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London, England, 1840-01-04 00:00:00

TH 141 SUN, LO N DON, SATURnA NI, JAN [TARS' 4 11440.

recollect that they said anything particular as to what they
would do with the arms; they carried away the guns, and
pistol, and a watch ; they said they were going to Newport
to take it They took also a shot-pouch and belt and about
half a pound of gunpowder. There was a bayonet in the
house, in the pistol, to let out occasionally by a spring
Cross-examined by Sir F. Pollock—On what day was
this ?

Witness—On the 4th of November.
Joseph Nathony examined by Mr. Wiestinan—ls a col-
lier. Remembers the 4th of November last. Lives at
Tydie, within three miles of Newport ; on that morning
some persons came to his house between six and seven
o'clock ; was in his stable at that time ; one man came
first ; four others mile afterwards, armed with pikes ;
no more came ; those four took him out of the stable,
and said he must go along with them ; he refused to go.
On this five of them guarded him all the way down to
Sir Charles Morgan's park ; saw on the way to Sir C.
Morgan's park more men on the tram road ; there were a
geat many. Witness and the five men were before them
Could not see whether they were armed or not. He
stopped in the park about an hour. Found a great many
other people there, and others came up whilst he was stop-
ping there. The people he found there had pikes in their
hands ; the people coming up had not. After the hour
they started on, and he went with them. Knows the Wa-
terloo. Found ne person on the road whoa he got to the
Waterloo, but many went with him there. Nobody stopped
there. Saw Zephaniah Williams that morning by the
Waterloo. He came up after witness. One man was
with him. Saw Williams last the Portobello Machine.
He went about three miles and a quarter with them to the
Portobello Machine. Witness separated himself then
from the rest of the people. Saw Zephaniah Williams at
the Portobello Machine. He was walking after the gang
when witness last saw him. No other person was en the road
after him. Witness turned aside for a particular pur-
pose. Z. Williams by the Waterloo had before ordered him
to go on. Saw Mr. Frost on that morning at the park.
He came up after witness. Witness was first there and
had been there about ten minutes before him. The crowd
was then standing. Saw the crowd put into some order
by Mr. Frost. Frost said nothing, but catched hold of
their arms and put them four deep, and they marched in
that order. They went on in this way about half an hour
before he (witness) turned off again. Before that they
went on in this corder. Witness went as far as the Porto-
bello Machine, and then turned aside and stopped there, at
the machine-house, till he went home. He stayed there
' about a quarter of an hour. Some persons began to run
back after he came out of the house. When witness saw
the people run back he went home. When witness last
saw the people before going into the " machine-house,'
the people were going on to Newport. About half an
hour before that witness had seen Frost put the people
in order.

Cross-examined by Mr. Kelly—lt was nearer 6 o'clock
than 7 when ho was disturbed by the people. It was near
break of day. Perhaps 20 minutes elapsed before he left
his house finally. It was then day-light. His house is
about a mile from the Welsh vale. Halted next at the
park. His house is about a mile and three quarters from
the park. Knows the place called Pie-corner; the place
where he stopped in the park is farther from his house than
Pie-corner ; about a quarter of a mile further. Saw no
body of men before him when he left the house, but found
a number of the Chartists in the park. They were not
waiting there ; they were going on. Witness remained
about one hour in the park. Went next to the weighing-
machine, and remained there about a quarter of an hour
or 20 minutes, and, when he came out, the people were
turning back. Saw Mr. Frost in the park five minutes
after they stopped there. He was forming the men. He
appeared to be coming from Pie-corner.
Re-examined—When I last saw Mr. Frost he was going
towards Newport.
John Nichol Hawkins—l am a surveyor at Newport. I
was out on the Risca-road on the Monday morning, I saw
about 100 n-.en armed with pikes, scythes, blades, and a
sword. They were at Pie-corner. They were going to.
wards Newport ; they were on the tram-road. I saw Ze-
phaniah Williams with these persons. I told them to go
back, as there were soldiers. Zephaniah Williams d—d
the soldiers, and told th• people to come on, and show
what the colliers could do at Newport. The people went
on in the same direction.

Cross-examined by Sir F. Pollock—Where were you
going ?—To a place about seven miles distant.
When did you return to Newport?—When the mob
were dispersing.
I asked you for a time, Sir, and you give me a fact.
Have the goodness to tell me at what time you returned?
—At the time I stated before.

