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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1345.
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HORRIBLE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.
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mm ^ FM ^* & £ * tsiJ&ss ^^ taSS . gggsg ^ l 5 ttaTa fcrgerj upon the banking-house of Herncs an ! Co inach ^ ue for teu guineas Pnrportaig to be drawn ^ i tea ^ as ^ bmgau . k eU ^ tv ^^ Wover .
pL ftatt had managed to impose so completely upon Mr . "Waii-i'iis , of Bo- 4 , Albemarie-street , hotel and tavern beeper ! who Snew the family of the lUgtatHon . Mr . Herries , hysiailiig fliat he was luyor Herries , just arrived from Indi . i , shat Mr . "WDfiams actually went to the bankinghouse , iu which he was known , and stated that he had seen the major sign the cheque , which was fur a gold watcli procured from Mr . Dent , watchmaker , in the Strand . —The priSO !!?? IVflS Committed upon the charge of iorgerj upon titeli ; ( 5 of Herries and Co ., and upon the separate charge ui fraud committed upon Mr . Gotrland , Mr . Stammers , Jlr . Robson , and Mr . Howard . It was considered unnecessary to take the depositions in any other case , but it was Stated thai ; since the 19 th cf last month , upwards of fifty other cases could be established .
Extensive SoacsaiES . —A young man named Clare Hunt , who had been in the service of Mr . Reynolds , mcrchanti of ifo . 12 , Austiimiars , was brought up for final examination , charged -wifli having committea forgerv . — G . iL Passenger , a person in the service of Mr . T . Pierce , of Ludgate-hill , dealer in cut glass , stated that on the 10 th of February the prisonerlnroug lit an order to the following purport ;— "J&s . Reynolds would feel obliged by Mr . Pierce sending her bv the bearer two pairs of handsome quart decanters . " " Witness « iirected the goods mentioned in the order to be packed up and delivered to theprisoner . —Mr . Keynolds stated that the prisoner had left his ser-¦ rice proiouslj to the date of the order . The order was not in the handwriting of the witness ' s wife , nor was the prisoner authorised to apply for the goods , either on behalf of the witness or his wife . —A . derkinMr . Kejnolds ' shouse proved that the order was in the handwriting of the prisoner . —Three similar charges of forgery—one upon the prosecution of Mr . Baiiej , of the firm of Bailej and Walker , ironmongers ; another upon that of Messrs . Davenport and Co ., « f Fleet-street , china and glass manufacturers ; and a third on that of Mr . Mechi , of LeadenhaH-street , cutler , were also brought forward , and the prisoner was Committed for trial .
THAMES . MoMttT . —Theft . —Sarah Hall was brought before Mr . JBrodcrip for final examination on a charge of stealing plate , liueu , and wearing apparel , of the value of £ 89 , from the dwelling-house of-Mr . Penny , a li ghterman , of So . T ± , Xucas-strect , CommcrcSal-road Bast . —Mr . Brodcrip committed the prisoner tu Newgate for triuL Young Hohse Stsalees . —Two diminutive lads , each no more than twelve \ ears old , named Alfred Callin and Georee Thomas Monijov , ivcre charged with stealing a mare , the propertv of Thomas Dyer , a carpenter and lrailder , residing at Forest-gate , ¥ est 11 am , in Essex . It appeared that Dyer tensed out the horse to graze in the Purest at eight o ' clock on Saturday morning . He saw it safe at two o ' clock , but , not coming home at the usual time , he went to loot for the animal , hut found she was gone . About half-past ten the same night he heard she ¦ was at the Bow station-house , wherehefound her . —l '
oliceconstable Diver , 358 K , saw the prisoners about half-past seven o ' clock , on the road , ahout a mile and a half on the Xtsy to town . One was riding ainare , and the other leading her . She had no bridle , but a sort of halter , made out of an old red comforter , and a piece of twine . Thej were stopped at the bar bv the toll-keeper , when Callin stated that he had ao money , and Montjoy said " stop till we return . " The constable , suspecting that the animal had been stolen , questioned Callin , who said the mare belonged to Mr . Dennis , an ironmonger at Stratford , who sent him for it to Hr . Mayne ' s fields at l < ejtonstone . Theeonstaale said there was ao such person at Li-ytonstone , and tooK tbe prisoners into custody . When they had gone a little way Callin turned very pale , and said , " you may take me if you like , but it ' s all right . " When asked again from ¦ whom he brought the mare , he said from Mr . Iingard ' 6 fields . Montjoy told the con . ' tnblc that he met Callin accidentally ; that he asked hhn : o go withhim , and that they
got the horse from a boy . He afterwards cried and said , m ttHao more lies about it . That ' s my comforter on his neck , ana Callin put it on . " The constable then took them to tKer station-house on the charge of horse stealing . He found two keys on Callin , who he found resided at 22 , Blackmore-street , Drury-lane ; and at the residence of Montjov , 15 , Holhf-street , Clare-market , he found an iron chisel , which the prisoner ' s mother told hhn had been stolen from a coa ^ njuiUlcr in Long-acre . The boys bare Bad characters ; --d he understood Monfjoy was in tfae habit of putting c- ; an apron and going to tradesmen ' s shops to ask if ih .-y wanted a boy , taking the opportunity of appropriating anything he could lay his hands on . — Momji = T . in his fe ^ uca , said he was playing in the Forest , Tth&l U hjv , uhu fas on the horse , asked him if lie would
have a ride , ilesaidjes ; upon which the boy put him on the horse , an 1 he rode up and down the main road . The buy then stated he wanted to go home , as one of the cons had calved , but he ( Jlontjoj ) suid , "Let me have another ride , " to which the boy replied , " What rail you give tue f fie gave the boy the thong of a whip , and then the boy said , " 1 < m snay take tlie horse and do as you like ivitU him . "—Callisi made no defence . —Jlr . Broderip ( to Dyer ); Do you purpose to prosecute these children for die felony?—I ) jer : Certainly . —Mr . Broderip : One naturally feels hesitation at sending children of such tender age for trial ; in . i , though young in years , I fear they are old in iniquity . As you are resolved to prosecute , there is no other course left . —The prisoners , who appeared to take the matter , with great unconcern , v . ere then fully commit , ted to Setrsate .
