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HSALTH OP LONDONDtJBtNG-TBB WbEK . —In . the weelc ending last Saturday , the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 867 , showing an increase of nearly 100 off those of the previous week , and a disposition to rise after a continuous fall during aperiod of five weeks . The average ef corresponding weeks in ten years ( 1840-9 ) is 891 , which if corrected for increase of population becomes 1031 ; the number now returned is therefore less than the average by 114 deaths . Taking against the 10 corresponding week * , it appears that the deaths fluctuated between 792 and 1 , 118 , aud that the mortality , which showed a decided tendency to increase in later years , rose in the last three above 1 , 000 . To account for theexcess
in the present return over that oi the former week , the only epidemics observed to be more fatal , are hooping-cough , croup , and diarrhoea , which numbered respectively 43 , 9 , and 17 , against 35 , 3 , acd 9 of the previ -us return ; but thes ? diseases , except the last , do not seem to prevail more than usual at this season . The 17 deaths . from diarrhoea are double the average of ten corresponding weeks , but in the three weeks of 1847-49 , during which yeai s this complaint has increased , they were 10 , 19 . and 29 . The increase is further accounted for by phthisis , the mortality from which has risen to the average , and amounts to 143 deaths ; and also to some extent by bronchitis from which there were 79 , and by pneumonia from which there were S 2 , though neither o '
these numbers is remarkable as compared with returns for the same season in the last three years . The deaths of three persons were registered last w _ from cholera , of which the following are tha particu'lars . —In Golden-square district , at 174 , Regentstreet , a chemist died on the 10 th of March , at the age of 56 years , of " cachexia ( 6 months ) , English cholera ( 3 weeks ) " In St . Mary ( sub-district of Maryleboue ) , at 2 , Sa'isbury-p'ace , a widow died on the 7 th of March , aged 77 years , of " cholera biliosa ( 2 dars ) indigestion . " And in the west sub-district of Islington , at 24 . Albion-grove west , a widow lady died on the 14 th March , at the age of 73 years , from " premonitory diarrhoea ( 16 hours ) , cholera ( 46 hours ) . " With reference to the last case , Mr . Watts , the registrar , states that " the locality is good , well paved and drained , and ha ; a regular supply of New River water . " At 3 , Newman ' s Mews , in All-Souls , a lookinjr-elass severer died at the aee of 49 . of
" salivation-effusion on the brain . " "Copious salivation was produced by the constant use of mercury in the exercise of his profession . " Two men died from excessive drinking , which produced'in one case apoplexy , and in another delerium tremens . Last week there were registered the deaths of 85 persons in workhouses , of Cd in hospitals , of which 17 occurred in military and naval institutions , and 7 in fanatic asylums . —The births during the week were , 384 . -At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the . aean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 a . on every day ofthe week ; on Tuesday it was so £ ish as 39-438 ; and the mean for the week was 30-292 . The temperature decreased considerably towards the end of the week , and the mean was 40-9 deg ., rather less thin the average of the same week in seven years . It was less than the average on the last three days , and on Friday and Saturday was from 4 deg . to 6 deg . less than the average of these days .
Suspicious Death . —Mr . W . Baker held an inquest on Saturday , at the Cherry-tree public-house , Bromley , touching the death of a respectably dressed female , name unknown , apparently about thirty years of age , who was drowned in the new cut of the iiiver Lea , under the following circumstances : —It appeared from the evidence of two witnesses , named Roberts and Mayne , engineers , that between seven and eight o'clock on Wednesday evening week they were proceeding from Limehouse to Stratford , along the towing-path of the new cut of the Lea River . "When nesr the Bromley-biidge the deceased passed them , going ia the opposite direction , and walking quickly . They had not proceeded more than a dozen yards when their attention was arrested by the loud
screams of a female , and on their looking round they observed the deceased deposit her bonnet on the ground and deliberately plunge into the water . They did not attempt to assist her , and on their reaching the above house they gave an alarm . The-drags ¦ were obtained , and after searching for snrae time they found the body , hfe being quite extinct . The deceased was about five feet three inches in height , dark hair , and was attired in a plum-coloured plaid dress , black bonnet , trimmed with crape ; black shawl , with coloured border . She wore a gold wedding ring , and two of her front teeth are gone . The jury returned a verdict" That the deceased destroyed
herself by drowning ; but as to the state of her mind at the time they had not sufficient evidence to say . " —Shortly after the jury bad been dismissed , a youth residing in the neighbourhood came forward and stated th . it on the evening in question he was passing the spot , and saw one of the men deliberately throw the deceased into the water , and , fearing they might serve him in the same way , he ran away , and was the first to give the alarm at the above house , which fact was established by the landlord of the house , who was from home during the inquiry . The coroner has been made acquainted with the statement , and It has caused a great sensation in the locality .
Suicide through Destitotiox . —Oa Saturday last an inquest was taken by Mr . Payne , at the Gibraltar , St . George ' s-road , Southwark , on view of the body of Charlotte Whenham , ajjed thirty-two , a single woman , who committed self-destruction by swallowing a large dose of prussic acid . The deceased lived at No . 4 G . Elliot-row , St George ' s-road , and was employed by Mr . Perry , glove manufacturer , in the Walworth-road . She used to be at work the whole day , and conid earn no more than 3 s . fi . to 4 s . a we ? k , out of which she paid Is . per week for a ground floor back room . She would have starved but
for the assistance of her landlady and a lodger , who occasionally gave her food . On the afternoon ofthe 12 th inst , she wentfut , aud returned at S o'clock . The following morning she was found dead in her bed by her landlad y ; and two phials , which had contained the essential oil of bitter almonds , were found in a ' cupboard . Verdict , "Temporary Insanity . " . Melancholy Sr / icmE , —About six months ago a case was reported under the head of Greenwich Police-court , wherein it appeared that a publican residing in "Woolwich , in a large and respectable way of Business , together with his son , a promising young man , about twenty-four years of age , were charged with caiting and removing several cart loads of bricks belonging to the railway company , and depositing them on the premises of the father ; and after an examination before the magistrates , they were sentenced , the father to undergo an imprisonment
with hard labour for eighteen months , and the son to six months' with ha'd labour . The son ' s imprisonment expired en Friday the 8 th inst , whereupon he immediately returned to the inn kept by his father , and resumed his avocation of waiting upon the customers as usual , and whilst so doing on Tuesday the 12 th inst , one of them incautiously " made use of the expression , " How about the-bricks , " or words to that effect , which appeared to have such an effect npon : he mind of the young man , that he immediately n-psircd to a shed at the hack part of the building , and hung himself by a rope which he attached to one of the rafters of the outhouse , where he continued banging until his family , missing him , made a search , when he was found . He was immediately cutdo » n , and medical assistance promptly procured , but life had been extinct some time . We understand that the person who made use of the expression has been compelled to quit the neighbourhood .
