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Health of Loxdox Durixo IHE Week . —In the vreekendiiig last Saturday , the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 931 . The return continues to show a considerable decrease on the weekly average , which is 1 , 162 , as calculated for increase of population , from the mortality of former autumns - bat it exhibits a slight increase on the returns of the five weeks immediately preceding ; during the greater part of November the deaths fluctuated between 837 and 893 . The increase is apparent to deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs ; hooping-cough carried off 23 children , about double the number of the previous week ; pneumonia , 9 i persons ( of whom 78 were under 15 years of age , ) being an increase of twelve
on the previous week ; asthma , 21 , an increase of 9 ; and phthisis , 134 , an increaseof 39 . Thedeashs from all epidemic diseases were 173 , whilst the autumnal average is 307 . The fatal cases of typhus have declined to 45 ; those of diarrhoea anddy-Eentry were 20 ; and only one death is returned as caused by cholera , and in this . case the deceased sunk under debility , the consequence of two attacks ofthe disease which she had suffered previously . She was a woman of 27 years , and died in the southsub-distnctofthe City of London . A case is recorded in which the fatal diseases ( atrophy and icterus ) were the result of intemperance . 12 women died after child-birth . In the returnifor weeks ending September 22 nd and 29 th , diagrams ¦ were published , showing the deaths from cholera
to every 10 , 000 inhabitants , in each district of London . A tabular statement is now given , showing the mortality from cholera in 58 weeks , in each of the sub-districts into which London is divided ; the population of each sub-district , the deaths from cholera to every 10 , 000 inhabitants , and tbe number of inhabitants to every death . To take a few examples : —Iambeth contains 8 sub-divisions ; in Waterloo-road ( first part ) the deaths to M . OflO of the population were 159 ; in Waterloo-road ( second part ) they were 145 ; in Lambeth Church ( first part ) they were 112 . These places are in the neighbourhood of the river ; but the sub-districts which are more remote , presents more favourable results ; for in Eennington the deaths were 110 to 10 , 000 inhabitants ; in Brixton they were 79 , and in Norwood only 7 . Wandsworth and Camberweli also exhibit the greatest contrasts in the comparison of the subdistricts into which they are severally divided , the deaths ranging from 17 in 10 . 000 in Putney to 175
in Battersea . and 1 S 2 in Streatham and Tooting ; from 5 in Dulwich to 182 in Camberweli ( sub-district . ) In St George Hanover-square , the Belgiave sub-district , which is of low situation , suffered a mortality of 33 in 10 , 000 ; while the average of portions more favourable situated , was not more than S . In St . James , Bermondsey , the rate of mortality was 203 deaths ; in Rotherhithe 270 . The above are some of the general results , but in the table the sub-districts , which contain workhouses , hospitals , and other public institutions , are distinguished , as allowance must be made for persons taken into them from other districts , after they bad been attacked by the disease . The births registered in the week were 1 , 201 , —The mean hei g ht of the barometer in the week was 22-803 ; the daily mean -was above 39 in . on Tuesday . The mean temperature ofthe week was 34 deg . 5 min ., and was lower than the average ofthe same week in seven years by 9 deg . 1 mm . On Wednesday , the daily mean was less than the average by 17 deg . 5 min .
Fire and Loss of Lips . —On Saturday evening last , Mr . H . M . Wakley held an inquestat the Brown Bejr , Broad-street ; Bloomsbury , on William Martin , aged sixty , who had been a respectable tradesman and an overseer , but , ia consequence of altered cir cumstances , was lately compelled to take shelter in the crowded lodging-house , 26 , Great Wild-street , Drury-lane , which was burned dowa a few days since , and in which fire deceased' perished . —Joseph Gerard , fireman of the London fire brigade , stated that the fire , the origin of which was unknown , broke out at five on Wednesday evening week , and was extinguished at nine o ' clock , when he found
deceased lying dead on the floor of the second floor front room- —Ellen Smith , servant of Mr . Sullivan , the proprietor ofthe house , said that there were thirty-six beds in tbe house , and that between 40 and 50 persocsslept there . When thefirc broke out deceased was confined to bed by rheumatic fever . The fire destroyed deceased's room—Other witnesses proved that the fire originated in the rear of the Loose , and that several of the poor lodgers sustained great loss by the fire . One of them , named O'Mara , saved his life by jumpm . ? out of the window . Verdict— "Deceased' s death was cause by the fire , but there was no evidence to prove bow the fire originated . ''
SunoEx Death is Lambeth Church . — An awful instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred on Sunday during the performance of divine service , in tha parish church of St . Mary , Lambeth . The officiating minister had just commenced reading the Psalms for the day , when a respectable inhabitant of the parish , named Stickley , who resided at No . 3 , Walnut-tree-walk , and has for some time past occupied a seat in one of the galleries ofthe church , was observed to stasger and fall to the ground . The " street orderlies" of the district , who attend the church regularly , were called to the spot by the pew opener , and with their assistance the unfortunate gentleman was conveyed into the vestry .
were he was immediately examined by several medical gentlemen , who at once pronounced life to be extinct . The Rev . Mr . Dalton , the rector , having retired to the vestry , instantly recognised the unfortunate man as a regular attendant and communicant at the church . Mr . Superintendent Rutt , who happened to be in the church , at once gave directions to some of his officers to procure a stretcher , on which the deceased was shortly afterwards conveyed to bis late residence . The awful incident created much excitement in the church , and the service was delayed for a few minutes in consequence . The rev . rector , who was very much affected , alluded , in very feeling terms , to the occmrence in the course of his sermon .
