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0 . THE NORTHERN STAR. . April 21, 1849.
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0 . The Northern Star. . April 21, 1849.
0 . THE NORTHERN STAR . . April 21 , 1849 .
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He . oj . ih of Losdojj during , the Week . —By the tegL-irar-general ' a report for the week ending April 14 , ire fin i that the deaths registered in the week were j , «»;!; , which shows an excess of 103 on the sprii .- average . Among the causes to which the inciv tsc i > due , hooping cough , which was fatal in 69 CTise .-. while the average is only 36—bronchitis and pjij-unonia , which severally count 70 , while the respc-v : averages are 37 and * 61 , are found to predonr . iUie . Under the class of diseases which affect the respiratory organs , exclusive of phthisis , 198 deaths arc enumerated , making 67 more than the average . Two persons died of influenza in the week ; & in the last 4 weeks . Cholera was fatal to only two persons . The whole number of lives which H iiss destroyed during a comparatively mild Tisiutioi- -f thirtv weeks , is 1 , 002 . The mortality from s .-.-iH .-. tina still helps to swell the return to an undue orient , for it continues to maintain a posi-With reference to
tion a link- above the average . a fat-- ! -aM > of this disease , which occurred m Chester-srrc-i , Lambeth , the registrar , Mr . Wheatley , state -jsar it is the second which has occurred in the same Lviiie ; and that the medical attendant believed thai they had their origin in an open sewer , which rn «? at the back of the premises , and emits a very oiUnsivc smell . A boy a year old , died in the week of " cynanche parotidaza maligna . " The ease is reckoned for convenience among those from scarl :-.: ina . that the list of the causes of death might not In too much extended by introducing iuto it disease ? which are rarely fatal . The mean daily height of the barometer was greatest on Thursday , when h ¦ s'as 29 * 621 ; the mean of the week was 29-3 S . ' . 7- ~ . e temperature of the air fell gradually froin the beginning of the week till Friday , when it began to rise . The highest daily mean was 47 * 1 on Sunday : ihe mean of the week was 41 * 8 . The births during the week numbered 1 , 340 .
DfQ-JESTS . Fatai Colusios Axn Ixqcest . —An inquest was held en Saturday last at St . George ' s Hospital , Hyde-p-irk-corner , before Mr . Bedford aud a coroner' -i jury , on the body of John Abbott , aged twemy-ii . t-ee , who was thrown from his master ' s cart , on Wednesday evening , by a sudden collision with a brougham and an omnibus , in Knightsbridge , and w . - « s so injured that he died in the hospital within an h .-.-r after tho occurrence . After hearing the evidence of M . J . Higgins , Esq ., the owner of the brougham , of his groom , and of a boy who was with deceased in the cart , the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " There was no one present connected with the omnibus , and no information could be obtained as to which omnibus it was .
Sci-ids of a Tradesman . —Before Mr . Payne , at th <* Oianera' Anna , Water-lane , Blackfriars , on the body of William Daniels , a bootmaker . —Caroline Daniels , daughter of the deceased , said that on Saturday morning last her mother awoke her and asked her to go to her father ' s bedroom . On going there * ho found deceased in bed in an insensible stativandinacold perspiration . She immediately made him some tea , a little of which he drank , but he never became conscious . Mustard and water was f iver , to him , hut without success , and after some ouii ha-i elapsed , a surgeon was sent for , but the deceased expired in her brother ' s arms . Of late he had bad several losses , which , together with the fact of m > ii !
paper w . which was written the following , was proved to be in the handwriting of the deceased : — " My dear wife , do not let my body be opened , for it is yours ,, dead or alive , whilst above ground . Good bye ; « . iod Sdess and prosper every one of you is my fen-am , prayer . —William Daniels . " A bottle labelled "Laudanum—poison , " was found on his workbench . Mr . -k'lu-tione , of Apothecaries' Hall , said that he sold the deceased an ounce of laudanum on Friday night , lie said it was for a person who was in the halii : of taking it , and he inquired what was the proper dose . ^ Yitness told him that five drops was the numW to begin with . Verdict , " Temporary insanity . " ' Sncij-r of a Female thkouoh Destitution . — Before- Mr . Carter , at the Star and Garter Tavern , Kecku-j- . iv-road , Bermondseyonthebody of Rebecca Archer , " ajicd twenty-ei g ht . The deceased , during the hki iVur years , hadbeen left , with a child , without . !< : - Dicans of supporting herself , except by
pledging her clothes , and disposing of her household " fur-inure . Having at last sold off nearly everything she- possessed , she succeeded in earning a scant . .- Mi ' isistence for herself and offspring , by making ays for the army - but during the past five month ? , -die had been unable to obtain any work , and sho became reduced to the greatest privations . Abrfiher-in-lawtookher and the child into his own bous" .-, bui the poor creature had frequently stated that >]• . « c ' -uld not bear to live upon her friends . The lax . day or two she had been exceedingly dcpress * d s and had spent several hours a day weeping hitter !; ,. On Friday her brother-in-law sent for the deceased iv come down to dinner , when the door of her r > -om . * as found fastened on the inside . The door Lying forced open , the deceased was found suspended ! > y a piece of lay cord which was found fastened to the cupboard . * Verdict , " That the deceased duMroyed herself whilst in an unsound state of mii ! .- br-. ught on by destitution . "
A Ci-fii * Boused to Death . —The Evidence of Chiliihex . sot upox Oath . —Before Mr . Mills , on Monday , at tho Royal Free Hospital , Gray ' s Innroad , wi tua body of a child , named James Sullivan , aged four years , who was burned to death . A little girl , named Ellen Sullivan , the sister of the decea :---d , was the only witness who could g ive an accoui-. i of the manner in which the accident happened . The constable put the book into her hand preparatory to - ifiiidnistermg the oath , when the coroner , remarking her youth , asked her if she could read and writ . ? , to wluch she replied in the negative . Xhe Coroner v : id he had observed in the report of the trial in Drouet ' s case that the judge had condemned the cu'iduci of the coroner for receiving the evidence of chi :--: r ? - ; not upon oath . He had always understood i }• : « -, --oroners might adopt the practice of reeeivi :: i _ - tut simple statement of children who could
not ro . t . i , ;; nd who knew not a single letter in the Test-Kfi' -jst . He was surprised the Judge should say that ehUdren , ignorant of the sanctity of an oath , should be sworn , and he should not swear the girl then in court . —The girl then made a statement to the cliVei that , being on Wednesday last left at home io ruind the deceased , she let him wet his frock , and went out and locked him in the room whii- she was drying his clothes at the fire . She went : <> ¦ i . lf-r some coals , and when she returned , whici . . was- m about five minutes , found bim enveloped in fi ..- > ies . He was taken to the hospital and died - 'l-.-iv-H immediately , every part of his body bein £ bar-it except his feet , which were covered with T . tjollcn socks . —The Coroner said here was anotli-.-j' < k-: th from burning which might have been prev- ' -utv ;' : by the simple precaution of a fireguard . Verdii- ; . " Accidental Death . "
Aitkmit at Suicide itv a Female . —On Tuesday the ffiil-iwi-iir frightful attempt at suicide was made by J .-. h- ' .-i-tles , aged 31 , residing at Somcrs-townterr .-c , < . - \ -iint Pancras . The unfortunate female folio- > ¦ -- ' ] tho occupation of an cmbroidercss , and although since the age of ei g hteen she had at times evuK-o-. I sMJiptoms of a disordered intellect , it was nev « -r - '' - " --- . ea necessary to keep a watch over her move •; _ : ;• -. About one o ' clock on Tuesday morning tLc jj > .. iiceman on duty was attracted to the houst )•} observing something on the top of the area
