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SOME YEARS ago , the Author of this little of the subject ' niay , in dn « week , he qualified to in-Werk published a treatise entitled Fifteen struct his children without other assistance . ' Lessors on thb Analogy and Syntax of the the FOLiiOwiNG r ENGLISH La . KQ"DAOE , for the Use of Jdult Per- TESTIMONIALS OP TBE PRESS 8 ttmsteho have neglected the Study of Grammar . Selected from a host of similar ones , respecting the " This Work , which is now out « f Print , had a very . former Work , may convey some idea of the Public i extennve Sale ; "but , owing to particular circum- . Estimation in which the Principle of this Work is s stances attendant on its publication , the Price was fholden-: — | somewhat too high . " Mr . Hill is evidently an original thinker . He Many Schoolmasters and Parents also complained - attacks , with ability and success ^ the existing fliat , being written for Adults , its style was not well system of English Grammar , and points out the suited for the youthful mind , and they regretted , absurdities with which it is encumbered . Justly therefore , that it could not be made so universally Condemning the too frequent practice of making usefdi as it otherwise might have been . Forthese pypils commit portions of Grammar to memory as reasons , the Author has so remodelled the Work as tasks , he maintains that the only proper way to the to make it equally useful to Children and Adults , memory is through the understanding ...... It is while , at the same time , the Price has been reduced but justice to him to saj that , in a few pages , he g so much as to place it within every persons Teach . gives a more clear and comprehensive view of the : , The " Rational School Grammar ' ¦ ' is so structure of the English language than can be found ¦ 3 written as to amuse , while it instructs . The princi- in some very elaborate works . "—Literary Gazette . y pie of tie Work is precisely that of the Author ' s " A sensible and useful book , particularly suited r , former Work , " Fifteen Lessons , " &e . Taking for private instruction . "—Athenainn . e out the merely Controversial part , all that could be « Mr . " Hill has discharged his task with considersaid-of that Work may be said , with still greater able ability ; and no person can peruse his book s force and propriety of this . _ with anything like attention , without obtaining a ^ T he Lessons , in this Work , as in the former , are clear and sufficient estimate of the construction and ^ intended solely for the use of natives . They are laws of his vernacular tongue . "—Leeds Times , ) y divested , therefore , of all those hair ' s-breadth dis- " A concise , philosophical , and lucid exposition g t inctions and unnecessary subdivisions in Analogy , of the principles on which the language of Milton £ which , if at all useful , can only be usefal to and Sbakspeare rests—excellently calculated to be foreigners . The Science of Grammar is disen- of service to adult persons who have neglected the tangled , in this Work from the folds of mys- study of Grammar . "—Bradford Observer . _ ticism which have so long enshrouded it . The " This in a very useful book for those persons to absurd and unmeaning technicalities , which pervade whom it is addressed . Its style is clear , sknple , ' j all other Works on Grammar , are exchanged for and satisfactory ...... All who wish to obtain a clear terms which have a definite and precise meaning , view of the construction of the English language in illustrative of the things they represent . The Parts wm do well to consult its pages . "—Police Gazette . & of Speech are arranged on an entirely new Principle , « This is a useful book . It is calculated to give founded on a Philosophical Consideration of the the student a correct idea of grammatical construc-? Nature of Language , and applicable to all Lan- tion—of the analogies of the language—and of the - ' guages . The necessary Divisions and Subdivision * nature of the various parts of speech . It is simple , are rationally accounted for—and the Principles of but not mean ; clear , but not diffuse ; and there are 'fi Universal Grammar demonstrated so fully , that tne few works in which the first principles of Grammar *¦ meanest capacity may understand them as clearly are better explained or more ably followed up . "H as it understands that two and two make four . York Chronicle , November V 3 th , \ SM . InSyntax , the formation of the English Language " The method he has adopted to convey his « is exclusively consulted , without any unnecessary lemons is the least repulsive to a learner that we i ° reference to other Languages . A majority of the have yet seen , not excepting that of Mr . Cobbett , » nnmerous Rules given m most Grammars are shown thc whole treatise seems to be intended as a to be little better than a heap of senseless Tautology , mental machine to abbreviate the labour of mind . " The necessary Rules are demonstrated upon rational .... ' .. We consider this treatise one of the most m Principles , and illustrated by a variety of Examples , useful that has yet issued from the pass , under the -f By the Use of this Book and its accompanying Ex- Class , English Grammar . —Glasgow Liberator . ercises , a child will , in a few weeks , acquire a good PUBUSHED BY THE AUTHOH knowledge of Grammar without any of the disgust- . „ ... „ ., „ .., „ ,, m mg drudgery of Tasks , which , under the present nrTncT rti vdpi univr-r eTnrcr tim T ^ Svstem , prevents nine out of ten from ever acquiring BETHEL CHAPEL , PR ^ CE bl RhEl , HULL . „ * ^ ' knowledge of Grammar at all . a > d at the 5 So much are the Principles of this important NORTHERN STAR OFFICE , LEEDS ; 1 Science simplified in these little "Works that by the By Sinipkin and Marshall , London ; and by all . the use of them , a parent having . no previous knowledge Agents of the Nort / icrn Star in Town and Country .