Death op a Miser worth £ -50 . 000 . —During the last few days considerable interest has been excited in the neighbourhood of Sadler ' s-wells , in consequence of the death of Mr . William Crew , hair dresser , Jfo . 32 , Arlington-street , who , thou « h always living in the most penurious manner , is said to have died worth £ 50 , 000 . The following facts have been stated on goad a-thority : — Deceased came up a charity boy . in 1730 , to try his fortune in London , and was taken as errand bov by Mr . Frederick II artland , hair dresser , at Sadler ' s-wells , on whose death
he succeeded to the business . He was r- niarkable for his penurious habits , and , after some years , married a person as penurious as himself . About a wtek before bis death he disclosed to Mr . Turpin that he was worth nearly £ 50 , 009 in scrip in railway companies , houses . & c , which he promised to leave to him , and , after his death , the draft of a will to that effect was found . Uis bed consisted of a few r .: gs . The property , which he made by loans and speculations in the s ' ocks and public companies is claimed by acousin ofthe deceased , and the case is likely to cause litigation .
Suicide by a Lunatic . —On Sunday afternoon an inquest was held in the board-room of Betlilem Hospital , before Mr . W . Payne , the City Coroner , to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of one of the female patients , named Elizabeth Leeds , who committed self-destruction by strangulation . The deceased was admitted into the asylum on Saturday last , and on Sunday evening she availed herself of a temporary absence ofthe nurse in attendance on her , to possess herself of a silk handkerchief , with which she contrived to strangle herself , in the course of the night . The jnry returned a verdict , that " deceased destroyed herself while in a state of unsound mind . "
Tbe Explosion at Housslow . — -The funerals of the unfortunate men who were lulled by tbe blowing up of Messrs . Curtis and Harvey ' s mills , took place Oli b riday . the' 15 tli inst . Four were interred in the < -hur .-Ti of tiie Ti , ] age 0 f ijamttortb , and three in Hounslow church-yard . Their remains were followed t ° tne last rating place by several thousand persons . * rom inquiries made as to the state of the wounded ¦ mm i . rjcBry Clifford , John Compton , and William iiSfM * f certained tbat Clifford , who wes in-¦ 4 £ t io &^ ; ffl . * ffll ^ ^ M ^ to survive ; ^ My ^ nd ^ ° SUl 1 & in * ™ st Precarious ' mm ^ Z ^^^ F entertained that his life will | S n ! t f \ W , who is f till lying at ,. p & . Ueorge s Hospital , « goiogon most favourably .
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had : the painful- duty , on Saturday last , " of i communicatin g to this unhappy woman that the execution will take place on Monday , the 1 st of April next ( Easter Monday . ) The convict was found guilty of p oisoning her husband , " James Merritt , a turncock , in the employ of the East London Waterworks . AlowBt from the msment of her return to the cell , after her condemnation she has been absorbed . in grief . When visited by the Rev . Mr- Davis , the ordinary , orthe governor , she has exhibited the most painful-distress , andoftehhas reiterated faei perfect innocence of the crime for which she has been condemned . On the 15 th inst , Lady Fine , and other who have much
ladies forminga commitee of ladies , interested themselves on behalf of unfortuna te creatures who havebeen confined in the metropolitan prisons , saw the miserable woman mher cell , and her grief , 'while in their presence , was most excessive . From the violent manner she wept , and other circumstances , some ofthe ladies entertained the impression that she is enceinte . Although she did not urge that state , when sentenced , icis notisaprobable th-it she may really be so , and that a jury of matrons would be directed by the Secretary of State to examine into her condition . Her three children , the eldest of which is about eight years of age , are in the Horoerton workhouse , and the guardians have prevented their becoming objects of any
morbid curiosity . Great Fibb at Westminster . — On Saturday night last a few minutes before eight o ' clock , a fire of a very alarming character , broke out in the premises belenging to Messrs . J . and C . Rigby , carrying on an extcKsive business as builders and sawmill proprietors , situate at No . 23 , H » lywell-street , Westminster , within a short distance of the Millbank Penitentiary . The first discovery seems to have been made by the private watchman on the premises . In less than three minutes after that time the engine was taken to the place and instantly set to work , but the contents of the several buildings were of such an igniiible nature tbat the flames soon enveloped the steam-boiler house , the saw mills , and about two thirds of the joiners' workshops , together
with the stores over , and the drying-houses . The last named compartments contained a valuable assortment of property , amongst which were the seats and other carved work for St . Stephen ' s Church , building in Rochester-row . This edifice was to have been opened by desire of Miss Burdett Coutts . the founder , in May next ; but , * wing to the present disaster , aomb time must now elapse before the church can be completed , as the whole of the fittings which were finished have been reduced to ashes . In less than a quarter of an hour from the time the fire was discovered , the roof of the joiners ' shops fell in , when the flames rose so high in the air as to make the neighbourhood as light as at noonday , whilst the Abbey , the new houses of Parliament , and other buildings in the distance were brought out in bold relief . The lurid glare in the atmosphere caused the intelligence to be more speedly carried
to the engine stations than the messengers sent for them , and forthwith nine engines of the London brigade , with those of the brewhouse , belonging to Messrs . Thome , the parish and West of England company arrived at the scene ; but so high was the fire mounting that every house in the immediate neighbourhood appeared doomed to destruction . Fortunately an abundant supply of water was furnished by the Chelsea Company , from which the engines were worked with full vigour by nearly 200 hired auxiliaries , but in spite of the exertions ef all present the work of devastation continued until a serioas amount of property had been destroyed . FiftE . —On Tuesday a fire took place at a cabinet manufactory , Old-street-road , Shereditch , opposite Pilfield-street . There was a ready supply of water , and fortunate ' y the firemen suceeded in confining the damage , which was extensive , to the workshop .
Shithfield Market . —The Commissioiiers of Inquiry into the Market of Smithfield and the other markets for the sale of live and dead meat in the metropolis , will make their report immediately after the Easter recess . The plans for the enlargement of Smithfield Market , and for its better management under an improved system , have been laid before the commissioners by the author ities of the City . The Report , however , will embrace the whole question in all its details . Extreme Cold . —About twelve o clock on Sunday night fast , in the vicinity of Richmond , the glass , in a northern aspect , but in a sheltered position , ranged below 25 .
The Loss sustained by the Globe Assurance Company from the recently discovered defalcations ofone of their clerks will , it is said prove to be of large amount , ranging probably above £ 50 , 000 or £ 60 , 000 . There seems to be an impression , however , that the embezzlement was managed by increasing the figures of various claims paid to assurers , so that the assets of the company will not present different results from what have hitherto been shown in the periodical balance sheets , the fact being simply that but for the sum thus abstracted , the return of profits from time to time for division amongst the shareholders would to that extent have been augmented .
