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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Leeds,
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in the Borough ot Leeds , contributing to the rligbway Rate , authorised to be raised and collected under the Powers and Provisions of an Act of Par . liament made and passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Alajesty King William the Foort ^ entituled "An Act to consolidate and amend the Lavrj relating to Highways in that part of Great Britain called England , " will be held in the Vestry of the Parish Church , at Leeds aforesaid , on Saturday , the Twenty Fifth Day of March Instant , at Twelve o'clock at Noon , to nominate and elect for the Year ensuing , a Board of Surveyors for the Superintendence of the Highways of the said Township of Leeds , for tho purpose of carrying the Provisions of the said Act into Effect , and in such manner and form as in and by the said Act is authorised sad required . JOHN WALES SMITH , 1 JOHN GOODI 3 ON , I GEORGE HAMMOND , | JOHN KIRK , Y Surveyors . ROBERT WRIGHT , I JOHN SELLERS , GEORGE HOGG , J JOHN YEWDALL , ) Overseers of the Poor JOSEPH BROADHEAD , W the said Township RICHARD GARDNER , ) of Leeds . Leeds , 17 th March , 1843 .
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A CURE ! FOR ALL . ' i holliway's ointment , hollowat ' s pills . EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A CASE ABANDONED BY GUY ' S , THE METROPOLITAN , KING'S COLLEGE , & CHARING CROSS HOSPITALS . This fact was sworn to this 8 h day of March , 1842 , Beiore the Lord Mayor , at the Mansion-houde . SUMMARY OF AFFIDAVIT . WM . BROOKE , Messenger , of 2 , Union-street , Southwark , London , nviketh oath and saith , that he ( this deponent ) was afflicted with FIFTEEN RUNNING ULCERS on his left arm , and ulcerated sores and wounds on both legs , for which deponent was admitted an out-door patient at the Me * tropolitan Hospital , in April 1841 , whereho _ continued for nearly four week * Unable to receive a care there , the deponent sought relief at the three following hospitals : —King ' s College Hospital in May , for five weeks—at Gny ' a Hospital in July , for six weeks ; and at Charing Cross Hospital at the eud of August , for some weeks more ; which deponent left , being in a far worse condition than when he bad quitted Guy ' s , where Sir BRANSBY COOPER , and other medical officers of the establishment had told deponent that the only chance of saving his life was to LOSE HIS ARM ! The deponent thereupon called upon Dr . BRIGHT , chief physician of Gay ' s , who , on viewing deponent ' s condition , kindly and liberally said , " / am utterly at a loss what to do for you ! but here is half-a-sovereign : go to Mr . HOLLO WA Y , and try what effect his Pills and Ointment will have , as I have frequently witnessed the wonder ' ful effects they have in desperate cases . You , can let me see you again . " This unpredjudiced advice w « followed by the deponent , and a perfect cure effecte * in three weeks , by the use alone of HoLLOWAY £ > PILLS and OINTMENT , after four Hospitals W failed ! ! 1 When Dr . BRIGHT was shown by M deponent , the result of his advice and charity , M said , " / am both astounded and delighted , f ° } thought that if I ever saw you again alive , it would M without your arm . 1 can only compare this Curett * Charm III T , b worn at the Mansion-house of the City of honw * this 8 th day of March , 1842 . WM . BROOKE . Before me , JOHN PIR 1 E , Mayob . In all Diseases of the Skin , Bad Legs , Old Wonnds and Ulcers , Bad Breasts , Sore Nipples , Swney ana Ulcerated Cancers , Tumours , Swellings , Gont , Knw * matism , aad Lumbago , likewise in cases of Piles ; ¦«» Pills , in all the above cases , ought to be used with we Ointment ; as by this means cures will be « K « * with a much greater certainty , and in half the tin that it would require by using the Ointment alow * The Ointment is proved to be a certain- remedy w the bite of iaoschettoes , Sand-flies , Chiego-foot , i *" * and Cocobay . j Burns , Scalds , Chilblains , Chapped Hands , an » Lipa , also Bunions and Soft Corns , will be imra&aately cured by the use of the Ointment . , THE PILLS are not only the finest « nw known when used with the Ointment , but as a w eral Medicine there is nothing equal to them . nervous affections they will be found Of the S 1681 ^ , service . These Pills are , without exception , "M finest Purifier of the Blood ever discovered , »" OUGHT to be USED BY ALL !! 1
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YOSSSHIBS SPRING ASSIZES . ( Cu 7 itintied from our Jifth page ) Thtjbsdat , Makch 16-Bcfore Mr . Justice C-jl'man . jB ? i Barpin , 25 , pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a heifer , at Tbornbill the property of Rchard CardweiL He was sentenced to be imprisoned for eighteen months to hard labour .
15 TEJST TO HITED * K . James Crah ' ree , 26 . -was indiced for having , on the 11 th of February , last , commuted an H ^ gravated assault on Elizabeth Cop ' ev , in an indecent and brutal manner with a hedge slake , with intent to till and murder her . Mr . IFilsiss arid Sir . Pashlet were for the prosecution ; Mr . utkbem ? drft-ncea the prisoner . The prosecatrix siate-i lhat on the day named in the indictment she Sad gone rat of the house for somr milk , and on her reinrn home she was accosted iy two men , who , after using some _ brutal < 'Xpr- s sons threw heron the ground , thrust a hedge stake op ier per = ' -n and l « ft her there . She was greatly irgnr *» d bnt contrived to walk home wiih the srake still sticking in her body . The entire details of the case are totally unfit for psbhcation .
Mx . Otehekd addressed the- jury for the defence , arguing that there wa 3 some uncertainty as to the identity of the prisoner . The Jury retired for a Bhort time , and afterwards returned a verdict or Gnihy on the second count , namely of attempting to do some onerous bodily barm . Robert Atkinson , 24 , vrss next chared with having on the 21 st of November , scabbed and ¦ wounded George Woodcock , at Hipperbolme-cuin-Urishonse , near Halifax , with intent to maim and disable him . Mr . Roebuck prosecuted , and Mr . JBi . iss defended ihe prisoner .
