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THE STATESMAN.

lament this circumstance deeply, as I should most willingly
have waited upon her Majesty, with such a document.
" I remain, Sir, your must faithful serf set. '
"Samuel Thompson. " MILTON." • cuons amt.- .
. HIGH TREASON.—AII the persons in custody, against
" Curren-street. AIN INC 1920.
" lain ,-1
of the 1011! hinasttesntto. ilienkrnoonnwilne;:rieurthoefreoryoniptol.osfvinsour low whom bilk for high tr.:ason had been found, wire
.address to the Queen. voted by ther Iseahlartibi-tu brought into Court this warning. They were brought
Lord Milton, an
tants of Wakefield. and requesting me to guilt in presenting forward to be spoken to in parties of four. Besides
it to her Majesty, the 24 mentioned yesterday, there i. another, norm:*
" The only copy I have seen of this Address, is con-
tained in the account of the Merlins', as Inserted in ;he Leeds Frrryntotid, against whom a true bill has been found,
making thus. 25 altogether. ur these three, Thomas
Independent, of July Ugh, and if that be a correct copy. 1
hope I shall not be considered as meting disrespectfully to Ferrytoond, Amp; Smith, and Julio Picks., img, are
my constituents at M akefield. if I request of them to dig- not in custody, Twenty-two were this morning
pense with my personal attendance upon her Majesty, brought for
to the bar, k The Barnsley
or Orange-moor
the purpose of presenting It. I cannot eurmistemely with
what I feel to be my duty, as one of that body who will division were first called, and of them the first was
have to decide upon the truth or falsehood of the charges William Uonestire, a good-looking and well-dressed
against the Queen. do any
thing a Web may appear in soy young man.
degree to concur in a pub ic expression of an opinion uponOf the Huddersfield division, of ahem
there are only four, the first was John Peacock, aged
those eharges.—Lord Milton bring out of town, I shall. in
ease he forwards the Address to me. send it to Lady Ano forty-five. Each party, as they were arranged at the
Hamilton. the Queen's Lady in waiting, in order that she bar, was thus addressed :
may lay it before her Mnje,:ty. Mr, Justice Pani.—The grand Jury have found
I am. Sir. your very hiembk servant, trite hills against you fur high treason. It is my
" Samar/ Mongoose. " J. A. STU ART WORTLEY."
To which were returned the following Answers: duty, therefore, to tell you, that you have a right to
To LORD MILTON. apply to the Court to assign your counsel, nut exceetl-
Wakefield, Jelly tbsc moo. ing two. Wm. Conistive, what coutael do you wish
" Mir loan.--1 am favoured with yours of the 13th this to be assigned to you ?
morning. Thr Committee for the management of the Wake- W • Conistive.—My Lord, I hope you will give us a
field Address to the Queen, regret that you mem present it
personally to her Majesty, particularly so. SI we have few days to consider.
received the following letter from Mr. Smart Wortley, viz : Mr. Justice PARR—I cannot refuse that certainly.
[See Mr.Wortley's letter above.) Yon 'need sot be called up again ; Mr. Stately can
"Aslt is the particular wish of the Committee, that the tell me • let it be by Monday wit. Have you made
Address should be presented by a Member or Members of '
choice of on attorney ?
Parliament. they a ill feel greatly obliged to your Lordship
if you, will take the trouble of forwarding it to sonic Mem- W. Cotostive.—Yes. Mr. (heaves (of Sheffield).
her whom you can confide in, to present it to her Majesty.— Mr. Justice
PARR
.—Have you agreed, Mr. Greaves,
For the Commitit.e• or do you wish for time to consider ?
I have the honour to be.
Your Lordship's very humble servant. Mr. Oreaves.---sl with for time, if your Lordship
SAMUEL. THOMPSON, Jun. Constable. pleases.
