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doe/sidle Council Chamber, and the Lard Provost and others on com-
ing end were forced to retire back, until the Higb Constables, ins body,
ion' a passage for them into the street. The Lord Provost, amour.
=by a Mend, went arm in arm down the middle of the High.
1111110•11 by the constables and a body of police. The hooting
ad Wig of the people was incessant; and in crossing North Bridge,
we are told his Lordship had nearly fallen a sacrifice to his ill-tinted
temerity. The populace rushed in upon the constables, and the
Provost was on the point of being tossedover the bridge. On arriving
at Leith-street, the police came into collision with the people, and the
latter commenced throwing stones and other miasiles. The Lord Provost
was severely injured, and was forced to take refuge in Mr. Christie's
shop. While his lordship was sheltered in his shop, Mr. Gibson Craig,
in a speech of considerable length, remonstrated with the mob qn the
folly of their conduct, and earnestly advised them to disperse; but with
no effect. Mr. Adam Black addressed the assemblage to the same pur.
pies, but equally in vain. Shortly afterwards a large body of police-
men, with the Sheriff and Captain Stewart at their head, came to the
'spot. On their arrival, the latter gentlemen were received with vollies
of stones. The Sheriff exhibited great firmness, and having obtained
silence, he proceeded to read the Riot Act. The people, however, stiii
continued to act tumultuously, until the police made ado eserate y,
and in part drove them away. A party of the 4th yal Irish Dra.
goons was instantly called from Piershill barracks, and under their pro-
tection the Lord Provost reached his house in Hillside Crescent. The
city being still in a stir, three companies of the 79th Highlanders were
stationed in the yard f the Assembly Rooms, and another party in
the Royal Exchange. The Dragoons also arrived in the High Street
about six o'clock.
The Lord Advocate and his friends, on leaving the Council Chamber,
were loudly cheered. His Lordship had given orders for his carriage
to be in waiting at the head of the Mound ; but before he arrived there,
the people had got notice of the arrangement, and the horses were taken
from the carriage in a trice. Front the bustle and noise of the thou-
sands who accompanied his Lordship, it was with some difficulty that
he and Mr. Gibson Craig could be got stowed into the carriage • but
after being seated, his Loldhip gave orders to the driver to proceed,
not having understood that the horses were dispensed with, and that he
was to be conveyed to his residence by the manila strength of thou.
sands of his admirers. The populaceat first intended to convey him all
the way to his estate, four miles off In the country • but they were dis-
suaded by the assurance of his servants, that his Cordship intended to
proceed no farther than his residence in Moray Place, and thither be
was rapidly conveyed amidst the cheers of the people.
GLasoor, Alain 3.—Our grand procession took place yesterday,
and very grand it was, and it has been got well over. Never was so
great a crowd of people assembled in Britain, and never was a crowd so
innocent, and so perfectly good-humoured. The general meeting of
the whole in the Green, whither they first resorted from all quarters of
the town, and its populous vicinity, was beyond all expectation
magnificent and imposing. The whole Green, from the Court-
house to its easterly extremity, from Monteith Row to the river,
was thronged with processionists drawn up in regular divisions,
according to the corporations to which they belonged, or the dis-
trict or town or country from which they came, and with an equal
throng of delighted spectators, old and young, male and female, rich
and poor. Thousands of showy banners floated in the air, with end-
lessly varied devices and inscriptions, and were mingled with some-
times ingenious and sometimes amusing end ludicrous emblems of the
trades and professions of the bodies who bore them, while the welkin
resounded with the music, coarse enough, indeed, sometimes, but still
the music of mare bands than you would have thought all Scotland
could have furnished, and with the eager acclamations of perhaps two
hundred thousand cheerful voices. The procession set off from the
Green about one o'clock, passed by the end of Great Hamilton-street,
to the eastern end of the Gallowgate, through that street to the Cross
and the Trongate, by Buchaunan-street and St. Vincent-street to
Blythswood-square, again to George-street and to the High-street,
down which it turned to the Cross, where each separate body, as It
arrived, filed off to its proper quarters, and where the affair concluded
without any accident, or any circumstance whatever, to mar the satis-
faction which the whole inspired. This living stream proceeded in
ranks and files of five, and as closely following one another as was
consistent with preserving any thing like order, yet the first division
had completed the whole line, (probably from five to six miles,)
and had gist to the end of it at the Cross, before the last division
bad reached to that point, from the point of departure at the Green,
and a stop of about a quarter of an hour was necessary to allow those
in the rear of the line, to get forward in order to make way for the
bodies at the head of it. The first division passed High.strect at four
o'clock, and it was not till six when the last reached the same point.
