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      pounds . ^* e Bdtoe jof * h *« rw&"Wa 8 heard fbr ^ more-thua ft mile distant . Charles Oraadliiwas * tamued in -tfce Fool . The b well of the Baxntan rffeamtr awuqped a boat containing him ana srx'Often * ^ he ^ others < wwe saved . A jury pronounced the death Accidental . J * ( Soaae ^ Httffi ^ fitom the incautious use of charcoal arerec « r < l « d ,, v ** 1 s » o children were recentlv suffocated in theColcfeMftsi workhouse . A woman and tout children applied for sh ^ hori ^ accommodate theoo they were put in an out-house . TbeinaBtet ordered * *** coke * fire to be lighted ; instead of S- * he -servant Slighted " tshareoat . " A labourer at Chudi , Etevon , although previously warned , used charcoal , was found dead .

      . aouipsAl , of railway AccnJKurrs . HojjA ^ . —rtw > CoJfoiow * . —The late severe -frosts bad rt&rarea the rails exceedingly slippery , and the utmost caution 5 to prevent accidents had to be used along the various lines . Hhe 12 . 40 ^ p . m . mixed train left St . Helen ' s station with about thirty passengers , and was slightly behind its tuiae np < p inching the Oik-tree station . Here the Huncorn Iiise crosses i&e "St . Helenas , and just as the passenger train ftomthe latter place had go £ to the crossing , it was met by a nyg ^ e > irfhx proceeding to Parr . The engine driver ol thi 8 'ttaiQ , i ^ cli at the moment was descending the incline , upon Beeing the paasenger train from St . B ^ fed ' s , instanfly endBMVparedto-8 top the engine ; but such-was ihe slippery state 6 f ; ihdB rails'that the breaks -wotfla not act , and a violet < ch ^^ ensued . The engine belonging to ; the lugfiaee tew Btrucki 2 lie engire whicn was attached to theTjas

      seneer train , shattering the letter almost to pieces , and . profrcing a > ery , great concussion of the carnages , which forJSn « lp | yj however , ^ e As may * be ^ a ^ aeii ,. w . greatestconsternation jppevafled amongst ip&ljiaBiisiigpxs . ^^ Bevere biuises ~ from tfie / violence lor ' ste Bhocls . "Those of'the passengers who ; vra ^ iijuTeWwere ; j > ronjtoi \ y at tended , to in the station by ' ]^ JBlw de ] L surgeon ., of m Helen ' s , "who was in the neigh , hftiirhood ^ tinga ;^^ Oak-tree station upon hearing of Hie accident . The second occurred on the Midland Counties line . Tbe i ? beel 6 T % horse-box attached to --a paasenger-trairt broke ; &e tfsrtt-vto brou ^^ alug ^ age-itiajn , following i % "Was obl&ed To take trp m similar position . Foe-signals ' w ^^ Iacea ' jdpwn % e life « £ and . one of these had the effect ! oJ ^ ppj % ^ tiJe ^ ig ^| wg ^ fiEhe e ^ KsJ ? , whidh ran into the van to s « thatSeiu ^ w ^ n right , wheniiistie ^ d struck - against the arch of a ; bii ^ e , aiid he was kiflei ' -

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      HEAILTH OF JHOJSDO'S . Xfcm fa Registrar-GeneraTs Returns . ') ¦] This deaths m Xond © n registered in the week thatended last Saturday amounted to IG 56 . Coroners' < cases , thatiba * e ibeen . laccumulating for some time , and'arotnow ^ i ^ iB ^ ereft « t the end of the quarter in ' unusualnumber , hav « partl y Contributed to produce Hie excess : ' -The mortality has ibeen Taised -principally by ^ tiprerfty ; c | f Tthe weather . ; 3 a l ^^ n / pox ^ pd ^ ding weeks of the years 1843-5 $ , Jthie average number of deaths was H 6 O , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , be- ; comes 127 * . There i » . an excess in the number actually returned above rthe calculated amount . of 880 . ¦ « .