Suicide op a Cigar Meechaxt . — Oa Monday night , Mr . Payne held an inquiry at the Punch ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , on view of the body of Solomon Barraclougb , aged fifty-four . The deceased was a tobacconist , and carried on extensive business at 46 , Eudgate-hilL—Charles Pye , assistant to the deceased , stated that about one o'clock on Saturday afternoon he was called to deceased ' s bedroom , and on openinsr the door he was discovered suspended to the bed with a handkerchief tied round his neck . He showed no signs of life , and a doctor was sent for , whose efforts to restore animation were ineffectual . Last saw him alive on Friday night at ten o ' clock . —Mr . King , assistant to Mr . Holding , surgeon , of New Bridge-street , said that he was called to see de-Ceased , and found that life was quite extinct . The appearances were those showing that death had taken place some time —A good deal of evidence was heardall of which tended to show that deceased
was suffering from deep mental affliction , which had clearly disordered his mind , and the jury returned a verdict of" Temporary insanity . " Suicide at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital . — On Monday night Mr . Payne held an inquest , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of Jonathan Light , aged fifty one . The deceased was admitted a patient in Marks-ward , on Thursday , the 29 th ult ., suffering from indigestion . He remained until Saturday morning last about five o ' clock , when , becoming suddenly very restless , another patient in
the same ward drew tbe nurse's attention to him . She endeavoured to sooth him ; but shortly afterwards he began to dress himself , and seemed as if determined to leave the hospital- He then seized hold of a small cheese knife , and inflicted a fearful wound in the throat , completely severing the windpipe , and expired almost instantly . The deceased was a cabinet maker by trade , and had for some time pastbeeu exceedingly despondent . Evidence having been given as to the state ofhis mind , the jury retamed a verdict of " Temporary insanity . "
Fibs at the New Hummums Hotel . —On Monday evening , between four and five o ' clock , considerable alarm was caused in the immediate neighbourhood of Covent-garden , owing to the outbreak of a fire in the New Hummums Hotel , situate in Great Russellstreet . Some of the domestics had been airing a number of beds , which were piled on a bedstead on the fourth floor front , where the fire was soon afterwards observed ; but , with tbe aid of a plentiful supply of water kept on the top of the premises , the names were confined to that portion of the building iu which they commenced .
Epistolary Ixsults to the Qoeejj . —Some letters of an intemperate character have recently been addressed to the Sovereign by a lunatic pauper , in the district of "Whitechapel , who fancies himself aggrieved by the local administrators of the poor law , ' and threatens his revenge on her Majesty . The services of two magistrates , connected with west and eastend police offices , were brought into requisition by the Secretary of State , with the view of preventing a repetition of this indecent annoyance of royalty , and effective steps have been taken to carry out the Home Minister ' s determination . — Weekly Cltroniclc
WbaaixG Max ' s Hall . —Munificent Gift . —A benevolent testator named Jenkins has left tbe munificent sum of £ 10 , 000 for the erection of a Working Man ' s Hall , to be built - in some convenient part of the metropolis . The building is to be for the free use of working men of all denominations , under tbe control of twelve directors , who have been noroinved . It is added that Mr . Hall , the geologist , has expressed his intention , on the completion of the building , to present to it his magnificent museum : and further , that a gentleman , whose name did not fraaspire , would furnish a library of one thousand volumes .
Baptist Noel and his New Coxghegatioj ? . — On Friday evening , the 30 th ult ., the lion , and Rev . Baptist Noel officiated for the first time at the "fount" since his connexion with the BaptH Church , in John ' s Chapel , Bedford-row , of which Plweof wonbip be is now the recognised pastor , Mr .
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Evans , the late minister , having been given up by bis medical attendants as past all recovery . Upon this occasion the number baptised or imirersed was seven , viz ., six females and one male , all of whom were members of his congregation when a minister of the Church of England . This number , however , h merely a portion of those who have left Bedford Chspel to join him in his new state , some seventy or eighty having seceded from the church to become Baptists , and members of JohnVChapel . — Sunday paper ,
Escape of a Coxyict . — On the 30 th ult ., between the hours of 10 aud 11 in the morning , as the gangofconvictsempleyedin cleaning the shot and shell in the Rotal Arsenal was being mustered , the guard discovered that a prisoner , named Henry Smith , was musing . Immediate information was given to the police , and it was ascertained that the prisoner , after exchanging his hat and coat for those of a man who had left them in one of the sheds , must have slipped down the wharf and made his escape into the town . The utmost exertions were used to re-capture him , but hitherto without success . He is described as being twenty-four years of age . five feet three inches high , has brown hair and hazel eyes , and is tattoed with a star on his thumb and the
letters A . C . on his right arm . Extraordinary Affair in Kknsal Grees Cemetery . —On Tuesday afternoon an extraordinary scene took place in Kensal-green Cemetery , and which has created some considerable interest and surprise , in consequence of the body of a gentleman named Hendry , having been exhumed , in pursuance of a warrant issued by Mr . M . H . Wakley , the deputy-coroner fur Middlesex , without the presence of a jury . The deceased was a gentleman of property , redding in Hyde Park-square , and shortly before his death , which took place in Scotland , he made a will , leaving the bulk of his property to a gentleman with whom he was residing at the time of his decease . It being known , however , that he had made a will in England , inqairies were made , when it was stated that the English will had been ? laced in the coffin with the corpse , and hence it was
deemed desirable to disinter the body , an additional reason being , that it was said no medical man had been called in during his last illness . The cjffin and the body underwent a very riged examination , but no will could be discovered . The body of the deceased appeared not to have been wasted , and there were still some plaisters adhering to the chest . Mo will having been found , the coroner said it would be necessary to hare a . post mortem examination ofthe body , and the contents of the stomach were removed and placed in a jar for tbe purpose of being analysed . The coroner directed that Mr . Garrett should perform tbe analysis , and that the body should not be again interred until the jury had seen it . The remains of the deceased gentleman were then properly secured , and the jar and its contents were taken away by Mr . Garrett , who was directed to report to the coroner the result of the analysis as soon as possible . AU the parties then left the cemetery .
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Forgery os the Darlington Bane . —Last week considerable excitement was created in Darlington , by the discovery of a-forgery upon the house of Messrs . Jonathan Backhouse and Co . During the previous Saturday , a person , having the appearance of a horse dealer , made a great number of small purchases of different tradesmen and publicans , in each case offerin g a £ 5 note for payment , and requesting change . In every case where this was ascertained , the note has been pronounced fictitious . On the same day , a number of similar notes were passed without detection at Stockton , doubtless
MMdlesborough , and Richmond , by members of the same gang . Some members of the same gang visited this city , on Saturday , and succeeded , in the course of that evening , ia passing at least thirteen of the forged notes , by the same means as their confederates employed in other places . TVe learn from our correspondents , that Sunderland , Bishop Auckland , Bichmond , Northallerton , and a few other towns , have been visited ; but it will be satisfactory to the public to know , that as far as has yet been ascertained , the entire number of notes issued by these adventurers is by no means considerable . —Durham Chronicle . The Murder of Sir . James Graham ' s Gamekeeper . —An adjourned inquest was held on the
29 th ult ., at Carlisle , on the body of Thomas Davidson , gamekeeper to Sir J . Graham , who was found murdered . Three persons , named Andrew Turnbull , John Nicol , and Joseph Hogg , were in custody for the murder . They were remanded on the . first examination , subsequently to which Andrew Turnbull made a confession which fixed the actual perpetration of tho deed upon his companions , has made a further statement , in which ho unsaid a great part of what he bad sworn to on his first examination ; but he directly implicated both the prisoners in custody , and himself , and bis manner seemed to indicate that he spoke the truth . The evidence taken at the inquest was very voluminous , and the verdict was " Wilful murder against Joseph
Hogjr , John Nicol , and Andrew , iurnbuii , oy strangulation with deceased ' s neckerchief . " On the night of the 28 th ult ., Turnbull committed Suicide in Carlisle gaol , by hanging himself with a towel . An inquest was held on the body on Friday week , when it was proved that the deceased hung himself with bis towel , tied to the iron bar ofthe window . To effect his purpose he must have got upon a form , and kicked it away , his feet being only three or four inches from the floor ; his bible was lying at a short distance . The following sentence was found written by him upon the wall , with a burnt stick , below the window : — " The two Hoggs are guilty—I am innocent : I will not come in the hands of man .
