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Crawford ' s demand that _outdoor relief should be extended in Ireland not only to the aged and infirm , _tmfcal-o to the able-bodied , by a compulsory rate , he observed that he could not for one moment entertain » proposition which he believed would introduce a Host perilous and noxious ay . tern into that country . That system was dangerous in . principle , aud had teen found pregnant with mischief when carried into practice in England . After a short conversation , in which Mr . Shaw , € oL ConoUy , Mr . F . French , and iir . M . O'Ferrall look part , Mr . S . Craw-Ord briefly replied , and withdrew Ids motion .
Lord G . BEK-ntCK , in moving for " a return giving the number and the names of the importers of foreign grain now in bond in the Queen ' s warehouses in Great Britain and Ireland , together witk the quantities field by each individual , " observed , that his object was to show the number of persons who would lie benefited _ty the measure then before Parliament Ibr the immediate reductien ofthe corn duties . The operation of that measure would immediately reduce ibe duty on wheat from 16 s . to 4 s . a quarter ; and ihe difference would be gained , not by the consumers , bat by the corn-dealers . He calculated that the practical result of the measure would give half a Billion to some 300 or 400 merchants—a sum which , if it were not to go into the Exchequer , would be better expended in giving relief to the distressed people of Ireland . Mr . B . Escon suggested to Lord G . Bentinck the expediency of asking lor a further return to that for which he had moved—namely , for a return ofall the individuals who were to eat the corn in bond .
The Chascelwb of the Exchequer declared his . readiness to accede to the motion . He entered into a statement to prove that there was no ground for the noble lord ' s apprehension , that the holders of bonded corn would receive such enormous advantages from the proposed alteration in the corn duties . Mr . _JfEwnEG-TH would rather see the revenue given to the people of Ireland than sacrificed in the way pointed out by his noble friend . He suggested ia Mr . Eseott that he should himself undertake the * vain task which be had recommended to his noble friend—namely , that of procuring a return ofthe persons who would eat the corn now In bond . After a few words from Mr . _Wobeho-se and Jfr . S . O'Brien .
Lard G . Bextkck insisted on the correctness ef lus former argument . The suggestion offered to him by Mr . Eseott was as incomprehensible ss the _conduct of that gentleman in retaining his seat and Toting for the abolition ofthe Corn Laws , knowing , -as be did , that he had been returned for Winchester in opposition to two honest supporter- of that mea-___*_ . fle ( Lord G- Bentinck ) should conceive himself mad to follow such a leader , or to be guided in -anything either by his advice or bis example . Mr . Escoir defended himself from the sarcasms of fee noble lord , who , from the language which he had Just used , was evidently quite ignorant of the circumstances under which be had b __ en elected . The return was then ordered , and the house adourned .
HOUSE OF LORDS—Thukswi , Feb . 12 . STATE OF -BELAUD . The Marquis of C __ s _ ica _ de moved , pursuant to notice , fix * retains with respect to tbe commission of crimes in Ireland . He was shocked to fee the increase of crimes of the deepest dye in that country , aud he -Gold not but think that great blame was due to the government , It was not only the combination against life , bnt against property , in Ireland , that ought to be fat down by ths government . Tbe greater part of Ireland , he asserted _ n _ eatatuj £ * j , was in a state of insurrection , and no step bad been taken by tbe _government to pat it down . He considered tbat it was high time that something should be done with respect to the _Cli-___ t _ fl __ l law la Ireland .
Earl Ss . _Gebxass said , it was the intention of the jOT-rnmsnt , at an early period , to lay oa the table of the house a bill which he trusted would hare the effect of _restedying the evils complained of by the noble marquis . He would observe , in reference to . tbe eharge of supine-Bess brought against the government , that it was ho light matter to set aside the other laws of the land , or to abridge the liberty of the subject Itwas a , matter of _deep consideration whether the e _ ist : _ g state of the _es-ntryjostified a measure of this extraordinary nature . Her Majesty ' s government had , after mature deliberation , come to the opinion that , tiie state of the-countiy did justify the adoption of such a measure , in order to repress the actions of those who were opposed to all law and order . After some observations from Earl Farnham and Earl Care ,
. Earl G __ r said he was glad to hear that it was the intention of the government to introduce a measure npon the subject that had been introduced by his noble Mend . There was something radically wrong in the statu ofIre-Ixsd , which required Legislative enactments to remedy , bnt these legislative enactments most not be wholly ofa co _ rcive character . The ret-rus were then agre « d to , and the house adjourned . HOUSE OF _COMMONS-Th-Ksdat , Feb . 12 . The Marquis of Chakdos took the oaths and his seat for Buckingham , and Lord Henry Lennox for Chichester On the motion of Lord Gbakviixe _Sohebset , the second report ofthe committe on railways was agreed to , after a short discussion .
Sir James _Gbasah , in reply to Admiral Dundas , said the government had no power over Captain Johnstone , of the Tory , he having been acquitted on the ground of iusanitr , except to keep him in close confinement in Bedlam __ br life . He also stated that it was the intention of government to take measures for examining the masters « f merchant vessels before their appointment , Mr . D-NCo-tBE gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move for leave to bring- in a bill to amend the laws relating to friendly societies .
THE COBS LAWS . —ADJOURNED DEBATE . " The adjourned debate ou the question " that the house io resolve itself into committee on the Customs ' and Corn Import-don Acts , " was comn-incedby ___ r . _GoLQ-KOns , who entered into aa explanation of his vote in _183 S , in support of Mr . Timers , motion for a committee to inquire into the propriety ot repealing the Corn Laws . Sir B . Peel had entirely mistaken his past and his present opinions . He had n-ver _entertained the opinions .-o consistently entertained by Mr . Villiers ; and he had never passed from them tothe doctrines of high protection . He had always considered tiie question of the Corn Laws a most anxious and perplexing question ; and in 1811 , not being in Parliament , and having much leisure time , he had studied it with aU the diligence and
Impartiality he could command . He had come to the conclusion that protection was necessary for the interests _« f agriculture ; and having come to that conclusion be had declared himself an advocate for a fixed duty on corn . After the occurrences of the last few months , it seemed probable that his notion of a fixed duty , bad it fcesn adopted , would have now been deemed preferable to that of a sliding scale . After applying himself to refute Sir B . Feel ' s arguments respecting prices and wages , tie proceeded to comment on the speech delivered by Sir J . Graham on Tuesday evening . Sir J . Graham had then disposed very summarily of aU his former arguments on this subject ; and had said tbat as he confessed that lie had changed lus opinions , there was an end of his former reasonings , - > o , there was not an end of them ;
for a statesman wbo _speke like Sir J . Graham , withj eloquence and genius , ought to recollect that bis words were winged shafts which stuck deeply in men s hearts . They had made many converts , and had influenced and were influencing thousands of iis fellow countrymen ; and he ( Mr . Colquhouu ) was at opinion that Sir James " * explicit recantation of his immortal words would not convince the country that lie could raise wages or exalt the financial condition of tiie labouring population by his present measures . He was afraid that those measures would bring on the country evils of a kind to which its attention ought to be , yet had not been called . What would be their effects an the colonial interests ? The protection on timber aad _encsr would not long survive the protection of corn ;
and then the manufacturers of England would find themselves no longer in possession of the advantages which thej sow possessed in the colonial market . Tinder such _a _ cu _ as-u-. es , what would be the condition of ths _cauaayV , in addition to a failing _hai-vest , it - _ onl _ have _tO-t-Ug-li _. a _ in . 18-0 . ag- _ -S- &___ li _ s _rerenue % Bnt what reason was there to induce the house to give its assent to a commercial code which even Mr . Villiers could not recommend to his constituents as a perfect code , as it still enforced protection on silk , on sugar , oa timber , on copper , and various other articles I If , then , protection were left on some fabrics , why was all protection to be taken from that manufacture—for
_ _30 rn had been justly called by Lord F . Egerton a manafacture—which was of aU others the most precarious la its course , and the most uncertain in its returns ? He regretted that ever since he had taken his seat on tbe Ministerial bench agricultural protection bad never received from Sir B . Feel anything like a sincere defence . He had no antipathy to him , and a very _sincere r _<* gard for many of his colleagues ; but his opposition to Sir B . Peel' s administration would in fu ure Ik openly avowed and steadily adhered to ; for , as long . as Sir Robert declined discussion on all the great questions which agitated thc minds of Englishmen , so long ie should not promise him any adhesion , nor repose in Jam any confidence .
