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o THE NORTHERN STAR- March 31, 1849.
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O The Northern Star- March 31, 1849.
o THE NORTHERN STAR- March 31 , 1849 .
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JIOEULirr in the Metropolis . —The weekl y return continues to exhibit a satisfactory state of public health . The deaths , which were about 1200 towards the end of last month , have fallen in the last ww .-: to 1 , 048 , or 121 less than the average . The mo- « . hty from epidemics , with the exception of hoopus" . ough , is little more than the average , and las fall r- twenty-five per cent , within the period of a mom ! The mortality caused by small-pox and measkt ^ stUl unusuall y low ; that from scarlatina is flflsr little more than the average . Diarrhoea has declined ; and the deaths from cholera are only 10 , 9 of wind ; , as is shown below , occurred in one "workhouse and two hospitals ; three in one family , ficarhilun and t yp hus were each fatal to 40 persons , ¦ which j i mther less than the average for tiie latter diseas- ; . hinammation ofthe lungs and nir passages , and pulmonary consumption , do not prevail fatally at the r * r «» 3 ent time : the aggregate deaths in the week fr < . .= j these diseases were only 260 , whereas
the avenue is 329 . Three are recorded as deaths from hu-i iperance , and had been the subjects of inquest . \ woman of 62 years , whose occupation was -unknov . -- ! , died in Park-street , Dorset-square , of «« exb : i"sTion from having denied herself the commoa necessaries of life * ( inquest . ) A favourable condition ofthe atmosphere may bo esteemed perhaps the principal cause of the recent improvement ia t he nealth of London . The mean hei ght of ihe b-ir-aeter in the week was 29 * 963 . It was above -Si on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday . Then ; . ? .. ' ! daily temperature ranged from 42 deg . on Mondn * , to 3 G deg . on Saturday . The weekly mean was i' ? ' ' ] ' ^ . S . The greatest observed difference between . '; .- dew point temperature and air temperature w > - -ro on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Saturday , when thr-y were respectively 14 deg . 1 , 10 deg . 1 , and If * 'Jot . 4 . This denotes dryness ofthe atmosp here , the wind blew for the most part from . the ftorth r . t : i East .
HoLiif-tx-HiLL . —On Saturday last workmen commenced lowering the brow of Holborn-hill , commenciiijr opposite Hatton-garden , where it was peculiarly Meep , and most dangerous for vehicles hea-• yily kvkn . The road was sunk ei g hteen inches , and will lie continued on a gradual incline to Fetterlane . The old flag paving is to be removed , and the fonr-W * ; granite stone , which affords so firm a footlold ' , ' 'orses , and has proved so admirabl y adapted for public traffic in Fleet-street , Moorgate-street , and o : h * i great thoroughfares , is being laid down jnlieu thereof . Lola Mostes . —On Saturday last a sale was coneluded at Phillips s-rooms , of the personal effects of the Countess of Landsfeld ( Lola Monies ) . The proper * . ' - to be disposed of included pictures , bijouterie , s lid articles of vertw . On many of them were emblazoned the roval arms of Bavaria .
ExTfuoBDnfABY CIRCUMSTANCE . — On Monday ni g ht police-constable Corry , 224 G , in Charterhonsc-lane , Charterhouse-s 4 uare , picked up a small *«* iper parcel from the pavement . It looked as if a contained a few shillings , and he was in the act of opening it , when it exploded and cause . l a loud report , and in a moment his hand and fiiiicrs were shattered and mutilated in a most shocking manner . Steamboat Explosion ox tue River . —On Tuesday morning , about nine o ' clock , the greatest alarm and excitement prevailed among the passengers at Londc > u-i'ridge Wharf , in consequence of a serious exp ) o .- ; r . n on hoard the Waterman steam-boat , ~ So . 8 , by wbk-u several persons were much injured . The Steam- -. - left Woolwich shortly before ei ght o clock in the- morning , tinder the charge of Captain Warren , - tT . 'p . srently in good working xirder , with a fair freight of passengers . She proceeded towards London , ard at the time above named reached the
London-b * i * i £ e pier , where several persons landed . All then i " • med quite safe , but just as the captain gave order- t <> " Go a-head , " a loud explosion was heard , and in- next moment a large body of fire and steam was . •— - « issuing from the engine-room . The captain finding - . he lower part of the vessel was on fire had her i ' i * - > fast , and then immediatel y adopted steps to rc =-aw- the men who were engaged below . Several a-.: < .- *! 'pts were made to descend the ladder leading tv the engine-room , but all efforts were useless , altli (* u ; : ii a great quantity of water was thrown down . After a few seconds had elapsed , the engineer , jwaied Thomas Williams , made his appearance in a most distressing condition , the whole of the uppe r :, srt of his person being dreadfully burned
and s «* flded by the action of the fire and steam , * whie : S . i ' cd the engine-room . Shortly afterwards th * «;« k <* r , named Samuel Spencer , was released , and he was found to be more injured than the lastnamcl sst-rson , bemg shockingly injured from head tofovt . They were taken ashore , and conveyed to St . 1 -iviwas ' s Hospital . The ori g in of the explosion is yti ii * a positively known ; but the engineer ' s opinioi : * vas that the tube plate at the end of the boik-v !* . rst , which let out the steam and water on to the rire , and blew off the furnace doors , and hi a fe- * seconds the engine-room was completely filled wit ' i fr . v and steam . The sufferers are progressing as favourabl y as could be expected . The steamer , whi <* h is completely disabled , now lies off Queenhith- * t < , i * further examination .
