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Health of Loxdox . —In tho week ending last Saturday , the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were SU ; in the previous week they were only 736 . In the three corresponding weeks of 1847-9 , the deaths ranged from 186 to 971 ; and taking the corresponding weeks of ten years , the average is 801 , or raisedVm the ratio of population , 939 . The present return , therefore , shows a decrease on the average equal to 95 ! With the increasing warmth of the weather , the mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs steadily declines . Excluding consumption , the deaths in this class in the last four weeks have been successively 145 , 138 , 105 , and 9 i ; and during this period the mean temperature has risen gradually from 47 to 59 degrees .
In the same weeks the deaths from consumption Lave been 124 , 125 , 103 , and 111—showing a sudden increase in the hst , and an approach to the corrected average , which is 157 . In the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases , 172 fatal cases are enumerated , having been in the previous week only ISO , and the average being 201 . Small-pox carried off 9 persons , scarlatina , 19 , and hooping-coug h -athe three epidemics still showing a decrease on tue average . Measles , however , which destroyed Jb chUdren-an amount differing little from the average-has suddenlv increased on the previous week , when there were " only 12 deaths . Typhus also exhibits an increase , for while there were only 20 deaths in the former week , there were o 9 in the last
—which , however , is not more than usual at this period . Biarrbma and dysentery appear to have become rather more prevalent ; in the last three weeks they have numbered 13 , 19 , and * 22 . On the 3 rd June , the wife of an engineer , aged 61 years , died at 21 , Chatham-place , Lock ' s-fields , St . Mary , 3 fewington , of --vomiting and purging ( twelve days ) , exhaustion . " On the oth June , at 51 , Turnxa jll-streefc , Clerkenwell , the daughter of a labourer , aged 13 months , died of "cholera biliosa ( twelve hours ); " and on the 31 st of May , at 38 , Askestreet , Hoxton Old Town , the daughter of an engiv . ver , aged 1 year , died of " English cholera ( two days ) . " A man of 36 years , who is described as having been habitually intemperate , died of "delirium tremens , apoplexy - " another fatal case of
intemperance is also recorded . Three children suffocated in bed . It appears from the classification * of deaths in public institutions thr , t 98 occurred in workhouses , 59 in hospitals ( of which eight were in military and naval establishments ) , and seven in lunatic asylums . The mean reading of the barometer ia the week , was 29 * 878 ; the daily mean was above thirty in . on the first three days ofthe week . The mean temperature was 59 degs . 3 min . ; it was above the average of the same week in seven years on the first four days , and below it during the rest . The highest in the sun was about 104 degs . on Monday , Tuesday , and "Wednesday . The wind was in the east on the first three days , it veered to the south-west on the afternoon , of "Wednesday , and continued generally in that direction through the rest of the week .
Consecration op a Cauncn nr Southwark . — On Monday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated a church " in Southwark under somewhat peculiar circumstances . The building , which is one of ancient date , stands in St . Geprge ' s-fields , and has been known as a chapel in connexion with the Philanthropic Society . The removal ofthe society ' s premises to Redbill , near Reigate , rendered the chapel useless for the purposes to which it had hithi-rto been devoted , aad arrangements were consequently made with the rector of St . George ' s that an ecclesiastical district should be assigned to the chapel , and that henceforth it should become one of the parochial churches . In order to carry out this object , the ceremony of consecration was rendered neevfsary , and Monday was appointed by the bishop for tnatpurpose . ThebishophaslicensedtheRev . G . B . Tate , M . A ., late curate of Great "Warier , Essex , to be the first incumbent of the new church .
Sc ; cidb in Soothwark . —On Saturday morning last ihe immediate vicinity of Horsemonger-lane Gaol » as thrown into much excitement , © wing to a tradOiman Of considerable business in the Boroughroad Laving hung himself in the skittle ground at the rear of the . Masons' Arms , opposite the prison . The name ofthe unfortunate gentleman is George Cox , aged thirty-nine , carrying on an extensive business as a 3 « rse dealer . He called upon Mr . Monet , the landlord ofthe Masons' Arms about eleven o ' clock , and ihit gentleman being out on business , he reinajtcd at the bar some time , drinking . About twelve o ' clock he went into the yard , at the end of which ihe skittle ground is situated , and some few
miGct < ~ 3 afterwards , Thomas Sydee , the potman , had to fe ' eii some coals from an adjoining shed , when he heard s scuffling noise inside the skittle ground , and fins-in . ! the door closed he looked through the keyhole , and observed the deceased hanging from a beam at the further end , srruggVingvidlenfiy . He instantly call ? : ' assistance and cut deceased down , when Mr . Evas ?! , surgeon , near ths police court , was called in , and e ** ery attempt was made to restore animation , but without success . lie was breathing when cut down ,, bat bis neck was broken . The deceased was highly respected among his neighbours , and believed to be in good circumstances , but latterly he had drunk to s eras * extent , which can ? ed delirium tremens .
FATAL ACMDEKT AT THE ILuiFSrEAD PoNPS . — On Saturday afternoon last a melancholy accident occurred in one of the ponds situated in the vicinity ofthe Lower Heath , Hampstead , which resulted in thedeathofMr . Sibley , schoolmaster at Highgite , and the son of Mr . Barnes , aged thirteen , Brecknock Villa , Camden Town . Mr , Sibley had left Highgate ¦ with his pupils for the purpose of walking to Hampetead , as was his usual custom on Saturday afternoon , and while in tbe vicinity ofthe ponds he was alar used by the cries of a youth who was bathing , and without removing his coat or hat plunged into the pond , which is of considerable depth , to rescue the tmfortr . nateyouth . In this attempt to save thesinlc ing lad he became so faint ( although a very good
swimmer ) that he also sank . The bedy of the unfortunate gentleman was taken out in about sixteen minutes , but life was completely extinct , although medical assistance was speedily procured . What throws aa additional gloom over this fearful catastrophe is , the fact that Mrs . Sibley had started from . "Hi ghgate to meet her husband , and the melancholy event was abruptly communicated to her by the pupils , the sudden shock almost depriving her of reason . Death raoa Fire . —On Monday an inquest was taken before Mn Bedford , at tbe Charing-cross Hospital , oa the body of Ellen M'Mullen , aged forty-six years , who died from the effects of burns . S . Lake , of No . 4 , Crown-street , St . Gilessaid the deceased
, lodged in his house , and was a married woman . On the previous Thursday while witness was at supper , one oi his lodgers came to him and said his house was on fire . Witness ran up stairs , and on the second floor found the unfortunate woman enveloped in one mass of fire . "Witness called out repeatedly for assistance , but instead of any person rendering him any , they ail became frightened and left the house . Wi ' tueis . with somedifScolty , tore the clothes from off the deceased , procured a quantity of water , and extinguished the flames , but not before she was most shockiagly burnt . —P . Girriad , engineer to the fire brigade , examined the room , and was of opinion that the deceased had been sitting upon a chair , and her clothes bad ignited by a candle which was close to
therh-iir . "When she found herself on fire she must have rau on to the staircase , where she was found . The house surgeon proved that every part of her body - vas burnt . The usual remedies were applied , but she sever rallied , and died in three hours afterwards . —Verdict , " Accidental death . " Axinxiixo Fire at a Distillery .- Shortly after nine o ' clock on Monday morning , the neighbourhood of Leicester-square was thrown into ° a state of considerable alarm , in consequence of the sudden outbreak of a fire in the premises belonging to Messrs . Rosenborg and Montgomery , distillers , 51 , Castle-street . The disaster was caused from some
one baring left the tap connected with a vat filled with spirits , turned on ; this allowed the contents of the vat to run over the floors , and eventually to eome in contact with one of the fires , when the spirits became ignited , and ran about the buildin * . Tor Ewae short time the complete destruction of the property appeared inevitable , hut eight engines Of the London brigade , with others of the parish , came up , and tbe flames were extinguished . The damage done is very , considerable . It was stated to the firemen , that 360 gallons of orer-proof spirit * were destroyed , independent of the damage done to i he premises and machinery . Tho firm was insured in the Hand-in-Hand Fire-office . ?
