THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



7 JIiTV £0 on with the 



g* ^?bich tbev had met H. repU ed tha 



*f^ *• WTerie ,V t he bad handed in 5 and the 

 *f**JL t to the P rotes V«,, then proceeded with. 



hJ^Trf the 24 "» me s s " aS a „ l a * protested against 

 j*N£" for <he traverser, agamp^ ^.^ off 



5ffi2p»> on ^A'onw object was to omit 

 tr^T^i *? S olic on he list. E eve: 



•f e* 



r^rKnli,* Oil tile HaL. *^*^"'— 



, e-i Roman £*°^Vholic.. and it is 

 L*^Ae twdve >PP eart0 ia \ e ,, r they are all known 



ttd were ther, fore , c*n»- - ^ The ^ 



^ - *7! •' I^VSe o!e summoned as special 

 IS; .rftces to the 24 w now-e ^ hom ausvve rin 3 to 



a case, and the first^ 

 will con 



— ♦;3,tap-.f- t* _ fi Beniarnin 



"-librr" mo T Floyd, ehina warehouse ; 13, 

 ■JMJMMMBl l -» AUBV ,, T,A Bf f Hatina. wine-iner- 



'i"«„. u Robert Hanna, wine 

 **• ] T ^0 ' ViVam Scott, cabinet-maker; 21, 



f 



fernta of the aKve list, said mat me u«i » u» BU o 

 *J3k2e been concluded on Thursday by the short 

 of strikin- off everv Catholic on the list. Mr. Cant- 

 •*IL sJdreswoe the clerk cf the Crown, said with con- 

 .^ Whence (hat he would not for 5,000/. sign 

 tecs i Ptn«l or put his name to such a registry of bigots. 

 Pitftoulyto all parties leaving the oftce Mr. Mahony 

 repeated to the High Sheriff, who entered the room before 

 to seeeeedmgs terminated, the complimentary observa- 

 tion which he had previously applied, and again stated 

 that while he protested against the panel, he had to return 

 Mr. Latouche thanks on behalf of his clients for the 

 ficilitits afforded in his office. Mr. Latouche said that he 

 had certainly endeavoured to give every facility in his 

 power and to avoid granting one party any superiority 

 over the other. In these times it was difficult for a per- 

 09a in his poiition to escape misrepresentation, and when 

 he encountered it he should always rest satisfied in his 

 own amid, when convinced that the duties of his office 

 were fairly administered. In reference to the striking off 

 all the names of Roman Catholics on the jury list, a 

 reowjjkion signed by Mr. Sheil, Mr. Wyse, M.P., and 

 fltaer gentleman, has been got up, convening an aggregate 

 ■eetiog of the Catholics of Ireland for this day, the 13th 

 ■at, to petition Her Majesty on the subject : the 

 ■•■an ho!ic primate, Dr. Crolly, is expected to take 

 *** Ayr.— The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association 

 waiaeMon Monday and was very fully attended in con- 



[the presence of Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Lynch 



SLfS??^ Cas!le P resided - Mr. O'Connell moved 



imuhe owing sentence from a letter of Col. Canl- 

 ■yte i nscribed. on a banner to be hung up in the Con- 



ZEV i' kThe time is ccme wnen no Irishman 

 ™I toe smafe rlai, n to the regard or respect of his 



S®!V h0 T n d lon S er hold back from expressing his 



•l"e man, he said, was a recreant of the 



leatiatn 



htZmZ? P*?* 80 dld not come forward and declare 

 ""*" Kionality of I re l and at tbat moment . It was 



aaaTofl ?p US t pr0S P ect for tlie ^Peal cause, when the 



K^«V«7!? ,flUa Charlemon * was found once more 



»Wc«dw.! 12qJ 8 q COII o> Am ° n ° the donations an- 

 S&.S ^\ 8 K rf. f rom Rio de la Plata, the first 



F r °Pea,of R e ;: a , ° |T Co ^l proceeded to discuss the 



*«** that o Li , 8Md he was the a P° st,e of the 

 ^ organic uV gle dro P of blood would defeat the 



^ fr ^ ihe extr, " SP ' raC f' 5 a,ld lie * as happy to find 



" e »Wied that ther ".? l ° P ract,8e the most rigid peace. 