George Woodcock deposed , that on the day in qnestion he was driving his wac ^ on from Bracfod to BrUbouse , at eighteen minutes past eleven o ' clock at tight , and having tailed at Wilson ' s pnbljc-house , and gone through the toll-bar , eomebo iy whom he had known as working on the r- ^ ad pass-ed him , and be went on . About 400 yards from the vo' -bar , ihe man that had passed him inrned to the horses , and cried , *• wnoa" —witness , in ihe mean nme , siuing on thB waggon shafts . The horses plunged forward ,
when tae man struck at witness with z iirawa fame , aiid said , * ' Do ' si ihon see this ! " "Wm « . s re plied , " Get off ; I want to have nothing . . j do with th' -e . " Prisoner Slid , "Come up , or eke IV pot it into thee f and he then stabbed him in th ^* ¦¦ ft side ; after that he threw him down ; bm he m . up . and a struggle took place , the prisoner saying . *• If ih « u does iiot deliver np , I'll ran it into tb « e . " Tn ^ y ¦ w ere then against a wall ; and witness received altogether four cats—the last cnljpenetrating through tbr clothes , but he distinctly felt the knife cat him .
Some witnesses were called , who bore out , in its xn 3 m particulars , the states ? ent of the prosecutor ; bn : some discrepances were brought oat in cro .-3-exam nation . Mr . Bliss addressed the Jury for the prisoner , ano coattnGed that there was mot that ccrtsimy in the identity which would warrant them in finding the prisoner guilty . He also called a witness who gave the prisoner a good character , and who denied that within tbe last four years he hao ever been working on the highway . Th * Jury retired , and after an absence of some time returned with a Verdict of Guilty . Sentence dt-ferred .
Joseph Mason , 25 , was indicted for having , on the 22 sd of January last , at Skehon , in thu North Ifcriing , bnrslariocslT and feloniously broken 'uto the dwelling hon * e of Tnomas Carr , wirh inttut o steal therein . Tie indic ? m-nt luriher charged the prisoner with having firid a £ nn at ibe prosecutor , ¦ with insent to murder him ; and al < o With having endeavoured to extort money from mm . Mr . Blamjhakd was for the prevention . Tae prssoner W 3 S undefended . The charge was in a great measure = npruned by the < "Tidf nee of a man named Turner , a prisoner in tfa' * Ca 5 tl « , to whom the prisoner , afitr hi ? commit : a ] , bad made a viva voce statement of the circnmnisuces nnder which he had been appr ~ t-ndvd ; and whom he also told that it was himstif { the prisoner ) who had actually fired the gun on the night in q aestion . Tht ; prosccuiOT , in aw eridence stat-d that the gun "was fired by another man , not in enstody .
Tne Jury retired ro con > idtr their verdict . Th * - prisoner was fouTjd Gailty of shoot ng » iih intent to do « . me grieroo ? bcdily harm . Sent ^ r * - * - deicn ^ -ti . Robert Rudpe , 32 . J ., hn Hencock , 30 , WiUtam Hall , 22 , and George Stony , 21 , were iLdicted lor ha-vjbjj , on the tih of February last , burglariously euitrr d the toll-bar honse a-t Broom Bstr , near Rotberham , from whence they stole the sum . « f three pounds n Bllrer , the property of Pickles R- berts . William ~ Presslej , charged wish the same cff . iice , was admitted evidprce . Mr . Wujclss and Mr . Pashii wrre for the pro-Becn ' . wii ; Six Gsegoiit LiTris defeaded ih' - pri-Boj . erRudge ; Mr . Hzatok appeared for llauc ^ ck and Hail ; and Store ? wasundef--nde' ? .
Pickles Roberts Gepored that about one o'dock in the morning in question , he was disturbed by a horse arriTing at his j » &ie ; he go : up ai » d went out to open the gate , and whilst doaig so , on turn < ng ronnd he saw four men en foot , and tht- prisoner , George Storey , on horseback . The four men on foot time from ihe corner of the house iy the garden door , and one of them went np asd struck him on the bead . That was the prisoner Hall , who then Ehonted ** Go at him . lad * . " The m 3 n theD got off the horse , and the whole parr attacked him . Tb * y struck him several biows , and three of the aej > then went into the house , the other two being left to guaTd him . Hr got away from these , and on gptiicginto the house , saw a tall man t 6 arci . ing th ^ hous * . There was a fire burning , and the mau had
a lsLtern . Rudge , he belitved , was the man "who was searching tbe drawer . He receiTed KveTal other blows in the house ; and saw there Hall and Sttier . In ransacking the house th--y obtained £ 3 5 s 7 d . The men had ill velvejeen and fn =. tian jackets on , and raps tied under the chin . — The wife of Roberts corroborated bis statement , and identified Pressley and Roberts as two of the men m the house , and described the' third as having a hatchet on hi 1 * shoulder . She asked them not to hnrt her husband , and Rudge said they wonld not if she would come out and tell them where the money ¦ was . She then got the lantern wh :-b he held in his hand and heidit op to his face , in crder to know him again . Could not speak to at . y of ihe men except Presley and Radge .
Presslcy was the next evidence called , and hr detailed rhe wnole circumstances of the attack ana robbery , corroborating in ev ^ ry particular , the statement of Roberts and his wife , lu ero .-3-examica tion he said he might have bten engaged hi ten or a doz n robberies , but conid not teil how many piteoas be had sto ' en . He admitted that he t-xpecied to receive one half of the reward l £ lol >) , which had been offered . Evidence w& 3 then gone into on another indictment , in which the prisoners were charged wi'h a amilaT attack and robbery at Aldwick Bar , on thp same morning , anil within about three quarters of an honr of the robbery at " Broom" Bar .
The barman and hi 3 wife detailed the circumstances ot the robhery , and the constable ( Mr . Bi ^ nd , of Rotberhsm ) who had apprehended the parties , described tbe property found , which contisied of skeleton k » y .-, picklocks , caps to tie under the ehin . & . s . He eL = o spoke to the statement made by Pressie ^ . Tae ra ^ e for the prosecution bein- closed . Sir GRtGoxy Lswis and Mr . Hbxtox addrrased th ^ Conn on beba 3 f of their TespeciiTe ciienta . Tie prisoners ware all found Guilty . Rud ^ e was seutesced to be transported for twenty years ; and the ihrfe other prisoners for fifteen years each . Joseph Mason , who had been found guilty of shooting st , with intent to do grierous bodily harm , to Tfccmss Carr , was sentenced to be transported for twen-y years .