Above the fireplace , " I commit my soul to God that gave me it—take my body to my father's burial place . " Above his bed ( to his wife ) , « My dear , you and I was lovely , but I am torn from thy breast ; don ' t weep for me . Jemimah , my dearest , my heart ' s delight and treasure , I am innocent—I die with pleasure—we'll meet again with pleasure . Beware of bad company . My parents are not to blame—they did their duty . Adieu , my dear friends ; God bless you all . " He had not been in bed , and it is supposed that he was dead before midnight . —Verdict , "Deceased committed suicide by strangulation , but in what , state of mind he was at the time there is no evidence to show . ' '
The Poaching Affbav ax Ciieesebcbjj Graxe . —On Saturday three men , William Ramsbaw , Daniel Ridley , and Alexander Cloughton , now in custody on a charge of poaching over tbe grounds of Edward Riddel ) , Esq ., of Cheeseburn Grange , and also of having fired at that gentleman , by which he was severely wounded , underwent an examination at the Moot Hall , before S . Iiderton , C . A . Monck , Edward Collingwood , Esqrs ., and Captain Potts , the prisoner Cloughton being so much recovered from the effects of his wound as to be removed from the infirmarvtothe prison underneath the court . The three principal witnesses in the affair , viz ., Mr . Riddle , who was sufficiently- recovered to attend—his butler . ( Nicholas Ifcvelock . ) and the gamekeeper ,
severally detailed the circumstances which leu to tne more serious charge of shooting and wounding . From the evidence then given , it is understood that the sun . which wassupposed to have been fired by one of the poachers , and the contents of which were received by Mr . Riddell , was not in fact the act of the poachers at all . The keeper , Roddam , appears to have been repeatedly knocked down , and in consequence became stupified and scarcely conscious ofhis actions . On rising from the ground , after being knocked down for the last time , it is supposed that one of the barrels had gone off by accident . The butler , seeing the flash coming from the direction in which Roddam and tbe poachers were , and perceiving also that Mr . Riddell bad been wounded , immediately shouted out to the keeper that Cloughton had fired at his master and shot bim , and called upon
Roddam to fire in return . The keeper did so , and shot Cloughton in the left thigh . It would appear , therefore , that the barrel which had gone off by accident in the hands ofthe keeper , had been the cause of Mr . Riddell being wounded , as the keeper , on his return to tbe hall , after the poachers had been captured , was only aware of having fired one barrel . The presumption is , therefore , that it had gone off when he was insensible from the blow he had received , there being no proof that the guns in the hands of the poacbers had been fired . This being the case , the more serious charge of shooting with intent to kill was abandoned , the prisoners being now accused of cutting and wounding the keeper Roddam . Tbe prisoners were remanded for another week , farther evidence being required . — NewcastU Guardian .
A Gift of £ 2 , 500 has been made by W . Laslett , Esq ., to the parish of St . Nicholas , Worcester . Affray with Poachers . —On tbe night of Thursday , the 29 th ult ., Mr . Millie , head-gamekeeper to the Earl of Winchilsea , of Haverholm-park , near Sleaford , Lincolnshire , was out -watching , accompanied by some of his men , in the parish of Evedon , at which place they were expecting a gang of poachers . Early in the mornjng three men made their appearance near to Millie , and commenced destroying the game , when Mr . Millie arose from his hiding place , and after a severe scuffle suceeded in capturing one ofthe three , a well-known poacher named W . Hides , from a village called Heckington , near Haveiholm . Millie was dreadfully beaten about the head and arms with bludgeons , and has not been able to attend before the magistrate to give evidence against the prisoner , who was conveyed by onp ofhis men to the police station at Sleaford .
Melaxchoiy Sgicioe . —Mr . William Tredwcll farmer , destroyed himself on Sunday morning last , ' by discharging a gun , loaded with bits of glass , through his bowels . It appears that while his wife was absent for a few minutes in the dairy , he put the butt end of the gun against the salt-box in the kitchen , resting the muzzle on his stomach ; ho survived only a few minutes . He had been ia a low desponding way for some time , and although a
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man of substance , thought he should come to want , but be was at Buc kingham market on Saturday , and appeared much as usual . The Collision at Woodhouse Junction . — Thomas Owen , of New Holland , an engine driver in the service of the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincashire Bailway Company , was on Friday , the 30 th ult ., examined on a charge of causing a collision on the company ' s lineat the Woodhouse 7 unction , near Sheffield The defendant ' s head bore the mark of a frightful wound , received at the time of the accident ; and he was suffering from other injuries inflicted on the same occasion , which had rendered him very lame . For the prosecution it was stated that the defendant was the driver of a goods train , and it was one of the regulations of the company , and
perfectly understood by every engine ariver , that a coods train should not travel at a greater speed than fifteen miles an hour . This person , on the occasion in question , was travelling at about forty miles an hour . It was also a regulation that no driver of any train should pass a junction at a ereiter rate than eight miles an hour ; but he was actually approaching tho junction ( Woodhouse Junction ) from Sheffield at about forty miles an hour . There is a " distance danger signal" on the Sheffield side , which a man coming from Sheffield may see when he is three quarters of a mile off the junction ; and there being a contractor ' s ballast train in the way at the junction , the signal man
s & tioned there turned on the distance danger signal by means of a wire , in order to give warning of tho obstruction . Some minutes after this the signal man saw a train approaching at a very rapid rateabout forty miles an hour . The defendant , who was driving the train , then reversed his engine . The ballast train was still in the way , and the defendant seeing that a collision was inevitable , jumped off the engine , and in so doing he was very much hurt , A collision occurred , which seriously wounded and endangered the lives of several men , and damaged property to the extent of not less than £ 1 , 000 . —Evidence having been taken , the prisoner was fined £ 10 ., or two months' imprisonment .
