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DANIEL O'CONNELL , THE FRIEND OF THE POOR . DAXTEL O'CONXELL , THE REVILER . OF THE
WIYE 3 AUD DAUGHTERS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . ( Continued from our last . ) Piom this " general charge against the people of England , \* hich it -was n&eessary to place in Its true light . I come to yonr several barges against " Evyluh Foot Laws , " which might , perhaps , hare experienced from you some little mitigation of censure , if yon had , i > j any accident , happened to know that they were , too , American Poor Laws , a « you -will ( to your indignant Siirprise , I dare say ) learn more cLreumst&ntisJly by-andly . The first thine yon urge against our Poor Laws is , that they " interfere trith wages " and that this is one of the Ihinga that "frightens- you . As an Irish lawyer , yen might be excused for your ignorance of these laws ,
cut not for a misrepresentation qf them : and here we have a mere fad to deal with , and haTe vhe written pro-jf at hand . To the original poor law of the 43 rd of El : nbeth , many asts hare been added , relating to the relief and management of the poor ; and , in no one of Xbeee acts is there any authority given to anybody to interfere with the trapes of labour , nor is there in any of them , nor in the original law itself , any countenance given to any Rich interference . So that it appears . that yon Zi 3 Te been frightened by the workings of your own imagination . That , in many cases , the magistrates-in Settling tha amount of relief , have taken the amount
of tiit trapes of the party into cUtc ; and that they haTe , in most cases , made the relief too small in proportion to the wage *; and that , in many cases , the employers cf fs . nn-iabourers have , in order to ease themselves at the expense of geritieaen and tradespeople , grven the labourers less in tca $ cs and more in poor-rates ; all this is true enough , and it certainly inTciTe 3 a misapplication cf the powers of the paor-law 3 ; but what charge dots this imply against me poor-laws themselves 1 And , ftfttr all , what is this evil ? what does this crookedworXing of self-interest amount to , compared with the frightful evil of leaving thousands to perish with tan get and cold for want ot leg&l aiid sure relief ?
Ft " sick and miimed , " howtvei . you would , it * ieiiis , haTe relief prori . led by *¦ Uie Stale . " It is impossible to know what ju- j mem by ihe State ; but at Kzy rale , you would hare them pro-rided for 07 a compulsory assessment of some s « rt ; but not the aged , ner &e hole , though these latter be without work , and ¦ without the means of obtaining food or raiment ; and , yon add , that you " believe ' ' that " it was not , at Ji-. it icttcdrd by the pDor-iawa to provide for the waDts of thii class . " "When a lavcyzr is speaking of an ad of Parliament , and espeeiailj whsn its tendency is tha Eu > j- ? ct matter of uls discourse , he should not " believe ' anjthuig about its provisions ; and , before you pronounced so decided & ccndtiuiiitioa of tbis , the greatest cf ai : out acts cf Parliament , which , in fact , furnishes a cr-at part of tie machinery for carrying on ait ' our
int-r ^ al afuirs , and vrfrcli n » : * es and disposes of more tLan seven millions cf pounds sterling ia a ytar in England asd Walas ; btfore you so boldly condemned this great act , your mind cuaht to have had left in it not the smallest ground for belief respecting the provisions . This belief is , however , erroneous ; for the act dxs provide , and it clearly ir . ie : uis to provide , for this ClS- ^ of persDUs ; and . if it hid not provided for toeai , it "would havs been nugatory at the time ; and if th < = y Vere not provided for now , an army of five hundred thousand men would not uphold the QoYerniuent of £ n ; land for a month . ' I think God , that it dots pro-Tide for their wants ; I thank GoJ , that it give 3 them a rijil to relitf , and that they know and feel it . It is the bond of peac 5 ; it is the wment of English society ; and accursed be all those who would enfeeble it !
But , " the sick and maimed , " you would have the sfaie provide for these ; but not for the aged ; and if there te , in " almost every village of Ireland , a dispensary apd in every county lotm an hospital , " there is provision already made for the " sick and maimed ; " s © that the Irisi poor have all that yen wnnt them . to have ; Gitd to tnow it : It certsiEly is tie : cs to me . I Tcish it may be true ! Tet there must wont a " dispensary " cifood * nd clothing , or else we have been told most mon strous lies about the people eafog stinking shell-fish , Bea--steed , and nettles , und about whole parishes receiv ing the extreme uxclion preparatory to death from starvation , and about whole fsmi ; if 3 cf females being in a state ofcemp ' ete nakedness ; and our own eyes must deceive us , and mine especially must deceive me , when I
thisi I sea ererj month ot my Jife , hanJreds ol squalLi creatures trapping into Iiondcn , by my door , without Bhoes , stockings , or shirts , with nothing on t ' ae head worthy cf ibe name of hat , and ir ^ h rags hsrdJy sufficient to hii ^ . e the nakedness cf their boaies ! However , for the aged you Trill have no provision . And trhy ? What is your reason for thk ? Fjr , upon the face of the proposition , it does iecm to be dictated by anything bnt thai tenderness wLichyou are constantly expressing towErds the Irish peopia Tear rtasons are these : — 1 . That , by makir . g proTir . on fOT the desUtcte in Old age , yon tike a-=- » y th ? greit i ^ uueement to industry ani frap-iUtf in the days vf rou : h : and , 2 . Taat jou deprive the cQfi parents of Hit aid of their chi ' . dren , who , ' seeing a provision for them ia iur - i > ooi house , will leave them
to go to perish in its raked cel ' t , " As to the fi-st of these rvasjss , it would be tqualiy rood against a pro-Tisien for the " sick and maimed" if they happened to be old . But aw ali the labouring people able , in youth , to lay by soslething for old age ? It is the decree of God that the human race shall be sustained by labour ; niner tenths of iabtfnr is painful ia some degree ; very few of the human race will encounter pain , but from necessity ; and none will , therefore , seldom encounter mow of this pain than is demanded by their present tcjnts . To call upon men who are engaged in pursuits not bodily pminfid , to lay by , in their youth , for the days of old age , is reasonable and just ; bnt to call cpon the hsrd-workinjr EJaa to do this , is neither . If he do it iand , in Er ,- ; hxd . be , to a great extent does it , in five cases out of s . x ,
after all- ; if Le do it , where is the toccue or pen to Bpaak the praiw that is his due I But if he have not , frcm tchatextr cause , been able to do it , or have not done it , he has a dear right to a provision in old age fee lias spent his life and worn out his strength in the service of the comHiuniry ; and that reluctance which every man naturally fee ' . s to ask anoth * for something , is a saScisnt security against his heing lazy and prodigal in bis youth , upon o c&oi calculation of the benefit of parochial provision in his old age . With regard to ycur second objection ; namely , that by making a provision for old a ^ you deprive the indigent parents of ( he aid of their Aildrea , srbo , seeing the " naked cell" pro-Tided for them , will let them go to it ; with regard to this matter , you appear to regarc the Irish people as being
capable of set dug at defiance , and as likely to set at dtiianee , not only the laws of nature , but also the express and a htindred-times-repeated laws of God , 2 ^ o very high compliment to your countrymen . ' 2 io very strong proof of the sincerity of ycur belief in taat " generosity , " that " a&iix and pradfcil compassion for Vie poor , " and that " deep sense of religion" which we BluH presently see yon aicribing to them ! But you , as a tairjer , might have told them one thing , aud since you djd not do it , I will ; and that is , that if neither the laws of nature nor those of God could induce them Co far to honour their father and their mother as to keep them from the poDr-hou 3 e , the poor-laics icould tompel them to do it , they having the ability ; and ii
they hone not the mbilify , how can poor-laws deprive tee parents of their aid ? As a lauraer , yon onghs to'hare taown that those poor-la wj wiucla jou BO Tehementy decry , compel all persons , betug abAe to do it , to maintain their indigent / afters , mothers , grandfathers , grandtn-Miers , children , and grznd-chiidi en . This is what you onght to have told your Dublin audience , tbongh it Eight have cost you the loas of some of those raluatle ( Risers , which you obtained by this suppression of the truth , and by supplying its place with the " naked Cell , " exiiticg ns-where but in yonr imagination . E . tiler yon did zoi kaoic the late as to this matter , or you did know it If the former , you ought to have kcown it before you inade th s speech ; and if the-latter , I decline to characterizs your condnet .