StOK ; XEHnXGIOS . —AxOIHER ECCLESIASTICAL R & zn :. —The rector of Stoke Ifewington , the Rev . A . W . Taylor , made a claim on some of his parishioner .- , tor church rates , and the following is the mod ? U : which the said claim was enforced by his myr-iii'Iuiis-: —On the 23 rd inst ., four men , taking adv ; : 3 .- » aj . ' 2 of the day on which Friends are accustomc-d - . i > attend their meeting for worship , and no doubi ortiecting to find the heads of the respective fanisi ' .-.-s -rom home , proceeded to the house of Mrs . Post **** , Church-street : went first into the shop , -srhc ^ -r < K * y mig ht nave seized abundantly more than WOl ! .- ! ) , » ve liquidated their claim ; pushed their
way iiit « . i the drawing-room , where two ladies were sitti * 'jr . sud insolently demanded a screw-driver to . rem- vo . ; i barometer and looking-glass , for the sum of I-. '• L , the rector ' s claim . This modest request for i := < . loan of a screw-driver not being complied with , s icy made off with a large copper stew-pan , "With ; v \ . f smaller ones , and a copper tea-kettle . Thc-y w . "M- very rude to the two ladies , and told therli th « y had got their pockets stuffed full of plate fro . M viher houses . At the house of Mr . Joseph Mar * di , : ; Church-street , they behaved still worse . The ' iti-jiiy were at dinner . They went first into the kite ; --- !* , < -ut would not distrain there , saying they
wan ;< -. i p-m . they endeavoured to lorcc their way into ibr parlour , where the family were dining , anil beba -= i ; o insolently that the inmates were obliged , in s-i-. ' -i-fence , to bolt the doors against them . They atl- "t : ads off with a good barometer , which cost air .: i . : \ The following is a list ofthe distraints , and oi the value of the property sacked in this cIeri " - - >; fyrav : —
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D : - . i--::-nKEor Sir Chaulbs JiATiEK . —Su * Charles Zfaiior ' -ok Ms departure for the East on Saturday eve ?"¦;• ¦ : ; . lie left at a late hour , and proceeded via the :-. ¦ ¦ ¦ * h Eastern Railway , to Dover , en route for Cui i -. -Sir Charles aud staff proceed direct to Lcg loi :. t : ;* re to be joined by 3 d ; ijor Wilham Kapier , ami fr . 'i . i thence proceed to Alexandria in one of " her :. bj . sty ' s boats , specially ordered . At Aden , wh ¦« -, * ¦ : ? .-- steam-packets stop for coals and provision s :. special steamer , belonging to the Indian gov-.-uiiifiit , will meet Sir Charles Napier , and conve \ is in ; ind his staff to the port of Kurnichcc , in Scfo «>\ instead of proceeding to Bombay . The Co : ii =... : der-in-Chief is expected to arrive at Mooltan :: - viis route in about a mouth from his
depai' -i-. Lr .. \ : ; : from Cold ASD SrAnvAxios . —An inquest ¦ wa . * ii « - ! -i on Wednesday before Mr . AV . Baker , at the i'iirsgh public-house , Plough-yard , Shoreditch , resprcui'g the death of Michael Donovan , aged nine "x . riths , who was alleged to have died from star-- . niii .-u and exposure to the cold . The body of the --i-wised was most frighttully emaciated . ' lie -wa- cn « of twins , and the mother was constantly be ^ u- .-i in the street , with her two infants in her arm-. . She generally left home about ten o ' clock in th ' - eiorning , and remained out all day with her twr . f-uiiilren until late , at ni g ht . She usuall y sat npoit r ' ne steps of doors in Finsbury-square , for sev ' jrsitl hours together- Some time Bince she -was taken iiiio custody for begging , and ' convicted by a
mash-irate .. After her imprisonment had expired , she nr < in resorted to the . same method . In Jarjn .-. J- . i last the deceased was attacked with a puhi *' ' . aary disease , and an order was issued b y the mf- ! -i-2 ii oinegr ofthe union , who directed that the chiM -houid-be -properly attended to . The surgeon Ti ! i ; i-. * -. i liic child daily ,. " until the 6 thof JIarcb , but the ! i ' i-: » tbei * Jieeded not . the surgical advice , and agai . - . -jposed the . two children in the streets . The surge' ;! ' discontinued his , visits after the 6 th inst ., an = l i he deceased gradually became worse . The moi :, r ? norei * apphed for the assistance of a surgeo * .- 'or stated that the child was worse . On Fr ;<¦ - .. < Jast , the deceased was apparently dyingbut
, ttie r---.-ihcr . took him but with the other infant , and dhiniit return homo until the evening . The deceased beC 33 : e worse , and expired early on Sunday morning . "¦ lie coroner said the surgeon ' s evidence did not C tinctly prove that the death was acceleraied iij exposui * e ,. and the ease was one of those wh ?* ; 1 iic juiy could only express their horror at what !; ad occurred . The jury said they had no dot . ' - ' - , that the death of the child was caused b y Sti . - ..- - ; iion and exposure to the cold air , and retur ; -:- ; ' a verdict to that effect . The coroner , by the tir- ^ euons of the jury , severely censured the wo ; ¦ < ¦> :, an-1 cautionod lier to tiLtepropor cave of her - -v iiialninsr child .
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S-jssbx . —AiTEMrrED JduRPER . —The inhabitants of Vine-street , Brighton , were alarmed , last weeK , by hearing cries of murder , and upon looking ^ oup , they discovered a female with blood streaming down the front of her dress . The woman having been stopped , she was token to Mr . C- Burroughs , a sur-eon who found a wound in the throat threequarters of an inch in length . The wound having been dressed , tho female stated that it had been done by Robert Spiers , with whom she lived , at the rnncc ' s Arms beer-shop . The man accused the woman with cutting her own throat , but , upon examining him , his hands were found covered with blood , lie was taken into custody , wdl be detained until it is seen whether the woman will recover
or not . Staffordshire . — -Suspected Child Murder and Suicide . —Last week , at Smethwick , Hannah Rose committed self-murder by cutting her throat with a razor , and tho information forwarded to the police was , that she had been led to the commission of the crime by remorse , consequent upon the death ofthe illegitimate child of ono of her daughters , which she ( deceased ) had poisoned . On Wednesday week , an inquest was held beforo Mr . G . Hinchcliffe , tho coroner , when Surah Holmes said , that the deceased was her mother , and that on the previous day she asked her for the key of the brewhouse , which she gave her , and shortly afterwards she heard a wild scream , and on going into the
brewhouse , found her mother in a pool of blood , and her throat cut almost from ear to oar . She had her hands in the wound , and was pulling it open . A surgeon was sent for , and the wound was sewn up , but she expired in an hour afterwards . Witness s sister was confined with a child on the 10 th instant , which went on very well for a day or two , but it died suddenl y on the 13 th instant . On tho following Friday , tho child was taken to West Bromwich Trinity Churchyard , where it was buried . —Police-constable Critchlow gave evidence as to the rumours prevalent . —The jury gave a verdict " That the deceased-destroyed her life , but they had
no evidence as to her state of mind , " when the coroner issued his warrant for the exhumation of the child ' s body . Tho inquest was commenced on Thursday week , when the soxton proved that the child had been reported to him as " still-born , " and that he , in consequence , buried it . —The inquiry was adjourned for a post mortem- examination ; and the jury met again on Friday week , when the coroner said it would be necessary to adjourn again , as the medical gentlemen who had made the post mortem examination were quite of opinion that the child had been poisoned . Tho investigation was , therefore , again adjourned .
