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      "Health of Lokdox Duhixg the . Week . —In the -week ending last Saturday , the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 1026 . This return shows a further increase in the mortality , for since it began to rise , the deaths during the two previous -weeks were in the first 875 , and in the second 967 . In tlie ten corresponding -weeks of the years 1840-9 , they fluctuated between 770 and 1197 , the latter amount of mortality occurred iu the twelfth week of 1 S 43 ; the average of the ten weeks corrected for increase of population is 1 , 071 , the present return is therefore only less than the average by 45 . The only classes of disease in which an increase on the average is remarkable are those which affect respectivel y the organs of respiration and the

      organs of circulation . The only instances iu which complaints in the respiratory organs have been so fatal as in last week , at this season of the year , occur in 1845 and 1817 ; from pneumonia there -were 90 deaths ( of which 71 were amongst children , ) the corrected average is 85 ; from bronchitis there were 99 ( of which more than two-thirds were among adults , ) the corrected average is only 47 . Both these diseases show a considerable increase , when the deaths are compared with the numbers returned in the two previous weeks . This excess both on the weeks immediately preceding and on the corresponding weeks of former yea rs is sufficiently-explained by the fact that the mean temperature which last week was only 37 min . 8 deg ., shows a great fall on each week throughout the whole month ot

      Pern-nary and the half of March ; and taking the corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , it appears that it was never so low as at present , except in 1 S 45 and IMG , and that in six of those years it ranged from 40 deg . to 49 min . 7 deg . The deaths from consumption last week were 135 , a number less than the average . Amongst epidemics , small pox , scarlatina , hooping cough , and typhus , are not so fatal as usual , but measles , from which there were 23 deaths , and diarrhoea , from which there were 20 , are above the average . A death from cholera is recorded in the following terms ; " At 83 , Londonrpad , St . Georgt's Southwark , on the 15 th of March , the son of an ironmonger , at the age of ten weeks , died of infantile cholera , after an illness of 23 hours . " It deserves to be mentioned that three

      deaths were registered in one week from cholera , though it is not usual that more than double that number are returned iuayear ; the following are the particulars : —At 5 , Charles-street , Hackney road , the son of a compositor , at the age of 8 years , died of " cholera after an illness of 3 weeks ; at 25 , York-street "West , Batcliff , the son of a painter ( deceased , ) died at the age of ayear and ten months , of " cholera ; " and at 1 , James-street , in Lambeth , the son of a glass-packer ( deceased , ) died at the age of 15 years , of " cholera , after an illness of 23 days . " The three deaths occurred , one on the 15 th , and two on the 16 th of March . Children are returned almost every week as accidentally suffocated in bed ; amongst other deaths registered last week

      from this cause are two which occurred in one house . Two men and a woman died from the intemperate use of strong drink . Two men and six women died between 90 and 100 years of age . One hundred and eleven 'persons died in "workhouses , 54 in hospitals , of whom 18 were in naval and military establishments , and 6 in lunatic asylums . —The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , was above 30 in . on Sunday , Monday , Wednesday , and Thursday ; the mean of the week was 39 971 . The mean temperature ( 37-3 deg . as stated above ) was lower than the average of the same period iu seven years , particularly on Sunday , Monday , and Saturday , when it was from 7 deg . to II deg . less than the averages of these days .

      . AttEGED Infaxticide . —On Monday forenoon Mr . W . Carter coroner for Surrey , held an inquest at the Duke of Suffolk Tavern , Brandon-street , Walworth , on view of the body of a" newly-born female child , found dead under the following circumstances : —Mr . Thomas Cook , summoning officer « f Newington , said , that in consequence of information he ^ had received , he went to the house , Uo . 1 , Black Princecport , Walworth-road , on the previous Friday mornlug , and after having examined the house he found in the water closet the body of a female infant quite naked aud wrapped up in a black apron . "Witness removed the body to his own house , whore it was examined by Mr . Gannon , ene of the parochial surgeons . —EliiabstU Biddes , of Ko . 1 , Black Princecourt , said , that a woman named Mary Ann Frew , had occupied a r . ^ om in her house during the past tao months . On Friday last witness ' s attention was

      called by another lodger named iNasii to marks in Frew ' s apartment which give rise to a suspicion that the latter had given birth to a child . Frew ' s room was in a very missrable condition—there was no bed or bedstead in it , and a few shavings and an old coat in one corner of the room were all that she had to He down upon . About mid-day on Friday Frew was brought home by a fellow workwoman < rom the place whereshe was employed , very ill , and . inconsequence of the wretched state ot her room witness caused her to be conveyed to the workhouse , where she still remains . Another female witness proved an acknowledgment by Mary Ann Frew thatshe had given birth to a dead child , and that she fold placed the body where it was found . —Mr . John Johnson , surgeon , of Savill-row , "W alworth , deposed to having made a post mortem examination of the body , which satisfied him that the child never breathed . —Other evidence

      having been adduced , a conversation arose between the coroner and jury on the frequency of cases similar to the present , and even of the more terrible crime of infanticide . In the course of his observations the coroner said , it was certainly to be lamented that no public institution existed for the reception of poor and hardworking women in their hoar of travail . There could be no donbt it was a very difficult question to deal with ; but cases did occur—and this appeared to him to be one of ihem—where great allowance ought to be made for tlie erring mother . He thought , if the subject were taken up in some way and properly laid before the public , it would meet with considerable support from the philanthropists of this country . —A juror remarked that institutions like tint referred to were very numerous ia foreign

      countries , and he thought , if introduced here , they would tend greatly to diminish crime . Th ? Jury then agreed I to a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony , at the same time expressing their unanimous opinion , " That in consequence of the great and increasing number of illegitimate children , and the degraded and helpless condition of their mothersowinf , in a great measure , to the low rate at which the labour of women is paid lor—the dreadful and tmnatnra ! crime of infanticide is becoming more and more frequent ; that , with a view , if possible , to alle--viate the condition of suffering humanity , and ta improve ths morals of the people , it is the opinion of this jury that it is the duty of government to provide a suitable national asylum for the reception of all illegitimate children . "

      HUES . " Ix the Hackxet-Road . —On Tuesday morning , shortly after two o ' clock , a very alarming and destructive fire , nearly attended with fatal consequences , Broke out ia the premises belonging to Mr . William Ward , a fruiterer and green grocer , No 19 , Londonterrace , Haekney-road . The flames when first dis covered were raging in the lower part of the premises at which thus the inmates were ia their beds asleep . The constable on the beat succeeded , after some trouble , in arousing them , hut the Homes by that

      period had gained so strong a hold of the property that it was with great difficulty the jartics could effect their escape , and not be'bre they were nearly suffocated . Several eng ines quickly attended , when ths firemen found the building from the base to the roof encircled with flame . But in spits of their exertions they were unable to get the mastery over the contiagratioa until the premisese were gutted , the whole of the stock in trade , furniture , and other effects being consumed . Mr . Ward was insured in the Phoenix Fire-office .