Attempted Suicide . —On Saturday morning last , Mrs . Leekett , of 5 , York-street , St . Luke ' s , attempted' to commit suicide by fumping-out of the window . Her husband was awakened by the noise she made in opening the window , and caught her night clothes , but they gave way , and she fell into the street . Xo hopes are entertainsd of her -recovery ., Scaffold Acctdest . —On Monday afternoon , between tiiree and four o ' clock , a scaffold , on which seven men were employed , at the new buildings ,
Calthorps-street , Camden Town , suddenly gave way , and the whole of them were hurled to the ground , from a height of thirty feet . A quantity of building material fell at the same time , and they were buried beneath it . A number of men set to work , ; oid tbe poor ' fellows were speedily extricated . Sir . Palsgrave , tbe builder of Ebury-strcet , sustained a fracture of both legs . Three of the Workmen are so dreadfully injured that there are no hopes of their recovery .. The remainder escaped with a sew onuses .
DisTKKssrao AccTDExr .- On Tuesday evening one 01 the liacluiey omnibuses was going up Ludgatehili , ^ hen a'uttte hoy carryiug in his arms a child about tjignteen months old was seen running across the roafl ^ and endeavouring to pass in front of the horses . The driver-immediately checked his horses witbWfl his" power , but not sufficientl y to prevent thekshUdreh from being throwndownj The younger child , it is supposed , was trodden upon-h y-ohe bf
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the horses , and on being picked up was carried in a frightful state to a neighbouring surgeon ' s , where it expired in a few minutes . The accident naturally collected an immense crowd of persons , when several gentlemen who saw it came forwar d ana entirely exculpated the driver from all blame , ldb latter went to the police station . in Fleet-street and gave his name and address to the superintendent ^ on tSiSsssSXSP ^ -fiwssa ai esstfs roughfores . —
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The Mysterious Poisoning in EssBX .-On the 7 th inst Mr . C . C . Lewis , the coroner for Essex , S a res pectable jury of yeomen , resumed an inouirvat theFoxand Hounds Inn , CJavcnng , re-S r the death of Richard Chesham , an agricultural labourer , who was alleged to have died from the effects of arsenic , wilfully administered . —The deceased w . is the husband of Sarah Che :-ham , who was tried at the Spring Assizes , 1848 , before Lord Denman , for the murd' -r of her two children , by administering arsenic , and was acquitted . She was also charged with attempting to destroy the illegitimate infant of Lydia Taylor , Newport ; a farmer , then of some respectability in this neighbourhood , who was the reputed father , being committed for endeavouring to procure the commission of the
felony . —Mr . John Timewell Clark , superintendent of the Essex constabulary , stationed at Newport , was the first witness examined . On the 28 th of May I searched the house in which the deceased died , and where his widow lived . Iu a kneading trough near a cupboard , I found a bag containing about a pound of rice , -wnielu with other things 1 found , 1 banded to Professor Taylor , at Guy's Hospital , on the 30 th , for analysis . Sarah Chesham , widow , said that the rice was her father ' s , and hoped I was not going to take it away . She added that she had used a portion of it for her husband in rice milk , and she displayed much anxiety lest I should take it away . She * wished me not to move it . I replied that I should take what was necessary . She
repeated her desire twice that I should not remove it—Sarah Chesham , the widow , was then examined , and denied positively that she ever had any poison in her possession . —Mr . Alfred Swaine Taylor , the professor of chemistry at Guy ' s Hospital , was then sworn , and be entered into a most elaborate and lengthened report ofthe result of his analysis ofthe stomach and contents of tbe deceased . . _ After describing appearances of red patches indicating inflammation , he proceeded to state that be bad . detected arsenic , after applying the usual tests , but in such small quantities as to prevent him stating positively that that poison was the cause of death . After subjecting the stomach , contents , intestines , & c , to the usual process of analysation , he had only
obtained in all the twenty-fifth part of a gram : He examined a bag of rice and found it to contain arsenic . It was distributed over the whole mass , and in four ounces of rice he had found two grains of arsenic . In tbe entire quantity and bag there was from twelve to sixteen grains of arsenic . It was mixed in the rice like a powder , and to a casual observer might appear like flour . There was sufficient to kill six persons . —In answer to the coroner and jury , Mr . Taylor remarked that what he had detected in the body was not sufficient to cause death . It was only the surplus , and not that taken up b y the system . — The jury returned a verdict that he bad died from tubercular consumption . The evidence failing in proving that the arsenic found in
the body had accelerated death . —The Coroner then addressed Mr . Superintendent Clark , and suggested that tbe magistrates of tbe district might proceed against tbe widow under a recent act for administering poison with intent . —Mr . Clark said he would lay the matter before them . Atiempieo Murder asd Suicide at Norwich . —On the 7 th inst . a coroner ' s inquest - was held at the workhouse , on the body of John Reynolds , who attempted to cut his wife ' s throat on the previous evening , and inflicted several wounds on her neck , arms , and hands . The . woman took shelter from
her husband ' s brutality in a confectioner ' s shop , where a surgeon attended and dressed her wounds . The husband , in the meantime , stuck the knife he intended to murder his wife with into his chin , tbe point of which extended to his throat , and then jumped into the sea . The body was soon picked up , but life was extinct . The woman bad her child ,, a little hoy about a year old with her , and had tbe man succeeded in killing bis wife , he would , doubtless , have murdered the . child as well . The jury having heard several witnesses , returned a verdictof " Felo de se " and the body was forthwith buried by torchlieht .
