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BEitxn or ^^^^^ ll ^ The rate of raor £ f ^ ^^ ovementin the health 8 Sthnt S haTUe « Sce during the last 0 fth ^ Ts t : aud H Continues higher than is seven wrf . , w * mmle of May . In tne JSftdWS Way the number of deaths - \* rTw « e l ut > 2 ; in the ten corresponding Wj Trfl ^ S 0 1 t ^ generally under 900 ; ia Selbree £ to ! e 5 in which it exceeded that number it •« 973 , 969 , and 1 , 333 , and the average was adIvSSI . This average , when corrected for
increase of population , U 961 ; compared witnwmcu the present return exhibits an excess of 41 . a comparison of the last two weeks wnl show Wat therein still an unusual mortality amongst V * ra ?? Of tender vears , and that though zymotic or epidemic diwasWhave declined in their aggregate fata-3 ity from 233 deaths to 190 , yet in the same period the class wnich comprise , the several disease . of tbe reSpin . teryorgans , . exclusive of phtb ^ is and hoovtog-eowh . has risen from WT to 1 , 6 . at the position as in
Ti . eumm . ia remains same £ e Jre ^ -eek ; bronchitis baa increased -from GO to 72 ; arthm * from o to 12 ; while Vhthi-is in tbe tubercular class exhibits little variation , having risen from 143 in the previous week to 153 in tbe last , and it does not appear to he influenced by aggravating causes to the same extett as other complaints which have become more fatal under their operation . Affections of the respiratory organs generally at present show a mortality considerable above tbe average . Two deaths were recorded last week , of which
intemperance is stated to have heen the cause ; besides another case in which fatal disease seems to have ieen tbe fruit of habitual drinking . Last week ± he births of 752 boys , and 715 girls , in all 1 , 467 children , were registered . The average of 6 corresponding weeks in 1845 50 was 1 , 306 . At the 3 toyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean daily leading of the barometer was above 30 iu . on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , and the mean of the week was 39 . 952 in . After Sunday themean daily temperature was below the average on every ^ ay of the week , and on Tuesday and Wednesday it was respectively 5 deg . and 1 deg . below the average of the same days derived from 10 years . The temperature continued to fall during the first
lour days , and on "Wednesday was 46 . 2 deg ., after -which it rose above 50 deg . The mean of the week was 5 . 9 deg . The wind was generally in the northeast . Captain Somerset is the House of Correction . —Since Captain Somerset ' s committal for assaulting a police-constable in tbe park , he has been Tisited , per favour of the Middlesex magistrates , iy a great many of the nobility and gentry , and by bis Jady , Mrs . Somerset . Among the visitors on the first day was the Duke of Buccleuch , the Marquis of Stafford , Lord Mnlgrave , and several officers of the regiment to which Captain Somerset belongs . Strenuous efforts have been made by the friends of Captain Somerset to obtain a remission
of the punishment , and a petition was forwarded to the Home Office r . n his behalf ; iu fact every possible influence was used to relieve the prisoner from incarceration in a gaol . Captain Somerset , who bad hoped from tbe powerful influence of his titled friends that bis imprisonment would be commoted into a money fine , was very downcast on hearing the decision that the punishment could sot be modified . On Thursday , Friday , and Saturday the visitors were very numerous , and comprised peers , M . P . ' s , colonels , and others of wealth and station . There were six carriages at one time outside tbe House of Correction , with visitors for Captain Somerset . All the visiting orders were marked upon the corner " special , " and were issued by Mr . Whlskin , one of the visiting justices . TJy tbe regulations of the gaol , no person under
sentence of imprisonment can be visited by any friend or relative , until be has been incarcerated for three months , except by a special order from a magistrate , and they are very rarely issued , and only in cases of great emergency , such as the illness of a prisoner or the death of a relative without the walls . Captain Somerset ' s visitors during four days amounted to upwards ot 100 . He vears the prison clothes and subsists on the prison diet , and so fares in tbat respect tbe same as any other inmate of the gaol . On Wednesday morning the prisoner having completed the term of his sentence of imprisonment , was discharged from the House of Correction , Coldbatb-fields . A great number of persons assembled at the usual bom-for tbe discharge of pr isoners to witness'hia departure , bnt they were doomed to be disappointed , for he bad left the prison about an hour before that time .
Recovery of the Boot of Mr . Todd , the Bar . bistee . —On the l ? th inst . an inquest was held at the Bed Dog , High liaison , before Mr . Hills , deputy coroner for West Kent , on view of the body of Mr . Todd , a barrister , who was accidentally drowned on Easter Sunday , whilst cruising with some friends in tbe Thames , below Gravesend . Edward Thomas Davis , a waterman of Gravesend , stated that on the 20 th of April he took some gentlemen from Waite ' s Hotel , for a sail iu the Lady Melville , a boat belonging to Marshall , a waterman at this place . They beat about off Gravesend for about two hoars when the tide slacked , and they went down the river below Tantletk On tbeir return Mr . Todd and another gentleman , were standing on
the starboard deck , and there being little wind caused the mainsail to come over and knocked them both overboard ; one saved himself by catching hold of tbe sail , but Mr . Todd went down , and he saw him no more . Witness identified tbe body 38 that of Mr . Todd . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was " accidentally drowned . " The Murder of a Pouceman at Vabxhaix . — On Monday evening the jury empannelled to investigate this disastrous occurrence re-assembled , and at the close of their labours returned a verdict— " Wilful murder against Richard Cawn and John Dickey . " Frightfk . Accidekt . —On Saturday morning
fast , shortly often ten , o clock , as a light chaise cart belonging to Mr . Richard Poole , of Orpington , Kent , was being driven along the Blackfr'are-road , and whilst crossing by Rowland Hill's Chapel , and endeavouring to pass a brewers dray , a little boy named Daniel Bono-van , eight years old , -who was playing with others by the side of the road , was knocked down and one of tbe wheels of tbe cart passed completely over his head . The poor little sufferer was picked up immediately and taken to a Burgeon's , but in consequence of the serious nature of his injuries it was deemed advisable that he should be instantly removed" to Gay ' s Hospital , where he lies in a hopeless state .
psTEBMiseD Suicide .-On Tuesday , shortly after one o ' clock , as the Liverpool day-mail was coming down the incline from the Camden station , of tbe IJorth-Western Railway , an elderly gentleman , crossed from the up-Iine and deliberately laid his neck across the down rail ; on which the in-coming train was approaching . In another second the train passed , and his bead was rolling in the centre of tbe line , under the carriages . The occurrence took place about a quarter of a mile from tho Boston station , and was distinctly visible to the guards ,
but the warning was too short to make the application of breaks of the least nso for arresting or delaying its progress . The unfortunate deceased was Mr . James Young , of 35 , Augustus-street . Regent ' s-park , a gentleman of fortune , and possessing a large amount of house property in the neighbourhood . He left home about eleven o ' clock in the morning for a walk , and it appears called on Mr . Murphy , the collector , and paid his poor ' s rates , and must have proceeded immediately to commit the rash act .