I heartily wish that our King and his Ministers bad witnessed such
an expression of public delight in their great measure.
The weather for the last few days, however favourable for the
labours of the field, has been so cold and bleak, particularly in the
mornings, that we may well say in the words of the poet! :
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Wiciaw ELECTION.—The election-of this borough fixed for
sd Wedneay last. At an early hour in the morning, a large assembly of
persons had congregated in the streets, which they paraded, scam-
ponied by a band of music and numerous flags. About half-past nine
the mayor (Thomas Darwell, Esq.) three of the candidates (Messrs.
Kearsley, Potter, and Hardeasde), and the legal gentlemen (Mean.
Norris, Foster, Brandt, and Hall), accompanied by a number of other
gentlemen, assembled at the Royal Hotel, and prepared to set out for
the Court-house. In a short time, however, a large body of the popu-
lace, apparenly in a very excited state, surrounded the inn, and de-
clared that illr. Kearsley should not go to thehustings. The candidates
befog proposed and seconded, they all, with the exception of Mr.
Kearney, addressed the electors; but such was the noise in the court,
that it wes with great difficulty either they or the counsel could be
heard. The commencement of the polling was also the signal for acts
of violence ; for those electors who voted for either Mr. Kearney or
Mr. Wilbraham were pointed out to the mob, who treated them in the
grossest manner, tearing their clothes, and dragging them in the kennel.
—ln the evening, when the result of the day's poll was known, the
mob proceeded to commit the greatest excesses. They proceeded to
the house of Mr. Kearsley, and demolished all the windows. After-
wards they went to the house of a Mr. Smalley, a tallow-chandler,
and a warm supporter of Mr. Kearney, whose windows they also de-
molished, and removed property out of his premises to the amount of
nearly 2001. in value, which they burnt in the street before his house.
Among the gentlemen who also experienced rough usage at the hands
of the populace, was Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Mr. Norris, (Mr. Kears-
ley's counsel) Mr. Wilbraham, and Mr. Gaskell, the solicitor. The
next morning the polling was resumed, the military having been drawn
up to protect the voters and the other persons concerned. It was an-
nounced in the course of the morning that Mr. Wilbraham and Mr.
Hardcastle had resigned. About one o'clock the poll was declared to
be closed, when the numbers were—
Mr. Thickness. - 40
Mr. Keanley 24
Mr. Potter 8
The two former were then declared duly elected. In the afternoon Mr.
Thicknesse was chaired about the town, being attended by from 10,000
to 12,000 persons; but Mr. Kearsley did not venture to go through the
ceremony. Mr. Potter is the Manchester Patriot, who might have
been returned either for the county or for Liverpool, but in this cor-
rupt hole had no chance.
Mary Ann Hungerford, a little girl who had been apprenticed by the
township of Great Bolton, to a person named Thompson, a blacksmith,
complained to the magistrates of ill treatment. It appeared that the
t&ther of the complainant was at present an inmate of she workhouse,
and that her half-brother had come forward in her behalf, in conse-
quence of the repeated information which lie had received, respecting
the ill usage of hie sister. She was compelled to go through the streets
as late as 12 o'clock in the evening, selling cakes, and unless she dis-
posed of a certain quantity, she was on her return shamefully beaten by
her mistress; and so notorious had this become to the neighbourhood,
that persons who knew her frequently purchased the whole of her stock,
in order to save the poor creature from punishment One witness de-
scribed the screams of the child, when her mistress was beating her, to
be more like the yelling of a dog than the screams of a human being.
