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      Health ot Loxdos durikg tkb VTeek . —The 1 , 033 deaths registered in the week exhibit an increase of 70 on the weekly average ; as weU as an excess of nearl y 99 on the previous fortni g ht . This nnfavourahlc result is due chiefly to diseases of the respiratory organs . Thc deaths from hooping coug h were 67 , or nearly double the aver age ; those iu the preceding week were 40 . The deaths from Bronchitis and pneumonia were 51 and SO , being 1 / and 25 above the respective averages , and also showrasr an increase oh the previous week , -tne deaths from measles were 32 , or 11 above the averare ; those from typhus exactly correspond with it The mortality ' from « h « P ° V * ^ vnX low ; aud scarlatina , . after W ^ J *™ $ g throughout a lonsr period , lew f ^ M to ncai

      the ordinary amount of fatality , xue UC un » i ? omtfarrbba and dvscntcry were IS ; only one rJWitai The deaths of two persons , SJSSecSu life , ™ ° accelerated by intempe-Sdcc - and a woman of 77 years uicd fi-om immcr-SSTL' water , and bruises received by falling into a common sewer , when under the influence of mtoxic-. tia" drink . A man of 5 $ years died ot " cerebral affectton produced hy mental anxiety , " after an illness of twelve weeks . And a boy was accidentally killed by suspension with a rope at thc neck , when ensiled iu gymnastic exercises . The mean height of the barometer hi the week was 20 . 493 . The mean temperature of thc week was 54 dcg . 9 min . The temperature was a little above the average of thc same period of seven years , throughout the whole week : and thc excess , taking one day with

      another , was 2 dcg . C mm . ClUHGE OP 2 ? E « LECT AGAIXST A PARISH SURGEOX . —On Monday an Inquest was held before Mr . Payne at the King ' s Head , Toolcy-strcci , Southwark , on thc body of Ellen Collins , aged twentyseven years , whose death was alleged to have been caused bv neglect , or non-attendance , during her confinement , of Mr . T . O ' Connel , assistant to the jarish-surgeon of gt . Thomas ' s , Southwark . The deceased was a native of Ireland , and had only latterly : irrived in this country . She was pregnant , and went to live with a female , named King , at Xo . 1 , Pitt ' s-buildings , inhahited hy the lower class of Irish . On Fridav , the 11 th inst ., she was taken in labour , and Mr . O'Connel was sent for , who , upon

      his arrival , found the child bora . After applying the usual remedies he left the deceased , and did not prescribe any medicine , which is Usual and llCCCSsary , nor even attended until after her death . The deceased appeared to be going on favourably , and was attacked suddenly on Friday last with a fit . and died shortly afterwards . —Dr . Holding , physician and accoucheur to Guy's Hospital stated ihat it -was his opinion that death was irrespective of the confinement . It liad been produced by a spasmodic affection of the heart , or by some affection in the brain . —The jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death" aud added that they were of op inion that thc conduct of Mr . O'Connel was highly reprehensible , and that he had heen guilty of great neglect ;

      and they also recommended that a memorial should he sent to the board of guardians , conveying their opinions . —Mr . Corner , the veitry clerk , here stepped forward , aud said at thc next mectingof the board of guardians , he would communicate the evidence of the witnesses , and the opinion ofthe jury . ACGIDEXT OX THE ltlVER . —TWO LlVES LOST . —On "Wednesday afternoon , shortly after one o ' clock , an accident occurred on the riper , near the St . Katharine ' s steam packet wharf , by which two men were drowned . It appears that two fishermen were na--rigating a small Pcter-hoat down the river , and on reaching the Tower , they made towards the Sew

      Unity steam tug , which was about proceeding to Gravesend , to tow a vessel up into the docks . One of the men in the Peter-boat , made fast his boat to the stern of the Unity , for the purpose of being lowed down thciivcr . The Unity started shortly afterward ^ and thc two men sat hi the stern of their boat . On reaching St . Katharine ' s steam packet wharf , the Pcter-hoat was suddenly upset by the swell from the steam tng , and almost immediately sunk . Several hoats were put off from the shore , hut before any assistance could he rendered , thc men disappeared and were never seen afterwards . The watermenjlragged the river , hut were unable to find the bodies . ~

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      Musder of a Policeman at Bristol . — lhe inquest held on Friday week on the body of John Tvm , P . C . 206 , who . on the 3 rd of May , was so violently assaulted by two soldiers of the loth Regiment , and beaten with sticks , terminated that evening at alate hour , when the jury returned a rerdict of " Wilful Murder , " against the two soldiers , Andrew Daly and John M'rotten . Morpeth , Saturday . — Committal of another "Wife tor Poisoxtxg her Hxsbaxd . —Considerable excitement prevails throughout the neighhourhood of Morpeth , in consequence of the discovery of another supposed case of secret poisoning , and the

      committal to the county gaol of the alleged murderess . The circumstaiiccs connected with the case , as far as they have yet been ascertained , appear to he as follow : —Some few days since a married man about twenty-six years of age , named William Hornshy , who resided at Haltwhistle , was taken suddenly Ul , and he died shortl y afterwards , ironi what was at first supposed to be inflammation of the stomach , produced by natural causes . The man ' s death having become generally known through thc district , a report became current that Ms whe on the day preceding the death had purchased some arsenic , for thc alleged purpose of poisoning- i-ats . Thc neighbours and other parties

      at once made inquiries respecting the mysterious afiair , which satisfied them that the poison had not been used for the purpose stated . Mr . Bird , the coroner , was therefore made acquainted with the suspicions that were entertained that the decaased had not met Ids death fairly . The result was , that gentleman gave the necessary instructions for hold ing an inquest on the body , when , after the examination of sundry witnesses , the inquiry was adjourned , to allow time for ajjost mortem examination of the deceased ' s body to he made , and also for an analysis of the contents ofthe stomach . Dr . Glover and another medical gentleman have been directed to proceed with this part of the inquiry , and it is stated that thev have discovered indications denotina

      the presence of arsenic . Thc magistrate having also taken the case np , the evidence brought before them was of such a nature as to warrant them in committing the deceased ' s wife to Morpeth Gaol , on suspicion of murdering her husband . 3 fAssLAUGirrER at Oxsead . —On Saturday last at the Guildhall , Norwich , Thomas Ellis , a railway labourer , was brought before the mayor and magistrates , on a charge of manslaughter . The prisoner , « a the previous Tuesday night , was at his father ' s louse , standing outside the door . A man named 3 » Iatthcw Peart , in the employment of Mr . Blakely , farmer , of Oxnead , and who lived next door to the prisoner ' s father , had just returned from work , and seeing Ellis , made some observation in a jeering manner , when Ellis went up to him , struck him in the face , and knocked him down . Peart «> tup again , hut , being a weak man , was unable to defend Juinself . JEllis struck his head against a stone

      wall , knocked him down again , and kicked him violently . He was put to bed in an almost insensible state . A surgeon attended the wounded man till the following Thursday , when he died , in consequence of the injuries lie had received .. He was fifty-three years of age , and he has left a wife and two children . When before the magistrates thc prisoner appeared quite unconcerned . He did not deny having assaulted Peart ; but merely said , " He called me a thief , and wanted to know my affairs . I kicked inn , but did not intend to hurt him . " The prisoner was remanded . The Ixss Bask Kobbert . —Sanger , who absconded with a considerable amount of money from the East of England Bank , at Lynn , has lately received a conditional pardon ; this will enable him to go to any part of the world except Great Britain and Ireland . It is understood he will shortly leave for France ; he is at present a clerk on the peninsula , attachec ^ to the convict department , Yan Diemen s Land .

