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London, England, 1845-03-29 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, S_ATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29 1845.

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" Fulham, Jan. 22, 1845.
" Dear Sir,—!4 statement of charges against you, of
which I send you herewith a copy, has now been made
to me, which, I am sorry to say, impose upon me the
painful ditty of instituting a formal inquiry into their
truth. I must proceed under the provisions of the Dis-
cipline Act to appoint Commissioners, and you will be
at liberty to name one to act on your behalf. I need
not say how much I am concerned at being obliged to
adopt this proceeding.
" I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant,
" C. J. LONDON.
" The Hon. and Rev. F. S. Monckton."
It had been said that Mr. Monckton had heard the grave
charges against him, and made no answer. The follow-
ing was the answer of Mr. Monckton to the Bishop's
courteous and candid letter :
"My Lord,—l am perfectly sensible of the painful
position in which I stand, through the slanderous male-
volence of others, though I entertain no apprehension of
their proving me guilty. I defy them to establish their
calumnious charges, from every one of which my con-
science acquits me. I shall, therefore, do my best to
establish my innocence before the Commissieners ; but
I decline availing my: elf of your kind oiler to choose a
Commissioner on my own behalf, since I have the most
entire confidence in your Lordship's discretion and jus-
tce. Out of regard to my own peace of mind, rcputa-
don, and eacred pula!ic character, I trust that your Lerd-
%hie will not permit the least unnecessary delay to occur
in fixing the period of inquiry.
" Parsonaee, Jan. 28."
Was this the letter of a man who knew there were grave
grounds fur the charges against him? It was clear that
Mr. Monckton had been consistent throughout ; or why
was he here? Before he (rlr. Warren)- sat down, :lie
undertook to demonstrate his innocence beyond the
pessldiity of a doubt, and that he was the victim of an
atrocious conspiracy. The first thing which struck him
(Mr. Warren) with surprise and disgust was—that Mr.
._Monckton had actually been hunted down- by his per-
secutors, who had set upon him an old Bow-street officer,
Ballard, who, according to the testimony of their own
witness (Mrs—Pearson) had sought to bribe her to give
evidence against Mr. Monckton. Mrs. Pearson said that
Ballard offered her 50L, and said that money was no
object to them. Where was this money to come from?
What the object was he might be able to show in a
future stage of the inquiry. This threw so deep a
shadow over the whole case as to discredit all the
witnesses upon whose testimony it rested. In such a
matter as this, the character of the witnesses was most
important ; there, should be an entire absence of all
hostility or sinister motives on their ,part. Was that
the case here ? Why, the most gross charges, with
respect to the women rested upon the evidence
of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, who were the
focus of the case; Fanny Fronde, a discarded servant;
aid the girl who had been examined yesterday. The
case had, in fact, broken down, and Mr. Monckton had
been exonerated by the vary witnesses brought against
him. The Learned Counsel then examined at much
length the evidence which had been adduced in support
of the charges, pointing out its improbabilities and in-
consistencies. With respect to Mrs. Williams, ha ob-
served, he wished that the public, which had jumped so
quickly to a conclusion as to the guilt of Mr. Monckton,
could have been present to see the manner in which she
had given her evidence,—he did not think that Dr.
Lushington, in all his judicial experience, had ever seen
such an exhibition before ; her bitter and furious animus
against Mr. Monelcton ; the audacity of her demeanour
under cross-examination, and the smiles she interchanged
with him (Mr. Warren), on one occasion indulging in a
joke. The grossest instances of misconduct imputed to
Mr. Monckton by this witness came out in her cross-
examination, under circumstances utterly improbable in
themselves, and which exposed her to contradiction from
other witnesses on the same side. Mr. Warren then re-
ferred to the acknowledgment made by Mrs. Wil-
liams that, notwithstanding the scenes she witnessed,
she never remonstrated with Mr. Monckton. The
Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances
of the anonymous letter sent to Mrs. Davis,
which that lady, in a letter dated the 24th
of October, 1843, inclosed to Mr. Mooch ton, inquiel-
whether it had come from his house. Mr. Moo
in reply, required the name of the person who had sue.
gusted that the letter came from his house ; and
Davis replied, that Mr. and Mrs. Williams were the
persons who had mentioned the probability of his ser-
vants being the authors of the letter. Now, this anony •
mous letter was of ae indecent kind, and Mr. Williame
had been concerned in a kindred transaction, for he had
admitted that he had been dismissed from the Orphan
Asylum 'for sending an indecent message to the matron.
Th., whole conspiracy seemed to have grown out of a
quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Willitials and Mr. Monek-
toa's servants. Sarah Huggins had heard some rumours
which had been proatgated in that low and slanderous
neighbonurhood against her, and Mrs. Williams con-
ceived a spite again,t the servants, and, in the sequel,
against Mr. Monckton himself. There never wa3 (the
Learned Counsel observed) a more disgusting exhibition
than had been made by Williams, who was an aban-
dolled miscreant on his own showing. He had per-
mitted his wife for 18 months free intercourse with a
eeraon whe, according to him, had attempted to corrupt
her. He had allowed her t) g 20 time; after that, and
to go alone ; he hal borrowed money of Mr. Monck-
ton after he had endeavoured, as he said, to de-
baliel) his wife„. who was yet suffored to go day after

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day to listen to conversation of a ribald and ob-
scene tendency, and to obscene jests. Fanny Fronde,
anether of the pillars of this case, admitted that
she was discarded by Mr. .Manckton (amongst other
reasons) for her want of veracity. Upon several paints
she had contradicted herself. For example: On her ex-
„ion in chief she said she had seen Mr. M ,nekton
_trig in Sarah's bed-room smoking and reading the
cwspaecr, whilst she (Sarah) was in bed—" only once."