" Riyht lion. Lord Milton." All the prisoners, in the first indictment, Id in
TO AIR, woevestr. number, made the sane reqUest, and obtained the
•• SYours of the 13th NI
.arekcerfiicledd, jthwittilmilitorian'irlir.°l;nd same indulgence.
hale communicated its contents to the Commiuer. who think Mr. Justice PARK.—You will bare copies of the
your excuse extremely frivolous, and that instead of repro- indictment, a list of the jurors, and also of the wit-
senting the Freeholders of Yorkshire. you only representthat is, I ' I f
nesses, sooner probably,
your own political principles. If you base the Address in
your trial, than is required by lasv. I shall adjourn
your possessionlou will hive the goodness to retain it till
application be made fur it, as we have written to Lord the assize for the purpose of having you tried before
Milton upon the subject. How you can be our very Amiable it is concluded. It will be sit weeks after the busi-
set-rant and refuse our undoubted right. us our representa- „,,,, here shall he ,
tire, when you had ao sacrifice to make is a paradox to— -
YOU!' s. very retpeetfully, to a iided. The adjournment will be
but the trials will not Commence till
" J.. 1. S. Wortley. F:sel.•• S. THOMPSON." I eight o'clock on the Monday following.
Mn. WO..TLET.A AN-WFIt. The prisoner. James Flowers, aged -19, was astir.%
" ewe:on-street. July IS. 1910. whether be wished for time to choose his counsel.
" Sue—l hare this morning received y.mr's. of Jelly 15, Heine very deaf, he replied, " Yes, Sir, I was forced
and cannot avid expressing niv surprise at the terms and
tune in which you hair thought fit to address me. from soy home."
" I shall hoarser say nothing in answer to so extreoedi- On the second indictment. only four were called ;
nary a letter. except that I shall obey the direction it con- ! the Ant was John Lindley (aged 50). They obtained
tains, as to retaining the address, if it conies to my hands,
the same time for naming their counsel, but they rem-
and that I utterly deny the assertion it contains, of my hay-
ing. " as your Representative, renised your undoubted dily named Mr. Carr, of tioniersal. fur their attorney.
right." 1 Mr. Carr was called from the other Court, and ex-
" I am, Sir, your iery humble ‘ieriant, pressed a desire to have tittle to consider, as he knew
•• J. A. STL ART WoRTIEV." I •
•• To Samuel Thompson. Jun."
LORD MILTON'S INAWRR. I nothing of the men.
Mr. Justice PARR said, that he should certainly
"it entteurth, July IS, ISPO. ! have time, and he should make an order in his case
"Sun—in compliance with your letter, which I received to see the prisoner. But Mr. (heaves could not have
this morning. I hair written to Lord Montano.., to lel that any further order, having already had two.
kr will either present the Wakefield Address to her Majesty, M R tmade the usual notion for list of
or pat it in Mr hands of stone Mbar Member of Partiaineat ' . r' I. A 24 it_._
foe that purpose. Had l-heen la town. I should most readily ;1ere" se ItsT see persons charged with high treason,
hare presented It. even if I bad felt that I could not nate and fur wring that list upon Mr. Maull, solicitor for
myself responsible for all its sentiments.-1 remain. stir, the Crown.
" Your very faithful Servant, MILTON."
Mr. aunties PARK granted the order; and added,
"Samuel Tkorapon, Jaa.•'
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that it might be mentioned at the bottom of the list,
The Rochester Meeting for the purpose of addressing , that the jurors need not attend till the Monday after
the Queen, was held in the spacious Corn Market Hall, the adjourned meeting of the e mission.
Several hours afterwards, when the grand jury had
and was as numerous and respectable as any Alerting •
ever held in that ancient and respectable City. the inislied their business, his Lordship said that he could
Mayor (being a Placetuati) having refused the use of wet discharge them. This would not be a discharged
the Guildhall. The resolutions were moved and car- commission. It was to be adjourned to Saturday, the
rigid without a dissentient rote. soh of September ; but unless they had notice, they
Tht• assemblage was composed of all parties, and would not be required to attend.
though a marked political feeling exists in Rochester, Pourtcat Ittorts,o.--J dm Blacker. aged 35, was
yet, upon this occasion, unanimity prevailed, and : charted with behaving in a riotous manner, and ex-
every one was gratified at the passing of the Resole-
. citing and encouraging divers disorderly persons to
lions, and tenor ofthe Address.