Gloucestershire . —The Bristol Murder . —Our readers will remember that Sarah Thomas , who stands committed npon the coroner ' s warrant for the wilful murder of Miss Elizabeth Jefferies , at Bristol , on the 3 rd of March , made a statement to the police who had her in charge , denying that she was the actual perpetrator of the appalling crime , and implicating a girl who had Uvea servant with the unfortunate lad y immediately before she went to reside with her . Subsequently to the inquest the inquiries by the police were resumed , and happily with better succeas , as a girlhaa hecn found who , there can he no doubt , is tbe one referred to , and whose evidence was so much required to complete the chain of testimony . Her name is
Charlotte Morgan , and she is the daughter of a plasterer and painter carrying oh business at' Thornbiiry , Gloucestershire , but havingbeen ( as statedby thewitr ness Miller ) unsuccessful in business , she sought a service , and was engaged by Miss Jefferies . She states , however , that she only lived with the deceased lady from Thursday ni ght till the'following Saturday morning , as Miss Jefferies ( who was very eccentric and strange in her manner ) told her , as soon as she entered uie house , that she was too fine and too tight-laced for the place , and beforo breakfast on the Saturday morning- she insisted on her
quitting the house forthwith , which she did on pain of having her boxes trundled into the street . Happily this g irl is enabled to prove , to the complete satisfaction ofthe police , that she could have been no party to the murder , inasmuch as during the whole ofthe night upon which it was committed , as , indeed , had been also the case for many days before and afterwards , she was sleeping at her lodgings in the house of a person named Hancock ( a respectable tradesman ) , and in a room in which tho sister of her landlady likewise slept . This testimony is looked upon as being of a very important character .
Threatexiso Letters to the Qceex . —At "W indsor , on Monday , John Wardle , remanded from Monday week , was charged before the mayor and two other magistrates with having sent threatening letters to her Majesty and other parties . It appeared that the prisoner , who is about twenty-three years old , of short stature , and rather idiotic appearance , has been employed in the collieries of Lord Dartmouth at West Bromwich , near Birmingham , whence he dated his first communication to her Majesty , dated January 18 , 1848 . In this letter he stated that , unless he and his famil y obtained their rights , her Majesty should die by his hands ; that , if lie was wanted , he might be found by applying to Lord Dartmouth , or at his residence , Argat-lane ,
West Bromwich ; or he would attend to any appointment . This letter was sent down to the Staffordshire police , when the prisoner was apprehended and taken before the magistrates , charged with writing threatening letters to her Majesty . The prisoner explained that the reason of his doing so was to obtain £ 10 , 000 left to his famil y b y the late Duke of Kent under the following circumstances;—His grandfather was a soldier , and served in the American war , and was induced to marry a servant who had been seduced and had a child by tlic late Duke of Kiint , on being allowed a pension from his lloyal Hig hness ; that at his death his ltoyal Highness left the family £ 10 , 000 , whieh was unjustly kept from them . These facts , the prisoner said ,
were communicated to him when he waa thirteen years of age by his grandfather on his death-bed , aud he was determined to have his rights . After minutely examining into the particulars ofthe case , the magistrate sentenced the prisoner to three months' confinement in Stafford Gaol in Sefault of his finding bail to keep the peace , which expired in the early part of May last . In the following month the prisoner found his way to London , and underwent several examinations before the Lord Mayor and Mr . D . W . Harvey , the City Police Commissioner , which resulted * in his being sent back to West Bromwich and p laced under the surveillance ofthe police . On the 18 th of December last the prisoner wrote a letter to Mr , Abbott , the
Supcrintendant of the ITorth Staffordshire Police , stating that he was determined to have " his rights , " if he " swung for it ; " and he also addressed a similar letter to Sir G . Grey , the Homo Secretary , under date of December 21 . Uo notice was , however , taken of these letters beyond their being forwarded to the solicitor for the Treasury . On Thursday , the 8 th inst ., he presented himself at the residence of the Dean of Windsor , and told the butler he was determined to see the Queen , and get his due , even if his neck was stretched for it . He wns again given into custody , and the result was that , " after two inquiries , the ease was postponed till Monday , the 19 th inst ., when the authorities at the Home-office having- been communicated with Mr , Hayward , of the office of the solicitor to the Treasury , attended to watch the cise , and was about to ask the
magistrates to hold the prisoner to bail for using threatening language , when Mr . Pearl , a surgeon , of Windsor , who had examined him , expressed doubts of the prisoner ' s sanity . Upon this Mr . _ Hayward asked for a remand , to obtain further evidence on that point . Accordingly the prisoner was again brought up when tbe above facts having been deposed to , Dr . Munro stated that he had had an interview of more than an hour ' s duration with the prisoner , and he was clearly of opinion that he was a dangerous lunatic , whom it was not safe to trust at large for a single hour . Upon this evidence being given , Mr . Hayward applied to have the prisoner committed to the county lunatic asylum . Th ** Mayor , having asked the prisoner if he had any exp lanation to give of his conduct , he replied that it would be useless , as he was like a lamb in a a den
of wolves . After some consideration the bench adjudged the prisoner to be a dangerous lunatic , and sentenced him to be confined in the county lunatic asylum at Littlcmore , near Oxford , unless his friends could give security for his safe custody . The prisoner is evidently very illiterate , no two consecutive words being spelt correctly , her Majesty being described . is Queen " Victorey . " Fratricide at Leeds . —A case of fratricide has occurred at Hunslet , one of the out-townshi ps ot the borough of Leeds , which , owing to the parties concerned being well-known , has caused much excitement in the locality . On Saturday last , two brothers of the names * of Thomas and William Proctor , entered into a very angry quarrel . The elder brother , William , g iving way to an extraordinary degree of passion , took off'his waistcoat , and threatened to g ive Thomas a sound beating . The latter took a pocket-knife , and struck William on