1n her cro;s examination, whe:i excited, she sail she
ad seen it three or four times. The scene in which she
-e that Mr. Monckton had attemp!ed to undress her
would be proved to be a gross falsehood, the girl being
at the time drunk. The other statements of this witness
would be either utterly dispro red or satisfactorily ex
Another witness hal been called yesterday,
Sarah Levett. She was not saininnned originally, but
hal been brought up during the unfortunate intermis-
sion of the sitting of the Commission. She had men •
tioned a scene in the room where she was in bed with
Sarah Huggins which had taken him (Mr. Warren) by
surprise, and he should have been unable to comprehend
one part of her evidence but from a document before
him, which explained the abominable insinuation
intended. One of the charges against Mr. Monck-
ton which had been sent to the Bishop was, that
Mr. Monckton had had a certain disease, and hal com-
municated it to his servants.
Dr. Lusnaao'roN observed that the Commissioners had
no cognisance, as Commissioners, of anything communi-
cated to the Bishop till the commission took place, and
they knew nothing of those matters.
Mr. Warren said he had, in the handwriting of Mr.
Lake, the solicitor for the other side, a charge against
Mr. Monckton, to the effect that he had courimunicated
to Sarah Huggins and others, if they had it, a loathsome
disease. Mr. Monckton had dared them to the proof.
The Learned Counsel, after some further remarks, said
one of the peculiar disadvantages under which Mr.
Monckton laboured was, that this inquiry might be re-
newed before another tribunal, where all the deficiencies
of the case might be patched up, and secured in inac-
cessible perjury. Mr. Monckton and his friends had
courted this inquiry. Mr. Lake had pestered Mr.
Monck ton with letters, all of a very bellying character,
persuading him not to stand an inquiry. This he had
constantly, steadily refused. An expression in one of
Mr. Monckton's letters to Mr. Lake, that "indis-
cretion, not guilt, is the term applicable to my con-
duct in this southern region," was thus explained:—
His family was a Yorkshire family, —and after
leaving Christ Church, Oxford, and taking
holy orders, he became a curate for two or three year.,
in Northumberland, and there it was notoriously the
custom for persons to give merry meetings to their ser-
vants at Christmas and on New Year's-day. Mr.
Monckton had followed that custom, and to promote'
good feeling and dispel timidity, he sat and carved for
them. After his return, upon one of these occasions, he
did sing the sang of-the " Old English Gentleman," and
a very excellent song it was, simple in its words as well
as air; but his intoxication would be denied on oath.
He did sit in his kitchen after working in his garden,
and when his shoes were dirty; but as to taking his
meals with his servants it was a most wicked falsehood.
After detailing the evidence which he proposed to
adduce, which would utterly overthrow the case on the
other side, the Learned Gentleman concluded by ex-
pressing his conviction that the Commissioners would
say, that there was no foundation for even a p' inlet facie
case, 'lnd would not send it through another agonising
investigation by another trial, which would have to deal
with another mass of perjury.
Mr. Monckton, who sat with his brother, Lord Galway,
beside Mr. Warren, was much affected during a part of
this speech.
The folio wing witnesses were then called for the de-
fence :
Lord' Viscount Galway, examined by Mr. Warren—
I ain the brother of Mr. Monckton, and am in habits of
personal intercourse with him. I have- never heard,
since his being in the Church, any tendency to profanity
in his conversation ; I never heard him guilty of obscene
conversation. He may be occasionally familiar with
those about him ; he is as gnarled as men usually are.
I have never seen, since he has been in the Church, any-
thing in him inconsistent with his character as a clergy-
man. I have never heard of any impropriety between my
brother and my mother's servant. I have been to his
house four or five times, and never witnessed any levity or
indecorum between my brother and his servants. His
manner of speaking to them I often thought rather
rough. I certainly saw nothing in the behaviour of his
servants inconsistent with the respect due to a master. I
had no reason to suspect any improper intercourse be-
tween them. Miss Monckton is at Hastings suffering
under a pulmonary affection.
Cross-examined by Mr. Doane—l have no town
house. I never stayed on a visit with my brother. I
have dined with him once and lunched once, in the
dining-room. There was no difficulty in dining there ;
no necessity for going into the kitchen. My brother has
stayed with me for a fortnight in the country. He never
sat and smoked in the kitchen there. He would walk
out, or sit in some small room.
By Dr. LUSHINGTON —Was your brother in the habit
of smoking to prevent a disorder of the chest, or for
amusement ?—He told me he had been recommended
to do it.
Mr. James Edward Mathew examined—l am a sur-
geon and apothecary, residing in Church-row, De Beau-
voir-square, near Mr. Monckton's parsonage. I have
been the medical attendant of his family for nearly two
years. I first attended Sarah Huggins in June, 1843.