Death of Ebenezer Elliott . —A correspondent of the -Sun states that Ebenezer Elliott , the " Corn Law Rhymer , " died on the lstinst ., at his residence . Argilt-hill , near Barnsley . His illness had continued more or less severe , for many months ; jet up to the last few weeks his powers ot mind were active and clear—so much so , that he was engaged in correcting for the press an enlarged edition of his works , now publishing by Mr . Fox . Some ofhis sweetest lyrical effusions have been the production of this period of bodily affliction , He has left a ivife , five sons , and two daughters . This remarkable man and original poet was born on the 17 th of March , 1781 , being one of eight children . His father was a clerk in the iron-works at Masborough , near Rotheram , with a salary of £ 70 a year . Of his early life little is
known ; the anecdotes which friendship has gathered from his conversation represent him as uniting great poetic sensibility with much practical inaptitude . On leaving school at an early age , and discovering great deficiency in arithmetical attainment , he was placed by his father to work in the foundry , and it is recorded that a sense ofhis shortcomings often caused bim to weep , as coming dirty from his work , he saw the invoices or drawings ofhis brother Giles . Mr . Elliott commenced life as a working man ; he came to Sheffield under peculiar circumstances , and some bundred and fifty pounds worse than nothing . After much exertion and endurance he was favoured by for tune , and he was wont to relate how , sitting in his chair , he for a time made his twenty pounds & day , without seeing the goods that he sold . The corn
laws spoiled all that , and made him glad to get out oi the business of a bar-iron merchant with part of hia earnings , the great panic of 1837 having swept away some three or four thousand pounds at once . His first place of business was in Burgess-street ; the house is pointed out at the right hand corner as you go up . Removing hence , when business had increased , he established his warehouse in Gibraltarstreet , Shalesmoor . Shortly after he built a handsome villa in the suburb of Upper Thorpe , whence he could behold Sheffield smoking at his feet . The counting-house where Ebenezer Elliott made fame as well as fortune , was strangely furnished—iron bars jostling Ajax and Achilles , for the classic poets were great favourites with our rhymer , although he could enjoy them only through the medium of a translation .
Elliott has been called the Burns of the manufacturing city . His honest-natured heart saw with indignation Monopoly rob Labour of it wages , and con-Vert plenty into famine . He attacked tbe bread tax most manfully . He sent out , right and left , " songs , sarcasms , curses , and battle cries , " among the people . To his alarm , "Up I bread-taxed slave , " England ceased not to respond till tbe corn laws were extinguished . Sickness for six months visited him at intervals with increased severity , but his habitual serenity never once forsook him ; indeed , this was a period of great mental activity . On Saturday , ihe 1 st inst ., he drew his last breath at Argilt-hill , near Barnsley . Of five sons , two conduct the steel business of their father , and two are clergymen of the Church of England . He has also left a widow and
I two daughters . The Britaksia Bridge Menai Straits . — Another misadventure occurred on Monday after , noon in the means whereby the second great tube was to have been moored off to-day , but with no untoward attendants 1 Precisely at ten o ' clock , when all parties engaged in tbe grand operation were at their posts , and the signals had been sent out _ to the various stations , one of the great 8-inch thick cables , reaching from the pontoons to the opposite shore , and the duty of which was to give the first impulse to the transport of the stupendous mass , suddenly snapped asunder . On a minute examination ofthe severed cable , a conclusion , it is to . be regretted to say , was come to that the hauling line had been maliciously cut by some miscreants , why Or wherefore remains to be made out . This is
bslieved to be the case on good authority , and it is almost unnecessaty , without actually assigning it as the cause of the catastrophe , to say that it only gives to some two hundred men another day ' s work . It appears , however , from an investigation of the parts , that the cut or severance is of a character that neither a tearing strain nor the lacerations of a rock coud have inflicted . It was forthwith announced to the multitude that the operation would come off the next day the same hour . The transport of the huge mass of tube , 472 feet and 2 , 000 tons in weight was successfully effected on Tuesday . Should the first line of tube be completed by March , 1859 , theworkg will then have been nearly four years in progress . Telford ' s Meuav Suspension Bridge was eight years in building . The weight of its iron work , compared with that ofthe Britannia Bridge , being as 644 to 10 , 000 tons .
Dreadful Accident . —A fearful accidentoccurred at the Werneth station on the 28 ult , to a man named Thomas Sharpies , aged twenty-one years , who was in the employ of the company . It was his duty to detach the rope from the engine on the arrival of a train . When the train leaving Manchester at a quarter-past one arrived at Werneth , Sharpies was talking with another man , about 60 yards from the place where he ought to have been . On seeing the engine approach he ran to cross the line in front of it to get to his proper place , but his foot caught the rope , and threw him down across the rails . With a wonderful presence of mind he attempted to seize the rope ; but missing it he laid himself flat between the rails , in order that the train might pass over him . The engine did so ; but there was not room between the ash-box and the pavement for his body . He was , consequently , squeezed and completely flattened by its passing over him , his brains being forced out of his mouth . An inquest was held on the 30 th ult , and a verdictof" Accidental death" returned .