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Matricide and Attempted Pamiicide . —The secluded village of Little Eversden , in Cambridgeshire ( about eight miles from Cambridge , oh the Bedford-road ) , has just been the scene of an awful tragedy . An old man named Carrington , has lived for many years in the village , with his wife and one son , John . On Tuesday a quarrel ensued between the father and the son , when the latter struck the former several blows on the head with a spade , injuring him so severely that he lies without hope of recovery . The wretched man ' s mother coming into the cottage at the time , interfered for the protection of her husband , and was also so savagely beaten that she died almost immediately . Ho was ,
of course , immediately taken into custody , and locked up . The prisoner is forty years of age , and the eccentricity of his conduct for some years past favours the supposition that he is insane . On Wednesday a coroner ' s inquest was held , and the facts as detailed above were given in evidence . The jury returned a verdict " of " Wilful Murder" against John Carrington , who was consigned to the county gaol to take his trial . The deposition of the injured man will be taken so soon as his state of health will allow , so that in case of his death it may be used at the trial of the prisoner , who evinced no emotion on being made acquainted with the verdict of the jury .
Wholesale Emigration i-bom Liverpool to the TJsited States . —The tide of emigration seems again to have set in for we learn that six vessels for ! N ew York alone lay in the Mersey on Tuesday , awaiting tho tide . The aggregate number of their passengers was upwards of 3 , 000 . Meanwhile , hundreds of other persons are waiting to depart by other ships . The Rochdale Savings Bakk . —The trustees of this savings bank announced their intention of commencing paying 10 s . in the pound to the depositors on Wednesday last , with a promise of giving them , a some futuro time , 2 s . more , making in the whole , 12 s . in the pound . On receiving this first dividend , each depositor is to sign a release to the trustees and managers , freeing them from any future claim .
Depositors , whose united claims amount to £ 1 , 600 , have hitherto refused to accept this dividend , except as an instalment , with a promise that the whole 20 s . in the pound shall be paid . Those persons who have paid their money into the bank since the death of the late actuary are dissatisfied that their deposits should go in liquidation of Mr . Haworth's defalcations ; and they consider it especially unfair that their money should go to pay the claims of what are considered illegal depositors . It is supposed that there are £ 30 . 000 of illegal deposits , such as those made by unenrolled societies , or by persons whose deposits amount to more than £ 30 in one year , and £ 150 in the whole , or who have not signed the declaration , u Geo . IT ., cap . 92 , sec . 31 , stating that they have no money in any other savings bank .
Stiuxge Tisiions is an Assize Cohht . —On the 11 th inst . Mi-. Selby Lowndes , who sat as high sheriffat the Aylesbury Assizes , had , it seems , directed his huntsman to bring his hounds to the White Hart Inn , at Aylesbuy , in order to treat his hunting friends with a bye day to Aston Abbotts , immediately after the assizes . The White Hart Inn yard , in which the hounds were placed , is close to the court where the sheriff was sitting ; and owing to some disturbance in the court , the sheriff was repeatedly obliged to call " Silence , " which ho did with his strong and powerful voice in
good earnest . The call was heard by his faithful hound Silence , who at length broke through the paling , and rushed into the court , where his master , the sheriff , was sitting , with the whole pack at his heels . The assize trumpeter was requested to blow , but his metre was not attended to , the hounds would not quit the court for him , nor did they till their master , the sheriff , called them together , and to the amusement and satisfaction of the court , took them , in the style of a thorough good huntsman , to a place of safety . All business was suspended till the worth y sheriff returned to tho court .
A Sehious Charge or Immoralitt has been made against an officer of the Portsea union , which was fully inquired into on Friday evening , the loth inst ., and tho result of tho investigation forwarded . to the poor law commissioners , lie is not a resident ia the house . The person alluded to is th © ItCVi J . 11 . Huston , who , for four years , has officiated as chaplain to the union-house , and who last evening , we have learnt , has sent in his resignation of the office to the board of guardians , which , for the sake of propriety , we trust will be accepted without hesitation . —Hants Telegraph .
St . Patrick s Dat in LivEnr-ooL . —On Sunday the various Hibernian lodges celebrated the anniversary of Ireland ' s patron saint by walking in procession through the streets of Liverpool . This was in despite of a placard issued b ' £ , tue orabgemen
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' hat if the authorities did not put down the prop . e . ssidni' they - ' . would ;! ' : ' - EVety ; police ; precaution . . was taken ; and ho'disturbance took placo . ' / "' - . ; ' '"' . '•' i ; The - AtmWurt ; Savings' Ban & v-- ' As there is not the most ; remote chance' of aby fundK , ~ under the bankruptcy of Stratton , being forthcoming to liquidate the claims ' of the depositors ' in ' the Aylesbury Savings Bank ; toi the extent of between * 9 Q 0 and £ i , ooo , arrangements have b « en made to . givefull compensation to the poor people who have ' been plundered by the fugitive ' bankrupt , and to restore the money of which they have been defrauded . The whole affair having been laid before the commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt . they
have just signified their consent to the sum of £ 600 being taken from the surplus fund of the bank , and appropriated towards making good the claims : of those robbed by the defaulter . The remainder of the deficiency wiir . be paid by Mr . James , the secretary to the savings bank , . in whose employ Stratton ' held the situation of clerk at the time the defalcations took place . By these satisfactory arrangements not one farthing will be lost to the depositors , whose claims have been allowed by Mr . Tidd Pratt . It is expected there will be about 2 s . 6 d . in the pound , under tho flat , for the private creditors of the bankrupt . Steps will now , it is stated , be immediately taken to cause the apprehension of Stratton , in America , and bring him back to England .