Jfr . * W . su intimated his intention of siding with the _government . Mr . G . HeathcoTEpointed out the _incoasistency of the _government in opposing an eight . lulling duty , and now proposing one of four-hillings , and expressed his determination to oppose the measure of the government , as lie had before that ofhis noble friend the member for _Joadon . Mr . C . W . Mabtin supported the measure , and contended tfc _ . t an influx of corn from the north of Europe and tbe United States of America was not likely to occur . Mr . Thomas Ba _ i _ g regretted that he should differ Jrom those with whom he had been in the habit of acting , sut he conceived himself bound , on principle , to oppose Sir Eobert Feel ' s measures .
lord _Mobpetb observed , that the bouse knew before __ at evening that Mr . T . Baring was a friend to free trsde in the abstract , bat after his recent speech it would ie difficult to persuade the country that he was a friend
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to it _eitlwrin the abstract or iu the detail . Mr . Bating had told ths house that the greatest want of the country lastautumn was thewantof _aMimf' , _/* * f _^ _f moment that Want was most severely felt by that party of which Mr . Baring was a member , and which was now left without leaders and without a head . Mr . Baring had proposed a compromise ou this question . The time for it was gone by ; but it had been offered once by the leaders of the party with which he ( Lord Morpeth ) had acted , andhad been insultingly aud ignominiously rejected by those who had hailed Mr . Baring ' s speech with such triumph . Siuce he had last the honour of sitting in that house he had travelled much in America ; he had lived two years in the heart _ofan agricultural district , aud he had lost and regained _theVeprestn ' tation of Yorkshire . That las t
_oirenmstance told its own moral and its own meaning , and required no comment ofhis to explain it . In Yorkshire was the greatest woollen trade , the greatest linen trade , the greatest steel trade in the empire . The withdrawal of protection from these trades was immediate ; and yet they had all of them met before the hustings at Wakefield , and had decla red by his return , " Competition we have to meet , and all we ask is a fair field and ne favour . " Why should not that interest which plumed itself on being eminently English , take a leaf out of the book of these begrudged manufacturers , and why should it be tho only interest , which scorned fair odds in order to keep its own ! He said that he had lived two years in the heart of an agricultural district ; and that circumstance had led him to tho conclusion that the protection , which
yoa profess to preserve for the _benefit of the farmer and the agricultural labourer , was nothing but a misnomer and a positive injury to both . The interest of all classes was identical ; but the real interest of agriculture must always depend on tlte well-bei _ g of the community , and on the effective demand of the working classes . Thai effective demand _alvrajj existed whan the price of bread was low . The fact was—and it could not be denied—that with cheapness of bread there always came an increassd demand for labour . He made a syllogism on this subject do the work of a speech . It was impossible to deny that there was not a sufficient quantity of food grown in this country for our population . There was a daily addition of 1000 children to that
population , or an addition of 365 , 000 in a year . Then there was not an addition every year of 365 , 000 quarters of wheat to our native growth of corn . Ought we not then to procure a supply of corn from _. ibroad , aud at the cheapest possible Tate , in order to be able to _furnish the poorer classes of our community with a cheap and abundant supply of food ! If a flaw could net be detected in these premises , then he maintained that the aristocracy of England , in spite of their prepossessions and prejudices , must see that they could not persist in their resistance to this change without infatuation , and he had almost said without ruin . He then proceeded to explain to the house the impressions which had been . mad . u _\«_ a hi . Blind nith _reference to this question by his travels ill the United States . Much that he had seen in thc United
States , and much that he had heard since he left them , had not given him much faith in the good to bs derived from unmitigated _democracy ; aud he had not returned home with a diminished attachment either to tbe monarchical or to the aristocratical institutions of England ; out _ e had felt most scnsMy in America that vie could not confront in England that appearance of ease and comfort which , from fhe cheapness of food , was visible in Out great mass of the American people , He had a __ so km thai WE COOXtt NOT MEET THE WAKTS -ND WISHES OF ODE OWN PEOPLE IF WE DID KOI WOBK OUT ODE AKISTOCRATIC 1 NSTIT-TIOKS IK HO-- OV A DEHO _CUATIC SP 1 B 1 T . Ko class
[ which propped itself on selfish ink-rests could escape from downfall in this age of intelligence ; and no aristocracy—not even an aristocracy as illustrious as our own—could stand under the pressure ofa system of Corn L _*» _ws , if those Corn Laws werc _*| prohi _ . itory . He , therefore , conjured the aristocracy to rise above their * _vm special interests , and to bear their part in the consideration ot this question , which , if not adjusted witb them , would be adjusted in spite of them . Our system enabled us to embrace within the active energies of industry , tlie steady forethought of the middle classes , tbe privations and patience of the WGrkiug classes , the busy agency of a free and _enlightened _pret s _, and the progressive intelligence of an advancing age . Let the aristocracy throw in thenlot together with these interests , and let it be their pride , a * it would be their safety , to be the leaders and not tbe laggards in the onward march of ' the great community ef the British _ecspire . ' Mr . ( _xASEEL- opposed the government measure .
Mr . Roebuck entered into an elaborate refutation of the leading arguments adduced by the advocates of protection throughout the debate , premising that he had no opinions to explain away—nothing to defend—but everything to assail . The cry of protection , he contended , was simply for'the benefit of the landlords , and without concurring in the' opinions which had been expressed , as to the beneficial con _. eqtiences to follow a repeal of the-Corn Laws , he assented to tbe measure , earnestly trusting that herMajesty ' s gevernment would take this opportunity of introducing a large measure of national education . . Mr . _Hodosoh Hn _>_ - supported the amendment . On the motion of Sir H . Douglas , tho debate was adjourned till Friday . The Fishery Piers and Harbours ( Ireland } Bill passed through Committee , and was ordered to be reported on Friday .