She is liable to hysterics, for which I have frequently
attended her. She is of a decidedly hysterical tempera-
ment. She had an excessively violent attack when I first
attended her, in June, 1843. I stayed with her three or
four hours, from eleven at night till three in the morning.
I have been frequently sent for a similar attack, not so
violent. She is subject to neuralgia, a painful affec-
tion of the nerves, which may exist independent of
pregnancy. Hers was connected with the teeth. I at-
tended her off and on from June to Christmas, 1843. I
accompanied her to a dentist, wli' extracted a tooth
from her lower jaw,awhich relieved her from neuralgia,
and from hysterics to a great extent. . She still had a re-
turn of hysterical affection till the- beginning of last
year. I discovered that she was in the family way.
She had a fainting fit. I communicated to Mr. Monckton
the next day the fact of her being pregnant. He was in
the garden. I told him his servant was in the family
way. He said, "If that is the case, she must go away
directly." He seemed perfectly astonished. He had a
spade in his hand, and he dug it in the ground as he
said so. I said, "I think you had better not send her
away for a few days, as her health will not admit of it."
That was on account of her fainting fits. In four or
five days she went. I have been in the habit of very
frequently visiting Mr. Monckton's house. I never saw
any undue familiaritea on the part of Mr. Monckton to
his servants or on theirs to him. I never saw any dia.
tinction in his behaviour to Sarah Huggins, except on
account of her ill health. He has accompanied me to
her bed-room, from kind motives. She was always
dressed. I never saw any impropriety of conduct,
levity, or anything which gave ine the slightest sus-
picion that there was any undue intimacy between
Mr. Monckton and any of his servants. I never heard
Sarah Huggins speak is bins other than servants
ought to speak to their master. I never saw him take a
meal with his servants in my life. I have seen him in
the kitchen halt' a dozen times in .a year, and then he
was in his gardening dress. I have seen Min eat his
dinner in the kitchen; but never with the servants. I
'have supped with him in the kitchen; not with the ser-
vants. He is a little supper-eater,—some bread and
cheese or cold meat. Mr. Monckton's constitution re-
quires exercise. He suffers from dyspepsia; that is, in •
digestion, accompanied with disorder of the stomach. I
should recommend exercise for such a habit. I never
attended Mr. Moncktou for the disease alluded to. I
never heard Mr. Monckton use a blasphemous or inde-
cent expression, or saw him guilty of an indecent act to
his servants. His manner of addressing them is rather
rough. I have attended Susan Huggins for spasms. I
have observed a misunderstanding; between her and her
stepmother, who would not do anything for her daughter
when she was ill, and Mr. Monckton was kind enough
to allow her to go to his house, that her sister might at-
tend her. I never saw Mr. Monckton intoxicated. He
is frequently in the habit of visiting the sick. Ha ap-
peared to me to be quite an exemplary des gyman. I
never saw Mr. Sheldrick at church.
Cross-examined—l never saw Mr. Monckton excited
with wine. • I would not disbelieve Mr. Patient if he said
so. My bill for attending Sarah Huggins the first year
was 101. 63. ; the next year 21. or 3L Susan's account
last year was 8/. or 10/. Mr. Monckton paid Sarah's first
bill. I believe he intends to pay the last bills.' Ido not
consider a great deal of smoking good for dyspepsia ; I
know it is one of the worst things. I attended Sarah
Huggins far an excoriation in about July or August,
1843. I did state this to Mr. Oldershaw. When I taxed
Sarah Huggins with her pregnan!y, she said nothing.
When I told her it would be my duty to communicate it.
to her master, she made no answer to the best of my re-
collection. When I saw that Sarah Huggins had re-
turned after her confinement, I was rather surprised, and
I spoke to Mr. Monckton, who said that she had applied
to him to take her back, or, as she had lost her cha-
racter, she would be obliged to go upon the town, and he
had taken her back out of mercy and charity. When I
attended her for an excoriation, I prescribed a lotion of
sulphate of zinc, and pills of mercury and opium. This
was on the 28th of July, 1843. The pill was proper for
syphilis.
Re-examined.—I gave the pills as a precautionary
measure. I left them off the day after. I believe de-
cidedly that she had not the disease. I did mention my
fear to Mr. Monckton that Sarah had acted improperly.
He said, " I hope not ; if she has, I will dismiss her."
I afterwards told him my suspicions were unfounded.
By Dr. LUSHINGTON.—When, on your discovery of
Sarah Huggins's pregnancy you told her of it, did no
observation fall from her ?—I believe her only answer
was, she could net help it. When you said you shauld
tell Mr. Monckton, did she sty anything deprecatory ?
—To the best of my reeoltectiou, she made no answer.
Did she show any alarm ?—Yes, by the colour in her
face, and her confusion. Did she expre•s any wish or
desire that it should be concealed from Mr. Monckton ?
—No ; not a word about it. Is it the fact, that you had
a suspicion that she had the disease, and prescribed the
pills as a remedy, and afterwards your suspicions were
cleared up ? ; it was a measure of precaution ;
1.
gave her the blue pill, and when I foend my suspicie:is
were totally unfounded, I discontinued it.
