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      . The Irish Trials For High Treason. '. ...

      than by their Judgment Amid & ° ° ?* rt-hou--s ? eetabie persons-who thronged tnei u . hd x there were no doubt many , J *^?/ " of one with pe-iemneg a » me regret at the pfc » ft prisoner , aoeh 1 B _ oulitodiiiental ^« B ^ 33 ^ W ^ while , in addition , to h » Pf nS-c 7 o > family rethose whom lMaltiesor . th « i "JS ° ' COuat / had Sttttis & gSs & ii ssjefessstt- *** " xieiad-e- took tbeir se-t - at the usual hour . Mr wSftc Mr Butt , <_ C SB : Colman tVLaSS and Mr F- Maher , were retamed for the TSSe name of the first juror being called-M ? Weagher , addressing the bench with perfect ernSure of ianner . said-My lords , previous to the jury b-ing sworn , I beg leave to say a few words . I desire to protest against the constitution ottaa nanpl frr . tn which the iurv by whom I am to be tnea

      ia to be selected . Personally . I care not whether am to ba tried by a jury of Protestants or a jury of Roman Catholics . Though I am myself a Roman Catholic I feel that my case , my hontur , my liberty , my life , are as safe , in the hands of a jary exclusively composed of Protestants as one exclusively composed of Roman Catholics . Were I to consalt my own feelings only . Ishoald not make these observations , but my lords , as a matter of principle-a principle vitally affecting the pure , the legitimate , the safe administration ofjusricein tbis kingdom—upon high public grounds , perhaps the highest that can exist , I do seri

      feel myself called upon to protest , and I so - ously and soleonly , against a system by which , in a Boman Catholic county of a Boman CathoHc country , only eighteen Roman Catholics are returned upon a panel of near 300 jurors . In consequence of the demorrer in the case of William Smith O'Brien , Iconeeive it would ba a wanton waste of the public time were 1 to instruct my counsel to challenge the array ; but as I feel tbat tbis may be the last time I may be permitted to raise my voice , I cannot let this opportunity pass without protesting in tbe strongest manner against a system which virtually repeals the ri _ hta conferred by law upon the members of the

      re-Bgtous creed to which I am proud to belong . In doing so , however , I assure your lordships , the gentlemen who will be aworn to try me , and all who know ae and have given credence to the sincerity of the santimeH-i I have expressed ia public , that in making these remarks . I have not been influenced , ta the slightest degree , by a spirit of sectarianism . At the conclusion of the above statement , the prisoner was loudly applauded by the persons assembled in the galleries and body of the court . The names of the jury were then read over , and twenty being challenged absolutely on behalf of the i

      prisoner , and many others for causes shown , a great deal of time was consumed . The following were eventually sworn : —James Wellington , of Castle Wellington ; Augustus Hartford , Wellington Lodge ; Samuel Ryan , Anau'Vula ; Thomas Lyndsly . Tindvffle ; Benjamin Hawk-haw , Falleen ; Nicholas B . Green , Knocknaspie ; Richard Kennedy , Knockballymaber ; Thomas Heirden , Summer Hill ; Richard Mason , Clonkenny ; Edward Cbadwicke , BaDinard ; . Benjamin Hawkshaw , Knockane ; Bichard Hamersly , Banshee House . One of these gentlemen , Mr Greene , is a Boman Catholic .

      The Clerk of toe Crown then arraigned the pnaoner in toe usual form . The indictment charged him with levying war against the Queen at the pound of Ballingarry ,. at Hullinahone , at Killeuaule , and atFatrinrory . Mr Lynch read an abstract of the indictment , Hie first five counts charged Mr Meagher with the crime of high treason , in levying war against the Queen , Tab sixth contained seven overt aots , and charged him with compassing and imagining the death oftbe Queen , by the actssUted in the former counts . The Attorney General then opened the case of the Grown : against the prisoner . He stated that Dobbin is seaia to be put upon toe table , and intimatedthat if any attempt was made to impugn bis credit * he would be prepared to uphold it by additional witnesses .

      The examination of Mr Hodges , and of a gentleman who proved toe handwriting of the orisoner in some documents that were given in evidence , closed toe proceedings of the day . The courtopened on Tuesday , at ton o ' clock . T . S . Dobbin , the informer , warthe first witness examined . He deposed to having seen Mr Meagher at a meeting of the Curran Club at Dublin , in June Mr Meagher waa not a member of the Curran Club , but was a registered member of the Graf tan Club ; he attended a meeting on the -2 nd of June , for the presentation of colours to the club .. It was a tricoloured fhg . Mr Meagher spoke of them standing to thsir colours to establish the independence of their erantry . Attended a meeting on the 21 st . Mr

      Meagher was present . Mr Dillon was moved to the chair . No business waa done until Mr Meagher came . He was in the room when Mr Dillon was Bored to toe chair . It was stated in the room that Oa tneetm ? was for tbe election of an executive council . Mr Dillon announced it from the chair . It was said that a council of twenty-one members was too numerous , as tbeir transactions would oox . out through so many hands , and that there would be more secresy in a smaller number . Mr Dillon mentioned certain names out of a letter brought to him by Mr Lalor from Mr BiSy , who was in prison ; they , were toe names of persons whom Mr Daffy wished to be on the executive council ; tbe names of three clergymen were read out—those of Mr Hughes ,

      Mr-O'Malley , and Mr Kenyon ; the name of Mr Lalor was also menfioaed ; some of the members slid , that asit was to bs a war council , it was not fit that priests should be on it . The persons announced to be elected were Mr Dillon , Mr Meagher , Mr CGorman . jun ., Mr M ' Gbee , and Mr Devin Reilly Mr Lalor and Mr MTfermott wanted those present to give a pledge tbat they would expedite the insurrection by the 8 th of August ; Mr Meagher objected to give any pledge of tbat sort , tbat he would hare i . onthe 8 th , buthesaid he would do » U in his power to expedite it even before the 8 th . Mr Lalor stated that the council of fire were to sit next day to arrange to bave four club meetings in Dublin on the next Sunday , the 23 rd ; they were to have no

      s peeches ; but the names ot the dub men wera to te called out ; tbey were not to tell the clubs anything about where they were to meet until about two hours before tho meeting , asit was considered they should be sufficiently well organised to turn out at two hours' notice . The object of this meeting waa to ascertain the numerical strength of the dubs ; they were not to bs armed , the witness was subjected to a lengthened an I searching erf ss examination by Mr Whiteside in tse course of which the learned counsel fully exposed thecharsctfr of Dobbin and tracked bim through a great variety of situations , in all of which he figured the reverse of honourable , when toe informer was dismissed . A police officer was examined , who proved thefiuding of the letter to Mr Smith by Mr Meagher , and - read ia -our . on the previous day . In Mr

      Smith ' s house were also found many other letters in MrMeagher ' s handwriting . Voting and other papers taken from Mr Ltlor were then put in evidence and identified . —Constable Dunlevie deposed that he was stationed at Enniseorthy in July last , and that on the morning of Sunday , tbe 23 rd , he saw Mr Smith O'Brien , Mr Meagher , and Mr Dillon , come into the town on a car ; they addressed the people in the market-place . Mr Meagher said he always was snd ever would remain the unrelenting enemy of the British government ; that he had the honour a short time ago to address 50 , 000 Tipperary menthai they were prepared to do their duty . —Mr Dillon aaid that the Wexford men were brave and determined—that they ail had a gun in a corner , and kept their powder dry , and were always sure te hit their mark .

