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man ‘ bef‘ inofl'ensivempltho peace, , ,

discha‘i'fge‘oof .hfiuty ;‘—at a time of o exciteme :- when the whole surfitce of society appamsmooth an .

untuflled! !! True, we are on the eve! sax Elect10p , but between whom is the contest? 'nie, the Patriot has just called “the Carbonear merit-ad the I'Irgbom; Grace 1mm, and the entire "Bay men” ms... but who has responded? The whole surf ofsociety, We repeat, was unmoved by a npple—andthe sanguinary act stands forth in all'its horrible defer-my, Without a,

But having giiefr: in theinost tinquestionable shape in which we could present them, the eu- ct’tmstances attending the personal liberty, of Mr. Lott, in which is contained the declaration that

there is a Ribbon Society in Newfoundland as terrible as any in Ireland, and which would se- cretly and surely punish any disclosure of its dark transactions; having shewn that a commit- ‘ f tee of the House of Assembly, instead of immc- 'eéfz'zéngn::wl:-us “k the “mam,” gm friends 9,. diater declaring rtsn'abhprrence of so foulauof- ",9 mm“ (“may have any ,ny), “hm,” 1,, ,5, pm. fences and recommending ‘0 lh9G0V9r501’ the bable fruits of this treacgierousnttaeki‘f finitqu 32sng ~ V r i ' ve of the uilt for them :——-Distrust an suspicion .w1 retro, ra . 03:: 01; remnglnquSh; disgpsh r318 policg may. be withdrawn, fishermen, mrtzcl'lll‘nlc’S, am inhgflt‘erslpf a leg as‘ - P '- -P h u thereb certain class, will be left Without omplyment; t 195; muffle, riot ‘9‘erf9'mg m.‘ e n.“ e" . y alone will be encouraged-who'haye aduirodsm re 1s. constructive] im licatin itself in the gurlty {0, blood, ,he-pmuamt gengmn amch‘imd begun Y P E V . _ deed; let us now turn to the consummation. to flowtowsrds'the Customs, lot Mn!er stop, Mr. LOTT proceeded on the business of his em-

certain towns which haveqpeenfrtgtledsr depredglpsq . i -- ~ . “Madmen ployer across Conception Bay, to Harbour Grace "n f'" ""° “"3” h'md" ‘ o a and ‘Carbonear, on Saturday the 9th inst. and on',

uit the colon in disgrace ‘ and'the prspects ofthoug. , _ grinds will bey‘overshadowéd With Do you Friday the 15th, there occurred what is detailed’ in the following deposition :—

think we exaggerate? Do‘you suppos we romance? Look about you and see-sec for yontelves ;. as sure » as you have heads on your shoulders, some” Will these NEWFOUNDLAND. » ' Nonbern District. Harbour Grace, to wit: . The examinaticn‘of Herman Lott, overseer in the

things happen. ._ . . “ Men of Harbour Grace, be up anddtn‘! you have . . expelled the tigers from your own comrfitiit , extend printing oflice oer. Henry Winton, Editor of the Pub: MW you, influence among you, brelhm e “where; ‘5 Ledle’h """Pape'i 3‘ 51' JOh“ 5: lake“ ,“P°“ 93m bring the ruflians to 'ustice, suffer the j to escape, before the undersi nod, three of Her Majesty a Justices drag the“, in“, the n t ofda y and you ‘ do much to oftlie Peace in an for the said district, the Fifteenth day at", that impending W, win-c “harming n assuredly of May, in the year ofour Lord One thousand eighthun- fa” upon Yobmzuu AND YOUR CH“ “3* ' dred and forty-—vvho saith, that on Saturday last, the 9th . 3,. instant, rrived at Harbour Grace from St. John‘s, on business his said employer; and on Wednesday, the 13th instant, he went from Harbour Grace to Carbonear, where he remained until this morning—that when re- turning from Carbonear aforesaid, this day, between twelve and one o’clock, he, this deponent, met 1W0 wo- man on the road, near asmall house on the left hand side ofthe road, on the top of Saddle Hill, going towards Carbonear, and in about ten minutes afterwards, when near the large house in the valley, which deponcnt has since heard belongs to David Connors, two men, disgui- sed with black crepe over their faces, ran out ofa thicket of woods on the right-hand side of the road, and imme- diately afterwards, two more men, disguised in a similar way, ran out oftlie woods on the same side of the road, when one of the two last men said, “ Long looked for is come at last.” De onent, seeing that the said four inert were intent to mo eat and assault him, drew asword from a walking-stick which he had with him, and codes: voured to force a passage through them towards Harbour Grace, and raising the said sword, he desired them to keep off, and not to touch him. Two of them then ad- vanced towards deponent, when deponent struck one of

