The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

The Castle Hedingham Witchcraft Case.

On Tuesday Emma Smith, 36, and Samuel Stammers,2B,
were placed at the bar before Mr. Bernardiston and a full
bench of magistrates, sitting in petty sessions at Castle Hed-
ingham, charged with having unlawfully assaulted an old
Frenchman, named Dummy, on the night of August 3, and
thereby caused his death on the 4th inst. The female pri-
soner is the wife of a beer•shop keeper in the village of
Ridgwell, and Stammers is a master carpenter. Nearly all
the 60 or 70 persons concerned in the outrage are of the small
tradesmen class. The victim of this belief in witchcraft was
deaf and dumb, about 80 years of age. For the last seven or
eight years he resided in Hedingham, in a wretched hut,
and previous to that he lived in Braintree. There is little
doubt that he gained his living to a great extent by telling
fortunes, if not by pretences to witchcraft. In the hovel
were found numberless scraps of paper and between 400
and 500 walking sticks, a number of umbrellas, some French
books, several tin boxes, a hoard of foreign coins, chiefly of
the French empire, and about a ton of rubbish, which it
was found impossible to classify.
Mr. Cardinall appeared to conduct the prosecution, and
Mr. Jones defended Stammers. Mr. Smith was undefended.
The first called was

John Pettit, a shoemaker, living at Hedingham. He saw
an old man called Dummy, about 11 o'clock on the night of
the 3d of August, :at the Swan Inn, at Sible Hedingham.
There were about 40 or 50 persons in the tap-room. Emma
Smith said that she had been in a bad state for nine or ten
months. and she attributed her ailing to being bewitched
by Dummy. She said it was all through what Dummy had
done to her. She asked him (Dummy) to go home with
her to Ridgwell, and she told him that she would give him
three sovereigns, and would use him well. When this was
told to the old man he refused, and drew his fingers across
his throat. He meant he would rather have his head cut
off, or his throat cut, than go. Witness saw a man named
Gibson dancing about with Dummy, and Gibson fell On him.
Shortly afterwards witness saw the old man sitting out-
side the Swan. Mrs. Smith was there, urging him to go
home with her. He refused ; upon which she caught hold of
his coat and began to drag him towards the brook, about two
rods off. Witness thought they both fell into the water—
but he could not see well on account of the persons, that in-
terfered with the view. He presently saw Dummy on his
hands and face in the brook, which was not deep there.
Some one said, " He is trying to get out on the other side."
Mrs. Smith then crossed the bridge, and, as he was trying to
get out at the other side, she pushed him back into the water.
She pushed him back a second time ; but afterwards Dummy
got out. Witness saw the prisoner Stammers standing at
the side when the man was first thrown in. Witness did
not see him do anything, nor what became of him. There
were so many people about, witness could not see. When
the man got out he went and sat on a heap of stones oppo-
site the Swan Inn. Mrs. Smith appeared anxious to get him
kickedhim laid
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the
stick
to the water again, or to go home with her. She struck him
several times across the shoulders and arms with a stick.
She struck him once on the head, and witness said to her,
" Don't hit him with a stick, 'specially on the head." She
was partly behind him. She said she would not hurt him
on anydowanc,cnonudnth.eglaVnitteneksisekhehaini.
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side. Witness asked him not to do so, and she said she
would not hurt him, as her boots were thin and sett.
Fifty persons were standing by, and Stammers was there.
A number of persons told me Mrs. Smith and Dummy
h
and the crowd went down Waterraill-lane. Witness
that Dummy was carried. The brook ran down
the side of the lane to the river, and was deep there.
The street was full of people. Witness heard a female
voice say " Pat him or swim him in the millhead." Wit-
ness then heard a splash in the water, and went down to see.
He saw Dummy in the water, and Stammers was in the act
was standing close by. Witness asked "Who dii it p,
of lifting him out. Mrs. Dirty was helping him. Mrs, Smith
Mrs. Smith said " A drunken man fell is the ditch.',
Mrs. Bruty and Stamers crossed the read, and_ilaid Dummy
upon the grass. The water appeared to be n hie t
hreat,
and he was quite wet. Ho lay on the grass ten minutes or
a quarter of an hour. He appeared so weak that without
towards the Swan, leaning on the
help he could not have got up. He afterwards went back wall for support. He
