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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Loids won't have Jew MemberB of Parliament at any price . Notwithstanding the large majorities by which the Commons have repeatedly declared their -willingness to fetth e deseendents of Abraham sit on the Bame tenches with them , the Peers can't overcome their Christian disgust and repugnance . It takes away one of the bulwarks of our ' venerable Constitution , ' and thereis no knowing what * t may leaa to—perhaps , even to the Kepublic it self ! Therefore the Lords are wise in time , *? d will have no tampering with the sacred e difice . What will London and Greenwich
* av to their decision ? If Lord JOHU had "&b in earnest , we believe the Upper House ^ ould n ot have dared thus repeatedly •*> interfere in a matter which , after all , jjffcs not concern them . But they how " * t ie i 8 laKewann in the cause , as well as J ^ terially weak , and , therefore , they may enture to oppoBe him with impunity . Alderman Salomons will be obliged to make * a r ^ e ' in the Commons after all—that is , if j * means to Tedeem Iub pledges on the hustu g «; and perhaps we shall aee him committed
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for breach of privilege to the old cellar so long tenanted by Smith O'Brien . Ministers narrowl y escaped defeat on their Colonial policy in the Peers on Tuesday night . They would have been beaten outright had the attack upon them been in earnest ; bat it was not . The Earl of Derby did not show his characteristic impetuosity and gallantry . His speech was one of fencing , evasion , and elaborate trimming . He was more anxious to protect himself against reply , and save loopholes for future conservative tyranny in the colonies than to advocate the cause of refinf TrrfiAIMl fit nritniafya + /\ tliA rAA naWav
presentative government , which was the professed object of his motion . Earl Grey , on the other hand , turned the whole affair into a personal quarrel , and , under shelter of his position as a peer , attacked the able and intrepid representatives of the Cape Colonists in this country in a place where they had no chance of replying to him . The Law Lords squabbled about the legal position of Crown colonies , and the extent of the Royal Supremacy orer them , and Lord Truko signalised himself by the enunciation of a doctr ine which even in the palmy days of Toryism—or , to go further back , the time in which base and servile Judges justified the tyranny of Charles and James Stuartwould " have been considered too slavish and
degrading . If the new Whig Lord Chancellos does not distinguish himself as an Equity Judge , he is certain to be remembered for his reactionary and despotic tendencies . In the Commons , the week has , as usual at this time of the year , been a busy one , though not much business has been done . There is so much to talk about . ' The barristers , on Tuesday , made a rigorous attempt to get into the County Courts , from which they were at first excluded . It seems that these cheap and speedy courts are superseding
the old , lumbering , and expensive processes , invented specially to enable lawyers to devour estates according to law . Westminster is deserted , and briefs grow few and far between . The farther extension of the jurisdiction of the County Courts threatens still more to diminish the business in the Upper Courts , and the gentlemen of the long robe , who at first turned up their noses at the cheap and nasty Courts , ' are now glad to be permitted to practice in them . They succeeded partially . The real object was to have exclusive pre-audience as in the XJpper Courts ,
with , of course , briefs , fees , retainers , and all the usual expensive appurtenancies ; but they were defeated , and obliged to put up with such a share of County Court business as suitors may please to give them . Their employment is not obligatory . We have referred , an a previous article , to the Horfield case which constituted the topic of Thursday night's debate . The friends of BiBhop Mokk rely entirely upon his personal character , and
his good intentions , and they deprecate condemnation or censure until he actually failB to fulfil these good intentions . That will be shutting the stable door when the steed is Btolen . The course the Bishop has taken in alienating the estate , under the very peculiar circumstances in "which he was placed , is proof sufficient as to his real intentions ; and , if he does not carry them out , it will be simply because Mr . Horsman , by his bold and fearless denunciation , has Beared him from his
prey . The remaining portion of the Session will be mainly occupied with voting the supplies for the year . Already a large proportion of the members have left town . The others will soon follow , and St . Stephen ' s will be as empty as the Session itself .
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MONIES RECEIVED For the Week Ehdixo Thursday , Jch 17 th , 1851 . WIHDING-UP OF THE LAO COMPAHY . REC £ 1 V £ D B 7 W . SIPES . £ S . d . T . Crossley , Hudaersfield Branch .. 0 10 J . Shepperd , Bradford Branch .. .. 0 18 £ 0 2 0 ^ HH ^ HHMB
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THE HONESTY FUND . RECEIVED BY tV . BIDEB . £ e . d . Dorking , per W . B . ... .. 070 FOR MR . £ JONES . Received by W . Ktoeb . — j . Morgan , Merthyr 10 s . The Monies received for the National Charter Fund will be acknowledged next week .