Murder and Suicide . —The town of Towcester was last week thrown into a state of the greatest consternation by the discovery that a person mamed Dowdeswell , who had been for some years a traveller in the employ of Mr . John Vernon , wine merchant , of that place , had murdered his wife and afterwards committed suicide . Not appearing at his place of business at ten o ' clock , a messengerwas sent to his residence in Park-street , when the house was found to be closed . A ladder was obtained , and an entrance gained to the house , when the bodies of Dowdeswell and his wife were both found lying on the floor . A
pistol was on the table , with which the wife had evidently been shot , while the husband still grasped another in his hand , with which his suicide had been effected . The child of the unhappy pair , about two years old , was in a room upstairs crying . Mrs . Dow . deswell was for some years a waitress at the Talbot , and was greatly respected . Less than two years ago she was married under circumstances not calculated to promise a happy wedded life , and it is said that her husband has frequently treated her with great brutality . Her maiden name was Powell . The double crime was no doubt committed late on
Thursday evening . Great Cruelty at Ska . —The Hull Packet says : — "At the Police-court , on Saturday last , Francis Coulson , master of tho Stentor , was summoned by one of the crew named Ambros Johnson , a youth seventeen years of age , for treating him in a most inhuman and barbarous manner . It appeared from the statement of the witnesses , which we give below , that the complainant shipped on board the Stentor as an ordinary seaman on the 6 th of August , at Richibucto . Two days after they bad sailed defendant went to the complainant at the wheel , and began to curse him . He then knocked him down with his
fist , and beat him with a rope ' s end . After that he beat the complainant every day for a fortnight when he went to the wheel , in a most unmerciful manner . He was so ill-used that the poor fellow was obliged to hide himself below amongst the cargo , and be was in that situation forty hours before any one knew where he was . A search was made for him , but not being found it was supposed that hehad jumped overboard . At length he showed himself to the men , and they , in order to screen the poor fellow from further ill-tVeatment , advised him to stay where he was , and each gave him a portion of his food every day to subsist upon . The captain all this time expected he was drowned . He remained hidden until they reached
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rTT f nine weeks , and the sufferings he HuU-a P -f' ^ tTeen bf the following evidence , have seen hungrow mm T him . —»• • m . ¦ v ^ ruu . D d t 0 the comphraant . 1 »»» ,.. d ft n beat b m with a thick and J Tsaw him pull the hairproduced out of the r op ? - liS - Tto captain , in his defence , totally 5 A / aTsaufts . -The magistrates decided that denied the assaults . ine ^ B imprisoned the captam , b . usi , pa ^ JM $ ¦ correction .-ThiS case Tv 5 Sn seonence of the owner , Mr . William White , refusiS to pay the lad his wages for the nine Ss that be had been concealed in the hole , which SS » 17 ™ aiia £ 2 lbs . Ibr deficiency of provisions . SSstig ation the facts of the case camem >«
Inaniore extended form than before . The comriatnfnt state d that , two days after they left Richibucto the master ill-used him in a very shametul Sner until the blood ran from his nose . He con-XeTthfc ^^ Se captain frequently stated that he had hadenoueh of Hull crews before , and he would hop it out ofthe Hull men on . this voyage . At last his ill-treatmen became so cruel that witness could notsleep at night for the pain , and was afraid he should not live much hm-er if he was ill-used any more . One Sunday night , after he had been on deck eight hours , the cantain sent him aloft to rig some of the sails . In consequence of this shameful treatment witness hid himself in the lower hold of the vessel , between the ends of some deals . He was so closely jammed , that he could not get in without taking off some . of his
clothes . In order that no one might see mm , ne was obliged , from eight o ' clock at night until twelve , to remain suspended by his . hands from some of the deals . After twelve o ' clock he could creep out . and lie on the deals . He subsisted for forty-eight hours in this situation on the bread be had saved the day before he hid himself , and when the ¦ men left their cabin be used to go and pick the bones they had left . When his bread was gone and he had nothing to eat , he made himself known to some of the men . They advised him to stay . where be was , or the master would further in-use him . He therefor * remained there , and the men fed bim by each of them giving him a pcrtion of their provisions . He continued
concealed in this situation until the vessel arrived in Hull . Mr . White , the owner , admitted that in the position the lad was in , while he was concealed between the timber , he was liable at any moment to be crushed to death . Mr . Rollitt on the part of Mr . White , said that his client was quite ready to pay the lad his remuneration for the services he really did perform during the voyage , but he objected to do so in consequence ot having received no services from the lad for nine weeks that he was concealed . It was a question of hardship by the captain , and the owner himself was quite an innocent man . The magistrates , however , decided that they were of opinion that the boy was entitled to the amount he claimed . "
Phison Breaking Extraordinary , and Robbery OP THE GOTERKORS HoUSB , AT WORCESTER . —On Monday morning , at five o ' clock , the governor of the Worcester city gaol was aroused by the police , who had found a number of towels , joined together , hanging from the wall ofthe prison next Friar-street . On search being made it was discovered that a notorious character named Evans , alios Phillips , alias Bradshaw , who was awaiting his trial at the next spring assizes , on several charges of burglary , was missing from his cell , and had escaped from the prison . On further search it was also discovered that the governor's sitting-room had been broken into , and a number of silver spoons and other articles of
plate taken from his plate-chest , which had been forced open . The prisoner ' s escape was a most extraordinary one . The turnkey had seen him in his cell and locked him up at four o ' clock the previous evening . The door ofhis cell was secured by a massive lock and staple on the outside , and itis supposed that the prisoner had previously succeeded in unscrewing the four nub from the screws which held the staple , by which means he very easily forced open the door i from thence he traversed a passage to the day-room , the door of which he forced by removing the staple in a similar way to the one attached to his cell-door ; he had then to encounter another door leading into the day yard , having a lock and staple still more
massive than the preceding ones ; this he also forced . Arriving in the day-yard he was met by a high wall , surmounted by a most formidable chevaux-de-frise . This he is supposed to have scaled by means of towels , supplied him by some ofthe female prisoners ; this feat brought him into the women ' s yard , out of which he got by climbing some tall palisading , and alighted in the prison yard adjoining the governor ' s house . He then forced open the window of the governor ' s sitting-room , which be ransacked and took from the governor ' s plate-chest every article in it . From , this spot it would appear he went round the prison-yard to the infirmary , which adjoins , the prison wall , and here he performed the most desperate
teat ot all . This building is about eighteen feet high and has three windows placed in a triangular position , about six feet apart , looking into the prison yard . He succeeded in climbing up the building from one window to the other ( in which he is supposed to have aided himself by the towels , ) and from thente to the top of the outer wall of the prison . There he drove a strong nail into the wall , and attached to it a piece of stout string , to which he also attached several towels , by which means he let himself down into the street , got clear off , and no clue has as yet been obtained to his whereabouts . The man is thirty years of age , five feet six inches in height , brown hair , grey eyes , pale complexion , slender make , with three small moles on the left arm .