Firk . —On Tuesday morning , shortly after three o ' clock , the premises of the Rev . C . O'Donoghue , 9 , Albert-grove , Stoke Kewington , were consumed by a fire which originated in the bedroom , one of the family having approached too near the bed curtains with a lighted candle . The poor creature made a most vigorous attempt to subdue the flames by tearing the blaring materials down . In so doing she caused her dress to take fire , and before tbe same could be subdued , she was fearfully burned in both hands . It was with great difficulty that the Other inmates were enabled to effect a safe retreat ; as it was they were nearly suffocated . The parish and brigade engines were soon on tbe spot , but the fire had gained too much strength to be extinguished before the house was destroyed .
Fibs is Shoe-zase . —On Wednesday night , at a quarter before ten o ' clock , a very extensive fire broke out in the premises of Messrs Pontifrx , "Wood , and Co ., coppersmiths and brass founders , in Shoe-lane , near Holborn . The flames burst forth with great violence , and in a few moments illuminated St . Andrew ' s church and the entire neighbourhood . The brigade engines from Farriugdonstteet and tbe other stations w « re speedily in attendance , and although a plentiful supply of water was obtained , the flames continued to make great progress . It appears that the fire commenced in a foundry at the rear of the premises , but its origin is at present involved in considerable doubt , as the workmen had quitted the premises for a
consider-2 & # ES : u flames at one time threatened tbe upon Messrs . Poutifex ' s premises ; but bv theextW frl ^^^ & ***** n p ^ SrvSg them from any material injury . The nattems in the foundry werestated to be consumed !^ this report requires confirmation . In- about an hour the tire was completely subdued , and the mischief may be said to be confined to tbe premises in which It originated . . """ THEVAsSursAXCE .-OnWednesday Air . Bedford bed an inquest in the board room of St Martin ' s Workhouse , on tbe body of Richard Nicholson , aged sixty-three , who for above twentwears had kvpt a fruit stall adjoining St . Martin ' s Church . Saraui-l Newman , cabman , Ivo . 14 , Stockwell Terrace , said that about t « o o ' clock in the afternoon of the 2 nd . nst ., he was in a taxed cart drawn by one hor e , » Lich was proceeding down St . MarfinVlane . When
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near St . Martin ' s Church be passed a huge advertising van , at the sight of which the animal shied and began to plunge and kick . He pulled the animal iu , but while doing so tbe shafts broke at the step iron , and he was thrown nut under the horse ' s hind tegs . The animal went off at afuriou ? rate and knocked tlie deceased down , who was taken with his stall several feet along the street ., He was picked up and carried to Sing ' s College ' Hospital . —Mr . C . Lewis , visiting surgeon at the hospital , said , deceased , after being a few days at the institution , left of his own accord . Witness attended him at his lodgings . He died on Sunday last . Deceased had two ribs broken , which bad penetrated tbe lungs , and produced effusion on the pleura , which caused death . —The Foreman remarked that advertising vans were a complete nuisance- —Mr . Newman said his horse alwavs shied
at advertising vans . —The Coroner observed that tbe vans were made with such glaring figures , that horses were apt to start . It would be a mtrcy if they were altogether prohibited . —Verdict , ' Accidental death , caused by an advertising van . " The Late Hodb Sisiem . —An able sermon on the spiritual and other evils arising from protracted labour in houses of business , -was preached oh Sunday evening at St . Olave ' a church , Smithwark , by the Kev . L . M . Humbert , curate of the parish . The text was taken from the first chapter of Exodus , and the eighth to tbe fourteenth verse . He reminded his congregation tbat for all of us "the time is short "— " They that buy will soon be as though they possessed not , and they that sell as though tbey profited not , for the fashion of this world passeth away . "
St . Stephen ' s , Wamrook . —This beautiful edh fice is , by order of the parochial authorities , thrown open for the inspection of the public free of cost , with an especial view to the gratification of strangers visiting our metropolis this year .
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Dasqrrotjs Attack oh thb Rbv . Mb . Pollock at Liverpool . —Last evening a remarkable attack was made iu St . Mark ' s Church on the Rev Mr : Pollock under the following circumstances I—On the commencement of the service two men entered the church and took seats . For an hour the service proceeded quietly , but at the expiration of that time the individuals in question became apparently restless and wandered up and down the aisle . Mr . Boyd , the clerk , in Order to preserve decorum , ordered them either to sit down quietly or leave the church . Instantly one of tbe men rushed to the
pulpit , aud , opening tbe door , with a stick in bis I hand , struck Mr . Pollock twice on the back . Mr . Pollock on observing the man ascending tbe pulpit stairs inquired who he was ? The prisoner exclaimed with violence , that be was "God Almighty . " Great excitement instantly pervaded the ; edifice . Gentlemen rose to tbeir feet and ladies screamed , and seldom , perhaps , has a scene so remarkable been witnessed in any edifice devoted to sacred purposes . Mr . Pollock received instant assistance from tbe gentlemen and officials of the congregation , and , after a violent struggle , the madman was carried forcibly from the pulpit and conveyed to the exterior of tbe building , Mr . Pollock resuming his sermon with perfect calmness and composure . A police officer shortly arrived , and the assailant was pinioned and conducted in custody
to the station in High-street , followed by a largeconcourse of spectators . On arriving at the station , measures of strong repression were found necessary to restrain tbe prisoner from violence , aud handcuffs were placed round his wrists and ropes round his feet . Subsequently Mr . Gibbon and Mr . Talbot , from the dispensary , visited the prisoner ; aud although at first insanity was suspected , it is now believed tbat the act of violence may be traced to brain fever . After some time had elapsed the prisoner , who stated that his name is Daniel Roburgb , residing at 123 , Grafton-street , master shipwright , was Conveyed to the dispensary . A message was sent to acquaint his wife with bis position . Biscompanion , whose movements were at least of a suspicious character , gave bis name , but it was not thought necessary to detain him .
Fatax Railway Accimnt at Manchester . — On Saturday afternoon last an accident occurred to a train entering Manchester from Bolton , on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , by which one man lost his life . The train was proceeding slowly along a carve between Windsor Bridge and Oldfield-lane , when the engine suddenly left the rails , and almost immediately turned over on one side , the luggage van ( which followed the engine and tender ) being jerked on to the top of it . The remainder of tbe train immediately stopped , and all the passengers escaped
without injury . Richard Ashmough , the fireman , in jumping off the engine , was caught between it and the luggage van , aud was killed instantaneously . The engine driver was thrown off , but escaped without serious injury . The cause of the accident is Dot known , as the rails were found on examination to be quite perfect at tbe point where the engine went off . It is conjectured that a stone or some other substance might have been thrown against one of the rails from a neighbouring street , causing the wheels of the engine to rise and pass over tbe rails .