But , Sir , in your anxious baste to narrew the effect of poor-laws , you forgot that , besides the sick , the maimed , and the aged , there were some other parties ; vho are , however , by no means overlooked in that Holt TTbit , for not believing in which we shall pre-Ecntly find you condemning the " infidel" to be dealt within away " to supersede ali legal punishment "; namely , the tridoic , the orpf : an , and the stranger . Iu your comprehensive scheme of " active and practical compassion for the poor , " you will m ^ ke provisi on foriheseJ The Baa lish poor-ia ^ rs , -wliich d # not crj , Lord ! Lord ! " but which A ? his trill , make provision lor tlieffi . all ; and rrell , indeed , is it that they do , or thousanc 8 upon thousands of Irishmen would , at this Tery momtnt , be dying and lying dead from starvation ; and that , too , if your doctrine be sound , without havirg the smallest ground fur accusing the English ef Injustice or cruelty .
The late of setSemtrA you represent as an instrument of oppression . Yonr story about yearly servants beiag obliged to be one mcnDi out of employ , in order to prevent them from gaurini a settlement , is mere romacce , the thing being iBipossio ' * ; because ths whole of the business in all tke farm houses in the country must , in that ease , be suspended for a monih ; and , to beliere that this can take place , you must know about English farming as littla as , for your sake , I hope you know about cur poor laws . In some cases , for the reason hew astimed , the master wIU hire the serrant for some days less than a year ; but it much oftener happens that this aert of bargain ia from the wish of the serrant , who doas not , in general , wish to " lose his parish ;"' and , at fchl * moment I haTe a eonntry-boy living with me , whose mother would net consent to his coming unless the
bargain was such as not to cause him " to lose his parish . " This , at once , bIwwb the light in which Vhe working people -view the poor laws . Instead of deemin * them a fcond of " tUtweiy , " &t you choose to represent them , they deem them the title of their riaht to tkeir patrimony . And with regard to the bompelling of married people to stick to their parishes , it is a great good , instead of being m evil ; it being evident tfcat people in that state of life will be , in all rtspacts , mere careful of Jtgir flfeafactei ? , and will be more likely to be ef better tebQ&iom , it resident amongst those who know them , Btxa if wandering about from place to place . If they galjgiafeparishes , and become chargeable to another , « X £ kti | E # » l > e bo , the pot * lavrs expose ih * m not-to op-] X « Mi « n * fr « t consider them in the light of ' the stranger , " R&TVlttMtSI if necessary , sad take them , home to their pOHfa tftUVould it have been , Sir , f , r the thou-¦ Miref POOf fortp&Hliag freehtZden of Ireland , whom
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the " Libksator" saw drmn off tbo estates , as the price of that " Emancipation" which gave him a seat in Parliament ; well would it have been for these poor sacrificed creatures , if there kad been an English law of settlement to compel the savage landlords to keep them ; and in that case , indeed , they would never bare been driven off the estates , and , finally , as they were , exposed ta all the horrors of famine and pestilence . We aov come to two assertions , which , from their character , and from one and the same term being applicable to both , ought not , fVr a moment , to be separated ; namely , 1 . That , in the town of Shrewsbury , you saw placards , on which were inscribed the words , " Vagrants and Irish Labocrebs xchipped out of the toien ; " and , 2 . That " Mr . Stujiges Boub . se made an improvement in the law ; for HE provided that , after the Irish LABOtREE was vcMpptd , ht ihould be sent home . "
As you positively assert that you saw these placards at Shrewsbury , I must suppose that Shrewsbury is in Ireland ; for I am sure you nevir saw such a placard in England . This town is certainly in Tipperary or Connaught , or somewhere : at any rate , I assert that yon never saw it in an English town . As to the second of this couple of assertions ; first , in no bill ever brought in by Stdrges Bourse is there one singlu word about " Irish labourers , " and in no law that is now in existence , or that ever was in existence . Is there any provision for , or one word about , the whipping of Irish labourers Therefore bad you not said that the matter ai this speech was the fruit of your " daily thoughts , nightly musinp , and morning ineditatious , " I should have concluded that it was the subject of a dream , or an effusion , emanating from an exhilarating draught at Bellamy ' s .
But suppose we were to disregard the sufferings of the Irish here ; were to let them die in the streets , instead of sendiny them home , we &hould only be acting upon your oxen principle ; for you propo&e to leave the stranger , even in Ma own country , without any relief at alL But how can you , Sii , reconcile with your profession of a desire to see the two countries cordially united ; how can you reconcile with this profession this assertion , that tbare is a law , in England , authorising the whipping of Irish labonrers before then be stni In > mt 1 I hope that some one has told you the story , and that want of time prevented you from looking after this law . Tub falsehood being so entire , it net having a shadow of truth to give it countenance , I cannot help hoping that this is the case . I see , in the coui&a of the year , many hundreds of them going off to Bristol in very commodious caravans , drawn by good horses , smoking their pipes , and foil of your admired " wild merriment . " Never are they whipped , and there is no luw for whipping them , in any case , in which an Englishman wculd not be whipped .
Equally destitute truth is the assertion , that " clergymen of the Church of England have sworn , that , out of every ticrndy women of the poorer c ! assea , that were ruarried by them , nineteen icere pregnant" No clergyman in England ever swore this , anil no one ever saiil it . Tr . e ttle is a gross misrepresentation of evidence giv . n before a committee of the House of Cummons in 182 S . when tie overseer of Pelham , in Hertfordshire , told tbe committee , that nearly the whoJe of tbt ,- youi > ' women were pregnant before they were married ; because , being to * poor to pay ihe expexces of the wedding ,
they generally put it ofi' , till the parish was glad to pay for it But was this the fault of the poor Uvrs ? Xo ; bat , as was shown by the sitne evidence , the fault of the fixes which made th 8 farmers unable to pay the I&beurer 3 a sufficiency of wages , and that this latter niaJe the labourers so poor , that they were unable to get married before the pregnancy became obvious to the parish officers . Thus the poor laws , instead of being the canst oflhii shame to the young peeple , actually came iu and prevented the children being torn out of wedlock .
