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6 THE NORTHERN STAR/ May 4, 1850.
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6 The Northern Star/ May 4, 1850.
6 THE NORTHERN STAR / May 4 , 1850 .
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_HuiLTH op LoKnos Ddeisq the . "VTbj-k . — The return for the week ending last Saturday announces s continued decrease in the mortality of London . Since the third week of March , wheu it rose , the -weekly mor tality has constantly fallen _; as is shown hy the following numbers :- —The deaths were 1 , 167 , 1 , 121 , 893 s , 866 , and in last week only 803 . The List number is les 3 than in any corresponding week during the ten years 1840-49 , except that of 1842 ; _aadthe average of tbe ten weeks being 109 ,-or , corrected for increase of population , 992 , there now appears a decrease on it amounting to 189 . All the important classes of disease exhibit a decrease on tbe average in the deaths assigned to them . From
small-pox there were 7 deaths , or about half the average ; from measles 17 , from scarlatina 21 , from hooping-cough 35 , and from typhus 25 , which diseases are all less fatal than usual ; croup was fatal to 5 persons , influenza to 4 , purpura to 2 , _diarrhorsa to 11 , and erysipelas to 9 , all near the ordinary amount . On the 19 th of April , at 11 , Wycombeplace _, Kent-road , a carman aged 40 years , died of "disease of the kidneys ; English cholera ; the latter complaint of nine hours ' duration . " Again , amongst diseases which affect the respiratory organs , "bronchitis carried off 46 persons , rather more than the average often corresponding weeks , hut less than that of tbe last three ( in the year 1847-9 ;) pneumonia , or inflammation of tho lungs , than the
about the same number , considerably lesa average . Only six persons died of asthma , and 110 of consumption , the corrected average being 158 . A child died of laryngismus stridulus , two children and a man of ly rangitis . The deaths of 20 persons , of whom 18 were women , were the result of cancer , and all occurred between 35 years of age and 80 . Seven boys and 8 girls died after premature birth . Three children were suffocated accidentally ia bed . Two cases of intoxication are tbus recorded : — "A chimney-sweep , of 54 years , was killed by fracture ofthe vertebras of the neck from a fall while intoxicated ( postmortem , ) having lived S hours after the accident . " The widow of a tailor , aged 66 , was "found in a ditch in a state of derangemeatsnd intoxication , was removed to the police-station , and afterwards to the workhouse ,
where she died from congestion and effusion on the brain . " Inquests were held on both cases . The classification of deaths in public institutions shows that 86 occurred in workhouses , and 64 in hospitals ; and of tbe latter , that 39 took place in general hospitals , 5 in lunatic asylums , 7 atthe Royal Hospital , Greenwich , and fonr in other military and naval establishments . At tho Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the daily mean reading of the barometer was above 30 in . on Saturday ; the mean ofthe week was 29 _'S 63 . The mean temperature of the week was _45-8 deg ., _whichisless by 2 * 4 deg ., than the average of the same week in 7 years . The mean temperature was , on Sunday 3 deg . " , above the average of the same day , and on each of theother six days was below it On every day , hut Thursday , the wind generally blew from the north or north-east .
Fire sear the General Post-office . —On Sunday _mor-iing . shortly before three o ' clock , a fire broke out in Foster-lane , Gheipside , behind the General Post-office , which was attended with a great _destruction of property , and serious , if not fatal , consequences to several persons . The premises in whit h the fire began were in the occupancy of Mrs . Elizibeth Matt , licensed victualler , and were well known as tbe Fountain Tavern and Railway office . One of the City policemen on duty in the neighbourhood , whilst going Ms rounds perceived flimes raging in the second floor . He sprang his rattle , and sent to the proper quarters for assistance . After considerable trouble he succeeded in arousing a gentleman named _Ru ? sell , who gave the alarm to the ether
inmates , and managed to effect a safe retreat . At tbat period there were in the burning premises no fewer than nine persons . One of the servants succeeded in getting ai-on the roof of the house , where she remained _screaming for assistance until the Royal Society ' s fire-escape arrived . The waiter , on making a retreat _frorn _^ the premises , was obliged to rash through the fl-tmes _, and his nizht clothes becoming ignited by the time he _reached the street , he was so dreadfully burned that he was obliged to be taken to St . _Ba-tholomi-si' _-s Hospital , where he at present remains in a very precarious condition . Frederick _Sntton , a son ofthe proprietor , was obliged also to rush through the flames , which burned his feet and f _» ce severely . Mr . Sntton , the manager of tbe property , his daughter , and his son , were extricated by tbe conductor ot the Royal Society ' s escape , as
well as one ofthe servants , ihey were obliged to pass through the flames , and were all much burned . The landlady of the tavern was also badly burned . The whole ofthe residents having been extricated , it was found that the premises were from the first floor to the roof in a blaze , and immense bodies of sparks were drifted completely over the roof of the _Postofir-e . so that that establishment at one period appeared in great danger . Several engines were soon on the spot , bnt the first , second , _:-nd third floors were burned ont , and the roof partially destroyed , bef re the fire could be extinguished . It is not a little singular that Mr . Russell , who had suchanarrow escape , was burned out at the fire in the York-road , Lambeth , a few weeks since , which was the cause of his taking lodgings at this house . The stock-in-trade , fee , belonging to Mra . Matt , was insured in tbe licensed _"Rctualleis' Fire-office .
Thomas Denny , who was Sestesced to Death at tbe last Kingston _asdzes , for the murder of his illegitimate child , has _received a free pardon . The chief evidence against him at the trial wa-i Elizabeth Tarrent . tbe mother of the infant , aiid who was eharg-d also with assisting in the murder ; but the hill against ber was ignored by the grand jury . Justice Maule , who tried him , communicated with the Secretary of State , and three weeks ago obtained a respite of the sentence . Other circumstances have
smee come to light in his favour , which has induced ihe government ti grant him a free pardon . On "Wednesday morniag at 12 o ' clock , Mr . Keene , the governor of the gaol in Horsemonger-lane , received the pardon from Sir G . Grey , and at once liberated the recently condemned convict . The unfortuuate man seemed overjoyed , and expressed his thanks to the parties who had interceded in his behalf . He also thanked Mr . Keene , tbe governor , for his humane attention to him while in the condemned cell , and ante the respite .
Removal op the Versos Gailery . —Saturday the authorities at tbe National Gallery received the official instructions for the removal of the Vernon collection from Trafalgar-square to Marlborough Ilouse , the residence of the late Queen Dowager , where the collecti'm will be opened to public inspection on Whit-Monday . COSSECRATIOS OF St . StEPHE _* S * S CHURCH , Kent-street , Southwark . —On Saturday last a beautiful new church lately built in the populous district of Kent-stieet , Southwark , was consecrated by th-e Bishop of Winchester .
Murder And Robbery At Clapham, On Sunday...