      Mr Butt , examined these amateur pslics reporters most amusingly , and effectively demonstrated the fact , tbatthey were mere concoctions , by showing that though they pretended to have an accurate and exact recollection of words spoken many months ago , t-ev eould not recollect the exact words of -the first , scatind , third , or fourth questions'he had put to them . Tte fact , that the story had been learned parrot-like w _ a still further demonstrated by the impossibility of-getting them to state the speeches in the first person—it was all 'ha said . ' One of tha objects of tbe crog ^ examination was to show that it waa impossible to connect Mr O'JBpea ' s and Mr Meagher ' s purpose together ; A great _ tumber of witnesses remain toba examined oa .. the part of the crown .

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      OalYiday there waa . an aujottrued meeting of the committee' appointed to prepare aud forward an addrf : S ta the Lord 'Lieutenant , ' in concurrence with tae recommendation of the jury by whom Mr Williaui Smith O'Brien wae found guilty , that her Majesty ' s paci 6 uj- |( rerogatffe of mercy should be extendedto him . The meeting was advertised for tile hour of-twelve o ' clock ; 'but long before that hour , anil froman early peradin the day , Ridley ' s Hotel ( the place . of meeting ) was thronged , with numerous grenpsxsf citirans of all-creeds , the resident gentry , yfl iDftoefrtiat mercfiaa | a of the city , besides large nnmfiM-ftbacIerar , ' , Catholic and Protestant , inrft both

      dndic ^^ eral -w ffignHaries of churches , who eadje for the Cypress purposeof forwarding the objects ef the eau & tttee aad affixing their signst _ te *; f ( r theadttwajsmafta of whioh had been drawn " ^ ^ k jW » - * -eaT ( a signing at the place of meet * M _ £ ^ n _ aferwtaily , during the day , crowds of atHBawflwraueffto pour in for the purpose of riguu * toetadd « 8-, -copies of which were placed in save . ¦ m ttnyenie-ttparta ef the premises to ensure greater -aqaSpand oonvau-noe for signatures ; while the aufc £ a _ atttte * w h ___ bad been appointed continued ;»» occupied in reeeiving names affixed to copies ; . ( g-teaddraB , thousands of which had been mrcufcted urall dixectiona aim * the day preyioui Amorat the meet dotinguuhed signatures we no . toed thsM af-Tte Most Eer . ArehbWiop Murray j

      Right Re "„ Dr Browne , Bishop of Elphin ; Right Rev . D , Deny , Right Rev . Dr Keatinge , Right Rav " £ ) r M'Donuell , Right Rev . Dr Feeney , Right £ ev . Dr M Gettigan , Right Rev . D ? Cantwell . Right Rw . Dr Blake , Right Rev . Dr Healy , the Provost of Trinity College , Lord Oranmore , Dr M'Donnell , S . F . T . O . D . , the Venerable Dean Meyler , the Very Rev . Dr O'Connell , St Michael and St John's ; the Right lion , the Lord Mayor . Sir Richard Baker , Sir Ge . rge Morns , Charles D . vid Latouobe , Pierce Mauony , James Fegan , M . P ., Major General Vandeleur , J . D . Filrgerald , QiC , Major Talbot , John

      Reynolds , M . P . Alderman Kinnahan , Sir Harcourt Leea , Charles Fitoin-on , Rev 3 . M'Sorley , J . P ., the Rev . Thomas Kelly , of Kelly villa , Queen's County ; Sir Drury Jones Dirkensen , Professor Harrison , John L . Arabin . the 0 'Gr . rman Mahon , M . P , Thomas Llayd , D . L ., Beechmont ; Franeis Coppinger , J . P ., Matthew Derhif , D . L . and J . P ., James Perry , J . P ., George F . Shaw , F . T . O . D ., James Byrne , F . T . C . D . , Nicholas Maher , M . P ., Charles P . M Donald , M . R . I . A ., John Maher , D . L ., and a host of other names , numbering amongst them the most influential of our resident gentry aad moat respected

      citizens . THE iPPKOACHIS * OOUUISSIOK IS DUBLIN . It is decided that Mr Gavin Daffy shall ba tried by the county , aad not the city jurors , eaoh of wh , m ia summoned to appear oa Saturday next , on fine of £ 200 , as already stated . Bills for high treason against Duffy will be sent before the grand jury on that day . The letter found in O'Brien ' s portmanteau , and proved oa his trial to be in the handwriting of Duffy , will be used aa a leading piece of evidence ; Some words originally written in that letter , but obliterated , and others substituted by the writer previous to sealing , bave been sufficiently restored to enable every one to taow what they are , and it is alleged that tbey must have a material effect upon the case . .. _

      On Saturday , Mr E ; Trounton and Mr Martin J . Burke , who were confined in Newgate under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aot , were sent to Clonmel by railway . The parties were summoned on behalf of Mr Thomas F . Meagher , to be examined aa wit-esses on his trial . DABISS ATTEMPT BT COHVICT- TO BSC-M -B 0 M CABBICHT-BaiJS OAOt—DEATH OF OHB OH THE cosviors . The Bel-asi Nsws LuTMBB & ys : — ' An alarming rumour waa prevalent in Belfast on Thursday , to the effect that tbe State prisoners confined in Belfast Bridewell had effected their escape , and that one had been killed ; but on inquiry we leaned that the report waa altogether unfounded so far as regards tbe

      Bridewell , but that an unfortunate occurrence bad taken place ia Carrickferfus gaol , attended with the death of one of the convicts under sentence of transportation , who waa shot in the attempt to escape from the prison by one of the gaol guards . On receipt of this intelligence , we despatched' our reporter to Carriokfergus , and from him we have received the following particulars :- 'I waited on Mr Erskine-, the respected governor of Carrickfergus gaol , to aaoertaia the facta of the report which waa so generally circulated through town to-day , and was politely conducted throu gh the scene of the morning ' s fatal occurrence , aad learned from him every particular whioh can interest the public The occurrence took nlace between six and seven o'clook this ( Thursday )

      morning , at the time the prisoners were being removed from their cells to the wards occupied by them during the day . In the corridor Of the prison immediately adjoining the governor ' s house , there are two wings containing ten cells each , in whioh forty * eight convicts under sentence of transportation were confined ; audit is now understood that a well-con cocted conspiracy had long existed among them to make a * bold stroke * for their liberty on the first opportunity . This astounding information waa comsonicated to the prison ofieen in charge , by a convict named Orr , formerly night watchman in Bel fast , and who is now under sentence of transportation for stealing s watch , and had the effect of causing double diligence on their part to prevent the

      conspiracy being carried out . This morning the attempt was made in the following manner : —Mr Johnston had just opened the cells ia one of the wings already spoken of , when the convict Orr having observed one of the prisoners , named Boydj slip out of the cell under some pretence , gave the alarm , butthe iron door was immediately shut and fastened on the outside , thus closing up Mr Johnston with 28 convicts . At the same moment a similar occurrence had taken place ia the left wing , of cells under the charge of another turnkey named Logsn . He had opened the last cell , and was about to give the word to march out , when he observed the door shot , aad two convicts , named Edwards aad Hunter , fled . With the greatest coolness and self-possession he unbuttoned