The same may be said of your statements relative to the letting out of the English labourers to hire to the highest bidder , and of all the other degrading measures adopted by overseers . They are abuses of the poo / laws , and not evils created by the poor laws : they have arisen out of recent a Iterations in those laws , and not out of these is »» rs th-. mselTcs , as is clear from tbe fact , that those laws existed for about two hun « ired years be / ore any of these evils and oppressions were ever l ^ ard of . As to the farming of the poor , supposing it to bo done upnn ju * t principles , what is it more than putting children to be boarded by ihe year I If care be taken that the contractor do what he ought to do , there is nothing either uDjust or degrading in this ; and if he do not do his duty , and the poor peoplo complain , the payers of the rates have no interest , and cau have no inclination to nohold him in his wrong-doing . So that this is a perfectly futile objection to poor laws , of which , howevtr , this species of contract forni 3 no essential part .
Tour next statemeiit is , that " in conteq'teitce of the poor laws , tbe FIRES are now blazing in England frow north to south . " The cause of these urea is well known ; it is openly avowed , it is specific ; and it is , that the farmers do not give ihe labourers so much wuges as they s-up thnj oifjht to hare . This is notoriously the cause . In many cases thfjires hare stopped when the wages have been raised ; and have btgun aguin when the \ fages have been tottered . This has , indeed , been the case all over the country ; aud , in th-j fact ) of tuese well-known facts , considering also that the poor-lawa have existed abost two hundred and forty years , and never produced such effects before , it required , certainly , nothing gbort of a Dublin audience to embolden you to describe the FIRES as " a consequence of tho poor-laws ; " after which , who need to wonder if you were to ascribe the national debt and the cholera morbus to the poor-law 3 ?
You have known " committee after committee sit in vain , to discover Borne way of making an effective amelioration in the poor-laws . " Have yon , indeed ! and so have 1 too . But that may be an argument in favour of the poor-laws . LORD COKE slid , that MaG . na CiiarIa vas too strong a fellow to be overcome by puny acts of Parliament : ** and the same may be said of Old Betsy ' s potr-law . Bat , do joxt know what they mean by ' " ame'ioration ? " I will tell you : taking away Ute relief . Thia is what they have been trying at for about twenty years . Bnt they find the law " too strong a fellow ' for them . It is the Magna Charta of the workins people ; it is written in their hearts ; the writing descends from the heart of the father to that of the son ; and God forbid that it should ever be effaced ; for , if ever that day come , English society and Eagliah manners , aad English hippinet-s , will all be effaced along with it , and the world will lose the example of a working-people , such as it never had in any other country npon earth .
2 < ow , Sir , btiore I come to your general and sweeping denunciations against the English poor-laws , let me , in finishing these particular assertions and arguments , just put under your eyes one remaining assertion : it is this : " Apothecaries to supply the poor with medicines are hired , whose interest it is , that the sick poor should die as soon as possible , in order that they may be at the / ess arper . se for medicines . " This , too . vraa the result of your " thoughts by day , your musings by ni § ht , and your morning meditations , " was it ? If you , Sir , can now again &oe this your insinuation upon paper , and not change colour , anything addressed to you , though by a pen a million times as eloquent as mine , must be wholly thrown away .
Leaving you to consider of , to think , must , and meditate on , the figure you make before Englishmen , with this insinuation on your lips , I now come to your sweeping assertions relative to the effects of the poorlaws , and to the picture whickyou give us of the people of the two countries bo much in favour of the Irish . y Cu told your chetTing audience , that the poor-lawB Eiade slates of the English working-people ; that it conipktely destroyed their character for independence ; that you preferred the wild merriment of the Irishman to the haifsulky , half miserable tones ol the English slave to tbe poor-laws ; that the Irishman certainly ha ; l his distresses ^ indeed . 'X bnt then he had his hopes [ of ¦ what ?]; ke endured much misery , but then he entertained expectations 0 / redress . '
Here , it se * ms , there was " great cheering ; " and well there might , if the matter conveyed surprise at agreeable to your audience as it does to me . Well , then , here you wipe avs ay the heavy charge of our poor " halfsulky , half-miserable" slaves having made tho Irish poor ! And if thiB really be the state of tbe Irish people ¦ a nd who can doubt it since you say it is /; if they have those cheering hopes and flowery expectations ; if tbej Bave in youth wherewithal to support them in age ; ii they have dispensaries in all the villages , and hospitals in all the c * unty towns ; and if they be las under suet happy circumstances they naturally must be ) wild it merriment ; this being ( as we cow fcn # ic it is ) thei ] state , then , upon my -word , if they still come here tc mock with their mirth our poor , " half-sulky" souls , ] shall be for giving their hidea a little firking , a U
Shrewsbury ; for " United Kingdom" here , or Unit * Kingdom there" there , they are not to come here wil their " wild merriment , ' and taunt us with our " hai miserable" tones ! However , when I get upon the san floor with you , we willsoon make an equitableadjustme as to / A if matter , at any rale . You shall move and will second a bill , which when it become a law , shr be called the Act OF Recipeociti , giving you pow to whip all t&B " haif-misarable" English slaves that 1 to Ireland , and me power to whip all the youths " wild merriment" that come to England . This wou set all to rights in a trice : you would preserve yo " green island" from the contagion of the suite ; and I did not clear ours of tht " wild merriment , " the should be neither whalebone nor whipcord left England .
Bnt now let us ( and soberly , if it be possible } take more minute look at these general assertiena made b you . They , taken fairly and -wdthout exaggeration amount to this : that the English poor laws degrade 1 people , destroy all independence spirit , and , in fact make them slaves . Before I come to ask you how the assertions are sustained by the comparative conditioi and character and manners of the English and the Irish you will perhaps permit me to aak yon how Mose , same to make such ample provision for the indigeo poor ; how the apostles came to to tbe same , ani
to establish the order of Dkacoxs for the express pur pose of superintending the tables at which the poo were relieved ; how tbe Catholic Chcbch came t receive all lands and other real property , as well a gifts in money , in the name of ihe poor , and in no othc name ; how that church came to allot one-third pai ¦ A tbe tithes te tbe poor , which in Ireland , you say , th Pro ? cstant parsons "fi'ched '' from them : you will perhaps , ptrmit me to ask yon how all thifl came to be if poor lain , that is to say , regular relief to the indiffeni have a natural tendency to degrade , break down th spirit ; and enslaye men ; for , mind , the act Of Oil
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Betsy only cam 9 to supply the place of the certain and regularparoclrial relief , before secured to the people by the statute as well as the common and the cation law . — You will , I dare say , answer , by raying , that If Moses , the Apostles . St . Austin , Pope Gregory , and the makers of Magna Charta , bad been aware of the manifold blessings of stinking shell-fish , sea-weed , nettles , and ap'tition , they would have made an exception as to the " green island . " Well , but the mere colour cannot signify much in such a com ; and then let me ask you , whether you deem the people of the United Stales of America to be degraded , destitute of independent spirit , and slaves 1 ( To be continued in our next . )
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT—MONDAT . CBefore Mr . Commissioner Bowen . ) RE GEORGE COKWAY MONTAGU , ESQ . A rather Extraordinary Case—The case involve * au immense mass of property , and debts to a Tery large amount . The insolvent ( who appeared to be about seventy years of age ) had been in prison ever since the year 1827 . His debts and liabilities were stated on the schedule to be about £ 23 , 000 and his assets to meet this sum , a shadow . The cause of his insolvency he attributed to his long imprisonment , &c . The detainers at the Queen ' s Bench were very heavy . His discharge was opposed by Mr . Woodroffe on behalf of a lady named Mary Elizabeth Rudd as executrix , tc .