Fatal Coiziebt Explosion . — An explosion occurred on Wednesday , in Little Unsworth Colliery near Gateshead , by which eleven men and two boys were killed , four of them by * the explosion , and the rest by the after damp . Five more were seriously injured , and are not expected to recover . There were likewise four ponies killed . —The inquest on the unfortunate sufferers was held on the 7 th inst ., when , after a lengthy investigation into the circumstances , the jury , after a few minutes' consultation , returned the following verdict : — "We are of opinion that Robert Story and twelve others came to their death by the firing of TJcsworth pit on tbe 5 th inst . from a-blower , ' which moved the coal from the workings , and ignited at a candle , and that there was no want of ventilation or care to our knowledge . " —Two ofthe sufferers by the " after damp" are not expected to recover , but the other three are gradually
recovering . A Detective PoucfiaAS committed for Robbery . —On tbe 1 th inst ., at Norwich Guildhall , Thomas Davies , a detective officer of the Eastern Counties Railway Police , was brought up , charged with stealin ? a parcel consigned to the company ' s care for delivery in London . —Mr . J . J . Hixon stated that he made up a parcel , as usual , on Whit Sunday evening , and took it to the Eastern Counties Railway station , where it was booked , at about ten minutes past seven , by one of the clerks , who received it , and signed a book in witness ' s possession to that effect . The parcel was addressed to a Mr . Bowtell , iu London , and contained two account bnoks , one a check against the other ; a- balance
sheet of ihe goods sold and the goods wanted ; a £ 5 note of the East of England Bank , No 6 , 820 , and dated April 29 th , 1818 , as nowproduced ; three sovereigns , a half-sovereign , two sbilbngs . a sixpence , twopence in copper , and a pair of Indian rubber goloshes . The note produced was the one he enclosed in the parcel ..-: It corresponded with the date and the entry in his book . He always kept a description of the notes . Notice having been given of the non-arrival of the parcel at its destination , inquiries were set on foot by the company , and the £ 5 note having been traced , was proved to have been paid to Messrs . Moses and Son ' s , in the Minories , by the prisoner . — Other confirmatory evidence having been given , the accused was fully committed for trial .
Attempted Murder axd Robber ? . —On the 7 th inst ., three men , named Price , Fagg , and Batty , were brought before the magistrates at Guildhall , Doncaster , charged with attempting to rob nnd murder , on the Queen ' s highway , Mrs . Mary Lister on the night of Wednesday last . It appeared from the evidence of-Mrs . Lister , who ia the wife of Robert Lister , Esq ., of Bently , near 'Doncaster , that as she was returning home , at about ten o ' clock , « lie was stopped by the three prisoners ; who demanded her money or her life , at the same time making use of the most horrible oaths and imprecations , Mrs . Lister bravely refused to
comply with their request , at the same timo telling tho prisoners that they had better be off , as her husband was coming up . They told her , however , that if she did not immediately give them her money , they would certainly have her life . Mrs . Lister then endeavoured to escape , when she was immediately fired at with a brace of pistols by Price , both of which very providentially missed fire . Some persons coming np at this moment , the prisoners made ofl > only taking with them a bag belonging to Mrs . Lister . Information having been given to the police , tbe prisoners were apprehended , and on the prisoner Price were found the pistols . The prisoners were all fully committed to take their trial at tbe
next assizes . Destructive Fihe at Bristol . — An extensive and destructive fire , which placed tbe ancient parish church of St . James Bristol , in considerable peril ; broke out on Sunday morning hst upon an extensive range of premises on St . James' church parade in that city , in the occupation of Mr . Stone , silversmith and pawnbroker . These premises , the eastern end of which is built against the western wall of the church , were first discovered to be on fire soon after three o ' clock , by the policeman on tho beat , who gave an alarm and caused the city engine , and the engines of the different fire-offices to be brought to the spot . The combustible nature of a large portion ofthe stock on the premises , and that part of the warehouse having a great amount of timber m their structure , caused the fire to burn with such intensity as to render it speedily apparent that any
cnorts to save me bulk of the building would be futile , and the exertions of the persons assisting were consequently directed to preserving tho premises connected on either side , which fortunately escaped with slight damage ; hut , although the most strenuous exertions were made , the fire could not be got under until the warehouses , with a valuable stock . of clothes and an iriiriiense number of p ledges of various kinds belonging to poor persons had been destroyed . The persevering efforts u-ed by the firemen and police constables were successful in preserving the church and a front shop ,-in Tvhich fortunately the greater part ofthe stock of plate and watches had been deposited . Tho loss is variously estimated at from £ 5 , 000 to £ 10 , 000 . " Mr . Sto ' ne is insured for the premises ' and stock in two different insurance pfficos , biit tbe '( poor' persons who own the pledges' wiU'bave to suffer ' . the loss of all differences , -between tuft value ' "of their pawas ,
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^ what ^ hey have received' by way of loan upon V Swoide on ihe South . Wssiisnx : Railway . —Oh Saturday last , as the two , . p . m ., up train from Southampton , " was hearing the Wimbledon cross : gate , a man' was perceived by one of the guards . toi morge from behind , a tree , and 'to stand in front o f the train , evidently for tho purpose of committing : Bslf-destvuction . The moment tho engine-driver noticed the unfortunate individual , he . sounded the whistle and sliu ' t off the steam , and at tho same time . the guards ' did all that was possible to stop the train in time to save the life ofthe man , but withouteffect , for , owing to the great speed with ' which the engine was previously proceeding , before it
could be brought to a stand-still it dashed against him , breaking in his skull ,, and sondjllg him across tho metals ; when the wheels of the ; n umerous carriages passed over his legs and body , mangling him in a most awful manner . In his pocket a number of printed biils were found , which led to tlie supposition that bis name was Kemp ,, and that he was a traveller , to a coal agent in the nei ghbourhood of the Edgeware-road . The guard of the down-train states that he made . in attempt to got , in front of his engine , but it passed by before ho bad time ' . to get on to the rails . Not the least blame can be attached to the company ' s servants , who did all that was possible to prevent tho occurrence , . A New Convict Establishment . —Ru-mouth . — :
About a month since Captain Groves , Governor of Millbank Prison , visited Dartmoor , and inspected the prisons at Prince-town , which have remained tenantless as a place of confinement since the peace , in 1815 . Subsequently , Colonel , Jobb , Inspector of Prisons , accompanied by Groves , examined the buildings and locality , arid they were followed by a government officer , whose peculiar duty it is to judge ofthe fitness of-the internal arrangements of such establishments . ' Wo understand that the united opinion of these gentlemen is in favour of the adoption oftho prisons as suitable for tho confinement of convicts , and that preparations for the reception of 500 are to be forthwith made . This opinion was the more readily adopted in