I will trouble you to repeat it ?—f told you before, and I
saw ycu put it down.

Well, Sir, I may appear very impertinent, but, though
I did write it down, I will put you to the trouble of repeat-
ing it?—About eleven o'clock.

And what time did you meet the men ?—Between eight
and nine.

Have you a family ?—I have.
What does your family consist of ?—I don't know what
that has to do with this trial.
Then upon your oath, Mr. Hawkins, of what does your
family consist ?—I shan't tell you, than.
The Chief Justice—l don't know why you should object ?
Witness—There are ten.
Sir F. Pollock—And I want to know of whom they
consist ?—Five brothers and five sisters.
Besides yourself, or including yourself? Tou live alto-
gether as one family ?—No answer.
1
Does any body live in the family besides your brothers
and sisters ?—No one.
What were you going to this place about ?—I was called
to a case of midwifery.
How long did you stay there ? —About a quarter of
an hour.

Did you go straight home ?—No, Sir.
Where did you go to went to see some morepatients.
Just tell me, where did you go to ?—I went to three or
four places.
Have the kindness just to name them ?—No answer.
Name any place, Sir, you went to after this case of
midwifery ?—I didn't go out of the parish ; I don't see
why I should give their names.
I really must beg your pardon again ; will you answer
the question; you have been sworn to speak the whole
truth ?—No answer.

Sir F. Pollock—My Lords, I am not putting this ques-
tion idly, by any means.
The Chief Justice—l dare say you can give an account
where you went to ?—I went to a Magistrate's house.
By Sir F. Pollock—What is the name of the Magis,
trate ?—Mr. Coles.

Is he a patient of you•s 2—No, he is not.
Then how came you just now to tell me you went to so e
some patients, and concealed the fact that you went to Mr.
Coles, the Magistrate's ?—I went to inform him what I
had seen. I did not know that I was obliged to tell you
my secrets.
Sir F. Pollock—You have found oat the object of no'
question, and you have answered it. I wish to say nothini
more.

By a Juror—l did not meet a larger body of men than
one hundred.

By the Court—l knew Zephaniah Williams before.
John Parsons examined by Mr. Ta lbot—l am a butcher
residing at Pillgwelly. On the morning of the 4th of
November I was on Stow-hill, . a little after nine o'clock,
and saw a great many people arriving up by the Friars, on
the road leading from the Court-y-bella Machine towards
the Westgate. They were armed with guns, pikes, and
other weapons. They passed near me.
The examination of this witness was proceeding when
we closed.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.