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Refohu os the Cab-bane . —A correspondent says , that within the last few days the Metropolitan Commissioners of Police have suspended the licenses of S 00 cab-drivers . The Commissioners having ascertained that numbers of the licensed drivers were brothel keepers and otherwise improper persons to be entrusted with the public service , on the last annual licensing day in 1850 gave individual notice that strict inquiries would be made on the next occasion , and all who were found as abovementioned or notorious drunkards would be deemed unfit persons and their licences refused . The result has been the suspsnsion of upwards of S 00 . These vigorous measures of the Commissioners have astonished the whole fraternity , and several meetings
have been held to consider the position of the body . KaiionaIi Reform League . —We are pleaged to see that the calamitous state of Ireland , and the deplorable and almost incredible destruction of life , as disclosed by the recent census , is attracting a great amount of public attention , and also that a public meeting will be held on Monday evening , at the Eclectic Institute , 18 a , Denmark-street , Soho , under the auspices of the Council , to deliberate upon the present state of Ireland , and the measures to be adopted . We are informed that several talented advocates and members of parliament are invited to attend . Singular Accident . —On Tuesday morning as James Patfitt , one of the porters in the goods
department of the Great Western Railway Company , at Paddington , was passing along the platform , in his ordinary duty , when a small cask suddenly exploded , the head of which came in contaot with the poor fellow ' s chin , and tossed him some eight or ten feet into the air , when he fell upon the ground about three feet lower than the platform . Upon inquiry we find the contents of the cask to bo yeast , which had been sent up the line . The motion of the train probably brought it to so high a state of fermentation as to cause the explosion . Th ^ poor fellow died in about a quarter of an hour . ThV . Theatres . — A Reaction . —We are happy to find that the last week or two has produced a most gratifying reaction in the state of the metropolitan theatres , and that they have for the most part been
fully attended every evening . On some nights , indeed , money lias been turned away from the westend houses , and everywhere the business has improved to a degree that we could hardly have anticipated a few weeks since . At the Haymarket the performances have been most successful ; the FrincesEea has been crowded to the ceiling every evening . The report from the Lyceum and the Adelphi have been equally satisfactory , and we are pleased to find the Olympic and the Strand on this side of the water , and Astley ' s on the farther side , are sharing largely in the general theatrical prosperity . Cardinal Wiseman attended at the Mortmain Committee of the House of Commons on Thursday . He was attended by a number of clergymen , mostly converts . The examination began forthwith without the slightest ceremony .
Death or one of the Liverpool Rioxebs , —An Irishman named Mellie , died on Wednesday evening from the effects of a gunshot wound received in the late disturbances arising out of the attack made upon the Orange procession . On the 6 th mst ., the Bishop of Southwark , was consecrated in the church of the En glish College at Rome by Cardinal Franzoni , assisted by Monsignor Brigand Colonna , Archbishop of Loretto and Recanati , and Monsignor Salvato , Bishop of Port Victoria , in Australia . A great number of distinguished personages , both Italian and foreign , assisted at the
ceremony . As a farm labourer was gathering stioks , a few days ago , in the field of the battle of Novarra , he found a gold watch and seals under a heap of rubbish . He conveyed them at onoe to the commander of 2 fovarra ; and that functionary recognised them as having belonged to General Perron , who was killed in the battle . They were given up to the General ' s wife . Some Jewish capitalists , driven from Russia by late measures against their race , are endeavouring to purchase lar ^ e tracts of land for the formation of Jewish colonies in Hungary .
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AYLESBURY . The commission for the county of Bucks was opened by Mr . Justice Cresswell on Saturday last . BoRGtARt . —James Rodwell , aged 44 , was charged with burglary , with intent to steal . —The prosecutor is a butcher , and proved that on his going to bed at three o ' clock on the ni » ht of the 28 th . March last , he left hia shop all safe , and his daughter got up in order to watch the premises , which she had good reasons for doing . About h alf-past four o ' clock a noise was heard of a breaking into the shop window , and the girl , lighting the lantevn t threw her shawl over the light , and courageously entered the shop . When she got in she pulloa
aside the shawl , and discovered the prisoner groping about the shop . As soon as he saw her , he exclaimed " ah ! " and , going up to her , seized the shawl , which he threw over his bead , and then bolted oui of the shop into the street . The girl shrieked out , and pulled the shawl away from the intruder , when her father rushing down stairs in his night shirt captured him after a short pursuit . — When called on for his defence , the prisoner said that hia daughter having b . en suddenly taken ill he went to the butcher's to get Borne beef , and turning the door open entered . —The jury , however , discredited this explanation of his conduct , and the prisoner having been found Guilty , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment . . ,. . , indicted
An INCESDURY .-William Targett was for maliciously firing a haystack on the 12 tn June last . —Mr . Power conducted the case for the prosecution , and proved that during the day oni which the fire occurred , the prisoner , who appeared to oe a tramp , was seen idling about the stack in question till half-past six , when the flames burst out , immediately after which he was observed by a gentleman passing by to be running under a hedge away from the stack . On being stopped and charged with arson , the prisoner said he was very sorry , but that the stack was fired by a Bpark from his pipe , wnicti in his fright he had flung into the hedge . No trace , however , of any pipe could be found , though in his pocket was a bundle of matches . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years' transportation . Stealing Fowls . —Edward Hunt , aged 27 , was charged with receiving fifteen fowls , which had
been previously stolen from John Laxton , on the 12 th of Jane last . —Mr . Lathom Browne proved the loss of the property and its speedy discovery , secreted in an oven belonging to the house of the prisoner ' s father . As the prisoner had only left the aerrice of the prosecutor on the day before the loss , suspicion fell on him , and when taken up he stated that the fowls had been brought to him by a " party , " whose name he refused to disclose , for sale . The supposed larceny having been committed within the jurisdiction of the liberty ef St . Alban ' s the prisoner was there indicted for it , but he was acquitted on the ground that he was the receiver and not the thief . On this the prosecutor adopted the same view , and caused the prisoner to be detained till he could be indicted for " receiving" in the county of Bucks . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to twelve months ' imprisonment .