(From the London Morning Herald, May 15.)

PERSECUTION OF THE JEVS.

The atrocious cruelties practise! upon the Jewsat Damascus, under the pretend ofjndici‘al proceedings, we lately comtnentd upon In language, though strong, quite iradequate to express our sense of the monstrous larbarity of which so many innocent persons have. been the victims.

This eastern persecution of the ngs, in the nineteenth century, strikingly resembles, in all its revolting features, the perscutions of the same expatriated people in Egland and other countries in the. ‘dark ages.’ The causes are, too, similar.’ Popularfanaticism has kindled the torch of popular fury against the Jews in Damascus, as it dil in York

12am sablow across his facelylvitl:l theflswopd, vrlhicl} cut '0.- L‘OHdbm ‘It has applied, a, maid then, t esai person and caused on to ow rom iis ace. - ‘ - g Them“, ,0 cu’,’ “kg 0“, ., Blood rm, blood) you b___,,, the instruments. of torture. It his gratified

a horrible malignity, and disgraced the name of justice, by the rack the screw, and the bloody scourge.

Our readers are aware that the tra ical occur-

wban another ofth'epaid four men struck depotient ii. vio- lent blow with his fist, which knocked deponent down, and he was laid hold ofby the said four men, and drag- ged some distanceinto the woods on the opposite side of the road. Deponont endeavoured to call out for assist-

ance,when, they stuffed his ears and mouth full ofearth fences 0f Damascus: in WMCh e monks , and dirt, and one of the said ersons kept his hand on

I . of the Latin convent were the chief actors, ffipzqufi'ingpu't‘h t: plrgviptdhimnt'rpip spfikjpzi’ofihlfy and the descendants of the ancient toasters of 0 B n e GPO e) W a I is . - . . . .o head untilhe becameinsensible ofwhat they were doing. Palesune the Sufi-Wm: °“g‘m“?d n, 8,“ accu-

ponent must have remained in this state furaconsi- sauon made against the latter of living mur-

derable time, when,on the return ofhis senses, liefound dered a certain Padre Thomaso of. the Latin

himselfalono, his hands and face covered wtth blood, convent, and his servant, for the Purpose of and soon discovered his both ears had been cutoff, and - th - b, d . t - I- .

were bleeding profusely. Deponent then mustered all u_smg air 00 m C" am "3 lglqus ceremo'

mes. This also was but the revival of the

monstrous calumny by which the f’bigots of

the strength he could and got into the road, endeavouring

to weed to Harbour Grace, but from weakness and loss

0" the Romish church, ages ago, raiseifin this and other countries of Europe gas. ' ' lar feelin ,

d, soon fell down. While lying on the road he was overtaken by a man who had on a shortjacket, to ,whom {do}? out called as well as ho was ablgjpid begged him m‘m [m gw“ m.“ mgc T "‘0" I then unprotected race in a sweepingftempest of, desolating cruelty; nor, while engaged in their

5 ‘A » or deponent mistuncs 1‘10 “‘- mm'm‘s‘“

rs uctanca, bur at length came and raised deponcnt pious work of torture and murder, did the fana- tics forget the more profitable labours of spolia-

‘ p, and led him a few yards towards Harbour Grace, tion. '