MURDER AND ROBBERY AT CLAPHAM , On Sunday , about one o ' clock , a female , who for years acted as housekeeper to Mr . John Maddle , the tenant of a hou _* _= ein Clearmont-place , Wandsworth-road , was fonnd by that gentleman on his retorn _finm church lying dead in one of the kitchens , under circumstances which ' have a tendency to involve the cause of death in mystery . Her head rested on some folds of carpetting , and although no marks of violence were visible on her person , one of her legs was encircled by several coils of rape . The police were very promptly on the spot , as also M . Parrott , jua ., the surgeon to the police force , who examined the body , and pronounced life to have been extinct some time . He could detect no _out-vard
marks of violence , nor was there any mucous flowing from the month or nostrils . On entering the house Mr . Maddle had found it in a state of great disorder , and very goon discovered that a gold watch , some jewellery , consisting of rings , & c , and some plate iiad been carried off . Mr . Coleman , the inspector of police , having communicated with Jfr . Bicknell . the superintendent ofthe V division , made an examination of the premise !* , and found tbat every drawer , escritoire , box , and even the iron chest bad been opened and ransacked , and a small box in which the _housekeer kept her money was emptied of its contents . Thb Ikquest . —On Monday evening at six o ' clock , a jnry was impannelled before Mr . T . _Diggs , the
coroner for the Docby of Lancaster , at the Nag ' s Head Inn , Wandsworth-road , Clapham , upon the body . Mr . J- C . Parrott , of Clapham-cbramon , surgeon , having deposed as to the state in which he found the body , said , there were no marks of violence —the features were perfectly natural . Tie nextstep witness took was to make a post-mortem examination , which he _effected that afternoon . He could not ascertain the oause of death . Believed when he first saw her she had . been dead two hours . He examined the head snd chest carefully . There was no smell of poison . Witness found all the organs of the body were in a healthy condition _wi-h the exception ofthe _stomach , which , upon laying open , there were very _dt-rtinct marks of _recent and active inflammation . . There was a slight effusion on the brain . He
could not account for the state of the stomach . She might have died from nitnral causes . Am not aware whether chloroform wonld leave any trace , from what he had heard he believed it did not . Prussic acid applied to the nose would leave a smell . Witness had not analysed the contents of the stomach . The _inijaminatron in the s tomach was notsnfficient to cause death , seeing that deceased wa 3 quite well at eight o clock in the mo rniag . He was quite unable at presen t- _^ account for death until the analysis iiadftkten plijce . -A" person suddenly taken ill _swphSi not . fall in such a position . The _decfSKd must have been plated' where she lay-. Het lady down to her knees lay ia thekitchen ; the otb * r portion was in the doorwa y and ' passage — Mr . J « Jra Maddle was next _at-lled and sworn .-He _stefc-A hi * ras oi no profession or tntde , bnt iyed on
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his property . The deceased was his housekeep _er , andhad . been ; with him between-ten and'twelve years . "Witness left his home on Sunday morning at about twenty-five minutes to eleven o ' clock , and went to Clapham Church . He alwavs requested the deceased to lock the front gate and bolt the door _. He got back about twenty minutes past one o ' clock , and supposing the gate to be locked as usual rung the bell . After ringing several times he became alarmed , tried the gate , and fonnd it unlocked ; he then saw the back door was open , and , on entering , found the deceased lying on the kitchen floor with some pieces of carpet under her head , which had been moved from another part ofthe room . . « efelt her face , and foiind she was . dead . He went to Mr . VenaHpj .. Who lived next door , told him what he _bad
seen . and _a- * ed him if he had heard any noise ; and Mr . Venables said he had not . He returned to the house , found every room had been ente _^ d-cupboards , drawers , bureaus , and his iron safe , had all been forced opened , and what was portable was carried off . His deeds and bank receipts were torn and strewed about , and , exclaiming ih a vehement manner , the witness said he wa 3 satisfied his housekeeper was murdered . He observed also that ihe deceased a box s bad been ransacked , and a small box in which she kept about £ 2 for household expenses . About three months since an at _' empt was made to break into the home , but he succeeded in dispersing the thieves with a blunderbuss . The witness was proceeding to state other facts relative to
lus property and supposed lasses , when—Mr . Bicknell , the superintendent of the V division , suggested tbat if such evidence was proceeded with , particul & ry at tbat important time , the robbery having only taken place the previous day , it would have the effect of thwarting any efforts the police might make to discover the perpetrators ; and if the inquiry was adjourned a reasonable time , they wonld no doubt be enabled to produce important evidence . —The coroner and jury were of opinion that such a coarse would be the most advisable under all circumstance . * , and the inquiry was adjourned for a week , Mr . Parrott being directed in the interval to make an analysis of the contents of the stomach . Fubtheb Particulars . — -The persons concerned
inthe perpetration of the recent burglary and supposed murder at Clapham are still at large , although very active exertions are being made by tbe police to bring them to justice . On Monday night a secret note was sent round from Scotland-yard to publican ? , beershop keepers , and others resident in the metropolis and ita subaibs , giving a full description of four men who are suspected of heing the criminals , and there is very little doubt , from their being well known to the police , that they will soon be apprehended . — It is pretty clear from all the _cin umstances attending the outrage , that the perpetrators of it used chloroform to render the female insensible while they plundered the house , but it is supposed that , unfortunately for their victim , they gave more than she
could bear , and caused death . What makes that circumstance riot improbable are the particulars which have been gathered by parties who have been sent round to the chemists' shops in the neighbourhood . It has been ascertained that on Saturday evening , a little after seven o ' clock , a tall thin man , dressed in shabby black , called at Dr . Hale ' s . No 23 , Blackfriars-road , and requested to be supplied with sixpenny-worth of chloroform . Mr . Hale asked him what he wanted it for , as it was a dangerous article to be used by non-medical men , when he _relied that he wanted to draw a female acquaintance ' s tooth , and to make ber insensible while the operation was being performed . Dr . Hale refused to supply him , although the man pressed him very hard . He then
left the shop , and joined two other men who were waiting at the corner of the opposite street . The man who applied for the chloroform answers the description of the man who was seen to leave the house of Mr . Maddle with a bundle under his arm . The other two , Dr . Hale says , answer the description forwarded by note . —Another circumstance of some importance as showing the probability of chloroform having been used , and the facility with which it can be possessed by thieves , has come to light within the last ten days . The Combined Vapour Manufactory , 32 , Commercial-road , Lambeth , ha ? been entered during the absence of the workmen , and sixteen gallons of chloroform stolen therefrom of the value of £ 72 . — -Several parties have been in custody on
suspicion of the robbery and murder ; baton being confronted witb the authorities at the police stations , they were set at liberty . —There is not the slightest doubt that the thieves must have been well acquainted with the circumstances of Mr . Maddle , and knew that he was in the habit of keeping much valuable property on the premises , for no casual observer would ever have thought of breaking into the house with a view to plunder . The house is a small tenement only one story high , of shabby appearance , and would never be taken for anything more than the residence of a mechanic . —A witness will be produced at the adjourned inquest who saw the deceased Mrs . Snelliug at the window of the house at ten o ' clock in the morning . —The police in possession ofthe
premises have made tbe most minute search of the doors , walls , and fences , both back and front of the house , but they cannot find the slightest trace to indicate hy which way the _persons entered or left the premises . " As the police proceed in their endeavours to ascertain some cine to the perpetrators of the outrage they find the matter enveloped in a darker , state of _mystery than any case ofthe kind iu which they have previously been engaged . They cannot obtain the slightest assistance from Mr . Maddle which would enable them to trace the property aliened to have been stolen . Even the gold watch , although Mr . Maddle has had it some years , he states that , he cannot tell the maker ' s name , where he bought it , or number ofit , or furnish any description whatever .
