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    6 THE NORTHERN STAR, April 14, 1840.

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    6 The Northern Star, April 14, 1840.

    6 THE NORTHERN STAR , April 14 , 1840 .

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    Mortality rx the Metropolis . —It is shown by the present return that the public health improves with the progress of the early months , and that the mortality Iris now fallen to tho rate that prevailed in the month of October . The deaths in the week ¦ were 094 , being thirty-one more than the weekly aver age of five springs , if allowance he made , in estimating the average , for increase of population , ¦ which , in females was in ten years ( 1831—41 ) 1-551 per cent , annually . In the registration returns the spring quarter is reckoned from the 1 st of April ; and as the rate of mortality falls with the advance of the season , the return of last week is more favourable as compared with the average than at first sight appears . The deaths from the zvmotic or epidemic

    class of disease were 221 ; the average is 19 S ; those from affections of the respiratory " organs , 202—a considerable excess above the average , which is 131 , but augmented bv the circumstance already mentioned . The deaths from hooping-cough , bronchitis , pneumonia , were fiftv-four , seventy-nine , and eightyseven ; the respective averages being thirty-six , thirtv-seven , and sixty-one . Consumption exhibits almo vt as nearly as possible the usual amount pf fatality . Deaths * from small-pox are still unusually few . - those from measles are on the increase . The mortality from scarlatina and typhus is near the average ; the aggregate from diarrhrea , dysentery , and cholera , it is satisfactory to observe , can hardly be said to be more than usual at this time . Only

    five persons died of cholera . A woman m AVhiteehapeldied , according tomedical certificate , of "intemperate habits , and disease of the heart . " According to similar authority , a man of twenty-three years , died in the sub-district of St . John the Evangelist , Westminster , of " convulsions ( ten days ) caused by heing exposed to the deleterious effects of tobacco , " in his occupation at a cigar manufactory . " The mean hei g ht of the barometer was 29-468 in . on Tuesday , the Tiighest recorded in the week . The temperature of the air -was highest on Friday , when it was W dcg . 5 min . The mean daily temperature was highest on the samo day , and was 49 deg . 1 min . The moan temperature of the week was 45 deg . 7 m . Fatal Cases of Cholera registered in the "week ending Saturday , April 7 . —One is a case in which an inquest was held , the others are certified by medical s . ttendants . Kexsixqtox . —Town : F . 28 , " mahimant cholera , and not injuries by violence

    allege- ; to have been done to her . "—Inquest . St . Maetin-ix-the-Fi elds . — Charing Cross : F . 38 , " choh .-ra spasmodica ( 10 hours ) . " Mr . Leonard , the registrar , states that " The deceased was reported ^ is a charwoman , but in fact was an unfortunate female of intemperate habits , brought to the workhouse at six o ' clock p . m . on the 7 th instant in a state of collapse . The house-surgeon and assistant gave immediate attendance , and at half-past nine the district-surgeon , also . Death occurred at ten p . m . On the morning of Easter Sunday the district officer of health visited the house , Ho . d , Hanovercourt , Long-acre , and reported it to be a ' house of accommodation . ' In a small yard about 4 feet by 10 feet is a deep cesspool , not sufficiently protected , and very offensive . The under part of the house receives the dust and refuse ; and the drain-water from tl . e small yard runs in a pipe into the cellar , and is caught in a tub or butt . The rooms , which are two on a floor , are cleanly kept . The two officers of health visited this house on Ausrust 26 of last

    year ; and from notes then taken I find , that over a surface of about 6 , 480 square feet there is no surface drainage , or very insufficient ; that the cesspool of the above house had been emptied about the 17 th July of ihe same year , and that tbere appeared to be no drain . The next house has also arrangements of the very worst description . " St . Paxcras . — Camdt-J Town : M . 34 , "Asiatic cholera , active symptoms ( 18 hours ); continued fever ( 3 days ) . " Dr . Bm th , medical attendant , states that " all the

    symptoMS of Asiatic cholera were well marked in the patient , except cramps , which were very partial , and re > -: ricted to the upper extremities . Lips and face bl ;;; and collapse , diarrhoea , rice-water . Transfusion - > f thirty ounces of blood was tried while in eollaps ^ which rallied him for a day , but he died three days afterwards of continued fever . " Greenwich . — 'Voolwicb . Arsenal : In ltoval Ordnance Hospital , M . 23 , " debility ( 20 days ); cholera biliosa i \~*> hours ) . " Greenwich West : In Dreadnought Hospital , M . 14 , " cholera . " P . m .

    IXO . UE 5 TS . MrsTr . Riotrs Death of ax Ixmate or the Trinity Almho' - ' -es . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at the E--: rl Grey public-house , 3 Iiie-end-road , on Thom : i > Davis , aged 72 years . It appeared that the deceased was formerly a pilot , and had been for several years past an inmate of the Trinity Almshouses in the . Mile-end-road . On the previous Wednesday < 'rcning he was seen sitting in Ids room with three * females , and he appeared perfectly sober . About an hour afterwards deceased was found lying with hi- head upon the top of the fire , and his body presecs • - •' " : a most horrible appearance . —Mr . Jackson , the govwnor of the abnhouscs . stated that the deceased had received his quarterly pension on Mondav List , amounting to £ 7 Is ., and when Ms clothes

    were searched all his money was found to be missing . It was proved that the deceased was not subject to fits , but enjoyed tolerably good health . The women seen in his room had frequently visited him , and also tht "ther pensioners . —Stephens , the constable , said he ' .-. id made the most diligent inquiries respecting the females , but could not discover who they were . —Tiie coroner said It was quite clear that a felony had been committed , and it was probable that tho females had placed the deceased in the position in which he was found , to screen themselves irom din-overy . The inquiry was adjourned . The inquest opened on Wednesday evening at the Earl Grey public-house , Mile-end-road , and the three women were Drought forward by Mr . Stephens ,

    the coxi » t ; ible . Their names are Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes , E . Watson , and H . Calahan . Watson and Calahan swore that Barnes put her hands into the pocket yf the deceased , took out what was in it , and that th < y then left . She then treated Watson and Calahn : i :-o a show , and told them she took 10 s . Gd . from ihv * ud man , though she afterwards said she only t ' .-ik 10 s . At the suggestion of Mr . Baker , who sai-I he had nothing to do with the robbery , the jury returned an open verdict , "That the deceased died from mortal burns on the head , but how caused remains unknown . " The women Barnes and Watson were th *! : taken into custody by Sergeant Brown , of the K division , to be tried before a magistrate for the robin-ry .

