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TO EKGLAXD . Ob , England , if thy mighty powers Were -wielded by the free , What a ¦* ' Star " unto the nations—What a Saviour thou mightit be . ' The Sun in his eternal course JTe ' er seta upon thy name ;* The winds of Heaven echo forth Thy glory and thy fame ! Tet » "midst thy fame and glory proud , Whit piclnTes do we see , 01 noble hearts and honest ¦ worth Condemned to misery .
The blessings Bent by God to all , Are plundered by a few ; And poverty and grim despair Stalk all the empire through . The red blood of thy bravest sons Is shed in foreign wars , To put down rising liberty And aid the tyrants' cause . Where ' er "we turn , where ' er we gazs Oppression stiH is plain , The Afghan and Canadian Curse England's galling chain .
But let the slave uplift hia eye , And view the coming light ; Our cruel tyrants soon shall die Confounded in their might And God will visit them erelong , "With retribution sura ; For he hath curs'd from his high-Beat Oppressors of the poor . F * The sum sever seta npon the British Empire
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PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION MONDAY , Mil 2 > D , 1842 . Song—The Chartist Gay Day . It was Nature ' s gayjday Bright smiling May day , Each heart "was yearning oar country to free ; Thy banners were bringing , The people were siDging Of the days of their fathers and sweet liberty . Merrily bounding , Banners surrounding , Each slave dash'd his chains on that happy day ; To meet thus delighted By all invited , To join the brave throng " neath freedom ' s bright ray .
Thousands were marshall'd , The throng ferward marched ; The burden of millions ¦ was bome onward too , F / om the field to the Strand , With banners and band , The mighty assemblage o ! Chartists doth 30 , Their foes fill with wonder , As proudly they thunder Their shouta for their Charter , their hearts with hope fill'd . To St Stephen ' s they bear it , By the table they rear it , - A monument to testify their woes and their wilL
The evening descended , Their freedom was ended , The lads and the lasses waited throaghtfully away . Still the hope brooding Of freedom forboding . The enfranchised , their promises , yet would repay . The day is passed over , And now they discover The Whigs and the Tories just answer them so—Oh , slavies , be'Jeve ye , We will not deceive ye ; Te B >^ n not be heard your grievance to show . S . J BrMoL
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SELF CONCEIT . " They conquer who believe they can Well , would you believe tt ? You may ; It ' s really a fact , not a dream f—I have heard self-conceit talk away . ' And what do yon think , was the theme ? After musing awhile , she exdaim'd , " Pagh : I don't see , because I am poor , I'm deficient in talent or merit At least , so was not Hannah More ; . She had talent , yea , genius and spirit ! Though born in the va ' . e , a real poet . Well , I protest , if mj heart isn't smit . ' I , too , have a spark , and 111 show it ;
A . spark of true feeling of soul , Which for the Queen ' s crown I'd not barter I am resolved to contend for the whole ; 111 not rest tUl we get the whole Charter . I've started the Ttemecrat race ; 111 make known my political creed ; m urge all to join in the chase ; And by Heavens , I'll never recede I Women ' s influence is powerful , says man ; Their Z 3 al effects wonders ; if true , I tow I'D do all that I can , And provoke men to act as I do . I'll hsb no fcxciseables ; no , Though dear as a right eye they be ; Those of course , then , the men must forego , Or own themselves weaker than me .
How flattery is warbling away I Just this moment she eall'd me a Queen ; And Bhe tows I all Chartists can sw 3 y ; Hush , hush ! this remains to be seen . I am fond of the praise of the brave , I value the praise of the good ; May I act so that o ' er me may wave , The Sag " she hath done what she could . " For Justice , I'd scorn me to wheedle , Tisonly my rights that I ciaim ; An * 111 have , should I stand en a needle , *• A niche in the Temple of Fame . Cax . oi . ixz Masij Williams Bristol , May 24 , 1 S 4 L
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ILEEDS . Wateb \ Vobks Company . The feneral annual meeting of the directors and shareolders of this Company was held at the Court House , on Monday last , at noon , George Goodman , Esq . in the chair . The reports of the retiring directors , and of MessrE . Leather and Son , the engineers to the Company , were read and adopted . Both documents represented the affairs of the Company , and the progress and prospects of the works , a 3 being of a very satisfactory character . The following were appointed the Board of Directors for the ensaiag year : —Mr . " William Beckett , Mr . Richard Bramley , lit . Thomas Clapham , Mr . Thomas Lupton , Mr . W . H . Maude , Mr . John iletcalfe , Mr . John Garland , Mr . Thomas Charieswortb , snd ilr . Edward Rooke . It appeared to be the confident opinion of the engineers and of the directors for the past year , that the
Company will be able to continue a constant and plentiful supply of water to the whole town of Leeds , and that the undertaking will prove of general advantage to the public , and one of fair profu to the shareholders . Thanks were voted to the directors fcr the past year , and to * hs Chairman , and the meeting broke up . Pocket Picking . —Oa Monday , a notorious prostitute named Mary Gvliagker , was charged before the magistrates at the Court House , on a charge of having abstracted the sum of 7 s . 66 . from the pocket of a man , who , on Sunday night , I appened to be standing in Call Lane , near the Aire and Calder Warehouse , when the prisoner ran up to him , thrust her hand in hia pocket and took the cash , with which she made off . She was taken direcly , and 5 * . 5 d . found tied in her shawl . She -was tens to Wakefield fur three months .
Em 3 * zzleme 5 t . —On Monday last , a middle aged man named Jonn Pott-, "who has teen for the last ; two years a bookkeeper in the employ of Messrs . Cooper , Field , and Hood , ironmasters . Pottery Forge , was brought up at the Conrt House , on & charge of having rrabezzied various sums of ttou :-y amounting to £ 45 18 s . 7-d-, belonging to his ; employers . Mr . Hood stated , that from lapse of , time he sent a letter , on the 29 th of April , to Messrs .: Bower , Middleton , "Wilson , and Co ., of Middleton ; Colliery , complaining of the non-settlement of their : accouLi , which , according to their books appeared j to be £ 45 14 s . 9 J . This letter it afterwards ap- peared had never been received by Messrs . Bower and Co ., but on the 3 rd May he received one , which \ purported to be an answer thereto , apologizing for , tbd non-payment ; other circumstances , however , j feanspired , which led to a suspicion that all was
K * quite right , and an inquiry taking place the -farmer amorist was discovered to have been- re- 1 ceived by Pott 3 , between the months of January , j 18 * 1 , * nd February , 1842 , for which he had failed ; to account . He was therefore taken into custody ob . * warrant taken ont against him by Mr . Hood . Mr . > Thomas "Wordsworth , from the Middleton colliery , j proved having paid the prisoner the money , _ and Mr . Hoed -that he had never accounted for it ; and , ¦ when apprehended , he said he had taken the mooey ; for ihe use of iris family , as bis salary was not suffldent ; ind admitted ; o Mr . Hood that he had ab-1 strat-ied lie letter which orghf to liave been ssni to ; Mess- ? . Bower . Middk-: rn , asd Co ., and caused an j answer to be written from his own dictation . He » Tfap- ecnpit ' . ed for trial . The prisoner applied for I tail , ¥ . hich w « grsr > ttd , on condiuon tha : he could j procure it go : d ard ruficient .