      ; Is Lambeth . —On Tuesday morning another fire -which threatened the most disastrous results to life and property , broke out in the Star Tea- warehouse , 2 fo . 109 , Lower-marsh , L-imbeth . It commenced in the cellars under the shop , but having been opportunely discovered , the inmates succeeded in escaping without receiving any injury . Several engines were -worked with full vigour for some time , when the firemen succeeded in getting the fire extinguished , but not before considerable damage was done . The s . ock in trade was insured in the Alliance-office . \ Js Betdxal-Gbeex . —In the house of Mr . Pointer , a cabinetmaker , and serions loss incurred . Also in the house of Mr . Taylor , Wellingtcn-row from smoking tobacco in the stables . In White LTart-stb eet . —On the premises of Mr . Shearman , boot and shoe maker , and considerable damage done to building and stock .

      -2 fEAR Dhuby-Lake Tesatre . —On Tuesday night , shortly after seven o ' clock , a fire attended with a great loss of property , and jeopardising the lives of not fewer than fifteen persons , broke out in the premises of Mr . Mackerell , fcaked potato merchant , 2 ? o . 7 , "Viaegar-yard . The premises—which were five stories high—were adjoiaed by numerous similar erections on either side , while the space between the fire and Drnry-Iane Theatre was not more tfian a few yards apart The outbreak—which was -very sudden—was occasioned by an escape of gas , and fortunately all the persons who were on the premises encceeded in making their way out witht

      ouinjury . Several eegines were promptly brought to the spot , but notwithstanding the strenuous exeTtionsof the firemen , the flames continued to tra--vel i and the .-Bhole range of premises in which they commenced were hsuned out , and those adjoining severely damaged before the Sre was extinguished . xne parties , who have lost every thing they once possessed , are Mr , Miskereli ( lasureu ) , Mr . and MJ 3 , Sloe and child ( not insurkl Mr . and Mrs . i £ wLSthree , chiIdreo ( ° ning « re < l ) . Mr . and ^^ Wooh-iage and three children cuninsured ) . The budding in which the disaster occurred was jnsured m the West of England Fire-office . Rrsmtb of Ahhe Mekbitt .- ' fhe heriffs have

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      received a communication from Sir G-. Grey , informing them that the execution of Ann Merritt is to he respited during her Majesty's pleasure ., 'A further investigation of this case has been considered necessary by the Home Secretary , after communication with the Lord Chief Baron , owing to doubts , which have been expressed by physicians and surgeons of great eminence , of the correctness of a very important part ofthe evidence depending entirely upon the accuracy of a medical opinion . , SuiciDE . ^ About seven o ' clock on Tuesday m orning an old man , named Evans , who was lodgmg . at Mr . Whitman ' s , a greengrocer arid ™ i & r $ U in Charles-street , Westminster , committed suicide Uv shooting himself through tlie heart with , 1 — pocket pistol . The deceased , * u ° was a . f „ f P S by trade , had been in a very desponding state of mind for some time pass in consequence othis being unable to obtain loyment . # , ¦

      any emp Fair under the Thames . —Monday being ihe anniversary of the opening of that great undertaking , the Thames Tunnel , tbe directors , in celebration of the event , gave a grand fancy fair beneath the waters of Old Father Thames . The entire length of the tunnel and either shaft were decorated with myriads of variegated lamps , tbe panels being filled in with a variety of paintings , representing the most interesting views along the bat ks . Rows of stalls , covered with ornamental articles , shows , refreshment booths , the "Wizard of the North , Ethiopiau Minstrels , and bands of music , were the amusements offered . During the day several thousand persons visited the tunnel .

      Ths Catixe Tkadk . —The Apollo , screw steam vessel , arrived at Blackwall on Monday , with a cargo of oxen from Holland . On . her passage she experienced a heavy gale from the north , which caused loss or serious injury to nearly fifty fine oxen . Of these , about twenty that were on deck were thrown overboard ; the remainder , about thirty in number , were landed at Blackwall , many of them dead , and others dieadfully mangled . It is believed that aU this meat finds its way into the London market .

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      The Brighton Forgery Case . — After the sentences had been pronounced , and the prisoners taken below , two inhabitants of Brighton , feeling strongly interested in tiie thorough establishment ofthe innocence of Mr . Steward , applied to the visiting justices for permission to see the men Green and Uasland in Lewes gaol . Permission was given , and the following statements , obtained from the convicts , in the presence of Mr . Saunders , the governor of the gaol , are the result : —Joseph Green says : I came from London with a man whose name I don't know . Ho goes by five or six names : they call him George Andrews . A o one

      else came with me . I came on the Friday night ; slept at a beer-house ; don ' t know the street , The man ' s name is Harper . It is not in St . James ' sstreet ; it is up St . James ' s-street on the left-hand side ; I believe Edward-street . Andrews came on to Lewes . I went out alone to pass the notes . Andrews is a short man , about five feet four inches ; he had on a light coat . I never saw Steward before in my life . 1 met with Andrews at the Green Man in the City-road , London . I had known him but a very little time , lie always passes as a gentleman . He gave me twelve notes . He said he had got them on his hands , and that there was going to be a run on the bank , and he wanted me to assist him in getting rid of them . I don't know whether he had

      any more notes . Andrews was to have met me at the Brighton Railway Station on the Saturday night , at eight o ' clock , if things had gone right . I have been at Birmingham . I have lived in London about three months , and have a wife and seven children . I firmly believe that young Steward is as innocent as a baby . If the judge would hold out any hopes of my being restored to my family I would say a good deal more , but I cannot do so at present . I never saw Steward before I saw him on Sunday morning after he was in custody . —Joseph Uasland said : I never saw Steward before in my life until I saw him in custody . 1 came down to Brighton on the Saturday with another man not in custody . We got to Brighton about two o ' clock .