    Chil : > Murder . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at the Black Horse , Kingsland-road , Shoreditch , "n the body of a full grown female child , which v . ; . s discovered in the Uegent ' s Canal at Unggerston- * Hdge , with its head nearly severed from the body . —A youth named Shephard , residing in Tysenstreet , fr . Chual-green , proved finding the body about one o ' cU-ck on the previous Wednesday afternoon , floating in the water of the canal , near Haggerstoubridge " On heing taken out of the water , an extensive -voundwas found in the throat , evidently inflicted hy some sharp instrument , and extending

    from er- ;¦ : o ear . A second wound crossed the throat , and peic-srated the stomach . —Mr . Clark , surgeon , ¦ who h : « . 'l made a pott mortem examination of the body , by order of the coroner , stated that the deceased --.. id arrived at the full period of gestation , and was iihls opinion , born alive . The wound in the throat - - ~ s inflicted during life , and was the immediate c : i > .-= e of death . The police have actively been engage' i i the case since the discovery of the body , butup ' - ;• the present time nocluc whatever has been ohtaiae 110 the guilty parties . The jury returned a verdict f « f wilful murder against some person or persons unknown .

    Reticle op Foktuxe . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Pay :. a , at the King and Queen , Great Distafflane , D't -iors ' -commons , on the body of Air . William Alexander , aged 54 , formerly a watch and clock maker in Parliament-street , where he carried on an extensi ¦ - «• business for twenty-two years . The deceased , u appeared , became bankrupt tliree years ago , and was for a long time afterwards out of work , and in v-n greatest distress ; but at length he obtained au engagement to regulate the clocks on the Chester :-nd Holyhead Railway . Meeting with an accident ' . » n the line a few months ago , he came to one of tho London hospitals , from which he was discharged on Tuesday week . At this time he was utterly ^ . "Stitutc , and Ms wife , who was living with a relative , had no home to take him to . Iu this conditio he took a room at the King and Queen , Great H-ta ^ -lane , and died there suddenly from the bursthii' of a vessel in the lungs . Verdict , " 2 Jatulal Death . "

    Sure-ph . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Carter , at the Mitre Tavern , Broadway , Blackfriars , on the body o f Mrs . Sarah Smith , aged 41 , who destroyed herself under the following circumstances : —The deceased was said to be the niece of a well-known baronet , and for fifteen months had lived at Mr . Boremsn ' s , grocer , Blackfriars-road . On Thursday morning , asTiis wife had not seen the deceased , she suseesttd that he should go up to her room , which b . e ~ did , sud found the door locked , with the key inside . Not liking to break ouen the door , he sent for

    her fri-nds , and an entrance was then made . Mr . Borem . ui found her suspended by a piece of old tape , hich was fastened to a part of her bedstead , and he appt-arcil to have been dead for some hours . There seemed no doubt it was the deceased ' s own aet , and that she was under the apprehension that she should die of starvation in a workhouse . She , however , seemed to have plenty of work to do , not for the purpose of earning money , but to emplov her mind . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased destroyed herself in a fit of monomania . "

    MoSD ^ T . —Destitution . —Before Mr . Pavne , at fiie Gih > pur-ctreet Compter , on the bodv of Ellen Crimmin , aged 21 , a prisoner . It appeared from the evidence of Ellen Sullivan , a fellow prisoner , that they had both come over from Ireland a few weeks since , in the expectation of obtaining situations in London , but , failing in doing so , tficy had ftr the last fortnight been in a starving state , slccpig at nights on the fteps of doors . On the 29 th

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    ult . they made application to the relieving officer of the City of London Union for relief , andlie offered to send them to Pockham poorhousc , provided tney would afterwards submit to be passed to ™™ - To this they objected , and on leaving they committed the act for which the Lord ^ " ^ JT ^ fourteen days' imprisonment -Mr . M . Murdo , the surgeon to the prison , stated that »»» attent ion ^ called to the deceased , and that he found toj ^ mg from extreme debility and low ^ fever , produced bv want and exposure to the weather . She was immediatdy p laced in the infirmary where she receivedI everyAttention and nourishment , but she never rallied , and died on Saturday last , \ erdict , " Natural Death . " _ „ „ , „ , at

    Suicide of ax Old L . vdv . —Before Mr . Baker , the Old Basing House , Kingsland-road , on the body of Susannah Benson , aged CO years . It appeared that the deceased was the widow of Mr . John Benson , a horse hah- manufacturer , who died suddenly some vears since , leaving the deceased an annuity sufficient to maintain her until she was seventy vears of age . The deceased enjoyed tolerably good health until within the last three weeks , when she appeared very low and desponding , and complained that her money would not last till she was dead . She was last seen alive on Thursday evening , when she appeared much distressed in her mind , and said " she thought she would die that night . " On tho following morning she was found b y Mr . T . Guest , the landlord of the Old Basing House , suspended by a black crape handkerchief from a rail of her bedstead . She was quite dead , and had apparently been so some hours . Verdict , " Temporary

    Insanitv . Deaths from Suffocation ' . —Last week wc gave an account of the deaths of three young women alleged to have died from the inhalation of the fumes of charcoal at Miss Caroline Mann ' s establishment for young ladies , Liburnia-houso , JTo . 2 , Londonroad , St . John ' s-wood , on the night of Tuesday or morning of Wednesday . On Saturday Mr . Mills , the deputy-coroner for " Middlesex , and a jury of fifteen inhabitants of the Christchurch district of Marylebone , assembled in the coffee-room of the Eyre Arms , for the purpose of investigating the unhappy occurrence . Eliza Griffiths was 15 , Frances Carter 17 , and Eliza Prichett 23 . The facts of th case having been proved bv several witnesses , whose

    examination extended to a great length , the coroner summed up , merely observing that the unfortunate deceased persons appeared by the evidence to have gone into the room in question of their own free will ; at least two were proved to have done so . Xbne ol them had asked for better accommodation . He would , therefore , leave the matter in their hands , satisfied that the jury would conie to a just and proper couclusion from the evidence before them . Strangers were then desired to withdraw for the jury to consider their verdict , and , after a lapse of nearly an hour , on the public being again admitted , the coroner said the jury had unanimously agreed to the following verdict : — " That Elizabeth Pritchett , Eliza Griffiths , and Frances Carter were found dead

    in a small and ill-ventilated room , and that their deaths were caused by the poisonous fumes of burning charcoal , which had been sold at an extravagant price , under the fraudulent name of prepared fuel ; and that these attempts to vend charcoal under the name of prepared fuel to bo used in Carmon ' s or any other such portable stoves , is a scandalous imposition on the public . "The Coroner : Am I to understand you to say , gentlemen , that you attach no blame whatever to Miss Mann ?—The Jury : Most decidedly so , Sir ; not the slightest . The inquiry occupied upwards , of four hours . Wednesday . —Suicide of a Female by Oxalic Acid . —Before Mr . Bedford , at the Rose and Crown ,