The Citations ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time aud passed . The Drainage ( Ireland ) Advance of Money Bill went into Committee , and several new clauses having been added , was ordered to be reported on Friday . The Committee en the County Works Presentments ( Ireland ) Bill was postponed till Monday . The house then adjourned at half-past one o'clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS—Fbidat , Ear , 13 . The slow and lumbering debate drags its length heavily
_alonj , aud loses even the little interest that it possessed so long as we were in doubt as to the manner in which the collective wisdom would handle an old and hacknied subject , when their own interests were at stake ; But so far from any the least feature of novelty being presented upon the old hacknied subject , from , the commencement of the debate we read of nothing but the mystifying of tho very easiest and most simple branches of political economy . This debate was actually _uenssary to disgust the working classes with the present system ot representation .
Sir H , DOUGLAS was the first to renew the old fudge , and , after a lachrymose lamentation of the sweeping manner iu which the stilts were going to be knocked from under agriculture , he concluded by parading tbe ghost ofMr . Huskisson , who would be as capable of moulding present emergencies as a blind horse , if he had not pro . fited much and lived to some purpose since he last bungled many of our commercial relations . Sir H . Douglas eontended that if we wished to preserve our maritime ascendancy _, we should protect our colonies . Viscount Viilhm said that the last three years had made a man of Aim ; tbat he was but a child _fcefors , aud had since that period gained all his knowledge . We are not exactly sure whether or not it was within that period that he married the Prime Minister ' s daughter .
Mr . F . Scott fired _afullbroadside into the J __ M _ st « i _ camp , and not inaptly compaied Sir B . Feel to- ths counsel who , hnving made himself master of the plaintiff - case , subsequently took a fee from the defendant and brought his previous knowledge to bear to ruin bis oausc . Whilst he was proceeding-, his denunciations of tUa
measure , Sir B . P _ M . asked Mr . Scott for whom he was retained ! Mr . F . Scon ( apparently _bursting with indignation ) . — For whom am I retained J Who am I counsel for ' . I am counsel for no man , no party , and no sect . I was proud to follow the party of the constitution when the right hon . baronet hoisted the banner of it ; but now that he fights under a different flag , I am left to myself , and must act according to the dictates of my own con ; scienea and mj own judgment . The hon . geutleman , after apologising for the warmth into which he had been betrayed , delivered a long invective against tree trad « , which he described as sense in the abstract and nonsense in the reality , and as a fantastic cobweb sparkling like a dewdrop in tbe sun . With our taxation it was impossible . With out debt of £ 800 , 000 , 000 , we had no
more right to call on this country to enter into competition with countries comparatively untaxed , than we had to ask a man with a hundredweight on hia back to enter into tbe lists with an opponent perfectly _unencumbered . Besides , tbe appearance of the political _atmosphere in the East , and still more in the _Vfeat , was not such as to encourage us to make at present the rash aud perilous _experiment which was now _recom-leaded—an experiment wbicb , he contended , would produce the loss of Canada aud all our other colonies . He concluded with a long and declamatory philippic against ber Majesty ' s Mini-tecs , who , with free , trade on their lips but not in their hearts , wero now venturing upon a grinding , bone _, crushing experiment , which would consign not only all tbe agricultural labourers , but all the other industrious artisans of the kingdom also , to one unsparing and uudiscriminating ruin .
Mr . Wabd span ths old yarn that we have so often attempted tD unravel , under the _head- _'CottoaTwist _/' _but failed to take a single knot out of the skein , and , in conclusion , he expressed a hope that themajority in its favoui in that bouse would be so large as to insure for it a favourable reception whenever it was sent up to another place . Mr . Mitts , thefather of the MaBtera and Servants Billafact that laustnever he lost sig ht of—finding his rrgged regiment nearly routed , made an experimeut _' torally them , and certainly , above all comparison , in his second speech made the very best anti-free trade hits that have yet come under our notice . He observed , that he was glad that this question was _pressnted to the house in such a shape that there could be no mistake respecting it . ProUction must be defended as applicable io every class of the
_com-uiuity _, or must , if withdrawn from one class , ba withdrawn from every other . Last night Mr . Baring bad talked of tbe expediency of a compromise . He uever had been , he never should be , for such au arrangement . On the contrary , he thought that we must either have th * present duties under the sliding scute , or else submit to new duties proposed by Sir Robert Feel , aud to their abolition at the exp iration of three years . He eould not understand the princip les on which that proposition rested , nor could he see why the policy which bad been pursued for more than two centuries , and which bad raised this country to greatness , should be set aside on no other ground than the experience ofthe last three years . The apprehension of impending famine had been alleged as a reason for this innovation ; but lie was rejoiced to have it in liw power to dissipate all fears of n coming scarcity on the authority of returns made to the
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Central Agricidtiiral Association from its provincial branches in twenty-six counties , if not more , of . England and Wales . There was a sufficient quantity of wheatin _Eiigla-d for the consumption of its inhabitants , and the prico of potatoes was at present falling _lhT the Lond < m and country markets—a certain proof that the supply of them wag not deficient . Though he did not approve either of the plan proposed by Sir Robert Peel or of that proposed by Lord John Russell , he must say , that if he were compelled to accept one or the other , he should prefer that of Lord John Russell to that of Sir Robert Peel . To show that the alarm was not unfounded , that we should he inundated With foreign corn in CSS * of the repeal of the Corn ' law -. '
he read a description of the immense agricultural resources of the United States in the extensive valleys and boundless prairies of the Mississippi , and of Russia in her northern and _southern provinces ) amid the roars of the house when he came to the exaggerated accounts of the fertility of Tamboff , once sb unfortunately quoted by Lord Stanley . At soon ' as our markets should be thrown open to the world those fertile lands would be tilled , and our barren lands would go out of cultivation . He concluded a denunciation of great length and violence against the proposed measure by a declaration of his fears that the time would soon arrive when the people of these islands would curse the day when first their government was intrusted to a cautious and temporising free trade Minister .
Lord Mabch then moved the adjournment of the debate . A number of members were leaving the house under the idea that the motion would be agreed to , when Lord NoMH-AND rose , and speaking to the question of adjournment , Said , that though his principles were unchanged , he should vote for the measure of the government . He foresaw that this question ' must be settled ; and , as that was the case , he would rather have it settled by Sir R . Peel , in whom he bad confidence , than by Lord J . Russell , in whom he bad none . Mr . Fabband wished to know what confidence the noble lord had in Sir R . Peel when he was dragged out of the Coal-hole to rote for him on a late occasioa ? Lord Nob-Hland rose amid a tumult of laughter , but sat down again without uttering a word . Colonel T . Wood , jun ., expressed his intention of supporting a bill . The debate was then adjourned .
Having waded through the several columns of rubbish _, we really feel that an apology is due to our readers for the immense , aud , we majr add , unwarrantable length at which we have chronicled tbe rubbish of the protectionists , and tbe boasted inconsistency ; of . the _antl-monopoliitB . However , we must again state the indispensable duty imposed upon us , of convincing the people that their representatives'know but little of those subjects upon which tliey are so thoroughly informed , in order to justify _ourtelves tor baring appropriated so much r _ 2 __ -le space to the repetition of stuff , that every hand-loom weaver had
refuted times out of mind , within the last eight years . We conclude our summary , by a strong expression of belief that the measure , however successful in the Commons , will meet with an unexpected doom in the Lords ; and then our . day comes , when the land and machinery will fairly bid for popular support , and we shall have no hesitation in stating bur views rery broadly and boldly , when the day of struggle , or the day or action , comes ; while we have observed no secresy in concealing our price , under which neither party need take tlie trouble to bid . Next week and the week following will be ihe two moat important weeks in this country ' a history .