Sarah Huggins examined—l am twenty-five. I went
to live with Mir. IVLenekton in October, 1842. I left my
former place (Mr. Dunn's) because it was too hard for
me. Mrs.. Miles nega;ed me for Mr. Menckton, as cook.
My wages were 101. a-year. Fanny Fronde came in
September, 1843, and left in December. Her general
habits were dirty. I.complained of this to Mr. ALucke
ton. She was not honest; she had pilfering and prying
ways. She would take wine, and anything she could
get at. I have seen her intoxicated. She did not tell
the truth always ; I have heard Mr. Monckton say so,
and knew it myself.' I know Elizabeth Briggs ; she
was never called Bessy by me, or any one in may pre-
sense, the was in the habit of coming to fee rue.
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She is a washerwoman. !r. Monckton never took
his meals with us. He would come into the kitchen
to smoke there, in order not to make a smell upstairs ;
and he has dined once or twice there when his shoes
were dirty, and he was going into the garden again.
I never sat on Mr. Monckton's knee, and never
saw any other woman do it. I never saw Ann Day on
his knee. I never had a quarrel with Mr. Monckton.
I never, when he laid his head upon the table, covered
it with my apron. He has never carried me up to bed
in his arm*. I newr recoPect water being thrown over
Fanny Frou le in the kitchen. I never shut myself up
in my room, nor did Mr. Monckton break open th , door.
Mr. Monckton never endeavoured to p,..t me on his knee
and to give me tea to drink. I never heard Mr. Monck-
ton sing " Green grow the rushes, 0," or any light
tune, on a Sunday after coming from service at the
church. He has been in my bed-roon whea I have been
ill, and my sister has been with me, and Mr. Mathew.
He never sat in my bed-room smoking and reading a
newspap-r. He never used indecent language in my
presence. I never heard him a Year. He never placed
his hand indecently .on my person—he is too much
of a gentleman ever to insult any one in that man-
ner. I never saw three women sitting in a lot at once
upon his knee. If this has been sworn, and that I was
.one of them, it is not true. I never have been on his
knee. About October, 1843, Mr. Monckton on one
occasion came out of his study, and saw Fanny Froude
intoxicatel, and desired me to take her up to bed. I
did so, alone; Mr. Mouckton did not come up; she re-
fused to take off her clothes, and I said I would not take
away the candle till she did. She would not, and lay
down with her clothes on, and she had them on when I
went into her room in the morning. I am net aware
that her clothes were wet. I am positive that Mr.
Monckton did not go up to her room at any time that
night. On Christmas-day, 1843, I invited, with Mr.
Monckton's permission, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, my
mother and father, 'my cousin, and Mrs. Briggs. Mr.
Monckton did not dine with us; he stood and carved, but
ate nothing. He might have drunk a glass of beer. Mr.
Williams asked him to carve, as he could not, on account
of his hand. Mr. Monckton was not the worse for
liquor when he went to dine with Mr. Wade. After he
was gone, Mrs. Williams sang " the Nice Young Man,"
and some of the songs are not decent to be men-
tioned. On New Year's-day the same party came
again ; they were invited by me the day after Christ-
mas-day; Mr. Monckton did not invite them. He did
not dine with us ; he had his dinner first in the study.
He never endeavoured to put any one on his knee. I
never heard of such an attempt. If he had attempted to
take Mrs. Williams on his lap, I must have seen it. She
did not go upstairs before me. Mr. Monckton never
called me " Miss Huggiesi" or "Sally." He never
rubbed my stomach When I was in bed. I sliou:d have
thought it a great insult, and would not have allowed
him to do it. I recollect Mr. and Mrs Williams had a
quarrel with me about April; I do not know what it was
about. (The witness then proceeded to deny all the
conversation dep :sed to. by Mr. and Mrs. Williams as
having taken place in the kitchen after they had spoken
to Mr. M nekton in the garden.) I never, on my so!emn
oath, have been in bed with Mr. Monckton. He has
never taken an indecent liberty with me. In September
I was confined at Gravesend of twins—seven months'
children. They died the next day.
Is Mr. Monckton the father of those children?—No
(very firmly).
Who was the father ?—I will not divulge his name to
any one.
Why not ?—I gave my solemn oath that I would not ;
and I do not think I ought to break such an oath.
I believe I was first in the family-way in April. Mr.
Mathew discovered it in July. He said he would men-
tion it to Mr. Monckton. I said nothing. I was dis-
tressed and alarmed, and that is the .reason I did not
answer. Mr. Monckton told me I must leave his house
the next day. I did in three days. I went to Mrs.
Pearson's, at Gravesend. Ito •k with me seven sove-
reigns.* It was my own money—what I had saved from
my wages. I made the baby-linen myself. I wrote to
Ann Day to request Mr. Monckton to come down to me,
as a clergyman. I was not well. This was three days before
I was confined. He did not come the first time. He was
again asked, and came. He talked to me as a clergy man,in
a spiritual way. He did not laugh or joke. He did not
smoke a cigar. I never called hint brother. After I
was confined he came again. Hu. stayed in my room
only about a quarter of an hour. He spoke seriously to
me. I returned to Mr. Monckton's on the 9th of October.
