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 fust►an 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 baniiiiihe now carried on, not on principles of fair and honourable 000funapetition, but with a view to the destruction or utter ruin opponents. Live and let live, has long since been ,_ from their vocabulary, and speculation, wild, reekex tent, is the evil reckless, gambling speculation is now the prevailing system of doing linable Over-production, and that to an enormous globe—AmeriCa that has deprived of our manufacturing system ; it is that , tis of markets. Go into any quarter of the Indies, North or South India, Australia, the West Canada--or into any town in Europe, and you will find cargoes of British manufactured goods glutting every market ; and if everyimport duty now levied was repealed, and you -continued to you-now do; in twelie4no:ths, ifacture at Me same rate that the same state you now are, prtiomciearot! would be in eiractly tress, for 'want Of markets for your productions. the greatest dis 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 bedrdom, 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 he 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 =tress 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 lie 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 farther examination.