    Knightsbridge , on the body of Mary Ann Taylor , aged 42 , who destroyed herself by taking poison . —Mr . Brownlow , of Trevor-square , deposed that deceased entered his service as general servant on the loth of February last . Before engaging her he had understood from her brother , a tradesman in the city , that she was formerly a great drunkard but had reformed . She conducted herself very well for the first fortni ght , but afterwards she was frequently the worse for liquor . On the Monday and Tuesday preceding her death she was so much in liquor as to be incapable of doing her duties , aud on Wednesday morning he told her she must quit her situation on Saturday ( last ) , adding that in lieu of a month ' s warning lie should nay her a month's wages . On

    Thursday evening he returned home , when , ringing for deceased , andreceiviug no answer , he went to look after her , and in the water-closet found her crouched up on the floor quite dead . He had since found duplicates of property which she had pledged belonging to him , and in a cupboard in the kitchen was a stone pitcher containing gin . —3 Ir . W , Martyn , surgeon , said he was called in to see the deceased , who had been some time dead . There were no external marks of violence , but on making a ;> ost mortem examination , he found the death to havc been caused by oxalic acid . —Yerdict , " That the deceased died from the effects of oxalic acid , but how or by whom administered there was no evidence to show . "

    Destitution . —On Wednesday , before Mr . Payne , at Bridewell Prison , on the body of Mary Mahony , alias Quin , aged 30 years . It appeared from the evidence of Capt . Adams , the governor , that the deceased had been admitted twice for fourteen days , during the last six years , for breaking windows and gas lamps . She had only lately arrived from Ireland with a number of other emigrants , and , as might he expected , she was soon left destitute , and the only means of obtaining food was by being sent to prison . When the deceased was admitted the second time , she was very weak and feeble , and said she had scarcely anything to eat since she was discharged the first time . —3 Ir . C ' oote , the surgeon , said the deceased died on Tuesday morning from fever , produced by want and exposure . —A juror remarked that there were 1 , 200 Irish emigrants now supported in the West London Union . —The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical

    evidence . Suicide at Yauxiiall-bkidge . —On Wednesday before Mr . Bedford , at the Feathers , Dean-street , Westminster , on the body of E . Burford , a farrier , who committed suicide by jumping over Vauxhallbridge into the river . —John Pullmgor , a Thames police inspector , stated on Thursday evening week last , about half-past eight o ' clock , he was in a galley passing under the second arch on the north side of Vauxhall-bridge , when some person on the bridge called out " a man has jumped over , " and at the same moment he heard a splash in the water . He rowed to the spot whence the sound proceeded , and picked up a man ' s cap , after which he caused the drags to be put into requisition , but without

    avail . —It . Stradford , a " dredgerman , proved finding the body of deceased on Sunday morning near the Horscfcrry . —Elizabeth Burford stated that on the Thursday evening in question , about halfpast seven o clock , the deceased left home , saying that he was going to take a little walk , and should not be long . She never saw him again alive . The deceased had been for eight weeks ill , and on the sick-fund of the " Old Friends" society . On the Thursday night he was apprehensive that his allowance would be discontinued , and he was consequently very low-spirited , saying that " he was not able to work , and that he did not know how his family would be supported . " The deceased never had threatened self-destruction—Verdict , " Found drowned . "

    Suicide of a Xwal Suroeo . v . —Before Mi-. Higgs , at the Spotted Dog , Strand-lane , on the body of Mr . John Acton , aged 30 , an assistant surgeon in the royal navy , lately resident at ] So . 6 , Surrey-street , Strand . —Jane Brooker , servant to Mrs . Douglas , of G , Surrey-street , stated that the deceased had occupied apartments in that house for the last four months . He had been in a very bad state of health for some time past , and for the last eight days had not left his room . He appeared chiefly to be suffering from lowness of spirits , great nervousness , and had a very bad appetite . Lately he laboured under the delusion that all his friends had forsaken him . Dr . Johnson used formerly to attend him , but lately

    deceased had prescribed for himself . On Monday last he seemed exceedingly restless , and at twelve o ' clock at night asked for writing materfals , saying that ho wanted to write home to his relations , but when they were brought ho trembled so much that he was unable to write . All night long he was heard pacing the room in a very excited state , yet no fears were entertained that he would do himself any injury , and in the morning , finding he did not answer her knock at the door when she carried up bis breakfast , she imagined he had fallen into a sound sleep after his night ' s fatigue . However , at eleven o clock , receiving still no answer , the door was forced open , aud ho was discovered hanging by a cord which he had taken off one of bis boxes to a

    hat peg by the side of the door . He was instantly cut down ^ and a surgeon sent for , who said he had been dead five or six hours . —Mrs . Douglas said she attributed the deceased ' s excited state to the repeated disappointments he had met with in endeavouring to obtain promotion in the rank of surgeon in the Royal Xavy . He had been unsuccessful in his applications to the Admiralty . In some conversation she had had with him he told her that he had been twice assistant-surgeon in ships stationed on the west coast of Africa , and that his health had much suffered from the climate . Dr . Bryson , of the Army and Xavy Club , visited him on Monday last , and seeing the state of his health wished him to become a patient in the Woolwich Infirmary . The deceased , however , had the greatest objection to going to that institution . A card on which the following was written was found on his table : — " Forgive me my friends and avoid sin . "—Yerdict " Temporary Insanity . "

    Fire axd Probable Loss op Lifk . —On Tuesday evening considerable alarm was caused in Poolplace , Mount-pleasant , Clerkeinvell , in consequence of aery being raised that the first floor of the house numbering 2 in that place was on fire , and that a child about four years of age was burning therein . The parish engine and the Brigade firemen immediatel y started for the spot , when , to the surprise of

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    the neighbours , the doors were barred against the admission of the firemen—the inmates of the house succeeding themselves in putting the flames out . The only information that could be learned was , that a bed and bedding was burned , and a child about four years of age was so fri ghtfully burned , that its death was hourl y expected . The premises , which were let out in tenements , were owned hy a Mr . Sullivan , who was under an erroneous impression that if he allowed the firemen to enter ho would have to pay for thoir attendance . The unfortunate child who was in the room when tho outbreak occurred was removed to tho Royal Free Hospital , where it expired from the effects of the burns during the night .