tbe neek with tho weapon , cutting the jugular vein . The result was that William bled profusely , and was removed as speedily as possible to the infirmary at Leeds , where lie expired on Sunday ni g ht . There does not appear to have been any previous quarrel or bad feeling between ' the two brothers . The deceased was twenty-one years of ago , and the survivor is only c . < rhtecn . Tho sad catastrophe occurred at the house "h . which the family reside , in the presence of a sister and the father . Thomas Proctor , the younger brother , is in custody . On Monday an inquest was held on the body . The jury having heard the evidence , found a verdict of Manslaughter against Thomas Proctor . Warwickshire . —Accident ox the Bristol asd Birmingham Railway . —On Saturday evening last a man named Orton , a plato-laycr on this line , attempted to get on one of the waggons as it was descending the Lickcy , near ttromsgruvc ; in doing ; this he fell , and the wheels of the carriage nassed
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over his legs , fracturing them in a fri ghtful manner ; He was conveyed to the Queen ' s Hospital at Birmingham on Sunday morning , and died there last evening . Hampshire . —North Hants Elbctiox . — Last week the High Sheriff received the writ , calling upon him to appoint a day on which to elect a Knight ofthe Shire for that county to sit in Parliament , in the place of Sir W . Hearbcote , when he ordered that the nomination should take place on the 31 st of March , at Winchester . If any opposition , the polling to take plac * on the 5 th and 6 th of April ,
Svrmii , —SnTERBrmoivs m 1841 ? . —A case has just occurred ( says the Ipswich Express ) , at a village a few miles from Rayleigh , which shows that if witches and their familiars have fled from the land in a frig ht at the rough handling of science , the mental cobwebs beneath which they flourished have not been yet quite brushed away . A girl in the village had been long subject to fits , and asfamil y consultations and councils traced the mysterious malady to witchcraft , " a cunning man , " celebrated thereabouts , was called in to counterplot the mischievous old hag , who was supposed to be squatted in some dark corner , muttering her spells and enjoying the writhings of her victim . The conjuror , of cour .-e . undertook the j « b for a consideration , and
immediately set the village blacksmith blowing and heating away to manufacture an air-tight iron bottle . After a sharp struggle with the arts of the doomed witch , who kept maliciously poking flaws and fissures in the hissing metal ; this was completed , and being filled with the parings of the patient ' s toe-nails , locks of her hair , and fluid , was placed over a roaring fire , chained fast to the grate asadditional security against the tricks'of the imps who were believed to be hovering in dozens and iu terror around it . This charm was to blow the offending witch thr . ugh the air at a quicker rate than she ever travelled upon her own broom-stick , or bring her to the hearth-stone pleading for forgiveness ; but of course we cm understand without being very deeply read in the occult
science , that the spirit of steam would begin to grow ratherfidgetty at being shut up in an airtight iron bottle ; so at last , without waiting for th- * appearance of the expected old lady , he jumped out with a loud explosion , blowing away the grate-bars and the fire . This was expected to do the girl good . Execution at Worcester .. — -W . Pulley , convicted at the late assizes of the murder of a young girl at Pershore , underwent the extreme penalty of the law on Monday morning , at Worcester gaol . Many thousands were assembled in all the roads and approaches to the prison . Pulley had made a confession of his crime , and of the justice of his punishment . At eleven o ' clock divine service was performed iu the gaol chapel , and at twelve o ' clock—the service being ended—Pulley ascended the ladder , and in a short time the bolt was drawn . Having
hung an hour , tbe body was taken down , and buried without ceremony in the precinc'sof the gaol . The Executiow or John Smith ; for Murder , took place at Salisbury on Tuesday ,. The convict persisted to , the last in withholding all information as to his real name and connexions . He said he had parents living , an < l sistera and brothers , whom he did not wish to know his ignominious end . A t twelve o ' clock ho mounted the scaffold with a quick step and a smiling countenance , and desired ihe executioner to hurry through his task as fast as possible . When , however , the cap was drawn over his face , he requested the executioner to let him have anotlur look at the crowd , which being complied with , he almost immediately added , "That will do , " and the drop fell within a minute or two . The crowd in front ofthe gaol was immense , and far exceeded any that had been witnessed here on a similar occasion ,
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Remarkable Advexiubb .- —A few days ago , says the Glasgow Post , Hector Macalister , while out on the Arrau Hills looking after his sheep , as was his wont , about six miles from home , or any other habitation , his two collie dogs ( who were his daily companions ) , started a rabbit , which ran under a large block of granite . Thinking ho saw the animal , he thrust his arm under the stone , expecting to catch it , but instead of doing so , he must have removed some of the supports of the block , which instantly came down on his arm , holding him as fast as if he had been in a vice . The pain he endured was great , but tho pangs ho suffered when he thought of his home , ana tho death he seemed doomed to die , were much greater . In this position he lay from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon , when finding that all his efforts to extricate himself were unavailing , he tried several times ,
without effect , to get his knife out of his pocket , to cut off his arm . His only chance now was to endeavour to send home his dogs , with the view of alarming his friends . After much difficulty ( as the creatures wero most unwilling to leave him ) he at length succeeded in this ; and Mrs . Macalister , seeing them returning alone , took the alarm , and speedily collecting the neighbours , went in search of her husband , led on by his faithful collies . When they camo to the spot poor Macalister was in a very exhausted state , and was quite voiceless with crying for assistance . Suffice it to say , that it required the utmost exertions of five strong men to move the block to extricate the arm , whieh was dreadfull y bruised , but after being conveyed home and having medical treatment , it is hoped he may yet recover the use of his limb .
