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—It the Hoyal Observatory , , the mean dalJy r ^ dine of the borometer was above 30 in . on the last two davsoftbeweek ; the mean of the week was 39 , 680 in . The mean temperature of the week was 43 * 5 deg ., which is eliebtly belo * tbe average of the same week in ten years . The mean daily temperature rose from 398 deg . on Sunday , wlrch is 3 6 deg- below the average of corresponding days , to 46 9 deg . and 501 deg . on Monday and Tuesday , which are respectively 8 ' 3 deg . and G 3 de » . above the averages . It then continued falling till Friday , when it was again 39-5 deg .. or 4 4 deg . below the average . The wind blew chiefly irom the north-east . Rain fell on Monday ereoing and on the morning of Tuesday .
Sereins rs thb Street . —On Tuesday morning , a man named Thomas Sheen committed suicide by leaping from the third floor of a house in Hart-street , Covent-garden The unhappy man ' s frame was complet-Jy smashed by the fall . He was , however , taken np a'ive by the passers-by , Whose lives he had serioasly endangered , and conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital , where he lived but a few hours . 2 fo motive is assignable for his rash act . The Poob-Law-Boabb axd tbe Pahish of St . Paxcras . — On Tuesday , at the meeting of ihe Board of Directors of the parish «> f St . Pancras . held in the Ves-ry Hall , King s-road , Camden town , Mr . ChonAwarden Baker in the chair , tbe following communication fr m the Poor-law Commissioners was put in and read :- « 'Poor-law Board , Whitehall , March 31 1352 —Sir I am directed by the Poor-law Board to state , with reference to the proceedings which it will be incumbent upon them to take at the commencement of the ensuin" term , in regard to Mr . Eaton , the master of the St that desire
workhouse of the parMi of . Pancras , they to be informed whether the directors will admit him to return to the discharge of his duties in that workhouse , or will refuse to do so . The board think it more desirable tbat they should have an answer to this communication than that they shonld direct him to attend personally at the workbouse for the purpose of resuming his duties . I am . sir , your obedient servant . Coubtkasay , Secretary . G . W . F . Cook , clerk to the directors of the parish of St Pancraa . "A discussion arose upon reading this letter as to whether any rr what reply should be sent to it—Mr . W . TJ . Cooper said there was one of two things to be done : either send a copy of the resolution dismissing Mr . Eaton and appointing his successor , or take no notice whatever of the comrannication ; he would advise the latter course . —Mr . Hickman considered the letter of the Poor-law Board a piece of equivocation . They well knew that Mr . Eaton was dismissed , and tbat his successor had been appointed . Jfr .- ^ Dyke and Mr . Stockton contended tbat tbe Poor-law Board had no
right to interfere iu this mafer . It was eventually agreed , upon the mcti-.-n of Mr . Turner , — " That the vestry clerk return the following reply : —* St Pancras "Vestry Office , April 6 th , 1852 . —My Lord . In reply to your lordship ' s letter of the 31 st ult ., I am instructed by the directors of the poor to inform you that the appointment of master of St . Pancras Workhouse rests wiih the vestry . ( Signed ) G . W . F . Cook , Clerk to the Directors . —Lard Gouitenay . '" The board then broke op . Latjsch of the IxMiXA Cape as » Ikma Mais Steam Ship . —On Wednesday a splendid iron steam ship , named the Indhna , one of the new fleet of vessels of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company , which are to be employed on the Cape and Calcutta mail route , was launched from the ship huildingyard of Messrs . Mare and Co ., Black wall . The Indian i is one of the largest screw steamers ever built on the banks of tbe Thames . She is nearly 1 . S 00 tons burden , divided into fire-proof and water-tight compartments , and is the third vessel which has been bnilt for service on tbe com ? a > v " s extension of route .
Free Trade asd Protection . — On Wednesday , at a meeting of the v < -.-frj of St . Pancras , held in the great hall adjoining the workhouse , T . Eld Baker , Esq ., senior churchwarden , in the chair ; the following resolution , moved by Mr . Brettrogbam , and seconded by Mr . W . D . Cooper , " was carried unanimously : — " That in the opinion of this vestry any return to a tax on the food of the people will be one of the most fatal courses for any government to fake . That the chief object of the present ministry appears to be to maintain the high rents of tbe aristocracy , and to continue that profligate expenditure of the nation ' s means , which , unless timely arrested by a reform of the people's own 'house , ' the * Commons House of Parliament , ' will inevitably end . as it has done in other state . * , in a financial revolution .. "
Joseph Any . at Jjabge . —On Tuesday Joseph Ady , the well-known letter writer , was discharged from the Giltspursireefc Compter , in which be had been for some months confined for a large amount of money due to her Majesty for tb . 3 postage of letters directed to persons all over the country , giving information of " something to their advantage . " Ady bad not paid one halfpenny of the debt , as we were given to understand , but he has been in a declining Btate of health , and it is believed that the visiting magistrates of the prisons of the City represented the fact to the Post-office authorities . On Tuesday a note was received at the Mansion-house commanding his liberation .
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EXTOOSIOS ASD MlRACDXODS ESCAPE OS THE GREAT WESTERN- Railway . —On Saturday an explosion of an engine occurred on the line of the Great Western Railway . It appears that about three o ' clock in the morning , on a goods train , consisting of thirty-eight trucks , arriving at Bull ' s Bridge , near the Sonthall station , the boiler of tbe engine suddenly burst with a terrific report , by the force of which the funnel and dome were shattered to pieces . The engine-driver , named Taylor , was thrown up several feet into the air , then falling on the tram-road ; while the fireman was precipitated about three yards on to the embankment . Taylor was lying insensible , and was conveyed to Saint Mary ' s Hospital , Paddington ; his face , neck , « nd head were frightfolly disSgured from having been scalded by the steam . Every attention was paid him , aud on Sunday afternoon he was progressing f-vourably .
The Romset . Mebdeb . —The condemned criminals Eyres and Kemish are reprieved , a notification to tbat effect having been received from the Secretary of State by the Winchester gaol authorities last week . The respite is a general One . viz ., during her M-jesty ' s pleasure . Lewes . —Romasist Toleratios . —A young lady , a native of Lewes ( whose name ha * , in confidence been given to us ) this week returned from Italy , where she has been staying some time . She states that when she arrived there the customs officers , in searching her trunk , took away her Bible—the parting present ol her father—and during the whole of her stay there she was unable to obtain another copy or even tie loan of one , so tbat she was wholly precluded the ute and consolation of the sacred volume ! This IS Papal toleration , and it is for the education of priests in such a creed as this that public money is to be granted year after year . —Sussex Express .