      There were ten of us altogether . I know nothing of Green . I know all the rest . I live at Sheffield . I was at Birmingham on tho Thursday before the Saturday I was taken . This job was planned at the Green Dragon , at Birmingham . "We ten came up to London by the rail , I and my mate came on to Brighton by the twelve o ' clock train , leaving the eight in London with an understanding that they were to come down by the two o ' clock train . I and my mate went on to Shoreham , but we did not do anything there , and we walked back by the seaside . We had a place of meeting with the other party , and we met at the top of a street , but I don ' t know the name of it . "We had some talk , and then we went on in parties into the different streets to get

      rid ofthe notes . There was one in the party that vory much resembled Steward . He is just like him as to dress and general appearance , and any one might easily take Steward to be tkat fellow . Stewardis as innocent as a child just born . None of the party , to the best of my belief , ever saw him before . I saw the man who is so much like Steward go into a tailor ' s shop opposite the sea . I don't know the name of the place , as I was never at Brighton before . I don ' t know whether he bought anything or not , because I came away , leaving him in the shop . I wanted to . be somewhere else . If we had been successful that night it was arranged that we were to do the best we could for the night , and go to London by the first train on Sunday morning , and get back as quickly as we could to Birmingham . I nave all along felt very much for that young man Steward , as we knew nothing of him , and he is an

      innocent man . Commiiai . ron Shooting at a Gamekeeper . —At the recent pel ty Sessions at Buckingham , Jahcz Anderson , of Denshangcr , labourer , was charged with having , on the night of the 11 th instant , shot at James King , head gamekeeper to the lion . It . Cavindish , of Thornton-hall . It appeared that , in consequence of a suspicion of poachers in Beachampton-wood , the complainant and two watchers were on the look-out , when Anderson and two comp anions came into the wood , armed with guns ; and that on King going to the prisoner , he shot at him . The charge from the gun did not hit King , but it singed his cap . The prisoner was committed for trial . Odd Fellow Lodges Declare © Illegal . —Mr .

      R . J . Kindersley , chancellor of the county palatine Durham lately delivered judgment in the case of Brown and others v . Shaw and others , in the Chancery Court , Durham . The bill was filed by George Brown and seven other persons , on behalf of themselves and all other members of a certain association called "The Rose of Durham Lodge of the Independent Order ot Odd Fellows , Manchester Unity , " except the defendants , against George Shaw and six other persons . The first five plaintiffs are described in the bill as members and five of the trustees ofthe association , and the last three as simply members of the association ; that some years ago the Defendants Shaw , Stafford , Dodo , Wood , and Bateson , were appointed trustees in the

      place and stead of Stafford and Bateson . The object of the bill is to recover from the defendants , for the benefit of this lodge or association , a sum of £ 295 19 s . id ., on the ground of that sum , the property of the association , having been misapplied by lending it to the defendant Shaw , on his promissory note , and of the defendants having been parties to that transaction , which , it is contended , was a breach of trust . The grounds of defence are these : —1 st . That this is an illegal association , and therefore tho bill cannot be sustained ; 2 nd . That the transaction com p lained of was for the benefit of the association , and that the lending of the money on Shaw ' s personal security was no breach of trust ; 3 rd . That the members and the plaintiffs in particular , acquiesced in the transaction ; 4 th .

      that the present trustees were not duly appointed , and therefore the relief asked by the prayer of the bill for payment of the money to them cannot be enforced ; and , 5 th . Objections are raised for want of parties . Mr . Kindersley said , tho first question was , whether the lodge or association came within any ofthe descriptions of societies mentioned in the acts of parliament , ofthe 39 th Geo . III ., c . 19 . After minutely describing the nature of the society and the state ofthe law relating to such societies in general , he came to-the conclusion that the society in question did come under these acts , and , not being within the exemption made by sees . 26 and 27 of the latter act , was consequently illegal . This being the case , the bill must be dismissed , it being unnecessary to go into the other grounds of defence . Assault ox the Editor op a Provincial

      Newspaper . —A considerable sensation has been excited in Cornwall by an assault committed on the editor ofthe West Briton , an influential newspaper in the west of England . It appears that , at the county meeting of the 12 th of February , called in favour of agricultural protection , there was only one of the county members present , T . J . Robartes , Esq . The other three members were attending their duties in parliament , and sent letters expressing their sentiments on the subject . Two of these letters ( from Sir C . Lemon and W . H . P . Carew , Esq . ) were read in full ; the other ( from E . TV . W . Peudarves , Esq ., the oldest of the county representatives , and a gentleman held in hieh esteem bv all

      parties ) was only partially read to tbe meeting , the part suppressed being that in which he exposed the falsity of some statements made in the requisition calling the meeting . Mr . Pendarves complained in a letter to the county papers of the discourtesy of the sheriff , shown to himself and his . constituents , by the suppression . of a part of his letter at the county meeting . Sir S . T . Spry ,. tho high sheriff , replied to . this in extraordinary , terms ; the letter was published in one of the county . papers , andthe other ( the IFest Briton ) commented on ifc iu severe language . . Tho : H « t . Unton . appeaved' on a ThurSr day evening , and oh the next morning Sir , Samuel Spry called at . the office with a solicitor . The editor was noi there , and Sir Samuel and the solicitor

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      went to his residence ' .: " Spnle-conveMatiod" took place , on the subject of . the comments in the paper j Sir S . Spry ' vjrasf niuch exited , ahdfbn the editor refusing to withdraw the ^ ommehts he had made , gif Simuelraiseda short riding whip which , he had brought Svitfahim , and atruek at the editor . " . Tlie latter caught his arm , arid wrenched the whip from him , and a kind'pf scuffling fight ensued between the parties , until the solictor recovering from his astonishment , went forward and parted them . ' There was no great personal damage done , though the editor ' s , face was somewhat scratched by Sir Samuel ' s nails . The proprietors of the paper conceive it necessary that the editor should he

      protected in the discharge of his duties ; and , in consequence , a bill of indictment for the assault has been preferred against the late sheriff at the present Lent Assizes for the county . Fatal Accident . —The Yorkshire Gazette announces the death of the only son of the Baron and Baroness de Langeii , and grandson of H . Preston , Esq ., of Moreby . The deceased was out upon his favourite pony , near Ratcliffe Hall , Lancashire , attended by a servant , when a party riding past at a furious rate , caused the pony to take fright ; the deceased unfortunately was thrown off , and his foot hanging in the stirrup , he received such serious injuries as to cause his immediate death . The lad was in his ninth year , and an only child .

      Supposed Suicide . —Much consternation has been caused in the town of Reading , since the 20 th inst ., when it was known that J . Woedon , Esq ., of Brunswick House , on the Bath-road , had been absent from his home since the previous evening , and notwithstanding the diligent search made oy his afflicted family and friends , no clue to his discovery has been ascertained ; it is , therefore , feared that he has committed suicide , most probably by drowning . No pecuniary difficulty could have induced this act , as he was a man of large means , and had , a short time since , retired from a very lucrative law practice , the best in the town . He was leader of a large section of the liberal party in Reading for many years , and was much looked up to and respected by them ; ho was also a member of the town council , and was but latel y mayor , the duties of which office he discharged with much credit to uimieir to satisiacuon iu wic

      , anu me u » uu jmi we » borough . He leaves a wife with a family of nine or ten children . Melancholy . Accident . —A lamentable occurrence took place in tlie . family of Mr . Walter Paul , of High-grove , near Tetbury , last week . Mr . Paul gave a ball , previous to his son , Captain Paul , leaving home to join his regiment . At about nine o ' clock Miss Paul retired from the ball-room ; having an attack of tic doloreaux ,, she proceeded from one room to the other , the lighted candle fell from her hand , and her dress , being composed of white lace , rapidly ignited , and the young lady was instantly enveloped in flames . She endeavoured to extinguish the fire by throwing a basin of water over herself , and her screams alarmed the attendants , but , before their efforts could subdue the flames , she was so severely burnt as to leave but faint hopes of her recovery , and on Sunday last she ceased to live .