' :and then left him and went down a road by the side ofa fence, on the south side of Carbouear road, nearly oppo. site the house said to belong to Connors. De oncnt, at the moment the said man eft him, met angt er persgn V going towards Carbonenr who had on a rowu bo y . ‘ _ ' coat. None of the said fdur men had either hats or cops Ch'Ilhe. monbgous gctlon’ that the Jews Steal on. The man whom deponent struck with the sword “Shims an 9" them to "fake “59 Pf the" had on an old body cont, very much worn, and deponcnt blood in superstitious ceremonies, requires no 206mm the blow hehs'J gave him has lefiha “137k 0'; :Iis refutation. It is too absurd and extrava’gant for so and deponent t inks itis out o rig tsi c.—" iis ' r - . . depdnent further saith, that upon leaving Carbonear this seriousd milgumem' J rhe .fanlaucs have even dag, he had in his trousers-pockets seven dollars,,and afiserte t at the ews mmg hm?" E’IOOd in is waistcoat- ockets six dollars;before reaching the with unleavened bread, and partook lt,,0n Sizzfi-ltoxe, “3:110!” [Gimc‘ei thiuliigoietg di'cover?d certain occasions, as a religious observance. M. ve n rs in tin rouse - c e were mis- ~- - - sing, and this deponeiit verily believes that the four men Cmmleux’ Whose fiddless has appeared m our aforesaid robbed him of the said seven dollars. 1°01umn3r and Other lmeulgem Jew?» have ap' p’ealedto the written law of Moses, and the tes- timony of the Bible, against this malignant invention. They need only have appealed to’ the common sense and intelligence of all civili- zed people. The calumny is _worthy of the' means by which it has been sought to be proved. Monstrous malice calls to its aid it almost incredible cruelty. ' ‘ But there are confessions of the criminality

, ‘(Sianed) .‘j_ Sworn at Harbour Grace, ~~.ssto, before us,

HERMAN LOTT. the 15th duy'ofMay, A. D.

Tnonss szsos, J. P. Jam-2s POWER, J. P. Joun STARR, J. P. A true copy, taken from the original, 15th Mav, 1840. A. Muss, Clerk Pears. Here then is the exhibition ofa complication of villainies disgraceful to any country, to any community. Here’is the evidence of a secret society, entrapping and conveying forcibly into some sequestered place, in the dead hour of night, an inoffensive young man, for the purpose of extracting from him, under circumstances calculated to excite terror, the secrets of his em- ployer’s business; and he is, after the lapse of two hours, released with the injunction, that if 'he disclosed what had transpired, some undefined evil would be inflicted upon him by an unknown hand. He discloses what had transpired, as he was morally and righteously bound to do, and the threat is carried into execution, the parties the while eluding pursuit! It is plain that what has happened to the victim in this case may happen to ANY OTHER, be he whom he may; and thus, every well disposed man in the colony has _ ep interest in discovering the vile mis- creatiti, so that they ‘may receive the‘condign punishment which they so justly merit. His Excellency the Governor, we observe, has issued a proclamation, offering arewar’d of £300 for their.appreheusiou; but we are mistaken, if by .far the better plan would not have been, imme- diately to send a sufficient force to scour the country for miles around the scene of this trans- action, leaving not one road of ground un- trodden, nor any house unsearched to which the slightest suspicion could possibly be attach- ed ; for it will be remembered that, although the sum of £1,500 was ofl'ered for the discovery of the parties guilty of waylaying in the same spot, and mutilating a gentleman in the same manner, just five years'ago, nothing whatever has hitherto transpired to lead to their conviction. , With referénce to the case of Mr. LOTT, the Harbour Grace Star forcibly observes:

“ Here, then, is a plain and affecting account of one of

_ ’mpn barbarous outrages that has ever been perpe- , ed in _any part of Goo’s esrth,—pe otrated, too, tinting .c'ivilizerl men—within one , mile 0 - the Queen’s, sitting Judge—in the noon day—upon a private gentle-

(Signed)

