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( Fiomthe Morning Post ) ElOaSATIOH . »„ e „ l « BoBEnr . August 30 ih .-Two hnnSredmitrnmfour free emigrants sailed by ; th e Shannon , Captain Kempston . from the North , *¦ " / f ^ SllS Plymouth , to bs shipped therefrom ^ *»™» ; 119 of them were orphans from various of the Poor Law Unions in Ireland . They wore well and wmfortably clad , and attended to by the emigration agents . TISTT OH LORD GKOaaE BSKTINCK . Ddblct , Friday , September 1 st . — The Freeman ' s Jotje ^ ai , on tbe authority of its Lsndon correspou dent , annoncces that Lord Geerge Bentinck comes to Ireland immediately after tbe recess .
HR F . X- HEAOHSB . The Cobs Repoter is' authorised' to state that Mr Mesgher has retained as counsel for his defence Mr Whiteside , Q , G-, and Sir Colman O'Loghlea .
CLERICAL PUCE-1 UK 8 R 3 . It is not generally known , that during the progress of tbe arresting mania warrants were in the hands of the police for the apprehension of two Roman Catholic clergymen in the archdiocese of the Most Rev . Dr Murray ; and who , owing to the intervention of the latter , narrowly escaped companionship , with the Insurgent leaden now lying prisoners in her Majesty ' s gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate . The names of the rererenl disaffected are the Rev . Mr Meehan , efSt Michael and John ' s Chapel in this city , andFather ThaddeusO'Malley . whohavingby
their speeches asd writings rendered tbemselvesob * j noxious to the authorities , orders weie -issued for their arrest . Before , however , they were put into execution , their friends strongly advised them to absent themselves until the storm blew over . Both gentlemen having resolutely declined taking this course . Mr O'Malley ' a capture was rffected . In the meantime their diocesan interpesed in his behalf , and after beiag two hours in costooy , the rev . gentleman was set at liberty , but upon what conditions is unknown beyond the precincts of the lower Castleyard . In Mr Meehan ' s cue the warrant , it is said , was absolutely suspended .
Bosun , September 2 . —The Premier of England arrived at Kingstown yesterday , at twenty minutes past four a ' clock . The Prime Minister having landed there was a slight cheer . A special train was in waiting ^ and the party at osce proceeded to Dublin . In Wostland-row one of tbe Lord-Lieutenant ' s carriages was in waiting , and Lord John and suite proceeded at once to the vice-regal lodge , Phoenix Park . Lord Lansdowne , was expected to arrive tbis evening . THE SPECIAL COHMISHONS . A weekly paper ( the Mbbcantilb Advertiser ) ¦ applies the following information with , respect to the approaching political trials : —
There will ba a special commission for the county o f Ifcnarick as well as Tipperary . The commission for the latter county is to open atNenagh , the assiie town of the Horih , Riding , oa Tuesday , the 19 th instant , before tha two Chief Juticei , B-aokburne and Density . On that day tha grand jury trill be sworn in , and after an address from Chief Justices Blackburne , tills of indictmeat for high treaien willbe sent before them against JCasra Smith O'Brien , Meagher , and tbe other persons fncastody charged with being implicated
inthefararrectioHrj proceeding * in Tipptrary . As soon as the bills sra found , copies of the indictment , with the names of the witnesses for the crown , . mil be giren to Ibe agents of the prisoners , and the sittings of the ceurt will be aijaarsed , in ordsr to sffard time to the accused parties to plead , as prescribed by lair . We believe tbe time fixed by the Irish Treason Act , between the delivery of the indictment and the arraignment of the prises era , is five clear days , at the least ; aad thus the arraign , meet could not take place before Tuesday , tbe 26 th Inst :
The Wabdes of to-day says : — It is not , we believe , finally settled what prisoners are to be put upon their trial at the special oommiiilon . Mr O'Brien and Mr Meagaer will certainly be among the number .. Nothing has as yet teen determined with regard to Mr Daffy . It is not as yet finally known by what counsel the prisoners are to be defended . Hr Eenn , Hr Whiteside , Hr Batt , and Mr Holmes , haveheen all retained , we understand , for the defence both of Mr O'Brien and Mr Hetgher ; on : all the retainers hare been giren for a trial at Dublin . It is , of course , ia the power of each prisoner to select separate counsel to defend him . The following additional arrests are reported from Kilkenny : —
In Wednesday nightBeginald Greene , E-q , snb . inspector , acting on private information which he hud received , proceeded from Ms district to Cai'Jecomer , and procuring the assistance of tbe Johnstown police , marched to Peaner , in tha county el" Tipperary , where he succeeded in arresting one of tbe rebel leaders at the battle of Farrenrory , nuned Patrick O'Dannell , who had been since harboured and concealed at tbe house of a man named Dana , there situate . O'Dannell is said to have been slightly woandedia tbe shoulder by the fire of tbe police from widow M'Cormack ' s bouse Dana is bis brother-in-law , and was also arrested by Mr Greene far baring harboured a proclaimed felon , an offence punishable by transportation for life . Both tbe pri . aonfrs were on Thurtday morning brought befere Joseph Greene , E ? q ,, B . H ,, and committed to our county gaol .
Yesterday , Patrick Doogem , one of the prisoners charged with having been concerned in the affray at Ballingarry , and who had been confined in Newgate , was removed under a warrant from that prison to Richmond Bridewell . The cause of this man ' s removal is not known . The Mowing mysterious and dreadful occurrence is reported from the county of Monag & an : — A most appalling accident happened oa Sunday , the 27 th alt ., near the tawn cf Monagaan . B . Lsmertine dra « oo , Esq ., and bis lady , to whom he was married on the 22 nd af May , were taking a drive in a pony phaeton about four o ' clock , p . m ., in the direction of Bsimore Park , when , lamentable to relate , the two ponies took frig ' s t , and bounded over a bridge that crosses the Ulster
Ci & sl , and fell into the canal , about 120 feet deep , ailing Mr and Mrs Grason , and Miss A . Graham , sister-in-law to tre unfortunateyonog gentleman . There was an inqn > stheKon Monday morning before B , D . Turtle , Esq ., Coraner ^ and a resptctaMa Jury , waea it agf tared by the evidence ef the two doctors , Mltcbel aad Jts . Smi ' -b , that the gentleman , his lady , and his sister-in-law , died cf cjntudoa on the brain , caused by the tail ; the doctor ( Hrchel } also stated that Mrs Graf an was pregnant , Mr Grason ' i butler stated befere the Coroner , on oath , thbi Mr Grason and the two ladies were under the infta .-noaofliq . aor on leaving the house , and would aot allow tha coachman to drive . Mr Grasoa has left no reUnve to inherit his large property , about £ 18 , 008 per annum . Mr Grason Is greatly lamented in this town anri neighbourhood .
