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'CON/17 NUATION OF TtIE INQ(JEST A r OLDHAM. MANCHESTER, S.fer - r. Iy. —Soon after three o'clock yesterday llr, P.A'rrta, the 'Coroner's Clerk, returned to Oldlia.tt a ccording to appoint- Meta, and stated to thv Jury imp:minded .for the Inquest upon John Lees, that he had been to this -town to look for a Coroner ; that he found Mr. Milne who snit!. that he could not attend ycStcrdii— y or to.day, in c o nsegnenee of other en gagements.; but that he would come to preside a: tile .Inquegt oil Filday morning, if Mr. Fatreo should not return bektre.then. Under these cir cumstances he, Mr. 13 , proposed to at+journi the Inquest until Friday morittng. Mr. IlAlityiEß pressed the propriety taking .the depositions or the several witnesses who were present, and who had come several milt's to at tend the Inquest, a nd that ,after those deposi.ions were recorded, the Inquest might he tArliontned until a Coroner should attend. This he submit ted would he the more convenient mode of pro- CeCOing for the accommodation of the Jury, as %yell as for the put posts of justice. Battye—l cannot • submit rolhe fatigue of go ing * Hit° the case to-day ; I hare had no dinnei, and 7 am engaged to .dine at seten o'clock this ("Vetting wiih n trteit,-1-ot don't Want your o:idenee ; you might ()ring half Manchester here; the et own has plenty of evi dence without your's. Harnter—tV hat do you mean, Sir, by the Cro‘‘ n having plenty of - evidence 1. litttyc—l won't dits:,cr any questions ; I think I have said enough. I will not Lear your evi 'deuce, - Harmer—lt is the province of the Jury, Sir, to decide, and not that o the Coroner ; and it is for the Joey then to detct wine with what eviden” 'they will he satisfied. Rattye—When Mr. Farren cornes here, he do what' he pleases; hut. I shan't take any estitlence. 11,4r - tiler—Hare yon not before attended here for the Cormier and taken deposi , ions ? Jiattye—l have- taken depositions, but I have -Hit% ays adjourned the Inquest till Mr. Farrell was present. liarmer—Well then, all I require of you in this rase, is to take the depositions of the 'teases who come from a distance, whom it may te difficult to bring r here, again, and the Jury thus lose the benefit of their testimony. Battye—l will adjourn the Court. Ilartner-1 agaio request you riot to adjourn without potting the Jury in possession of evi dence which they may not again be able to Ob tain, and which may be most material to enable them to form a correct judgment of the cause of the death -ot a tellor•-creature, which has evi dently been occasioned by violence, and upon which they are bounil to determine. Da'tye—What time, please,"do you propose to occupy in your mode of 'Liquify ? Why, we may be kept here all night: Harmer—The evidence which I have now to adduce would not occupy much lime. But no rinse would be misspent in inquiring into and ascer taining the real cause'of such a melancholy event. Battye—O yes; I know we are not to look to time. Once Mr. lisarren, I remember, had'an in quest for five weeks. But I did not know of your attendsnce, or I would not have coate at all. it was when I came here this morning, a woman came and told me that three or four coaches had come with a number of persons from rtlAnchester, and some people front London. We . supposed that they were witnesses, and then I determined not to go on into the case ; and nosy I tell you I am resolved that no one shall entrap me into the Inquest. 