington ,
of the Moultan , who was also on board the packet , and witnessed the straggle * of the unfortunate per sons in the water , took off bis coat and said , " Here , Ride , bold my coat , and here's my watch : I can swim for an hoar together , aud I'll save some of these people if possible . " A boat at this moment was sew at about one hundred and _ fifty yards distance from tbe place of accident , making in the direction of the sufferers , and active preparations were being made to lewer the packet boat , the very anxiety of doing which proved an obstacle to the accomplishment of tbe objects 'tight to be effected , and it unfortunately happened that the boat in the hurry and confusion of lowering her into the water , received considerable damage—not so much so , however , as to render her incapable of being floated , and as soon as she was placed on tbe water , she was manned by the mate
and several other bands from on board the steamer ' . but it so happened , that just as they were about to leave the packet one of the rowers let slip-bis oar , which was carried away by the water , acd this greatly impeded the boat ' s progress . The packet ' s boat succeeded in picking up two old men , a young woman , and a boy . Tbe steamer at this time was proceeding in the direction to meet tbeb > - > a t , and having received the persons who bad been taken from the water on board , returned to the slip in order to put them on shore . Animation in one of the old men appeared te be completely suspended , but the moment the others were placed on the steamer , active exertions were adopted to restore -vitality . The persons so rescued were at once conveyed to tbe public house connected with the hotel , where every attention was afforded to them , and every available measure used which the circumstances of the case required .
The boat instantly , npon placing the persons on board the packet , returned to tbe scene of the disaster . Two persons were then seen near , struggling with the waves . Captain Stebbington , who bad not resumed his vestments , and believing he could render them assistance , jumped overboard , swam to tbe boat , directed the attention of the crew to the two men in the water , and he has now tbe satisfaction of knowing that he was tbe means of saving them from a fearful death . The persons thus saved were John Duncan , of Lower Harrington-street , and John Gerard , of Crostan-street .
At the time the accident occurred there was a fishing boat lying in the bay , near to the shore , and immediately the casualty was observed she put out with the greatest alacrity , crowded all sail , and was fortunate enough to rescue two or three persons . A yacht was lying at anchor , and a man , who bad been one of the persons in the boat , and who manifested that he was a strong swimmer , made towards her , a rope or buoy was thrown lo hlin , and he was taken on board . The names of the persons who were drowned are—William Blackie , James and William Spencer , John Youd , Bell-street ; Eiiza Walker and Nancy M'Fall , John Buncan , John Gerrard , and Thomas Gerrard , Bell-street ; and two men must have been taken into tbe boat at Eastham , not being of the party from Liverpool . The following are the names of the persons saved—Mr . Blackie and his son Joseph , Richard Ashworth , Fisher-street ; and Willie Cooper , Bell-street .
The mast of tbe unfortunate boat was above water on Monday , in as nearly as could be the precise situation in which she was allowed to go down . A tug boat , the Prince Albert , was on the spot , with two or three other boats , for the purpose of raising her . Chains were got under her , both fore and aft , and with great exertions she was at length hauled op alongside tbe slip , so far that her side and deck could be seen . The tide flowing , however , it was found impracticable to get ber high and dry , so that her forecastle could be examined , and she was . therefore , secured in her position to wait the ebb of tbe tide . The scene during these operations was a painful one , ihe owner of tbe boat , who had lost one son , being present , with the fathers of the twins ( Gerrard ) and of the two children ( Spencer ) . Tbe relatives of the other lost parties were also present .
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Escape asd Becaptcbe of Fkksch Convicts . — Last week as tbe / oreats of the bagne of Brest were at work in the interior , a band of twelve , who were under the direction of two gardea-chiourmes , suddenly rushed on and bound them , and possessed themselves of their arms . At the beginning of the attack one of the forcats slipped on tbe coat of one of the officers , and pretended to be keeping guard until tbe officers bad completely bound them . Eleven of the convicts then escaped over the high wall ; the twelfth had got nearly to the top of tbe wall when lie was seen by an officer , who presented his musket at him , and threatened to shoot him if he did not descend . The man threw a carabine he had to bis eleven comrades , and descended . He was secured ,
but it was not then known that the other eleven had got off . " These eleven convicts slipped along the hedges and through tbe corn to the ramparts which surround the towu . They knocked a large nail in the wall , and let themselves down by a cord into the ditch . Being now in the open country , tbey thought themselves safe . But a peasant happened to see them , and be immediately gave an alarm at the bagne . A lieutenant of the 1 st regiment , who < vas on duty at the guard-house , immediately called out his men , and hastened to some distance beyond the spot at which the peasant bad seen the convicts . lie then deployed his men in such a way as to drive them up to the fortifications . At the same moment the cannon of the bagne was discharged thirty-three