*• *** dnrin« lh ' h .° Uld b f n ° th ™ S ing or crowding 

 *Ut diffcrea" trials which «»„ „„1: __^ 



-ce wonL' ♦ i . " were coming on, and 

 g to ^ A^Wm I' ^ W6re ^und guilty or 

 | fcji^ "** Vuiltv nf th6y T Q 8l1 e,1 8 a 8ed ? 

 £? Irel ^d, and JT 7 r f any offence but that ° f 



! r- 10 ^ at borne an / r0 ;' C , lmplored them b y that 

 J? 11 *• new.papl 6 "r^^ the P^edings the next 



11? ^ or tnVn or ^^ he was convinced 

 Z£l r the re su ir w ° a ? U , t h break 1 ? urin S the trials ; and 



BWhV* ca ^e n which th. 0t Sl ° P ^ misbt / 

 catSr, ack w »th the h ^ u ' Lhthc ywere all engaged. 



2?S P i tlle ^ twel ve mhf 8at,sf ^ cti on to the pro- 

 52*1** ^eintstel n 0l f S - lQ the beginning of 

 ■ 552.^ tad & n0t mo,e tha " about seventy 

 ' SRt^^^nd d y nr U T ed at that mo «ent to 

 %a^' At the berin ni « tW1 ? B J aildin 8 the badness of 

 iSFhfTl ^ anv ? ^ the ^ ear their Proceed- 



SLd eT V ° n ^ iT a t P n1 rCSentatives from ewy 

 ttevlll 7word which ", attcndan ce, who carefully re- 



«5SS ^ the '-Sr d fr0 » then,, and even U e 

 10 " wai « th !> r *omd n eve dU ; g an S? l "Present. But for 

 ^•eTt attbat moment hw f. had the union, and 

 ^&V° Call ou tW a ?; h,D S f0r a -beUion. 

 * l ^ V;° b oots, and proli aT rj ' t0 Stuff M Ked 

 ■^ alL ,€ P e °Ple. lie thV C \, them with a sword to 

 ' " "^^^ngstia^ Ulluded ^ the thirty. 



°t^uhstand,n S the millions 



who assembled in all parts of the country, not the least 

 breach of the peace was committed, nor did the slightest 

 injury occur to any individual. The Archbishop of Cashel, 

 Dr. Slattery, had become a Repealer within the last six 

 months. Mr. O'Neill had joined them ; Mr. S. O'Brien 

 had joined them, a gentleman of high and an ancient 

 family— the lineal descendant of Brian Broombe, and one 

 too who had made an experiment of thirteen years, and 

 was at last forced to admit that no justice could be 

 obtained from the British Parliament, and that no other 

 hopes remained for Ireland but in a repeal of the Union. 