Iuportakt to Stockbrokers , asd Dealers tor Time Bargains—At the Liverpool assizes , on Saturday , an action-was tried before Mr . Justice Cresswel ) , in which the plaintiff , Jlr . Falkner , a stockbroker of Liverpool , sought to recover tbe sum of £ 3 , 638 from tbe defendant , a Mr . Steele , who had been induced to speculate in shares ; and the amount claimed was the aggregate balance due upon settlements extending over a period of nearly three years . It was stated tbat tbe defendant bad verbally acknowledged the accuracy of the account supplied by tbe plaintiff , but bad refused to give a written acknowledgment of the debt The various transactions which had been entered into by direction of Mr . Steele were proved by a clerk of the plaintiff ' s , the commission charged being os . per £ 100 ( 1 per
centj Mr . Hugh Hill , Q . C ., tor the defence , contended that the contract , if any bad ever been made , was void , by reason of the nature of tbe transactions being of a gambling character . Mr . Justice Cresswell , in putting the case before the jury , said that although debts contracted by gaming were what were called " debts of honour , '' and probably not one of the jury or any respectable person would refuse to pay a liability so contracted , yet they had in the present case to deal with a strict question of law . If they were of opinion that the transactions in whi « -h the plaintiff had engaged for the defendant were for boiiafi e delivery , he was entitled to recover the amount claimed ; but if it was a mere accumulation of differences , that was gaming , and the verdict must be for the defendant . The jury accordingly found for the defendant
Remarkable Appeal to toe Qoees . —At the late assizes , at Bury St . Edmunds , a farmer named Baldry was left for execution , having been found guilty on the most conclusive evidence of administering arsenic to bis wife , with intent to murder her . Since his condemnation his wife-has forwarded a petition , containing the following appeal to tbe Que ? n in his behalf : —
To her Majesty the Queen . Thehumfele petition of Mary Aim B-dJij , of Preston St , Mary Suffolk , Shewetb , — . , . „_ ., „ _ „ . , Ihatvourneritioner ' shuRhand . William Baldry , was ronvicted at the assizes ol administering poison v , itli iuf eut to murder your netitf-. ner , and has b-t-n sentenced to die . That jour petiu- ner was not aware that the prisoner ' s cuuvktum would involve the forfeiture of his life , or vour petitioner would at any risk to herself , have declined to be a party to th <* prosecution . That j our petitioner has long been in an infirm < tite of heal h , and the agitation of tne recent proceedings the unhappy prisoner ' s approaching fcte . and the reflection that vour petitioner may be tbe instrument
tfher hu & band ' s destruction , have so aggravated her fufferings that jour petitioner feels a strong conviction that a fatal result to the prisoner most , within a very earij peri .-d , bring with it the deaih « . f jourpetiUum ; .- . That jour petitioner with great reluctance yielded to the solidtatioasot her friends to prosecute , and in the absolute belief that tne estent of punhhment that was awarded for uie offence was transportation or imprisonment . That your petid ^ LT 0 < , H , earn witw = >«« couip-sure that the prisoner was an « i ! d ^ rt- ? sterm * f transportation < -r imprisonment , even for ofWowlnaXi r ** ' «*« n'Wnt be saved , therefore , the misery bespare ^ oTr « i ' ,, as destroyed l . er husband , and that he may humbly pravsiottrM - 6 aud anM » duiMiL Your petittner most tunate prisons ! \ ww 2 nf « a the -eal « 'ce parsed on the nnloreomeless severj pan ^ , ^ ^ »»? »» mercifully commuted to P t autnt , ' 12 ? ' ^ s life may be spared . tSigneo ) The above was forwarded f 0 r , »« ^ BitDRV - ' ¦ Q IOr ? sentaiion through the
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Secretary of State , and on Friday an order was received from the Home Office , respiting tbe execution of Badley until the 8 th of May ; It is understood that his sentence will be commuted to " transportation for life Respitr ron the Convict Micklbboroh . —In conaequence of a deputation , composed of J . B . Ross , E-q ., one of tbe magistrates of the borough of Ipswich ; Messrs . S . n . Cowell , J . Ilead , and other geuileraen , who are opposed to death punishment , having waited on the Secretary of State for the Home Department on Saturday last , with a memorial numerously signed , praying that the life of John Mickleburgh might be spared , a respite was , at twelve o ' clock on Monday night , received at the county gaol , Ipswich , for the unhappy man during her Majesty ' s pleasure .
A Child Killed by its Parents . —The coroner s inquest at Southampton on the body of ihe child named R > e terminated at midnight , on Monday , in a verdict of wiiful murder against the father and stepmother , Roe and his wife , and they were committed to gaol on the warrant » f tbe coroner . Edward Coxwell , Esq ., to take their trial at the next Winchester Assizes . The most damnatory evidence was brought agaiast the parents on Monday , particularly by one of the surgeons , Mr . Wiblin , who took part in the post mortem examination , and who proved tbat the wounds found on the body of the child , and which contributed to its death , could not have been produced by accident , as the parents alleged . The evidence was of the most heart-sickening character , and revealed a case of most unpiecedented parental barbarity . The poor child appears not only to have
been tortured to death by the most horrible neglect , but to have received personal injuries which could only have been inflicted by the most abominable cruelty . When the parents were brought from the gaol to the council chamber , where the inquest was held , they had to be guarded from ihe attacks of an infuriated mob by a large " body of police . The lattergot roughly handled by the mob while attempting to kivp Vnz people off . PubVic indignation appears to have been raised to tbe highest pitch against the culprits on account of the wretches having professed to be austerely religious . The mob surrounded the inquest-room the whole evening , and applauded vehemently the verdict of the jury . Serious Cask of Stabbisg at Bath . —On Monday an Irishman , named Edward Mshoney , was brought up before the Bath magistratesat the Guildhall , in the ci ; y , on a
, charge of stabbing a young man , named William Tuckey , With intent to do him grievous bodily harm , under tb © follow ing aggravated circumstances : —On Sunday eveninu the prisoner had been drinking at the Seven Dials public-bouse in company with a female , with whom he quarrelled , and shortly afterwards left the house . In a few minutes afterwards , 'i ' uefcey and another man , with two young women , were passing up a lane adjoining the Seven Dials , on tbeir way home , when the prisoner , who had stati-med himself in the lane , and appeared in an infuriated state , declared that he would stab the first person tbat approached him . Tuekey and his friends continued to walk onward , without making
any remark to the prisoner , when the latter rushed forward , and plunged a knife violently into tbe side of the unfortunate young man . Tuckey fell to the ground , and tbe blood spirted out over the persons near him . Assistance was called , and the prisoner secured and taken to tbe police station . Tha wounded man was removed to the Bath Uoitt-d Hospital , where it was found that the wound , although not immediately dangerous , was of a very serious character , the knife having penetrated to a depth of upwards of two inches very near the region of the heart . The prisoner offered no excuse for his conduct , and as the wounded man was not able to appear to give evidence , the case was remanded for avjeek .