      his coat , and producing his pistols ordered the men to return to their cells , threatening to fire upon them instantly ia case they refused . The convicts were overawed , aad at once obeyed his orders . Mr Johnstone ' s determination produced a similar effect upon the felons iu the cell in which he was confined . The alarm waa instantly given , the prison bell rung , and the other officers of the gaol , hastening to the corridor , found the four leading doors closed aud bolted , One of the escaping convicts ( Boyd ) had formerly been confined in the prison , aad waa intimately acquainted with the leading passages and apartments , so that the knowledge he possessed in this respest gave him a facility of escape . He had been in the capacity of cook for a considerable time , and the first important

      passage closed up by him after quitting the cell , was that leading to the kitchen . He then closed the three ward doers , aad made towards the hospital yard , where he was joined by Edwards and Hunter , the twoother convict * . They theu plaoed a form against the wall , by which they mounted to the roof of the porch , and next climbed by a window to the top of the wall . Edwards gained the top of the wall first , followed by Hunter ; but Boyd , who had been most active ia the attempt , in following them fell to the ground , and then hurried baok to the prison , where he was secured . Hunter and Edwards , having reahed the roof of the sew wing of the gaol , ran along the spouting an the hospital side , a distance of twenty yards , carrying with them a bucket and their sheets ,

      cut up in ( trips , te assist in the descent from the wall . The guard on that side of the prison observed and immediately challenged them ; but Edwards cried out he would murder him if be attempted to fire . Thompson , the guard , presented his gun , which burnt priming , and the two desperadoes , encouraged by this circumstance , hastily descended the wall ( a height of twenty-two feet ) , aud ran towards the sentry-box , Edwards crying to his companion , ' ——your soul , come on . ' Thompson , with great presence of mind , ran towards the other corner of the prison , and baring primed hi * gun afresh , was joined by Mr Johnson , armed with a blunderbuss , aud then hastened back to meet the convicts , who were by tbis time armed with stones , and determined to risk

      their Uvea in the attempt to escape . Thompson immediately fired and the unfortunate Edwards fell , two stones dropping from his hands at the same moment ; whereupon Hunter fell upon his knees and begged for mercy . He was secured and eonducted back to bis cell . Edwards lingered for fifteen minutes , his last breath | calling upon God for mercy . Immediately after the fatal occurrence , Drs Magowaa aad Forsythe were in attendance , but pronounced the wound to be mortal . In the course of the day T . K . Jackson , Esq ., coroner for the county , held aa inquest , when , after viewing the plan of the prison and the body of the unfortunate man , a verdiet in accordance with tbe facts was returned , adding , in reference to the cause of death , 'justifiable homicide in the execution of duty . '

      SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM NBW-ATE . On Monday between one and two o ' clook , the governor of Newgate having received information that Charles G . Duffy contemplated an escape from gaol , he ( the governor ) atones proceeded , accompanied by the deputy-governor ( Mr Bourne ) , Mr Bell , constable 42 D , and some other officials who were in attendance , to the apartment occupied by the prisoner , and commenced an active search . In a leather trunk belonging to the prisoner , they discovered a rope ladder about forty feet long , and a coil of single rope about the same length , and it was said that by means of these the prisoner intended to

      make his escape . The sentinel who was on duty over the prisoner ' s apartment alleges that he had been offered s bride if he favoured the attempt . The officials belonging to the establishment , on what they deemed an important discovery , at once removed . the prisoner to a more secure part of the gaol , where double guards were placed upon him , and the most rigorous watch kept upon his movements . The room occupied by Mr Duffy looked into Green-street , and tbe window opens into the street for the purpose of ventilation . This room had been previously allocated for the use of debtors . There was nothing of the kind found in the apartments of the other

      pri-CUUGIO * FATE 07 TEE STATE PRISONERS . On Monday afternoon , the Lord-Lieutenant receivedthe deputation appointed at the meeting ol the citizens of Dublin to present a memorial to hie Excellency , praying for a commutation of the sen . tenoe passed upon Mr Smith O'Brien . The Lord Mayor headed the deputation , which was oomposod of several most respectable cit > -. BB . The following is the address : — ' TO HQ EXCSL-ISCT EAST . CLARENDON , LORD-ITS .-

      LARD . May it please your Excellency , —We , the undersigned , consisting principally of the inhabitants of Dublin and its vicinity , address your excellency as the representative , in Ireland , of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . We fully concur in the recommendation of the jury by whom William Smith O'Brien has been feund guilty , and we humbly and earnestly entreat the exercise of her Majesty ' s gracious prerogative of mercy in his favour . 'William Shabmah Crawford , Chairman . ' Tha Lord-Iieutenant ' reoeived the deputation with the greatest courtesy , and said , in order that there should be no mistake as to the ' nature of the answer he was about to give , he wonldread it . ' : - His Excellency then read the following answer : — 'As it appeared to be the wishef MrSharman Crawford and the gentlemen who accompanied him

      here last week , and subsequently of the Lord Mayor , that I should receive from the bands of a deputation this memorial , which has been numerously signed by the inhabitants of Dublin , I have ait hesitated to comply with that wish ; but , while the Commissionis still sitting at Clonmel , and occupied with the trial of persons charged with the same offence as Mr O'Brien , and having reference also to the notice of a writ of error that has been given , I need hardly inform--and I feel certain you will not expect—that I should now eive an y definite answer to the memorial , beyond an assurance that full weight will be given to the recommendation of the highly respectable jury who tried Mr O'Brien . ' , „ .... Prom the tone of this reply to the dopntation yes . terday , it is now generally believed that the extreme sentence of the law will not be carried iato effect upon Mr Smith O'Brien , or , as a consequence , any of the parties convicted of High Treason at the Clonmel

      Special Commission . Tbe Fb-sman ' s Joubh __ mentions that the clergyman officiating at one of the Catbolie chapels requested the prayers of the congregation for the safe deliverance of Mr O'Brien and the other gentlemen upon whom the special commission has been doing its work . Some ot the congregation thought from the reverend gentleman ' s words ; that the report relative to the issuing of a warrant fer the execution of Mr O'Brien was well founded ; the consequence of this was , that a loud and general expression of grief and horror burst ferth—numbers of females wailing and shedding tears at the sad scene pictured to their imaginations .

