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      swept away ; a number of cattle and pigs were drowned , and other damage sustained by the inhabitants . On "Wednesday week the house of Mrs . Harriet Stoner , of Birdford , Sussex , was entered and robbed by six young men , all of whom were masked , and all except one disguised with shirts over their ordinary clothing . Two of the villains seized Mrs . Stoner , and held her down in the passage , each of them presenting a pistol at her head , with terrible imprecations , threatening her life unless she surrendered her money . She gave them her pocket , in which were two canvas bags , containing about £ 12 in gold and silver , and they immediately made off . — Sussex Express .

      Joseph Ady has at length been stopped in his system of extortion by the Post-office authorities . Within the last few months Joseph has been mulcted in the double postage of some 4000 letters , which he had sent to various parties , and which have been returned to the Post-office . Although time was allowed him to pay the penalties , on a promise to discontinue his malpractices , he has , nevertheless , continued to send letters through the Post-office in as great numbers as ever , until Friday last , when an officer of the City effected his capture , and consignment to Giltspur-street Prison , on a warrant from the Treasury . It appears he is utterly incapable to pay the Post-office demands , and he has no chance of being liberated , excepting by petitioning the Crown officers . He is in his seventy-sixth year .

      A man named John Reynolds , who had been living apart from his wife for some time , met her at North Deanes , Norfolk , on Thursday evening week , and , after some conversation , attempted to cut her throat with a clasp knife . The woman resisted , and he , after inflicting one wound on the neck , and several in other parts of her body , stuck the knife into his own throat , and then jumped into the sea , where he was drowned . A coroner ' s inquest was held , at which a verdict of "Felo de se " was returned , and the body was buried by torch-light .

      Edward Edwards , a farmer , residing at Rhoscellanfawr , near Aberystwith , a bachelor , about forty-five years of age , of a curious and eccentric character , who is described as " following the magic art of divination or conjuring , and a frequenter of some of the most depraved resorts , " attended the May fair , held on the 14 th ultimo , and from thence until the 30 th nothing whatever was heard of him , notwithstanding the eager enquiries of his relatives , until that day , when about ten o ' clock in the forenoon , his dead body was discovered in the Hiver lteidol , near the new pier at Aberystwith , with such marks of violence on it as led to the belief that he died in consequence of them . Four young men , viz . —Morris Lewis , William Jones , John Rogers , and Enoch Jonrs , and a depraved woman , named Elizabeth Jones , alias Betsy Williams , are in custody charged with the murder .

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      In anticipation of Mr . Pagan ' s speedy retirement from Parliament , Mr . Sergeant Murphy has already entered the field as the Whig candidate for the representation of Cork . The Court of Queen ' s Bench , Dublin , has unanimously decided against quashing the return to the mandamus , which set forth that the office of Lord Mayor was full . The Lord Chief Justice , in pronouncing judgment , took occasion to declare that there was no ground for the allegations that the course pursued by the majority of the town council in making this return had been illegal , illusory , or unwarrantable . The effect of this decision will be to confirm Mr . Reynolds in the office of Lord

      Mayor until November next . The Conservative party have the right to demur , but the demurrer could not be argued until November term ; and the New Municipal Act expressly provides that the person who shall be in office as Lord Mayor on the 1 st of November next ( when the rrosent corporation will be legally abolished ) , is to continue as chief magistrate until New Year ' s-day , when the new corporation is to commence its functions . It is a settled point , then , that Mr . Reynolds is to be Lord Mayor for the remainder of the present year . The Ulster meeting on the subject of tenant-right took place in Belfast , on Thursday . The meeting , which consisted chic fly of farmers , commenced at twelve , and did not in

      close until seven in the evening . The leading points the resolutions were— " The rights of the tenantry to the benefit of all their own improvements , past , present , and future ; the rig ht of the tenantry , founded on their ancient custom , to a continued occupation of their lands , at a fair rent , as contradistinguished from a rack-rent ; and the hearty approval of the meeting given to the proposed tenant-right conference in Dublin , and especially to the formation of a tenant league / or all Ireland . It is stated that the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clergymen met in brotherhood on the platform , and that amongst the movers and seconders of the resolutions were ion Presbyterian , two Roman Catholic clergymen , and ten laymnn . _ . .. „ ., „ , .......... Gth of next

      The committee have fixed upon the . August for the assembly of the tenant right conference in Dublin . Representatives from all parts of Ireland are to attend . The Belfast and Cork Colleges have concluded their fir . st . session , and the results appear very satisfactory . The Xorthorn Whiff sta ges tha * the prizemen in Belfast inelude members of the Established and Roman Catholic Churches , Presbyterians of the General Assembly , Non-MibscriliinK Presbyterians , Methodists , and Independents . Sir Robert Kane , President of the Coik Col-1 << - ?" , in his address at the close of the adjudication , stated that , "During the entire session , the council hud not hud to take into official consideration a single case of misconduct or breach of discipline . "

      The ' accounts from Cork , Limerick , Kilkenny , and most of the other chief towns throughout Ireland , state th . it new potatoes , of the finest quality , tire already unilving their appearance in considerable quantities m the markets , and not the least trace of disease is to be observed .

