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us throw him over the bridge
" Into the Sein

" He is a Mazarin !"
" Death to the Mazarin !'

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3y and their horses, by the crowd
ly onwards towards the Rue Dau-
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en opposite the doors, the glasses of
Fabien could not restrain himself

losity and compassion upon
interior. Their position had
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,companied them, and who
public animadversion, was

Martin Chuzzlewit.—The machinations of Mr
sniff are further developed in this number. Pm

Such was the irritation

Id ; and

on the occasio

it contained, being pulled to pieces.
rebelling against the orders under
thus beholding the niteons enndi-

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—in with him," replied a thousand

Fabien, bruised and deafened by the shootings around
him, was lifted from the earth with the utmost ease, and
borne towards the parapet of the bridge. He made
no resistance. He feltjt was useless, nevertheless he cast
a rapid look about him in search of his brother, but he
had disappeared. The situation of Fabien was desperate ;
a prey to the rage of the multitude, nothing remained for
him but to elevate his thoughts towards his God and die.
Succour, however, came to him rather unexpectedly.
" Stop, unhappy men," cried at this very moment a
sonorous voice. Who dares to do the least harm to
the gentleman? I declare him an enemy to the king and
La Fronde who harms a hair of his bead !"
" It is the Coadjutor," cried a scholar, with a piercing
voice, throwing himself forward to rescue Fabien ; " make
way for M. le Coadjutor !"
This name produced a magic effect. Fabien de Croissi
was instantly put upon his feet, and every one endea-
voured to put on a calm and tranquil countenance, to
make believe that he had not taken part in this scene of
disorder. At the same time the crowd opened respect-
fully, and permitted a passage for the important per-
sonage who thus so suddenly calmed the popular tempest.

This personage was Paul de Gondi, Coadjutor of the
Archbishop of Paris, celebrated afterwards under the name
of Cardinal de Retz

-- He was s. Jon recognized, when a thousand voices
swelled wit: enthusiastic cries, " Vive La Fronde, Vive
Le Coadj ~tor !"

Frazer's Magazine for the present month contains
several articles of more than ordinary ability and inter-
est—one especially, entitled " what is to be done with
Ireland now 7 " to which we have felt bound in another
column to direct the attention of oar readers. The
" Reminiscences of men and things, by one who has a
good memory," are directed this month to the career of
Leopold I, king of Belgium. They are, like all the wri-
tings of this contributor, lively and faithful, as to His-
torical facts; but the medium, through which the charac-
..

ter of his subject is looked at, strikes us as somewhat too
flattering. The acknowledged virtues of Leopold are
brought into the strongest light, whilst his defects are
either thrown into the shade, or glossed over, too much
after the mariner of a thick and thin apologist. " The
History of a week " is the production of a graceful pen
and a mind stored with reading of the best description.
Fitzboodle's slashing notice of the last production of the
author of " Random Recollections" is tremendously
and almost cruelly severe. So very small a twaddler as
Mr. James Grant, scarcely required such heavy hitting
to crush him ; and vet the provocation, repeated time
after time,—the continual drain upon the pockets of the
gullible public by this and other" small deer"—demanded

a castigation sufficiently severe to be effective.
Amongst the remaining portion of the number, the most
attractive and lively are the letters of " the incomparable"
Fanny Ellaler, describing her triumphant career at Ha-
vana. We have hitherto been delighted with Fanny as a
dancer; and we have it now in evidence that the

Dublin University Magazine.--Mr. Lever, in this
number presents us with the concluding " Fragments"
1_•. • .

The loiterings of Arthur O'Leary" ; and we are really
rry to part with a character who has for so many months
!lighted us. Doubtless, however, we shall next month

month very brief, and the story very little advanced. We
cannot refrain from offering, by the way, our advice to the
Editor of the Dublin UnivPrsily, upon the subject of
continued tales. If we are to have romances in
aines, they should not

a period of twelve or eighteen months. " Irehind sixty
years ago " is this month full of interest of a very novel
kind to most Englishmen. " Madden's United Irish-
men " receives very proper treatment at the hands of its
Reviewer, as does the letter of Mr. S. C. Hall to the
Temperance Societies of Ireland. Mr. Hall—thanks to
fired than the guard at I his excellent lady—may know some neculiarities of the

Irish character; but his mind is no more fit to grasp
any one of the great questions, which agitate the public
. . .. .