CK 0 W 3 ? COURT-Feidat . j John Whiilaker , Jan ., was charged with having \ maliciously killed and maimed ceriain sheep , the ! propti y of Thomas Smith , of Ck > nitbrou ^ h , near I Doutister . j Sir J . Lewis and Mr . Wilkiss were for the pro j seen aon ; the prisoner were defended by the Hon . J . S Wobilet and Mr . Wxlksk . T- prisoner was indicted under the provisions of ibe 7-. a and 8 th Geo . IV . cap . 30 . which enacted that i aiiy person who shall kill , maim , or wound , any caule , sheep , or other btast , Ehall be deemed guil y of 'Vlony . The prisoner is a buiuher at Corns- j brousb ., and the pro .-ecutor is a farmer at the ' fame place . BBrtng a perod , extending from ; tic momh of November to the February following , | Mt . bmith fcufijea senou 3 losstsin his sheep , sixteen i or seventeen having been fonnd in his field , d ead ' or dying at diftrent limes , from the tffects of strangulation , which had no doubt been done wilfully Tie principal witness against tbe prisoner was a lad named Chester , who had been in Mb employ , and who deposed to facts and admissions by the prisoner which went -rery far to establish his fuilt—but the position of this witness as a discharged servant , of course raised a certain degree of suspicion on his testimony . He was , however , corroborated in sotfie points by ether witnesses .
There were twenty-two witnesses forthe prosecution , ana thirtj'five forj the defence . The trial was proceeding at half-past six last night , when Mr . Wortley was commencing the defence . 5 TJB 3 IDIABY COURT—Thubsdat . Bejore Mr . Knoicles , Q . CJohn Beniies , 22 , pleaded Gufliy to having stolea & saddle and oriole at Leeds . WUiiam Blakelrough and Samuel Wilson , -who had betn out on bail , were chargea with a conspiracy and not . Mr . Hardy was for the prosecution ; the prisoner ? were undefended .
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Tnis case arose out of the serious disturbances that took place last summer . On the evening of the loih of August , Thom& 3 Horner , the engine tendei : o Mr . Simeon Townsend , of Thornton , was in the yard of his master ' s factory , when the prisoners came into the yard with a large crowd . Blakebrough asked Borner if he wonld allow him to draw the plugs , and ho told them he would not . Hornei w-nt to see his master on the subject , and when he returned he said they muBt M the plugs alone , and ho would let the steam off . Blakebrough , in the presence of Wilson , said they would draw the plugs that night , or eke they would bring 10 , 000 people the day after . Blakebrough then knocked out one of the plugs and Wilson followed his example . The iast named prisoner attempted to knock a third plug out , but he could not do so , and he scalded his foot .
The prisoners in defence denied the charge , and called witnesses as to character . Guilty of the conspiracy . —To be imprisoned two months to hard labour . Wilfiam Collins , 66 , who had been out on bail , was charged with having , on the 5 th or 6 th of October last , at Bradford , stolen a mare pony , the property of James Waddington . Mr . Mosteith was for the prosecution , and Mr . Wilkins for the defence . Tne prosecutor is a dealer in milk at Bradford , and the prisoner is a boat hauler , at West Haddlesey , near Selby . The prosecutor two or three weeks bsfore the 5 th of October last , bought the mare , and about nine o ' clock in the evening « f that day he put
it into a field near his house . He fastened the gate , and next morning , about six o ' clock , on going to take the mare out of tbe field to work , he fouud she was gone , and for several weeks afterwards he heard nothing of her . He made search for the mare and on the 11 th of October she was taken to Selby lair , and there sold by the son of the prisoner , he having sent him to do so . After the prisoner was taken into custody he made a statement in which he said he bought ihe mare on the Wednesday before Seiby Michaelmas fair . He could not , however , nave done so , as the prosecutor had the auimal at work on that day . » When sh « was taken away the mare had a long tail , but when the prosecutor found her the tail was cut .
Air . Wilkiks addressed the Jury for the prisoner , and called several witnesses to prove that the prisoner had purchased the mare of a man named John Smith , who said he lived at No . 3 , Marsh-lane , White-street , Leeds , Th ^ Jury retired for a few minutes , and then fonnd ihe prisoner Not Guilty . Samuel Murgalroyd , alias Waierhouse , 22 J | was charg ^ o with having on the 13 th of September , 1841 , at Bradford , unlawfully married Hannah Cotson , Mary Murgatroyd , his former wite , being then alive . Mr , Pickerimg appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . Walkeb defended tbe prisoner .
The prisoner is a person in humble life , and in 1838 Jived at Bradford . On Christmas Day in that year he was married in that town by the Rev . John Butterfield to Mary Firth , bnt far some reason or other they did not live together . On the ISth of September , 1841 , the prisoner was married by the name ot Samuel Waterhouse to Hannah Cotson , and when they presented themselves before Mr . Butterfield , he asked the prisoner where his former wife was , and he replied she was dead . It was , however , proved that she was now alive . When Mr . Young , the constable of Harrogate , apprehended the prisoner , he admitted that he had married the two rVmaJe ^ - —Guilty . To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Wakefisld House of Correction for six calendar months .