Railway Acciokht . —On Saturday morning , between eleven aud twelve o ' clock , when a train on the London and North Western Railway was coming to Manchester , a man was seen lying across the rails , about a mile from the station at Cheadle . The speed at which the train was going rendered it impossible to stop it before an accident occurred , and the whqje ofthe carriages went over the body , mutilating it in a most frightful manner . When taken up the unfortunate man was quite dead . He was a plate layer , named William Shelmerdine , and has left a wife and four children .
EXHOMATIOH OF A FsMALB CORPSE AT LEEDS . — Suspecteo Poisomko . —The corpse of a female , named Elizabeth Rawson , formerly living with her husband in Charley-street , New Road-end , has been disinterred by order ofthe coroner of the borough of Leeds . Rumours had been in circulation that tbe woman , who died in July , 1850 , had been poisoned , and these rumours pointed to tbe deceased ' s husband and a woman he has since married aa the patties implicated in the foul crime of murder . Since the disinterment of the body , a post mortem examination has taken place , and certain parts of it , with tbe contents of the stomach , have been handed over to Mr . Wm . West , the chemist , for the purpose of being tested as to whether they contain poison . The coroner ' s inquest , after having been ' formally constituted , adjourned its sittings until Wedensday afternoon , when the proceedings we ' re again adjourned , owing to the absence of Mr . West in London .
Novel Explosion . —Serious Accident . —An explosion of a novel character took place on Sunday last , in the house of Mr . Edward Andrews , grocer , at Ward-terrace , Hendon-road , Sunderland , which has been attended with dangerous consequences . Some of the family occasionally had a bottle of hot water placed at their feet in bed , and for that purpose a stone bottle , filled with water and tightly corked , was placed in an oven adjoining the kitchen fire on Saturday evening . The bottle was not required , and was forgot by tbe servant , consequently it remained in the oven . While the family were at church on Sunday afternoon , the water having expanded with the heat , exploded with a
tremendous noise . The bottle burst and broke open the iron door of the oven , destroying various articles of furniture and crockery , together with several squares of glass in the kitchen window . Tbe servant , who happened to be sitting nearly opposite to the oven , was struck on her head , rendered insensible , and was unable to speak for several days ; she was removed to the infirmary , where she remains in a dangerous state . A child of Mr . Andrews , sitting upon the servant ' s knee at the time , was thrown by the force of the explosion under the kitchen grate , but miraculously escaped unhurt .
3 ta . Ferrand at Atiesbbrt . —On Wednesday the Protectionists of Aylesbury met to entertain their defeated candidate , Mr . W . B . Ferrand , at a public dinner . The dinner took place at the George Hotel ; about 300 persons were present ; and Mr . W . Lowndes occupied the chair . After the usual toasts , the chairman proposed the health of their guest . Mr . Ferrand thereuponinade a speech remarkable for its lameness down to near its dose , when he broke out into his more peculiar strain : — " Who feared a rebellion ? God would defend the right . ( Great cheering . ) Let the Free Traders
hoist their standard of rebellion to-morrow , the spirit of England would destroy them in a month . Bright would be banged at Manchester , Cobden at Leeds , and Sit James Graham at Carlisle . ( Liughter and cheers . ) Then , too , a new reform bill was talked of , but he warned the gove rnment that the reform bill which swept away the Protectionists would sweep the Duke of Bedford out of Woburn Abbey ; would , in all probability , sweep the crown from her Majesty ' s head ; and would , if he were not cautious , sweep Lord John Russell ' s head from his shoulders . "
The Represektatios op Rochdale . —A public meeting was held on Tuesday night in the publichall , Rochdale , to hear Mr . E . Miall , editor of the Nmtomformistj deliver hissentiments upon political affairs , with a view to test his fitness to succeed Mr . Sharman Crawford in the representation of ihe borough . Mr . Miall made a clear and impressive speech ; he was supported in an address from J . Bright , Esq ., M . P ., who moved— " Tbat this meeting recommends the committee appointed
at a previous meeting to prepare a requisition to Mr . Miall , and by a careful canvass of the borough to procure the signatures of as many of the electors as may be disposed to sign it , with a view to test the opinions of the constituency , to ascertain how far Mr . Miall would be acceptable to the ejectors of tbe borough as a candidate at the next election . Mr . Gibson seconded this resolution . It wasopposed by Mr . Livsey , a Chartist leader , not on the ground that Mr . Miall was not a proper man , but merely that to pledge the borough in his favour before other gentlemen ' s claims to becoae
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candidates had been " considered would , be premature . However , on the understanding that nostens should he taken in pursuance of the resolution until after Whitsun-week , when Mr . Sharman Crawford would have been among the electors , it was passed unanimously . . Firs and Loss op Life—On Sunday morning between one and two o ' clock , a wheat stack , on the farm of Mr . George Potter , of Wortbam Hall , was discovered by the policeman to be on fire . Fortunately the wind blew away from a range of stucka adjacent , and the fire was confined to the one in which it commenced , containing about fifty coombs of corn . Tim Diss engine having been sent lor , the fire brigade set off with great alacrity ; but in entering the gates , of the farm , by some misunderstanding of the boy who rode the leader , the wheel came in contact wiih the gatepost , and all the men were thrown off and more or lees hurt ; the principal engineer , Hay ward , and his son the
most severely . The former sustained a compound fracture of the leg , and fracture of tho thigh , and a dislocation of the shoulder ; and having been carried back to Diss in a cart , Messrs , Ward and Aniyot found amputation of the lee necessary , but he died shortly after the operation . He was a very steady and respectable man , about fifty-five years of age . The post-lad from the King ' s Head Inn had his head frightfully cut , and was covered with blood . Notwithstanding . their injuries , however , the brigade would not flinch from their duty ( the younger Hay ward , in spite of his hurt ^ directing the branch pipe . ) till the fire was completely subdued , in which their services were most valuable . There has been some dissatisfaction in this parish , in consequence of several of the farmers having reduced the two hours' rest ( from twelve o ' clock till two ) which it is a peculiar practice of this locality to allow , to one hour .
Ths SwPBsniARr Magistrate . —We understand that Mr . Mansfield , who was formerly attached to this circuit , has accepted the office rendered vacant by the death of Mr . Rushton , at a salary of £ 1 , 000 per annum . It is the intention to have two courts , one of which will be presided over by the honorary magistracy . Mr .. Mansfield is said to have been warmly recommended by Barons Parke and Afderson , and several of the . other judges . —Liverpool Courier .