      Chueltt ro Animals . —On Friday week Mr . Joseph Hazclden , a builder , residing at Brighton , appeared before the bench of magistrates at Uck-£ eld , in Sussex , charged by Mr . Thomas , the secretary ofthe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , with wantonly and cruelly ill-treating a mare the property of Mr . Bead , a postmaster at Lewes of whom , he had hired it . Mr . Thomas called several witnesses , who described the conduct ofthe defendant as brutal In the extreme . In consequence of the treatment the mare received it was unable to work for some days . The defendant was drunk at the time , and had several narrow escapes from serious injury , owingtotbe docile nature of tho animal

      he was wantonly tortunae . When called on for his defence the defendant admitted having hired the mare , hut denied using her cruelly , and said he had no recollection of being in Ucktleld at all on the day mentioned hy the witnesses , who must he mistaken . He had no witnesses to contradict their evidence . The bensh said the case had been follv and satisfactorily proved ; he . had heen guilty of wanton cruelty towards the mare , for which he must pay 40 s . m addition to £ 5 , for the damage sustained by Mr . ? 3 ? ' * 3 ? l OTn » i , M » 4 in default of paying the £ 7 forthwith he would be Bent to the Hbhse df Correction for two months , and kept to hardlabour . The ffffas * provided with tLe t «"

      fli TT & , 2 « wna . ImE BUm-TVe understand that John Ford , convicted and sentenced to transportation some time ago for partici pating in the forgery of the will of the late Mr . Slack , Has been liberated from the Bath Gaol , at the instance of the government inspector , on account of ill health n-t ^ ff ? r - 4 ? es t 0 * fearful extent in the Cardiff Unioni Workhouse , and a great many deaths have occurred . Means are taken to meet the trying

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      emergency and to arrest the progress of the drsease . Atenfporary hosp ital is to be provided ^ for the sick and-all other necessary measures are to be adopted y ^& jas ^ ssi ^ st s ^ f ~ 3 fe &™« £ throwing it into a wefl at cnauey ; near iajwis , Se jury accompany ing their verdict ot guilty by a recommendation to mercy on the ground of the destitution ofthe ' prisoner at the time she committed the act . Shortly afterwards she was respited durin « - her Majestv ' s pleasure ; and the governor of Lewes Gaol has just received from the Home-office an official notification that the sentence had been commuted to two years' imprisonment with hard labour , followed bv transportation for life .

      The Staxfkld Hall Murders . —Discovery of the Weapon . —Wymoxdham , Wednesday . —The discovery of the weapon by which Rush perpetrated the murders at Stanficld Hall has created considerable interest iu the county . The locality in which it was found certainly tends to show that the presumed search made by the county police was at least carried out in the most slovenly manner . For several weeks they , with sixty or seventy hired labourers , under the personal direction of Col . OakcS , the chief officer ofthe force , at a very great expense to the county , were engaged in almost the complete demolition Of Potash , the turning up of land , ana the emptying of the numerous pits of water which abound in the district . In fact , to

      such an extent was the search said to ha vc been made , that , to use the words of one of the officials , had so small a thing as a pencil-case been secreted , it would have been turned up . It may be stated that the weapon had been so placed after thc search by some person , for the purpose of obtaining a large reward , hut a general opinion prevails that that portion ofthe farm where the discovery was made had not been examined at all . Although thc process of ejectment has been served on Mr . James Rush , son of the deceased murderer , and the furniture disposed of hy puhlic auction ; yet he continues to hold possession of the farm . It appears that in the course of last Saturday one or two of the labourers were engaged in clearing away some muck wliich

      stood near a shed at the eastern extremity of the barn , scarcely thirty paces from tho back-door of Potash , when a double-barrelled short gun or blunderbuss was turned up iu the soil . The fact was instantly communicated to Mr . Rush , who took possession of the weapon . It had evidently been concealed a considerable period—several months , as it was corroded . To more properly describe it , it is a small douWed-I / . irrelled carbine , about threequarters of a yard in length , something similar to the arms carried in former days hy mail-coach guards . It has a spring dagger or bayonet attached to it , which seems to have been added since its construction . The maker ' s name , it is said , does

      not present itself . Neither of the barrels were charged , and the hammers of the locks were down . Being without a ramrod , the one found in the hall of Stanficld Hall on thc night of the murders , was fitted to the weapon , and was found to correspond in size and make in every particular . That it belonged to the instrument was proved beyond a doubt . Somewhat of a fracas has taken place between the police authorities and the magistrates for the possession of the weapon . Shortly after the discovery , one of the chiefs of the constabulary waited upon Mr . Rush , and requested a sight of it . It was produced , and the officer rather * forcibly seized it . Sir . Rush remonstrated with him as to

      the apparent illegality of his proceeding , at the same time expressing his readiness to deliver it up to the proper authorities should it be desired , when the officer remarked that Colonel Oakes had requested him to . take it , and lie should do SO . Mr . Rush then rode over to Mr . Cann , and communicated what had transpired . In the course of Sunday it came into the possession of Mr . Cann , who retainid possession of it till Monday , when the colonel waited upon him and demanded the gun . At first it was refused ; some angry words , and indeed a scuffle , it is said , ensued , when the colonel produced an order from tho sheriff for its delivery . It was accordingly handed over to hisi under protest , and in whose custody it continues . It will be remembered

      that at the trial Emily Sandford said that after Rush had returned home on the night of the murders , she heard him come down stairs and go out at the back door for a few minutes . The finding ofthe weapon in the heap ofsoilsonearthe rear ofthe Eremises will fully explain Ids object in leaving the ouse in that secret way , viz ., to conceal the instrument hy which he had committed the atrocious acts . That that was his motive for going out there is little doubt . Bymanyitissnpposedthatanotherwcapon is yet to he found , as Rush fired four times . The general belief , however , is , that he had only one , the one now found . After firing at the elder Mr . Jenny , he would have had ample time while proceeding into the mansion by the servants' entrance to reload the discharged barrel ; and again , after shooting

      the younger Mr . Jermy , a few minutes elapsed ere lie fired at Mrs . Jermy . He went into the diningroom , and had time and opportunity to again load before he met with the unfortunate lady . The finding ofthe ramrod in the hall favours the impression that he used It while there . His re-loading would account for the four shots fired . It is somewhat surprising that the police did not , after hearing the admissions of Rush that he had buried the clothes he had worn on the night ofthe murders near the pigsty ofthe farm , institute some search in the locality mentioned by the murderer , if only to satisfy themselves as to the truth of the statement . Had they done so . the probability is , owing to the closo proximity of the pigsty to the place where the weapon was found , that it would have then come to licht .