| times to indicate that an escape bad been effected . On hearing this , the peasants , gardes-chiourmes , and gendarmes turned out in arms , and beat the country in the rear of the soldiers . After advancing some time , one of the soldiers , on leaping over a hedge , suddenly" found himself in the midst of a group of nine convicts . Five of them wore secured . The soldier then continued his pursuits and n taking a leap stuck fast in a bog . To his astonishment he found that a convict was also stuck fast , and that he was armed with a carabine . The soldier was abont to call out , but the format presented bis weapon , and swore he would fire if be did not remain silent . The musket of the soldier was not loaded , and he waa too far oil to reach the
convict with bis bayonet ., By a vigourous effort , however , he partially extricated himself from the bog , and advanced sufficiently near to theforcatto strike aside his carabine with his musket , and to plunge hi ? bayonet in his breast . The forcat fell . Some other soldiers hastened to the spot . . The first soldier , named Leelere , called on the forcat to give up his carabine . The cotwict refused , whereupon the soldier presented his bayonet at bis throat and declared be woufd kill him . On this the convict said he bad plunged his weapon into the bog , and it was there found . Tho six -fot cats were conveyed to the bagne , and the wounded man died an hour after his arrival . He walked to tbe bagne , leaning
on the soldier who had wounded him . Another for cat was captured by a soldier and a gendarme at tbe top of a tree . Two others were secured by the peasants and the gardes-chiourmes . The other two were not captured . The Beek ' Tiiadb . —Bv an act of parliament which was passed last week , a duty of . Is . id . per cwt . has been imposed on sugar used in the . brewing of beer , to commence from the 5 th of July . next , ironi the loth of October next , brewers are not to seu at any other place than their licensed brewing premises , or on premises licensed for the express ^ f \ ^ re era may take out a license for the hri „; — ? tf otiier place as well as their Drawing premises . Taking orders for the sale of safisssf * ¦ " * ¦ ¦ " * otto '
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LIVERPOOL . '" \ - " ; QrasxiOHI OF UG UMACY .- ' ms h an feua'Aum the . Guirt of Chancery . The plaintiff was Thomas Wright , an infant ; the defendant . Jonas Holgate , a catile-dealer , in the neighbourhood of : Halifax ; and the question to determine was , whether the plaintiff was the ligitimate , offspring of Susannah IloJgate by her husband , Thomai Wright ., Some property is pmding on , the result ,. -. . Thomas Wright , the putative father , is a butcher aud cattle dealer , in a low condition of life , In 1 $ 36 or 1837 he , became acquainted with Susannah ilolgate . who was the daughter of a person named Jonas Holgate , also a cattle dealer in tbe same neighbourhood , and in 1837
they were married . Ihey liven together for , some time and had wo children . She appeared to be a woman of a violent temper and profligate disposition , and in B & 0 taey parted . Sue went to ber father and mother ' s bouse , but afterwards removed to Halifax , where sue lived till her death , which took place in 1818 After tue separation Thomas Wright lived fur a few months in the some house in which he formerly lived . He afterwards went into the service of Jonas Uolgate , his wife's brother , who was also a cattle dealer ac thesau ; e place , ami continued to live in his service for two years . Be then went into ihe employ of a person named Wilkinson , in tbe neighhourhuuu of Rochdale , and continued to live witb him for five years . In 1846 , when the
plaintiff was begotten , he was in the service of a person named Mills , who lived in tho same place , and he was employed in the same capacity , Halifax was about twelve « r fourteen miles distant . In March 1847 , the child v » aa bora ; and iu July 1848 , the mother died . From the moment of their parting ' bos , Wright , the husband ; was in the htbit o' attending the market at Halifax , and thus had opportunity of intercourse with his wife . Witnesses were called who proved in tt on these occasions they had frequently been seen together . From the moment -f its birth , the child was called by its putative father ' s name . A person named Mary Kenvon was employed to nurse and take care of it . She did io for three or four mouths , and in June Susannah
Wright removed from her own house to tbe bouse of her brother , Jonas Uolgate , and there made a will , whereby she professed to give tbe property which she had to her brother , upon some trust or titber . After her death , the nurse applied for a portion of her wages , and was instructed by Jonas Uolgate to take tbe child to the workhouse . She did so , and it was received as the child of Thomas Wright . Wright was applied to by the parish , and paid some 18 s . for its maintenance , also giving tbe nurse 10 s . balance of the account which she claimed . The child was stifl thing there . The property in dispute arose irom the will of Jonas Uolgate , its grandfather . It was contended that the child , and it alone , was interested in the present action : Thomas Wright
bad no interest , oirect , or indirect , in the matter . — For the defence it was shown that , after the separation , the plaintiff ' s father had t * o illegitimate children besides the ohild whose illegitimacy was in dispute , and proof presumptive was offered that a Mr . Kershaw was its father . —Verdict for the defendant . Manslaughter . —Robert Reed , who had been convicted of the manslaughter of his wife , in Bridport-street , Liverpool , was sentenc-d to be impri soned and kept to hard labour lor fifteen months . Shootiko with Ixtkst . —Samuel Smelter was indicted for having , on the 25 th of July , at Rusholinc
near Manchester , feloniously discharged and shot off a certain musket , loaded with powder and shot , with intent to maim and disfigure James Farr , and divers others of her Majesty's subjects . There were also counts charging an intent to disable one Foster , a police constable . Air . Pollock and Mr . A . Cross were for the prosecution ; Mr . Sergeant Wilkins and Mr . Wheeler were for the prisoner . It appeared that on the ni g ht of the 25 th of July , soon after ten o ' clock , a police constable came to the residence of Farr , who is a brickmaker , near Piatt Chapel , Rusholme , in the neighbourhood of Manchester , and warned him that an attack was bcinsr made on