Edixdurgh , March 27 . —Cholera has disappeared in Edinburgh and Glasgow , but has commenced in Campbelton , near Fort George , under circumstances whieh strengthen the theory of contagion . The clothes of a woman who had died of disease in Glasgow were sent in a box to Campbelton , on being taken out and washed , two men , a father and son , who were at hand when the process was going on , became ill aud died , both having exhibited the customary cholera symptoms .
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DuBLiy , March 24 . — Cattle Stbauko axd Destitution * . — The provincial journals daily bring accounts of the continuance of this system of plunder . At tbe various assize courts , great numbers of prisoners have been tried for this offence , and in most cases it appeared that they were in a state of utter destitution . In some instances the wretched beings expressed gratitude to the judges , on their being sentenced to transportation .
Incendiarism in - Louth . — The Newry Examiner contains the following : — "We are sorry to observe that Ireland ' s hitherto most peaceable county has Lately become the theatre of crimes gratuitous and revolting . On the night of Tuesday last , at Cortial , in the barony of Louth , a haggard belonging to a person named Coleman , and a house bolonging to another named Burns , were set on fire by some malicious persons . When the haggard and house had been consumed , it was discovered by some parties in the neighbourhood that three horses , two belonging to Burns and one to Coleman , had
had their throats cut in a most brutal manner . One of the horses ( the property of Burns ) was quite dead , and on the other two the cuts had not been so deeply inflicted as was intended . They were immediately conveyed to Mr . Evan ' s veterinary establishment , where , under liis judicious treatment , thoy have since partiall y recovered . " Within the last eighteen months eleven poor law inspectors and vice-guardians have died from fevers contracted in the discharge of their perilous duties . Amongst the number was Major Fitzgerald , inspector at Sligo , the eldest son of the late Kni ght of Kerry .
assize intelligence . Londonderry . —Trial of Captain Johnson and the Mates of the Londonderry Steamer . —On Wednesday , the 21 st , Alex . Johnson , Richard Hughes , and ^ inian Crawford , were given in charge to the jury , for that they , on the 1 st of December , did on the high seas in the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Ireland , assault ono Hannah Brennan and others , and had caused her death , by placing her and others in a place on board the Londonderry steamer , where they had not a sufficiency of ah * to preserve life ; and that while there , tho said traversers neglected to pay her and others proper attention , and had thereby caused the death of the said Hannah Brennan . — Several witnesses for the prosecution were examined , ; who deposed to facts similar to those sworn to at the inquest . —The court then adjourned
to next day ( Thursday ) , when some of the seamen and firemen employed on board of tho Londonderry at the time of the melancholy catastrophe were examined for the defence , after which Judge Torrcns charged the jury , who retired for about three-quarters of an hour , and returned with a verdict of " Xot guilty . "—A conversation then took place between the counsel for the defence and Jud <* e Torrcns which had . been called forth by sevcraf memorials addressed to the judge from parties who soug ht to get their passage money , which they stated they had lost , to enable them to go to America . —The Judge said that the representative of the Crown solicitor , air . M'Mahon , had kindly consented to inquire into the memorials , and to communicate with the Glasgow Steam-packet Company on the subject . This important trial terminated the
assizes . At Kilkenny , on Thursday , the 22 nd , a James Malone , who had been found guiltv of making an attack on the Kilniacow Police Barrack , was sentenced to be transported for seven years . [ The sentence was subsequently commuted to imprisonment for two years . ] - County Kildare , — At Maryborough on Tlmr ** dav 22 nd five young females , varying from fifteer . to eighteen years , who wereguilty of the crime of arson , were ranged in the front of the dock to receive sentence . —Judge Dohorty addressed them thus : —Esther Lalor , you plead guilty of the Teat crime of arson . You have set fire to " a housq and a stack of barley , belonging to James Mail Catherine ffolan , you plead guilty of burning a stable belonging to James Morris ; Eliza Guilfoyle , you
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burned a house , the property of Mary Connor ; Anne My , the : Vylonnd ^ you guilty . of burning £ house of John Sutler ; and you Anne Day , Pleaded guihy of burning the house of Charles Be . Tor the protection ofthe country , it is ne-Sa ' y that I should transport you for ^ ur respective lives . —Catherine fcolan : Inanfc . you , "fir , March 2 B .-TnE Papal Rate in Aid .-Tho collection for Pope Pius proceeds with vigour . The diocese of Meath has sent m the sum of £ 1 , 300 . M fteriiftfd , in Ossory , Mrs . Brysoii ^ gavo the ™ nf £ 100 It IS roughly e stimated that the gross ( verVer ' oss ) total of this uncalled for -rate in aid wS ^ ETi Ir eland from £ 25 , 000 to mW , Sale by Auction of Conciliation Hall—lho Freeman ' s Journal has the subjoined " puff direct for the Burgh-quay » Stow" :- " We perceive by advertisement that Mr . Burke is to sell by auction , mi Hurffhauav . to-morrow , at the Corn-Lxcnango ,
the effects- of the committee-rooms of tho itepeai Association ; The sale is to take place at the instance of the committee , and embraces all that was not disposed of on tho former occasion . There axe , wc believe , a great variety of articles still on hand considered to bo both useful and valuable , and interesting as relics . There is the wrought-iron safe ofthe old Catholic Association , a very ingeniously- , contrived balloting-box , made after a plan devised by the Liberator , and under his own immediate inspection ; a full set of band instruments , made specially for the Loyal National Repeal Association , and a great many . other articles that will not fail to interest tho public . " „ _ , Sale of the Effects of the " Liderator . —The World , of Saturday , mentions that the house of O'Connell , in Memon-square , will soon be oftered for sale . The library of the deceased agitator isalso to be sold by auction very soon , according to the same authority .