 They had the Catholic hierarchy with them ; they had 

 the Catholic clergy with them ; and where he would ask 

 was the money which could bribe that body ? He was 

 hanpy to inform them that Mr. Nicholas Maher, of 

 Thurles, would be returned in the room of the late Valen- 

 tine Maher — a gentleman who was universally esteemed 

 and respected for his amiable and excellent qualities ; and 

 it gave him great pleasure to find that the Association had 

 taken up the subject of Lord Devon's commission, which 

 was as great a humbug as ever existed. He then pro- 

 ceeded to refer to the coming prosecutions. He was forty 

 years battling for Ireland — through good and through evil 

 report— but he was never yet a martyr for her ; he was 

 ready now to become that martyr. The Government pro- 

 posed to put down the agitation for Repeal by prosecu- 

 tions, which were to commence on Monday next, and he 

 had been asked to what day he would adjourn the 

 association in consequence, as some of them must neces- 

 sarily be absent on the 15th. That was the reason he 

 would adjourn to that day, to show the Government that 

 the people of Ireland could do without him and the rest 

 of the traversers. No incarceration of him or any one 

 else as long as there was peace and perseverance would 

 suffice to put down Repeal. There was but one way of 

 preventing Repeal, and that was by committing a breach 

 of the peace. His only request, his only command to the 

 people of Ireland was to be patient, peaceable, and con- 

 stitutional, and they would have connexion with England 

 continued by the golden link of the Crown, but a Parlia- 

 ment of their own. But without a repeal of the Union 

 separation would be the inevitable result. Mr. O'Connell 

 concluded by moving the adjournment of the Association 

 to Monday next. The amount of the week's rent was 550/. 

 —The Corporation of Dublin have had a long discussion 

 on the suggestion of the ex- Lord Mayor to address the 

 Queen for a committee of inquiry into the grievances of 

 Ireland. An amendment had been moved by Alderman 

 Butt, but the address to her Majesty was ultimately car- 

 ried by a majority of 35 to 7. A meeting has a'so been 

 held, at which a public expression of satisfaction at the 

 conduct of the late Lord Mayor during his year of office 

 was proposed. The meeting was attended by gentlemen of 

 all political parties, but after some disturbance it was 

 adjourned. 



ClonmcL— Tn Mr. O'Connell's return to Dublin he 

 passed through this city and was received with great 

 enthusiasm. He was afterwards entertained at a banquet 

 at which about 300 gentlemen were present. On his 

 health being drunk Mr. O'Connell made a long speech, 

 the burden of which was to recommend the people to 

 abstain from any kind of violence, assuring them that they 

 would thereby be certain of obtaining Repeal. He referred 

 to the extraordinary progress which Repeal had made in 

 the course of the last year, which he ascribed to the peace- 

 ful demeanour of the people. He said they had by their 

 conduct demonstrated their fitness for self-government, 

 and alluded to the effects of his coming trial by declaring 

 that even if he be shut up in a prison the cause of Repeal 

 cannot be retarded. 



AchiU.—k long account has appeared in some of the 

 Irish papers of a conspiracy to murder the Rev. E. 

 Nangle and others in the Protestant settlement established 

 by that gentleman in the island of Achill on the coast of 

 yo, about twenty miles distant from any town. The 

 statement appears to have originated with a man called 

 M'Hugh, but so little credence did the magistrate who 

 receive! his informations attach to the story, that he took 

 upon himself the responsibility of admitting the parties 

 accused to bail until the ensuing assizes. 



Tipperary.— The town of Nenagh on Saturday was 

 thrown into great excitement by another outrage which 

 took place in the immediate suburbs near the bridge of 

 Tyrone, not one quarter of a mile from the centre of the 

 town. It appears that as a man named Gleeson was re- 

 turning from mass to his house at Lisatomy, he was met 

 by two men at the above place, and on his passing them 

 Ihey turned quickly round and discharged two pistols at 

 bis back which took effect, the balls entering the back 

 and passing out at the chest. On his falling they leaped 

 upfon him and kicked him and deliberately walked off. The 

 man is not yet dead but there is no hope of his recovery. 



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SCOTLAND. 



West C aider.— On Sunday last the dead body of an 

 old man, nan ed John Geddes, a labourer, residing in a 

 cottage by h'msnf on the farm of Longford, about three 

 miles from Went Calder, was found In a mangled state on 

 the floor of his own dwelling. He had been missing for 

 several days, but as he was in the frequent habit of work- 

 ing at a distance from home no alarm was excited among 

 the neighbours till Saturday night, when there was no 

 appearance of him as usual. On Sunday, therefore, it 

 was resolved to break open the house to see whether he 

 might not be ill, when they found his murdered body 

 stretched on the floor. A relation of the old man called 

 Bryce, a labourer, is suspected of being the murderer, and 

 a reward of 50/. i* offered for his apprehension. 



ifttfecEliaiieotts* 



Earthquake. — On Friday the 22nd ult. a few minutes 

 before 4 p.m. two violent shocks of an earthquake were 

 felt in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. A loud rumbling 

 noise was heard, the windows rattled, and the doors of 

 cupboards and wardrobes which were locked were forcsd 

 open. The inhabitants were greatly alarmed, but no 

 damage appears to have been done. The shock readied 

 the French coast, and was very severe at Cherbourg about 

 4 p.m. The Devonshire papers mention that it was also 

 distinctly felt at Exmouth between 3 and 4 o'clock. 



nam. 