      , Poisoning in Norfolk , —Norwich , Saturdat , March 23 . —Another case of wholesale poisoning has been discovered in this country , a whole family often persons having been poisoned , two of whom have since died . The locality of this dreadful affair is Stow Bardolph , a small retired village , two miles north of Downham , in the western portion of the county , and the unfortunate victims are the family of a respectable farmer named Mr . James Page , who resided . there . An investigation has taken place before the Rev . E . J . Howman , one of the county magistrates , but the reporters were excluded on the ground , it was alleged , that it would not be prudent at present to give publicity to the evidencethough the case was admitted as one

      in-, volving the utmost mystery , and it was doubtful if it was not a foul and deliberate murder . The facts furnished to the representatives of tho press by the police are as follows : —The family consisted of nine persons—namely , Mr . James Page , Mrs . Page , three sons , two young ladies ( sisters of Mr . Page , ) a governess , three women and one man servant . A lew weeks ago a quantity of sugar was bought by a member of the family , which came first into use on the 20 th inst . The tewat the breakfast tablo was sweatcned with it , and Mr . Page at once complained it made him sick . At the same time he summoned the servants , and a remark was made by one ofthe women that there were some white particles in the sutrar , probably mixed with it to cheapen it . A

      sediment was also discovered in the cups , Nothing more , however , it seems , was thought of the circumstance , and it was determined that instead of using the sugar for tea it should be employed for puddings and other pastry . At dinner that day an apple pudding was served , and tho sugar was added to it ; and immediately . after the family had partaken of it they were all seized with violent burning pains in the throat , followed by purging , . vomit : ing , and other symptoms usual in cases of poisoning . The servants partook of them .-nl , and suffered in the same manner . Mr . Page at once despatched messengers for medical gentlemen residing in the neig hbourhood , who wore quickly on the spot , and every moans was resorted to , to check the horrible effects of tho poison . They remained with '' the suf >

      ferers the whole of that ni g ht , and -tRe- following day . It was evident , however , that Mr . Page had swallowed a considerable quantity ; he never rallied , but sunk under its baneful effects , expiring in great agony on Friday morning , the 22 nd . mat , ; and at the time of these details being- written the medical gentlemen have reported the death of his son . The other members of the family and two of the servants remained very ill , but hopes were entertained of their recovery . Mr . Page was hi ghly respected . . Murder in Newcastle . —A ~ shocking murder was sommittedin the town of Newcastle on Saturday morning last , the victim being a woman named Elizabeth Forbes , and the supposed murderer her husband , Patrick Forbes , an Irish labourer . The

      latter is stated to have been a violent drunken character , and to have been in the habit of maltreating his wife . —The police were attracted to the spota" top room in Cloggers entry , near St . Nicholas's Churchyard—by cries of "Murder , " and on entering found the floor covered with blood and the vvoman dead in bead , and shockingly wounded in the lower part of tho abdomen ns well as on the face . The husband was at the time sitting on a chair by the fireside . Ho professed total ignorance of the manner in which his wife had come to her end , and offered no resistance when taken into custody . Spots of blood were found on his shirt , trowsors , and hands , and he had two knives in his possession . Tue Truck System . —For the last month or two there have been a great many prosecutions in East

      Worcestershire and Staffordshire against parties chiefly connected with the coal and iron mines of that district for paying their workmen in truck . The war against the system has been taken up by gentlemen and tradesmen of Dudley , Wolverhampton , Walsall , Wednesbury , & c ,, and a great many convictions have taken place , wheh it was thought would have a very salutary effect . Another case has , however , just been tried at the last-named p lace with a different result . Tho defendant in this case is a butty collier , named Thomas Lawrence , and he was defended by Mr . Sergeant Allen , who succeeded in showing that tho tickets given to the complainant were in the form of checks , and thereupon it was contended that this was a legal payment , authorised by Act of Parliament , and the magistrates dismissed the case .

      Extraordinary Case of Bicamy at Uptov-on-SeveRN . —The magistrates sitting in Petty Sessions here have been engaged in adjudicating on a case of bigamy committed under very peculiar circumstances as regards tho conduct of the first wife , who had adopted the habits and dress of a man , and had actually been married to one of her own sex . The accused bigamist is one John Curtis , a labourer , of the village of Strensham—the retreat of the poet Butler ; and he stands charged with having married a second wife during the existence of his first , whose maiden name was Anna Maria Wilkins , and whom he married at Strensham in 1835 . Curtis and his wife lived together until the year 1840 , when they 5 ame to a mutual agreement to separate . Uoon

      this separation taking place the wife , who was of a masculine character , determined to " change her condition" otherwise , and forthwith she assumed male attire , and proceeded into an adjoining county ( Staffordshire ) , where she engaged with a farmer as day labourer , and actually worked in the fields , and occasionally guided the ploughshare . She then became the " man-servant" of a gentleman , and having the appearance of a "brisk young man " she attracted the attention of her master ' s housem aid , and the two appeared to be on terms likelv to lead to a consummation in marriase . It was supposed by some parties that these two fellow servants were more intimate than virtuous , aud the housemaid was severely taken to task by her relatives upon the subject , and some abuse fell to the share of of the seeming man . The two were niuch annoyed by the scandal , and at length the banns were put up , and they were actually married , and lived

      together as man and wife , as everybody thought , for some years , the secret ofthe supposed husband ' s " sex being undivulged . At length , however , the housemaid got tired of her female husband , and married a real man , removing to a distant part of the couiitry , while the heroine of our history remained in Staffordshire . In the meantime her real husband , Curtis , tired of single life , resolved to marry again , and having paid his addresses to a woman in his parish , the clergyman , the Rev . Dr . Groves , incumbent of Strensham , was applied to , but very , properly refused to marry the couple until he had some proof of tho death of Curtis ' s first wife . Curtis made another application for the fulfilment of a custom peculiar to the parish of Strensham , viz ., to have the church boll tolled as for the death of the missing wife . This , however , was also ^ refused , upon which Curtis and his bride expectant repaired to Worcester , whore they were married . The fact was very shortly afterwards conveyed to