railii ' .-s . -vbere he dis « vw > rAjl the dw . e : i < -pd imn . ilod raihv .-.--, -vherc he discovered the deceased impaled on liic * -j- \ es , several of which had entered her righi -Ac . She was immediately conveyed to the TJnIver > i : y College Hospital . Many of her ribs were ft ' :..- ' to be broken , and she had received such — . " . ! .- > ..- injuries such as to render her recoverj almo :-i impossible . The window of her room was found y . ii . open and she was partly undressed , from which it w : ts inferred that she was preparing for bed v : : •< 'lie made the attempt on her life . Up to Tuc = ; - ;* ... lit she remained in a state of insensibilit' .-
Tl--:. ik . —MYSTERIOUS DEATH IX A LODGIXGHOffci -- .: are Mr . Payne , at the Goldsmith's Arm-. ? -.-iihwark Bridge-road , on the body of Susa *; ::: !! Gibbs , aged twenty-seven . — John Evai : ? -, ii . Mmt-street , said he was a lodging-house keeper , and that the deceased had lodged with a man of • - - ? iame of David in his ( witness ' s ) house durinc i ' . k last three weeks . About half-past two on the iiv-i-aing of Sunday week , deceased came horn ' .- " iii ^ htiy inebriated , and with frightful wounds about her hf-ad , and her hands with covered with blood . *? i-f went up stairs , and soon afterwards the iiir . ti b < : eau to abuse her , and prevented her froni going to bed . A lodger in the house stated that deceased called out for assistance to he protect < :
wonud ' - v-i her head dressed . Several other witnesjf-r ¦ pyki ? to the cruelly of David towards deceasf ;« . — iiv . W . Bendle , the parish surgeon , deposed ' . L-it ) . c attended deceased on Friday last . Found i .-f quite insensible and suffering from severe -- -juii-ls about the head , one at the hack part an inch .-. n « a half in length . The external part of the -car .- a as separated from the bone towards the front . A / ,-- > t mortem examination proved death to have bf .-ij caused by the pressure on the brain , whivh w ; vs - videntiy the result of the rmuries descrr > d . - ^' .... other witness stated that the deceased said in . unu heen kicked in the Waterloo-road by a man , br . * . sb « coaldnot say who he was . —Further evidence was given , whieh ' ineulpated a man named Price Virh whom deceased had formerly cohabited . The inquiry was adjourned until Tuesday next .
Fatai . I < ailwat Accident . —Before Mr . Baker , at the ! .. n u the AVest India Dock aud Birmingham Junction ivailway , at Homerton , and on the afternocm f « f trie 12 th inst ., the deceased was walking by tin- -ide of several waggons conveying earth wiiith -were passing the spot where " the arches : \ -=. vntly fell , when the foremost waggon
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came in contact with two trucks standing on the line , and forced them forward at a rapid rate . Deceased ran forward , and succeeded in caw ^ ing hold of the handle of the brake on the first . ttnoK , but it was too powerful for him , and throw him on to the line , in front of the wheels , which passed over both his legs , crushing them in a shockm manner . He was immediately conveyed to the London Hospital , when it was considered necessary to amputate the left leg immediately . Lhloroform was used , but he sank under the operation , and died on the Hth inst . —Verdict , " Accidental death . " * ..
Death of a Female from Fire . —Before Mr . Baker , at the Alfred ' s Head , Alfred-street , Stepney , on body of Jane Procter , aged 70 years . It appeared that the deceased attained her livelihood by picking up bones in the street . She had , for some years past , been subject to fits . On Monday afternoon the landlady of the house had her attention attracted by an unusual smell in the house , but did not take any particular notice of it . In the evening , however , the door of the deceased ' s apartment was opened , and the room was found full of smoke and fame . The deceased was found in a kneeling position , with her head and arms on the top of the fire . Sho was quite dead , and her body almost reduced to a cinder . It is supposed that the deceased was attacked with a fit while sitting in a chair , and then fell forward into the fire . Verdict , " Accidental death . "
Death from Starvation . —Before Mr . Baker , at the Pitt ' s Head , Broad-street , Katcliff , on tho body of Mary Walker , aged 67 . The deceased appeared to have suffered some severe privations . The room in which she had lived was completely destitute of all furniture . She had scarcely any clothes to cover her , and seldom or ever had a fire to warm her . She had lived six years in this room , and was sometimes several days without the common necessaries of life . She was the widow of a pilot , and most steadfastly refused to have any assistance from the parish . Her only means of support was by begging in the streets , but for some time past she had been unable to leave her room . On Sunday afternoon she was found dead , lying across the hearth . Mr . Cleland , surgeon , said the deceased had died from want . He had been the pariah surgeon for six years , and never witnessed such a dreadful scene of distress . Verdict , " Died from starvation . "
Suicide fbom Excessive Drixking . —Before Mr . Baker , at the Green Gate , City-road , on the body of Mary Doe , aged 33 years , who committed suicide by drowning herself in a water tank . It appeared that the husband of the deceased died suddenly about six months ago , and'Ins death preyed heavily upon the mind of the deceased , and during the last few weeks she had been constantly in a stato of intoxication . On Sunday morning last , she was seen walking up Eong ' s-court , Bernell-row , where she resided , and she then appeared tipsy . Some time afterwards her bonnet was seen lying at tbe side of a water tank , which is fixed in the court for the use of the inhabitants . The lid was removed , and the deceased was found immersed in the water , in a kneeling position , and quite dead . The deceased had several tunes threatened to destroy herself . The jury returned a verdict of ' Temporary insanitv . "
Wednesday . —Suddex Death of a Ladv of Fortune . —Mr . H . M . Wakley , son of T . Wakley , Esq ., held his first inquest since his temporary appointment as deputy coroner , at the Gower Arms , Gowerstreet , Bedford-square , on tho body of Mrs . Ann Cooke , a lady of fortune , whose death occurred as follows : —It appeared that the deceased lady , who had attained the advanced age of eighty-four , but was in possession of all her faculties , occupied apartments at Xo . 84 , Gower-street , keeping only one female servant . On Friday nig ht week her servant left her in her bedroom preparing for bed , but on entering the room at the usual hour in tho morning she discovered her lying in her night dress on the door , quite dead , the bed not having been lain in . There were no indications of a struggle having taken place , and a physician in the neighbourhood giving it as his opinion that death was the result of natural causes , a verdict was returned of " Died by the Visitation of God . "
A Woman Killed by her Husband . —Before Mr . Bedford , at the Crown and Thistle , Great Peterstreet , Westminster , on the body of Ann Wardly , who came to an untimely end on Saturday evening la st . The eldest daughter of the deceased , who was callod to identify the body , stated that her mother was in the habit of getting intoxicated , and that she . used to abuse her husband without his taking any notice of her . He was a very good husband and kind father . —Mr . G . B . Payne , surgeon , stated the circumstance of his being sent for , and the external appearance of the body . He then described the result of bis post mortem examination . The immediate cause of death was pulmonary apoplexy , which might be caused by very great excitement or external violence . — The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against John Wardly , who at present stands remanded upon the charge at the Westminster Police Court .
