The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-06 00:00:00

THI4I SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 1840.

FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.

The ADDRESS of the DELEGATES assembled in MAN-
CHESTER, for the purpose of devising the lnist
•
means of procuring a FREE PARDON for FROST,
WILLIAMS, and JONES.
To the humane and justice-loving portion of the
community of Great Britain and Ireland, the re-
spectful Address of the undersigned Delegates
assembled at Manchester, on the 3d and •itin of
February, 1840.
What is life bui Liberty__
And what is Liberty but the fullest enjoyment of life ?
FREEMEN You who have your liberty. We address
you in plain and simple language. Our Most Gracious
Sovereign has closed her ears against an appeal made by
a faction for blood. She has pardoned Frost, \Whams,
and Jones, as far as life is concerned, but they are to be
transported for life if not saved by the due influence of
reason expressed by the subjects to their monarch. The
Monarch cannot act without a knowledge of her people's
will, and we have therefore thought it prudent to ap- •
point Monday, the 10th of February, as a day for givin,
national counsel and advice to the Sovereign through
the medium of public opinion. We have decided that
public meetings shall be held in every district throughout
the length and breadth of the land, and that the an-
nexed memorial shall be proposed for the consideration
of each meeting. In furtherance of this object we most
rigidly enjoin our fellow-labourers to lose sight of every
personal feeling and angry thought upon the solemn occa-
sion, and to assemble with one only view—that of restor-
ing the prisoners to their families. We recommend that
in every instance marshals should be appointed, whose
duty it shall be to bring to justice any person or persons
who shall dare to create disturbance, or otherwise frus-
trate the desired end. We recommend that the meet-
jags should commence at twelve o'clock at noon, and
the business be exclusively confined to the moving,
seconding, and bearing discussion upon the memorial,
which, if carried, should be signed by the Chair-
man on behalf of the meeting, and forthwith
transmitted to Lord Brougham for presenta-
tion to the Queen. We also request that Chair-
men of known character, courage, and discretion
may be selected, whose duty it will be to preserve or-
der, and suppress any attempt to disturb the proceed-
ings. We beg to remind the people that one half of
the exertion used for the restoration of the Dorehes or
labourers would have prevented their transportation,
and to express a hope that they have gained wisdom by
experience.

To the country we now commit the devinies of
three men, who have not been convicted according to
those laws, which as subjects, all are supposed to be
bound to obey.
(Signed) DELEGATES FOR
William Thornton, Chairman Bradford
Samuel Fletcher
Peter Lyall
James Mooney ..
James More
Thomas Knowles
William Cooper
James Leach Manchester
Alexander Fraser South Shields
Thomas Bolwell
Samuel Allatt
Joshua Lancaster
George Black
Jonathan Walton
William Simpson
James Taylor Ditto
Thomas Eivsey Ditto
Edward Charlton Newca3tle-upon-Tyrie,
David Hitchin
John Skevington
Feargus O'Connor
Michael Ratcliffe
Thomas Cliff Halifax
Peter Dvwliurst
Patrick Holden Staley bridge
William Dixon Wigan
J.,bcz Barrowelough
James Penny Liversege
John Taylor, Secretary ......

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIF.r.