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      the ears " of iris real wife iii Staffordshire , upon which she assumed' her female' attire , ' had Curtis taken into custody , and appeared to prosecute him for bigamy . The magistrates , having ; heard the evidence , committed Curtis for trial . Shocking Suicide nr a Surgeon at Chbltbnham . — This town has been much excited by a melancholy case of suicide , committed by Dr . Bell , who had been for a short time an inmate of Sandy wellpark Lunatic Asylum , kept by Mr . Hitch . The deceased was seized nine months ago with symptoms of suicidal lunacy , and had been placed in tlw above named asylum , but was occasionally in so . rational a mood that his doctor permitted him to pay a weekly visit to his wife and relations at Cheltenham , lie

      had been fetched from the asylum in a ca rriage by Mrs . Bell , and had spent the day at his own house when the dreadful event took p lace . Mrs . Bell hsd gone upstairs for the purpose of dressing , in order to accompany herhusband back to Sandy well-park , and the deceased was left in the drawing-room with a young gentleman named Traill , a pup il at the Cheltenham Proprietary College . This young gentleman was iii the act of taking coffee when he observed Dr . Bell walk up and down the room and suddenly stop opposite a looking-glass . He then heard a nmse as of scratching , and looking round observed the deceased in the very act of cutting his throat with a table knife , the blood streaming from the wound . The vouth endeavoured to wrest the weapon from his hand , but the deceased resisted and pushed him away , upon which he went in search of some of the servants , and returning found him ly ing on tho floor in a complete pool of blood and quite dead .

      Two surgeons were examined on the inquest , and it was proved that the wound which tho deceased had inflicted upon his throat was seven inches in length and four in depth , he having in fact cut down to the spinal vertebras . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict , that the deceased had committed the act while labouring under temporary insanity . Nuns in Camdridgb . —After a space of more than three hundred years nuns are again stationed in tbe university town of Cambridge . On Monday the 11 th inst , the school of the Roman Catholic mission were re-opened , under the superintendence of two nuns of the order of the Infant Jesus , from the convent of Northampton . On the Wednesday following mass was celebrated by the Rev . Thomas Quinlivan , the pastor , for the special invocation of the Holy Ghost on tho labours of the sisters , after which the children went in procession to the schools . Cambridge Chronicle .

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      32 nd inst ., that a number ot one-pound notes had been forged on the Clydesdale Banking Company . The names forged ore Walker and Muir . The extent of the forgery has not yet been learnt , but it is believed to be considerable . Sunday Shaving . —The Scotsman says that three barbers have been prosecuted at the Central Police Court , Glasgow , for having exercised their calling on the Sabbath-day . They were , however , acquitted , it being successfully contended that the old Scotch acts of Parliament ( 1661 to 1691 ) , on which the prosecution was founded , were quite inoperative and inapplicable at the present day . How the Poor Rates are collected ai Wisiiaw . —The North . British Mail says that there has been great dissatisfaction in the parish of Cambusnethau , in consequence of the poor rates being levied upon " means and substance . " This system presses hardly upon the working classes , and a number of seizures have taken place . The discontented assembled in a riotous manner , and being joined by the colliers at tho Coltness iron works , who had a separate grievance of their own upon the Buhjsct of wages , matters assumed a . serious aspect . A boy who had been captured was now rescued by the mob , and Wishaw seemed in a state

      of open revolt . A detachment of the 4 th Dragoon Guards was sent tov ; but their valour was not called into requisition , the crowd quietly dispersing on their appearance . To vindicate the majesty of the Jaw , however , a few striplings were arrested , and safely conveyed to Hamilton gaol . Destructive Fires at Glasgow . —A fire occurred on Monday night , by which the larger portion of the extemivo premises known as the Port-Dundas Grain Mills , occupied by Mr . Currie , has been totally consumed , very little being saved from destruction . The origin ofthe fire it is impossible to account for ; the mill , when left at eight o clock , " by the parties employed in it , having been all safe , and no appearances , whatever of anything wrong . Including the building , machinery , and grain , the total dam ? ge -will not be much , if at all , under

      15 . 000 J . Both the proprietors of the buildingwhich is owned by the Port Dundas Distillery Company—aniiUe occupier , Mr . Currie , are , wo believe , fully insured ; It is somewhat curious , if what we heard stafe'd be correct , that the sum of £ 4 , 000 upon the >^ rain was insured in the Phcenix only four days ; 5 . 6 ince , the policy not having been made out , Mr . Ciirrie merely holding the usual line from the company . The mill was partially burned some few years ; , ago , but at that time , the damage done was . trifflhg" compared to the present heavy loss . About four o'clock on the same day , Mr . Houldswovth ' s ' Bttll / m Cheapside-street , also caught fire . A good supply of water having been obtained , the firemen wrought with such alacrity that the fire was altogether confined to the engine-house , where it originated , which , however , has been almost entirel y destroved .

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      Extraordinary Charge of Murder . — The ial of Dr . Langley for the murder of his wife ter- linated on the 22 nd inst ., at the Nenagh Assizes , in te acquittal of the prisoner . The case , which was very remarkable one , and occupied the court for wo days , attracted considerable attention . The pri- j ' ner was a physician , practising in the town of lenagh for several years . He had been married fir fteen or sixteen years to his wife , the daughier of a espectable clergyman named Poe , in the same town , nd was charged with murdering her by confining her idiilesick and diseased to an unwholesome room , and y refusing ; to allow her to provide proper food for icrself , and neglecting and refusing to provide it for ier . This treatment , was said to have occurred be- ween 5 th December , 1818 , and 1 st May , 1819 , and he motive for it was alleged to hawe been an unfor- unate attachment which the prisoner entertained for i niece of his wife . Letters were produced in evilence in which the prisoner confessed that attach- nent , and brought charges of infidelity against his vife to excuse the hatred which he felt for her . How-: ver , it appears from the testimony of the witnesses hat Mrs . Langley died of diarrhoea , and the jury acjuitted the prisoner of either murder or manslaugh-; er . One of the remarkable circumstances connected vith the case was the fact of the prisoner having abitained from food for forty days in the prison , taking lothingdming that time but water , and also refusing : o have his heard removed .

      near rortadown , continues to excite mucn interest in the north of Ireland . The inquest had not terminated when the last accounts left , and the Belfast News Letf . r states : — " That from the evidence there is as yet no positive charge agairst any individual . The deceased was at litigation on several occasions with his relations and others , and had been successful in ejecting them out of small portions of land . There has therefore , existed between him and them so much coldness as to warrant the surmiss that he was shot by some of those persons who may have supposed themselves harshly treated by him . ilis brother was apprehended on suspicion of being a guilty party in the dreadful transaction , but was liberated by order af ( he magistrates , as there was no evidence to warrant their holding him . Mr . S . Boyd , who isbrofher-in-law to the deceased , and his son , were apprehended on suspicion . Abolition of the Vicekoyalty . —According to the authority ofthe Warder it is not considered probable that all the arrangements for the sweeping away of the Irish Court can be completed before the close 3 f the present year , although no time will be lost in pushing the Abolition Bill through both Houses of Parliament . ' The Xord Mayor has returned from London , and will , it is said , preside at another aggregate meeting of the citizens on the subject . Ward meetings are also to be organised , and fresh energy given to the agitation . Tenant Right Agitation . A 14-column sup-« - 1 . l _ l . l . ~ ' 7 >» A . «« ... . */ TTlnl / t-i . nln . nl ! InlSwiltr . !