I knocked at the door of Mr. Ames, the butcher, who refused
to let him in.
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and was in a very different state from what he bad been
when witness first saw him at the Swan.
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She lived with her mother at Hedingham. On the night
of the 3d August she went to the Swan for
scone supper
beer.
to see them twisting old Dummy about. Gibson twisted
m about,
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into the
him e tap-room, and stood on a form
came for her, and took her home. About half an hour after-
wards witness heard a noise at the Swan and ran down to
Witness was there an hour and a half, when hr
mother
see what was the matter. Dummy was coming out of the
Swan, and Mr. Smith was with him. She asked him to
go home with her, but he twice refused, and drew his
hand across his throat. She asked several people to give
her a stick, and as no one gave her one she took Dummy's
stick from the window, and hit him twice across the top of
the head with it, and several times on the shoulders and
arms. She had first taken his hat off and flung it in the
water. She said, ~ you old devil you served me out, and I
will serve you out." He tried to get hold of her clothes. b
She dragged him to the roe
e and shoved him in. He tried
to get out on the other side. Then Samuel Stammers ran
through the brook to the other side, and pushed him in
. again ' Dummy got out and went to the stone-heap and
sat down. Mrs. Smith asked some one to lift him up, and
the old man walked down towards the water-mill, Stammers
and Smith holding his shoulders, In some way he got on
to the ground and shuffled himself, and made a growling
noise. Mrs. Smith got h
-041 of the collar of his coat, which
came up and covered his head, and she dragged him along
the road. Some one helped her. They dragged him to the
side of the sluice water. It was a girl larger than witness
that helped her. Mr. Smith then caught hold of Dummy's
shoulders, and Stammers of his legs, and they threw him
into the alnico. The Water covered him, and witness
could only see his arms. Witness could not recognise
were there
that , manythough there were a great number,
because she was lookin-
g at old Dummy. Stammers
jumped in and got Dummy out of the water, and laid
him on the grass. Dummy tried ,to gat the ~mud and
the water out of • his throat. Stammers assisted him to
the Swan gates. Dummy then went to Mr. Ames,and held
up his arms to show that his sleeves were all torn. He had
a crying in his eyes, and was green and muck-wet all over.
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Bruty then helped him on his way
home. lie was shivering with cold.
Mr. Sinclair, surgeon to the Halstead Union, said that
on Thursday, the sth August, the deceased was brought in.
There were bruises on the shoulders. He pointed to indi-
cate that he Was hurt on the back of the head,the shoulder,
and the loft side. In a day or two afterwards indication of
chest affection showed themselves. There was inflamma-
tion of the lungs and bronchitis. Death took place on the
4th September.
.The post mortens'exa Ideation showed that
there was total disorganisation of the 1 ungs,that the kidneys
were diseased, and that there had been recent inflammation
of the brain. Death was attributable to those causes com-
bined, but more especially to the disease in the lungs and
kidneys. Having heard the whole of the evidence just
given, he was of opinion that the treatment deceased had
received gave rise to a great shock to the system, producing
fever, which set up the causes which resulted in death.
The immersion in the water,and the sleeping in wet clothes
would produce fever. The blows described bad not, in his
opinion, caused death. Ho had no doubt whatever that
death resulted from the treatment deceased received.
After other evidence,
Mr. Jones addressed the bench on behalf of his client
Stammers.

The Chairman said that the bench had resolved to send
both prisoners for trial at the next assizes.
The prisoner Emma Smith was then formally asked what
she had to say
why she should not be committed for trial.
She replied in a peculiar voice, and evidently under the
influence of some superstitious fear, that she would tell the
truth. The man came to her house first. He spat upon her,
and told her that after a time she should be ill, and she was
ill, A doctor came to her twice in one night, but could not
cure her. The man (Dummy) came to her shop ten months
ago, and asked leave to sleep in her shed. She let him ;
but in a few days, when she wanted him to leave, he made
signs and wrote upon a door that she should be ill in ten
days, Ike made her ill and bewitched her, and she went