Dermots, or Teagues, whose whims or follies his Talented
partner has so delightfully ponrtrayed, is capable of
squaring the circle or writing another " Faerie
Queene." It is positive impertinence in such a Littera-

such a subject as that handled in his

task is gratui-

tously insulting. The whole of the articles in the present
number are of a superior order, and, we trust ,may be
received as an earnest of increased efforts, on the part of
its spirited proprietors and editor, to merit, during the
coming year, increased public support.

The Asiatic Journal.—This magazine is this month, as
usual, full of highly interesting matter, and especially
upon subjects connected with our 'Engl. indism rmnira

.1. ne literary articles are well written ; but we have pe-
rused with the greatest interest the narrative, by Major-
General Elphinstone, of the events preceding and during
the insurrection at Cabool. Every additional source of
evidence is of value which is calculated to throw light upon
the disastrous calamity of the British army in that blood-
stained land ; and Major-General Elphinstone, from his

Ainsworth's Magazine, for the present number, affords
us ample proof of the continuance of the editor's praise-
worthy exertions to afford amusement and instruction to
his numerous readers. His own contribution—" Modern
Chivalry"—is here brJught to a conclusion, and will, no
doubt, be published in a separate form. It possesses
many beauties and much knowledge of life ; and though in
a different style from his most popular and best writings,
will, we have no doubt, find many admirers. We observe

that a new Romance, by the same writer, " St. James's,
or the Court of Queen Anne." A Companion to " the
Tower of London," " Old St. Paul's," and " Windsor
Cattle" is to be commenced in the January number.

Tom Burke of Ours.—We have this month two num-
bers of this—in our opinion, best of the productions of
Mr. Lever—in which the first volume of Tom Burke is
concluded. We are taken through that portion of the
stirring events of the wars of the French empire, which
terminated in the important victory of " The Field of
Austerlitz ;" and which are described with more than the

author's usual graphic paver. This first volume is in-
scribed, in a beautifully appropriate dedicatory address, to
Miss Edgeworth.

Peck -
,r Tom

Pinch is at length madjacquainted with the hollowness of

sniff to the metropolis, we are once more introduced to
" Todgers's." We observe, by the bye, that Mr. Dick-
world with " A Christ-

etas Carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas,'
which, we doubt not, will be treated with the customary

GENERAL MISCELLANY

We rejoice to say that the Oastler Liberty fund is pro-
greas ng favourably.

On Monday week a cow was cut in two by the afternoon
train from York to Castleford.

Lieutenant-General Sir Peregrine Maitland has been
appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, in place
of Sir G. Napier.
The town-council of Yarmouth have resolved to abolish
the dues previously exacted from vessels for " anchorage"
in Yarmouth Roads.

Balfe has sold the music of the " Bohemian Girl" for
£4OO to Messrs. Chappell, who have given Bunn £lOO for
the words of the songs, &c.
RETURN OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT.—On
Thursday the royal party, after their provincial trip, re-
turned to Windsor in perfect health.
Upwards of 40 vessels cleared out of Limerick on Fri-
day, laden with corn, flour, butter, and provisions, for
ports in England and Scotland.

