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applicable in the same manner u the English poor rate for such

repayment.

In Ireland, the case is entirely different; nothing in the na-
ture of a poor rate exista by law; and, therefore, voluntary eon-
.

sent on the part of the proprietors of land towards any contribu-
tion for the purpose of emigration, must there, as well as in Scot-
land, be indispensable. In the case of Ireland, whether such vo-

lunary contributions: were made by individuals, or by local as-

seasnients, to ,which individuals might be consentient, the prin-
ciple of voluntary content still remainsinecessary as part of the
ineaaure. Your Committee, therefore, beg to call the particular
attention of the House to the very important evidence Which they
have received with respect to the state of that country. It will

is found uniformly stited in that evidence, that the evil; of pan•

perism are. not less felt in Ireland, inconsequence of the-non

existence of a parochial fund for the support of the poor ; all the
attributes of the most unbounded pauperism are to be found
there; mendicancy, with, all its train of evils, occasional outrage,

habits of idleness, even in those for whose labour some demand
exists, and a character of destitution and winery pervading all the
lower claws of society. It is also to be observed, that in a pe.

colliery point of view an indirect burthen is imposed upon that
pert of the country where a redundant population exists. Your
Committee, therefore, trust, that the most deliberate attention of
the proprietors of land in Ireland will be called to this subject,
and that they may he induced to make voluntary contributions
for the purpose of emigration, as a relief from those burthens
which, though not legally imposed, are yet
.found practically to
press upon them from the superabundance of the pauper popu-
lation. - '

Your Committee at the same time are fully aware that neither
the parishes in England or Scotland, nor districts or proprietors
of land in Leland, will be induced to contribute for this purpose,
unless it can be demonstrably shown that theii--
,interests, both
general and pecus;ary, will be benefitted by such contribution.
Your Committee have no hesitation tin expressing the opinion,

that the general tenour of the evidence received justifies the expec-
tation that such benefit will be thereby derived.
There is, however, one special point of view, with reapect to
Ireland, to which yoUr Committee feel it necessary to call the at-
tentioilt of the House ; it ie that of a proprietor who is legally en-
titled to eject a redundant pauper population, 'Which has been sur-
reptitiously introduced into his property, but who, at the same
time that he feels that his own interest and that of his family are
materially involved in the removal of this population, shrinks from
the exercise of his undoubted legal right, from his dread of cianse
quences which must attach to them from their removal.
In such a state of circumstances, which your Committee have
reason to believe is not of unfrequent occurrence, it may be con
templated the public advantage that would be derived from enabling
such a measure on the part of an individual to be carried into
effect, to the mutual benefit of the party dispossessing and of the
party dispossessed, and the most confident expectation is enter,-
tained that a careful examination into this part, of the subject, on
the part of the Irish proprietors, will convince them that their own
interests will be consulted by a contribution towards the expence
of the emigration of such tenants.

With reference to this particular part of the tinkled, your Com-
mittee beg to advert to an Act passed in the present Sessioni
tituled, " An Act to amend the Law of Ireland respecting the As-
signment and Sub-letting of Lands and Tenements." This Ad
was specially founded upon the evidence taken before the Qint.
. _

mittees on the state of Ireland, and has met with the entire con-
currence of both Houses of Parliament. lt provides against the
recurrence of the-evil which has been described in the,preceding
paragraphs. But the House will not fail to reMark, that all the
advantages that may be derived from this Act will be diminished,
if not rendered absolutely nugatory, unless a well organized system
of Emigration should he established concurrently with the Inca-

sure itself. With respect to the disposition of the tenantry eject-
etfunder Such circumstances, your Committee have to observe
that the uniform testimony they. have received from the evidence,
from the petitions submitted to them, and from other sources of
infisrmatiou. has induced theta to believe gust the knowledge.
which is now generally disseminate, of the advantage, which the
emigranta of 1823 and 1825 have experienced, will be sufficient
to induce nut only any paupers who may be ejected under such
circumstances, but all of the mere destitute classes of the impute-
tioii in Ireland, to avail themselves with the utmost gratitude of any
facilities which may he. afforded for emigration. On this point
your Committee beg to tranerribe an extract from a letter address-
ed by Colonel Talbot, the founder of the Talbot Settlement -in
Upper Canada, to a member,of your Committee, with respect to
the emigration oflB2B.and 1825 accompanied Sir Pere-
grinelllaitland last winter on a tour, of inspection to the new Irish.
emigrant settlements, about 100 miles below York. I was anxious
to see how they were getting on, and whether the scheme of tran-
sporting the poor of Ireland to this cbtintry was likely to prove
beneficial or not, and was happy to find them doing admirably.
These people were sent out last summer, about 2,000 souls, and
did not get on their land until late, in November ; all of them that
I saw had snug log huts, and had chopped each between three and

four acres, ands I have every reason to think that they, will realize
a comfortable independence in the course of this year, and be of
no further cost to the government ; and it was satisfactory to
hear them expressing their gratitude for what was done for
them."