      CURIOUS REVELATIONS . The following are extracts from a letter written by Mr Doheny , at present a denizen of the French Republic , to Mr M . Lenihan , proprietor of the Tit-pk-BAMVlBMCATOnt— , My dear Lenihan , —Permit me to thank you very kindly for rescuing my name and character from calumny . But while I am unaffectedly grateful to you , I feel so sensitive on one part of the subject with which my name has been connected , that I beg to be allowed to state distinctly how the matter stood . When first I saw it stated thatit was I who urged on Mr O'Brien , I was most desirous to correct this mistake ; but he was then a prisoner , and I knew not what effect the statement might have on his fate . Besides , the chaaces were that I should share that fate , aud then I could at the last moments set the matter right : ¦

      . , ., ,. - Both reasons now cease to exist , and , therefore , once for all , I beg to state openly what part I took in the late proceedings . It is true that I was remaining out oi the way . as you state , when my comrades threw themselves on the country . It is true that I was not only ignorant of their purpose , but actually ignorant of the cause—namely , the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aot . The first thing I heard of their movement was a message from home , whioh I re * eeived at midnight , stating that some of the Confederates had arrived therein search of Mr . O'Brien , who had left for the country . I immediately made off to Carriok , hoping I would meet him there . He was about the same time coming in another direction to Cashel . Ilearnedat Carriok whatoccurred there the

      night before , and for the first time became alarmed for the cause ef my country . I soon received a message from Carriok , on which I resolved to aot . Before night , however , I became fully aware of the formidable agency which we had to contend against , and road off for Cashel ; but learning at Fethard where Mr O ' Brien was , I turned off to . Ballingarry . . f then left Ballingarry . . . On my return , I found the people greatly dispirited and divided . It was plain the influence brought to bear on them had to a great extent prevailed . . . Manyridiculous and false stories have been' told of our differences and our proposals to deal summarily with Mr O'Brien . We differ , it is true , but those who differed most widely from Mr O'Brien accorded to him their admiration for the chivalry of his nature , and the thorough nobility of the principles

      which guided him . . . I remained , however , for five or six days on Slievenamon Mountain , determined at all events not to be arrested alive . . . My adventures even then , though personally interesting , shall not here be alluded to . - James Stevens , who was said to be dead and buried , shared my risks , and now , thank Gad , shares with me the hospitality of the French Republic He and another , who yet can speak , if need , will attest for me that I only abandoned the owse of my country when that cause became utterly hopeless . What cowards said about my treachery _ to screen themselvea gives me little trouble . They originated with a newspaper that exists by public p-llution , and on that account adequately represents British feeling inlreland .

      . _ , . 'May I take this opportunity of offering public thanks to those generous , devoted , aud honest men who assisted me ? Any day for six weeks I could have been sold dearly by hundreds of men on the very brink of starvation . May God bless and save them . . . I shall reserve to myself the task of vindicating openly the conduct of mycemradea when the fate of those new on trial -hill be decided . As for the charge of : defrauding the corporation , any one that will take the trouble of looking at their accounts will find that I was never since my first connexion with them without being seriously in advance of them—to at one time of a sum exceeding £ 600 . I remain , & o ., MiCHAEi , Doheny , ' Maurice Lenihan , Egq ., TrppER _ K- Vindicatob . '

      ub sunn o ' bbixk ' s case . In this ease it is determined by the friends of the prisoner to bring a writ of error , if they receive , aa is necessary , the permission of the Attorney-General . An application has been made in the usual form for such permission , but the Attorney-General declines to disclose his intentions until he returns to Dublin . In other words , it would appear that the first law officer refuses to exercise-is official privilege of granting or refusing the certificate until he has an opportunity of dissussingthe matter with the heads of the government .

      BUMODBJD -SOAPS OT MR o ' llAHONT . It is said that O'Mahony , the rebel leader , escaped from Boumahon , county of Waterferd , on Wednesday , and that he effected his escape by means of one of the vessels employed in taking away the produce of the copper mines in the neighbourhood . The deputation from Limerick waited upon the Lord Lieutenant , to solicit mercy for Mr O'Brien . His lordthip gave a similar reply to that given to the Dublin Deputation . IHB STATE TBIAIS—T . 7 . MKAGHBB—C . G . DDT-. — THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS—STATE OP IHB COUNTRY . ( From our own Correspondent . ) DuB-iir , October 18 th .

      Though the business in Clonmel goes ou slowly , the government triumphs . in every case , and those who hoped for miracles from technicalities and frivolities are muoh disappointed . As I aaid in my last communication , the Whigs would have a victory , and , with the appliances at their command , no man with an ounce of brains beneath his pericranium could doubt the result of the State prosecutions . M'Manus aud O'Donohoe have been convicted ; and as their offence was similar to that of Smith O'Brien ' s , their 7 sentence and punishment wil be also similar . They will be condemned to the gall lows , but whether any Of them will be finally exe * cuted is still a secret . Yesterday , the most gifted man of the whole 'rebel' hos £ -and , probably , the most gifted man ( of his years ) in tbe British dominions—was put upon his trial . Thomas Francis Meagher stands this moment before the

      Cold-hearted Saxon , ' pleading for his life , whilst it is possible the angel of death is recording his doom in the bloody annals of Fate ! No man who ever came before the Clonmel judgment-seat has excited such sympathy as T . F . Meagher . His youth ( he is but twenty-four ) , his frank demeanour—his good-humoured appearance , his manly bearing—his enthusiasm—his bewitching eloquence , and , above all , his devotion to the creed of his Celtic ' ancestors , endear him to the millions ,

      and make him the object of national interest and commiseration . Had Meagher been ' spared he would write his name in the . proudest niche of liberty ' s temple ; if he bs lost , he is a loss whioh not only his own patty , but the laud which gave him birth , will mourn in tears of blood . The government will move heaven and earth to secure his conviction . At any cost—at any risk—they will sacrifice Meagher ! Such a man cannot be permitted to tread the shamrock ' Meagher must go , and I fear there is no reasonable hope of his escape .

      There is one Roman Catholic on his jurv—nro bably that man is not a Whig tool , and if hehasa drop of Irish blood ini his veins psor Meagher will not be victimised without , at least , another atnunefo Many seem to hope , from tho circumstance hiffi fear that if this Roman Catholic was ™ « Kfe ! 8 a cmvenient tool , the Whigs would not let £ 5 ™ on Meagher ' s jury . w uu In Dublin the people are more excited and more vengeful spoken than I have seen them for many a day . The fate ef Meagher fills every heart with i terest . Nomanoftwenty . fonryear . H ^ ev . r MeaSr ! bebvedin ItelMld « 1-Ju ftiS

      There is authentic intelligence , at last from MiohaelDoheny fle isin plris , and has wriffi a long letter to the editor of the Txppbbabt Vwd ? oaiob . He throws a good deal of light on hbj own proceedings in connexion with tha late unfortunate outbreak , , and flatly contradicts the ill-natured re . porte , which sometime ago were prevalent respecting him . He says he never was aware of any wish or project , oa the part of the rebel leaders , to asmssinate Smith O'Brien , as has been reported He promises to write again , and reveal much that is curioi » and , importa _ t , when the State Trial , are concluded .