On Wednesday several officers of the detective force went to tbe house in C ' aremont-p ' ace , and in the presence of Mr . Maddle arranged all tbe papers and documents which had been strewn about the place on the day of the robbery , and after examining them all Mr . Maddle conld not positively state what he had lost . Among the papers were a large number of valuable deeds , leases , bankers' receipts , and other documents , which it is very suprising were not carried off by the robbers . Mr . Maddle , by the advice of the police , has been to his bankers to ascertain whether any of his documents or cheques-have been presented , as many of them could readily have been negotiated ; bnt nothing of the kind had taken place . The police made a mast minute examination of the
drawers and cupboards which were broken open by the thieves , and they are decidedly of opinion that the robbery was never perpetrated by regular housebreakers . Tbe implement used for forcing open the drawers was a small chisel , the blade of which is not more than two inches lung , and , what is a most extraordinary fact , it is the property of Mr . Maddle , and was kept in a small tool-chest in tbe back kitchen , from whence the thieves must have taken it into the drawing-room , where it was afterwards found . The police are convinced that , had the robbery been perpetrated by professed ' * cracksmen " they would bave taken their tools with them , and not have depended upon the chance of finding implements in the house .
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FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE . On Sunday , abont one o clock , screams which pro ceeded from the house , No . 17 , ShortVgardens , Drury-lane . attracted the attention ofthe policeman on the beat , who , on entering the premises , discovered in a back yard the almost lifeless bod y of a woman named Ann Donovan , the wife of a person who exercises the callings of blacksmith and pugilist The police were informed tint she had been thrown out ofthe second-floor window by her husband , and as it was found tbat she had received extensive injuries , she was removed to King ' s College Hospital . Donovan , who asserted that she had herself jumped from the window , was arrested immediately and
lodged in Bow-street station-house . Two children , a little girl and an infant , who were found in the room , were conveyed to the workhouse . When the _unfortunate woman was removed to the hospital her skull was found to be fractured Her ribs were all broken and her left side terribly injured .. At two o ' clock Professor Ferguson , the physician to the hospital , found tbe p- > or woman in such a precarious state that he at once proceeded to Bow-street , and requested the magistrate to come and take her deposition , as be had no doubt she was dyin ? . Mr . Hall was soon in attendance , and the prisoner was brought up in custody of two policemen . The woman said she was thirty-five years of age , and her husband had frequently beaten her in an unmerciful manner , sometimes with a poker . Latterly he had been much more affectionate and kind to her . On Saturday night they had been out drinkinjr _tosether . They
got home about half past twelve . In a short time afterwards she said or did something wbich dis pleased him , when he struck her over the face and _h-rad . The last blow knocked some of her teeth out . She then beard him call for a poker , and she , to escape , pushed the window for the purpose of calling assistance , when she fell or threw herself out .. She knew she was dy _' ng , ar . d prayed for forgiveness . The little girl , who said her name wrs Martha Donovan , confirmed what her mother had stated about tbe quarrelling , and added that she ran to the window , when her father followed , and lifting her up threw her out of . thewindow into . the backyard , and ' she fell first on her face , and then on ' the back of her neck . She had frequently seen her father beat her mo ! her . The prisoner theft took a farewell of his wife , and was removed to his cell at Bow-street , - ' -.
On Monday Daniel Donovan was brought up for examination at the Bow-street o _* _ce , on the charge of ill-n _? ing his wife , Ann Donovan , whereby her life was in- danger . "When the prisoner was placed in" the dock , * Inspector B ' ackcalled'Catherihe Donovan , the prisdner ' schild , who is only seven years ef age , " and who said ' at the hospital that ' shesaw her father throw her mother . from thewindow , to be examined as the first witness _.- _^ The _prisoner suddenly _iute-rup ' ted tlie r . _- * pceedings , ' andiaid his child was not in-the room at all , ' and did riot . _wjtness the _qefeurrencej— _MnHall fosjre & ihe _' pmonerto fatefaay ijx p | _toa'iion he ' had ¦ _¦ ¦ ' ¦' '" "" - ' 7 '/! )¦ ' _¦¦¦ * l o ;• _* . _" '
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to make until the proper time . —Mary Ann Burke , a single woman-, deposed that - she-lived at No . 19 , _Short's-cardens , in thesame room-the accused occupied . Witness found hini and his wife in the robin aboutaquarterto one _ > on Sunday' fhorning , when she returned home ' * The prisoner and his wife were dressed . ¦ Theywere . quarrelling , and both appeared in liquor . ; They continued abuBing . each other ,-and witness persuaded them to discontinue quarrelling , and the injured woman did so . The prisoner continued talking to her , and she then made him a very indecent answer . He then immediately left his chair and struck her several times upon the side of her head with his clenched fist . She fell upon the ground
sideways , and he kicked her violently with bis foot . She called out to witness , "Oh , save me ! " On the witness requesting him to desist , he rushed at her ( _wjtness ) , and pushed her violently against the window , and exclaimed he would serve her the same . Witness to _* k her bonnet and shawl-and'left the room . Witness stood at the street door for neatly ( ten minutes , when witness was alarmed b y hearing Mrs . Donovan screaming out murder . Witness then _fcft the house for a short time , as she thought they would leave off quarrelling when she returned . She had been absent some time , and on reaching Short ' s gardens she saw a crowd of persons round Donovan ' s house , and policemen running in all directions . Witness then heard that the accused had thrown his
wife out of window . The room in which the Donovans lived was situated on the second floor back . Witness had frequently heard the accused and his wife quarrelling and he was in the habit of beating her . Witness had lived with the Donovans about a fortnight , and during that time they were frequently intoxicated . —The prisoner cross-examined the witness , and in answer to his questions she said she never heard the unfortunate woman threaten to throw herself from the window . —Mr . John Wood , _hause surgeon to King ' s College Hospital , said , when Mrs . Donovan was admitted she was insensible , and suffering from a fracture of the forehead on the right sid _" . and there was also a wound in the skin of tbe forehead on the left side . Her eyes were closed , and her face was much swollen and bruised . He ordered
ber to be put to bed , when he found she had also re : cc-ived a fracture of the left knee . She afterwards recovered and vomited blood . She complained of p-iins in her stomach and her side . Witness was of opinion that it was caused by a kick , and not by a blow . She now lies in a very _preoarious state , and he has very small hopes of her recovery . — -Mr . Hall . ' in remanding the prisoner , said he could not proceed any further with the case that dayi _as _. he wished to know if the woman was likely to recover or not . The surgeon would be in a position to give an opinion in a short time , and in order to have thatopportunity he should remand him until Monday next . It was -tated that the prisoner had frequently been in custody for ill-treating his wife , and also other people .
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Child Murder .-- A constable , named John Hawkins , living at Heage , near Belper _, last week , having received an annonymous letter , setting forth that a young woman , named Elizabeth "Vicars , who resided with her mother , in a small cottage , had been confined , tind that the two parties . were suspected of havirg murdered the child , he immediately went to the house , and , having made known his _business in calling , was told by the mother that the report was groundless ; He , however , apprehended the daughter and mother , and , on the former being examined by Mr . Allen , a _Surgeon , he pronounced her to have been delivered of a child . The constable then proceeded to search the cottage ,
and , finding that a large paving-stone had been recently rem > ved , the discovery of the Mannings ' murder flashed across his mind , and he forthwiih took the stone up , when he found the body ' of a newly-born female child , wrapped up in an old black apron , the legs being doubled up under its body , and the latter squeezed quite flat . The constable found concealed in the cottage a sum in gold and silver , amounting to £ 53 33 . In another hole a quantity of copper money was found , which bad not been counted , but which weighed thirty-seven pounds , and in another place he found £ 10 9 s . 5 id .