To revert to the subject of the repayment, by the emigrants,
of part of the expence incurred. Your Committee are fully
aware that such 'repayment could alone he made practicable under
tbe circumstance of an adequote market being found for the in-
creased productions of the colonies, arising from the cultivation
of the land by each' successive series of emigrants ; they have,
therefore; directed a very extensive examination into this portico.
lar branch of inquiry. The evidence of Mr, Uniacke upon this
subject, as connected with the Fisheries, will be found to be very
interesting and satisfactory. .•
Your ComMittee thought it of parimount importance to in-
quire Whither the result of Emigration on an extended scale, car 7
tied into effect from year to year by fresh importations of emi..
grants, would not involve a material diminution of the expence iry
curred in each successive year, with reference to the numbers
emigrating; and whether, in point of fact, a well organized sys-
tem of emigration once established, would not carry itself on
without extraneous assistance, or at least with assistance reduced
trze very small amount, as compared with its original amount.
Their inquiries, therefore, have been especially directed to this
point; and it will he found that the general tenor of the evi-
dence is in favour of the probability of a material diminution of
expence in each successive year.,
Your Committee being fully aware that one popular objection
which is continually offered to any system of Emigration on an
extended scale,. is the argument,, that the benefit would be only
temporary, and that the temporery vacuum would; be rapidly
filled up, felt it necessary to direct their inquiries
,to the consi-
deration of such collateral measures, both of a legislative and of
a practi4i nature, as might he calculated to repress, if not to
preveot, that tendency; they have therefore pursued their in-
quiries very extensively, and have been fortunate enough to col-
lect very
valuable evidence on this branch of the subject..
Your Committee were also ewers that a popular objection ex-
ists to Emigration on the ground, that the numbers.to he taken
away for the purpose of producing any benefit, must be necessarily
so gres— t as to preytnt: the possibility of any practical measure suf-
ficient for the purpose. Your Committee therefore, (without ex-
pressing any opinion whatever on this point) hrive 'directed their
inquiries to this investigation, as comprising an' element of pri-
mary importance in the eptisideration,of Emigration as o national
measure. .
This part of the subject may be illiistrated by the following
hy-
pothetical statement. If a district he admitted to' requite only
!stunners for its adequate cultivation, and if a thou.
nineharm:tf:lnd to exist there, who are_ all more or leas' employed,
aft is evident, whether the ease he supposed to happen in &gland
or in Ireland, that the fund fir the remuneration of labour in
that district is divided among a thousand inlsatheoaldiroefrsnwine
theuntliodvree,cld
the consequence. MAY
.and Prob4l4 will be, thatuat the
whole receive eopleesrsatttloiann
tiwieOsuulpdpibie
fadiaegbou r
be
otippors them, and that they inity at/ present an appearance of
4ant and destitution ; but if one hundred
ParriPlyrrtiise9n,edantdo the
creoarild'ilti;inniiloldeththeerewmlietstinogf niaihnenhruwodilitrdiete,'",'a:
be materially improve+ , and what is of more importanCe!the ai
hint work executed by those nine hundred labourers, in their im-
proved cnnilitioii
,mat and will be equal, if not superior, to that
which WAS execnteti hy the whole one thousand in their state el
comparatively unremunerated service. - In 'MinOration of thin
subject, reference aim) may be niaae to Report, rutied in

Isq4, of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
practice which prevails in.some parts Of" the ContaftVilt ming
theivages of labour out of the poor-rates,
Your Committee 'observed in the Repints of the Committees
thwasthe
f evilsiej xe relief
expressed
incidentcasi to
tot
to the
n t
h extension,able-bodied
o o
a.%u.ns paupers,lyi es.
en nie
appointed, u ISll'and•lBl9,..to consider. the Poor Laws, that
ther
aawcaiuircalln.igmaw:telnoih ofofnunder
dat:eY, re
been considered to atise ; and they thought it would be expedient
to inquire in that manner, and to what degree, a well organized
system of Emigration from England would facilitate the appro-
priation of the poor-rates according to their original application,
as contended for by those Committees ; and how far it might be
found practicable to mortgage the poor-rates for the purpose of
relieving the perishes from their superabundant population. They
have therefore made particular inquiries on these points : and here
they have again to revert to the valuable evidence of Mi. Hodges.
who has shown that voluntary efforts have already been made for
this special purpose; that within his knowledge, pal hales, have
furnished money from the poor-rates for the purpose of facilitat-
ing Emigration ; and that the emigrants, availing themselves of
those facilities, had proceeded to the United States of America.
Your Committee presume that it would be unnecessary to argue in
favour of any determination of Emigrants to our own colonies,
provided it can be shown that the expence necessary to he incur-
red will not be tai great as that which is necessity in their re •
moral to the United States.
An application *was made to yuur Committee by the Colom-
bian Agricultural Association, with reference to the subject of re-
ceiving Emigrants on the lands located to them in Colombia ; and
your Committee beg to refer to the evidence of Sir Robert
•
Wil-
son upon this point.
Your Committee beg also to inform the House, that during the
,okitee of their investigation, they received an application from
Mr. Chambers; a Police Magistrate, requesting to be examined
upon the subject cif -that numerous class of persons in the Metro-
polis, chiefly under age, whit, being thrown upon the streets in
perfect destitution, soon resort to crimes for their support. A
class so numerous, and whose-vase is on lamentable, deserves the
attention of Parliament as one of those special eases which Must
be either left to the benevolence' of charitable- institutions, or of
Parliament, to supply those funds for the'first period of Emigra-
tion, which (as already explained) the Committee are disposed to
recommend, should be furnished by the individirals specially hene-
fitted by the removal of the Emigrants.
They would also beg to refer to the evidence of Mr. Bodkin,
the Secretary of the Alendicity Society, upon this subject.
It will he observed, front the examination of the evidence, that
in the event Of any general measure of Emigration being carried
into effect, it has been suggested to the. Committee, that awed
legislative measures might, under. certain modifications, be intro-
duced as auxiliaries to the'object ; such, for example, as to en-
able parishes in England to mortgage their poor-rates, for the par-
pose of forming a fund for the emigration of their poor; to ett-
able tenants for life in Ireland and Scotland to charge their estates
for that object ; to enable parishes in Ireland and Scotland to ef-
fect a similar charge, subject to the consent of some definite pro-
portion of the contributors; to provide some means for regulating
the erection of cottages in those agricultural parishes where rates
may be mortgaged for the purposes of emigration ; to establish
a Board of Emigration, with protectors of emigrants ; to hold a
lien on the lands allotted to the emigrants as a security until the
original debt be liquidated, such lien to he in the nature of a land
tax redeemable at any time at a certain rate of redemption ; to
legalise apprenticeships, in no case to exceed seven years, (hiring
which one-fourth of the wages received by the apprentice should
be set apart by the master in liquidation of the expence incurred
in the transport of the emigrant, such apprenticeships only to
continue until that expence shall have been liquidated, and atter
that period the apprentice to he entirely free.
Your Committee beg finally to express their decided conviction,
that the circulation of their Report, and of th,Minutes of Evi-
dence, throughout the United Kingdom and Tie Colonies, will
enable any future Committee to resume the subject with the means
of proposing measures sufficiently definitd to justify their recom-
mendation of them to the House for its adoption. . •