consequence ofthe result of an interview of Colonel Jobb , at the request of Sir Georgo Grey , with Mr . Fowler , who carries on extensive , and it is said profitable farming operations at Dartmoor . It is intended that tho convicts shall be employed in agricultural labour . ' To guard the 500 prisoners it-will be necessary to hare , troops to the number of 300 , for whom there are barracks almost fit for immediate occupation . About one , moiety of the prison will be required ; tho other half is in the occupation of alocal haptha company , who have recently sold their interest to the Messrs . Hill , of Deptford , who will keep the works at Prince-town in fulloperation . Unprovoked Homicide . —On Tuesday evening , about half-past eleven o ' clock ; an itinerant piper , named Robert Cahill ; commenced . singing in the middle of Oldham-street , Manchester . A crowd was soon collected to : listen to him , when a young
man named Thomas Duffy , was observed by severaj persons to come behind Cahill and give liimi a violent blow on the head with his fist . Cahill fell down insensible on the stones . Duffy immediately ran off ; but was soon captured and brought back by a policeman . He said he and Cahill had been having some beer in a publichouse , and-they had quarrelled because the latter had asked him for some moneyfor playing a ; tune . Both the prisoner and Cahill appeared ; to'be sober . Cahill was taken to the Royai Imfirmary , wheie bo di < d on Wednesday morning . On a , post mortem examination it appeared that death had been caused by deceased a head falling on the atones , which had produced laceration of the brain ; with extreme effusion of blood . Deceased was sixty years of age , and left ' one childi The jury found a verdict of " Manslaughter " , against the
prisoner . - . - Alleged Theft from Filial and Sisterly Affection . —About noon , on Saturday last , a girl named Elizabeth Lee ; went into the . shop of Mr . M'lntosh , draper , Oldhanvstveet , and took adresspjece from a pile of goodsi some distance inside the door , which she placed under her shawl and ran away . The theft was noticed by one oftho shopmen , who followed and caught the girl with the piece of print in her possession . She was immediately given into custody . On Monday morning : she : was brought up at the Borough Court , and when placed in the dockishe ; was crying bitterly . .. On being asked what she bad to say to the charge she' -stated ; that she had been working' in a factory , but , in consequence of some slight accident or fault ) was " bagged" on Wednes-Anxr inst-. . « ' T fe ' arpri th tell mvfntht > r > " ¦ nnnr . innnd WW ¦ ——
— —rf *—«« .. ^ . - ~—> . — . . .... -.. . ,..-.. , -. v .-.- ^ w ^ . the poor girl apparently , with the greatest sincerity , "because I have six little brothers arid sisters , and I knew that he had no money to buy them food , and I wanted to make up iby wages . Oh , I dou't kuow how it was , but aomethmg tempted me to do it . "—The father , a decentlooking man , said that the prisoner had got up at half-past five o * clock ; , every morning during the week to go' to her work as usual . She had always behaved herself'well , arid was a great help to him in bringing up the motherless children / "It wasn't that I was afraid ; of father , " said the prisoner ; "ho wouldn't have beat me —only he frets so . "—Mr . Hodgson . discharged tho prisoner , and she 16 ft the dock with afresh burst of tears , and with a fervent "God bless you , sir , !' from her father . "
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- Unnatural Conduct . —Some days ago , Mr . Hay , of the county police , heard a rumour that a son of Mr . Greig , teacher , Inchberry , in the parish of Rothes , had been confined for several years in a small apartment without either sufficient food or clothing , and he was otherwise maltreated by his parents . He immediately proceeded to the house of the party complained of , and , on requeting to see the child , he was horror-struck on finding him a complete skeleton , and in a very filthy state , with but a thin cotton robe covering his body . The case having been brought before the sheriff , a warrant was granted for the apprehension of Greig and his
wife , who " , along with the child , were taken to Elgin en Wednesday , and , after examination , the accused liberated on" bail . We saw the boy in the courthouse after the ' examination , and never witnessed a more emaciated living human body . Although be is ten years of age , he is scarcely the size of a child of four , and weighs only twenty-nine pounds . Several of his bones had been protruding through the skin . Theunfortunate creature has been confined to a small closet for upwards of two year-i , ' with alhust no clothing ; and the little food he got cons ' sted of potato parings or such like / It appears that the boy is tbe son of Greig , by a former marriage , and' that his present wife was also married before , and , "; by her first husband , had a daughter , now grown up , who
lives in the family , The sheriff has , in the meantime , devolved the care , of the boy on the parochial board of ^^ Rothes . —Elgin Courant . Anticipated Ejectments in the Isle of Skye-—We understand that fears are entertamed of some painful proceedings this season in the Island of Skye , relative to the ejectment of , small cottars and crofters . A gentleman writes thus . — "The proprietor of Strathaird ( Mr : Macallister ) is to remove the tenantry oh two of his farms . They and their families amount to about 620 souls , and though they are very miserable , and the proprietor is willing to give them very liberal assistance to take them to Canada , they seemed not inclined to stir ' . , ' Arrangements are in progress for accomplishing the ejectments ; but we
all hope that violent measures may be rendered unnecessary by the acquiescence of the f eopta The sheriff of Portree ( Mr . Fraser ) , has , I understand , written along address to them , pointing out the impropriety and danger of resistance , whichis likely to have a good effect . " These poor people ; since- the failure of the potato crop , have been mainly dependent on tlie Destitution Fund , which ceases in a few months , arid this has , ' irial ) probabilit y ,. led the prof prietor to resort to tbe removal of part of the popuf ' la tion . . If so large a body of tlie people were thrown on the poor rate ( the burden of which would fair on the proprietor ) , it is obvious that the value of the estate wpu'd bewholly destroyed . A second letter ;
since received , supplies additional information :--. ' The people declare their resolution not to move unf less compelled by superior force . ' Captain-Smith is going to the district on Monday , principally to impress upon them the assurance that no assistance from the relief fund can be expected after this year . The , people are three years in arrear ' with their rent ! , exclusive of the present crop . The whole rental of the two farms , though crowded with so large n . populatien , is only £ 150 per annum .- Mr . Macallister offers to forego all arrears and , besides allowing them to make what they can of . their crop and stock , he will give liberal aid ininbhey . —Inverness Conner . ' " . ' ' ' - , " '
A MiyisTKR Knocking himself out op his own Pulpit . —A Sabbath or two ago * in a small church not a hundred miles . from the Solway , a young preacher of herculean ability , physical and mental' , was approaching the climax of one of his Roman bursts of eloquence , - when tho front of the pulpit , which had for half an hour been treated most cruellyj suddenly gave way , and the . earnest and striking preacher ( to the great consternation of the audience , and the still greater horror of the precentor ) was pitched headlong halfway up the area of the church . The preacher escaped with a few slight bruises , but the precentor , we are sorry to state , was severely injured . G ood . hopes ,. however , are now entertained of his recovery . —Dumfries Courier .