      The town of Killarney was posted last week with bills announcing a sheriff ' s sale to take place at Derrynane Abbey . The sale was to be at the suit of some halfdozen creditors , and the sheriff ' s name appended to the placard was "O'Connell ! " At the Repeal Association meeting , on Monday , the amount of rent announced for the week was only £ 4 19 s . 8 d . The melancholy farce which has been playing there lately is now very near a close . Timothy Kelly , a footman , passing along Albert Quay , Dublin , on Monday morning , about ten o ' clock , observed a female plunge headlong into the River Liffey , when , without a moment ' s hesitation , he plunged in after her , and succeeded in bringing her to the surface , where he held her up until a ladder was lowered by the side of the quay wall , which the y oung man mounted with the woman whose life he had saved .

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      There are no complete accounts yet concerning the election for the Bas Rhin , but , such as they are , they are altogether favourable to M . Emile de Giraidin . The following is said to be the state of the poll , on the best authority : —E . de Girardin ( Socialist ) , 30 , 000 ; M . Muller ( Conservative ) , 21 , 000 ; M . Leichtenberger ( Republican ) ,

      10 , 000 . The prefect of police , Carlier , has addressed a circular to the commissaries of police of Paris and the banlieu , enjoining them to take vigorous measures' for the expulsion , and escort by gendarmerie to the frontiers of France , of all foreigners found implicated in political intrigues . In the National Assembly on Monday , M . Pierre Leroux amused the Chamber a good deal by informing it

      that there was in existence a work called " Telemachus , " which he had read to a child the other day , and in which they would find an excellent defence of Socialism . Notwithstanding the prohibition of the Prefect of the Gard , a bull-fight took place a few days ago in the commune of Generac , and a man named Gimenard was struck under the chin by the horn of one of the animals , and killed on the spot , and another man had such a violent fall that he broke his Icz . —Galignani .

      A dreadful accident occurred on Monday near Melun , on the railroad from Paris to Lyons . Madame Brueure , daughter-in-law of Baron St . James , travelling in the coupe of the diligence , was burnt to death before assistance could be afforded . The cause is attributed to some lucifer matches that had been left in the carriage . Between nine and ten o'clock on Wednesday evening , the promenaders on the boulevards and the quays in Paris saw all at once the northern part of the sky brilliantly illuminated by a meteor , and at the same time the same phenomenon was observed at Rouen , Boulogne-sur-Mer , and other places . — Galignani . Two English fishing boats were seized and taken into Havre two days ago by the French Government cutter the Myrmidon , for fishing for oysters in the part of the coast prohibited to English fishermen .

      In consequence of the evident impossibility of raising a body-guartl for the Pope by voluntary enlistment in Spain , his Holiness has informed the Spanish Government that it is his intention to abandon the scheme . The liisorqimento of Turin of the 3 rd announces that Monsignor Franzoni , Archbishop of that city , was set at liberty on the preceding day , the period of his imprisonment having expired . T ' he Milan Gazette of the 2 nd states that the telpgraphic wires which are being set up in the Lombardo-Venctian provinces and Tyrol have been cut in several pla ^ eB . . . _ . _ . _ ,,. _ . r .. _ : state that another insur

      Private letters from Palermo - rectionary movement took place in the neighbourhood of that city on the 18 th ultimo , when the military were ordered out , and , after a smart conflict , the insurgents were routed ! Five persons of the neighbourhood were taken up , but afterwards released , their innocence being evident . A rumour was current that a movement was to have taken place at daybreak on the 19 th iu Palermo itself . There are in the prisons of Naples at present no less than forty thousand political prisoners , and the opinion is that , frbm the crowded state of the gaols , the greater number of these persons will go mad , become idiots , or die .

      The Austrian Lloyds of Vienna states that a society of English capitalists has offered to the Ottoman Govern ment to establish railways from Constantinople to the sea and to Salonica . , The Hamburgh Constituent Assembly is to be dissolved ; the motion to be made in the Senate on the 10 th to that effect has been published . In the principalities of llohensiollern the Prussian constitution has been proclaimed , and the oath of fidelity to it taken by all the officials . The progress which the cholera has made in Prague is beginning to be fe . -irful . Twenty-seven persons died of this epidemic on the 20 th ult , and among them several highly-esieemed men in the upper circles .