      The people here are making active ' exertmmthave Smith O'Brien ' s , ife sparel . IffiSfiSSj ! nen have held their meetings and signed petitions ; andaddressedhis excellency , Lord Clarendon in hii behalf . The Town Council , and mtSSSmvS at work witt the same object , but , as yettheLord Lieutenant has given no asiwer calculated to allay

      { h 9 *» . t ! ?»»^! l iKthai theconviots will not _ . _„ ««« . ... ....... Ch arles Gavaa Duffy , it is reported , has beea frfiM to -cut ' his acquaintance at Newgate , and hadlaid aBDlendid ol . nfor his escape . andthat of Mr D _ Iton andMr Williams , Atone o clock yesterday , the Gevern or of Newgate , acting on the information . Ae had received , went with a po 8 . eot officials to the anartmentocoupied by Mr Duffy , and on searching , Sveredaleithern valise in which , was stowed a ladder of ropes , forty feet in length , and most securely aZmotei , together with a coil of single rope of the Sme length , with the aid of which , it s ; said the SSL ? da-Haed to escape ! The sentinelo « iduy states that he was offered a large bribe if he would SSt only to keep bis tongue eaey dur . ng _ t _ e

      nrsoeis-whether he wonld accept «»«»™™ S 1 b _ aet 9 rmined , as his fidelity was not brought so far ^ ATsUcJdlg pointl The prisoners were at once Smovedto more aeonre quarters , * double guard S 3 over them , and every otheripreoaution- put ia requisition fortheirsafe keeping . . The Roman CatholioBishopsheld their annua synod in this city last week . They are in favour of ; Mercy towards Smith O'Brien and his fellow convicts , but tbe y utterly revolt against the not & Htof taking a pension or salary from government . The Catholic clerg y are no fools in their way—they might like a good salary well enough , bht'they know very well that it once they became servants ef the British Crown , their influence , moral , religious , and political , will be

      lost for ever with the Catholic people of Ireland . I believe if the clergy took the rtgwmdonum , Catholicity would not subsist five years in Ireland . The people would not become Protestants , but they would merge imperceptibly into Deism , Atheism-into any thing rather than retain their connexion with the Saxon salaried priests . The accounts from the rural districts are of the most heart-rending complexion . The amount ef destitution prevailing even sow is shocking—what must it be in two months hence , whin the laitoftht potatoes is gone 1 The poor rates will not preserve the lives of half the population ; the rest moat die of hunger and its concomitant horrors . The prospects of the country this day exceed all comprehension .

      In the meantime the rage for emigration strengthens . Every body who can go is quitting for America ; even the gentry and some of the professional classes are going . To-morrow or next day , the rural districts of Ireland ( between famine , landlord extermination , and voluntary emigration , ) will be as desolate as the Highland regions of Scotland .

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      Storm Or Ram.—On Saturday Morning Last, ...

      Storm or Ram . —On Saturday morning last , the town and neighbourhood of Huddersfield were visited with the moat tremendous storm of rain ever remembered . Up to about four o ' clock , the elements appeared very threatening , about which hour tha ram burst over the town like a cataract , and the streets were in a few minutes deluged with water , which continued to fall . unremittingly till near half-past five . Such was the enormous weight of water that fell , that the rivers were swollen to a great height in less than an hour , and the whole ef the mills upon

      the banks were threwn into back water , and the hands obliged to leave work . At Messrs Starkey ' s factory , the water rose se high as to be up to the firebole , and the fire was every moment in danger of being put out . In tbe town , houses , cellars , Ao ., wore completely flooded , and the furniture floated about in all directions . In one miserable cellar , Michael Hanley , the occupier , who was in bed at the time , was attacked by two large water-rats , and it was with great difficulty he defended himself from their violence . ...

      Dabing Robbery . —A very singular and daring robbery was effected on the night of Saturday last , at the house of Mr Joseph Harvey , innkeeper , of Oakaraoor , near Oheadle . A number of ' navvies ' employed on the Churnet Valley branch of the North Staffordshire Railway , assembled at Mr Harvey ' s house on the night mentioned , and having drunk rather freely , they commenced a disturbance , and were obliged to be displaced by the police ; During these proceedings , it is supposed that one of tho party gained admission unperoeived into a bed-room , where inside a chest was deposited £ 100 in crown nieces in a bag . The box was broken open , and the

      thief , in jumping through the window , let the bag drop , when a number of the silver coins rolled out . The inmates , hearing the noise , ran eat to discover the cause , and found upon the ground £ 2110 s . in crown pieces . Information was immediately given to the police , and bills offering a reward circulated ; and on Monday night two men were apprehended by Mr Field and Mr Brinsley , constables of Ashbourne , at tbe Tiger Inn , in that town , and about dS 70 in crown pieces , and other coin , was found in a bag upon their persons . The two men , who gave their names as James Clayton and William Letts , were committed on Tuesday to take their trial at the enlining sessions at Staff-rd , Robbbin ths Dat Tiub

      Mtsiebiobs House _ . — On Saturday forenoon , a daring robbery was committed in Radnor Cottage , Radnor-soreet , Hulme , occupied by an elderly gentleman , named Sheldon , and attended by such circumstances as to point out one of the guilty parties , though as yet the legal proof of guilt is incomplete . Mr and Mrs Sheldon went out on Saturday morning between nine and ten o ' clock , in a little pony gig , leaving their only servant , an Irish girl , in the house , and returned home somewhere about half-past twelve . The door was opened by the servant , who was crying , and had a large bruise on her forehead . She was asked what was the matter , and replied that two men had been in the house during their absence , and having

      fastened Br in the cellar they went up stairs and robbed thonouse . Mrs Sheldon at once proceeded to her own b * T-room , up stairs , and found tbat a chest of drawers , consisting of two sets , had all been forced open , and a cash box ot the usual kind , furnished with a Chubb ' s p itent look , removed . The drawers were all safe locked when she left the bouse , and had undoubtedly been forced open , as tbe marks of the instrument were on them , and the object ef the thief had only been to aeoute the cash-box , far everything in the drawers were as straight as it was three hours before , but whoever took the box out had pressed on the contents of the drawers , to find the situation of the box . Nothing but it was gone , though others of the drawers contained a gold watch , some plate , and

      articles of considerable pecuniary value . The box itself was found in the room , the front of the lid wrenched from the look , and all the contents , somewhere between £ 20 and £ 30 in cash gone . No other parts of the house were disturbed in the least . The girl ' s tale to Mr Sheldon was , that while she was removing some things from the front door to the back two men entered . She demanded what they wanted there , and told them her master was from home . One of them said , 'Yes , we knew that , ' aad the other at the same time knocked her down , inflicting the mark on the forehead . They then took her and put her into tbe cellar , fastening the door , and threatening what they would do if she made any disturbance , and there she remained for halt which about

      an hour after they went away , was eleven o ' clock . Mr Sheldon sent for the police , and the officer who attended no sooner saw the rooms than he remarked * the thief was in the house , ' so plain was it that the party had possessed great knowledge of the articles it contained . He inquired if there were any tools in the house , and Mr Sheldon replying in the affirmative , went into tbe cellar where the girl said She was confined , to fetch , some there deposited . He noticed that they had been meddled with , but taking up a chissel that lay at the top , he went up stairs and found that it notonly corresponded in aise with the marks on the drawers , but also that there was a whitewash mark on the drawers , answerinto a similar spot on the rounded end of

      g the tool . This was proof enough that that was the instrument making the marks . Mr Sheldon then went down stairs , and said to the servant , This is the chisel with which those drawers were forced open , ' to which she instantly replied , ' I am sure it is not , ' but began directly to draw back her unguarded expression . When the robbery was first discovered Mr Sheldon stated his loss to be between £ 30 and £ 40 , labouring under the impression that he had on that morning placed a small bag containing ten and a half sovereigns in the cash box . Such however was not the case , as it fortunately turned out , for he had put the bag into one of his coat pockets , which

      he left hanging in the lobby . Strange to say the servant never gave the slightest alarm until the return of her master and mistress , although had she done so she must have been heard , either by the parties next door , or by neighbours living opposite in the same street . Although the house has been rigorous ly searched no money has been found , and the opinion is that if the girl be the thief she must have had an accom plice to whom she gave the money . On Monday she was brought up at the borough court , when the above facts were partially given- in evidence ; but as nothing existed to connect her with the robbery beyond bare suspicion ) she was

      remanded . Ill-hmbd L _ vm Pcnishbd . —On Thursday week last , a couple presented themselves in front of the communion rails , in our cathedral , for the purposeof being 'joined together in holy wedlock . ' But while the officiating clergyman was proceeding with the ceremony in the usual course , his attention was arrested by a most unbecoming show of levity on the part of the bridegroom ; and this continuing , the clergyman closed his book and lectured the man rather severely on the impropriety of his behaviour .