Whi re they got the money from is a mystery . Both prisoners occasionally went out begging . The surgeon , at the inquest , said the child had been born ten days ; there were marks of external violence on the head , and a piece of tape had been tied round the neck to produce suffocation . The entire surface of tbe scalp was a mass of bruises , and black from effused blood . The injuries were inflicted during the life of the child . A conversation between the two prisoners , wbich had been overheard in the lock-up , proved that both were guilty , and the jury returned a verdict of "WilfulMurder" against both , who were fully committed for trial .
Corn Rents . —Last week , at the rent-audit of the Duke of Portland held at Mansfield , it was officially announced that in future the rents of his Grace ' s tenants would be estimated according to tbe price of corn ; reductions in the rents due were made , and in many cases the return amounted to twenty per cent . The Duke has also ordered his steward to pay one-third of the amount levied for _floor rates on those of his tenants who occupy farms in parishes where the rents have been increased by the diminution of labour . Representation op Ltmington . —Mr . Hutchins ,
tbe candidate for Lymmgton , in Hants , is a nephew of Sir John Guest , M . P . for Merthyr Tydvil . He is to be opposed by Mr . Andrew Stuart on the protectionist interest . The nomination tookplacein th ?* Town-hall at noon on Monday last . The show of hands was declared to he in favour of Mr . Hutchins , the Liberal candidate , whereupon a poll was demanded by the supporters of Mr . Stewart . Tuesday . — -The last numbers polled were—Hutchins ( Free-trader ) . 121 ; Stewart ( Protectionist ) , 103 . Mr . Stewart resigned at about three pin ,
Fatai Accident . —Considerable excitement was caused in Maidstone on Saturday night by the report of a fatal accident to Mr . H . Godden , jun ., of the Medway brewery , a young gentleman who was greatly respected , and whose premature death has been the subject of general regret . It appears that having driven his sister home from the country in his gig . and set her down at _Somerfield-house , his residence , he turned his horse round in order to drive , down to the brewery , when a noise was heard , and the deceased was found afterwards lying insensible in the road , having , it is supposed , pitched on . his head . Medical assistance was procured as quickly as possible , but tbe unfortunate gentleman died in an hour . Tbe chaise was afterwards found to be much broken , and the horse considerably injured .
Murder of _Thkek Pebsoxs , and Suicide of the Murderer . —A triple murder occurred on Tuesday evening last , in the Wood , at _Ingestre , near the mansion of Lord Talbot , Stafford . —In a lonely part of _jhe wood belonging to tho Ingestre estate is situated a house , which was until Tuesday evening inhabited by the park-keeper of Lord Talbot , whose name was Spencer Yarker , and who it is understood bad been upon terms of friendship with the other keepers until some short time since . During the last few weeks Yarker has had attacks of delirium tremens . Tuesday afternoon , in company with another keeper , named W . Morrey , he proceeded into the woods , and from some cause at present unexplained , no other person being present , Morrey was
shot by Yarker , and was subsequently discovered at a place called the Pavilion , quite dead . From Bubsequent circumstances it appeared that Yarker , after having deprived his fellow keeper of life , proceeded towards his own house , the distance of half a mile , upon entering which he levelled his gun at a servant who was sitting before thefire , and discharged the contents in her body , the poor creature falling forwards on the floor a corpse . Yarker then pointed his gun at his sister , who had but just returned from Stafford , but she fortunately escaped the contents of tbo gun by falling forwards at the moment he raised it to his shoulder . At this junction the wife of Yarker rushed down stairs , and whether to pursue the murderer or pursued by kim is not at
_nresent known ; but she ran out of tho house into the wood , joined by Yarker who , having reloaded his gun , fired its contents at her . Ono charge entered her forehead over the left oye , and the other penetrated her body , and instantly deprived her of life The infuriated murderer then discharged the guii obliquely in the direction of his own head , literally carrying- away one half of his face and ; shattering the head . During this tragical event , his little child was sleeping in a cradle near tho spot where the . servant was killed . His other two children who are now left orphans , were fortunatel y at a neighbouring village . —The reports of the gun having created an alarm , some of the servants connected with the farm buildings were soon upon the snot
ana mscprereu tne _iiieiess corpse , of the servant upon the house floor lying in a _. poql of blood" Further search disclosed the sad si ght of the-dead bodies of Yarker and his wife , who wero discovered a short distance from the house , to which place they were conveyed and laid side by side on the floor . Subsequently tho body of Morrey was discovered , a ' so lifeless , and was in liko manner conveyed to tbo houso of the murderer , and placed by the side of the other bodies . —Tho distress occasioned by , this lamentable event , is considerably _augmented by : the fact of a . family of seven young , children being deprived of a parent and all means of support , by the death of Morrey ,-who was much , respected by his noble employer . _,,-, ;
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Encumbered OoMMis ' _siosi _*—An application- 'has been made for an absolute ' orderfor the sale of tho settled estates of the Earl of Kingston . -- The unsettled estates are ' already " ordered for sale b the commissioners . The ' encurabrances oh the entire ' are set down : at upwards ' of _^ 300 , 000 ; The ; unsettled -estates _ai-e ' valiied at , £ 16 , 000 a year , and the Settled- _, at * £ 20 , 000 ' , p &' . aTmum' _^ sales how 'apprdachirig-rrPf . 'the estates'of the _Earlsi of ; M 6 uritcashelJ , Wmgst 6 _a , Md _PoVta rlihgton _/^ iil
Encumbered Oommis'siosi*—An ! Applicatio...