Tbe insolvent supported his own petition , and objected in It mine to the opposition , and said Mrs . Rndd had no locus siandi in court , and called ou her to prove her debt . Documents were then put in by the Learned Counsel in proof , and the c-ise proceeded , by which it appeared he had given a Warrant of attorney , dated May , 1830 . Mr . Woodruff *—Looktog at your schedule , Mr . Montagu , I should suppose that you imagine yourself a victim of imprisonment for debt ? Insolvent—I do , indeed , Sir .
Mr . Woodroffe—Have you not received , since yon have bt > en in prison , the Bum of £ 26 , 500 ? Insolvent—No , Sir , not so much . Mr . Woodroffe—Look to your special balance-sheet . Insolvent—I labour under great disadvantages in not having the assistance of counsel . Mr . Woodroffd—You have been badly advised in not having one of my Learned Friends to assist jou . Insolvent—I paid £ 4 . 810 law oosta in a Chancery suit My estates involved property to the amount of £ 200 , 006 and odd . Mr . Woodroffe—I see from your schedule that you have won at " play , " from 1827 to 1841 , the sum of £ 1 . 500 . Insyl 7 ont—That is an error ; the date ought to be from 1821 to 1841 . Mr . Woodroffe—How much did you win in prison ? Insolvent—I lost £ 1 , 000 by play in prison .
31 r . IVociiroffe—Then you found some clever fellows in prison , eh ? The insolvent looked at the Learned Counsel , and thtn at tbe Learned Commissioner , and made protestations as to his motives . The Court desired him not to talk so much if he wished to have liis case properly investigated . Mr . Woodroffe—What did you lose by cards ? Insolvent— £ 3 , 5 « 0 . A long examination then took place as to the disposal ef £ 6 , 000 he had received in one sum whilst in prison . He was questioned whether he had not received a considerable sum with his first wife , te which he answered in the negative , for she had only one gown , &c ; snd as to the little boy that was before marriage . ( Roars of laughter . ) She was only a carpenter ' s daugh ' . er . He had married , Bines , a Miss Campbell .
Mr . Robins , solicitor , stated that the insolvent ' s property had been valued at £ 210 , ooe , which property was situate in Wiltshire . His life Interest had been valued by Mr . Morgan , the actuary , at £ 30 , 000 . He stated that Mr . Flight got £ 18 , 000 , by raising annuities , and the insolvent nothing , as the charges swallowed up alL Mr . Robins denied he was a debtor to the insolvent ' s estate . Mr . George Padmore opposed in person , and proved a debt of £ 500 . He ( the creditor ) was formerly a draper in Bond-street , but was now himself a prisoner for debt . The insolvent said he did not owe the debt , and denied that he had lost with Russell , the celebrated gambler , a few years since so much as £ 1 , 800 in tho Oueen ' s Bench .
Mr . Woodroffe , in his address to tbe court , complained of the insolvent's conduct in remaining in prison for so long a period , aud now coming up , after lie bad spent evtrj farthing , and had nothing It-ft for his creditors . Since his imprisonment , he had received in bard cash no Ies a sum than £ 12 . , and hail fritttered » life interest worth £ 98 , 00 d . and all he had paid to his bonafide creditors had been only £ 1 , 800 , and , tberefere , he charged him with making away with £ 11 , 000 in prison , which ought to have been divided amongst his creditors , and which , had it been properly applied , would have paid 403 . in the poundbe owing ( as it wss stated in his schedule ) when ho went to prison in 1827 only £ 5 , 060 or £ 6 , 000 . Mr . Padmore followed , and said the insolvent had been connected with all the notorious gamblers that infest London , which had been the principal cause of Ms ruin .
The insolvent addressed the court with much energy , and said that having such great expectancies he had a right to spend the money if he pleased . He had hoped to have pjid his creditors , bnt had been disappointed in his expectations . The insolvent having been sworn to his schedule , The Learned Commissioner gave judgment . Addressing the insolvent in a very marked manner , he said , " I am sorry to be obliged to remand a person at your advanced time of life for a period much longer than usual . Since I first took my seat on this beech , " said tbe Learned Commissioner , " I never met a case that
called more strongly for the court ' s marked reprobation . Your balance-sheet proves that , but for your perverse disposition , all your creditors could have been paid 20 s . in the pound . Considering yonr case so discreditable , and it affording such a dangerous example generally , I feel bound , notwithstanding the duration of your former confinement , to adjudge you to an imprisonment of tvro years ( within the walls of your prison ) , at tho suit of some one or more of your creditors , from the date of the vesting order , and not within any rules or liberties thereof , for making away with property . "
The insolvent was guarded by two of tho Queen ' s Bench tipstaffs back to prison , greatly dejected .
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BRONTERRE'S PETITION FUND . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Gestlzmen , —We , Mr . James Bronterre O'Brien's Election Committee , Newcistle-upoa-Tyne . consider it our duty to submit the case of that gentlemen to the Chartist body generally , confident that his tirst-rate talents and services to the cause of British liberty -will command the aid necessary to render his exertions still more powerful , by securing for him that representative authority -which he -waa legally invested with by an overwhelming majority of both the electors and nonelectors of this borough .
It will be , however , unnecessary to enter into a full detail : suffice it to say , that immediately on tbe declaration of the Returning Officer ( which was the most absurd and unjust affair ever witnessed ) one of Mr . O'Brien ' s committee rose and protested against the injustice of the decision . The Committee then retired to their meeting room , drew up a formal protest , and appointed a deputation to carry it to the Sheriff , who admitted , in the interview with the deputation , what he had admitted on th « hustings , and what was obvious to all present on the occasion , viz ., that Mr . O'Brien was indisputably the choice of a great majority of the citieens of Newcastle . Sinse the election , we ( the committee ) hare lost not a mement in prosecuting the claims of Mr . O'Brien . Legal proceedings are now pending ; and we have already received the opinions of several eminent professional gentlemen , all of whom admit the obvious legality of Mr . OBrien ' s claims .
The entire expence which may he incurred will not exceed from £ 10 to £ o 0 ; and , considering the magniftcent mind , the incerraptible heart , and the indefatigable disposition of Mr . O'Brien—whose abilities would be rendered a thous 3 nd-fold more powerful on his accession to the House of Commons—we rest with a certainty that th' 8 appeal will instantly procure a sufficient sum to carry out this glorious undertaking . It would bs but a trifle for every district Mr . O'Connor has been appointed treasurer ; the contributions should therefsre be forwarded to him . Let every town appoint a committee , witb a sub-treasurer , and let the Government behold , by the activity and energy of our conduct , that we are worthy of the services of so exalted a patriot .