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Dobhn . —The proceedings at themeetingi Of-the corporation , on the Tth inst . exceeded in violence arid confusion ' even what mis-lit be expected ' in ; the very ; peculiar circumstances under which it ' assembled . j . ^ The meetingimight be termed : a double one , having . been summoned by two distinct requisitions , one emarialing . irom Mr .. Reynolds , the Lord-Mayor ,, calling . a meeting ,. " to do such acts as . the council shall deem necessary ; in consequence ofthe writs or mandamus ';^> the other summons issuing from nye members of the council , and stating the ; purpose to bo tbe election of aLord Mayor for : the residue . of tlie vear of office , pursuant to the direction ofthe same wilt of mandamw ., Both meetings were
enlled for- eleven o ' clock , but the conservative requisition added to the letters p . m ., which , as the Lord Mayor reminded them ,-must mean eleven -o clock at ni"lit ,. unless some ofthe members , as lie thought it lilce ) y enough , .. understood them to mean "post mortem . " However'the-members on both sides wfrc punctual in attendance ; hut as the conservatives found themselves . ' . anticipated , . . nnd that the Lord Mayor was already in possession of the chair at the boiir ,.- which , if not . specified , was at least . understood , they were driven to the expedient of electing n chairman for themselves , and this they . did amidst the u most confusion ami uproar , moving . Alderman Kinah a ' n to a chair which was placed at the lower end of the table . Here thev formed themselves
into a knot arouricTtheir own chairman , and -wore proceeding to carry on the election , when the fiord Mayor announced ' to them that their meeting wes altogether irregular , their notice for calling it ! not having been printed and served three clear days , before the time fixed for it to take place . They nevertheless pei-si-ted , nnd Mr . Walker . moved that Alderman M'Kcnna . he . elcctfd Lord Mayor of ithe bofough of Dublin , Mr . 'Tickers seconding the motion , and the new chairman declaring it toj be carried amidst a scene of disorder which baJBe . * descriptiori . The following arc some extracts of what followed : — " The Lord Mayor , addressing Alderman Kinahan , said : Are . you sitting , there as chairman ?—Alderman Kinahan ; I am . —Lord
Mayor : Then I will remove - you . Inspector of police , as chairman of this assembly , I call oh you to arrest —( cries of " no , " no , " from the conservative members ,, and confusion )—I call on you to remove Alderman Kiralian into Parliament-street . Call in as many police as are necessary , for . thepurpose . I cannot allow him . to preside here as . chairman — Mr . Walker : "We will charge you on the police . —In spector Walpole : My lord , which is the gentleman ? —Lord Mayor ( pointing , to the second chairman ) . Alderman Kinahan , who is acting as chairman in violation . of ,. the law . Send in . more police here . Recollect- / Alderman Kinahan , I arrest you because you assume the office of chairman here without any prober ground for so doing —Inspector Walpole then
went up-to Alderman Kinahan and placed his hand on hisslioulder . —Ascene of indescribable- confusion followed , i ^ the midst of which Mr ; Wauchobhanded the return , signed by the riiembers on the conservative side of the house ' , to Mr . Farquhar , and . immediately after iuraped on the table and rushed to- ' wards the chair . 'stating'tbat the " document had been taken from . the town clerk , and that it had been torn by Mr . Martin , fCrean .-rrLord Mayor :. Alderman Kinahan , tho inspector of police is to remove you into ParliariiehVstreet , and . ' to prevent you from , occupying that chair . ( Confusion . ) It . is a serious responsibility , but I will incur it . Inspector , 1 order you to ; take : Alderman Kinahan into the street ^ and if he resists you bring him to the police . office and indict him for an assault , and I will . go and prosecute , hiriv . myself . ' , I give you notice Alderman Kinahari i that . if you abandon your illegal proceeding as obairman of that -fictitious meeting —¦— Alderman Kinahan : I will not . —Lord Mayor : I may as
well tell you , gentleman , that the police ate here acting under . my authority , anddfany man , di ' sobeys my ' authority I will remove , . him . by force .-r-Mr . Wauc hob : Weil , we'defy you . . ( Confusion . )—Chairman : Policeman , ' arrest tliat man , ; and remove him . He says , '¦ ' I defy you . "—Alderman Hudson : I deny that you are Lord Mayor . of the-borough of Dublin ; therefore , you cannot legally interfere , or . order him to be arrested . —In the end Alderman Kinahan left the meeting with the police , and proceeded with his friends to , the head police office , where he' tendered information against the Lord May or for an illegal arrest , but that course having been- objected to by the magistrates a . summons for the . purpose was issued . —The . conservatives ,. with ,. tbeir , new . Lord Mayor , then proceeded to the . city ' assembly-house , where the ceremony of swearing in was gone through , the former proceedings having taken place at the Royal Exchange . ' .
On Monday , at the Head Police-office , the Lord Mayor ( Mr . ' Reynolds ) appeared before the magistrates on a summons to answer the complaint of Alderman Kinahan ,. for having forcibly removed him from the meeting of tiie Town ' Council on Friday last . ' . Tbe police inspector and constable who acted on the occasion . were also included-. in the summons . The Lore ! Mayor , wearing bis rpbes . and carrying his warid of office , , was accommodated with a seat , on the bench . Counsel attehdedoif both sides . . The police COlirt was crowded with"members of thexorporation , and : other citizens , and the proceedings attracted no small share of interest on ¦ the . whole . , It must : be admitted . that the case made for , Alderman Kinahan " was a very lame one . By his own evidence it appeared
that en entering the meeting , of the corporation on the day in question he found Mr'Reynolds presiding as Lord Mayor ; that he- himself addressed him b y that title on the occasion ; that on the suggestion of a small knot of . friends , who had breakfasted at Radley ' s just , before , and concocted there the course they would pursue , be . ( Alderman Kinahan ) took a chair in another part of the room " and assumed to act as chairman , a very small minority , of the corporation acting with him ; and that it was because he had assumed to act so the Lord Mayor caused him . to be removed from the meeting . On bis cross-examination he admitted that one of bis party ( Mr .
Wauchob ) jumped upon the table in a very violent' manner , and endeavoured to gain possession of some document . Under such circumstances the magistrates had no difficulty in . deciding , Mr .. Porter , who presided , saying , I decline to take informations for the purpose of sending the case , to another tribunal , and tlie entry I shall make on the books will be "dismisse'di' - ' masmuch as the defendant appears ' to have been justified in the act complained of . " At the conclusion of the proceedings the Lord Mayor protested against ^ he course that had been adopted of bringing him , the chief magistrate of the city , before an inferior tribunal . .
Two returns'to the writ of mandamus were presented at' the Crown-office on Saturday last . The Lord Mayor , with his solicitor , attended for the purpose of lodging the one emanating from the ' majority , and stating . that the office of Lord . Mayor was already filled . " Mr ; , W . auchbb tendered the other docuirient , which stated that ' the corporation had , in obedience to the wrhVduly elected a Lord Mayor on the previous day , but this- return not having the city seal attached to , it , the Clerk of the Crownideclined accepting it .