      VOICO lO luc ( ^ a ' - " . " ings , one held in Londonderry , the other in Antrim , bea rs testimony to the rapid growth of the agitation which has been set on foot by the Presbyterian clergy of the North and the Roman Catholia priests of the South . At the gatherings in question the rev . gentlemen had a complete monopoly of the oratory , and to do them justice , Mr . John Mitchel himself , in the columns of the United Irishman , never went much farther in his violent advocacy of the rights of the tenantry , as opposed to thoae > of the landlords . An unhappy escapade in the Upper House of Parliament , touching the propriety of stopping the regium domitii , has '" told" the wrong way ; the threat merely serving as a text to preach whale volumes of contemptuous indignation . As for poor Sir William Somerville's bill , it « as literally torn to shreds at Ballyclai and Dcrvock . Signs of Improvement . —Further cheering symptoms of improvement in the far west" are thus an nounced in the Tyrawly Herald : — "It ' will be gra tifyiiig ' to oiir readers to learn that there are but threi paupers receiving out-door relief in this ' uuiqn , at tlu weekly cost of Is . cd . This presents a very favour able contrast with tho corresponding period' of las ' year , when several thousands were on the relief lists , ip d ' the weekly expenditure amounted to i' 587 i Tilt saving is at the rate of £ 30 . 000 a' year . - A similai happy change is pres ' ehted'in' the Swineford Union for the out-door expenditure , for the week , ehdini March lQih IBoQ , was only 7 s .. wln ' io in tha nn »

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      responding , week of 1346 ; the amount was £ 240 . lQd . 2 Jd . These simple facts are afair index 'df-the improved state of things in this ' country , and are , we think , the harbingers of returning prosperity .. The people are everywhere taking advantage ofthe genial weather for carrying on their spring operations , which are at present in a more advanced state than in any former years during the month of May . The weather has continued mild for several weeks , and has served to raise the drooping spirits of the farmers in no small degree , who are now most busily engaged in their farm operations . A very considerable quantity of potatoes will be planted . " The Sligo papers mention the occurrence of two

      agrarian outrages in the county of Leitrim , attempts having been made to deter people from holding land from which the former tenants had been evicted . Emigration » rou the West . —The Qalway Vindicator says : — ' The side of emigration is almost at its height in this part . Scarcely a vessel offers for America that is not immediately filled with passengers of a guperior class and description . Those who sailed by the Northumberland a few days since were of a very high order , and had every appearance of comfort , being exceedingly well supplied for their voyage ; they were above the ordinary description of the farming class , and many of them had considerable sums of money with them for the purchase of land on their arrival in the New World . "

      Tub Wkathbr . —The severity of tho weather appears to increase in intensity . On Monday night the fall of snow was nearly as heavy as any during the winter ; and it was accompanied by a strong gale of wind from the north-west . Still the farming authorities describe the season hitherto as an excellent one for putting the seed in the earth , and observe that the check given to vegetation is opportune , as the danger or its being too early , and being subsequently nipped by late frosts , is now escaped . Encumbered Estates Commission . —There appears to be a decided decrease in the filing of petitions for sales in the Encumbered Estates Court .

      Tenant Right . —The columns of tho newspapers friendly to the interests of the tenantry are filled with reports of tenant right and tenant protection meetings both in the north and south of Ireland . At a meeting held-at Ballyclare , in the county of Antrim , one of the speakers , arguing against the proposed extinction of tenant-right , after twenty years' possession , according to Sir W . Somerville ' s bill , adduced the following illustration : —•* That in the case of mere squatting upon the soil , an undisturbed occupancy of twenty-five years conferred a right in perpetuity ; in other words , twenty or twenty-five years usurpation of another man ' s property gave a valid title to it , but twenty years possession of a man ' 8 own property wrought its

      complete forfeiture . " " It is impossible ( observes the Banner of Ulster ) to furnish a more convincing exposure ttu-a this of the iniquitous principle upon which the measure of Sir W , Sonmille has been founded . " Meetings have also been held at Ballyclire , and Deryock , and at Casthcomer , in the South , at which resolutions deprecating the bill of Sir W . Somerville were adopted . In the second letter of his series entitled "A Plea for Tenant-right , " Mr . Sharman Crawford makes some useful observations on the subjecb of a general valuation of the land in Ireland . There are , in fact , as he remarks , two valuations at present going on under the authority of parliament , and both carried into effect by the same

      commissioner , Mr . Griffiths ; but he shows that neither of these valuations can be of the slightest use iu the great question of the regulation of rents , and he suggests a mode by which that important want may be supplied . "I would propose , says Mr . Craw « ford , "that under the form to be prescribed by the statute , the valuator should be instructed that , in the front page of his valuation of every union , ho should make a classification of the lands of the union , dividing them into as many classes as he should find general causes of distinction arising from the actual qualities of the soil , the elevation , or aspect , and giving the average productive powers of each class per acre in the kind of grain suitable to each class , estimated as being under a

      fair system of improvement and culture ; or , in ease of lands suitable to the purposes of grass , but not to the cultivation of corn , stating the quantity of hay . such lands would produce ; or in case of lands only fit for pasture , stating the proportion of animals to the acre such lands would be capable of feeding ; and also stating the annual value of each class of land , meaning thereby the rent which , according to the price fixed by the statute , each such class would , in the judgment of the valuator ,-be reasonably competent to pay . This being done , and the classes numbered , it would only be necessary , in tho valuation of each tenement , to refer . to the quantities of each class of land in such tenement , and ' the value or rent would be brought out

      accordingly . * * * » According to the present system of valuation adopted by Mr . Griffiths , the amount of value fixed on any tenement is incomprehensible to the parties concerned . It is not the real value , bub a combination of unknown elements , worked up by the valuators of their discretion into what is termed a net value . By the plan I propose , tho lands being classed according to the intrinsic qualities of the soil ( uniform over Ireland ) , and the value of each class , being taken according to its productive power , under fair improvement and culture , and the tenements being valued according to the quantities of each class of land . in each tenement , not according to the results of extraordinary good culture or extraordinary neglect of