The papers announce the death of the Rev . Charles Beresford , Rector ef Baltieborough , in the diocese of Kt-mora , of malignant typhus fever , caught in the discharge of bis ministerial duties . HS H * HiOTS . The Cobs Examinbb , of Sept . 1 st , says : — 7 c is said that there Is evidence to prove that Mr M'Manus was present not oaly at BilUngarry , but also at - ? e previous erection of the barricaie in the town of £ t-. mule , aad that he was intrnsted to convey a sum of £ 5 . 000 , contributed by the English Cbartists , for tbe pa ? . ; : ose of aiding the insurgents . Pursuant to inttractir-n * from tha magislrates , head constable Crowley proce - < 1 ed to Cove yesterday for tbe purpose of arresting the Ccp' -ain ; but it appeared that this individual did not deem it convenient to delay any unnecessary length of time , for he bad weighed anchor and taksnbis departure e & ri ? in . tha morning . The missioa of the constable , therefore , was not attended with success .
BOBRtBLa AND rSHTJUAN SCBSK IK THE COTJHXT Of LSITBM . The following letter appears in the Freeman ' s Jookkal of Sept . 4 th : —
to tee innoa or the rusMAir . Gartlittera , Aoga » r 30 , 1848 . Drsx ' -JBia , —Ton win exceedingly oblige the nnderairnea Bomaa Citholic curate of Gortilttera by pub ; Isliisg $ & following facts in your valuable journal : —I w »& called on the 30 Ji to admlaUter the last sacraments to a dying man , and hardly bad I performed my duty wh = a it ' was announced to me that I should make haste or the bease would be thrown on me . On leaving the bouse , iibandtbe place crowded to excess , and , ia fact , the air . rent asunder with the shrieks of women and children .. Tha destroyingangel had by this time levelled to f ; e ground six iontes ; he harried on to the seventh , drsg ? ed"forth the expiring victim , John Rsjnolds , to perisb oa tha duog-nlil , as I have been credibly informed .
The folio wingare the names of the persons dispossessed 0 » en Reynolds , and wife , and eight children . John Glnty , and wife , and six children . Fat Carrtgan , and wife , and five children . John Reynolds , and wife , aud four children . P « t Reynolds , and wife , and four children . B 4 ward Flyn and wife , and three children . Jahn Fox , and wife , and three children . Bat Reynolds , and wife , and two children . Michael Gilroy , and wife , aud one child . Total—Fift j . foar Ka j at Tbi « eeenrrenea took place In the townlacd of An krft , tansy of Mobill , eounly of Lsitrfm . T » the truth of which I sign , nyse . f youra . & c . Patxicx H'Givket , B . C . C .. GortUttera .
* ( From the Morning Chronicle , ) DcMHf MosDAr . —The Lmehick ExuaNBa has tke following aocount of deplorable destitution and suffering in Clare : — Misear aho KAKtD 5 i 63 .-Afsw days ago , as Capt . Kennedy , Poor 4 aw Inspictsr , was proceeding on an offlslal tour through the western division of tbe Eilrusb Union , ba met a woman lit : rally naked and unable to move from utter exhaustion . Frera thtgasruresand oth = r signs exhibited bye tha wretched being , Captain K > ane « / regarded her as a maniac , an 3 ie was only when ho had conversed with her , and learned her frliifaffnl condition , that k * found she was a being bnt too sensibly alive to the horrors of her sitoarlos , aad tbe
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pangs ot hunger . He immediately relieved the poor woman's want * , and most humanely pressntsd her , en the instant , with the covering of his horse , which served the poor woman ss a blanket , Captain Kennedy will have to encounter many similar spectacles , should his lot be cast in the Ktlrma Union daring the approaching winter . The MUltown Mslbsy Atlantic Hotel is in the course of being purchased by the Poor-law Commissioners , to c invert it into a temporary workhouse for the use of iV paipers of the Halltown Malbay district of the Easta ' : ' mon Union . Nothing more requisite for the good of tha district could ba done . Depredations ou the potato gardens ere constantly taking place owing to tbe utter destitution of the posr . I could not describe to you tbe m' . seryand poverty of tslslosaUty . Thousands crawling from door to door , craving aims from many who are nearly as destitute as tbe oravers . Though tbe Eonisty . man workhouse is full , yet there is no absence ofcrav . ing creatures from one ' s door .
The sentence ofDonoghne , who was to be banged on the 7 ih inst ., at Gilway , for murder , has been c mmuted . The culprit is to be sent to the Luaatic Asylum at Ballinasloe . Dr White , inspector-general , deputed by the Lord-Lieutenant , held an irquiry into the alleged sanity of Djnoghue , and it clearly appearing he was a dangerons idiot , an order was forwarded from the Castle commuting the sentence to confinement in an asylum .
IHS cxkabascz systeu . The Limerick Examines contains farther and most sfS-cting accounts of the clearance system is Clare . That journal saya : — Three hundred bouses more , besides the one thousand already torn down in the union of Kilruih , have been levelled since our correspondent ' s , last excursion . Will any limit be put to these ravages ? Last wetk twenty-three families , comprising over one hundred human beings , were evicted from their homes , fthtch were levelled with the ground , in Scarlff . Tbe Sub Shtr . fi snperintenoed the operations . In the name of tbe God of marcy ! will any stop be put to these deeds !
FcKHta Eviciim . —A correspondent , upon wham we can place tbe fullest reliance , has just sent ns tbe following : — ' Over one hundred human beings have been cast out en tbe world's bleak eommi n , from L ' soannor . Tke houses are tumbled : the unfortunate peeple are squatted by the road-slds in huts . They were undert-nants to a middleman , named Sheaban , who was ej . cted for non-payment of rent . ' . •> BEUOVAL OF U ' UaHUS . Doblin , Tueiday Morning . —' Yesterday Mr M'Mauuswas put on board a war steamer at Cork which sailed for this city . There were upwards of 200 convioia for transportation on board .
1 HB HOST FOB MR DOHHHT IN A COaTSHt . The Cobs Examiske of yesterday has tho following : — Tbe ploni community of the Mill-street Convent was flung into tbe utmost consternation , on Thursday last , try tha appearance of a detective , backed by the available police force of the district , who insisted on searching tho building far Mr Doheay , who was supposed to be concede ! within iu peaceful walls , probably from tha fact that a sister of that gentleman happens to bs a member of the community . It was fortunate that the Bight Bev . Dr Egan , thererpeoted B : s ;» p of Kerry , was In tbe convent at the time , administering the Sacrament ot Confirmation to a number of female children . n * e understand bis lordship's presence had a salutary influence upon tbe seal of tbe detective , who yetiasisted on search , in i every portion of the building , including the ceils , or sio ' piug apartments of the nuns . The search however mi fruitless .
SISCHAB 8 S 07 MR JAMES MARTIN FROM CUSTODY . ' Mr James Martin , wao was committed te prison by the judges presiding at the late commission for having been guilty ot contempt of court , was bronsht np before Mr Tyndsl , at College-street Police-office , on Monday , for the purpose of entering into his own recognisances to keep the peace , previous to hie being discharged . Mr Martin entered into his own recognisances in £ 49 to keep the peace towards Mr Waterhonsa and all her Majesty ' s subjects for a period of seven years ; and Messrs Bernard Fnlbam aed Maxwell Sampson became security for him in the sum of £ 20 each . Mr Martin was then liberated .