3,ttryman—Why not proceed with the Inquest ? Has any thing uncommon happened since morn -1.)1g, that prevents you from proceeding as you in tended ? liattye—Yes, something has happened which I do not here think proper to explain. Harmer—lt appears to me, that if you came here prepared to take the evidence, and the Jury now desire to hear it, it is your dirty to comply With their desire. Battye—lt was MT intention, when I home., to hear the evidence; but when I came here I thoughtdifferentry. I heard hcre,something about a sabre %vomit! ; but 1 heard at Rochdale that the man died of a crush, which was neither minder nor manslaughter, but accidental death. Harmer—Althouo the death might be occa sioned by a crush, circumstances might still make it murder. Another Juryman expressed a desire to go into the evidence at once. Harmer noticed this expression, and stated that he bad the evidence at baud ready to adduce it the Jury desired to hear it. Battye—The Jury all agree with me that the Inquest should be adjourned. Some Juryman dissented. AJuryinan expressed a wish to know whether, according to itiw, it was in the power of the Co roner to adjourn the Court against the wish of the Jury. Battye—l know you of old; I remember you ; you have an enmity to me, and 1 won't answer any of your questions. I Otiose to adjourn the Court because 1 don't feel myself competent. Three or tour Jurymen - expressed a wish that the evidence should he gone into, and the Fore- WM declared linniselt of the same opinion. Battye, rising front his Chair, exclaimed, " I adiourn the Court 1" A Juryman :asked Mr. B4ttye, if be felt himself competent to conduct the inquest when he under stood that the deceased came by his death thrwigh a crush, tvhy should he feel himself incompetent because he heard that death was the consequence of a sabre tvound ? liattye made no answer to this question ; but observed, addres,ing himself to Mr. flamer, " 1 think 1 have had trouble. enough upon this business. I have rode fourteen miles and gone to ntochester to oblige you—and you are not satis fied.—Vst you have all behaved veiy ill to me— i don't know what you would have." 04riner—1 appeal to the Jiery, whether I have utitl or done qny thing offensive or exceptionable. if I bare, I 3110018 'be - ready a • n •y & p i) . logy. But lam sorry to be compelled to ob serve, that -I have witnessed a levity (If conduct on this occasion, very unsuited • to the solemnity 01 such aninvestigntion, and extremely unbecom ing the consideration that is dile from common humanity tO the death of a fellow being. Battye—.-Things, I have no doubt will be con ducted differently on Friday. Ilarmer-1 hope so. But, while I diselnim any intention to offend you, Sir, I must call to ree(dlection the language you used this morning—that If Mr. Fallen were here, he would not allow Its to be in the room. Battyr— , -Oh ! 1 now know that you have a right, by law, to be in the room; but you are not cod, lea to meddle with the Inquest. Alr. Denison expressed a wish to know the names of the Jury ; not from any diffidence what. ever in their integrity, but from a desire to be ls.kired that tike sank persons should attend on Friday. liattye---I will not give their names. Denison—The Jury will, I doubt - not, leave themselves no hesitation to give their names. Batty.--1 lo► bid thew to do so. [The Foi email stated that his name was Jack- SOI;. 114tlye asked, " Whit' k e ep you all here now ; the . Court is adjourned do you want to fish out (any ,111 fig 1nn."41 . ?' 9 1-lartner—We have addressed you as a Gentle man, and hope you will treat us in ihe same man ner, knowing that we are here in the pertoim .yee of our professional ditty, as you are your se!f. Ilattye—Oh ! them tbat can't turn, can't spin. Harmer—That is a very classical expression. Battyt—lt's very well understood in Lunca- •hire Juryman—Are the Gentlerven of the Jury sa t 15fied lhat atijotiniment shall take place. I not her Juryman—This is a Cormney's Inrinest, and I think the Coroner compvent to adiotn 11 it. Bit!ye-I do ajouin it. • Denison requested him to record the adjourn ment. Battye—Will you keep Ttestioning me here all night I shall do as I like. Harmer—lt is necessary, Sir, that the adjourn ment should he recorded, in order that we may know when to attend, and that no investigation may take place in our absence. liattye—What ! do you think us so mean here ? That's a very uno.intlemanlike observation. Harmer-1 will not•say what I think, but I have said nothing ungentlemanlike. A Juryman, addressing himself to Mr. Batt- e, observed, I must take - leave to say, Sir, that yon have shelter' yourself very irritable upon this oc casion, and that you have made offensive obser vations to these Gentlemen, which I have heard pain. Bdtqe—What's that to you ; if you thought me what you say, yln should Wait, and say so to me in private.