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      Dbblts , Saturday . —The Clearance Svstkm . — In all directions evictions are still in progress , and , in some instances , by landlords who have been hitherto remarkable for forbearance , as well as an anxiety to improve the condition of their tenantry . At the meeting ofthe Nenagh guardians , on Thursday week last , Mr . Stoddarfc announced the name of Mr . Baron Lefroy , one of the Judges of the Court of Exchequer , as amongst the defaulters of the poor rate ; but it was explained by Mr . Grace that "the Baron ejected all the tenants out of the land , and / after they had been ejected , the collector had nothing to distrain , but the rates would be paid one of these days . " - At the meeting ofthe Carlow Board of Guardians Mr . Gale , in bringing forward a motion to provide

      for the employment of able-bodied labourers in the workhouse , stated that the number would be soon increased , as the police were out that day with thc sheriff to evict fourteen families , consisting of seventy persons , off the estate of Sir Charles Coote , in the Shrule district . Mr . Gale added : — " The fourteen houses would be thrown down that day , and all our remonstrances with Sir Charles Coote had proved unavailing . " The motion passed unanimously . Colonel Bruen , M . P ., and Sir Thomas Butler were in attendance at the board . The LeinsUr Express contains accounts of further evictions near Portarlington and Rosenalis . Departure of me Lord-Lieutenast . —His Excellency left this forenoon by the Banshee , and will arrive in London in time to attend the committee on the Navigation Bill in the House of Lords . A Privy Council was held at two o ' clock on Saturday for the swearing in of Lords Justices .

      The State Priso . yehs . — The Freeman ' s Journal says : — " Yesterday various rumours were afloat through town respecting the removal ofthe state prisoners from Richmond Bridewell ; but , as usual in such cases , these rumours proved unfounded , There was nothing communicated to the prisoners which would warrant the supposition that they will he sent off immediately , but at the same time the gentlemen have been actively engaged in packing up their moveables , with the view of anticipating any sudden order that may he communicated to them . They are all in tho enjoyment of the best health , and quite cheerful . " "Mr . Martis ' s Case . — This gentleman , whose health is stated to have improved , we understand has received an official intimation that the executive do not see any reason why the law shall not take its

      course in his case , but no immediate order has been given for his removal . " Workhouse Cruelties Pusistied . —The Cork FxamSner says : — "Two officials of the Youghal workhouse have been dismissed under a sealed order of the Commissioners , for their unhappy connexion with the death ofthe wretched man Patrick Conolly , into the particulars of whose melancholy case we felt it our duty to enter more than once ; and two officials ofthe Macroom Union are now in custody on a charge of manslaughter , they having struck a pauper ofthe auxiliary workhouse , named Kelcher , several fatal blows with a drain-shovel and a stone hammer . Patrick Conolly , it will be remembered , was confined in the black hole ofthe Youghal Workhouse on the 2 Gth ult „ for taking a ration of bread , and died in a few hours of

      starvation . Murder of a Bailiff . — Two bailiffs , named Coghlan and Hinsey , arrested a tenant to Mr . Robert Cassidy , under a civil bill decree , an the fair of Kinnitty , and conveyed him to Tullamore gaol ; on their return , about eleven o ' clock last night , they were attacked about a mile this side of the town of Frankford by a party of men , who lay in wait for them . Two of the fellows stopped the ear on which they were sitting / while the others

      beat the bailiffs with bludgeons and stones . The ruffians dragged both off the car , and - then the driver drove off . This morning , about six o ' clock , Coghlan was found deady ; lying on the road , and Hinsey in such a dreadful state that he was unable to move . The latter was removed into Frankford where he now lies in a dangerous state , under the care of Dr . Thornton . An inquest was held this day before Mr . James Dillon , coroner , on view of S « SS , ° < 5 « : . J ury foun * verdict of" Wdfulmurder agamst some persons unknown . "

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      Arrest os a Charge of Murder . —It is probably in the recollection of many that in the September of 1847 , a bailiff , ofthe name of Jeremiah Grady , was shot by a man of the name of James Wren , who had a small farm at Knocksragh , near Clonakilty , under the Earl of Shannon , and from which the bailiff ( Grady ) , by direction of the agent , Mr . Leslie , sought to evict him on the day in question . Having succeded in effecting his escape from this country , nothing was known of his whereabouts until within a few days past , when Constable John Sherrin , of the Baliinspittle station , in the Bandon district , obtained a clue to his location , which he discovered to be the town of Bridge-end , South Wales . Having

      provided himself with the necessary warrant , Constable Sherrin proceeded to Wales immediately , and after a close inspection of thc labourers working in the various employs in Bridge-end , he succeeded on Tuesday last in arresting Wren , whom he found working in a brick-yard , amongst two or three hundred men . At first there seemed a determination on thc part of the prisoner to resist , but finding himself unassisted , he did not oppose violence to his arrest . Constable Sherrin then proceeded with his prisoner to Bristol , where , embarking in the Juverna , he proceeded to Cork , arriving here yesterday , when the prisoner was fully committed to the county gaol , by B . Shaw , Esq ., J . P . —Cork Exa miner .