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Poor Removal . —On Tuesday last , in tho House of Commons , a return was ordered on tke motion of Mr . T . Duncombe , " specifying the number of families and persons removed b y any local order , or other authority , to their place of settlement from each manufacturing town in Yorkshire , Lancashire , and Chesliire , during the years 1841 , 18 _i 2 , and 1843 , the date bf such removal , thc name of the parish to whieh removed , and the occupation or trade , and length of residence in tho town from whick such families and persons were so removed . "
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DESPERATE AFFRAYS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND IRISH LABOURERS . P ___« irH , Ttr _ si > AT -Jight , Nine 0 ' - _ ock . — Ever since tbe commencement of the Lancaster and Carlisle , and other railways in tbe north , a most determined and inveterate animosity has unfortunately existed amongst the English and Irish labourers , the former refusing to allow the latter to work with thero , by reason of the latter working for under wages and other grievances . About one o ' clock on Tuesday afternoon the English . working at tbe great cutting near Yew ' s-crag , on the Lancaster and Carlisle line , about two miles distant from
Penrith , on _aceount of a numberof the Irish having on Monday used one ofthe English " gangers" very ill , rose en masse and drove the Irish off the works to Yanwath , nh-nce they again routed them , aud pursued them to the workings on the other side of the £ amont , and attempted to drive them there , but the Irish mustered a strong force and obliged the English to retreat . In the evening the Irish having assembled at Plumptoo , marched into Peririth to the number of 300 , five in a row , armed with knives , sticks , clubs , pokers , pitchforks , scitbes , and other weapons . No further disturbance took place that night .
_Wzdnesdat _EvENtS-i—About a quarter past eight o'clock this morning upwards of 1 C 00 of the English entered Penrith in a body , all armed with scithes-pokers , sticks-, hammers , picks , pistols , and various other weapons _. On entering the town they proceeded up the front street into Middlegate , where they turned into Burr ' egate and Sandgate , the streets- where a number of the Iri « h lodge . But they found none of them , Thence they proceeded up Albert-street to- the town-head in search of the Irish , where they found three or four , who were most dreadfully kicked and beaten . Leaving the town , the mob ,, which by this time had amounted to _upwards of 2 , 600 , proceed-d on the Carlisle-road to Milestonehouse , where a number « f tfcwIrish early in tiie morning had mustered , but on hearing of the approach of the
English had tied . Several iiid-vidunls were captured and dreadf _ lly beaten and ill-used . Wherever the Irish could be fenud they were hunted out and shockingly maltreated ! . The English had to-a considerable extant dispersed , when it same to be knows that ahout 800 Iribll , all armed , wave within two _miles-of the town , when tlie Euglish all remuitered , and pro-eeded to meet them . A dreadful conSict was now apprehended , bdt in the meantime the yeomanry cavalry had- been called out , and forthwith proceeded to meet the Irish to prevent them entering the town . The Irish ,. however , did not come . On the return , of the cavalry the _Biot Act was read , and the troops tight _a-breast cleave--the streets of thu English . It was- feared that the Irish would re-enter the town on Wednesday night .
[ _rOSTHIX _l-JlTIOl . SABI . _J Thubsdat £ _»__ . _!__ .. —About twelve o ' clook this mo . aing a vidette galloped into the town with the intelligence that ahout _TOOiIriBh , well armed witb guns , pistols , pikes , bill-hooks , hammers , knives , anthother _implementt / were withiu two miles of the town , on the _Carlisle-road , advancing in a body- The bugle sounded to arms ; the trooj » were out almost in an instant , two of whom gallopped off , with Sir _QvMusgrave at _thein hesd , on the Carlisle _, road , and most fertuuately met the Irish about halfva mile out of the town-head , whoa the Irish halted . __ parley ensued , which resulted in . an arrangement that those of the flash who had been , working en the linfeln
Westmoreland , and the neighbourhood of Penrith , should lay down th-h-. weapons , and be escorted by a detachment ef the _cavab-y to theGray Bull Inn , at Penrith town-head ; where they would be pnid their wages due , while the other part of the Irish were to remain w > h the remainder of the cav _ lry , _orretnrn toPlumpton . This was _accomplislied / _J ind the Irish were got rid of . At the same time a troop was sent off to Ehmont-bridge , under the command of Colonel Hassell , a ___ ile on the south of the town , to keep , tbe English back . Another detachment was stationed at the Yanw _ tb- - * ri-ge , " a mile f _ rt _ _-. np tbe _Eataont . At nightfall a number of the troops returned to quarters , patrols being left on duty in various directions .
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LATEST FROM _IRELAND-GOVERNMENT PRECAUTIONS . Dijb _ -N , Fbb . 12 . —A Commissary-General ( Goffin ) has arrived in Limerick from Cork to make arrangements , by order of _Government , forthe storage of corn and meal to meet _aoy exigency arising _ftoai tho failure of the potato crop in that district . The reports of tbe impending scarcity particularly in tbe western counties , continue to be of an unfavourable character . . Tbe quartering a troop of light dragoons in the town of . Galway , where serious disturbances were , and are still apprehended , has excited great indignation among some of the lower classes . On Tuesday morning a fellow was engaged placarding the town with an " address from the Clnddab _peol _» le to the men of Galway , " calling upon them , as Government had sent them troops in place of food , to unite to a man , and drive the military out of the town . The placard was in manuscript , and is stated to have been of a most seditious nature .
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_TouMOBDEf .. —The League are spending the 20 per cent , of the quarter-million fund rapidly . They have men in every part of our small village , poking the petition in the people ' s faces , and doing all but compelling them to sign it ; and they would do that if they liad the power . No doubt many luve been compelled . The following dialogue took place here between one ofthe persons employed to procure signatures , and a Chartist : — " Now , sir , will you sign this petition ! ° " I don't know , wliat is it V "It is for a total repeal of the Cora Laws . " " And for what is it besides ? " " Why nonght . " .. " . Why ,
man , Sir Robert ' s measure is better than that , ior his is not a _ono-sided thing , while tha League s is so . You ave too late ; Sir Robert has outbid you . «« again—get jour masters to bid for the Charter , and then you'll have tho workers witli you . " " Oh , I am a Chartist . " " I am glad to hear it , but 1 had rather see you prove yourself _onain another way than carrying that rag about ; but I must tell you again ihat Sir Robert is a-head of you ? You must bid again before I can give you my mime ? " * ' Well , please yourself ; you don't deserve _eheap food . " "Nor must I havo it , if it lies in the power of your masters to prevent me . " _Ciih-b-Murdkr . — On Frit-ay , a woman named Lcary , living near Lough ( Ireland ) , murdered her stepdaughter with a poker . Tlio child _vaa only two years and a half old _.