TUESDAT . D . MJGEE 0 ES AMUSEMENT . SHOOTING A JIa * . —IsaacJ . Barrett ^ alioy . agedfifteenyears . tb . esoitof a master baker , canying on business in Artichoke-row , fronting iiile-end-road , was brought before Mr . Broderip yesterday , on a charge of shooting a man , named Bichard Swayne , foreman to Mr . Samuel Schrier , a rope-maker , of No . 1 , "Wade ' s-place , whose grounds adjoin the garden in the rear of the premises belonging to the prisoner ' s fether . A certificate -was put in , stating that Richard Swavne Y . -3 S admitted into the London Hospital that afterooon ^ nith a gun-shot wound in his back , and that he -was in danger therefrom . It appeared from the evidence that about two o ' clock hi the afternoon the prisoner was in his father ' s garden firing the contents of a loaded pistol at a tin kettle , and whatever it contained perforated the
palings separating lir . Sender ' s grounds from the garden , and the wounded man , who was in the rope-ground , was shot in the ( Kick and wll . He was raised from tlie ground by the workmen aad conveyed to the house of Sir . Wallis , asurgeon , in the Hile-end-road , who advised his imm-.- - diate removal to the London HospitaL The prisoner was soon afterwards taken into custody . He admitted that he fired thcpistol , wiiich his brother delivered to a policeman named Horler . No . 163 K . Mr . Schrier said his foreman hadjreceived a wound " on the blade-bone of the shoolder . T- It was a jagged wound , and he did not think it was made by a gun-shot . The pr isoner , who cried loudly , siiA he loaded the pistol with apiece of lead , and fired at a tin kettle , lrat the lead ivent through the palings , ana he couldn't help it . Mr . Broderip remanded the
prisoner . CLERKEKWEW . Wedsesdat . — Shocking Destitbmojj . —A wretchedlookhig woman , with three half-starred-lookiug children , applied to the magistrate for assistance . la addition to the three children mentioned , the poor woman had an infant at her breast She said she lived at 67 , Turnmill-Street , Clerkcnwell , and that her husband was a smith , hut being unable to obtain work in London , lie left , them that morning to look for it elsewhere . Previous to his departure they had all suffered the severest privations , and -when going he left her the last three halfpence he possessed , with which she purchased bread for her children : that was all the food they had upon that day . She applied to Clerkenwell parish , bnt the officials at the workhouse refused 13 do anything for them . They must all starVC if the magistrate did not interfere . —Mr . Combe , upon this statement , despatched a messenger for one of the officers , and Hr . Bennctr , the relievm ;; officer , attended . —Mr .
CoinDe asked him if lie knew anything about the case ?—Mr , Beriueft ; I was present when she maue the application to the overseer , who could not attend to her application because she was a married woman , and because her husband was not with her , otherwise both would have teen received into the workhouse . — Mr . Combe ( to the woman } : Where is your fanshaud ?—Applicant : I doii't know , sir ; he left me to look for work . —Why does he not apply Mith'yon for relief?—lie said lie would rather starve to death than go into the workhouse . —Mr . Combe said it was evident from the miserable appearance o £ ihe faimlj they werein great distress . The parish was bound to receive them , being destitute poor in the parish , and the parochial authorities could then look out for the husband . The poor creatures must not be allowed to starve . —The magistrate directed hike to accompany the family to lift workhouse as soon « - thejr all had a good meal . —The poor woman thanked the magistrate heartily , and the officer took them to the Acton coffee-shop , where theT were supplied with a substantial ineal .
WORSHIP-STREET . XtzvzissBiS . —A young man , 21 years of age , named Edward Barlow , by trade a bookbinder , was brought up on a warrant before Mr . Broughton on Monday , charged ¦ with , having been concerned -with others in committing a -violent assault upo : i 3 £ r . Samuel Vincent Phillips , a clerk in ihe 3 jank of England , and residing at Barnsbury-park , Isungtoo . —It will be recollected that two young men , named Carter and Herbert , were charged at this court on Wednesday trith participating- in this assault , and that it appearing from the evidence that the chief injuries the prosecutor had sustained had been inflicted by the man who had . then e .-i ..-i-. eu ( the present prisoner Barlow ) , tlie man Carter was v . Z lyt&e magistrate in tlie sum of'i ( is . or in default of \ -z-. - meat to undergo sis weeks * imprisonment in the House of Correction , and the other prisoner , Herbert , in the sum of 10 s ., or a fortnight's imprisonment . —Having so recently published the evidence in the former
case , arising out of t-: c same transaction , it will be unnecessary t « . say more than that tlie prosecntor ( who still wore a > ii ; i « e over his left eye ) repeated the testimony he hadbefi .:-.- ^ iren , and in addition stated that on remonstrating v . iih the prisoners for insulting him , he told them that if they did not desist they should get the worst of it : that a regular encounter ensued between them , which lasted ten minutes that the prisoner fell from one of Ms blows , and that when the fight was over he ran after and collared the prisoner , whom he struck twice . He also stated , that thongh the youngest of the men ( Herbert ) assisted the others and annoyed hhn very much , he was not Struck by Herbert In other respects the prosecutor ' s evidence was the same as that he had before given ; hut he called in support of his statement three witnesses — two girls , named Ellen Tunbridge and
Susan Emery , . and a boy about fifteen years of age , named Biehard Henrr , whose evidence was so very contradictory uponjsome of the principal facts , that it was otremely doubtful whether Carter , on whom the heaviest fine had been before imposed , or the present prisoner Barlowi had inflicted the chief injuries tha prosecutor had sustained : ^ The prisoner , in answer to the charge , said , ttatheswid his companions had all been drinking , and that whikcnwsing the fieldsthey met the three young women , whom ,, after some conversation , they offered to ttteto tteflieattejthat the girls laughingly ridiculed ttfiu : ofifer , aad T&at they threw their arms round their necks anaMsseafliein jibut tfaattheymeant nothing more ^ najok ^ andjtta ? the girls took it as suehf flat SKf ^ Mm of throwing the stone at him , seiute - % to £ S n S ?** *** & * tne action , the pro SsSSa ^?* swaps
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^^^ struck him , he had himself been so severely beaten by Mr . Phillips , that although nearly a week had now elapsed , he still had a serious contusion on the eye ( which the pvi . soner exhibited } . Hr . Broughton sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 20 s ., or in default of payment to be committed to the House of Correction for six weeks . MARYLEBOtfE . Thubsdat . —Extensive Robbert bt a Lady ' s Maid . —Ann Furner , who was remanded from Thursday , 20 th ult ., upon the charge of having stolen bank notes , and other property of different descriptions , to a considerable amount , belonging to the lion . Colonel Finch , 6 , Hyde Park-gardens , was again placed at the bar before the sitting magistrate , itr . Long . The particulars of what previously transpired have already appeared in this paper . The property recovered by the officer was produced and identified , and the prisoner was committed for trial .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET . Thcesday . — The Recent Robbeey of Plate in Pali-Mail , —William Jagger , butler in the service of Miss Wynu and Mrs . Shipley , of If o . 104 , PiecadiUy . was brought up for final examination , charged with having stolen an immense quantity of plate intrusted to his care . —The prisoner was in the service of Miss VTynn and Mrs . Shipley , who jointly tenanted the house in Pau-mall . Theprisoner had been about seven years in his present service , and no suspicion was entertained respecting his honesty until last -week , when , on the occasion of a dinner party , the discovery was made that tlie plate , principally belonging to airs . Shipley , was missing . —
The Hon . Richard Rowley , of 47 , Berkeley-square , stated , that his mother-in-law , Mrs . Shipley , lived at No . 101 , Piccadilly . A quantity of plate now produced by several pawnbrokers , and upwards of £ 500 in -value , was Ids mother-in-law ' s property , and had been intrusted to the care of the prisoner in * his capacity of butlev . Some other articles of plate were the property of witness's brother-in-law . Thomas Smith , footman to Miss Wynn , said the articles of plate then shown to him as having been pledged by the prisouer were the property of his mistress , and worth about £ 50 . Most of the property was produced by the pawnbrokers with whom it had been pledged . The pr isoner , who declined to say anything in defence , was fully committed .