SEA 8 CH FOB ASMS IN WATXaTtBD . On Friday evening a search for arms was made by Captain Gunn and a party of constabulary , on the premises of the Fever Hoipital , in Waterford . The result proved the correctness of the information which led to such a place being examined , as the police discovered , in the yard , two rifles , two pikes , and a sword . The medical officer of the establishment alleged he was ignorant of the existence of the weapons . _ lie was at the time suffering himself from fever , which was greatly aggravated by the excitement consequent upon the proceedings of the police , who ransacked his own room previously . In order to prevent the renewal of a proceeding , however necessary , attended with danger to the patient ' s life , the Rev , Mr Ryan called on Captain Gunn , and entreated of him to desist from any further search , which was intended to be made . Captain Gaan promised , on account of the state of the physician , not to pay another visit to the hospital .
DssTBucrrva rms in uhkbick-On Saturday night a fire broke out in Blackwater Mills , near this oity , the property of Mr Bsnnatyne , and destroyed the whole mill . The concerns and stock are insured . It is not five years since another of the mills was burned down . DI 3 BASB 15 CARU . The Athlosx Sentinel says that a disease in cattle of a virulent kind has made its appeaiance in the neighbourhood , and many poor persons have losttheir cattle by it .
( From the correspondent of the Times . ) THE PBKMIKB ' s Vim . Dcblin , Sept- 6 —Lord John Rassell remains at the Viceregal Lodge ,-and Saturday is said to be the last day of bis visit to the metropolis , whence he proceeds to Belfast . The Fbkeman ' b Jodbhal of this morning gives an aceennt of a deputation which waited upon his lordship yesterday for the purpose of laying before him a plan for converting poor-rate into capital . Mr Beaxley , of the county of Tipperary , a gentleman who some time since published a pamphlet , suggesting a plan for the purpose above expressed , had an interview with Lord Clarendon , —the Premier being occupied with other public business . Mr
Beaz ey presented a written abstract of his plan , which the Lord-Lieutenant said ka wonld read attentively . His Excellency did not hold ont aay hope of a loan or advance being made for the purpose . referred to . He said the state of the public revenue precluded that mode ef proceeding , aad commented in strong and indeed severe terms on the waste , plunder , jobbing , snd misapplication of public fnnds recently in Ireland when advanced from the coffers of tbe state . Public liberality and private benevoence were alike in most cases grossly abased or wholly perverted in their application . Landlords had applied for and obtained immense sums for the alleged purpose of improving their lands and affording employment , neither of whieh they did ; and thus tbe intention of the Legislature was not carried into effect nor tbe condition of tho agricultural population in any degree improved . Then , with respect to
boards of guardians , they bad not in most cases administered the Poor Law with snch efficiency as was desirable ; and under the system which in many eases prevailed tha most flagitious abuses had sprang up . Thus , for instance , within the last few days the government had ascertained that in one district there weresome hundreds more persons chargeable for out-door relief than the whole numerical population of the district . Lord Clarendon ' s condemnation of the conduct of landlords who obtained money under the Land Improvement Act , and then set their wretched tenantry to work in discbarge of arrears of rent without giving them a farthing of what was intended for them , is described to us as having been emphatic and unreserved , as it was , in justice and mercy to the poor , most deservedly called for . Nettherwasheat all sparing in his strictures on the vile abases which prevailed , and still prevail , in many districts connected with the se-called relief of
dintress . The deputation , having thanked his Excellency for the great conrtesy and patient attention with which he had favoured ( hem , ( hen withdrew . A letter from Ballingarry , dated Monday , says : — * All this neighbourhood continues quiet , and the only fact that reminds a person of the late rebellious proceedings is tho absence of nearly all the mala population in the district . Every person who had anything whatever to do with these proceedings , on the reappearance of the police , fled ; the principal portion of the labouring class have , it is said , gone to England , where they expect employment at the haymaking and harvest . Several , it is trne , have been arrested , but though the exertions of the local magistrates have been incessant , not one-eighth of the number charged have been made amenable to justice .
ARRIVAL CT CfiSVlCIS AT KINOiTOWa . Yesterday morning , the Birkenhead war steamer arrived in Kingstown harfmnr from Cork with 179 convicts on board . The prisoners were guarded by a body of constabulary , and on the arrival ef tbe steamer in tha harboar , the convicts were pnt oa board the Pestangee Bomangee transport ship , which lies at anchor off the east pier . The vessel will sail in a few days for New South Wales .
THE rLtBT . Early on Saturday morning , the Channel fleet , under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier , unexpectedly returned into Cork harboar after a cruise of nearly a fortnight towards Cape Clear . lathe coarse of the omice they were augmented by a large number oi steam frigates and other vessels . THE C 0 BP 0 BATI 0 N . Mr Francis Morgan , ono of the law agents of tbe Corporation , bnt at present a fugitive from the hands of jastice , fearing that his situation may ba filled during bis absence , has written a latter to that body in vtbioh he says : — ' In asking for a reasonable measure cf indulgence on the present occasion , I feel that it is due to the corporation and to myself most solemnly to assure the town coanoil that I am not gai ! ty ofaay moral or political crime unbscoming
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their office or inconsistent with the rights and duties of a free citizen . I have determined , so soon as I can ascertain the partfaalars of any alleged charge , to meet it boldly befere a jury of my countrymen ; bnt in the meantime , I am unwUiiogto leave my personal liberty at the disposal of official caprice ordetictive invention , ' ( From tho Daily News . ) CONrXDXRATS CMJB 3 . Dpbun , September 6 th . —It is stated , on good grounds , that the arrests of parties connected with late Dublin clubs will not be pursued any farther , nnless new circumstances should seem to demand it . There are , however , yet in suspense several scores of warrants .
MOBB ABBBBH « A Mr Keaae has been arrested at Monktown , Cork , on suspicion of being one of those whose names appear in the Hoi ass Cut . Mr Keane ( so he gives his name ) says he is from Kilrush . A person named Nolan , who had come over from New Orleans to visit Ireland , has been arrested in Tioperary . The camp at Turtalla , near Thnrles , will be struck to day , and the ' flying column' will be broken np . Most probably this step is taken in order to enable the authorities to concentrate troops at Clonmel or Nenagh , if such a step should be desirable . There is now every reason to conclude that the special commission will open at Clonmol . Outrages against life have commenced in
Tipperary—the initiative this time having been at the landlords' side . On the 30 th inst . Captain Scully , a relative of the M . P . for Tipperary . and brother , I believe , or uncle , of the Mr Scully who was shot some years since near Cashel , together with Mr James Scully , hit son , and a person named Carroll , a eervan % drove twenty-five head of cattle into a farm , the property of the late Mr E . Scully . The possession of this farm was in diapute , and a care-taker , who held it for the other claimant , attempted to prevent the entrance of the cattle . He was fired at , wounded , and his life is despaired of . Informations . have been taken againstailthe above-named parties . It is said that , bnt for the presence of the police , more lives wonld have been lost . Mr Scully , it is said , claims as administrator and receiver in succession to Mr E . Scully . J . P . i deceased .