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Representation or Aroyi < EBHIRE . —Iu tbe event of the representation of Argyiesbire becoming vacant by the elevation of the Dean of Faculty to the bench , it is reported in the county that Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth will offer himself to the electors , on the Protectionist interest ; and Alex , Campbell , Esq ., of Munzie , and Inverawe , on the Free frade principles . —Glasgow Herald . , The death of Viscount Straiballen took place at his seat of Castle Stratballan , in Perthshire , on the afternoon ofthe 14 th inst . His lordship , who ha ** reached the ripe age of eighty-five , began to sh / tokens pf declining strength some time ago . hut his last illness was only of a few days' durati '"
The Lord Lieutenant of WiGrow ! , SHI ^ B , " ~ We understand that the Earl of GaUow */ has placed bis resignation Of the high office of Lord Lieutenant of the county of Wigtown in tbehandsof the government ; and tbat the dignity h"s been conferred upon John Dalrymple , Esq ., M . F . for tbat county , nephew of , and heir presumptive to the Earl of Stair . —Dumfries Courier .. . . _ ..
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An Action for libel against the proprietors of Saunders' News Letter was tried on the 15 th inst . in the Court of Common Pleas , the alleged libel consisting in the publication of the report of a trial in which the plaintiff ' s case was fully stated , and the statement and evidence for the defence dismissed in a few lines . This was complained of as a garbled report , and the defence was that no intentional injustice was done . The plaintiff iu the action was a Mr . Malcolmson , a farmer and grazier in Carlow , and the original case , the report of which was now complained of , was a suit between father and son , Mr . Malcolmson , sen ., the present plaintiff , having been the defendant , and having obtained a verdiol in his favour . The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff , with ls . damages and costs . Diplomatic Bbvbutiors . —The Freeman ' s Journal states that a letter has been forwarded to Lord
Clarendon , under legal advice , to inquire whether his Excellency admits the authorship of the letter to Lord Shrewsbury , which has recently been published in the newspapers ; this inquiry being a preliminary step to legal proceedings about being taken by Mr . Martin Burke , one ofthe jurors on tbe trial of Mr . O . Gavan Duffy , and to whom wilful and corrupt perjury is attributed in the document in question . $ o answer has yet been returned to Mr , Burke ' s legal missive . The "Catholic Univbrsitv . "—The money continues to flow in from all quarters . The Bight Rev . the Lord Bishop of Clonfert forwards a letter of credit for £ 248 lis ., collected in that miserable diocess , as convincing " proof of the deep religious interest" felt iu the success of this question , "With at least one-third of the population ( adds the' Bishop , ' ) dead or in exile , and more than onehalf of the survivors either in the workhouses or in
the most abject state of poverty , no other appeal could have met with the response cheerfully given to that made on behalf of the Catholic University . The efforts we are obliged to make in order to provide for the safe education of the humbler classes , exposed as they are to the most malignant proselytising agencies , have made all herefamiliar with the dangers incident to any system of education not under the guidance of the church . " ' Decline of ras Populmios . —The Oaltvay Vindicator gives a melancholy account of the decline ofthe population in a district of that county between the year in 1811 and tbe taking of the present census : — " Through the kindness of Mr . Clancy , of Lough George , we have just been informed tbat
the decrease of population in the parish of Annadown , as evinced by the returns of the present census , is frightful in the extreme . In the year ' 41 tbe population of that rural parish amounted to 7 , 108 ; in ' 51 it is reduced to 3 , 663 , being a decrease of 3 , 445 souls—so that one-half of tbe good people of Annadown , minus 109 , are now among the killed , wounded , and missing . In ' 41 there were 864 families living in Annadown , in ' 51 there are only 454 . It will , therefore , be seen that the branches were not alone lopped off , but the axe of extermination has been most effectually laid to tbe very roots of the tree itself . " Another Galway journey ( the Mercury ) , referring to the decline of the population , throws some of the
blame on the ineffective working of the Poor Law . Taking the poorhouse of Galway , one of the best kept in the province , as an instance : — " The hospital is eo inconveniently filled that additional accommodation for the sick has been just provided . The number of deaths weekly averages from twenty to twenty-five ; so that between 1 , 000 and 1 , 200 persons , at the lowest computation , die yearly , We believe there are ten unions in this county , in all of which we presume the bills of mortality are equally large . Ten or ' twelve thousand persons dying annually in the poorhouses of a single county , added to the emigration , must quickly leave it destitute of inhabitants , " 1 The Roscommon Journal states , that in one day last week the enormous number of 3563 paupers
, applied for admission into ona of the union workhouses in that county . ' ' Importation of Shbbp . —Owing to the scarcity of sheep , as evidenced in the short supplies at all tbe recent country fairs , large importations from the sister country are taking place to supply the deficiency , On . Saturday last a flock of between 700 and 800 arrived in Dublin by one of the Liverpool steamers , for transmission to the county of Wicklow . Large droves have also been imported to tbe west of Ireland from Scotland and the north of England , i Thb Borkino of Downhui , House . —The Londonderry Sentinel states that the probable loss sustained by Sir H . H . Bruce , in the destruction of Downhill House , will be about £ 50 , 000 . An
investigation into the facts connected with the calamity was held by the district magistrates last week , and they came to the conclusion that the fire was the work of an incendiary . The above-mentioned journal is not disposed to adopt the decision of the local migi & tr & te . - . The following mysterious affair is related by the Berry Sentinel in connexion with the burning of Downhill House : — " On Sunday morning , the 11 th inst ., a man , dressed in the style of a gentlemen , was found suspended by a strong cord from tbe branch of a tree in the domain of Charles O' Hara Esq ., of O'Harabrook . A gold watch and 2 s . in silver were found on bis person . Life was extinct .
An inquest was held on the body , but no facts elicited beyond that he was found hanged—no papers to lead to his identification or whereabouts . He had called at a farmhouse near Ballymoney on Saturday , at three o'clock , p . m ., told them that he was a Scotchman , and that he had to announce the alarming intelligence tbat' Downhill was in flames . ' This person , whoever be was , could announce the awful fact fourteen miles from Downhill , in one hour after it was known in Coloraine , although tbe servant who gave the alarm in Coleraine could not accomplish the distance thither on horseback in less than fifteen minutes . "
ItOTAL AGBicotroRAL SociKTr .-, The stated half yearly meeting of this society was held on Friday last . The Duke of Leinster presided . The report gave a favourable description of the position of the society . The next great cattle show is to be held in Dublin on the 11 th of August . Sanguine expectations are entertained of the success of the movement in the south and west in favour of crowingflax . . . Prosecchox of Lord Clarendon . — His Excellency is now amenable to the Court of Queen ' s Bench , having been duly served with a writ at the
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suit of Mr Martin Burke , to answer a charge , o » libel , contained in the letter to Lord Shrewsbury ; admitted by his ' friends to be the production of his Excellency . Representation op jJewrt . — Mr . Halliwall , an English gentleman , and proprietor of the Newry gavsorks , is canvassing the electors of that town , He professes to be a friend to native agriculture , Sir . Dargan , the extensive railroad contractor , is also spoken of as a Free Trade candidate foi Newry . ' MrF . S . Crawford , fourth son of the hon .