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE . lYe uniformly fcel a pleasure , and derive a portion of useful information on each successive visit to the abovenamed institute . Genius , if not the world , is evidently progressing at what is familiarly termed a railway speed , and the proprietors of this very useful establishment seem desirous to run neck to neck with the untiring skill and ingenuity of the day . We trust the support rendered by the public will be commensurate atleast with the exertions and expense unquestionably incurred in maintaining this school of art aud science . Since we last noticed this institute in our columns , Dr . John Eyan has been engaged in delivering a series of lectures on mechanical power , in the course of which the learned gentleman adverted to a recent invention lately exhibited in the . French , mctrepolis , whereby a person deprived of both arms was enabled to perform a variety of offices . It appears
we are not to be outstripped by our ingenious neighbours in inventions for the alleviation of misfortune . The Doctor in his lectures exhibited an invention , the offspring of the ingenuity of Sir George Cayley , Bart , chairman of the institution , which , in a great measure , compensates for the loss of that necessary appendage to the animal machine—the hand . The Doctor introduced to his auditory a man wbose arm had been amputated a little below the elbow—to the stump he affixed the apparatus , consisting of springs and other mechanical contrivances , which terminated in an artificial hand . By the aid of this the man performed various functions , such as laying hold of the articles around him , writiug his . name , and , in fact , almost using the hand at his own will and pleasure . The weight of the apparatus altogether is trilling ; it is not complex , but rather unsightly when closely examined , but no doubt improvements will be suggested This approximation of ait to nature is , of itself , well worthy the visit of the scientific and the curious ; but ,
combined with the multiplicity of the products of art contained in thatspacious building—the pleasing and instructive lectures on chemistry by Dr . Ryan—the interesting lectures on experimental philosophy by Professor Bashhoffner—and the admirable arrangements made to facilitate the communication of knowledge to those who have a zeal for the studyof the chemical and mechanical science ' s must insure the institution the patronage of a thinking public . . However praiseworthy may have been the motives of tlie inventors and improvers of most of our modern machines or mechanical contrivances ; and however desirous such persons may have been to lessen the load of human toil ; yet it is unfortunately " mcer true " that such inventions have been grossly abused ; hitherto , they have mostly been converted into the pickpockets and piekstomaehs of honest industry ; they have . tended only to make the rich more rich , and the poor more poor . But we have no fear of such being the case with the invention by Sir George Gayley .
The Northern Star Saturday, April 12, 1345.
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MAYXOOTH . ANOTHER STATE CHURCH . Faoiithe moment of Sir Roberi Peel ' s accession to power , down to the present time , we have reviewed his measures with almost appalling apprehension . We have been irresistibly led lo entertain but one fear : —the fear that premature death or organised" faction should arrest the career of " the man of the times "—the only man who was capable of compelling a vermin Aristocracy to commit suicide ! "While we have despised the subserviency of those through , whose agency lie has worked salutary
innovations , we nave admired the courage with which he has used theplianfcfaction for self-destruction . His Tariff ; his Canada Com Bill ; his Income and Property Tax ; his Bank Charter Bill ; his Railway Bill ; his mitigation of the Damnable Act ; his sturdy defiance of the " High Protestant party , " both in England and Ireland ; Ms appointment of political opponents to offices of trust , and even to the judgment seat his appointment of the Devon Grand Inquisition , so to convict the Irish landlords as to justify Ministerial interference with "the rights of property , " where its possessors had failed in the performance of their
duties ; his own way of carrying his own measures of Free Trade , without the co-operation of a faction , who bawled for " cheap bread" that cheap labour and increased dependancy might follow ; his dignified silence upon all questions connected with mere trafficking agitation in Ireland : in short , his throwing off " the old man" and " putting oh the new " when the times called for the change , induced us to look , —if not to the man , —atleast to his measures , as those calculated , when practically felt , io establish order out of that chaos which the disruption of faction and the disappointment of long-cherished interests is sooner or later sure to create .
To his first step towards the establishment of a rival State Church in Ireland , however , we attach much greater importance than to those measures requiring time for maturity . And ^ 7 ^ Uc our preference for the voluntary principle of religion compels us to denounce tlie proposed grant to Maynooth as unjust , —though politic ,- —we can nevertheless appreciate the courage of the former high-priest of Protestantism for the infusion of young and vigorous blood into the exhausted venisef tUe consumptive State Establishment . What in those professing preference for the voluntary system would be treason , in Sir R . Peel may be placed to the account of liberalism ; and , therefore , while we denounce the measure , we are justified in lauding its proposer . Butthen , as our
preference has ever been foi'measures over men , and much as we may have desired te preserve the executioner of a lewd Aristocracy inpower until he had completed his good work of extirpation , our regard for him is lessened by the conviction that the grant to Maynooth , if earned , will give another clerical arm to the State , to be wielded in conjunction with Protestantism for the suppression of civil liberty . Aud , in truth , if we are to give credence to the declarations of the Belfast Vindicator , and other Catholic newspapers , or if we are to place reliance on . the boastings of Mr . O'Coxnell himself , we can come to no other conclusion than that the Catholic Establishment , if once endowed , would be stretched even beyond its crippled neighbour , against the inarch of civil liberty .