IpW'the true last to the land sales _inje Encumbered Commission Court . ' _" ''" ¦ . Isorbasb or _EuiGBATiot _* .--The tide of emigration flows with _asmuohvigourjn . the , northerncqunties K South' * ' the ' [ Banner of Ulster , states _^ that , crowds _^ districts of the province , to embarkfor American _norts ¦ From the small portofDonegal four vessels are preparing to sail , ; freighted ,-with emigrants . The _Ballvsliannon Herald observes * that , many ; of those emigrants are Protestant and Presbyterian
The CH _OwnA .- 'This mysterious pestilence has made its appearance at Castlecomer , in the county of Kilkenny , and in _Bagenalstown , _^ _thofnd joining _couSy of Oarlow .. In tho former locality , there have beeii five casos , three of which proved fatal , one recovered / and oho Btill under treatment .: In the latter there have been six' cases , two of which resulted in death , the remainder being under treatmC Roman Catholic Bishops and the Tenantright Movement . —The land question is becoming a source of serious and general agitation ; arid tbe contemplated" Conference , " in Dublin , is likely to impart a certain impetus to the movement . The Tablet ef Saturday last has letters from five Roman Catholic _Bisbops , earnestly advocating a Conference for promoting a settlement of . the tenantririit auo 3 tion . Tho Nation states . that the Tenant
Conference will be hold in Dublin in the latter end of May , when the " tenant societies of tho four provinces will _have-an-opporfcunity of comparing their views , and taking measures together . " The Marti ** Estates . —The Galway Mercury contains the following explanatory statement _regaining the evictions in Connemata : " * The decrees were obtained at the instance oftho headtenants forthe purpose of obtaining possession of lands hitherto occup ied by over thirteen hundred 'squatters , ' who not merely refused the right of possession , but also the payment of rent in any shape . Enemies as we are'to extermination , we cannot , at tho same time , _see-the propriety of parties holding land 3 in opposition to the . rightful olaims of the owner ; : V 7 e are also assured that when possession is obtained , every solvent and industrious tenant will be re-instated in his holding , and that not one-tenth , or at most onefifth , of the exterminations above anticipated willbe found to be correct . " '"'"' . '
State or ? Trade . —The Freeman ' s Journal saye : — " There has been rather a good week ' s business , and much more notivity ; ' No new failure reported . ' Customs duties for the : week -218 , 700 , of which £ 7 , 900 is on tea , and £ 3 , 400 on tobacco . ' " -, . _- .. _*' Mail Commonication with London . —The City of Dublin Company have purchased the Llewellyn , from Government ; and have obtained tbe . temporary use ofthe Banshee . uutil the former is ready . With thoso fine boats , in addition tothe Eblana , Trafalgar , and Iron Duke , they ought to be ' able to calculate on making the passage m less then , five and a half hours , the time . at present ; allowed ' . We learn that the Post-office will , however , not incur the expense ofa special train ih any _caso-ofunusual ¦¦
delay . ¦ . ' , . _., _¦;¦ -. _,-: ; '¦• _- ,- ; . ; /•; . '¦ ¦ _- _.--The Vicerotawt . — The abettors of tho Court pageant bave received an ally in the person of the Marquis of Londonderry . . Death oi ? ins _Bisnor op _CioonER . —The Newry Telegraph of Tuesday last brings the not unexpected intelligenoO ' of the death of . the venerable Lord Robert Tottenham , Bishop of Clogher , who expired , after a painful illness , on Sunday last . His Lordship was in hia : 77 th year , and the 47 th of his episcopate . The diocese of Clogher is the last whioh has been abolished by the Church Temporalities Act . Its revenues , which amount to about £ 12 , 000 per year ,, go to tho Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; and the diocese will be added to the dioeese ofthe Primate , which will henceforward extend from Ballyshannori , on the west coast ,
across to the neighbourhood of Newry , and down to Drogheda , embracing the counties of Fermanagh , Tyrone , Aamagh , Monaghan , and Louth . Disappearance of a Castle Official , —A gentleman who held a confidential post . has become a defaulter to an amount not yet precisely ascertained . It is believed that he absconded about Friday or Saturday last . A warrant has been issued for his apprehension , but as yet he has contrived to elude the vigilance of a select corps of the detective police force . The defalcations , so far discovered amount , it is said , to £ 3 , 000 . li is generally supposed thatthe culprit is by this time onthe Atlantic , as a vessel Bailed from Liverpool for New York oh Saturday ,-and it has transpired thathe left his house in the course of Friday .
Repeal Association . —The rent yesterday touched £ 20 15 s . This success for the last fortnight has , of course , induced Mr . O'Conneil to forego his design of closing shop and declaring the concern bankrupt . This prudent resolve on the part of the learned gentleman has drawn forth a most biting and sarcastic letter from the pen of the Rev . Thaddeus _O'Malley , a Roman Catholic clergyman , of ho mean celebrity in Irish politics . Tho Rev . writer had in a recent epistle admonished Mr . John O'Conneil to quit the field , in order to pave the way for a " union of parties . " His ¦ ' poverty , not his will , " consenting ; the member for Limerick was about to adopt the course suggested by his Reverend monitor , when a rise in the funds gave
gave new lifo to his hopes , and a fresh supply of gall to bis clerical castigator . _Sinod of the Roman Catholic Church . — The approaching . Synod is ; a subject of the liveliest interest amongst the Roman Catholics of this country , on account of the importance of the questions , ; which , it is understood , are to be brought under consideration , including the system oi education at Queen ' s Colleges , and various matters connected with ecclesiastical affairs . Itis stated , that the Synod will commence its sittings at the Coliego of Maynooth on the first Tuesday , in July next . Encumbered Estates Commission . —Twenty more petitions , filed during the week ending the 24 th
ult ., make tbe entire number of applications for sales of estates 733 . In this last batch , the encumbered inheritors are generally men of small estates , whose petitioning creditors are the holders of mortgages or family charges of long standing . Emigration . —As the spring advances , emigration steadily increases in all parts of the country . ' It appears , from tho Clonmel Chronicle , that many of the farmers going out to America , are leaving the old and helpless portions of their families , behind , as claimants on the poor-law . That journal states that during * the last week , four hundred paupers of this description applied for relief in the Tipperary union ; but , on account of want of funds , the guardians refused them admittance to the workhouse .
The Martin Estates . —In reference to the purchase ofa part of this property by Dr . Magee , we have received a letter from that gentleman , in which ho complains , that he has been erroneously represented as . committing unnecessary cruelties upon , the tenants . . Ho , _says he is not an ejector of tenants , and no persecutor of the poor ; that he has . done all in his power to assist the poor ; that he has never unroofed their huts , but has given orders fora perfectly contrary conduct to be observed towards them . Ho further states , that in a very short space of time the condition of the poor on the estates has been amended by the purchase for them of net 9 , and implements of husbandry . —Times .
Disunion In Tub Protectionist Party.—The...
Disunion in tub Protectionist Party . —The aristocratio upholders of the policy of Protection , notwithstanding the desperate tenacity with which tho wildor members oftho party cling to the modem principles (?) by whicli they are guided , seem to be fast approaohing their political dissolution . Disease ofthe most fatal character hascrept in , and daily gains a faster hold of the constitution of this party disease under the form of internal disunion . They daily lose strength , and to pursue the metaphor , the guardian of the body , called in Parliamentary phraseology " tho whipper , " applies a remedy too strong for the stomach , which produces the most disastrous results . Useful members become at first
careless , 'or lukewarm in tbeir support , and eventually drop off from tho main trunk , and thus severely test the power of vitality still possessed by tho remaining portion of tho party . To speak more plainly , it appears that tho hereditary aristocrat , to whose whip the outlying members of _this ' formidable (?) party were entrusted , either from want of knowledge ofthe duty which was confided to him , or from a distaste for . tho performance of it , became so entirely unapproachable , and therefore so bad a medium of communication- between the outsiders and tho _chiefythata number ' of the supporters ( sufficiently numerous to cause alarm ) took offonce , and refused to hold any ,. communication , direotly or otherwise , with " the whip . " This proceeding , we
are told , produced a serious difference , and witlnn the past week a council was held in one of tho fashionable squares . " The whi p" was unable , or declined , to ; explain his conduct , and after a stormy debate he was dismissed from his office with a severo admonition ,, . and . two successors were appointed , aud carefully instructed as to the nature of their ditties . Tho seeds of disunion aro now so widely sproad that it requires all the power of tho ablest hand amongst this dospairing party to keep up even an appearance of coalition ; and if wo do not grossly deceive oursolves , wo . shall ; have the satisfaction ' of . announcing to bur readers , beforo the _clbsb'bf tiiis session , ' ' the quiet and almost" imperceptible dissolution -of the - ontire -body—quiet , because wo feel assured that they all despise the
course thoy . hayepursued , and only seek for a favourable opportunity-of sliding . with , somo degree of consistency ' piitof it- ; and imperceptible , because _fi-om tbo weakness of'their present state ' we feel confident that boforo ' tho time we have named their existence or non-existence will j havo becomp * a _mattcr-of the least possible interest to the political wovld .-rObserver . _., {¦ _¦ : ' ¦¦ .: \ . . .... , v . .. _t *¦ _M ' ioNAV . EDvc ' m 6 N . ~ Meetibgs were hold on Mohdlty evening > t Preston and Bradford , to -peti tion parliament ™ favour of extehdingarid improving national oduoation _' on _ithe secular- ' and ' . ' local ! _bbis Itoplufcions in ; _accordance with ; this ' anti-ohurpb _rt _*? "Y M «? _^ _njec-5 _ffer- _ip'us _^ a _f _unapimbusly' ; > ,. ¦ XX _i' : _^ . ' -v . *' . ' - ! _IVjihiHlCrM ' WqK _' A' - r . Tl _) . ¦ . _,-: ;
Disunion In Tub Protectionist Party.—The...