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Stealing Wood . —On Monday , a young man named Joseph Hillam , lately in the employ of Messrs . Maolea- and Marsh , engineers ^ Holbeck , was charged at the Court House with having stolen several planks , the property of his employers . It was proved that on ti fe Thursday previous , the prisoner was Eeen by a female to take three planks from the yard of the firm , and afterwards to fetch another . These he carried to the house of a man named Kitchin , from whence they were fetched by another man , named Denton , whom Hillam had employed . The plankB were identified , and the prisoner was committed for trial . Denton , the man above referred to , and a youth named John Leeman , were also apprehended , on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery , but there being no evidence against them , they were discharged .
Fibs . —On Saturday evening about six o'clock , considerable alarm was felt at a report that a fire had , broken , ont in the premises of Mr . EUersh ^ w , oil-merchant , Albion-street . The smoke certainly burst forth in terrific volumes , and a powerful body of flame was also emitted . It arosej however , from a source where it was easily subdued , and fortunately it was all got out with very little damage , and before the arrival of the fire engines , which were soon upon the spot . The fire-plugs in the neighbourhood wore drawn , and an abundant supply of water was at once at hand , had it been needed . Mr . Ellershaw has been arching over some cellars ia the yard of b . 13 premises , and had erected a temporary boiler to prepare coal tar , to spread over the brick work . This , from Borne neglect , was Buffered to boil over , and was at once in a blaze .
Bdeglary . —Daring tie night of Sunday last , the dwelling-house of Mr . John Brown , of Scarcroft , near Leeds , was entered by thieves , by removing two iron stancheons from a window . The family were not disturbed , and the burglars got off with four silver tea spoons , marked E . T ., a quantity of wearing apparel , and other articles . No information has been received calculated to lead to a detection of the thieves . Cbxjbltt to Anisuls . —The manner in which calves are brought to Leeds on a Friday morning , and the cruelty which is exercised towards them by being tied with their less together , and laid one upon another , has for some years at this season
attracted the attention of persons of humane mind , and through their representations , the polios have been sent by the magistrates to lay informations against those thus offending . In consequence of this , two policemen went ont on Friday morning last , to watch the carts on their progress to Leeds from Otley , by whom the carts were inspected , and summonses were taken out against eight individuals , all of Otley . Their names are Stephen Foster , William Weare , John Marsden , John Nicholson , John Bell , John Cartwright , Wm . Jackson , ani Thos . Thompson . These all appeared before the West Riding Magistrates at Leeds , on Tuesday la&t , and were convicted in the penalty of 5 s . each , a&d the costs , amounting to 12 s . 6 d . more in each case .
F £ LO >* t . —Oa Tuesday last , a young man , named Robert Stocks , whose connections are said to be respectable , but whose appearance indicated & pretty close acquaintance with the enemy which is said to steal away the brains , was brought up at the Court House on a charge of having stolen one of Saher's Bpring balances , from the bar of Mr . Hirst , the Dcke William Inn , Waterloo-street . Mrs . Hirst stated that the prisoner was at their house on Friday evening last , and for a short time was left in the bar by him ? elf . He went away about half-past seven , saying he had to attend the dissection room . Th ? balance was not missed until Monday , wnen , in consequence of it having been told to Sirs . H . that Stocks had been seen leaving the house with it in his hand , he was apprehended , and the balance was found to have been pledged by a woman of the town , to whom he had giren it for thai purpose . He was committed for trial .
. DUMFRIES . —Riding of the Makches . — In-the beginning of the week it was announced in the local newspapers that , on the anniversary of the birth-day of the Q , ueen , the magistrates and town council had resolved to revive the custom of going in procession round the royalty , to join in which all the inhabitants were invited . On Monday , a profusion of hand-bills were circulated , intimating the the route , and detailing the order of procession . But" The best laid schemes 0 ' mice and men gang aft agley . " And so it proved on this occasion , for , thanks to the spread of Chartism and common sense , both among the working and middle classes of our good town ,
although tLe civic functionaries , as might be gathered from their announcements , evidently anticipated a general mu ? ter of the trades , and other inhabitants ; they were fated to be miserably disappointed . The cortege presented the following spectacle : —First came a bevy of ragged nrchins , carrying handkerchiefs displayed on slicks ; next followed the town rats , or purgh officers , with their cocked hats , square-skirted coats , and toy halberts—then seven or eight of the magistrates and council , flanked by a strong pos « e of cyprians , and about twenty of the most dissolute of the old freemen brought up the rear , bearing four or five shabby flags . The whole scene strongly reminded one of the March of Jack Fabtaff and bis ragged regiment through Coventry
About a mile out of town , when they were about to pass through a wheat field , the whole of the cavalcade was brought to a stand , and finally pat to the rout by a stout conntryman , who , armed with a whip , disputed the passage . On arriving at that part of the route where the boundary line of the regality entere the extensive morass of Locharmoss , there was a halt and a mutiny among the forces for liquor , but it was quilled by one of the Bailliea , who mounted an omnibus and harangued his followers , promising them abundance when they reached the end of their journey . The magistrates then turned and went home in the Bailie ' s rostrum , leaving their dupes to make the best of tueir way through the moss a 3 ihey best could . Oa arriving in town , their worships spent their time much more agreeably in
carousing at the expense of the burgh till about two o ' clock , when they again started for the extreme boundary of the burgh roods . Here the most disgusting paTt of the business began . The magistrates commenced to distribute ale and whiskey to about a handred of tbe most abandoned of eur population , both' male and female . It wa 3 not long till the whole field presented the appearance of a bear garden . Altogether , while the entire proceedings reflect deep and indelible disgrace on those who , although by their office the guardians of the public peace and the conservatives of the public morals , wantonly infringed the one and attempted co damage the other . It is much to tbe credit of the great mass of the operative and middle classes that they kept aloof from scenes so little in accordance with the spirit of the age . —Correspondent .