It was also stated that she had not been to a place of worship or Sunday
school for six months. The case was completely made out against
Thompson*s wife, and Mr. Allen ordered the indentures to be cancelled ;
and as the child had gained a settlement in 'Attic Bolton, Thompson
was ordered to give up all clothes belonging to her, and paid 11. to-
wards procuring her another situation, and 4a. 6d. costs. The decision
gave great satisfaction ; and we could not help being struck with the
contrast between the squalid and dirty appearance of the unfortu-
nate apprentice, and the jolly looks of the sixteen stone Mistress
Thompson.
A ISousce Wnrsnea.—Sometime ago, an old industrious woman,
residing in this neighbourhood, said to her husband, as he lay boring.
I ing in bed one morning, " Get up, theau lazy thing, theau ; aw wondur
hew theau con sleep i' thy bed, un knows theau owes folk so mich
brass." " Hum," replied the fellow, "aw wondur heaw thoose can
sleep an owe it too,"
Wakefield Corn Market.—We have a moderate arrival of grain to
this day's market, but a very thin attendance of buyers. Fine samples
of wheat are taken off slowly at Is to 2s per quarter under the rates of
this day se'nnight, but for middling and inferior descriptions no buyers
can be found, though the holders are willing to submit to a still fur-
ther reduction. Making Barley met a dull sale ; the greater part of
the supply consists of foreign, for which there is very little demand.—
Oats are &halfpenny per stone lower. Shelling has also declined Is
per load. Dry Beans maintain former prices, but damp parcels meet
no attention. Wheat, per quarter of 601bs per bushel—Norfolk and
Suffolk, red, 64s to 69s ; ditto, white, 70s to 74s ; Yorkshire and Lin.
colnshire, red, 60s to 653 ; ditto, white, 65s to 691 ; Foreign, red, 64s
to 68. ; ditto, white, 71 to 735.
MARRIED—The Rev. B. W. Pullen, to Catherine

I* Z3* II U. . Didabury,
only daugther of John Boylance, Esq. of Grove House—At the --- and ;tinter lingering chills the lap of May."
Friends' Meeting House, It. Abbate, of Liverpool, to Hannah, only On Thursday and Friday there were hail showers of some minutes'
daughter of John Worthington, of Salford—Mr. Isaac Wilson,of duration, and on the morning of both days the pools were crisped with
Nottingham, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Mr. Thomas led. Ice, and the whole surrounding hills, not excepting Criffel, powdered
drop, of Whitehurch, with snow. On Sunday and yesterday the Wamphray hills were again
DIED—At Killingworth, Mrs. Isabella Gasceign. Though the white, and, altogether, we fear the late severe and inclement weather
great north road is not three miles distant, she never saw it in her life— bodes no good to the gardens. The gooseberries suffer readily from
Mrs. Mary Gibson, relict of the late Mr. Joshua Gibson, of Hepaton. frost, and though espaliers may now be out of the reach of danger, the
stall, near Halifax, 85—At the Parsonage House, Gorton, 66, the standards everywhere are so profusely covered with blossom, that we
Rev. James Gatiff—Suddenly, Mr. C. F. Hulse, organist to the church fear our ps4.pects as to a superior fruit crop, are again destined to be
of the United Brethren at Fulneck. His talents, particularly in that blasted to a great extent. The tender stems of early potatoes have been
department to which he was more expressly called to devote his atten- completely blackened by the frost, and as vegetation must again spring
Lion, were of a very eminent order, and his knowledge both of musical from the root,they will be thrown a fortnight and more later than was
authors and of the theory of the art, such as is rarely required. expected. Various other seeds and herbs have been more or less ID.
DUMFRIES COURIER, MAY 10. jured, and speaking generally, considerable injury done to the kitchen
garden.