      Dissextixg Woeship is a Churchyard . —On the question which has been lately raised as to the lawfulness ofthe dissenting worship in the churchyard of Killdollon , without permission ofthe officiating minister , tho law advisor of her Majesty ' s government in Ireland has given the following opinion ; which has been forwarded by the Under-Secretary to the magistrate who was present on the occasion referred to : — " I am of opinion that the performance ofthe funeral service in a churchyard , by a dissenting clergyman , without the permission of the clergyman ofthe Established Church is illegal . " —Dublin Evening Post . Monday . —State of the Country . —For the last three or four months the current expenses of thc bankrupt union of Bantry have been defrayed by thc commissioners to the average amount of £ 300 a week . The commissioners are now decreasing their supplies , and several deaths by starvation have occurred there . The state of the district is most

      miserable . In the Kilrush union ( county of Clare ) several of the evicted tenantry-are living in turf pits scooped out ofthe bogs and covered in at the top with some branches of trees . Trom these cavitica the smoke at times is seen ascending , and the passer-by would hardly know that the bog was inhabited by a subterranean population . In ono locality there are as many as twenty of these bog-dungeons , with families in them . Your correspondent lately heard one of the highest employes of the Poor Law staff give a dreadfully graphic picture ofthe scene he had witnessed in Kilrush . He had got down into one of these bog dungeons , in which a family were lying in fever , and he succeeded in moving some of them ,

      but the odour of the place was so overpowering that he was compelled to retreat . Part of the county of Clare is now the worst spot in Ireland . —Daily Nem Relief for the South asd West . —At the mectingof thc general committee in this city on Saturday , thc Rev . Mr . O'Malley , on handing hi the subscription of Dr . Phelan , the Poor Law inspector , said he was authorised by that gentleman to state that he had traversed the south and west in all directions , and that there was not the slightest exaggeration in the newspaper accounts of the destitution , which required all possible aid from voluntary charity to preserve thousands of lives . Lord Laxsdowne ' s Tenantry is Kerry . —The Limerick Examiner , in referring to the great extent

      of pauperism in Kenmare Union , states that there is only one electoral division which has remained solvent all through , whilst , from all the rest , paupers have been sent in shoals to the workhouse , or cast in crowds upon the rates . " "But ( says that journal ) the electoral division in question has neither sent a pauper to the common receptacle , nor received a pound of Indian meal in out-door relief , because that division belongs altogether to the Marquis of Lansdowne , and because all the occupiers—and this is the secret ofthe solvency ofthe district—are in the enjoyment ot tenant right , a blessing thc noble marquis habitually confers . " The Harvest . —All accounts state that the crops are greatly improved by the genial weather and

      refreshing rams ofthe last week-. Potatoes promise well , and the early sorts are beginning to appear in small quantities perfectly sound . Lord Monteaole and his Labourers . —Some weeks since , a violent outrage was committed upon the famUy of Mi " . Loughlin Sharp , a steward of Lord Monteagle , at Mount Trenchard , county of Limerick . In consequence , that noble lord suspended all the useful works upon his property , and transmitted an address to the tenantry and labourers , deprecating such outrages as deeply disgraceful to the district , and calculated to prevent all attempts at bettering the condition of the people by productive employment . Dr . Langlcy , accused of cruelty to his wife , has been arrested in Dublin , and is now a prisoner hi Newgate .

      Mi > . Butt has left for London to he examined before the Poor Law Committee . The Evening Post has discussed at great length his " rate in aid " pamphlet . The main suggestion of Mr . Butt is , that an Irish Board of Trade should be established , with large and liberal powers of compulsory purchase of reclaimable lands , & c . Emigration by Wholesale . — The extent to which emigration continues , even at this advanced period of the spring , is really marvellous ; and Ulster is now affording its full quota , Three vessels , fully freighted , sailed from Belfast on Friday morning , one for Quebec , and two for thc United States . It appears from thc Northern Whig that the Canadian emigrants were of the most substantial class that

      have left Ulster for very many years . One of thc passengers carried with him £ 700 in gold , and generally those emigrants took out sums of money beyond their immediate necessities . Although the poor law guardians arc limited in their power to promote emig ration , a considerable number of paupers are about to be sent out to Canada by the Athy , Baltinglass , and other unions , in whichacertain charge is tobe made on thc rates for outfit , and some landlords arc liberally contributing . I have learned that passages have been provided in Dublin for upwards of one thousand paupers , and that many more are to he sent outheforo the close of thc season . The adoption of Mr , Monsell ' s

      suggestions in the New Poor Law Bill would open a wide field for this species of emigration . Many of the Roman Catholic clergy are preparing to emigrate with a portion of the remnant of tuoir flocks . The Limerick and Clare Examiner mentions several new cases ; and ono in particular , of a parish priest in the diocese of Limerick , whose parish has been depopulated to so great an extent that thc clergyman has been altogether hereft of income . The Rev . Dr . Moriarty , vicar-general of the Augustinians , is about to proceed to the United States , accompanied by some wealthy laymen , in order to found a colony . It is thus that the failure of the potato is working a revolution in our whole social system .

      HORRIBLE ACCOUNT OF THE FAMINE IX THE WEST . Tuesday , May 22 . —The Protestant rector of Ballinrobe , in a third letter addressed to the Premier , narrates the following horrifying tale of human misery : — " In a neighbouring union a shipwrecked human body was cast on shore ; a starving man extracted the heart and liver , and that was the maddening feast on which he regaled himself and perishing family ! and , nearer still a poor forlorn girl , hearing that her mother was seized with cholera , hastened to the rescue , alas ! too late , but , with a deep religious and filial devotion , desiring at least a decent interment for her dear departed parent , was driven to the shocking necessity of

      carrying tho corpse upon her own back . for three long miles to this very union , so that she might make her wants , known , and simply obtain a coffin from the relieving officer . Need I tell you , my Lord , the dismal sequel ? She herself died of cholera on the following day ! These awful facts may have been reported , but if they were they / have been cushioned and suppressed , for who has heard of them ? I will not , my Lord , dwell at present upon the painful subject of the workhouse , as the evil has gone far to correct itself , the inmates having died off in awful numbers , and more liberal supplies being now remitted for the current weekly expenses—alas I that these supplies should have been withheld so long 1 I would , however , fix your

      Lordship ' s deepest attention upon this appalling fact , that we have , even athest , to encounter three months more of sore , sore famine ; and , bear it in mind , my Lord , the three worst months of the year , in point of home supply—and this , with 27 , 000 of our population in the Ballinrobe union on out-door relief , while the remaining 68 , 000 , minus the thousands already lost , are all , with very few exceptions indeed , barely trying to hold on through the dread crisis 1 The all-engrossing questions with every one , gentle and simple , are these—* What , in the name of Heaven , is to become of us ? What are we to do ] Tbeeountry is gone ! ' AVe must thus again and again , strive to arouse you , my Lord , for it is not possible that you or the English people can be fully conscious of , or alive to . the true state of

      things in the west of Ireland . I grant that there may ^ e , nay , that there is , much of imposition , hut surely there cannot be any in this , that here 'ire the people dropping dead of utter want ail around in every direction , night and day ; and can we sup-Eose for a , moment that the a stounding fact is beevedwhenwe see no really vigorous and united movement , except through private benevolence , to stay the progress of death ? 'lis poor consolation to an already more than half-starved wretch to say to him- ' Go and break stones , no matter how unprofitable , for that is the sole test of your destitution and if the contractor don't disappoint , you shall'get for your eight or ten hours' labour Zlb . of I idian meal , whiah costs Id ., but we can't giv « you fuej or clothing . ' Still you ' must deliver instate