Brwhtok Cemetery .-. The arrangements for the construction of a cemetery at Brighton have been concluded , and every impediment removed . It has been agreed by the vicar to receive £ 50 for the first year alter the completion of the cemetery and the consecration of the necessary portions of land , £ 75 for the second year , and £ 100 p er annum during the continuance ofthe company , and the use by them for the purpose of interment of such consecrated portions of land . Extensive Robbery op Jkwbli , bry ,--Birmingham . —On the night of the 14 th inst ., orearlyon Friday morning , the premises of Mr , Osborne , manufacturing jeweller , Lichfield-street , Birmingham , were broken open , and gold , silver , and plated goods ,
consisting of brooches , guards , pencil cases , seals , rings , studs , pins , snuff boxes , & c , amounting in value to between £ 500 and £ 600 , stolen therefrom . In consequence of previous robberies the doors and window-shutters were iron-plated and deemed impregnable . The premises were locked up by the porter soon after ten o ' clock . The thieves succeeded in entering the back part of the warehouse b y breaking a hole in the wall , and having thus obtained ingress , by dint of greatlabour and the use of crowbars , they broke open the interior doors and found access to the most valuable portions of the stock . No fewer than six crowbars were discovered in the warehouse next morning when the workmen came to their employment . A reward of 100 guineas has been offered
tor the apprehension of the depredators . Highway Robbery .-On Saturday last , a gentleman was stopped outside Manchester , and robbed of £ 375 . Lova and Crime . —An extraordinary , circumstance , which had nearly been attended with loss of life , occurred on Friday the 15 th inst ., at the house of Mr . Grindall , the Bell , in Suffolk-street , Birmingham . It appears that for the last three years a young man named Abraham Lee , son of Mrs . Lee , coal dealer , Essington-street , was in the habit of frequenting the Bell , and appeared desirous of being considered a suitor of Miss Ellen Grindall , daughter of the landlord . Lee , however , never received any attention from the girl or her family to justify him in
believing that he was recognised in the manner he desired , lie visited the house as an ordinary customer , and it is supposed became jealous & f a young man named John Scott , who also frequented the Bell . On Friday evening , about eight o ' clock , whilst Mr . Grindall was at the workhouse attending a meeting ofthe guardians , Lee , accompanied by a young man named Kingston , went to the house , and their hands being dirty , they proceeded to the brewhouse to wash them , and called for a pint of ale , with which they were supplied . Whilst in the act of washing their hands , Mrs . Grindall told her daughter to go into the brewhouse and , finish her ironing . She did so , and it appears was followed to thedoor by Scott . Miss Grindall good-humouredly intimated to Lee and his companion that they should leave the brewhouse , as she
wanted to finish her work ; . but she had no sooner done so than Lee look a pistol from his pocket , and this being observed by the girl she instantly put up her left arm in defence . Lee fired the pistol , which was heavily loaded with shot , and a portion of the contents lodged in her arm , chest , and neck , about fifteen shots taking effect . She fell upon the floor , screnming , and bleeding profusely . Lee was taken into custody , and , on searching him , another pistol , loaded to the muzzle , was found in his possession . The prisoner has since been brought up before the magistrates , but in consequence of the inability of Miss Grindall to attend , the case was remanded . The wounded girl is , however , said to be out of danger . The prisoner has since stated that the contents of the second pistol were for himself .
Explosion of Fire Damp . — Thirteen Lives Lost . —A correspondent , writing from Wigan , says that between six and setea o clock on Saturday morning last , an explosion of fire-damp took place at Messrs . Evans and Turners' colliery , at Haydock , situated about a mile and a half from Newton raceground . The explosion occurred in what is called the Rock-pit , " and thirteen persons were either burnt or smothered to death , some of them being literary burned to a cinder . It appears that eleven of the parties were working in a drift 1 , 000 yards from the pit-eye . without any conductor , when the explosion took place ; all of whom were burned to death . Two others were working about 120 yards nearer the pit-eye , and they , on hearing the
explosion , rushed into tho face of the fire , instead of making to the pit-eye . The names of tbe sufferers are as follows -. —John Durdon ,- and his son { the elder ) Ralph , leaving a wife and five children ; William Battersby , wife , and four children ; William Knowles , one child , and wife ( pregnant ); Ralph Unsworth and John , his son ( the elder ) ,, leaving a wife and four children ; John Glare , leaving a wife and five children ; John Holloway , drawer to Glare , killed at the same time ; John Siram , James Bailey , Christopher Hesketh , Thomas Glover , and Joseph llatton — all young men . The men were allowed safety lamps , if they thought proper to use them ; but there does not appear to have been any restriction against working with naked candles , although
the men had to run away from the fire the day before the fatal occurrence took place . —On Monday an inquest was held before John Heyes , Esq ., coroner , and a respectable jury , on view of the bodies , when the jury returned the following verdict : — " It so happened that the foul and inflammable air in the said coal mine , by some means unknown to the jury , accidentally casually , and by misfortune , took fire and exploded , whereby the said unfortunate men and boys were grievously scorched and burnt upon the body and limbs , whereby they instantly died . " Morb Discord in the Diocese of Exeter . — The Exeter Gazette gives an account of a quarrel between the perpetual curate of PJymstock , the Rev . E . F . Cooke , and Colonel Harris , and other parishioners , the immediate cause of which does not
appear . The bighnp was applied to for a commission of inquiry into the rev . gentleman ' s conduct , which the former offered to grant on the expenses being guaranteed by the parishioners , who , however , appeared to think the expenses ought to be paid by the bishop . His lprdship urged on both parties mutual forbearance , and an endeavour to live in peaceadvice that appears to have been followed out by the curate shutting up the organ , and dismissing the choir , and the parishioners meeting , and agreeing to petition the House of Lords , praying their lordships , in consequence of this last act , "to make such a revision ofthe rubric and canons , or to grant such summary power to the bishops of tho uioeese to check these misdoings , which at present tend to endanger the safety of the national church . "
Incendiabt Fjrh . — On Sunday night last , shortly before 8 o ' clock , a destructive fire , which their seems little doubt vias the act of an incendiary , was discovered on Baynton-hill Farm , near Hungerford , Berkshire , in the occupation of Mr . J . Grant . Within the short space of t « o hours after the outbreak tbe buildings ( consisting of a stable , two barns , and outhouses , with their contents , ) three extensive wheat ricks , and one straw rick , about 30 quarters of barley in one barn , a quantity of unthrashed wheat in another , a dressing machine , and various barns and husbandry implements , were destroyed . There being no llwellinghouse attached to the building there was no one to give alarm . So rapid was the progress of the fire that although
several hundreds of people were quickly on the spot the flames gained such an ascendancy—the buildings being old and the materials very dry—that not the least portion , either of the premises or the Other property , cou'd be preserved . Fortunately no cattle were on the farm at the time , all the live stock having been removed to another farm about a week previously . The reflection of the lire was seen for miles around , and altogether , nearly 1 , 000 persons were attracted to the spot . From the situation of the ricks they must have been - fired in two or three places ; and this coupled with the fact that a" most respectable farmer in the adjoining village of
Tinhead has , within the last week , received an anonymous letter threatening that his premises would be burnt , strengthens the belief that an incendiary Jl a ll f ' has been tho cause of the devastation . Lord Methuen having observed ths conflagration , immediatel y posted on to the scene , bringing with him some of his own servants and two policemen stationed in tbe parish ; and several Of the COUlllJ police were promptly on the spot , endeavouring to trace out the incendiary , The extent of the loss is very heavy : but that part affecting the tenant , Mr . Grant , is covered by an insurance in the Royal Farmers ' and General Fire-office .