llIRBATENED DESTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS BY THE Floods . —Nottingham , Tuesday . —During the last two or three days considerable anxiety has been experienced in this district , inconsequence ofthe rapid rise of water in the valley of the Trent , and upon the banks of its tributary streams , owing to the very heavy and incessant rains which fell in the midland counties between Saturday evening and Monday morning . The whole country , froni the source of the Trent to its junction with the Humber , is one vast inland sea , move than 150 miles in length , and occasionally extending for miles on either side ; and on the banks of the smaller streams , in Derbyshire , Mcestershire , and Stafiorasnire
, it is the same , but to a somewhat more > ? S lted , v tcnt " The effecfc of a 11 th's "Pen the dinerent lines of railway has been tremendous , causing no little amount of risk to every train that has passed to and fro , and giving considerable trouble and anxiety to the whole of the company ' s officials . In the neighbourhood of Burton-on-Trcnt , a portion of the embankment was washed down , delaying some of the subsequent trains for a considerable time ; and from Monday morning until Tuesdsy morning the whole ofthe traffic upon the Erewash Valley branch was entirely stopped . Now , however , the broken portions of the embankment have been repairedand the trains have
recom-, menced running as usual . From symptoms perceived on Tuesday on the main line , between Loughborough and Long Eaton , it was greatlj feared all communication between the south and north of the Midland line must cease , and so it soon would have done had the heavy rains continued . Happily , however , the pouring torrent was stayed towards noon on Monday , and the weather has since continued beautifully fine . An Ingenious Invention for Early Risers . —A mechanic , residing at 104 , Neweastle-street , Hulme , has constructed a little machine for the purpose of awaking himsef early in the mornimr . To a Dutch
ciocKintne Kitchen ho has attached a lever , from which a wire communicates through the ceiling to the bedroom above in which he has fixed his novel invention . Having set tho lever to any hour at which he may wish to be awakened , when tho time arrives it is released by the clock , and the machinery up stairs rings a bell , than strikes a match , which lights an oi lamp . This lamp runs upon four wheel ? , and is at the same instant propelled through a tin tube on a miniature railway , about five feet long , which is raised , by small iron supports , a few inches above the bedroom floor ffear the end of the line is fixed an elevated iron stand , upon which a small teakettle is placed ( holdimr ahm . t . ™ m ^
„ and immediately under it , by the aid of a spring , the amp » stopped , and its flame boils the water in the kettle in twenty minutes , thus enabling bim to ffihdfSfSfii " ° ffee Pri 0 r t 0 « to work The bell attached is so powerful that it awakes his neighbour , and the machine altogether is ofTverv ES ap Jw \ ? » Mknisnit being of polisheJ iron , fhe inventor had made it during his leisure Sued utilitf with * COrapl ° tfon - He has * o Abmea utility with economy , as the working of it £ XLXS thanJhalfpenn ^ ^ - - TH ^ NE-On ^! ^^^ THB M ° ™ ° * THi . ir . NE .-un l uesday forenoon a melancholy accident happened at the mouth of the TyneTlt had been blowing a straw mle . ft ™ tk . J ^' eJlSTl
tit * ° cca 8 i ° ned considerable loss to shippW oT & w Tt ? etween nine and ten A * r m ? u \ ng of J" day mentioned , the Betsy , of t "'^ Pton . alight brig , was seen taking the tg ^^ & szrvt e S ^ SP ^ sS r * t £ S 5 ffiW * her bows to the sea a ; ' ^ S ' the brig lying with brig , which the / caughl and f w TH u ths the brig by the bow Ao tu astened . boat t 0 ^ MvBEt ^
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water . They plunged about in a mass , and she did not right , but broke her painter , and drifted away , bottom up . There were no means for assisting them , " and the crew ot the brig had to suffer the anguish of witnessing those who had come off to rescue them from peril sink one by oue into a watery grave . Of the twenty-four men who went eff only four came ashore alive . Three of them , John Harrison , John Millburn , and George Heirs , got on to the boat ' s bottom , and were token off by the second life-boit , which put off another gallant crew as soon as tha accident was discovered . The fourth man got on board the vessel , he does not know how . He and the crew of the brig were rescued ibv the second life-boat as the tide receded .
When the second life-boat landed at the low part of South Shields with the three men taken eff the boats' the scene was most terrific . Fathers , mothers , wives , sisters , and relatives , rushed down to the water edge , to gee if it Was " theirV' that had been saved ; and when the loss was manifest to them , the wailing of women , and deep sobbing of sturdy men—men who had stood many a nor-wester , and escaped many a peril—was most heartrending . The most of the men drowned have left large families , and the South Shields pilots—like most of those who gain a living on the coast—intermarrying into their own calling , the ties that are broken are extensive . The boat , after breaking her head rope ,
drifted to the south , and it being thought that some ofthe men might be under her , as soon as tho second life-boat landed the three men , she put out to sea again , at the imminent risk of her crew , and grappled the upset boat amongst the breakers . They immediately got her in towards the beach—those on shore rushing in up to the neck—and hauled her in ; but , on righting her , all that was found was the scarf of one of the men , which had been fastened round the thawt , and with a slip-hitch round his wrist ; but , in the working of the boat , the knot had broken ,
and he had drifted away . The best swimmer would have had no chance in such a sea . The following are the names of the sufferers , men well known by those navigating the North Sea :- ~ John Bone , Lancelot Bum , John Burn , John Burn , jun ., Wm . Smith , John Donkin , Robert Donkin , George Tynemonth , Henry Young , Ralph Shotter ,, Wm . Purvis , John Wright , James Wright , Thos . Marshall , Ralph Phillipson ,. John Phillipson , John Marshall , jun ., Goorge Tindle , James Matterson , and James Young . M , present the only body found is that of LwucVot Burn .
SUDDES DlSATH OF THE REV . PHILIP StHONG . — The very sudden decease of the above Rev . gentleman , took place at Myland Rectory , on the 28 th ult . The deceased had enjoyed his accustomed health during the day , and , on his return from a visit to the town , partook of his dinner as usual ; when the hour of family prayer arrived the household assembled , and the reverend gentleman proceeded to perform tbe customary devotional duties , but while in the act of uttering the words " Our Father , " suddenly fell backwards , and did not breathe more than three or four times afterwards . On Friday the 30 th ult an inquest was held upon the body , when A . Partridge , Esq ., surgeon , rare it as his opinion that the
deceased had died of serous apoplexy ; it was possible , he said , that the heart ( as was currently reported ) might have had something to do with it , but he had not found symptoms of any such affections . Some three or four years ago deceased was ill , and sought the advice of Dr . Watson , who suspected that something was wrong with the heart , but could not find proof of it . Verdict , " Died by the visitation of God . " A Heavy Ssstekcb : —At the Lowes Sessions , last week , Samuel Bartholomew , a labourer , described as sixty-eight years of age , having pleaded guilty to stealing one hop-pole , of the value of one halfpenny , was sentenced to " one month ' s imprisonment , with such description of bard labour ( says a T _ A « Tm . * jia—MAnnnn ^ nntl n <* 1 . A « . « a ^ A .. « .. l . nnnhtA nl * MJirca nets 1 VttUUUJU
wvitcopuuucuw , uo uc VUI . U VI performing , " The sentencing magistrate was George Darby , Esq ., late M . P . for East Sussex . — Brighton Guardian . Accident on the Medway . —On Tuesday evening a frightful accident occurred on the river Medway , occasioned by the Victoria steam vessel running over a small boat . The steamer was on its passage from Sheerness to Chatham , and on its passing Chatham Dockyard , with its usual speed , a ferryboat containing two persons—viz . W . Britten , a waterman , and Lieutenant E . W . J , Knox , of the 75 th Regiment , came suddenly in front of the steamer from behind the stern of a ship lying in ordinary near the sheer hulkand so sudden was the
, collision that there was not time to give alarm from the steamer , and , melancholy to relate , the boat was smashed to fragments , and the officer and waterman immersed in tbe river . The captain of the steamer ordered the engineer to back astern , and fortunately both wore saved . Both the men , however , were picked up in a very exhausted state , and the waterman was dreadfully mangled , having one arm smashed , and a thigh and a leg broken . The officer was very much hurt , and it was thought that some of his ribs were broken . He was conveyed in a carriage to Chatham . Barracks , and the waterman was itaken to his residence on the Brook at Chatham . It appears that Lieutenant Knox was in
charge of a detachment at TJpnor Castle , and had taken the boat at the New Stairs for tbe purpose of being conveyed to Upnor when the accident occurred . Dr . Pink , surgeon to the provisional battalion , immediately attended Mr . Knox , and the report is that Lieutenant Knox is very much bruised about the body , but there is nothing to apprehend from the injuries he has received . With regard to the waterman great fear is entertained for his recovery The Outbreak of Cholera in Taunton Workhouse . —The attention of the Board of Health having been called to the recent outbreak of cholera in the Taunton Union , Dr . Sutherland was sent down specially upon the subiect , and in his report .