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      of bricks ; * however , if you die , and die you soon must , for your emaciated , famine-striken countenance and sVollcn frame , betoken as much , you will , as on the outdoor list , be entitled to a coffin from the relieving officer , though , perhaps , he may not hear of your decease till you have become putrid m the grave ! I tell it to you , my Lord , whether believed or not , and I tell to the world at large , and I tell it to our Father in Heaven ( for I beseech redress of Him ) , that these are the sufferings of this people despite of every entreaty , but not of half the people : for who can imag ine the thousandth part of the misery of those who , in large numbers , are preferring d ' oathitself to such degradat ion ? It is a burning shame and stain upon the legislature uumy so-called Christian country . " The Freeman s Journal gives the following analysis of the replies of the Rev . Martin Browne , parish m-iestofBalla , Mayo , to the list of queries circu-=

      lated by tho Dublin Relief Committee . It is one of many similar returns received by the committee : — " The population has been reduced from 8 , 250 to to 5 , 500 , being a loss of 2 , 750 , of whom it is computed that over 1 , 200 died from the effects of destitution , or disease resulting from it , the remaining loss being in part accounted for by emigration , and tho loss by natural ' ¦ causes which , as will be seen bv the replies to the third query , is not being supplied now as it was in former years—the increase of the species being checked by the excessive misery and wasting of the peop le . The births and marriages in the parish of Balla in ' 49 , as compared with those in ' % , ' are in thc ratio of one to four , ' in other words , The natural increase of the population has failed to tho appalling extent of 75 per cent . In one parish alone 400 houses have been levelled through . the operation of the Gregory clause . "

      State of the Skibbereen Uxrox . —This wretched union still preserves its melancholy notoriety . According to tho Cork Examiner : — " lb is nearly £ 7 , 000 in debt to merchants for food ' , and while over 22 , 000 hungry paupers yearn for bread , which must be provided for them or they perish , there is not the least probability of a rate being collected from the farmers and occiipiers who still remain in the country . We do most earnestly , and in the name of humanity , call on government to take the case of Skibbereen , with its 22 , 000 paupers , and its bankrupt landlords , farmers and shopkeepers , into immediate consideration , and at once relieve the board from its embarrassment and the destitute from the near approach of starvation and death . The

      government must consider that heyond thc credit of a single week ' s food one respectable house-Messrs . Gould and Co . —have refused to grant , and that contractors are perfectly justified by thc state of things in the neighbouring union of ^ Bantry , where all seems hopeless ruin , in refusing to risk , even a shilling ' s worth of their property on the faith of any board of guardians , be they paid or elected , the officers of the government , or the re presentatives of thc people . " Thc Central Relief Committee , through whose exertions so much good was achieved in the years 46—7 , have recommenced operations , and in an address to the country , issued this day , they call for assistance to enable them to relieve " the utter

      destitution of 1849—a destitution far surpassing anything this country has yet endured . " The accounts this morning from Clare and Galway arc scarcely less afflicting than those from Ballinrobe and Skibbereen . Verdict against a Relieving Officer . —On Sunday an inquest was held on the body of a man named Patrick Dillon in Kilnaboy , Ennistimon union , who died on the previous day . It appeared from the evidence that deceased held nine acres of land , and that for some time past he was living in great destitution , with a wife and two children ; he offered to give up the land , but the landlord refused to take it , unless a portion which was held by deceased ' s brother was also g iven up ; the wife got out-door relief four or five times , to the amount of 1 J stone of meal each week ; she afterwards applied

      to the relieving officer and he to ' d her to get a certificate that the land had been offered to the landlord and she would get relief . A medical gentleman deposed that deceased died from protracted starvation . The jury returned the following verdict : — " That deceased came by his death from protracted starvation , caused by having been refused the relief which he had been formerly getting from the relieving officer , Thomas Macmahon . A coroner ' s warrant was immediately issued , on which the relieving officer was committed , hut hail was afterwards accepted for his appearance . New Barristers . —Seventeen law students are to be called to the British bar , during Trinity Term , which commences this day . This is a large number considering the gloomy prospects ofthe legal profession in this country .

      Weonesday , Mat 23 . — Sale of O'Connell ' s Library . —The library ofthe late Mr . O'Connell was sold by auction yesterday , at Jones ' s sale-rooms , D'Olier-strect . There were very few valuable or rare works in the collection , which consisted chiefly of law books , tracts on divinity , pamphlets , & c . None brought anything like the prices that mi ght have been expected . Even copies having O'Council's autograph affixed sold at prices not amounting to the mere intrinsic value , and , in many instances , far below tho trade price at second-hand . ' Ten years ago , who could have imagined such a result as the sale of O'Council ' s library in Dublin . The sale is to bo resumed to-day .

      Representation of Limerick . — -There are two candidates in the field for thc seat vacated by Mr . Smith O'Brien , who , on Friday last , was voted civilly dead in the House of Commons . The claimants for the honour are Mr . Samuel Dickson , a large proprietor in thc county of Limerick , and Mr . Thomas Fitzgerald , who dates his address from Mcrrion-sqaare , Dublin . Neither of these gentlemen states what his political opinions are but it is understood that both profess Liberal principles . The election is fixed for Friday , the 1 st of June .

      State of the Country . —Thc Archbishop of Tuam , in a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal acknowledging the receipt of several subscriptions for the relief of the destitution in his diocese , states the following distressing circumstances : — " On the morning of last Saturday , on setting out from Headford , the corpse of a young man who died of hunger on the preceding night was seen stretched on thoroad-side . I saw the scenes of eviction and desolation as I traversed the parish to thc shores of Lough Corrib . I could not believe that any one parish could exhibit so many monuments of heartless cruelty . It is no wonder if death in every form of disease and

      starvation followed in thc train of this depopulating system . The misery , however , was deepening as we advanced , and the wretchedness of the poor of this remote and much-neglcctcd region is such that I will not occupy the time or harrow the feelings of thc reader by its description . " Mr . Burke , a Galway magistrate , writing from Moycullen , declares that : — " The people are actually being swept away . Burials of victims to famine , cholera , fever , and all the other diseases consequent upon starvation , are ( and I declare the fact from my own personal knowledge ) , on each day , of hourly occurrence . You will scarcely- credit that in this

