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Health of Lojioos nnnisc ihr Week . —The aiortabtyof London ( says tbe Registrar-General in his report ; which fell below the weekly average of five autumns in the second week of October . bas steaddy continued to decline during the three subsequent weeks . Tne present return shows that only S 3 r deaths were registered in tbe week ending last Saturday , while tbe average is 1 , 162 ( allowance being inadeformcreaseofpopniationon previous years ;) the decrease is , therefore , 325 . A comparison of returns made for the same week in the last ten years , shows that in any of the nine weeks the mortality has not been st slow as at tbe present time . In the corresponding week of 1841 the deaths were 810 ; in
that of 1843 they were 1 , 115 , after cholera had given warning of its presence . Only 11 deaths from cholera were registered in last week . In the three preceding weeks they were successively 110 . 41 , and 25 , declining by nearly a geometrical progression . Of the 11 , one occurred in Lower North-street , Chelsea ; twoin the workhouse of St . Maitiu-iu-tha-Mehis ( one laving been that of a girl brought from a bouse in Bedfordbury , the condition of which is minutely described by the registrar ;) one in Claremont-place , Grays-in-Iane ; one in George-yard , Saffron-hill ; two at 5 to > . 12 , Seven Step alley , Gravel-lane ; one in the Lunatic Asylum , Hoxton-house ; one in Uaidstoue-place , " a very low and iU-drained spot in HaseerstoneEast : " one at 4 Paternoster-row .
Snitnlfields , where the mother of the deceased died five days aftfrwardjof " diarrhcaa ; " and one in Wycombe place , Kenteoad . In thelait week 40 deaths were registered from diarrhea and dysentery ( the average is 27 ;) in the three previom weeks they were 105 , 53 , and 51 . Two of these , in the present return , occurred in Jennings ' -buildings , Kensington , a locality which has frequently obtained ' unfavourable notice in the records of the late epidemic Typhus was fatal to 37 persona ; the average is 56 . Other epidemics are still under the average . Themortaliry from smallpox and measles continues unusually low . A woman 57 years of age died of "inflammation ftomaplumstone lodging , 33 days before death , in tbe colon , and ' producing thickening , and complete
oVrrnchnn . la two cases intemperance is stated to b v » been tbe cause of death . The mean reading of th _ - barometer at Greenwith was upwards of 30 in . on the first three days of the week . The mean a the week was 29 807 . The mean temperature of the week was 50 3 deg . which is 4 deg . above the average ofthe same week in 7 year * . Alleged Suicide bt a Gekilemax of Fortune . —On Saturday last Mr . W . Garter held aninquestat the Hero of Waterloo Inn , "Waterloo-road , as to the death of Henry Thompson , Esq ., aged fifty-nine , of Tflornbill Cottage , Southampton , who was sapposed to have committed suicide under the following curious circumstances . The deceased arrived by the rail on Wednesday afternoon , and engaged a bed at the Southampton coffee-bouse , Waterloo-road , and the following morning the servant went to call bun about eleven o ' clock , but no answer being returned .
the door was opened and be was found to be lying in an insensible state in bed , Mr . Brookes , a surgeon , was sent for , who tried to bleed Mm , but very little blood issued , and be continued in the same way until about four in the afternoon , when be expired . Upon Mr . Nott , tbe undertaker , removing the body into a coffin be discovered between tbe mattress and bed an empty phial , which smelt of laudanum , and this circumstance leading to a suspicion that the deceased bad destroyed himself , Mr . Brookes made a post mortem examination of file body , but was unable to detect the trace of any poison , and from the congested state of tbe brain he bad no doubt he died from tbe effects of apoplexy . Verdict , '' Natural death from the effects of apoplexy . " The deceased was a fine robust man , and was said to have had a considerable sum of money in bis possession at tbe time of bis death .
Mysterious Death vs the Serpbntine River .. —Oh Saturday last Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Rose and Grown , Knightsbridge , on tbe body of a middle-aged man who was found in the Serpentine River , under very suspicious circumstances . On Thursday morning the body was found floating a few yards from the south shore , near the bridge , and at the same time a man was seen making off with a hat towards the barracks , which was supposed to belong to tbe deceased , who was without coat or hat . He Was apparently about sixty years of age , fire feet eight inches high , grey hair , dressed in black cloth trousers , dark mixed waistcoat , linen shirt , velvet stock , and Wellington boots . In bis pocket was a paper , carefully folded , beaded * ' Creditors of Covent Garden Theatre . 1810 , " as Mows : — " Copeland .
imilder , £ 59 . 387 ; Martin , builder , £ 8 , 365 ; White , timber merchant , £ 14 , 802 ; T & tham r . nd Bailey , upholders , £ 2 , 728 ; Bernascone , plaste-er , £ 4 , SG 5 ; Boyce , ironmonger , £ 7 , 342 ; Morris , ditto , £ 8 , 079 j Bendley , smith . £ 4 , 809 ; Briggs , plumber , £ 1 , 915 ; Baxter , ' ditto , £ 1 , 526 ; Smart and Richardson , bricklayers , £ 2 , 418 j Smith , £ 5 , 064 ; Dixon , painter and decorator , £ 3 , 927 . —Total , £ 130 , 790 . " The paper had evidently been a long while in his possession , and may possibly lead to his identity . Mr . Wooller , the surgeon , examined thebody , but without opening it was unable to state the cause of death . The inquiry was adjourned for that purpose , and the police were ordered to make tbe most searching investigation into the suspicious affair .