; The Ten Iloims Agitation . —An important meeting of the master spinners was held on Tuesday sfteruoon at . the office of Mr . Heron , Binless-street , for the purpose of considering the steps desirable to take , and was very numerously attended . A petition was adopted praying for an Eleven Hours Bill as an
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effectual settlement , pf : ; the-question ,- , m preference to'tbe present , fluctuating *' « rtem ;; and flr deputation was appointed to prbceed't * London On the matter . " ¦ ' Fi » mS & foWR « s ^ sprung tip in Newcastle ^ ' Juvenile disciples ° f Isaac Walton-the . shade of the old angler , frowns upon us while we writo-T-may be seen in the , streets patiently reposing by the side of * grate ,, with . a Hae and . baited hook in the sewer , to catch rats . Their prey are sold to the jackals of the * rat hunters ; men who keep hundreds of rats fn store ,: and -sell them to sportsmen . ~ rGateshead Observer . . , ¦ ¦¦¦ . ' . ¦ : > , ;" : ¦¦ - ¦ " ¦
Tba ' gkd * at CijAtion-on-thk-Hbiohts , . Hamf £ x— The beautiful and . secluded little village of Clay tbn was on Saturday last the scene of a dreadful tragedy , in consequence ' -of a young man recently married having shot his wife through the left breast , and blown his own brains out . The subjects of the present tragical occurrence are two young people namsd Abraham ' and Elizabeth Jessop , each about twentyfive years of age , and the . cause of it an unhappy and ill-assorted marriage , leading to a separation , which the wife ' s friends had unluckily attempted to render permanent ,: instead of seeking a reconciliation . The main supports ofthe village are some ' extensive stone quarries in the neighbourhood ; and Jessop , ' who hud come to reside there from Brighouse , was a smith ,
and was principally employed in sharpening the delvers' tools . . He had paid his addresses to the girl for some twelve or eighteen months , and about three months ago they were married . Jessop had not a cottage furnished to take his wife to , and they took up their residence along with the wife ' s mother and sister . The husband , who had been given to ihtexicaiionat times , had given great promises of more steady and industrious habits at tlie time . For Some months before their marriage he had carried , out of his earnings five shillings per week to his intended wife , ahd for five or six weeks after marriage the young pair seemed to be comfortable enough . Some stormy-weather which succeeded , however , rendered it impossible that the quarry men could pursue their
employment , and Jessop was thrown out of work . Almost immediately afterwards quarrels with his wife and herfriends led to his being turned out of the mother ' s house , and a consequent separation , He had attempted in vain a reconciliation ; and the unhappy man seems to . have sought an interview on Saturday evening last , with a view to putting a period to aU ' future strife . and heart-burning about the matter by murdering his wife , and afterwards destroying himself . Alter fortifying himself by taking several glasses of ardent spirits at a public house , "to keep up his courage " for the fatal scene , he entered the house where she resided absut half-past three o ' clock on Saturday afternoon , and found'her in the presence of her mother and sister . He asked
her to accompany him to the door for the purpose of a private conversation , but she declined , observing that she had no secrets which her mother might not hear . He then attempted to induce his wife to give him an audience in another room , telling her she might relate what passed afterwards to her mother if she thought fit . This she also refused , and he then took from one of his coat pockets a pistol , and hastily advancing towards her , discharged it with the muzzle almost close to her person . The ball took effect in the left breast , but missed the heart , piercing the breast in the direction of the left arm , ' and emerging immediately under the arm . Before any attempt at interference could be made , he then drew a second pistol , and placing the muzzle under his right ear , discharged the contents through , his head . The unfortunate wife ran to the door , and sank upon the causeway in a state of insensibility . She was
afterwards carried to bed by her mother and some neighbours who lent assistance , and surgical aid being procured and the wounds stanched , she still survives . It is feared , however , that the ball has passed through a portion of the lungs , and that she cannot ultimately recover . The wound which Jessop inflicted on himself was of a more immediately mortal character . He fell at once upon the floor , and expired in a pool of blood—his skull being fearfully shattered . The body was removed to the Black Horse public house in Clayton . The young man ' s parents are not living , but he has brothers and sisters who had come to the village with the view of discharging the mournful duties ( as far as the verdict of a coroner ' s jury and the law which regulates such matters will allow ) , which devolve upon them in consequence of this event . The wife has only one parent livingthe father having destroyed himself about three years ago , by hanging .
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Highway Robbery . —Or Saturday , the 16 th inst ., between four and five o ' clock in the afternoon , as Mr . Osborne , traveller to Hemes and Co ., of Manchester , WAS driving in his gig from Bala to Llanfyllin , North Wales ' , at a lonely past o ? fee wad ymx the top of Borwyn Mountain , four miles from any dwelling-house , he was attacked by three men , who stopped his horse and dragged him out . Mr . Osborne attempted to struggle with his assailants , but he was beat about the head till he became insensible , and whilst in that state they took from the gig box £ 750 in gold and silver . The ruffians got clear away .
Alleged Murder bt CoLtiEns on Strike . —The coroner's inquest on the body of John Thomas , whose death was caused by the burns and injuries he sustained from an explosion of combustibles thrust into his bedroom , where his wife and family were sleeping , was brought to a conclusion last week at Aberdare . The chief witness examined was the wire , who , after stating the facts relative to the death of her husband , attributed the fatal occurrence to her late husband working in the colliery at a time when there was a strike amongst the colliers . A verdict of " Wilful murder against some person Or persons unknown , " was returned .
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PniOHTFUL MUKDER NEAR EDINnURGIT . — The Edinburgh Courant relates the discovery of a horrible occurrence at Juniper-green , about five miles from Edinburgh , whore Dr . Wilson , a resident practitioner , was discovered lying dead in the kitchen of his own house—his head beaten in by some heavy instrument . In the passage was also found the body of Dr . Wilson's aged mother , upon whom similar violence had been also exercised . — An investigation immediately took place , and a person was arrested on suspicion ; but further particulars did not transpire . —It is said that , at a late hour on Sunday night , a man named Pearson , who is understood to have been in confinement in a lunatic asylum , called at the house of Dr . Wilson for medicine or medical advice . The doctor prscribed a simple dose , of which one half was to be taken that niarhfc and the remainder next
morning . Dr . Wilson having just returned from , visiting his country patients , left the man at the door , while he himself and the maid-servant went to the stable to put up his horse . Upon his return to the house Dr . Wilson found the outer door locked , and , upon knocking , was immediately admitted . This appears to have been observed by the maid-servant , who then went to her mother ' s house in the neighbourhood , where she . usually slept . —The precise circumstances that followed within Dr . Wilson's house can only be matter of conjecture . It is said that the man Pearson who bad called at the house the previous night , is tho person now in gaol upon suspicion of the murder ; and it is added tbat he had passed the night in the house , sleeping in Mrs . Wilson ' s bed , having first , it is supposed , burned his clothes . He was found naked in bed and sound asleep . —Dr . Wilson was about 50 years of age , strong and healthy , llis mother had attained the age of 00 .