THE MINERS OF SCOTLAND . . [' ¦ ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . ! _.,. Sir , —Thexminers"in , Holytown- and ] Bailstorie Tool districts bave been in _^ very unsettled state for the , last three weeks , , on account bf a reduction of sixpence perday ' ; . ' . ' " About -two , months back ' _theminera got an advance bf sixpence per day , , havihg < recw _* ed but 2 s . 6 d . and : 2 s . id . per day , for about two . years before that time . The men-have set their faces against tbe reduction , and a strike , has taken place , which is likely to spread . over , the - whole of Lanarkshire . On the . 20 th ult . a large meeting was heldat Main-hill , in Bails ' tone district . On the 21 st ult . meetings were held in'Holy town , ' _Bailstone Tool , ' Glasgow , and Coathridge districts .- On the 23 rd ult . a lar-e _aggregate meeting -was held at Main-hill , Bailstone district . When _, the above districts met , it was resolved to suspend labour until the wages be 4 s . per day , and to be paid every week .
The following manifesto has been published by the central committee .
_..- ¦¦ MINERS' MANIFESTO . Declaration of Wrongs . —We , the colliers and iron-stone miners of the county of Lanark , proclaim to the world the wrongs under which we labour , and which we enumerate as follows : — : ' l _.- _^ -That our wages are too low , for the amount of labour we perform , and the dangers we undergo . 2 . —That the gross average wages of labour for an able-bodied man-in the getting of coal , is about ten shillings perweek of four days . 3 —That the deductions made upon the wages of colliers for the purchase and repair of tools , domestic coal , * oil , pick sharping blast powder , * " * __ surgeons ' and schoolmasters' fees , amount to three shillings and
sevenpenee per week . : 4 . —That _thelnet amount of average wages of an able-bodied man in tho getting of coal , does not amount to more than six shillings and fivepence per wJek of four days . * ¦' ; 5 . —That the gro 3 s average amount of wages of labour for an able-bodied iron-stone miner , is about twelve shillings per week of four _daya . _J 6 . —That the deductions made upon the ; wages of an iron-stone miner , for the purchase and repair ot tools , domestic coal ; oil , pick , sharping , blast powder , surgeons' and schoolmasters' fees , amount to four shillings per week . 7 . —That the average amount of wages of an ironstone _mioer is not more than eight shillings per week of fourdays .
8 . —That the amount of monies above , stated , aa the wages of coUiers and iron-stone miners , is materially reduced by other compulsory deductions . 9 . —That the law which requires that weights and scales be placed at the mouth , or at the bottom of each . pit , forthe purpose of weighing the coal and iron-stone produced by the labour of the miners , is violated almost universally ; and that the men are almost constantly exposed to deductions and forfeitures such as to affect their pecuniary interests most materially . * .. ""' ; ' . : ¦ ' _•'•'*' ... ¦ . ., 10—That , the laws of the land , whereby contracts between ' employers and servants are regulated , is materially affected by the rules and regulations enforced by the . employers in Lanarkshire , which rules are at once arbitrary and oppressive . ' •'¦
11 . —That _tbesunatorv condition ofthe great body of miners is _seriously affected by . the want of proper ventilation . of mines ; and frequent accidents arise _, from the pits being imperfectly conducted , which the net requires to be attended to ; and also , , from the condition of the miners' dwelling houses , which , in most cases , are the property of the employers . 12 . — Ihat the times fixed by the employers for the payment of wages , some being every fortnight ,. but the large majority being monthly , is too long for a labouring man to sustain ,-without resort to the employers' store . 13 . —That the practise established by the employer ? , of compelling a lye week , whereby the miner is deprived of . the use of a week ' s money , which he bad previously earned , is unjust .
14 . —That the greatest of all wrongs resulting from the foregoing evils is the TRUCK SYSTEM , by which the _wages-already too small-are reduced _fullytwenty-five per cent . - , besides , the practise is inimical to the social condition : of the miners generally , at variance with every Christian principle , and with the free exercise of the right _> _-f the labourer to use ; his own money—hardly earned-when , where , arid how he pleases . 15 . —That the poundage or per centage taken by employers—with few exceptions—who have no Truck Shops , for the advancing of money earned before the regular pay day , is a grievance of which we justly complain . '
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS . We , the colliers and iron-stone miners of Lanarkshire , do hereby declare that the wrongs we have enumerated shall be brought to a termination , and for that purpose we resolve , 1 . —¦ That the wages of miners shall be such as will enable every miner tolive by his labour . 2 . —That the wages to be paid tb miners henceforth , shall be regulated by a per centage . on the prices of pig-iron , as given in-the London prices current of Sc-itch pig-iron ; and that averages be taken every three months as a datum for regulating the prices of labour , ' which shall be made after the rate of ten per cent , on the market price , 3 . —That no deductions of a compulsory nature be made , either for surgeons' or schoolmasters ' fees from the wages of colliers . *"
4 . — That the net amount of the colliers wages , shall be such as the ten per cent , will yield—the miner paying his own expenses in procuring tools , etc . . _.. ¦ .. ¦ _- . ..: 5 . —That the wages of the ironstone miners be regulated according to the averages of three months , at the rate of ten per cent ., in a similar manner to those of the colliers . 6 . —That no compulsory deduction be made , either for _surgeoDs ' or schoolmasters ' fees , from the wages of iron-stone miners . ; 7 . —That the net-amount of the wages of iron-stone miners , be such ns the ten per cent , will yield—the miner payini _; bis own expenses of tools , etc .
8 . —That weights and scales shall be placed at the mouth of the pit , and also at the bottom of the pit ; and that' every hutch shall be weighed in presence of the coal-miner or his agent , allowing 4 cwt ., I qr ., OJIbs ., and no hit-re , to the hutch . 9 . —That in future the contract between employer and the employed , shall be upon the principle of one week ' s notice to be given and taken by employer and servant . 10 , —That every pit be properly ventilated according to such improved means as are in existence ; that the mouths of the pits be properly guarded in such manner as the law directs , and that the houses ofthe miners be so constructed as to promote the health of their inhabitants . : ... ' 11 . —That the wages due to colliers and iron-stone miners , be paid once in each and every week in which they shall bave been employed .