. riot and endanger the public peace. at Sheffield, un
Nothing can exceed the disgust which the conduct
the I nth of April ; and also with having in his pos.
:
of the Mayor has occasioned throughout the City. I session a loaded pistol. a pike, and other unlawful
The annexed ate the names of the Deportation :
Weapons, to endanger the public peace.
'Lord Binning and R. Bernal, Req. present Members ;I. Mr. Rums conducted the prosecution. The charge
was a riot of a most mischievous and dangerous kind.
James Barnet and John Calcraft, Esqs. late Members ;
Alderman Wood, M. P. Alderman It. Thumpaon, and Sorry he was to say that this was the second time be
II
II Alderman C. Thompsou, Thomas Hulkes, W. B. had to prove a charge of this kind against the man
Blenkiusopp. C. Larlin, and E. T. D. Hulkes, Emirs. at the bar; he had but just left this castle, where be
two
had imprisoned years for riot, when he
Her Majesty was waited upon un Saturday, by
headed abeen ..nost dangerous rabble in Huddersfield, and
1 Messrs. Larkin and Blenkinsopp, when she was pleas-
ed to appoint Wednesday next, at two o'clock, to te-
at the very time when the alarming disturbances at
ceive ti Address.
Barnesley and other places took place, and at a time
:
CITE or CANTERDURT.—A numerous and respectable when ail the authorities of the place were at Pomfret
meeting of the freemen and inhabitants of the City of I attending the sessions. The man at the bar had a
Canterbury took place in Common hall, OR Friday, "to pistol, which he loaded with slugs and fired several
take into i•onsideration the proceedings instituted againet times, but without aim. The object evidently had
her MAJESTY." The !lissom opened the Prer"dings by been to take the barracks, and the cry was " Hunt
reading the requisition, which he stated was signed by and e l•b
i rty .
forty-tour most respectable inhabitants ; but said, as he '" The jury knew what that clamour for
did not exactly agree with the requisitionists. lie should liberty meant.
withdraw. it must be observed that at this time the John Phipr, watchman at Sheffield, said there had
bIAYOIII neither knew the purport of the address or rem- been upwards of 21)0 persons assembled. They marched
lotion. Mr. Alderman COOPER was 'OM/Mk RIM+ in separate parties through the town. They were quiet
mouslv called to the chair, when Mr. CHALK addressed and peaceable. He heard a pistol fired several times.—
the meeting, and proposed' a series of resolutions, which, Ile heard the party that went down the hay-market
with the address were carried unanimously. en the shouting. The people were shutting their shops. It
business of the Hall being finished, the assemblage gave was half-past eight. Witness said to Blacker, "If von
three times three cheers for the Quaan. don't mind, you'll get into a hobble again. ' Blacker
replied, " 'l'Ouch we if you dare."
Joseph Prince, apprentice to an ironmonger in the
marketplace, was ordered to shut the shop at half-past
seven, because a number of men were beginning to as-
semble. His master had tire•arins in his shop. Three
other ironinciagers shut np at the same time. At half-
past eight he heard a pistol fired, just facing King-streets
The men all fell into rank like soldiers. IVirsess went
away and saw no more.
henry Girth, apprentice to a draper, heard them
shunting as they went down King-street. and beard a
pistol fired. A number said, " That is little Blacker,
the king." They went towards the Lady's bridge. lie
Lear.! many say, " When we have stepped the mail, we
shall do." Their eintialscrs were increasing. There were
upwards of 21/1/. He did not see Blacker, or ham hien.
' John Steseason, draper. saw about 200 assembled.—
There was a good deal of alarm. lie shut half an how
earlier than mina' in consequence. He saw the prisoner
in sompany with another. The primmer bad a long
pole, with a bayonet at the end. The other kad a stick,
with a Ow rp hottest:vont in die end of it.
William Snsith said his mother 'kept a epirit shop.—
While he stood* at the door, he saw a pistol fired. 1 bey
said it was lackey Blacker. There was a great crowd.
He followed them. sad saw Blacker loading bra pistol
from a roved paper. Blacker said to the people, 6, 44
my lookaceatio.ste:new
away were with se?