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Abolition op the Lobd-Libutbhanct . —An agitation much more earnest than any one anticipated against the contemplated abolition of the Lord-Licutenancy scema already to havo get in , and we shall prohably haye a series of meetings in other parts of Ireland as well as in Dublin to express the popular feelings on the subject . A commencement was made on tho PJth inst . by the Dublin Traders ' Protective Society , which was presided oyer on the occasion by Alderman Kinahan ; Several respectable merchants and tradesmen taking part in the proceedings . Thofollowingresolution was adopted : — " That understanding it to be tho intention of her Majesty ' s government to introduce a bill for the abolition ofthe office of Lord Lieutenant in Ireland , this society , having for its sole object to watch
over and guard tho commercial interests of the traders of Dublin , and therefore declining to express any opinion as to the political bearing ofthe subject , considers it to be not only its legitimate office , but its incumbent duty , to protest in the _ strongest manner against any measure having for its purpose the removal ' of tho viceregal court from Dublin as calculated to inflict serious injury on the already greatly depressed trade of this city . " MuiiDEnoi ? A Bailiff . —Agrarian crime is once more on . the increase . Tho Kilkenny' Moderator oi Saturday last contains tho following : — " Oh Tuesday , two bailiffs , named John Ityan and Richard Crovvdle—in execution of a decree which they held at the suit of . a person named Patrick Dooly , of
Windgap , in . this county , against the property of a farmer named Philip Mcig lian , of Carrigccn-Morrice , hear Kilmogaimy—seized a quantity of cattle which they found on tho lands , but which Mcighan and his family forcibly rescued , assaulting and driving away the baijiffs . A cxt day , the bailiffs took out summonses against the parties for the rescue , and again , proceeded , in the evening , to the house , in order to serve , them , when'it appears that Edward , son to Philip Mcighan ,. resisted their entrance to the premises , and inflicted on Ryan a stab t ; -om a weapon resembling a pike , in the abdomen fro ; u the effects of which ho almost immediately expired . , Crowdle ran away , and informed the polio . ' , after w / ueh . ho . absconded , for tu 6 ' pwViog e' it wpiild
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seem ,. of not bejngifprced to give evidence , l -The perpetrator ofthe deed ,-a young man under twenty years' of age , " h & 8 > jao abscondeo ?; buthis fatherand sister have been-arrested by the constabulary . ' . ' . : { Encumbbbed _ . Es ! ATB 8 f ; Commission . —Thirty-two additional ipetitionsfor the sale of estates have been flled ^ n the week ending theaathinst . . The encumbered inheritors in this list are chiefly small pww pnetors , and some of them , for initance the Rev . Sir Christopher R . > Lighten , Bart ., are petitioners , on their : own behalf . * The . commissioners have ordered : a . large 'number , . of sales , ; in some " oases of , considerable eatates ,. during the months of May and June next
St . Patrick ' s Dat . —According to the accounts received , - St . Patrick ' s ' Day passed over without any serious manifestation in the way of processions or excitement in the northern province , . where such vigorous and general' measures of precaution had been adopted by the government . A Mi \ Francis W . Tfternah had ' a narrow escape from assassination oh Friday evening , the 15 th inst ., atLoughorna , in' the county of Tipperary . He exchanged shots : with the . assassin , who fired at him . twice , from behind a hedge ,: close to his own door , and was slightly wounded in the hand . Several evictions have lately been made on the property . : ' ' ¦ : ; ; ''""' Exposition of -the Industr * op alt / Nations . — Great : preparations are . in progress in Belfast to
organise that important town , and the northern province generally , in . ' support of tke Industrial Exhibition in London . At the request of the Chamber of'Commerce , the Royal Flax Society and the linen and muslin manufacturers , the Mayor of Belfast has convened a public meeting for , Friday next , to adopt measures for- securing effectual cooperation in the great national demonstration . The Northern Whig , referring to this movement , says , " We hear of Irish cambrics being sold as Frenchof Irish linens being got up as German , because the excellence of these articles is , in many , cases , not yet known ; but we may fearlessly exhibit the products of our looms besido those of France and of Germany , and . show the foreign merchant proof
positive of our superiority . -Our sewed muslin manufactures , also , which have grown into such importance , are in many countries unknown , or styled of French production . We ; can show the foreign consumers of Russian flax that Ireland can furnish them with a better article ; and , with the progress now making , in the west and south , through the indefatigable exertions of the Flax Society , ; we may soon behold cargoes of flax leaving our shores-to displace the Russian in the , supply ! of foreign factories , and thus have an ' exp ' ort of agricultural produce of ten times the value of the corn we formerly shipped to England . " Agricui , tijba £ Operations-, For the last five years there have not been such cheering indications of industrial progress , as are to be found ia the
agricultural reports of the present month , and in all quarters the . farmers , taking advantage ef an unprecedented run of fine open weather ; are represented as being actively engaged in making preparations for the ensuing harvest . In every field , says the Tipperary paper , are . to be seen ploughs , horses , and men , engaged in sowing peas , oats , and potatoes . In the north riding a large breadth of land is occupied with grain crops , while the planting of potatoes is as universal as in the most prosperous days . From the west ; the accounts are ofthe same satisfactory character , and although the rural population appear to have effectually cast of their apathy , and resumed their wonted occupations with revived spirit , and in the hope that the advent of Irish prosperity is at length close at hand . .