mem-. ber for Rochdale ; died at Crawford ' s Burn on Saturday last , of an attack of inflammation " . Mr . Crawford was thirty-six years of age , was a most benevolent and extensive employer , and is deeply regretted in the locality . Incendiarism is Antrim . —The northern papers report another case of incendiarism which was committed at Glenarm a fevr nights ago , when a large stack of oats was consumed . The tenant-leaguers are charged with having instigated the deed . ; . .... .. ' ,
The Dowdstovm national school , in the county of Louth , was maliciously set on fire and destroyed on Sunday , night . \ ¦ . 'J ' - . ' Typhus fever similar to that which usually results from bad and insufficient food is becoming very prevalent in Cork . A hundred patients are at present in the fever hospital there . The Potato Cnop .- ^ It is stated that a greater quantity of potatoes , in proportion to the population , is now sown in the west of Ireland than ever before . Tho Tuam Herald says : — "We are informed by ; a gentleman who frequently travel through this province , that at French-park , in *|» county of Roscommon , there is a field of 105 - " "" J acres all sown with potatoes , which are j '"* " * nvRv pround . and have every appearance <« * »» " «
a most healthy and valuable crop ; the- *" * ls iec to conacre tenants at from M to £ 6 p * f"f ' . ¦ 6 . Knox , Esq ., R . M ., received «« »} l at * ft ? the muzzle of a policeman ' s carbi ^ i n , mie W ™ S a riot last week at the fair df-BriT ^** - „ The PBssBTTERiAif CHU ^ . -The Rev . Jas . Brown , of Doaaclouey , in j tf » j f ^ V ^ ^? Thursday last . He ieft ^ OOO for . the Home Mission , and £ 2 , 000 for tt » ' Mbf » ' » » 9 S 2 ! " *™* ,. Lord O'Nbiia ' s jsiATES .-Lord O'Neill has directed the followim ahatements to be made on the rents of his estate * viz ,:-On the half year due November 1840 t < J Per cent , if paid in June j on the hatf-veaVKi ™ > fifteen P er cent " if P aid in June ^ on the flW-jear due November , 1850 , twenty per cent , if / 8 " 1 in June' . These abatements are not tenants under old valuable
to extend i holding or leases or * 0 BUCh aB have sub-let . Sale o * Encumbered Estates . — Six estates were with the exception of a few lots , sold on TuecW hy the commissioners . The fee of the latds o " f Dartry , in the county Mohaghan , the property of Henry Mitchell , Esq ., sold for £ 4 , 350 , or fourteen and a half years' purchase . Another lot of the same estate brought but £ 1 , 260 , or only thirteen years' purchase . —The Magh Estate , in the county Kerry , the property of William Samuel Sealy , fetched ' £ 6 , 600 . This was considered a great bargain by the parties interested in the sale . —The estate of Bichard Leyne , in the county Kerry , sold for £ 3 , 800 . They are valued at £ 397 a year . —The general tone of the market was heavy ; prices ruled lower than they have been latterly .
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SHOCKING MURDER AND ROBBERY IN LANCASHIRE . The neighbourhood of the quiet and retired little hamlet , called Marsland-green , near Leigh , and about twelve miles west of Manchester , has been the scene of a brutal and most revolting murder . Marslandgreen is situate on the borders of an enclosed common , called Lately-common ; and it was in a field on this common , about half a mile beyond the beerhouse , kept by John Green , at Marsland-green , that the murder is supposed , to have been committed . The unfortunate victim is George Green , aged fifty-four a dav labourer aud market-jobber , residing in Burylane ! about two miles further than the spot where
he was murdered . On . the 14 th inst . he had been to Manchester to attendtbe Salford cattle market , and had sold five calves . He had received 23 s . or 24 s . for the calves , and this trifling amount of money—for the unfortunate man was of an extremely mild and gentle disposition , and had no quarrel with any one —is supposed to have been tbe only incentive to the murder . A man named Magsey , who conveyed his calves to market , returned with him as far back as Astiey , and they both rode in Masaey ' s cart . He left Massey soon after nine at night , near to Mars * land-green , and went to the house of his son-in-law , Jacob Thomasson , at that place , and remained with him , smoking a pipe of tobacco , nearly an hour . A little after ten o ' clock be called at John Green ' s
beer-house for a gill of ale , but Mrs . Green says she refused Him it on the ground that the hour was too late . . After that he was seen for the last time iu the lane with John Green , the beer-housekeeper The body was discovered on Friday morning , the 16 th inst ., in an old marl pit , full of water . On the further side of the pond the road bears some slight appearance of having beep , the scene of a struggle , and on the green sward close by its side h a patch of blood . His head was frightfully fractured with repeated blows from some heavy stick or bludgeon , his pockets were turned inside put , and his money was gone . There is every reason to believe that someone acquainted with the place was the murderer , from the fact tbat the deepest part of the pond had been chosen
for the concealment of the body , and not the nearest side to the road , which is only twelve or sixteen inches deep , and which part of the pond , judging from the green weeds which cover it , has not been disturbed for a long time . The body had been weighted so as to sink it to tbe bottom of the pond , » nd to aid concealment , large boughs of trees had been thrown on the surface of the . pond . The white straw bat of the unfortunate man was feund at the bottom of the pond . In order to sink it , a large green sod from the clayey bank of the pond had been cut and put inside of it , the brim of the hat being brought together , and pinned , bo that the sod might remain there . In the same pond also a thick staff , about eighteen or twenty inches long , was discovered . It
is bent , and something like in form , and of equal thickness , to a scythe handle . Some large willow treeshave lately been hewn down in the field , and it is probable part of the branches of these . The hark remains on it , and the ends show the newly cut wood , chopped transversely , as if with one blow of the 8 X 6 . At the thicker end of the staff is a stain of blood , and some short grey human hair . So far the murder remains enveloped in mystery . The deceased had been married three times , leaving a grown-up family by his first wife , and by the last ( whom he had only been married to twelve months ) an infant child only . —An inquest was held on the body at Bedford , near Leigh , on Saturday afternoon ,: when several persons were examined , who gave in evidence the principal facts connected with the case , as stated in the foregoing summary . —Mr . J . Brideoake , surgeon of Leigh , who had examined the body , said the wounds upon the head were certainly the cause of death . I think
the wounds were not caused by an iron or sharp instrument ; if they-had been there would have been more contusion underneath them . . A heavy stick might have caused the wounds . I think the wounds on the front of the head were given from before ; and as all the wounds have a triangular form , I have ho doubt that they were caused by the same instrument . The wounds in the ; front of the head pointed downwards ; on the side of tho head they pointed backwards . I have no doubt that a stain at tbe thick end of the stick produced is caused by blood . There is also a grey hair attached to the stick , about three-quarters of an inch from the blood , All the wounds on the head of the deceased might have been caused by this stick . —There being no further evidence , the inquest was adjourned .