    Impudent Robbery by Personating the Police . —On Monday evening , a robbery of a most impudent description was committed at the residence of Miss Harams , an aged maiden lady , Jfo . 2 , Yorkrow , Kennington-road , and next door to Lambeth Police-court . Between the hours of eight and nine o ' clock , a sharp double knock was heard at the front door , and , on the servant going to answer it , she found three men close to the entrance . The person next to the door , addressing her , said , " We belong to the police ; I ' m an inspector , and we havc come to apprehend some thieves who are on the premises , and who have got in the back way . " Tho servant , believing the man ' s statement , admitted him and his companions , and they at once closed

    the door after them . Miss Harams , and Miss Sargeant , her companion , were then at tea in the front parlour , and tho latter , hearing the noise and voices outside , walked into the hall , when one of the men , addressing her , said that there were thieves on the premises , that they had come there to protect them , and the best thing she ( Miss Sargcant ) could do was to remain quiet in tho parlour with tho other ladv . Miss Sargeant acted upon this advice , and the moment she returned into the parlour , one of the fellows , who was armed with a blud geon , closed the door and remained outside , while the other two , having recommended the servant to go to the kitchen , and keep herself quiet till they called her , went up stairs . The fellows remained in the

    house from fifteen to twenty minutes , and made their exit by the front door . Miss Sargeant soon after ventured out of the parlour , and sent the servant for Mr . Flowers , the medical attendant on Miss Harams two doors off , and that gentleman on arriving and oeing informed of the circumstance , called in the police , when it was found that the front room on the second floor , which has been used for years as a store-room for her property , by Miss Harams , was forced open , the drawers also forced open , and it is feared property to a considerable extent carried away . Miss Harams had been unfortutately subject to fits , and such was the effect that the presence of the thieves and the robbery produced upon her , that she has not been able to state the extent of

    her loss . Up to Tuesday evening Miss Harams was not in a state of mind to give a description of tho property stolon . The Convent op Mercy , Bersiondsey . —Taking the Veil . —On Tuesday the ceremony of the reception of a young lady into the order of the Sisters of Mercy took p lace in tho chapel of the most Hol y Trinity , Parker ' s-row , Bermondsey . Tho chapel was thronged with fashionably-attired ladies , and several noble lords , members of the Catholic church , were also present . The postulant upon this occasion was a Miss Barry , the daughter of highly connected parents , who have only recently returned from India , after a lengthened sojourn . The young ladv , who is said to possess a large fortune in hor own ri g ht , devotes it all to the service of the order with which she has connected herself . The preliminary services having been concluded , the postulant rose from her kneeling position , and retired with

    the superioress to change her secular dress for that of the order , the choir chaunting tho psalm , " In exitu Israel , " & c . Upon the return of the po . Jtulant there was a breathless eagerness on the part of the secular assembly to observe her countenance after exchanging the ball-room attire for the sombre habit of the Sisters of Mercy . The desire , however , was not gratified , for a large white veil enveloped the head . The celebrant proceeded with the ceremony of blessing the white veil , after which the superioress placed it over the head of the postulant , who then sang in a clear voice the psalm " Eruetavit cor meum verbwn bonum , " to which the choir , accompanied by the organ , responded . The young lady having now gone through all necessary to be received as a sister , embraced her religious companions , and the choir haying concluded tho psalm , "Ecce qnam lonum , " the sisterhood , preceded by the newly chosen , retired by slow measured steps to their retreat , and the ceremony concluded .

    The State Prisons and New Barracks at the Tower . —The celebrated Beauchamp Tower , which has for a long period been used as a mess-house for the officers of the garrison , will shortly be thrown open to the public . The Beauchamp Tower was the prison-house of the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey , the Earl of Essex , Sir William Wallace , the hero of Scotland , and at one period contained two sovereigns as prisoners , viz ., James of Scotland and the King of France . This new and splendid barracks , which have been erected upon the site of the disastrous fire which took place some years ago , are now occupied by the men of the 2 nd battalion of the Coldstream Guards . The officers' quarters are not yet completed .

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    MURDER IN BLACKFRIARS-ROAD . On Monday morning the public thoroughfare of Blackfriars-road was the scene of an atrocious murder . Between three and four o ' clock the inhabifants were alarmed by hearing loud cries of murder from a female near to Rowland Hill ' s Chapel . The policemen on duty , Benjamin Homer , 169 M , and John Meek , 48 M , immediately ran in that direction , and on reaching the comer of Chailotte-street , they found tbe female whose cries had attracted their attention , and two men , one of whom was lying on the ground . Upon seeing the policemen the woman

    calb'd out , "This man has murdered my husband , " at the same moment pointing to him . Homer immediately seized the man . Meek raised the other man from the ground , and he still exhibited some slight signs of life . Upon opening his dress he was found to he stabbed totheheat , his under clothing being saturated with blood . A cab was instantly caUed , and the wounded man placed in it , and conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital ( as he still breathed ) , but before reaching it life was extinct . The murderer made no effort to escape , and was conveyed to tbe Southwark station-house .

    The deceased ' s name is Lambsill , abiscuitbakerin the city , and his assassin is a potman , employed frequently at the Mitre Tavern , in Broadwall , Blackfriar * . The murderous act was apparently tbe result of a quarrel , supposed to have originated in default of the payment of a debt of 5 s . ' 1 he name of the murderer is William Bailey , and he is well known iu the neighbourhood as a desperate character . EXAMINATION OF TDK l'RISONRB .. On the same day , W . Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham , at the Southwark Police Court , charged with the murder of Henry Lambsill , by stabbing him tbraugh the heart with a penknife in Ihe street .

    John Meek , a policeman of the M division , stated that about a quarter after two o ' clock that morning , while on duty in the Blackfriars-road , he heard a woman call out mm der . and exclaim that a man had been stabbed near Rowland Hill ' s Chapel . Observing some persons standing together at the corner of Charlotte-street , near the iron railings which surround the chapel , he hastened to the spot , and saw a man supported in another ' s arms , with his waistcoat unbuttoned , and the front of his shirt open , and blood trickling down his Iweast . He ( the policeman ) asked who it was that did it , but the wounded man , although he still breathed , was unable to answer him , and he was then informed that tho prisoner , who at the time was leaning against a lamp-post , was the

    person who committed the deed . Witness then went up to the prisoner , and asked him if he had any weapon about him , and his reply was that he had none 5 but , when he examined his pockets , he discovered a penknife , with a long blade , open , in the breast-pocket of his coat ; he also found another penknife in one of the prisoner ' s other coat pockets . ( Both of the knives were produced . ) The p risoner did not say anything at the time ; and , another policeman coming up , he took him into custody , while he ( witness ) procured a cab , and conveyed the wound . d man to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . " When they arrived at the hospital , the man seemed to be quite dead . Mr . Cottingham examined the open knife which was found on the prisoner , and inquired if there was any blood upon it at the time ?

    The policeman said , that he did not notice any , but he believed not . Mr . Wilson , one of the dressers of St . Thomas ' s Hospital , stated that when he was called into the surgery be found the man quite dead on the floor , and . on examination , he discovered a wound such as might be inflicted with the point of a knife , under his left breast . There was very little blood about the wound , and , although a jiost mortem examination had not taken place , yet he was of opinion that the point of the instrument had penetrated the heart , and hsd caused death . Mr . Cottingham now inquired as to whether any persons were in attendance to describe the particulars as to the csuse of ihe murder .