Another Romish Sheriff . —The " Tablet" baa th <> following impudent paragraph from lis " Liverpool Corr I pondent : "— " The Catholic Sheriff of Lancashireattending Mass in State . —What will Lord Campbell say to the following fact ? On Sunday last ThomasH . Blundell , Esq ., of Ince BJundell , the Catholic High Sheriff of the COunty of Lancaster , attended high mass at Copperas Sill Chapel , and came in full state in his carriage , attended by the Sub-Sheriff , Allen Keye , Esq ., another " Catholic . The Sneriff had been on attendance on Mr . Baron Alderson , one of tho going judges of assize , who opened tbe Spring Commission here late on Saturday evening . On Sunday morning at an early hour the Sheriff attended mass at the above chapel ,
and partook of the holy communion . At half-past ten , he with his officers and the Mayor , and several members of tbe Town Council , escorted Baron Alderson to St , George ' s Church , where the Sheriff left his lordship , and then proceeded in state in his carriage to Copperas Hill , preceded by his javelin men , the trumpeter going before him , sounding , as usual , the trumpet . The Sheriff was escorted , and on arriving at the chapel with his chaplain , the Rev . Peter Whitefield , the Sheriff was conducted to tbe pew of Mr . Keye , the javelin men in livery with their javelins , kneeling before the altar . High mass was then celebrated , and after tbe sacrifice bad concluded the High Sheriff returned to his hotel in the same manner as he came . An immense crowd 6 f persons followed the carriage . "
The Qoben's Reception at Manchester . —A complete statement of tbe expenses incurred by the corporation of Manchester at the Queen ' s visit last autumn , was presented to the town council for the first time . The total was £ 4 , 976 . Adding the private expenses to which individuals went in providing banners and illuminations , thetotal would probably not be less than £ 10 . 000 ; and this is exclusive of the expenses incurred by tbe borouuh of Salford , the magistrates of the county , the Earl of Ellesmere , and the London and JS ' orth Western Railway Companyso that tbe pageant of the 10 th of October must bave been a costly affair ; probably it would reach nearly to £ 30 , 000 . Murder at Bkidonorth , Salop . —An inquest was held , a few days ago , in tho Bridgnorth Union Workhonse , upon tbe body of John Gitton , aged fifty , an inmate of the
workhouse , who was found murdered in the able-bodied men ' s day room , between seven and eight o'clock on the evening of tbe 29 th ult . An inmate of the workhouse named Colley was in custody charged with having committed the murder Colley came into the union house on the 9 th of January from the lunatic asylum at Shrewsbury . : It appeared tbat the prisoner and the deceased were left together for a few minutes in the dayroom mth a blind idiot boy , who could give no account of the transaction . When the bell rang for prayers an inmate had to go into the room tor his coat , when he heard a man groaning near the fire . It was the deceased , who was covered with blood , and " who soon after * wards expired without recovering consciousness or the power of speech . He had received three terrible wounds upon the head , the skull having been cloven in three places
and the brains exposed to view . A carpenter ' s axe , covered with human hair , brains , and blood , was found in an adjoining room . Upon the alarm being given the prisoner was observed to get up and leave the boardroom , where the master was reading prayers . He was apprehended a few hours afterwards in the town , when blood was found upon his trowsers . He said the governor gave him leave to go out of the workhouse , and denied having committed the murder . It appeared that the deceased and the prisoner had worked together a good deal , and had never been know to have any quarrel . Tho prisoner had appeared quite sane ever since he had lived in the house . The ju y returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Henry Lewis Colley , " who was thereupon committed to take his trial at the assizes .
Outrage by Policemen . —At the Liverpool police court on Wednesday two police constables were suspended from their duties in consequence of a violent outrage committed on Thomas Wilkinson , on Sunday night last . One of the constables , mistaking the man for some Other person , at first knocked him down , and having got another to assist him , they continued their violence until the poor fellow was covered with blood , his knee broken , and he was compelled to be removed to the hospital . Mr . Mansfield strongly censured the violent conduct of the officers , who , in all probability , will be dismissed the force .
The Government Contract fob Rifles . —The dispute between the master gun-makers of Birmingham and the workmen having been at last referred to an arbitration , is on the eve of adjustment—a sort of compromise has been suggested , and , we believe , accepted by all parties . The actual terms upon which the men have agreed to work have not transpired .
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£ 683 , 886 9 5 A . T . Spearman , Comptroller General . —National Debt Office , April 2 , 1852 . Brewers , & c . —An amended return was printed on Monday respecting brewers and others . In England , in the year ending the 10 th of October last , there were in England 2 , 305 brewers , of which sixty-four are in London ; and 00 , 124 victuallers , of which 4 , 357 are in London . Thereare of licensed beersellprs 37 , 266 to sell beer to be drunk on the premises , and 3 , 277 not to be drunk on the premises . In the United Kingdom there are 2 , 548 brewers and 89 , 266 victuallers . The brewers consumed 20 , 932 , 724 bushels of malt , and ( he victuallers who brewed their own beer Y . 732 , 287 . Persons licensed to sell beer consumed 3 , 289 , 608 bushels to be drunk on the premises , and 389 , 529 bushels were consumed by persons who brewed beer to be drunken the premises .