his property in the adjoining bricKficlds . It was nearly dark at the time , but tlie witnesses for tho prosecution agreed in stating that there were a large number of men , from three to four hundred , present , and that they began to fire from different quarters on the prosecutor , and the party who were with him . There were nearly sixty shots fired . One of the constables said that he felt the shot about his legs , and others stated thai they had heard the shots strike the bushes . No person was wounded , and no bullets or shots were discovered , except a small quantity of shot in a paper lying on a stone , which evidently had never been discharged . Foster , the constable , stated that he encountered a party ol five men , one of whom presented a pistol at hira ,
and threatened to blow his brains out , and two or three witnesses swore that tbey had seen the prisoner taking part in the crowd , When he was apprehended at home his boots were wet , and marked with clay . Batnage to the amount of £ & o was done to Fare's property by throwing down and breaking bricks , and the motive supposed to have influenced the parties committing the outrage Was , the fact that . Fan * had employed a workman not belonging to the " Union . "—Mr . Sergeant Wilkins reminded the jury , of the definite charge which the prisoner bad to answer—that he bad shot at Farr and Foster with intent to do them grievous bodily harm , and the learned counsel contended that there was no evidence to sustain such a charge . It bad been stated by the police , thatthe shots came all round from different quarters . This circumstance proved
that the guns were loaded with powder only , and contained no shot , for if they bad been loaded with shot , the assailants must have wounded each other . Kb person received the slightest injury , and there was no traces of any bullets or shots baviug been fired . It was quite evident that the men who bad assembled that night never intended to do more than frighten Fair ; but such conduct , illegal as it was , could not justify tbe felonious charge laid in the indictment —Bis lordship , in summing up the evidence , remarked that this was not an indictment for riot or conspiracy , and it was for the jury to say , under the circumstances , whether they were satisfied that the intent to maim , disable , and do grievious bodily harm bad been made out . —Tlie jury at once returned a verdict of "Kot Guilty , " and tbe prisener was liberated .
AtlSGBD MAKStACOnTER FROM IMPROPER MliDICA l Truatuksi . —Robert Lee was indicted with having caused the death of a child , aged seven months , named Margaret Corry , by having caused a dangerous medicine to be administered to the deceased , be not being a duly qualified medical practitioner From the statement of the case by Mr . Blair , who appeared on behalf of the prosecution , the circumstances were as follow : —On the 4 tb of August the mother of the deceased child met the prisoner at a public house , in Dale-street . She had at the time the deceased child with her , which was labouring under severe bowel complaint . The prisoner ottered to prescribe for the child , and ultimately a bottle of medicine , made up from a prescription " written out
by the prisoner , was procured from Mr . Brittain , a druggist . The mixture contained a large quantity of opium , and by the prisoner ' s directions t « o teaspoonsfuls was given to the deceased . It fell sick soon afterwards . The day following a second ( lose was given to it , and in a snort time after the second dose had been administered the child fell asleep ; and inconsequence of its remaining in that state an unusually long time , the mother became alarmed , and ultimately took the child to Mr . Foulkes , at Islington , wbopronouueed it to be narcotised , and in a very dangerous state . Be applied a mustard plaster to the child ' s stomach , and took other means to counteract the influence of the narcotic , hut the child died on the 12 th instant . —Several
witnesses were called in support of the prosecution , amongst others Mr . Brittain , the druggist , from whom tbe medicine was obtained , who stated that the dose whicli was administered to tbe child , according to the directions of tho prisoner , contained fourteen drops of laudanum . —Mr . Foulkes , surgeon , was also examined , and be stated that when , the child was brought to him it was labouring under the influence of a strong narcotic . Fourteen drops of laudanum was too much to give a child , but not quite enough for an adult . Death from narcotism general ' y took place in twenty-fonr hours ; but be recollected reading of an instance where three days elapsed before death ensued . That was an extreme case . —The prisoner , who conducted his own defence , cross-examined tho several witnesses at some length , and stated that the druggist ' s apprentice had made a mistake in dispensing the mixture . The apprentice wrote out a
prcscrip-| tion at bis ( prisoner ' u ) dictation , but he had written down " tincture of opium , " when he ( prisoner ) had told him to write " tincture of rhubarb . " In prescribing for the child he had no other motive than that of alleviating its suffering . —Ills lordship , in summing up , dwelt with much force upon the statement made by Mr . Foulkes , the surgeon , that narcotism generally caused death in twenty-four hours . He said that be had read of an instance where three days elapsed , but that was evidently an extreme case . In this instance , however , death did not take place until seven days after medicine was administered , being four days longer than : the extreme case referred to by Mr . Foulkes . It was , therefore , a question whether the medicine adniitiistered was the cause of death at all ; and he- was bound to toll the jury that if they hadany doubt on that head they ought to give the prisoner the benefit of it . —After a few minutes' consultation the jury Acquitted the prisoner .
