Star.
London, England, 1831-08-20 00:00:00

A SOW; or WARSAW.

" St !Myer& que tont model adore,
hoi.ne ii rhornme un coorsge, invite me guandeur
-Qu:11 it'eht jamais trouo dans se fond de ►on arm"
• Awaken, awaken ! ScLavowta, awake !
Thy day-spring is dawning o'er mountain and lake t
How long in the livery of shame wilt thou bow,
Atrith the blush on thy cheek and the brand on thy brow?
Far bentr—far better—the sleep of the grave,
Than the sun that but rises to shine on a slave !
Awaken—awake ! while her patriots sleep,

The oppressor will triumph, and Poland must weep !
But her Sag once tinfuti'd, her sons in array,
The dark right of bondage will brighten to-day.
Then onward—nor count we the hordes that oppose
Enough that we know—they are Liberty's foes.
Never deem, where the hand and the spirit are true.
That our hind can be weak, or its numbers be few !
Let the Ilfusvoite count on his squadrons ;—but we

On the sabres of freemen—the souls of the free !

Need, heed not the host that now darkens the plain ;
NI-ell measure their force when we reckon their akin !
B.

ACCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH SMITHFIELD
MA RKRT.

From the Voice of Theotonity: a Quftrterly Periolioal

of singstlarviraler;sB.

The follow ing facts, which occurred within the
►;)ace of one week, will prove dearly that an at-
tempt to remove to =•rent a nuisance as Smithfield
Market, from the heart of our crowded metropolis,
is ;t much an act of self-defence, as of mercy to the
beaas themselves.

May 29th, a fine large ox. which had been pur-
chased in Smithfield, and driven to the shop of a
master butcher in Crotched-friars, broke loose,
us several men were endeavouring to get it into the
slaughter-house by means of a long thick rope
fastened round its held. The butchers had been
making vain efforts for more than an hour to drive
the animal into the slaughtering-place ; but, as if
senaible of its approaching fate, it would not move,
and, by a desperate effort, got away, and darted
into the street, to the great terror and dismay of
more than 200 persons assembled is front of the
house, end who scampered off in all directions,
tumbling over and injuring each other. The
infuriated animal made its way towards Mark-
lane, and the first objects it encountered
were a horse and gig, in which were seated
a lidy and gentleman, and their female ser-
vant. The bullock overturned the vehicle, and
the passengers were thrown out on the pavement,
receiving very serious injuries and contusions.—
The bullock, pursued by revers' butchers, then
made its way towards Tower-street. At the corner
of Water-lane it got its horns entangled in the
wheel of a cart, in which situation it remained for
two minutes, when it extricated itself, and meeting
an elderly gentleman, who was unable to get out of
the way, it darted at him, and drove its head
against the gentleman's breast with great force.—
He was picked up in an insensible state, the blood
gushing from his eyes, nose, and mouth, and con-
veyed to the shop of an apothecary in Little Tower-
street. The animal then made its way towards
Fish-street-hill, upsetting a truck containing wine
bottles, which were broken to pieces ; but on arriv-
ing opposite the Monument Coffee-house, in East
Cheap, several labouring men caught hold of the
rope, which they succeeded in tying to a post at
the corner of the street, the enraged bullock roar-
ing most tremendously. To prevent further mis-
chief, it was found necessary to slaughter it on
the spot.
On June 3, a butcher was driving three bullocks
from Smithfield, one of them, goaded to madness
by having been over-driven, and parched with
thirst, sprang down Snow-hill, and upon turning
into Farringdon-street, he ran at a respectable man
shout 50 years of age, who was crossing the
strek and timed ltim in the wir. The man fell on
his head, and was carried into the shop of Mr. C.
Donn, surgeon, 65, Farringdon-street, in a state of
insensibility. Mr. Dunn with much promptness
dressed his wound, and proposed bleeding him,
which the patient declined, although he complained li
greatly of pains in his loins, and after some time
he walked homewards, without giving his name or
address. The infuriated animal then ran towards
a child, five or six years of age, but when
lose to it, Peter Collins, a porter, in the service
of Messrs.T. Pugh and Co ironmongers, King-
street, Snow-hill, who was passing at the time,
with a truck and dog in it, ran the truck and him-
se!f between the infant and bullock, by which
courageous and humane conduct the child was pre-
served unhurt ; but Collins, the dog, and truck,
werd completely upset, and the man carried into
the shop of Mr. Billion, the surgeon, of No. 26,
Farringdon-street, when it was discovered that the
animal's horn had entered Collins's left arm, im-
maiately above the elbow-joint, and that his leg
and thigh were also severely hurt. After Mr.
Bullen had dressed his wounds, Collins was as-
sidled home to his employer's house, and Messrs.
Pugh found it necessary to call in another surgeon,
and send the poor fellow home to his bed ; and,
from the nature of his hurt, he was not expected
for some time to return to his labour. The en-
raged bullock turned up Ludgate-hill, where he
upset two women selling fruit, Lut fortunately
without serious injury to them. The animal
then proceeded through the north side of
St. Paul's Church-yard, where he created great
akin), and. came in contact with a stage-
coach, which received some damage ; and it
was not until he upset two or three persons,
and got into Cheapside, and occasioned the break-
ing of several panes of glass, that he was secured.
Other accidents were occasioned the same day by
another bullock, which ran from Smithfield into
White Conduit Fields, and after causing great
confusion and alarm, was at length driven into an
enclosure, where the infuriated animal was at-
tacked by a bull-terrier belonging to a person
residing in the neighbourhood. The dog, after a
severe contest, seized• the bullock by the nose, and
brought it to the" ground. We learn that it was
afterwards killed.
About the same timolt large black cow, ren-
dered completely furious from over-driving, sod-
denly darted from iinofile the cattle in Smithfield,
and proceeded ',Cow-lane, Tolltiwed by.'a quota-'
her of drovers.; :The enraged beast turned up
Farringdon-street, and knocked down' several)
persons who' in vein attempted to eau' her. Prank
'arrinirlon:itreet ghe went up Ludgate Hill, mih-.
fig; with great fury among the yalliengeri of this
densely. populated neigh bourhedCspreading terror
and canMernation in her tvay 'We raised throtigh