—The Court then broke up. After the Court broke up at Oldham yesterday, application was made to Mr. Battye for sum monses to compel she attendance of witnesses on the adjourned Inquest, which summonses Mr. B. promised to send by thi, morniog'S post ; but none arriving, Mr. Denison applied for them this day to. Mr. Mike, the Coroner here, who is to attend to-morrow at Oldham, in the place of Mr. Ferro, the proper Coroiler Of that district, should the latter not arrive from, Lancaster, but was told by Mr. Milne that there was no occasion to take over any witnesses, as be should merely re-swear the Jury, and then -adjourn the inquest, probably for a fortnight. Mr. 'Hunt being expected to arrive here this clay at twelve o'cloc . k . ,.tlit road between this and Bol ton was literally crowded from an early •hour in the morning. About one o'clock Mr. .I;innt en tered this town in a carriage drawn by the peo ple. He was accompanied by Messrs.. Johnson, Moorhouse, and the other Gentlemen indicted with• him for the conspiracy. The carriage was pre ceded by a multitude of people marching six a-breast, and passed through the principal streets in its way to Smedley Cottage..--(Morning Chro nicle.) - SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon last a fatal accident took place at lidiuburch. By the violence of a gale, which blew froth thestiuth west, a chimney-shaft:, on a Wooden building at the head of Mid Common Close, Canongatc, was throwndown,and falltng from a considerable height, upon a two-story house behind, and a small but adjoining, the violence of the shock brought down the roots and floor, and part of ate walls, and bu• tied the inmates in the ruins. By this dreadful ac cident two women were killed, and two others considerably bruised. Fortunately there were no other persons in the premises. The tipper parr of the house destroyed formed the hack r premises of a spirit dealer, and at the time luckily no_ one was in it. The under part was occupied by a labourer, whose wife was a retailer of coals, and was en; gaged in serving a . female customer with that article when the accident happened ; she was taken out with life, rllt died shortly after ; the other escaped:with some briCoes. 'The small but was occupied by:a lath-splitter, whose wife, with her mother, Were in it at the time of the accident ; the former was killed on the spot, and her body was carried out shockingly mangled; the latter fortunately escaped with, life, but not without considerable iniury. In examining these pre mises, the only matter of wonder is, that the acci dent had not occurred long before. Indeed rnost of the buildings aceund appear in such a ruinous condition, that it is vstonishing how human beiugs should trust their lives in them ; a n d the melan choly occurrence of Saturday will no doubt lead to an investigation by the officers of the Dean of Guild Court, that such tenements as ale unfit to be inhabited may be taken dots ii. A letter from Cot k, dated August 31, says— " A duel took place yesterday morning near the Lough, between Lieutenant P--- and Captain D--, in which the former Gentleman was shot through the body. lie was taken to the South Infirmary, where he now lies in a dangerous state.? rOLICE INTELLIGENCt. cAntILE AGAIN ARRESTED UPON A AVARRAN't MANSION-liougg.