Assize Intelligence.— CwwntR. — William Venables was in- 

 dicted for killing and slayine: John Venables at Sandbach. It 

 appeared that deceased was the father of the prisoner. At Sand- 

 bach races, on the 27th September, the prisoner quarrelled with 

 a man named Sutton, aud commenced fighting. The father put 

 him out of the house; the prisoner however returning, suppos- 

 ing his father then about to interfere, said, «' Old rogue, arc you 

 coming?" The father fell under the table, when the prisoner 

 commenced kicking him in a most brutal manner; he then went 

 to bed in great agony, and died next morning from a rupture of 

 the bowels. Two surgeons were examined, who deposed to the 

 probability of the rupture being produced by a fall; and the 

 cause of the fall not being clearly ascertained. Mr. Temple put 

 it to his Lordship as to whether there was any case to go before 

 the Jury ? His Lordship thought there was. Mr. Temple then 

 addressed the Jury for the prisoner. The learned Judge having 

 summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but recom- 

 mended the prisoner to mercy. The learned Judge.— U, -on what 

 grounds ? The Jury.— Upon the ground that it was by an acci- 

 dent. Mr. Justice Wightman (lifting- up his eyes).— If, gentle- 

 men, you have gathered a correct account of the evidence, you 

 ought, if you did not consider it a wilful act, to have acquitted 

 the prisoner; if otherwise, how can you return such a verdict » 

 You had better return, and reconsider your verdict; then, if it is 

 your opinion that the act was not wilful, it is your duty to return 

 a verdict of acquittal, but if otherwise it is imperative on you to 

 pronounce a verdict of guilty upon the charge in the indictment. 

 The Jurv hesitating, the learned Judge desired them to go to 

 reconsider their verdict, which they did, and in a short time re- 

 turned a verdict of Not Guilty. _* 



Henry Hamlet, a calico dyer, was found guilty of feloniously 

 causing a false entry of the death of his wife to be inserted in 

 the register of the book of Dukenru-ld. The evidence went 

 clearly to prove the tendency of the charge, and the prisoner 

 was found guilty, and he was sentenced to five months' impri- 

 sonment with hard labour. . 



William Stockton was charged with poaching and offering 

 violence to Joseph Stone, a gamekeeper. The evidence went to 

 prove that the prisoner entered inclosed land with a pikel in Ins 

 hand for the purpose of destroying game. Mr. Temple, counsel 

 for the prisoner, objected to the framing cf the indictment. By 

 the Act of the 9th Geo. IV. it is recited that » if any person 

 enters into inclosed land by night armed with a gun, net, or 

 offensive instrument, he shall be considered to be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanour." He contended that by the terms of that indictment 

 theprisoner was not attachable. He ought to be apprehended 

 according to the terms of that Act, in the fact of taking game 

 with a gun, net, or some instrument, and it was contended for 

 the defence that a pikel was not of the nature of an instrument 

 for destroying game. The Attorney-General contended that the 

 mere act of entering into inclosed grounds with the intent to 

 destroy game was sufficient to support the indictment. The 

 learned Judge— This has no consonance with the terms of the 

 Act. You must comply with the first section of the Act, before 

 you can give validity to the framing of your indictment. The 

 A ttornev- General— I contend, with your Lordship's permission, 

 that the*ind.ctment is fully sustained by the term " using any 

 instrument." The learned Judge-An instrument ! would not 

 a musical instrument be an instrument? He thought that the 

 indictment had failed in its construction, and the Jury returned 



a verdict of Not Guilty. 