12 . —That henceforth the lye week shall be abolished . 13 . —That the truck system shall be forever abolished , and that the workman , without let or hindrance , shall take away his wages in the current coin of the realm , to appropriate to his own use in such manner as he may think proper . 14 . —That all poundage and percentage taken for money advanced ( when earned ) before the regular pay day , shall be for ever abolished . 15 . — That the employers and the employed interest themselves in soliciting the government to appoint a practical inspector of mines ' , in order to ensure the lives and property of all _conoernbd therein , By order of the Central Committee .
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* Some masters charge market price' for coal . Thenit if would probably be lid . per week . Men are bound to take six hutches per month in some places . t AU men do not use blasting powder , but where they don't , tho wages aro proportionubly less . ; t Few colliers and iron-stone getters , work more than four days ; owing to contingences attendant upon mines and their machinery . > ¦¦ : _* . _- ¦
Pottersville Emigration Society. - ' To ...
POTTERSVILLE EMIGRATION SOCIETY . - ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . ' Sir , —In tho Northern Star of April 13 th , I saw a letter from' Mr . Dowling , . traducing tho Potters ' Emigration Society and its officers . That statement is a tissue , pf falsehoods and misrepresentations from beginning toi end ; and I trust , according to your usualcourtesy , you will insert this answer to the statements made . The-writer states that thero are 200 blanks to one prize ; that _niiiety-iiiue . out . of every hundred get nqthing . but ' disappioin tmeni ' and misery , -Sic . Now , in the first place ; tlie society does not imagine that a member will pay in onl y ono share , and cxpeot th © £ 1 2 s . 8 d . to bo sufficient to pay the migrating expenses of hirnself andi ; famjly to the estate ; the member is expected , to contribute his contributions till ho ' does ' gain the ballot , . ' or has a sufficient sum
of money to go bn his own resources , he then withdrawing from ? tho society all he has paid over £ 5 10 s . Ifaperson pays in one share only , and _ceasesjus subscriptions , he loses the rightof ballot but tho moment he again , commences his subscriptions his share stands its . chahce in the ' ballot-box ; tho money a member has subscribed is never forfeited . ' Tho deputation ' the writer speaks of , who waited on Mr . Tidd Pratt , asked him the questions from the old laws , ; which referred only to operative potters , not from the laws of the society issued after it : was thrown onen to nil trades : and from this
they asserted that none _jjiit operative . potters woro legalised members , ¦ ¦"•• To ' sot this matter at rest , a deputation from ' the society waited' * on Mr . Tidd l * ratt ,., who ,, in answor _. to the question whethor . nonoperative potters were , legalised members ,, and . entitled ' to the benefits ' of the society , said : — 'Any , persoVwh & _hnspmZl 2 s . . _Gd . is _^ a l egalised nicmber of the ' Potters ' Emigration Society , and-decidedly ; entitled ; : to _itsibencfits . ' The society --can , appoint ; _as many agents , and _agencies ; throughout ¦ E ngland and , Scotland-, as . they _chopse , and , any „ one _-ffhojtate _. _a ' to jthe ; _coiitr-ni-y ii * j _??*^^ ¦ _**//«?*? _$ A _*? _aS . _^ . I ¦ > -. r . M .- > - tl - . ' <¦ : ' . • _r . v ' ;' ,. _'•;¦• ¦¦ "' '¦ ' . ' ¦'•¦ ¦ ¦ . . : _.
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think that is a sufficient answer as to tho legality of the . members . ' , I do not desire to enter on a dis cussion of the relative merits of Mr . O ' Connor ' anil Mr . ' ' / Evans . ; _Tf ' believe < Mr ' ' O'Connor to be In honest . man , and to ! have the interest of the . _working classes at heart ; but . I foioui . . Mr . Evans , and the officials of the society , to bo honest and truBtworthv men , or they , ooiild never have stood unscathed tha fiery ordeal their accounts have undergone , and I ani proud to say _* those accounts have been found cor rect in every , respect . •¦ The Mr . Scott alluded to " came from America , - ( which he was . obliged to _l _^ L on account of h'is :-misdeeds ); on his arrival in England he heard of the . Potters' Society and thought it would be a good thing if he conld Bet »
Derininu ; so ne aavooated it , —talked of his 60 ft acre farm in Winconsin : or Illinois , —and got tlm Scotch members ( who he had deceived by his * __]? oious representations , ) to send him ag their _delepatA to Hanley ' He did * not succeed in his object in started again for America , and arrived on tlie estiu a _ahort time after Mr . Twigg ; the estate-steward had left for England . He called a meeting oftho settlers , and said he . had been appointed to _ju perin tend the estate , ( he was not appointed at all _eithe- _^ by the Scotch district or the Executive , ) but notproducing his credentials , of course was nnf believed , and the members would have _nothing tn do with him . No sooner was it . known that he had returned to America , than notices wero printed in tho Illinois and other papers , by persons whr _™ i ,.
, had defrauded , warning the public to beware of him : enough said of tho disinterested Mr . Scott Respecting Mr . Robinson being the secret agent of Mr . Evans , & e „ is too preposterous to merit a moment ' s thought ; and as respects his character suffice it to say , he is remembered with respect bv the ; London district for his paBt services , and wm unanimously elected _eBtate secretary b y the dele _, gates assembled from all parts of England and Scotland . The expenses incurred by lecturing wag at the time ' the society was thrown open to all trades , and was necessary for tbe purpose of ex . pounding its plans and principles . Out ofthe monev ( about £ 6 , 000 ) subscribed , Pottersville has been paid for ; three stores have been erected and s tocked on the new estate ; a ferry-boat built ; close
on 1 , 000 members located , on their lands , with farm implements necessary to cultivate it , and oxen oows , horses , < fcc ., < fc ' o . bought . ' ' If Mr . Dowling was satisfied with the Land Plan why join the Potters' Society , the objects of which are so widely different ? * Mr . Dowling also states that which is untrue . He says , Mr . _Evubb stated , _! Hhat if we can only secure enough to buy tbe grist-mill , the ferry-boat , and river frontage , a fig for the rest . " Mr . Dowlingmust recollect that his authority , Mr . John Taylor , who was one of the delegates to Hanley on that occasion , had a vote of
" contempt and disgust" passed on him by a general meeting ofthe whole of the London , branches , who believed his statements to be false , and time has proved them so . But it is useless to occupy the space of your valuable journal on such men ; suffice it , _MeBsrs . Dowling ; Griffiths , and Taylor , are well known and duly appreciated by the London members , and I should not have troubled you with this letter , but knowing you would be anxious to contradict any falsehoods which may have been promulgated by your journal , through a reliance on the truth of your correspondents , and trusting to yonr sense of justice for the insertion of this letter , I remain , yours respectfully , 8 , Chapel-place , Bermondsey . E . A . Errs .
•—In I Poisons As Medicine. Memorial Oft...