Theophilus Bachelor , 22 , and William Brown , 37 , w *? re charged with having on the l ° -h of December la > t , at Kryton , broken into the dwelling-house of George BicRera , aud stolen therefrom two silver table spoons , one desert spoon , and two silver teaspoons . Mr . Baines was for the prosecution ; Mr . Blu 3 defended the prisoners . The prosecutor is a farmer living at Fry ton , near Hovinjjham . and on the 18 ih of December left home to go -o York fair . At night , about eleven o ' clock , Mrs . Bickers and the rest of the family retired to rest , leaving all the deors and windows fastened . About hall-past five o ' clock next morning , Jane Wheldon , servant to Mrs . Bickers , who had slept
with her mistress on the night of the robbery , was calied up , when , from some information she received Jrom the other servant , she found that the dairy had bten entered through a wire window , thai three stanchions were broken off " , and that a great quantity of provisions had been taken out of the dairy . Upon making a further search , it was discovered that . some silver piate had been carried off , that ihe wearing apparel had been disturbed , and a pair of stockings stolen . Two days afterwaTda the prisoners were apprehended by Mr . Atkinson , the constable in the streets of Stockton , and in Bachelor ' s pocket were found several articlej of plate belonging to the prospcntor . He had previously sold the pair of stockings to Elizabeth Waine , a ehopkeeper at S ockton . Bachelor stated in the police-office
that they found tho plate on the York Koad , about six miies from Thir ? k . He was asked if Brown wa 3 with him , and he said yes , which Brown did not deny . They made a similar statement before the magistrates , and Brown also said he bad met with Bachelor at Belper , in Derbyshire , about a week previous . In addition to these facts , it seems that the day before the robbery , Mr . BickerB saw Bachelor and another man at Fryton , and on the following day both the prisoners were observed on Wass moor . On tbe 26 ih of December , whilst the prisoners were confined in separate celta in Stockton ,
about an hour and a half after Mrs . Atkinson , thB wife of the police officer , had served them with their breakfasts , she htard Batchelor say to Brown , " We shall be liberated to-day if no person comes to appear against us . " —Brown asked Bachelor how be knew that . Batchelor said the mistress had been telling him so . He also added , We must stick to the same as we said before the magistrates the other dsy . We came through Yarm between three and four o ' clock on Wednesday , but we must know nothing aboni the other concern . " Mr . Bliss in addressing the Jury for * he prisoners submitted that the evidence was not such as to
warrant a conviction . The Jury found Bachelor Guilty and Brown Not Guilty . The prisonera were further charged with having , on the 20 th of December last , at Coxwold , broken into tfce dwelling-house of Joseph Spenceley , and siolen therefrom five silver tea-spoons , two silver salt-spoon 3 , and other articles . Mr . Bunshard and Mr . Whabtom were for the prosecution ; Mr . Bliss defended the prisoners . Tne prosecutor resides at Shandy Hall , near Coxwold . Un the night of the 20 th Dec , Mrs . Spensley was the last person np , and she retired to rest between ten and eleven o ' clock , having previously gone round the
hou-e and ascertained that the doors and windows were all fast . On the following morning , about seven o ' clock , \ nn Easton , the prosecutor ' s servant , informed her mistress that the house had been broken into , and it turned out that an entrance had been efiVcted through the scullery window . A quantity oi P'&-e , linen , and provisions was discovered to have been stolen . On the day in question the prisoners were seen within two miles of Coxwold . The other evidence against the prisoners was similar to that in the last case . Some of the prosecutor ' s property was found in Bachelor ' s possession the day after the robbery . The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty . Bachelor was sentenced to be imprisoned in Nortballerton House of Correction for twelve months , and Brown for nine months . The Court rose about half-past seven o ' clock .
1 1 ( i j FRIDAY . Before M . T . Baines , Q . C . Joseph Sutcliffe , 30 , William Sharp , 22 , were iudicteQ for having , on the 7 th of February last , at Nonbowram , burglariously entered the dwellinghons = of Mr ? . Mary Andenon , and for having stolen therefrom 13 i . 6 d . in money , some silver spooas , and a pair of Engar tongs , her property . Mr . Ikgham was for the prosecution j the prisoners were undefended . The prosecutrix is very infim , and has a granddaughter residing with her . During the night in question , while they were in bed in a room on the ground floor of the house , they were disturbed by a noise
i ' ' ] ; ia the room above , and shortly afterwards three men ; entered the bed-room in which the two females were , j two of whom held them down in bed until the other nibd the drawers . The prisoners had a light with them , and one of them bad a horse piBtol , with which he threatened to shoot them if they made any noise . They were in the house about ten minutes ; the prisoner Sharp had bis face partially blacked , but the prosecutor knew him and could identify him as the man who had the pistol . Sutcliffe was identified by Miss Anderton , the grandaughter of the prosecntrix . The principal point raised was that of identity ; tbe Jury , however , considered this sufficiently proved , and found boih the prisoners Suilty . They were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years .
Robert Breninall , 22 , was charged with feloniously stealing a horse , the property of Thomas Aidam . Mr . AspisAiL was for the prosecution ; Mr . Bliss defended the prisoner . The prosecutor resides in Hall-gate , Doncaster , and is & livery stable keeper . On the 21 st of Oct . last the prisoner hired the horse in question to go to Pontefract , bnt instead of going there it appeared that ho rode in another direction , and
afterwards sold the horse at a place near Swanwick , in Derbyshire . In consequence of not returning it at ' the time he ought to have done , he was taken into custody . The parties had been j for Boae \ im © acquainted , and had had transactions j together in horse-dealing , there being , at the time of this hiring an alleged balance between them of £ 2 10 fl . The prisoner , when before the magistrates , made a voluntary statement to ihe tffect that he had ' borrowed the hor ?* ; that he w nt to Pontefract , ' from thereto Wakefield , and lheace to Chesierfield ,
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to see his wife ; that the horse fell with him after riding him s : x miles from Chesterfield , and severely cut his knees , in consequence of which he sold him , and sent the saddle and bridle , with a letter to the prosecutor , informing him thereof , and telling him that he would provide him with another horse , for that the one he had engaged was so injured that he could not get him home , and he had sold him only for as much money aB the balance was between them . Mr . Bliss succeeded in establishing these facts , and . the Jury withont retiring , found a verdict of Not Guilty . . i Job Collin , alias Wood , 22 , was indicted for that he , on the 1 st or 2 nd of November last , at Hatton , did feloniously steal a black horse , the property of Thos . Heeaom . Mr . Hall and Mr . Wharton were for the prosecution ; Mr . Roebuck defended the prisoner . The prisoner was found Guilty , and sentenced to be transported ten years . H 6 RSE STEALING AT LEEDS . John Bentley , Thomas Taylor , and John Carr were charged with having on the 5 th December last , at the borough of Leeds , feloniously stolen one mare aad one horse , the property of Robert Ripley . Mr . Ellis and Mr . Hill conducted the prosecution . The prisoners were undefended . The prosecutor is a livery-stable keeper at Leeds , and on the 4 th December last , the prisoners , Bentley and Tayior went to engage two horses for the following day . Prosecutor was not in , but his sod said that if they would call again , he would ask His father if they could have them . They called in about an hourafterwards and the prosecutor ' s son informed
them that they could be accommodated . He asked then their names , and Bentley said they called him Buck ton ; that he was a reporter at the Leeds Intelligencer ; and was going to Huddersfield to a meeting . Taylor gave his proper name . The two prisoners went for tho horses next morning , and the prosecutor asked Bentley and Taylor their names and the same tale was told him as on the night previous to his son . The same morning the two first-named prisoners were seen in Pontefcact ; Carr was with them . Bentley exchanged the mare
with a person named Tankard for a grey horse , In the afternoon , tney left Pontefract and went to Djnca 3 ter *; and from information which Mr . Etches , police-officer , received he went to tbe public house wore the horses wure aud saw Bentley and Carr . He asked them where they bad got them , and Bentley taid they were his ; and that Carr was his man . Bentley afterwards , however , told him where they had got the horses . The casr was very clear against Bentloy and Taylor , and the Jury returned a verdiot of Guilty . Carr was acquitted .