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PS $ Paris journal had . 1 ilji £ &mi Ita ? idissio *^ K ^ aschid Pasha to ParirhadfoFM ^ o ^ ect . '" to' de > mand of France the payment of the ^ rbote which Acim ^ U- the ^ fprmer Betrof ^ CoHataatinQ j , paid the I ' oftfcil vassjj of the SffltaSl % & \ Cojrimerce dis- ; ' ! s ^ iS ^ %£ »^'' »'' - ^ i ^' - ^^* S ^^ i ®^^ : ° ^ ^ treaty w ^ hich " would replace Achinet Bey in posseMon . of _ hJiJbejjtyy ^ it : P ^ dei : - j ^ jaT . 6 . td ' : flewa « Dabark :
ra * t 9 in « n ^ wittr ^ er « y ^ w , ^ the same reason , ought to give up the entire of the Regency to the Porte . -The Toulqnnais a £ the 18 th-instant states , that ; sinc ^ Wnr ' st ' of TSfarch ' 6 , 80 & men had embarked at ' Toulon for Africa , and that only 1 , 000 , whose time of service had expired or were allowed to return to France for the recovery of their health , had arrived in that harbour from Algiers during the same ' interval . ¦ • ¦ ' . ¦¦
Advices fromBona of the 12 th announced that the expedition for Stora would shortly proceed . Colonel Mirbeck had not yet returned from his incursion in the interior ; He was then on the territory of a tribe residing , at the distance of six leagues from Bona . He had taken an exact census of the population of the country which he had traversed , and had prepared a topographical map of a considerable portion of the province . The communications with Constantine were perfectly free and secure . The convoys alone required the protection of an escort .
Letters from Vienna dated the 12 th inst . ihention the arrival of the Archduke Ferdinand from Hermannstadt . Ripert Bey , the hew Turkish Ambassador , was attracting much attention . He resided at the hotel of Prince Esterhazy . From Munich , under date the 12 th inst ., we learn that the President Count Charles , of Seinsheim , was to leave for Paris on the 14 th , charged with a special mission . Count Lowestein , chosen to represent the Kinr- of Bavaria , at the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , had declined the appointment . Prince Wrede would assist in a similar capacity at the coration of the Emperor Ferdinand at Milan .
There are various statements in the German papers respecting the affair of the Prussian Government and its Catholic subjects , but they are so diffuse , that we shall only observe that in the Duchy of Posen In particular the affair was assuming a somewatalarming appearance . The Leipsic Gazette states that the measures lately taken by France and England betrayed the importance attached by them to the position , taken by Prince Milosch , as chief of the Sclavonian population in the Turkish empire at the approaching struggle in the East . " Russian policy , " says ' the paper from which we quote , " sees with a jealous ¦ an d troubled eye arisebeyond its frontier an important and independent Sclavonian power . " :
The city of Frankfort-on-the-Maine is occupied with a plan for reducing the interest of its debt , which likewise encounters many obstacles . A letter from thence states that the question was about being satisfactorily settled , and that nothing remained but to make the arrangements necessary for the operation with the banker .- ; of the place . A plan had been submitted for the approbation of the Senate , who , it was thought , would give it its sanction . The French 3 per Cents , were done at Tortoni ' s on Sunday at 80 f . 50 c ' -
Algeria . —A very remarkable report has been put forth by the French Minister of-War respecting the position of the French establishments in Algeria . The object of this publication is to excite -public opinion , and to obtain from the Chambers the pecuniary sacrifices requisite for the doubling of the military force in Africa , and for the other measures necessary for the subjugation of the frontier populations , and the extension and consolidation of French supremacy in that quarter of the globe .