YORK . Skduction . —Malet v . Ratcliffb . —This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the Reduction of his daughter by the defendant . —It appeared from the opening of the learned counsel for the plaintiff , and from the evidence of the witnesses called , that all the parties move in a humble station of life , the plaintiff being a blacksmith at Northallerton , and the defendant a cattle-jobber in the same town . The plaintiff had six children—three sons and three daughters—his second daughter , Mary Ann , a g 6 od-looking country girl , forming the subject of the present complaint . In 1847 the defendant became acquainted with her , and eventually paid hia addresses to her . and proposed marriage , and
afterwards , until 1850 , visited her as her accepted suitor , and in the course of his addresses he informed her that he was worth £ 500 . At that time it became known that the defendant was playing the part of a gay Lothario , and that another young weman , named Hannah 3 ? orman , the daughter ot a respectable glover living in the same town , was pregnant by him . As far as possible to lighten tho weight of this intelligence to the plaintiff ' s daughter , the defendant himself broke the news to her , and was at first told by her to break off all connection with her , and go and marry Miss Forman . The defendant ' s entreatieB for forgiveness , however , at length prevailed , and under the solemn promise to have nothing more to say to Miss Forman , tho
defendant was again reinstated in Miss Mary Ann Maley ' s favour . In April , 1850 , on one occasion only , as Miss Haley insisted , a connection took place between them , which subsequently led to the birth of a child . Before the child was born , however , the defendant married Miss Forman , who had again become pregnant by him . The present action ( raa , therefore , brougfet by tho plaintiff to recover damages for the loss of his daughter ' s services during her pregnancy and accouchement . —Witnesses were called for the defence , and it was endeavoured to be proved that the testimony of tho plaintiff ' s daughter was not to be relied on , and that she had been carrying on a criminal intercourse with the defendant as early as June , 1840 , and also
with another man . —The learned counsel for the plaintiff having replied , his Lordship summed up , and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages , £ 25 . Highway Robbery . —George Staley was indicted for a highway robbery at Sheffield , on the 2 Tth of April , and stealing a half sovereign and three half-crowns from John Speed . It appeared that the prosecutor , who is a sawyer at Sheffield , on Sunday night , the 27 th of April last , went into a public-house , and there drank a pint of beer , pulling 18 s . in gold and silver out of his pockets , to search for 6 a . to pay for it . The prisoner and two other men were drinking there at the time , and observed this , and on his leaving the house followed him . The prosecutor , seeing that ho was followed , turned down Holly-street , and had
proceeded more than half way down when he was knocked down by a blow on the side of his head , and in his fall his shoulder was dislocated . He had bis hands in his trousers pookets at the time , and felt his money . He then saw the prisoner pull his hands out of his pockets , and feit a hand put into them . On recovering he cried out for assistance . His pockets were turned inside out , and his money gone . A policeman , named Jagger , stated that he had seen the prisoner , whom ho knew , follow the prosecutor , and almost immediately after he heard a cry in Holly-street . On going there he met the prisoner running up the street , and endeavoured to take him into custody , but he then escaped . On
going down the street he found the prosecutor on the ground , making " a mournful din , " with his pookets turned out and his shoulder dislocated . He afterwards searched the place and found a half-sovereign on the ground , The jury returned a verdict of Guilty . Sentence was deferred . Embezzlement by a . letikr Carrier . — Riciiavd Depledge , aged 4 . 0 , was indicted for feloniously embezzling , at Swinton , on the Sth of December last , a post letter containing £ 15 s ., the property of the Postmaster-General . —It appeared from the opening statement of the learned counsel for the prosecution , that the prisoner , previous to December last , had been employed for some time as a letter carrier between the towns of Swinton and
Boltonupon-Dearn , and in the course of his employment it was his duty every morning to carry the letters from Swinton to Bolton and return in the evening with the letters from Bolton . Between these two places was the village of Barnborough , where William Lyall , a shoemaker , lived . Lyall , had in the way of bis business occasion to order an article from Messrs . Stead and Simpson , of Leeds , and to pay for it he put into his letter a sovereign and five shillings , and gave this letter to the prisoner , with special instructions to get it registered at the post-office at Swinton , for which he gave the prisoner sixpence . Nothing was heard about the letter for several days , and Lyall again wrote to Stead and Simpson , of Leeds , but
still receiving no answer from them , he asked the prisoner about the letter—if he had got it registered . The prisoner replied that he had , and Lyall then asked him for the receipt for the registration ; the prisoner said be would give it to Dim next day . This , however , he did not do , and Lyall not being satisfied , took the precaution again to write to Stead and Simpson , of Leeds , enclosing his letter to them to another' person , and he then learnt from them that they had never received his letter , nor the money it contained . Lyall then made inquiries at Swinton , at the Post-office , and ascertained that the Post-mistress had never received the letter , nor registered it . On hearing about this fhn prisoner became alarmed , called upon Lyall ,
and said there was some mistake about the letter , that he had lost it , and gave Lyall £ 1 5 s . and a penny for the postage , thinking , probably , that Lyall would say nothing further about it : nor did he unti l some further irregularities broug ht this transaction to light , and the PoBt-office authorities in London ordered the present prosecution to be instituted . These facts having been proved , the jury found the pr isoner Guilty . The prisoner was then indicted on a second charge of stealing a post letter and 2 s . 9 d ., the Dostaffe . —It appeared that an old lady , named
Elizabeth Sellers , who kept the station hotel at Swinton , had a grandson in California , to w hom she had written six or Beven times , giving the letters and postage to the prisoner . Her grandson had written to her expressing great anxiety ai not having heard from her , and she again wrote to nun in December last , giving tho letter , and 2 s . 9 d ., to pay the postage , to the prisoner . She at the same time expressed a hope that the letter would be sure to go . The prisoner said , if he wrote upon it , "to be delivered to the man himself , " it would be sure to reach , him . The poor old woman said if he would insure its reaching its destination by writing
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nrisonfir l . ? be Ver y thankful t 0 him ' The T' ? 16 ' or Pretended to write , something on the letter aud took the letter and money . The K ^ n ^ I * 84 t 0 " - Wlllter Greeri - San had hell i , ° f ^ f n ^ America , " but no such letter „; ™ f " P « into the Post-office at Swinton .-The in / h ? »? e pnsonor Guilty ° " thi 3 char s ai ^ and he was 8 en tenced to be transported for seven i ) Tt it . RHA TffAttTJ "L- . i . A . . i . m .