      Tile deaths arising from disease * of the Tespiratoryorgans rose hist week to 347 , while the corrected ' average for corresponding weeks in 250 ; to bronchitis ' til are attrioHlfed , * to pneumonia 118 , to hooping- ; cough € 5 . 'Ten death * . from Cholera were registered ' in Qib week . ' ""* X «« t weekihe births . of 791 boys and 775 < girla , ui aU 4566 children , were registered in . London . In the eight corresponding-weeks of the years 1845-52 the average tnumbenKas 1299 .

      At the Boyal 'Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the 'barometer in the week was 23 * 835 in . ' The mean temperature of the week was 29 deg ., ' ¦ which "is 8 * 4 aeg . below the average of the same weeTc in 38 years . On Thursday -the air -was cojdeslrf ana on that-Tday . the highest temperature waaonly 31-5 deg ^ the lowest 18 deg ., and the mean 24 1 deg ., which is 13-2 deg . below the average . On Monday the ^ meau wa s IO-1 leg . below the average , -and on ftretother days it man from 4 deg . to $ deg . below it . The mean dew-point temperature was 24-7 deg .

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      A MODEIi SCOUNDREL . Bbnjamjh M'Donnal , % private in the 50 th Begiment ^ nwr at Plymouth , recently confessed that he murdered a girl named Bundle , on Roborotigh Dowi ^ He killed her with a stidk , and carried tiie Iwdy to a place of concealment . Ab yet ^ e depth of the snow has prevented an investigation ; but from the subsequent acts of the man we see no areason to doubt the aconracy -of iiis confession . Of course he was immediatel y placed in oustody , " The prisoner , " * ays the Plymouth . Mail , " was confined in the military prison at Jtfernnport , awaiting a court-martialfor deserting his regiment at Plymouth and m the course of the ordinary discipline enforoed in the prison , the soldiers me drilled and exercised bb usual . On Fndaj afternoon tho prisoners were thus engaged , and it appears that , either before or after thedriJI , M'Donnal secured a large knife , and secreted it in fcifi olotheB , for what murderous purpose the sequel will show . At seven o ' clock he rang his bell « fiid one of tho warden , named Sparrow , entered the cell , upon * hich M'Donnal ST ^ ft ^^ ^ r'T ' . ^ ' / 0111 ^ hlra *<> th « noor , drew the knife , Tvith which he inlhctod Hoteral severe and dwp wcunds m various parts of the body , and other ^ e injure ? fJr ^ ° ? f > ma " - , f W r '( thl ? in a * ° ^ '^ Fortuned ioj mercy , and beggec ] for life , but tho wretched maniac for

      a time-conturaea 'to prosecute his murderous intention ^ ojitU ov § nK > me by the cries ^ of tke warder , irseU'he- desisted , hut only ^ bn , the ground that he would state it ^ was -hist ( M JDonnaTi > intention to muider him . Sparrow said he , would . say sty . lie would do anything for the safety of hjs life , and accordingly ne was j > ennitte& to escape . A . * court of uifluiry -was held on th « e next (^ Saturday !) afternoop , art three o ' cIock ; and with the laudable desire to drive oat ' his reported ^ maaness , or with tie other desire , to fasten it in him , Qie culprit-was sentenced to receive : tifty lashes on bis bare back , > and to undergo six : months' impsaoament . At four o'clock , - an lour after the deliberations of-the court , the CQcporealipxuiishnieat was inflicted by the drununers of ; the ' flOtb , and , iu . deinej £ pom fche . manner in wbicii they ^ dealfc ^

      oat their favours , they regarded the disgrace "brought upon , the zeguuentmta every feeling of indignation . The fellow , however , hardened as he appears to be in crime , didnorpw- ' < eess a very hardened skin , lor as lash aiter lash fell on ihis luckless'haci , his ' shrieks and cries led tine soldiers who ! aooked on to designateliim as a ^ coward / M * Donnal Wmow in hospital , ana when lie is sufficiently recovered , anj eacort will proceed to Boborotigh © owntfco nuake the s * arch aiow so ( much desired to settbeimyrter-y at ateat . After he 3 »« dheen-flagged on -Satntday , . ft | r . 'C ^ ffond ; the ^ uperitendenl \ wf ^ he 'D eTonport ; police , again jiifoeeeded < te the prison , and ; stated to Jf- 'JOmuDal lite vasiooB circumsttawiesaitfcendinghifi , xase . The prisoner again xepe&tedJus formsr assertions ^ anfl jstated that at a small place aiear iSolton , la Lancashire , he '