John O'Grady , a wealthy farmer in the county of Limerick ; has been convicted for the murder of his wife and maid servant , and sentenced to be executed . The murder was particularly , remarkable for the total absence of all apparent provocation . The prisoner first murdered the servant in the stable by stabbing her with * bayonet fixed on a stick , and then killed his wife by discharging two pistols at her while she was . in bed . The defence was temporary aberration of mind , but this was not sustained by any evidence . Mathew and William Gavin were convicted at the same assizes for the murder of John Ryan , at Copp . amore , and sentenced along with O'Grady , to be executed on the 10 th of next month .
assize intelligkxce . Murder of Patrick Moore . —Maryborough , March 16 . —Catherine Moore and Bridget Thompson were placed at the bar , charged with the wilful murder of Patrick Moore , at Turrow , on the 26 th of August . There were , three counts in the indictment ; the first stating the crime to be committed by Catherine Moore , 1 by making a cut with a knife on the right side of his throat , and charging Bridget Thompson with aid and abetting ; the second count charged Bridget Thompson with being accessory after the fact ; and the third count laid the deed to have been committed by strangulation . —Being asked if they were guilty or not , Catherine Moore ( wife to the murdered man )
pleaded guilty . Sho was in a most distressingly excited state , and was obliged -to be supported throughout the entire trial . —Her attorney , Mr . Roe , withdrew the plea . — Bridget Thompson , ( mother to the other prisoner ) was perfectly unmoved by her own awful situation and the wretched appearance of her daughter , She preserved a sullen and relentless expression of countenance , and pleaded not guilty , in a firm voice . —Catherine Murphy , examined by Mr Griffith , deposed to finding the body of deceased , Pat Moore , in a bog hole at Rossmore . — -Owen Moore , a young . boy , examined .:. Is brother to the prisoner , Catherine Moore . On the 26 th of August , his sister did not go to bed until about one . o ' clock at night . She
went out about ten o ' clock . She did not sleep with his mother . She got up about five five o ' clock in the morning . She called his mother up , and said she wanted ner for a certain business . They both went out of the place then . He went to school at nine o clock in the morning . Came home about four o ' clock . "When he came into the yard ho missed tho ass ' s car . His sister Catherine was not then at home . ' She returned about six o ' clock , and brought the ass ' s car with her . Witness met her , and , in consequence of what he had heard from his sister Betty , called her a murderer . She answered , " It was great harm indeed , " and if he said anything , she would get his mother to' beat him . Catherine Moore then told her mother where
she put her'husband . Said she put him in a boghole , near Clogrennan . . Rossmore is near Clogrennan . His mother said , if it was known she killed her- husband , they would bo all taken . Catherine said she brought the car to . the bog-holej got into the car , cut the cord she had , tying her husband , and rolled him over into the bog-hole ; then covered him with sods . In two days after heard his sister , Catherine say to her mother , " Thank God I got rid of him ready , " and that she would be well enough if the body was not found until she got off . Two knives were here . given , to the witness , who identified them as belonging to his mother . ; Heard his sister tell her mother that she gave her husband whisky , and that he lay dead
then , and she cut his neck . In three days after , wanted the reins ofthe ass . Missed a small portion ofthe reins . Asked Betty where it was . Betty said Catherine tied up her husband with it to make him short . —Elizabeth Moore examined : Is sister to Catherine Moore . This witness corroborated the evidence given by her brother . Ou Monday morning , when Catherine had gone out , about five o ' clock , her mother called witness , and said " It was a woe night ; they had let out Catherine by herself , for sho had killed hor husband . " Witness asked her where he was . Her mother took her out and showed her the body ' of Patrick Moore , at the summer-houso in the garden , covered with rushes . The clothes were all on the body except the hat .
There was a , cut en hia neck , and blood along his breast . When they came in , witness asked Catherine " What made sho do that ? " Catherine said it was neck or nothing with her , for that Pat thought to stab her until sho got to turn the knifo to his Own throat . Witness said " You murderer , I'll get you took and hung . " Catherine then began to cry . —Constable Maurice Ryan deposed that after arresting' the prisoner , Catherine , on the ; 29 th September , sho acknowledged having mui'dcved her husband ; and said her mother and the rest of her family wero innocent . She said her husband was drunk , and endeavoured to stab her first . — Tho jury , after a short deliberation , returned ft verdict of guilty against both prisoners on the third count . —Chief Justice Dohcrty , addressing himself to Catherine Moore , said it was not his intention to
prolong th « painful scene b y any observations on the evidence . In ; all the cases which had come within his experience , her crime was without precedent—he might say unparalleled in the annals of tho country .- She had come doublv armed with the bottle and the knife ; and when she had drugged her victim , so as to render him helpless , she put into execution her cruel and blood-thirsty purpose . His lordship , after commenting on the evidence , assumed the black can , and naascd the extreme penalty of tho law , to bo can-fed into execution on a day to bo hereafter named . As for vou , said his lordship , addressing tho elder prisoner , I shall not waste words on . you . ; Tho jury have found you guilty of being accessory after the fact ,-. and I have no hesitation in passing oh you the heaviest ponaltv the law allows in tho case—that you bo transported for the term of your natural life .
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British College of Iiualth , New-road , Loxdos . —Fellow Countrtmex . —In the name of humanity and justice we ask how much longer arc the remains of tho poor to bo cut . up in the Hospitals , in order to put guineas into tho doctors' : pockets ? Oh ! the infamy ! Aro the poor who dio , in * hospitals aware that doctors ma'kb money- by selling their remains to medical students , who pay them so much for- a ' . leg , another so much for an arm , & e ., & c . ? Down-with the odious traffic ,, say all . Hygeists : Anatomy is perfectly . useless un the , euro of any disease . ^ People arise 1 " ... .. " . " ¦
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b ^ AIl w * felled to the ^ ounRle' A stick , and d ied . almost instantly . OVT-S V exceedingly conflicting , and the hL 'V ? summed up at considerable length iff ^ . 'i minuteness . / In the course of " hi . „ S "M ' * * iorush ^ the agriculturists were perfectly jS 5 & 6 aill C fromthe riding Thouse those personsTho ' « the proceedings of that meeting . HfcIV ^ ' M minded the jury that there were C ^ St swore positivel y , to the prisoner atXC °% witnesses who as distinctly swore tt-Jlr ^ fr was not the man who struck the blow ti *¦ £ evidence on both sides very clearly hU-, P « K hands ^ -T be jury , in leas thanfive minS * * ft a verdict of ' Not guilty . " "" "wes , t ^ Z
STAFFORD . Bt / HOXARY AND MURDEROUS AlTAfr „ lNMAT 2 S .-Sainuer Bates , a young man nf * - ** table appearance , aged 18 , was indicted to i !> and entering the house of William Ymll % m the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent , aKiiS . wounding the said William VrAiJ Mountford , with intent to kill or dotL ? * l grevious b ? dily harm ^ -Mary Bradshaw V ™ ^ of the prosecutor , sfated that she had retirrf f "fe with her husband a little after twelve o'cLot Ies t night of the 6 th of October last , when she C ^ noise below in the yard , and upon callin » T ?* know who was there , the prisoner informed W he had seen three men jump over the wall « f i 5 * vard . and rwvrnimpnrtpH liur tn In « K ... .. ° ?' te