wnich has appeared m the columns ofthe Somerset County Gazette , he says : "A practised eye can perceive at a glance that the workhouse in question has been constructed without due regard to sanitary principles . Its situation , though suburban , is badly drained . On one side the ground is higher than the level of the base of the building . The drainage is carried by a sewer into a cesspool in the garden , which until very lately was open . It is now , however , covered over ; and the overflow passes out of the garden , and discharges itself into a pestilential ditch in a neighbouring field , not far
irom the garden wall . The elevation of the workhouse is remarkabl y low ; it consists of a front building and branches or rays , which project into the yard behind it . This yard is surrounded by low badly-constructed sheds , which are used partly as offices , partly for wards , and in one of them is situated the girls and infant schools belonging to the establishment . On entering the building one is especially struck with its wretched construction , ine passages and staircases are narrow , low , dark and noisome , and some of the water-closets open into the landings . The wards themselves arc remarkably low , and badly ventilated , while the overcrowding , so far as could beiudrod of w ««
number of bedsteads , was . perhaps , greater than I remember to have seen elsewhere . In some instances the water-closets open into the wards ; and in the m £ JT * 't forms part of the ward itself , the closest being boxed off by a wooden partition . " The Somerset Gazette , in introducing the report from which we make the above extracts , says :- " The document reflects very severel y upon the guardians ; and if they wish to relieve themselves from the heavy censure which , so far as particulars have yet been made known , seems to attach to them , they fi S 0 e -f r ? , ubli < 5 5 nTCS % rt' <> n to be made into kf ^ Sft ? * , umstai ! , ces connected with the £ »™ . r ? t reak 0 fcl ?? Ier !> and awful destruction of human lives , as well as into the entire mnnn «« r „ m ( .
ol tlie matters which they have the care of . ' a Je alo n ^ l h S r RM M f EA - * ery severe storm fast the » fn ] M nn - rth e a 8 t co , ast Sunday night last , the wind blowing strong from the E . to E . S . E ., r ti . £ . £ * ranMn # ;« y high , which continued until the afternoon of Mondav . The following vessels have been stranded and Wrecked oVlhlwSl ron % Y S - ' ^ d-8 " ^ ' fl « l Mg-VS 'K ^ Sfl !" * ton 8 came on aho " »« Upgang . and the crew were saved in their own boat h 8 cboon er y | Sa ^ ed S L - TowSiT oSji sand « nnH i , Ster 8 ' Ram ? # » te drove on thi sands , and the crew were saved in their own *?* ' ? . !» , th fwenoon of Mondav the bri ? WhSL ¦
u SS ? Tiiltt * rV ? Wem ( 1 off Wh >> rescue tho J ™ 1 [ e"b ° at ^^ ched and sent to vesseflefLtT ' S ! l landed safe , and the toSSiJ' * Ab < "i two p . m . the vessel come a to J wreck Th ? ?! Tt ' ha 8 ^ JSSuSi ?^ ^ ' - " ' -On Ta « da ,
^ SttSSttS ix Tp a ove the body remained baft Tbf S 3 h ntteen years of aire nn ,. »„ ,. , y . outn was in their haJte to ' t into r > Were sl , S htIy Wd three sustained er ? e btns fro ??! ^ \^ ov At present it i 8 impossihZtn &? « he ex Plosi ° »' accident ; ae it SRjt ^? i Causeof the ^ . ^ ranchestev lTZinT . **** descend the brated one ' It fti f tant *» the celeries , where it was stH SJ ? en Penetrated five
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Mysterious AFFAin .-On Saturday last a serious charge was investigated before the magistrates , ac the Town-hall , Pembroke . The inquiry was conducted with closed doors , but the following is stated to be the result of the investigation : —In ' tho early part of last month the daughter of an influential inhabitant of Pembroke was secretly delivered of an illegitimate male infant . Feeling anxious to pro » vido for the safety of the child , and to conceal her shame , she induced a man named John Walters , for a valuable consideration , to adopt tbe child and bring it up as his own . On the 6 th ult ., the infant being then ono day old , it was with a sum of £ 40 , delivered into Walters' hands . Soon afterwards
the mother sought hor child , but Walters denied all knowledge of it , and the infant being nowhere to be found ho was apprehended by Mr . S . Hedges , the chief constable , on the charge of murder . When before the magistrate the prisoner stated that he had given the child to two gipsoy women , and £ 5 with it , to take it off his hands . Not being able to confirm this statement ho was remanded , to enable the police to make inquiries . The affair has created much excitement in Pembroke . Murder in Wales . —On . Thursday , tbe 28 th ult ., Rosemarket , Pembrokeshire , was the scene of a murder—a crime , happily , of rare occurrence in Wales . The perpetrator is a small farmer , residing at Westfields , of the name of William Morgans (
commonly Known as Dr . Morgan , ) and the victim a female domestic in his employ . The following , received from creditable authority , may be relied on : —A lad , in the employ of Morgans , was engaged in removing ashes from beneath the grate , which not being done to please him , Morgans seized the shovel to strike the boy . Tho girl , however , interfered , and be made his escape . He then swore he would kill the girl . Sbe consequently endeavoured to make her escape by running , but in ascending a hedge he struck her from behind with the sharp end of the shovel , which split her head open . The shovel broke by the blow ; but , seizing the
remaining part , he beat her head to p ieces with it . He then attempted to leave , but tne screeches of the girl having brought persons to the spot , he was secured bands and feet , and conveyed to this town in a cart , when he was brought before J . L . Morgan , Esq ., and remanded to wait the result of the inquest . Morgans was considered a person of weak intellect , and had some years ago been confined in a lunatic asylum ; but from the period of his release ho has conducted the affairs of his farm , and at * tended the market to dispose of its produce . The deceased had resided with the prisoner a great number of years . — Pembrokeshire Herald .