SBIZUBB FOB FOOB RATE . DrjBtnr , Tuesday . —The Tippsbabi Vindicator of this day says : — ' The most extraordinary and sweeping seisure for rate ever perhaps attempted tsok place in Nenagh yesterday . Tbe newly appointed ratecoflector , Mr Richard Falkiner , repaired , without giving the usual six days notice , to Pound-street , in the morning , and entered every house , demanding the new rate struck on the 34 th of last month . In many of the houses the most abjept misery was visible ; yet pots , kettles , pans , even the most trifling implements
of household furniture , were pounced on and carried in loads to the pound . Old shoes , cloaks , and gridirons Were among the article seized ; and , what is still more extraordinary , an eocentrib though poor old man named 'Wolfe had four or five cages of canaries taken from him . While making this foray he was surrounded by an immense crowd of women and boys , screaming , booting , and yelling in the most nprosrious manner . This is a hew way to make the rate popular . ' wan johk ' s visit and becrpiion—john o ' connbu AND CONCILIATION HALL—PB 08 P 8 CTS Of A
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PBOPOSSD VISIT—THE WEATHER AND IHS CROPS . ( Fttm evr mm Oorretptndent . J Dublis , 6 th September . Waojcouldhave believed it ! The waters of the Liffey have really rfflacted the features of Lord John Rosiell , —and the British Premier is , of a verity , a denizm . pro tern . of our higaly-favoure'i ' and lucky city of Dublin ! After all there is something in store tor us ! Providence blighted our potato fields , and England has sent ns her Premier ! Who will now
have the impudence to prate about the bad times or the visitations which bring misery on onr people , and threaten final ruin to the entire country ? If Ireland ' s annals in this year of 1818 have a few extra black and blooly bbtches , wont the record of Lord John ' s visit be that' greea spot , ' which , to va > the lanzuage of Curran— ' will bloom over the desert , ' and make her rou ? h places level as a plate , and her crooked paths as straight as a bulrush ? But no more of this . That shabby shokeen , Russell , is not worth a joke . !
Qn last Friday evening Lord John landed in Dublin . A considerable number of persons , principally of the middling and humbler classes , were awaiting his arrival at Kingstown pier . There was no excitement , no bustle ; but there was considerable curiosity to catch a glimpse of one , whose name most be for ever odious to Irishmen . m His Lordship was accompanied by his lady , and I believe , three children , one of whom he led bj the hand , can versing gaily with it from the beach down to the Railway Station . A slight murmur of disapprobation was all the hostile manifestation discernible , but as tor the cheers of welcome ther were ' nowhere . ' The greater part of the people followed his lordship aad suite down to the special traia which was waiting
to convey them into town . There was more disposition to ridicule his mean appearance and unprepossessing features than either to applaud or insult him . Intact , the persons assembled seemed more surprised at the ridiculous style in which be approached our shores , I than enraged at the presence of one whom they regard as their deadliest and most impracticable enemy . I was at Wcstiand . ro w Railway terminus when the special trsin arrived in town . A considerable crowd was collected here also , and his lotdship ' s reception was pretty much akin to that whioh awaited him in Kiogatown . Here , however , there being numbers of the lazzaroni of the city , there
was a consequent accumulation of ill-manners , and the Dublin mob , always proverbial for thtir ready wit and powers of repartee , madopoor Lord John tbe target of their badinage , and vituperation . Not only was his bungling imbecility , as a statesman , brought to bear on his unfortunate head , but his cantemptible exterior , his very mean-looking countenance—and even the plainness and simplicity of his dress . Lord John constituted a ' regular- windfall ' ( as themselves expressed it ) to the merciless ' Jackeens' of Dublin ; and if anything onuld expiate the crimes of his politioal career , tbe drubbing he got at Westland-row , last Friday , should ' cover a multitude ef sins . '
On entering the private carriage from the Castle , which awaited at the terminus , his lordship was driven to Cork hill . No groan , no shout , no curse was heard as he passed along , neither did ono cheer . ful smile greet his progress—nobody saluted him kindly—nobody cried 'God bless him . ' Hit lordship and suite remain at the Lord-Lieutenant ' s villa in Phoenix Park . He takes an airing every day through town , in one of tbe vice-regal carriages , and is generally accompanied by some of the vioe-regal family . No insult is offered him , but his common-place person and vulgar appearance make him the butt ef ridicule in every street . On this night ( Tuesday ) , a large party is invited to meet him
at the vice-regal lodge . The elite of the oity and its neighbourhood are to be there , and , of course , ' great doings' are expected on the important occasion . On Sunday , he attended divine service at the Castle chapel , and in another day or two , it is said , he will take leave of Dublin and its gaieties , to visit Killarney , and other interesting scenes in the south of Ireland . Nobody can know tbe intentions or objects of Lord John in coming to Ireland . If it was on matters connected with state business , it is hardly to be supposed he would bring his 'rib , ' and a trio of theymng Russells—if it was merely & pleasure trip he meditated , he has chosen a very singular era for his fas-seeking peregrinations .
But . the good things in store for ns do not stop here . Lord John Russell ' s visit is not the only blessing we enjoy just now . There is another , and still abetter item in my note book , John O'Connell has 'cut' us , and Conciliation hall is shut up as firmly as bars and padlocks can bind it . The reign of humbug ia terminated—the O'Connell dynasty is scattered to the winds . ' My son John' has surren dared the sceptre of Burgh Quay ; the begging-box is flung aside as useless trumpery ; and the race of delusion , oheatery , and 'moral force' fudge is over at last . The furniture , splendid library , and other movables of tha ' hall deserted , ' are consigned to James Doffy , the publisher , ef Wellington- qqaj , who is to bring them , one of these days , to tho hammer , to liquidate the debt due to himself and others by the' defunct establishment . John O ' Connell has given np all notion of ever again coming into public life , and purposes residing henceforth in London tn
apply himself entirely to the management of bis affairs' aa Director of the National Bank ! Bravo 1 Here , at least , we take the ' consste' out of those Saxons . They say we give them nothing in return for all the Indian meal , Soyer ' s soup , coercive laws and other * good things' they periodically bestow upon * us ! Now , at least , we can give them the lie to their teeth ! We give them John O'Concelll They lend us over Lord John Russell for a month or so we bestow them John O'Connell ( we hopf ) for the term of his ' naturaliife ! A precious bargain they will have , but we wish them joy of bfm . ' At all events , so far as the exchange of the two 'Jacks ' : is coneerned , the Saxons are infinitely our debtors . They will pa ns , may be , when they are clearing off all the * old scores !* But with regard to the O'Connell transaction , we would much rather remain for ever * out of pocket ? than that they should pay us with our own coin . ' * We wish them much joy of the fat young gentleman !'