A meeting of electors in the interest of Mr. Wool
was held on Thursday at the Black Bull, Free School-
:- treet, St. John's The meeting was large and re-
ipectable, and Mr. Wood was present. Mr. NASH
having been called to the Chair,
Mr. G. CORN ER proposed the first resolution, declar-
ing the necessity of electing as representative for South-
wark a tried Reformer. There was ri,ver a crisis at
which the borough was so imperatively called upon to
hear out the high character it had so long sustained.
Ever since 1818 it had been represented by two Re-
formers, and he trusted this would be the case till the
end of time.—( Hear.)
Mr. EVANS having seconded the resolution, it was
carried unanimously.
Mr. BARNES moved the second, expressive of th,i
entire confidence of the electors in Mr. Wood, the
long-tried advocate of reform and freedom in all its
foims. The contest in which they were about to be
engaged differed entirely from all former ones. Hitherto
the Reformers of the borough had had to oppose de-
claried Tories ; but now they had to deal with a gen-
tleman who was first Reformer, then Tory, and who
now was part Tory, part Reformer, part Radical ; who
was all things to all men, and to he relied on by nene.
Mr BERRY seconded the resolution, which was una-
nimously carried.
Mr. TEur.oli then called the attention of the meet-
ing to a subject deeplyiaffecting purity of election in the
borough.—{Hear,) They were all aware that a Bill
signed Charles Anderson, and countersigned George
Gillham, had been circulated through the borough.—
( Hear.) That Bill told them that a most disgraceful,
a most insidious attempt had been made, on the part of
the friends of Mr. Walter, to secure his election by
unlawful and nefarious means. As the contents of
the Bill were of the utmost importance, he would beg
to read it to the meeting. It was headed " Southwark
Election—Treachery and Falsehood refuted," and wag
to the following effect :—ln the columns of the Times of
Dec, 20, appeared an account of a meeting of the
friends of Mr. Walter, held at the Globe, Borough-road,
the previous evening, wherein it is represented that ore
of the speakers stated that a Mr. Anderson and ano-
ther person had offered to support Mr. Walter for the
sum of 3001., and that Mr. Walter, in his speech, al-
luded to a certain individual elector, who had offered
to sell him the representation of the borough for that
sum. Being thus absolved from all the obligations
imposed on him by Mr. Walter's friends not to dis-
close their communications, Mr. Anderson proceeds to
lay before the electors the facts of the case, On a Sa-
turday evening, last August, Mr. Fitch, jun., the soli-
citor, of Union-street, waited upon Mr. Gillham, one of
the churchwardens of St. George's, and asked him if he
would support Mr. Walter. Money he said was no object,
and he mighthave what he liked ; he (Mr. F.) was engaged
it, agent, and was to be paid for it. Mr. Gillham being
much engaged, gave no decisive answer, whereon Mr.
hitch inquired where he would be on the morrow ?
(Sunday.) Mr. Gillham said that he and Mr. Ander-
son were going to Richmond. Mr. Fitch then called
and stated that he wished to have some conversation,
hut it must be strictly confidential ; he had a proposi-
i ton to make, but if not acceded to, it was not to be men-
tioned by either party. He then said that if Mr. A.
would support Mr. Walter, money was no object, and
that if Mr. A. would form a Committee at the Crown
Tavern, and take the chair, no expense would be
spared, and Mr. Walter would trust entirely to his
discretion as to the expenses of the Committee.
His answer was, that it required consideration.
lie then said, " I have been to Mr. Gill-
ham, and he informs me that you are both going to
Richmond to-morrow—turn it over in your mind, and
I willride to Richmond and meet you." Mr. A. told
him not to go to Richmond on his account ; where-
upon he said he might as well take a ride to that
place as any other. On the next day Mr. Gillham and
Mr. Anderson went to Richmond, and Mr. Fitch,
jun., met them there. Mr. A. evaded speaking on the
subject of the election ; but Mr. Fitch took Mr. Gill-
ham aside, and bad some conversation with him upon
the subject, and Mr. Gilham heard all he had to say,
but gave no positive or direct answer, stating that he
was leaving town, and if he had any communication to
make he might write. Mr. Fitch, Mr. I3urbidge, a
Surrey Magistrate and the Chairman of Mr. Walter's
Committee, and Mr. Walter, ultimately had an inter-
view with Mr. Anderson, and attempted to extort a
promise of his support ; but Mr. Anderson declined to
make any promise, and politely bowed them out. With-
in an hour of their leaving M. r. Fitch, jun., made his ap-
pearance, saying that he had just left Mr. Walter, Mr. Bur-
bidge, and other gentlemen, and he was authorized to offer
Mr. Gillham and Mr. Anderson 2001. if they would sup-
port Mr. Walter, subject to an arrangement if he lost the
election. Mr. Anderson refused this offer. Mr. Fitch
then went hack to the gentlemen, and came again stat-
ing that they would give 2001., win or lose, and in the
event of there being no contest, if Mr. Gilham and Mr.
Anderson came out, as it would be the means "of
frightening Benjamin Wood out of the field"—(Laugh-
ter)—they would give an extra 1001., making the sum
of 3001. After some further details of the transaction,
the bill concluded with a challenge to Mr. Walter or
Mr. Fitch to meet them (Mr. Anderson and Mr. Gill-
ham) publicly, and refute it if they could, Mr. Teulon
continued that this bill contained the names in full of all
the parties—(Hear, hear)—it was signed by both Mr.
Anderson and Mr. Gillham ; and a distinct appeal was
made to Mr. Batsford, a disinterested party. There
could be no doubt whatever of the entire accuracy of
the whole of Mr. Anderson's statement. To this bill
no answer whatever had been made by any of the gen-
tlemen referred to.—( Hear, hear.)
After some strong and very proper remarks on the
flagrancy of this attempt to bribe the electors of the
borough on Mr. Walter's part, Mr. Teulon concluded
by proposing a resolution, that such an attempt was a
'gross violation of the purity of election.
The motion having been seconded, it was then put
and carried by acclamation.
Mr. Woon, after some prefatory remarks said, to the
Ballot, that measure so essential to the honest but poor
voter, Mr. Walter openly avowed his hostility. For
his (Mr. Wood's) own part, he could say that no one of
;,is supporters had received from him a single penny for
their advocacy. 'He had no paid agents, no paid can-
vassers. But what had been Mr. Walter's course ?