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Statistics op Scotland . —According to the census of 1811 it appears that the inhabitants of Scotland are 2 , 620 , 184 . The largest item of that number is Glasgow city and suburbs , which number 274 , 633 , being ten per cent , of the whole ; the smallest ofthe inhabited islands are Moray in Inverness-shire , and Vementry , in Orkncyshire , both of which . contain two inhabitants . There are a number of islands whose inhabitants number five , six , seven , and eight each , and a greater proportion varying from that number to thirty or forty persons . Out of 2 , 620 , 184 people in Scotland , the county of Lanark , though by no
means the largest in extent , contains 426 , 072 , being the sixth part of the whole ; while Selkirk , which contains about one-fourth of the area of square miles has only about a fifty-eighth ' part of the inhabitants of Lanarkshire , or about 7 , 300 . Many more instances could be adduced of the irregular distribution of the inhabitants of Scotland , in proportion to the superficial area , and that without reckoning the wild uncultivated tracts of the Highlands ; but wo have stated enough to show that the wealth lying below the surface has done far more to stimulate population in this country than the best soil with all the appliances of the most approved husbandry . —Caledonian Mercury .
fimoB Stoikn . — The parish of Ardersier was thrown into a state of unusual excitement on the morning of Saturday week last . On the previous evening a young and buxom damsel plighted her troth , before a large party of young friends , to be faithful and true until death to the devoted swain who led her to the altar , after a long and patient courtship of four years . After the ceremony was performed the party proceeded to the bridegroom ' s room in Campbelton , led by a piper , who blew as if " he'd blaw his last . " Having concluded a substantial repast , the party proceeded to tho ball-room , where they showed that they had light heels as well as light hearts till three in the morning . For some time before this hour it
was remarked that the bride did not grace the tall-room with her presence as she had done in the early part of the evening . The question , " Where is the bride" was asked by a a hundred tongues , but nobody gave a satisfactory answer . The bridegroom looked anxious—the bridesmaids looked frightened—and the bridesmen looked foolish . Some observant persons whispered that they did not like the conduct of a young ploughman—a rustic Lochinvar—who was noticed to " tread a measure" with the bride , and "to whisper a word in her ear ; " and it was further remarked
that this youth had not been seen for some time . Consternation seized the party , the dancers stood motionless and the fiddlers dropped their bows . A general search was instituted ; "thev sought her east , thev sought her west , " but "the lady was not seen . " Some of tbe company blamed the ' bride for having broken her vows so soon after making them j and everybody pitied the bridegroom , who , however , seemed to bear his disappointment with equanimity , saying with Duncan Grey , " shomav gae to France for me ; " and further consoling himself by threatening towed another wife before a month .
BEMARKABiE PRESERVATION . —SOfflO daj'S agO , 33 » r man was tvavellin g between Kingswood , near Murtbly Castle and Dunkeld , on the Stanley-road , necame to the saw-mill , and turned off the road to get a short cut home . It being then rather dark he lost his way and fell intothe mill lade , upon the wheels , which turned round with him and left him at the bottom , where he remained all night standing in the water . In the morning , when the men came to their work , and were about to put tbe wheel in
motion , a turkeycock , which had been aware of the accident , commenced its babbling cries in the most earnest manner , going backward and lorward close to the wheel where the unfortunate man was hemmed in . Its cries and gestures were so very remarkable that it turned the attention of the men to the mill wheel , where they found the man . On taking him out , he was alive , but much injured ; one ofhis legs was broken , and he was otherwise much bruised . We understand he is in a fair way of recovery . —Perthshire Courier ,
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Payment op Postage toon Newst-apers ron the IJNiiEn States Compulsouy . -A Post-office order , just issued , stated that . " A considerable number ot newspapers addressed to the United States having lately been posted unpaid , there is reason to fear ttiat many persons are under the impression that the payment of postage upon newspapers intended to be sent to that country is optional The public , therefore , are again informed that , unless the rate of postage up on these papers , namely , one penny be paid in advance , they cannot be forwarded to their destination . It is desirable that postaaSS wiuiu
u give lue utmost publicity to this notice . " ihe Literary Gazettee announces the return fr . Pans of M Rocber d'Hericourt , from a jou ncy 8 Abyssinia of ong duration , hearing about a core of manuscripts in the Ethiopian language , of vast anfSSStttSm y ^ va , Ue : ont « script 1 a copy of the Bible , written at the beginning of the e eventh century , which differs in some respects "il . W 1101 " « y specimens of a nlant . th *
and Bhowod him its *& £ « % t ^ S . ™ ' dog .. A committee of thMsSZ" ? . "" place near Aldersey-Mod , to this 22 . ¦ 1 . e ° poachers and laraekeenora onerflff p 1 b *™»> tilled on the spot . SoP deeply ha . f ^ uTT 5 ™* incident affected Mr 3 S » „ r I , ™ 'ro <» fttt- S-i-J * * 2 ' & 2 SB &&
asSB SBB ** Carlow , havin gderi ™ ^ mnS ^ £ T ' ' ' * Mmont ! these pills , w & eaftSS 3 ? mhlt ^ ^ ^ all persons troubled with Asflmfa ft . 7 ^ 1 ^ benefit of ing , fronuhis distressing conSnt for « hf been * - sixteen years , and although he had mJ ? : ! aSt fifteen or remedies , yet none seemed to do i . im lv ' ea , t variety ° f had recourse to Holloway \ DMs W ° ? - IIe then cinema short ti me afford ? him f , uv ? luable meditoarthfaghas since become , i cUvS ^ I" 1 relief ' * Abersetiiv ' s Pile IWrJ y ee a"deasy . ^ unct to the « St 75 ^ W ***« as an Ointment , for every vaVtvW ™ - , * e * nwht ' s Tile powerful aperientsffiKtl ^ H - . Th ° - 'ae < 'fft ««' eftects ofthe outward annl' ^ * , to a . * " * the beneficial than diminish the fio ^ i ^ , ? 1 to increase , rather with the afflicted to hZreco ., LV 0 ? much the custom cine m cases of this oraDffi ^^ troi l ira , 8 | ltive , n « , imstance the patient is ma rhiiv - - 5 , most ever * » greatl y aggravated W ^! « * Vnju \ 'cd and the disease 8 truction , and of iolaS i „ - ft « Ct ofre . ™ ving the ob-They coo and steen & th . ^ 1 "flanm , atio 11 that crista , efficient the use oiKXtt *' aud ren < ler thorou 6 J
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 8, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08121849/page/6/
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