The rumours whioh , on yesterday and to-day reached us from the continent , are of the most exciting and important nature . It appears that France is sending ont her legions against Austria , and some sav that hostilities have already commenced . Italy will not be trampled on without the interference of gallant Fran Je in her favour , and England , as the friend of both countries , cannot keep out of the scrape . A bloody and prolonged war throughout the length and breadth of the European continent is apparently inevitable , and that . ' opportunity' which Ireland so long , but too impatieatlv , watched for ,
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seems very near us . England certainly will soon be more actively employed than at present . She cannot well avoid it . Had Irishmen been prudent and ocurageous , and faithful , what a glorious time was coming ! Without the loss of a squi b of gunpowder , or one drop of human blood , they oould have attained the redemption of their country . But we are ever unfortunate . Nothing could do for us but ' war to the pike , ' Rebellion instanter ! separation from England ! and an independent Irish Republic ! All these were maniac schemes , and even if effected to . morrow would destroy instead of save the country . It is co with the ' physical force' Chartists of England . See what rum these men have entailed on themselves , whilst strengthening the enemy and
weakening the cause which the ; pretend to advocate . Their rashness—their foolishness—their illegal proceedings—have effected more mischief to themselves and their interests , than all the coercion , and ' gag . ging , ' and tyranny of the Whigs could bring about in a century . The accounts from'the south'represent that portion of Ireland in a state of profound tranquillity . Tne rising is crushed , not a single rebel abroad on Slievenamon ; not a pike glitters on the Ballingarry heights ; not a single carbine rings in the glen of Aberlow . All is over . Tho camp at Turtulla is scattered . A part of the force ( the 74 th and 60 th rifles ) , marching back to Dublin , and the remainder ( the 85 th light infantry ) , going to Waterford . The
75 th encamped at Piltown , are for Kilkenny , and several detachments from various regiments quartered in tbe rural localities of the south , are ordered to join head-quarters . The war ' tn Ireland is over for tbe present , but the war with Ire ' and will never end uttil the happiness and social amelioration of the Irish people aro attained . Dublin is very stupid at present : Only for Lord John Russell ' s arrival and the Italian Opera , the surface of tbe Dead Sea would not be duller than our Irish metropolis . The old agitation is crippled , and with the exception of Lord William Fitzgerald ' s plan for a rotatory or Anglo-Celtic parliament and court in this oity , there is nothing at all doing in the way of politics . Nor is this scheme
making that progress which might be expected a-aongst a people so fend of novelty and experimental obsnge aa tha Irish . The Duke of Leinster ( Lord William Fitzgerald ' s brother ) , condemns the plan in toto , and many of those whoswere 'for it' a month age , are now' getting out of it / The project , however , is not abandoned . The committee holds its sittings on each Monday , and the leaders are talkiaj , of starting a daily and a weekly newspaper to advocate tbe measure . Many of the most Tory papers in Ireland applaud , whilst the great majority of the Oid Repeal brawlers keep silent on the businesi altogether . It is hard te form a correct opinion as to what may be the issue of this agitation . The Orange party , however , are not sleeping during
these days in Dublin . Now that the ' Green' is trampled in' the dust ) the Orange is getting aloft , and if the organisation now so rapidly extending be not crushed by government , we may soon expect areturn of the old days of ascendancy and' No Popery . '' Almost every Protestant in this city is getting into the Orange Confederacy , and several new lodges have within a fortnight been opened in different quarters of town . The spirit of bigotry and division is raising itself quickly amongst us , and if it be not kicked down again as' a vagabond , ' we shall have hot work before long amongst the people of Dublin . The Roman Catholics are not noticing this , but though the Protestant party seem to think them prostrate , I beg to say the reverse is quite the fact . The Catholic party
are not dismayed b ; the discomfiture of' Young Ireland , ' and if the Orangemen should provoke retaliation , they , will find themselves far frem being able to cope with their opponents . Lord George Bentinck is said to be coming over here in the wake of the Premier—with what object it is difficult to tell . Now that the great monopolist O'Connell is in Glasnevis , and tho great bugaboo , Smith O'Brien , in Kilmainham , we may expect periodical visits from every state quack and impostor who can afford to ' steam it' over from Saxon land , to thi < unfortunate country . Lord George is a 6 i 7 popular in Ireland ; but if he was really serious about coming amongst us , he bedeviled himself by his' busy-body-thankless' solicitude about Jahn Mitohel in parliament the other evening . 'His conduct on that oeoasion was not only ungenerous and
ungracious , bat it was highly unnecessary and impertinent . It will not be forgotten , should he ] intrude himself upon the people ef Ireland . The weather during the last week was asbeauti'ul and propitious as we could desire . The harvest affairs look oheeringly , and it is said that tbe short comings in any crop will not be so extensive as was first anticipated . I fear , however , that as we are always disposed to be premature in our opinions , that the national hopes have baen too much influenced by the warm sunshine of the last ten days . Last night the air was gloomy and sultry ; there were incessant bursts of vivid lightnin ? , and frequent peals of distant thunder . To-day about twelve o ' clock it began to rain , and has continued pouring without intermission up to the present hour—half-past three . The sky looks lowering , and a heavy fall of rain is apparent , .
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Thk Chartists and Ibish Cokpbderatss . —On Sunday , notwithstanding the recent wholesale arrests , and the precautionary measures adopted by the government to prevent the illegal assemblages ' of tbeae bodies , who have , for some time past , ' made themselves so conspicuous , several meetings , both public and private , were held in various parts of the metropolis , the gatherings of the former being at the usual places of assembly—viz ., Cartwright ' s coffee-house , in Cripplegate ; John-street , Tottenham Court-road ; and the South London Chartist Hall , Webber street , Blackfriars-road , & o ., & c . ; whilst secret meetings were held in private hemes belonging to different individual members of the Chartist body , in accordance with a resolution passed a few weeks since , in order to keep ont ' government spies ' and ' paid
defectives . ' At the meeting which took place at the Smth Lop . don Chartist Hall , in the morning , the subjeot that has been under discussion for the last three weeks was brought forward—namely , the establiahmentof a school , libraries , & i ., for tha propagation of Chartist principles , as well as fer the general improvement of those already connected with the body . After several speeches of the usual character upon the subject , tbe meeting dispersed quietly , and in the afternoon another meeting was held at the same place , convened by the 'South London Victim Committee , ' to consider measure ' s in aid of the 'Chartist victims , ' and their wives aad famlies . Owing to the remarkable paucity of attendance , little or no business was transacted , with the exception of a few pence gathered on behalf of the' victims . ' This
meeting separated , like the other , peaceably , though rthe police were in ambush in the event of their services being required . At Cartwright ' s coffee-house , the muster of Cbartists and Confederates was of a somewhat mote formidable character ; but had the slightest attempt been made to disturb the peace of her Majesty's subjects , it would have been instantly repelled , as upon all former occasions , such were the arrangements of the authorities . —Horning Post . Fbiohtful Death bt a Vicious Hobbb—An inquest was held on Saturday last by Mr Bedford , the Westminster Coroner , at St George ' s Hospital , on the body of Edward Weaver , aged fifty-one . It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses that the deceased was coachman ts Colonel Sykes , and on the previous Saturday evening deceased was going to
the tables in Hyde Park-mews West , when one of tbeeoach horses flew at him as he was passing the stall , and caught him by the arm ; the animal dragged him to the ground , where he continued to bite and trample on the unfortunate deceased until he became insensible , in whioh state he was found some time after by his wife , aud covered with blood . Assistance having been procured , deceased was extricated aod conveyed to the above institution , where it was found he had received a compound fracture of the skull , laceration of the brain , fracture of both legs , fracture of the righ ' , arm , and nearly all his ribs broken . He never showed the least signs of recovery , and died in a raving state on the following Thursday . Verdict , 'Died from injuries received by the violence of a vicious horse . '
Saoacitt op a Spaniel . —On Monday an inquest was taken by Mr Baker at the London Hospital , on view of the body of Eliza Sergeant , aged six years , whose death wat caused from injuries by fire . It appeared that the deceased was left last Thursday week in a room on the ground floor at No , 1 , Asbtonplaoo , Poplar , with two younger children , by their mother , who had gone out to pledge an article for the purpose of buying some bread . Upon hearing the screams of the children , a little dog jumped through a pane of glass into the room , and on their mother ' s return , which was in a few minutes , she saw the faithful animal tearing away the deceased's clothes with his mouth and paws . Upon his seeing the mother he went up to her and laid hold of ber gown to draw her towards the child . She succeeded in extinguishing the fire , and the deceased was removed to the London Hospital , where she died on Friday last from the effect of the injuries , Verdict , Accidental Death .