LONG SERVICES.—The 55th regiment, now in China,
has been abroad since 1821; the 3rd, since 1822 ; and the
13th and 40th, since 1823.
Mr. Aldam, M.P. for Leeds, who is now on a tour in
the United States, has just purchased the Frickley Hall,
Yorkshire, estate for £63,000.
The butchers in the neighbourhood of Darlington have
commenced killing cattle and sheep for the London mar-
ket, and sending them regularly by railway ; which they
find to answer their purpose.
ALL PEWTER.—A few nights since the Baptist Chapel
situate in Vere's Yard, Stratford, was broken into. The
burglars finding the plate to be all pewter, they decamped,
leaving the booty behind.
THE NATIONAL CHESS MATCH.—Eleven games have
been played between M. St. Arrant and Mr. Staunton,
at Paris. Mr. Staunton, the English champion, has won
eight games, M. St. Amant two, and one game was drawn.
A curious meteorological fact was witnessed in this town
on Monday last. On that day the thermometer stood in
the shade two degrees higher than it did on the 4th of last
June.—Sunderland Times.

According to the late returns of the property tax, the
nobility and gentry have contributed £3,200,000 out of
the £s,ooo,ooo,—leaving the professional classes the next
contributors in order, and the traders the last.

THE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.—The departure of his
royal highness the Duke de Bordeaux is fixed for the Ifith
inst., to continue his tour in England by a visit to the
southern and western counties.

A sale is announced to take place at No. 19, Bromton-
square, of the whole household effects, carriage, and
horses, of Lieut. Munro, of the Blues, whose trial has
been unavoidably postponed from severe illness.
A Mr. Wyett, of Cheapside, has complained to the
newspapers that the League have set his name down as a
subscriber to their fund, whilst, in fact, he is opposed to
their views.

DR. BERRINGTON.-111 the Church and Slate Gazelle
of Saturday last, we find a letter from the governor of Dor-
chester gaol, in which he says that this notorious person-
age is at present confined in that prison for a debt of £B5,
for which the detaining creditor has offered to take £2O.
SALE OF SHlPS.—Seven ships belonging to the Har-
tlepool Shipping Company, were sold by auction on Tues-
day, in that town, and realized £BOBO. The vessels,
which are all in good condition, and well found, cost the
company upwards of £lB,OOO.

From an official return just presented to the govern-
ment, it appears that since the year 1829, no less than
forty-five thousand new houses, forming seven hundred
and fifty new streets and squares, have been erected, or
are in the course of building, in London and its suburbs.

THE DAILY PAPERS.—It is said that the proprietors
of the daily papers intend to raise the price of their papers
from sd. to 6d. Assuming the circulation of the Times
to be 12,000 a day, this will give to that paper an addi-
tional profit of £15,650 a year.
It will give some idea of the loss sustained by the
holders of the shares of the United States Bank, when
we state, that 100 shares, which sold, on Saturday, in
Landon, for £9OO, originally cost the holder £22,000.—
Standard.

PEDESTRIANISM.—On Tuesday evening latit, at twenty
minutes to five o'clock, John Perry, the American black,
commenced, in Ripon, the arduous task of walking one
mile and a quarter every hour for a thousand successive
hours. His average speed appears to be about 10 minutes
for the hour's distance.

The indisposition of Earl Grey has increased so much
during the lest few days, as to excite the most serious ap-
prehensions of the family, nearly all the members of
which are assembled at Howick. The venerable earl is
confined to his room, and is said to be gradually sinking
from exhaustion, arising from decay of nature.
A NEW FEMALE OCCUPATION.—The School of De-
sign at Somerset-house has established a class for the in-
struction of women in wood engraving. It is already well
attended, and has added another to the very limited op-
portunities for the occupation of female talent which exist
in this country.

INCREASE OF HOUSES.—In Leeds it appears by the
late census returns, about 6000 houses were built in the
ten years from 1831 to 1841 ; and in Manchester about
12.000 ; being an increase of 36 per cent. Between 1831
and 1341, half a million new houses were built in England
and Wales.

STEAM CARRIAGE. MT. Waller has made two or
three experimental trips with his steam carriage during
the week. On Monday afternoon he steamed along Tyr-
ret-street, Market-street, up Cheapside, and along Man-
ningham-lane. By these trips he has discovered some
trifling defects in the details of the machine, and ascer-
tained that its principle is sound.—Bradford Observer.