,, T ,. BEDFORD . the PftSt , % £ J s i ? ffe 11 0 Pened the commission for nSfMord on Tuesday afternoon , and , onPr ? Th T ^ ^ P roceeded t 0 try » Prisoners . There being but seven prisoners in the STTj ., l « cause entered for trial , Sir F . SSl n 0 t tak 0 a » y P art in the bu 3 iness of the AKsos . j-John Emmerton pleaded guilty to two ZgJLM &Ta- Thoma 8 Dumpleton pleaded El MOnf Oha r ^ - Thomas Gower , who pleaded not guilty toaBimiUtfoharge . bat bad confessed , was tried and found guiUy .-Mr . Justice Cresswell , in sentencing these three prisoners , said that the offence of arson was so profitless to the offender , and yet so ruinous to the farmer , as to call for severe punishment ; Other offences against property might possibly bo prompted by the hope of some trifling immediate gain to their perpetrators ; but arson had a contrarv tondfincv . as fhnso wh ^ n
property was thus wantonly destroyed were thereby deprived of the very means of employing and assisting the poor . It was clear that the prisoners were persons to allow whom to remain any . longer in tins country would be most improper . The sentence , therefore , on each of them must be that of transportation for ten years . Burglary . —Samuel York , aged thirty-six , and William Morria , aged 31 , were indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Medlow , at Little Staughton , and stealing therein two shawls , five guiuea pieces , two sovereigns , a watch , and some pork , on the 17 th of February last . The prosecutor is perhaps the " oldest inhabitant of his parish , being eighty-seven yeara of ago . Till within three weeks of the burglary
he was up and about , but at that time he took to his bed , where he has since remained . Being alone in the world , and unprovided with either relative or servant , a kind neighbour , by name Hannah Caress , used to visit him and perform on his behalf those offices which " when pain and anguish wring the brow" constitute woman man ' s " ministering angel , " It appeared that on the night of the 17 th February Mrs . Caress put the old gentleman to bed , and , bidding him goodnight , locked his outer door , as was her habit , and took away the key . On the following morning early , her husband found that the door was ajar , and on going to the old man ' s bedside learned from him that , in the middle of the night , three men entered his bed-room , one of whom went through the idle precaution of laying
down on the invalid to keep him quiet after giving him a black eye , while the two others , who had cabbage nets over their faoes , took his watch from his pillow and ransacked his drawers , which done , they all decamped , threatening the frightened octogenarian with violence if he dared to get up arid follow them or alarm the neighbours . The other witnesses in the case showed that the two prisoners , and another man since convicted for horse stealing , bad disposed of the shawls at a house at St . Ive ' s , on tho day after the robbery , while they both , on the occasion of their recent capture at Northampton Fair , made statements tending to implicate themselves in the affair . Eventually , the prisoners were both found Guilty , whereupon hia Lordship sentenced them to be severally transported for ten years .
Maliciously Wounding . —George Norman , aged 25 , was charged with maliciously shooting at Ann Shaw , on the 19 th of May last , with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm . —The prosecutrix is a young girl of twenty-two , and the daughter of a policeman . From her evidence it appeared that about five weeks before the 19 th of May the prisoner , who is a carpenter , called at the house , and after abusing hei mother , said he would do for her father one day . On the night in question , at one o ' clook , a gun was fired from the road into a bedroom occupied by Ann Shaw and a woman named Doe , and on the next day several shots were found on the pillow and bed and about the room . William Shaw , the brother of the prosecutvix , heard the noise , and getting up , let out a terrier
dog , which followed after the footsteps of a man walking away towards the prisoner ' s house . Within five minutea after this the father camo in from duty , and hearing what had happened , went after the dog , which was then yelling out as if being beaten . This witness , when examined , stated that as he was coming home , when about 250 yards off bis house , he heard a report of a gun , and presently after ho heard his iog hark as if he had got hold of something . Upon this he . went home , and learning from his son what had happened started off in pursuit . Just at the door he met his dog coming back after his beating , and telling him to
" hie on" they both ran towards the prisoner s house , before reaching which Shaw saw a man running along a hedge , stooping with something like a gun in his hand . This man appeared to have on an apron like a carpenter ' s which played around him in the wind . The dog outstripping his master , was found by him barking furiously and scratching at tho prisoner ' s door , which was fastened . The prisoner , though called by a neighbour as well as Shaw , did not open his door , but simply appeared dressed at the window , notwithstanding that he ¦ was told that'his chimney was on fire . ~ The Jury , after deliberating a few minutes , returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
ABINGDON . The commission for this county was opened here on Monday by Mr . Justice Erie . Business began on Tuesday , at half past ten . The calendar contained the names of twenty-four prisoners . . Shooting at a Member of the Umvbbsity . — Joseph Caudwell , 41 , was indicted for shooting at Alexander Henry Ross , on the 26 th of June last , with intent to maim , disable , and to do grievous bodily harm . —Prom the opening statement of . the case for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner had for several years carried on business in Oxford as an accountant and bill discounter . Some time ago he built a house over the Folly Bridge at Oxford . The house was of an odd and fantastic appearance—tall , standing by itself covered with
figures , and altogether presenting a remarkable appearance . There was an inclosure between it and the road , in which he had placed several cannon , of heavy calibro , and presenting to the casual observer a very formidable appearance . There were two guns pointing on the Abingdon-road , over the Isis , and three others were secured to the wall of his house by strong chains passed through rivets . This house excited considerable observation , and was likely to attract the attention of the youug students who flocked to the university . , There was a party on the evening of the 2 oth of June at the chambers of Mr . Ross , and as they were going borne some of them thought by way oi a lark to displaoe the prisoner ' s cannon . They went towards his house , and then arose tho