The Tenant-Right Conference . —The meeting of the Tenant-right Conference has been postponed from the 18 th of this month to the 6 th of August , at the request of the people of Belfast , Tfho are to hold an important meeting on the subject on the 12 th inst . , FniGHTFui / State of Balmnrobb Workhousk . —The Rev . Mr . Conway , of Ballinrobe , in a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , thus describes the frightful state in which ' the workbouae of that union is at present : — "Having ^ called the master and porter to accompany me , I visited the probationary wards—and
never have I felt more shocked than to find the wretched occupants in scores , heaped on each other in the most hideous disorder—particularly in the female wards , where were whole families , including male and female children , huddled so closely and * in such numbers , that . I could not enter . They lay-in their rags upon the earthen floor , amidst- stench intolerable . Nights and days they sat on the cold floors without bed or covering of any kind . This shocking fact I have , felt constrained by a sense of duty to register upon the records'of the house . " ' ; ¦
Lanbloud ano Tenant Bill . —The Freeman of Saturday evening published an abstract of the Landlord and Tenant Bill about to bo brought into Parr liament by Mr , Sharman Crawford . The definition of" fair rent " according to this bill , is as follows : — " The landlord's just proportion of the money value of the grass produce ( according to the market prices of such produce ) which tlus lands in the occupation of the tenant , according to their quality arid circumstances , are capable of yielding under a fair system of improvement and culture , after allowance has been made forall labour , and tbe interest of all capital exr pended in cultivating , improving , aud maintaining the condition of , the premises , and for . all rates and public charges payable by such tenant . "
The Harvest . —The condition of the crops is the all-absorbing topic'in theprovincial accounts , which have assumed a tone of cheerful confidence quite unusual for four years past , and upon all sides tbiTft are most RY * vtif $ mg ' indications of an unusually early and abundant harvest . So far pur prospects , are really . cheering ; biit after " the bitter experience we linvo had , especially in , regard to the potato , it would be hazardous yet to indulge in confident calculations . Greatdhteresfc' is felt in tlm progress of the flax ' Crop , now planted in districts of the southern and midland counties where little had been growii for . many years . Vp ^ to . this time the reports
ave quite satisfactory ! and if the experiment proye successful there will be a largly increased cultivation next year . At the lust monthly meeting of the Ulster 1-lax . Society alottev from . Ihe Irtm \ -LAeute nant was read , notifying a ; continuance of the grant from the Treasury of £ 1 , 000 , for the promotion-an d improvement of the growth of fiiix in ten southern and western counties . The' present grant is thus allocated — To-Cork arid Mayoj £ 200 eachV to Kerry ' ,: Limerick , - and Sligo , ' £ 100 each- , to . CM'e and Tipperary , £ 75 each ; to : Galway ,, Letrim , and 1 Roscommon , AoO . each . His Excellency calls for ' a retUrn ' oltHHetiaiHbfexpcodituro .
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. , . ENCuaBBnBD . EsrA . TES . rnTho . petitions . for sales . are increasing „ even more - rapidly . than 'had been anticipated . ' .. In the week ending on the 6 th instant , fort ' y-orie new ' petitions were ' lodged in the Encumbered Court ; The total ^ number of . petitions now amourits ^ to 917 . ¦ •'¦ - •'• ¦ ' >¦' '' ' ¦ , -: ; " "' . - : ' .. . The Queen ' s Coi . LT-OES .-rThe Belfast and Cork papers of Saturday last , - report the " close of the first session at the ' Queen ' s Colleges of their , respective town ' s , and describe the result as having been in the . highest degree--satisfactory . There ' was a distribution of prizes at both- colleges , and the ' Presidents addressed the students in congratulatory terms . ¦ ... ¦'¦¦ ... Ej-nnMnEnBD Estates . —Thn rip ' . iMnnsfnr sales
• The Drogheda Argus states that there ,. is , a ver > go 6 dreasonfoi-believingthat . no vacancy in therepresentation of Drbglieda Will occur for . the present Mr . Sergeant Murphy lias announced his intention of becoming a candidate for the representation of Cork , in tho event of a vacancy being caused by the reaianation of Mr . Fagan . ' ' The Queen ' s Bench gave judgment on Monday ngair ' st the crown , in a case of great importance ' , is affecting - railways ; A mandamus- bad been ob tainedbythe crown for the purpose of obliging tho ¦ Irish South Eastern Railway Company to . carry a Post-office guard with the mails between Bagnalstown and . Carlbw , at the ordinary rates ' charged for a . second-class passenger , the mails not exceeding
001 b . of luggage allowed to . a passenger . To this writ the company had made a return that they were not bound to carry any such guard unless there was a special contract fpr . the . conv . eyance of the mail ? , and after protracted arguments the judgment was now delivered bit the demurrer to that return . Tlie point chiefly relied on against tho railway company was the ; proviso contained in the- 11 th section of the 7 th and 8 th Vic , wl ) ich provided that it mi ght be lawful for the Postmaster-general , to send by any other . than , a mail train , and at . 'tbe usual ; rates charged-to passengers , but tho court consider that this proviso applied . only , to cases where a special contract existed for carrying the mails , ' when the mails arrived too late to be convoyed , by the regular train ' . .... ..
-The . town of Killarney was posted last week with bills announcing a sheriff ' s sale to take place at Derrynane Abbey . Tho sale was to bo at the suit of some half-dozen creditors , and the sheriff ' s name appended to the placard was '' O' Connell ! " ¦ . Itoscomriion , which , is . not usually very forward in any ' agitation ' , is not ; ' silent on tho . " subject of tenant'right . ' The . local journal states : "On Friday , the 7 th" inst ,, ' a preparatory meeting was heldatltyan ? s . Hotel , in this . town , ofthe influential and respectable clergy and gentry of this town and neighbourhood . The chair was very ably and efficiently filled by P . M'Donn ' ell , Esq ., and scarcely ever have we witnessed so much unanimity and determination . " The general riieeting oftho county is to take place oh tho 14 th inst . .. ¦¦; .