      ! anadehis escape ,, when three others , not solfliecs—Tor heiras ; mot then ^ nnsted—^ Tstere ia-axsJiBrted for -twenty-one yean « ach , fox a desperate rohbery isommlttel ly TOera . WliBe ihe was at Preston , and in hospital , he conduoted 'himaelrf in a singdlar manner , % yjairn } ing * out of bed andiphBeing I utensils on his Iwad , wifli which he walked about the troomi , and on cone 'occuaon &e > thrjBwione -ai -them -at ithe ' jsurgaon ^ s head . lEhis is thetundof ^ uiau —« ay , this iatiwj man' —who < bas confessed to * smarden committed jon Bo- Jborongh © own . ; -andheAllegea thatie ^ diiit at AHime wheaj mo human eye could watch Jus hand or mark the countemaucfiofihe < nauiderer . Many ask 'Is iis statement true ?''

      Wjs reply ., what possible reason can there he alleged i » doubt , its / accuracy ? ' The man-appears to tare for nothmg , -mt '; feyen 'for 4 fhe result ^ fee mve 8 rigafion , ^ otild ^ % earMi ^ pi ^ Ihun . An 3 , in connexien -mm the sbaro , we ^ msy atia * uanother fact . Mr . 'Giffoffl lias already made- iaqnbeSaBJi , 'specting the ^ gld 'fiundle , cancl the other Temales' ^ Rho fu&tvnd ^ the JdQth&o this town fully corroborate that paxfoof thestate- \ irnent which refers to her abseace in October Jast , ^ race whi ch : Itime they-have Jieard aipthiog of her , Jlseryihing which , , ! bas up , to this moment t&uispired relating to . the Alleged itraac occurrence we have detailed above , j and as soon as SM'Connalcan uroceed to the Down we promise our readers the reBnlt . We rseoi scdicelv nrr that fttt ' fidfb ltatn ^ r *» n

      'feel much disgraced bythe aiscfoeirre , be it true or iklse :, land every solcKer , as anadonsly awaits th « result asJothe ' rpublic at large . " )

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      MISCELLANEOUS . ; tEiJEAflAiCT times at Windsor Castle cas well as othert tphice 8 . Erinee Albert and his sons have been « kat-i dog in the presenceof toe ^ Qoeen . ; snd her Majesty > ihas been driven out 'by ithe OBiinoe in a . « ledgel New I "Year's gifts were diBtributed by tfhe Queen , on ? Saturday , to the poor of WindB » r . On Tuesday , ; iher Majesty and : £ rine « Albert vi « ited the Photo-1 Igxaphic exhibition . Frinoe Albert : went to -the 'Studios of the sculptors , Bell andSailey < . The Bake-« of Beaufort ^ ielivered up . the insignia of the garter i warn by his -fathec . The Duke of ^ Cambridge , Iaord i Hardwicke , iLord Shejiume , L < ord JLaoBdowne , If r . I Gladstone , and Sir Charles Eastlake , huve been the ( guests of the Queen . * -

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      Parliament wasfoivially prorogued on Tuesday , by Royal Commission , until the 31 st January , then to meet for the despatch of business , as ahready staged The CommiBsioners were the Lord Chancellor , Earl Granville , and the I > uke of Argyll . J ^ The convocation of tlie prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury was prorogued 1 on Wednesday , according to the tenor of the royal wtit , by iDr . Travers Twiss , Ticar-general of the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury , and metropolitan , under

      a special commission from ! hiB grace to that effect . His grace ' s commissary , attended by Mr . Francis Hart I > yke , the registrar of-the province , attended-at the Jerusalem-chamber , when his grace's commission waB read by the registrar . The learned comnrissaryiihen directed the royal writ to be read at length , after which the schedule of prorogation -was readand signed by the conamissary . In virtue of this document convocation will meet , " for the despatch of business , " on Wednesday , ! Feb . 1 .