COUNTRY CORN•MARKETS

DIMINO LAST WEEK.

I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
per Quarter. a. to a. a. to I. s. to a. a. to a. a. to a.
Andover _ . 52 36 29 30 22 30 48 52 52
Bath 54 60 30 36 28 34 56 60
Boston 46 53 30 34 23 29 46 48
Bridgewater 63 68 33 22 40
Bristol.— 54 68 38 42 26 30 52 56
Carlisle 6l 40 35
Colchester—,.— 50 66 28 30 2$ 30 38 40 88 47
Daventry • 56 60 36 42 26 3! 48 .56 41
Doncaster , 56 .60 27 35 24 • 3-2 44 4$ 43 47
Gloucester.-- 56 69 96 40 is 36 54 62
All 12 $3. 49 28 36
- 41.1 '33 96 49 43 38 49
Leiceitter 6O OS .1 . • Vit :40 3,5 30 54
Lincoln .24 59 26 28 50 --
Loughborough—, 6ti 38— 4a 51 --
Louth 50 56 30 3.5 22 26 12 47
48 58 21 16 29 27 49 44 —..
Mai-ketliarboro,— 59 61 38 40 90 RS 51 54
Ntorpeth 20 . 33 35 28 29 97 40
Newcastle.* 5O 58 24 32 27 RI IS 46
3allabury 411'St t(311
37 ‘4,7. g -51 -54.
Sandwich 56 63 30 33 27 30 40 46 46 MI
Sheffield 54 69 27 34 24 30 44 50 49 49
Sltepion Mallet 56 60 37 41 29 32 59 39
Sunderland...* 38 4tl
Taunton —. 36 64 40 40 28 32 36 60
I.lppingliam 53 59 36 40 30 34 50 54 --
Uihridge ---... 60 '72 30 35 -29 34 48 54
Wakefield— 44 62 29 35 21 30 45 • 51 .
Wantage 45 61 32 36 31 37 43 57
Winchester --... 156 37
Yarn-4)llth—* 52 58 21 28 20 24 39 40 36 58
Yeovil 52 60 34 36 26 31 56 60
York 56 62 32 34 22 30 40 52
Per Bushel. R. d. S. (t. 4. d. s. d. s. tt. s. d. s. d. a. d. a. d. s, d.
Binniughlun—.— 7-I A 4 80 60 40 46 74 84. 00 00
Bochum ~—.....—.—. 00 • 00 00 otl 00 00 00 00 00
Buckingham*. 76 90 50 6to 40 46 60 66 116 78
Cheltenham....... 80. 0 50 00 40 00 70 '8 0 00 00
Coventry 78 8.0 46 54 46 59 66 74 40. 0 0
Herelbrd 10 0 110 70 80 0l) 40 80 10 0 80 $lO
Newcastle (staff) 10 0 10 4 00' 00 56 59 $0 86 00` 00
Northallerton —.... 7 0 A 0 36 • 7 0 3 6 4 0 6 6 7 0 CVO 0 0
60 00 0 0 0 00 00 00. 00 00 0
.Petirith . 00 *B2 0(I 46 46 (30 0.0 00 08) 0,0
Shrewsbury 80 9 70 o 66 A 6 00 00, 9 0 00
Stafford 94 • 9 00 0 0 5 6 39 9 0 1(0 00 ofl
Warwick 76 ,8 0 4 6 59 46 3 3 6 8 '7 2 6 0 00
Worcester 76 7 9 4 0 5 0 4 0 4 6 6 8 76100 12 0
Per 8011.
Barnaoteastle—.— 12 6 17 0 9 0 10 3 8 0 9 6 11.0 13 1 11.0 16 0
Darlington —l3 (1 16 08 6 00 7 0 8419 0 14 9 6 16 6
Durham... l2O 16(1 90
.103 60 7610 0 12 010 0 Ito
Stanhope 130 140 00' 100 7.0 00 00 00 00 00
Stockton,— 13 3 14 30 0 0 7 0 00(1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolsingham ,14 0 16 610 0 00 7 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0