. The Repeal / Association , —At-the miserably-attended meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday , the rent for the week . was announced to be £ 4 19 s . 8 d . Mr . John 6 'Connell took occasion to rcmarkthat the rent on that day six years ' ( 10 th of June ; : 1844 ) was £ 3 , 339 - 18 s . : 4 d . ; he -then -stated that . if some "demonstration of popular , support is not made in our favour , we must advertise the hall for sale . "
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This court resuraed . its sittings on Monday morning . The calendar contains the names of 184 prisoners . . ' . - ..:.. -IspiciMENi . for Conspiracy . - "ExTKAonDiWRr Case . —John Lawrence , 60 , a person of respectable appearance , surrendered to take his trial upon * an indictment charging him with larceny arid- misdemeanour in haying stolen a certain deed , being the counterpart of a lease giving a tifcle * to property , and with . having conspired witha person unknownto commit , the same offenoei—Tho learned ' counsel foj- the prosecution , in opening the case to the jury , said that the circumstances were of such an
extraordinary character that he felt it necessary to trespass on their attention for a short period , in order to explain the facts upon . which the charge was preferred . . The defendant , as ho was instructed , was a person filling a respectable position , and he occupied a house in Motcomb-street ,, Belgravc-square , under a ' lea ' se for twenty-one years , : granted by a gentleman named Seth Smith .- .. The . period for which this lease was . granted would expire at Midsummer , 1851 , arid the offence imputed to the prisoner was ; that he bad obtained possession of the counterpart ofthe lease in question from the solicitors of Mr . Smith by a contrivance which would bo explained to them in the course ofthe case , with the intention to destroy , it , and thus afford himself
the opportunity of altering the period mentioned in his own lease from , "twenty " -onle to " seventy" - one years , which , frorii the nature of the letters of which these words were composed , would be a very easy , operation . . The learned counsel proceeded to narrate some other facts connected with the case ; and the following evidence was then adduced : — John William Jones de ' pose'd that he was a clerk in the service of Messrs . Hartley and Co :,: solicitors , Somerset-street , Portman-square , and that one of their clients was ; -a gentleman named Seth Smith . On ? , he morning , of the 20 th , April , as he was going into' the office of his employers , a : young man who was a stranger came up and inquired if he was a clei-ktoMr . Bartley ; and on his replying in the
amrmativo , lie asKed him if he would have any objection to meet another person that same evening upon the subject of some papers . He told him iu reply that he should leave the office at six o ' clock in the evening , and he would then see the party referred to . At the time in question he saw the same person again near-Somerset-street , and he introduced him to .-the prisoner , and thev all then went to the Noah ' s Ark public-house in Oxford-street , where tho prisoner called for a . pint of ale- ; and after a short time' he inquired whether tho Messrs . Bartley did not do . a great deal of business for Mr . Smith ; Witness replied that they did , and the prisoner then said-.- " . What I want you to do is to get me tho counterpart of a lease from your office , and if
you will do it I will give you £ 10 . " He inquired the particulars of the lease that he wanted , and'the prisoner wrote them upon a piece of paper , which he handed to him ; and afterwards gave to Hardwick , tho officer who was engaged in the case . „ , The , witness then proceeded to state that what , . the prisoner wrote . upon paper referred to a conveyance of property , by Mr . Smith to himself m March , 1850 , and he said that if witness would agree to get it for him he mi ght write to that effect , and they separated upon this understanding . He communicated what bad taken place to one of . the . firm , and under the authority of that gentleman he wrote to the prisoner , and made an appointment to deliver him the deed , and be met
him accordingly at the same public-house on the evening of April 25 , taking the deed with him . When he saw the prisoner , he asked him if he was as good as his word , and he replied that ho was , and pulled . a bag from bis pocket , and took out ten sovereigns , and gave them to him . Witness then handed the prisoner the deed , and he looked at it ; and said it was albri ght . - Witness then asked the prisoner what his object was in obtaining possession ot itne counterpart of the lease , and he replied that he intended to destroy it , and then to alter his own lease from twenty-one to seventyrone years . Witness inquired how tie proposed to make this alteration , and he said by taking the top from the "t , " and adding a loop , - and then altering the " w" to
? ey , ' which could be very easily done , and he showed him upon a piece of paper how the alteration was to be effected . An officer in plain clothes was present when ail this took place , and ^ he heard what passed between them , and when the prisoner went away with the deed , he followed him and took him into custody . — Other evidence having been adduced , Mr . Olarkson submitted that there was no evidence to go to the jury upon the count in the indictment which charged the offence of larceny to have been committed . The deed in question was proved to have been placed in tho possession of the prisoner with tho direct consent of the prosecutor—there was no trespass , a fortiori there was no larceny . If the prisoner had taken up tho deed of his own accord the case would have been different , but it
had boon actuall y delivered to him . —A number oi highly respectable witnesses were then called , all of whom gave the-prisoner an excellent character for a very long period . —The Recorder having summed up , theory found the . prisoner " Guilty upon the count which charged him with the conspiracy , and they acquitted him of the larcenv . They at tho same time most strongly recommended him to the merciful consideration of tho court , on account , of the good character he had received . — The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in Westminster Bridewell for six' months , at the same time observing that but forthe recommendation , of jury ami the prosecutor , a much heavier sentence would certainly have been passed upon Ikm . —Before the prisoner was removed the witness Jones handed over t © him tho ten sovereigns he had . received from him . ¦ ¦ *'
„ 0 a \ BGB of Robbing an AvAH .-Patrick Smith , >« k described as a musician , and Sarah Smith , his wile , wore-indicted for stealing four pairs , of ear drops , value £$ ; six chains , value £ 7 ; tenbvooohos , value £ 20 ; a necklace , value £ 100 ; a watch , value £ 40 ; and ninety-nine sovereigns , tho property of Caroline Poreira .- ^ -Caroline Pereiva , the prosecutrix , waa then examined . She spoke to tho fact of her sailing , from , Madras about Christmas last , as ayah to thb . fariiily of Dr . Darwood , which consisted of ; that gentleman , his wife , arid five children , two of . whom ; were twins . She said that at that ^ time , she was in possession of a largo ' quantity of jewel- ; lery and ninety-nine sovereigns , which amount was the result of presents which had been made , to her by different ladios in whose service sho had been . The jowolloryt was given to her by her brother , who had been set up as a jewelleri by her former master , Sir EdwardDarnesj and some portions- of
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it : was entrusted . to her as presents fo ^ T ^ , lad . es . of LadyBarnes ' s family in Eng L ^ K , remainder . - . she was . to . dispose of Vni •• 'W English articles to take back with her ? Pllt < V sell . -She . asserted that she showed » In 'at the bag , ' that contained the monev P S « h portion of the jewellery , and they adviLu" ^ o , the box ; that : contained the proportv •^ - * ih cabin , and that they afterwards told L ! !? tK box was in , the hold ,, and- that it wis ' ¦ at tb She said'that wlicn the vessel arrived in * 4 sho . could -not obtein possession of her W and'she lost ai ght'of the prisoners umn -fW them in Ualsoy-strcet , Chelsea . The J A also represented that the pi-op » i-fy i M » - * % contained in a tin bos , and shoValisini 01 ' 1 ^ wooden case from tlm sfoW ; .,., i ,. r .. " - "Wow lit : was entrusted tO her as ni-oo « ,, » 77 ~ ~ ^ ** - ^ \ .