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Hull Police . —An expensive Frolic . John Ridley , a private in the 6 th Rifles , now laying in our garrrison was charged with having been drunk and disovdwl y . It appeared that the prisoner and another soldier , not in custody , . went . with a girl of the town into the sign of the shi p , and called for three glasses of rum and water , ; which they had , but did not pay for . In a short time , the landlord heard them creating a disturbance , and desired them to pay for their drink and go about their business / The girl and the other man retired , and prisoner not only refused to pay , hut struck complainant , in
consequence or . which he was given into the hands of . the police , by whom be was conveyed to the Station House . Being plus Bacchus , and highly incensed at being placed in durance vile , the military hero commenced an attack upon the window , and demolished three squares of glass , value 6 s . 9 d . This formed a second charge against him . The magistrates fined him 5 a . and 3 s . costs for being druhk , and Gs . yd . with 3 s . costs , for damages done at the Station House , in all 17 s . 9 d ., which was paid by one of the sergeants belonging to the regiment , and the prisoner was discharged . . . :
Embezzlement by an Apprentice . —Chas . Milne , a youth about seventeen years of age , apprentice to Mr . James Simpson , was charged by his master with the following cases of embezzlement . On the Thursday before Good Friday , he was told by a friend of his , that he had sent his son to his shop for three pounds of paint , and a brush for which he paid 2 * . 6 d . Mr . S . not having received the money asked the prisoner about it
, and he denied having sold any paint at all . Thinking that the bov might have made some mistake as to the shop , he took him with him to shew him where he had bought the articles , and was thus convinced that they had been obtained as described ; he then marked a half-crown piece , and sent a person to get some paint , aBd stood at the street end till he returned with it . He saw him go into the shop and come out ; he then wentin
mmsett , and asked Milne if he had taken any money and he said , no he had not . He then called in the police , and described the mark on the silver Prisoner denied the charge , but at length produced the marked coin , and acknowled ged taking the other one He had reason to believe that similar practices had been carried on for a considerable time , but as the friends of the culprit were highly respectable , he did not wish to prosecute . The magistrates decided * M £ W ^ S a case wbic h ought not to be passed over , and Mr . Parker said they would not allow the master to compromise the matter , it was necessary for the boy s own sake that he should be punished , otherwise he might bring himself to the gallows . Remanded
Beeb House Information . —Stephen Laneiran , keeper of a beer shop , in Carr Lane , was summoned under an information by the police , for having persons drinking in his house at three o ' clock ' to the morning , contrary to the statute . Inspector Potter stated tbaUieanng a great noise he knocked at the door , which , after considerable delay , was opened by a man who stated himself to he the landlord , and on going up stairs , he found four men smoking , and the table wet and marked with chalk . W &rfL
dnnk nor cards were to be seen . The landlord said that the men were lodgers , and on the inspector desiring to see the lodging rooms , he said they had butone , and he could not let him go into it L his wife was in bed . The inspector opened the room door , and seeing only one bed , he proceeded no further . Mrs . Langiran said her husband was from home ; it was her brother . whQ admitted the inspectdr : the men . were lodgers , but generally only caml two at a time , a ^ nd she m ^ de them a bed on the fi ^ n but St mfwSl DOt m t ° ?* for four « " * resolv ^ dX sit up with a general consent . The court consulted and themayor ^ informed the defendant that . i the magnates had a doubt on the subject , thtywoull give her husband the benefit of that ' doubt ? nd disnuss-the case on payment of the costs ( S ' ^ M ? heptalS again ' thCy would feel bound to' inffift
Ancient Forestr * .--Ou Easter Mondav n ^^ H ^ ^ ? f Gpurt -room ' *• Eagle an ! Child- : Inn , Higher-lane , Pilkington ; wS after muiat ^ eseveral members , a procession wSfbSed why * , after perambulating tne villagi £$£$ Sfe ° d Prestwich , returned % ^ eEadeS mppS ^ ^ L ^^ J ^ rded . the fastidious practice , peculiar io ^ othS SS I ' , ^ ' the ^ on-admission tq Sr /* TS ^ ? a 11 who cannot pronounce a certain SMboleh ;) . by which its , benevolent tDf 2
"womeDetter taowu , and appreciated accordingly . *^ pf * £ & * && ¥ * ¥ > * faster Mbndayl a meetrag * Z the Ancieht Forestew was held at the aS yS THoma ^ Bardsley , signpf the MasoS Ar ^^ Oldham ^ g flea r Oloham . About ^ twb o ^ wk ^ mn ^ r-three membera sat ddwu to a good substantial dinner , ; excellentty prepared b y the landte ^ * 7 > m ^ Hth 4 ourt was oS about five ^ clock , wheji Ae pecttniaty - busihes ^ Sas over , toasts , songs , mid sentiments : followed . -durle which the utmost harmony and cordiality prevail ?! antilthe company separated , higtty delighted ^ With the entertainment . A few friends froaf MuS and other courts attended . Jaunrpw