The whole question presents a most striking anomaly . The proposal of Sir R . Perl is based upon expediency , to the forfeiture of those principles for which , until recently , he had contended ; and for the change we honour him . But what must we say of Mr . O'Coxxell , —the " repudiator of State patronage" —the " stickler for the voluntary principle "the " expounder of those evils which must come upon Ms own Church , if inoculated with State corruption and Government protection" ? What must we say of the Irish priesthood , who have attributed their potrer over their flocks to " the purity of their calling" ? And , above all , what must we say to the
Catholic people of Ireland , who boast of having " preserved their faith for centuries , pure and unsullied , through the ministration of their voluntary teachers" ? We heed not the rabid yelping of the Exeter Hall bloodhounds ; we yalue not the brawling vituperation of the saints and hypocrites ; we attach slight importance to the ravings of M'Neilb and the Liverpool fanatics ; and as little to the bigotted outpourings of the Irish Protestant operatives : but we do attach importance to , and place reliance in , the several sects of Dissenters , as well as the advocates of the vonraiAKr system ; and to them we look with confidence to arrest thia proposed augmentation of State Church power . It is not so much tothe revenues of the Church as to the political use made of preferments , that we
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object . It matters little whether a bishop or arch bishop shall hold by " right divine" a portion of that land which landlords hold by brute force ; it matters but little whether £ 1 , 000 a-year or £ 5 , 000 a-year shall follow the presentation of a booby nobleman to a Church-living—believing , as we do , that if the pastor lack the living the flock would reap no benefit : for the amount under the present syatem would be distributed between the lords and the squires of the parish : but we do object to any portion of patronage being placed at the power of the State , to enabl * a Government to hold office in opposition to the will
of the people . Had twenty-six thousand , or twentysix hundred thousand , or the whole " surplus revenue , " been applied to general education in Ireland , without clerical interference of any sort , we should have thought the sum well bestowed : but wo object to the proposed grant to Maynooth , because it is in reality a bribe to the Catholic priesthood . We object to it , because as long as the distinction existed of paying the priesthood of one Church , while the . priesthood of the other lived upon voluntary contributions , we could rely on the co-operation of the latter to aid us in our struggle for the destruction of the former .
What guarantee will the nation have for the " incorruptibility" of professors , whoso hostility is neutralised , aud whose State co-operation is purchased by an augmentation of salary ? What protection will the future students of Maynooth have against the blasting interference of , the State funds ? Suppose that , having tasted the first fruits of Ministerial expediency , the professors and students should contrast the small amount of J 62 C , 000 with the large anwuut of £ 1 , 426 , 587 , paid in the shape of tithes and other Church fees to the rival Church ! Having once
acknowledged the PRlHCirTiB of PERMANENT endowment , whatfeasibleepposition can the Governmentoffer toa demand for equal distribution between the two rival Churches ? Indeed it has been well contended , that if a Church establishment is to exist in Ireland , ? the Church of the Majority should constitute that establishment ; and therefore , when fitting opportunity presents itself , the College of Maynooth will become the centre of that strife which Sir Robert Peel vainly hopes to allay by a mere expedient , for the purpose of preparing the way for a Royal visit to Ireland .
It would be a disgusting task to recapitulate Mr . O'Cokkeli / s thousand-and-one reasons against any State support whatever being given to the Roman Catholic Church : but it is still more disgusting to witness the manner in which he has received the proffered bribe ! Indeed , lest we should do the advocate of the " voluntary" principle injustice , we give his speech ;—Mr . O'Connell thought that now " h ' e might expect that the union would be repealed , and that Sir R , Feel would be the man to bring in the hill which would effect that object . When they called to mind the manner in which Sir R . Feel had acted : re 8 pecting : Catholic Emancipation ,
tUeir conviction of the-iapproacli i of repeal would be styengtiiened . Harsahlyihen , 'for Poel . and Repeal } ( Cheers . ) On the las ' tclaj- bf meeting tie did not hazard any opiuiou with respecf ^ o the pvoposed Maynooth grant , and be had intended , to be cautious this day , but having just read the bill , he had ho hesitation in pronouncing it to be most excellent , and the speech by which it was accompanied was as fair ' and manly as the plan itself was admirable . The sum of £ 30 , 000 was to bo at oncegranted for building additions to the college and otherwise improving , and that without any restriction or limitation whatever . The sum of £ 6 , 000 was to be given to the president and professors , to enable them to remain iu the
college , instead of going away to country parishes ; and the students were likewise liberally provided for , It was Hone In a noble and generous manner , and . he was grateful for it . He repeated that the bill was excellent in all its details , and quite satisfactory and unobjectionable . The increased grant was to be given without restriction ' of any kind ; but would that make them give up their agitation for repeal ? ( Cries of "No , " and loud cheers . ) He firmly believed that for that very grant he ought to say , " Thank you , Agitation ; and Conciliation-hall , I am obliged to you ; and Repeal Association , llaynooth ought to pray for you . " ( Laughter and cheers . ) Sir It . Peel
was well aware of the favourable impression which the bill would produce on the minds of the people of this country , and accordingly the evening' after bring-ing it in lie set ihe Americans at defiance . '' ( Hear , hear . ) If he persevered in his present line of conduct towards this country , Ireland would set them at defiance too . If justice were done to Ireland , America would not dare , to attack England . ( Hear , hear . ) He wanted Sir R . ' Feel to buy the Irish people from him . He had done some good by the Maynooth grant , let him give them an adequate representation , and an extension of the franchise in the House of Commons ^ a nd sea K 6 w many more mouths he should stop by that . ( Laughter and cheers . )
What now , we ask , will the American people , who have been liberal . in maintaining the agitation to which Mr . O'Connelij attributes the grant , say to the " Liberator ? " Feel bidsdefiance to America , by a tender of the paltry sum of £ 26 , 000 a-year to the Catholics of Ireland : and the " Liberatob , " for the mess , joins Pbei . in his boast of defiance ! Not long since the important question of Repeal was sew'tf to hang on the public spirit of tU free people of America . ' Upon this branch of the subject we can only say , that the first shot fired in a war with our American brethren would lead to an expression of English opinion which Mr . O'Consell and his " 500 , 000 fighting men" would be unable to subdue .
