The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-19 00:00:00

EXAMINATION of DR. M'DOUALL,
THE CIIARTIST.
ASUTON-UNDER-LYNE, JULY 16.--As we stated in
our last, Peter Murray M'Douall, the Chartist lecturer,
was apprehended on Sunday, on a charge of attending
an unlawful meeting, speaking sedition, &c. During the
whole day considerable excitement prevailed in the town,
and owing to a report that it was intended by the Ashton
" National Guard " Chartists to rescue the prisoner, the
magistrates thought it desirable to call out the military.
Accordingly, a company of the S6th Regiment were
speedily in attendance, and were stationed at the Town.
hall. On Monday morning, at two o'clock, the prisoner
was brought up before J. Lord and A. Buckley, Esqrs.,
when four of the Ashton police-officers swore to having
attended a meeting at Charleston on the 10th instant,
when they were refused admission. They also swore to
having heard M'Douall address the people from a window
at the Odd Fellows' Arms, advising them to arm and
attend to drilling, &c. ; they stated that the procession
was riotous and disorderly.
Mr. Roberts, solicitor, attended for the prisoner, and
cross-examined the witnesses at some length, but nothing
material was elicited.
The prisoner was allowed to address the bench in his
own defence, and did so, arguing that the people had a
right to arm, and that what he had done was nothing of
an illegal character. He dwelt at some length on the
peaceable conduct pursued by the Chartists, and con-
tended that wherever he had been no breach of the peace
had taken place.
Four witnesses were examined for the defence, who
contradicted the testimony of the officers.
The magistrates adjourned for a short time to consult,
and returned into Court, when the Chairman said they
were unanimously of opinion that the case must be sent
to the assizes for trial.
On application of Mr. Roberts the prisoner was ad-
mitted to bail, himself in 3001., and four sureties in 751.
each.
On M'Douall getting outside the hall, he addressed the
crowd, advising them to go peaceably home. The mili-
tary then withdrew to the barracks, and the town re-
sumed its wonted quietness.

THE LATE SUPPOSED MURDER OF A FATHER BY
HIS Two DAUGHTERS.—The inquest was held at Mr.
James Dawson's, the Commercial Inn, Harrogate, on
Monday evening, before the Coroner, John Wood, Esq.,
of York. The first witness called upon was Ann Stubbs,
widow of the deceased, who deposed that her late hus-
band was about 63 years of age; was formerly a farmer,
but recently a labourer and keeper of donkey carriages;
that she, her husband, her two unmarried daughters,
Sarah, aged 26, and Abigail, 23, and a little grand-
daughter, resided together in a cottage in Tower-street;
that about half-past eleven o'clock A.M., on Saturday,
the 15th of July, she and her daughters had some dis-
agreeableness, when her husband, who sat shaving him-
self, rose up and said he would let them know who was
master, and that he struck Sarah; he then left them and
went up stairs, saying ha would fetch down their
boxes. Witness then went out and called for
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(theenncouraged her husband to turn the girls out. The
she encouraged
were not admitted into the house—the cause of
the dqtitirhetl.euraSsaalhut some money herself and the two
daughters had jointly earned, amounting to three
shillings and twopence of which she gave each one
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but after many appropriate questions put to her by the
Coroner she was dismissed, as her evidence from her
tender years, was thought to be inadmissible. After the
examination of several witnesses, the Coroner summed
up, when the jury returned the following verdict :—" We
find that the deceased died of exhaustion and fainting,
occasioned by his falling down stairs; but whether the
deceased accidently fell down stairs, or was thrown
down, no satisfactory evidence thereof doth appear."—
Abridged from the Harrogate Advertiser.
THE NEW DRESS FOR OrricEus.—The change in
the dress of officers, the particulars of which were pub-
lished a few days since, will not extend to the brigade of
Guards. Patterns of the new attire are now exhibited
at the military board. The shell jacket, which will be
substituted for the blue frock, as an article of undress, is
entirely divested of ornament, save about the neck,
where there is some lace cording. The grey coat or
cloak, the substitute for the blue mantle, is somewhat
like that worn by the men, though of finer texture. It
is understood that the next alteration in the military
dress will be the withdrawal of the military cap intro-
duced by his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The trustees of the Earl of Durham have com-
menced building freestone pillars for a suspension bridge
across the Rector's Gill, at Bishopwearmouth, as a sub-
stitute for the ancient public road, which has been applied
to railway purposes. he bridge will be a greatl•accom-
modation to the public.—Durham Advertiser,