—Yesterday, at five o'clock, Mr. Carlile was apprehended upon a warrant is sued by the LORD MAYOR, and charging hint with having published an unlawful, inflammatory, and seditious" libel, tending to excite disaffectitin to wards the person of the Prince Regent and his Government, to create insurrection and breaches of the peace, in a pamphlet cared " The Repub lican," No. 2, vol. 1. . The Lord Mayor and Mr. Hobler received Mr. Cathie end his bail in the private room, and in formed hint that be had been tinder tire necessity of issuing another warrant against him for ano ther publication, for which he had nom to require bhii. - have two Gent !eaten here who are readylo hail me. The Lord Mayor.—Let them corn? fortvaTd. Mr. Ca - tlile protested against the leplity (+hi; Lordship's warrant, abd his reqiiiring securities on that warrant, anti declated to his Lo!dship that he should seek redress in an action for da- mages. Tire Lord Ntayor---I have. only ; perforce:' my duty as a Magistrate. The usual forms were then Beene through and the recognizlnces sworn. The bail were Samuel F. ‘ 4 . 7 4ddiugton, Esq of Lewishatn..Kent,. arid Robert George Hardisty, En, of No. 20, Bury street, Bloonisburv. The sums required were rio/. earth, and Mr. Guide,. by himself 300/, T , e nerqonal recog nizances Mr. Carl.le ~x eeed 2 000/. COMMITTAL OF THE MANIAC FOR lI.AVING STOLEN THE BANK KEYS. Elizabeth Dunham was yesterday fully commit ted upon the charge of having stol e n the Buck Keys, She stepped into the ()Wee in the iiviliest manner, and smiled at and curtsied to the Lnrd Mayor and Mr. Rooker, viltO were deliberating upon her case. The symp•orns of her disorder have undergone no abat..enee , t from the check pur upon her liberty, and she rejoiced at the idea ot going before a Jury, fully impressed with the ex pethation that the justice she is to receive at their hands rill extend to the delivery up to her posses, sion of all the immense property the 3009 keys Once secured. • She W 93 ftuitastieally dressed, hut her clothes were as clean as possible. The Lord Mayor call ed her from the bar, which, he said, was not the fit place for her, and told her to sit down by him. She tripped over to him with all the airiness of a and potting her baud upon his arm, looked op in his face with eyes full of gratitude. She hoped she would be allowed to remain at the Mansion-House ; her heat etold her she should be happier thete than amongst vrangers, who knew not - her wrongs, and were unable to retires, them. The tone in which 'she tittered ihese word c, the wild amazement %video smote her features upon being told .that in Roomer place care Would be taken of her, and the convulsive laugh that site ceeded to the aotrowfid recollection that she was to leave the Justice-Room; all these combined to form an object of the deepest interest in this poor solitary. The Lotto M A yo ft ivivired bee that every thing should be done to make her -hapPy, that site should have every thing of which she stood in need, and that all her friends should he permitted to visit her, whenever site felt disposed to receive • them. I have no friends, said she, with laoghter ; none but yourself 'and those other good Gentle men who speak so kindly tome, and look so tens - • derly at my misfortunes. Well ! you shall not be without friends, said the Lord Mayor, 4livn they can be of service to you. The poor creature, whose mind is at vari { ance with - all rational dealing upon ordinary occa sions, seemed suddenly enlightened upon hearing "this. Oh how I tiiank you, said she, and intone diatelT relapsed into her former alfoct nig , gaiety. " But," she cried, after a short pau , e, " I shall keep your books for you. I can do it as. well as your clerks, bat I don't want to take their places from then]." She then sat down, and played with her cloak, and muttered some words which bad no connexiou whatever with what was passing. Mr. Rooker said, he trusted that the friends of the poor woman would not mistake the illative of the Bank in prosecuting her. It was their ob ject to have her tried, not that she might he punished, hut acquitted, and placed Under an au thorized protection. Without the forms of a pro secution permanent assistance could not be rim tiered to an individual whose calamity was so much to be deplored, and for whom an