LOSSES AT SEA.—On referring to the list of vessels
registered at Montrose at the commencement of the pre-
sent year, we find the shipping of that port stated at 127
vessels, and 16.300 tons. The total losses during the year
already amount to 12-1,725 tons ; say upwards of a
tenth of the gross tonnage of the port.—Montrose Re-
view, Dec. 1.

AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—John Harris, a pauper be-
longing to the parish of Writtle, died in Chelmsford
Union workhouse, on the Ist instant, in his 84th year.
This man had been chargeable to the parish of Writtle,

Lge weekly

cost for the whole period of his life has not been less than
45., amounting in the aggregate, to £837 12s. !—Essex
Herald.

Houses OF PARLIAMENT.-1t appears that the amount
already voted, from the year 1835 to 1842, was £438,500,
of which £38,483 was expended in February'last. It is

of £598,424 12s. 9d. will be required. In the return it is
stated that a further expenditure will be wanted for com-
pleting the landing-places, for providing furniture, fit-
tings, &c., for the several offices and official residences.
THE PENNY POSTAGE.—The profits upon postage are
now so seriously diminished as to be scarcely worthy of
consideration as an item in the public accounts ; and (we
can state it upon good authority) it is in the contempla-
tion of Government, therefore to abandon them as in-

,ly them entirely to improvements in the

various branches of the Post-office, and to giving in-
creased facilities to the transmission of letters.—Morning
Post.

EXHUMATION,—The body of the late Mr. J. Mount-
joy, of Auction-lane, Bristol, has been exhumed, after
having been buried three months, in consequence of its

being reported that he was poisoned. He died apprently
of inflammation of the bowels. In a post mortem ex-
amination a corroded pin has been found in the part of
the body that was diseased, and, in the absence bf poison,
the cause of death must be attributed to the swallowing
of this pin.—Devizes Gazette.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Dec. B.—The buyers have
shewn great reluctance to do business this week, and ex-
cepting in desirable grocery lots the transactions are
trifling. The sales since our last consist of about 400
hogsheads West India and 200 mats Mauritius, at about
ls. per cwt. below the previous currency, and this con-
cession in prices does not bring forward for more than
their present wants, notwithstanding the stocks in ffrst
hands are getting very low.—Rum continues steady.
Average price of sugar, December sth, is 325. 1l d. per
cwt.

IrHO EDUCATES THE POOR ?—On leaving Drayton
anor, on Friday, her Majesty was much delighted on
seeing six hundred poor children, who are being educated
in schools in the neighbourhood, under the patronage and
support of Sir Robert Peel. There were three hundred
on each side of the road leading to the town, and as the
royal carriage passed, the children cheered lustily, which
was responded to by her Majesty, who bowed in the most
condescending manner to the children, leaving them much
gratified.

THE " MISSING FARMER."—Some additional circum-
stances in connection with the mysterious disappearance,
a few months since, of a Mr. P— on the morning after
his wedding, are likely, we understand, shortly to be
made known to the world in an action for breach of
promise, brought against him by a Miss S—, of Col-
'chaster. The trial is to come on at the next assizes for
this county : and the plaintiff, it is said, is in possession
of ample documentary evidence, in the shape of love-let-
ters, to make out a strong case in support of a claim for
damages.

On Thursday morning last, some daring villains entered
the residence of Mr. Faulkner, solicitor, in Newgate-
street, Chester, by the kitchen window. They proceeded
to Mr. Faulkner's bed-room, and took six sovereigns and
some silver out of his trousers pocket, and also several
keys. They ransacked several drawers and cupboards,
and also took away a silver mustard pot, some silver tea
-` plate. It is supposed they
....... ucu-rooms of some of the other inmates.
Mr. Faulkner had £5O in bank notes in the pocket from
which tl 4ake,^ 4 w'

spoons, and ot

her articles o

_ ..3e sovereigns were taken, anc. ...lich were passed
over as waste paper. This is the •second robbery on
the same premises within a short period.—Chester

hronic

SHIPWRECK AND DREADFUL Loss OF LlFE.—lnfor-
mation was on Saturday received at. Lloyd's of the total
loss of the Castle Tioram, and a lamentable sacrifice of