ExXS ^ OKDUiiStY JjJVBSTIGATIOX Hac kney . Alengtb ? ued inquiry was held before Mr . Baker , tbe coroner , at the . Duke of Clarence , Donnes-terrace , Hackney , on Saturday , respecting the death of Mr . George . Rowland Smith , aged sixty-four , a solicitor , who died from starvation , under the following melancholy circumstances : —Mrs . Mary M'Donald , of 5 , Orchard Cottages , deposed that the deceased had redded with her for the last twenty-four years . His friends were highly respectable , and his father , who was also & solicitor , was well known in the profession , and = vas in possession of an extensive practice , which tbe deceased and a brother inherited on his death . The deceased was unable to follow his profession in consequence of being both mentally and
bodily debilitated . "Witness was allowed £ 2 per week for Ins support until about fourtem years since , when the deceased signed a deed , and since that period she tad only been allowed £ l a week . —By the coroner : Themonevwaspaidby a solicitor , residing in St . Jbhn ' s-wood , brother-in-law to the deceased , into the hands of a solicitor of Barnard ' s Inn , Holborn . Witness generally received the money from the principal clerk to this solicitor . —By a juror : Witness believed that the deed related to the deceased signing his property over to some other person . He was very reluctant to sign it at all , but was persuaded by the clerk . Witness ' s daughter was the only attesting witness , and was then only eleven years of age . —By tbe coroner : Her daughter , who is now
twentyfive years of age , was not aware ofthe purport of the deed . —Examination continued : When witness was receiving £ 2 a week it was paid by deceased ' s brother , who , at the present time , owed witness upwards of £ 100 for arrears . After the signing of the deed the money was regularly paid up to tbe time of deceased ' s death . Witness was not to find the deceased any clothes out ofthe £ 1 per week , but the friends bad not sent him a bat , or any other article of dress , for the last seventeen years . —By the coroner : The relatives of the deceased very seldom called to see him , and when they did , be always importuned them to pay the £ 100 which was due to witness . The deceased was very docile , but witness did not think he was quite sound in his mind . He
always refused to eat any solid food , and it was only by artifice that he wan induced to swallow a little isinglass . During the last few days he appeared very weak and feeble , and Mr . Groseomte , a surgeon , was called in , but he gradually sank , and expired on Wednesday last . —Mr . Groseomte said , the deceased laboured under several delusions—that by taking solid food it was unnecessarily prolonging life , and that if he swallowed any food it would suffocate him . Witness had no doubt that the deceased had died from exhaustion , which had been produced by abstaining from taking any solid food . —By the coroner : Witness bad no doubt fhat the deceased was decidedly insane . —A juror remarked that tho deceased was no doubt in the same state when he signed the deed . —
HEr . Andrews , the summoning officer , said that the solidtoi ' s clerk had been to him , and in the presence of Mr . Groseomte said the deceased was always perfectly * in his senses . —Tbe jury asked if the clerk , or any of deceased ' s relatives were present ? Mr . Andrews said they were not ; and also said the clerk directed that the deceased should be buried six hours after bis death , and that no mourners would be required . When the inquesti was mentioned he became very outrageous , and offered Mm money not to call tbe inquiry . —A juror said he should not sign any inquisition until some of the relatives were present to explain satisfactorily how the deceased ' s propert v was disposed of . He considered death had been accelerated by the deceased not having sufficient
money for bis support . —The coroner said it was impossible to make cut a case against any person , in consequence of the deceased having refused to take bis food . Death had been clearly proved to have been caused by tbe deceased ' s own My , and in that court they could not inquire afout the property . —After a long consultation , in which several of the jury wished for an adjournment , for the purnose of having the friends of the deceased exposed * . The jury returned the following special verdict : — " That the deceased had died from exhaustion , produced by abstaining from eating solid food , while labouring under insanity ; and tbejnrors cannot separate without expressing an opiaion tbat there is much blame attached to the relatives of the deceased , in not properly attending to him during life .
Alabmixg OcccnifEKCE . —On Sunday afternoon , about fbar o ' cl'itk , one hoar before high water , a large sailing vessel , laden with soft sand , the property of Sir . Pass , of Nine Elms , was proceeding up tbe river from Woolwich , and when opposite Blackfriara Steam-boat pier the captain let go her anchor for the purpose of bringing her up . Unfortunately , the chain was foul , and the crew were unable to slacken it sufficiently to make the anchor bold , and the consequenceV > s that the yards of the vessel came in contact * i ; h the fourth arch on the north-west side of
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Blackfriars-bridge . By so doing the yards sprang , and the mast bead of the ponderous vessel caught the crown of the atch , and in an instant she heaved over , and in less than two minutes sank . The men iu the vessel shrieked out for help , when John Ware , the deputy pier-master , and Carey , one of the extra men , came alongside the vessel , fortunately succeeded in rescuing the crew of tbe sunken vessel , and conveyed them ashore . Whilst they were engaged \ n saving the lives of the people in the vessel , a large yawl , laden with potatoes , and making her way towards Hungerford Market , when her bow came in contact with the same arch of the "bridge , which threw ber athwart the tide , and for a moment or two the lives of the crews belonging to bo th the large vessels , as well as those who so heroically put off from the pier , were greatly jeopardised , but fortunately the headmast ofthe potatoe yawl was low enough to allow it to pass under tbe bridge . If such bad not been the j case the whole must have been drowned .
Sixguiab Suicide . —On the 2 nd inst . Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Westminster Hospital , on the body of Jane Bond , aged 51 . who destroyed herself in the following manner : —The deceased lived with her husband , at 14 , Bow-court , Palmer ' s-village , Westminster . On Monday evening she had been drinking to some excess , and in the course of the night she and her husband fell down stairs together . Shewas taken to thehospital , and a slig ht bruise was found on her forehead , but in her pockets she had two phials which had contained laudanum ; and as she died the next day the coroner ordered the body to be opened , and it was clearly ascertained she had died from the effects of the poison , which she had purchased at separate shops . Her mind seemed to have been in a disturbed state lately , and a verdict of " Temporary insanity " was returned . !
IxQirEsroxxiBBonroF the late Gbssbai Sib G . Axsox . —On Tuesday afternoon , at four o ' clock , a jury , which consisted of twelve of the most res-Eec table householders in Chelsea , assembled in the brary room attached to tho Royal Hospital , to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of the late distinguished general officer , Sir George Anson , G . C . B ., who died at his official residence on Sunday last . The evidence of the domestics and medical attendants of the deceased merely disclosed the fact that death was occasioned by a severe apopletic seizure , and the coroner having stopped the inquiry , the jury unanimously returned the following verdict , " That the deceased , Sir George Anson , died suddenly , and that his death was produced from natural causes . " The Latb Explosiox ik Bbrmosdsbt . —On Tuesday the jury impanelled to inquire into the cause ofthe death of the four unfortunate beings
who lost their lives by the late explosion at a fire work manufactory in Bermondsey , assembled at the Ring John ' s Head , near the old church , Bermondsey . The names ofthe deceased persons are George Barlow , J 46 ; William Barling , 20 ; James Barling , 4 years ); and Thomas Barling , 18 months . —The coroner inquired as to tbe state in which the four individuals were , who , at the time Of their last meeting , were l y ing dangerously ill at Guy ' s Hospital ? Mr . Slow , the summoning officer , said he had been to the hospital to make inquiries , and he found that Mrs . Barling was still in a very dangerous state . Her son and the servant girl were now out of danger , and were progressing favourably , but would not be able to leave the hospital for some tune yet . Mr . Barling , the maker of the fireworks , and the occupier of the house where the explosion took place , had recovered , and was in attendance . The inquiry was again adjourned till the 18 th of December .