Foreign Nutmegs . —A complaint having been made to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury tbat nutmegs , the produce of British possessions , are charged with the high rate of duty of 2 s . 6 d . per lb ., while nutmegs the produce of the Dutch possessions are erroneously treated as " wild nutmegs , " and passed at the low rates of duty of 3 d . and-5 d . per lb ., fh . eir lordships have directed Mr . Hamilton , one of the Secretaries to the Treasury , to acquaint the Commissioners of Custom ' s that they are of opinion , having fully considered the reports made on the subject , that Jio further : quantity of nutmegs should be allowed to be delivered at the low rates of duty of 3 d . and Bd . per lb ., except such as are bona fide " wild nutmegs , " but that the duty of 2 s . 6 d . per lb ., legally leviable , should be demanded in all cases .
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Archbishop Murray's Successor —The Primate Cullen was eleetwf on the 2 nd ultimo to the archiepiscopal chairof Dublin . There were six other candidates . The Saxos Invasion . —Tho "L-merick Chronicle" states that industnousand « nterpris ng Scotch farmers are extendine their influence in the south and west' of Ireland . Three brothers of the iwme of Matthews havo recently taken extensive farms—two in the vicinity of Limerick , Bullyanrahan , anil RnockVisheen . the third near Miltown Malhay , which they are respectively filling and stocking . Tbe thrne forms comprise nearly 800 * cres . Remittances fhom America . —The " Galway Mercury , ' ape . kitijj of the wholesale emigration of the peasantry from that county , remarks that the parties who left within
the last two years , are now sending home in small sums " an amount of money beyond all former example . " State of the Clif ' djn Union . —Another Galway paper ( the "Vindicator" ) . inws the following gloomy sketch of tho present state of the Clif-len Union : — " It will be seen from a report which we publish to-day that the union of Clifden is in a frightful state of diaoreaiiiwuioti and destitution . A great wear \> f poor rate is due by the large proprietors , while the iraprov ng l . tndl rds and the industrious tenants are forced to pay to the last farthing . The most scandalous system of jobbing is carried on in the boardroom . The merciless exterminators who sweep the people from their property bave secured a majority of their creatures at the bnard by which they can pepetnte a job , or again cast forth the victims of their cruelty from the shelter of a roof . In
that remote district , whore public opinion cannot reach the petty tyrants whose will is law , and whose frown is d «? ath , in the inaccessible wilds of Onnemara , there are 1 , 368 paupers in the workhous-, and 1 , 800 arroarof rates due by the large proprietors while pauperism is every day . rapidly increasing on account of the exterminations which still proceed unchecked in that region of evictions . From Ouijhterard to Clifden there is scarcely any sign of human life , and Nimmo ' s lodge is the only cot of its class , whose interestin , ' inmate appears to be decently boused . From the Halfway-house to Clifden there exists peculiar facilities for reclaiming the land and turning it into splendid grass and tillaee farms . Where there is nothing hut the snipe and
the wild duck at present thousands of human beings might be' comfortably loeatfd—where nothing now disturbs the stillness of this solitary waste , but the shriek of the curlew or the scream of the eagle as he swoops down from the old grey mountain tops , the hum of labour and the gladsome voice of happy and requited industry might be heard if the arm of extermination were once-arrested and the work of progress once begun . " During the past week the Encumbered Estates Commissioners paid "Ut £ 66 , 000 , making the total amount of funds distributed by them from the commencement , £ 2 , 041 , 000 , The same journal mentions the following agrarian outrage : — " Ten cows , the property of Mr . Corboy , a farmer , residing at Boher , were burned alive yesterday morning , the house in which they were kept having been fired by incendiaries . "
The M < yor of Limerick presided on Monday at a meeting of some five or six hundred of the ' electors of the borough , for the purpose of hearing the names of tbe candidates for the representation of 'be borongh , previously selected by a sub committee There was considerable confusion on the occasion , a large majority of those present being in favour of Mr . J . D Fitzgerald and Mr Potter ; but , as no electors were permitted to have a voice in the decision except such as had been named an the committee , the result was that the nominal majority was in fav » nr of Mr . Fitzgerald and Mr . Sergeant O'Brien , who , it is to be supposed , are thus to be the candidates at the ensuing election . Mr . John Barton has been elected governor , and Mr . Robert Stewar deputy governor , of the Bank of Ireland .
The Lord Lieutenant and the CuUfltfSS of Eglinton , accompanied by the Countess of Bective , and several officers of the vice reral court , went in state on Monday to visit the Dublin University , where they were received by the provost and several of the senior and junior fellows , by whom they were conducted through the library , the principal halls , the fellows' garden , the chapel , & c . A Suspicious Circumstance . —Last week as a gentleman was proceeding fr » m Boyle in an open carriage to Drumsna he was met between this town and Ardcarne by three armed men , who ordered the driver to stop . They then approached tbe machine , and having ascertained who the occupant Was they gave him permission to proceed , observing that he was hot the person they were desirous to meet . ! Muroer iff Kir-KKNNv . —A dreadful murder was committed
last week in a solitary cabin , situate in the lonesome " bosheen " which leads from Ballymack in the . direction of Kilcoran . This tenement was occupied by a man named William Brophy and his wife , Margaret Brophy , > he former of whom was a labourer in the employment of Mr . William Townsend , of Ballymack , some of whose horses were occasionally kept in one of the rooms of Urophy ' s cabin . The body of a female , which presented obvious wounds on the forehead , was discovered by a cowherd of Mr . Townsend ' s lying at a gate on his master ' s land , situate at a distance of a field from Brophy ' s house , and at the other side of the bosheen . There was a small bag suspended round the neck , which was open , and partinlly turned inside out , as if it had been rifled . Blood was traced to the lawn before
Brophy ' s house , along to the very door sill , upon which there were several spots . On entering the house all the suspicions which the previous indications gave rise to were at once confirmed , for not only were bloody marks apparent on the kitchen floor , but in the inner apartment ; sometimes used as a stable , a quantity of straw was found saturated with blood that bad been here sbed in a vast quantity . The inmates were arrested , and on examining the premises a spade was discovered having blood upon it . Some of tbe people soon afterwards identified the body , recognising it as tbat of . a poor pedlar whom they knew by the came of " Joany , " a native of Balljcallan , and a widow , who paid periodical visits to this district , and sold tobacco , snuff , fruit , and such like matters , or bartered them for old rags . It appeared that this woman had been attacked with fever a
couple of months previously , and had gone to the hospital of the Callan union , where she was reported to have died . Bub on Thursday morning she came from Callan to Ballymack , and mentioned to some people whom she met that she was proceeding to the house of William Brophy , where she had left her basket , The probability is that the basket was consigned to the care of the Brophys when she was taken ill ; and the inference may probably be drawn that on the rumour of her death the persons in whose charge it was placed had appropriated her little store of merchandise to their own use , and upon her unexpected appearance to claim her property , had silenced hs-r complaints o ' ' robbery by murder ; after which the additional robbery of the contents of the biig « hich was round her neck was perpetrated . —The jury returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder , " and the prisoners were committed to the conntv gtol .