YORK AYSIZRS, JvLr 20.

COILN•EXCIIANIIE. JULY T4.—The Supply of Wheat'
Ease:, Kent, and Suffolk, this morning, being moderate
and the weather haying been unsettled during the major
part of last week, caused a tolerably brisk demand for
the finest qualities frum the above countries. Oa terms
from 2s. to :Is. per quarter higher than on this day week.
Barley is 2s. per quarter dearer, °wine, to the scantiness
of the supply. Beans and Peas, bade advanced 2s per
quarter, and the same improvement hiss been made in the
price of Oats. but the sales were not free at that advance. 1
Foreign Wisest ... . 78 Sti ' Ore, Pi as 44 401
Fine Ditto
English Wheat .... 70 fsti Tick loans lib 40
Fine Ditto
New Ditto
Rye lB 41 Feed Oats
Barley BS 44 Potatoe PM l3 SS
Fin* Ditto
1 Malt OB 76 Fine Olito
Fine Ditto ... ..... U 0 Fine pleat ea
White Peas (boilers) 18 48 deep & 0
New Ditto .... • ... 0 0 Rape Seed. per last £llll
81111THFIBL—
(To sink the Dad;
Beef . . 4s. Od. to es. Bd.
Simon . 4s. OiL to ris. 4.1.
Veal . . Oa. W. to Gs. Od.
Pork . . Se. IL so Os Od.
i Lamb . , Ss. Od. to 61. Sd.

per same at BIM.)
'CATTIII at
Beasts
Calves •
Sheep, es. . . . 17./118
Pip .

Witness.—Fin or six opposite to Jackson's.
Blacker.—He is right, my Lord, but as to the words,
for I did not speak any. thing.
George Hamilton, a priumrclioard loud sheeting shoot
a quarter before .:nec. Assam Blacker with a.eartridge
in his hand, and puilleg the top of .to load hie pistol.—
One division marched on; a few stood with Blacker at
Jackson's window. In Blacker's division, after a pistol
was •fired, there was a err of " Hunt and. liberty !"-..
There was a great deal oralarns Whenthey bail formed
into a compact body, there might he IVO or )tilt!.
Matthew Mall, apprentice to a scissor-maker, saw a
great crowd coming up he the read from the market-
place to the barracks.' He heard shouting, and saw
Blacker loading a pistol. They said they were going
to the barracks.
Blacker being asked if lie had soy questions, said be
had only to say that Johnson had perjtora himself when
lie hail-been tried before, and that he now said not a
word of teeth.
Mr-Justice Pant made some remarks on charges
against witnesses and depositions, and concluded with
saving, " Many take ostlis when they ought not."
Blacker.-1 es, my Lord, or 1 should not have two .
years in this prison before.
William Fox, constable, heard the shouting and the
cry of " Hunt and liberty 1" He heard them proposing
the West Bar as the 'rawest road to the beer-arks. Ile
heard them say, iv hen dispersing," Remember the 16th."
John Waterfall, constable, was sent off b Mr. Wort-
ley from Potufret un the morning of the 12th. He went
with several other constables to Blacker's. Blacker wain
on his board (tailor's). Witness seised a pistol, which
was placed over Blacker's heed; it was loaded with
Dings, primed and cocked. A bayonet was found close
behind Blacker. A long pole too was found, the end of
which was exactly fitted for the bayonet. (All• those
iustruments were produced.)
George 3/apples, constable, bad found the long pole
under the board, and, on searching prisoner's box,
found four cartridges containing sloe.
Thomas Smith, constable, drew the pistol, and had
taken powder and slugs out of it. The prisoner said it
bad been loaded with the same sort of stuff the day
before.
Joshua Johnson said the prisoner had expressed him-
self dissatisfied that the meeting was put eV, and said he
would have nothir.g more to do with them. On a another
occasion he said that he would not scruple to shoot any
magistrate, even Mr. Parker, that attempted to appre-
hend him.
The prisoner said nothing fur himself, and called no
witnesses..—Guilty.
Mr. Rust said, be should not halve done his duty
if he did not move that the prisoner's recognisances
should be entreated, for he had found sureties fur five
years.