Death from Waxt . —A Wife . —Before Mr . Carttar ( for the third time ) , at the Castle Inn , Powisstreet , AVoolwich , on the body of Mr . John Jackson , aged 4 d , formerly a tradesman residing in Rich rdstreet , Woolwich , who died from want of food and exposure . The evidence occupied the attention of the Court during three days , and showed that the deceased had carried on business as a tallow-chandler in Woolwich for many years , and had been married to his present wife for eighteen years . They lived together very unhappily , the deceased being a timid nervous man , and his wife a person of a very opposite disposition . Some six months since they parted , and the deceased having been induced to turn over his property and business to his wife's
father , wen- to reside in a small . shop at Plumstead . This business , however , did not succeed , and the deceased , after breaking up his shop , appears to have been reduced to very great distress . He was afraid to return to his wife , and for several days and nights previous to his death lv- spent histimo in the lowest lodging-houses , paying threepence a night for his lodging and having no money to pay for food . A female named Murray represented to his wife the deplorable state of the poor man , and the probability of bis dying unless some speedy relief came to him . The reply of the wife was : " It was too goodnews to he true—there was no home for him there ; she could not think of rendering him any assistance whatever ; the union was open to him , and
she would do nothing for him . " On Monday morning , the 2 nd inst-mt , the deceased , who had passed the previous night in a miserable low lodging house , was in such an exhausted state that he was carried by two men to bis own house . On bringing him " into the shop , his wife told the men to take him to the relieving officer ; that there were none of his goods there ; and that if they did not take him away , she would call a policeman . The men , however , laid him down in the shop , and went away . Here he remained for some minutes , his wife taking no more notice of him than if he had been a stranger . It was proved that the deceased was then sinking from the effects of disease and exhaustion . Tiie deceased limrered on till
Wednesday morning . During the whole of this time the wife refused to go near him , and when she sent half-a-crown for a flannel shirt , declared that she never parted with balf-a-crown so reluctantly in her life . The i > ost mortem examination made by Mr . Turner , surgeon , showed that the deceased was labouring under extensive organic disease . The opinion of the medical officer was , that tho cause of death was the result of long-continued disease , accelerated by exhaustion and the want of care and nourishment . The coroner said , that any question of legal responsibility on the part of the wife was removed bv the fact that the iudges had held in
the case of Mr . Drouet , that it was necessary to prove that death would not have occurred even if the constitution of the party was not debilitated . The jury accordingly returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from the results of long continued disease , and from the effects of want and exposure . " Forged Bask oi ExotAnn Rotes— On Monday forged Bank of England notes which had been taken in business were exhibited in the shop windows of Mr . Heath , Poultry ; at a tailor's ia King William-street , London Bridge ; and two other shop ? In the Commercial-road . So many of these forgeries have lately been passed that the middlo class and petty tradesmen absolutely refuse to take notes at all .
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7 ii ) c cJromnffS . Buckinghamshire . —Ax Attempt to Murder a Sweetheart . —On Saturday afternoon last James Harding was examined before the Aylesbury magistrates on a charge of cutting the throat of Elizabeth Alison . The young woman , who had sufficiently recovered to cive evidence , stated that she became acquainted with the prisoner at the house of her brother at Diuton , and they agreed to marry . She , however , afterwards retracted , and he declared that "he did not mind being hung before he would leave her . " On Thursday night he called at the house but was not admitted . The girl in her evidence then went on to say : —I wont out afterwards and met him . I saw him sittinjr on a stile close by
the door of the house . I had no fear of him then . He catched hold of me and said he would cut my throat . ' and he laid hold of my head , lie spoke to me when I p assed the stile . I got over the stile . He followed me . My mother was behind me . He walked with me over two closes . My mother was present . He did not say a word to me when going along . He said , " I suppose you are going to leave me . I said I was . I did not speak to him again until we got to sonic houses , when I said I would never be m his company any more . He immediately took a knife out of his pocket . He took me by the head . He put his arm round my neck , holding my head back by the forehead . ( Witness showed how sho was seized by putting her arm round another female in court . ) I struggled , fell down , and
somehow escaped from him , Richard JTewna seized him and took the knife away from him . He threatened nothing more afterwards . I broke off the marriage because I heard he walked , with another girl . —The prisoner , in his defence , confessed the deed , and said he was sorry for having done it . He was committed for trial . Derbyshire . —Murder of a Man by ms Son . — A murder has been discovered to have been committed upon a poor old pensioner , named Job Doxey . The crime was committed as far back as December last , and the body of the unfortunate man was found on New Year's Eve , in a brook close by the Victoria Bridge , Glossop . The circumstances connected with the case were at tho time considered to be very mysterious , but no evidence could be
procured to implicate any party , though rumour was busy , and pointed to members of the deceased ' s own family , who were , known frequently to quarrel with and ill use the old man . On Good Friday , however , a man named John Ciough disclosed that he saw the man murdered and thrown over tho Victoria Bridge . Information having reached Mr . Clayton , the chief constable , he last week apprehended Thomas Doxey , the deceased ' s son , and W . Dawson , his son-in-law . They were , on Wcdnesday week last taken before the magistrates , when John Ciough , on being sworn , stated that on the 30 th of last December , about ten o ' clock at night , he saw the prisoner , Thomas Doxey , along with another man , whom he believed to be William Dawson , on the Victoria Bridge . The deceased was at that time walking in front of witness . The prisoner . Doxev .