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The April Quarter Session was commenced on Monday at Clerkenwell . i Robbery . —Michael Smith , 16 , was indicted for stealing a halt crown and other moneys belonging to Jane Howard , from her person . It appeared from tbe evidence tbat tbe prosecutrix , on the 24 th of March , was standing before a shop tn Catherine . street , Hoxton , and the owner of the shop saw the prisoner and two other , boys standing close to her , and then one of the younger boys took something from her pocket and handed it over tn him . He told the prosecutrix what be had seen , and the prisoner arid his two companions ran off . Sbe followed , and in bis flight be dropped the mnney . He was caught , however , and given into custody .
—The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and tbe Assistant Judge said it was evident that he was training the younger boy as a thief , and he should always give any one who did this as severe a sentence as tbe law would . allow . He should have no opportunity of making boys thieve for the next ten years . He then sentencd him to ten years' transportation . Stealing fiwm a Dwelling House , —John Smith , 33 . was indicted for stealing , in the dwelling house of Giles Bell , a silver jug and other articles , value £ 30 , and £ 8 and other moneys , bis property and moneys . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —The Assistant-Judge said it was a very heartless case , and sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labour .
Housebreaking . —William Green , 25 , and Jobn Stanley , 23 , pleaded Guilty to feloniously breaking and entering the shop of Henry Aunustus Hyde , and stealing therein 337 pair of boots and 173 pair of shoes , value £ 64 , his property , and were each sentenced to nine months ' imprisonment with hard labour .
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State of Pomic Opinion on tub Militia Biix .--. The proposed embodiment of the militia appears , by the accounts which reach us from various parts of the country , to be the less liked aa it becomes better understood . Many meetings have lately been held to oppose the measure , and preparations bave already been made for the holding of a still larger number . A few days since a large and enthusiastic meeting was held in Cowper-street School-rooms , Finsbury , Dr . Fletcher in the chair The speakers were the Revs . J . C . Galloway , It . Hamilton , Mr . W . II . Black , and Mr . Green . —Last week a demonstration of public opinion in the Tower Hamlets was held in the Beaumont Institution , John Scoble , Esq ., in tho chair , Addresses were delivered by Messrs . Fishbourne , Brookway , and Chesson . —A crowded meeting has been held in tbe Townhall , of Southampton ; Mr . Richard Laishley presided in place of the mayor , who was prevented from doing so bv
indisposition . The principal speakers were Messrs . Clark , Stace , and Lankester , whose remarks were received with great applause . —a large meeting has been held at Worcester ; the mayor in the chair . Speeches were delivered by Samuel Bowly and Jobn Baker , Bsqs .-An important gathering took place in the Brighton Town-hall , to consider the character of Mr . Walpole ' s bill . The chair was taken by Isaac Bass , Esq ., and among tho speakers were the Rev John Goulty and Mr . Wallis .-Two good meetings have Been held at Scarborough , at which the feeling of opposition to the ministerial proposal was unanimous —It a meeting held in Hereford , the speakers being Joseph Mor-?? . ? . .. < , afl < 1 the Rev > John Davey » a petition against the Militia Bill was unanimously adopted . At Skipton and Olitheroe good demonstrations have taken place—Two meetings have been held at Hull , and great activity is displayed against the bill . —Wales is speakingoutearnp ^ tlv
Doth by petitions and in public meetings .-At Neath Abbey a large demonstration of the agents , proprietors , and workmen of the ironworks in this populous neighbourhood bas been held , at which an anti-railitia petition has " been unanimousl y agreed to . —An enthusiastic and crowded meeting has been held at Mertbyr . The speakers were the Revs . John Jones , John Roberta , J . Lloyd , J . Bowen B . Owen , and Mr . John , '' ' ' ' ' wwn '
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GLOUCESTER , Hobhime . Outbaoe . —Two youngmen , Henry Shapcott , aged eighteen , and Hiram Archer , aged twenty-six , were indicted for having committed a most revolting outrage upon Mary M'Carthy . On the night of the 26 th of last July , the prosecutrix , a miserable , wayworn Irishwoman , about thirty-five years of age , was tramping from Qoleford to Gloucester , suffering from hunger and fatigue , and had reached , about ten o'clock at night , a part of the Forest of Dean , where some charcoal fires were burning . She proceeded to one of them , and sat down before it with a view of resting herself and drying her wet clothes . There she remained until one o ' clock in the morning , when nine of the charcoal burners arrived . They at first appeared to
treat her kindly , and one of them asked her to go to a neigh bouring public-house , but- this she declined , asking the man to bring her some water . He did so , and when sbe had drunk it , they asked her to go into a cabin near ; and one of the men , who said that he was the master of the cabin , promised that no one should molest her . She at first refused , but the men partly forced her into tbo place , and having lighted a fire and secured the door , the nine ruffians , one after another , brutally assaulted and violated h"r , and turned her out of the but more dead than alive . She cried out for police and " Murder , " when some of , the inhuman brutes threatened to throw her into the fire if she did not hold her tongue . She resisted ns much as she was able , but at last fainted . " When she came to her senses , she found herself outside tho cabin , and one of the fellows threatened to knock her brains out with a shovel if she did
not depart . She proceeded iu the direction of Blakeney , and on the road met with a woman to whom she detailed how she had been treated . The poor creature then travelled on , and finding she could go no further , laid down by the side of a hayrick , where she remained twelve hours before sho was discovered . In almost a dying state she was conveyed to the Union , where she recovered . It appeared that she had one child , although unmarried , and that she was searching for her brother when passing through the forest . Of the nine fellows who committed the outrage , five were taken and tried at the last Gloucester Assizes , and were transported for life . The prisoners have been apprehended since , and the prosecutrix swore to them as being two of her assailants . The jury found them both Guilty , and the learned Judge directed them to be both transported beyond the seas for tho term of their natural lives .