everywhere, but no one could See her right again ; she was
afraid, tnr nn nAtesi man could rto 1),,r ;my v-oo,f.
The Cli,irinan—Are par aware of the nature of the
charge ag,ainq you; that ) tar caused the death of deceased
by your conduct on the 3d Aug,ist ?
The Prisoner—That night I 1 will tell the truth. That
night I wont to the Swan, very bad. I went up to the old
gentleman and asked him to go home with me, to do me
good. He said he would not go. Gibson took him up and
put him in my face, as he said to kiss me, but I did not want
him to do that, as I had a husband of my own. A number
of plaiters (of straw, for bonnets) came in and said, "How
bad this woman is." There were 40 or 50 people, there,
few of them men. They got him out. Some shoved him,
some stoned Liu:, and did more to him than I did. I begged
and prayed that he would go home with me, but he de-
clared he would not unless he liked. Ido not deny that I

put my hand to his head, but I was so bad I could not lift
a dog ; and this man hero (Stammers). took him by the
heels and thighs and threw him in the water, and then he
(Stammers) jumped in and got him out. I may die any
moment. There was one there who did not touch him, and
that was Mrs. Bruty, who said she was afraid of him. That
is the truth.

Stammers simply said he was not guilty.
Tho Chairman committed the prisoner to Chelmsford
Gaol for trial at the March assizes.