caught hold of his father , and said , "You old rogue , I'll strike you . " He then gare him a blow on his head , and knocked him down , when the other man kicked him over the head . His son then cried out , " We will finish him now . " After which he kicked his father twice on the breast . Witness and his wife went up and inquired what they were doing , when they cried out , " If they did not go back they would servo them the same . " They then went away , and as they were going they saw the prisoner , Doxoy , and the other man , throw the deceased over the bridge . Witness had known the prisoner Doxey about two years , and was quite certain that he was one of tho men he saw murdering the deceased , but he did not now believe Dawson was the other one . That party was somewhat stouter . The reason he did not mention the matter
till Good Friday was , because he thought the murderers would do him some harm . The prisoner Doxey had cautioned him not to say anything about it , and told him if he did he should lose his life . The prisoner Doxey was fully committed for wilful murder ; but Dawson was discharged , his family proving that he was at home when the murder was committed . The Convict Sakah Thomas . — This wretched girl has at last confessed to the Rev . Dr . Swete , chaplain to the gaol , that she was the sole perpetrator of
the murder of her mistress . The culprit s conduct has been most extraordinary during the past week ; on some nights she will sit up , but when she gets to bed she sleeps soundly . She takes her meals regularly , eating very heartily , and walks with a firm step in the yard for airing . She is rather sullen , but displays nothing indicative of contrition . Two turnkeys ' constantly watch her , but she takes little or no notice of them . She still retains that ruddiness of complexion which was so conspicuous when present at the coroner ' s inquest . The Post Office Robberies at Exeter .
—Harrap , who was convicted at the late assizes for Exeter of having purloined valuables passing through the Exeter Post Office , has made a confession , exonerating the young man ( Hyett ) who was dismissed from the Post Ofhce some time since on suspicion of having abstracted aletter containing sixty £ 5 notes . It appears , from Harrap ' s statement , that he himself abstracted the letter , cashed twelve of the notes , and burnt the remaining forty-eight . The suspicion attached to . Hyett unfortunately resulted in the suicide of his father , and caused deep grief in a respectable family . The Murderer Burton . —A respite during her Majesty ' spleasure has been "received by the governor of Huntingdon gaol for Charles Burton , upon whom sentence of death was passed at the summer assizes for tho murder of his wife at Stilton , but who was at tho last assizes tried for the murder of his child also , and acquitted on the ground of insanity .
Ejection * or South Nottinouamshiue . — On Tuesday a special county court was held in front of the Townhall , Newark , for the purpose of electing a representative for the southern division of Nottinghamshire , made vacant by the resignation of Colonel Rolleston . The attendance of people in front of the hustings was limited , and tiie whole affair was exceedingly tame . The only cheers given to the speakers were by their personal friends upon the platform . — R . Holden , Esq ., of Locke Park , briefly proposed , and H . Sherbrook , Esq ., of Oxton , as briefly seconded , Robert Bromley , Esq . of Stoke , as a fit and proper person to sit in parliament for that division . There was no other gentleman proposed , and consequently Mr . Bromley was
declared duly elected . In returning thanks to the electors , Mr . Bromley expressed the pride he felt in the exalted position to which they had been pleased , without any effort on his part , to exalt him . Upon reflecting , however , on the magnitude of tho trust they had conferred upon him , he felt overwhelmed by a sense of his own want of ability to perform that trust . Tie could only say that he would exert his abilities to the utmost * and endeavour to make up for his want of those abilities which he might not possess by attention and zeal . Many questions of vital importance were pressing themselves upon the public notice . There was no question that much distress existed in the agricultural districts , owing to free trade measures removing all protection from agricultural produce .
The question was how should that distress be remedied . Tho most natural idea which would present itself to the farmer was , " Let us return to that duty to enable agriculturists to hold up their heads . " ( Cries of " Try it on . " ) This he looked upon as a just proposition , and he could not but think that before many years were over , they should again recur to protection . ( A voice , "Don't you wish you may get it ? " Laughter . ) There was another question now occupying the public attention ; the reduction of taxation . There were many people who threw the odium of keeping up those taxes upon the opulent classes . Nobody would be
more anxious than himself to reduce the taxes ; but they were aware that more than one-half oi tho revenue was swallowed up by the national debt —( a voice , "Ay , that ' s another nice treat oh , those dear aristocracy ! " )—and , therefore , very little remained to contend with . Having again thanked the electors for the honour they had conferred upon him , he proposed three cheers for her Majesty the Q ^ ueen . Three very faint cheers having been given lor protection , a voice in the crowd called for ¦¦ Three cheers for Richard Cobden and free trade . " The proceedings then terminated . A Mother ax » Child have perished in the Thames at Roadincr Tho woman was t . hn wifo nf a
labourer at Lower Caversham . She had been to Reading to buy groceries ; her basket was found on a slight wooden bridge which spans a cascade of the stream ; it is supposed that the child—a girl , six years old—by some means fell into the water , and then the mother was drowned in . attempting to rescue her . Robbery or thk South-Devon Railway Company . —Plymouth , April 14 th —A sub-inspector of police , in the service of the South-Devon Railway Company , was this morning brought up before the sitting magistrates , and committed to take his trial at the next borough sessions , on a charge of robbing the company of £ 117 lis . 4 id ., on the 11 th instant . It appears that on the 11 th of April , Sergeant Coram , of the South-Devon Railway Police , was about going to the office of the company for the above sum of money , to pay the men employed on
the line , which duty he usually performed , when he met the prisoner , John Winsly , who told Coram that he would have to go to Callingtoii to look after some lost luggage , and that ho ( Winsly ) would pay the men if Coram would get the money . Coram being an inferior officer obeyed , got the money , and set off for Callington , leaving the whobjof the cash in the possession of Winsly . The prisoner was next seen at Exeter , where , on the arrival of the mailtrain , which conveyed him , a telegraphic message had been received requesting his detention . A policeman accordingly went in search of him , and the prisoner was found stepping into a second-class carriage that was just starting for London he having been booked for the journey . He had a ' box and carpet bag , which contained several articles of wearing apparel , and also the whole of the money given him by Coram , exclusive of a further sum of £ 33 10 s . He was brought back and committed to prison to take his trial at tho next quarter sessions for this borough .
