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London, England, 1842-05-26 00:00:00

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TO the ELECTORS and NON-ELECTORS of the INDE-
PENDENT BOROUGH of ASHTON-LINDER. LYNE.
GENTLEMEN,
ErAVING been informed that your present excel-
' cellent and talented representative intends to retire
from the honour of representing you in the British House of
Commons, I take the earliest opportunity of informing you,
that if such arfevent should take place, I intend to offer myself
PS a Candidate for your suffrages. You know my political.
creed, and need no lengthened exposition. You, as well as
myself, are aware that starvation stalks abroad ; penury has
usurped the place of plenty; immense wealth and extreme
poverty most unnaturaily co-exist ; capital is idle and the
labourer is unemployed; the earth teems with abundance and
the artizan is perishing; provisions are at famine pikes and
wages have fallen ; professing Christians hear a. wretched
people call for bread, and they build them more Churches ; the
pining child, of God's creating, is dying in an English cellar,
and the voice of humanity passes him over and extends its bene-,
violent aid towards those of a foreign clime ; distress calls aloud .
for relief and is laughed and derided at; landed interest must
be protected and honest industry must be taxed ; the present
Premier has." a heart," and the labouring population have " no
bread ;" men are imprisoned for vagrancy for want of some-
thing to eat, and- the same law imprisoned a Bernard Cavanagh
because he would not eat. Roby imprisons poor persons for
not going to Church, although " silver will be expected at the
doors." This may appear a quaint Address, but reflect upon
its meaning and you will easily perceive its purport. Should
my information .be correct, I will visit you personally, and then
explain myself in a more detailed andlengthy form. Remember,
I am one of yourselves,- who is not ashamed to own his origin
and vindicate our mutual welfare and interests.
JOAN EASBY.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, MAI- :25Ttr, 1842.
IfIE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY, do hereby give notice.
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
be held at their House, in Leadenha!l-Street, -on WEDNESDAI
the Bth of June next, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning until
Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR of
the said COMPANY, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel
Patrick Vans Agnew, C.D., deceased.
The form of a Letter of Attorney, and of a Declaration, for
enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to vote by Proxy on
this occasion, may be obtained upon application at the Trea-
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HAM BURGH ON FIRE.
VIER' of the CULT, now painting, by Mr.
COZ, from Sketches, taken upon the spot, by James
'MedhurSt, Esq., towards the end of the late disastrous Confla-
gration, *ill be opened to the public, in addition to the 17
other Vims, on MoNnays... NEST, May 30th. The extra-
ordinary effect produced give nearly all the reality of the fire
itself. tbe

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.,
T.
MARLBOROUGH-STREE
Yesterday a messenger from the Mendicity Society waited on
Mr. Maltby, and made the following communication, relative to
the case of Theophilus William Currie, who was charged at the
Court on Tuesday with having twice attempted to commit sal •
cide. A full report of the particulars appeared in The Sun of
yesterday, which, it seems, had drawn the attention of the So-
ciety's officers to the subject.
The additional facts ascertained ace as follow :—" In the
autumn of last year, the individual in question came under the
Society's netice from his having been found by one of their
constables in a state of destitution ; on that occa-
sion he gave a somewhat similar account of him-
self; his case was then thoroughly investigated, and his
statement was mainly found to be correct. It was, however,
also established that his distressed condition had been brought
on solely by the dissolute course of, life to which he had aban-
doned himself, viz. by a fondness for loose company, and ex-
treme indulgence in habitual intoxication ; it likewise appear-
ing that on the receipt of any remittance from Isis relatives,
however considerable the amount, it was invariably and reck-
lessly squandered. Five communications, all dated August,
1841. which had come into the possession of the Society, of
the following import, were handed over to Mr. Maltby for his
perusal. One was from Mr. Richard L. Scholefield, the pro-
prietor of a school at Brighton, offering him a situation as
teacher, hut which it appears no attention was paid to
in time, and the vacancy was consequently filled up. Another
was from Mr. Norton, of Braintree, in whose academy the priso •
ner retained for several months the situation of classical tutor ;
it was in answer to an application from the Society, and describes
Currie as possessing very considerable talents, but that-his in-
tellects were becoming impaired by his drunken habits. His
dismissal from his employment resulted from his dissipation
alone. The remainder were to the Society from his brother,
at Bungay, where he is living in very great respect and esteem ;
they contained each a Post-office money-order for his relief.
It also appears that, in a very short space of time, he had re-
ceived from the same source, in different sums, the amount of
1001. and upwards, but without its being of the slightest benefit
to him.
Mr. MALray said, that as at prevent Currie was in St
Martin's workhouse, he would remain there until it was deter-
mined what should be done with him.
KENSINGTON POLICE.
Thomas Shores, a farmer's labourer, about 23 years of age,
was brought up in custody from Hanworth, before Mr. G.
Clive, the sitting Magistrate, charged wills having stabbed his
brother, John Shores, with a knife, in the stomach, on the
night of Sunday last. ,
Lawd, V 222, deposed that op the night of Sunday last,
about 11 o'clock, he was on fluty at Hanworth, Middlesex,
when, hearing a disturbance, at the Brown Bear public-house,
he hastened to the spot, and found, about 60 yards from the
Bear, John Bamlett and another young man shouting out
'°Police." He asked them what was the matter, when they
said that John Shores, who is the prisoner's brother, and whom
witness then saw was lying on the ground, had been stabbed by
the prisoner, who had afterwards run off. On examining John
Shores witness found that ho was bleeding from a stab wound,
and accordingly immediately sent for a surgeon. The following
morning witness apprehended the prisoner about eight o'clock.
John Berthed, of Hanworth, deposed that about &even
o'clock on Sunday night he was at the Brown Bear with the
prisoner, his brother John, and his wife, Mr. Cooper (the land-
lord), and two others. The prisoner's brother went out, and
on coming in again pulled the 'prisoner from his scat, threw
him down, pulled his hair, and stamped upon him, and upon
-letting him go, went out of the house. The prisoner. who then
sat on the floor with his nose, &c., bleeding, got up about five
minutes afterwards, and taking out a knife, said he would go
and stab his brother. The knife was a clasp one, with a spring
back. Witness shouted to John Shores, " John, here's Thomas
coming with his knife to stab you." John Shores at that time
was about 40 yards from witness, walking towards his home.
He heard witness the second time he shouted, and turned
roend, at which moment the prisoner, who was then close to
him, rushed at him with the knife and stabbed him. John
Shores instantly struck the prisoner, knocked him down, and
again stamped on him until he himself fell down from ex-
haustion from loss of blood. Witness then saw blood flowing
from John Shores' side. Witness only saw the prisoner stab
his brother once. Witness was close to him when he stabbed
him. Witness then went for a doctor, and the prisoner
walked away.
A medical certificate was then produced, which stated that
John Shores was lying in a most dangerous state, in consequence
of a wound in the abdomen, and that there was but a very
slight chance of his recovery.
Mr. CLive said sufficient had been already proved to render
it necessary that the prisoner should be remand, d instil the
ultimate fate of his brother can be ascertained, and he asked the
prisoner what he had to say in answer to the charge ?
The prisoner, who appeared to be exceedingly weak from the
effects of his brother's a'tack on hint, said he deeply regretted
what had occurred, and was sorry he had had such an instru-
ment in his possession. His brother had, however, dreadfully
ill-used him on more than one occasion.
He was then remanded to the New Prison, Clerkenwell, for
a week.

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