Respite ofthb Cosvict Jordan . —Inconsequence of communications which have passed between Mr . Justice Cresswell and the Secretary of State for the Home Department , the sentence of death passed upon Stephen Alfred Jordan , olios Dowland , for the attempted murder of Sarah Frances Ewings , at Dulwich Wood , will be respited . Jordan is only seventeen years of age , and is now confinenn Horsemonger-lane Gaol . The day was not fixed for his execution . The wretched youth received the intelligence with stoical indifference , betraying no emotion of gratitude , and appearing perfectly careless as to what became of him .
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MVSIERIOCS DlSCOVBBT OF HmXS ItEMALYS AT Birmingham . —A somewhat curious discovery has been accidentally made of a human skeleton , under circumstances that certainly gives rise to suspicion of foul play . The manner in which the remains were discovered was this : -A number of boys were at play in a stable situated at the back of the residence of Mr . Hathbury , 110 , Bloomsbury , and some of them proceeded to kindle a fire in tho grate which was fixed in the building . The project was a novel one , aud they aU set about it with great assiduity ; but they found
i that the smoke , from some cause or other , would not ascend , but , on the contrary , filled the place . Thinking that the chimney might be stopped , one of the lads procured a stick , which ho thrust up , when , to their extreme alarm , a dense cloud of soot and a large black substance suddenly descended with great violence . The boys , exceedingly frightened , ran off , but at length some of them bolder than the others again approached the stable , and their companions following , they had the courage to examine into the cause of their alarm , and found it to be a large bag . With a very natural curiosity they determined to ascertain the contents , and having with some difficulty opened the bag , they were more terrified then ever to discover a
human skull and a vast quantity of human bones . Their alarm , however , was of short duration . They thought it good sport to kick about these relics of "Nature ' s nobility . " The bones were thus speedily dispersed , but then * appearance m various parts of the neig hbourhood induced inquiry , and the manner of their discovery and the mode iu which they had been disposed of became generally known . Mr . Hathbury , who bad been absent from home at the time , was on his return informed of tho circumstance , and attaching some importance to it , with much consideration , collected the . remains ofthe unknown human creature , which had been widely dispersed , and communicated the facts to the police . Subsequently the bones were submitted to the inspection of Mr * C . Porter and Mr . "Watson , surgeons , and their opinion was that they were those of a female from fourteen to twenty years of
age . Meanwhile , by the direction of the coroner , minute inquiries were instituted , but no information tbat could throw the slightest light upon the subject could be obtained from any source . No person could be recollected as having been missed , or as having disappeared . The stable itself has not been hunt more than four or five years , so that the deposition of the bones must have been made at a comparatively recent period . Mr . Hathbury has only occupied the premises for the last nine months , and never had afire lighted in the stable . A Mr . Briscoe , who resided hi the adjoining house for three years previously , was unconscious that the grate bad ever been used . Thus the matter rests . It has not been thought necessary to bold ? . n inquest , and in all probability the person of whem these remains once formed a part , the manner of death , or the motives which placed them there , will never be discovered .
Lascashibe . —Fatal Accident on ihe Wtrb RAILWAY . —On tho 2 nd inst . a man was accidentally killed on the Wyve line a short distance from the Maudiand station , while engaged in attaching the engine to some waggons . The deceased , whose name was William Bavington , and who lived at Hindley , near "Wigan , was a stoker on the Ace of Trumps engine , and was engaged in hooking the engine to some waggons , near the iron bridge on the Wyre Railway , adjacent to Mr . Bashall ' s mill , when the smoke box caught his foot and threw him down . He contrived to scramble six or seven yards
before the engine , but was not able to recover his footing , aud as the engine could not be stopped in time , it passed over him , literally doubling him up between the smoke box and the ground . He was dragged from his horrible situation , and extricated from between the engine and the tender , but was found to be dreadfully injured . Surgical assistance was sent for , and Mr . Bixon and Mr . Fearenside speedily attended upon him at the Union Tavern , where he had been removed , but their assistance could be of no avail , the poor fellow being fearfully hurt . He lingered but a couple of hours .
Hertford Coosir Gaol . —There has been a severe outbreak of Asiatic cholera in the Hertford County Gaol within the last few days , and seven deaths have taken place among the prisoners . This is the second outbreak of the disease , nine deaths having occurred therein from its effects in the month of January . The verdict given by the juries of the coroner s inquests held on the recent cases attributed the ravages of the epidemic to the total want of drainage , and requested the coroner to write to tbe visiting magistrates , drawing their attention to the subject . It appears that the soil-drains connected with the gaol run into two large close cesspools , one of which is within and the other without the walls , and that the prisoners are exposed to the injurious effects ofthe noxious gases generated in those cesspools . The coroner , therefore , in
compliance with the wish of the jury , drew the attention j of the visiting magistrates to these facts , and suggested that the cesspools should be done away with , ' and aproper system of sewerage established . As to the humanity and necessity of adopting this recommendation , there can be no doubt . At the adjourned quarter sessions , held on the 27 th ult , a proposition was made to extend the gaol , and take in an average of forty additional prisoners . To do this , however , without adopting the requisite measures for securing the health of the prisoners , and especially without allowing the epidemic , which has extended its ravages into the debtors' side of the prison- , to subside , can hardly be contemplated . The Dean anb Chapter of E ? eteb and Mr . Hooker . —The following statement connected with the case of Mr . Hooker , one of the secondaries of the Exeter cathedral , has ken " issued by a com-
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mi ^* i » formed to assist liim his dispute with the ^ f OTtl *^ * ^ ^ ^ 1842 Mr . Hooker was appointed a deputy . / n the choir of the Es eter cathedral , which situation he continued to fill to above two years , when a yacanrv occurred m the office of secondary , to which ttf present organist singly recommended Mr . Hooker , when he was accordingly promoted by the dean and chapter , and duly installed as secondary . A few months svace a reuort was made to the dean » nd chapter by the organist , to the effect that Mr . Hooker was generally inefficient as a smeer , in consequence of which , he received a notification from the dean and chap ter of their intention to dismiss him from his situation . Mr . Hooker offered to produce !