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. FRANCE , ' '' . ¦ ; The discussion on the address in the French Chamber of Deputies was somewhat unexpectedly brought to a close on Friday , after , occupying no less than seventeen sittings . The final vote on . the ensemble of the _Address gave a majority of ninety-on « in itfavour , the numbers being 232 and 1 _ L On Saturday evening the address was presented to the King . Tlte grinding middle class tyranny to which tha working classes of Franco are subjected ! , is to be turthoi * strengthened by a new and infamous Sawjr . introduced into the Chamber of Peers on Monday last .
The bill provides for the establishment in all manufactories , workshops , Ac , of stamped books , delivered by government , containing an account of each work man ' sage , labour , conduct , die , and which are called livreis . By the bill in question no workman can leave his _omployment without having . recoived hi __ . K _. « t from his fo rmer master regularly filled .. up , and if a manufacturer tako a workman who cannot produce alivm , be is liable to a fine , and tlio workman himself is liable to imprisonment . The discussion was proceeding on Tuesday . The Minister of the Interior presented en Monday a j roject of law , demanding L 000 , 000 f . for secret service purposes .
GERMANY . The Grand Duke of Saxe Gotha had assembled tke states on the 1 st inst ., for tke first time since his accession to thc throno . The most important passage in the _diacourso from the throno ia that wherein the Duke manifests a desire te give a constitution to the country more in conformity to the wishes-of the people than that at present in force . Tho King of Hanover has resolved to convoke tlie estate of tlie kingdom , and fixed the 24 th of February for their meeting .
ITALY . M . Rienzi , one of the leaders in the Rimini . insurrection , has boengiveuupto the Pope , bythe government of Tuscany . Letters from Florence of the 27 th ult . state , that his extradition had caused a very unfavourable impression . Placards had been posted up in the streets ef Florence denouncing death against tlie Ministers . The Grand Duko , visibly _aifected by those demonstrations , had left for La Maremma , a district , situate along the Mediterranean , where lie was still on the 27 th . The Augsburg Gazette of tho 2 nd , states that the police of Tuscany have arrested ; at Leghorn , a coftee-house keeper , in whoso liouse tbey found a correspondence with tho conspirators of tlio Romagna . Several other arrests were made after this discovery . The same journal states that a police ' agent has been assassinated at Anoona .
SWITZERLAND . _According to the latest accounts from the canton of Berne tho population had declared , by an immense majority , in favour of the convocation of a constituent assombly . The excitement was very great ; trees of liber . y had been planted on diilereut points . Muller , the murderer of M . Lou , was executed at Lucerne on the 31 st ult .
POLAND . Intended Destruction or the last Vestioes of Ancient Poland . —Polish : _Fronheus , Jm . _ j . ry 20 . —The kingdom of Poland is to undergo the following alterations : —First , the frontier line between Poland and Russia is to be effaced in the course of this year . Secondly , 'between this andthe 1 st of Jan ., 1847 , all persons in office must bo able to speak thc Russian language , and every one who in this sense has not learned to speak it well enough to transact the business of his office in Russian , will be dismissed . 3 . The government intend entirely to abolish the Vice-royalty of Poland , and to make the country , nndor another name , a Russian province , and thus to efface all trace , of ancient Poland . — Silesian Journal , —[ Sueu is to be the work ef Queen Victoria ' s ally ; the monster worshipped by the base English aristocracy . The miscreant will fail . There is an indestructibility in Poland which will resist even these damnable measures of the scoundrelly Czar . ]
RUSSIA . ..: The people ef thc Russian provinces bordering on Prussia are so much exasperated , that even the axe of execution suspended over their head » cannot prevent them from desperate struggles . The army _sympathises partly with the people ; riots are breaking out ; several regiments of Lithuania posi-ively refused to obey the order of joining the army ofthe _Caucasus , where Russia carries a war against the Tschercassians , unequalled in history on aceount of it » folly as well as ofits barbarities .
MEXICO . _Co-nibb Revolution . —Another revolution has taken place in this unfortunate country , the troops of San Louis Potosi having raised the standard of revolt and declared against the existing Government , in favour of General _Paredes , who was , by the accounts received by the courier at Vera Cruz on the 1 st _January , within fiye or six leaguci of Meiieo , and expected to enter next day . Tampico pronounced for him on the 21 st , and Vera Cruz on tlic 23 rd . Jalapa and Puebla , with all Mexico , were expected to follow , the capital having done the same on the 30 fck December , at two a . m . The movement as yet has _> been entirely military , the civil authorities quietly giving in wherever the troops pronounced . General Paredes will be required to assume the reins of government until a _Congress can be called to decide upona new constitution . It ia thought by some that a monarchy for Mexico is not far distant . War against Texas is one ofthe principal points .
THE WAR IN INDIA . REPORTED * VICTORIES OF TEE BRITISH . We ntid-r __*_ -ud that the mail from India , which arrived _yesterday , has brought no letters or despatches from the Governor-General . It is known * however , from the most unquestionable authority , tliat the advanced guard of thc British army was attacked , on tho evening of the 18 th of December ; by the Sikh troops . Tbe enemy was repulsed , and dcWan back for upwards of throe miles , with the loss of seventeen pieces of cannon . This affair occurred at Meodkee , a place about twenty-two miles- to the _nonth-east of Ferozepore ; Tho next day the . British , * troops advanced towards Ferozepore , and ,, having opened a communication with Sir John Littler ., who-
commanded at that-. post , ar . d having been joined by tho corps under that officer , attached tha _eneiny ' B intrenched position at four o clock in tiie afternoon of the 21 st . The first line of _intrenchraenta wa _& cawied ; but the night was sodark that further operations-were suspended . At daylight on the 22 nd the second , line of intrenchments was attacked , and all tho enemy ' s defences wero iu half an hour Itaken in reverse , and the guns captured . On the afternoon of the 22 nd the enemy advanced with their infantry , and hordes of camels carrying swivels , for tha-purpose of . retaking the guns- they had previously lost . All the
attacks , however , which they made wero repulsed ; and after a eannonade , which bad no result ,, they withdrew , and retired to a place called _Sultaakhanwalla , about ten miles from Ferozepore , where they had . still soma heavy artillery . The British , army would be joined _ by two battalions of native infantry , which werc not . in the previous actions , and the enemy ' s position at _Sultankliaiiwafla was- to be attacked on the-24 th . No account * have been received of the specific loss on either side , nor is the name of any officer mentioned . The captured guns-amounted to sixty-fire counted , and there wero some moro in a village on the British right .