The aharks are very numerous outside this harbour,
attracted, it is supposed, by the shoals of pilchards.---
On Saturday a man belonging to one of the trawlers,
while fishing for congers, drew tip a fish of this spe-
cies which weighed nearly 701 b., and was destroyed
with some difficulty, the fierce tyrant having, in his
struggle, bit his band severely.—An officer in . the
navy also caught a shark, about 40Ib. weight, with a
hook and line last week ; and several others have been
taken. Experienced fishermen, universally respect the
courage of the shark, by attacking him while over the
gun-whale ; for if taken alive on board, though out of
his own element, he attacks every thing in his way
with the ferocity of a bull-dog.-----Plymouth Journal.

Lord Palmerston, it is believed -in the City, has
burnt his lingers severely by meddling with. Joint Stock
schemes. In the Cornwall and Devon Mining
alone he beame sercurritle
tyltro the amount. of 107006016,-
with eight of his brother
amounttained ofat
ivsioeossOr/s..
Directors. `Choy got the
oPnertrhienir'll°tebtf°: :iniart:naosit:lev.i'ilsr
.71,:flis9iltrirdrotlstcriyieielgtioositsoclalaesrl at Messrs.ga' Ka y and Co. s. Some
I°,orkleier abroad.must, therefore, to tin the Phrase
The others (of, whom
a(l)lfeYstiafir)e's.k(°tuuliti—thilereisfoLre°ardhsie'll'iPv'y is also,
1111a:tee"
Welsh Iron Company, in .the Norfolk and Stifrolk
Railway ditto, in the Welsh Slate ditto, and in the,
Cornwall aslolmatelddDayesviomn:lining Schetne..—.Morn. Pal"'P
Extract of a letter, dated Hague, August IS.;—
circulation
revrting, tlci!opnitt:aagsttioniti,reldwisrtowsrahleoirsheamvbseeiefeetintol
prevail in Groningen, it is said that fevers. have
engaged go
twaiglic'e t-ttlirie:i:u'aainrigiv:llos!rti'hubriarealnelyka hiasolilll';',,sn,!: andtelir'tBvli:hyi arecii ; attributed
to
tioodl of 1824, has spoiled the springs. If the ec
coUnts we have received are correct, 270 persons have
been carried °Why these fevetr.aci.._s;(tt:virioeamitlicaitlietinect,oi7itlltttrioibstus.itatuidtl(y;
itio the n
sa
lr
e7atohy oat:liAwitigedusatil
mle'aliseu
check the disorder. " . '

ASSIZE INTtLLIGENCE.

LANCASTER,FRIDAT, Aua. 18.

The trial of Wakefield is Raid to be fixed for
Monday morning.

The prisoners, Alexander APKeand, or Keand, and
Michael Weald, were put to the bar, charged with the
wilful murder of Elizabeth Bates, at 'Winton near Man-
chester, on the 22d of May. Michael was 1:14o charged
with abetting, aiding, and assisting. The elder prisoner is
a middle-sized man, about 30, and with an habitual expres-
sion of countenance bordering on a Mile. Michael
M`Keend is of low stature, about 2i years old, and has a
gravity 'of countenance bordering on doggedness. Both
were dressed in blue coats and black cravats, and had the
ordinary appearance of decent journeymen tradesmen.
The Jury having been called over, Mr. Jones requested
that no persons from Manchester or its neighbourhood
should be sworn upon the Jury. Two gentlemen were
set aside, and the Jury having been sworn, and the pri-
soners arraigned, they severally pleaded " Not Guilty.
Mr. COURTENAY opened the indictment, and Mr. Ser-
pent CROSS stated-the case to the Jury as it was detailed
in the following evidence