Justice with her jaded rack and knotted scourge, is the ‘justice’ at whose barbarous tribunal the accused murderers of the Padre Thom have been tried. How is the sacred name of justice profaned, by being applied to the infernal pro- ceedings ofa court conducted in the s irit of the Inquisition, where the science 0 prac- tical jurisprudence is resolved into the science of torture, and truth is tested by the searching instrumentality of thumb screws, red hot pin- cers, and other ingenious modes of ascertaining the guilt ofthe conscience through the agonies of the nervous system. I A ., ' In Damascus, at the present dayfnnder the eyes of the representatives of the great European powers, this sort ofjudicial proceddt‘é, worthy? only of a court in Pandemonium, has-been prac- ticed upon a number of res ctablei Jewish merchants. It makes the bloo boil‘witli indig-i nation, to ,think that the representatives of European civilization should have looked on' and seen such barbaritiesinflicted upon their'fellow men without complaint or remonstrance, do 'we‘ say? One of these representativesot‘ European civilization, the French Consul, is stated actually to have been himself an active party'in the per- secution ‘of the unfortunate .Jewsi, while the Austrian Consul,greatly tohis credit, opposed the proceedings of the fanatics, and rescued, some intended victims from the sacrific .

‘ what did English influence in re- resisting or checking this atrocious ilrimolation of innocent members ,ofth'e Jewish faith on the altars of ‘a blood-stained fanaticism? We can- not that it did any thing whatever. The ’rutlil . ‘ fury of' the. savage persecutors, in for- turing and murdering the helpless objedfi of their frantic maligpity, does net-appear to- have met with any resistance or check whatever

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described: ‘ The seven‘merchants having deni-

of the Jews,’ say their persecutors. Confessions? .

ting that which you still Occupy

English influence stand so low as itdoes nofwflp; relation to. foreign, power in all parts 0 w?ll’gliat was‘called a ‘ confession,’ worked out of the sinevvs, bones and nerves, of an unfortqlnatte barber, and a servant. to a Jewrsh I‘mercf a3] , named David Arari,laid the foundation 0 h e most extravagantscenesi of outrage and_cr‘pe y. Seven Jewish merchants, including David ran, were put torthe torture, and under the inpue-n‘ple ofphysicaf agony, of course assented, at eng to anything which their tormentorp ppopose I that they should confess-Tfor such con esston obtained a temporary remissron of their tortures. «Bnt'this ‘ corifession’ was retracted when the ex- ternal force was withdrawn. The first experiments of tortu merchants were unsuccessful.

re on the seven They are thus

thin relative‘to any knowledge of the dgafliebl‘ Paglia Thomaso and_his serv-ant,lwere ordered to be bastinadoed, but it being rememé bered that as most ofthcm were of_.an advance age, they might» very likely die-under the first strokes, it was thought that confessron might be extracted by another species of torture. "lhey were consequently madeto remain standing for 36 hours consecutively, without being allowed to sleep. They underwent this torture, but per- sisted in denying all. After this trial they were beaten with rods, but this proceeding was soon suspended, for at the 20th stroke thesufl‘erers fainted away. As they persisted in their denial, the French Consul judged that the punishment inflicted on them had'not been executed accord- ing to the letter, and demanded that it should be repeated. This request was acceded. to-;~' but they continued to declare themselves. innocent. Ifthe statement respecting Louis Phillip 5 con- sular functionary be true, what a representative he must be of the enlightened understanding of ‘ young'Frauce’—-the France of ‘ July,’. and the liberality and intelligence of the government of the barricades! ' _ '

. But subsequently to those proceedings a Mahometan servant ofDavid Arari was induced by threats and promises to tell the followmg monstrous talen-that ‘ it was he himself who had murdered Father Thomaso in the house of his master, in the presence and by the order of the seven merchantsx under arrest, and. had received the blood of the murdered monk in a crystal vase, for some religious purposes to him

ployed to cut the body into pieces-«to brayin

mortar the bones and skull, and carry the whole away to an aqueduct that flows through one of the streets inhabited by the Hebrews, at a dis- tance from the dwelling of David Arari.’ It is said that some bones were afterwards found on opening the drain, at the place indicated by the servant. Ifthat be true, and they were human bones, no doubt some of the persecutors of the Jews had taken the precaution of placing them