transaction which formed thesubjoct of this indictment . After the examination of several witnesses the jury returned a verdiet of Not Guilty , which was received with some marks of applause , that were instantly checked in court , but were renewed outside when the prisoner appeared there . Charqb of Perjobi , —Joseph Caudwell who was onTuesday acquitted of the charge of having ' shot at an under-graduate of Oxford with intent to dp him grievous bodily harm , was called upon to surrender to answer the charge of having committed wilful and corrupt perjury . The case was heard in his absence . The charge seems to have arisen out of some money transactions , in which the prisoner was very largely engaged in the city . Some long time ago , a clergyman , ' who held a plot of ground
in the neighbourhood , being in want of money , obtained a loan from Mr . Robert Loader , of Oxford , with whom the deed of the property was deposited as seourity . A further sum was subsequently advanced to Caudwell , who then appeared in the capacity of agent for tho clergyman . An application * was made by Loader to Caudwell about haying a settlement of the matter , and then it was that Caudwell sought to make Loader his debtor . In the progress Of legal proceedings CaudwelLmade an affidavit that Loader owed him a certain sum of money in reference to the deed of the clergyman . On Thursday witnesses were called , who proved being present at . the time when Loader paid the money to Caudwell . r-The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was again
called upon to surrender : He did not , however , appear , and his lordship ordered the judgment of the court to be that he be transported for seven years and pay a fine of 13 . to the crown . Caudwell was in the town during the greater part of the day , and as the trial was approaching the close he deoamped , and no clue has yet been obtained of him . It is stated that , in anticipation of the result , he had made an assi gnment of hi 3 property to his son , who has not long since attained hia majority . HOUBEBRBAKING AND ATTEMPTED MURDER . —ThOS . Ash , described in the calendar as a smith by trade , twenty-six years of age , was charged with having broken and entered the dwelling-house [ Of William Tucker , and with having wounded him and one
Anne Whittaker , with intent to murder them . — The prosecutor ( who is a very old man , in the ninety-second year of his age ) is ono of tho vergers of St . George ' s Chapel , Windsor , and resides at Clarence-crescent , in that town . On the night of Tuesday , the 18 th of February , ho had retired to rest as usual at nine o'olock . In the apartment in which he slept hia housekeeper ( Mrs . Whittater an Old woman of seventy-two ) occupied a bed in order that she might be &ble to render , assistance to the old man in case of sudden indisposition . About half-past one o ' clock Mrs . Whittaker was awakened bj th l entrance of a mai ) i and on jumping out of bed , she perceived there was a light in the passage leading to the room . Before she could apeak to the intruder , or call for assistance / she was struck te-
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veral times over the head with a blunt iron instrument ; her eyes were suffused with blood , and she felt great pam in one of her arms , which afterwards proved to be broken . The old man Tucker was awakened by this disturbance , and , hastening to the assistance of his housekeeper , was attacked by the burglar , and struck violently over the head " . Notwithstanding the repeated blows and ill-usage which he received , he managed to push the assailant out of tho room . All this time a man was standing at the door with a lighted caudle . The old man was positive that the prisoner Thomas Ash ( who was well known to him from having leen rei . "
peatedly at his house , and on one occasion employed in fitting up a grato there ) was the man who struck him , and denied that he had ever , so far as he knew , given a different account of the transaction . While Tucker was struggling with the robber his housekeeper made her way to the window , and shouted " Murder , " and " Police , " upon which both the men made off . —Mr . Baron Martin having summed up the evidence with great care , the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for the term of his natural life . He was removed from tho bar protesting his innocence ,
DEVIZES . Cutting and Woundixg . —James Gilbert was indicted for maliciously cutting and wounding John Rickson , on the 10 th of June , with intent to do him grievous bodily harm .- It appeared that on the 10 th of June the parties , had been at a club . As the prosecutor was returning home in the evening he overtook the prisoner , who . was walking with two young women . The prosecutor said he was not tipsy , he was not affected , but he was what was called "in liquor . The prosecutor said to one of tho girls , " Harriet , we will walk homo happy together tonight if you like . " The girl said , " Very well , John , so we will . ' The prisoner said , "What business hast thee here , thee jireat carter fellow ? "
Prosecutor said , "I dou'fc trouble about thee . " They then went on , the prosecutor following . Gilbert came back when they had proceeded about half a mile , and said , What hast thee got to say against me ?'' Prosecutor said , " Nothing , and I dont't care for you . " The prisoner then struck Rickson with some sharp instrument . on the nose and on the head . The nose was very bloody afterwards , and a knife was seen in the hand of the prisoner . —Verdict—Guilty of a common assault . —Lord Campbell approved the verdict , A little recreation was quite proper , and perhaps a slight elevation was not Co be found fault with , but persons must not have recourse to the knife . The prisoner must be imprisoned and kept to hard labour tor three months .
Another Case of Stabbing . —David Payne was indicted for maliciously stabbing and wounding Daniel Swatton , with intent to do him grievous bodily harm . It appeared that the pr isoner , a little boy of 13 , was at > ork with other boys haymaking . The prisoner had a girl ' s shawl , which Swatton tried to take from him ; the prisoner bit his finger , and Swatton struck him on the head ; the prisoner ran at Swatton with a prong , but did not touch him with it . The prisoner then laid hold of Swatton and cut him with a knifo in the hand , and tried three times to strike him in the belly with the knife . The jury found the prisoner Guilty , but recommended him to mercy . —Lord Campbell said it was a very distressing case , but he could not do loss than order the prisoner to be imprisoned with hard labour for six months .