    A woman named Mary Taylor came forward , and on being sworn she stated that she lived in Martinstreet , Lambeth , and that she was acquainted with the deceased ; that at the time mentioned that morning she was standing at the . bar of the Duke of York public-house in Blackfriars-road , and saw the deceased , the prisoner , and four other men drinking togtther ; that some words took pla ce between Ihe prisoner and the deceased , alter which they all left the house . She ( witness ) was some distance in the rear , and when the parties arrived at Rowland Hill ' s chapel , she observed that they all made a step , and when she got up to them she observed the deceased in a man s arms and bleeding from a wound in his brea't . She called " murder , " and went for a po-

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    liceman , to whom sho gave information of what she had seen . ' Gkorge Bartlett stated that he was passing on the opposite side of Charlotte-street , and heard a woman exclaim , "Th at man ( pointing to the prisoner ) has stabbed my husband . " Witness immediately went to the spot , and saw the wounded man , and the prisoner standing at a little distance from him , and witness sp'ke to the latter , and mentioned to him that he must not stir until the policeman came up . The prisoner said that he had no intention to go and that he should await the result , and witness stood by him until the policeman came to the spot , searched him , and found the open penkmte in the breast pocket of his coat . James Parker and other witnesses gave similar testimony . .... ...,..,.

    Policeman 179 M stated that he had taken the prisoner to the station-house , while Meek , the other policeman , conveyed the deceased to the hospital . But on the way to the station-house the prisoner did not utter one word with regard to the charge , nor did he do so when before the inspector . Mr . Cottingham ( 'o the prisoner ) -You have heard the evidence . Do you wish to make any statement ? Although none of the witnesses have proved ihat they * aw the wound of whieh the unfortunate man died , inflicted , yet there is very little doubt that yours was the hand that did it . The prisoner said that all he had to say was , that he did not commit thcoffence ; that he knew the man was stabbed , and that if his was the hand that did it , he would not have stood bis ground , but have made llis escape , which he had plenty of opportunity to do if he liked . He added that he always carried knives about him , and might iu his hurry have put one away

    open in his pocket . Mr . Cottingham said that it would be necejeary to have other witne-ses in attendance , and for that purpose remanded the prisoner . Tuesdav . —William Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham for re-examination . Thecourtwas crowded during the investigation . Mr . Cottingham , addressing George Ilerriman , the man who on the previous day had exhibited a di-inclination to give his evidence arising fiom being under the influence of liquor , and who was committed in consequence at the time , asked him if he was willing to describe what he saw of the unfortunate transaction , for it was evident he must Lave witnessed much more than he was disposed to divulge , it having been stated by some of the other witnesses tint the murdered man had fallen into his arms when he was stabbed by his assailant .

    Herriman was then sworn , and his evidence , which is of importance , was then taken . He proceeded to narrate the circumstances attending the orig in of the dispute between the p risoner and the deceased in the Duke of York public-house , in the Blackfria-s-road , respecting the os . which the former lent to the latter , and afterwards wanted back . After they all left the above house , the prisoner and deceased walked together , and when they got to Surrey Chapel , all in a moment witness heard the deceased exclaim . "Bill , " ( meaning the prisoner ) '' has s' abbed me . " Witness , who was near at hand , ran up , but before he got to the parties the deceased fell down on the pavement , and he immediately went and he held up his head , and having unbuttoned his waistcoat , and tore open his shirt , he observed that he hid been wounded in the breast , over the heart ,

    the blood from which was trickling down , and had saturated his shirt and flannel waistcoat . In reply to Mr . Cottingham , the witness said that no person o as near the deceased but the prisoner when the former exclaimed that he was stabbed ; that after th wound was inflicted witness did not observe the prisoner with a knife , nor did he see him as if in the act of concealing the weapon with which the deceased was stabbed . The latter only uttered the exclamation and aftenvards seemed unable to articulate , and his eyes were closed ; but he still breathed . Witness had known the deceased for a long period ; he was a patent biseuit-maker , and about 2 S or 24 years of age . Did not see any blows given by either party previously to the deceased being wounded , and thought they were walking together in amicable conversation unt'l he heard the deceased's exclamation of being stabbed .

    Mr . Cottingham asked the prisoner , who leaned forward at the bar in a careless attitude , if he wished to i ut any questions to the witness ? Piusoner . —No , Sir , I have nothing to ask him . Eliza Gibbons stated that on the morning in question she was returning home in company with another woman , and passed the prisoner and deceased , who were walking side by side and laughing and joking with one another . Witness and her companion , however , had gone but a short distance in advance when she heard the cry of" Murder , " and on returning to the spot she saw the deceased in the arms of the last witness , bleeding from a wound in the breast . She also saw the prisoner standing a little way off leaning again the lamp-post near the corner of Cha- lotte-street .

    Mr . Cottingham asked the prisoner if he had any question to put to this witness ; but he replied in the negative , merely saying that . be had no recollection of having sf en her on the occasion . Mr . Cottingham having inquired if there were any more wit . essts than those examined on the previous day , and the answer being in the negative , t ' en addressed the prisoner on the serious nature of the offence with whieh he was charged , and informed him tin tit was quite optional with him whether he would make any s atement in reference to it tr not , but that it was his duty to caution him at this stage of the proceedings that whatever he did say would be taken down , and used for or against him , as the case might be . "Now , " added the magistrate , " after this necessary caution , ytu are quite at liberty to make any statement vou please . "

    PnisoNEn . —lhayenothing tosay more thanthat the deceased and I were always on the best of terms , that wc were in the habit of having our meals at each other ' s houses , and 1 never had the least animosity against him . Mr . Coitingham : You had better confine yourself to what passed between the deceased aud you on the morning in question . Prisoner . —We had a slight disagreement about a little money transaction in the Duke of York , but when we left that house it was all over , and we walked together down the Blackfriars-road , towards Surrey Chapel . Mr . Cottingham —Now , be particular in your statement of what to-k place between vou ?

    Prisoner . —As we walked along deceased exclaimed , '' Oh , I am stabbed , " and he fell down on the pavement . I was surprised on hearing him , and had no idea of such a thing . I am truly sorry for what has happened to him . Mr . Cottingham . —Then you assert that you did not perpetrate the offence ? Prisoner . —I have no idea that I could be guilty of such an ac ' , particularly towards a man I was well acquainted with , aud with whom I was always on the best-of terms .