Plymouth for Hamburg on the 14th of la
the command of George Fox, of Dartmouth. Aft(

month,

cannot consent to the

Cloubtt

light

AN UNSAFE BANK.—An old man named Rider, living
at Tenbury, a short time ago received about £4OO from a
gentleman in London, who bad held the same at 5 per
cent. interest, but who then had no further use for it;
the old man and his wife agreed it would be the safest
place to deposit the property in a small box, to be buried
in a deep hole in his garden ; this was accordingly done ;
but having subsequently found another customer to invest
the money with, the old man went on Sunday last to dig
it up, but found to his great amazement that the box with
its contents had vanished.— 'Worcester paper.
SALE OF TEA AT HULL.—The entire cargo of teas
brought by the Raymond, from Canton, direct to Hull,
was on Wednesday submitted for sale by auction. The
cargo consisted of 4897 chests of Congou, 200 half chests
Souchoug, 191 half chests Orange Pekoe, 200 half chests
Black-leaf Pekoe, 200 half chests Flowery Pekoe, 600
boxes, 1000 half chests Twankay, 150 boxes, 200 half

chests Hyson, 170 half chests Hyson, 165 half chests
Imperial, 204 half chests and 150 boxes Gunpowder.
Total, 8327 packages. Prices were expected to rule a
little below those now obtaining in the metropolis. They,
however, realised full current London rates, and in some
instances ruled rather higher, particularly Twat:keys.
REVIVING TRADE.—Among the signs of reviving trade
and returning commercial prosperity, we may mention
that during the month of November last, the amount of
receipts at the National Security. Savings' Bank, in Hut-
cheson-street, was no less than £20,970 19s. 10d., in
4,262 transactions ; while the amount of repayments was
only £14,131 18s. 9d., in 2,625 transactions. Consider-
ing that £lO,OOO at least of the repayments may have
been, as in previous years, for Martinmas and half-yearly
dwelling-house rents to landlords, the above simple facts
are peculiarly remarkable and gratifying. We learn also
that in the same short month of November, there were no
fewer than 669 pass-books opened to persons who were
never at the bank before.—Glasgow Argus.
THE COMET.—The new comet has been observed from
Paris and London. It is thus described by Sir James
South :—" This comet was observed here with the five-
feet equatorial, whose object-glass is 41 inches aperture,
about eight o'clock last eveninE [3oth Nov.] ; with the
large achromatic, of 11 inches 9-10ths diameter, its nu-
cleus, with powers of 150 and 300, seemed not round, but
elongated in the direction of the tail ; which latter, after
moonset, extended about 11 minutes. It does not bear
much illumination of the field, although it was easily
found with an achromatic telescope of 21 inches aperture.
At 48 minutes 37 seconds after midnight, its right ascen-
sion was about 5 hours 21 minutes and 37 seconds, and
its northern declination was about 5 degrees 34 minutes
and 32 seconds ; and it is very near the star a Orionis!'
INCENDIARY FIRES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. —On
Wednesday and Thursday last two extensive fires oc-
curred on farms in the vicinity of Cambridge, and no
douht is entertained that both were the work of iocendi-

aries. The first was at the farm of Mr. Kirby, itrioX-
worth, and, notwithstanding every exertion that could be
used, the barns, outhouses, carts with manure, horses,
cows, pigs, &e., were destroyed. The loss exceeds

✓
£2,000. Mr. Kirby is insured to the amount of £1,600.
The other fire occurred at the farm of Mr. Tyson, of
Fen_Dutton, whose property, chiefly corn, to the valueof