_•—in i POISONS AS MEDICINE . Memorial ofthe Names ofthe 19 , 950 petitioners , to tho House of Commons , against the Deadly Poisons , used as Medicine by the Doctors . London : British College of Health , Hamilton-place Ncw-voad . "How many thousands of lives are there , ' my father would say , ' that come every year to bo cast away ( in aU civilised countries at least , ) and considered as nothing but common air , iu completion © fan hypothesis ? ' 'Inmy plain sense of things , ' my uncle Toby would answer , _'«* jcrti sv . eh instance is MURDER DOWNRIGHT , let who _unicorn mitit . ' 'There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , 'for , in the Court of Science there is no such thine as Murder , 'tis only Death , brother , ' '—Tristram Shandy . Thi medical hypothesis , uncle Toby , in 'his plain sense of things , ' here anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , that * Medicine is poison , and poison is
medicine . ' This mercenary , heartless , ruthful hypothesis , by which' human life is cast away as nothing but common air , ' is as savage in spirit as it was barbarous in origin ; and it is , at this very day carried into deadliest _practics , by the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemence that can be excited by _g _' _satiable cupidity , and by a most ravenous appetite for gain and guineas . But tbo hellish hypothesis , that' Medicine and Poison are identical' must be maintained and supported against all ' competition' —it must be carried into a wide-spread , fatal practice , although it may sweep and desolate tbe earth as with the besom of destruction ! ' And why ? Because upon its maintenance and support , and practical application , depend " the very existence of a highly respectable and _profoundly scientific fraternity—an odious and _abominabl * fraternity , whose consciences are educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of ' The Court of Science '—a
court which is ruled solely by a favoured and ratal hypothesis that brooks no ' competition' and no demur—a court in which ' there is such thing as murder— 'tis only DE ATH , brother ! . ' !' John Hunter said of poisons , that' they take their place in the body , as if that place were allotted for them , ' Yes , 'horrid' mercury takes its allotted place inthe glands , and in tlie hones—in the glands it excites _scrophulous tumours , and the teeth it quickly reduces to caries . Pruslc acid takes its allotted place in the heart , and there radically cures all palpitation by effectually stopping all pulsation . Alcohol takes its allotted place in the brain , and by its action upon that organ induces mania , and all 'the ills that flesh is heir to . ' Strychuine , and brucine takes tlieir allotted places in the muscles , in which tissues they frequently produce speedy nnd fatal spasms . The late Mis . tress Marie Manning had something more than a faint and glimmering insight into this Hunterian principle—yea ,
with high pi'olessional skill she carried it into full practical effect . She knew that , by a particular mode of administration , a bullet would find its allotted place in the brains of her fond admirer , Patrick O'Connor ; but , in the eyes of th _» professional , the skilful doctress degraded the _science , by unprofessionnlly blending , with her practice , the functions ofa grave digger . By the way , it would act as a very wholesome check upon the poisoning hypothesis , if thc Legislature could compel the doctor — despite his professional scruples and repugnance — to excavate the graves of his victims . Soyer does not possess more skill in catering for the squeamishness of a fastidious appetite , than the doctors do in allotting poisons for tho specific destruction of any particular organ in the human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons , a very learned medical Sojer , who has appended to his name the cabalistic letters , 'M . D . ' ( query , Anglice , 'Murderer Downright ? ' ) Inthis medical cookery book there is a receipt for poisoning , so
definite and obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes , and charmed the heart , and feasted , even to surfeit , the ' imagination and longings of a Marchioness of Brinvilliers . See how the medical lecturer instructs his pupils to ring the changes on medical poisons : ' What I have confidence in recommending you to do on every similar occasion is this-having obtained all the benefit _mhich arsenic ( . ' ) . or any other remedy has the power todom any case , change such remedy for some other constitutional power , and change and change until you find improve _, ment (!) to be the result . * * ¦» - * In all snch cases , then , you must change , combine , and modify your medicines and measures in a thousand ways , (' agrano peal of poisons , verily , ' ) to produce a sustained result Arsenic (!) gold (!!) iron (!!!) mercury (!! _- _' !) ereosoto (!!!!!) iodino (!!!!!!) opium {!!!!!!!) prussic acid (!!!!!!!!) & e . (!!!!!!!!!) ( qucrv —does this ' < sc ., ' her * moan the virus of hydrophobia * and the virus of th « both in
plague ?) may be all advantageously employed , as - ternal remedies and as local app lications (!! . ) The sixth edition , ' stereotype , ' ofthe Medical Lectuws from which tho preceding extract is made , appeared in 1815 , It wns in the year 1 S 23 , that James Morison , the _Hvgeist , fivst raised his voice against the savage and murderous application of poisons as medicines ; so that , great as has been the progress of Jlorisotiian Hygeian principles amongst tho public at largo , it would appeal- that atpresent tliey have had little influence in this respect at least—upon medical theory nnd medical practice . But the public , ' in their plain sense of things , 'are daily becoming more ana more alive to the jeopardy in which they are continually placed , through the deadlv chemicals with which the doctors essay to prop their falling trade . It appears by the book , which has elicited these remarks on ' Poisons m Medicine ; ' that in 1847 , 19 , 150 signatures were . appended to a petition presented by Sir B . Hall to the House of Commons against Pharmaceutical Poisons . Considering tliat these signatures were made almost exclusively in Glasgow , Edinburgh , and in isolated parts of Devon , and a few other counties : and considerinc that the public generally have
since had the most lioiTif-ing evidence of the baneiui effects of medical poisons in Asiatic Cholera , we have o confident belief , that if due time and proper facilities were now given , in every city , town , village , and hamlet in tho kingdom , for a similar expression of public opinion , it would be found tliat the number of signatures would swell from some twenty thousand to several round millions _. Still wo consider that this book is a very appropriate and graceful 'Memorial'to tho 19 , 950 independent petitioners who did not delay their signatures until the movement bad become general and popular , and who may be regarded as tho pioneers in tlie humane and holy warfare against medical poisoning . Had thc House of Commons , in compliance with the prayer of that petition , appointed a commission in 1847 ; and bad chean ' cal poisons bees at once ¦ dis carded from medical _practic- * _, how goodly and rich a soil might have since been saved from the grasp of we king of terrors , ' aud from the graves of the murdered--how many useful and valuable lives might still have Deen preserved to the community—how many fond aud precious _i-elativos might still have cheered nod gladdened th . *> newdesolatehearth ! - ¦ ,
Important Discovert.— The Debats Publish...
Important Discovert . — The Debats publishes the following letter from Constantinople : — " The , Ambassador _of-Erance'has received information of an important discovery mado io the neighbourhood of Erzeroum of an extensive hod ot coal , specimens of -ivhich havo been distributed to the consular body in the locality . The •'• province of Erzeroum has hitherto-beon without combustible materials , and the only fuel of tho poor is the dried dung of the cattle . The country ,.. though-- ' . very productive , is excessively cold , and tbo thermometer descends as
low as twenty-five degrees below zero . The importance vof ' ¦ this discovery ' My be , ' therefore , readily appreciated , and is , probably , -but . the prelude toother and'moro-valuable ones ' , for _foreign scientific men have already exploved tbe mountains of that part of T urkoy , ¦ and have positively stated that tho soil , bearing , an _'ahalosy to that of the Altai , in tbo north' of ltiiss " _ui | ' should 'contain 'inhies ofgold and silver . . The' Turkish Government ; it is said , intends _to-havo ' thb _' roiiio worked ' _- 'by ; tbe poverrior oftlie provinoe ; who will i > ay _- ' a considerable revenue to _the-Stafe . " : - ' _- : 7 / XJ _^ ' ¦ ¦' . ' ..: ' . ' " -. _...:, i _•< - I . ¦ . ¦ ¦ in si--. i' ; '* ¦' . ' . ] \ < '¦* _.-. ¦ - ¦ ¦¦¦ - . - ; ' .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 4, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_04051850/page/6/
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