I wrote to Ann Day to ask him to take me back again,
and he said if I acted differently from what I had he
would allow me to return, and he took me back. I have
conducted myself with proprietyj since. When Lady
Galway was at Mr. Monckton s, in June, 1844, I. was
always about the house. I waited upon her at dinner. I
was never kept up in my own room.
The examination of this witness in chief having con-
cluded, the Court adjourned till to-morrow.
The Duke do Broglie was in Court during some part
of the proceedings.

so we.

THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVE
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAT.—About 200 members of
this Association dined together in the Corn Exchange of
this town yesterday evening. On the accession of Sir
Robert Peel to office the Manchester Operative Conser-
vative Association was broken up, but circumstances of a
political nature, it appears, have again called it into
existence, and this was a dinner held in celet,ration of its
re-formation. A number of influential public characters
were invited to attend, most of whom, however, sent
excuses. Amongst these were the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Right lion. Sir George Murray, the Right llon.
Stuart Wortley, M.P., Mr. John T. Blsckburne, M.P.,
Mr. W. Patten, M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., and Mr.
Peter Greenhall, M.P.
Lord J. Manners and Mr. W. B. Ferranti, M.P., were
also invited, but they declined accepting the invitation,
for the reasons expressed in the following letters from
those gentlemen, directed to the Secretary of the Asso •
ciation " London, March 11, 1845.
" Sir,—ln answer to your flattering invitation for the
25th inst., I beg leave to inform you that my engage-
ments during Easter recess would prevent me having the
honour to accept it, did I fully and heartily concur in the
objects of your proposed meeting ; but I will frankly
own to you that I feel no affection or regard for that
abstract something or nothing called Conservatism,'
and could not, therefore, even were I otherwise able, to
take a part in the festival. In these days more distinc-
tive principles and more decided acts are, in my poor
opinion, required than Conservatism affords, or is likely
to affmd. I would rather hear a body of right-principled
Englishmen, such as will be assembled on the eah inst.,
assert, for instance, their determination to maintain the
integrity of the Welsh episcopate than' the institutions
of the country,' which may mean institutions of any sort.
I knew the frank and honest character of the Manchester
men t)o well to fear that you or they will resent this
brief expression of my convictions on this subj,:ct, how-
ever they easy dissent from them.
" With a hearty wish that old Tory principles and
sympathies may once more strike a deep root into the
English soil, I remain, Sir, your ob?dJOIIN MANNERS ient servant,
"
.‘ To Mr. James English."

" Harden Grange, Feb. 14.
cannot possibly say what my engagements
will be so long beforehand, therefore cannot possibly
pledge myself; but if, as the time approaches, I find I
shall be able to estend your dinner, I will do so, on con-
dition that your dinner is intended to extend sound
principlee, and not to support a faction—to applaud poli-
tical honesty, and not to sanction political apostacy.
" The Operative Conservative Association were of
immense influence in placing the present Government in
power, and they fought under the banner of the Altar,
the Throne, and the Cottage. Sir R. Peel intends, in
the present session, to throw down the altar of our
faith, on which the throne has been erected; and ever
since his accession to office he has supported, with all
his influence, the Poor-law Csmmissioners in their deso-
lating warfare against the poor man's cottage.
" I am, Sir, faithfully yours,
"To Mr. James English. "W. 13. FERRAND."
The chair on the occasion was occupied by Mr. John
Ripley, the president of the society, who in troduced the.
following address, which, in a printed form, was circu-
lated throughout the Exchange:—
" AN ADDRESS FROM THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVE
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION, TO THE CONSERVA.
TIVES OF MANCHESTER GENERALLY.
" We think it our duty, in endeavouring to re-orga-
nise the Manchester Operative Conservative Associa-
tion,' and place it on a more useful and solid basis than
it has hitherto been, to lay before the Conservative pub-
lic generally a statement of the principles which we
uphold, and a brief outline of our determinations regard-
ing our local proceedings.
" We declare our fixed determination to maintain the
tried and ancient pribeiples on which the Constitution of
our country is founded; and while we avow our readiness
to promote the reform of all proved abuses, we declare
it to be our object to uphold the necessary connexion
between the Established Church and the State, Abe just
prerogatives of the monarch, the privileges of the House
of Lords as an independent branch of the Legislature,
and the deliberative powers of the Commons House of
Parliament unfettered and uncontrolled ; convinced, as
we are, that on the united and energetic support of those
authorities depend the continuance of social order, the
security of property, the maintenance of religion, and the
real liberties of the people.
" And wo hold ourselves pledged to use all our influ-
ence to return to Parliament, as the representatives, of
this borough, such men only as will support the principles
abovementioned.
" We have also resolved upon the determination to
exercise our best energy in carrying out-the following
objects,
1. That a Central Committee be formed, composed
of reores-ntatives from each district.
" 2. That such Central Committee shall form Branch
Cumin ttecs ie each district, which shall meet fre-
q propagate our political opinions.
sion of staunch Conservatives, containing the names of
ur,n 3t.lyThat ca+.iv-~ssinl; books be placed in the posses-
the registered voters; that they attend to the purifying
or the list, and .the result of their canvass be reported to
the Branch Committees.
" 4. That the Branch Committees report the result of
their labours to the Central Committee, and that such
be attended to in the Registration Court.