Martha Bleary, examined by Mr. COURT/NAN—I am the wife
of Joseph Bleare, a publican, residing at Winton, near Man-
chester; I remember that, about five or six in the evening of the
22d of May, that man (pointing to Michael MiKeend) came to
our house, end asked for a glass of beer; he was alone ; I had no
conversation with him • in about half an hour the other man,
Alexander, came in ; 1. had known him near twelve months ;
had never seen Michael before; Alexander sold tea, and stockings,
and other things, and was in the habit of calling in his travelling
rounds ; when Alexander came in they did not seem to take any
notice of each other for some time ; Alexander naked for a glass of
ale and some hr .ad and (+eerie, and I brought it; Michael said he
would thank me to bring him a knife, and he would take tome
bread and cheese along with the otter gentleman, meaning Alex-
ander ; I supplied both with metre drink ; I went in and out of
the room several times, it vra..-, the bar; they did not appear to know
each other for some time ; there was a sofa in the bar ; I had an oppor-
tunity of looking into tlie bar when they did nage* me, andhaw them
repeatedly whispering ; they were both on chairs at this tune;
Alexander asked me if my husband was at home? I told him he
was gone to Manchester ; they had then been above an hour in
house ; he staked how lung my husband would be away ? I said
J could not tell, hut I hoped he would come back as soon as pos-
sible; I asked him if he wanted him for any thing particular that
I could ?he said he only wanted to treat him with a glass of
whisky I my husband came home in the boat about eight o'clock ;
Alexander shouted to him to come into the bar; he went in and
vat down with them ; Alexander called for two half noggins of
whisky for each ; one half a noggin is a wine glass fill. My hus-
band did not leave the room for many minutes that night; but he
did leave it for a short time. When he was going out, Alexander
said he should partake of another glass. They were served with
two more noggins of whisky; while the others were drinking
whisky Michael had two glance of whit', and one bottle of cider.
:Between nine and ten, I saw my husband lie on the sofa,
seemingly very ill, intoxicated, and I saw Alexander pour ,
sonic liquor into his mouth. This roused my husband, and he
asked me for a glass of water. The pouring the liquor into
his mouth made him dead very near—he had no sense. He cough-
ed, and after he drank the water ho fell asleep again. I went and
sat in the kitchen. I looked into the bar and observed the two
prisoners whispering very close together. I still continued in the
kitchen; Michael asked me if I could let them atop all night, and
I said if they could make shift with what I had, they were wel-
come ; when he first asked for a bed, I said we did not take in
lodgers; this conversation was before dark. About ten o'clock,
Michael said I must let them have a bed, as they had a good deal
of money on them, and did not like to walk to Manchester at
night ; I then said, if they could make shift, they were welcome ;
about a quarter of an hour before they went up stairs, both went
out, and remained out about a quarter of an hour ; Michael asked
me if my /unhand went to bed when he was drunk ? and I said
sometimes he did, and sometimes lie did not. Michael asked me
if I stopped along with hiM ? and I Raid sometimes I did, and
AnMetimes I did not. He then asked if their bed was ready, and
I told them it was. My family consisted of myself and my hus-
band, a female servent (Betty Bates) and 'a boy. I told Betty
Bate* to take a candle and show them the bed they were to go
to : it was a doubleAcrlded room, over the kitchen. The boy,
William Higgins, who is between 14 and lti, slept in that room,
in the other bed. The boy had gone to bed about nine o'clock.
It wax after II when I told the maid to light the prisoners to bed.
I saw her bring the candle, to light the men up stairs ; and the
prisoners left the her, Alexander going first. I don't believe the
prisoner Michael ever went up stairs. [Here the witness appear-
ed hint, and took her bonnet off; she had dreadful marks of
wounds across the forehead, and under the left eye.] About two
minutes after, heard Betty make a dismel Alike (cry) ; I was sit-
ting in the bar, where my husband was asleep; on hearing this,
I took up the candle, and wasgoing out of the bar to run up stairs;
I had not got one foot out of the bar into the lobby before Michael
breasted me up.
Mr. *Tortes submitted that this evidence might apply to another
transaction,but could not he taken here.

Mr. Justice Pa is ill one transaction ; it would he
wicked injustice to make it 'otherwise. 't he prisoners are &t rod
connected arid acting together.

Examination coniimi;d.--Ife put his hand against my breast ;
he had something in his band which he stuck in my neck ; he
anigged (dragged) me upon my knees at the tap-roOm shed door
(opposite the bar) ; he Clapped his hand on my throat, and gave
me this wound in the forehead.—(Here witness showed a deep
wound °miler nose.)—He then jobbed the knife under my eye,
and it stuck there; he then went out at the bajk-door, leaving
me with a knife fast in my eye, and bleeding very much. The
prisoner tried to get the knife nut, and, in doing so, pulled the
handle off. I heard it drop on the floor. I remained still until
I heard the back-door Open. While he was with me he held me
by the throat, so that I could not cry out. When I rose front
my knees I heard a whistle at the hack-door; I ran to the cot-
tage of Richard Andrews, who lived near, and' who is married
to my niece, and gave the idarni. 'The boy William Higgins
came running to me in the garden, in his shirt. I was carried
home.

Crow-examined by Mr. D. F. ,Jotim..-:4 had not known
Michael before. The prisoners did not at first seem to know'
milt other, until after my husband came home, and then I !bunt,
out that they knew each other. Two. persons, one Jones, from
poles, and Thomas Partington, were In the house a part of the
time prisoners were there; it was about ton o'clock. A roan
named Nelson hail been also there, drinking ; I did not perceive
that Michael ever went up stairs at all ; and I never sew Alexander
down stairs after the time he went up with the girl. When I
heard the,ery I was coming out ; Michael was reared up against
my bar-door; the girl wart a maid-servant, and not a woman of
any property; she had ;is; a-week ; she was about 41 years of
age; the man who lives near me is named Thomas Valentine;
he has nobody in the house but his wife. There are only two
cottages near mine; when Michael first came in, there was
niihody in the house bait myself.
Re-examined—There were no other guests in the house at the
time the prisoners were going to bed ; I locked the doors, and sin
sure there Was nobody else in the house when they went from the
bar to go to bed ; I lost sight of them both, and can't say, of my
own knowlidge, where they went ; nobody told them that the boy
teas sleeping up stairs..
By Mr. D. F. loNts—The hoy had been shout in the evening,
and they ought have seen him.
By the Couscr—The back door was only latched ; the front
door was locked ; a dub was held hi the house, are there was
some money of theirs in the house: the other men, who had been
drinking, went away of their own accord.
Mr. n. 11. Jouste—Pray, my I.ord, estk the witness if the
landlord turned them out ?
Mr, Justice pw—The queition is very ridiculous, but I'll
put it.
p, joyes—l am sorry to hear your Lordship say so;
I wish to have it put.
Mr. Justice PASS—Wm your husband asleep St ten o'clock?
—Witness—He was, my Lord.
Mr. Justice PARE—Then he did not turn the people out?...
Re did not, my Lord.
Joseph Wears, examined by Sergeant Canss.—l am the land.
lord of the public-house at Winton; I had known the person of
Alexander hi'Keand for thirteen or fourteen months beforethe
day in question ; be called at my house about every three weeks,
on a Friday; I came home sober on the Monday evening I 1:ot
the two prisoners in the bar ; tvhen I went in, Alexander asked
me if I would go into the bar, and take a glass of something with
him ; I refitsed at first, but he pressed me so much, that lieforatii!
took eay,thing to eat, I went in and had a glass of whisky n
water ; I then went tri get something to eat, leaving my glass on
the table ; I was absent from five to ten minutes, and returned,
taking the same seat I had before. I thought my glass was
stronger, ,tlian usual, and asked for some more water. I had two
glasses, which my mistress but whether they pit any more
in I can't say. After I haul been in their company some time I
fell asleep on the sofa.' I don't recollect a glints being put to my
lips. A friendly society met at my house j • they kept their strong
box there; that is generally 'known. We hall had a public dinner,