Ah Ibish Row at Macclesfield . —On Sunday night last , about twelve o ' clock , a quarrel to < k place between some Irish reapers , in Derby-street , Macolesfield . The noise attracted the police to the spot , when the reapers immediately attacked them , beating them severely with weapons of the most dangerous description , such as reaping-hooks , pokers , walkingsticks , duo . The police were driven from the street , but they immediately mustered again with strong reinforcements , and in a short time succeeded in capturing eighteen of the most active . Two policemen
were injured severely about tho bead , but fortunately not in a dangerous Tianner . Mr Harpy , the police superintendent , received a contusion on the back of the head , but tif a less serious character than tho wounds received by the two officers acting under his orders . The whole of the men captured were brought up to the Town llall on Monday last ; but tho evidence Against them not being complete , Mr Harper appDvd to have them remanded until Wednesday , when the whole affair will be investigated . —J / ancftosier Paper ,
Awful Fire In Albany, U.S. Sereral Lives...
AWFUL FIRE IN ALBANY , U . S . SErERAL LIVES LOST . —SIX HUNDRED BUILDINGS BURNT . — THREE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OP PROPERTY DESTROYED . ( From tho New York . Weekly Herald , August 19 , The Albany papers are filled with accounts of tha disastrous eo & fhgratloa which took plsce In that city on the 17 th ult . We areindobted to Captain Qorhsm , of the steam-bo & t Hendrik Hudson , for Albany papers , delivered at an early hour on Friday afternoon . The AiBiMT Eifbess gives the following account of the disaster : — We scarcely knew how to describe the fearful calamity that has befallen our doomed city . It is beyond adequate description—beyond at the time wo write , intelligible detail . Soon after a fire was checked that broke out in Quackenbuth-strcet , just before noon , the alarm was again sounded , and fire broke out in a small stable adjelulnr . the Albion House , between Broadway and the Tier . « n Herkimer . street , and occupied by J . Q . Wnlte . Of
its origin we know nothing ; but it burst forth at a most unlucky moment . The fire department was weary , scattered , aud disorganised . Some of the machines ware disabled , and in consequence of a shameful fight one of them—No , 9 , we believe—was lodged in the City Hsll yard , and unmanned , tn the moment of danger . Tbe heat was intense , the mercury rang ing at 91 in the shade , the city dry as tinder , in consequence of the drought , and a gale of wind blowing from the south . Ertrything conspired egtinst ui ; and the destroying element immediately getting the upper band , raged awfully and unchecked fer hours , sweeping away full six handred bolldlngi , many of tbem new , and of great value , destroying about 2 , 000 , 000 of dollars worth of property , and rendering hundreds of families houseless and homeless !
Truly , this calamity is an awiul one—but God be praised that it is no worse , At one time it seemed as if the destruction of our fair cl'J was intvi ' -able . Tbe wind blew fiercely , tbe flames spread on all sides , the devouring- element advanced from block to block and from street to street ; buildings were taking fire in several parts of tbe city—all was terror , confusion , and dismay , and the efforts of man seemed utterly powerless . At tbis fearful moment the wind lulled , heavy clouds rose in the north-west , and a delnga of rain—grateful , nseded , God-sent rain—poured from the surcharged clouds , and cheeked the progress ef . the conflagration .
Amid tbe roar , darkness , lightning , and thunder oi tbe storm , glared the red flames , and rolled the vast colonial of smoke ; while occasionally the shock of a building blown uj . with gunpowder , added to the terror and sublimity of the indescribable scene . Tbe fury and spread of the flames exceeded anything over seen . The fire ran , le » pe < l , flew , from building to building , with the speed of the hurricane that bore it on its course of destruction , And as it advanced , and grew mere and more threatening , the bells resounded the alarm , and tbe people looked on with terror and almost with despair . There nere many narrow escapes from death , and some serious personal injuries sustained ; among the latter , William Johnson , and bis wife snd daughter , were badly burnt , while escaping frosa their dwelling , 53 ,
Liberty-street . Albany hea never before , in her 300 years'history , Buffered se dreadful a local calamity as this . The first block burnt was bounded by Herkimer , street , Broad ny , Bleeker-street , and the dock .. The fire then went up the dock and the east side of Broadway , nearly to Hudson-street , and up tbe west side of Broadway quite to Hudsoa-ttreet . It passed up Hudsonstreet to tbe Park , burnt both sides of Liberty and Cuurch-itreets , down to Ly ^ ius . street , to Union-street , endup the east aide of Ualon . street to Hudeon . atreot Park . Over tbis large district every building it consumed , except Hagaman and Cowell's four story brick , corner of Broadway and the new steatn . boat landing Bortlo'e new three story brick grocery store , west side of Broadway , aad adjoining the district burnt ia Juno ; J . K . Wing ' s four st « y brick store , corner of Dock and new steam-bout landing ; Oagger ' s new ] three story
brick buildings , running from the Djck to Broadway , and occupied in part by Tweddle and Darlington . All tho rest are down including the Fort Orange Hotel , Cowell ' s eating house , Quinn's tavern and beordlug house , the United States House , the Eigle Tevtrn , a German bearding house , the Townsmd House , the Odesn , many small boarding houses & o „ and aft immense number of stores . The fire crossed andburnt tho HamUton . strect Bridge , and set on fire Dow ' a Western Hotel , the first building oa the Pier . From this point , every building on the Pier , up to and across State-street , and thence to the cut at the foot ef Maiden-lane , waa destroyed , including the emigrant hotels , forwarding houses , groceries , steam-boat , oanal . boat , and freighting line offices , and all tbe floating craft in the Basin , including from fifty t 3 sixty canal and lake boats , from fifteen to twenty large tow-boats , some sail vessels , and the steam-boat William S -jmour .
Burning vessels floated against the Columbia-street bridge and setit on fire . Thence the fire was communicated to the Columbia-street market , which was burned , together with a number of dwellings in tho vicinity . The exact bounds of the district burnt in this quar . er we have not been able to obtain , Tetsels of all hinds on the outside of the pier floated out of harm ' s way . The less of household goods of all kinds is immense , Great quantities that were strewed in the streets were ruined by the rain , Csrt * . waggons , drays—everything on wheels—were in constant requisition , bnt could not accomplish n tenth part ef the work required . Five , ten , aad twenty delists were offered for parrying a single load .