" In conclusion, we humbly exhort all classes of Con-
servatives to come forward and aid us in our undertak.
ing, and unite with us in our exertions to enhance the
cause of Conservatism in this locality, and place us in a
more formidable position, however momentary may be
the notice, in the event of both municipal and Parlia-
mentary elections.
" We have the honour to remain, on behalf of the
Committee, yours faithfully,
" JOHN RIPLEY, Chairman,
"JAMES ENGLISH, Secretary."
The toasts of " The
,Queen," " The Queen Dowager,
Privet: Albert, and the Royal Family," " The Army and
Navy," and the " Bit:hop. and Clergy
havig been.given, of the Dioce§e,"

Mr. DE HOLLINGWORTH, of Hellinsworth, rose and pro-
po led "Our glorious Constitution in Church and State."
I Having expressed his conviction that. the very object and
essence of Conservative Associations was to uphold the
Protestant religion and the institutions of the country,
the speaker proceeded to say, that he had to enter upon
a subject of an alarming character, bat which was appo-
site to the toast under contemplation, and to which he
felt bound in duty to allude. It was the c sncessions
about to be made to the Roman Catholics of Irelend by
the grant proposed to the College of Maynooth.—(Hear.)
A grant for what ? For the education of whom ? Not
for the tried supporters of Protestant ascendancy, whom
a Protestant Government was bound to support, but for
the unscriptural education of the most intolerant set of
priests of the most intolerant religion, and for the en-
dowment of a seminary for " Den's Theology"—(Cheers)
—a theology proclaiming it a s icred duty to exterminate
the rights of the Protestant religion, by confiscation of
property, exile, imprisonment, and death ! —(Hear.) It
was impossible to repress indignation and surprise at this
uncalled .for proposal, when it was evident to all that Ca-
tholic emancipation itself, as a tranquillisitig measure, ut-
terly failed. Surely it would have much better become the
servants of the House of Hanover to have proposed the sup-
pression of such an institution than to have encouraged it;
and instead of making daily concessions te expediency,
to have proclaimed, like Pitt, their determination to put
down with the strong arm of the law all further attempts
at revolutionary change.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel
might, amid the hollow cheering of the Papist, the sec-
tarian, and the revolutionist, judge otherwise of the
nation, and deem it dead to all the high ennobling feel-
ings and energies which distinguished it in the time of
Pitt, but he might live to repent his error ; he must not
think that having cast off the armour of Conservatism,
he is invulnerable in the flimsy robe of expediency.—
(Cheers.) He would tell the Right Hon. Baronet that
he had shaken the very ground from under his feet, had
miscalculated his powers, changed confidence into mis-
trust, his firmest support into 'determined ()position,
and all by. these measures of expediency.—(Chears.)
lie must say, with regard to this Maynooth concession,
that as a matter of the're policy, the measure was mis-
chievous—not merely weakening, but naturally holding
out encouragement to all revolutionists to-further their
views by clamour. Even the concessions to the Roman
Catholics, it appears, were not enough for the Minister,
but the disabilities of the Jews were to be removed. Fur
his (the speaker's) part, he did not see where the justice
of the exclusion of Mahomedans from the ermine and
the official robe lay, and why they should not take their
sr ats in the Lords and Commons, if the Jews were to be
admitted.—([Tear, hear.) He was, indeed, afraid that
the nation had so completely bent the knee to psuedo
liberality, that if the imps of darkness, emissaries from
-tip itself, stepped from the caverns through the ground,
madmen would be found to propose -th-eir admission
within the pale of a Christian coinmunity.—(Cheers.)
After a few other observations, Mr. Hollingworth con-
cluded by proposing fur their hearty receptien what the
recklessness of the Whist, and the expediency of the
Conservative Geverinnents, had yet left them—" Our
glorious Constitution in Church and State."
Mr. E. G. EGERTON (the eldest son of Lord F. Eger-
ton) then rose to propose "The health of the Duke of
Wellington and the Conservative Peers." It was, he
said, a toast which would go to the heart of every one
present. They were indebted more to " the Duke" than
to any one living. He had consecrats d his life to the
service of his country, and by his unrivalled genius she
had achieved renown as great as was ever acquired by
any nation.—(Hear.) He did not believe that there
could be any assemblage of men calling themselves
Englishmen who would not receive such a toast with
enthusiasm, and they must not forget that as Conserva-
tives they owed him a farther,' and more peculiar debt
of gratitude. He had not been content with serving his
country in the field, for he had energetically served it
and their views in the council.—(Cheers.) They must
not forget that at no period of his later years had he
;ought that repose which his unexampled services had
I deserved, but that the consummate ability which
,verthrew their enemies in the field had also been em-
ployed in the front of battle for the welfare of the Con-
servative cause and the prosperity of the land. He called
upon them with all the honours to drick " The Health
of the Duke of Wellington (as their great leader) and
his coadjutors, the Conservative Members of the House
of Peers."
The toast was drunk amid the loudest plaudits.
The toasts that followed were, "Her Majesty's Minis-
ters (received very coldly) and the Conservative Mem-
bers of the House of Commons "Lord Lyndhurst, and
the Conservative Bar;" " The Conservative Members of
the county,-" " The Committee of the Manchester Opera-
tives ;" "The Conservative members of the Town Coun-
cils of Manchester and Salford ;" " The Chairman ;"
" The Conservative gentlemen who have honoured the
meeting with their presence ;" " The Stewards ;" and
The Lancashire Witches."