Gold-sbekers . —A barque called the Ajax sailed from Liverpool on Sunday for San Francisco , California , with sixty-six passengers and a good general cargo . Another Fatal Affray with Poachers . — The Wigan Times says : On Wednesday morning , the 11 th inst ., as Peter and James Nelson , brothers , gamekeepers in the service of the Earl of Crawford and Barcarres . were going their usual rounds about tTV ° ' - -- > they perceived a dog running in a wood called Longhurst , and Peter Nelson immediately levelled his gun and shot it . 'Ihe keepers then went on a short distance , when they perceived four or five men in the wood advancing towards them
. Peter Nelson advised them to leave the place , for he said they knew they were doing wrong , when some of them observed to Peter , "Now , d—1 well ray thee off . " He began to retreat' from the poachers , but they made their way up to him , and one of them struck him on the head with a cudgel . They w-re all armed with these weapons of a very formidable sort . A struggle then ei . sued , and one of them attempted to take Peter Nelson's gun from him at the same time that the others were beating him . During the struggle the gun went off and one of the poachers fell . The gun was double-barrelled , but one barrel had been discharged in destroying
the dog- The others then left off beating him . James Nelson , on the first attack , seeing from the number of h is opponents that he and Ins brother were likely to be overpowered , immediately ran off to procure assistance . At this time Peter Nelson became insensible from the blow he had received . On recovering shortly afterwards , he found the woundt-d man lying beside him . He got up and with difficulty proceeded to the nearest house , and knocked up the inmates . On returning along with his brother and other assistance they found the man removed , and , of course , supposed that he had been carried away by his companions . The gun which had been broken during the encounter was found on the spot , as also a bag containing five live rabbits ,
several nets , and two ferrets . A person named George Walls , who is employed at what is called the seven feet pit , having been informed of what had taken place , proceeded to join the keeper ' s party , and while on his way in a Jane , about eight yards from where the conflict had taken place , he found a man , n * med John Owen , lying near to a gate . The man was conveyed to a cabin in the Haigh Foundry Company ' s stable yard , and a person was despatched 'o Wigan for medical assistance . Notwithstanding that everything was done likely to save his life , he expired about six o ' clock . Previous to that , however , he had said he did not know the man who was with him , and he was not poaching , but going to Blackrod . Hill inquired whose dog it was that had
been shot , but he said it was not his , and he did not know : he had sold his dog . Owen is a married man , has a wife and two children , and resided in Wigan . Peter Nelson is still under much suffering , having been s-verely beaten in the scuffle . It was « hile the poachers were attempting to take his gun from him the piece exploded , and the charge entered the Ic »* of the deceased man Owen . It penetrated his leg , and a profuse flow of blood ensued , which brought on fatal exhaustion . Supposed Murder . —Some extraordinary evidence came before the Borough Court , Manchester , on Monday , in relation to a supposed murder on the 23 rd of last month . It appears that on the 23 rd ult . Mr . Joshua Royle , a pork butcher at Stretford ,
came to M-inchester to purchase some pigs . He had in his pocket when he left home £ 20 in money and a watch . He bought and paid for some pigs , accounting l ' o < -all the money except rather over £ 3 , and was seen drinking with some bad company , including women of the town , at a public-bouse in Hardmanstreet , Manchester , on the evening of that day , but he was never heard of from that time till , oh the 11 th instant , his body was discovered in the river Irwell , near Ihe Old Quay , Manchester . It was then found that he had no money upon him ; his watch was gone , and his pockets were empty . His nose was bruised , and both eyes were blackened . An inquest was held on the body on the 11 th inst ., when , no satisfactory evidence as to the manner of his
death being obtained , an open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned . Mr . Beswick , of the Manchester detective police , having directed h ' s attention to the facts , he has since apprehended a dyer , named Thomas Edge , on suspicion of the murder ; and at the Borough Court , on Monday , the following extraordinary facts were deposed to : Richard Hodges , an oast ' er , in the employ of Mr . Massey , who runs the omnibusses between Stretford and Manchester , having been sworn , said he knew the prisoner . He also knew the deceased , Mr . Itoyle , very well . He saw th « deceased on the 23 rd ult . in the evening , in the Golden Eagle public-house , flardman steet , Manchester , and the prisoner and one or two other men were with him . They went from there to the
Three Sugar Loaves Inn , Water-street , which i-. nearer to the river . He was with them there , and had something to drink with them . He afterwards accompanied tbe deceased and his companions down Atherton-street . The prisoner had hold of deceased on one side , and another man on the other * ide ; they said they would take him home . Witness told the prisoner not to hurt Royle , and tho prisoner gave witness a blow over the eye . They went through Atherton-street and Junction street to the river side , and there the prisoner pushed Royle into the water . — Mr . Maude : And did you not attempt to get him out again ?—Witness : Yes , but we could not find him .-Mr . Maude : And did you tell anyone else of this affair ? ?— Witness ; Yes , we told the private
watchman of the Old Quay Company , and he came and looked for the body , but could not find it-Mr . Beswick : And what did the private watchman say ?—W itness : He said it was a bad jib . —Mr Maude : And when did you first tell any one of these things ?~ Winoss : This morning . —Mr . Maude : Not tell any one of it till this morning ? \ Vhy it ' s three weeks since . —Mr . Beswick : You said a person named Blaize was with you at the time : have you seen him since ?—Witne s : Yes , once . — Mr . Beswick : And have you not talked the matter over with him since ?—Witness ; No . —Mr . Maude : What , have you seen him since , and never reverted once to a circumstance so extraordinary . ' —Witness : No . —Mr . Beswick then called the deceased ' s
stepson , to prove that Royle had money and a watch on his person when he left home , and other witnesses to show that nothing was found in his pock- , ts when taken from the river . He then asked the magistrates for a remand , to make inquiries from the private watchman , and for other investigations—Mr . Maude : Till when ?—Mr . Beswick : I hope you won ' t think till Thursday too long ? -Mr . Maude . Certainly not ; and I think you should have this witness ( Hodge ) detained . The evidence he gives is very extraordinary . —Mr . Beswick : Would you bind bim over . ' —Mr . Maude ( to Hodge ) : You mu t find two sureties of £ 20 each ; your conduct in th « affair , on your own showing , is such as warrants me in detaining you . Tiie parties were then b . th removed in custody .
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT RUSH . The condemned convict Rush was visited on Monday by the whole of his family of nine children . They arrived at the Castle between two and three o ' clock , and were accompanied by Mr . James Rush , of Wymondham , brother to the convict , and Mr . Somes , brother of the late Mrs . Mush . On reaching the Castle they were received by Mr . Pinson , the governor , who conducted them to the cell in which the convict lies . When Mr . Pinson announced to the convict that his family had arrived . Rush for a moment or two buried his face in his hands , and seemed to be deeply affected . Having regained somewhat of his usual composure , he said , " Let them be admitted ; " and the next minute the whole of the nine children were in the presence of their unhappy parent . The scene is described by those wlio , witnessed it as being most painful , both parent and
children giving wav to the wildest paroxysms of grief . They spoke little upon family affairs . The convict with great earnestness called upon God to witness his innocence of the foul crimes immtedto him , and with many prayers recommended his children , especially the younger ones , to the protecting care of the Almighty . The interview lasted upwards of two hours , and as it was understood that this was to be the parting visit , its close was most painful . Parent and children embraced each other , and gave vent to the loudest lamentations : even the gaolers and others , who are accustomed to such scenes , were greatly affected . At length the children of the unhappy man left him , and after indulging for some m' ments in grief , he fell upon bis knees and was engaged for a long time in earnest prayer . A large number of persons congregated on the outside of the Castle walls to witness the departure of the convict's family .