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O ^ naay ^ rning ,, about half-past five , afire , mgm : wjfcs ^ attended with the most disastrous con * Ppnees , broke out on the premises of an " artist p&re works , " named Cockerhill , ParadiseSw Lower-ro ^ dj Islington . The house occupied Yiv Mr . Cockerhill and his famil y , and in which thl process of manufacturing fireworks and rockets was carried on ^ was in the cottage style , two stories W hejgfat . It was situated in a garden , detached from * 15 HT . 0 . ?^? £ M ^ SS ?> and was .: approached W a
wasgiven by a memh ^ of Hie ^ mily ^ Bdwhav it was discovered had ottaiaed ^ siibl a-iearful ^ n ! dency that all hopesoi s ^ . ing-4 heiho 6 «^ were ^ at ^ n ^ h ^^^ ThepoHceimnta ^ lyfbrw a ^ ded ' n ^ gers ; m ^ cabs to Ae various Fire ; EstaUishment engine-stations . Several very ; powerful engines accompanied by a numerous body of men , including those of-Whitecross-street , Farring don-street Hof horn , Jefirey-sguare , West of England , and numerous others , speedily arrived at the scene of destruction . At this time the premises were corhpletelv
enveiopeam names irom the basement to the roof and , indeed , from the moment the alarm was Riven the fire Was blazing away with great ^ fury and occasional discharges of fire works , gunpowder and other combustibles used In the preparation of devices , took place , sending forth volumes of smoke and flame to the terror of the inhabitants ; 'When the parish and other engines were got into readiness to work there was a great deficiency of water a matter of not much consideration in this case iut which must have been attended with great jncon .
Temence had the building adjoined any others . The knowledge of the dangerous substances in the house prevented the firemen arid their assistants frem approaching too hear the burning premises . The late period at which any water was obtained , and the deficiency of the supply , rendered the . ' " efforts of firemen almost useless ; and the frequent explosions blew the interior of the building soon to atoms bine , crimson , and other fires illuminating the atmosphere . There were two barrels , each containing
Halt a hundred weight of gunpowder , which exp loded with a loud report , and shook the neighbour , mg houses . At half-past six o'clock the premises which were upwards of thirty feet in breadth ani sixty in length , were reduced to a heap of ruins nothing remaining of them but the blackened walls ' cracked in many places by the intense heat and the trequent concussions . The most serious part of the calamity is yet to be told . When the fire broke out the metropolitan police from the station of Islington , green mustered in considerable numbers , and on being informed that several persons were in the house four or five of them , unmindful of the great danger which threatened them , used the moat strenuous exertions to get at them , and some of the entered the
ponce actually lower part of the house but their exertions were in vain , and three unfortu ' nate persons perished in the flames . Three others made their escape unhurt , and a fourth , Mr Cockerhill , also got away , hut not before be had been most dreadfully burnt in endeavouring to save his famil y . The names of the : deceased persons aie John Cockerill , aged thirty eight ; Henry Cockerill aged twenty ; and James Cockerill , aged seveiateen As soon as the melancholy fact : became known the utmost sorrow was evinced by the assembled multi tude , and expressions of regret fell from [ every individual . The sad tidings became known all over the metropolis on the same day , and great nutnbeh of persons collected in Islington during the day to visit the scene of disaster . As soon as the [ ruins had become sufficiently cooled Mr . dockland , ftp
ioreman ot the Jeffry-street station , directed several of his men to search the niins for the remains of the unfortunate victims . At seven o ' clock theyi were found , corisnmed to a cinder . A shell was procured and they were carefull y taken to the bonehouse of the parish of Islington till the result of the coroner ' s inquisition . The additional particulars of this deplorable calamity have been furnished by one df the survivors , James Cockerill , an interesting young man , who has to mourn the loss of three brothers The family consisted of Mr . and Mrs . Cockerill ' aged persons , their four sons and a daughter They one and all retired to bed on Saturday ni ght at twelve o ' clock , and before they ' went to bed they looked over the housey as was . | their nightly custom , and particularly ascertained ! that
everything was safe and all li ghts and fires were ex ^ tinguinhed . With the exception of James Cockerill they all slept in the upper part of the house , j He . about halt-past five o ' clock on Sunday morning , ' was awoke by an explosion , and his bed-room fikledjvvith smoke ; he got up and rushed out of the house by the street-door , and on looking up saw smoke and rlames issuing from a window of an apartment-which contained powder and other combustibles used in the trade . With great presence of inind he seized i garden ladder , and dashed it through the windoWof the apartment in which his father and three brolhm slept . He also alarmed his mother and sister in a similar manner , who succeeded in effecting an escape i but the latter ,,, in descending the hidden