St. Paul's Church-yard into Cheapside, and ran
down Wood-street, where she tossed a Ane little
boy, named Jones, who was so dreadfully gored
that it was deemed expedient to convey him to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, where he lies with but
slight hopes of recovery. Soon after this the furi-
ous beast made a desperate rush at two gentlemen,
who to avoid her ran into the house of Messrs.
Eden and Co. the wholesale glovers. The cow,
however, actually pursued them into the passage,
when the gentlemen, seeing themselves so hotly
pressed, ascended the staircase, which is opposite
the entrance, followed by the unwieldy brute, who
had reached as high as the fourth stair, when the
staircase gave way, and she fell to the bottom, and
again sallying out into the street, she ran towards
Whitechapel, and at length, after inflicting various
injwiess, was slaughtered near King's Cross.

PROFESSOR PATTISON AND THE LONDON

UNIVERSITY.

This gentleman concludes his spirited appeal to
the public in the following terms :
I have now laid before the proprietors and the
public a history of my connection with the Univer-
sity of Lopdon ; and of this I feel confident, that
whatever verdict they may pronounce on the con-
duct of the council, they will allow that I was
fully entitled to receive the following resolution
transmitted to me by that body, along with their
sentence far my expulsion :
" Resolved, that, io taking this step (my dis-
missal), the council feel it due to Professor Patti-
son to state, that nothing which has come to their
knowledge with respect to his conduct has in any
way tended to impeach either his general character
or his professional skill and knowledge."
In the foregoing statement, I have endeavoured
to avoid, as much as possible, comment and °beer-
rations. I have confined myself to a simple nar-
rative of the facts, leaving my readers to make
their own reflections upon it; and in the conclud-
ing remarks I shall be very brief.
I have proved, first, that in every investigation
undertaken by the Council into the question of my
competency and conduct as a professor (and these
in number and character are unparallele.l in the
history of any academical institution in the world),
my reputation has, by their own decisions, been
most completely vindicated. Secondly, that the
Council were fully informed that a party existed
amongst certain of my colleagues and the Warden,
who had " conspired with one another to gain an
end" (my removal from the University.)—"
Thirdly, that the acts of insubordination and
riot which have disgraced the University
of London, during the past session, were en-
couraged by the conduct of the council. That, in
fact, their proceedings, as must have been apparent
to any person at all conversant with the discipline
of a University, could not fail to produce all the
disturbances which have occurred.