A cheque for £ 40 has just been given by Rush to Mr . Pinson , governor of the Castle , under verv curious ch'cvwnsUncea . It will be recollected that , in the course of the trial , Mr . John Cann , solicitor , and clerk to the magistrates at Wymondham , produced certain papers and books which he found at Potash Farm , on going there after the apprehension of Rush . Amongst these was a pocket-book , which contained certain entries relative to Rush ' s business , and also a few memoranda , & c , on slips of paper . There was also a cheque in it , drawn in favour of Hush , for £ 40 . Immediately on the pocketbook being produced in court Rush asked permission to inspect it , and as the judge assented , it was immediately handed to him . After detaining it for some
few moments , he requested that he might be allowed to have it in his possession until the following morning . The counsel for the prosecution objected to this , whereupon Rush handed back ta * book to Mr . Cann . No examination of th « book was made when it came from the hands of the prisoner ; but on the following day Mr . John Cann discovered that the cheque had been abstracted . His susp ' cions immediately fell upon the prisoner Rush ; indeed Mr . Cann felt convincrd that nobody else could have taken it , the book , with others , having been placed in a strong chest , locked up , while it remained at Mr . Cann ' s house . Nothing was done in the matter until after the close of the trial * when Mr . Pinson ^ the governor of the castle ,
was requested to sound the . convict on the _ subject . When Mr . Pinson first put the question to him , Rush said , "No doubt that fellow . Cann has got it ; why don't you ask him ? He knows all about it . " Day after day passed . Similar questions were put to the convict on the subject , only , however , to elicit the same reply , that " Cann knewaH abput it , and that if they wanted any information about it they had better ask him . It ' s of no use asking me anything , " said Rush , "I tell you 1 have not j-ot it , and don't know anything about it . No doubt that fellow Cann has taken it . " On Friday last , Mr . Durrant , a highly
respectable solicitor ef Norwich , visited the castle , and in the presence of the governor saw Rush on the subject of the missing cheque- Rush fenced for a longtime , and at length said , " Well , suppose I do know anything of it , what then ? " It was urged upon him that as he had improperly obtained possession of it , be ought to give it up . He said , ' No ; I don't want to troub ' c mvself about it . You had better ask John Cann . " Mr . Durrant pressed hira very closely , and at length Rush said , ' * Well , suppose it should be found , what will become of it ?" Mr . Pinson , the governor , replied that , under the circumstances , he had no doubt the crown would order it to be handed over to the convict ' s family .
Rush , after musing a faw moments , said , # Well , Mr . Pinson , if you really think it will be given to my children , perhaps I might be able to tell you something about it . You will find it in the lining of my hat . " The hat was immediately produced and the . cheque was found carefully placed under the lining in the crown . During the few moments Rush had possession of the book he managed to abstract the document unseen by any one , although every eye was turned upon him . On being convicted , he was very particular about his hat , and manifested considerable anxiety about it before he left the dock . In many respects Rush is an altered man . He engages frequently in prayer , and is very attentive to the Rev . W . W . Andrews , Vicar of Ketteringham , who visits him at his own request , in conjunction with the Rev . P . Brown , the chaplain of the Castle . He offers up a short prayer before each meal , and engages in a similar act of devotion at the close of his repast .
The family of the convict bas been ejected from Felmingham farms , under the notice of ejectment some time since served . They still remain at Potash , but only upon sufferance . There is some talk of pulling down Potash Farm house , and building another house upon its site , to be called , of course , by a different name . Mrs . Jermy and Eliza Chestney ( both of whom are still at Stanfield Hall ) are going on favourably-indeed , the latter is almost well . A Norwich correspondent supplies a probable reason why Rush , after he had shot Mr . Jermy sen ., went round by the servants' door , and risked detection by passing along their passages . He says , " It is explained by the fact that in a box in a closet at the end of the passage , leading to the staircase hall ,
Mr . Jermy kept his papers and the movigage deeds relat ng to Potash Farm , and that Rush's intention was , doubtless , to secure those deeds ar . all hazards , for , according to the forged documents cancelling the mortgage , all the deeds and papers of a prior date relating to Potash Farm were to be burned . Young Mr . Jermy just reached the door opening into the recess when Rush reached it , and therefore Rush fired at him . After shooting young Mr . Jermy he very likely went into the dining room to shoot any person there , and thus to prevent the possibility of his being interrupted while he was employed in securing the deeds . The two females rati to the same recess , and further prevented his purpose being carri'd out ; and when he came out of the diningroom he fired at them , doubtless with the view of escaping detection . "
A correspondent of the Bwy Post says ; " As everything appertaining to the Stanfield Hall tragedy appears still to be full of interest to the public , perhaps the following particulars of the unfortunate , but not to be despised Miss Sandford , will be acceptable to your readers , and m ^ y also act as a salutary caution to those who may have any young friend seeking her livelihood as a governess—a class greatly to be pitied . They also tend to show the extent — the intricate ramifications , of the assassin ' s complicated scheme of viilany . Rush , as before stated , put an advertisement in the Times for a governess for his children . Mrs . Sandford , the mother of ten children , seeing this , took her eldest daughter to the reference in the advertisement , a very respectable house in a
good Street in town , where they found Mr . Rush , occupying the first floor . The ' landlady had been induced to represent she knew Mr . Rush , and spoke of him as a worthy kind of man ; and after various inquiries and witnessing her handwriting , the daughter was engaged to go down to Norfolk to educate Rush ' s children . Some months after having been there she was rather surprised at receiving no replies from her mother , and the latter was equally so at receiving no replies from her daughter ; during this state of things Rush when in town called upon Mrs . Sandford , who very naturally expressed surprise at not having heard from her daughter , whereupon Rush said he believed the tact was she was become engaged to a Mr . James , a commercial traveller , but for some reasons she thought it would be a match her mother would not altogether approve , and therefore preferred not writing at all to her , The
fact , no doubt , was , Rush himself had intercepted these letters both ways , and thus caused an estrangement between her and her friends , to facilitate his own purposes and her ruin . She now felt her dependence upon Rush , and in the simplicity and confidence of her nature , and her ignorance of the world and its snares , soon became first his victim and then his instrument . He subsequently compelled her to write to her friends in such a way as to repel any attempt on their part to interfere in her welfare . So late as ten days before the murder Rush again called upon Mrs Sandford , and told her her daughter was married , and had been in France for six months , with her husband , Mr . James . The inference of all this is evident . It would have accounted for her disappearance , had such taken place , of which there is little doubt in the minds of these intimately acquainted with the minutise of attendant circumstances . "
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Death of Sir Axdrj-w Aoxew . —Sir Andrew , Agnew , of Lochnaw , Bart ., died at his house , Rutland-square , on Thursday week . Sir Andrew was born in 1703 . Ilis mother was the sixth child of Lord Kinsale , " the premier baron of Ireland , the title having been created in 1181 . Sir Andrew succeeded his father in 1809 , and is now succeeded by his son , Captain Agnew who , in 1847 , married the daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough . Murder . —A man has been taken into custody at
Auchterless , on a charge of violation and murder . The victim is an old woman named Smith , who was at the time of the crime the only inhabitant of a small cottage ; and tho charge against the prisoner , James Iiobb , labourer , aged 22 , is that he entered her cottage , on the ni g ht of Monday , the 9 th inst ., by the chimney , and so horribly abused her as to cause her death . The prisoner admits having been in the cottage ) and having entered it in the manner described . He had left a peculiar-looking walking stick behind him , which has boon identified , lie has been confined in Aberdeen gaol .