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LONDON . National _M-I-Miiitia _Aisoci _ trioN . —Tlie general committee of tliis _Asioclation met at tho Parthenium ,. 72 ,. St . Martin ' s-lane , on Monday evening , February 9 th ... Mr . W . Cuffay . in tho chair . _Mc-ars . W . Shaw and Fidge attended as a , deputation from the Philanthropic _Emergency Society ,, held at ths Standard of Liberty , Brick _, lune , to tender thn assistance ot that body . Man ) member * were enrolled , and a considerable sum of money _ teceived . It was unanimously resolved , " That _tliii meeting stand adjourned until this da ; three weeks ; and that if au _emergsney arise , the _uiiminsura shall be empowered to convene the meeting at an earlier date . " Members can be daily enrolled at Mr . Wheeler ' s , 7 , Crown-court , Dean-street ; at the Standard of Liberty , Brick-lane , _Spitalfieids ; and at numerous ; other places in town and country *
Somas Town . —On Suuday evening last , a numerously attended meeting was held at the Bricklayers ' Arms , Tonbridge-street , _Nen-road , Mr . Charles Hall in thn chair . Mr . John Arnott was unanimously elected a delegate , to act in conjunction with the Executive on the Exile Aeitoratiou Committee . Alter which Mr . Thos . Clark , of tbe Executive , delivered an able lecture on " The political writings of the immortal Thomas Paine . " The lecture was received with much enthusiasm , and gave the greatest satisfaction ; many present expressing their opinion that it was the best , most edifying , and most instructive lecture tliey had ever heard ,
OLDHAM . On Sunday last Mr . J . R . Cooper lectured in the school-room of the Working Man ' s Ilall ,
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MANSION" BOUSE . _Mokbat . _—foBonf . —A young ' man namod Louis Phillips , who wM stated to be known lh very respectable society , was _hro-ght before Alderman Farebrotltar , charged with having forged the acceptance to a bill of _excli-nge for £ 97 . Mr . j-uliins , of the firm of Bush and Mullins , _Solicitors to the committee of bankers for _protecttoh-against forgeries and frauds , attended for the prosecution . Mr . F . Bortou _, cleric to Messrs . - - Preicott and Grow , bankers , produced _tfe-bill of _exchanse . whieh
_purported te be the acceptance of Messrs . Gr _.- . yhur ___ i and Co ., of 128 , _Regent-street , and stattd that Mr . Pres-o-t discounted it for Mr . Aaron Lyon Michael , a gontleman who wished at the house . The bill appeared noted , and was _marked as a forgery . It was drawn by the prisoner . Mr . A . L , Michael stated that the prisoner gave , him the bill , and that it was discounted at the banking-house ; th-. it he bad seeu the prisoner write , and was convinced that the name of the drawer was writteu by the prisoner . Two similar charges were preferred against the _pris-ner , whe was remanded till Monday next .
GUILDHALL . ; Tuesdat . — -Pickpockxts . — Two lads , named Joiffl _Rixpn and William Lawson , were charged with _stealing a purse , containing rings arid otlier articles , of the value of £ 10 , from Mrs . Collis _, of Cross-street , _Hatton-gardoB . —Mrs ! Collis stated , that on Saturday week , as she was passing tliroagh Long . lane , in ' tho . _afteraoon , she noticed two lads walking close to her , and shortly after received information from the son of a tradesman in Long . lane that her pocket _. hnd been picked of a pur-e , the colour of whioh he described . He went in _pur-uit , and in consequence of bis information , a third boy , wko resided m _Pield-lane , was apprehended in the evening .-. Oil the following morning an overture was made to her husband , who is a _glass-dealtT , and of tbe Hebrew faith , bj a
person of the same persuasion , that it was probable the property could be obtained o » payment of &'* . Mr . Collis refused to pay a farthing . " Oii the next morning , however , the purse with itscontehts ( except a ' sovereign ) waa thrown into the shop . While the young woman who was ia the place at the time was looking about to ascer . tai _« what had been thrown in , the party who threw it in got clear off . The boy who was » n custody at that time was committed to Bridewell , being known to the police . With respect to the two prisoners at the bar , she fullyrecognised Lawson as oue of the two who were walking behind her . —John Succomb , tbe son of a saddler , in Long-lane , stated that he was standing at his father ' s door , and saw Law son pick the lady ' s pocket . The otherprisoner was with him , aud they ran away together . — Committed for trial .
CLEKKEKWELL . Monda T . —Af Tim . r at Vio __ tiok . —Two boys , named Holland and Slater , were charged with attempting to violate the person of Mary Brown , aged 16 . The girl , who looked exceedingly ill , deposod that she had been in service for the 1-st two years , and returned home on Sa . turday last to her mother ' s dwelling , in the Colonnade , Bruuswick-sy . uare . On the previous night ,, about nine o ' clock , she was standing nearher own door , when the prisoners came up and entered into chat with her . They asked her to take a glass with tbem , and alter some pressing she weut into a public house hard by , where : they gave her a _glase of _gia . They then took her into ' another public house ia _Wilmot-street , and she could recollect no more , until she found herself on a stretcher .
at the woi ' _-house-gate . A young man . named Wilson deposed that about eleven o ' clock on the previous night he heard cries proceeding from a saw-pit in a fitld near Camden town , and on approaching it the prisoners _jra __ - - way . Witness pursued and overtook Slater , wh _* said it was only his sister . Witness went back to the saw-pit , after having given Slater into _custodyj and there . saw the prosecutrix lying at the bottom of the saw-pit , _ There wa- half a feet of . water in the fiXy in which she was lying , her head imbedded in the mud . She was nearly naked , her clothes , whieh appeared to have been torn oif , were lying in the water besidu her . . She was quite insensible , and did not ks . Wi what hud happened . She was moved on a stretcher to the workhouse . Other evidence was given confirmatory ¦ . of the above , andthe ease was remanded fer the attendance-of the surueon .
Tu-3-A-. —Tub _Gkibn-Ek-D Monstbb . —Ann Cater was fined ten shillings aj _ d costs , for having committed a _violent assault , upon Matilda Blackwell , of . PocockV _fields , I-lington , The parties wero neighbours , and in consequence of jealousy the defendant waylaid the complainant in Barnsbury-park , and with other persons maltreated her . , . . . Bicamv . —Samuel West Alabaster , muster baker , of Ray-street , Clerkenwell , was committed for trial on the charge of having intermarried with . Martha Clark , whilst his first wife was living .
MARYLEBONE , T c _ 8 __ A > _.. —ImpohtaN- to Servants . —Samuel Bailey , footman to the Rev . Dr . Sprangcr , 80 , Green-street , _Grosvenor-square , ivas brought up by inspector "Tedium and Hardwi-k , ofthe D division , on a warrant , and placed at the bar , charged under the 32 nd Geo-III ., cap . 56 , sec . 4 , with having obtained a situation at the mid-ii _.. af Jas . Durham , Esq , 71 , Gloucester-place , Portman-tquare , by means ofa false character , for wliich offence he had rendered himself amenable to a penalty of £ 20 , or three months' imprisonment . The prisoner did not deny the ctt ' ence charged against him . The full penalty ef £ 20 was inflicted , and in default of payment he was committed . LAMBETH . .
Tuesday . —Tns Cbabgb or atiemkced- M- _ m _ b . — Frederick Mumou a master tailor , who has been twice before examined on a charge of / cutting bis- wife ' s throat , was again placed at the bar . Inspector' C . liier deposed that he had seen Mrs _, Munton . at her own request that morning , and she app . _ared to him not only , in an unfit state to appear and give evidence , but that it was very iloublt ' ulwhether she ever should . Her- voice was so feeble thatshe could only speak in a whisper but . she distinctly said in his _presence that she ' hail committed the aet herself , She also seemed desirous to say something more ) , but appeared so weak as to be unable to do so , Mr .. _0-tway , surgeon , and Mr . Mason , another-medical gentleman , said that Mrs .. Mun to a was going on favourably .. Mr . Mason said it was his impression that Mrs .