The election of the member for Edinburgh took place, May 3, MARRIED The Rev. John M'Robert, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, le
in the Council Chambers. The Lord provost intimated to hie col. Cathuine, only daughter of the late William Copland, Esq. Glasgow.
leagues, that they were now to proceed to the business of the day, and
that this, he considered, was now the proper time for receiving the —John Dunlop, Esq. Haddington, to Jessie, daughter of Willis*
Dunlop, Esq. Edinburgh.
petitions from public bodies, in favour of the Lord Advocate, and he DIED. —James Patterson, Esq. of Nunfield, 73.—John Wightmas,
proposed that the first to be received was that which, on account of its Ea+ of contanee, go,
magnitude, he considered entitled to the precedence ; it was that from acM21•110111!
the inhabitants. The petition, which resembled a web of linen, lapped OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-516Y 14.
and tied up with pink tape, was hauled to and read by the clerk. The The case of Sauna Dexter, for the crime of matricide, came Maim
petitions of the different public bodies were then presented from the morning, and created a strong sensation in the court. It occupied needy
inhabitants of Edinburgh, signed by 17,400 person. five hours : but very little was elicited from the witnesses beyond
The Lord Provost said he rose with very great pleasure in having the what has already appeared in the police reports, and in other statements
honour of proposing Mr. Robert A. Dundas as a fit person to represent in the newspapers. The prisoner was a stout strong man, above the
the city in Parliament. Looking back to the days of the late Lord Mel. middle size, freckled with the small pox, and of a coarse cast of counte.
what had he not done for this city—what had he not dons for :mace. Mr. Adolphus conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson
,Scotland, and the country at large? (Cheers, mingled with hisses.) appeared for the defence.
On the one hand, they had this gentleman; and, on the other, they Mr. ADOLPHUS opened the case by warning the jury to dismiss from
had the right hon. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Advocate of Scotland, (im. their minds whatever they may have read of the prisoner and of the
mense cheering, re-echoed from without,) who had the honour of being crime for which he now stood indicted. The deceased, Jane Markham,
the favourite among his fellow-citizens ; but, before many years passed was the mother of the prisoner at the bar by her first husband, and was
over his head, he hoped the gentleman he had the honour to propose the widow of her second husband at the time she came by her death—
would be as great a favourite as the other. This Reform Bill, allowing She lived a very secluded life, in Foster-lane, Bethnal.green, and carried
it all its perfection, was very far short of producing all the good that on the bainess of a broker. She was advanced in age, being upwards
was expected from it. He then alluded to the line drawn for fixing the of 87, and was considered as a person of property in her neighbour.
qualification of voters, and argued that there was as much room for cot- hood, as it was known that she possessed money in the Savings Banks,
ruption under the propsed system as the present. a small sum due to her in debts, and a leasehold property of about
Trades Councillor Chambers then rose, and briefly addressed the thirty pounds a year. It would be for the Jury to say whether a
Council in support of the Lord Advocate, contending that the Town desire to become possessed of this property had not induced
Council were bound to listen to the prayers of the numerous petitions the prisoner to deprive the parent of her lite. On the 7th of March
which had been presented in support of his Lordship's claims. last, in the evening, the deceased was alive and appeared in good health
Deacon Gairdner seconded the nomination of' the Lord Advocate, in and spirits; on the next day (Tuesday) it nu oved that the de.
a very able and impressive speech. ceased had not opened her shop, and, in fact, the house was abut up ;
Treasurer Anderson then proposed the Lord Provost as a fit represen- but as she was often absent for a whole day, attending to sales, the
wive for the city ; and Old Treasurer Neil seconded the nomination. neighbours did not suspect any thing from the house not being opened.
But the Lord Provost disclaimed their votes, declaring he was not a On the following morning the prisoner, accompanied by a lad, went to
candidate. the house of his mother, and knocking at the door without being let in,
The vote was now called for, and given as follows : he at length burst it open, and entering the house, he was beard to ex-
For Mr. Dundas . 17 claim that his mother bad been either murdered or bad hanged her.
For the Lord Advocate . . 14 self. It would be for the jury to decide whether this exdama.