of at; Orange Society, at our house on the previous Saturday. I
received from 201. to 251. on that day. The strong-box generally
contained 301. I cannot tell the art:taunt in the Orange So-
ciety's box, After being asleep some time, I was intoxicated
and confused, and Aid not know what I was doing. .1
had
never felt so from a similar quantity to what I thought I had
taken before; I bad 'often drank tour or five noggins of whisky
without being intoxicated ; I was awakened by a striking against
the bar-Wall of the passage, and the lungs falUhg down inside the
bar; who made the noise I don't know ; I got up, and the first
thing I saw was my wife all over blood ; it was getting day-light
then; it was one o'clock, or rather turned of one ; in consequence
of what I was told, I went in pursuit of those men; I went as far
as Warrington, which is about 13 miles, but did not find them : I
saw my wife bloody, and kneist the maid was wounded, before I
went in pursuit; I bad sold a canary-bird and cage to Alexander
on the Whitsun-week twelve months. In a week after what hap-
pened, I went before Sir P. Musgrave, at Appleby, and saw both
prisoners there; I recognized them immediately; I had no doubt
of their.being the men; Michael hung his head as soon as he saw
me; Alexander did not seem so much dauntei they had gotten
their whiskers shaved off, and their ".oat-sleeves appeared to have
been washed from above the sleeves ; they wore blue coats, as they
do now, and' Michael 'had the same striped waistcoat on that he
hap at present.

Cross-examined by Mr. D. F. Jortzs.-1 had had a gill of
porter at Manchester, and 4 share of a tankard of porter between
three at the bout-house, and two glasses of whisky and water, as
I thought. All this would not make me tipsy. Other men came
into my house that evening, but, to my knowledge, I had not any
dispute with any of them about more drink, or about turning
them out. Some of the men are here. If I turned them out, I
don't recollect. 1 went to Appleby, knowing that two men were
in custody upon this charge. Some men belonging to the code.
ties came from so far as Manchester ; prisoners did not belong to
the clubs; the money in the boxes was only known to me and to
the clubs ; the boxes were kept in my bed room ; neither of the
boxes were kept in the bar; prisoners had not been in my room
that I know of.

Mr. Sergeant Caoss—When you was asleep on the sofa, could
you prevent them from going into your room?
Mr. Justice PARK—That is a question very like Mr. Jones's.
Mr. Sergeant Caoss—My lord, that is the reasop I put it.
Mr. D. F. JorassMy Lord, I have a very anxious duty to
discharge. lam anxious to discharge it to the best of my ability.
To witness by the Count—We had no talk shout the Orange
societies ; there was a paper on the chimney piece, which Alex-
ander took down, observing, that the admission to the Orange
Societies was Ins. 6d. The friendly society was what is called a
Female Sick Club.

Thomas Parkington, examined by Mr. CouItTENAY.---I was in
Bleant's public-house about ludf-past eight, on the 22d of May ;
I stopped about an hour ; I sat in the tap-room, opposite the
bar; I saw the two prisoners sitting in the bar, on the sofa with
the landlord ; I had seen Alexander before at Blears', in the bar;
I remember Blears coining from the bar to the kitchen, and then I
saw Alexander pour something from his glass into Blears's ; he
then poured something from a jug, 'into his own glass; it was
about a pint jug; it was pale, like water.
Mr. Justice PARK.—Whisky is pale, is it not? for I don't
know, I am mire.

Examination continued.--The prisoners then turned and whis-
pered together.
Cross-examined by Mr. D. F. Jorms.—l don't know if Blears
left his glass empty. Landlord and prisoners were alone in the
liar, and myself and four others sat in the tap-room. I went
away about nine, and left in the house all I found there. There
was no dispute with the landlord. Robert Wilson, Jesse Jones,
and one John Blears, were in the room when I left.