There was nothing like organisation of effort . The authorities , tbe fire department , and the citizens were scattered , isolated , and acted too much without concert . Still , much was done , Almost superhuman' personal efforts were put forth , and thousands of citizens worked with all their might . Our firemen , under tbe circumstances , did all they could . We received timely and invaluable aid from Troy , Greenbnsb , and Schenectady . Numbers of persons were rendered powerless by heat , fatigue , and cold water . Buildings , sheds , & o . took fire repeatedly as far north as Wilson and Lumber streets . The whole oity was in danger . Mr J Smith ' s Pass Soil BtsKta office , ' and James Duffy ' s job printing office , were burnt . At one timo the offices of the Atlis , Khicksrbockeb , , and Expsbss , as well as Tan Beytbnien ' e and Munsell ' s extensive printing establishments , were threatened with destruction .
Thousands of citizens packed up their goods , rural tore , & c . and tho stores were everywhere closed . A number of buildings were blown up under the di reotion of tbe authorities , in the vivinity of Hudson
street . It is Impossible at tke time we write to get at any correct estimate of the loss sustained , or the condition of the insurance companies . Oar Albany companies have suffered tcrrill / . Individual losses must be very great and there will bs much distress and suffering . It will be a long timo before Albany will recover from tbis awful calamity . Seventeen whole blocks , the pier , the Columbia-street market , two bridges , and near one hundred boats are destroyed . Most or' tbe boats ware heavily laden . We regret to loam that several lives have been lost . Two men were drowned in tbe Basin , near tbe foot of MaUen-Iaue . Tbey were floating on a raft , and in the midst of the conflagration fell off and snnk . The owner of the ateam-boat William Seymour , Benjamin Wakeman , is missing , A man named Hardely , an Irishman , died frem over exertion . A man named Johnson and several others are missing .
Some eight or ten thousand barrels of flour were burnt ou the pier . The loss of property in the Basin was immense . Tbe loss is roughly estimated at two millions of dollars . We fear eur local insurance com . panies are overwhelmed . The property on the pier waa Insured abroad . The Swifisure and Eekfjrd Towboat hoes lose tremendously . Hundreds of onr business men are utterly ruined , Four buildings were blown up with powder . At midnight tbo fire was burning in forty places , but it is completely under control . There is no wind , aad the rain has ceased . - The Abacs says : — ' No estimate of the value of property is yet ' attainable . We hear of two forwarding lines tbat estimate property under their charge to tbe amount of 90 , 000 dollars , all consumed . Another line suffers to an amount of from 60 , 009 dollars to 80 , 000 dollars . The loss of floor afloat and in store Is not less than 10 000 barrels .
The area of the fire comprises many acres , perhaps fifty or sixty , of the most compact and valuable part of the city , It includes at least twenty squares , Atnldit the ralas which every whero meet the eye , it is dlffi } ult to trace the outlines of the former state ot things ; bat thoie familiar with the city will perceive the ex . tent of this most calamitous visitation by a few generalltUs . Broadway , from the intersection of Herkimer to tho south earner of Hudson-street , on the west side and to an Sohaack ' t variety store , ou tho east side , nearly half a mile , is , wilb all its structures and stores , Including tbe Eagle Tavern , the Townshend House , and the United States Hotel , level with the earth . From Broadway to the river , including the ranges ef lofty stores on Qaay-street , throughout nearly the entire space above mentioned , all is aheap ef rains .
All the cross streets entering Broadway , Herkimer , Bleesker , Lydius , Hamilton Division , and Huisoi , west as far as Union and Dallius-atreet , aro swept away . Amazing iffort preserved GoolA ' a great carriage and coach establishment , everything on the surrounding streets being demolished . ftorth , the flying cinders with whioh the air was filled , caught the Columbia-street Market , and of that large structure nothing remains . Tbe adjacent buildings were saved by tbe prompt efforts of the two Schenectady Fire Companies , Bat the scene of the most striking
and absolute desolation is tho pier . Scarcely a vestige of it remains . Throughout its entire length , from Hamllton-street to the cut opposite the Boston depat , it h utterly consumed , including tho wharfs , warehouses , nearly all tho shipping In tho bi » siu and outride the pier , tow . boafs , barges , eansl-boate , feuge floating warehouse a » ks , with all their valuable and vast contents of goads and products , the three bridges at Columbia , State and Hamilton-strocts , lumber yards , flour stores—in short , everything that Hasted or teemed with llfp and value , itt that great mart yesterday naming ,
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Tie scene in State-street beggars all description . Thousands , flying from the conflagration , pressed every conceivable vehicle into their service , depositing goods , furniture , families , children , evcrjth ' ng animate and inunlmato . Every point in that wide street—st the Escbauge , at tho City Bank , at tbe corners of all the intersecting streets , in front of St Peter ' s Church , all along the parks , and finally at the State Hall and City Hall—were crowded with bales , boxes , furniture , goods , of every description , & c No point was deemed too remote from the devouring element . The stores were everywhere dosed , or were only opened to the . flying oitlzeni ] andeffeolf . Two buildinr * were blown up , in tho hope of arrest , log the progress of the fire—one belonging to Mr J . I , Boyd , in Broadway , and the other to Mr John Knower , corner of Hudson and Liberty-streets , but with little effect .
Ail the insurance companies suffer largely , if not ruinously . The loss by the different fire insurance companies , as far as can be learned , is as follows : —Albsuy , 175 , 000 dolt . ; Fireman ' s , Albany , 75 , 600 dols . ; Mutnal . Albany , 60 , 000 dols . ; New York Mutual Safety , 60 , 000 doll , ; North American , New York , 25 , 000 doll .: National dltto , 15 , 000 dols , ; Equitable ditto , 14 , 000 dole . ; City , ditto , 4 , 600 dols . ; Hartford , 30 , 000 dul * . ; £ ma and Protection , Hartford , 35 , 000 dols . ; North Western , ditto , 15 , 000 dols .: Camden , New Jersey , 20 , 000 dols .: Lexington , Kentucky , 8 , 000 dols . ; Columbus , Ohio , 2 , 000 dols . ; Protection , New Jersey , 9 , 600 dots . — Total , 568 , 280 dols .
( From the Albany Alias , August 19 . ) In viewing the scene of devastation , one is struck with tbe power of the destroying element . Ha w it was possible for such a mass of solid brick buildings to be swept away in a few brief bouts , and which will require the constant labour of hundreds of men for years to replace , is a matter of sitonlehment . But at the time the fire broke out the wind was blowing a gale from the south , the buildings in which it took were of the most combustible material , and for eighteen days no rain bad fallen in the city , snd tbo roefs were like tinder , Tbe coals and cinders were wafted from block to block , and the moment tbey struck tbe wooden roof of a building it was ignited by the action of the wind . We were witness to several instances of this kind . On the northern part of the city , more than half a mile from the immediate vicinity cf the fire , no less than four buildings were on fire at tbo same time by that means . Tha moment a olnder lighted upon tho roof a Wta » was produced , aa ii a match had betn ijnited .