'JID o l‘“’4FA H111, to W‘l'I was made, _ R. - The seven met ants were again taken up an

tortured; and, under the influence of this se- cond torturing process, they made that ‘ confes- sion,’ which we have said they subsequently re- tracted, . It is said that the French Consul has still fur- ther excited the ignorant and fanatic multitude by making public an Arabic translation of some execrable doctrines, imputed to the, Jews, and drawn from a Latin book, no doubt an emana- tion of the furious intolerance of the priest- hood. ' v It appears that M. Lgutin, the Consul General of Austria at Alexandria, who felt a truly Chris- tian and manly indignation at these atrocities, madeevery attempt to induce Mehemet Ali to interpose his power to stop the monstrous perse~ cution of the Jews. According to the lastrac- counts. we have reason to believe the rulfiof Egypt has effectually put an end to those dfli‘ol- ical proceedings; but we would have been bet- ter pleased if it had happened through English influence that-these demoniacal’outrages against justice and reason had been stopped, and the suffering interests of humanity protected.

A HINT TO MORE 'CLASSES THAN AGRICUL— TURISTs.—Some time about the middle of the last century, a landed proprietor in one of the midland counties resolved to keep his property in his own possession." Alittle time convinced him, as it had frequently done others, that a landlord is. his own worst tenant. He-therefore let one-half of his estate to a person who, was punctual in paying his stipulated rent. About ten years after this arrangement, he found diffi— culties increasing so that he was forced to raise money, and having great confidence in histeti; ant, heconsulted him upon the best manner in which it cog“ be done. “ Why, by selling that .part of your’jestate, which I possess, and reserv- . _ .”,’ "‘ Yes, ‘but. money is scarce—where am I to find a purcha- ser?” _“ Myself}?~ “ You, Who came in Straight- ened circumstances to occupy, at a high rent, only half of the property upon which I, the pro- prietor of the whole, was near beggared ;by farm- ing! Howrrare you enabled to purchase a moiety of my estate’l’! “ Simply because you, lying in bed, saidth your servants, Ga! do so and so. while I, using before mine, said, Come! do so and so. All my prosperity rests upon knowing the difference between Come and Go !”'

.STEAM PLOUGH.-—On Saturday, April 25th, a trial was made in one of the fields on» the estate of Possxl, near Glasgow, of the steam-plough, in- tended for, the cultivation of the sugar lands of >Bl‘lllsh Guiana. 'This triaf‘was completely suc- cessful, and géive great satisfaclio lite the it me- rous party w o witnessed'it, am' ’ wh observed Colonel Cam’hbell of P(ossil.)g ‘hzfiiidld was laid out similar to those in the colony, which have canals on each side running parallel with pne another. The machinery consists of ‘two iron boats, one contaifn'ing av'sma'll high pressure

from English influence in the‘East'Jj Neverdid

Efrem-sighs - with a. dr

'walls are in use in some parts ofthe Stite

unknownmthat the barber and himself were, em- ..

Alleged, and 11m 0 ugh. Multan-Fix > . every successive aftack, we hope ason,

endless chain or rope is c“, f v r 7‘ reversing pulley, by means of which (W a: rope is extended, and allowed to war I g a, way is required ; the ploughs are\att _ , fir

e to work kin-Skull! ' I with reat r 'dity'sn" ace “" Magic, whosge long :gslidence in the co . . w great practical eitperience of the work .y sugar estates, had directed his attention“, a considerable time put; to-the , and. a necessity of employing some at a power In,- perSede cultivation by manual about. " I? the steam plough, which was e . » those enterprising engineers, Me rs, Edington and Sons, Phcemx Iron orks, creat ingenuity in constructing and -v . ,5 ltshe variogas parts was very much ado-ii” aw a er. GgsngAMENgI‘JAL FENCE.+-1An article in the England ‘Farmer, recommends ad‘ki ' of which we think would be :very - v, ’ is a stone and sod wall, made by b I _ wall about six inches high, and th "5:. I a layer of sods, grass down,«thon:anotlreri of stone, doc. -,It should be eighteen i .3 wide at the bottom, and the width may bests ed to eight at the top.» The sods should . , outfull with thestoncs, and when the - ‘ completed sow grass seed upont‘hem. neXt season the grass will entirely cover wall, and present a beautiful appearance.