the most conclusive proof of his being quite as efficient a singer now , as when he was appointed secendarr , which proof ihe dean and chapter refused to receive . Mr . Hooker has been strongly advised ( that even admitting he were inefficient , which he denies ) , inefficiency is no ground for dismissal from office , lay-vickers and secondaries of the choir ofthe cathedral church of St . Peter at Exeter being recognised as forming part of the ecclesiastics belonging to the said cathedral , and the secondaries , called clerks or clergy of the second form , for up wards of 500 years , as appears by various statutes of tbe bishops of tbe diocese of Exeter . He contends that his office is a freehold , of which he cannot be deprived , except on the ground of misconduct . This
yiew ofthe case is confirmed by Dr . Addams , whose opinion has been taken , and also by the fact that secondaries have , from general custom , continued to hold their office , when age and other circumstances have rendered them incapable of performing its duties , and he , therefore , on the 27 th of September last , as advised by Dr . Addams , vefpectfully entered his protest against his removal from his office by the dean and chapter , denying that he had given cause for his removal , either from non-efficiency or misconduct , and continued to occupy his stall , and perform the duties of his office until the 22 nd of October , when he was forcibly ejected from it . The dean and chapter have offered Mr . Hooker testimonials of his general good character , and attention to his duties ,
thereby admitting they have'no complaint against him on this band . Mr . Hooker has been stronely advised by all his friends to contest tbe point with the dean and chapter , but is not in a situation to pay the expenses , which litigation with such a powerful , body will necessarily entail upon him . In order to enable him to try the question , ft will be necessary to apply . for a mandamus from the Court of Queen ' s Bench , calling on the chapter to show cause why they eject him from his office . A committee has been formed to raise subscriptions for the purpose of defraying the necessary and legal expenses . " Attempt to Murdeb at Durham . —The came of the sufferer in this case is Hugh Maley , an Irishman , who had heen stopping for three or four- days at a
common lodging house , kept : by a woman named RicharJson , situate in a court ' in Claypath , in Durham . On Saturday evening last Maley and & man named John Sime , a gardener , who is son-in-law of Richardson , ill-used some of the women lodging in the house , and was remonstrated with by Maley , and others ; whereupon he challenged Maley , or any of the others , to fight him , saying he was ready for either Englishman or Irishman . He laid hold of Maley , and a scuffle ensued , in the course , of which Matey was got down upon a bed . He succeeded in setting up , and the parties struggling further , until Sime got Maley down on another bed . During the struggle Sime ' swife entered , and shouted to her
husband to " rip the- —' s guts out" and whether acting on this exhortation or the deed had been previously done , is not clear ; but Sime was observed to take something out of a pocket of his jacket and stab Maley in the abdomen in two places , from both of which the bowels protruded . Assistance was obtained , and tho unfortunate man was conveyed to the union house , where medical aid was speedily afforded him , but very faint hopes are entertained of his re ? covery . As soon as the deed had been perpetrated Sime ran out of the house and fled , but ne returned in the course ofthe day , and was apprehended by the police . Maley ' s deposition was formally taken on Sundav last .
Suicide raoM Jbaloust . —On the 30 th ult ., an inquest was held before Thomas Adams Russell , Esq ., coroner at Earsdon , in the parish of Bothal , on the body of Eleanor Aynsley , a young woman about 23 years of ago , whoso parents have lived in the village upwards of fifty years . The deceased had been in the service of Mrs . Hume , of Tritlington Broom , near Earsdon , about four years and a half , and / Was a faithful and diligent servant . Mrs , Hume had been from homo on Sunday , and on her return in the evening observed the deceased to be much depressed in spirits . On the following morning she was called at four o ' clock , having to be engaged in washing ; half an hour afterwards she left the house , and not returning , her mistress became alarmed , and immediatly sent servants in search of her . Her body was found about eight o ' clock the same morning in Earsdon Burn , lying
in about two feet depth of water , and on being taken out in the presence of her mother , was found to be quite dead . Her bonnet was found lying on the side of tho stream , inside of which was found a letter addressed to her parents , of which the following is a copy ; " Dear Father and Mother , I bid farewell to you all , for my heart ia broken , and I must die , and Wm . Atkinson is the case ( cause ) of this ; give my kind love to him , and I hope he will sometimes think of me , and I hope God will forgive me for all' my wicked sins . —Ellen Aynsley . " It appeared , in evidence , that a youn ° ; man named William Atkinson , belonging to the village of Earsdon , had for some time previous been paying his addresses to her , hut reports of his attention to a rival had reached her ears , and had so excited her as to cause the unfortunate girl to take away her own life . Verdict— ' Temporary mental derangement . "
Worcestershire . —Child Killer bt Admisisteriko Laudanum . —Last week Mr . W . S . P . Hughes held an inquest at the Swan Ian , Whittingtoa , on the body of an infant , only seven weeks old , named Mary Ann Wilkins , tho daughter Of labouring people Hying in that parish . On Monday the mother was going out to wash , and therefore left the child in the care of the neighbour ' s daughter , but as it had been very restless the day before , and she feared that its nurse would not be able to keep it quiet , she put into the boiled bread and water which had heen prepared as its food four drops of laudanumfromalarge bottle which had been procured from the shop of Messrs . Lea and Perrins , as medicine forth © husband , who was taking it
under the prescription of Mr . Walsh . She said nelson ? object inputting tho drops into the food was , to keep the child quiet , and though the word " poison" was labelled upon the bottle , yet she professed not to know that laudanum was poisonous , or even a dangerous drugf About eleven o ' clock the child was brought to her to suckle , and it then seemed drowsy , anddid not suckle properly . In the evening when she returned homo she found tho child in a state of stupor , and becoming alarmed , she brought it to Worcester , and took it to a druggist ; he referred her to a medical man , and she called upon Mr . Walter Jones , surgeon , Collegeyard , who however found that he could do nothing to save the child , and it died the next moring . The
mother s general conduct seemed entirely to iree her from suspicion of having had any improper motive in the administration of the laudanum , and the jury m their verdict so far exculpated her , while they blamed her for administering so deadly a drug at all without proper medical advice . The Birmisgham Cattle Show . —The ground in Lower Essex-street , intended for the Cattle show next month , is being rapidly enclosed , under the superintendence of Mr . Samuel Brigg * . Tho main building will be 320 feet long , and 100 feet wide , with several subdivisions ; the chief one being a partition seven feet high , along the whole length of the shed , intended for the accommodation of one hundred fat cattle standing head to head on both
sides of the partition . There will likewise be portions assigned , for the store beasts , fat pigs , and sheep , and a separate location for store pigs , 100 feet long and 15 feet wide . The compartment allotted to the poultry is 150 long and 25 feet wide ; it will be partitioned off from the cattle , and have a boarded floor . The area willbe surmounted with a roof in one span , with a cupola running the whole length of the building , six feet above the roof , for light and ventilation , and there will also he thirty-eight large sky lights lathe roof . In addition to these' offices have been assigned for tbe committee and secretary , with store-rooms for meal , straw , 4 c . The building will be lighted throughout with gas . Mr . Ottley , of Snow-hill , is preparing medals for the prizes : and