Howard v . Peacock . —Aiaeged Infringbmekt of a Patekt . —This case , an alleged infringement of an improved mode of manufacturing silk plush , was resumed this morning , and terminated in a verdict for the defendants , upon the ground that tho invention was not novel . Holt v . Fleming . —Crim . Con . —This was an action for criminal conversation with the-plaintiff ' s wife . The court was much crowded . On tlie jury being sworn , Mr . Attorney-General Knowles , who was for the defendant , roso and said : My lord , in
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this case an action for criminal conversation , that there may be no public scandal , I : have offered- mj learned friend a certain sum-for damage '»"" be has accepted it . —Mr . iMartiti : suid ho had only to say on behalf of the plaintiff , that ho was exceedingly unwilling tliat his wife ' s family should have the annoyance of a public investigation .: Hoi-had therefore consented to the proposal made by ; MrJ Attorney-General Knowles . —Mr . Justice Cresswell asked what damages ?—Mr . Knowles : £ 750 . Irwin v . Yose . —Breach of Promise op Marriage . —This was a special jury case . It was an action for breach of promise of marriage brought against a medical gentleman well known in Liverpool . The jurors had been summoned for that morning , but on the conclusion of tho patent case , they were told that thoy would not bo required . Thus were the lovers of scandal and gossip destined to a double disappointment .
Charge op Muroer . —Ann Ball , 30 , was indicted for the wilful murder of ber newly born male child , at Southport , in July 4 ast , by burying it alive , and also neglecting and refusing to give it proper nourishment—Mr . Pollock stated the case , and in so doing pointed ' out the difficulty which might arise m sustaining the charge , and , in order to clear up that point , ho proposed to call the surgeon as tho first witness . —Mr . Banon , surgeon , of South-: port , was then called , and from his evidence it appeared that the child might have lived , notwithstanding the burying , had it had proper nourishment . —A long argument here took place between his lordship and . the . Uavned counsel , the learned judge being of opinion that , after tho evidence
which had been given by the surgeon , the charge could not bo sustained . ' At the close of the argument , his Lordship retired to consult Mr . Justice Cresswell ; and on his return , said that his brother . Cresswell was , with him , inclined to tho opinion that unless it appeared that death was either caused or accelerated by the burying , the jury could not , ' under the circumstances ot the case , be warranted in finding a verdict of wilful murder , because the surgeon was of opinion that if proper nourishment had been afforded to the child , it would have lived , notwithstanding the burying . Now , if the prisonor bad been a frco agent , ' she might have been held responsible for the death of the child , but they made a prisoner of her , and therefore she could not
have afforded that mother ' s nourishment which the child required , and there was nothing to show that when the child was brought to her she refused to nourish it . On the contrary ; she seemed rather pleased that she bad an opportunity of doing so , but the child was then in too weak a state to receive it , therefore tbe act of the prisoner could not , under the circumstances , render her responsible for tbe wilful murder of tho child . —The jury then acquitted the prisoner . The Threlfall Forgeries . —William Threlfall was indicted for having forged an acceptance to a bill of exchange for £ 1000 , with intent to defraud Charles Tyson . There was another indictment charging the prisoner with having forged the
acceptance ot Joseph Ryland , manager of the Hull Flax-mills , to a bill of exchange for £ 2000 , and for having afterwards uttered and put off the same with intent to defraud Thomas 'Wluttaker and others . There was a third indictment charging a forgery of the acceptance to another bill of exchange for £ 1000 , with intent to defraud the same parties . An application was made . on tho part of the prisoner , for the postponement of the trial on the first indictment till the next assizes . The prisoner was prepared to answer tho second and third indictments , but affidavits were made by the prisoner and his attorney , that they were not'ready for trial on tho first charge . Tbo prisoner had no intimation of that charge till the first day of tho
assizes , and he now was ignorant of the particulars of the case . The transaction connected with these bills rendered inquiry necessary in various parts of the kingdom , and it would require a considerable time to investigate them . His lordship said that this was a very serious charge , and thought the prisoner ' s application reasonable . The other charges might be proceeded with , unless tho counsel for the prosecution desired tbe whole to be postponed in order that they might bo disposed of all at the same time . Tho whole of the indictments were ultimately allowed to stand over , the prisoner being ordered to be kept in custody . George Reece , for maliciously cutting and maiming , with intent , & c , was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment .
An acquittal was taken in the case of Henry Dirett , charged with the manslaughter of Anthony Swift on the coroner ' s inquisition , the grand jury having thrown out the bills of indictment against him ; and this terminated the criminal business of the assizes .