rell with much violence to the grou- d . After seeing them safe he entered the room of his brother !! , land endeavoured to rouse them , but without sucoes , most likely they , were suffocated previously . At ] last the flames burst forth from the room , and the building was rapidly destroyed . Mr . Cockerill Was severely burnt , and we regret to . state that he & now lying in St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital in a dak . gerous condition . Various reports are in circulation as to the cause of the fire ; the general opiiion of Mr . Cockerill and his soa is that it was . the [ act of ah incendiary . Mr . Cockerill is not insujed . The manner in which the fire ^ originated is Inot known . It is supposed to have been caused by a spark from a candle iaone of the bed-rooms ; Mt vuis is
merely conjecture . —A number of the res-pectable and humane inhabitants of Islington cave called a meeting , to be held at the Freemasons ' Hall , on Friday , to take the case of the surviving members of the family into consideration , and to raise a sum of money to relieve them in some measure from the effects of the melancholy catastrophe with which they have been visited , and which has deprived them of almost every thing they possessed . Execution at LivERpodL . —On Satu % morning , the execution of William Hill , for the murder of Betty Minshull , at Warrinaton . took olace
at Liverpool . The facts attending the case heingof a peculiar nature , and in the opinion of many , acf companied with several miljgating circumstances , iit was generally believed that the unfortunate nttf would have been spared the last sad penalty of bV crime .- —A memorial was forwarded to the Secretaiy of State ; on the suVject . Owing ^ howeyer , to the deqided opinion expressed by the learned : W , before whoih Hill was tried , the applicationMf been fruitless . The crimiHal , we have reason to know entertained hopes of life up to Friday .- - " The - conduct of Hill , since his condemnation , has been exemplary and becoming . In the course of his
conversations with the turnkeys and officers of the gao ) , some allusions have occasionall y been made by Hil |> to the crime of which he stood conyictea ; and he expressed his belief of the justice of the sentence ! , adding , that he never intended to murder Be «? Minshull , and was unconscious of haviBg taken away her life . The prisoner , during the night preceding his execution , slept , soundly , and emed great firmness and , composure to the last moment ; At . a - fjuatter to eight , he left the chapel , l and walked steadil y to the press room , where he ff ^ met by the Governor , Mr . Amos , and the Cnfcij Sheriffi The unhappy man proceeded to ascend , steps leading to the scaffold , which he did- . flri thopt betraying any symptom of y trepidation . On to arrival at the ante-room leading to the scaffold , he was , shown to a chairwhere the executioner
ap-, proached him , pinioned his hands and arms , placed a white cap on his ; head , and the ^ rope ; round his neck . . Th « i unhappy criminal was then led to the remote end of the ante-room , where a brief conversation occurred between the rev . gentleman and himself , when he againadmitted the-justice , but still adhered to his-former stateinent , tha ^ theimirder was unpremeditated , and the result of drunkenness . P was then led to the scaffold , the clergyman repeating the burial service in aa audible ; tpne . At ^ painful moment , whea tbi unhappy creature ' . ?«* suspended ^ is it were 'between life and dea » , most ; distressing incident occurred . A messengf approached the passage lead'nc to , the sc affold , *
breathless haste , holding in his hand a letter , * ° * dressed , to the Revv Mr . Horner . There of ^ general and simultaneous shout " ¦ ' of " stop ! " a"d tt letter was put into the hands of the chap laini 1 bore , the superecriptipn-. <* to be delivered instanuyaffecting life and death . " The awful ceremony ^ for an instant suspetided ^ and the minister left * scaffold totjpen : '" the '^ fetter . To the surprise /^ indignation of all preseut , it was ah anonymou 3 pwduc ^ on , :: written . by ^ some well-meanijig ; bat « rj
ignorant person , imploring the execution to be stay" ?' on account of ftiie supposed innooence of Hill , fj Was a truly painful occurrence foor the general unpression seemed to be , tbatthe commonicatioii was the ¦ harbinger of the unhappy man ' s deliverance W that gravey ^ bfl th e hnnkof which he then stM * The worthy chaplain was deeply , affected at " 7 annoying , ' aBd at'the moment , most harrbwiDgere ^ He , however returned to the , ac ^ old , coad « UB » the prayers at the close of wlucb the bolt was dra ^ and William Hill bade adieu to this world of sorrw and suflfering . He struggled momentarily .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 28, 1838, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1003/page/2/
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