Bail was accepted afterwards for Stammers, himself in
£5O and two sureties of £5O each. Similar bail would have
been taken for the female prisoner, but as it could not be
procured she was conveyed to prison.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—If the abolition of slavery is being fought
out in America by the largest armed hosts in the
most obstinate battles history has recorded, the "sup-
port" that can be given to the " cause of Emancipa-
tion" by a public meeting, a few speeches, and a
string of resolutions, is very superfluous. A straw
carried to a conflagration, a drop of water poured as a
contribution into the Gulf Stream, would have as
much practical effect as the " support" that can be
given by a little discussion to a cause that has four
armies behind it, and counts half a million of
slaughtered men as the sacrifice it has already de-
manded. Emancipation,if this civil war is serving
it, has long passed beyond the point at which it
could derive aid or assistance from any expression of
sympathy. The addresses of encouragement to the
North made at the meeting in the Leeds Music
Hall are of as much avail for assisting the question
at issue as the exertions of the Spanish Coastguard
officer who, when reporting a shipwreck to the
authorities, added that he gave the unfortunate
crew of the stranded ship every possible assist-
ance—through his speaking trumpet. But the
second purpose of the Leeds meeting was
to strengthen the British Government in con-
tinuing that neutral policy which, notwithstand-
ing all evidence to the contrary, the North and its
friends in this country will seem to think is always
in danger of yielding to some pressure. The Go-
vernment certainly requires no " support " in a
policy which completely represents the general feel-
ing of the nation. From the first, the nature of the
conflict plainly warned us that any interference in
the quarrel could produce nothing but difficulties
of all kinds ; and among the many explations of
English feeling made by Mr. Forster, the chair-
man, to the representative of the Federation, he
might fitly have added that no admiration of the
manner in which the South has borne itself in the
war has as yet created any strong movement in
favour of England taking any part iu the struggle.
He should also, in fairness, have abstained from re-
presenting the differences of opinion as distinctions
of the feeling of classes. This was unjust, and
we must add, notoriously incorrect. There is not the
slightest ground for ascribing Southern sympathy,
as is too commonly the case with our most wrong-
headed Radicals, to the " upper classes," to men of
rank and title, and opposing it invidiously to the
feeling of the nation at large, the middle ranks, the
commercial interests, and the working men. All these
sections of society have abundant opportunity of
making known their beliefs and convictions ; and if
they have not spoken out, in the tone approved by
the Emancipation Society, it is because they found
their feelings pretty accurately represented by those
" upper classes" who have so offended Mr. Forster
by an independent judgment that does not happen
to jump with his own. If Americans take Mr.
Forster's description of English sentiment on this
subject as a coned explanation, they will be fur-
ther from understanding us than ever. As the
real object of the Leeds meeting seems to have been
the clearing up of popular misconception on both
sides of the Atlantic, the chairman, as the self-ap-
pointed exponent of British feeling, ought not to
have spoken in the narrowest spirit of the platform
of Exeter Hall. What could be gained by mystifying
the American clerical representative, the Rev. Mr.
Channing, to such an extent ? We beg him not to
believe that the manufacturing population are
not such ardent Abolitionists as Mr. Forster
asserts, or that they heve borne the distress the
war has inflicted en them more by reflections
on the blessings the negro is to derive from it
than the subscriptions and the relief given by
the District Committees. To prove this argument,
Mr. Forster should have gone a stew further,
and assured Mr. Channing that if slave-grown
cotton ever again finds its way to Manchester the
spinners will indignantly refuse to touch a hank of
it as a thing accursed in its origin, and that they will
prefer continued suffering to full work at full wages
from the polluted bales of New Orleans. Any feeling
as to the question of slavery had as little to do with
the endurance of the cotton-spinners in their dis-
tress as it had with their condition when they were
prosperous. Thee, like their employers, they cared
little whence or how the material of their indus-
try reached them, and would gladly flock to the
mills to-morrow, if supplied on precisely the same
conditions as before the war broke out. What the
men have nobly felt during the pinch of the cotton
famine is that the calamity was brought about by
nu act of their rulers, and t hat the disaster was one
that no possible action of the Government could
remedy; and they also fully appreciated the gene-
rous manner in which all classes of their coun-
trymen came to their assistance in the time of need.
If a clear understanding of the state of feeling
on both sides does not grow out of an observation of
facts, we fear that public meetings called to set
matters right by mutual explanation are not likely
to produce it. The expounders are apt to be men of
extreme views and strong opinions. They give
everything their own colouring, and leave very much
unsaid. Both the English and the American advo-
cates at the Leeds meeting require a good deal of ex-
tension and correction. Both suppressed much that
bears vitally on the question. Can Mr. Channing
explain when President Lincoln's Proclamation be-
came a " noble and generous offer," when its author
still describes it as merely an act of military neces-
sity ? It does not spring from the "law of kindness"
to the negro, but the desire of damaging his master,
and involves about the same degree of real bene-
volence as General Gilmore's incendiary shells. Mr.
Lincoln's real opinions on slavery are those he re-
peated and affirmed in his inaugural address in
March, 1861, when " he declared he had no purpose,
directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institu-
tion of slavery where it exists ;" adding explicitly,
" I believe I have no lawful right, and I have no
inclination, to do so. Those who nominated and
elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had
made this and similar declarations, and had never
recanted them." It is Mr. Lincoln's misfortune
to have become, under the pressure of the merciless
philanthropists of his party, an instrument for ex-
terminating the whites. But a Liberator of the
blacks, on the benevolent theories of Wilberforce
and Clarkson, he neither has been, is, nor can be.
Their successors of the societies that are, as far as
England is concerned, extinct bodies, still use all
the phraseology in vogue thirty years ago, the " man
and brother" period of 4mancipation, and seem to
think that freedom to the American negro would be
what it was to the petted and protected " African"
of our West Indian colonies. Our Abolitionists are
dreaming of " raising the black race" to a higher
status. Their coloured freeman is an imaginary being
that unhappily the "free soil" of North America
will not allow to become a reality. There the
liberated black is the most despised of Pariahs—
kicked, cuffed, spit upon, driven out of every field of
employment, by law expelled from some Statee,
massacred in any popular tumult in others, detested
in all as a nuisance. These are the facts that make
freedom to him a most cruel gift—facts that our
early Emancipationists had not to dread for the race
as a consequence of their principle. Will any Ameri-
can make it clear to English minds how it is possi-
ble that the people of the North can make really
free a race they thus socially despise and hate with
an intense hatred P Englishmen do not think that
such contradictions cats be reconciled,.and therefore
believe that, with the exception of a few fanatics,
those who make Abolition the purpose of the war
are not sincere. Other objects are too evident to
allow the assertion to pass unchallenged that philan-
thropy is all that is to be enforced at the cannon's
mouth. President Lincoln is perfectly indifferent
on the principle of Abolition, and uses it only as a
Weapon of attack. A restoration of the political
union, " with slavery or without it," he himself
defines as the object of the war, Thi3 purpose is
distinct enough, but a high degree of morale cannot
be claimed for the means employed to effect it. The
filet is that English public opinion on the Civil War
remains the same as when that of the most eminent
men of America was identical with it. We think
now, as Lincoln and Seward, Saqtt and verett,
thought before the actual outbreak, that the rupture
of the political compact was a catastrophe that war
would only aggravate. r apsion has swept people
and leaders alike far beyond this point. Rut to make
it a complaint that spectators of the horrible con-
, ftiet Iwo not approved the plunge into natioug