Yet, with a knowledga of all these facts, the
council, for the purpose of remedying the evils
which have arrisen from their own misconduct,
have, in violation of every principle of honour and
justice, pronounced sentence of expulsion against
a gentleman, declaring at the same moment, that
" nothing which has come to their knowledge with
respect to his conduct, has in any way tended to
impeach either his general character or his profes-
sional skill and knowledge." I repeat the fact,
that without charge or impeachment, they have
pronounced the sentonee of expulsion, which, as an
academical penalty, corresponds to capital punish-
ment in the penal code, and is, therefore, never re-
sorted to except in cases of the utmost delinquency
against one of their professors.
I now address myself to the proprietors of the
University, and ask if this act of injustice, perpe-
trated by the council is to receive their sanction ?
If a gentleman who has sacrificed an income of
above 20001. per annum, to engage in their service,
whose conduct and character has been triumphantly
vindicated from every charge, is to be reduced
from a state of independence to one of absolute ruin
and beggary?
If the council thought that my retirement from
the University had become desirable from the disturb-
ances which had occurred, convinced, as they must
have been, that these had arisen from no misconduct
on my part, but from the intrigues of their officer and
certain of my colleagues, and from their own in-
decision, imbecility, and male fides in the ma-
nagement of the discipline of the Institution,
surely every principle of equity and good feeling
demanded that they should have taken care, that
in retiring 1 should have done so with a chs-1
racter on which no suspicion could rest, and with
ample compensation fur the Loss I had sue.
twined. The Council knew well enough that I ant
not a man of fortune, for I have not concealed fro.
them my circumstances ; they know that, from the
proceedings they have for the last three years
been pursuing in relation to me, they have com-
pletely ruined my practice as a Surgeon, which,
when I commenced my lectures in the University,
was considerable, and was in a fair way of hie
creasing most rapidly—for 1 had then a high re-
putution. Instead, however, of doing so, they, Itt
so far as they had the power, blast my reputation.
and send me from the University an expelled pro-
lessor ; and they reject a proposal made by Dr.
Birkbeck for compensation to me, which could
have been secured without encreaching on the
funds of the University. Nothing, it would seem
but my absolute rain would satisfy the Wades
land certain members of the Council. I say of
certain members of the Council ; for it affords ova
pleasure to state,that there are a considerable num-
ber of its members who have invariably acted in a
manner the most honourable to me, and have done
all in their power, but in vain, to induce their col-
leagues to pursue a correct line of conduct.
Lastly, 1 would call the attention of the Pro-
prietors to the ruinous operation which the mis-
management of the Council has exerted on the
interest and prosperity of the University. No
Institution ever commenced under fairer prospects,
and no body of Professors ever engaged in the ser-
vice of a University with a warmer devotion to its
interests. The enthusiasm and zeal of the Pro-
fessors have, however, been met with the moat
chilling suspicion. Instead of receiving the treat-
ment to which their acquirements, as men of
science and literature, entitled them, they have
been treated like a set of menials and hirelings,
.their suggestions treated with neglect and con-
tempt, and their best services rarely rewarded eves
with the weed of approbation. In the University
of ..London, the system pursued has been to•
degrade the character and authority of the
Professors, and to court, by the most contempti
ble compliances, the favour of the students. As

might have been expected, the effect of this system
has been completely to alienate the affections of
the Professors from the Institution ; and, alarming
as the fact is, it is nevertheless, true, that those
Professors whose talents are the most valuable to
the University are so disgusted wiih the manner
in which its affairs have been administered, that
they are now most anxious to leave it, and many of
thilm are actually engaged in making arrangements
to do so.
This statement is not exaggerated ; and I would
therefore call on the Proprietors to come forward,
and, by a complete revolution in their government,
rescue from the ruin which awaits it, the magnifi-
cent Institution of which they were the founders,
which, on its foundation, promised, and,which may
even yet confer, the most exalted benefits on their
country.