MANSFIELD , —The 5 t 3 te of suffering and privation under which onr townspeople have for " months been labouring has at length reached something like Its climax . The various departments of silk work have been carried on in a most tantalising manner since the last panic , the men having from one to two and three days' work per week ; and sometimes a week and a fortnight without any : and the whole of the knotted , and most of the fancy , silk hands , together with some ot the cotton hands , and the prospect of a many more being added to their number , have been some weeks totally unemployed . In this etate of things a meeting of the starving operatives was called at the Black Swan , and a committee was formed . The meeting was
spiritedly and eloquently addressed by a number of speakers ; and the miseries we endure were traced to their primary cause—the cruel and corrupt institutions of our country . An address was agreed to on Saturday , calling upon the possessors of the products of our labour to give us back a little of it to form a general relitf fund . The men have paraded some of the principal streets of the town in a body , when a spectacle of woe and want—of patient suffering—and countenances that evinced the deep working of the most agonising reflection * , such as Ls seldom seen , induced some of the idle gazsrs from the shops and windows to enquire into the state of their destitute and wretched neighbours . The town is ' decidedly worse off now than it has been for a
long time , and the employers hold out no hopes of any alteration in our prospects . Many o those who are in work are almost as bad as those without it , for . the truck system prevails to a most scandalou = extent ; and I know of many who never receive any money from their employers . The blighting effects of this fa ^ t-spreading evil are everywhere seen . It is impossible for those who are at work to proctire any money , acd scores of them work all the year round and have but one suit of clothes , and even theyare the refuse of somo consequential being who never yielded society an equivalent for a meal ' s meat in his life . The food of these people i 3 of the coarsest description , and the quantity of it just
Bnfficient to enable them to exist . Some of the unemployed have been driven to the moBt terrible shifts—two of them have lived for three days together upon horse-bean 3 ; and what with the mental anxiety they feel in consequence of their starving children not having anything to eat , and their own physical suffering ? , they are most pitiable subjects of " distress . At the meeting tomorrow morning the addresses wiH be distributed , and deputations will be appointed to wait upon thoBe called the middle and upper classes . It is expected that there will be an accession of some hundreds to the number now out in a few days ; and the factory lords are going to take a penny out of the shilling from their hands to meet the income tax next week . — Correspondent .
FOIdBXONT , ( bt Falkibk . ) Total Abstinence . —Mr . Lowery delivered a lecture on tho principles of Total Abstinence in Polmont Hall , on the evening of the 27 th ult . The audience was but small . The lecture was such as would have been expected from such an advocate as Mr . Lowery has repeatedly shewn himself to be ; and pity it is that the people of Polmont are so fsr forgetful of their own true interests as not to avail themselves of the opportunities allewed them of hearing the bentiks of this cause elucidated . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Lowery ai the close of the lecture .
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At the window of a shoemaker ' s shop , in High Holborn , a paper is exhibited on which ; is written , — " The New Inventted Victorier and Prince Allbert Epsum Race Boot for the Derby Day—to be had within , only" 10 s 6 d a pare . " A-Red Rain !—A red rain is stated by the Courrier Grec , to have fallen recently at Tripolitza and elsewhere ; and it is added that the minister of the interior has collected information respecting that extraordinary phenomenon , which would be Bubmiited to the examination of the medical board . An Example . —Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh has increased the wages of hi 3 Sussex labourers , and given each a quantity of malt to brew their own beer—upon condition they abstain from frequenting beer shops and public houses . ;
The Attempt to obtain a church-rate at Newport in the Isle of Wight does not succeed . At a Vestry meeting last week , Mr . Pring , the senior churchwarden , complained of the delapidated stafe of the church , and his own unpleasant situation , " sitting in a church exposed to the wind and rain ; " but bis plaints did not move the vestrymen . The motion for a rale of lOd . in the pound was negatived , by 100 toll . Fatal Accident . —AfinelitHe boy , aboat three years of age , being lately playing with his little brother in the house of a neighbour at Blaokwood , in the Township of Sowerby , ifear Halifax , was unfortunately bnrnt to death . .
The Tariff . —A county meeting was held on Penenden Heath , on Thursday , convened by the High Sheriff of Kent , to consider the portion of the Tariff relating to hups . The H ^ ch Sheriff presided ; and among the speakers were Viacount Torrington and Mr . T . L . Hodges . The County Members and the Ministers shared the indignant reprobation of the meeting . Resolutions were passed against the Tariff , declaring that the consumer would not benefit , because the culture of hops would merely be transferred to foreign lands ; suggesting that the " real interests of the consumers as well as of the hop-planters , would be best . consulted by reducing the malt duty ;** and complaining of the mode in which hop-growers are singled out for assessment under the Income-tax Bill .
Nottingham . —Mr . Walter has come forth as a candidate for Nottingham ; responding , he says , to the friendly disposition evinced towards him— " In the hope that I may unite all voices in my favour , and with a resolute determination to exert all my faculties for the best interests of the town and the general good of my countrymen , I intend to appear among you on the day of nomination ; wlw n I trust that I shall shake many an honest friend by the , hand , and find the hostility of those who opposed me appeased by the perseverance with which I seek the favours of all . "—Mr . Walter says nothing , as Joseph Siurge does , about the necessity of abiding by purity of election , and of usiug no weapons but those of truth and justice .
Stage Coach Travelling across the Deseet . — Trie daily papers announce , by advertisement , the establishment of a stage coach communication between Cairo and Suez . ' Here is the march of civilisation . But a few years since it was supposed that camels or dromedaries , from their power of enduring thirst , could only traverse those arid plains and penetrate the solitude of the desert . Now we have hotels established at regular interval " , with relays of horses and a coach running , which performs the journey regularly in about eighteen hours . The announcement at the close of the advertisement is amusing— " Refreshments and provisions supplied in the detert at very moderate charges . "—Athenceum .
Foreign Assurances at Hambufgh . —The following , according to the Priissian State Gazette , was the real amount of property insured at Hamburgh in foreign assurance offices : —The Sun Fire-office had policies out in Hamburgh to the amount of 3 , 300 , 000 marks banco ( £ 235 , 000 ) , of which about ' tVd-thirds ' will have to be paid ; the Phoanix and the Royal Exchange , it is believed , will be heavier losers than the Sun . The Cologne Company had not more than about -100 , 000 marks banco ( £ 28 , 000 ) insured in Hamburgh , and tho Aix-Ja-Chapelle and Munich Company about 700 , 000 marks banco . Of all the foreign companies the Gjtha Bank will be the heaviest loser . Its Josses , according to the most moderate estimate , will exceed 4 , 000 , 000 marcs banco or £ 28 , 0000 .