Destitution . —Overcrowded Gaols . —Something must be done without delay by the authorities to prevent the overcrowding of the gaols in the country districts . The-extent of criminality in these times is excessive ,. as maybe judged from the fact , that in addition to . the heavy calendar before tho judges of assize at Cork , there are not less than 5 B 1 traversers to . be tried at the present Cork sessions by Assistant Barrister Berwick . Their crimes are chiefly stealing turnips , potatoes , and other food . Harvest PRosrEcis .-r-The Meath Herald . says , — " We have ecldoin witnessed a spring season wherein farming operations were so far advanced , nor one in which more grain has been sown than in that of tho present . — -The quantity of potatoes p lanting far
exceeds the year 40 ' 47 or 43 . As the decline ot this valuable root increased from year to year , so in all probability will its restoration to health proceed until it arrives at its original soundness—a consummation much to be desired . The wheat crop looks healthy , and we may look forward to a plentiful harvest . " Tuksday , March 27 . —The Law of Retaliation . —A letter in the Boyle Gazette has the following particulars in connexion with the murder of Robert Todd , a tenant on Mr . Ormsby Gore ' s estates in Leitrim — ' * On Tuesday Todd was buried in
Carrigallen church-yard ; the funeral was attended by the gentry of the neighbourhood , and about 300 respectably dressed Orangemen from the Manor , wearing the insignia of their order , with flags , and music playing the Dead March . ' When the procession arrived at the parish priest's house ( Father M'Govern ) , it halted , when some of the Orangemen addressed , the priest , and said , that if ever they had cause to come again on such a melancholy occasion , his life , or that of some one like him , would be taken , as the priests have power , if they choose , to prevent the many murders which take place , or at least can discover the murderers and hand them
over to justice : the procession then moved to the church , and after service proceeded in the same order to their homes . " What a state of society in a country pretending to civilisation ! The Trai . be Savings Bank . —At the Traleo Assizes , just concluded , an action was brought by a person named Lynch , upon an award of Mr . Tidd Pratt , the Government Inspector ef Savings Banks , for the sum of £ 27 , to ascertain the liability of the defendant in the case , who was one of the trustees to the plaintiff , who was a depositor , and who lost his money by the failure of the bank , in the course of last year . The Rev . Mr . Rowan , the bank treasurer and Mr . Pratt were examined at considerable length , to show tho manner iu which tho bunk
business was condusted ; the details of their testimony were of a technical nature , which gave rise to several questions of law , that were reserved for the consideration of the court above . Tho jury found , " That the defendant was a trustee , but not guilty of wilful neglect ; " and the question of his liabilities will depend upon the decision of the Court of Queen ' s Bench upon argument next term . Steamer ashore on the Raoiiery Rocks . —Belfast , March 24 th , 1849 . —I regret to inform you that an accident , which it is feared may prove serious , has occurred to Her Majesty , a fine steamer , well known on the Androssau , and latterly Troon and Fleetwood , station . It appears that Her Majesty , which for some time past has been plying between Belfast and Fleetwood and Dorry , was
proceeding from the latter port to Fleetwood , on Thursday evening , but owing to a dense fog which prevailed that night all along the Irish coast , she struck upon the Rnghery rocks—a dangerous reef near the Giants' Causeway—where she still remains . It being nearly hi g h water when tho vessel struck , as the tide ebbed her bottom was injured in several places by the sharp points of the rocks ; but hopes are entertained that she may ho got oft ' should the weather prove favourable . It is nearly five years since Her Majesty commenced plying between Fleetwood and Androssan , during which period she has been commanded by Captain Wilson , without ever having-met with the slightest accident till now . Captain Wilson has not been sailing the vessel , we believe , for a few weeks , having had leave of absence on account of his health . His
place was supplied by Captain Wheeler of the Fenella , an Isle of Man steamer ; but no blame is attributable to any one for tho present unfortunate OOCUl'l'onee , whieh was entirely caused b y the fog . —The Daily Mail . Wednesday , March 28 . —Auction at Conciliation Hall . —Notwithstanding the badness of the times , the sale of the remaining effects of the Repeal Association yesterday , according to the Freeman ' s Journal , realised good prices . The sum realised was above £ 100 . The musical instruments belonging to the band of tho Repeal Association , however , did not all find purchasers .
Treatment of Mr . Mitchel on his Voyage to Bermuda . —A correspondence has just been published , in which Commander H . E . Wingrove , who commanded the Scourge , in which Mr . Mitchel sailed , makes the following statement : — " Tho Scourge arrived at Cork on the morning o f the 31 st of May , and on tho following morning , at six o clock , tho . prisoner was embarked , and tho vessel sailed for her destination . * * * I was distinctly informed that he was not during tho passage to bo treated as a common criminal . Under these circumstances , and anxiously mindful of tho
great responsibility of such a charge , it became most difficult for mo to decide in what part of the ship he should be placed , or how ho should be watched so as to ensure his safe custody . I couU not put him with the officers , neither could I place him near the ship ' s company ; indeed I must admit that I felt particularly anxious he should not be where by any possibility ho might disueminato those princi p les which sentenced him to transportation , or where he could have such uncontrollable opportunities of establishing mischievous communication of a nature calculated seriously to enhance the
difficulty of his safe custody at Bermuda . My object was to convey him to the p lace of his banishment with the least motive to exasperation , so far as he or his partisans were concerned , and with the least risk of had consequences upon my own people afterwards . Then , again , it occurred to mc I should be held responsible if this convict committed suicide upon awakening to a real sense of his situation , which from the anguish of his mind there really seemed reason to apprehend on first leaving his native land . I considered it my duty to endeavour to calm these feelings as much as possible , and for this reason , as well as others , I did not consider him safe , indeed I could not rest satisfied unless he was under my own immediate eye j therefore , I waived
all personal feelings , which were . much indeed at variance with the course I thought it host to pursue , and allotted to the prisoner a portion of my cabin , and gave him his meals at my own table , taking special care to invite no one else while he remained on board , at the same timo confining him to the strict observation of * the sergeant of marines and one sentry whenever he took an airing on deck '; two sentries watched him also by ni g ht , xho result was successful : the prisoner was landed safely at Bermuda , in comparative health aud calmness of mind , though he suffered acutel y from an alarming malady during the passage , which , tho surgeon informed me , might cut short the thread of his existence in a moment . He wns landed hofore his iii-riv . il could bo possibly anticipated on tho island . Having thus successfully performed this responsible as well
as most disagreeable duty to the best of my judgment , having conscientiously acted for what 1 . considered the good of tho service , having adopted that course which I thought would be most consonant with the wishes of her Majesty ' s government , and disclaiming all sympath y with the prisoner beyond that which is due from one Christian to another in misfortune , I confidently trust their lordships will be pleased to extend to me that protection to which , under all the very peculiar circumstances of the ease , I feel that I am justly entitled . " Upon this statement the Lords of the Admiralt y have made through their secretary , the following " Doliverr ance : '— My lords arc disposed , generally , to ap-. prove of Commander Wingrove ' s conduct , but upon the understanding thai the convict was not admitted to partake of his meals in the company and as tho guest of the commander , although ho may have hud his meals in the commander ' s cabin , "
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Exeter , March 23 . Thb Robdery of the Mail Trains on the Great Western Railway . Henry Poole and Edward Ni ghtingale wero severally indicted for stealing , in the parish of St . David ' s in tho city of Exeter , on the 2 nd of January last , twelve post letters from a mail , the property of the Postmaster-General . Mr . Rogers , Q . C ., and Mr . Poulden were counsel for the prosecution , instructed by Mr .. Poaeoek / the solicitor io the poatofiice . Mr . Cockburn , Q . C ., Mr . Stone , and Mr . Slado conducted the case of the prisoners . Mr . Rogers having stated the case called the following witnesses .