The company separated about twelve o'clock.

The proceedings of the Manchester Operative Aso
ciation will not be perused by either friend or foe with-
out a degree of respectful compassion. No story of
companion betrayed or maid forsaken ever supplied a
more tragic passage. As successful treachery is the
meanest of triumphs, so abused confidence is the noblest
of calanaif es. The Conservative societies of this and
other classes reposed in the leaders of their party about
as generous and blind a trust as man can possibly repose
in man. • Their devotion only ran too far. Cautious ad-
visers suggested that there was no dependence on
princes, and that statesmen were born of women. Pious
men whispered that Conservatism was not sufficiently
exclusive in its materials, and exalted in its aims. Bat,
in spite of these warnings, country gentlemen and bo-
rough lawyers, and young enthusiasts and aged saints,
and rich men and poor men, they who had everything to
lose, and they also who had everything to gain, all sur-
rendered themselves to the generous delusion. Pro
claiming the hero of Waterloo" and the Member for
Tamworth as their tutelary heroes, they sacrificed them-
selves, body and soul, their interests and 'their prin-
ciples, to the advancement of these names. Operatives
quarrelled with their employers, employers dined with
their operatives,, public functionaries procured for them-
selves the honours of official martyrdom, quiet men em-
broiled themselves with their neighbours, tenants lost
their farms, tradesmen their custom, and Conservatives
generally their peace of mind, all to restore Sir Robert
Peel to power. They at last succeeded, only te lament
that they have not devoted their energies to some better
master, and say with Wolsey—
" 0, Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my King, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
True, nobody welt could say what Conservatism
meant, and least of all did the leader of the party hazard
his credit in that difficult question. To do the idol jus-
tice, it was very mute. It moved along on a gorgeous
car, thousands vied for one grasp of the sacred :opes,
and rent the air with their noisy worship. They shouted,
and thought it their wooden deity that had spoken; they
dragged on the ponderous chariot, and sass the image
nod ; they even perceived its broad sun-lit features beam
with responsive smiles. So, after all, Conservatism was
a very subjective sort of worship. It reasoned in the
vicious circle of all false religions, and imagined the
statesman in whom it believed. So far that states-
man is saved from the damning sin .of positive and
deliberate inconsistency. Yet if he did not expressly
countenance their expectations, so neither did he very
plainly repress them. His silence spoke consent. And
he certainly was very complaisant and encouraging.
Confessedly he did smile on Conservatism in the
lump. Most publicly and repeateily did he assure
the misguided multitude, that the battle of the
Constitution must be fought in the registration
courts. This important announcement might have
some transcendental meaning ; it may mean anything
in the abstract ; but, interpreted with regard to the
actual state of things, it could only mean that
the Constitution was to be saved by "Conservative" So-
cieties, guided by Conservative principles, getting as
large as possible a proportion of Conservative voters on
the register ;—all these things, viz., Societies, principles,
and voters being assumed in their actual present force
and acceptation. Thus was the notorious creed of Con-
servatism sanctioned by its leader. But after a long
season of hope deferred, at last the day of fruition ar
rived. And now let us see how the devout simplicity of
Conservatism has been recompensed For a rather un-
common exhibition of gratefulness, we may be excused
in selecting a rather uncommon illustration. Ilerodotus
informs us of a certain king of Egypt, who in his earlier
days had been obliged to live on his wits, and appears
in fact to have been a professional swindler. For want
of an efficient detective police, his victims went to the
numerous oracular shrines of the country, or the " wise
men," as our own rustics would call them, to discover
the thief. So well known were the merits of the indivi-
dual in question, that the inquiry seems to have been
generally snide in the definite form, " whether it
was he who had committed the depredation."
Some answered yes, and others no. When, in
the turn of affairs, he became king of the ,country,
he, of course, turned over a new leaf, and became
an honest man. Not the least proof of that
honesty was, that he immediately suppressed all the
oracles which had pronounced in his favour, and largely
endowed those which bad condemned bins. After the
lapse of three thousand year:; an equal instance of self-
denying candour has appeared. Sir Robert, the conti-
nual theme of Conservative praise and Liberal abuse, at
length arrives at a position which renders praise and
blame matters of equal unimportance. lle immediately
sets about to show that the Conservatives were mistaken
in their praise, and the Liberals up to that time justified
in their abuse. Under his candid Government the
shrines of Conservatism expire, and those of Liberalism
flourish with tenfold honour. It is but four or five years
since that the Manchester Operative Association was
one of the most favoured oracles. Conseriative gran-
dbes, Lord Stanley among others, went down to hear its
fAvourable responses, and to extend its fame. Its repu-
tation was justified by the event. • It was right ; the
Conservatives became the rulers of the land. When, to,
strangea reverse ! Immediately every prophecy, every
eulogy, is belied. The Conservative chiefs boldly ac-
knowledge the error of their former ways, and pronounce
their supporters dupes. One after another the associa-
tions break up, or prolong a difficult and inglorious
existence. In rain they implore the attendance of
their former suitors with all the tenderness of ill re-
quited love :—/Vil mild reselibas, att th.ea ipse veni.