" Any Thing fob an Honest Penny . "—Last week Mr . Brindley , aoting the part of Bombastes Furioso . attempted the magnanimons work of enforcing bludgeon arguments upon the Socialists , and instilling into their minds by the same mild means , the meek doctrines of Christianity . He has assumed a new character this week , and in it commenced a warfare last Friday night against the Phrenologists . The scene of combat was the Adelphi Theatre , and the charge for admission to witness the hostile exhibition , varied from the small charge of 6 J . to that of two shillings . Poor Brindley was not , however , as fortunate on the last occasion as when he showed off at the Hanover-square rooms . In imagining that those varied charges would not only bring " grist to
his mill , " but that they would also enable him to have every thing his own way , he reckoned without his host , as the Socialists and Phrenologists set at naught the expeace , provided it gave them an opportunity of '' showing up" what they term him , " a humbug speculator . " The subject of the lecture selected by Mr . Brindley was no less a personage than the miscreant Good . It would appear that Brindley'b object was to prove that tho murderer's skull exhibited all those devolopements which are indicative of aught but a desire of blood-shedding . He hid not , however , proceeded far before he was openly accused by Mr . Mathews with practising a cheat upon his auditory , by exhibiting what he ( Brindley ) stated to be the cast of the culprits '
skull , taken in the same manner and with the same accuracy as Dr . Elliotson took his cast of the wretch ' s head . Mr . Mathews also denied that tbe cast taken by Dr . Elliotson had the traits or characteristics given to it by Mr . Brindley . Mr . Logan , a phrenological lecturer , further conmplained that there had not been made thai evening any development of the organs of the murderer . These unexpected exposures had for poor Brindley , a most talismanic effect upon the auditory who , as if convinced that a trick had been played off at their expence , rose simultaneously , and evinced the most unequivocal intentions of taking revenge in their hands . This the lecturer quickly perceived and
as quickly averted , by calling in , as usual , to his assistance the posse comitalus , the only available argument he adopts . Thus closed the hnmbug , the auditory being most unceremoniously huddled out of the theatre . It is pretty clear from Mr . Brindley ' s eleemosynary appeal to the pocket 3 of his dupes , at Hanover-square , on Friday week , and his admission charges on last Friday , that he is not the disijitereittd apostle he wishes to make himself appear , and it is also evident that £ s . d . is the Trinity at whose shrine he " makes his devocious " as zealously as any other trader in quackery and humbug ; and it is a ^ o equally clear that Mr . Brindley will stop at nothing " to make an honest penny /'
Attempted Murder in Portsmouth Dockyard . —Portsmouth , Sunday . —At an earJy hour yesterday morning xho family of Rear-Admiral the Hon . D . P . Bouverie , the Admiral Superintendent , residing in this dockyard , were considerably alarmed by the information that Joseph Bolion , a footman in the service of the Admiral , had attempted to take the life of the lady ' s maid , Louisa Pettis , by cutting her throat . It appears that Bolton , who it is supposed had been out all nijjht , and had been drinking , went on his return home , between five and six o ' clock , into the bedroom of his intended victim , with a knife in his hand , with which , while she was sleeping , he cut her throat . The incision , hotroyer , was not sufficiently deep to deprive her of life .
Upon being wounded she awoke , and after struggling desperately with the assassin , succeeded in reaching the room of eome of the other servants , though not without rec 4 iving « onie severe cuts under her chin and upon her shouldtr and breast . After having made this attempt upon the poor woman ' s life , Boiton immediately proceeded to the room oi ' the butler , Benj . Payne , whom he awoke , and said , " I have cut Louisa Petiis ' s throat ; I give myself up as your prisoner . " Rear-Admiral Bouverio and the household were immediately alarmed , and the admiral ordered Bolton to bo given into the custody of the policeman who had been called in . The Admiral also despatched messengers to the nearest medical gentleman , so that no time might be lost in for the
procuring proper a ^ sistaace unfortunate sufferer . Dr . Henderson shortly arrived , and rendered such immediate aid as the case required . If is not at present anticipated that the wounds will prove fatal . No reason has yet been assigned by the prisoner for making this atrocious attempt ; he told the butler it was because she was always aggravating him . In the course of the day the ^ prisoner ( Joseph Boltou ) was examined before the magistrate upon the charge of having attempted to murder Louisa Pettis , lady ' s maid to Lady Bouverie . Benjamin Payne stated that he was butler to Admiral Boverie , and that the prisoner was a footman in the same service ; that between five and six o'clock this morning ( Saturday ) the prisoner came into the room and awoke him , and said , " I give myself up to you
prisoner . I have cat Louisa Pettis ' s throat . " He immediately dressed himself and went down into the pantry , accompanied by the prisoner . The prisoner west ont the previous evening , and said he should be back again by half-past ten to attend on the ladies . He looked for the prisoner at that hour , bat was not able to find him . Did not see him again until the morning , when he came into the room , and gave himself up . Supposed that the prisoner had been out all ui « ht , and drinking .: Had heard the prisoner say some time back that the lady's maid owed him a grudge . A certificate , signed by Dr . Henderson , was put in , stating that Louisa Pettis waa so much weakened by the loss of blood , that it was impossible --he could be examined , but that at present there was no immediate danger . The prisoner was then remanded until Thursday .
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Chubch Rate . —A restry was held on Friday last , in the National Sohool-room of the parish of Hayes , Middlesex , for the purpose of making a church-rate , a subject which has for some time past produced great contention in the parish , and the members : : of ' the Established Church , from their dislike . to their late burate ' B conduct in connexion *! ' £ jne fltabbmg case of Medhurst , have united witn the Dissenters and refused t 6 make a rate , so that no church-rate has been made for the last eix y 6 * ' , ° » the present occasion the Rev . Mr . Hale , who has Jsiace been appointed to the curacy , was unanimously voted to thechair . Mr . T . Shackle , the parish churchwarden , briefly stated the nceessity which exiated for a rate to be made , from the
extensive repairs required in the belfry and other parts or the chmrch . He humorously observed , that he would only ask for v 4 d . rate , but seeing how strongly his dissenting friends had rallied , he thought they would volunteer am . one . Mr . Witshere , the other churchwarden , seconded the motion . ™ ' ., Jos jah Hunt moved an amendment to the etiect , That all cumpulsory enaotm enta for the support of religious institutions were contrary to the principles of Christianity , and that the question be adjourned for a twelvemonth . " Mr . W . Bar don seconded the amendment . Mr . Woodruffe observed , that chapels were in general private property , and might be shut up at the caprice of the owners , and if the church were not opened , the poor would have
no place for religious worship under such circumstances . Mr . Mason would remind the vestry , before they voted , of the precept— "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you . do ye also to them . " He considered the repairs should be paid for by a voluntary contribution , and he had no doubt the funds might be raised . Mr . Shackle said , he was disposed tolry a rate first , and then , if that failed , he was willing to try the voluntary principle —( a laugh ) . Mr . Fleet said , Mr . Bardon and Mr . Hunt had both formerly failed ia their attempts to collect the sum requisite , and he would therefore vote for a rate . Oa the votes being taken , there appeared for therate , 42 ; for the amendment , 21 ; being two to one in favour of the ' rate . On the sugarestion of Mr .