Thomas Winsor Berry . —I am a clerk in the branch banks office in the Bank of England . I posted tlic packet produced at the Lombard-street post-office on the 1 st of January . It is directed "Robert Morris , Esq ., Bank of England Branch , Plymouth . " It contains the probate of a will . I had the packet registered , and I produce the receipt . Robert Fowler Pitt . —I am a clerk in the Lombard-street branch of tho General Post-office . I gavo the regeipt . for the . parcel posted by the last witness ; the usual course , then , is for the messenger to take the parte ! to tho senior clerk to bo registered , and despatched to the chief office , St . Martin ' s-le-Grand .
Ediurd Jambs SiiirH . —I am also a clerk in the Lombard-street post-office . On the 1 st of January I registered a letter directed to Mi * . Morris , Plymouth . . On that evening I despatched the letters and a letter bill of the registered letters . Tills is tho letter bill despatched that ni ght . Martin- Dexter . —I am a messenger in the General PostTOmce . On the evening of the 1 st of January I opened the Lombard-street bag , and having stamped , these letters with an obliterating stamp No . 21 , 1 handed them to the senior clerk on duty . Cross-examined ; The No . 21 stamp is used for obliterating the registered letters only . Mr . Morris ' s letter stamp is obliterated with that number ; and I am , therefore , enabled to say that at some time or other , that letter passed through my hands .
William James Plant . —I am a clerk in tho Inland-office of the General Post-office . The packet produced passed through my hands . I checked it with Mr . Adams , the senior clerk , on the evening Of the 1 st of January . Mr . Adams directed the green cover , and I then did it up and passed it to Mr . Moule . On that evening we had ei g hty registered letters , which passed through my hands in the same way . James Moule . —I am also a clerk in the Inlandoffice . I received tho letter from the last witness , and took it to tho clerk of the Devonporfc-road with others , and obtained his signature .
John Fleming . —I am m the employ of Messrs . Matheson and Brogden , jewellers , Henrietta-street , Covent-garden . The packet produced is . directed in Mr . Brogden ' s hand-writing to Mr . J . A . Page , jeweller , George-street , Plymouth . I took it on the 1 st of January to the Charing-cross Poat-office , had it registered , paid for it , . and obtained this receipt . This letter was traced the in the same way . Letters from Monsieur . Julhen , in Regent-street , to Mr . Wallis , Park-street , Plymouth ; from Steriker , teadealers , London , to Mr . W . W . Snell , 3 , Octagon , Plymouth ; from Lacklind , M'Leod , and Co ., shipbrokers , to Captain Hitman , of the Sir George Seymour , care of J . B . Wilcocks , Plymouth ; from Mr . Durham , cutler , A ' ew Oxford-street to C .
Holder , Esq ,, Maradon , near Plymouth ; from tho Provident Life Institution to the manager of the Devon and Cornwall Bank ; and other letters were all proved to have been posted in the usual way , on the 1 st of January . Mr . James Collinsos , clerk of the Devonportroad , proved his receiving the registered letters , signing the initials , p lacing them in the bag , seeing the bags sealed and delivered to a porter to put in the accelerator . The whole of the letters produced passed through the Inland-office , as appeared by the obliterating stamp having been used . M , Street , a letter carrier , proved that the guards received the Plymouth bag , which witness took from Mr . Collinson in the usual way . Letters whieh wero in the Truro bag were proved in the same way .
Lelard Barrett . —I am a mail guard of the DevonpOrt-VOad . I accompany the mail from Paddington to Laira , two miles from Pl ymouth . I received the bags from the General Post-office on the evening of the 1 st of January . They are p laced in a carriage called the accelerator , and I rule with the driver to the Paddington terminus . The bags are there taken out and carried by three porters , appointed by the Great Western Railway Company , to the Post-office tender . I saw them so taken that evening . One door of the tender is fastened up by screws , the after doors on the near side starting from Paddington . On the off side two doors can be opened , but only one en the near side . The guard of the Gloucester mail travels with mc in the
tender as far as Swindon . The train left about nine o clock , the usual time , that ni g ht . I travelled inside the mail tender from Paddington to Bristol . I separated the bags for Bristol and Exeter from those for Truro , Devonport , and places below Exeter . At Bristol , I delivered the bag to the porter as usual , and received the bags for Exeter and Taunton from him , which I laced in the tender , I then locked the door , in which is the window , and went into the travelling Post-office—a separate carriage , lighted up with four lamps in the roof , and one to seal with , , and used for sorting letters . The tender carriage is much larger than the travelling post-office carriage . It is part of my duty to assist the two clerks , Mr . Silk and Mr . Bii-chell , in
sorting letters in the travelling post-office . Tlioro is no travelling post-office between London and Bristol ; it comes up from Exeter , and goes back the same night . On entering the carriage the clerks told mo the bags of the up-mail had been opened and robbed . I , in consequence , returned to the tender , and found the bags m the sanio state as I had left them . 1 had p laced the Exeter and Falmouth sack , the Falmouth and Truro sack , and the bag called the Falmouth agent , against the farthest off-side door . The sucks I w anted to open between Exeter and Pl ymouth were on the opposite side . I observed that tho strap whieh I had stuffed in to prevent the after oft-side window from rattling was in the same position , and I then locked the door , and returned to the travelling post-office .