TAUNTON . Charge of Murder . —Elizabeth Lewis and Thomas Crosby were indicted for tho murder of the child of the prisoners at Bath . This case excited the greatest interest on account of the respectability of tbe parties , the male prisoner being a solicitor of Bristol ; and the female haying been a governess . The charge was , that the woman having been confined of a child ,- put it out to nurse , 'and then called at intervals to see it , tbat during such visits she hud contrived to put arsenic into the mouth of the child , and by' tbat means caused its death . Among the several witnesses examined was Mr . Herepath , who proved finding traces of arsenic in the vomits and napkins of the child , and in the liver , stomach , and bowels of the body , which had been absorbed into the system , and gave it as his opinion that the death was caused by that poison . The learned Judge having summed up , the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
The Frome Murder . — William Sparrow , 30 , William Maggs , 44 , and Robert Hurd , alias Frome Bob , 37 , were indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Watts , at Woodlands , Frome , on the 24 th of September last . The unfortunate deceased , Sarah Watts , was a child of fourteen , tho daughter of a small farmer at Woodlands , near Frome . On the 24 th of September , her father and mother left home to attend Frome market , as thoy were in the habit of doing , leaving t ' lechild alone in tho house . On tbeir return about four o ' clock , the father noticed blood on the floor of .. the kitchen , and heard his dog lapping in the milkhouse , On going info the milkhouse , he discovered his unfortunate child lying dead , with her clothes torn , and her person bruised and bloody . At first be had no suspicion of foul play , and after acquainting his wife that the child was dead he very quietly went into the fields to drive in some cattle . The child was removed up-stairs , and the mother and some of tbe neighbours were preparing for tea when it was discovered that : he bread and butter was
missing , nnd that the cheese had been cut . This first excited suspicion , and on a surgeon being sent for it was found that the unfortunate child had been ravished as well as murdered , and that death had been produced by strangulation arising from pressure on the windpipe . Upon the wall there were marks of the girl ' s shoes , which indicated that sho had been taken up by the heels and forced headforemost into a whey tub , the milk in which was afterwards found to be discoloured , apparently by blood . Upon the wall near the door was found the impress of a left hand , and from the thumb had trickled down some drops of blood . It was shown by a large body of testimony that on the day of the murder the prisoners nnd a man who is unknown were waiting on the road until old Wat's and his wife passed by to market . They were then traced in various
diro-tions , apparently " dodging , " until at length Maggs and Sparrow had approached to within half a mile of the house , going across the fields in its direction shortly before the time when the murder must have been committed . Their course was again taken up an hour or two after , when they were coming away from the house in a different direction from that which they followed in going towards Woodlands , and it would appear that one of them had substituted a " Jim Crow" for his usual black hat , and that the other had put a abort kertle frock over bis clothes . They were then traced again into the company of Hurd , and on to Frome market , where they stood in the market-place , as if to attract public attention , and they were again seen in the evening at a public-house . Whilst talking together in the market a person who was passing caught the words ,
" Watch , but no tin . " These circumstances and the prior reputation of the prisoners , led to their apprehension , when it was found that Sparrow had a bad thumb , ns if produced by a bite , which be said bad been produced by a chap in a fight on Bradley fair day , but persons who saw bis hand two days after , and tho surgeon who examined it , positively stated that it was such a wound as could not have been done so recently ; as three days , for that matter had formed beneath it . In addition to this , a handkerchiefthe only article left behind by the murderers—was spoken to , but not very positivily , by three witnesses as having been in Sparrow ' s possession . Against Maggs the evidence
, in addition to the connexion with the other prisoners in the movements of the 24 th , a conversation was deposed to between Maggs and an unknown man in a lane to the following effect . — " Hast heard any news ? " " Yes , I ' ve heard that London police officers has been to Bill Sparrow , and said to he , " Ah , my good fellow , I ' m glad ' wsn ' t you committed this murder , for you'll get the free pardon and £ 50 . " To this Maggs replied , " He'll neither htive the pardon nor the £ 50 , for he's the man that killed her . " This witness and several others had been much maltreated since ho . had given evidence . The court » as occupied for eleven hours in hearing the case for the crown , and the jury were then locked up .
Fire At Sea.—On Monday Information Was R...
Fire at Sea . —On Monday information was received in the city-of the destruction by fire of the smack Lark of Greenock . The intelligence was communicated by Captain M'Law . of the steam ship Shamrock . It appeared that the Shamrock was on her voyage from Liverpool to Sligo and when about nine miles distant , at 6 . 30 p m ., Port Patrick Captain M'Law observed smoke near the Maiden ' srocks ' which he at first took to be a steamer , but on looking attentively through a glass he discovered that it was a vessel on fire . He immediately altered the course of the steamer and bore up to her assistance . On nearing her he saw the mast go by the board , and found she was in flames fore and aft , and burnt to nearly the water ' s edge , and the crew in the boat , with their clothes and as many light articles as they could lay their hands on . The boats of tho steamer were immediately manned and proceeded to endeavour to save the burning vessel , which proved to be the Lark , of Greenock , with a cargo of lime , with which she had left
Larne in the morning . Finding that it was impossible to save the vessel , and as two other vessels were lying off , aa well as a coast-guard boat tbat had put off from the mam , Captain M'Law proceeded on his vovage . The weather being moderate , no apprehensions are to be entertained for the safety of the cre w . Ma . George Thompson and the Reform Morrow —In consequence of Mr . G . Thompson ' s absence from the division on Mr . Hume ' s motion , some of his constituents requested an explanation on the point , and the following reply has been .- recejyed : — " On the evening of that division , an aggregate meeting of the electors of the Tower