Newman , the sum inserted in the estimate for coals and candles was struck out , and Messrs . Will shere and Briggs undertook to provide them . Wandsworth Police .-- ? On Tuesday , the Reverend Mr . Stephen A Idhouse , lecturer of Allhallows Church , in the City , was charged before Mr . Clivej with deserting , his wife and children , and leaving them chargeable to the parish of Clapham . Mr . William Tupman , relieving overseer of the parish of Clapham , stated that on Thursday the defendant ' s wife , Elizabeth , came to him and represented that she and her two children had been left destitute by her husband , the defendant . He made inquiries into her case , and ascertained that she was truly destitute , and gave her 2 s . Ho , by direction of the Board of
Guardians , obtained a warrant againBt the defendant . Elizabeth Aldhousej a lady apparentlj much younger than her husband , said she was the wife of the defendant , and had borne him two children . She had left him two years and five months in consequence of his ill-usage of -. her . He had struck her once or twice , and in apprehension of his doing hor more serious injury , she left him . Latterly he had neglected to support her , and she wa , s pbliged to apply to the parish officers for relief for herself and two children . Police-constable New , 136 V , proved that he apprehended the defendant at his lodgings in Wine office-court , Fleet-street . He told the
defendant why he took him into custody , and tho latter said he did not leave her , but she him , and that she was a veritable vixen . The defendant then entered into a long statement , the greater part of which was of an uninteresting nature . He said j however , that instead of his being charged with Jeaviag his wfo destitute , she ought to have been charged with leaving him . About two years ago he was unfortunately arrested for debt , and remained in custody of a Sheriff ' s officer three days . When he was released , he was surprised to find his house , which was' in Neison-square , Blackfriars' -road , deserted , * hd upon inquiry lear / it that his wife had removed the whole ot his effects to the residence of her father . The
youngest of his children had been bom seven months since his wife left him , and although he had repeatedly applied to his father-in-law and hie wife to see the child , he was refused . His wife had done her best to starve him , fox sho had kept possession of his orders , and in cousequence it was only where he was previously known that ho could preach . Tho defendant finished his statement by observing that his wifo and children were not deficient of a home , for he had one to take them to if his wife would go with him . The defendant's wife declared that she would not again live with him . Some recriminatory conversation followed , and afterwards it was arranged that the defendant should be discharged from custody , and that the matter should be left to the decision of the parish officers .
DisoRACEFur ,. — -James Watt , a tailor , living in North-street , Newington , was brought before Mr . Cottenham , at Union Hall , charged tvith oriielly illtreating his son , a young man twenty years of age , by keeping him without food or raiment . The young man , who was bent double from infirmity engendered by the filthy , condition in which he was kept by his unnatural parents , his weakness of body 6 uch that ho could not walk erect , was obliged to be supported into court , and accommodated with a seat while giving his evidence Robert Brankes , the relieving officer of Newington , stated that in consequence ot a report in the neighbourhood where the defendant lived , that he had a son whom he kept without the common necessaries of life , he ( the relieving officer )
went there on Saturday morning to make inquiries as to the troth of the rumour . On going into a room on the first floor , which the prisoner and hi 3 family occupied , he found o < ie corner of it boarded off , and behind the board or screen he witnessed a scene which could not be easily forgotten . The young man above alluded to he found crouched up in the corner , lying on tho bare boarde , without a stitch to cover him , and his body was covered with filth and vermin . In reply to the qncstions put to him on the occasion , it was evident he was desirous of shielding his family from any blame as ta the condition in which he was found , but he admitted that he had had no clothes upon him for the last two vears . during whioh period he occupied the corner
of the room where he was discovered . There were some hard crusts of bread and cold potatoes found within his reaoh lying on the floor . Thewitnesa , finding the prisoner was not at homey went to where he wa 3 at work , and askod him why he treated his son in such a scandalous manner , and hisreply was that he was in distress and could not afford to give him clothes , and that he preferred lying on the boards to a bed . Trie witness added that the other children of the prisoner were decently attiredj and that they had decent aceommodai ion to sleep , unlike their brother , the subject of the inquiry . As it was a case of gross inhumanity , as far as the father was concerned , the witness sent for a policeman and gave him into custody ; Charlotte Jones stated that she and she
lodged in the same house ^ saw the defendant ' s son in February last , at which time he was lying as described , without clothe 3 , in a corner of the room . She was given to understand at the time that ha was weak of intellect ; but on finding that there was such a marked distinction made by his parents between him and the other children , and that he was evidently dwindling away from want © f oommon attention , she considered it her duty to give information of the fact to the parochial authorities . The . unfortunate young man was here interrogated by the magistrate , and in reply to the questions put to him , he said that ho was twenty years of age , and that he was brought hp to his father ' s trade , that of a tailor , but that he had not worked at it for the
last four or five years . That for the last two years he was kept without clothes , and occupied the corner of the room where ho was found by the officer . He had no bed to sleep upon , as he preferred lying on the boards , but he had a piece of carpet under him . To other questions relatirgto the treatment which had reduced him to his present emaciated cohditiott he evinced a desire to withold any information , fearful , no doubt , as the magistrate observed , that his father would bo answerable for it , and thereby manifesting a feeling towards that parent which was not shown to himself . When askad , however , the cause of his stooping , he said * that leaning forward became so habitual to him , owing to his being kept without clothes ,- "' that he now found
a difficulty in keeping hia body lip Btraight Ho also said that the reason ho was kept without clothes was in consequence of his father being so poor . Another witness stated that she was living in the same house since the 10 th of last September , but that ? ho had never seen the young man until last Saturday , but heard that his parents had an idiot son , whom they were compelled to keep at home , and that the mother told her he tore his clothes , and would not sleep in a bed like thereat of the children . The witness added that sho was shocked on seeing him for the first time on Saturday . Mr . William Btll , a surgeon , stated that he was called on to examine the young man on Saturday , and that ho never beheJd such a miserable spectacle as he was
at that time . He was perfectly naked , and his body was in a most filthy condition from dirt and vermin , and there were sores upon it , produced by continual scratching . His body was bent forward , and he was -o weak and emaoiated , that he could not move or stir without help . It was evident that he had been treated with great inhumanity , and bo must in a short time have been totally deprived of the use of his limbs if such treatment had been persevered in . The prisoner , in reply to the charge , said that between three and four years ago his son fell down stairs and out his head , ever since which period he
had been of weak intellect , and was obliged to be treated as a child . That he ( prisoner , ) being in very indigent circumstance , could not afford to buy him clothes ; and that rather than suffer him to be taken from under the roof of his parents , they managed with him as well as they could , but never kept him without food . Mr , Cottenham having made somo strong observations oh the conduct of the prisoner towards his unfortunate son , which he characterised as of the most unfeeling description , adjudged him to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of £ 200 and find tw * sureties oj' £ 101 ) , to defend the charge at the Besc-iea ?*
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Birds' Nests . —r-At Collingbourne Kingston Church , in Wiltshire , on the J 3 ch of April , the clerk , on looking out the lessons for the day , perceived something under the Bible in the reading desk , and in a hollow place made by the Bible resting on a raised ledge , he found a robin ' s nest , with two eggs in it ; The bird , not having been disturbed , laid four more , which were hatched on the 4 th of May . The cock-bird , bronght food in its bill , and fed the young brood during the service ; and none of the parishioners , not even the boyy , interfered With the birds , or attempted to take away the eggs , —Devizes Gazette .