Bentley was sentenced to be transported fifteen years , and Taylor to nine months imprisonment to hard labour . The prisoner Bentley had previously been convicted of felony at Leeds , in 1839 . George Reed , 21 , Thomos Crownshaw , 18 , aud Henry Smith , 16 , were charged with a burglary in tho house of Sarah Hawkesley , at EoclObfield . — Guilty . One year ' s imprisonment each .
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WORKHOUSE DISCIPLINE . The conflict on Monday night between Ferrand and Sir James Graham was curious in its character , and not a little disgusting in its details . On thai evening Sir James Graham—who obscurely Intimated thai the erection of a treadmill or tread wheel in an union workhouse as a test of the sincerity of the pauper applicants for relief was not alltogether defensible on the principles of humanitysaw no objection to the erection of a mill worked by hand-power for the same purpose , no matter whether it were to be worked by a winch or by hand , or whether it were intended for tho tearing of rags or for the grinding of corn . As another Hon . Member , from whose position as a county member and a country gentleman we should have expected better things , seemed to
entertain a similar opinion , and even eulogized the handmill as " the least severe and the best mode" of providing labour for paupers , we are indaced to furnbh the public with certain evidence , which we have collected from the reports of tho Inspectors of Prisons , for the double purpose of showing that the handmill is at once an unequal , an inhuman , and a dangerous punishment , and of inducingthe boards of guardians in different parts of the country to abstain frem following the pernicious example which has been already set them in the parish of Lambeth , and which would have been set them in the Union of Halifax also , had not the remarks of Mr . F « rrand worked a marvellous conversion in the opinions of the Right Hon . Baronet , who is either the master or tbe puppet of the Poor L 3 W Commissioners .
We do not expect to be contradicted when we advance our first proposition—that it is impolitic to leavo it in the power of the subordinate officers either of a prison or of a workhouse to increase or diminish the amount of labour imposed upon the unhappy wretches placed under their superintendance , without either the consent or the privity of their superiors ; and yet it is made evident that this power can easily be exerciiod by any person who has the management of a handmill , by the following extract from the teatimory given by Mr . George Smith , governor of Huntingdon Gaol , before the Lords Committee on Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales : —
** I have a small hand-machine I constructed , which 1 have occasionally placed men at , as an employment , who are unable to tread the wheel , and who , from some bodily infirmity , appear to be unfit to tread the wheel . Invariably , after they have been at it for a few hours , they have made application to be allowed to tread the wheel , notwilhitanding their infirmity , and with society , rather than in a state of separation . " Of what description is the machine 1—lt is a small hand-crank engine tubnkd with a winch . " What power does it require to work it !—One man . ** What weight t— We can alter the pressure from the power of a child to the power of a giant by ALTERING THE CENTH . B SCBfcW Of the tWO Wheels that come in contact with each other .
** Do you attribute the wiBh of the prisoners to return to the treadwheel to the desire of society , or to the greater irksomenesa of the labour of the hand-msthine 1—I endeavour to set the machine so that it is not more laborious than the treadwheel . If a person who is employed at the baud-machine can work that from morning tonight without taking his jacket off , and if a man at the treadmill cannot work at that without perspiring with his jacket off , I conceive that the machine is tbe lighter labour ot the two . "— ( FirBt Report of the Lords' Committee , pp . 1 S 5166 )
But will the hand-mill be the lighter labour of the two , if " the centre screw of the two wheels" be altered by a severe and savage task-master \ Considering how tightly the t > crew has been driven into the poor for many years past by the Poor Law Commissioners and their familiars , we have an invincible repugnance to confiding the control of this crank to any person who has been brought up in their cruel and unfeeling school . We are not inclined to accuse those who are intrusted with the care of the convicted felons in the General Penitentiary at Millbank , of any disregard of their sufferings . They have , however , ereoted a handmill for the purpose of grinding corn and drawing water in that huge and ungainly prison ; and what is the evidence as to its operation and effects furnished us by the Inspectors of Prisons for the Home District in their Fourth Report , p . 21
?—The taskmasters and wardens remarked that the hands of the prisoners trembled for some time after they had been working the crank of the machine , which unfitted them for a time for their work , as tailors , shoemakers , &c ., on their return to their cells . " This is some slight proof of the effect produced by the bandmill on the nervous system ; but there is another passage in the same report , but on another prison—to which we cannot at the moment refer , but which is firmly fixed in our memory—distinctly stating , that all spinners and weavers are excused from this punishment , beoause it destroys their
feelings of touch , and so disqualifies them from pursuing their usual occupations on their discharge from gaol . And yet it was in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire that it waB recently proposed to establish the handmill , not as a punishment for convicted felons , but as a test for such unfortunate epinners and weavers as the distress of the times may have thrown out of employment ; and to that proposition Sir James Graham not only offered no objection , but positively gave his sanction and bupport , until he was awakened to a sense of his inhumanity by the pointed and startling attacks of Mr . Ferrand . _
The evidence which we have already quoted is pretty strong as to the cruelty and the impolicy of this punishment ; but it shrinks into positive insignificance when compared with that which we next feel it our duty to submit to our readers . This mode of punishment was tried for some years in the County Gaol and House of Correction at Bodmin , ia Cornwall . On tbe 3 d of April , 1838 , the keeper of that prison addressed the following report on the subject to the Chairman and other Magistrates assembled at the General Quarter SsssionB of the Peace , holden for that county at Tiuro . The document is rather long , but will repay well the trouble of a perusal : — " In making this , my quarterly report , I regret to state that during the fast quarter there have been more cases ot sickness among the prisoners than lor
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a very considerable time . It has been confined almost exclusively to tho mule prisoners convicted of felony , particularly those who have laboured constantly at the handmill , which has evidently produced much debility , and consequent illness . * * / have ever considered the handmill as a severe , as well as an unequal , kind of labour , but I have certainly never observed till tbe past winter its effects so manifest , and this I think may be attributed to one or two causes—namely , either the length and severity of the winter may have induced colds , and thus have rendered the men unequal to the labour , or they may have been kept more constantly employed at the bandmill than heretofore , although I am not prepared to say that such has
been the case . I feel it , however , necessary to state to your worships , that having for many months had a large number of prisoners of this class , I have , with a view of conforming as nearly as possible with the provisions of the Gaol Act , kept the felons wore exclusively employed at the handmill , rather than mix them with other classes of prisoners ; but there-has not been more corn ground , nor has the mill been kept longer at work , than heretofore ; unless , therefore , the weakness and illness has been brought on in the way I have mentioned , I am quite unable to account for it ; but it may be satisfactory to your worships to be informed , that the surgeon concurs in the opinion I have expressed . Before closing this part of my report , I respectfully beg leave to explain my objection to the use of the handmill as a prison labour .