    The dresser at St . Thomas ' s Hospital stated , that a post mortem examination of tho deceased ' s body liad taken place since the preceding day , and be then proceeded to des' -ribe with minuteness the appearances of the wound , which was inflicted with a knife , such as the one found in the prisoner's possession when he was taken into custody . It was an oblique wound , the point i > f the weapon having entered the pleura , through the pericardium , and penetrated the right ventricle ol the heart . Mr . Cottingham said , that ho should commit the

    prisoner for the murder of the deceased , and , as the Central Criminal Court sessions were now being held , his trial probably would take place in a lew days . the INO . UEST . On Tuesday evening , Mr . Payne , the city coroner , held an inquest on the body of the deceased , The jury having been sworn , proceeded to view the body , and having heard the evidence , as given above , returned a verdict of '' Wilful murder" against William Baiky . The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute .

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    The Liverpool Murders . —On Saturday last an inquest was held on the bod y of Mary Parr another of the victims , but nothing new transpired , There is every reason to believe that the prisoner ' s real name is not John Gleeson Wilson , but Owen Morris . A person named Sharps has deposed that he wrote a letter to tho prisoner ' s father some time since at the prisoner ' s request , in which the prisoner spoke of himself as Owen Morris . The letter to tho father was addressed ' * John Morris , blacksmith , Dreol , to the care of the Bey . Father Ryan , P . P ., Rathkeal , Limerick . " The prisoner speaks Irish with great fluency , which is what riot an Englishman in a

    million can do . The prisoner himself states that he comes from Limerick . He frequently converses in the Irish language with an officer who acts as interpetrer to the Irish emigrants , and wko is from time to time with him in his cell . During one of these conversations , the prisoner said , " 'There is no doubt I committed the murders ; but I will not confess till I get under the drop . The old woman ( Mrs . Henrichson ) being gone , and the servant being out of senses ( insensible ) at tho time , she can't say I committed the murders . " The prisoner has stated that lie has many things to reveal ; but these he will not make public until ho is placed under the drop , when lie will make known all .

    NORTnUMDERLAND . —ROBBERT BY RAILWAY CLERKS and Ticket Collectors . —On Thursday week at the police court , Newcastle , John Hayes , a clerk at the Newcastle station of the North Shields line ; Robert Bowie , a guard on the line ; Alexander Alexander , a ticket coUeatov at Percy Main - , aftd Robert Codling , ticket collector at North Shields , were charged with conspiring to defraud the York Newcastle , and Berwick Railway Company . Mr . Newton , of York , who appeared for the company , said tho prisoners were charged with being in concert to defraud the company of money received for tickets . It was the duty ot the ticket collector , on receiving tickets from passengers at their destina-

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    tion to "ivc them to the station clerk , and the clerk at each " station should send them direct to York , where they were examined and compared with tho money , as a check . It would be shown by the evidence that a number of the ticket ? issued at Newcastle for Percy Main and North Shields , instead of o-oino- in this way to York , had been sent to one of the clerks at Newcastle and rc-issuod , before beingsent to York , so that money had only been received by tho company for one issue , while two or more issues of the same tickets had taken place . lb would be shown that there had been double issues f rom Newcastle , that the collectors had been seen , after receiving tickets from passengers , to give them to a guard . Mr . Allport said the affair had come to his ( Mr . Allport's ) notice through a person who examines tickets before tho trains leave . Tickets were

    numbered consecutively , and that person had been surprised to find lower numbers issued at a later period in the day than in tho morning . Oii this being mentioned to the clerk , he said that he was in the habit of dating some hundreds early in a morning , and putting thorn into a bowl : and that , consequently , the lowest numbers , which were put in first , came out last . Another person , however , had been set to watch , and had detected that that was not the reason . The clerk had been searched , and tickets which had been issued by the eight and nine o ' clock trains were found upon him at a later period . These re-issues had always taken place on tho same day , so that there was nothing to excite suspicion at York . The tickets , on being received

    at York , were always destroyed ; they were never re-issued by the company . Evidence was given of the collector at Percy Main handing tickets to the guard . A policeman deposed to having found upon the guard £ 33 in gold , and at his house a large quantity of silver , making £ 411 in all ; and £ 50 111 gold was found upon the Percy Main collector . The magistrates remanded the prisoners . Mr . Stoker applied to have some of the mouey given to the prisoners to prepare for their defence , but the bench refused the application . Tiie Palace of John O ' Gaunt , in Lincoln , has been sold by auction , and it is reported that the building is to be pulled down and the materials

    sold . It was at ono of tho windows of this guildhall that Lord Hussey was beheaded for taking part in the rebellion against the Reformation ; and the citizens are reputed to have so far favoured the Catholic movement , which brought several to the block and the axe , as to resist as a presumptuous innovation the injunction that the church services should be read in a language they could understand ! The doomed palace is generally considered to have been built by John O'Gaunt for the summer residence of Katherine Swinford , the sister of Chaucer , the poet . The remains of this lady are interred in the cathedral , near those of Henry of Huntingdon , the historian .

    Singular Fatality . —The family of Mary Ann Staight , the poor g irl for whose murder Pulley suffered the last penalty of tho law , lately at Worcester gaol , has been almost destroyed by fatalities . Sarah Staight , the mother of the girl , was tossed by a cow over . 1 hedge near the spot where her daughter was murdered , and died of the injuries she sustained . This woman had two brothers , ' one of whom , a gamewatcher on the estates of the late Earl of Coventry , was killed at Pirton by a gang of poachers , some years since . Richard Staight , the other brother , was killed by a wall falling on him . Finally , the murdered girl ' s grandmother died three days before Pulley ' s execution . —Gloucester Journal . Worcestershire . — A Beggar ' s Crutch and

    Great Coat , —A short time ago , says the Birmingham Mercury , an old beggar , a resident of Dudley , "shufiicd off this mortal coil , " and with it an old crutch and a great coat , which he left to his two daughters . After the old man ' s decease the cast-off garment and tho crutch were thrown on one side and almost forgotten , till one day the crutch was called into requisition to punish a refractory cow wliich had broken into a garden , when lo ! the handle came off , and 350 sovereigns were found enclosed . The other daughter hearing of this golden shower , hastened home , and examined the great coat left by the old man when , much to her astonishment and delight , a similar number of sovereigns were found stitched in old rags in the collar and waist of the cast-off garment . The daughters had

    not the slightest idea that the old man , who had lived in a most penurious manner , had ever possessed such a sum of money as that they now equally inherit . Highway Robbery . —Last week a most daring robbery , accompanied by tho use of the most brutal violence , was committed on Mr . William Da we , a farmer , living at Llangunnider , whilst proceeding on the hi g hway between Rasjland and Usk . Mr , Dawehad attended the Ragiand fair , wliich was held on that day , and was returning thence when the attack was made upon him . He was assailed by two men and a woman , who , after violently beating him , endeavoured to rifle his pockets . For some time they were baffled , as Mr . Dawe ' s money was contained in an inner pocket , to which they found difficulty in obtaining access . He was beaten with a large stick in a violent manner , and tho ruffi-iiic nt InndrHi ciifinnmlml fr . fnl .-I . im > f » ..-vn \ l » i \ . \ .. % ¦ .- I . * . " 11110 1 l Hl Limine Jilfill Jlllll OlA