John Wiohell was indiotod for stealing a gelding , the property of William Munday , on the 6 th of July , ad Bisnopstow . A policeman stated that he found a horse without bridle or saddle in the possession of the prisoner about three o ' clock in the morning of the 6 th of July , The following conversation took place : —Policeman : What are you goiug to do with that horse ? Prisoner : I ' m not going to do anything with it . I only got on it to have a nap of sleep . —Policeman ; Whose horse is it 1 Prisoner : If you want to know , you may go and find out . —Lord Campbell ; Was he snoring on the horse ? Policeman : No , my Lord . I asked him where he found the horse , and he said by the Bide of the road , and he got on it to keep himself
warm . The prosecutor proved that the horse was his , and had been locked in the field the previous night . —Lord Campbell asked the prosecutor if ho knew anything of the prisoner . —The Prosecutor Oh yea , my Lord ; we know ' en well enough ; hia brother was transported at the sessions . —Lord Campbell : Does he live in your parish ?—The Prosecutor ; Why , I can't exactly say that he does , because he do live chiefly under the hedges and ricks . The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —Lord Campbell said he would now tell the jury that the prisoner had thirteen times undergone the sentence of the law , and the time was now come when he must go to hia brother in a distant land . Tho sentence was that he ahould be transported for ten yearB .
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The Law of Partnership . —On Thursday the report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Law of Partnership was issued . The committee have come to the resolution , " That the Law of Partnership , as at present existing , viewing its importance in reference to tho commercial character aud rapid increase of the population and property of the country , requires careful and immediate revision . " They recommend the appointment of a commission , of adequate legal and commercial knowledge , to consider and prepare , not only a consolidation of the existing law , but to suggest such changes in the law as the altered
condition of the country may require . Although the committee confine their recommendations to two points—viz ., agreater facility in granting charters , under rules published and enforced by the proper authorities , and an easier mode of borrowing additional capital , without risk to the lender , beyond tb . 6 amount of the sum advanced ; yet they anticipate many improvements in the Iaw 6 bearing on the varied enterprises and , improvements of the country , from tho labours of such a commission as they recommend , and think that a more matured consideration of the important subject will be well purchased by a short delay .
The Derby Universal Anti-Tkuck System . —There is something so iniquitous and unjust in the Truck System , that a thoughtful man wonders why a Christian legislature tolerates its existence for a single hour . What is Truck ? It is fraud , —it ia theft in the most aggravated form . A capitalist owns premises and machinery ;—a workman owns labour and skill . The capitalist hires the workman for his own gain , and is as much indebted to the workman aa the workman is to Mm . The
capitalist in disposing of the products of the workman's labour and skill demands payment in the current coin of the realm , —to his workmen he says , You must accept of food or clothing as part payment ; which food or clothing is invariably of inferior quality , and forced on ( not sold to ) the workman at an exorbitant price . Such is a case of Truck . Who are tho robbed ? First , the workman : second , the tradesman , who has , in the truck master , an unfair competitor . The honourable capitalist , who BCornB to pay Ms workmen in truck , meets in the market with an unfair
competitor , and through him is robbed of a fair and legitimate profit . And in times of improved trade , the rate-payers of a district in which truck is a common practice , are prevented generally from having a fair share of profit arising ont of their ordinary business ; but in times of adversity , every man of them is obliged to pay more than his just share of rates . Where is truck common ? Everywhere in the manufacturing and trading di&tvicts of
England and Scotland . Are there not laws against the Truck SyBtem . There ; are such laws ; but they are ineffective . They are wantonly violated , and with the entire knowledge of magistrates and others , whose special duty it is to see that the laws are kept inviolate ; and in cases in which they are cunningly but palpable evaded , those magi s trates are in honour bound to devise remedies , . and to see that the legislature is faithfully informed thereof . —Pro Bono Publico .
Apprehension of Offenders . —There is a clause in the Act for the better Prevention of Offences ( 14 and 15 Victoria , cap , 19 ) which should be generally Known , by which persons are enabled to ap « prebend offenders without the presence of a constable . The words of the eleventh section declare W And whereas doubts have been entertained as to tho authority to apprehend persons committing indictable offences in the night , in remedy thereof , btf it enacted that it shall bo lawful for any person whatsoever to apprehen d any person who shall be
found committing any indictable offence in the night , and to convey him or deliver , him to some constable ov other peace officet in order to hi ' s being convoyed , as Boon as conveniently may he , before a justice of the peace , to be dealt with according to law . " . ... ' . " . .. . The annual returns of the Municipal Poor Schoo l of Berlin , show that last year abeut 23 , 000 poQ children received daily instruction , at a total cos * of £ 19 , 660 sterling , or about 17 a . a head per annum , or fourpence per week .
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" A word to the wise will suffice . " THE WOLVERHAMPTON CONSPIRACY CASE . BRETHREN OP THeTbADES , AND FELLOW LABOURERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM , I think you will all see that the Wolverhampton Prosecution strikes at the root of your right to protect your labour , that on which your lives depend . Let it be seen that you are true to yourselves , and alive to . your own interests , in your hearty and speedy response to the requirements of the occasion . Your fellow labourer , Thomas Dickinson , The Manchester Packer . '
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WoLVERiiAMFroN Conspibact Cabe . —Mr . Humphreys , of London , and Mr . Dickinson , of Manchest ^ er , nave been actively employed in waiting on the Trades bocieties of Manchester , to raise sub sorintions to defend the nine men indicted for conspiracy at the suit of Messrs . Perry , of Wolverhampton . As far as they have proceeded they have met with great encouragement , arid have every reason to anticipate a liberal subscription , worthy of this very important cause . A donation of 10 s .
Strike of Miners . — About two hundred of tho miners in tbe coal pits of Earl Granville , in North Staffordshire , are " on strike . " In . consequence of depression in the coal and iron trades , the Earl * agent intended to reduce wage ? , and to introduce 8 onae new regulations ; whereupon the men struck . OtherB are expected to follow the example , as we masters generally are ' supposed to mediate a reduction of wagea . The miners parade the town » i « - prflsswgindigMtion , but not indulging in violent acts .
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . T . S . Duxcombe , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 1845 . "fiat justitia . " "If it were possible for the working classes , by com-Dining : among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would he a tmug not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced ' Stuart Mill .