      A Cabinet Council , attended by all the members of that body , was held at the ^ Foreign Office on Tuesday , and sat three hours and a half . There was another Cabinet Council on Thursday , attended hy all the [ Ministers except Lord Lansdowne . The Council eat four hours .

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      Reports were current in town on Thursday that Lord Hardingc had resigned , thatXord Raglan would succeed him , and General Brown resume his post as Adjutant-General of the Forces . We arc enabled to state that the resignation and changes in the Horse Guards , reported by a morning contemporary , are-quite unfounded . —Gltibe .

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      The Russian Government , it is said , has informed the persons interested that the railway works at present in construction will be suspended .

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      towl Ingestrie has arrWed in England . He will , as a . Liberal Gon « ervataTe , contest Staffordshire with Lord Paget . The day dor the 33 ast Slottcestershire election is fixed -for Monday ^ polling or Thursiiay . There haB ^ beena meeting at Belfast to express sympathy wifli Turkey . 'The i resoltttnons « how that the manufeeturersof Belfast , like all 5 the = worid , 'aesire peace—if peace with honour he ^ cactic » hle . *' The people of Marylebone are abont ^ to ^ iold a public meeting "to taikfi into consideration'the -present unsatisfactory conduct dFber Majesty ' s Gabuiet ia reference to Turkish affa i rs , and to humbly ptay her Itfajesty to take to her cotmcUfladnstatesmen as jwiII mwint ^ n tb « honour of England-and the integrity of the'Sultan'sdommious against thoatrociouBucewBsiou of the Autocrat of Russia . " 'After some

      * - discussion 4 t was resolved fhat theuaeiof the vestry-hall heigrantea < graitattou « l y . Had ^ wncer is appcttnted Lord -Hirfi ^ Steward of her Majes ^ B * ouseh 6 ld , in thep » om . i > f * he Bube ^ of Sfarfolk . Lord « aildford , Master of the hospital iof St . Cross , hasresigned two livings he heW in ^ eonjunction with -that bene ~ ifice . As lie has held the ^ bree many if ears In viblation of thel « w , it is calculated tlmt he hasillegaUyTfexiwvea 90 ^ 000 ^ from the hospital . Steps will be . taken 5 toflrecover'tbis > sam . The consecration of the Bishop of Limerick , Br . Henry iGhriffin , took . ^ Utce on Sunday , 4 u Trinifcy'Gollege Gbapel . The jBonsecrating Bishops -were the Archbishop of Dublinand , the B-ishopsoftGork ^ and . Deny . The inihabitants of Limerick , including some 'riotablea among th < Roman Catholics , have presented an address to iDr . Enggnr ^ the late bishop , regretting his tranelat ion from tthat see , aad signifying their high appreciation of bis conduct iwbile among them .

      IThe Portsmouth Town Council "having resolved to take a moll df tba burgesses upon the queetion of establishing a iPnfelic Library « nd Museum 'under the provisions of the IPriblic Libraries Act , 1 SS 0 , Buch ^ poll was-taken , when there were 1099 votes against * heproposal , and only 187 in favour of it . It had been demonatratea tthat the cost to the smaller classof housekeepers would not have been more than 3 d . jper annum for -carrying out this excellentwoject , but a idread of increased taxation , joined to local party feeling ,, ( produced the above result . The above numbers together do mot conrnriee one-tenth of those > entitied to vote on the question in Portsmouth . The mother > of Ms . Thomas Gwlyle died on Christmas day . at Scotsbrig , ) Eccl « fechan . Mr . Thomas Oarlyle and ibis brother , Dr . CariyJe , were prasenk A conversazione wkb beld at the London Mechanics'