    .. » U ^ lljjtUOllVJVUVUt . U u < -. f notes , four half sovereigns , and " some silver , and then decamped . As soon as Mr . Dawe had sufficicently recovered himself , he retuz-ncd to the Ship Inn , in Ragiand , where he saw one of the men whom he stated had robbed him . The man was accordingly apprehended , and has been committed to Usk gaol to await a further examination . Mr . Dawe since the occurrence has lain in a very precarious state from the injuries he has received , ' and he will for some time be prevented from attending the examination of the person apprehended . Burglaries have been very rife at Ragiand and its vicinity , within the last five months . The houses of the Rev . James Farquhar , Rev . W . Powell , Yen . Archdeacon Crawley , W . M'Allan , Esq ., surgeon , Mr . E . Arnold , farmer , and a small cottage , have all been entered at different times , and" articles , chiorly food , have been stolen . Various other robberies have occurred .

    Execution or a Murderer at Exeter . -- The convicted murderer of Mrs . Grace Holmnn has finished his career of crime upon the public scaffold . After his condemnation he exhibited great self-possession , which only gave way at timos to a sense of his position ; but he indulged no hope of a commutation of his sentence . He adverted to his past life , acknowledging that from the age of thirteen he had constantly practised theft , sometimes attended with tho grave offence of housebreaking . In the exercise of liis apparent calling—that of a travelling tinkerhe had opportunity to observe and mark well the situation of promises on which he designed his depredations , and that circumstance , connected with the fact of his seldom , if over , ensattins with

    accomplices , accounts for his only occasionally finding himself within the power of the law . He had , how . ever , been tried at Taunton and at Bodmin , and been twice an inmate of the gaol where his body now lies . He attributed his being led into vice by frequenting trampers' lodging houses in Tavistock , where he was born , and where his father now lives . He was executed on Monday , at twelve o ' clock , in front of the gaol . An enormous crowd had gathered to witness the disgusting spectacle . He died admitting that he put the box and tho chair upon the old woman , but he persisted in saying Woods , the t d

    approver , was he murerer , and expressed himsclf glad that Mills Itad got clear , because lie was led into it by himself and Woods ignorantly . There had not been an execution in the county of Devon for nearly thirteen years before , the last having been on the 12 th of August , 1830 , when Thomas Oliver , alias Buckingham Joe , was hung for murdering Mr . Jonathan May , a farmer of Dunsford . It is said that Woods , the approver , was present with some women , to witness a scene from which he very narrowly escaped being a principal actor . It is computed 27 , 000 persons were present , tho majority of whom were women and children .

    The Adulterated Flour at Stourbridge , —The Kidderminster Messenger states that the numbers injuriously affected by partaking of the poisonousmixture , before referred to in this paper , have very alarmingl y Increased , and that several cases arc likely to prove fatal . As many as six or seven families , numbering seven , ten , and fifteen members , have been ill in consequence of the poison bavins ; been absorbed into the system . The danger onl y becoming apparent when the symptoms were at their height , in many eases medical aid was not

    obtained till the parties were in a very dangerous condition . Tho following are the numbers of patients suffering severely from the deleterious compound , who are under the treatment of the medical gentlemen of the town : —15 Q Messrs . Freer , 70 Mr . T . Baneks , GO Mr . Thomas Cooper , 50 Messrs Betts and Giles , 50 Mr . Henry Wilson , 30 Mi-. Norris , and 90 Mr . Norris , jun ., making a total of 500 cases . The greatest excitement prevails in the town respecting the matter , and notice has been given that a meeting will be held to investigate the subject .

    Asutox-undkr-Lyne . —The Factory Question , — Important Meetjxg of Managers axd Overlookers . —The system of working bv relays bus created great excitement . The workpeople at the firms of Messrs . Wm . Bayley and Brothers , Messrs . Cheetham , and Mr . Leach , during last week , refused to work upon the " shift" principle ; the consequence was that Messrs . Bayley and Mr . Leach locked uu their nulls on Thursday week , and refused to allow the hands to go in until they would consent to work

    by relays , as they have been doing for some time past . Upwards of two thousand workhanda have , the refore been walking the streets ever since It is stated that Messrs . Cheetham and other firms also purpose closing their mills this week , unless n T ? T T ™ ? *» Ptojmcnt upon the Fr d ^ wooh ww f . ? P ** at the Winn , on ™ Mv ' c ft , » e voom eroded to * hW , Wo ? v " * Ud 0 hvcr > an overlooker of con-0 S ; I th " r ° - ' ^ callcd ^ the chair . Ue openid the business bv nlhuimcr tr . tlm Biiliiont

    co 3 o S * gh - thm tog ^ r / one which '' he considered ot vital importance to all concerned in cotton nwuutaotures . The whole question was

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    afterwards fully discussed , and several resolution ? , condemnatory of the relay system , were unanimously agreed to . Encroachment op the Sea near Ulyerston . — During the recent high tides and gales a strip of land , not less than twelve , and in some places twenty , yards broad was washed away alon- the west and south coast of the Isle of Walney . ° The loss is estimated at about two acres in each half mile ; a serious privation for the landholders and farmers , it is said that encroachments of this description , which arc unfrcquent , are greatly faeilitated by the farmers themselves , who are constantly removing the stones forming the bead ) , to sell lor paving ivnd other . Xo fewer than

    purposes fifty vessels have been freighted with these stones , during the last year , for Fleetwood , Liverpool , and other places . Should the inroads of the sea extend the lowlands will shortl y be entirel y inundated at every spring tide , and the island will then be divided each time into three parts . Yorkshire . —Strange Appointment . —Miss Tempest , of the Gr ange , near Ackworth ( sister to Sir Charles Tempest , Bart ., of Broughton Hall in the county of iork ) , has been appointed overseer of the poor for the parish of Ackworth , together with John Hagiies , cow-leech , also of the parish of Ackworth . The appointment was made at Wentbrid « c on the 20 th ult ., and is endorsed b y " two of her Majesty ' s justices of the peace . "

    llwnwAr RoitnERr at Cambridge . —7 'he inhabitants of Cambridge have of late been frequently startled by audacious hi ghway robberies , and another occurred on Friday ni ght week , characterised by great brutality . As Mr . Josephus Glover , B . A . of St . John ' s college , was returning from Grantchester , about ten o ' clock , a tall ruffian , standing by a gate , struck him with groat violence with 1 tremendous bludgeon across the forehead , which laid it open ; he seized the fellow by the throat , but another one , as yet unseen , grasped him by the collar behind , forced his knee m his back , and pulled him in a half prostrate position , while the first one beat their victim with the bludgeon . He "uarded

    the blows with his arm , which is now for a time ren-I dered useless , and one blow laid his eye open ; they then threw him wholly on the ground , tore his watch from his guard , and robbed him of £ 1 2 s . He again struggled with them , calling loudly for help . Persons were heard comin < r , and the mon decamped and escaped . A description of them beinggiven the next morning , two persons were taken into custody , and Mr . Glover immediately identified them . They live at Grantchoster . Their names are Hayes and Wilson ; and a youth who knows them saw them standing near tho place where tiie robbery was committed a very short time before it took place Committed for trial .