Hertfordshire Sessions. Attempt To Overt...
HERTFORDSHIRE SESSIONS . Attempt to Overthrow a Tram om the Great Northern Railwav . —At these sessions on Monday William Smith , aged 19 , and Thomas Sudell . 24 both labourers , residing at Hatfield , were indicted for placing a stake or piece of wood on tho lino , and thereby creating a dangerous obstruction . —Thomas Bobbins , of Hatfield , gamekeeper to the Marquis of Salisbury , proved that on the 29 th of April last he was watching in Limekiln-field , near the Hatfield Railway station , between nine and ten o ' clock in the morning , when he saw the two prisoners come up . There is at the spot to which he referred a curve in the line , and he could see tbat an -train
up was then at the Hatfield station . The prisoners went across the line , there being a regular crossing at the place , and after walking some distancei SudeU pulled a stake from the bank adjoining the railway . After walking about a hundred yards beside the line , the prisoner Sudell placed the stake on the line longitudinally , but slightly askew , so that the point ofthe stake would have Men the wheel of the engine inside , and probably have thrown it off the rail . Witness heard the engine whistle and immediately went on the line and removed the piece of wood . Ho then followed the and
prisoners , told tbem ( hey ought to he ashamed of themselves , and deserved to be severely punished for what they had done . Smith replied , « They won ' t hang us for it—will they ! " and both prisoners then went away , going towards London . Sudell had previously worked upon the line . The prisoners had not observed the witness till he went up tothero . Went the same day and gave information at the railway station . —The Chairman havinff summed up the evidence , the jury , after a brief deliberation , returned a verdict of Guilty against Sudell but acquitted Smith .-Th ' - court L £ S Sudtn to twelve months' imprisonment with hard , labour
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Tnn Liverpool Mrwry the other day announced the other , day the importation of a ieviathiu Tl 0 f he enormous weight of 15 cwt . ! . It now apfirs thut / fl ought to have been printed pig > Pl '
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FALL OF ABUILD 1 NGIN GRACECHURC H . Sl'REET , AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES . An accident of a most disastrous character happened on Saturday morning last , between ten and eleven o ' clock , in Gracechurch-street . On the west side of that thoroughfare , and on the site of the Old Cross Keys , Messrs .: Bell and , Corbet , of Pope ' s Head-alley , and . Adelaide-chambers , King William-street , were erecting a lofty range of buildings , intended exclusively for chambers and private offices . Some idea of their extent may be formed when it is stated that the number of apn ~" ments amounted to 140 . The premises wer '«> ur icon
stories in height , and extended some m ot * vv into Balfs-court , George-yard , Loi » 6 arf » street , the south frontage running the wb" « length of Allhallow ' s Church-passage . ' T » works had been going on for the ' last six or * -ight months , and the firm who owned the premie were their own builders , the workmen and labouf 8 being under the direc-Hnn nfn Mr Dennett A kind of superintending foreman . ^^ render them firep ^ f 5 " * g ' rd » were of iron , and the intermediates filled w ' th concrete , and the workmen bad « 6 t ^ nip leted the upper floors , preparatory to >' K ^" t " roo '» wne ! u tne ca 8 trophe oc < ' : 0 tl . Wui 0 u & * s our ? aillful duty to relate . .: ' . ''' . .. '' .. " . * - the usual of
On Saturday morning complement mep averaging from seventy to eighty , proceeded ff - < i the works . Thirty men were , busily engaged , ^ me in the upper portion of the premises , completing the floors by throwing in the concrete ; others " were employed in the lower floor , while many were busy at the bottom of the building , preparng the mortar for the use of those throughout the premises . The number would have been considerably greater had not all tho carpenters— -fourteen in number—temporarily left the premises a short time before . About twenty minutes to eleven o ' clock , a sudden snap , something similar to a report of a gun , was heard , and the next moment , the men , to tbeir horror , found the building trembling beneath them , and in another second or so tho whole of the south side , which overlooked Allhallows Church , was seen
sinking in one general mass . A momentary ghnee sufficed to apprise the men of tbe fearful catastrophe that awaited them . Some of the poor fellows , by an extraordinary and almost superhuman effort , bounded as the floor gradually gave way , on to the roof Of tbe church , while others , in as astounding a manner , contrived to leap on to the adi , oimng bouses . A large number ofthe werkmen , however , fell with the building , and the scene that ensued must be left to the imagination . The crash shook and startled the whole of that part of the City , and for some time the most utter consternation prevailed . Crowds of excited passers-by and neighbours rushed to the scene , and then it was discovered that the whole of the centre of the extensive range of building , from the highest ' story , had given way , and had fallen to the ground in one shapeless
mass . The labourers who had escaped instantly made their way to the ruins , and with the ' police and ether parties proceeded to extricate the unfortunate workmen who were buried in the rubbish . In many instances their piercing cries for help intimated to the searchers the spot where they lay imprisoned beneath huge rafters and masses of brickwork , and in the course of ten minutes or so ,- sometwenty or thirty , were got out , and about seventeen were carried to the shop ef Mr ; , Harris , chemist and drueeist , on the opposite side of tho way , where they
were visited by Dr . Smith , of King Wilham-street , and several medical gentlemen in the neighbourhood . On the arrival of a reinforcement of police they were carefully removed in cabs and on stretchers to St , Thomas ' s Hospital , where they were at once placed in beds in William ' s ward , and received every possible attention . . : As soon as the excitement consequent on the accident bad in some degree subsided , the foreman of the works bad the men mustered , and their names called over , when , in addition to those taken to the hospital , three men , of the names of Peter Horrigan , Michael Cronin . and Jeremiah ' Connor , were found
missing . Owing to tbe dangerous state of tbe premises left standing after the crash , it was deemed prudent to suspend further search until the unsafe walls could be made secure , and the examination could not be resumed until evening . : During the afternoon theCity surveyors were engaged inquiring into the primary cause of the accident , The statement which the reporter received from a professional gentleman and which in some points agrees with that of Mesrs . Bell andCoibett , given below , was that in the centre of the building was a " well-hole , " intended to form the staircase , and across it ran on every floor or landing iron girders , each weighing nearly two tons . All had been filled and properly secured , and when inspected on Saturday morning , seemed perfectly sound . From some cause or other the uppermost girder suddenlv snaooed in two : its excessive weights draeeed
the wall out of its perpendicular and the girder getting loose , fell and broke the girder below . This instantly brought the walls down with the floors . Mr . Dennett was close to tbe girder when it broke , and the opinion he forms of the cause is tbat there was a daw in the metal of the girder , and tbat it did not arise from any want of foresight . The walls on which tbey rested were eighteen inches thick , and were formed of old stock bricks . . In the early part of the evening some forty or fifty labourers were set to work , and were actively engaged in excavating the ruins . The Great Central Gas Company promptly directed the gas of the company to be laid on , and , under the direction of Mr . Brittain , the Inspector of the Company , in tbe course of an hour the whole place was lighted by some fifty or sixty burners , thus enabling the men to carry on their operations in turning over the rubbish .