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The Court resumed its sitting on Monday , before the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor , the Common Sergeant , Alderman Sir J , Pirie and Gibbs , the sheriffs , under sheriffs , < fec . The calendar contains the names of 221 prisoners . Charoe-of AirBMrn . vo to ' Defraud . —Charles Pound and William Longford Jenkins , two persons of respectable appearance , and tho latter a very young man , surrendered to take their trial for a misdemeanour , in having unlawfully obtained a large sum of money from William Newton by false pretences . The jury returned a verdict of tfot Guilty . SKi-ms Sharping . —Joseph Jones , 34 , labourer ,
was indicted for stealing £ 50 in notes and gold , the property of Robert Cotton . Mr . Cookie prosecuted ; and Mr . O'Brien defended . The case , which has appeared within the last few days , arose out of a skictle transaction , and the facts were very similar to the numerous ones that have already been tbe subject matter of several investigations . Itappeared that the prosecutor a would-be wide awake countryman , a draper's assistant out of place , was on tbe morning of the 10 th of April , passing along the Weatminster-bvidge-road , when two men came up and spoke to him , and as they were walking along saw tho prisoner , who was in front , drop his purse . Prosecutor picked it up and gave it to him , upon which prisoner thanked him . and said he would not
have lost it for £ 100 , and begged that prosecutor and the two that were with him would come and take some wine , upon which they adjourned to a public-house , where tlio parties began betting upon throwing weights , and finally tho game of skittles was introduced , and up to this time prosecutor had lost £ 8 at betting ; prisoner then offered to bet him £ 50 that ho could not get the skittles in nine throws , upon which prosecutor , who had been plied with wiuo , went and borrowed the money of his landlord . When he came back , be staked the money in tho hands of another of the party named Chick . They then proceeded to the skittle ground , when it was proposed they should play for a bottle of wine first , and whilst tbey were so engaged prisoner went
out .. Prosecutor then went . up to Chick , who said that he had given the money to prisoner . Prosecutor went out after him , and when he came back they were all gone . Some of the parties so engaged had been taken for a similar offence upon other parties , and amongst them was a hairdresser named Anderson , who received ei g hteen months' imprisonment in this court , but prisoner was not taken until the 4 th of August , when Brett , an active officer of the City police , took him in the Old-street-road , and prisoner then said the officer was not obliged to see him unless ho liked . Mr . Gurney having summed up , theory , after some deliberation , returned a verdict of Guilty . Ho was then sentenced to twelvemonths' imprisonment and hard labour .
Assaults and Forcible Ewrnr . —Robert Hitchcock George Harris , William Graham , Joseph Bucks , and Charles Milton surrendered to take their trial for » . forcible entry and assaulting William Coolt . This case and .-mother which succeeded it , arising out of the same transaction , occupied the attention of tbo court tlie whole day , but tho facts were in a very small compass , It appeared that the prosecutor occupied a farm called Clay-hill farm , at Plumstcad , tho property of a lady named Lid ft burg , and it seemed that OU the Oth of Jlino the defendant Graham , who is a broker , went to the farm , accompanied by the other men , for the purpose of distraining for an nrrear of rent amounting to £ 6518 s . Gd . Thoy found the . prosecutor outside tb
he ouse , and itappeared that upon . his letting two pigs loose from tbo stye in order . that they might run away a souffle took place between tho parties , during which the : prosecutor ; received a rather severe blow . oti the bead witb a stick from the defenfiant ; Hitchcock . A good deal of discussion arose with regard to tho terms upon which the prosecutor had taken possession ot the farm , and he asserted that there was no positive agreememt made astotho amountof rent , but that it was understood thatihewas-to get the land into order . and that ho was then to . havetho option . of taking tho farm upon Jease for seven , fourteen or twenty-ono years . Tho prosecutor , in cross-examination admitted that before tlie assault was committed upon him he had thrown two bricks , one of which struck Hitchcock ; but ho asserted . that lie threw the bricks at tbe pigs , for the purpose of stoomne them , and not with a
view to injure the man . The defendants eventually it appeared , made tlieir seizure and retained possession of the premises . Tbo Common Serjeant Jiaving summed \ vp , tbo jury deliberated for more than half an hour , and then returned a yordiofc ' of Sot Guilty , for all the defendants . William Cook , the prosecutor in the former case , was then charged with assaulting Robert Hitchcock , one of the defendants who had just been acquitted . —In _ this case the prosecutor , and the four other men included with him in the former indictment , wove oxswriineA as witnesses , and , according to their evidence , Graham , the broker , wont to the house on tho day m question for the purpose of levying thb distress , and , . inconsequence of some former violence that had taken place on a former , occasion , he took Bucks , Harris , , and . Hitchcock . with him , in m-u i Drevent a breach of the peace , and meeting Milton by the Tfny . ho accompanied them also . It
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was alleged that upon their , attempting to make the distress they found tho house barricaded , and the defendant , who was in the farm yard , ordered thora off , and , without any provocation , threw two bricks at , Hitchcock , and he was knocked down , and after this the defendant took up a bill-hook , and threatened to cut . them with it , at the same time using very bad language , if tbey did hot leave the place . The bill-hook was taken from him , and tho witnesses stated ; that the defendant then took up a large hedge stake , and BtrUok Hitchcock a violent blow with it , and : Harri 8 said that tbe defendant also struck him with the stick , ' and broke , one of his little fingers . — The defendant received a very good character for quiet habits and general conduct . —The jury returned a . verdict ef Guilty , and the Common Sergeant said ho . would consider what sentence ought to be pronounced .
Charge or Robbery . —George Lovejoy , 42 , labourer , was indicted for stealing a quantity of hay , olover ,. and barley , the property ot" Messrs . Smith and another . —Mr . Ballantine prosecuted , and Mr ; Clarkson defended . —Tho prisoner is a greengrocer and fruiterer in a large way of business in Copenhagen-street . Islington , and having stabling in Biirnsbury Mews , and the prosecutors , Messrs . Smith and Morgan , are corncbandlers in White Lion-street , Pentonville , and had in their employment as carman a man named Perkins . Having received some information , they were induced to set a watch on the proceedings of him and the prisoner , who was also pointed out to them , and about half-past seven on the morning of tho 8 th of April , Mr . Smith , who was eh the watch , saw tho prisoner drive up to tho dooroT their shop , and having had some conversation with Perkins , the latter went up into the loft and gave prisoner a truss of bay , and a truss of
clover , with which be drove off . Perkins , who was allowed to sell in the absence of his employers , not haying accounted for tbo aalo of the hay or clover , he was given ifto custody , and . npon his second examination at tlio police court the prisoner was present , but after that absconded , and after the trial of Perkins , a warrant was issued from this court . He was , about the middle of last month , apprehended by Police-constable Barker at Henley-on-Thames , where he had been keeping out of the way . The prisoner had been a customer of theirs , and had paid them the balance of an accountof a long standing a short time before the present affair took place . When tho prisoner was taken he said he should never have kept out of the way but for the advice of his solicitor , and that his friends had got him out of some other troubles , aud would out ofthis , —The jury Acquitted the prisoner .