The course pursued by Mr . Duncombk on the question of the Maynooth grant , although deprecated by the VQluntary-principle-supporting "Dispatch , " was the only honourable , just , and prudent course that , under the circumstances , an independent member could take . ., Unbiassed by fanatical opposition , and unawed by Whig co-operation , Duncombe assigned good and cogent reasons for voting against the measure : reasons which we trust will influence the free
constituencies , and especially the'Catholic portions , throughout the empire to demand the co-operation of their representatives in the rejection of this Ministerial plot , concocted for the mere purpose of silencing : the demands of Irishmen for their just rights , and of preparing the way for a Royal visit , to be followed by tlie conferring of titles , honours , distinctions , and perhaps emoluments , upon Catholics who are prepared to receive them , and to sell their country ' s liberty for a " mess of pottage . "
No doubt the pliant mind of Ireland will acquiesce in this or any other similar proposition . No doubt the poor creatures would arm themselves to fight against their American sons and brothers with equal ardour as they tendered their services to put down the English Chartists .- but , thank God , we have an English mind now , which no sophistry can warp , no expediency can coax , and no Minister can crush . No importance can be attached to the amount of the grant : the thing to object to is the recognition of the principle . If we have attached greater importance to free representation upon any one question above another , it has been to the justifiable anticipation
that the separation of Church from State must follow on the representation of the public ' will . Their union has been the source of woe and of difficult y ; nor can we possibly see how woe and difficult y can be removed , or even diminished , by calling in the aid of another Church to assist the State for political purposes—the object , the sole , the only object that the Prime Minister had in view in proposing the measure . As to Mr . O'CojfXELL ' s acceptance of the boon , it does not test his opinion , but merel y proves his subserviency . He dare not do other than accept it ; and hi » best and most politic course was to persuade the recipients that to Ms agitation , rather than to Ministerial bounty , they were indebted for the bribe
When a large military force preserved the peace of Ireland , he ascribed tranquillity to his pacificating powers : and at length he has sweated doum fat Repeal ^ to the lean skeleton of £ 26 , 000 a year , to be applied to the prostitution of the teachers of his country ' s reli gion ! But yet there are great things in store . The Tory Pokter has become a member of " Conciliation Hall , " and tells us that many of his class and order have been heretofore
prevented from joining by the fact that no balance sheet was presented to the country . The Whig Lord Cloncurrt " wanted a new coat , " and has adopted the uniform of the ' 82 elub . So what has Ireland to fear ? From the present time to the moment of the visit of the Head of the Protestant Clttueh , a new Irish , -vocabulary wfll be adopted ; new pacific remedies will be proposed ; national rejoicings will follow ; slaves will bend the knee , and hypocrites will ttow up their greasy caps , and iiont
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"All hail to tnC granter of £ 26 , 000 a year to the Catholic priesthood of Ireland !" Ireland once had a visit from " the first gentleman in Eng land , " and the biggest blackguard of Europe , The " Liberator" prostrated himself before the monarch , and tendered the olive branch . Peace was to follow . Lord Finoal was created a Knight of St . Patrick ; a few lickspittles worn dignified with titles and distinctions , that they neither merited or
understood : and there the matter ended . And Peel will find that tlie visit of Victoria will be but a nine daya' wonder ; that her presence will inspire hopes which he cannot realise by any amount of Corruption at his disposal ; that a servile peace can only be purchased for the tenure of an old and fickle life ; and that Ireland will one day arise in the majesty of a newly-created mind , and demand something more than the corruption of her priesthood as the terms of her union with England .
TEE LORD'S SON AND THE COLLIER . Is our eighth page will be found a report of the trial of William Leioii against the Hon . Colin Lindsay , son of Lord Balcabras , one of tlie most extensive coalowners in Lancashire : and the reader will learn from the perusal of that report that the humble collier , tlirougb . the perseverance and boldness of Mr . Roberts , has succeeded in making the tyrant Dogberry pay £ 30 damages , together ivith all the costs of the action , for any amusement he derived from his temporary triumph over his victim and the law . Often as we have urged the necessity ef
organisation and union among the Working Classes , we have been seldom able to exhibit prominent practical results from combination , except those furnished to ua by Mr . Roberts . The denunciatien of acts of oppression is at all times received with indignation , accompanied with loud applause : but what avails thomere publication of the tyranny of the rich oppressor ? It does not operate as an example to others who are banded ^ together as an inexorable class , and who can only be dealt with individually . One such flagellation as that received by the son of Lord Balcarras from a jury of his own neighbours , is worth years of mere denunciation .
In truth , in these days of class ascendancy , it is something more than striking to find a professional gentleman , sprang from the ranks of the aristocracy , and of high literary attainments , standing out from his order as the avenger of the poor man ' s wrongs . It is no answer that Mr . Roberts is well remunerated for his services in that direction , inasmuch as the success of those services would rentier him , if purchaseable , of unspeakable value to the grinding capitalists . The cross-examination of Mr . Roberts presents a wholesome lesson to his class . He does not only not appear to be ashamed of the sources from whence he drawa his . revenue , but proudly declares the value of working-class union by stating that the prospect of indemnity from loss is to come from the source of combination .
Dealing , as Mr . Roberts was with the question of Labour and Capital , and SHbject as the decision was to the judgment of a jury of Capitalists , we should , if we preferred expediency to principle , have doubted the policy of his course , while we admired the frankness of his declaration . The man must have a good case who thus expounds it to a jury of masters : " I am solicitor in this action . My client is a humble man without a farthing to aid him in procuring legal satisfaction for wrongs done . The defendant is the son of a Peer of the realm , and a
magistrate ; the son of a Peer who draws the principal portion of Ms wealth from his power over my client ' s labour . You are the jury , placed in a very similar situation to the noble lord . I have organised a union of my client ' s class , in order to procure that justice which , as individuals , none would be able ever to look for . By your verdict this day you have it in your power to shew the inefficacy of union—the inuiility of combination—and the control of capital , if it is for the defendant ; while , on the other hand , should your verdict be for my client , it at once establishes the value of combination !"
Such is critically the proper view of the ease ; and Mr .- 'Roberts , knowing the justice of his client ' s claim , had no objection to place the result on that Jssue . He aoz a ysbvict , by w 7 dch the lord ' s son is compelled to pay the poor Collier £ 30 , together with all the costs of the action . That was the legal bearing of the verdict ; but the moral was more valuable , because it proclaimed the value of combination . Counsel for the defendant has reserved some legal points , which must be argued before the fifteen judges . IVtiat
a glorious spectacle ! A humble Collier dragged from the bowels of the earth before the highest legal tribunal in the country , with a lord ' s son , a justice , for X opponent ! We mention this threatened after-clap , for the purpose of inspiring every Collier throughout tho kingdom with the proper sense of Ilia duty : the duty of sustaining their advocate in his battle of " right against might . " It is not Leigh ' s case , nor the case of the Miners of Lancashire—it is the case of the whole national body .
Like a good general , Mr . Roberts has not rested satisfied with this experiment for justice . He has served notices of similar actions upon a large number of similar wrong-doen : and in each and every one he must be supported and sustained . Were the Trades of England as well organised as the Colliers , the legal knowledge , the unpurchaseable integrity , and the indomitable energy of Mr . Roberts , would enable them , in a very shore time ,
to apply their millions , continually expended in'fruitless warfare with capitalists , to the more profitable purpose of social improvement . His very name is a host ; a terror to their legions : and a few more examples sueh as the Honourable Mr . Colin Lisdsat would teach the capitalists the value of the law ; would give the magistrates some little knowledge of justice ; and impart to the working classes a taste of the power of union .