it should beborne in mind by intending exhibitors that all entries must be made on or before the 17 inst . Disturbances in Wakefield . — On Monday night a serious disturbance took place in Wakefield arising out of the determination of the authorities to put a stop to the 5 th of Novem ber demonstrations It appears that the custom has been , for a century past , to celebrate the anniversary of the gunpowder plot by bonfires , in the Bull-ring , a triangular space in front . of the Stratford Arms Hotel ; but this year it was resolved to put them down . Accordingl y at seven o clock , the whole of the police force were marched into the Bull-ring , and kept it clear . The mob , however , assembled in Cross-souare . wh />™
they kindled an immense bonfire . Here they ienited a tar-barrel , and rolled it through into the Bull-ring amongst the police , and the barrel was followed by a great crowd of persons . Two of the foremost of these were seized by the police , and a cry of rescue was instantly raised . Immediately the police were beset on all sides , and the men reseutd after some sharp fighting . Some of the rescuers however , were in turn seized ; the whole of the police surrounding them , marched off in the direction ofthepolice-office Oppositethe CourwfiSffi pursued by the mob they halted , formed , and S their staves . A melee ot a most serious nature instantly followed . Stones , bricks , and misilSoVall doscnptions were hurled upon the officers like a storm of had . Oneof them was knoSd d ^ wn insensible , and several others struck severely und in
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the end , so imminent was their , danger , that it was 'Ed prudent to beat a precipitate retreat . The SSLed until the police reached the station , and then nearly oil of them returned to the fire . But Sasfound that mmydf ^ erioters had heen se-IS 5 ire < 5 , one man having had disarm broken , 3 d man ? others had serious wounds upon heir heads and faces . A person in tbe crowd , said to be SS was brutally beaten , and had he not found refuge in the Boy and Barrel Inn , he would ifa ^ rSwiityLave beenmurdered . About . eleven ScKhe Mayor ( G . W . Harrison , Esq ., ) backed by hewfie police force of theboroug h-intel heence having been received that the mob had partially d » - ScVsed-niarched to the Bull-ring , to putou ^ , thefire ; but before they could succeed , the police had been again stoned , the mayor had had his hat knockbd ^ off , » Sd been . injured by stones , and th ^ chief constable had been knocked down and trampled on . . Order , however ' was eventually restored by midnight .
, The Third Dragoon Guards . —Nottisoham Tu esday . —This day , a court-martial was , held at the cavalry barracks , near Nottingham , upon twee of the worst offenders connected with the late insubordination . The proceedings were of a much more interesting character than any . that transpired at the courts-martial last week . The prisoner at present under examination is Private Robert Knox , charged with breaking out of barracks when confinedthereto , and with insubordinate conduct in raising his hand , having in it a large stone , and using threatening
language towards Sergeant-Major Davis . The evidence is ordered ntt to be published until the proceedings shall have terminated . It will be remembered that Knox was actively engaged in the affray that took place on the first night ofthe msubordmation , and that he was drinking with some , others at the Gate public-house , Walnut-tree-lane , when Sergeant-Major Davis and a party of his men entered . A scuffle ensued , and the delinquents got away , but Knox and two others were captured the same even .-in " . Mr . John Bowley , solicitor , is engaged for the prisoners . Great interest is excited , and tbe court was crowded throughout the day .
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THE ATTEMPTED PARRICflJE Ai CHISWiCK . Henry Bathurst Monkhouse , the young man charged with having attempted to murder his father by firing pistols at him , was finally examined at the Hammersmith Police Court , on Tuesday . While his father was giving his evidence the prisoner turned his eyes away from him , as if he was anxious to avoid a recognition , but the father
closely scrutinised the exterior of bis son with a melancholy expression of countenance . .. The prisoner paid great attention to the evidence as it went on , and cast occasional g lances at the bullet and neck tie when they were produced by the medical witness and laid on the table before the magistrate , the centre of the tie was smeared with blood , and slightly singed in the part where the bullet bad passed through .
William Anderson , the driver of the cab No . 815 , was the first witness , examined : He stated that he resided ' at No . . 2 , Size-yard , Whitechapel . On Thursday evening tbe 4 th of October last , between seven and eight o ' clock , he was on the rank in the Minories , when the prisoner came up and engaged him to Chiswick for 14 s . The prisoner did not appear quite sober . They went into a publichouse together opposite the stand , and the prison ? r entered the parlour , After witness had partaken of a glass of rum , which the prisoner bad ordered for him , he went into tbe parlour , where he saw the prisoner with his band on some silver ,. which was
lying on the table , which made him observe to tbe landlady , " He seems to have a good deal of money about him . " They then proceeded on the journey , and on the way they looked in at several publichouses on the . road . They called at the . White Horse , in Hig h-street , Knightsbridgf , where the prisoner appeared to be known , and where they had some , drink . The prisoner said something to a female at the bar about giving her some rent , and having left his handkerchief with her as a pledge that he was in earnest about bringing the rent , they resumed their journey , still stopping at public-houses on the way , and drinking at each .
When they came to the Black Lion , in Black Lion , lane , they stopped again . The prisoner spoke to the landlady who seemed to know him , and witness bad something to drink , but did not see the prisoner have any . It was brandy they had . The prisoner then got up on the box of the cab and directed witness where to drive to , and when they came to Mr . Monkhouse ' s residence the prisoner requested witness to get down , ring the bell , and ask if Mr . Monkhouse was at home . If he was , witness was to say there was a gentleman from London at the gate who wished to see him . Witness did as he was told and a female answered the door . He asked if Mr . Monkhouse was at home ,
and she said" Yes , " when he told her there was a gentleman from town who wished to speak to him . The female closed the gate , and after being absent for a few minutes , she returned , when tbe prisoner came up and rushed past her , disregarding her statement that he must sand In his name , observing , " I will go in and see him myself . " The prisoner then went in aud closed the gate after him , and witness returned to his cab . Shortly afterwards he heard a report of firearms , . and the prisoner then joined him in the cab , directing him to drive on . Witness asked him " What was that noise I heard , *' and be said , smilingly , " Oh , that ' s nothing , " or words to the effect of " that ' s not here . " Witness
then drove to a public-house in the mam road , aud there asked the prisoner to settle with him , when he said he wanted to go to Ealing . Witness replied that he could not go , as it was his time home . The prisoner said , " Tou must go ; and I will give you a sovereign altogether . " Witness ultimately agreed to go , and took him to the Bell , at Ealing , where they had some more brandy ; and then , at the prisoner s request , witness drove him to a house up the lane , where witness believed the prisoner ' s brother resided . The prisoner rung the bell several times , but , receiving no answer , they returned to the public-house , and he asked the landlord to give witness a sovereign . The landlord refused ; and , while they were talking about the fare , the constable came up and took him into custody .