    Charge of Murder at Glossop . —It will be in the recollection of our readers that an inquest was held at Glossop upon the body of an old pensioner named Doxey , who was found on the morning of the 81 st of December last dead in tho bed of the river Shelf , close under the Victoria Brid e at Glossop , having apparently fallen from a height of twenty feet , or having been thrown over the lofty rails ' , about six feet high , which protect the river at this point . No evidence was at tho time produced to implicate any parties , though the rumours were numerous , and the jury returned an open verdict of "Found Dead . " On Friday week , in the course of a quarrel between tho son and son-in-law of the deceased , and another person , a shoemaker , named

    Clough , the latter charged the former with bavin " thrown . their father over the rails into the river , and said that ho and his wifo witnessed tho transaction . He adhered to his statement when subsequentl y questioned , but on Sunday last he absconded . The police at Ashton apprehended him on Monday , and brought him to the lockups at the Glossop " Town HaU . He told the policeman who had him in charge that it was nothing against himself , but that he was the principal evidence in a case of murder . The case has caused great excitement in the nei ghbourhood , as it involves , if true , a charge of parricide of the most atrocious and unfeeling character . Attempted Parricide . —Rothehham , Tuesday . — The town of Rotherham has boon thrown into a

    state of intense excitement by a report that Mr . John Bland , the superintendent constable of Rotherham , and hi gh constable of that district of the West Riding , had been assassinated by his son . It appears that the young man , who is about 22 years of age , is somewhat of a spendthrift , and has been inthe habit ef appropriating bis father ' s cash to the g ratification of his own appetite . Latterly , when pilferings of this kind havc taken place , Mr . ' Bland , sen ., has searched his son ' s apartment with the hope of recovering some of the lost valuables , and this has greatly exasperated the young man . Mr . Bland , sen ., having to attend Pontefract sessions , his son took advantage of his absence to purloin a sum of money . Anticipating the repetition of a

    search on his father ' s return , he spent a large portion of the day alone in his bedroom , with the door locked in the inside , and , as disclosed by the result , ho planted a pistol loaded with ball in such a manner in ono of tho drawers that the drawer could not be opened without causing the pistol to explode . He cut away a portion of the front of the drawer with the exception of the veneer , and placed the muzzle of the pistol within the cavity , the stock or opposite end of the pistol being against the back of the drawers . Tied to the trigger of the pistol was a piece of string , which was passed through the back of the drawers , and made fiist . Tims it will be perceived that the opening of the drawer would draw back the trigger and discharge the pistol , and the

    contents would pass out through the veneer ; and so it turned out . Mr . Bland , on Ids return , discovered the abstraction of the money , and , his son being out at the time , went into the bedroom of tho latter to make a search . Tho moment he attempted to open the drawer , he was stunned by the report of a p istol , and recoiled from the shock with a consciousness that he was wounded , though iu ignorance ot the extent of his injuries . In an instant the household were around him in a state of consternation . As soon as tho panic had in some degree subsided , it was ascertained that Mr . Bland had sustained an abrasion of the skin on the side , and was sliarhtiv

    wounded on the back of the hand .. Instead of standing in front of the centre of the drawcrs . it happened that lie was near one end , and pulled the drawer open by one handle . Had he proceeded in the usual way , and stood directly in front , tho pistol was so planted that the ball would havc penetrated his face or his chest , according as he had happened to be in an erect or a leaning attitude . Mr . Bland , who is a man of great courage and coolness was not long inactive . ' The young man was at once taken into custody , and kept in the lock-up until arrangements were completed by which he was sent to London , in order to enrol " him in one of her Majesty ' s regiments on the eve of going abroad .

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    The Danes and the Piu-ssians in Leitii Harbour . —The war spirit whieh has of late reiirnod n Prussia and Denmark has been frequently exhi-Jitod , Oil a small sonic , near ouv own doors . On Wednesday week , two Danish sailors were apprehended on a charge of unwarrantably j ; oiii < r on board a Ilolstein vessel , in Leitii Docks , an < Tcuttillg and tearing down its ila ^ , because it was not l Danish one . On the following Thursday , an English sailor was apprehended on the charge of attempting to cut down the flag of another Holsteia vessel , but on the mato taking a sun and thre : > toning to shoot him , be desisted , and came down from the mast . A few days ago all the parties were brought before Baillio Ford , when one of the Danes was fined 20 s ., the other one 10 s ., and the Englishman 5 s .. his case being considered less otlehsivc than tho others . The tines were paid . The baillie cautioned them that if any such attempt as the above was repeated , a more severe sentence would be inflicted . In consequence of the illfeeling subsisting between the Danes and the Prussians , whose vessels completely fill L eitii Docks at the present time , the magistrates have deemed it advisable to have an extra police force perambulating the docks . On one or two occasions the special constables have met and ortruuiseil themselves in such a way as to be ready at a » " ment ' s notice , should a move serious ni ]> u"' ^ between the rival parties take place . —North H'M *' Mail .

    Riot in Edinburgh . —The Cowgate and its neig hbourhood ( which has been unusually peace ful si « i ;' the new police bill came into operation ) was ag » the scene of a very disgraceful not on Sunday evening , aud in which several police constables an « others were seriously injured . The affray are * » 5 usual from drunkenness and consequent excitem ? " 1 . Four or more Irish labourers , who had been see " going out and in to public houses iu the Co ^ trom four o ' clock , besran between six and sevf " . " 11

    get noisy and troublesome , and showed a dispo-- " ! * to fight with each other , and annov those I '''* "* by . They were warned several times by the c

    sonei-s , who were recaptured and rescued se ^ , j times , and defended themselves with their . , ! lt 0 , 1 r i long and as well as they could , but three ot tin- ' , . were flung to the ground , and kicked and k . most unmercifully , " The alarm was iimneduu s convevod to the police office , and in a few i »' , ' . detachment of about thirty or forty men haste " ^ tho spot . By this time the Cowgate , trom ^ Horse-wynd to above George the Fourth j » ^ was in a state of great excitement ; »» ' } " \ fif 5 [ this relief , the consequences to the constables there might have been of the most dangerou * „ racter . " One named Hannowin lwd received ^ five blows on the head to the ef fusion ot MWi

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 14, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14041849/page/6/