asylum merely temporary was by no means calculated. It was, no doubt, in the Lord Mayor's power to place her in Bedlam but the rules of that losti. totion made a dismissal inevitable at the conclu sion of 12 months, where the patient was adinit ted upon the authority of the Magistrate alone,• The event of a trial would be of more sohstan. tial benefit, for the Judges would then have the power of protecting her most elleetually. The LORD MAYOR observed, that no person could suppose the conduct of the Bank to he dic tated by any feeling but one of hotnaoity in this unfortunate.creature's case ; and sail, that, ex clusively of the advantages derivable to the sub ject of compasaion before them from a pro,ecu tion, several ieinocent individuals would escape false charges and probable ruin. Mr. Rooker said, he bad receiver! many letteri , from families, stating, that they. had eistnissed servants in conseiptence of the loss of keys which % were amongst those in the -cabinet of the poor ninniac, who, front the cunning of her malady, was,able to slip into places where others could not enter without detection. The sexton of the clutch in her parish missed the keys of the chord' some time ago, and tit so m e o f th e va t,' s, in whichbodits had beet) very recently laid The robbery excited apprehensions that the plunder of the tooth was' to follow, nod a constant watch was kept up 'tightly until death had made its most loathsome ra t aigva . Poor mad Elizabeth bowed to the Lord Ma - yor and Mr. Rooker, and walked tow,ank the door. She. turntil suddenly round, and said, in a voice 'of iglyt ; " t ItoN you'li let my pnor bitihiren come to ine." Yes, yes, (said the Lord Mayor) you shall have the . nt as n►ten as you please. st,all want a little money, too, to ply for my washing, and to enable Jim to see company.' You shall have it, replied Mr. Rooker ; you shall he iu want of nothing. " Well, farewell, farewell ; I thank you all: I shall meet the Judges without tear, and 1 hope they will do inc justice." - She wins taken to the Compter, *here she is to remain until the day of trial, under the care of . Mr. Teague. CAUTION TO WORKMEN. GU/LDITALL.-George Steward Junes, the 10ur. ,4 neyman shoemaker who underwent examination on Wednesday last, upon a charge preferred against him by Mr. Nathaniel Soames, of Lute gate•street, front tehour he had received materia!3 ro manufacture 5 .or 6 weeks ago, and had all:. scondvd withoia tethrning either the work or meta' set sal., we 4 again brought Of) yesterday. zrsoames said he had made inquiries, a nt= could learn nothiog further respecting the general eondoct of the prisoner, but he had sent home the nine pair of shoes, they were .miled, u►awifacttired, had evidenily been finished some time, and were the workmanship of different per sons ; the linings of some of them were not what the prisoner hail received froM him. He hada)* dooht but that Jones in enued to cheat bins when be appited taritte work, and that Ole goods lAA been hastily made up for the ,purpose of bring pa a ned, or otherwise disposed of. This was the less, 'excusable in him, as he was a very good craft, and these was et that rime plenty of CM: ploymeni to be procured. therefore felt kill; duty to press toe the punishment of the prisoner. Mr. Alderman .1. J. SMITH 3.greed with Mr. , Soames as-to the proprioy of punishing the pri* sorer under the circumstances which bad iteen disclosed, and intimated his intention of com mitting him to hard labour tof one month. -The statute, however, itquiring,the presence of tw o ., Magistrates-in - order to.a conviction, Mr. Alder man Rothwell was sent fur, who, on learning thd particulars of the evidence, conceived. the-punish metit rather more lenient than the offence deserv ed, hut was I.vil!ing to concur in the opinion of his brother Magistrate. The sentence was dicer reourded. Oil the siabsequent application of the prisoner, who begged tor niercy with tears, on account of the distressed situation of his Avilt: and chi:dreti. /he hard labour was dispensed with, and dilec. l, tions given by the Magistrates that he should bk:', permitted to work 'at his business (luring his cow. fitiethent. TIIE LATE SMITIIF U MEETING. LAmBETH-sTfit,HT.