      Insti-( tution , on Wednesday ,, with a view of rousing its-friends and '; saupporteis to new and vigorous action . M . Pierre Didot , tson of Ambroise Didot , and brother of IFmnia Didot , died three days . ago in Paris , . at the age of * ninety-three . The funeral of thia senior of the French { press took place at thia cemetery of Montparnasse . — Galtgndvi . The [ arrangements of die Metropolitan Poultry Show , which 'is to tale place at the Baker-street Bazaar , are now completed . Upwards of 1100 pens of poultry , ^ exclusive of extra iBtock , have been entered . Amongst the exhibitors are tho names of "Prince Albert , " Lord Robert Grosvenor , Lord Berwick , Lord "North , Liewt .-Colondl Choulboum , Lady Gilbert East . The number jof ; pens , incl uding pig » ons and rabhite ,. amountsto fiSOQ .

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      Lord Phinket , a ptoaiment name in ibish history , died at his ( residence in Wicklo-w , on Wednesday . He was born in 1764 , and was therefore ia his 89 th year , " Throughout the 'first quarter of the present century the bar of Ireland waa rarely adorned hy talent and learning . Tar above the most eminent of his order stood "William Conyngham Plunket . He had not perhaps the legal lore of Saurtu or Burton , -the fine ( genius of CuTran ^ ortliB graceful elocution of Busho , but he was the most efficient adrooate that Ireland ever produced . | He addressed a jnry or a judge , an English or an Irish laudiencD , a fielect conntnftttee or » popuhtr assembly , with i

      eq Dal newer and success . A supporter of Tioman Catholic ichtimtf , lie still contrivai to win and to retain tho eufrVagea iof Dublin Univeraity—> -x hiwyer indurated . by the practice of I his profession , he whs jyfct a l « gwlajxir and a politician—a fbiming patriot With ftrattan , Tlood , and Charlemont—a supporter of Addingtoh and afterwiirds df Pitt ; on tlie death iof the latter , an aristocratic Whig swearing by Charles Fox ; a Grcnvillite In Percival's time , a Tory with Lord Liverpool * a partisan of Caniiing "Upon favourable tertns , and a 6 taancn Liberal with Melbourne and Grey . He bsgan the wv > r ) d "vvith scarcely the position or £ he resources of a gentlemnn , but long 'before old age could quell his keen -ambition he had won a coronet for himself and a mitre for his eon . places for several of liia family , together with ease and opulence and honours ,.

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      We undentaud that an official letter fiom Xax 3 tPalmerston , ascSecretary fbr the ^ Hoaaeltepartmetit , ihas been received tbi « weekby aur , civix : authorities , [ requesting to know ^ particulars respecting some war steamers which his lordship was informed were building on the Clyde for the Emperor of Russia . Sis lordship has , we believe , been misinformed on the subject , as there are no ships ^ building here for the Czar ; Taut there are at present -being constructed ftwo pair of powerful firBt-chws marine engines and machinery for war steamers , by one of lour first

      engineers , who is under contract to hare them at CironBtadt in April , and fit them up in the Tes 8 el » these by biB own workmen . Although there are no ships building here for the Autocrat , we have reason , to believe that his lordship may hsarn 4 su > methingon the 'subject If ne institutes inquiries on Ihe banks of ihe'Tyneor'Wear . This step on ^ lhe part of Lore Palmerstoia -would indicate a firmer policy toward * that aggressive Power than has hitherto characterised thje proceedings of Government since the present Eastern difficulty commenced . —North Britisfc

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      l | - THE IiBAPJMeL £ 8 ATtnEiDAY , . ¦ _ . . ¦ ' _^^^___ ¦ iC % , _^^ ^^ ^— . ^^^" MW "' *""^^ ^ ' *^^^— i ""—

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 7, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2020/page/10/