      culture , every occupier would get equal justice , arid the local causes and amounts of addition or deduction being specified , both the basis and every step of the valuation would be clear and intelligible , and , if objected to , capable of correction , by appeal , oin the special points on which objections might be raised . " . The YiCEROYAMY . —The Evening Mail suggests that as a substitute for the viceregal court in Dublin , the Irish Commander of the Forces should hold a court in Dublin Castle , and that the . institution should thus be transformed from a political to a military one , the honour to be conferred on Prince George of Cambridge , " or some officer holding a high rank in the British army . ; Touching this latter question there are some 1 ' < 1 * ' ' ' ' :

      pungent remarks in the Dundalk Democrat , in the course of which that journal mercilessly twits its congenial brethren of the broad sheet—the Freeman , Nation , & o . —with their rank . inconsistency' in taking up the cudgels in defence of the " moral sink" of corruption , as Mr . John O'Connelldesignates the Irish Viceroyalty . " Time was , " says the Demctrat , " when our forefathers shed their blood to abolish this same office , and drive the representative of tho English monarch from the shores of Ireland .,. In these degenerate days men professing to be redhot Nationalists , and enemies of English rule in Ireland , have different notions and views , and seem wondefully reconciled to boar the degrading yoke . Not many months since a different doc-] ! < ^ < ; '

      trine was preached ; but to-day the old creed of servitude is promulgated . In ' 48 the representative of an English monarch was considered a nuisance , to-day it is an insult to Ireland to have him removed . To the Irish gentry the removal of the paltry court would be a blessing , for it has been the means of demoralising them , and , in many instances , encumbering their estates . Instead of minding their business in tho country , and looking soberly after their immediate interests , they were puffed up with notions of pride and ambition , from their having come in contac t with the Viceroy at his levees and drawing-rooms . While in Dublin they lived beyond their means , and to support the dignity necessary for a . ' visitor at tho Castle , ' thev

      ran into extravagance which their incomes could not support . On coming home there was nothing talked of but the Viceregal Court , audits splendour , and the bland smiles ofthe Viceroy . In a few days after the ' visitor at tho Castle' had a number of tho neighbouring gentry to dine with him , or he was at . i fox-hunt or country ball , and- to all he recounted the wonders of the Irish Court ; its brilliancy and splendour ; called everything else \ vulgar , ' and thus spread the contagion , till men who , perhaps , were leading a useful life in minding their business were seduced from their duty , and brought into habits of living and thinking which hurried them on to ruin . " '

      i DlAiJOLlOAL OUTHAOE . —At Ouvraghashoge , near Abbeyfeale . on the night ofthe 20 th inst ., a house belonging to Mr . Itichard Collins , , was maliciously set on fire , and before any assistance could be procured , the house , together with all-it contained , including seven valuable cows , an excellent horse worth £ 18 ; a large nurhber of dairy vessels , a quantity of timber , deals , - and other : proporty , were totally consumed , On the folio wing , morning a person named Roche , who lives . in Abbeyfeale , came forward to give information-against his own father and brother , who were / immediately arrested aiid committed for trial ; ' as the perpetrators ofthe wicked and unprovoked outrage .

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      MEDALS OF JAMES MORISON , THE HVGBIST , AND GREAT MEDICVL UBFOHMER , May ho had of aU the Agents for the sale of Moris ' on ' s Pills PRICE one shilling each In Bronze , 10 s ; Gd . ; in Silver , 21 . inGoW , 181 . JAMES MORISON , the T tt v tvirniin . iT Hjgeist proclaimed—THE . IMMORTAL lstlyAhat the vital printi a t > \ t t . v ci P l 0 i 8 in tlw Wood . UA 1 UEY 2 naiy . _ That all diseases . arise from impurity of the PROCLAIMED THE blood . Srdly , —That such im-CIRCULATION OF THE purity can only he eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison ' s Vegetable Uni-. ' versal Medicine of the British . College of Health ; Newroad , Loudon . , , - ¦ .

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      , ; : DERBY . . A WnfK CHARGED WITH THB MURDER to HnsBAiiD . ^ -Ann Orchard was charirod with £ ?** ing her husband .-Mr . Wilmoro / irofel ^ case , ' stated the prisoner was hot . to bTrJiV " murder , but still it weuld be proved thaf . i , « " ° f the death of the deceased ; but heH » U 8 ed his lordship would direct them in their fin ? i- ubfc John Harrison , pupil of Dr . Heheill n 7 p &• - said : On Tuesday , 23 rd of October , 11 / . >> to the house of John Orchard , about ton ? t fot morning , and found him bleeding from a »! 'V the right ear ; he was sitting at the table Wi ? r , v ° . head on the sofa cushion . Mrs . Oreh ^ th h « tending to the wound . I asked her hot ? * done She said he was sitting in the coX &?* eated , and she was coming out of the n 3 i ntoxi ' threw the first thing she had at him c ; C ? an diately sent for tho doctor . I succeeded 1 ir > o ? taedi - the bleeding and then left him . In aW &** hour he sent again , saying that the w 0 uni ? : commenced bleeding again . Dr . Henpil th had to 866 him .-Mr . Denison elicited that he ho , ? 6 nt no memorandum of Mrs . Orchard ' s RtJl .: * e

      Dr . Hencil . of IW . ™ R ! l ; , i . JLb rPtfewenU Dr . Hengil . ofRepton , said : I was cTliedf T house of John Orchard on the 23 rd of n \ v ha about one in the afternoon , and found him h ! i ° ? - > profusely from a wound in the right clli- ^ 8 prisoner was present . The bleeding was ft' e wound in the temporal artery under the Zu the I stopped the bleeding by pressure T Jf - ear with him till half-past seven in the even ^ 64 which time he was considerably exhausted f * ai it was a lacerated wound , about half in in '„ i . V ** and about half an inch long . It wl" at > wound that might be caused by a broken ^ of pot being thrown against the part with consS ?* force . When Heft him in the evening I A \ hk apprehend any danger , unless the blecuin ? M return . It was quite possible for an iniury of ' u kind tp produce lockjaw . I went again at halfS nine the same evening , and remained about an hS » I continued to attend him twice a dav till f h « mi * hU 0

      AfWrnml ,.. n , h . n U JI / . J r »„ i . U-i " Uttt of November , when he died . On the fourth or fifth day he noticed a slight contortion ol thefaee whi h indicated incipient lock jaw . I proceeded to trTt him with a view to prevent lockjaw , but it came on generally about two days before h ' is death , extending to his body , and he eventually died of convulsion caused by lock jaw , and which was the ultimata effect ofthe wound . After death , Dr , Ileygate of Derby , came and I heard him put questions to ' the prisoner about his death ; he asked what the caus * of the quarrel was , and she said they had been having some words ; that he had abused her , and that she had marks still remaining on her arms . I was coming out of the kitchen , she continued , and had a dish in my hand ; my husband was seated in an arm chair by the fire , and in a moment of exag .