Elizabeth Barnes , housemaid iu the service of Mr . John Farmer Monkhouse , tbe gentleman shot at , was the next witness examined : She stated tbat she knew the prisoner , who was the second son ol her master . On Thursday night , the 4 th of October last , about 10 o ' clock , she heard a ring at her master ' s gate bell , when she went out and saw the last witness , who asked if Mr . Monkhouse was at home . She replied , " yes " and asked the cabman his name . He said , " Here ' s a gentleman from town want ' s to see him . " She left the nun at the gate , closed it , ' and as she approached the house , which was about five or six yards from the
gate , she saw her master standing on the threshold . She told him there was a gentleman from town wished to see him , and be told her to go and ask his name . She went back , opened the gate , and asked the cabman the gentleman ' s name . The cabman hesitated a moment or so , and all at once the prisoner rushed forward from the side of the cabman , neatly knocking hei down , and said : * « I am a Monkhouse , and I will speak to him . " He rushed forward to the house , and she immediately afterwards heard two reports as of fire-arms . She saw two Hashes and moie close to her master . At the first shot she observed
her master fall , and at the second shot the prisoner returned , and saying ' ' There ! " bounded past her , and ran out of the premises . She ran into the house , where she saw her master crawling on his hands and knees towards the parlour with blood upon his throat . She and her mistress assisted him into tbe parlour . He was afterwards removed to a bedroom , aud then Mr . Perfect , a surgeon , was sent for . About a week before the prisoner was at her master ' s house , and she heard him say to her master , stamping his foot upon the ground , " This is the last time 1 will ever cross the threshold of your door . "
John Farmer Monkhouse , of Chiswick-mall , Chiswick , gentleman , the father of the prisoner , deposed as follows : The prisoner is my son . On Thursday night , the 4 th of October , about ten o ' clock , I heard a ring at , iny gate bell . ; I went to the front door when the raaid went to the gate , and I heard a man say , " A gentleman from London wishes to see Mr . Monkhouse . " Immediately after I heard my son ( the prisoner ) say , "I am a Monkhouse , " and he rushed up to where I was standing and shot me , I fell and beard a second shot . It was so momentary that I did not observe anything particular . It was previous to my falling that I heard the two shots .
Mr . Thomas William Camberlain Perfect , the medical gentleman who was called in to see Mr Monkhouse after he was shot , stated that he found that gentleman vomiting blood , and ordered him to be immediately put to bed . Upon examining the neck , he found that a ball bad passed through his neck-tie , and perforated the flesh , passing by the thyroid cartilage of the neck , at the centre of the most projecting point of the wind pipe . It did not penetrate the air tube , but wounding the gullet , striking against the cervical vertebra , and descendmg between the external and internal carotid arteries , it came out at the back of the neck , and lodged in the shirt collar . He produced the bullet , together with the collar and stock which Mr . Monkhouse wore at the time .
Henry Reason , one of the mounted police , T 247 , deposed to having received information on the night in question of Mr . Monkhouse having been shot at , and totraeing the cab to the Bell Inn at Ealing . He there saw the prisoner , and asked him if his name was not Monkhouse . The prisoner told him that it was not ; but witness told him that he answered the description of the person he was after , aai he must go with him . Witness then took him to the Ealing police-station , where he searched him and found the barrel of a pistol in iis right hand coat pocket , and the stock m the left hand pocket , together with eight bullets and about thirteen caps all of which
, he now produced . There was some loose powder in the inside pocket of his great coat . He examined the pistol , and found that it bad been recently dis-? i f r 8 i i , ^ and While ^ S , - ^ P « souer observed , if 1 had a brace of loaded pistols , I would blow my own brams out . " He then took him to the Hammersmith police-station . On the Sundav nieht u S $ ° ^ T ^ * ^ ceived , he went to Mr . Williams , at Ealing , the landlord of the publichouse , and there received a powder flask containing gunpowder , and a second pistol ,, both of which he also produced . The pistol appeared to have been
l „„ r ;; S iara ™ T ' tne landlord of the Bell Inn at Ealing ,: stated that he knew the prisoner by sight , and recollected his coming to bis house on Thursday night , the 4 th of October . He came into witness's kitchen between 8 and 9 o ' clock , where witness was sitting , and took from his pockets , two pistols and a small packet of powder , which be laid on a table . Witness took them up aud placed them in a drawer , At that moment some person
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called from the bar , and ; witness went to answee the call . When he returned to the kitchen the prisoner had a pistol in his hand , and he said to bus " Do not take these things from the draweragain , at it is very improper to . have such things in a room , ' ' At that moment he was called to the bar again and in going there he . met the officer Reason in the passage / The officer said : " Will you allow me to go into Ihe kitchen ? " and he replied , " Certainl y by all means . " The officer then went in and arrej ! ted the prisoner . On the Sunday following the * officer called again , and he handed to him the ttcond ; pistol and packet of powder , which bad alread y been produced .
1 Mr . Edward Halford , surgeon , of Hammeramn . the medical attendant of Mr . Monkhouse ' s family ' st ated that on the 4 th of October , late in the evening he was called in to see Mr . Monkhouse . He founj him suffering from a wound in the neck , which seemed to have been produced by a pistol shot . He continued to attend him , and for about a fortni ght Mr . Monkbduse was in imminent danger . TDe wound was now healed , but Mr . Monkhouse was not yet perfectly recovered .
This was the case against the prisoner . -Jf r , Beadon then asked the prisoner if he had anything to say , now that he had heard all the evidence against him , g iving him the usual caution , that he was not bound to say anything unless he choose , but tbat if he did it would be taken down in writing , and mi ght he used ag * i tiat him on the trial . —Tbe prisoner made no reply , but it was intimated tbat he would reserve his defence till the trial . —The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions .
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The PjMNiAiioif SCHBMB . -TO those who were favourable to the project of the reclamation ot Connaughtbytlie introduction of English settlers and English capital , to replace the present race of impoverished proprietors , the all but total failure of tho attempt to dispose of the Martin estatesin Galwayhas proved a "heavy blow and . great discouragement . " Persons having an intimate acquaintance ' with the nature ot the property , its
advantages and disadvantages , are decidedly of opinion that many of tho lots already sold , particularly the town lands near Galway , would have realised far higher prices had the sal e taken place m Ireland distance , and the hopelessness of competing with English capital , having combined to deter Irish speculators from embarking m the enterprise . Be this as it may , the idea ot the plantation scheme dating its commencement from the transfer of the region of Connemara into the hands of London companies is now blown off . The
Tire Irish Lanmord Movjsmeht . — Limerick Chronicle g ives the following particulars relative to the movement recently got up by Lord Monteagle and other landed proprietors in the south of Ireland : " The preliminary meeting , at which LordMonteaglo presided , camoto tho resolution of appointing subcommittees of inquiry , in every parish , to report direct to a baronial committee upon the actual state ofthe landlords and farmers under the operation of poor-law tax , county cess and rent , the aggregate charges amounting , it is certain , in many instances , at the present reduced price of farming produce , to the fee simple value of land itself , and in some cases excediog that , standard . There must also he taken into account the dire domestic
privations endured for the last three years of famine , the general flight of tenants with the landlords ' rent , the desertion ofthe land , impoverished to tho last decree by the runaways , yet for whose dishonesty and abuse of solemn contract the unfortunate proprietor is held _ responsible , the abandoned farms being still subject to accumulation of poor-rate and taxes . Then comes the distraint , the impounding , the Sale and sacrifices of property ; while tho home . market , swamped by free trade with foreigners , has left landlord and farmer no help or resource whatever to bear up against the intolerable oppression of financial burdens sanctioned bylaw under the free constitution of Great Britian . One case ( continues the Limerick paper ) of
grievous suffering by a respcctaclo family in this county , was communicated to the preparatory meeting on Saturday last by one of the gentlemen p eo-ent . The possessor of a rent roll of £ 1 , 500 a year , landed estate , which- netted £ 1 , 200 annually four years ago , was absolutely compelled to subsist with his wife and seven children for three months of the past twelve , without the ordinary comfort of a meat dinner , a cup of weak tea or coffee , and the vegetables of the kitchen garden , commonly furnishing tho table of this most wretched household . Incredible and appalling as this may appear , we . have been assured it is not a solitary instance of tho excessive want and privation known to exist , lffton the district committees shall have completed their important local inquiries , the entire mass of
facts will be submitted to a central committee , who undertake the duty of making a concise digest of the painful evidence , to be laid before his Excellency tho Lord Lieutenant and the First Lord of the Treasury , by a deputation of the members of both houses , who represent this county in the impend parliament . Then shall we ascertain if her Majesty's ministers and the British people can persist in a course of legislative policy towards this miserable country , at variance with the plainest principles of humanity and justice , by enforcing a code of taxation the most persecuting and oppressive of any yet imposed upon the poorest nation in the world , and the inevitable consequences of which inust be universal bankruptcy and beggary for Irishmen .
Hepeal Association . —The Repeal Association met as usual on Monday , at Concination Hall . The attendance was scanty ; Mr . Michael Murphy presided . Mr . John O'Connell handed in £ 2 , - the renewed subscription of the Right Rev . Dr . O'Hi ggins , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , and called attention to a letter ofthe Most Rev . Dr . M'Hale . He then praised the speech recently delivered by Count Mohtalembert in the French Assembly ; accused the revolutionary leaders throughout the Continent of cowardice , incapacity , and ferocious conduct , and concluded by moving the insertion
upon the minutes of tho letter of Dr . M'Hale , and tne speech of Count Montalemberfc . Mr . O'Connell then handed iriXlO from Mr . Onseley Higgins , enclosed in a letter written from London . Alderman M'Loughljn next addressed the meeting , in handing in his subscription . Mr . O ' Connell then brought up a report on the subject of the Protestant Church temporalities , and said that that insult to tho Irish people—the Protestant Church—must como down ; and next proceeded with the speech of the day , which ho concluded by saying they would have repeal . The rent for the week was announced to be £ 30 Ss . 3 d .
The Fifth op Novemher . —It seems by the following statement , furnished by the reporter ot the Northern Whig , that but for the measures taken by government , aided by the good sense of some of the " leaders" of the Orange party , a collision between the factions was almost a matter of certainty , and the 5 th of November would have witnessed a second edition of the monstrosities of the 12 th of July : — "The apprehensions entertained of disturbance arising from Orange processions in the county of Down on the 5 th of November have , I am happy to say , turned out to be groundless . I travelled through between sixty and seventy miles of tbat county yesterday , and found everywhere peace and quietness * On arriving at Banytiahmch , I learned that the
Orange grand and deputy grand masters of the county had assembled there on Wednesday , Oct . 31 , and resolved that no procession should take place . I found that the government had here made preparations for any emergency that might arise , and bad stationed in the town a troop of the 13 th Light Dragoons , two companies of the 13 th Light Infantry , and a sub-inspector , a head constable , and . thirty police from the county of Dublin . The Orangemen had originally intended to walk to a place called Punmore , a townland about three miles from Ballynahinch , and adjoining a mountain district which is almost exclusively inhabited by Roman Catholics ; but , in consequence of the resolution entered into by the { masters , ' they resolved on
celebrating the anniversary by meeting in their lodge- ! rooms . I arrived at Castlewelhn about eleven o ' clock , and , Monday being the market-day , was surprised to find the square almost deserted . Here 1 learned that if the Orangemen attempted to g o in procession oyer Dolly ' s Brae , that the Ribandmen were determined to meet them aud oppose their progress . Happily , the Orangemen did not walk in this . quarter , and inconsequence the Ribandmen were not ' called out . " I went myself over Dolly ' s Brae , and did not see the slightest symptom of preparation <> n the part of the inhabitants of that district At Castlewellan there were stationed a % n ^ r , 131 ) 1 L , eht Dragoonsand two companies ot the 9 th Regiment , together with a
sub-insnector , a head-constable , and fifty police . During the ! day patro . S ; of police were sent out of the different roadsleadmg from the town , but were it not for the e A ™? JM y ja » 8 , l » t as well have been in barrack . p « , o f fo d there were stationed a troop oi theidth Light Dragoons , two compauiea . tf the ?« iiv ! 5 about 5 i ^ y e ° lice > a ! l under orders £ & e a a enta notice ; but , happily , up to the time I left , their services had not bceu required , nor from the appearance of things do I imagine they have been . At Hilltown there were ? ttS p ^ t H l LM > . a company " ? the 55 th Regiment , and a head-constkble , and thirty policemen . . Here , as in the foremeationed places mnilT ™ ° Pia 0 e ' and peace and S ° od orde