By order of the Committee , John Mason , chairman , James Sinclair , sub-treasurer , No . 3 , Pipewellgate , Gateshead-on-Tyne . Mr . O'Brien'a election committee have got 2 , 000 copies of his address , ( of the 23 rd June and of 20 th of July , to the electors and non-electors of Newcastle , &c , as corrected by himself ) rtruck off , in pamphlet form , which they intend to sell at Id . each , Any person may be supplied with any number , by applying to the Secretary , James Sinclair , No . 3 , Pipewellgate , Gates-
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TO THE MEN OF NEWCASTLE . Lancaster Castle , July 20 , 1811 . MY worthy Friends and Constituents , — Right gallantly and well you did the work ! Your conduct in the late election surpassed my most sanguine anticipations . It has outshot everything hitherto known in the history of elections . You have Sung into the shado wealth , rank , station , local connectionseverything that ignorance worships , sad that commands tbe homage of slaves and parasites ; and you have chosen for your repreeent&tiTe an oppressed victim of tyranny , whose only home , at the moment you chose
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- .. -.. ' . ij . > . l . ' .. him , was a felon ' s cell—and vhose only claims of your suffrages were his known lore of justice , and sufferings in the cause of humanity . How am I to thank you , men of Newcastle ? On the word of an honest man , I know not how ! I lack both ideas and language for it . If your beaten townsman , Mr . Ord , has found you deserving of his thanks for giving him the bene&t of some eighty or one hundred hands , how am I to return you adequate thanks for eleven thousand hearts and twice as many hands r for you , one and all , I believe , gave me the benefit of both hands . Indeed , I cannot thank you as I should wish , nor shall I attempt it—not , at any rate , before we meet face to face in Newcastle , which , God willing ! shall be on or before the 24 lhof October next ;
and then , mayhap , yoarrepreaentative , inspired by the presence of bis constituents , may be able to express the sentiments which now animate him , and which make him pant for the hour when he shall bo free to assist in completing the work you have so nobly begun . Till then , yon must be content , my friends , to take the will for . the deed . And meanwhile tho country will not , I hope , fail to do you justice;—for as it was the country in general , and not you in particular , 1 always sought to serve , bo was the honour you conferred upon me intended for the entire country's benefit , and not for my individual aggrandisement Yes , men of Newcastle , yon have established for yoursolves a claim on the country's gratitude . You are fully entitled to ' t 8 beat thanks . You have set an example , which , if followed by every other city , borough , and county at the next
general election , will provd the means of carrying our Charter without the sacrifice of a single life , or of a shilling ' s worth of property ! and which ( had it been successfully imitated at all the recent elections ) would have , ere this , unlocked all our prison doors , and made it impossible for any Ministry to carry on the Government another three months without conceding tha whole of our demands , as set forth in tbe People ' s Charter . If this has not already happened , the fault was neither yours nor mine . Yuu have done all that one constituency could do , and I have dune all ( during the laet seven years ) that one man could do , to get the work dons ; but I had bo cordial support from any quarter . The next time , mayhap , I shall , and if so , the people of England will owe it to the glorious example you bave set .
I am , my Friends , Yvur devoted Representative and Servant , James Bronterre O'Brien
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EXECUTION OF THE BISHOP OF ERMELANDS j MURDERER . Rudolph Kubuapfel , the tailor , who murdered Bishop Von Hatten and his houskeeper , in tbe episcopal residence at Frauenburgh , was executed early on the morning of the 7 th inst ., on the hill about a mile from thnt town , near the Elbing-road . The judgments pronounced in both instances by the criminal tribunals concurred in sentencing him to auff-. r death by the wheel , commer . uing at the lower extremities and proceeding upwards ( von unten auf . J The sentence was confirmed by the Koyal assent , dated the 15 th ult ., to which a new form was given . Iu the lute teign it used to run thus : — " We have read tbe sentence , and order the execution . " Tho present King has adopted the following phraso : — " Wo have read this sentence , aad shall leave free course to the law . "
The prisoner behaved in a very regar less manner for a long time , and showed nothing like remorse or contrition until after the sentence of the Court in the Jast resort was made known to him * A marked alteration then took place in bis conduct . On the 28 th ult ., when the Cabinet order for bis execution was read to him he was so agitated that he could not speak . He then willingly received the spiritual assistance of the priest . The day before the executiou be confessed , and received the sacrament The Elbing Zeitung gives tbu following account of the execution : — At half-past four in the morning the prisoner was removed in a cart fioai Braunsberg under a secure eBcort , and arrived about six o ' clock at the place appointed for the execution .
A crowd-of persons , exceeding 10 , 900 , bad assembled by daylight from all parts of the diocese , aud it ia worthy of remark that more than one-half of the collected mass consisted of females . The dennquent having alighted from the car in a very low state , a restorative draught was administered to binv , after which he waa conducted to the scaffold . There , on his fetters being struck off , he kneeled down with the accompanying priest and prayed . The chief of the Braunsberg tribunal then read the sentence , whicb ordered the execution by breaking on the wheel from below upwards , and closed with an addrtss to the three executioners present in these words— " A nd now I deliver him to you for the due fulfilment of this judgment . "
On bearing tUis the maltfactor looked round to the priest , sauk again on his kntea , and ejaculated a short prayer . Then rising , he laid Iiiiuself , with calm resolution , on the scaffold , and , refusing the assistance of the executioners , place . i bis limbs in the required position . This done , ha said with a firm voice— " God have niorcy on my poor soul I" One of the executioners covered his fane with ft doth . The terrible operation by the wheel now commenced . In ten minutes tho wrutuhud man was dead , and the body waa depoui ' . ed ia a coffin prepared to receive it . The spectators iooketl on in a calm , orderly manner , preserving a biience suited to the awful scene before them , and the crime of the sutforer . Wken all was over , they dispersed quietly , but apparently under the influence of deep emotion .
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Mr . Hall—No . She does not pretend to be an inhabitant of the parish ; but , nevertheless , the parish ought to relieve casual paupers under such distressing circumstances . The prisoner was a poor girl , found destitute in the streets . She had behaved with no impropriety , and she was Tery properly conveyed to the workhouse ; bnt they refused to take her in , or relieve her . I want to know who gave Buch an order , and who authorised the persons at the workhouse to act in such s manner , because it is Very discreditable , and onght to be made known to the public . The person who attended for the overseer stated , that he would go to the workhouse and mention to tbe proper authority what the magistrate bad said . Upon this the individual left the court , and in the coarse of an hour ' s time , the overseer came to the court , and Mr . Hall ordered the officer who took the girl into custody to place her again at the bar .
The magistrate then explained to tbe overseer the nature of the case , and stated that the young woman was a poor servant girl who had left her situation , and having no friend in London , and being quite destitute , was compelled to wander about the streets in the night time . Notwithstanding such distressing circumstances she was refused admittance into the workhouse . He ( Mr . Hall ) now wished to knew if there was any order against the relief of casual paupers . The overseer said that the person to whom tbe officer had applied could not have given the girl relief , but if be had been there be would have admitted her . He thought the inspector was to blame in not sending to him instead of applying to the person at the workhouse . Mr . Hall asked if the person at the workhouse was not allowed to exercise some discretion , and if he was always obliged to communicate with tho overseer before a pauper could be admitted .