_Umttoi-hadinnietod _thewouni herself . Harriet Casper suid that on Tuesday week she went to attend to Mrs . ___ luuton „ and utter being with her a short time , Mrs . Munton . told her that she had committed the act herself _. She . aid . that on the Sunday mernuig , about a quarter past eight o ' clock , she got out , and was proceeding to the kU-Uen . te light the fire , and _prepave . breakfast , when she met a dark figure , who told her to cut her throat _. She passed- into tho kilehen , and seeing her husband's razor ou th « i _ auUe . s _ it . lf , she opened it ,, and commenced cutting her throat there . This witn _. _ss-upon being questioned by Mr .. Henry , admitted that Mrs . Munton might
have been been wandering in- her mind , at the lime she made this statement . Ms , Collier observed , that it was very improbable , indited , that Mvk MuiUon . had commuted auy wouud upon herself in the kitchon , as there were no . maris , ot Wood tliere .. Mr . Henry ultimately remanded the prisoner for a week ,, observing that the deatli of the _mothor-iu-law of the prisoner C « _es our repent of Accidents ,. Inquests , _ fcc . ) , who was tho most important witne . s ,. would make a considerable difference in the case- He eousented to aceept bail ,, two sureties in £ 200 « ac _„ andthB prisoner himself in double that sum , with twenty-four hours ' notice of the solvency of the parties offering themselvesas sureties .
SOUTHWARK ., Mosdav . _—Ch-uoe or Mak 3 _ . _aumitbr . —Samuel Coleback , a sailor belonging , to the Mary sloop , of Goole , was brought before Mr . Bingham- charged with causing the deatli of Thoma- _Townley , a seaman William Kidd , landlord of the Vine public-house , in Yine-yard , TooleystBeet ,. stated that on Saturday night the prisoner and tho deceased were in his house , and left it a little after twelve o ' clock . They , however , had scarcely got into the atiw _ t wlwa , Im ( . \ _tw \ . s » i , _heariag a noise , went outside , and saw _theiiien fighting . He saw them fall down together , and the last time the prisoner ' s antagonist was unable to rise without assistance , and when he was raised up be appeared to be ina dying state . A policeman was then called , and Townley was oonveyed to Guy _. I-jsr / ital , wlwre on e __&_\ h \_ tum it was discovered tbat he was quite dead . —The prisoner , a stout-built sailor , said that he had no recollection of what took place on the occasion , —He was remanded .
Cha ___ or _KinNATM-io a Child . —Jane Wilson was placed at the bar , charged on suspicion of kidnapping __ . little gil'l , aad taking her about tovr » forthe purpose of exacting compassion : —A gentleman named Davies , ki _passing along the Borough that morning , had his attention arrested on seeing tho prisoner chastising a little girl , a Creole , of _interesting . appearance . The witness approached the place where the parties were _stunding _. and the moment the child saw him , she ran to him for protection , and said the woman who was beating her was not her mother , but had taken her away from her home , and that she ( tho child ; did not wish to remain with her any longer . The wituess questioned the prisoner , who claimed the child as her own ofl ' spring , and said , although there was such a difference in the colour of their skin yet that they wero mother and daughter ; and seying this she snatched the child up in her arms , and was making a
hasty retreat , when she was pursued and given iuto custody . —The child said the prisoner was not her parent , but that she had been living with her for some time and did not wish to stop any longer from her own mother — Theprisoner declared tbe child was her own , audac couuted for the difference in their complexions bv sayine that it was the illegitimate offspring of a man of colour with whom she ( prisoner ) formerl y livcd-that the man referred to had since left her and tho child and had gono off to his own country , and that she was compelled to maintain them herself by soiling lu _. ifar mutches about the streets . —The child , however , still said the prisoner was not her mother , aud as there appeared to be considerable doubt with regard to tbe accuracy oi the pri . soner ' s account , directions were given to make the necessary inquiries in ordu * to obtain a clue to the discovery of the real parents of the child .
Tobsd ai . — _Wonauousa Rkvow . — _Enousujun _PaATitiO to ins sent to Gaol . —No less than twenty _, five young men , termed « casual po 0 r , » were brought before Mr . Cottingham , fifteen of them charged with re . f _«_ K to Pick the fibre of the cocoa-nut , and the remainder for refusing to work _site pump , in St . Saviour ' s Union Workhouse , in return for their night ' s lodging and _bniaklMt next morning . It was proved that oa ti _adlubuon of the defendant ,, on the preceding night the , all agreed to perforin four hours' work _sevendly ftS seven m the morning until _cimn aa , for Oui _Mcomuio .
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dation and food afforded them . When they got up the next liiorningi and after they wire provided with 6 oz . of bread and a pint ' of grnel ' each , " they refuged toperform the above work , and were therefore given into custod y . I reply to the magistrate ' s interrogations , " _itappeared that all the'defendants had come up from various parts of th B country in quest of wovk , but being disappointed inp ro . c-ringany , they were reduced to their present desti . ut 8 condition . The grounds of their refusing to work h the cocoa-nut picking and at the pump in the work _, house were , that some of them wanted to proceed toward _, their home , in the country when they got up in ths motning , and thatthe _accomm-- » ti _. n and -W 4 thtj go ; were of tlie very worst and scantiest description . Mr , Cottingham said that the defendants having agreed to the twine on which they were admitted , they ought to
bave performed the work . He added tbat tt . ey nad all rendered themselves liable to a month ' s imprisonment ; but as the majority ofthom were strangers at that work , bonne , hc sliould only select threo out of the number , and commit tbem for ten days each to iho House of Correction , as they wore perfectly cognisan t ofthe rules ofthe work _, house . Upon hearing ths de _Pi _« i ° > mo « of tbe other de . fendants who wore included in the list of tho discharged , expressed tlieir _disappointnwnt , and said they wished to be sent to gaol , for they " could * trot return to their native places , having to walk back , s « re from sore feet , and others from bodily illness ; and tha . they preferred tbe gaol to the workhouse . The maghrf _. _a te , however , would not accede to tho wishes of the _uflfort unate men , who were-then setatliberty , and they wer _. agi * > in tbronnupon their own resources , to wanderabout _» 4 * a _treets in arag . ged and starring condition .
W « d _ w- » a __— Lovsir Wo _* -Y , _*— A wafc ian named _Bressend-a , tbe wife ofa tradesman in th _# _rM . * , il y ot Ihia court , applied to Mr . Cottingham under ta * ' , following circumstances *—The applicant stated that a . O , ut three weeks ago she was committed from this court ftp * uault . ing and threatening the life of her husband , in deft ult of procuring the nesessary sureties for keeping t _&* p . eace . That she was discharged by proclamation that day , and her object ia making thc present application was tv & ss , ¦ _" _** tainwhether the magistrate could not compel _her'froi '• band to support her , as she was destitute , and incapa _. _f . of procuring her own livelihood . Mr . Cottingham , is reply to the application , said that be recollected ti » occasion upon which the applicant was brought before him , and that in the course ofthe investigation that then : took place her husband had adduced proof of hor having committed trim . eon . Under such circumstances it was
not compulsory upon her _hnsband to maintain her . The applicant became very excited , and deelared that if her husband refused to maintain her now that she came out ef gaol , she would proceed to his _bonse and maim him for life . She then quitted the court in a hurry . Mr . Edwin , the chief clerk , on perceiving the great eieite _. nient in whicli the applicant went away , thought it neces . snry to dispatch a policeman to her husband ' s house , to prevent her from carrying her threats into execution . When the policeman arrived there , he found that the applicant had a short time _previoasly rushed into the presence of her husband , and was proceeding to-acts of violence , when she was taken into custody and brought up to this court . The husband , who seemed to be very much alarmed , having deposed that he went in danger from tbe threats uttered against him by the defendant , she was accordingly held to bail , and in dofault was agaia committed to the county gaol .