M A NCHESTE R, MONDAY.—This morning, at the 130-
, rough Court, a man named Gill was brought before D.
Maude, Esq., the stipendiary magistrate, charged with
an attempt to murder his own wife, to whom he had
been married about fourteen years, but who for the last.
five sears had been separated from him, owing to his
ill usage. The prisoner had been to Africa during the
last two years, it appears. and returned to Manchester
about a fortnight ago. During this time be had sought
and obtained repeated interviews with his wife, the
object of which was to persuade her to let him live
with her. She refused to do this, but offered to
do all she could to maintain him if he would con-
tinue separate. On Friday evening last he called
and repeated his persuasions, and was sitting alone
with her at tea, when he suddenly seized hold of a
claspknife, and, dragging his wife into a dark room
used for coals, threw her down, and, after deliberately
feeling about her neck for the jugular vein, drew the
!mile across her throat, inflicting a wound about half ao
inch deep and three inches long. He then left the
houS'c and was going down the street, when some neigh-
bours, who had been alarmed by the cries of his wife,
suspecting what was the matter, raised the hue and cry
after him, and he was soon afterwards safely lodged in
the keeping of the police. His wife was found wel-
tering in her blood where he had left her ; but, on
the assistance of a surgeon being procured, it was
discovered that the wound was not fatal, the
lain having missed his object. The following are
the particulars of what transpired in Court :—Mr.
Saunders, of the firm of Birch and Saunders, attor-
neys, appeared to prosecute, and, having detailed the
above facts, Mary Ann Gill, the prisoner's wife,
was called into the witness-box and sworn. The unfor-
tunate woman appeared very weak from loss of blood,
and, being much affected on seeing the prisoner, it was
some time before she could proceed with her statement.
After detailing the particulars, the prisoner put a num-
ber of questions to his wife, of which the only ones to
the purpose were the following : Prisoner—Did not I
ask you on Friday to be reconciled to me, and I would
try to get work and assist you to keep my children ?
Wife—You did. Prisoner—Did you not then fly into
a passion, and use opprobrious epithets, saying I had
borrowed another man's clothes? Wife—No ; nothing
of the kind. Mr. Maude—Had you said anything to
the prisoner to make him angry ? Wife—No, Sir ;he
appeared all the time unusually civil ; but I obsert ed
that the muscles of his face worked very much. Pri-
soner—Did you not say that you had been obliged
to prostitute yourself to keep a house over your head,
and did not I feel as though the veins in my head had
swollen to double their usual size, and I seized you, and
said, " Then you shall die, you —, in your whore-
dom ?" Wife—Oh, dear, no. Mr. M.lude—Then
you say nothing of the kind to him ? Wife—l told
him, Sir, that he had tried to drive me to prostitution,
and I would never live with him again. Prisoner—ad
I not accuse you of improperly admitting. a man into the
house ? Wife—Yes, but the accusation was unfounded.
The prisoner said he was a murdered man, but did not
attempt to deny that he had previously threatened to
destroy his w;le. Mr. Boyer, surgeon, said he had
dressed the wound in Mrs. Gill's throat, which was
about half an inch deep and three inches !orig. In his
opinion she had narrowly escaped death. The prisener
was then committed to the Liverpool assizes for trial,
charged with cutting with intent to murder.

BDIUROWING MONEY on CHURCH

RATES.

The vestry clerk of St. Dunstan's in the Welt has put
forth a mandate for the raising of a voluntary rate, by
order of the select of this extraordinary parish :
" The grounds„" he tells us, " which have compelled
the vestry to resort to this plan are that, between 1816
and 1822, the parish borrowed large sums of money on
annuities for the repairs of the old Church, and which, en-
tailed on the parish a burthen of 7001. a-year ; that
for the last fifteen years this had been made up by a rate,
called the old Church-rate, of Is. 6d. in the pound.
These annuities had br.en secured by the bonds of the
then Churchwardens and Overseers, and, until the
last year, the rate had been collected without difficulty, '
when a decided resistance to the payment of it took place,
and then Mr. Seeley, the churchwarden, found his way to
Doctors'-commons for advice as to the legal enforcement
of the rate ; and, after laying the case before Dr. Nichol!,
was informed that the proper formalities not having been
complied with when the annuities were originally granted,
it would be impossible now to enforce a rate made for their
payment. This decision plated the vestry in a serious
dilemma, for either the honour and credit of the parish
must be irretrievably forfeited, or those officers of the
parish who, in 1821 and 1823, had affixed their names to
the bonds must be left under the entire responsibility of the
payment."