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To Agents . —If our agents would attend to their business a little better they would greatly facilitate ours . We generally get more letters from them ou the Friday than on the Thursday . Those agents who do not post their letters so as to arrive here on the Thursday must take all consequences of delay or wrong numbers being eent . This is particularly the casa with our Scotch agents' orders , most of which arrive after fchoh- papers have left our office , and then , the following week we receive a host of letters from them about not attending to their orders , while the neglect is their own , and letters from subscribers , disappointed at not being able to receive theiv papers in proper time . ALL
LETTERS , TO ENSURE ATTENTION , MUST BE HERE ON THURSDAY . Parties sendiug yoatoffice orders , or cash , to this office , ought to be careful to write somsthing in their letters , so that we can tell who sends them , ana what they intend us to do with the money . We have four or five agents who never write a word more than the address of this office oil the outside of the orders . We are partial to short letters , when on matters of business ; but these are rather too short . If those who send wiU only sign their namc 5 t it is all we ask ; and if they will not do that , they must expect that the cash will sometimes be credited to the wrong agents . To correct such errors afterwards takes much time in writing for all particulars , besides the risk of the person sending the
money losing it altogether . From a recent alteration in the post-office order department , it is impossible to ascertain the name of the person sending , without writing to the post-office where the order was first ob tsined , or to the general office . Several of our agents are still determined not to send their orders payable at 180 , Strand . We have this week re ceived orders payable at the General Post-office from Sykes , of Aldermondbury ; and Young , of Gateshead If they would but ask to have their orders made Dav able at 180 , Strand , thoy would oW 3 . ¦ SeveraI ^ agents address thejr orders to Mr . itob 5 on T ] * WO " 1 ! " JK ^ ™^« ves disappoint ment if they addressed them to
the proper peTson M , V Henry Saunders , of Newark , mu ' t Sj , ^ answer to his complaint of neglect his Mt « J ? the editor in TOndmiH-street , !„ " Twas nSS ^ T 2 to the publishing 6 ffice iu the Strand ed TWHeiwoob , Stbeatham . —Not only has i nriKnnn ¦ n with his legal adviser inpri wtc , but all otherS committed for trial on any charge , however trfi W . S ., Vaib , — U IS impossible to expect that Mr O'Connor can at all interfere with the rTfn ^ , ' tionsofthe . Rechabites . Th "T ease of W B m ® , *" very clear , -while Mr . O'C onnor ' s iuterferenee wo n u Impertinent « 4 wtfwttflaWo . " 1 UlCUerenee W <> W »»
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Ihk Polish Revolution . —We some weeks ago received a copy of a pamphlet entitled "Report of the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Polish Revolution , celebrated at the Crown and Anchor , Strand , 'on thei'Oth of November , 1814 . " The receipt of the pamphlet would have been acknowledged before this , but that unfortunately a letter accompanying it , which will be found below , was by some accident mislaid . This week we have recovered tlie letter , a copy of which we hero , with great pleasure , lay before our readers : — To the Editor of ihe Northern Star . Sm , —The editors of the subjoined pamphlet beg to call your attention to its contents , which display views upon the Polish cause , iu its connection with the cause of general liberty and progress , more tvvie than those promulgated by certain aristocratical associations . The
hostility manifested by Sir Robert Peel against continental progress , to check which he believed himself justified even in the clandestine opeuing and rcsealiugof lettei' 8 intrusted to the sacred guardiansliip of public faith , seems to render the present moment the most appropriate for bringing before the public a justification of a cause , which iu common with all coiitiueutial causes of a similar nature lie has thus outlawed . The names of two of the undersigned parties have been denounced to the public as those of suspected conspirators May it be allowed to them to 3 tate here that tlie only conspiracy to which they belong in common with the whole of theiv nation , is that publicly avowed by 296 Poles in tlse 4 th resolution of the meeting of the 5 tH of June ( see page 9 of the subjoined report )—aud this conspiracy they will never abandon or deny .
> Ve have the honour to bo , with much regard , Sir , your obedient servants , the editors , TllADBiEUS WHEHPOMUOCKl , Louis Oborski , John Kbvsski , Chabi . es Stoizman , Stanislaus Worcell . The " Report" itself we will oxainino at a future period , in some one of our future articles under the head of " Foreign Movements . " The cause of Poland has ever been a cause dear to us ; and we promise the above named gentlemen that their righteous esei'tione to restove , the uatiowalhy and freedom of their fatherland shall not lack our sympathetic co-operation . We must however add one remark , Exiles from other nations , proscribed and expatriated from their native soil for
their devotion to democratic principles , should , when they seek refuge in this country , know nothing of the differences or the sects which divide tlie party of the English movement . They appeal to the sympathies of all the friends of liberty : they should therefore be careful not to ally themselves with any one section to the exclusion of all other sections . This wdB done at the meeting of which the pamphlet received is a " Report . " At that meeting one section of the English friends of progress were present—a section anything but the majority , or oven , representing the majority of the English democrats—all other sections were unrepresented . It is . not to the advantage of the Polish cause that this should have been so . It is not the Poles , however , that we blame , but their too assuming " friends "—the " esclusives . " We now mention this , because if the Polish cause can be benefitted by the sympathy of the English friends of equal rights , they must be appealed to in the mass , not sectionally . We hope better things on future " anniversaries . "
Mb . Pepi . ow ' 8 address is : —William Peplovy , Ladies' Shoemaker , Broivning-street , Stafford . Ma . T . TATTERSAit's Condition after his Release FROM FBISON . —lIr . H . Holland , the District Secretary for North Lancashire , writes us as follows . — " I am sorry to state that Mr . Tattersall is confined to his bed with a severe affliction , the result , no doubt , of his long eonfinomont In Lancaster gaol . I believe his complaint is what is termed psoas abscess . He receives invitations from various places to attend and lecture , which he is wholly incapable of acceding to . Indeed , sir , he is not able to write in reply } and he lias wisnei me to request you to insert in next Saturday ' s Star a notice of his situation , so that it will be a general answer to all places who have invited him . " A Kegdlab Subscriber , YoBK . —JTot if the occupation is merely permissht . John Moss , TtrNsritt , —If he inhabits , lie is liable to a rate the moment it is laid , unless the house lie occupies is a new one , and has not stood a sufficient time to be
assessed . Sam Slt , Asniotf , has been too sly in copying uertattm the artisle " Liberty in Limbo , " from the " works of Tim Bobbin , Esq ., " and palming it on us as his own . The article shall appear in our "Tit Bit" column some day ; but . the honour of the authorship shall be given to the proper party : and that will not be Sam Sly , sly as he may deem himself . Tuos . Webb , Stockpobt , —The " evidence" he wants is contained in a volume of evidence taken before a committee of the House of Lords on the Catholic Claims , in the year 182 S . It can be had of Hansard , the Parliamentary publisher ; and the price is us ., we believe . E . Cavih . —The Guardians have the power they claim . They can " stop the allowance , " and offer the old lady / the workhouse . If she refuses to enter the accursed
place , she can compel no other mode of relief . John Kemp , Folkstone . — The "Manual of Field Gardening , " by Mr . Nowell , is published by Simpkin and Marshall , London ; and by Mr . T . Kenift Huddersfield . The price of the little volume is Is . fltt . JAMES HeILI WELL , IIEPIONSTALL . —K the party he names thinks the master is not performing to the full his covenant with his apprentice , let them summon him before the magistrates to answer such complaint . The Warrington Workhouse again ;—Can any of our readers inform us whether it be true that a " free and independent" English " pauper , " named Peter Leather , hung himself in a room which a publicau had allowed him to sleep in , sooner than he would return to the Wngory Moss Bastile , of which he had been an inmate ; and whether , if sueh be the fact , it is not the third case
of suicide that has occurred connected with the New Poor Law and its administration iu Wawlngton ? Was there not also a poor woman named Eebecca Ashton found dead in her house a few weeks since , without meat or drink of any description in her miserable abode ? and had not she too been an inmate Of the workhouse ? If the Board of Guardians , through their clever clerk , will but communicate accurate information on these matters to the public , they will render a public service ; but we suggest to them that they do not do as they did In a former case we mentioneddecide it to be untrue , and then talk of instituting an inquiry . Let them , in these instances , inquire first , and decide afterwards . We should be glad to hear from our friend the " Clerk to the Union , " on the above
points . The information he could communicate would be of use , if it were only to settle some strange rumours connected with the Poor Law at Warrington , John M'Anna , ' 6-ibvan . —Let him embody in a memorial to Sir James Graham the fasts of the cases he mentions to us . Let Jura give names , dates , and places where tho law has been violated , and by whom . Then let linn detail the efforts he has made to obtain justice on the law-breakers , and the bandyings-about he has experienced ; and let him , in conclusion , ask Sir James what he is neat to do . But , in thus memorialising the Government through the Home Secretary , let him be . careful to state nothing but what he can prove—nothing but what he has evidence to sustain . Let him pursue this course , and then let us see what Sir James does iu the matter .