Oldhaji .- ^ -Awful Accident . —About noon on Wednesday last , as a youny woman , named Mary Taylor , the wife of Thomas Taylorv acotton-spinuer , of Hope-street , was at her work in the card-room of Shore Mill , Greeuacres- moor , Oldham , and , whilst in a stooping posture , her clothes were caught by an upright shaft , which was moving at the rate of 91 ) revolutions per minute . Tho poor woman was instantly snatched by the fearful machine , and her head coming in contact with the iron , she was immediately killed . Her head was dreadfully injured , the brain being shattered to fragments ; one of tho arms was nearly Cut oflf ; and the body muoh mangled / The greater part of the shaft is cased , and it is not precisely known in what way she was caught by the lower parti The deceased was 27 years of age , but had no children . —Manchester Courier .
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THE QUEEN'S BEGGING LETTER . It will seen , by reference to tbe debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday , lhat Lord Kntaird asked the Government , whether they bad not thought it expedient , to advise her Majesty to issue a begging letter , soliciting subscriptions for tie relief of tbe prevailing distress . The ^ ari of llipon was understood to reply that Government kafew nothing whatever of the letier in question ; and the Duke of Wellington also said , that he feneW nothing of tho existence of such a documehtv One noble P ^ or , who attended church last Siuidayiticwl Colboin ) said , he had hearditread . So muchfor the altentjou of" Government ; and here is the Queen's letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury , directing collectionso bs made from bou 89 to house by the churcbvfardens : — ' ' . ¦ - ¦"' : ¦ ¦'¦' - . ' . ¦ ' ' " . ¦ '
•• Victoria R . —Most Reverend Father in God , our light trusty and right entirely beloved councillor , we greet you well : whereas in some districts in England and ScotlaBd many of the working classes have suffered , and continue to suffer severe distress ; : and whereas many of our subjects have entered into voluntary 8 Kbscriptions for their relief , and have at tho same time humbly prayed ua to issua our Royal letters directed to the Lord / Arcbbisbop o £ Canterbury , and the Lord Archbishop of York , authorising them to promote contributions within their several provmcfcs ; for the same benevolent purpose , v ? e , taking the premises into our Rmyal consideration , and being always ready to give the best encouragement and countenance to sueh humane and charitable undertakings , are graciously pleased to
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condescend to their request ; and we do hereby direct these . our letters be communicated by yoii to the several suffragan Bishops within youp province , expressly requiring them to take care that publication be made hereof on such Sunday in the present or in the ensuing month , and in such places within their re-spr-ctiva dioces 88 .. as the said Bishops £ h 3 l ! appoint ; and thai upon thia occasion the Ministers in each parish , dotffijetually excite tho parishioners to a liberal contribution .
which . shall be collected tha / weefc following at tiieur iccp ? ctive dwellings by the churchwardens or overseers of the poor , in each pariah 1 and the Ministers of the several parishes are to cause , the siiui so collected to be paid immediately into the hands of the B . mk of England , to be accounted for by them , and applied to tha carrying on cud promoting the abave-njentioned good designs . Ami so we bid you very heartily farewell . Given at eur Court at St . James's , the nth day of May , J 842 , in the fifth year of our reign . Jiy her Majesty ' s command , J . R . G . Graham .
" To f bP Most R * v . Father in God , our Ri ? ht Trusty and Right Entirely Bilovod Councillor , WiiHani Lord Archbishop of Canterbury , Primate of all England and Metropolitan . Theq follows the Bishop ot London ' s letter to the . Clergy : — . ' ' . ¦ ' . ¦¦ - , . ' . . .. ' . ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦¦ - . '¦ ¦' . : , . " London-hsuse , May 20 . " Reverend Brother , —In obedience to the coamiiiida Of her Majesty , I require you to read from the deak ia your cLurch or chapel the Queen ' s Letter , a copy of which I Lave caused to be transmitted to you , on such Sunday before the 1 st day of July next a 3 you mivy judge most convenient , immediately aftor tha Morning or Evening Prayers . You are also desired to cause t ! i 9 Queen's Lttter to be read in like manner in every placo of woiship belonging to the Established Church in your parish ( if there be any besides the parish church ) ,
and to communicate this letter to the minister or ministers thereof . The accompanying statement will supply authentic information in regard to the distress which prevails in places therein mentiened , and which unhappily extends to many other populous districts similarly circumstanced . I trusty therefore , that you :. f * 4 \ it your duty / aa a minister of Christ , to give full effect to ker Majesty ' s gracious intentions by earnest exhortation from the pulpit , and te roa&e knowa and enforce , as widely and strongly as possible , the cl a ims of tho sufferers on the charity of their Christian brethreii . The araeunt collected is to be paid , within three weeks after the collection , into the Bank of England , or its branches in the country ; or by yosr-otK « erders addressed to ; and made payable to , the cashiers of thfi Bank of England '; London . " From your affectionate brother , " C . J . London . "
W " e could have had no objection to this begging letter , provided the clergy had not already flaeced the pockets of the church-gotn ? people , for the purpose of building . new churches and creating new colonisl bishopricks . Distress ^ even to a greater extent than at present , prevailed at the time . the collection was made ;; the Archbishops and Bishops were perfectly aware of it ; bat they had neither heart nor disposition to relieve theVsuffsvings of their distressed brethren , until they had first m : tde a descent npon the ppclteta of the liberally-diiposefl , in ovrier to carry out their own darling scheme of ienderin ? the Church oinnipoteni ! , by extehdiDg her pb ^ er and throwing more vrehltJi into her lap . Speaking of the exhibition of folly ( the Queen ' s fancy ball ) one London paper
says" Her Majesty . Mi the ball-room about a qunrter to three o ' clock , but dancing was continued . for ; about aa hour afterwarils . The expenditure for this one night ' s entertainment was enormous . One Noble Loru pays £ 150 Jot . the hire of diamonds , and ladies of rank expend a far grt .-atei" sum . AH ' . ' th'o great je Weilers in London , down to the Juw diamond merciiAtita , yrote laid under contribution . Her Majesty-wore but one diamond on her htsd . This gem , value , £ 10 , 000 , looked , at a distance , like a star ,, by its vivid brilliancy . " ; ' . " ¦;• . ' ¦ . ¦" .. ¦ ¦ ... ;
The most detested tyrant whose deeds history hanca dowu ta posterity , set fire-to ; llorae that he might ecjoy tha sight < if a city in conrlagr-ition , and yrhila tM flames were raging , he amused himself by playing on ; the violin * 'We know-of no nearer approximation to the unmatched ccuelty of the iuonster Nero , than the coaduet of the British Court and aristocracy , in thus revelling amidst tho most supsifluuu 3 waste , while the more Mumble of their : cauntryinen are doomed to starve for bread ,-by the laws thsse same Nobility have frameii for their own advantage , The Britisii aristocracy have enforeud the provision la - -ts to secure themselves a monopoly in food whatever may fee the consequences . Because of this monopoly , the wbolo commercial worltl
is turned upside down ; and tho poor aro luft to beg or perish . Ytt , in the midst of' th 5 . unprecedented sufftacings of . mil ions which now exist , the nation has been inButted with this childish display of the -waatti of thousands , for the nioat part wrung , either in the sbap 8 of taxation or monopoly , frim ; the v « ry classes 1 ; who have been rained , and who now suffer * By thia illtimed : and ^ ill'ad vised disp lay , donble ^ he . money will hava been literally thrown away , under the patronage of the Qusen , than will bs collected , in the shape of ch-irity , by the Queen ' s letters , and by the lettera of all the Bishops of E > gland and Ireland into the bargain . ' ¦ ¦'¦ ¦ - . ¦ : ¦ . . - . - . ¦¦' ¦ .. - . ' . . . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . _ ;
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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OP THE \ : , : ¦¦ ¦; . ¦ . ¦ . .. ; ., ' ¦ ¦¦ QUEEN . ' , O . .. On . Monday afternoon , at about six o ' clock , an attempt was made to assassinate , her Majesty as she was returning from her afternoon ride . Her Majesty was in a barouche and four , which was proceeding towards Buckingham Palace from the Green Park , when , on the way down Constitution Hill , and at about ten or twelve yards f row : the spot at which Oxford made a similar attempt , the flash of a pistol was observed in the crowd , and a young man who held it waa immediately eeizad and committed to custody . Fortunately he missed hia aim , and before a second attempt could be made , he was in custody . Indeed , he did not appear to make the attempt , for h « put the pistol httrriedly into his breast , endeavouring to escape detection .