and windows ., She knew the prison ^ voic ?! he was the son of a neighbour and had oftenhew .- the house , and , after thanking him , she went dnJ ? stairs and found all was safe . Half an hour an wards she was again' disturbed by a noise resembn the breaking of . a window . She immediately got , and went down stairs in the dark , and , on openin the door at the bottom , of the stairs , was cut on tf throat with some sharp instrument , a portion nf flesh bein ? cut away from the chin to the throat The prosecutor , an elderly man , followed by l ! i nephew , Samuel Mountford ,. had by this tirne reached the door , and the former rushed between ^ wife and her ' aasailant , when he . received a seve , e cut in the face . In struggling with the man the prosecutor took a cap from his head and placed it in the bosom of his shirt , when he received another severe wound across the neckalso others oa ti »
, shoulder , side , and across the fingers of the titty hand , numbering altogether ten . Mountford 5 » also severely woundsd on the cheek , the flesh beta severed from the cheek bono , down to the montb Whilst this was going on Mrs . Yyse ran to the outer door , and raised an alarm for assistance , when the man . rushed past her , and made his escape , ft ) . lowed by Mountford , who , however , failed to oTej . take him . After medical aid had been procured flu cap was examined , and , suspicion falling uponth « prisoner , Mountford went to his father ' s house about fifty yards distant , and , oti inquiring whether he was at home , was answered in the negative . Evidence was produced to prove that the prisoner had a
few weeks before bought a . razor from a cutler , and on the previous night had , exhibited a stick , which was found at the bottom of tbe stairs in the prosecutor ' s house . About two o ' clock the same morning , the prisoner went to the house of a person named ' Gater , at Shelton , and inquired whether he would let him lay in the houseplace until morning . Gater at first refuged , but afterwards came down stairs and In him in . Between seven and eight o ' clock the same morning , the prisoner called Gater up , and requested him to lend him a coat and cap , and having obtained these he left the house . . During the morning the wife of Gater found in the air-hole underneath the grate a razor with blood on it , which was produced ,
and which was stated to resemble the one the prisoner bought ef the cutler . After he left Gater ' s house the prisoner proceeded to the police station , and made a complaint that three , men had ben ten him during the night and taken his coat and cap from him , whereupon the coat and cap found at the prose cutor ' s house were shown to him , and he iramedi * ately owned them as those he had lost . An open pockftt knife was also found at the prosecutor ' s house cavered with blood , and likewise some hair , similar in colour to the prisoner's , on the casement of the window . The prisoner was then taken into custody , bat denied the charge . Subsequently ,
however , he told Inspector Cole that three mea met him on the night of the burglary , and said they were going to break into Mr . Vyse ' a house , and requested him to go with them . This he refused to do until they threatened to cut his throat if he did not . They then all . went , and one of the men brok « a pane of glass in the back window , opened the easement , and put one of his companions through to open the door . This being done they all walked in , and one of them committed the brutal outraged above narrated . —His lordship minutely summed tip the evidence , and the jury immediately returned a verdict of" Guilty "
The Staffokd Riotbrs . —The fifteen ndividuals who had been held to bail on a charge o ( riot and assault at the late agricultural protection meeting will , not be tried , the whole of them having traversed until the next assizes .
NOTTINGHAM . Pbculiar Case op Murder . —John Sansome , aged 63 , was indicted for haying at Sutton , in Ashneio , on the 10 th of April last , caused tho ( loath of Elizabeth Baily , who was at that time pregnant , by attempting to cause a miscarriage . This offender was tried on a similar charge of felony at the last assizes ,, and acquitted , but was detained to answer the higher charge of murder . —The learned judge in summing up , dwelt upon tho gravity ofthe charge , and the nature of the law respecting it . h was perfectly legal now to arraign the prisoner & r the charge of murder , although he had been previously , tried and acquitced of a minor offence . Nor was io necessary , to iustify a verdict of wilfal
murder that the prisoner , should be proved to luwe meditated the death of deceased . If , in the performance of an . illegal act , he had done that which had subsequently caused death—his intention at the time being of a very different nature—ho was still liable to be convicted of the capital charge . —The jury retired ,. and after an absence of more than three hours , returned into court , with a verdict of '' Wilful Murder , " they , however , recommended the prisoner to mercy . —The Learned Chief Justice immediately passed sentence of death . He would forward the recommendation of the jury to the proper quarter , and it would remain to be seen what effect it would have ; ho earnestly desired him however , not to expect the slightest mitigation of
the sentence . Sarah Kean , 53 years of age , was found guilty » a similar offence at Radford , and sentenced by &*"• Baron Parke to transportation for life .
YORK . The Plate Robbert at Leeds . —W , Green and T . Kay , who were convicted of receiving stolen property in London , the proceeds of plate and other robberies in Leeds , were placed at the bar , on the opening of the court , to receive sentence . —Mr Overend , on behalf of the prisoners , moved an arrest ol judgment iu consequence of an alleged inaccuracy ' both ^ indictments . His lordship overruled the objection ,, and sentenced the prisoners to be severa ' / transported for fourteen years . Tub Scarborough Savixgs Bank Defaulter .- " T . Strumwaite , who pleaded guilty to two scpaw " indictments of embezzling certain sums of nwne ? received from the depositors of tho savings bank 8 ' Scarborough was next placed at the bar . —Sentenced to bo imprisoned iii York Castle for two years .
MAIDSTONE . Burglary . — George Saunders , 23 , and Jo ' jJ Henry , 22 , wero indicted for ai burglary in the dwelling llOUSO of ITonry Staples . —It-appeared that tno prosecutor is a farmer , living near FarninghaDii ano on the night of the 29 th December , he was absent from homo , leaving his house in the charge of t"tt « of his labourers , a lather and two sons , named ra »* man . Upon this night one of tho sons was aw » by heaving a noise , and upon looking out of t « 0 window of his room , he saw a man , whom ho »' lioved to be the prisoner Saunders , standing m ^* garden , ' apparently upon tho watch . -He immMj atelv gave tho alarm , and upon his brother and l " " snir ' dirasinir and ffoinir into the garden' thov saw" 1
the snow which had recently fallen tho' footsteps ft four men , who appeared to have fjono aw ) ' ' the direction of Fnrniiigliamv' Tho two «! thcrs followed' tho trades , and after W " gone some distance " -they came up to four B 1 C ! 1 ! who threatened : to ; kill-them if they follo * J 5 any further . Tho brothers , however , being j " ; . shortly afterwards bv their father , again c ° " !' moncod the pursuit , and came up with the iovH ^ a a second time at the entrance-of a wood <> lose , u Fiuninghiim . -Tlie : father , iiponsceing-thorn , cj «« out that if they did not stop ho would shoot tlie "' although it appeared that ho-had no fire-arms ia " possession , and upon his doing ? o tlio-foiir )) nnlC "[ r ately attacked- their pursuers , beat them s evere j with sticks , and in tho cud made their cfl . The jnry found both prisoners " Guilty , " and « dence wasadduced * o show that Saunders had v * before-convicted of felony .
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