Hamlets was held to consider tho question of my reelection , and I was compelled to attend . The proceedings were protracted to an extraordinary length , and I did not reach khe House of Commons until the debate and division were over . But for the meeting referred to Should have spoken and voted in favour of the motion . Regarding the extension of the right of voting and the independent Ixercise of that right as measures essential to thepnrityTnd 7 ll ^! ° " ffwrB in the House ° Common ? , I InTin [ h « nei ° / r n ° Vemont tendinS t 0 enlarge the power of
beSffi iX ^ 5 »^ r , ^ * i »«^ * - ° » cretav ' of S ' ^ L'I by W Hunt to the Secretaryot the Society of the Friend * of Italy will excite much sympathy and regret — «« f h-, « a n / if V r JK & J ^ 'f ^^ 'S . ^ Si" ^ indnlan mvBl \ rlill * ' i la 3 t V 6 aV ^ W & S I > ° t ab 6 tO ng thou 7 htfS ' "Shtofwhaull the world were see-St I mi iL S grCa er P „? rt of its exi ^ ncc I was living u J ^ to ^ XmllnfS't * f ° ° to mvself h-ia ioJi m ' J m"i'ng me of so much importance seSs movlin ' J ? u leave m ? M «» dB with a move helo Ihav ™„ n ^^ State of W health than I can tamoramrinTi be , leve " » at the coming spring will a paTt ot ° Tomtit if '^^ ™ ^ course of mv isf . nV wluch l have recovered in the mSibeSl ^ Hh ^ age ^ 8 rae that I muat take no more nnemea with times and seasons . "
to the Dublio Cm , r ! ?? Tallyrand , has written a etter St l \ -CST £ X f F ! fraudssimil " r t 0 tll 08 e have been Semnlprfi ^ relative t 0 ' SUelle S ' a letov 8 > possession at p ~ t '' L U ? T' " l him in m * number of thW & J * ' - - . de Bilc 0 urt ' il ™*" writingof the decease I Pi im ? t , nS exceedingly well the by the nersonq hf «!? V r , noe » which hiive been declared Guizot Tt ? H mSte with ^ deceased , .-uch as M . S ^ ft ^ W *"' . Co « nt Mole , Duke P ^ uier ,
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This court resumed its sittings on Monday Ohargb op PBRttiur . —Jobn Stowell and Thorn surrendered to take their trial upon a joint ind" ^ 0 , ? ell which another person , named John Howaon G ^ ettn eIlt m pleaded guilty to a charge of perjury connected Hi same transaction at the last session ) was indud h ' % charge of unlawfully conspiring together to iniut ! ' " ^ n * . named Robert Kennett . —The prisoners pleaded \ * ^' oii The particulars of this case have been reneit n Gu {( t y duced in the police and county court reports All y ^ trial , the jury found the prisoners Not Guilty a 'ooe Empezzlbment . —James Gower , 22 , butcher »»«• fn » ,. ml , n » , lm / , tl , m „ f J ? . lfl II . 1 , 1 .. '» "« 8 JnHi « l . uumwiiuj ouiuui fl 3
• v . , mo * .. as . un ,, ttie nionw ' " master , John Ashley Scarlett . —The prosecutor is 7 k "' h ' s living in Kingsgate-street , Holborn , and tbo nril « V been in his service . Among tho prosecutor ' s i .,, ^ 4 was a lady named Falder , residing in Fitzroy . SQUa ' > r 3 paid her bill quarterly . In the March of last ? ^ prisoner took a receipt in bis master ' s name amii ^ amount in question . When the June bill became , i ^ Falder called in the absence of prosecutor , and nairt T Xlr 3 . ter from March to that time . When prosecutor cam q " > he instantly wrote a letter to Mrs . Falder to st-vto »? 0 ni « M . rch quarter was still due . The prisoner was * , i ' *• the letter , the contents of which he was unaon * with . Tbe prisoner came back , and said thai \ PK t right , that Mrs . Falder knew it , and would i . ;! a 8 « H the next bill . The account at Michaelmas Day bei "' ^ small , the bill was not sent in until after Christm Vet * then it was found that the bill had been paid -i ! l an < 1 the lady ' s letter bad never been brought by the' «; tl " The prisoner had left tho prosecutor ' s service in J 180 " 1 " ' ber last , and since had lived respectabl y in anoth pleri 1 " vice .-The jury found him Guilty , and ho was sent ^ six months' imprisonment . cine « ced to Carlo Antonio Grimaldi , 26 , labourer ; and T •• Guardia , 34 , labourer , were indicted for having in iw ^ tody and possession a die on which was made and \ m ' the reverse side of a half sovereign . The evidence i ? " * luaoonineium
pruveu or January last the pri 8 nnp n maldi went to an engraver of dies named Conquest if - " ' Holy well-street , Strand , and asked him if he could < .. !! " £ a medal , and producing at the same time half . . ™ ' ¥ which , upon . Mr . Conquest examining , he found tota !? ' one . This he mentioned to . the prisoner , whoeavar good one , and made an arrangement with him to sink j- with-the reverse side of a half sovereign on it . Mr n , a quest asked bim what it was for , and lie said for an py ^ v " tion that was to take place in Italy . After the prisoner gone Mr . Conquest , havine his suspicions aroused com * nicated with the police at Bow-street , and under their ( i ; " tions he completed the die . On the 14 th of February i !?* pr isoner called by appointment and received the dip j then said he should want the head-side of the half sow cut in a die . Upon leaving the house he was followed h to otner
mc puw-e , ' ana seen join cue prisoner , to nhnm fi gave the die " , and be hid it under bis cloak . The pdtafi ? lowed them for a short time , and then took them } nt 0 i tody . From subsequent inquiries they made it was f 0 un j that the prisoners were intimate acquaintancet , occu . ivin the same lodgings , but beyond that nothing could be founrt out about them , excepting that they were native f . j , . '* The jury returned a verdict o { Guilty , accompanying j ( ^ . k a recommendation to mercy . The sentence fas deferred Father Gavazzi , the well-known separatist from th 6 R ( im - \! Church , was on the bench during the whole trial , and did tt « t quit the court until the verdict wa ^ returned .
Conceauieni of Birth . —Caroline Cox , 22 , spinster was indicted for endeavouring to conceal the birth of her female infant child . It appeared that the prisoner had for about two months been lodging at tho bouse of a shoemaker in Chapel-street , Stockwell , and early in the month ' of February the prisoner was seen to go to the water-closet , aad tbe landlady of the house going there shortly . ifternards saw the body of an infant imbedded in the soil . The- police were then called in , and tho child got out ; it was quite dead . Tbeprisoner , when taxed with it , did not deny the fact , and said she was not aware that she had'been delivered . She also showed her landlady some things she lad prepared for the child , Mr . Henry Owen ,- a sureeon at Claplyiro , proved that the child was a full-grown one , and death had resulted from suffocation ; but it was probable that the delivery had been accidental , and tbe prisoner unaware o { it . The jury Acquitted her .