ruin Uitrekisob:e tialoSt to childle4lll,Bs• the
c•,ruo-Ai:-i!i,, of En!on, no-rely retAirod thc
power oi -fl'ef ion whir:it kiericr•ns I).ve 1::4 iG
!!io txci;erri,:nt ut lutle. While 4rieving over th,•
incide-nt, of t ;le w?lr, we easinot appl,ild its purpose,
which still sFeols unaltaiusble by force. Whatever
tu::y rise out of Lho wreck, it will not be the old
Federal Union of America. When reason could
make her voice heard, that was the prediction of
American statesmen, and is still the general con-
viction of Europe. This is the real explanation of
what Americans in thcir present feverish state of
mind cannot underworld, and causes the English
" want of sympathy" to appear to it, as Mr. Chan-
fling said, the " wonder of wonders."

HERALD.—The Polish enlistment case has terrni
nated favourably to all parties concerned except
her M9jcsty's Government. For the sake of avoid-
ing a little unpopularity with its Radical supporters
the Government, so ready to pounce upon steam
rams and Alexandras, declined to interfere with
Lieut. Styles, who was manifestly infringing the
laws of the country, and left to the Russian autho-
rities the responsibility of vindicating our munici-
pal law. The infraction of the Foreign Enlistment
Act was, however, not only clearly proved against
Lieut. Styles, but actually acknowledged by his
counsel, and it is to the consideration of the pro-
secutors that this foolish young man now owes
his liberty. The object they had in view was
stated from the first by Mr. Poland to have been
not so much the punishment of the accused as the
prevention of a mad enterprise which might have
led to the most mischievous results. This having
been attained by the pledge voluntarily given by
Lieut. Styles, and the decision of the Recorder, they
virtually abandoned the prosecution. Lieut. Styles
is lucky in having bad to do with the Emperor
of Russia. It might have fared worse with him
had the prosecutor been Earl Russell at the suit of
Mr. Adams.