—Thos Alinwid, John Ho.. oey, Jo/us Jay, Thomas illurtin, Henry Robinsagi 1* dawn Sel re, and Daniel Shearman, head`,w'rnugti of the parish of Spitalfiehis, app,ared in conse-t queme of summonses issued against them at the instance of Mr. Downes, the High Cons:able of the lower division{ for having been absent from t h e i r ii.poillted pi - ace of rendezvous in -the evening of the 25th ult.. the day of the talc . Smithfield Meeting. In excuse these officers - alleged that they had' been accustomed On former octasiona to dismiss themselves when they considered their att,endance no longer necessary, and did .so''cri the eveitiog int question, without the High Constable's akohoiiiy. bite Magistrates entaii;tted owthe- inconveni ence which rt6y arise to the public, if peace cers were allowed to act upoit the siriggeation - of their, own minds on such occasions as the presentt but in the hope that :othing of the kind woA4 again occur, inflicted only -a nominal fine. John Hind and William Mullins were Charged by Messrs. Harbin and ',Hitting, cheesemougersv, residing in Whiteckapel-road, with stetiling,frodr them a quantify of oats, their property,. - Th . p'• prisoners were fully -commit t eit the l a tter 'for stealing. the oats, and the twiner-tor receiving thy same, knowing it to he surfeit. • _— _ COAL ;MARKET, SLi-r. IU. Ships at Matlcrt. Ships : - ,old. ?rice. 574 Newe55110.............414 9 -Suiplerktiid... . 4 :34 s. 3d. to :395. tid. ..-;------ cOUItSE EXCHANUE, ettl DAY, SEer. w. Amter darn Ditto, at, Sgt Rotterdam l2 1 2 V. Antwerp l2 4EN.Nlotiv, fiauilmtgli . Altoua . . 36 7 24 tie. Pads, 3 I)ay's sight . Ditto lloiudeaux, ditto • e 25 60 0173. Fraillifovt on the Main Madrid ‘ , 36 Effective C;iniz ... I'4 Effect ite Ititloia... - 36 Effective - ..• . !;vville . . .... r Gibraltar • Barcelona ...... 35 Leghorn .... ... f4elioa... 444--Ve•riee,. Ital. Liv -el; eD Malta... ..4h -Nospl e 3 -19 . Palermo.. . ,. ll7O. , per Os. Lisbou Oporto . Rao .Jait , 6ro - . ',3 Dubiiii.... ..... i3 : 1..... C0r1i..... :3/ 14.. r (;ent. Atzio uf the Bank Oil liolland.... 2 per Cetzt. On the Mil inst. in Wimple-street, tine Lady of Edward.' Alarjoritxsnks, Esq., of a danzhlrt. Oa the 3d instant, at Walley-lodge, Essex, the Hon. Mrs. Winn, of twm sons. o,i tr.^ toil' inst., at his house, in Cavendish-square, tba Lady of t_ . " - eurge Watso, Taylor, Esq., M.P., of a son. M.ARJU 1:11. On Thursday last, at I.ewkli,hv, by the Rev. Hugh Jcrrisly Mr. John Lee, jun., of to Aliss Charlolo . Ellis, of the tomer place. DIED. On the sth in3t. at Logie, N. IL Man• inn, wife of Jam Boucher, Esq. aml eldest daughter of Ilie late S. C. C Ol 7 clung!), Esq., of Ileac:milt:lLl, Nui Is,. in the 29th yearuf 'her ate. Un Friday., the 10th tilt., at her t esidenee in:Spital-squaref Miss Botiwirli, 35 years orgarlist to the parish of St. Bartbu l kinew by the Exchange, London. Last week, at Liverpool, after a short illness, Mr. Josepir Halton, late, of Oxford, niusiciPtt, Tin% young:man, accosts' ratricil hr leis brother l'ard (into whose m i n d s a di s lik e for, civry thing in' I brit native imointry had liven early instilled) , left Clwlti-Rhant a,lew days ago, -whcre they were gaininF voinfortaltle *utlisi:tence, b'yr the tineertqinty of hetterrog I in America. (}ti their arrival, however, at LiFer . Iwo}, .Joseph was taken suddrnty ill, and died in a few bourSt, leaving a widow and tlirt tits brother has prci .. cr , aled ott his voyage to the `• Land of Promise." 1,( Trtsitcd lw.J. L ('... ot No. £9, e." 4 Ortll,lll-strcut, pithliched by • • St:lt I l'l'S, of N“. 7. Smith Moltiin-qiect, at l'Hf: '''''l - No. I 19,' vOicru Advettiiehtenti, 01 ,1 °" 1 Lt. , tors, 3tc. (post-fit;.;) 77vt,t i.t a t-tirescti. i ~k ,t 4 !k • 1 1:4 j 2 7 , ' • I I ~` y t