      The bride , who seemed much shocked at the thoughtless conduct of tbe man to whom she was being united for life , at length interrupted the clergyman to ask if it was absolutely necessary that the ceremony , after having gone so far , should proceed to completion . The clergyman replied , Certainly not ; unless you desire it . ' The lady , on learning that option still remained to her , thought better of the matter , and absolutely refused to proceed any further with the ceremony , and quitted the building with her friends , leaving the disappointed ' groom , ' no longer laughing , but looking very disconsolate at this unexpected result of levity , as ill-timed as it was ill-placed . —_/ ancA « Jer Guardian .

      Storm Or Ram.—On Saturday Morning Last, ...

      Tne Ewwbobob OffiSrrj * TMAfcs . —These ( rials have bee » ; - _ p 0 j nt . d to take place before the High Court of Justiciary next month . - AhothkeTichk or Whi-gbb ., — At thepetly sessions , Hey wood , on Wednesday week , Joseph Hawker , of Wool , ford , near Bury , was charged by thepollce officers with creating an obstruction in the streets of Hejwood , by haranguing a crowd ot people , ou Sunday afternoon , tbe 17 th ult . He had been committed for trial on a charge of seditious speaking on the 11 th of last month , but was now out on bail . Bowker then addressed the bench in a speech ef five and twenty minutes'duration , alleging that he was preaching the gospel , and that Mr Bright , M . P ., had addressed audiences from the same place . He called two or tbree witnesses , who co-. lflered the crowd in question Hi hot amount to an obitraotton . - Defendant was fined 20 s . and costs .

      Bcae . ABY _* d Attempted Kuann , —An attempt at murder and plunder by a gang of burglars toek place at Melbourne Hall , the seat «! Charles R . Robinson , Esq ., on the night of Wednesday week last , Ou the previous day Mr Robinson and his family left borne to attend the Union Boat Club Ball , and were absent the whole ef that night ; This circumstance attracted tbe attention of tbe aotori in the scene about to be detailed , and gave them the opportunity of plundering the hall . The servants re . tired to rest at an early hour . About three' o ' clock iu tha moraiog the butler was aroused , and on opening his bedroom door he saw several men ascending the staircase , eaoh holding a lighted candle . Their faces were blackened , and they wore stockings over their boots to prevent their making any " noise . i'Onseeing the men the butler

      Immediately fired a pistol at them , whloh appeared , how . ever , not to have touched'them . The burglars being taken by surprise , Aid down siairs and hastened out of the hull . The butler followed , and succeeded in laying hold of one of the fellows and attempted to secure htm , when one of -1 b companions turned baok and a conflict ensued , The villain used a knife in a most determined manner , aad made an attempt to out the butler ' s throat , whloh however failed . The knife Inflicted a long gash across his chest . He continued his grasp of the ruffian , eipeeting tbe assistance of bit fallow servants . He was finally overpowered by the wretches cutting his handsand arms , and they all got dear off . They had gained an entrance to ih . hall by tbe cellar hall . The butler is recovering from his Injuries .

      Acerom . on . hi Livebfoo- aud Bust Rii . wiT . ~ - Oa Saturday night last William Bradley , about 15 years ef age , who had been entrusted at Uaghull to point the rails on this nearly completed line , fell asleep , as is sup . posed , on the turning table , and a locomotive with a train of mnd waggons passed soon after , almost severing his legs from his body . He was brought to the Northern Hospital about half-past eleven on the . same night , but had been so seriously injured that- he died about three o'clock on Monday moralsg . The parents of the deceased live In Raymond-street .

      Accio-MT atw Loss or LiEi . —On Sunday afternoon last , about four o ' clock , a distressing accident occurred on the river at Windsor adjacent to the Castle , causing the death ef one individual , and tbeiamiaent danger of a second . A man , named Saunders , employed in the Castle as a painter and residing in Olewer-la . e , had , with his son-in-law , engaged a boat for an excursion , and despite' the warning of the boatman , incautiously ventured in that part of the river below the bridge where the current runs strong , and , to the unskilful , is always attended with danger . In this instance , the parties , bit approaching the spot , lost all control over their direction , and , impelled by the impetuosity of the stream , were hurried with fatal and Irresistible speed towards the weir here crossing the river . Their screams and distracted cries for assistance , on perceiving their inevitable danger , were most piercing and incessant ,

      sadly and gratingly contrasting with the joyous operatic air at the Instant performing at the Castile Terrace by the cavalry band . Sympathising crowds , were soon attracted on the bridge along the banks , ' and upon the Castle walls , and sbuie boats , punts , & c , were hastily put off , but all their praiseworthy efforts were iaeffeo . tual , and the wretched men , in the sight and amidst'the muttered prayers of hundred * , were burled over tbe obstruction—one of them ; as the boat disappeared from under them , hastily . latched a part of the frame-work , and retained his hold until rescued from the shore . The father , uttering one imploring but unavailing cry of 'William , ' was carried away by the stream , and for some distance was convulsively splashing , till at length he wholly disappeared , leaving a lamented widow and family . At a late hour in the evening tbe body had not been recovered , '

      TnaBSinoB . —A most determined suicide has been committed here by a servant of Miss Ralfs , named Skinner . It appears Miu Ralfs sent her on two or three errands , and aa she passed the Town Hall she stopped a few minutes to hear Mr and Mrs Hatching's concert , and then ^ proceeded to S wan . laue with some linen for the mangle , when she stated she would return again in a short time ; but not doing so the linen was taken up to Miss Ralfs ' , who , it seems , was surprised that her servant bad " not returned , and immediately sent for her father , and every inquiry was directly made , but no tidings could be heard ot her , except that she was seen proceeding along ths Hadlow road . The next day the river was dragged , and every inquiry possible made ; she was alio advertised , but no tidings whatever were heard of her till Friday the 18 th , about seven o'clook in the morning , when one of Mr Charlton ' s mea , being at work in

      tbe water-mill , observed a bonaet in the water below . The place was Immediately dragged , when the deceased was found . It appears she must hare deliberately walked Into the water and laid herself down , from the nature of the place ' where it is supposed she walked In . , Her friends are unable to assign any cause for such an act , as the frequently remarked , though she had a great deal of work to do , that her mistress was very kind , and she appeared in her usual health and spirits when she was last seen . It is rather singular that two or three related to the same family hare committed similar acts , and oa that very day two years a cousin of the deceased destroyed herself iu a similar manner . On the 14 th inst . an inquest was held on the body before J . N . Dadlow , Eiq ., Coroner and . respectable jury , when the above was tbe principal evidence given , and a verdict of 'Found Drowned'waa returned .