      Christian country I had myself , withm the last three days , to order the immediate burial , without coffins , of two poor wretches who had died of cholera , and whose remains were left to decompose until they spread tho pestilence among the unhappy beings around them . I have just seen one good parish priest , and he informed me ' that alarming as the description he had already given me of his diminishing flock was , that state has been rendered more fearful by the presence among us of the cholera . ' Morning , noon , and night is the rev . clergyman engaged in the administration of the last sacraments , and still he cannot reach all the cases . In many instances at night the want of light from candle , bog wood , or fire of any kind , renders it almost

      impusaiWe lor him to administer tho last rites ; and were it not that constant repetition has impressed on his memory the prayers for the dying , many would die without their consolation . He also mentioned to me that in 1844 the population of this parish amounted to . 4 , 680 souls ; and during that year there were 180 births , or about four anda half per cent ., and that now the people have dwindled down to 2 , 680 , and during the last winter months the births were only fifteen , or about one to each 200 , Up to this month in the former year there were about forty marriages , and to this date in 1849 , there wore but three . These , sir , are about thc average data of many parishes in tho west of Ireland . Our burial ground , an extensive one , and but lately

      formed , will bear silent testimony to the rapidity with which the people are passing away ; and its clay will soon he insufficient to hide the hundreds of victims over whom , ' the grave will have its victory . ' Pestilence and starvation are at work among all classes of the people ; but those who suffer most are the spirited and industrious poor who have endeavoured to bravo the storm , and havo clung to the wreck , and who , trusting to the mercy of Providence and the humanity of man , have sold all they possessed on earth in order to find means with which to till their small holdings of land . Hundreds , who up to this period have committed to the soil enough ( if heaven prospered their work ) to raise them above want next year , are now each

      day taking the , r p laces in death in that earth , the like of which their- labour ence rendered life-supl ortl f . S- J ™ will ever reap what they have sown . If rehef from any quarter is to he afforded to the wretched and struggling survivors , nqw js the time , bhould this month and the next be . allowed to pass away , the most liberal and generous aid will be of no avail for the future . The grateful heart of aiany a poor wretch is now blessing the charity of itUe English people , and thanking them for the life SSI T ^ ' K ^ l " ' *?* b tter experience now showj that had that charity been afforded in time and aid been given to the people to crop their lands f seassn , they would not U again , as they are now . ' de « enfi upon others for means to support life " AClomnel correspondent of the Eveninq Packet writes that . i & hougd } the state of that part of Munater « ml , mMshtkl as in Connaught , still a tone

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      of despondency pervades the people generally , and aU who can in any way scrape up the money are preparing to leave the first opportunity :- '' Every patch of ground on this side of the country ( adds this gentleman ) is tilled by the holders , who , as soon as they can lift thc crops , meditate fli g ht . Thus cabin and farm implements are left unrepaired—they will serve the few months wanted as they arc . Though the poorhouses are all crammed , legions of Starving wretches crowd the streets ofthe villages and towns , some clamorous , but many more appealing only by their gaunt looks and famine-stricken visages to the charity of the traveller . Amongst a crowd of such poor creatures surrounding the hotel door in tho town of Tipperary , I singled out a young girl , sixteen = r ^~ , nervades the people generally , and

      or seventeen , whose handsome profile , dark eye , and rich- black hair , thick and unkempt though it was , rendered her still beautiful , though shivering in a few loose dirty rags . Never shall I forget the tale of woe that poor g irl told o £ a dying mother and three small sisters perishing from starvation . Never shall I forget the fervent accents of gratitude a very little charity elicited , amidst her sobs and tears—tears summoned forth by being addressed in a tone of kindness and condolence—tones evidently she was little accustomed to hear . Oh ! daughters of luxury—think how many thousands of your sisters , lovely as yourselves , p ine for the bread your lap-dogs reject . All hope rests on the coming harvests . Should God please to again withhold the fruits of the earth this season , the consequences will be awful indeed—ntore so than I dare to contemplate . " Want of Tenantry . —The following case of "

      reaction , " as it may be called , is mentioned by the Tipperary Vindicator .. - — "We understand that in Clare , those landlords who were conspicuous some time ago in clearing their properties , are now doing all that lies in their power to procure tenantry to till the land , which in whole districts is waste . In few instances can tenants be obtained ; and the consequence is that these landlords are in the utmost distress . The land cannot pay poor rates and taxes under the circumstances . " And again , to quote from the same authority : —¦ " In several parts of thc conntiy from which tenantry havo been lately ejected , and the lands tilled by proprietors or agents , there is nothing to meet the demands ofthe ratecollector and county cess man but tho growing crops ; but those they cannot touch j and the result is that these lands for thc present are so far unproductive towards meeting the fiscal requirements of thc country or of the unions in which they are situate , unless the owner be compelled to pay by summons . "

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      DARING OUTRAGE ON EER MAJESTY . On Saturday afternoon London was thrown into consternation by the report that an attempt had been made to assassinate her Majesty . It appears that , soon after the ceremonies of tho drawing-room were over , her Majesty , accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , thc Princess Royal , and the Princess Helen , proceeded , about five o ' clock , in an open landau , for an airing in the parks , accompanied by Major-General Wemyss , ' her Majesty ' s equerry , on horseback . The drawing up of the royal carriage in front of Buckingham p alace was a sufficent " indication of her Majesty ' s intention , to induce a number of tho loungers about the Park to gather round and to witness her Ma jesty ' s departure . Tho royal corteae proceeded

      through a portion of Regent ' s-park and Hydepark , and after heing absent about three-quarters of an hour , turned down Constitution-hill towards the palace . By this the crowd in waiting to see her Majesty return had considerably increased , and formed a double line down Constitution-hill , a considerable number being also collected in the Greenpark , which at that spot is separated from Constitution-hill by the park palings . Among the groups assembled here , and nearly m the same spot where Oxford made his attempt on her Majesty ' s life in 1840 , was standing a young man , stout , and under the middle size , about twenty-four years of age , dressed in a dirty flannel jacket , and having all the appearance of a bricklayer ' s labourer , who accosted

      a woman near him , and asked if the Queen was coming ; and then , as the royal outriders made their appearance at the moment , asked " if this was her . " The woman answered in the affirmative , when immediately , as the royal carriage came opposite him , ho raised his . hand and discharged a pistol at her Majesty , The report of the p istol caused the royal postillions for a moment to check the horses , and the Queen , standing up in the carriage and addressing one of hor attendants , asked what had happened . The man replied that her Majesty had been shot at , on which , without making any reply , her Majesty resumed her seat , the carriage drove on and the Queen alighted at the entrance , and was the first , we understand , to inform her Royal