The Robbery of Five IIuxdred Pouxds . —Our readers will probably recollect that three months ago we « avo a detail of tho theft or robbery of the sum of £ 500 , which was effected in a very dexterous manner from tho counter of the Union Bank , Glasgow , on a Saturday , when the bank was more than usually thronged . The sum carried off consisted of five notes , each for £ 100 . Xot until last week could tho slightest clue be found to any part of tho money , when , strange to say , one of the ' lost or stolen notes for £ 100 was found to have been lodged in the savings' bank at Greenock , by a spirit-dealer of that town , who was not previously known amongst his fellow-townsmen as having at any time of his life been blessed with bank notes for a large amount .
His name is Dugald Walker , and there can be no mistake as to the identity of the note , from the peculiarity of a piece of silk being pasted on the back of it for its better preservation . He was on Friday week apprehended in his place of business , and is now in the hands of the Glasgow police . Apiw . li . ixo Family Beukavemexts . —Rarely , if ever before , has it been our sad duty to record such devastation as disease has recently committed in one family—that of Mr . James Henderson , mason , residing at a cot-house on the farm of East-hill , Lochrutton . lie had been for some time afflicted with a liver complaint , and about a fortni g ht ago he was seized by diarrhoea , and soon after his wife , and all his children , six in number , were attacked by the same malady . The husband rapidly sunk
under the disease , and died upon Saturday , the 24 th ult . A daughter , one year old , died next day ; and on the following day , a son , aged eleven years , was also laid lifeless by the fell disease . Tho bodies of father , son , and daughter , were , on Tuesday , tho 27 th ult ., conveyed in a hearse to Dunscore old churchyard , and there buried in one grave . Death still continued his efforts , and ^ on Thursday last , two more victims fell—another daughter aged three years , and another sou aged nine years . Thoy were buried beside the others on Saturday . Five persons out of the family have thus been cut off in six days . Mrs . Henderson is , too , labouring under diarrhoea , but still more under intense sorrow , and continues in a precarious state ; and the two remaining children are not considered out of danger . —Dumfries Standard ,
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Dublin, Saturday.—Discharge Op The Jury....
Dublin , Saturday . —Discharge op the Jury . — Mb . Duffy Admitted to Bail . —The protracted struggle between tho Crown and Mr . Gavan Duffy has , for the present , terminated in a drawn battle . The jury are discharged without a verdict , and Mr . Duffy has been admitted to bail , to appear at the next commission , himself in £ 1 , 000 , and two sureties in £ 500 each . One of the jurors became so dangerousl y ill , that his immediate liberation was considered necessary . The result of the case , and the announcement of Mr . Duffy ' s admission to bail was received with loud and ' enthusiastic cheers by those assembled in tho court and the neighbourhood . Hormbi , k Destitution . —The llev . Jas . Meagher parish of
priest Upper Church , in a letter to the uppcra ™ Vmdkator ^ says- " I not long since attended the death-bod of a poor widow , who , with four orphan ., , had lived for three weeks on the flesh of an old horse , preserved for that length of time from getting putrin bv salt " ° Progress of Insolvency ix IRKLAXD . _ The re-1 ^ ™ w rl « l ? i Mr Commissioner luricll , now on circuit m the South nresent i very curious picture of the spreadi of ' in olvenc ? amongst almost all classes . In Cork on Tuesdav ClmiS ^ , Si : ? gymenofthoE 8 taWishod tv « £ hr uZ . ed lcal doctors , the Hon . John B . » v iifi n f V ° rd L w- *) . some of the minor gtntiv , and a number of farmers
. Lynch iw Lynci - —It is only now that John „? .- *• * c . n ' y attotnoy , who several months awo ft ^ rt cntenccd t 0 bo transported for lourtcon years wi the grossest frauds on the Tralee Savings Bank
Dublin, Saturday.—Discharge Op The Jury....
is transferred to Spike Island , preparatory to bis shipment to the penal colonies . The Cholera . — There have been twenty-four deaths from cholera in the workhouse of Armagh since Monday . From Kilkenny the report giveg twenty-five new cases of cholera since Wednesday . The Tipperary Vindicator of this day says : — " The disease has by no means abated in Ncnagh—in the workhouse alone , from Sunday morning till twelve o [ cJock yesterday , the deaths amounted to seventynine . The Cork Examiner of yesterday states , that " within the last twenty-four hours , six persons have diedin the workhouseof cholera . " The cholera is declining in Limerick . The Banner of Ulster states , that since the 7 th inst ., the cafes in Belfast and vicinity have averaged ten daily .
Moxday . — Mr . Duffy . —After this second failure of the trial bv jury experiment , it is questionable whether it wbu'id be discreet to hazard a third attempt at what seems to be a forlorn hope , another defeat serving no better end than to lower still further in public estimation the " great palladium " ti » f human liberty as it may be justly called in England , and with equal justice nicknamed in Ireland . Meantime the whole country is heartily sick of thoso proceedings ; and wide-spread indeed will be the rejoicing if this , the latest , is also doomed to be the last ' ' * State trial" during the present generation .
Tranquillity—superinduced more by tbe powerful agency of hunger and pestilence than by the potency of bayonets and prosecutions—has been perfectly restored ; and it is now high time for statesmen to grapple with the evils of Ireland , and to show that there is a will as well as a way to govern that country . AVith respect to Mr . Duffy ' s jury it is stated , and I believe with truth , that seven stood out for an unqualified acquittid , this majority being composed of the four Roman Catholics—Messrs . Farrell , Fallon , Egan and Kelly , and three Protestants , namely , Mr . Saunders , the foreman , Mr . Myers , and Mr . Morrisson . —Times .