Mr. Justice PARK.—Let them be entreated. His
Lordship then described the riot proved against the
prisoner as the most dangerous be bad ever become
acquainted with, either judicially or profkaionally.,
The prosecution bad been most mild and uiercifni, for
.the circumstances might have warranted a different
charge. "'You appear, Sir, to be a person of the
blackest possible heart and disposition. Your sett-
, tenet is imprisonment for 30 months, and recognisanres.
yourself in 40/., and two sureties in 2W. each, for 5
years longer. I hope you will never again set your-
self as a leader, for which, if it were virtuous, you are
nut tit."
Messrs. Rain* and Littledale were cootie'', and the
crown solicitor attorney, fur the prosecution.
FILIDAT. JULY 21.
Mee inn —William 014 field, aged 55, of Bradford.
inkeeper, was charged by the Grand Jury and the
Coroner's inquest with the wilful murder of Mary
, OldneW, his wife, on the 27th of June.
Mr..loxas made his election to pesseeed to-trial • *
'without Stainesby's evidence, and opened the cam
I thus to the Jury:—The charge, gentlemen, is wilful
murder, and of the wife of the person alleged to have
committed the murder. In the outset, I implore of
I you, for the prisoner, that if any rumours or prelimi-
uary enquiries have reached you, to remove their im-
pression, and to try the prisoner without prejudice or
' prepossession, but by the evidence, and the evidence
alone. The prosecution is by the town of Bradford ;
and the only object is, that justice should be done.
The prisoner kept an inn, called the Horst end Groom, -
In Bradford. It is not of the first rate, but the pri-
mmer acquired considerable property. He bad a wife
to whom he had been married for some time, and three
children living in the house—the eldest fifteen years
of age. There were some lodgers in the house, of
whom one or two shall be produced. Of the prism-
ot's antecedent conduct I shall not say one weed. eio
Sept what I am bound to say, that recently he and his
'wife had not agreed well together. On Tuesday
night, the sith of June, tbe wife was at home: the ~
prisoner came home not till late. In the house there
are two stair-cases : one from the outer door passage,.
and sonductiug to the bed room whete the prisoner
lend his wife slept ; the other led from the kitebein to
lauseher part of the house. A person of the name of
Wheatley bad retired early to bed, awoke before the
clock struck two, and hears' the cry of "murder !"
twice repeated. For reasons which 1 shall not men-
Iles, because I am pardeolarly anxious sot to step be-
red the evilest*, the importance it deserved was
net attached to this cry. All was then silent and still:
well it might—it was the silence and stillness of
death 1. At 5 in the morning Wheatley rose firm be
found la the kitchen, and near the bottom of his stair,
the body of the unhappy worno.n: she was lying an
her blood, obviously dead. He felt alarmed. and gave
the alarm to others. Was this murder? By whom
omonsitted ? Wheatley has no doubt that the cry of
. r proceeded from the room of tbe prisoner, sod,
Fary
the prisoner's wale. The voice Intl the vele* et
Outfield. Blood was traced from the bed-nsois
to the very spot where the body lay. The wettest
had before beet well is health. The surgeon saw a
neat number of diffensat injuries en her body ; .and 1
ons afeeid be will state to you hoe, that no scalene
"mid have produced the injuries of different hied!,
and on diligent parts. The nail of her death was
an erasion - The - and
the deceased
from -
blood

ruoa►.
he was
When
pea
atardered
the A-
wards
trust
the '

effusion of blood on her Imam. The prisoner and
deceaged were is the room togethee—in that roost
i which the cry of awarder was brim!, and to which
ad was tracod.—ood no othrt permit was in that
ax The primmer was aware of something violent i
was cognisant of what was occerringis the rosin.
on the Alarm was made, and the p r woo letp
aies
d tu, sod told by Wheatley that kis torts
rdered is bar own blood, ',How a* heap VP
d---d ieferaal Mick)* was 110#
rds the priorner stated alievialt laud
in my Enlist with] meads( from inattneary.
1 karned Ceased mid IM priannot's desittraltily
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