—The borrowing such large sums for the repairs of the
old church, and in five years afterwards procuring an
Act of Parliament, is Prima facie evidence of one of
those instances of parish jobbing that it requires
no great stretch of imagination to see through. What
were those requisite formalities? Why an Act of
Parliament without which the 'Ware inhabitants of
a parish are not liable to the debts incurred by their
predecessors. If a man takes a house in a parish, he
expects only to pay scot and lot for the current year,
and finds sufficient ways for his money without contri-
buting to debts previously and illegally incurred. The
document then proceeds to say that—
" The vestry have been for months endeavouring to find
a remedy for this difficult case. They have first set apart
all the available property of the parish—(They have, have
they ?)-__to the satisfaction of these claims, and have made
a rate of sixpence in the pound for the necessary expenses
of the church, in order that that property—( All the avail-
able property of the parish)—might be so ai7pro-
priated. But there will still be needed a further
sum of 2501. The Vestry have considered a va-
riety of plans, but none appears legally practica-
ble except by voluntary contribution. They tire,
therefore, reduced to the necessity of asking the parish-
ioners [how the mighty are fallen 1] to subscribe volun-
tarily this amount !"—Which they tell us will be the
means of "avoiding the disgrace, difficulty, and litigation
which will otherwise become unavoidable."
—New, it is quite clear, that if a rate to pay these
annuities is illegal, the application of "all (or any part
of) the available property of the parish to the satisfac-
tion of these claims" is equally so. What is the pro-
perty they allude to ? Why, first, the rental of the
parochial estates, some centuries back bequeathed to
the churchwardens for the time being, nut to pay ilk-
gal debts, but for the use of the poor, when no poor-
rates existed, and now ought to be applied in aid of the
poor-rates ; secondly, the pew rents of the new church,
which, by their own Act of Parliament (10 Geo, IV,,
cap. 90), are to be applied in liquidation of any debt
which might be incurred in building the new church ;
and as they have contracted debts somewhere about
46,0001., for building that church, and now levy ano-
ther Church-rate, called the New Church-rate—lately
of 2:s. in the pound, but now at rack-rent Is. 4d. in the
pound—surely, those pew rents ought to be applied in
liquidation of this heavy impost, But Dr. nT4
opinion on the legality of this old Church-rate had been
previously taken by the inhabitants, and he it was that
first pronounced the rate illegal ; then " the decided
resistance" to further payment took place, the inha-
bitants considering, in the first place, that charity begins
at home, and, secondly, that this money having been
lent upwards of twenty years back at the usurious rate
of 12 per cent. on lives now in existence, they had re-
ceived back 2401. for every 1001. advanced ; and as
they were not hound in law, neither ought they to he
bound in honour to fulfil illegal contracts entered into
before many of them became parishioners.—Sund
ay
Times.

OF --
SHIPWRECK "THE DUI E OF
SUSSEX.

(From the Sbipping Gazette.)
" S'IIIOMNESS, JAN. 25, 1840.
" During the List three days it has blown a complete
hurricane from the N.W. to S.W.

_ .
" Last night, at eight o'clock e.se., the barque Duke
of Sussex, from Newcastle for the Cape of Good live,
in endeavouring to make the harbour, was driven on
shore on the rocks to the westward of the old church,
and has become a complete wreck. lam sorry to add
that the master, mate, second mate, carpenter, and four
of the crew, along with the master's wife, have mat a
watery grave. The names of the sufferers are, J. Booth,
master, and wife ; J. A. Morrison, mate, of Peterhead ;
\V, Featherstone, second mate, of Piddleton ; Charles
Ferguson, seaman, of Aberdeen ; James Monday, ap-
prentice, of Ramsgate ; John Merryman, apprentice, of
Sunderland ; J. Blackey (or Blaikie), carpenter, of
Sunderland ; Edwards (or Everard), a boy from
Lymington.

