The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-10-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE."—At Manchester, on Monday last, Feargus O'Connor addressed large groups in a temperate speech. He was dressed in a fustian jacket and trousers, in order that he might appear as much as possible to be a " man of the people." Our manufacturers of late years have become positively insatiable; their avarice is unbounded—their powers of production have increased two hundred fold—their means of transit facilitated to an extent that has almost annihilated time and space ; three-fourths of the property that has changed hands during the last ten years, has got into their possession ; where they formerly lived prosperously on one thousand per annum derived from their business, they now drain ten; they have west-end houses, and country houses, and villas at the sea-side, and yet they are still unsatisfied ; we firmly believe Mammon has so completely blinded them, that to expect them to pause in their unholy crusade against every other class, would be to expect a miracle. Trade is now carried on, not on principles of fair and honourable a competition,ail but with a view to the destruction or utter ruin . orkPonents. Live and let live, has long since been banished from their vocabulary, and speculation, wild, reckless,doing gambling speculation is now the prevailing system of that has deprived extent, is the business, evil Overproduction, and that to an enormous globe—America, of our manufacturing system ; it is that Indies, Canada-or North of markets. Go into any quarter of the. or South India, Australia, the West find cargoes, of .Britia:, any town in Europe, and you will and if every immaonutactured goods glutting every continued. toninattetAftutciityure at the same rate that ana market; you now levied was repealed, przeaiyntottwould be in etract.ly you now do, twelve the greatest dtsthe same state you now are, tress, fit. want of markets ibr your proluctiti  John Lacy, one of the borough police, proved being sent for, about a quarter before seven o'clock this morning, to the Boot public-house, in the Abbey parish. On entering the house, the landlord informed him that a soldier' had committed murder in his house. On going up stairs to a bedroom, the prisoner met him at the door, and said, " Lacy, take me; 1 have cut her throat," pointing at the same time to the girl Pearce, who was lying on a bed in the room the prisoner came out of. Witness immediately seized him by the two wrists, and sat him on another bed in the same room. He trembled very much, and the upper part of his person was covered with blood. He had no shirt on, only his trousers and shoes. His face was -so much covered with blood that he could scarcely distinguish his features. There was no blood on his trousers. Witness asked the prisoner what le had done it with ? He replied, with a razor, and that it was on the bed where the woman was lying. He looked among the bed clothes for the razor, but could not find it, when Jane Pearce pulled the bed a little up as well as she could, and between the bed and the matress he found the razor he produced. [The witness produced the razor, which was covered with blood.] He asked the prisoner if he had any reason for committing the act, but he shook his head, and made no answer. The prisoner also pointed out to witness his shirt. On being produced, it was found to be covered with blood, and very much torn. The quantity of blood on the left side was the greatest. The prisoner washed himself in witness's presence, but had no wounds on his own person. He saw Jane Pearce lying on a bed with her throat very much cut. There was also a cut on the right arm, another on the right hand, and several more on her left shoulder, while the bed and the room bore ample traces of the prisoner's crime.  Several other witnesses spoke to many other necessary facts, and the prisoner was remanded for further examination.