By the Count.--. 11 could not see the bar from the tap-room,
hut I went into the bar for a pipe.
Robert Wilson, examined by Mr. Sergeant Caoss.—l went to
Bleats' house about half-past eight, and remained there until near
l I on the night in question ; Jesse Jones and Thotnas Parkington
went with me. Parkington went away, and Jones and I went
into the bar, where we remained about an hour ; Joseph Blears
and these two men were there; I sat at the left hand side of Mi-
chael for an hour ; the landlord was awake at first ; I saw them
drinking ; I saw Alexander pour his glass of whisky into Blears's,
white Blears was looking another way ; he filled his own glass
with water, and as soon as be had done it, he said, come Blears,
yon must drink op, and he drank off his own at the same 'time.
Michael Iliggins, a flue little lad, examined.-1 am 14 years.,
old ; I lived with Joseph Meats at the period in Epteetion 1 went
to sleep in the dnoble-bedded room about 'nine o'clock ; I had
been in bed about three hours, when I was awakened by noise; I
saw a man, Alexander M'Keand, whom I had known before, with
his left band round Betty Bate.s's neck, and doing something that
.
I could not see; he appeared to be making his nonsense with her;
there was a lighted candle in the window, which is between the
two beds; I saw the man and the woman struggling at
,the end
of the drawers, which are at the foot of my bed ; my bed had no
curtains; I was then lying down in my bed; she kept saying,
" Give over, and be quiet," and then I saw the blood gushing
down from her throat ; this was after I had seen the prisoner's
left arm round her neck ; his right arm was somehoW across the
woman's neck ; he flung her down upon the neer, and she scream-
ed not " murder !" I saw them struggling very hard upon the
floor, and then the woman got up and caught hold of his legs, and
said, "I'll Mark thee, man." Ile flung her down a second time,
and did something more at her, but what it was I could not see,
it was at the side of her neck. • He left her then, and came to
me ; I had not sat up before he came to me, nor do I know how
he saw me ; when he came to me I rose up, and he put,hie lett
hand on my mouth, and thrust me down again ; his hand left
blood upon my fare; the woman at this time got up, and
was going out of the room, and he catched her at the door I
saw him struggling with her at the door place; they stood upon
their feet. I got out of bed and rushed past behind the woman ;
he made a grasp at me, and marked my shirt with his bloody
hand, but he dui not keep hold of me ; I jumped over the banister
and escaped. When I passed them he (Alexander) followed me
dten stairs ; I ran out through the back kitchen, and out at the
back door ; I ran round the hack of the house to the front, and
he followed me to the :railing in front of the house ; I ran down
by the railing and through a style, and back along a hedge and a
ditch, where I concealed myself. I lost sight of Alexander and
the other when I got to the rails ; they were running towards me
at the time; I only got a glimpse of the prisoners' heads as I
passed the bar going to bed; I knew Alexander before; he had
bought a canary bird and rage on the last Whitsuntide but one;
I haul seen him there on one or two Occasions before this ; when
he was struggling with the woman, anti when he came to me, I
could see plainly he was the man who had bought the canary bird.
Cross-examined by Mr. I). F. Jatres-1 had not seen Alexan-
der for about three months before; I had only r< glimpse of the
prisoners as I was passing the bar on the night in question. I was
much alarmed. I only saw one man in the room. It was moon-
light when 1 got out of the house.
Re-examined—The candle remained in the window, and the
light was on his faCe as he came up to my bed ; that gave me an
opportunity of seeing his face, and knowing him.
By the Con wr—There was a good deal of blood at the foot of
my bed, and in the club-room. I remained in the ditch about two
minutes. I then saw my mistress running past, towards An-
drews's, arid I went to her.

Mary Andrews teas called up by Mrs. Blears on the night in
question. She went into Blears's hones with a person named
Button. She found a quantity of blood in the double-bedded
room, and they traced it to the club •room, and there they found
Elizabeth Bates lying bathed in blood, about a yard within the
room ; she was quite dead. A black stock was found in the double-
bedded room. She found a yellow stick under the squab (sofa)
in the bar, and gave it to Britton, the constable.—(Here wit-
ness described the situation of her aunt. She had a knife stuck
under her eye, and it was without a handle. I .
William Britton, a constable, was sent for on the night in ques-
tion. He corroborated last witness as to the state of the rooms,
the finding the body, &c. He produced a black leather stock found
in the double-bedded room ; there was blood upon it ; a yellow stick
which he received from last witness, and also the knife taken from
Mrs. Blears's' lace ; it was what iti in the country called a bread
whittle ; it was abotsthine inches long, and had a sharp point; it
was stuck half way into her head. (Witness produced a hank-
kerchief picked up in a field near the house. The production of
these articles caused a strong sensation in court, but the prisoners
appeared wholly unmoved.)
Mr. and Mrs.' Blears re-called.—Said 'they never had any such
f4ternanor Awo had
knife as that produced in their possession.
f4itri on Williamson found the handkerchief produced in a field
Abehind
amßlears's house ; the hedge near where it was found appeared
51
,v;anidnitikte"li;sttltlittotor,
gone through it from the public-houoe side—
..r. . were., traced four yards from the gap.
William Hancock: 1 ,ii.,:arvgcethoirTteekliel*att'invitida,
wittiesa
and I lodged ;vitintow constable
eltaste,
Britton.trskesracidh,iefl
knowfrotn ltuk
et
prisoners at the bar
I have known Alexander twelve housekeeper,'
him about a mouth or six weeks.
Michael two years; he was, a
place, Parliament-street, man(Lmonths ; I lodged at Byrom-
house at first, but became tlitesatxtiv.iuiterbtaor.tii aatul
Alexander lodged in .the
there till the 22d of May. continued to badge
day. I rated with them at Air. iloadmant, fiveg
I bol'iceit on,
tSal-
ford, which is about three and a half miles from 131ex-ren'rehouse.
They went towards Pendleton, which is in the direction of Blears's