£5,000. was destroyed. It was all insured in the Nor-
wich Union Office. It is believed that the authors of
these diabolical acts will be brought to justice.
MILITARY PUNISHMENT.—Monday morninfr, two pri-
vates of the Grenadier Guards, John Finnimore and
Isaiah Hawkins, underwent corporeal punishment in the
Sheet-street Barracks, Windsor. Parade was called as
early as half-past seven o'clock A square being formed
in front of the guard-room, the prisoners were brought
forward by a file of men and placed in the centre. The
sentences of the courts-martial held last week were then
read by the Adjutant to the following effect :—" That
John Finnimore receive 150 lashes, and Isaiah Hawkins
receive 120 lashes ;" the former for having struck his
sergeant, as he was coming off parade, on the back of the
neck with the butt-end of his musket, intending to have
struck him on the head. This man's offence was aggra-
vated by his afterwards having declared that he was sorry
he had not killed the sergeant. Hawkins's offence was
that of striking his sergeant whilst in a state of drunken-
ness. Finnimore was the first tied up, and he received
his punishment (which occupied about twelve minutes)
without uttering a word. Hawkins was then tied up, and
he also recived his punishment without flinching.

THE MAYOR AND THE MACE OF LEICESTER.—During
the bLueen's visit to Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke
of Rutland, on Tuesday last, Mr. Harris, the Mayor of
Leicester, waited on her Majesty to present an address
from the town council of that borough. One circumstance
attending this ceremony is deserving of remark. The
Mayor of Leicester appeared without a mace or any of the
u ual insignia of office. It seems that when the first
" reformed" corporation entered upon their duties, one of
the earliest acts which their wisdom dictated was to eco-
nomise in the expenditure of the town by disposing of the
mace and the other insignia of office. What made the
matter worse is, that this mace was originally the gift of
Queen Elizabeth, and, to crown the series of mal apropos
incidents, the mace was, when offe ed for sale, bought by
the landlady of a small inn, or shop licensed for the sale
of liquors and her. This person, proud of her prize, not
unfrequently walks to church with her mace carried be-
fore her : she is, in short, a sort of quasi mayor on those
occasions. It may well be supposed that the Mayor of
Leicester must have been placed in no very pleasing situa-
tion when before Royalty in presenting his address, with
the full consciousness upon him that all these peculiar in-
cidents were well known to many, however much his sta-
tion and character entitled him to respect.

THE TEA TRADE, DEC. 4.—The deliveries last week
fell off to 439,389 lb. We regret that we cannot notice
the least improvement in the demand. On the contrary,
on the quotations subjoined, a slight decline would have
to be accepted were sales to even a limited extent at-
tempted. Bohea, 4d. to Bd. ; congou, ord. to good ord.,
Is. ; but mid., ls. Oid. to ls. ld. ; blackish leaf, Is. 4d.
to Is. 10d.; pekoe kind, 2s. to 2s. 4d. ; souchong, good
ord. to good mid., to 3s. ; orange pekoe, Is. 5d.-- to
Is. Ild. ; twankay, good ord. to but mid., Is. lid. to Is.
21d. ; mid. to hyson kind, Is. 4d. to ls. 9d. ; hyson skin,
ord. to good ord., lid, to ls.; hyson, good ord., ls. Bd.
to Is. 9d. ; but mid., Is. Ild. to 2s. sd. ; mid. to good
mid., 2s. 9d. to 4s. 3d. ; imperial, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 3d. ; and
gunpowder, 2s. 11d. to 4s. 6d. per lb. The stock of tea
in London on the Ist instant was 30,241,000 lb. against
26,705,000 lb. at this time last year. The recent arrivals
having been large, have again led to a preponderance of
stock now as compared with last year. The deliveries this
year have been 33,770,000 lb., against 32,478,0001 b., at
this time last year. The imports this yeas are 35,889,00016.,
and last year, to the Ist of December, were 29,421,000 lb.
The stock of Company's congou is 3,646 chests, and of
other congou, 21,219,000 lb. The stock of twankay is
2,159,000 lb. Both these are less than last year.
MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.—A brutal
and deliberate act of murder has been committed in the
neighbourhood of Stockport. The murderer is a middle-
aged man, named George Fox, a bailiff attached to the
Stockport Court of Requests, and the victim his wife.
The injuries which have caused the unfortunate woman's
death were inflicted on Friday night, at the Robin Hood
public-house, M'ddle Hillgate. Death resulted about
10 o'clock on the following morning. On this Fox imme-