      Consort , Prince Albert , of the daring outrage that had been perpetrated . Tho discharge of the pistol was witnessed by several parties , and the scoundrel who fired it made no attempt to escape ; although , indeed , if he had done so , escape would have been out of his power . He was first seized by Moulder , one of the parkkeepers , who was standing near him , and whe instantly secured the pistol , which the prisoner was attempting to thrust into the pocket of his trowsers . A police-constable named Topley , 55 A , and a private soldier of the Life Guards , named Stride , who leaped over the park palings , speedily came to Moulder ' s assistance . Meantime the crowd which had assembled rushed also to the spot , and gave very audible expression to their indignation . Several persons gathered round the prisoner , and were

      about to inflict summary chastisement upon him for his atrocious conduct , but at that moment Major-General Wemyss came up and interfered to protect him ; and a large body of police arriving at the same time , he was rescued from the rough treatment which the crowd were evidently preparing for him . lhe prisoner was conveyed in a cab to the police station-house , Gardcner ' s-row , in King-street , Westminster , and was charged before Inspector Darkin , then on duty , with having attempted to assassinate her Majesty . Mr . Maync , one of thc Commissioners of Police , arrived soon afterwards . The prisoner at first maintained a sullen silence , leaning his arms upon the dock and his head upon his hand . In answer to repeated inquiries , he at

      last stated that his name was John Hamilton , and that ho was a native of Adaro , county Limerick , Ireland , but that he had been about five years in this country , and worked , when he could get work , as a bricklayer ' s labourer , and that lie lodged with a person named O'Keefe , in Eccleston-place , Pimlieo . Major-General Wemyss , and the persons who first seized him ; were also examined , as were some others who witnessed the occurrence , and particularly a seafaring man , who was standing in front of ' the prisoner at the park palings on Constitution-hill , and whose face was scorched hy tho discharge from the pistol behind him . Tho pistol itself was produced and examined . It is a small , oldfashioned screw , pocket-pistol , with a flintlock , and a barrel

      not three inches long . It has on it the name '' Clarke , London . " It was the opinion of General Wemyss and other persons who examined it , that it had not been loaded with anything more dangerous than powder ; and we may add here , that it has since appeared he borrowed the p istol from his landlord , and employed one of his children to purchase for him a halfpennyworth of powder , which was all the provision he seems to have made for his daring outrage . la answer to the inquiries of the inspector , the prisoner denied that the pistol was loaded with ball ; he said that ho intended no barm to her Jiajesty ; and after being pressed with regard to his motives , he reluctantly admitted that he did it only to be talked about .

      The prisoner was then removed to a cell , and on being searched , there were found upon his person a few halfpence , the blade of a knife , a leather purse , and some pieces of paper , but the writing on them had no connexion with tho diabolical attempt with which he stood charged . His lochrings iu Ecclestonplace were searched the same night , and some papers were found , but containing no allusion whatever to the outrage . It appears he had formerl y worked on tho Belgium and Nantes Railway , but

      had returned to England about a year ago , and he has been out of employment for some months . Information of the occurrence was instantly forwarded to the members of government , and Lord John Russell visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace the same evening . Sir George Grey issued orders that the utmost care should be taken ofthe prisoner , to prevent him from laying violent hands on himself , or otherwise frustrate the ends of justice , and directed that he should be examined in his presence next day .

      ^ Accordingly , at two o clock on Sunday afternoon , the prisoner was brought up to the Home Office , and underwent an examination before Sir George Grey , Mr . Waddmgton , the Under-Secretary of fl n n l } u Hom 1 De P tro . ent ; Mr . Henry and SlL ^ , , *^ " » g » katoB ¦ of Bow-strcet , police-Th « A * f M ^ M ^ e , « " > commissioner of police . lhe Attorney-Genoral also attended and conducted » e examination . The priaoner was brought from Mr K : S a * T' ^? rd , in cffiyTf tw ^™* ^ Ma and Mr Inspector Ottway . ? rBtalT ? h ^ d at thc table » nd questioncS S . ltwV * -J" ! ? v me ? l James ^ HamUton SlSiJ'rr ^^ * ' ? ^ ton-place , Bell giaye-road , Pirnhco , and was a bricklayer by trade . Mr . Hall told him that he was charged with having , on Constitution-hill , St . James ' s Park ; on & 7 S ; S ^ ^ «??^> W ^

      The first witness examined was Dajjikl O'Keefe . on examination by the Attorney-General , he said 1 live at No , 4 , Eccleston-place , Belgrave-road , Pimfteo , and have known the prisoner , 'James Hamilton , iron * four to five years . The prisoner came over rroinzreland as a bricklayer ' s labourer , and worked at me easiness when he could get work . I believe the prisoner has neither father nor mother alive and that he w * s brought up at a charity school in Ireland , and wi > en aQ left Ireland was recommended b y a fiie . nd to lodge wM me , He lodged

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      with me nearly the whole time I have known him but left me once , about two seasons ago , to go to France . He returned in the month of November in the same year that he left . On his return ho lod ged with mo , but as he was out of work , and had got into my debt , I sent him to a friend of mine at Bow in order that he might get employment , and pay me something towards the amount he owed me . I then wrote him a letter , and told him I had burned my leg , and was in great want ofmoncv , and ho came one Saturday night and brought nie a sovereign , and came again after that and brou « M . ™« with me nearly the whole time I have known him

      ten shillings more ; but I could not get anything else from him that season . After that I summoned him , and put him to all the expense'I could , except issuing an execution . The prisoner came at that time from Bow , and called upon an acquaintance , for the purpose , as I afterwards ascertained , of being taken into custody , so that he might get a billet for the winter in prison . I know the prisoner from his coming from tho same place that I did . Mr . Commissioner Mayne , at thc request of the Attorney-General , now produced the pistol , and , j n answer to the Attorney-General , the witness said that the pistol produced was his property .

      The next witness was Bridget O Kef . fe . —sile said : I am the wife of the last witness . I know thc p istol . On . Saturday last , I was going out into thc garden when I saw Mr . Hamilton ( the prisoner ) at tho ' bench . He said he was making a pistol , and was going to fire a shot or two . He then showed me a sort of barrel which he had fixed upon apiece of wood like a pistol . It was made of tin , and seemed to me to be the spout of a teakettle . 1 made some remark to him about it , which I do not now recollect , when he said , " Why , Dan has got an old

      pistol , lend it to me . " I then went to my bedroom , and gave it to him out ofthe window . The prisoner looked at it , and said it was very rusty . I said it was , and that I did not think ft was of much account . I afterwards heard him fire the pistol about three times in the garden . —Was the prisoner in or out of work?—I have not known him have seven weeks ' work since Christmas . —How did he live ? A young woman who lives with me , and is in the milk line , serves a great manypersons and collects a good deal of broken victuals , and between the two of us we managed to keep him .