POST.—The anti-slavery meeting held on Mon-
day evening last in the Music Hall, Leeds, may
fairly be regarded as a typo of a class of public de-
monstrations with which the past two years have
made us familiar. The subject selected on these
occasions is the American Civil War, regardecrfrom
an ultra-Federal point of view ; the platform inva-
riably contains a solitary member of Parliament,
surrounded by a few unknown clergymen and civic
notabilities, and the bulk of the audience is com-
posed of that large class of persons which is always
ready to attend any meeting whatever the admis-
sion to which is gratis. The resolutions are always
carried by acclamation, and as their several pre-
posers and seconders, more frequently than other-
wise, affect to speak in the name of the entire Eng-
lish people, the proceedings of the evening are
invested with all the appearance of a popular de-
monstration. The meeting over which Mr. Forster,
the member for Bradford, presided, wanted none of
the characteristics we have noted. That gentleman
sustained the part of the solitary legislator, Of his
companions on the platform we confess to having
never before heard even the names. With respect
to one of them, however, our ignorance is excusable.
He was, after the chairman, the most brilliant
star of the evening. The Rev. W. H. Channing,
an American clergyman lately arrived from the
Northern States, kindly consented to furnish the
good people of Leeds with the true version of the
history of the great civil war, and to clear up many
of those misconceptions which the hon. chairman
regretfully admitted were entertained in this
country both in respect to its origin and to its pos-
sible consequences. It is needless to say that Mr.
Channing fulfilled his task to the complete satis-
faction of his hearers, and the meeting cheerfully
and unanimously endorsed the sentiment that the
present war is prosecuted by the Northern States
with a view to the wider dissemination of the prin-
ciples of civil and political liberty. The speakers
at the Leeds meeting having in the first place as-
sumed that which they were bound to prove, made,
as might have been expected, extremely plausible
speeches in favour of the Federal Government. It
you begin by boldly asserting that the North is
warring against the South for the sole object of
abolishing slavery, and that the Southern States
have organised a resistance from no other motive
than a desire to retain in servitude those who ought
to enjoy the most complete liberty, it is of course
easy to prove that the population of the North are
very good and philanthropic, whilst that of the
South are in a corresponding degree base and
wicked. And this is precisely what Mr. Forster
and the Rev. Mr. Channing did on Monday even-
ing in the Music Hall at Leeds, and what Mr. John
Bright has done over and over again, both in his
place in Parliament and on the public platform.
" The principle at stake," as Mr. Forster expressed
it, "is simply this, whether upon the continent of
America the principle of slavery or the principle of
freedom shall predominate." In the truth of this
statement we cordially concur, though we may give
to it an interpretation somewhat different from that
attached to it by the hon. member for Bradford.
The contest between the North and South un-
doubtedly does involve a question of freedom or
slavery, since its involves the question whether six
millions of human beings who have hitherto enjoyed
the privileges of self-government shall continue
to do so or not. That this issue is at stake
in the present contest no one can deny who admits
that the Southern States prefer an independent
government. That the victory of the North would,
however, result in the emancipation of the South-
ern slaves, is, to adopt the most favourable view,
extremely problematical ; but even assuming that
it did, the question would still remain open—
whether the enfranchisement of between three and
four millions of negroes war not rather dearly
purchased by the extermination or enslavement of
twice that number of whites. Negro emancipation,
in connection with the American civil war, is one of
those topics on which but very few men can be
found to speak dispassionately, and it is no great
matter for surprise that a member of Parliament
who prides himself on being considered fanatical
in his views upon that subject, and an American
clergyman, fresh from New York, should have re-
presented the war in which the Northern States
are engaged es a religious crusade specially favoured
by Heaven. When a gentleman like Mr. Channing,
who, it may be presumed, is acquainted with the
principles of the American Constitution, describes
the President's emancipation proclamation as "an
honourable and proper proceeding," and when be
adds, " If ever there was a noble and generous offer it
was contained in that proclamation," we.know tha t
it is useless to argue with him. Two centuries ago
the English people discovered that the doctrine of
Divine right in kings could not be sustained, and
we cannot but be astonished at finding the descen-
dants of those who, in the reign of Ueorge 111.,
raised the standard of independence in the Ameri-
can colonies, now investing an elective magistrate
with a species of Divine sanction to which, even in
the middle ages, the Lord's anointed did not ven-
ture to lay claim. According to the gloss given by
the present generation of American patriots to that
article of the Constitution defining the office and
duties of a President, a state of war converts a re-
sponsible governor into a despot, and empowers a
magistrate, elected for a brief number of years, by a
stroke of his pen to confiscate the property of many
millions of his fellow-citizens. But it might be asked
if the emancipation proclamation was the honour-
able and proper proceeding which Mr. Channing
describes it to be, why did not the President of the
Unite'd States extend its operation to the slave
population of lgaryland, Western Virginia, and of
such portions of the Southern States as were sub-
jeotito'the dominion of the Federal Government ?
On what principle, let us ask " the friends of the
slave"—for to - this title the gentlemen who
shared the platform at Leeds with Mr. Forster
and Mr. Channing aspire—on what principle was
it that the Federal Government, who, we are told,
are warring for the abolition of slavery, conferred
the blessing of liberty on the slaves of the disloyal
alone? Charity is proverbially said to begin at
home; and why not also the sister virtue, philan-
thropy ? The work of emancipation, whenever it
is in reality commenced, will, it is universally ad-
mitted, necessitate the exercise of considerable cau-
tion. Why, therefore, does not the President of the
United States, by way of getting his hand in, begin
by manumitting the slave population of Maryland ?
These are questions .which the true friends of the
slave• in this country ETIr, but to which they have
never yet succeeded in obtaining satisfactory
answers. Pending the time when those answers
will be given, we must be pardoned if we stigma-
tise
the speeches made in the Leeds Music Hill as
mere hypocrisy and cant. So long as this unfortu-
nate warlasts we may expect t hat meetings will from
time to time be held similar to that which we have
now noticed. There is, however, one consolation
which the real friends of liberty in this country can
lay to heart, apd that is that no one, either on this
or on the other side of the Atlantic, is deceived by
demonstrations of this kind.

Full benefit pf reduped duty --
obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
4s. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in pgftPN.
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