Samuel Madd.cks was charged with the wilful murder of Mat- 

 thias Bailey, gamekeeper to Mr. Wilbraham, at Cudd.ng on. t 

 anueared that the prisoner was a tailor, and lived with his 

 brother, a farmer, in the vicinity of the place where the murder 

 was committed. The dece d was gamekeeper to Mr. Wll- 

 braham, of Delamere-hall, and had frequently suspected the 

 prisoned of poachi,g. On the th July the deceased went out 

 about 4 o'clock with his gun, and John the brother of the pri- 

 soner, was seen soon after running without a gun, the deceased 

 running after. It was the habit of the deceased to pull on his 

 coat and throw down his gun on those occasions, to enable 

 him to run faster. The prisoner had a gun, and when the de- 

 ceased was running after his brother it was alleged that 

 the prisoner came behind the deceased and discharged the 

 gun, the charge of which penetrated the nape ot the neck; 

 he instantly fell and died. The principal witne n the 

 case was Joseph Clarke, who upon examination before s the 

 magistrates had sworn to have been an eye-witncs* of the mur- 

 rier* Several witnesses were called to prove the state in w h.ch 

 the body was found. For the defence it was alleged that the 

 evkience y was most vague and unsatisfactory; and with regard 

 to the witness Clarke not to be relied upon for £i -oment. I he 

 learned Judge then went into an analysis of the whole of the 

 evidence commenting »:>on the discrepancies as they arose. He 

 !aul le who^veiu^.t of the testimony rested with the w.tness 

 Sarkc and it was for them to cons r what credibility, if any, 

 attached ?o his evidence. The Juiy retired and were absent for 

 about 20 minut, s, du hicb a stau «t was made : by Mr. 



VVU raham wh. , w in court, which affected materially the truth 

 of CKikeN staten t. Mr. Temple for the prisoner hoped his 

 LouMip on interrupt the deliberation of the Jury so as to 

 gW the" prisoner the benefit of this piece of evidence Joseph 

 riarko was recalled. By he Judge-Did you go to Mr. y\ llbra- 

 him's in Seuten her last ?-I don't know what part of the year 

 Sep ember Tl and 1 never told Mr. Wilbraham that I knew 

 nthmg about the matter. Mr. Wilbraham exammed.-Did the 



wi res? come \o you in September about the story which his 

 w 1, ness come to j f he CJjme Vf , lnntariljr , 



ESSfi n^knew^nnhing about it, and he replied that he 

 knew nothing about it. The Jury then '^K^'*"*** 

 an absence of an hour returned with a verdict of Not Guilty. 



George Fol a bailiff at Manchester, was indicted for the wilfal 

 murder of his wife. The Attorney-General and Mr. Tr afford 

 were for the prosecution. It appeared that deceased wasa 

 benne "maker Residing in Stockport. On the 1st December the 

 prisoner went out from home early in the morning and did not 

 return until 10 o'clock at night, he was somewhat »»-££dted. 

 He beat his wife who ran away into the house of a neighbour. 

 The prisoner followed and kicked her several times jandnh 

 endeavours to release herself by going up the steps he caught 

 hold of her gown and polled her backwards an I *»«£ on £* 

 stones she struck her head and in ver * tc ™**** W™^ IT? 

 prisoner afterwards would not go lor a doctor and 1 sa.d > **e *■• 

 not dead. The mother of the deceased proved the who ofljij 

 allegations which were m .inly supported by the ^"»W« 

 otlieV witnesses. The Jury returned a verdict of Ma slang htcr, 

 snd the Judge sentenced him to two years' imprisonment wirn 



'tSr^nT, SraKPoam- James 0*~* +12* 

 Spiltbury were chart* with the w.lfnl -order <^™£ 

 b h, at the parish of Audley, in th » c 'unty. The mor 

 der was commtted on the morning of the 4th orimigK, 

 upon the land of R. E. Heathcote, Be*, at A ^ <me 