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TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AT SEA . ( From the New Bedford ( Mass . ) Mercury ' October 17 th . ) We have received letters from Captain Hosmer late master ofthe whaling bark Janet , of Westport , furnishing an account of the privations and suffer , ings of a boat ' s crew belonging to the Janet , comprising the captain and five others , which is almost without parallel in the annals of whale fishery . It is substantially as follows : —On the coast of Peru , 23 rd June , 1849 , in latitude three degrees N ., longitude 104 W ., while cruising for whales , a shoal of sperm whales appeared in sight from the
Janet , and three boats lowered in pursuit . Captain Hosmer ' s boat ' s crew consisted of himself , Francis Hawkins , third mate , Edward H . Charlez , Joseph Cortez , Daniel Thompson , and James Fairman , aea ^ men . It blowing fresh at the timp , the boats soon separated , each having made fast to a whale . After Captain Hosmer had succeeded in ' turning up' his whale , and was towing bim to the ship , from some inadvertence on the part of the third mate in putting about , the boat capsized ; with loss of boat keg , lantern keg , boat bucket , compass , paddles , & c . The crew succeeded in righting the boat , and lashed the oars to the thwarts across the boat , to
prevent ber from overturning , she being filled with water , and the sea continually breaking over her . Two waifs , or flags , were immediately set as a signal of distress , tbe other two boats being in sight at a distance of about one and half miles . Captain Hosmer saw the other two boats take their whales alongside the barque , which was then kept off in the direction for his boat ; but , to bis surprise and horror , when within about one mile of him , they kept off on another course until sundown . The crew of the captain ' s boat then got on to tbe whale
alongside , and tried to bail the boat , but could not succeed . They then cut the lint attached to tbe whale , and succeeded in setting some pieces of the boat sail , and steered towards the barque then about three miles distant . During the night , they saw a light at intervals , but in the morning the barque was about the same distance off . Every expedient was resorted to , by making signals , to attract the attention of those on board tbe barque , but in vain . Saw them cutting in the whales , and apparently indifferent to the fate of their comrades . In this
perilous condition the unfortunate boat ' s crew made another attempt to bail the water from the boat , but , owing to their consternation , they did not succeed . They then continued on thtir course as before , hoping to regain the barque , but soon found that she receded from them , and it was then determined to put about to the wind , and remain , whatever the consequences might be . On the secend morning , tbe weather being more favourable , and the whale craft was thrown overboard , and another
attempt was made to bail the boat , which resulted in the loss of one man , without accomplishing the purpose . Tbe effort was again renewed in the afternoon , the weather being yet more favourable , and they finall y succeeded in freeing the boat from water , but with the loss of another of her crew , all on board having been up to their arms in the water during the last forty-eight hours . Two of the survivors were seized with delirium , all of them having been without a morsel of food or drink , and suffering painfully from thirst . Thus disabled , no one on board being able to ply at the oars , and with only a small fragment of the boat ' s sail remaining , it was determined to make for Cocus Island , on the Peruvian coast , a distance of about one thousand miles , as the nearest land . Ac .
cordmgly , the piece of sail was used to the best advantage , and the ceiling ofthe boat was torn up and also employed as a wind propeller , steering in a north-easterly direction . Captain Hosmer writes that nothing occurred worthy remark until the seventh day , the crew having in the mean time been without a particle of food or drink , and not a drop of rain having fallen . In this dreadful state of suffering , it was mutually agreed to cast lots as to which of the number should be sacrificed to prolong the Uvea of his companions ; and the unfortunate victim upon whom the lot fell met his fate with perfect resignation and willingness . At the close of the day a shower of rain proved a very great additional relief . Being without compass or instruments of any kind , Capt . H . was compelled to rely
entirely upon his judgment respecting his course , aided only by an occasional glimpse of the North Star , and the rolling swell of the sea from the south . On the eighth day another of the number died from exhaustion . It was found necessary to pursue a more northerly course , in the hope of rain , none having fallen during the last four days . On the next day they were favoured with another shower , and this benefaction was followed by tbe remarkable circumstance of a dolphin leaping from among its finny companions directl y into the boat . Several birds also approached so near to the boat as to fall a prey to the necessities of the crew , administering greatly to their relief ,. On the 13 th of July , land was discovered in an easterly direction , which proved to be Cocus island ( uninhabited ) , lying in lat . 5 deg . 27 rain . N ., Ion . 37 . 55 .
Captain H . and the other survivors succeeded in reaching it , but in an almost ' helpless condition . They , however , secured a pig , and drank its blood , which revived their exhausted strength , and also obtained a plentiful supply of birds and freshwater , After remaining two days upon the island , they were overjoyed by witnessing the approach of a boat , which proved to belong to the ship Leonidas whaler , Captain Swift , ' of this port , then lying in Chatham
Bay , for the purpose of procuring wood and water , r and were relieved from their dreadful sufferings by f being taken on board the shi p , » nd treated with i every possible attention and kindness . The names 3 of those Who perished on board the boat , are e Francis Hawkins , third mate , of Augusta , Me ; ; James Fairman , seaman of Ohio ; Henry Thompson , i , seaman of Philadelphia , Pa ; Henry Charles , place : e of residence unknown .
Captain Hosmer arrived at Payta , August 21 st , it , from which place his letter t « us is dated . We bate * e a ' so been favoured with an extract of a letter from ira James A . Crowell , late first mate of the Janet , to to Henry Wilcox , owner ' s agent , in Westham , dated at at Payta , August 1 st . Mr . Crowell , after mentioning ing the fact of the three boats putting off for whales ; as as above stated , adds :- " At three p . m . I had my my whale alongside , and soon the ship came to me ; and vd ' . when 1 got on board , there was but one boat hv hi sight , and that was five miles to the leeward of the that shi p . I went down to it with the ship , and foundundl that it was the second mate ' s boat . He had seenseem captain Hosmer two hours previously , fast to ao ££ whale , and went to the leeward of him when last laslil
seen from his boat . We proceeded in the directioWion in which the captain ' s boat had been last seen , an \ ami lay to . all night with all sails set , and with all ou out lights fixed . In the morning saw nothing of tbf thi boat . We cruised three days , but nufortunateliatell without meeting any trace of ber . In the meainean time four of our hands were sick from fatigue , an > , ana we were under the necessity of making the best , c , st « our way to this port ( Payta . ) We had taken lCh ICC barrels of oil for the last ten ' days previously , ar , an lost 200 barrels during tbe same time by losing line , lin « I expect the captains boat was taken down by a fo a foe line , as he had a new line in his boat , coiled t « d tw days previous to the accident . We saved od OD [ whale the day the accident happened .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 10, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10111849/page/6/
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