His Royal Highness Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace ehortly before three o ' clock in the afternoon , for the purpose of attending the Stannary Court , Somersethouae , to give judgment as Lurd Warden of the Duchy of Cornwall , and shortly after his return to the Palace , Her Majesty , accompanied by his Royal Highness , proceeded in an open carriage and four horses , preceded by outridersj for her accustomed drive in Hydepark , & , c , the royal equerries , as usual accompanied the coilege on horseback . Oa Her M . ijesty ' a return , about ten minutes or a quarter past six o ' clock , down Constitution-hill , when within a short distance of the spot at which the former attempt at Her Majesty ' s assassination was made by Edward Oxford , a young man , who had previously been noticed standing with
his back against the brick wall skirting the gardens of Buckingham Palace , was observed to advance towarda the carriage road along which the Royal cortege was passing , and upon the carriage containing Her Majesty and her illustrioua consort approaching the spot at which he stood , he was seen by police-constable Tanner , A 53 , to . idvance within three yards of the carriage , and at the same instant draw out , apparently from hia waistcoat pookefc , a piatoL Tanner instantly rushed towards him , for the purpose of knocking it out of his hand , seeing that it was aimed -at "her Majesty , but at the Kioment he seized him the pistol went off , without injuring her Majesty's person or that of P / ince Albert . The viptant tho report was heard a soldier of the Foot Guards , who happened to be near , ran to the assiatauce of the policeman , as did several other persoHs , who
came rapidly up to the spot . The Royal carriage , ¦ which waa , at tha moment of th 8 attempt , proceeding at a Cjuick prlca , contiimed its course towards Buckingham Palace , and tbe prisoner was conveyed to the lodge adjoining , where he was searched by Mr . Russell , the inspectot en duty at the time , who found in his pockets a bullet and some powder , as well as the pistol , which Was still warai , and affording convincing proof . of its recent discharge . A cab was immediately procured , in which the prisoner was conveyed by Tanner , accoenpahied by the soldier , to the station-house of the A division , in Gardiner ' siane . He was there questioned by Inspector Hughes as to his name , for the purpose of entering the offence in the usuil manner upcu the charge-sheet , when he refused to give his name or make any statement , and maintained an extreme sullemiess of manner .
. The iutelligence of the desperate attempt flew like wildfire through the inttropolis , and in a very ehorfc time the vaiiou 3 menjbers of . the Royal family , as well as several of the foreign Ambassadors , besides large numbers of the nobility , &c , hastened to the palace for the purpose of copgratulating the Queen and Prince Albert on their providential deliverance , and throughout the evening a dense concourse of persons of all , classes , amongst whom we noticed a number of elegantly dressed females , surrounded the gates of the palace- . ' .,
The priBonei , upon being interrogated , ^^ refused to give either his name or residence , or to make ; any admission on the subject of the charge . During the examination , however , of the persons who witnessed the transaction , it appeared that a youth who happened to be in the Park at tho moment of the prisoner ' s apprehension had followed him to the Statiqn-honse , and subsEijuently to the Home-offlce , and had recognised him to be a person of the n « me of Frauci ? . On the prisoner being preaseil aK . to whether that was not hi 3 name he , after considerable hesitation , admitted the fact . The youth ¦ was then questioned as to his knowledge of the prisoner , when he stated that the prisaner ' a father resided at No . 100 , Titchaeld-street .
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COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER . On Tuesday , thi prisoner , John Francis , underwent a long private ex uniniition at tho Home Offiae , the result of whirh . was that he was fully committed to Newgate , to tako his . trial on a charge of High Treason .
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EiAMINATION OF THE PRISONER AT THE HOME-OFEtCE . Imtnadiately on the diabolical outrage being kn » wn , informatiott was sent to the principal Ministers , who were a . 1 that time in their places in P . irliaraent . In tho Lords , as soon ; as the intelligence Was known , there wa 3 an iHimediate suspension of business , ami the House at or . ee adjourned . In the Commons the greatest interest and sympathy was created , and after a few words of explanation from Sir R . Peel , the House adjourned . Notica was immediately given to those members of the Ministry , and those leading member of the Privy Coniicil , who bad not been previously made acquainted with / . the event , and an investigation was ordered at the Home-office . Sir James Graham had gone direct
there from the House of Coiamons , as also bad Sir R . Peel ; and at a few minutes beforo 8 o ' clock several members of the Pdvy Council assembled iu the room of Sir . J . Graham at the Home-office . The prisoner had been previously brought from the Givdiner's-lane stationhouse to the Homo-office , into which he was conveyed by the back entrance , from the park , ari iminense concourse of persona iiavingf assembled at the front entrance opposite Whitehall . The principal Ministers present , besides the Home Secretary and Sir R . Peel , were , the Duke of Wellington , Lord Stanley , the Lord Chancellor , the Earl of Haddington ' - , the Eail of Jersey , Sir E Koatcbbull , Lord Fitzgerald , the Eitrl of Denbigh , the Chancellor cf the Exchequer , the Earl cf Ripon , the Earl of Aberdeen , and Viscount Lowther . The Attorney-Gcnem ! vyaspreseht , as also were Mr . Maula , the Secretary o ? the Treasury , and Ct > loael Rowan , the Police Commissioner . Mr . Hall , the chief magistrate
at Bow-street , was also present The investigation waSj of . course , atrtctly private ,, and no particulars of what occurred at tha Home-cfflce transpired officially . As soon as the investigation { which lasted till ten " o'clock ) was over , tho prisoner was remanded to Tothill-fields prison . : . ; The prisoner , John Francis , is the aon of a respectable man of that name , living in Tottenham Court Road . He is about twenty yeara ef age , about £ Lve feet five inches ia height , and at i > resent rather shabby iuappea-rance . Hehaaaforefgn cast of countenance , though by no means'snch as to warrant the belief at first entertained that ho was a German . ' = Hia hair is vory dark , and he has daTk whiskers . His complexion is saHpw , KUfl , allowing for the j / alenefs iiatural - ' to him in such a situation , rather of a light olive . It appears that ho has been absenS from hia family for more than six months past . Hi 3 father had not heard of him for nearly that time .