      Fatal Railway Accioeht . —Bliswohh , Oct . IS . — An inquest was beld this morning at the Railway Hotel , Biisworfh , before Mr Hicks , one of the coroners for the county of Northampton , on view of the body of Richard James . Mr Bedford attended to watch tbe proceedings on the part of the company . The deceased was a porter in the employ of tbe company , and at tbe time the accident happened , ho , with three Other porters , named Hellish , Goodman , and Leper , had been turning a carriagetruck on to a siding , after whloh deceased proceeded to cross the line , on the London side , at the time the five p . m . train was coming ia . The driver and fireman were keeping a good look out , but the policeman's hut and tbe tignal . post intervening , they could not see the deceased in time to avoid coming in contact with him ,

      and the consequence was that the off buffer struck the deceased on the hip , and drove him about sixteen yards , throwing him across the rails , when one of tho waggons caught his foot , and dragged deceased under the other waggons , separating his right foot , and severing his head from his body , besides otherwise mangling bim in a frightfal manner . The deceased was about twenty . six years of age , and he had been at the station only about five weeks . His mother and sisters and a brother were standing on the platform at the time , having come to visit the unfortunate man , and thus witnessed tbe accident . The obstruction caused ao fewer than nine waggons and the tender to be thrown off the line , blocking it up to such an extent that it was not cleared till after ten o ' clock , whilst deceased was so dreadfully mangled that his remains were not cle . red from tbe waggons and road for nearly an hoar and a qaartor .

      This is the first fatal aooident that has occurred at this station since the opening of the line , and the jury were ef opinion that this might have been avoided had signals boea given by the driver , Mr Bedford stated that such was tbe regulation of ths company , the engine drivers being instructed to sound the whistle a quarter of a mile before entering a station , but , unfortunately , it was a common practice amongst many of the porters , & o ., to disregard this , and thus the majority of the aocldents that occurred were caused , not by the enginedrivers neglecting their duties , but by tho carelessness or recklessness of the servants employed on tho lines . The jury , after a lengthened consultation , returned a verdict that deceased came to his death by accident bat 1 at tho same time , they thought that more caution ought to be used by tho drivers in approaching to or passing by a station , particularly oa . of suoh an extent as that at Bllmorth .

      Mobder at S-BOD-. —On Monday night an adjourned inquest was held at tho Angel Inn , Strood , bsfore J Lewis , E « q „ coroner for Rochester , on the b » dy of a young woman about twenty-five years of age , named Mary Abbot , who was found lying in a ditch in tho Fair . fiold near the station of the Gravesend and Rochester Rail ' - way , at an early hour on Sunday , the 8 lb . inst . Several witnesses were examined , and from the evidence ot Superintendent Tuff , it appeared that the deceased had been living In service at Mrs Turner's , No . 10 , Grovestreet , Gravesend , from whom she parted on Tuesday , the 8 cd instant , taking £ 1 dls . for wages . She then , it appeared , stayed a few days with a family with whom she was acquainted , named Waghorn , residing in that town . On the following Saturday she left to go to

      Maidstone at which place her friends reside . She was traced to Rochester , having alighted from the omnibus at the Silver Oar , aad complaining of feeling unwell went to bed for a short time . Some time after she left that inn , leaving her luggage in tho care of the landlord , and nothing more was seen or heard of her until the next morning , when , between eight and nine o'clock , she was found by Thomas M'Gill , a fisherman , living in Strood , lying in a ditch , running alongside the Falr . field . She was lying on her back , an old piece of earpet , with whioh it Is presumed she was suffocated , entirely covering her face . Her hair was lying loosely over her shoulders her bands firm clenched

      ly , and in one of them some shreds supposed in her struggles to have been torn from the carpet , and her bonnet was found at some distance from her . The spot was soon visited by many persons , amongst them the Recorder of Rochester , and the body being conveyed to the North Aylesford Union Workhouse underwent a jjoss-mortent examination by Mr Wiblln , tho surgeon . No marksof violence were fonnd upon the deceased , and from the evidence of the medical man there can exist but little doubt that the deceased was suffooa ted . Nothing was fonnd upoa deceased , and the wages she had reoelved remain unaccounted for , The inquiry was again adjourned .

      Storm Or Ram.—On Saturday Morning Last, ...

      • Osii . ro- Bui-mit awd Awrwrsn Assojr . —At the County Magistrates ' -offlce , Raohester , on Mondsy Henry Marshall , Thomas E « l , Thomas Walter Thomss Anderson , Spenoer Bowea , and William Pope the whole of them river pilots belonging to Gravesend , were brought before the Rev . G . Davies , Captain Baker , add J . Smith , Esquires , in custody of Everist and Edwards constables , charged with burglary and attempted arson , , The prisoners , it was proved , were in company together at the Nag ' s Headputllchouse , at Stoke , on Wednesday evening , the 11 th instant , having arrived with their boat in Yantlett-oreek , in tbe course of the day , Having regated themselves , they sallied ont about midnight , at whioh time it was moonlight , and proceeded to the cot . tage of a peor woman , named Eastman , who , with a

      little girl , were tbe only inmates , ber husband , for want of employ , being with tbree of their children , in the Hoo TMon workhouse , The inmates were awoke by the breaklsg of the front window , and oa getting out of bed , saw seven men outside the cettage , one ef whom was trying to draw a sheet whioh bad been lying on the table through tbe window . Foiled fn this attempt , another of the party tried to force his way through the window iu which be partly succeeded , but being beaten off by the woman , they all left . About a quarter of an hour afterwards , the cottager * were again alarmed by the whole of the windows being demolished , and ona of the men again attempted to force an entry through the chamber window , Mrs Eastman , muoh alarmed , begged of them to leave the cottage , but net doing so , she armed

      herself with an iron bar , and struck the one at the win * dow a heavy blow on the head , which caused him to fall to the ground . She heard his companions say that she had killed him , to which she replied , ' ' tis a d—d good job if I have . ' On looking through the window , she saw the blood running down his face , and the others seemed to be closing a wound in his head . Some of them then stooping down , took' eat a box of lnoifer matches , aad t _ re _ t « ned to burn the cottage , at the same tlmo igultlag the whole of the matches , they climbed on the door and plaoed them against the thatch , which , fortunately , was damp , and did not catch fire . During the time they frequently threatened to take

      tbeir lives , saying they would choke them . After she had raised a cry ot murder , and called loudly for assistance , the whole of the party ran away towards Tantlett . ereek , carrying with tbem an apron and a handkerchief , and , taking to their boat , made their escape , Edwards having been In their company for two hours , whilst at the Nag ' s Head , was enabled to identify the party , and from farther information obtained at the Coast Guard Station in the Creek , succeeded in tracing the prisoners to Gravesend , where four of them were apprehended on Saturday , Bowen and Fopo having surrendered on the morning of examination , at the office . The wounded man is still at large . The prisoners were remanded for the attendance of other witnesses .