Overseer—In cases of complete destitution we take the applicants in . Mr . Hall—Well , this young woman is entirely destitute . Overseer—I do not know about this cose ; nor do I even know the name of the girl yet . Mr . Hall then atated that her name was Emma Watson , and that she had come from Hertfordshire . It waa atated that she bad lately been in the service of Colonel Daniels , in Caniden Town , but had left her situation about a fortnight ago , aud having no friends or relations in town , and baving spent all her money , she waa now quite destitute . Tbe result of tbe inquiry was that Mr . Hall , after expressing his sympathy for the condition of the girl , advised tha overseer to admit her into the workhouse , according to the rules and regulations laid down in such cases . Tbe Overseer promised to obey tbe instruction of the magistrate , and tbe parties left the court .
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TO THE QUALIFIED BRICKS AND MORTAR OF THE UNITED QUEENDOM . Mr . Bricks , —I scarcely feel satisfied , as a worm of the earth , that you should take upon yourself » o much , and so far exclude me from a supply of tbe materials out of which you , through my excavations and labour , are permitted te exist . Know ye not , that were not the worms to refine tbs earth and purify tha soil , by a process which , you yourself couM not perform—tbe ingredients out of which your qualification arises , would so far cease to exist , that tho land would become poor , impure , useless , and void . Sho ^ r me a yard of land impurified by tbe labour of the worms , and I will show you a piece of poorer soil .
I assare you , Mr . Bricks , your qualification , without the worms refining , is dead and useless . Bricks cannot be made without labour , nor can you make them without clay . Worms can live by use of the soil , but extract the worms and the bricks will fall into dust The wind of the North will scatter its substance—that your hard-dried stripped extractions will become useless , void , and null , while tbe bare substantial upon which you now stand , will become rather weak and insecure . [ feel confident , that should you still go on in the power of your ignorance , the worms you so much labour to extinguish , will prey npon your vital powers , and you , through vfeakness , will fall a prey to their devouring appetite , i . e . the extinguishing of class-monopoly .
Mr . Mortar , the materials out of which you form a subsistence , is nothing more than a compound of maladministration ; that whicb the worms reject , you accept , and by so doing you become wore and more tbe companions of the worms you sneeringly persecute , imprison , and kill . The worms are too wise to partake of poison , therefore , however sweet the surface of the soil may bo made , without the fruit the wernis will Hot devour poison . Worms are « f the earth earthy , and can without you liva ; whereas you , without their labour , would not be able to subsist .
Tha worms are a living class of excavators—purifiers , cleansers , and reniodeliera of imperfections upon the earth ; and without tbe living , all things would be useless . If yon will destroy your own strength , power , and substance , destroy tb » worms , tbe poor , rejected , despised , persecuted , and imprisoned worms , and you yourselves will quickly become a mass of corruptible matter , obnoxious to the eye , detestable to tbe taste , aud despicable to tho presence of ail creeping worms ; therefore , as a worm I cry , suffer me to live , that I may yet fulfil that command given by God , " Be fruitful , multiply , and replenish the earth . " And by so doing , you will ever find me A Useful Worm .
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Release ov a Victim . —Thomas Drake , of Thoraton , a poor old veteran in tbo Bradford troop , has been discharged from Beverley ' hell' before the expiration of his term of imprisonment . His friends intended to welcome his return by a dinner , instead of which it ha 3 been wisely considered to present him with a subscription , which we hope will be such as to do honour to all concerned . Poor Duffy , the Whig victim , who was last week lying so dangerously ill in Leeds , is somewhat recovered , although still confined to his bed . Mr . Hick lias received the following subscriptions , which have been handed over to tbe proper quarter : —
s . d . Mr . Josh . Hobson » Leeds ... 10 0 A Friend ditto ... 0 3 Mr . Stocks ditto ... 0 6 Mr . George Myers , ditto ... 0 3 Mr . Bleasby ditto ... 0 6
11 6 It is bat fair to state that many of our excellent Chartist friends have paid their personal respects to tho injured invalid ^ and have contributed to his necessities . We hope this will continue . A . Monster . —A miscreant , residing at Hanwoll , Middlesex , named John Cavel , a master carpenter , waa on Friday , finally examined before the liev . Dr . Walmesley , and other magistrates , on a charge of having repeatedly violated his own daughter , a child seven years of age . A Burgeon , who was present , proved tho completion of the crime , and tho monster was committed to Newgate for trial . The particulars are of too horrible and disgusting a uatute to be published .
Alliteration Extraordinary . —The eighteenth loiter of our alphabet , R , is tho initial of Kussell , tiie champion ot Reform and Retrenchment , who Kpde Rampant into power , aided by Revolutionary Rhetoric , Riots , Romage , and Rebellious Rows , Reducing Bristol and ISottingham to Ruins . This Rivenous Rabble Ravaged , wilh Ruthless Rapacity , the houses of the Refractory Tories and Radicals , — committing Robbery and Rapine . Russell is now a Railer against Reform—a Relentless , Remorseless , Reveugeful Renegade—a Recusant ; Reprobating Reformers and Repudiating all further Reform-Refusing to Redress tho grievances of 1 , 300 , 000 Chartists , whom he designates a Rabblcment , and Rancourously , Roguishly , and Rigourously , Reproaches them as Revolutionists . The Racional Radicals Ridicule his Rioketty , Rambling Rattleheaded policy , and look upon him as a Recanting , Raving , Retracting , Rambling , Rancid , Ranting , Rascalion , and & Runagate member of the Rump .
Brighton , July 26 . —Yesterday , on the arrival of the passengers by the first railroad coaches , a report waa spread that a shocking accident had occurred to one of the red vans ( Pooock ' s ) , from London , and it was said that the driver and guard were almost killed , and the passengers , three or four of whom cavae on by the railroad train , much injured . It appears that the van , which is the only uight conveyance to Brighton , left at the usual time , laden with about sevea tons of luggage and eight passengers . On proceeding down Reigate-hill , tho skid was put upon the wheels , when the van , which was groaning under the immense weight , broke down , crushing the wheels , and falling on one side . The driver and guard saved themselves by jumping
off , but met with several severe injuries . The passengers , insido and out , were dreadfully injured by the heavy boxea , &c , in which they were literally buried . On extricating them , one , an elderly gentleman residing at Reigate , and who had adopted the conveyance to gee home the same night , was at first thought to have been killed on the spot , but was found only to have been stunned . Another had his htad out and bruised ; a third the calf of his leg extensively injured ; in fact , nono escaped without severe injuries . Tho gentleman who lived at Reigate , after he had recovered , very kindly offered h > B house for tho accommodation of his ieJJow
passen-I qets , and took charge of a yonng man who was seiously ii ] , and who was proceeding to Brighton for i change of air . As boou as the passengers were released from their perilous situation , assistance was procured , and as i » was impossible to move the vehicle , it was necessary to dig out under the lamp , which it was feared would set it on fire . Vaus were forwarded in tho coarse of the day to bring the iu , ; jg 3 # a to Brighton , amongst which were two tons of salmon , tho non-arvival of which spoiled tho dinner of numbers of individuals . It is rath -r sinKatat that another of the rtd vans broke down , at tho same p ' aco the previous night .