It is a lamentable reflection that the progress of scientific and mechanical invention should carry iu its train misery and destitution to thousands of our fellow men . However true it may be , that in tho aggregate the country is beuofitted by the cheapening of commodities consequent upon manual labour being displayed by new and improved machinery , it appears that our social arrangements are exceedingly faulty , when no
provision is made for the beneficial employment of the thousands who are constantly thrown upon what is economically spoken of as their 1 own resources , ' by tho unregulated action of machinery , Every new invention is hailed in certain quarters with unqualified rejoicings , notwithstanding the admitted fact that thousands are thereby thrown out of employment . Tho town and neighbourhood of Nottingham have been long suffering from a visitation of this character . Hundreds and thousands have
been forced down to tho condition of paupers , and living by charity , without the slightest hopes of ever again resuming their old avocations . Nor doeB it appear that it ever enters into the minds of our rulers and magnates , to inquire what must be the ultimate end of such a state of things . There may , it ia true , be occasional gleams of sunshine , but tho prevailing industrial atmosphere is gloomy and cheerless . From trade circulars which usually appear in the Monday ' s edition of the Times , a complete revolution appears in progress in the cotton stocking , and glove trades of Nottingham . The following extract sufficiently shows the extent and the irremediable nature
of the infliction which labour suffers from all these fine inventions , about which there is so much laudation : — Recent improvements in . the demand for hosiery hate caused some of the manufacturers to give out a little more worlc than has been the case recently , and manj Framework Knitters , hitherto totally unemployed , have something to do , although nothing like full employment . Hosiers are compelled to be thus careful with regard to stock ; the new machinery , both roundabout , and a more recent invention , a kind of lever stocking frame , ' greatly increasing the power , and diminishing the cost of production in all departments of tho Hosiery trade . The Hand Wrought Glove branch seems to be entirely swamped by gloves made ot warp fabrics , silk , velvet , and mixed ,
which are now stamped out of the piece ] with knives similar to these used in cutting out kid gloves . This creates a large amount of employment for women , In sewing-the joinings together , and occupies , at good wages , a considerable number of warp hands ; butit has totally deprived a large number of the old class of Hand Wrought Glove handaof the means of subsistence , and they are now enduring great privations , winch the hand of charity is striving to alleviate . From [ similar causes , kirge num . bers of other classes of Framework Knitters will be compelled to seek for freah employments . In fact , tho old fashioned l oom for making gloves , stockings , shirts , drawers , &c , ina short time will pretty nearly have fallen into disuse , and new descriptions of machinery , perhaps employing fewer bands , but at better wages , will occupy their places .
And this process of cheapening production at the expense and to the injury of manual labour—which has made , and is making , such fearful ravages in this department of British industry—is petted and fostered wherever it rears its head , reckless of every consideration for the interest and well-being of those whom it so deeply injures . And thus it will—and must—be until the working classes bo made to see their position , and by making common cause insist that their interests shall be alsa
cared for . It appears to us to be nationally humilating , that in the height of this fever-fit of national prosperity , amidst our Glass Palace , glorifications , and Eoyal and Civic jousts and junkettings , that thousands of industrious individuals should only be saved from starving by the hand of charity . It ia a poor consolation to the famishing Framework Knitter to be told of the prosperous condition of his late employer , who makes from £ 10 to £ 100 per week from a single machine ; . he may truly say as the worm to the angler , " Ah ! what ' s sport to you is death to me ;" and Goldsmith ' s well-known lines become daily more applicable to the condition we appear to be approaching with rapid strides : —
" 111 fares the land , to haet'nins ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates and men decay . " We suppose , as in Ireland , a system of forced expatriation will be recommended , and tried , as the wisest and best remedy for the conspiracy case , As the Stafford Assize approaches , the contributions of the trades of England to the Defence Fund are pouring in from all directions . The Compositors of London have contributed the handsome sum of £ b 0 , and the old Society of Newspaper Compositors £ / iba sum equally liberal in proportion to numbers . One branch of the Tin Plate Workers
of London ( tho Craven ' s Head Society ) have also , in addition to their former liberality to their Wolverhatnpton brethren , subscribed £ 25 . These and numerous smaller donations from town and country are highly encouraging . The enemy are also , wo learn , on the quivive , and have , with a true Perryan sense of justice , just fought desperately before a Judge at Chambers to resist an application for a more full bill of particulars of the charges against the defendants than is contained in their precious indictment . They
failed , however ; and we learn that the net they have cast is even wider and finer than we had imagined—so fine , indeed , that we shall not be aurprised if it burst by the weight of the prey it intended or is destined to im « mesh . Every deed done , word spoken , or line written , by either of the defendants , in Great Britain or Ireland , from March 1850 to the same period . 1851 , is to be set in a note book , conned by rote , and cast into their teeth . ' Yes ! the time is upwards of twelvemonths , and the scene of tho offence is anywhere—from John O Groats to the Lands
End , or from the Giant ' s Causeway to Cape Clear . The common law of England has been pronounced to be ' the perfection reason , ' and the law of conspiracy is surely one of its moat finished specimens . William Peel , Secv
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Secretary , and filled it up with the names of three of hia children ! Now it is clear , that if either Dr . Gray or Dr . Allen had exercised their right , lie would have had Bo opportunity of perpetrating finch a job , and that doing so he has alienated the estate from Ihe purposes to which his two predecessors d estined it . What think you is the excuse for this wholesale appropriation of valuable property ? Good intentions ! He is going to £ nDrove it , and make it much more