      Ths Case or Dbowmiks orr Spithiad . —The jury empanelled to inquire into the cause of the death of the persens whose bodies were seen floating on the waters at Splthead , on Monday , the 9 th instant , by Prince Albert , when tbe royal steam yaoht Fairy was bearing the court from Osborae to Gosport , sat again on Tuesday at the Isle of Wight Hey Tavern , at Point , Portsmouth , when the testimony of the chief witness in tbe case , Samuel Look , the watermen of the boat which capsizsd , waa taken . ' By his evidence it appeared that when about half a mile from her Majesty ' s frigate Grampus , to which ship he was conveying the deceased persons , he' tacked ' in a lull of the gale which was pravailing , for the pur . pose of ' going about' and reaching towards the ship . At that moment , when he held the tackle of the jib-sheet

      in his hand , and his partner ( the deceased , Lalsbley , ) was shifting the main-sheet over to the opposite side of the boat , two of the women ( whose bodies have not been found , ) suddenly rose , as he thsught , to wrap their clothing more closely round them , when a tremendous sea at the same instant struck the boat and turned her on her side , throwing overboard the unfortunate inmates . The malasheet was' belayed' ( made fast to the tackles ) when she went over , but bad tbe women sat still in the boat no accident could possibly have happened , as the boat «« uld not hare been better ballasted . He stuck by the boat himself , aad what became of the others after they were immersed he knew nothing , nor did he see anything more ef them . He cried loudly for help when none was near ; but beard the guns of the fleet at

      Spithead firing the royal salute on the passing of he . Uujesty iu her iteam . ya . bt Fairy , aud saw the smoke of the steamer ' s funnel as she approached , when he renewed his shouts for help , as he thought she ( the royal yacht ) would inevitably run over him , aad he held up his hands to attract their attention . It was then he first saw ths Custom . house cutter coming towards the same spot ; he called to those on board , when the officer saw him . manned tha boat astern , got into it , and with his two mea made towards him , when he was almost gone with cold and the fear of death before his eyes . He was put oa beard her Majesty ' s steamer Fire Queen , being the nearest vessel te him , where he was put down in the stoke-hole , before the fires , with the doors of the fire , places open which , although it nearly roasted him , res .

      tered circalation , and made him feel better . He was afterwards bled by tbe doctor , and conveyed home , where be had been very ill , but was now much better , although aot sufficiently so to ply his calling . The Coroner , in addressing the jury , dwelt upon tho klndniss displayed by tbe host aud hostess of the tavern in which the inquest waa held towards tbe sufferers , after they had been refused succour at the Quebec Hotel . The latter circumstance was warmly animadverted upon but as no censure could be legally admitted into the verdict , the finding was merely * Accidental death . ' The jury , however , before separating , expressed by a resolution , which met the approbation of the majority , their opinion of the conduct ef the inmate * of the Quebec Hotel ia strong terms .

      Another Chartist Arrest . —Early on Tuesday morning Sub-Inspector Daokworth apprehended , under a bench warrant , Samuel Eeara or -Learns , one of the Chartists included tu the late Manchester indictment , at his house in Anooats-street , Kearn has been out of the way for some months , and only . reoently returned to his dwelling . He Is thirty years of age , and is a hand . loom weaver . He was brought np at the Borough Court , and required to find two sureties in £ 60 each , and to enter into his own recognizances in £ 100 , for his appearance at tbe next Liverpool commission . While being removed , Kearn complained of the amount of bail required , alleging that he was only earning 10 s , a week when he was apprehended .

      Shot in a Qoiaair . . —Oa Monday night a surgeon named Addison was in company with Mr Thomss Hart . noil , a painter , drinking at a public-house in Southampton , Tbey left about two o ' clock on Tuesday morning , quarrelling with each other . When they ar . rived at the Houndwell , a large open space in the centre of the tewa , Addison toek a pistol from his pocket , and shot Hartnoll in tbe groin . The report of the pistol was heard by some policemen , who immediately rnsbed te the spot . Addison was immediately apprehended . Hartnoll , after walking a few paces fell , and was con . veyed to the infirmary , where he now lies dangerously Ul , and is not expected to recover Tbe ball bis not yet been extracted . A magistrate has attended at the in . firmary to take bis deposition .

      Two Accidents oh bdabd the GaAur-cs off Portsmouth , occurred on Wednesday , by which one man lost his life , and another was very seriousl y injured , An iron water . tank fell upon tho former , crushing his ' head so suddenly that death was instantaneous . The ether man who was in a sling , fell from the mast and was much injured . Collier . Accidbht . —On Saturday last an inquest was held at Thornbam , in the parish of Mlddleton , on the body of John Fltton , aged nineteen . James Lomax colliestated that de ceased

      r , was his waggoner , and OU the 6 th inst , they were at work in the engine pit , at Spatb Bettoms Collury , near Rochdale , belonging to Mr Thos ' Kuowles . Fittun went up the air road for two picks ' he had a lamp with him , but it was without a top , An explosion of firedamp took place ; deceased waa severely burnt and otherwise injured , and died on Thursday night . According to the rules of the colliery persons using a lamp without a top are liable to a fine of 2 s . 63 „ and the young man had been previously warned of it . —Verdict . ' Accidental Death . '

      An Ikquest was held at Oxford on Wednesday morn « Ing , on the body of W . Grainger a servant in Exeter College , and who was found drowned in tho Cherwell . Several of deceased's fellow-servants deposed to having observed a strangeness In his manner of late ; and to one of them ho said that he waa suro he should never be ablo to get through his work this time . Deceased 1 was much respected by tho authority and members of ' the college , whero he had been a servant for more than i twenty , seven years . Verdiet , « Found drowaed . ' Shookinq Fatality ih Ancoats . —Oa Tuesday after . . noon between one and two o ' clock , a most calamitous s acoldent ocoutred at the timber-yard of Mr RobertBlack . - burn , architect and builder , in Meadow-street , Greaft t Ancoats , by whloh two laboaring men , named William s

      Townsosd and Joseph Daniels , met with sadden and un . i . timely deaths . The deceased men , both of whom were » In tbe service of Mr Charles Clegg , timber merchant , of )_ Water . stmt , were tngaged about half-past one o ' clock , r , discharging a boat load of timber from the Rochdale le canal into Mr Blackburn ' s yard , Resisting with others to : o work the crane used in hoisting the timber from the boat it into tho yard . Near the crane stood a stack of timber , r , piled log upon log to tho height of between seventeen > n and eighteen feet , and owing to the incautious removal of of two large logs whioh in part supported the stack , a pile le of some forty or fifty heavy logs suddenly fell down , n , crushing the two unfortunate men against the ' jib' ef ef the crane , and causing the death of both . Daniels was as pinned against the crane by a large log , whieh fell on on the baok of his neck , crushing him so fearfully as so so the blood to

      cause gush out of his nose , mouth , and ears , rs , and , though released from his dreadful situation in ia ahout a couple of minutes , life was quite extinct . Town- nsend was found to bo alive when rescued , though appa- isrently quite insensible , and ho was convoyed forthwith Itb to the Ancoats Dispensary , where he died immediately ely after his admission . His ribs were broken , and he was ras otherwise iatcrnall y Injured . At the inquest held on oh Wednesday evening , before Mr Chapman , at the Os- Dstrlob , in Wharf-striet , C . nal . street , a verdict was re- returned of' Accidental Daath' in both cases . Townsend , ad , who was thirty . four years of age , resided in Garden-enstreet , Solford , and has left a widow . Joseph Daniels , elf ,, who was aged flfty-three , resided in WeIUngton . pI _ ce , we ,, Liverpool , and he has left a widow and seven children , ren , , most of whom are of age .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21101848/page/6/