house. They both wore blue coats ; Alexander had black, and
Michael dark trowsers ; they wore the waistcoats they have on
now. Alexander wore a black stock, such as that produced, on
that day ; and the stick produced was used by him as a walking
stick.—(The handkerchiefs produced).—Michael had such a
handkerchief on that day. Michael bad his beard grown all round
under his chin upon that occasion.'
'the ConaT—The prisoners had their whiskers trimmed small.
Cross-examined.—The general description of their dress was
the same as at present. There appeared no disguise in their dress.
Stocks, such as that produced, were sold in the shops in Man-
chestei,

Re-examined.--Prisoners never returned after that day.
Richard Farraday, a very powerful-looking young man, living
at Kirby Stephen, examined.—ln consequence of a hand-bill I
had seen, I went in search of the prisoners; I overtook and passed
them at Kitling, three miles from Appleby. I went to the public•
home, and got assistance; and when Alexander came up, I asked
him to take a glass of ale, which he accepted ; I then told him he
was my prisoner, and gave him into custody ; I was going to take
the other, when Ale/under was making his escape, and I seized
him by the arm, and gave him to the two man ; Michael was then
coming up to strike me, when I seized him and secured him.—
Before the Magistrates, Alexander gave his name Matthew Kirk,
and the other gave his name Carte. I looked at Alexander's hand,
and found the marks on it answering the description in the
hand -bill,

Cross-examined.—He asked what he was taken for, and wit-
ness refused to tell him at first, but he told them both after he
had got them into custody.
Mr. Garthside,, surgeon, deposed that the death of the de-
ceased had been caused by the wound in the throat.
Mr. Hancock was re-examined relative to the knives.
Sarah Stewart was called on her recognisance, but did not
appear.

- Lavender deposed to several knives being in Mrs. Stewart's
shop, corresponding exactly with that produced. He had offered
the prisoners the pecuniary means of defending themselves, which
they accepted a few days ago.
Alexander M'Keand being called on for his defence, protested
his innocence ; he had treated Blears, and they had both got very
tipsy ; Blears struck him several times, saying, he could beat
three such men as he, after which he could give no account of
any thing that had happened.
Michael M'Keand said, that on the day of the murder, his bro-
ther, whom he had not seen for a week, asked him to assist him
in getting in some debts due to him in the neighbourhood. He
sent him forward to Blear's house, telling him to have a glass of
ale, and wait his coming. The prisoner then described their all
drinking together, and his brother's getting very tipsy, and quar-
relling with the landlord ; he could give no further account; but
his life hung upon a thread, and be called upon that God before
whom perhaps he was shortly to appear, to witness his innocence
of having committed the murder, or of ever having been aiding
in such a crime. With this solemn appeal to the Almighty, he
should leave his case to God, his Lordship, and to the Jury. They
had no witnesses to produce, as they had not had the means of
procuring their attendance.

The prisoner's manner was clear and collected, and he spoke
with apparent sincerity.
The Jury being about to retire, Michael M'Keand again addressed
t},em, repeating his former defence, and adding, that he had re-
peatedly slept where large sums of money were kept, without in-
curring suspicion. Had he had means of procuring evidence, he
could prove that he had not been intoxicated but twice since he
left home, a period of six years. He begged the jury not to be
prejudiced by the false statements that had appeared in newspapers.
Mr. Justice PARK said, that he was ignorant of any thing that
had appeared upon the subject in newspapers; he was sure the
Jury would decide the case strictly upon the evidence.
Verdict—both the prisoners Guilty.
_ _ .

Mr. Justice PAIX 'then pronounced the awful sentence of the
law, and ordered them for execution on Monday next, and their
bodies to be dissected.

Michael M'Keand then appealed solemnly to God, that he had
never committed or contemplated the murder. What his brother
might have done he could not say. The prisoners were then
removed from the Court.

Patrick Muffins, a little boy, aged eleven, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Anne Bylam, aged eight, by striking her with a
poker, and beating her bead against the wall, on the 22d of May
last. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased, with a child of
eighteen months old upon her knee, was looking at the prisoner
playing skittles with another little hoy. The prisoner struck the
infant for knocking down a skittle, and upon the deeeased re-
' prosehiug him for it, he pursued her into the house, and seising a
knife, said, " You cursed Orange—, you shall die by this
knife." He then pursued her up stairs, where they were seen
struggling for the poker, with which' he at last struck her on the
back, and ran away. In a quarter-of an hour he was again seen
in the house, beating the child's head with the poker, and knock-
ing it against the wall.
The House Surgeon of the Manchester Hospital deposed, that
he received the deceased on a Thursday, and she died the follow-
ing day ; she had died from inflammation of the spine, occasioned
by such a blow as a poker might inflict. There was also a wound
of the scalp.
The prisoner urged in his defence, that' he was not eleven years
of age, and the deceased had pet out her tongue at him.—Verdict,
Manslaughter.
The boy's father was then examined on oath, whether the son
had not been before convicted of felony, and he answered in the
negative.—The Judge said, if on inquiry he found this untrue,
he should transport the prisoner for life.