No sooner had he arrived among them from Berkshire
than he proceeded to Mr. Burbidge, to Mr. Day,
and to Mr. White, and said to them, " Can't you
find means to corrupt Messrs. Anderson and
Gilliam ? I are not satisfied with the requisition—we
must buy some of the voters ; we must try Anderson
and Gillham, or we shan't be able to drive away that
obstinate little fellow, Wood, from the field."—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) It is happy for us that there is
a law on this subject, and if I am not much mistaken,
that law will make Mr. Walter responsible for the act
which he has committed. Counsel had got this subject
under consideration at this present moment.—(Hurrah.)
Intimidation, too, was at work, and he knew of many
instances where it had been practised on small shop-
keepers whose hearts were with him, but who dared not
incur their ruin by voting for him —(Hear, hear.)
One of the men, and he had already been named that
evening—one of the men who had exercised intimida-
tion against his (Mr. Wood's) humble friends, was a
man to whom he had paid, in the course of the last four
months, forty thousand pounds, yet had this man been
guilty of this base and dirty trick, of attempting to bribe
and coerce those who wished to support him. The
work of corruption had been going on for some time

past, and the electors of Southwark owed a debt of
gratitude to Niessrs. Anderson and Gillham, who ha('
thus nobly exposed the base arts of the enemies of Re
form.—(Cheers.)
Mr. VOUSELEY, jun., moved a vote of thnnks to

Messrs. Anderson and Gillham, for their open, nuttily,
and straightforward exposure of the unprincipled at-
tempt of Mr. Walter and his agents, and the resolution
was agreed to with unanimous applause.
Mr. ANDERSON assured the meeting that every word
of his statement was correct to the letter. He further
stated that, having seen in the Times newspaper of the
20th of Dec. a report of a speech of Mr. Walter's, in
which that gentleman said that he understood that he
(Mr. A.) had offered to sell the borough for 3001., he
had writen to Mr. Walter next day to know whether
he acknowledged this speech, but had hitherto obtaioed
no answer from that genticman.—( Hear, hear.) Mr.
Anderson added that of twenty speakers who formed the
deputation which waited on Mr. Walter at Charing-
cross, in the first instance, fifteen had since declared
that they had been completely ensnared, and utterly re-
jected Mr. Walter, and were now on Mr. Wood's com-
mittee.--(Cheers.)
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the
meeting separated.

-- - -- ,
MARIAN ; OR, A YOUNG AIAID, s FORTUNES.
,}.3T MRS. S. C. HALL; _Although histories of found-
!logs have been numerous, we believe that no writer of
eminence has undertaken to illustrate the career of a
Female. exposed to all the perils and vicissitudes to
which, when abandoned iu infancy, she must be so in-
evitably and so peculiarly liable. In her novel of
Marian," Mrs. S. C. Hall, we are informed, has per-
formed this task ; tracing the course of her heroine
onwards from her birth through the thousand dangers
that surround her and accompany her step by step
through life ; her only friend being a faithful Irish
nurse, with all the fervour, trutnfulness, and oddity,
so strongly the characteristics of her country. The
scene, we understand is laid in our own time, in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of London, and if the charac-
ters be not taken from real life, tho author has at least
so blended the real with the imaginative as to deduce
many a fine moral lesson from the adventures of her
girl foundling," and her devoted follower.
THE DEMANDS OF
THE CHURCII.—We would
implore the friends of the
Church to make their peti-
tion, not for a voluntary gift, but for restitution of
plunder, the plunder of the Reformation ; and, what-
ever be the form of the grant, to receive and apply it
.is an instalment on that enormous debt, which, if this
country is ever to stand before God, clear from the
ttuilt of sacrilege, the State is bound to cancel.—
Quarterly Review.—Look to it, gentlemen of England!