      Edward O'Keefe , the son of the last witness , said I am eleven next birthday . Tho prisoner asked me yesterday to fetch him a halfpenny worth of powder , and I went into Elizabeth-street and bought it , and gave him the powder . He said it was not the best sort of powder . That was about a quarter to three o ' clock . Tho prisoner said he wanted the powder as he could have some fun . —[ The witness here produced apiece of wood cut in tne form of a pistol stock , on which was tied the spout of an old tin teakettle , so as to form -a barrel . He said he purchased it of tho prisoner on Saturday last for one penny , and turning to the prisoner , he said , "Here , Mr . Hamilton , I can pay you the penny now ( offering a penny ); I had not got one on Saturday . " ]—When did he go out : Almost immediately afterwards . I wanted to go with him , but he said , " Xo , you must stop at home . "

      The prisoner was asked , as he had been at the conclusion of the previous witness ' s examination whether he had any questions to ask the witness , to which ho replied , " So , nothing . " Daniel Lasib was then called , and examined . — He said : About half-past six o ' clock on Saturday evening I was on Constitution-hill , when I saw the prisoner standing near a tree in the Green Park . He asked mc , when thc royal carriage was passing , whether it was the Queen coming . I told him it was . Immediately I saw him raise a pistol , and shoot at her Majesty . I felt something close to my ear , and believed at thc time that it was a bullet At the moment before I had turned to look at thc Queen , and therefore I did not see the actual shooting . Peeling assured that the explosion came from the prisoner s pistol , I attempted to get over the

      railings to secure him , but at the moment I saw the park-keeper seize the prisoner . The park-keeper cailed to me to assist him , which-I did , by holding the prisoner by the coat tails , the railings of the park prevented me from taking hold of any portion of his person . —Had you noticed the prisoner before he spoKeto you ? Yes ; I noticed he ' had been for some time walking about that spot , with his hands in his pocket . —Did you notice in which hand the prisoner held the pistol ? In his right hand . —What did he do with the pistol after he fired it ? I thought he put it into his trowsers pocket , but ho was taken so soon that I am not positive . I know he was trying to do so . Thc witness then deposed to tho fact ofthe prisoner being taken to the station-house , adding , that had he not been placed in a cab , he believed that the populace would have torn htm to pieces .

      Geohce Maldes , the park-keeper , deposed that ho distinctly saw the prisoner raise his arm as the royal carriage approached , and hearing a loud report , he ran up and seized the prisoner , and took from him the pistol wliich had been produced . Mr . Rexwick , the sergeant footman to the Queen , said that he saw tho prisoner point the pistol at the royal carriage , and almost immediately called to the riders to stop , but in thc meantime thc prisoner had been taken . Her Majesty rose to see what was the matter , and ordered them to drive on . Mr . Oiwat , inspector of the A division of police , deposed to searching the house in which the prisoner resided . He found that he had no property of any k nd , and that the shirt which he wore had been lent to him .

      Major-General Wemyss s testimony was to the effect that he was attending her Majesty on Saturday last . When the royal carriage had got a few yards down Constitution-hill he heard the report of a pistol ; he turned round , and saw smoke issuing from the direction of the spot where the prisoner was standing . He rode over to tho spot , saw that tho park-keeper had taken the pistol from the prisoner , and he ( General Wemyss ) ordered him to be taken to the station-house . Ho was of opinion that if the pistol had been charged with bullet or shot , he would have received it , as he completely shielded her Majesty by the position he held againstthc carriage . Her Majesty was on the left side , which was the side of the road thc prisoner occupied . He was within the Green Park railings . He ( General Wemyss ) did not believe the pistol contained cither ball or shot . Several other witnesses were examined , but their evidence only confirmed the above testimony .

      ¦ At the close of the evidence , Mr , Hall , the chief magistrate , said : Prisoner you are committed on a charge preferred against you of endeavouring to fri g hten her Majesty the Queen . The act under which you are committed is the 5 th and Cth Victoria , cap . 51 , sec . 2 . The prisoner , who made no observations , was fulty committed for trial to Newgate , to which he was conveyed by three policemen in a cab . ' Some apprehension was at first entertained that this diabolical outrage was connected with a political feeling ; it is , however , satisfactory to find , from all the inquiries that have been made , that the statement made by the prisoner is true , that lis really had no accomplices , and that he was altogether unconnected with political associations of any kind .

      ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS . After thc examination at the Home-office had been concluded , the prisoner , John Hamilton , WS brought into an outer room in the custody of If " spector Shaw , who took the charge , and police constable Topley , who apprehended him , when he was exposed to tho < razc of a number of persons connected with the Home-office for upwards of half an hour , but not the slightest change of counten ance was perceptible . A perfect indifference marked the whole of his demeanour . Upon the committal to Newgate being signed , an order was also issued , directed to the governor of the above gaol , that the prisoner should be kept by himself , and , in accordance with these instructions , the prisoner is placed

      in a room by himself , seeing no person but the an * thorities of the gaol , and these only at certain intervals . His sullennoss still continues ; he speaks but little ; and when he adverts to his offence , lie still persists that he had no intention to injure the Queen . Strange as it may appear , after the report of what took place at the Home-office on Sunday , an ""' pression still exists that the pistol was loaded ffitn ball . To remove this impression from the pub' 10 mind , it is only necessary to state that , by the direc * tion of Sir G . Grey , Inspectors Field and Walker wore occupied for upwards of two hours on Sunday in minutely examining the private garden of tne Palace , as well as the entire range to which a bali b y any possibility could be propelled , hilt not w >» slightest missile of any description could be l ° , ' and this is still further corroborated by the pnffC extreme poverty . ' for the onlv nrouerty vhicn J

      possessed was the clothes on his back . With respect to the punishment in the event ofJJ prisoner being found guilty , an erroneous « B P ^ , ; ' i exists to the effect that he can be both P « » l f flogged and transported . The clause of t » f , ; j which is as follows , -will show the contrary : — * . ^ be it enacted that from and after the passing w ft { , act , if any pei-son shall willfully discharge or ¦ tempt to discharge , or point , aim , or present ' , near to tho person of tho Queen , any £ un » J ^ s or any other description of firearms or of otne r * ^ whatsoever , whether the same shall or sna 0 J . contain any explosive or destructive niat ° " '' ^ fiVinll dienlniKivn « .. nn .. nn 4 . n tin / llnnt . ' . rffM } . Of "" _ 1 „„

      to discharge or cause to be discharged , " . j t ii ( j sive substance or material / near the per " " r at-Queen ; or if any person shall wilfully str » w » . ^ tempt to strike at the person of the Q uccn . VJhatsooffensivo weapon , or in any other nianwa a ( . ever ; or if any person shall wilfully two ™ ^ tempt to throw any . substance , matter , « ' ffit u whatsoever at or upon the person of the vj >^ ' , p mtcnt in any of the cases aforesaid to u > J ° . c ! , scs son of the Queen , or with intent in any ° * ,, eb y t ^ aforesaid to break the public peace , or ! T ? intcnt i ' public peace may bo endangered ; or wit" - n so any ofthe cases aforesaid , Ac ., every suc n L > ui > offending shall be guiltv of a hig h misoc "'¦ . ^ aad , being convicted ifierotf fo due c ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 26, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26051849/page/6/