WORSHIP STREET . W _ n __ si > AT , —A _ _Iai-H _Aa-AOH . —Timothy Tobln , _arough-1-oking Irishman , was charged with haying assaulted Mary Cochrane , a married woman , living iu King _, street , Spitalfields . From tho evidence of the prosecutrix , it appeared that about six o ' clock on the morning of the 13 th ult ., her husband went out to his daily labour , soon after wliich she was aroused from sleep bythe in . trusioii'into her bed of a strange man , whom she afterwards discovered to bo the prisoner . She instantly rtdsed an outcry , and endeavoured to escape from the prisoner , who bad _ ei __ e _ hold of her throat , declaring that h . would strangle her if she offered any resistance , and in spito of her struggles he forcibly effected bis purpose . Theprisoner then hastily left the house , and succeeded in eluding _yuTsuit until Mowl _ y last , when a policeman , who had received information of the outrage , acciden . tally encountered him in'the street , and took bim into custody . The prisoner was committed for trial .
THAMES . Mosdat , —Thb Captaiw and his Ladies . — Two young women , named Kate Wilkins ar . d Eliza Kanet _, were charged , the first with stealing , and the latter with receiving £ 119 , the property of Captain Davis , the master of tbe Oralio . Though the prosecutor did not appear , Inspector Donegan suggested that it might be desirable to hear the case as far as it could be carried . It appeared the captain met the woman Wilkins , and went with her to a house in George-street , Tower-hill , where he west to sleep . About twelve o ' clock at night , when he awokerhe missed a cheque for £ 113 and five pounds in gold and silver ,
A constable , accompanied by the captain and the servant bf the house where the money was missed , went in pursuit of Wilkins ; ard on Saturday traced her to No . 3 , Plumbe _. B . street , Commercial-road , where she and the _Otlllirpri-Oliei'h-d taken lodging-. On searching the room , although their bed consisted of only a little straw , nine pounds were found in their apartment . Whilst taking tliem to the station-house tbe captain gave them the slip , nor had the constable seen hiin since , though he had promised to bc in attendance to prosecute . The constable had been several times to the ship , but no one on board knew of his whereabout . The prisoners were remanded , tbat further evidence might be procured .
Tuesdav _^—WobkhouseRsbblliom . —Thomas Wilson , Charles Wood , and Wm . Arnold , were charged with refusing to perform tbe " two-pound task , " in return for a night ' s lodging and a breakfast , at the Mile-end workhouse . —Mr . Simons , the master ' of the workhouse , said the prisoners were casual paupers , and presented themselves as such on Monday night . They were provided witli a night ' s lodging and the usual breakfast in the morning . They were required to pick two pounds of oakum , which they refused to do . They cursed the guardians , and as a climax cursed the Poer Law Commissioners themselves . Mr . Simons added , tbat since the frosty weather set in tbe number of casual paupers bad greatly increased , and on Monday night as many as 160 of them claimed admission . —Mr . Broderip sentenced the prisoners to 14 days' Imprisonment and hard labour .
WANDSWORTH . MoNDAr . — Attempted _Soicide . — Amelia M'Dougal Pringle , a young woman about twenty-eight years of age , was brought up again for examination upon a charge of attempting self-destruction , by throwing herself into the Seven Islands Pond , Wamisworth-common . On the _movuiag of the 15 th of _Januaiy the defendant waa found floating in the above-mentioned pond , and taken out by some labourers on the South Western Railway , and conveyed in an apparently dead state to the Wandsworth Union , where , however ; the judicious treatment of the master and matron restored her to life . On the 27 th ult . she was brought before Air . Clive , mid her answer to the charge was , that she had been threo years in tbe service of Mr . Rankin , on the Common ; that about four
months since she lett to marry a plasterer , who deceived her _iiv his circumstances , and bavins ; expended what money she bad , and pawned ber clothes , she determined upon destroying herself . She also accused ber husband of having tried topewuade her to cut her throat by Riving her an open raxor , aud bidding her to kneel down and do it . She was remanded , that the lady of the furnished room she and her husband had occupied , - might attend snd speak to tbe husband ' s conduct . On Monday week Eli-abeth Singer , _of-5 l , _Prned-straet , Paddington , proved that the defendant bad lodged at her house for three months , during which time she had thrice attempted to destroy herself ; once with poison , the nest time with a rope , and the last time with a razor ; she did not
consider that the husband wag to blame , he gave her nearly all his _wajres when in work . She considered defendant of a very desponding nature . Otlier witnesses were called aud proved tliat prior to the defendant ' s marriage , she had been of a happy arid cheerful disposition . The busband said he would do his best to support her , aud Mr . Rankin authorised police constable Daley , 127 V , to state that he would take hw back into his service if the husband was not permitted to eome near her . The defendant was again remanded for the _attendance of the medical officer of the union to speak to her state of niiiid , —Dr . Connor stated that the defendant was , although labouring under no delusion , decidedly depressed la mind , ' and ho considered naturally inclined to me ! -Beholy . —Poliee constable Daley said that Mr . Rankin was
-uu desirous to receive ihe defendant back into his service _-, ___ d » U _. _tumng expressed her wish to return , Mr . Clive , after addressing the defendant in tho most feeling _raauutr , and pointing out to her the enormity of her ollence , _satd he would return her into the bauds of a good master , and trusted that she would regain _hercheerfulMH _ -. Th . defendant wns then discharged . TUMDAt _AWOTMIB _WOKKHOCSK REVOLT . — Eight wre ched . looking individuals , charged with _refusing to work , were brought from the Wandsworth Union , Lowe , the
porter , having proved that tho prisoners had bad their & ttppW ) bed , and breakfast , and then refused to work . When the prisoners were called upon for their defence , one of tbem complained that there was no glass , or _soarcely any , in the window frames , nnd that they wero almost perished with cold . Mr . Clive asked if this state _, ment was true . The porter admitted that the windows in both wards were broken , but thoy were to be mended . In the meantime there was a bit of rug nailed up to keep the cold out . Mr . Clive observed that as breaking the windows ofthe casual wards had become a matter of such
constant recurrence , he sliould have thought that ere now a grating would have been fixed to preserve them _. He was desirous of knowing how these wards were warmed . The porter replied that thero were two fireplace ,, but no fires . The inmates were , however , supplied with three rugs each . Mr . _Cliva said , under ordinary circumstances , he should have had no hesitation m convicting the prisoners and sentencing each of them to a month ' s imprljonment , but when he found that such gross neglect existed , that windows were allowed ( as he had beon given to understand ) to remain vmuiended for nearly a fortnight , and that the comforts of these people were ir other respects neglected , he should inflict no pun . ishment , but discharge the prisoners .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 14, 1846, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14021846/page/8/
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