diately absconded, but ga;;e himself into the custody of
Mr. Sadler, superintendent of the Stockport police, at
the house of his father, at Maple-bridge, on Sunday after-
noon. The deceased was drunk at the time of the mur-
der, which had so enraged the husband, that he took her
round the waist and dashed her head violently against
the slop-stone, which immediately became covered with
blood. A person present said, " You have killed the
woman !" upon which the prisoner said, "If I have not
finished her, I will do so." On being told that it was a
great shame to use a woman in that way, and that he
would be hanged for it, he replied, he hoped he should be.
The mother of the deceased stated, that the prisoner and
her daughter bad been married ten years. She was a
bonnet-maker. Witness on Friday night returned home,
and found deceased pressing a bonnet. Prisoner came
home about half-past ten, the worse for liquor, and ap-
peared very fierce. He said, 4. Thou's been at the Robin
Hood this afternoon ;" and she said, " I've not." He
said, " Wilt thou swear it ?" She said, " I will." He
went and fetched a Bible for her to swear it. During
this time deceased made her escape out of the house. He
said, " She's gone on no good errand ; she's a very
drunken woman." He then went to bed, and witness sat
up. Prisoner afterwards got up, and said that he would
go out too. Other evidence was given, which left no
doubt that the prisoner had caused the death of the de-
ceased, and the jury at once returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder," and the prisoner was committed to take his
trial at the next Chester assizes.

THE COLLIERS.—On Monday week, the colliers of St.
Helen's and the neighbourhood presented their employers
a statement of the rates at which they demanded hereafter
to be paid. The present rate of wages, we believe, is
about 6s. " per work," and it is said the men now demand
10s. " per work ;" but of the correctness of this state-

ment we are not, as yet, fully assured. Another demand
of the miners is, that they only work five days in the
week. The coal proprietors of St. Helen's held a meet-
ing of their body on Thursday last, to take the demands
of the men into consideration. Some difference of opin-
ion was manifested ; but the general opinion seemed to be
that the increase demanded is too great, and that it can-
not possibly be submitted to under present circumstances.
The proprietors are of course extremely anxious to pre-
vent a strike, which, if it should take place, will be gen-
eral and not local, and must so largely enhance the price
of coal as to cause serious inconvenience in all those
branches of the manufacturing industry of the countfy
in which coal is largely employed; but at the same time,
they are disposed to let the strike take place rather than
submit to what they consider an exorbitant demand.
The meeting separated without coming to any decision as
to the demands of the men ; but another meeting will
shortly be held to take the subject into consideration. We
are informed that the stocks of coal in the St. Helen's
district are now so reduced, that were there were 1,000
tons there are not now 10. This is owing to the colliers
having for some weeks past systematically carried out the
advice of their delegates so as to reduce the daily " get,"
that the stocks would be entirely exhausted previous to
the period at which the general strike, if decided on,
would take place. If the men should not lower their
demands, which is somewhat unlikely, seeing that they
are the result of the deliberations of the delegates of the
combined colliers of Great Britain and Ireland, and if the
masters, in the present state of the trade, feel that they

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TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on
Wednesday.

THE CASE OF SANDS, TURNER, AND CO

Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE considered the report of the
special committee appointed to enquire into the charges
brought against the firm of Messrs. Sands, Turner, and
Co., should take the precedence of the ordinary business
of the Council, as it involved a question of privilege.
This course was then decided upon, and the Mayor
having retired, Alderman Nicol took the chair.
Mr. SHAND said that, in the absence of the chairman
of the committee, (Mr. Bushell,) who had been indefati-
gable in his attendance, but who had unavoidably left
home, he begged leave to hand to the Council a copy of
the report.

The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK then read the following