For the Lord Provost . . 2 don had not been uttered before the prisoner could have seen
The vote having been declared, was received with groans and hisses, the body. It was afterwards discovered that the murder had
and though Mr. Dundee repeatedly attempted to address the Council, been perpetrated by blows inflicted with an iron weapon, and
not a word could be heard for clamour, both within and without the there could be no doubt that the murderer had afterwards hung his
Connell-room. victim up, in order to lead to an inference that she had committed
About eleven o'clock, crowds of people began to assemble in the suicide. Upon the prisoner being questioned as to his having any
High-street, in front of the c ouncil Chamber, and the great square of suspicions of who had committed the crime, he declared that be bad not
the Exchange was shortly afterwards crammed with anxious chums.— seen his mother for a fortnight. It would be proved, however, that
On the antral of the Lord Advocate's canine at half-pest eleven, aen Friday night before the murder, squarrel bed taken plate between
loud and universal hum burst from the assembled multitude, while the deceased ands person who threatened her with violence and the neat
leVeffrey for ever," " Down with Dundee I" rung in his lordship's door neighbour who hand the language used would identify
.sirs, until he had elbowed his way into the Council-room, which was the prisoner as the party uttering it. She recognized his voles
toy aptly baptized " the Cage of every unclean Bird." His opponent, distinctly, having frequently heard the prisoner quietening
kis said, was in the Royal Exchange at an early hour in the morn. with the deceased about het not giving him her property. On
big, and breakfasted there with several gentlemen of his own "caste." the day preceding the murder a boy bad heard two men talking near
During the time the election business was proceeding, the High Con. the house, and one of them had whispered to the other that the mussy
stables stationed on the balcony of the Council Chamber, very politely was hid behind the clock. This man who would be identified as the
gave intimation to the people below how matters were propenting prisoner, was afterwards seen on the night of the murder carrying away
among the electors, and these annunciations were cheered or hissed as a bed from the house. This was a train of circumstantial
evideeee
matters went favourable to the man of the city's heart, or otherwise.— which he submitted to the jury as sufficient to convict the primmer,
When the Lord Advocate was addressing the Council, every cheer in. although he was bound to confess that no marks of blood were found
elde the house was responded to by the people, and the intuaing on on the prisoner, nor was any of the property of the deceased traced to
several occasions was tremendous. On the name of an anti-rearm his possession.
Bailie being announced as addressing the chair, the hisses of the pop. A great number of witnesses were examined, to prove the learned
lam soughed through the old walls like a whirlwind, and were followed counsel's statement.
by a deep, unanimous groan, which could be compared only to the Frederick Apr, a surgeon, deposed, that he examined the body of
rolling of a hollow thunder. The effect was really unique, and created the deceased. Her dash hadi been occasioned by two violent blows
great merriment. The crowd continued to increase on the streets and on the beck of the neck. There was a contusion over the eye. He
In the square, as the day went on, and various conjectures were abroad did not believe that the deceased had been strangled. The rope round
as to the probable result of the election. The inhabitants now know her neck, in his opinion, must have been applied after the murder.
well the desperate rottenness and servility of our burgh system, but still ibr the defence a number of witnesses were examined, to prove
they cling to the hope that the Council would not, on their political- that Ike prisoner had always behaved affectionately towards his mo-
death-bed as it were, subject themselves to the execrations of the public, ties
eau be bore an ercellmt character; and that on the day of the
by acting in the teeth of the whole community. This hope kept the he had been the whole of the afternoon and evening at the Swan
people cheerful and good natured ; but as soon as the tenninadm ad never having quitted it fora time sufficient to get to the
the election was announced, a loud burst *Cowered°. Mewed doe ow =irthsee deceased.
pleasant announcement, mingled with threatening expamakop maw Mr. Judas LITT Liwaz summed up the evidence with great wd-
the authorities and the unpopular member. "A rope I amps satoossi, otad commented upon the want of any apparent motive to in-
das !" " Burke the Provost !" •• Burn the Belies," and dollar j 1 both. pitman to commit the murder, as none Of the property of the
sentences were bawled nnisesitatiogly. A rush was than soh to 111, *mod led bees traced to him. The Jury returned a verdict of Not
ffieffity. •