The scene about eleven o ' clock was truly heartrending . A number of respectable females , the wives of many of the sufferers , not finding their husbands return home at the usual hour , presented themselves in the immediate neighbourhood of the deplorable catastrophe , anxiously inquiring for tbeir husbands ; and , on being made acquainted with the nature of the casualty , evinced feelings bordering upon madness . About one o ' clock the workmen discovered a body lying some twelve feet below the basement in the vaults , which had been forced in by the immense rami . It was shockingly mutilated , and by the clothes the body was identified as that of a labourer named Horrigan . It was much crushed , and death must have been instantaneous . In about an hour later the body of Cronin was discovered . ; and by three o ' clock that of Connor , also .
The total number of persons who have already perished by the misfortune is five , namely—Martin Cronin , James Horrigan , Matthew Connor , Joseph Henley , and P . Donogbue . Timothy Sullivan , aged about thirty , both legs fractured , severe contusions oh the body and head . Remains in a dangerous condition , in St . Thomas ' s Hospital . W . Ransom , aged twenty-four , right leg fractured , and . body much bruised . Supposed to have received many severe internal injuries . W . Whiting , aged thirtv-four , scalp seriously fractured , with divers wounds " aad contusions over the body . Not expected to recover . Thomas Clark , aged thirty , scalp lacerated , and ribs supposed to be fractured . Iu a very dangerous condition . John Cooper , aged thirty-nine , laceration of
the scalp , and several severe contusions on the body . Expected to recover . George Barbara , aged twentynine , fracture of the legs , and severe injury to the scalp . Hopes of recovery . David Foley , aged thirtyone , numerous wounds and bruises over the body , and head much injured . Expected to recover . James Kirby , aged twenty-eight , head much cut , and lower part of the body seriously injured . Recovery doubtful . Henry Perry , aged thirty-eight , slightly contused over the body and head . Nothing fatal apprehended . James Jenkins , slightly injured . Timothy Sullivan—in the above list—was in a very precarious state on Monday night , and it was considered he might expire tt any moment . Some of the labourers escaped death under
circumstances of a most marvellous character . In one instance a labourer who was in a vault hearing something tumbling above him , stepped aside into a nook , and the next moment the crown of the vault was burst in by the falling floors , completely hedging him in , but without doing him the slightest injury , and after some time succeeded in extricating himself . Another surprising preservation of life has-transpired A party of six Irishmen escaped by sliding down the gable end of a wallthey were on the uppermost floor , and seeing or feeling the building sinking from under them , they ran along the top , and reaching one of the ends they one by one let . themselves down to theTstreet b
| S ft ** Projecting iron stays . Those who 7 llT * i ' ir es - cape ^ e 8 wibed ifc » bave been attended with imminent danger : how thev b * miw » 1 to keep hold of the thin pitces ' of uYn fffieffa height is cons dered truly marvellous ; One of he " ESL : h l ) , ard V ° ^ she " bern ° he third floor front and leaped into the street . Fortunately a road of sand had been shot there a few minutes previously , upon which he alighted * and thereby sustained no personal injury The die-Sf ^ iumped - b ™ 8 ™ avVy fifSfi Mr Ben 2 e Jffhr pennt , endent of *« wVs ! was at the hTwallSm hir , r - the crane ^ finding rnthS , arembl ' K ^ hearing the two reports , he rushed away ag fast as he wasfble , and got through saved hnfuFe * ° *^™ B house * nd ^ "eby
The accident , dreadful as it was , appeared to have been in some degree anticipated by parties employed in the building , and others residing near the spot . It was rumoured on Saturday that the district inspector visited the building about a fowight since , and advised the cessation of the works until the ; foundation should be strengthened . If so hit advice must have been neglected , and the catastrophe we have recorded would appear to have been the consequence . Upon tins point we have
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tho testimony of tho , ' unfortunate widow of Ifor rigan , who has fallen a-. victim .:. to tho accident She said to the reporter , when condoling with h < £ under her misfortune , "I knew the place was nw safe . Yesterday I brought my husband ' s dinner and ho sat down to <«* 'it ; ' 1 saw several cracks h the wall which ^» faUeri , which tbey wore StODDin * with compo ™ . and I said to him , « Horrigan , thi , fi a bad p l ^ *» c »* « r dinner in—i t dosen ' t * JL 8 afe / % e replied , 'No , I know it ain ' t 3 P th'So'll be a grand smash before Jong J' And " t ' vinued the poor woman , with tears in her e ™ •' It seems to havo ; been a sad smash for him-f ' I can ' t see anything of him , and tbey sav Im ' o' ,. der the rubbish . " ' ¦ w naa un .
The portion of the wall which fell , carryini ? wiu > it several immense iron girders , the raisin ? t which is said to have been the immediate cause t the accident , was about fifty feet high by thir * feet in length . To show the force that must hill struck the sufferers . when the building fea jj : =, only necessary to state , that heavy beams of irn almost as thick as small trees were snapped asnn der as easily as if they had been mere timber lathi * and scarcely two bricks have fallen without bein separated , notwithstanding that they had been nrl viously fixed together with strong cement .