" The body of the master, that of his wife, and hoc
of the first and second mates, and three of the crew have
been found, and were decently interred at Stromness on
the 28th iast.

It would appear that the ill-fated vessel sailed from
Widewater (Orkney) on the Thursday previous, and
while ff Cape Wrath, shipped a heavy sea which car-
ried away her companion, binnacles, and corn passe3,
and otherwise so disabied her as to necessitate her re-
turn to Orkney. The helmsman was severely hurt by
the sea having struck the vessel off Cape Wrath ; And,
in consequence, of carpenters' chips having choked her
pumps, she being a new vessel, she became so leaky as
to necessitate her immediate return to Orkney. In
bearing up. for Stromness she was, in consequence of
the violence of the gale, which was blowing furiously
from S.W. to N.W., driven on the rocks, and soon
became a complete wreck."

" STROMNESS, JAN. 28.--For the satisfaction of the
relations of the unfortunate sufferers by the wreck of
the Duke of Sussex, I beg to inform you that they
were this day respectably interred. The funeral was
attended by the Chief Magistrate, and also the most
respectable people in the town, and the mournful pro-
cession, as it passed along from the Clergyman's house
to the burial ground, had a very solemn and impressive
afeet, this being the only instance within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant where so many bodies were car-
ried at one time to the church-yard. The coffins of
the captain and his wife were deposited side by side in
the. same grave ; the mate and carpenter in the second ;
the second mate and one of the seamen in the third ;
and the two apprentices in the fourth.: The different
vessels in the harbour had their colours hoisted half-
mast, and almost all their commanders attended their
brother seamen to their last resting-place."

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF PAU-
PER CIIIEDREN IN METROPOLITAN Wotuanouses.—On
Tuesday a special meeting of the directors of the poor of the
parish of St. Pancras took place at the Workhouse (Mr. Horse-
pool in the Chair), for the purpose of receiving the report of a
Committee appointed to examine, into the employment and
mode of education of the pauper children, and to recom-
mend such remedies as might be thought proper. The re-
port set forth that the habit of letting out boys to vtork at
cotton factories was productive of fatal effects both to their
moral and physical habits, whilst, in a pecuniary point of
view, it was inconsiderate, yielding advantages to none but the
capitalist. The report then proceeded to recommend that
this species of employment should be discontinued ; that a re-
sident schoolmaster be provided to instruct the children in the
principles of religion, together with reading, writing, and
arithmetic, in accordance with the system adopted by the
National Snciety ; that extra lessons should be substituted for
corporal punishment; and that a species of physical edu-
cation being considered essentially necessary to the forma-
!nation of a sound and healthy body, they also recom-
mend the introduction of gymnastic amusements ; that the
employment of children of tender age in winding cotton,
making hooks and eyes, and sorting bristles be discontinued ; and
that those above ten years be taught the more useful trades,
under competent masters, of tailors, shoemakers, carpenters,
tghoeo dmaonrtel plentiful
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ropemakers, and hairdressers. The Report proceeds to urge
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then broke up.
children—and
Merchant steamer
The London was going down the
in tChe°lLtiLvelis.lTyNn.e—onASaturday afternoon last, near Friar's
Goose.
river from Newcastle on her voyage to London about two
o'clock, and the brig Good Intent from Lynn, laden with flour,
barley, Sze., was coming up towed by the steam-tug Margaret,
whenney came violently in contact with each other. The
smoke
k ' from Mr. Clapham's alkali works and cinder ovens was
so dense at the time that we are informed the crews could not
see each others' vessel. The Good Intent was struck on her
larboard bow, and in a few minutes went down. The crew had
just time to save their lives. The steamer received only slight
damage, and proceeded immediately on her voyage. There
were upwards of 300 sacks of flour on board the Good Intent,
two thousand pounds. The case will probably have to
and we understand the value of her cargo altogether is between
comeon beforeeand a jury for decision. As in all such disasters, the
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indisposed at Marston House, the seat of Lord
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