In the first place , the position of the body when so employed is unnatural , and likely to produce determination of blood to the head . In the second place it frequently produces faintness aud giddiness , and instances have occurred of the prisoners having bet n thrown over the handles ; and although no fatal consequences have ensued , yet they have sustained serious wounds and bruises : this is particularly liable to happen to the prisoners when first employed at it . And , finally , it is a decidedly unequal kind of labour , inasmuch , as it is impossible to tell accurately whether every prisoner does his part ; I have repeatedly watched them when at work , with a view to detect the skulkers , but J confess 1 have mver succeeded satisfactorily , and the prisoners themselves know they cannot be doteoted , and thus the willing man is worked off his legs , whilst the idler and skulker goes unpunished 1 have ma < le several alterations in the handmill
within the last year or two , so as to regulate the motion , and render it less irksome to the prisoners , and I am satisfied that it . never worked better than at present ; but worked as it now is , I am quite convinced it is objectionable , for the reasons I have assigned . I therefore respectfully submit the subject to your worship ' s consideration , either as regards the continuance or abolition of this kind of labour . " We have great pleasure in informing the public that this appeal to the humanity of the justices of Cornwall was not made in vain ; for it ia stated in the 6 th Report of the , Inspectors of Prisons ( p . 176 ) that they ( the Justices ) came to the resolution of putting an entire stop to handmill labour in the
House of Correction at Bodmin ; and with this evidenoo before it , we now ask the House , unwilling as it was to listen to the just complaints of Mr . Ferrand , whether it will again allow the penniless , friendless , hopeless , houseless , and it may be guiltless paupers of this country to be the victims of a punishment which the magistrates of Cornwall , after mature examination and rtflection , have abolished as too severe and too pernicious even for ihe co . i vie ted criminal ? We pause for a reply . Even as a labour test this handmill has no value ; for , according to the testimony of the humane gaoler at Bodmin , " the williug man is worked off his legs . " whilst the idler and sk ulker goea unpunished . "— Times .
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counties pf Wexford and Kilkenny . Up to this date they have conducted themselves peaceably . Rumour has it that they are about proceeding to take possession of the poor-house and turn out the inmates . The Mayor and authorities are on the alert , but as yet we see nogiounds for apprehension that any outrage will be perpetrated . The military , we are just informed , have got directions to hold themselves in readiness to repel the threatened attack on the poor-house . "—Morning Chronicle .
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HOUSE OF LORDS—Thubsdat . The Bishop of Hereford presented a petition from the clergy of a rural deaaery in Salop , against the union of the sees of St . Asap h an d B angor . The Right Reverend Prelate also presented a petition from the diocese of Worcester , in favour of ohuroh extension . The Marquis of Clanricarde presented a petition from Leeds , complaining ot the Sotnnauth proclamation . Lord Dacre presented a petition complaining of the tenth article of the Washington treaty . - Lord Lvndhurst presented a petition from the Law Institution , complaining of the inconvenience of hoMing the law courts at Westminster .
Lord Brougham observed that this was a subject that of late had attracted much attention amongst the members of the legal profession . Although he did not deny some of the inconveniences that were insisted upon , he still confessed tnat he had a very si rong prejudice in favour of keeping the courts at Westminster Hall , where they had sat for time out of mind , j He would remark , also , that there was one greatjadvantage in their remaining where they were , namely , their contiguity to the Houses of Parliament . ! Lord Langdale thought that his Noble and Learned Friend would not deny that the subject was one that might be very properly inquired into . Lord Brougham had no objection to inquiry , —on the contrary , he courted it , and did not fear the result of it . i
Lord Lyndhukst pointed out tho advantage which resulted from the members of the bar being kept constantly in ! the courts in which they practised , watching the proceedings in cases in which they were not immediately engaged , and gathering experience from all that passed before them . He knew from his experience that Counsel would not attend the courts except injeases in which they were immediately concerned if { the courts were brought into the vicinity of their ; bwn chambers . A proof of this was
afforded by the practice of the Bar when the Court sat at Lincoln ' s Inn . There were then few Counsel in court beyond those engaged in the case actually under hearing—all the rest were occupied in their chambers , whence they could easily be summoned to the court wden their services were actually required . He thought that this was a decided disadvantage . \ He concurred , therefore , with his Noble and Learned Friend ( Lord Brougham ) in deprecating a ( removal of the courts of law from Weatmiuster Hall ,
Lord Campbell perfectly coincided with the Noble and Learned Lord upon the woolsack , as to the advantage derived from compelling counsel to attend in ' court . To the working barrister attendance in court afforded at once a means of increasing his experience and ef relaxing his mind from the severer studies and labour of chambers . " All work and ; no play makes Jack a dull bay . " It was highly desirable that the barrister should be drawn Irom his chambers to the court , where , if he only criticised ! the Judge , or cracked a joke with his fellows ait the bar , he was still in a field to add to his practical knowledge and experience , without any severe or irksome labour of the mind . He ( Lord Campbell ) vrns therefore strongly opposed to the
proposition tor removing the Courts of Law . There was a prestige in the vt-ry name of Westminster Hall , and he sincerely hoped that nothing would be done to remove the law courts t ' rom within the walls of that venerable edifice . Under any circumstances , jhe should decidedly object to their being removed to Lincoln ' s lun-Fielda . That noble square was one of the lungs of the metropolis , arid was as useful as it was ornamental . He should deprecate any proposition that would cover it with bricks and mortar . If the proposition , were to carry the courts to Alssatia , and so to sweep away the impurities of Whitefriars , ho should not so strongly object to it ; but he hoped never to see the admistration of . justice removed from Westminster Hall . The petition was then laid upon tho table .
The Marquis of Lansdowne gave notice that he would to-inorrow ( this day ) move that there be laid before the House copies ot the communications that had taken place between her Majesty's plenipotentiary in Chiua , and the merchants and other persons couerned j in ihe trade with that country . He presumed that there would ba no objection to the production ot ) this correspondence , or at least so much of it as had already become public at Canton and in this country . ' 1 'he Earl of Rosebery gave notice that he should to-morrow ( this day ) call their Lordships' attention fora few | momentd to the commission which her Majesty had issued to inquire into the Poor Laws in Scotland .