THE IJiqUEST On Tuesday morning Mr . \ V . Payne , Coronei < for the City of London and Southwark , and J highly respectable jury , opened an inquiry a t j * London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street , touching tho deaths of Wm . Hindley , Matthew . Connor , Timothy Donohue , James Horrigan , and Martin Cronin . Mr . R . Bell said , I am an architect . I iiy c a Pope ' s Head-alley , Cornhill . The building oe . longed to me and Mr . Corbett , who is also an
architect . VVo were about to construct merchants ' Offices on a fire-proof principle . Tho building was proceeding with safety up to Friday sight last , at six o ' clock , at which time I went over the whole of it . I went on purpose to see if everything was safe , but not a hair-crack was to be seen . The next morning ( Saturday ) I again went to the build , ing , about eleven o ' clock . At that time I found that the stair-case wall , near the centre ofthe building , had gone down , and had drawn with it the external walls next the church . I could not
imagine any cause for the accident , and I asked Mr . Dennett , who was tbe contractor . I did not leave until the whole of the bodies were found , j saw three bodies taken out of the ruins . Tig cause , 1 feel sure , was the iron girder crog . sing tbe staircase from north to south , hay . ing one from east to west resting upon it , giving way ; and the weight of this , which was about thirty-five cwt ., broke each floor through in its fall . All the others were about the same weight . I fag . lieve Mr . Ford furnished the iron girders : be furnished the whole of the ironwork with but one or two slight exceptions , I have generally been on the premises once a day since the commencement , It was my duty to see if the iron was good , &\ . though I did not attend to it as I ought . The contract was to prove the girders before they were sent to Gracechurch-street , I proved some of the
smaller girders , but the larger ones could not be tried , because there is no means . There were means of discovering the flaw before it was painted over ; but if this girder had been properly proved it must have broken . This girder was to have been proved with six tons on the centre , bvit whether it was done I have no means of saying , The contractor had to paint the girder before it was sent to our premises . I calculated that the girder would have carried thirty-six tons . There were such precautions taken that if these girdm hau not broken nothing else could have caused the accident . I am sure the accident did not open from any defect in the brickwork . Before we commence a building we give notice to the district surveyor . We shoir him the drawings before we commence . The surveyor was on the premises once during the progress to examine tho party walls .. We had no other sw veyor but ourselves . .
Margaret Horrigan , Lyon ' s-buildings , ShorO ditch , —My husband was one of the men who worked on the building . He worked there from the first . I always took his dinner . He did not say anything to me about the safety of tbe building . { This witness'was asked several times whether she had not remarked to her husband that the place was not safe , and that he replied he was sure there would be a smash before long , She hesitated answering for some time , but at last admitted that her husband had said he thought there would be an accident before long , because he had seen cracks in the wall . l
. Michael O'Connor said he came . to work at the prewisea about a month ago . He was close to the iron girder which gave way , on a ladder . lie was there with Donohue and Connor . He saw the iron girder snap in halves and fall . Thought it snapped in the middle . He saw the two ends rise up and the middle fall , and then fell to the bottom himself . Was no judge of the weight which was upon the girder , nor of the cause of its breaking . Several architects and surveyors , among whom was the City Surveyor , were examined , who gave it as their opinion that the accident was caused by ii flaw in the girder .
W . Gusfielu : Was employed as a labourer on the building , and was about five yards from the part which fell in , on'the ground floor . Saw the girders on tho first floor snap without any previous warning . Did not see the large girder at the top of the Building break . It was his opinion that the small girders on the first'floor broke first , and brought the upper part of the building with them . Jons Dbnneit , contractor : Did not know the cause of the accident , but had always doubted the strength of the staircase girders . Had never mentioned his doubts to any one . Though the girders too weak for the weight which rested upon them ; but was no judge ofthe strength of iron . Michabi . Sheen had worked at the building abont three weeks before the accident . Was going up a ladder near tbe girder when he heard a crack , and on looking round saw several walls shaking near
the staircase . He then threw the lino be was carrying down , and ran away as well as he could . The Coroner having summed up , the jury retired , and after an absence of half an hour , returned , and gave in the following verdict : — " We find that the five deceased met their deaths through the falling of a part of the building erected on the site of the late Cross Keys Inn , in Gracechurchstreet , which appears by tho evidence to have been caused by the breaking of en iron girder . " The jury further desired to express their high approbation of the exertions made by the proprietors , and all persons connected with the building , including the City police , in extricating tbe bodies of the unfortunate men from the ruins . The Coroner announced that the inquest board of Bishopsgate bad granted the balance of the sum allowed for the inquiry , amounting to £ 5 , for the use Of the friends of the sufferers .
The Present " Prosperous" Stvie Or Losno...
The present " Prosperous" Stvie or Losnos , —The most remarkable and unexpected result of i the Great Exhibition has been in the very limited i number of visitors to tbe metropolis since its open- ¦ ing . So far from , any difficulty being experienced I in providing accommodation for the shoals of I strangers who were to have poured into londos t this month by land and sea , the hotel and lodging- house keepers complain that the establishments 8 were never so empty at this period of the year . ¦ . In the . West-end and the streets running off tts a Strand the lodging bills in the windows of every J house are so many evidences of their vacant state , e . Hundreds of persons , who have laid out large sums 19 of money in fitting un and furnishing houses for ths ifl
reception of lodgers , find now that their specula * ation is likely to prove tho reverse of profitable . A A person who ,: we understand , opened a boardingand ad todghig-house capable ofaccommodating upwards of of 100 guests , had one solitary inmate during thefi" . ret week ofthe Exhibition . But these accounts ofthe : he stagnation of business are not confined to the the hotel and lodging-houses ; there has been a serial inn diminution in the passenger traffic on the railroad * , At , and every branch of trade in the metropolis has has suffered an extraordinary depression . The trades * k * people and shopkeepers at the West-end compla " aid loudly of business being at a complete stand-still 5 ilU the places of public amusement are even worse ob > ob > for with very few exceptions , the ' v have been nearly jrlj
deserted for some weeks past . Ridiculous P » K ; ok nasties , operating in conjunction with the dre ad ot i ot the enormous expense of a visit to London upo » ipoO weak and unreasoning minds , no doubt deterre d rrcd vast numbers from coming to town for the opening mi of the Exhibition . Now , however , that the expe « - penonce of three weeks has assured them they m-ty fli » y > without running any extraordinary risk either i » er in person or pocket , venture to visit London , *" , *" shall probably bave them flocking here in confW ' ifW ' rable numbers . We , however , doubt whether tbcsetbcst visitors will do much to give much impetus Mas t trade . People will come with the single object < % fc «• visiting the Exhibition as frequently as they « % can . The Crystal Palace will be the sole attraction , W , « like a huge Maelstrom , it will swallow up the tiM UM money and attention , not only olallstrangers , btttoibiito the great mass of the inhabitants of the metropo % po «
for months to come . From £ 2 , 000 to £ 3 , 000 nan ) na been daily taken at its doors during the past weeK ; ffee yet wo do not exaggerate when we say that tfiert the are millions of the middle and lower classes % s home and abroad , who have deferred visiting j % t exhibition until the price of admission be reduced tod one shilling , Cheap trains will bring up thoM » i % 89 i and thousands of industrious operatives from evera Qv ( part of England , but these are not the people * % le v can afford to spend money freely ; their < % ' penses will necessarily be regulated upon the m ^ e nv economical scale , and their outgoings will scarcekarc compensate for tho loss which the departure of t " c of wealthy and fashionable visitors will occasion . 4 , n . the whole , * therefore , we cannot but lament Went severe loss which London must sustain from » roni event which it was calculated would direct anift an creased stream of wealth into the usual channels mnel trade and industry , —^ mfoy limes ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 24, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24051851/page/6/
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