Charge of Murder . —J . B . Percival , ii , labourer , was indicted for feloniously casting and throwing Alexander Shirreff into the East County-dock , at Rotherhitho . with intent to murder him . It appeared that this prosecution was instituted by the above company , Mr . Skirreff being their secretary , under' the following circumstances : —The prisouer , it appeared from the evidence , had been employed as a labourer in tbe dochs , but on the morning of the 25 th June last he was discharged by order of Mr . Shirreff , and there was no doubt that this had created a strong revengeful feeling in his mind . About a quarter-past three in the afternoon of the same day the prosecutor , who , though apparently a strong , powerful man , it appears is seventy-five
years of age , was walking along the side of the dock basinwhen ho met the prisoner , who came up tO him and said that he had been discharged from his work that morning , and be wanted to know tbe reason . ' Mr . Shirreff replied that he was not bound to give him any explanation upon the subject , and at the same time ordered him to go about bis business . The prosecutor then walked on his way , arid when he had got a short distance he received a tremendous push from behind , the effect of which was to thrust him into the canal , at a place where there was a fall of seven feet , and the water eiehteeu feet deep . He was fortunately enabled to swim a little , and to keep himself afloat until some of the labourers came to his assistance , and ho was
got out by means of a man being lowered , whose leg belaid hold of , and they wore then both dragged up ; but the escape of the prosecutor appeared to have been most providential . The prisoner ran away immediately after committing the act , and he was not apprehended until the 13 th July , when he was foundat Birmingham , and it was proved that on the morning ho committed the outrage he was heard to say to several of his fellow-labourers , that if Mr . Shirreff came out that day ho should go in the the dock , if be went in with him . —Mr . Payne , in addressing the jury for the defence , endeavoured to show that the intention of the prisoner was merely to give the prosecutor a ducking , and that he did not intend to destroy his life , —Mr . Baron Piatt havingsummed up , the jury , after deliberating for half an hour , found the prisoner Guilty of the
whole charge . Tbe prisoner was sentenced to ho transported for lite . Charge of Robbery . —Thomas William Turner Dowers , 36 , described as a law-stationer , waa placed at the bar , and the jury were sworn to try whether he was in a fit state of mind to plead to aii indictment charging him with stealing two silver spoons , the property of Jano Argent . — Mr . M'Murdo , the surgeon of Newgate , andhis assistant , deposed that from tho opportunities they had had of observing the prisoner , they were of opinion that he was in an unsound state of mind and incompetent to understand tho nature of tbe proceedings against him . —Tke jury returned a . verdict to that effect , — The prisoner , who did not seem at all satisfied with the decision of the jury , exclaimed , as he was leaving the bar , " I am in a perfectly sound state of mind , and have been so for two years . "
Returning from Transportation . — Conditionai Pardons . —Charles Bavnbefd , 57 , a German , doscribed as a merchant , was indicted for feloniously being at largo in this country without lawful excuse before the expiration of a period of transportation . to which he had been sentenced for felony . —Ah-. Barker and Mr . Clark appeared for the prosecution . —The learned counsel , on opening- the case , sain that the prisoner was convicted of felony in 18 iS , and was sentenced to be transported for seven years , and was in duo course removed to the hulks . Some
circumstances were , however , aftewards made known to the Secretary of State , whicli induced him to recommend that the prisoner should receive a pardon , and her Majesty subsequently did grant the prisoner a pardon , upon the condition that he should not return to this country , until the period of his sentence had expired . The prisoner was sent to his own country , but he returned to England very soon afterwards , and the charge was therefore preferred against him , as although he had in point of fact received a pardon , yet it was only a conditional one , and tho prisoner having broken that condition , he was equally as amenable to the charge now preferred as though no pardon whatever had beeen granted . The learned counsel
then explained that , in strictness the prisoner would have been required to prove the fact of any pardon having been granted ; but as it was possible that the prisoner might , in some respects , be considered an object for commiseration , it was tbouglit rigl . t that the whole of the facts should bo laid before ') lie jury . —The jury found the prisoner guilty , arid be Was sentenced to seven years' transportation . Manslaughter , —Frederick Bethell surrendered to take his trial for manslaughter . Mr . J . Payne appeared for the prosecution . The evidence established the facts that tho prisoner and the deceased , a man named Thomas Osborn , and several otbei persons , were drinking at the Island Queen public house , City-road , on tho Sth July , and at twelve o ' clock at night they all came out together , the prisoner aud deceased being at that time partially intoxicated . When tfiey got outside the house the deceased insisted upon fighting with tbo prisoner ,
and squared at him , and it appeared that the latter was at length obliged , in his own defence , to stand up and ' fight , ' and ho struck the deceased a blow which knocked him down , and in the fall his head came against tho kerb stone , and he received thereby an injury upon the skull which resulted in his death a few days afterwards , —The prisoner , when called upon for his defence , said ho was very sorry for what bad happened . He had no intention to -hurt tho deceased , and ho should not have fought v » th him , if be would have lot him go away without doing so . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy , on account of the provocation he had received . The learned Judge , on passing sentence , said he thought that , under all the circumstances , the justice of tho cate would bo satisfied by ordering that the prisoner should bo discharged upon paying a fine of one shilling .