The surpassing exertions made by Mr . Butt and Sir Colman O'Loghlen for their clients are the theme of general praise . Sir Colman O'Loghlcii ' s ingenuity is very remarkable . It is to his exertions that the case of Mr . Duffy was so long put off till the public mind calmed down , and all resentment disappeared . —Daily News . The State Prisoners . —The Freeman is now suggesting the expediency of a movement on behalf of Messrs . Smith O'Brien , Meagher , O'Doherty , Mitchel , Martin , and the other persons convicted during the State Trials , with a view to the " immediate release" of those whose only error was loving their
country " not wisely , but too well . " That journal says : — " The fact of Mr . Duffy ' s having been admitted to bail we construe into an implied assurance that all further proceedings against that gentleman will be stayed . But now that his trial is over , w * trust that the public mind will be directed towards the cases of the other high-minded and disinterested men who had the misfortune to be tried at more excited periods , when passion and prejudice warped the judgment , and when verdicts were more hkely to be the heated pronouncement of political p artizans than the calm decision of the ' country . ' " Depreciation of Landed Property . —The
correspondent of the Aforning Chronicle says : — " Such is the exceeding depreciation in the value of land at present , I understand , that on the estate of Mr . Kirwan , of Dalgan , in the county of Mayo , land which produced a rent of £ 2 12 s . 6 d . tho Irish acre some time since , being out of lease , the tenant would offer no move than £ 1 per acre , and even this only on condition of the landlord paying all taxes chargeable on the farm . The land is of excellent quality—about the best in any part of Mayo—and so great a falling off in its letting value is a striking exemplification of the ruinous change which four years have produced upon the rentals of tiie gentry . The Cholera in the South and West . —Modified as tbe epidemic has boon in its present visitation , its extension to the distressed districts of the south has been marked by serious mortality amongst the broken-down peasantry , and many even of thelniddlo
class have fallen victims . The village of Hathkcale , in the county of Limerick , appears to have suffered more severely than any other part of Ireland . Hathkcale is a miserable accumulation of pauperism , containing a great number of thatched mud cabins in the suburbs , in which evicted cottier tenants have congregated . The present condition of this impoverished "town , " as it is designated , is thus described in a Conservative journal , the limerick Chronicle : — " Thursday evening , the llev . James 0 'Shea went through the town of Hathkcale , and prevailed upon all the shopkeepers to open their concerns next day , so dismal was the appearance of the town for the last week , under the fatal devastation of cholera , that confidence was nearly at an end . This town lias been in an alarming state , for hundreds had been hurried to eternity . " Those persons in comfortable circumstances have suffered to
an extent unprecedented since the first appearance of cholera in 1 S 32 . There were 150 in hospital , and the external cases were more than double that number . There was scarcely a second house in Ratlikealc without a patient . " The Rev . Richard Xunan and the Rev . J . O'Shca are indefatigable , day and night , in administering religious consolation to tho sick and dying visited with this awful malady . It ia the opinion of the faculty and clergymen that the disease has since assumed a milder type . " Irish Representative 1 ' eeraue . —Lord Dunsany is n candidate for the representative peerage , vacant by the death of the Earl of Gosford . Tuesday . —The Crisis . —From the sowing time , now nearly past , until the harvest , will be a period of the deepest anxiety in all parts of Ireland , and , in the west and south , of suffering as severe as has
been known during the protracted and desolating famine . One great stop , at all events , has been accomplished on the road to recovery . Taking one district with another , tho land is much hotter and moro judiciously cropped than in tho two preceding years ; and although many acres are neglected , in some places , and , in some others , much more land planted with potatoes than prudence would warrant , still , all things considered , there is reason to rejoice at the extent of the preparations for the next * harvest . Upon the produce of that harvest , however , all the hopes of the country are centred . An abundant return would go far towards restoring our exhausted resources , and commencing a now era in Ireland . The peasantry have made their last effort in cropping the land , and in the distressed districts have suffered great privations . There is now little or no employment to alleviate their misery , or to lessen the overwhelming burden of pauperism . The southern towns are crowded with destitute poor .
All parties here seem to think tho downfall of the Whigs at hand , and there is great apathv about their fate even amongst their professed friciids . The feeling even at the Whig bar is , that " Ministers had better go out and try for a public character . "Daily News , Wednesday . —State or the Country . —As the season advances all the sources of misery and demoralisation are increasing . The clearance system is extending to districts and estates heretofore unaffected by this mode of disencumbering the land oi its half-famished occupants . In two south-western counties , Clare and Kerry , evictions by wholesale are now in progress , to a ' much greater extent than at any former period during the famine . From one district in Kerry on a propertv under the Court of Chancery , one thousand human beings were
turned out last week . From another , belonirinjr to Trinity College , a vast number of occupants have been evicted . In all probability , those miserable people paid little or nothing in the shape ot * rout since the potato failure ; but the expulsion of sneli numbers , augmenting the already fearful amount of pauperism , is not the less to be * regretted as an aggravation of our social evils , and a now cause of embarrassment to the gentry and ratepayers , still struggling to maintain their position in the country . —In Glare , a portion of the parties evicted had been substantial farmers , and the local Conservative paper , the Clare Journal , states that some of t '"" dwellings levelled by the bailiffs appeared to '' J comfortable farm-houses . The tenantry attornF " resistance ; but the aid of a party of constabulary was obtained , and the ringleader was arresteil . - Jforning Chronicle .
The Weather . —Suddenly , after a winter of unusual mildness , and a remarkably fine opening of the spring , we have experienced all the harslme . " - - oi winter . For a day or two tho temperature }«¦> very cold , and Tuesdav , after a frost the [ . iWfjl-i'S night , we had a heavy fall of snow . This sudden severity of the weather will greatlv agaravau- - a- tho sufferings and privations of the destitute P ° or ' who arc endeavouring to keep body and soul W ' gether on the scanty allowance of out-door l' * " ™ without anything in the shape of provision ' clothing , lodging , or fuel . T , Poor Hf-lief . —Lord Stuart de Dec" « - ' Clonmel Chronicle contains the following in refrieD '; . to the condition of the Dungarvan Union :- " - *?' , Stuart de Decies , the chairman of this union . . ¦" . ' •¦ . resigned his office in consequence of the i »« i 0 . - ' v the hoard having voted against ont-door relief . * Poor law Commissioners have directed the "in- '' '; , . „ . - „« ...... w . iiiuiooiuiH-iaiiitvc uiici . L-.-u i »> - r > ijtow
to re-consider their conduct , and informed them »» wise that they agree with Lord Stuart de i | Cj . f < and the minority on the subject of out-door re ( 1 Some of the guardians recently waited o " . j , ;; Stuart de Decies ^ urging hint to resume as ? - " ^ office ; but this his lordship declined to d ° . ^ Fever Hospital at Abbevside is much crowded- * more patients can be admitted to the Fever * pital till the sheds are finished , which arc now d ^ erected . Many persons are emigrating h ' ' « union , nearly all of the better class ofeniij ? 1 " - " *; " jn The Cholera . —Tho epidemic still bng ^ vanous quarters . The Banner of Ulster notice- ,, ^ alarming spread of cholera in llallyme » ' - Armagh the malady is also spreading . i ( J [ rj Mr . Duffy . —The Freeman ' s Journal sW ^ tf Duffy has not been abroad since his release , * ' ^ a part of tho time has been confined to his roo » ^ j unable to receive the numerous friends -w » ' ° ' * ¦( upon him ; but yesterday he was almost qn '"' ^ Do is on a-visit for the present with hrauiw * * law , Dr , Callan , 25 , Lower Bagot-siroet .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 21, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21041849/page/6/
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