Vain the petition; for, instead of men, they receive let-
ters; instead of presence, politeness. The penny post,
not the railway, now give wings to Censervative love.
"A number of influential public characters were invited
to attend, most of whom, however, sent excuses:" and
then follows a black list. But the oracle is not merely
shorn of itt patronage—it is forced also to curtail its
principles. A few yards of canvass are all the present
stress of weather a ill allow. It fears to pronounce
what msy by any possibility be denied, and enunciates
a creed which for ten years at least is infallible. - it is
haunted by the vision of another Sir Robert Peel, and is
determined to be on the safe side. Starting with the
cautious proviso—saving your presence—that it

note.
I have acted from a conscientious scruple, and neither
the persecution of the public vas, nor any punishment
by suipension, can alter my determination to act up to
the dictates of my conscience, which f wrbids my blas-
pheming God by reading the burial service over one who
has openly denied the creed of the Church, and to whose
friends, of the same persuasion, that servics must be a
vain repetition of words, in which they do not agree. As
regards my conduct to Haines personally, I have lavished
kindness on his family, and one of my last acts, era I
left my parish three weeks ago, to attend a bed of afiFc-
tion, was to bestow charity upon him.
I conceive, if you value the rights of conscience, as
your paper is suppowd to do, your proper line of argu-
ment would be to defend me, acting as I d.), at all risks,
upon conscientious principles, against those who would
force csmpliance with a most unreasonable demand.
I am, your obedient servant,
ARTHUR FANE, Vicar of Warminster.
Torquay, Devon, March 28, 1845.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MAucn 28.—Two of her Majesty's carriages and eight
horses arrived by the Malin;bury steamer this afternoon,
and a number of packages of wine, &c., by the Gent•
West Cowes Castle is fitting up for the Earl of Errol,
who is expacted, with his family, on Tuesday next.
Mr. Kaox has taken G►thn Hall fa- the season.
A company has been form?d at Cowes to light the
town with gas; the works are to be proceeded with im-
mediately.
The Siam Indianian, wrecked at the back of the
island, is gone to pieces. Three sloopi were laden from
her on Tuesday and on Wednesday. It surprises every
one that her masts were not cut away ; had they been,
she would haVe held together much longer, and all her
materials would have been saved. Wind W.N.W., strong.

SINGULAR CASE.—VERDICT -0131
WILFUL MURDER.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an in-
quest (adjourned from the 4th instant), at the Northum-
berland Arms, Isleworth, on the body of a female child
which was born under the following circumstances :
Thomas Whapshot deposed that he was the landlord
of the Crown beer shop, Isleworth. On the 28th of
February the body of the deceased child was taken,
about a quarter-past ten o'clock, out of the privy of wit-
ness's house by a man named Gundry. Saw no marks
of violence upon it. A person, named Anne Pendry, is
1 servant to witness. She is about thirty ye.a.s of age. Just
before the finding of the body she went to the water-
closet, where she stayed about eight or ten minutes, and
when she came out witness saw her wiping her hands as
she came up the garden. She appeared to be in a weak
state, and when witness spoke to her she answered in a
weak voice. Witness's suspicions being excited, ho went
and looked down the privy, and saw something
black; he moved it with a broom-stick, when he saw
the head of a child. He then sent immediately for Pen-
dry's mother. Had reason before to believe that Pendry
was pregnant, but she always denied it. On that morning
she had got up as usual and done all her work, and wit-
ness saw no difference in her until she had been down the
garden.
Dr. Mackinlay said, after the body of the child had
been taken from the privy, he went to see it, and on exa-
mining it found no marks of violence upon it, except
that the umbilical cord was torn off. Had since examined
the body internally. The internal organs were healthy
and natural, presenting no disease in any part. The lungs
were also. healthy, and had been inflated, but not fully.
Witness was not prepared to say from what cause the
child died. Could not form any decided opinion on the
subject.
Anne Pendry, who was present at the inquiry, having
been brought from the workhouse for that purpose, was
then questioned, after being cautioned by the Coroner,
as to her version of the circumstances, when she made
the same statement as that made by her to Dr. Mac •
kinlay. .
It also appeared that she had not made any prepara-
tion for the birth, and that it was her fourth illegitimate
child.
The CORONETL said, after the evidence of Dr. Mackin-
lay that he could not state the cause of the child's death,
it would be useless to carry the inquiry further, as no
jury would convict of murder or manAttugliter after such
medical evidence. It was even to him a question if a
charge of having cone( alid the birth cou;d be sustained.
The jury, who appeared to entertain a differeut
opinion, asked to retire to consider their verdict.
After an absence of nearly an hour and a half, the
jury returned to the inquest•roorn, and
The Foremen said, we find a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der against Anne Pendry," and we beg to record our
opinion that had the lawn iven to he mothers of such
unfortunate children a gater facilit to te pu-
tative father pay towards the support of their offspring,
such easel: as this, and many others of a similar charae
ter, would not pecan .
The Coaoteen, immediately directed Anne Pendry to
be taken into custody, which was done by police-ser-
..!:eant Plume, T 12.

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from circulation. . -