Curious Discoveries At New York.—In Cons...
Curious Discoveries at New York . —In consequence of what are considered tho exorbitant demands of tho Waterworks Company for supplying water ; Mrs . Wilson and Son , general dealers , of Peter-lane , determined on supplying themselves , and during the present week have sunk a well for that purpose . On reaching the depth of about fifteen ieet , the workmen met with a large quantity of animal bones , including a pair of horns . The soil was composed of the remains of straw , moss , acorns , pieces of oak and hazel , and other vegetable productions . At the depth of eighteen feet a stratum of wheat was encountered , about a foot in thickness , and extending not only over the area of the well , but beyond its limits . Several bushels of
this wheat were drawn up , and some of tho grains wore in a good stato of preservation , although generally it was black and rotten . Immediatel y above this layer ) a portion of a comb was discovered , its length being about three inches and a half . Fifteen of the teeth arc in excellent order , and are fastened into two pieces of horn with four golden rivets . Thoy appear to have been cut after being fixed between tho two pieces of horn , as there aro marks of a sharp instrument on the latter . Tho whole are in the possession of Mr . Wilson . —Leeds Litelligtneer . Thb Sugar Duties . —The excise duty on sugar , by tho act 13 and HViot ; , . cap . 67 , is now reduced to lis . the cwt ., and from the 5 th of July it will be further reduced to 10 s .
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THE DIUVEnS' STRIKE O xnJrEASlERir COUNTIES RAILWAY . - REMISSION OF THE FINES . . " ..
On Saturday , at twelve o ' clock , a large meeting of engine-drivers and firemen In the employ ot the Eastern Counties Railway Company took placo at Stratford . They mot in the assembly room ot the George Tavern , which was crowded to excess ; hundreds of tho men were unable to gain admission . There were delegates and deputations of drivers from almost every railway in the kingdom . Mr . Hope , a driver , was called to the chair . lie opened tho proceedings by observing that they had been called together for tlie purpose of being informed of what had transp ired since they had delivered their notice to the Eastern Counties Comniinv . Tf . was his dutv . in tbo first place to tell them
that the directors bad pronounced these charges against Mr . Goocb , as stated in their memorial , to be false He regretted that the directors had not instituted an inquiry , in justice to Mr . Gooch , the men , and tho company , before they gave so premature and positive a denial . It might be urged that they ( the men ) had acted prematurely m demanding the dismissal of Mr . Gooch , but as he bad before stated , they had been driven to that step by his tyrannical and oppressive treatment , and thoy did not now lament the course they bad taken ... ¦ The men had doubtless seen m the papers that thirty or forty new hands had been taken down on Thursday by Mr . Goocb , to show them the road . It was said they were some of the best drivers from tbe South
Western . This he denied most positively on tho authority of tho locomotive superintendent pf that line . He would road to the meeting one of the most remarkable instructions ever emanating from a railway board , issued by tho Eastern Countie .- on Thursday last . " General Order : The , station masters aro informed that in consequence of the employment of a number of new drivers , the strictest attention is to be given to the working of the signals , and each station master is himself to be on theplatform on the arrival of all the trains , and to communicate to the enginemen the description and time the preceding tram passed , and any other matter requiring his special notice of attention between that and the succeeding station . The head
guard to each train will , during the ensuing week , ride on the engine , and a porter will be appointed to the charge of tbo break . — Signed George Richardson . " He would ask why were these great precautions adopted if the men taken on were really what had been represented by the company ? Tho inference was clear . They knew scarcely any of the duties , and to make up for their great deficiency the services of the station masters , guards , and porters , were brought to their aid . He regretted the company had resorted to the expedient of sendin ? detective officers to watch the actions of the old hands . If the company imagined tbey intended to molest the new hands in their duties , they were very greatly mistaken . Tho men intended to act , and had , tip to that moment , acted peaceably , and would obtain , if possible , their just rights in a
legitimate way . Several drivers having addressed the meeting , At was adjourned to a later period of the day . On the body again assembling , a representation was made that one of the superintendents of tho company , Mr > Ashoroft , bad undertaken the office of mediator between the men and tho directors . A number of resolutions were passed , expressing the sentiments contained in the memorial that had been presented to the board , and that the men were determined in adhering to tbo whole that had been set forth . Tho resolutions were forwarded immediaiely to Mr . Ashcroft , who lost no time in laying them before the directors , who were sitting at tho Bishopsgate ter * minuc . The dismissal of Mr . Gooch , and the abolition of the fines , were the conditions set forth . Tbey were at once rejected by the directors , and consequently all chance of an amicable adjustment is at an end .