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GENIUS AND INTEMPERANCE . In our last publication , we referred to tho disastrous Influence of alchoboh'cdrinRs upon genius—we- affirrned that the excitement thcaproducied , is the most deadly enemy , of genius—and we refeTred ; to ; the deplorable degradation which it has inflicted upon -mahy who might have been the blessings of' . their friends , the ornaments of their country , aqd the histructorsi of the world . ; . '¦ .. ; ¦ .. ' . ¦ ¦ ' '¦ ¦ • ~' : '" - . ¦ ¦ . ¦ . " . ' ¦ ¦ . ' . - : '' " ¦ : " .: ¦ :.... " ¦ - . ¦ ¦' . . ¦ The folio wing scene which was witnessed at MarTborough--s { reet , on Tuesday last , displayed most fully the accurate jasticecfour representations . It exhibited a Clergyman , a man ef high classical attainments , and we * have since ascsrtained , of naturally commanding intellectual powc-ra , prostrated in the very dust by thia abominable agency . The account requires no comment from ii ? . It will appeal at once to the understandings bad tbe feelings of our readers .
An emaciated yoniig mm ,: in a miserable plight , was brought before Mr . Maitby , charged with ha-ving made an attempt to ; commit suicide . ; ¦ A pot-boy of the George public-house , Castle-street * said the defendant camt * into the bou 3 e that morning , and nfter being in the tap-room a thorttimo , asked witness to lend him a knife . Witness gave him a amall penknife , and kept his eye on his movements . Tbe defendant taking an opportunity when he thought bo was unperceived , of raising the knife to his throat , and was about'to plunge it in , When witness rushed for ward
and arrested his band .. A struggle ensued , and witness with difttiu ty regained possession of the kuife . After a short period the defentiant was allowed to leava the hous 8 and he then went over the way into a publichouse immediately opposite . H « e his agitated manner having excited suspicion , he was again watched , and secured , while in thei act of strangling himself with his neckerchief . In couscqiiznceef theso two attempts , he was considered ti > be totally unfit tobsany longer at large ,, and a ; policenuii being called * he was ,. given into custody . ¦ ¦ • ' - ;¦
Mri Maitby aslred the first witness if he was sure that the defendant intended to do himself some injury with the knife ? , - Witness said he had no doubt what 9 ver tMatsuch was the defendant ' s intention .. ; .. . '" ¦ Mr . Maitby—You hear tba charge against you . Is it ttua ? , ' : ' ¦ . ¦ . ¦ . ¦ - "¦ . - ... ' ; ¦ ¦ . ¦' .. - ¦¦ . . ¦ ., ' - ¦ "¦ . - ¦ ' Ddferidanfc—Partly . My intentions were niiscpnceived . Wv . Maitby—Thnn you did not intend to commit suicide , according to tha charge made against you ? Defendant Iheaitatingly ) - —No . My spirits were much depressed . ¦' ¦ , : Mr . Maitby— -What is the cause ? ; . " ¦ , .. D'jfe ' iWant—Owing to my Oes ' itute circumstances . Mr . Maitby—What is your name , and what have you been used to ? ; ;; . ; , . : .- . : ¦ : ' Defendaut— My name is TheophUus Curry . I , am a teacher of the clftsska . : . '
¦ Mr . Maitby—Whsre werp you Ia 3 t employed in that capacity , ? . : . .... ' ,.. . . ... '"• .-. Defendant—At Braintree , about nine months ago . Since that I ha-vtvsoid a fjw publications . Mr . Maitby—Where Ao you live ? Defttudant—I have lived at Mis . Hennessey ' s , in George-street , and af tsrwarda in Short ' s Gardens . At present I have no Irome , und for thelast two nights have slept at a place in the city . " - ' -:.. \ : . Mr . Maitby , —Have you any friend ? .
pefenileD . t—Not iu Loudon . J nave a brother , a su rgeon , at Buneay . : . Mr . Malt'iy . —WheTe-wsieytu brought up ? Dtf-ndent—At Cambridge . I entered a , t Emmanuel Colltge . . ' ¦ - . ¦ - " . . ¦ V . ' ; v Mr . Maitby . —Did you take any decree ? Ddfendent . —Yes ; Bachelor of Arts . Mr . Maitby . —Have yon eaten ; any thing lately ? Dtffendent—No food , except a piece of bread yesterday . I have bad two pints of portur which was givtn meat the pubJichouse .
Mr . Maitby , after putting a few moie questions to the unfortunate man , directed that he should b » supplied vrHIi refreshment , and also requested Clements , the chief uiher , to go to various places named : by the dtfendent and asceitain if hia story was true , and , afterwards to call at the" St . Martin ' s workhouse to ask the overseer to step to that Conrt . , ¦ " ¦ . .. . ' -: ' - - .. : •¦¦; - .- ' . " : ¦ : ' ¦¦ ¦¦ ' . ' ¦¦ . ; : : ; ¦'¦' . ¦ '¦¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ '¦ ¦; ¦ ¦ Clements , haviag made tbe necessary Ipqmries , came back and reported th . at-the defendant ' s etatement -waa correct . He had beeh , hs he said , in Westminster Hospitil , and had lodged at Hennessey ' s , from which latter pUcehe ( Clenients ) learceJ that tbe defendant occ * Bionally foceived sums of ; lnonoy from his biottier ,- bat he immediately spent the cash in drink , and tnat suck w , as his routad propensity for that vice that he had drank hiaisalf intTa '^ tats of delirium iremens . [ '
In the pater office tho . deiendant further stated that he had been in ordtrs , but left his curacy to adept the profession , of ¦ teaching . While speaking , he was seizsd with ' a , shivering fit , and he In this conrtirvon Ire continued Iiideous picture of ih . ' ) Mr . Maithy dt-. ^ -. , -d the St . Martin ' s work I puse ^ CQminsrcia ! Reciter :
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 4, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct756/page/3/
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