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL.
William and Catherine Guildford were charged with
wounding and attempting to murder Wm. Wilkins, and
four othir prisoners for aiding and abetting. The afray in
which the charge originated took :place in a cider shop at
Ski!gate, and the conduct of the prisoners was of the most
outrageous kind. They were found guilty, bat jedesistit
will not be passed till the opinion of the judges is obtained
on two reserved points of law.
Three gypsies were convicted of entering and robbing the
house of James Spear, at Übley. Judgment deferred,
Edward John Case, 29, clerk and traveller to MISMin.
Williams, brewers, of Bath, was convicted it
1931. 18e. the property of his employers.—levila ye=
partation. - - • -
Death recorded—Wm. Stidwortby, for burglary; Sam.
Yapeley, for sheep-stealing ; Maria Smith, Kr. Filtering,
James Hinge, John Windmill, for burglary; Sane
and 0. Hills, for ditto; William Brown and Matilda Bin.
Won, for assault and robbery.
Transportation 14 years—Joseph Quarman, for stealing,
hay and honkies.
Lisrox.—Some of the recent arrivals at the Valley of
Rock's Hotel, ere—The Lord Bishop of Exeter, Lady
Philpotts and (badly, Earl Somer., Lady Margaret Cocks,
Lady Churchill and family, Lady Anne Wallop, Sir L. T.
Lewis end party, Colonel Comyns and party, Capt. Duns-
ford and family, Captain and Mrs. Close, Reverend Doctor
and Mrs. Burney and family, Doctor and Mrs. Medd, Rey.
Mr. and Mies S. Waring, Reverend Mr. sad Mrs. Carr,
Reverend Mr. and Mrs. Loagmore, Doctor and Mrs. Ox-
Red, Sir Edward Foote and family, Mu Michael Hinton
Castle and family, Mr. and Mrs. Debase, Mr. end Mrs.
Lansford and family, Mr. and Miss Osborne, Mr. and Mrs.
Essex, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, Mr.
and Mrs. Dawson, Mess. Buckle, C. Seeger, G. Schaffer, E.
11144 J. B. Scott, J. J. Scott, E. Hamilton, White, Bur-
-122 Algernon, Feachum, Nicolls, Hutton, Jones, J. C.
Ird, Burgess, Harrowby, Rinse', W. Churehwood,
Wimbolt, St. Paul, Darton, the Misses Roberts, ike.
On Thursday se'anight, one of the bells belonging to
Wormsky church, Herefordshire, was stolen and conveyed
some distance to an archway under the road, where it was
concealed by the thieves, but fortunately discovered and re-
placed in the church.
BLISTOL, THORIDAY....PrICO of Wheat, per sack of
3311bs 38s to 441 ; Foreign Wheat, per imperial bushel,
6s 6d to 8s 3d; English Wheat, 7s to 7. 6d ; Irish ditto,
bs 3d to bs 9d ; Welsh, be 3d to bs 6d ; Malting Barley,
4s 6d to 45 9d ; fieritty for Grinding, 3e to 3s 9d ; White
Pease, Si to bs 341; Ditto Boilers, bs 9d to 6s ; Pigs' Pease
per bushel, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; Malt, pale, 7s to 7s 9d; Brown,
6s to 6s 9d ; Beans, 46dtobs 3d Foreign, ls 3d to 4
6d ; Oats, Poland, 2s 9d-to 35 ; Feed, 2s 3d to 24 7d.—.
Flour, fine, per sack of 2c. 2qr. bibs. 441 to 463; Secorstki
40s to 455.

M ARRI ED.—At Westbury-upoo-Tryin Henry Poole,
Esq. to Martha, youngest daughter of the late T. Lucas,
Req.—at Bailiwick, James Yeeles. EIKI. to Mary Anne,
widow of the late J. Nogg, Esq. of High Littleton.
DIED.—In Part-street, Mrs. E. Miller, relict of Thos.
Miller,, lio‘q of the Wand of Barhadoes—at Barton, Georg*
Hooper. Esq. 6s—at Batbwick. Henry Sampson Michell.
Esq. of Whaddon.house, near Bruton.