valu-* i " l ^ -TlZwm « mAAABO < M « Tlr ATTTT . V V ^^ \ onerB H is successor , Dr . Allen , C ' ° !! f noon tho same principle , and forbore ^ filling up the lease , as he was desirous WatSe exp iration of the remaining life the ^ should be at the di sposal of the Com-• loner' ' for general purposes . ' Dr . "f vk when he was appointed to the see , fully cognizant of these facts ; and when T suspicion was mentioned that he intended fdivert the estate from these ' general purce « * -f ° his own tenefit > wrote ^ ^ au . ° fiJnant letter , at the very idea that he hould be suspected of doing anything either lL Dff in itself or disparaging to the chaicter of a Bishop . Yet after this flourish f f virtuous indignation , according to his ° « ii statement he has devised the estate 1 bimseVi , under a nominal lease to his
able . He ia going to promote , agricultural science , and the erection of villas , at a great outlay of money . Well , and what then 1 Why , perhaps the Church will reap the benefit of the improved rental after the death of the last of the three young Monks , -whose names are in the lease . Until then the bishop's family will live in clover , out of the revenues of the Horfield Estate . Now , considering the outcry for more bishops and mere clergymen , we really think Bishop Monk might have left agricultural improvement , and the erection of urban villas , to people whose profession it is to attend specially to Euch secular matters . Why Bhould so holy and so good a man as Dr . Mora trouble himwith matters which
aelf at his time of life , can only distract his attention from his spiritual duties ? TheEcclesiastical Commission wonld , no doubt , have paid due attention to any suggestions from him on these points , when he handed over the estate to them , as he ought to have done , and he would have teen Baved all further trouble . But no ; the Jticrht Eev . Father in God could not resist the tempting bait , and has , under the flimsiest pretences , robbed the Church for three generations of a finely situated property , which must every year increase in value from its proximity to Bristol . The correspondence with the commission shows all the prelates equally greedy of filthy lucre . They remind one of the text— 'The horse-leech hath three daughters , and their
cry is still give , give . ' The whole of the twenty-six bishops join in the chorus , ' give , give . ' The Bishop of London , according to hisown showing , pockets atleaBtfrom £ 11 , 000 to £ 12 , 000 over the tea thousand ponnds he considers sufficient for the metropolitan overeeer . The Bishop of Winchester in like manner receives several thousands more than he ought to do ; while Bishop Maltby , of Durham , who ought to receive , according to the bargain he made £ 8 , 000 a year , by skilful management contrives to sack annually about four times that amount !
Xow , the country has lately been convulsed bv a movement in opposition to so-called Papal Aggression—the principalingredienim which , undoubtedly , was the fact of an episcopacy being established and recognised by law . It vas an insult to them much more than to the Queen , to be flouted with rival titles ; and have their heels trodden upon by the titular dignitaries of an opposition church . How far the country would gain by the substitution of the one set of * black slugs' for the other , our readers may judge for themselves on comparing the following list of Church dignitaries and their salaries , agreed toby the last concordat between Borne and Spain : —
The salary of the mest Rev . the Arehhishop of Toledo mil he 160 , 000 reals ( £ l , C 00 ) a year . The salaiiea of the Archbishops of Seville and Valencia mil be 150 , 000 reals ( £ 1 , 500 J a rear . Those of the Archbishops of Granada and Santiago , 110 , 000 reals ( £ 1 , 400 ) nyear . And those of the Archbishops of Burgos , Tarragona , YalladoIia , andSarragossa , 130 , 000 reals ( £ l , 300 ) a jear . The salary of the Rev . the Bishops of Barcelona and Maaria-mttbell 0 , 000 reals ( jglAOO ) ayear . Cordovaood
That of the Bishops of Cadiz , CarthagOTa , , Malaga , 100 , 000 reals ( £ 1 . 000 ) a year . That of the Bishops of Almeira , A ^ rala , Badajos , theCanaries , Cnenca , Gerona . Huesca , Jaen , leon , Ledka , Luge , Majorca , Orease , Orieao , Palencia , Pamplona , Salamanca , Santanaer , Segovia , Teruel , and Zamora , 90 , 000 reals ( £ 900 ) a year . Ihat of the Bisheps of Artorga , Calahorra , Ctaaad-Real . Goria , Gnadix , Jaca , Minorca . Mondonedo , Orihuela , Oana Flascencia , Segorve , Siguenza , Tarazona , Tortosa , Toy , Brgel , Vich , and Vittoria , 80 , 000 reals ( £ S 00 ) a Sear . . . _ '
The salary of the Patriarch of the Indies , not being himself an Archbishop or a Bishop , will be 150 , 060 reals ( £ 1 , 500 ) a year , from which snm any pension or allowance whatever which he might receive from the state will be deducted The Prelates who are Cardinals will have an extra allowance of -20 , 000 reals ( £ 200 ) a year . The Auxiliary Bishops of Centa and Teneriffe , and the Prior of the orfere , will have a salary of 40 , 000 reals ( £ 300 ) a year .
Here we have nine archbishops , and fifty bishops , provided for with £ 56 , 600 per annum , or about one-fourth of the amount we pay for two archbishops and twenty-four bishops . "Wh y , the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Durham annually share between them nearly as much as would pay the whole fiftynine , the * Patriarch of the Indies' included . From this it may be seen what an expensive article an English Bishop is—whether he is useful in proportion , we leave to the judgment of our readers . One thing is certain , that such monstrous incomes , conjoined with such
extravagant pretensions as those of the English Episcopacy mast , in the end , disgust the people of this country . The property left to the Church by p ious and benevolent men , in former times , was intended by them to minister to the spiritual and educational well-being of the people , not io be swallowed np and absorbed by a host of overfed pluralists and bloated prelates , whose only object in life is to found great families , and to outshine tho hereditary aristocracy of the country in the magnificence and luxury of their
palaces and the extent of their possessions . All beyond a respectable and comfortable livelihood , while engaged in the performance of their duties , is a dead robbery of the publie , to wnom the fee simple of the church property rightly belongs , and we cannot but hope that the time is coming when the splendid endowments and magnificent revenues arising from that property will be devoted to promote the intellectual Improvement and moral elevation Of the whole people , Instead of being jobbed , plundered , and misapplied for selfish purposes as it now is .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 19, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1635/page/5/
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