Conspiracy a « d Perjury . —John Stowell , Thomas Stowell , and George Hewson Garnett , were indicted fat conspiracy and perjury . —The prosecutor , Mr . Kennett was the landlord of the Hoop and Grapes public-house , Westminster , and also a cab proprietor and it appeared that he was sued in the Southwark County Court in December last by tho defendant , John Stowell , upon two I O U ' s , amounting to £ 3010 s . Two actions were tifcd , in the first of which the plaintiff was nonsuited ; and in tk second , which was tried by a jury , a verdict was given for the defendent . AU the defendants in the present indictment were examined in support of the claim upon the prosecutor , and it was upon the evidence given by them that
the charge now under inquiry was founded . —Tie jury gars a verdict of Guilty against Thomas Stowell and " G . irneM , and Acquitted John Stowell . —Sentence was deferred . Bigamt . — Ambrose Garratfe , 34 , hawker , was indicted for feloniously marrying Juno Roberts , his wife being alive , —The prisoner pleaded Guilty , and in mitigation of sen . tence said that the eonductof his first wife had driven him to tbe act . She had left him in 1848 , and , aMmgh he ha $ made every inquiry , could not gain any tidings of her . lie had travelled twice on foot from London to York , and also fo Doncaster , to make inquiries of her friends as to her whereabouts , but they would not give him any information respecting her . —Mr . Giffard said that the prisoner's conduct to his first wife had been so bad that ahe could not live with him . —The second wife , a respectable-looking young woman , who . seemed very ill , stepped into the
witness-box , and in answer to the court said , that when tha prisoner married her he represented himself as a single man , and that he was in a situation in the telegraph department of the Euston Hotel . Sbe had £ 30 by " her , and ho borrowed a portion of it at tho time of tbeir marriage , telling her that ho had a sum of money due to him which he could not get , as the gentleman who owed it to him was out of town . He after that borrowed the rest of h ' et money , and shortly afterwards , she having to go from town to see a sick relative , on her return home found that he had broken open her boxes and made away with all her things , and told the pawnbroker where they had been pledged they belonged to his dear wife that was dead . Mr . Guriiey told the prisoner that his case was a very bad one , and ordered him to be kept to hard labour for twelve months .
RoBBEav in the Meditkruanean . —James Gilbert , 35 , sailor , was indicted for receiving a bank note ( or £ 5 , the property of George Fiice . —The prosecutor , now an eatingbouse-keeper in Hi gh-street , Woolwich , was , in the year 1849 . midshipman ' s steward on board the steam-ship tho Firebrand , which at that time was cruising off the coast of Greece . The prisoner was gun-room cook on hoard tho same vessel . At that time the prosecutor had in a drawer of his desk some notes and coin , amounting in vulue ' mtte whole to £ 30 , and there was also the half of a £ 5 note , tho
prosecutor having sent the other half to bis father ia Portsmouth . About that time tbe prosecutor ' s defkwaJ broken open , and the contents abstracted , and also tf ' c naa Of the £ 5 note . The prisoner -was spoken to about the robbery , and he said it was a rascally act to be guilty of . X " suspicion was entertained of the prisoner , and about three months after , in tbe March of 1850 , he was sent home an invalid . The prosecutor did not come homo uiitil July ' » the same year , and then he prosecuted one of the crcfl named . Robinson , who was tried in this rourt and sentenced to six months' imprisonment . —The inquiry that was subsequently made proved that the prisoner , as soon as he could come on shore , had procured two persona to enter into an indemnity bond for the £ 5 note , prisoner stating that be had lost the other half > it having blown throug h the cabin window at the time he cut it . Prosecutor W *
look out for the prisoner , but saw nothing of in " *"" . ' , few months ago , when he met him by chance atthe M « w Tavern , Woolwich , when ho gave him in charge o ' tlie police . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and ha " ' sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Maid- "" ' gaol . . Base Coin . —Joseph Fowler , 34 , shoemaker , Saniuel James White , 28 , tailor , and Mary White , 38 , his /»«' were indicted for having in their possession a qua "' ? " counterfeit coin . —James Haward , one of the *»'' " £ ofiversoftho Worship-street police court , state" w having occasion to apprehend the prisoner Fowler on - charge unconnected with the present one , he **"'' ' ) L eight o ' clock , on tho morning of the 10 th of ^ C " \ Z Ko . 25 ; Martin-street , TJlaekfriars , and knocked at f . . , ....,.,... Uvivvy , "muillll . uo , U 1 IU uiiu * - frtfltfO
door , which was opened by Fowler , whom "cfc ' took into custody . Witness and two other constables w were with him then took the prisoner into the op * . room , where White and his wife and child wel * " ted The-noiian got up , and , saying that she was "' i ' , ^ permission to go down stairs , which was refused , ami . then let a small basin fall -from under her clothes , * " ' upon being picked up , was found to contain two co « n feit crown pieces , twenty half-crown , sixty-three sli »» = and twenty nine- sixpences , all in a finished state ano j lor circulation ; and in another part of the room were ^ one shillings in an unfinished state , also a half-co ™ ^ some other bad coin . —From the evidence of ^ variS ' j ( ic and another officcr , who accompanied ^• ' ] ' { W appeared that the place was a regular manufactory . j . coin , for upon searching the place a box containing jat vanic battery , a part of a sixpence that had been a- c ( precipitation a silver coating on the bad coin , som .. ;„ fj e 3
of Paris moulds , a ladle with some metal in n , ~ ,. \ x q 01 and other tools used by coiners , were found . I ' ^ had been taken by the woman about six weeks " , BJ ol apprehension , and had since then been the ren aez te passers of bad coin . —Fowler , in his defence , sRw ^ did not know anything about the b ; id money , '( ^ merely gone to that house for ihe purpose of concca . ^ The jury found them all Guilty . Hay ward was a " nfi 0 ed having escaped from Colchester fail , where ho g ^ jairf on a charge of passing bad coin . —The Common » s sentenced them each to eighteen months' iraP rIS 0 " co »' The two Italians , Grimaldi and Guardia , wll ° ., „ cou ' victed of having iu their possession a die for m"KA D nc N terfeit half sovereigns , were brought up and sem two years'imprisonment .-
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Paimi . Dealings-with the Court . -So ia * J a ea r \<> i \ of Mr . SherirS Swift ' s Chaplain , " M onsignore a L 0 4 the Queen ' s levee , has been cancel tod , ano ^ Chamberlain bus sent hack the reverend foreign j ^ dog his patron's bands . Mr . Swift has found that u ^ pr # the Pope ' s business at Court to the effect w and quick returns . — Punch . „ nA- \ TB * ti ' t a The C 01 MM .-TJK " Gazette " has a P . roc » J * ^ of » daring the legal currency of the " one florin , on pound . ''
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10041852/page/6/
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