The Letteb . Pbess Pbintebs aud Mr . Livesey . oj PBESTON . —We have received a mass of matter respecting the conduct of the gentleman named above towards tlie trado in which he has lately become a " master . " It seems , from the documents furnished us , that with endless professions of "friendship for the working man" on his lips , Mr . Livesey has taken on himself to upset tlie regulations of the trade , and to employ in his establishment double tlie number of apprentices allowed . As might na urally be expected , the Unionmen he had have left him , and their places have been supplied by parties known to the " profession" as mis . This conduct , on the part of Mr . Livesey , has created considerable attention ; so much so , that even members of the League are calling On tho Anti-Com Law Committee t o interfere , to prevent the public drawing the inference from the proceedings of one of their PAID advocates , that "free trade is wanted to reduce wages " and that "tlie Anti-Corn Law agitation is a sclfisli one . We shall be curious to hear what " the Com - mittee" make of the case . Meanwhile we shall take
occasion to say a word or two as to our own practice in relation to the workmen employed on the iVortftcm Star . While the paper was in Leeds , and while the printing-office was our own , not a man was in it but who was a member of the Union ; aud we never had a word of mis \ indBi < st&nain with the men from the first hour of its opening to the last hour of its closing . The wages paid in the Star office were , for years , higher than those paid at any other office in Leeds ; and how the universal acknowled gment in the trade is , that there never was a better office in Yorkshire than tho Star office was . At present the paper js not printed in an office of our own . It is printed bv a printer , who conducts his own establishment and over whom on these matters , we have no sort of con . tiol
In Ins omce , however , there is not a man ^ f ^^ = saa . 2 ~ SS . ? T the minds of *»» W ' tes o minds nf S C ° "ferences . "id , through them , the f « 1 „ 6 membei > s of Trades' Unions generally . Let the above sunple statement of facts put such Mend ^ t ^ - ^^ oe . n .-ho have fistened K suggestions to act as becomes men . When Mr . Livesey , of Preston , acts towards those employed bv him as ; theA ' wttera star people have acted towards " their hands , " the trade will not war with Mm . bat look upon him as a real friend . '
W . Daniels . —If the agent had paid his account , the Stars would not have been stopped . Mmes , Ddndee . —The plates caa be had . B . THOMAS .-The procession with the national petition took place on Monday , May 2 nd , 1842 ; Recent street formed a portion of the line of route . * ° cnt-street Joseph Foster , Mobmy . —His statement shall not bo lost sight of : but he should remember , that if au Earl even has doneinjury and injustice at one time ( assuminir his representation of facts to be comet ) there Is a the more necessity for his endeavouring to do good after wards ^ andtheestabh- shmeutoflandallotmerSsaXlf " supporting schools are both of them good tltinas ftwhich the Earl of Dartmouth deserves SSii 11 Of
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Bowoh . Mr . O ' Connor proposes visiting . Lancashire and other districts after the Convention , and will give his Bolton ' friends a week ' s notice of his coming . Mr . O'Connob and Agricultural Pursuits . —It would , more than occupy Mr . O'Connor ' s whole time if lio was to answer the several questions contained iu l ^ g letters put to him by parties who have taken plots of ground . He has laid down rules fov practice in hU work upon small fawns , which may be acted upon with perfect security . The work can be had of Mr , Hey wood , of Manchester , aud through all news-agents , " lu reply to T . Caunt , Carrington , Mr . O'Connor begs to observe , that all changes of food to cows or horse ?
should be made gradually . Mr . O'Connor lias not re . commended raw potatoes for cattle , because they gene , rally produce scouring ; nor has he recommended boiled potatoes as the only food , except for fatt ° ning boasU and horses , where it is judicious to use them , llc i , as used them for both , without one single case of loss or danger . In all cases persons having one or many milca cows should vary their food as much as possible , which is very easily effected by growing winter and ' sprin " tares , a succession of cabbage crops , rape , inangef wurisel , turnips , lucerne , Italian rye grass , and pOta . toes ! Cabbages furnish perhaps tho host , and ! ni , ^ " used as tho most constant food for milch cattle , taiaV care to give them while they are fresh . °
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^ MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'COXKOu . FOR THE SXECC 7 T 1 V £ . £ s > ( 1 From Thomas Smith , Cirencester o ' . ' ' RECEIPTS PER GENERAL SECUBTAKV . * SCTBSCKIPTION'S . £ s- d . £ s . d Crown and Anchor .. 2 0 Ilaggate [ 05 Somevs Town .. .. 3 0 Uarnoldswick ., , \ q - Merthyr Tydvil ,, 5 0 WhcatlejJane .. & 9 Edinburgh ,. .. 3 0 Oswaldtwistle .. .. ^ qi llaslingden , per Jas . Bilston , ' 7 0 : Leach 7 6 Wootten-undcr-Edcc 5 n Ditto 0 11 Leeds .. . . 10 n Marsden 10 "
LEV ? . Mr . J . Warrener , Highgate 0 0 6 Mr . < T . Lunn , Hampsteail 0 1 s Ashton-under-Lyne .. .. ,. ,. .. .. 1 0 fl Hammersmith . 2 nd instalment 0 9 , Merthyr Tydvil , ditto 0 t e Oswaldtwistle ( 15 members ) , 1 st instalment .. 0 15 0 Clock-house , Westminster lie This morning ( Thursday ) 1 have received notice from Messrs . lloir and Ross declining to stand the election for the Executive , on the ground of other engagements precluding them from properly attending to its duties thei " names must , consequently , be erased from the list i « {¦ places where the elections are not concluded . THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Secretary .