      pcration I threw the dish at him , which has caustd the wound I believe . I don ' t recollect anything more that she axid . Did not see the dish . —By Mr , Dennison : He went on very well for a short time * but I observed he was rather imprudent at the time the symptoms of lock jaw came on by moving about the house . I think if he had not been imprudent he would have recovered . Heard the deceased say , just before his death , « 'Ann , I don ' t blame you ; it was not your fault . "—Other evidence having been given , the jury returned a verdict of " Guilty , " with a strong recommendation to mercy . —His Lordship said that nnder the circumstances he should pass as lenient sentence as he possibly could He accordingly ordered her to be confined for one month in the gaol . The prisoner seemed greatly distressed , and was allowed to sit during the trial

      EXETER . Charge of Murmsr , —Robert Curtis Bird , described as a farmer , aged 31 , and his wife , Sarah Bird , aged 34 , were placed at the bar , and arraigned of the wilful murder of Mary Ann Parsons , a parish apprentice , by striking and beating her to death . The poor deceased girl , the subject of the inquiry , ' was at the time of her death about fourteen years oi age . Her father having left the country , she , with her mother , became an inmate of the Bideford Union . On the 29 th of September , the deceased young creature was taken away into the service of Mrs . Bird . She was supplied with new clothes from the Union , and she left in perfect good health . On the 4 th of January , Mrs . Bird came to the union and

      acquainted the muster ( Mr . Surman ) that the girl was dead , and desired a coffin for her . The master told the mother of her child ' s decease and on the following day the poor creature went to Bird ' s house . She saw the body ; it was lying en a bed generally occupied by an old labourer named Cartels . It was partly covered b y a . sheet , and on being turned down very extensive injuries were seen on all parts of the corpse . From the ancle to the hip there wore severe stripes , indicating chastisement with some instrument . There was clotted blood on the hip , a considerable sore , and abscess , and wounds on the hinder part , which were covered with plaster . There were also marks of blood between

      the sliouldera , and bruises on the leftside ofthe cheek , and another bruise on the right . It should be further stated that the left arm of deceased was bandaged . The shocking condition of the body immediately aroused suspicion that the poor girl had been subject to the most brutal ill-usage . On the mother sneaking to the Birds about her sad state , Mrs . Bird asked if it was likely that a coroner ' s inquest would be held . Mrs . Bird frequently urged the mother not to have a jury , that she would be a friend to her as long as she lived , and so loner as she

      had a penny she should have part of it . —Several witnesses deposed to having seen the poor girl suffering from personal injuries during the time she lived with the prisoners . The medical witnesses , at some length , described the injuries inflicted on the deceased . Death was found to have resulted from congestion of the brain . There were several wounds on the back of the head , and either of these injuries was likely to produce effusion , although it could not be positively stated that they had that effect in this instance . This closed the case . —Both prisoners were acquitted .

      Akson . —Samuel Best Foote was indicted for having , on the night of the 11 th of February , wilfully set fire to premises in his own possession , ~ So . C , Queen-street , Exeter , with intent to defraud the London Assurance Company . The prisoner , who is about 22 years of ngc , was insured to the amount of £ 500 . . Evidence having been given , the jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and he was sentenced to he transported for life . —A most affecting scene ensued . The prisoner shook-his poor father ' s hand ,. and bade him " never mind , " and then he kissed his brother , who was in court . lie was removed , but his deep sobs were heard in tho stillness produced by one of the most painful scenes over witnessed in a court of justice .

      SHREWSBURY / . CnAKOE ot Matricide at Bmdgsobth , —Merey Catherine Newton was indicted for having , on the oth of December , 184 S , murdered her mother , at Bridgnorth , in this county . There wero nine counts in the indictment , varying the modes in which the alleged crime was committed—by burning , by suffocation , by strangulation , Ac . —This case was rendered remarkable , not only from the atrocity of the crime itself , but also from the fact of this being the third time she was indicted , having been twice previously tried at the Shropshire assizes ? , and the jury on both occasions being unable to agree to a verdict . —Several witnesses were examined , who spoke of tho evil feeling and cruel conduct of the prisoner

      towards her mother on various occasions . —Three medical men were next examined—one of whom , Mr . Newell , of Bridgnorth , swore , as a matter of fact , that deceased was set fire to before death ; the second , Mr . Thursfield , of Birmingham , stated , as a matter of opinion , that the death was caused by suffocation , and after death set fire to ; the third , Dr . Wright , of Birmingham , concurred in the latter view . —This closed tho case for the prosecution . — Mr . Huddleeton having been heard for the defence , tho learned judge carefully summed up the evidence The jury then retired , and , after about a quarter of an hour , returned with a verdict of " Not Guilty . " Charge of Embezzlement by a SupEBistEKBBSr

      op Police . —William Baxter , late superintendent ol the Shropshire county police , stationed at Wellington , was charged with having embezzled , at various times , certain sums of money , the property of the county treasurer , Mr . Peele . —It appeared that tho prisoner had received on the 12 th and " 26 th of July . 1 S 19 , from two of tho county police , certain sums of money which he had not accounted for to the chief constable , as he was bound to do , tho deficiency in each case being £ 2 3 s . Oil . On the 13 th ot March he had received £ 12 is . from Mr . LUldle clerk to the magistrates at Newport , as the moiety of fines inflicted for deficient weights and measures and which sum also he had not accounted for Jo the county treasurer . —Considerable discussion

      arose among tho legal gentlemen as to whether or not the prisoner was justified in keeping this last money , as informer , under the provisions of the act of parliament . Ultimately tho prosecution withdrew that part of the indictment , when the pW " soner was found " Guilty" ofthe first charge , aDt sentenced to be imprisoned one day . —The prisoner was then arraigned on a second indictment for a misdemeanour , in absenting himself without lcaTC from tho station ( he having absconded and lied W Liverpool , where he was apprehended ) , and also jo ' sending a false statement of accounts to Charles Mayne , chief constable . To ' this charge the Vf soner pleaded " Guilty , " and was sentenced to oe imprisoned for three months , without hard l ^ our .

      LIVERPOOL . . SsNTESCE . —Goorge Heaps , who had p lead'" " guilty to three distinct charges of felon v , at A shtonundov-Lyne , Gavton , and IWleb ' ury , was sontenceu to transportation for life . , Wounding with Intent to Mubdee , & e . —< J °° * Grund y was indicted- for having , on the 22 nd o-Janury last , at Worsley , assaulted M .-. r . v FarnWOWj and feloniously cut , stabbed and wounded her , wn »

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30031850/page/6/