      The Cape Town papers publish the heads of a petition which was to be proposed to the inhabitants for adoption at a public meeting announced for the 23 rd of April . ^ it prays for a single legi . slatuio for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope , » ticl for a suffrage to be baoed on the occupancy of a tenement worth £ 30 . Her Majesty ' s schooner Bermuda has captured and taken into Port Royal a Brazilian slaver with 2 . 30 slaves .

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      Lord Brougham made a long speech to a most inattentive audience in the House of Lords , last evening , on the necessity for certain measures of reform in the Court of Chancery . He referred to his own labours when Lord Chancellor , which seriouslyinjured his health , in order to show that something ought to be done for the relief of the holder of the Great Seal . The present arrangement for doing the work of that office was only temporary , and he would suggest that advantage should be taken of the opportunity to mature some plan by which the business of the Court of Chancery might be efficiently conducted . Throughout the whole of his speech the Peers kept talking to each other , as if no one had been addressing them , to the great provocation of Lord Brougham , who rebuked them several times for their uncourteous

      behaviour . The Encumbered Estates Ireland Bill passed through committee on the motion of Lord Westmeath , who gave notice that he would move the third reading on Tuesday next , when their lordships could discuss the amendments . The House having gone into committee on the Australian Colonies Bill , clauses 26 , 27 , 28 , and 29 were agreed to . On clause 30 , which gives power to her Majesty , by an order in council , to establish a General Assembly for the Australian colonies on the petition of two or more of the Colonial Legislative Councils , Lord Stanley , after briefly recapitulating the reasons which induced him to oppose this part ot the measure , moved as an amendment the omission of this clause and those which depended on it up to

      the 34 th clause inclusive . Earl ( they opposed the amendment , which after some discussion was negatived by a majority of one . The numbers being—For , 22—Against , 23 . The clause was then agreed to , as were the remaining clauses , and their Lordships resumed . The amendments in the Factory Bill came under discussion in the House of Commons last evening .

      The first were those of Lord Ashley , who moved certain alterations , with a view to provide that no child under thirteen years of age should be employed before six o ' clock in the morning , nor after six at night . Unless these amendments were carried , the children would be in a relatively worse position than they were before . He considered that five o ' clock was too early an hour for children to go to work , and that half-past eight was too late to keep them .

      at it . Sir Gr . Grey contended that , as the law stood , the labour of the children could never bo excessive , for they were only called on to -work for seven hours in one particular case , and six and a half in another ; that was to say , there were to be two sets of children , who were to divide the thirteen and a half hours between them . The effect of the proposition of the noble Lord was to restrict that time . Mr . Aglioxhy considered the whole question as re-opened , and that the factory-workers had a right to the Ten Hours Bill .

      Mr . S . Crawford did not think that children were suiheiently protected if they were obliged to get up at half-past four , or if ttiey were kept at work till half-past eight . The debate which ensued took the same course as in the committee . Lord It . Gkosvenoii , Mr . Fox , and other members , supporting the amendment , which was strongly opposed by Mr . Bright , Mr . Elliot , and Mr . Hume , who insisted that its practical effect would be to further limit adultlabour , and restrict the motive power of machinery . The House having divided , the numbers were—For thu amendment , 15 'J ; against it , 100 ; leaving a majority against the amendment of only a single vote . Immense cheering followed the announcement of

      the numbeis . Lord John Mannrrs then moved to amend the first clause by substituting " half-past five" for " six / 1 and " half-past three" for " two ; " the effect of which alterations was to make this strictly a Ten Hours Bill , which , ho contended , it was the clcur intention of the Legislature that the act of 1814 should be . Ho dwelt at considerable length upon the benefits which the ten hours' system have conferred on

      the factory population , and upuii the ardent desire of the operatives that those advuntuges should be assured to them , and quoted various passages from the letters in the Moruiuy Chronicle on " Labour and the 1 ' oor " in support of his statements . He ridiculed the notion that a paltry hull-hour secured to the master mumituoturerH by this bill was indispensable to enable them to compete with foreigners ; on the contrary , a large minority of the master-manutucturers of Lancashire knew that their interests had not been

      sacrificed by the boon conferred upon their working people , to whom , however , as concerned their education urui their domestic happiness , the additional half-hour ' s labour was a bciious evil ; it amounted to out ; -fourth part , of the time hot apart for tlio religious , moral , and mental education of tho rising population of the factories . Ho made a

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      Mk . and Mas . W . If . Sbouin's Concert . — On Friday morning these talented vocalists assembled a large audit-nce at the IJanover square J looms at their annual concert . They were assisted t- > y some of our most favourite concert-mom artixts in the vocal deparment ; and , amongst the instrumentalists , W- Thalberg contributed his powerful aid in two of his most popular fantasias .

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      POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , June 15 .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 15, 1850, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1842/page/9/