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Additioxau Particulars . —Friday . —Immcdialely after the adjournment of the inquest , the body of the murdered woman , Mary Brothers , was removed from the house , No . 11 , George-street , b y direction of the coroner , to St . Giles ' s workhouse , in a she ]] , in order that a . post mortem examination might be made , prior to its interment . During the whole of yesterday tlie police were using extraordinary exertions to trace out he murderer , and for this purpose upwards of one nundred men , in addition to the detective force , dressed in Dlain clothes , were distributed in various parts ' of the metropolis and its suburbs : all the low coffec-lumses , beer-shops , and public-nouses , have
been visited , to ascertain if there was any one in them answering to the ninrderer ' s description . The murdered woman it appeal's , is a native of IValeSs born at Hayertbrdwest . Her maiden name was Davis , that being the name of Mrs . Prout , her mother ' s first husband . The last time the deceased saw her husband was about eighteen , months since , vfhenlie was attending a funeral furnished by his employers , Messrs . Pratt and Hsetfield , at St . Giles ' s church . Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion , she rushed at him and tore the skirts of his coat off . The examination of the body was performed , last night by Mr . Fitzgerald , in the presence of Dr . Kenny and one or two other medical men , but the result has not transpired . Another rumour states that an
important clue to the discovery ot the murderer ot Mary Brothers has just been communicated to Superintendent Pearcc , of the F division , at the Bowstreet station-house , who considered it of so much importance as to start immediately to follow \ ip tho inquiry . The unfovtunate woman was well known as a ' constant frequenter of the various coffee-houses and public-houses in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden-market , which are kept open all night for tho convenience of the salesmen , porters , and others frequenting it , and are the resort of the dissipated of both sexes . She was generally iu a state of ebriety , wandering about from house to house picking up a scanty snpplv ofiwn and flrink
from the charity of the persons she met with , < aking occasional repose , and wandering for many nights in succession , destitute of a bed . A man answering in many particulars the description of the supposed murderer , hoe frequently been seen in her company on terms of loose intimacy , and lias been heard , on more occasions than one , to make use of threats against her . He was employed as an occasional porter- in . the loai'kei , and , since Monday night , lias nob been near his usual places of resort . The unfortunate deceased was a very intelligent woman , and this excited much sympathy in her behalf for her fallen condition , and her countenance bore traces of considerable former personal beauty .
APPREHENSION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE MURDERER . Saturday Morsino . —The apprehension of the murderer of the unfortunate female , Mary Brother t alias Tape , was effected shortly after five o ' clock last evening , by Mr . Superintendent Pierce , of the P division , and his identity fully established . The individual in question , who , on being taken into custody , gave his name as _ James Connor , aged 21 , ia an Irishman , and , with one exception , fully answers the last description which | was circulated as " the correct description of the murderer : — He is 21 years of age , five feet five inches high , very pale sallow complexion , thin face , long nose , very dark hair , no whiskers , or very little , black eyes ,
sometimes dresses in a fustian jacket , dark trousers , black hat or cap with peak . At other times in dark velveteenshooting jacket and dark elieck trousers . Hag the appearance of a costermonger . " The exception is his age , as it is stated that he will not be twenty years of age until next November . From information received by Mr . Superintendent Pierce , lie lias for the last two days had strong suspicion that the perpetrator of the murder had secreted himself at no great distance from the vicinity of the spot where the crime was committed ; and acting upon this impression , and some peculiar facts which had privately come to his knowledge , he , shortly before six o ' clock last evening , proceeded to the house No . 15 , Beltonstrcet , and inquired if there was a person residing
there answering tlie murderer ' s description , but , being answered in the negative , he said he had strong reasons for searching the place , and , accompanied by some of his men , the inspector proceeded to effect tlliSj and ill a back apartment found the man Connor , who , the instant he saw the police , gave himself up , and lie was at once conveyed to the station-house ui Bow-street . As soon as possible after Connor ' s apprehension information was despatched to the E division , and Mr . Inspector Rawley , accompanied by Mr . Oldham , the cutler , of High-street , and his daughter , and tlie two females who live in the house , No . 11 , George-street , as also the woman with whom the murderer spoke after purchasing the carving-knife , known as " Irish Biddy , " proceeded to the station-house in Bow-street tor the purpose of speaking to the prisoners identity . Mr . Oldham and his daughter were first shown the accused , and the instant tke child , who is exceedingly intelligent , caught a glimpse of the prisoner , she
exclaimed , "Oh . tatlicr . thatisthenian . rinsure . " Mr . Oldham was of a similar opinion , and he was the more convinced that he was right as the man Connor had on a fustian ami not a velveteen coat , and which lie had previously declared his belief was the case . Mrs . Hall , who . stated at the inquest that it was too dark for her to jkee him , could not speak positively , but . the woman Pahner and Irish Biddy identified mm without hesitation . The prisoner , who was exceedingly taciturn , was then locked up , the charge having been entered on the police sheet . It is said that he resided with his father at the house where he was apprehended , and that he was a porter at a silversmith ' s in Long-acre , but nothing definite oil this point has transpired . Examination of the Supposed Mcmmekek at Bow . Stbeet Police Court . —The examination of the young man suspected of being the murderer of Mary Brothers m George-street , St . Giles ' s , teok place this morning at Bow . strcot .
It having been generally known that a person who gave his name James Connor , had been apprehended last night on suspicion of being the assassin , the neighbour , hood of Bow-street was crowded to excess at an early hour ; but the majority of those assembled were disappointed , as the prisoner was removed ftom the cell at the police-station to a lock-up room , adjoining the couft , as earij- as half-past eight o ' clock . The prisoner has a large bloated face , with a com . plexion rather marked b y the mere absence of colour than saUowness , as described by some of the witnesses at
the inquest ; his nose , the most remarkable feature of his face , is unusually large , and corresponds , in this respect , with the description giveu by all the witnesses . His general appearance , with regard to age , size , and dress , corresponds very closely with what Mr . Oldham said at the inquest . He stated that his clothes were very dirty , and that he had the appearance of being one of the persons living iuthe back streets of St . Giles ' s . As he sat iu the ante-room awaiting the period of his examination , he appaared to be in a state of some excitement , and his breast was observed frequently to heave , as if from mental anxiety .
In answer to a question bj- Hr . Baniabv , the prisoner laid his iiiimo was James Connor , * Bridget ll « nia : i was the first witness called . —I have known the prisoner for twelve months . He called upon me generally ouco 11 week . I saw him on Saturday night i \\ George-street , St . Gnes ' s . I asked him how he was , and he said that he was getting better ; and he did not wish Ms sister to kuow that anything had been the mat
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Horrible Murder In St. Giles's.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN ST . GILES'S .
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