Ihe Marquis of ClaNiucaRde observed that th « paper , for which he had some time since moved , with respect to the operation of the Poor Law in Ireland , had not yet been returned- Hs wished that it should , if possible , be presented to the House before Eaister . Tiieir Lordships then adjourned .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . This was the night when Mr . Sharman Crawford should have brought in his bill for Complete Suffrage Parliament , and it was generally understood that the House was counted out to get rid of it .-
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TjEEDS . —Child Burnt . —On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the court house , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of a little girl namod Mary Ann Lock wood . The parents of the deceased , iwho are very poor , reside in Vine street , Hunslet-lane , and on Monday afternoon , the deceased , in company with her sister , and a younger brother , was gent to gather the refuse sticks at the glass works of Mr . Joshua Bower . Whilst there she took her brother to a cinder heap to warm him , and when ; there a gust of wind blew the flames towards her , and set her clothes on fire . She was very much burnt , and died in the Infirmary on Tuesday . Verdict" Accidental death . "
Sudden Death . —On Wednesday morning an iuquest was held at the Golden Cross Inn , Sheepscar , before John Blackburn . £ , sq ., on the body of Miss Sarah Stayner , a governess in the family of B . Holroyd , j Etq . Miss Stayner , on Monday , was taking tea wan Mis- < Holroyd , when she was suddenly seized with an attack of appoplexy . Mr . Marsden , surgeon , was instantly sent for , but she died in about two hours from the first attack . She was about-forty-six years of age . Verdict— " Died by the visitation of God . " Highway Robbery . —On Tuesday night last , about nine o ' clock , Mr . Jonathan Haigh , papermaker , of Horsforth , was stopped on tic Otley turnpike road , while on his way home , by three men , who robbed him of a sovereign and about ten shillings in silver . ;
HUIjX * . —Strike for Wages . —The smp-owners of Hail having made an attempt to reduce the wages of their men , the men determined to resist the attempt , and also to demand an advance . The sailors felt that any reduction would be an equal injury to I themselves and to all whose customers they were ; in this town , and therefore resolved upon the above -course of action . Several public meetings were held ; in purfauanco of this just object ; and on Thursday { evening , March 9 th , a public meeting was held in the Large Room of the Mason ' s Arms , Chapel-lane . Mr . Lundy was unanimously called to the chair , and opened the meeting in a few appropriate remarks . The following resolutions were
adopted unanimously by the hardy tars assembled , who amounted to about 400 persons : — " That , this meeting deeply laments the fact of an unnatural war between capital and labour ; but feeling impressed with the conviction that the capitalists must ever be too strong for the labourers when disorganized , resolves , therefore , that a union of the sailors of Hull , be formed forthwith ; the object of which union shall be the- protection of labour by all legal means . " This resolution was supported by Mr . Arran , who showed that this question of wage was one . of vital importance to all classes of society—to the Queen , the premier and his colleagues , the Parliament ,
the aristocracy , the capitalists , the shopkeepers , as well as to the operatives and labourers themselves . Philosophy had taught in England " that in order that capital might receive a sufficient remuneration the wages of labour must be kept down . " Tqq capitalists had sought to carry eut this doctrine to the utmost . This was wickedness and folly iu the extreme ; : and if this course was persisted in it would only end ia a complete breaking up of our social system . There was distress in this country , such as nad never been known before—distress admitted by all parties . The causes of this distress were many —© us enormous national
expenditureour burdensome state church—our extravagant ay 81 em of rental ; but perhaps the principal cause of suffering to the poor was the system of endless reductions in the wages of labour . He called upon tbe men to be firm—to be men—and no longer submit to be slaves—( loud applause ) . There were two parties toja system of tyranny—the tyrant who imposes , and the slave who submits to the imposition . He hoped , therefore , that they would resolve to be slaves no longer . He sat down amidst loud cheers . 2 . " That ! this meeting feels further impressed with a sense of the hardships of those unfortunate sailors and their : families , whose lot happens to be involved ia the fiequcut laaibUUblc cases of shipwreck , re-
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solves , therefore , that the funds of the proposed union shall bel . ktwise availabable for the relief of such unfortunate persons . " Mr . Lundy , though in the chair , waa requested to support this resolution , which he did in a speech at once instructive , humourous and stirring . 3 . " That this- meeting begs to express a hope that the sailors of of Hull , will make such g demand as will be likely to meet the justness of the case arising out of the present emergency . " Wa understand that on the day folio wing the above meeting the shipowners intimated their willingness to pay their men £$ per month , which is an advance of 5 s . upon the sum previously offered ; and . thugja the struggle brought to a ' speedy and amicable termination .
CI . UCKHEATON .-Thf , " wons" LeA 6 us Men . —Some time ago the Independents of Clecfcheaton , who are all , or nearly ail , Corn Law Bepealers , and members of the Anti-Corn Law League " frequently abased the wieked Chartists , for-. holding their meeting on the Lord's-day instead of going to some place of worship . These same holy and pioag men got up a petition to Parliament for a total repeal of the Corn Laws , and the said petition waa announced as lying for signature in the Vestryroom , Red Chapel , Cleckheaton , by the Rev . Gentleman from the pulpit , on Sunday last , and ha called upon his hearers to go and sign it .
RICHMOND . —Police Office , March 13 . Heniy Morgan , of Richmond , was brought before the sutiug Magistrates , charged by Mr . R . DOr-Chester , one of the police constables , with having assaulted him when on duty . Fined 40 j . and costs or one month to hard labour at Northallerton . '
o Earthquake in Lancashire . —We learn that « slight shock of earthquake was experienced about twenty minutes past ei # ht o ' clock , on Friday morning last , through a considerable part of the district to the north-eastward of Manchester . Tnis convul . Bion was indicated by a rumbling sound and a rather sudden shock , which induced many persons to think that some very heavy bod y had beea suddenly thrown down in their houses . Its centra appears to have been in tbe chain of hills that separate Yorkshire and Lancashire , and it was more
particularly felt about Rochdale and in the Tod . morden valley , where in some cases it caused considerable alarm . We have not heard of its having been perceived in the town of Manchester ; but U was felt by several families living in the immediate neighbourhood , and more particularly at Cheethamhill . This shock forms the third that has been ex . perienced dunug a few years past , apparentlj having about the same range ; but the two former ( one of which took place on the 29 th of August 1835 , and the other on the 11 th of June , 1839 ) weft considerably more violent than the one on Fridaj morning . —Manchester Guardian .