( From tho Albany Knkkeiboher . ) the fire originated in a very singular manner . It appears that while a woman was washing , a spark set fire to her sun bonnet . Without a m unent ' s thought she jerked it from her head , aad threw it , she knew not where ; unfortunately it alighted in the stable of Wm . Johnson , which in a moment almost was enveloped in flames . A great portion of the goods , furniture , and property saved from the fire , was afterwards washed iuto the river by the tsrrents that the rain poured dews all eur more lengthy streets . The latest accounts estimate the value of property destroyed at three million dollars ,
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DREADFUL FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE . THREE THOUSAND BUILDINGS COHtSmiED . — FROM THREE TO FIVE MILLIONS POUNDS WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED . —NUMER 0 U 3 L 1 YES LOST . Constantinople , Aooost 19 — Ob Wednesday last , towards seven o ' clock in the evening , a most lamentable fire broke out la Yemith IskelesM ( dried fruit bazaar ) , situated between tho two bridges . Tbe intensity of tho conflagration arqilred such force , on account of the surrounding infitmmable matter , that In s short quarter ef an hour it had extended itself in a fearful manner . In tbe immediate neighbourhood of the fruit bazaar was the Yagh Kapan , or cil depot , the magazines and ware .
homes being well stocked with tbat itflammable matter ; on tbe other side , towards the arsenal , was an immense timber yard , the greatest in the city , a quarter of a mile in length , one hundred feet in height , and five hundred in breadth . By eight o ' clock both these places were in * vaded by the fhmes . When tha whole line of sphere oa which the timber was piled wee one blazing sheet of fhme , tbe appearance wai that of one burning mass of liquefied gold . What was still more grievous was , that a compact mass of shipping was moored opposite this spot , and tbe masling of several Turkish vessels , laden with oil , wheat , and timber , soon took fire , and rendered the scene on the placid and tranquil water still mors sublime than on land . The shrill cries of the respeotlv commanders of tho menaced vteseU , the long , continu .
ous , and savage howls of tbe mariners aod sailors , in their endeavours to draw their crafts from tbe theatre of tbe cotfldgratlon , all tended to impress tho spectator with the grandeur of the dreadful calamity that bad be . falltn tbe city of Constantinople . Towards nine o ' clock the fire had spread out in an awful manner . In one dl . rectlon it was travelling at a rapid rate towards the Gal . moumjilar , in another towards tbe Uzun Charskl , whilst on the other it was rag tig atthi Odun Kspouesi , Not . withstanding groat iffurts were made to prevent its spreading towards tbe hill , which gradually rises uatil it reaches the crest , en which stands the Mosque ef Suley . manl h , and close to that the palaces of several vizirs , the She'k uUalam Kappoussi ( Porte ot theUlemas ) , and otber extensive public and private buildings , with their
banging gardens and kiosks , it was all of no avail . Tha houses were destroyed , one after the otber . Tbe flames rushed up the walls , and ( toed like pyramids of fire in the air . At length , at about eleven o ' clock , the pinnacle of ono of the minarets of Suleymanieb , en the ex . treme height , and fully one mile from tbe scene of destruction , caught fire , A alnguUr spectacle Indeed it was , to see tbis airy meteor burning and blazing away , whilst the flames in a vast body kept beating like waves against tbe angle of the Sheik-ul-Islam ' s palace , after having destroyed in rapid successien , all tbe intervening buildings . A : about midnight it had reached Blink Bjziar , In tho immediate neighbourhood of the new bridge , and great anxiety was entertained respecting tha Drug Buzaar , which is a splendid building , well known
ts tourists , who visit this city . In the opposite dlrec tion it had reached the SkemnegeUr , and was proceed , ing at a rapid rate towards the Oun Kapan , Tbe efforts made by the Turks to extinguish the fire were useless ; tbey everywhere ceased , and were mostly employed in palling < iowa baildiags . With tbe poor inhabitants It was a general jatiwgitijMut ; indeed many were so iur . rounded by thefUraeaM to be unable to escape , ana were burned to death . Near Oun Kapan a dreadful des . truction of life occurred , and it is said that upwards of twenty persons have perished . At two o ' clock in the morning the fire had sensibly abated in its violence for the want of fuel to ailment it , and at about half-past three no mora danger waa anticipated . The fire has consumed , according to a detailed estimate , about 2 , 590 shops and 500 houses ; about forty of the latter wera splendid palaces belonging to the Sheik . ul-Islam , Mous . tapha Prtcio , Said Pasha , Irret Pasha , Hassan Pasha , and others . Tbe general loss ts calculated at averaging
from £ 2 , 000 , 000 to £ 4 . 000 , 080 sterling , but some have oarrisd it to £ 5 080 , 000 . We should state it at , approximately , about £ 2 , 500 , 000 . To account for this great loss , it must be carefully understood that vast deposl . tortoe of merchandise were kept there , besides whole bazaars of oil , fruit , wax rice , spices , tallow , coffae , sponges , die , as well as the establishments of the knife grinders , wholesale grocers , nut sellers , & o . In addition to these must be noted nineteen khans , seven mosques , four baths , two public granaries , 15 , 000 barrels of rice belonging to the Pasha of E jypt , a government steam mill and seventeen vessels , and among tbe rest an Austrian and Russian vessel , & c . This fire exceeds that of Perat * o months back , not only in the extent , but in the value of the objects destroyed . Here people are positively ruined , as their all wat there . A fearful night of havoc indeed it was . Tbe Sultan went fnooanito to the scene of destruction , and subseqaendy took up his posltioa in a steamer in the arsenal .
Tho alarm guns have just been fired , aud it is said that a serious conflagration has broken out at Kara * gumruk , towards the Seven Stars .
Murdsr Of A Child On Clapham Common.—Oa ...
Murdsr of a Child on Clapham Common . —Oa Saturday Mr W . Carter , the coroner for EastSurrey , held an adjourned inquest at the Falcon , Wands , worth-road , upon the body of an infant female child , about a month old , whioh had been found drowned in tho sprint ; well on Clapham-common , From tha evidence adduced at the two investigations which took place , it appeared that the spring well is a bucket well , about twelve feet in circumference , fourteen feet deep , and is situated a little out of the direct road across tho . 'omraon from Clapham to Wandsworth . There ia a very Jabnndaijt supply of a peculiarly soft water , and a number of men obtain a living by carting and selling it to numerous
families in the neighbourhood . Ou Thursday morn , ing , about half-past six o ' clock , the body of the deceased child was found floating in the well . It was naked . It * hands were clenched and its body drawn up , giving undoubted proof of its having been east into the water alive , and its subsequent struggle for existence . The bDdy was taken possession of by Sergeant Lanton , 19 , and policeman Dindy , 93 , v division , and shown to Mr J . C . Parrott , jun ., of Clapham , surgeon , who stated it was that of a child at least tbree weeks old , and that ho had no doubt it had mot its death by drowning . These were tho whole of the facts . Tho jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persona unknown .
A Vbbdici op Wilful . MBRDBshaa been returned against Hannah Southgate , charged at Thorpe with poisoning her first husband , Thetrtas Ham . It will he remembared that the accused was the intimate friend of Mary May , recently executed for murder , and the suspicion is that the two women were engaged in more than one of the poisonings , When tha verdict was delivered the prisoner exclaimed , 'lam innocent , gentleman , of the crime , ' and exhibited great composure . She was immediately removed , and conveyed by the train to Chelmsford county sraul . It was said that application will bo made to Sir G . Grey , tho Stenesiry of State , to authorise furlh « r ex & minations cf bodies of patties suspected to have been poisoned , in the nbighbourhoods of Dovercouit , Bradfield , Tondring , and Rarmey . - ™ 2
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09091848/page/6/
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