which she placed the tin box , ' ar . d nSedW J Upon part of an ear-drop being handed i S . the officer ,. she sworo positivel y that ii ef lr property , and had formed part of tiie ' „ * ¦• -1 the box , which sho represented had C nts of She said , also , that it had been broken Sto | - » occasion of a dance at a pnrfr » t Ma ( i ! , - * ttj before she sailed for- England , am ! she ASH mending it with thread .-On cr oss-ejaunSS said she had a dispute with Dr . Darw ' oo - ^ voyage because she did not do sonieth J )> % wished her when there was bad weather ? " k said that Dr . Darwood was angry with imi- ' r . % time . The prosecutrix waslhcn asl S 2 ^ during the voyage , Dr . Darwood had not coSi - of losing some things , and sho at first assm ? - such complaint was made ; but u pon beinZ " - he at length said that Mrs . Wool 51 ??** . thing about a tin box having been lost . —vi .-n ^ uiun asiveu
sun nor-snetucv Dr . Darwood . lii" *" make such a complaint to her , hut the only l he could get for some , time was , " yd * *?? lose-what had they got to lose ?"—Tho n "• told the . witness the question was a verv n lS ** - and she ou # ht to answer it . —The mosccuMv I "*' dear lovd . 'l'declare before God Almiohtv t & ^ had nothing to lose . ( A laugh . S r ll ^ still pressed ! the question , and tl . e pros ' ecu v engthsaul that no such complaint ks S by Dr Darwood S .-In ful - tiiei- erosion j n " 8 S ° Z l J *? " l' !? o 0 ut ° » t voSt Dai-wood gave her loO rupees and she «»^ i that amount ., to-the Roman Catholic Church 5 whieli she belonged at Madras , in order to offi good voyage . Sne bad about £ 7 when she wen * board , and . sho denied most positively that Z asked Dr .-Darwood for any more money durin » Z voyage , and asserted most positively that nofhZ of the kind took place , while the vessel was off V
li eiena : ino : wnoio amount she was to receive fi > her services was 300 rupees , and when she trottn England Dr . Darwood gave her about nine sove reigns as the balance that was due to her . — - , £ Ctavksonthen asked the prosecutrix whether W Darwood did not give her six more rupees shortlv before the vessel sailed ; and the answer she em was , - " Lord , what a liar that man is . " ( Alauefiu Three Indianfa ' ns , -a chess board , a card case , and some other articles were here produced , and shown to witness , arid she was questioned respecting them . —She asserted that the fans had been in her posses siop for three years and were her own property- and that they were given to her bv a em
tain named Quinton . . One of these fans she ' gave to the female prisoner , another to the wife of tho steward of the vessel , and tho third to a Mrs . Parrr where she lodged , in London . The child ' s hood ' a wooded card-case , and the sewing silk produced were also her own property . She had been chart-ed with stealing them from Dr . Darwood , but they were her own property . A blue veil ' and some ribbon , ' which she gave to Mrs . Smith , also belonged toher . The chessboard was made'by one of ner brothers . She gave this chessboard to the steward , It-was worth £ 5 . She said that she lodged at Mrs . Parry ' s for two . weeks ,, but she did not ; say anything to her about having been . ' robbed of tho
jewellery and money . She was afraid . to tell anybody about it . . She sent Mrs . 'Parry to Mrs . Smith for the . fans and some . other things , but' did not say anything about . the jewels and money at'that time . A gold chain that was produced she also said waa her property , and that she gave it to Mrs . Smith to pass her box , as they had told her an Indian woman would not bo allowed to bring jewellery into England . She denied having told the steward when she borrowed the box of him , that she wanted it to put dirty linen in , and that she told him she had bought the chessboard in China . Tho prisoners were strangers to hor when , she sa w them on board the vessel . She had seen the man on shore before
, but had never spoken to him . —Francis , the steward on board the Wellcsley . was then called to prove that the . prosecutrix had borrowed a box from him , arid that he also gave her ' some nails . He likewise proved that a box , such as she had described , was taken into the prisoners' cabin , and that when the vessel arrived in England the prosecutrix , inquired after it , and appeared veryiruch distressed . . In cross-examination the witness said , that besides the chessboard the , prosecutrix gave him a gold chain ' , a diamond ring , a pair ' of gold pins , and she also gave his-wife . an imitation pearl necklace ' .- ' The male , prisoner : had been band master in one of the native regiments . He denied
positively that the . prosecutor . gave any shawls to either himself or his wife . The prosecutrix represented * that she had a splendid shawl , and wanted his wife to pass it as her own , but he refused to have -anything to do with such a transaction , — Evidence , was , thon adduced to show that a box such as was described by tho prosecutrix , and upon which there was a card labelled with her name , and describing her as the ayah of Mrs . Smith , was seen amongst' the luggage of the prisoners , but it did not appear that this box was ever traced to the Custom-house with the oth ' er luggage . It was also proved that when -the male prisoner was apprehended he made no other observation tlian
that it was a very bad job , and the woman was very much agitated , and almost fainted away . It was also proved , that when some inquiry relating to the property was made of the female prisoner , she said that she wished " they had thrown the black —— overboard . "—This " closed the case for the prosecution . —Mr . James Darwoow for the defence was then examined : Ho deposed that he was surgeon to . the 1 st Regiment of Native Infantry , and had been in the service of the East India Company ... for eighteen years . Upon the occasion of his coming to . EngL-ind , he was upon siok leave , and he engaged the prosecutrix as ayah to his family , and he agreed to sivo her 360
rupees for her services . Before the vessel sailed she asked for 150 rupees , which he gave her , and he also gave . her ten rupees more before the voyage commenced , and when the vessel was about to touch at St . Helena , he gave her two sovereigns which he believed she spent on shore . When the vessel arrived in the docks he paid her the balance , and she made no complaint of tho deductions . Ho said that he never heard that the prosecutrix had any valuable property on board the vessel , but bis wife told him that sho had informed
her that she had £ 900 worth property at Madras . The witness then proceeded to state that upon Ins arrivalin England he discovered that ho had lost a tin box which contained three fans , a child s hood , some sewing silk , and other articles . Ik also missed a chessboard . He should know all those things again if he were to see them , —Other witnesses having been examined , the Recorder summed up the case , and the jury , after deliberating for a short time , returned ' a verdict of " Not Guilty . "
Charge of Rohbeuv by as Ayah . — Caroline Pereira , the ayah , was put upon her trial before the Recorder ( who attended specially to try the case ) for stealing articles , the property of Dr . James Darwood , her master , on board the ship Wellesley , on the high . sens , on the 7 th . of April , —The prisoner , who had been out on bail , surrendered in court , and was placed in the dock , and in broken English vehemently pleaded not guilty . — Mr . Ballantine appeared for the- prisoner and Ml \ Olarkaon for tho prosecution , —Jlr . Ciarkson said that , on the part , of tho master of the prisoner * who felt that he had a public duty to per & ra ii « coming forwaBd to prosecute , still had no desire to
press the charge , he ( tholearnedcounsel ) had to apply to the- court for its sanction that n & evidence might bo offered . The- grounds were , that the prosecutor-felt that whatever the prisoner had been guilty of ,, she being an , unprotected & male in a foreign land , they wished to rescue her ,, and make arrangements to sends her back . —Dr .. Sarwood said that he had been unwillingl y made- prosecutor .- * Mr . Payne suggested to the com : ii that the pri " soner-had not attempted to make aay use of or ssli the property . —Nik Ballantine did not object ] to . tbe course intended to-be pursued by the prosecution , but at the same- time would nst admit there- had bsen any felonious act by the poor creature he
sepresonted , and , notwithstanding the verdict oftho previous day ,, he would still say that , she had been most scandalously plundered . . There was . no doubt but that she had property and money when she went on board tho vessel , and when sho came oa shore she had nothing , ' and was now in a state d destitution . —Mr . Olarkson said he entirely con * curred with the view the jury had-taken of tho case *—Mr . Ballantine said he did not complain ° ' tho'jury , but there could bo no doubt but that t »& woman had boon plundered . —After some further conversation , the Recorder- said the difficulty ¦
the court was m about tho property «" ' that it was now . in > tbe hands of third parties , who ho . trusted . would ,, as a-matter of conscience , not resist the honest claim of Dr . Darwood , jjnd detain that which thoy had improperly come by , With regard to the-prisoner , the court was under some responsibility in acceding to the humane proposition of tho . prosecutor , for fear the public mjght not : understand the . grounds upon which it . had acted . The . casewouldboa difficult and paineful case for ' a jury to deal with , as they could not , this day go . into facts against tbe prisoner without prejudice to the parties charged with plundering nor . The jury would hayo received their evidence , and
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 15, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15061850/page/6/
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