Melancholy Fate of a Bride . —The Province a Lyons journal , relates that about four o ' clock ia the morning of the 26 ch ult ., as a wedding party werj returning to Ainay from Etroits , where the marriage-feast had been celebrated , the bride , a pretty young village damsel , stopped behind the rest foi some purpose unexplained . Having waited foi some time without her rejoining them , het friends went back to seek hT ; bat , although they spread ia every direction , and ra sed the whole of the day in exploring the country round , they could gain no tidings of her . At length , on the following morning , news wag
brought that she had been found in the night bj a stranger , bound to a tree , with her hands behind her , and with her mouth filled with sand , in a wood called Te * e d'Or . She was still alive , and medical aid was called to her relief , but she was irrecoverable , and died in the afternoon of that day . No cries of distress were heard at the time she waa first missing , and , when taken down from the tree , the nuptial wreath , of oranp flowers was still on her head , and all her bridal ornaments were on her person . Upon a pest-morten examination not the -lightest trace of an ; other act of violence upon her could bo discovered except thai which caused her death .
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LOSS OF THE CLIFFORD , SHARPE . IN TORRES STRAITS . The following two extracts of letters have been received at Lloyd ' s : — 11 August 16 , 1842 . —On the 16 ih instant , we were withiu the barrier Keet , in Torres Straits , in company with the Clifford , bound to India . Thu Isabella was the leading ship , as her commander had previously beon three times throu&h the Straits , by the outer paspa ^ e , while the other commanders were going tor the first time . The Isabella having slipped her chain , we made sail for ihe anchorage under the Bird Islands , and at sunsot , finding ourselves in from six to seven fathoms water , wo deemed it advisable to anchor immediately . In coming to anchor , all the bhips , except the Gipsey , of the
rounded withiu a cable b-len ^ th Isabella ' s Stern , the Somersetshire first , the To matin second . and the Clifford third , the Gipsoy ahead , aud the whole a 3 near eaoh other as prudence would admit . The Isabella anchored in six fathoms , the Tomatin in six and a-half , on the Isabella ' s bows ; the Somersetshire in bix and a-half , ou the Toma ' . in ' s starboard quarter ; and the Gipsy ahead of the Isabella , in twenty-three fathoms . Tne Clifford , on letting to her anchor in six fathoms , on the starboard quarter of the Isabella , distant about a cable ' s length , and tending to her anchor with sixty fathoms' cablo , unfortunately foil on a small patch of coral , not marked on the charts , bearing by compass souihby-wcst-half-west from the westermost of Sir Charles Hardy ' s Islands , distant about three miles and a hair' and nortb-eaat-three-quarters-east from
HagKersioue ' s Island , distant aoout nine miles . Every exertion was made to get her off , but in vain , as the sea was washing over her weatherbeam , forcing her on the bank , and she at the same time striking heavily . At daylight , on the following morning , the sea having run high during the night , we found that she had made a bed for herself on the coral bank , and , under all ihe circumstances , we considered it utterly impracticable to get her off , and we therefore advised Captain Sharpe , her com * mander , to abandon her as a total loss , which advice he deemed necessary to adopt , but with the utmost regret . In our opinion , no blame whatever can be attributed to Captain Sharpe ; on the contrary , we think he has acted throughout with great caution , and done everything in his power tor the safety of his bhip . "
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IRELAND . ( from our own correspondent . ) Dublin , March 15 . RESISTANCE TO THE POOR RATE . —ALARMING INCURSION OF THE PEASANTRY . A numerous meeting of magistrates of the county of Waierford , was held in the Poor-house of Waterford , on Saturday , upon the requisition of Mr . Fleming , the collector of poor-rate in Gaultier district , to consider the measures most expedient to be pursued for the levy of the rato , in consequence of Iho general system of resistance amongst the peasantry , and the extreme excitemt-nt prevailing in that part of the country . A very largo police force had betn employed : but although no open resistance
had been offered , very few seizures could bo effected , as the cattle had beeu drawn off to the sea side before the arrival of the police . Amougst the magistrates present , were the Earl of Huntingdon and Mr . Meagher , Mayor of Waterford , who acted as chairman . The meeting was private ; but the Waterford Chronicle states tnat the Magistrates decided agaiust the expediency of calling out the military under present circunittaiicea . From the same journal I take the i ' oilowiug passage , which gives a very alarming , if it be not a greatly exaggerated , description of the state of the district : — - " An impression had gone abroad that the cattle seized would be exported for sale , in order to obviate ihe difficulty of procuring
purchasers at a poor-rate auction in this country . The knowledge of this fact added tenfold determination to the spirit of resistance by which the people were animated . * Were we to leap upon the tops of the bayonets , we will die before we let our cattle go , ' was a Eayintj wo heard amongst a party of Gaultier men . At the very fiercest stage of the antitithe warfare , we never witnessed such a spirit of deadly hate to the law , and fixed resolve to resist it , through fire and smoke and steel—an actual thirst for war , even to the death , rather than submit to the system of legislation adopted by the collective wisdom of tho poor law authorities upon this occasion . Nor would it have ended iu a mere temporary riot . The first shot fired , we have no doubt ,
would be a signal for a general rising—an insurreotion' throughout a great portion of the county of Waterford . Notices were posted extensively throughout the country on Sunday morning , calling upon the people to meet at the scene of action on Monday , and to bring their hurleys with them . Mounted men were posting express to distant quarters at all hours lot the last two or three eventful days . Plans of attack and defence were discussed and deliberated upon , with a seriousness that bespoke a deadly resolve—men , women , and children , we re resolved to die upon their thresholds rather than surrender ; and , therefore , under these cirbrmstances , we consider the magistrates
have well and truly acquitted themselves of the fearful responsibility thrown upon them iu the vain endeavour to uphold this most unpopular and universally detested law . Thero is one very unusual nature conneoted with this revolt , that the landlords in Gaultier are principally of the Conservative olass —we do not mean to say that this circumstance is at all connected with the recent occurrences , and we merely point it out as tbe first instanoe that has ever occurred within our recollection , where the population and landlords even of different creeds and politics were alike hostile to the operation of law . ' From a second edition of tho Waterford Chronicle I have takeu the following , which goes far to oorroborate the representation made ia the preceding
extract : — " Four o ' clock . —Aa immense body of men , amounting to some thousands , armed with sticks and clubs , have just paraded the city , rending the air with their shouts . They are principally Gaultier men , reiui ' oroeu by ututkbci'd from thu adjoiuuig
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