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A Fool . —The National states that as alad »«* Rouen was walking on the boulevards of that two or three d * y 8 tgo r an elegantly-d tessed vi * man , who had been noticing her for some time » £ ? very tender looks , suddenly slipped a letter intDk hand , exclaiming— Madame , I can resist no Ion . !? accept this letter , or I die . " The lady was atf ' frightened , but , recovering herself , tore up tfee leb * without reading it . Upon this the young man wf at her feet , ana , takiDg out » pistol , said— " % t this weapon , madame , and destroy my life wit \ for it would be a burden to me which you h&v etl ? dered insupportable . I cannot live without » St love . " A person who was passing by knocked £ pistol out of the hand of the prostrate lover and moved the lady , who was much affected , hu ^ neighbouring house , leaving the young mad manam on his knees in the middle of the boulevards
Tkuth bt Mistake . —The present king of Prnat . is accustomed to walk out in the plain dresn of private gentleman , and ia reference t « this habit ii ! Dorf Zeitung relates an amusing anecdote . Art-Majesty was strolling about in the neigh bonrlKw of Sans Souoi , he met a woman scolding and bealfi an ass , yoked in a milk cart ; the donkey wu& stinate , and showed no disposition to move I K . king asked her why she put herself in such ' sBo aion . 1 " O , Sir , I must make haste with ay 5 and this stupid animal" stands still here , in spifeJ all I can say to him . If I am not in time with my m at Potsdam I shall be ruined . But I know V whim . If I had any body te take hold of him iH the ear while I beat him behind , he would then 2 1-1 * 1 '' * I * Ka \ rir \ r * OAiva / l ^ l ~ aa aoo Aomin 1 *» 4 . 1 _ _ __ 5 " on' The king seized the ass firmlbthe
. y y ear » m the milk woman applied the lash unsparingly toi £ rump . The donkey , getting into a trot , proceeiS on hia - Way without further urging , and the jJ * woman dismissed her unknown assistant witV » thousand thanks . When the king returned fn » his walk , he gave the Qaeen an account of the senS he had performed . Her Majesty appeared ^ have some scruples about tha decorum of Buoh J ? ventures on the part of her royal conBort ufa milkwomen , and she said , " Dear Fritz , doing if this sort might do very well for a Crown PrS <» but it is quite a different thing for a king . " "p my dear , " interrupted the monarch , " it is notW out ; of th « way . I assure you that my father 12 helped forward many an ass in his time . "
Murder at Exeter . — The body of a yosn » gentleman named Bennett , was on Saturday Lm taken out of the river Exe , close to the city " . H , was missing during tbe day , and from iis beta * known that he had been in the neighbourhood of ty spot where he was found , a search was immediate instituted , and at half-past five the body was tafas up . His watch and money were gone , and frog the appearance of his head he evidently had receWed some tremendous Wows . The bridge of the b « j was broken , both eyes were blackened , the forehaj was bruised above the right eye , and the lips werj bruised and cut by being pressed against the teeta with violence . A Coroner ' s inquest was fixed for Monday , but the Coroner decided on holdiug tfo inquiry with closed doora . A man is in castod j wno , it is rumoured , committed the offence ; and » woman of ill fame is said to have confessed ha ^ seen the murder committed .
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From the London Gazette of Friday , July 23 . BANKRUPTS . William Newton and John Newton , Maccle » 8 eld silk-throwsters , to surrender August 3 , at one , Scp tember 3 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bmim hall-street . Solicitors , MesBrs . Crowder and Mayjanl , Mansion House Place ; official assignee , Mr . Pennelt "William Bntterwerth , Peckbam , corn-merchut , August 3 , September 3 , at half past eleven , at tht Court ef Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street . Solicilto , Messrs . Rhodes , Beevor , and Lane , Chancery-lane of&cial assignee , Mr . Can nan , Finabury-square . Joeb . ua Butterworth , Bermondsey , leather-fetter , Angust 3 , at twelve , September 3 , at eleven , at tha Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-etreeL Solidtoa , Messrs . Rhodes , Beevor , and Lane , Chancery-line ; official assignee , Mr . Cannaa , Finsburv-square .
Thomas Lingham , Cross-lane , St . Mary-at-Hill , win * merchant , July 30 , at half-past tweVve , September J , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street official assignee , Mr . Graham , Basingball-street . John Fox , Minories , tailor , July 3 ft , September 3 , it twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-stteet Solicitor , Mr , Biggenden , Walbrook ; official assignw , Mr . Turquand , Copthall-buildings . Job ' n Morris , Eari ' s-court , Leicester-square , «» keeper , August 4 , at twelve , September 3 , at eleven , it the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-atreet Solicitor , Mr . Smith , Barnard ' s Inn ; official assignee , Mr . Grshsn , Ba 3 ingball-street . Charles Strutton , Nine Elms , Surrey , timber-Bia » cbant , August 3 , at one , September 3 , at two , at lisa Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street . Solidtoa ; Messrs . Newbon and Evans , Wardrobe-place , Doctor " Commons ; official assignee , Mr . Turquand , CopthiObuildings .
George Baldry , jun ., Ipawich , innkeeper , July 31 * September 3 , at twelve , at the Angel Inn , Bury St . Edmund's . Solicitors , Messrs . Wayman and Grea , Bury St . Edmuud ' s ; and Messrs . Walter and Pembetton , Symond ' s Inn , Chancery-lane . Heury Cunliffe , Green Ha . worth , Lancashire , ahop * keeper , August 14 , at ten , September 3 , at eleven , it tha Town Hall , Preston . Solicitors , Messrs . Wty * worth , Ridsdale , and Craddock , Gray's Inn ; and to Kobinuon , or Messrs . Wilkinson and Kenyon , Blid * burn , Lancashire . Benjamin Coleman , Liverpool , stockbroker , Angnl 6 , September 3 , at one , at the Clarendon Room , Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . Cross , Liverpool ; id Messrs . Vincent and Sherwood , King ' s Bench-mil , Inner Temple .
John Green and William Green , Wetherby , Yorkshire , timber-merchants , August 6 , September 3 , A eleven , at the Guildhall , York . Solicitors , Mes » Johnson , Son , and Weatherall , King ' s Bench-mll , Temple ; and Mr . Leeman , York , Richard Westhead , Waterloo , Lancashire , victual August 5 , September 3 , at twelve , at the Claread * Rooms , Liverpool . Solicitors , Messrs . Holme , Lqftu , and Young , New Inn , London ; and Mr . Yates , jm > Liverpool . DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP .
A . G . Robinson and H . W . Blackburn , Bradford ¦ vvoolstaplers . A . Henry , W . F . Scholfield , Vf . B Johnson , H . Todd , and W . Firth , Leeds , general com * mission agents ; so far as regards H . Todd . J . StanUasd . and A . Staniland , Kingston-upon-HuIl , shipbrotfl * R Johnston and A . L . Saul , Manchester , stockbroke * R . Dierden and E . Dierden , Newton-in-tbe-Willof » i Lancashire , grocers . W . Hudson and J . B . HudKft Manchester , calico-manufacturers . W . S . Birch is * H . Birch , Salford , Lancashire , grocers . J . Milne , JTra-ris , sen ., J . Milne , J . Milne , jun ., J . Travif , jfift . ( i . Travis , B . Travis , E . Travis , and J . Hojle , Oldisn . cotton-spinners ; ao far as regards J . Hoyle . D . Dnl » and W . W . Glover , Wakefleld , tobacco-manufacture *
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From fhe Gazette of Tuesday , July 27 . BANKRUPTS . Mary Wardall , lodging-house keeper , Carey-itrerf . Linceln ' 8-inn , to surrender , August 3 , at half-past 01 * 1 and September 7 , at eleven , at the Court of Bin * ruptcy , Basinghall-street . Graham official assign * Baainghall-street ; Webb , Carey-street , Lincoln's-inn . George Stanley , bituminous pavement manufacture Southampton , August 4 , at half-past ten , and Septemttf 7 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . TurqiaiA Coptball-building 8 , official assignee ; Lambert , Ra ymondbuildings , Gray ' s-inn . Jonas Bradley , iron-merchant , Hudderefield , Yorkshire , August 10 , at one , and September 7 , atetow * at the Court-house , Bradford , Yorkshire . Walter v& Pemberton , Symond ' s-iun , Lyndon ; Tolson , Bedford . ,
William Haskayne , ship-chandler , Liverpool , Angtw 14 , and September 7 , at one , at tho Clarendon-roon * Liverpool . Leigh , George-street , Mansion-house , In * don ; Leather , Liverpool . Thomas Porter , egg-merchant , Liverpool , Angtut J < i and September 7 , at two , at the Clarendon-rowM . J * verpool . Cornthwaite , Dean's-court , Doctor ' s-eoi * mons , London ; Cornthwaite , Liverpool . James Woods , horse-dealer , Rjandhill , Xan « shW » August 7 and September 7 , at eleven , at the Swan bm . Bolton-le-Moore . Cragg , Harpnr-street , Bed Li * * square , London ; Robinson , Blackburn . James Patterson , warehouseman , Cateaton-it »»» London , August 3 , at one , and September 7 , st eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Whitmore , offirf * assignee , Basinghall-street ; Simpson and Cobb , Austinfriars .
Benjamin Sarson , iron-master , Birmingham , Aogiu * 3 and September 7 , at two , at tha Waterloo-rooms . ' mingham . Chaplin , Gray ' s Iun-square , Lo-doat Richards , Birniiaghani . John Lloyd and William Lloyd , cabinet-nuk ** Atherstoue , Warwickthire , August 18 , at two , at t » Red Lion Inn , Atherstone , and September 7 , at twel «» at the Newdigate Arms , Nuneaton , W arwictabi * Hawkins , Bloxham , and Stocker , New Boswe l- «** Carey-atreet , London ; Power and Pilgrim , A " *" stone . John Heap , jun ., merchant , Manchester , Au gnst 1 * at ten , and September 7 , at three , at toe Com 0 * sioners ' -rooms , Manchester . M&kiaaon and SawW * Elm-court , Middle-temple , London ; Atkinson »** Sanndere , Manchester .
John Gratriz , machine-maker , Preston , August *" ' at two , and September 7 , at eleven , at the To ** hall , Preston . Mayhew , Johnston , and MajW *» Carey-street , Lincoln ' B-inn , London ; Backhunrt " ^ Son , Preston . , William White and Thomas Broad , wins •»» brandy merchant , Newport , Isle of Wight , AajfW 9 and September 7 , at twelve , at the Bugle I 08 * Newport Dirumcok , S » e .. ! an . e , BoAlersSury , Loud * AU ? n , Newport .
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LIBERALITY OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES . A . Correspondent writes thus -. —A great number of tiie working classes have lately sent in their claims to the overseers of the various parishes of tha Tower Mamlets , amongst whom is a friend of mine , ( a Mr . Rogers . ) Yesterday morning , on leaving home , he desired his wife , if the landlord called , to tell him that he ( Mr . Rogers ) had sent in his claim to be registered . Shortly after the landlord called , to whom the wife delivered the information requested by her husband ,
when tho following dialogue commenced : — Landiord—What Is your husband , a Whig or Tory ? Wife—I don't know the meaning ef either one or the other . Landlord—If you cannot tell me ¦ what his politics are , can you tell me who he would have voted for , had ho bad a vote at the late election ? Wife—Yes , Sir , Mr . Thompson . Landlord—Mr . Thompson ! why , then , your husband is a downright Radical ; be shall not live in this bouse any longer than tbe end of tbe month ; then taking a pen and Ink , he -wrote the following notice : —
BIr . George Rogers , —Sir , I hereby givs you notice to quit , and deliver up possession of tbe house you now hoid of me , No . 109 , Heath-street , Commercial Road , ou or before the 24 th of August , 1841 , Wm . S . Francis , Landlord . Dated the 26 th of July , 1841 . Now , this Mr . S . Francis is a broker , residing in Ratcliff Highway ; snd , in future , I hope every Radical of the Tower Hamlets will shun him and his shop as they -. vould the devil and bell . No doubt , this Mr .
Ffuncis calls himsolf uti honest , upright , er . A honourable man . Now , I think , it requires no logic of mint ) to prove that he must be a downright blackguard , or otherwise he would not be guilty of such a base a ' . ci tyrannical action . This , with ten thousand similar instances , shows the fallacy of the ballot without Universal Suffrage , ( as in a limited constituency the political opinions of householders would be known ) , and landlords in general would act a similar trick , especially when their tenant's opinions would be in direct opposition to that of their own .
In conclusion , I must say , that no man can be an honest man , to deny his fellow-man the exerci ^ of that to which the laws of his country entitle him , and the principles of justice demands of him .
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BOW-STREET . Emma Watson was placed at the bar on a charge of destitution . It appeared that she had been taken into custody by a police-officer , who , baving sejn her leaning against a doorway in King-street , Westminster , thought she was a prostitute , and under tbat impression desired her to walk on . It was then about one o ' clock ia the morning , and tiie woman , in teply to tho policeman , said that she was friendless ; that she had no vhere to go , and was completely destitute . She was thereupon taken to tbe station-house , and tho inspector , after inquiring more particularly into the circumstances of her case , sent an officer with her to St . Margaret ' s workhouse . On arriving there , however , the officers attached to the workhouse actually refused to admit the peor girl , and tbo person whom tbe policeman saw said , " We don't take in poor peoplo at auoh late hours , and you know it . "
Mr . Hall thought it very extraordinary that the officers of St . Margaret ' s workhouse should act in this way , and sent a messenger to request the relieving officer to come to the court . Son e time afterwards an officer belonging to the workhouse attended before the magistrate , and said that he had been sent by the relieving officer ( who was then engaged in giving relief to paupers ) to ascertain what information Mr . Hall required . Mr . Hall inquired bow the paupers obtained admission to the workhouse ? The person who attended for the parish said it was the business of the overseers aud Mr . Elliot , the master of the workhouse , to admit them . Mr . Hall asked if there were any orders or instructions against the admission of casual paupers found destitute during the night , or if there was any order that poor persons should be refused relief at night when they appeared in a state of destitution ?
The officer did not know the instructions given , but he said he would ask the overseer that question . Mr . Hall remarked that a person who could answer such a question ought to hi / e given his attendance in the court . If there were any such orders or instructions they were of a most scandalous nature . If there were not , the person who refused to asaist destitute people was a heartless individual , and bad no authority tO UCt in such a manner . The officer asked if the woman belonged to tie in que&tion ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1120/page/6/
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