At a subsequent period of the day , Mv . Hope , tha chairman , and Mr . Grant met Mv . AshovoftawlMr . Roncy on the platform at Shorcditch , and at the request of Mr . Asbcroft tbey bad an interview with Mr . Roney in the office of Mr . Atkinson , when that gentleman stated that the directors could not consent to the dismissal oi * Mr . Gooch from the service of the company , but he hoped that" he ( Mr . Hope ) would ui-e his influence with the men to induce them to return to their employment . " This he informed them he could not do under present circumstances , and Mr . Roney then asked him to pledge himself that the company ' s property should not bo injured , or the new men insulted by the old hands . He at once gave the pledge , and
immediately afterwards sent word to all the stations that he had given such a pledge , feeling assured that it would be kept . ( Cheers . ) He ( tbo chairman ) , however , regretted to say that the company ' s property had already been considerably damaged , though not by the old hands . On Saturday the first down train to Norwich , leaving London at 6 a . m ., and which ought to have arrived at Norwich at 12 . 45 , did not arrive until 2 . 45 , the driver having on the journey more than once to unhook his engine to get water . The boiler was considerably damaged , ' and on arriving at "Norwich , in taking the engine round the train to push it into the station , the driver run it against a pilot engine , stovo in the side of his tender , broke the buffer plank of the pilot , and otherwise damaged it . After a little delay the engine was disengaged , and the train nushpf ! fntft fhn station tvifh mirth fni'fiA na tn tu-inn
the carriages into contact with tbe station buffersand cutting the faces of several of the passengers , and knocking out the teeth of others . The up-mail train on Sunday , which ought to have arrived at a quarter past four , did not do so until six , being twice overtaken by a goods train of twenty-six waggons , which must have run into it but for the caution of the driver , Richard Hallows , one of the old hands . On Sunday , the first down train which ought to have arrived at Norwich at half-past twelve , had not arrived at ten minutes past three , it being at that time standing on tho line between Thotford and Harling , about twenty-five miles from Norwich , with , it was believed , the engine burnt . The express train from Wisbeach to London , with only four carriages , had to telegraph from Broxbourne for a pilot engine to bring it on to its destination .
A long discussion took place , in which tho names and former occupations of tho new men were freely canvassed , it appearing , according to tlie statements made by those who professed to know them , that the great majority of them had been firemen on other lines , discharged for various acts of misconduct— some for drunkenness . The meeting separated between ten and eleven o ' clock .
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Another meeting of the late drivers and firemen on this line took place at tho George , Stratford , on Monday evening ; Mr . Hope again presiding .
The Chairman * said : Fellow workmen , it must ba a source of the highest gratification to all of you that the completion of our resignations , the notice of which expired this morning , was attended with a circumstance which at once corroborated tho statement we have made in reference to the cause which led to the differences between Mr . Gooch and ourselves , and will , I am sure , bo viewed by all who have taken an interest in -our unfortunate dispute as the strongest possible condemnation of that gentleman towards us . I allude to the fact , which ia not known to all of you , that upon attending at tha offices of tbo company to receive our pay , aJJ those men who had been fined by Mr . Gooch for accidents over which tbey neither had nor could have any control , bad the amount of the fines returned to thorn , and those who were unjustly suspended were paid their wages for tbo whole period of such suspension . I see , fellow-workmen , that ono of the
newspapers asserts , in contradiction to what wa have put forth , that the company have a sufficient staff of new experienced cnghiomen and firemen to work tho line—perhaps the best possible infercutial refutation of this is to be found in the fact that the company have to-day discontinued running no fewer than thirty passenger trains , and have altogether dosed tho Maldon and Braintrce branches . A few facts , however relative to tho running of the trains still at work upon the line will leave no doubt in the itiitid of every person as to the stated efficiency of tho now hands , though it yet remains to be seen what detentions tho night will occasion . The speaker thou , detailed certain detentions and irregularities which ho stated had occurred with respect to the arrival of trains at several of the stations and which bo attributed to the ignorance and incompetence of tlio now hands employed . ' He concluded by exhorting the men to persevere in their present course of steady and peaceful conduct .
Several of the men having addressed the meet * ing in confirmation of tho statements of the choir * man , ¦¦ • > Mr . Grant again called attention ' , to the fact of the fines having been remitted , to show to tbe public that the men were not responsible for the disputes whicli have taken place , and moved tho following resolution : — " That while as working men we deeply regret the necessity that has been forced upon us by the unwarrantable , proceedings of the new superintendent , Mr . Gooch , of withdrawing from our respective employments us enginemeii ana
uremen upon the Eastern Counties line of railway , we deem it prudent to call public atention to the fact thatthe fines imposed by Mr . Gooch , of which Tfa complained , and tbo levying of which without notice led to our resignations , have all been returned this morning to the parties who were fined , and those who were unjustly suspended have been paid tho wages they were entitled to during tha period of such suspension , a circumstance which Mu * - nieeting respectfully submits is a full a * ™? - ment of the injustice we have suffered ^ the hands of the superintendent Mr . Gooch . ;
new ^ Mr . T Mabks secon ded the resolution , which was unanimously carried , and tboinan shortly afterwards separate d , • ' V
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 24, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24081850/page/7/
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