'ihe word was given to go on as I was getting into the carriage , and within two or three minutes wc were put back to the points where the Exeter line branches off . In two or three minutes tlic engine was changed , and the carriage was drawn on to the express shed . In about another two minutes , having taken up- the passengers , the train started . I had previously looked out at intervals two or three times whilst the tender and carriage were being put on the Exeter line , to see that no one was on the post-office tender . Wc are allowed an hour and ten minutes between Bristol and Bridgcwatcr , and we do not stop between . That is the longest run in the . journey . Tho next longest interval is between Bridgewater and Taunton , which is run in
twenty-five minutes . Before tho train stopped I looked out ofthe window , and as soon as it came up to the platform , I jumped out and unlocked thu post-office tender . I then perceived that all the bags had been displaced . The Plymouth bag had been shifted from the ri ght hand side to the left . I saw that tho Plymouth bag had been cut open and tied \\ p by a different string to that used by the Post-office . I returned and gave information to Mr .. Birchell . He came to the door of the tender and looked in . Mr . Silk then came and entered and looked at the Plymouth bag . I requested Mr . Silk to take charge of tlic tender . I then proceeded to the first-class carriage , of which there was but one , and it was situated Immediately behind tho mail tender . That carriage had four compartments , the
two middle being divided with doors , windows , and blinds . The first and last compartments are open . I told Rheinhart and Thomas what had occurred , and I directed them to suffer no one to come out of the first-class carriage . I then went behind the train , and directed the porter to stand on the line and watch the carriage on that side . I then told Mr . Jones , the superintendent , and requested him him to give an order to have all the passengers searched . He waa not up . I returned to the platform , and ' was told no one had loft . I communicated to Mr . Heanett , the railway contractor , and Mr . Barlow , ono of the directors , who were in the second compartment . Mr . Barlow came out and directed Rheinhart to go and see the tickets . I
went back to the Post-otfioe tender , aiid found that seven bags had been broken open , They had all been tied and sealed when delivered to me . I found them tied . but not sealed , having been broken open . I again returned to the platform . Mr . Silk gave me a piece of string , which I produce . I went to the first-class carriage to have the passengers searched . I then entered the third compartment , and in the division next the p latform I saw two men , who turned out to be the prisoners . Nightingale was dressed as he is now , but Pool had on a cloak , a Jim-Crow hat , with a handkerchief to his face . I had known him as a guard for . about four or five years , but I did not recognise him then , as he lav curled up in the corner , with his less on tho nr ™
, site side . I requested to be allowed to pass and they let me . I found Mr . Andrews , whom 1 had known before , a solicitor of Modbury ' in the inner compartment . I told him ofthe robberv and ^ . H I wished to have all the first-class ^ ssonjers searched . Mr Andrews opened his coat and offered to bo searched , saying his luggage was under the opposteseat . Mr RWart ^ Cn SnoS and was about to search him , but I said IKfi and did not wish it . As there w not 00 , t SSfaJSSrr ^ divisiS , NiglSgale ™ nu ? ? } C othersi ? ™ tk Rheinhart , myself , and Mr , Andrews commg into th 6 division with loole . I was beckoned out of the carriagebv I nomas the second railway guard , who told mo hi thought the man was Poole . Pooh } had previously
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attempted to get up . I thought ho was about to leave , so I pulled him by the cloak , mid said I do not wish you to leave the carriage . Thomas told Mr , Barlow the same , and Mr . Barlow came to the carriage and called Poole three times by name . He took no notice . Mr . Barlow shook him by tha ffK- l , ut Jie msw " e no re P * J '* ^ * B ,, Iow then took oft hat , and said , " Ah , Poole , you are very sleepy to-night . " Poole made no reply , but wiped his taco andsat up . I again asked Mr . Barlow to have tho carnage thoroug hly searched . Mr . Barlow recommended that persons should be placed in tha carnage with the prisoners and go on to Exeter as they were Lxeter passengers . In consequence , Mr . Andrews , and Mr . Gibbons , the Plymouth
sunerintenoent oi police , rode with Poole and Rheinhart and Williams , the policeman , rode with Nightingale . I rode to Exeter in the travelling post-office . As soon as the train arrived , I requested Mz * . Barlow not to have them taken out until I had started my bags . I found that they had been taken into the waiting room . I saw Williams come in and say " Hero it is , " producing a parcel of letters . Poole said , "Wh y was it not found at . Bridgewater wherois tho policeman ? " Mr . Andrews remained in the carriage . I received a piece of string from Williams at Bridgewater , with a piece of sealin g wax attached . 1 saw a piece of string fall from Poole ' s cloak in the waiting room at Exeter , which I also produce . I received another piece of string
from Williams at Exeter . I stated at one timo that I thought Poole worked tho mail train for some time , but I do not think he did . He was constantly passing up and down by pass , so that I did not know whether he was working or not . I have seen him frequently travelling by the mail train . Since Poole left the company ' s service , and before tho robbery an alteration was made in li ghting the post-office tender . Formerly a candle could be lit from tho lamp , but now the lamps are the same as in the other carriages . It is impossible to get from the second class carriage to the post-offiue tender , because the distance is too far , but it is quite possible to get from the first-class carriage to the post-oftico tender . I myself have done it by walking along
the plank on the bottom step , getting on the chains of the buffers , and across to the other side , by holding by the ledge of the tender . I got in through the window , and of course Poole , who is a much thinner man , could have done the same . I found at Bridgewater that the window-strap , which I usually stuffed in to prevent its rattling , was hanging down . It mig ht have been knocked down by the motion , but it never had before , and it has been so placed , I may say , for years . —Cross-examined t We arrived at the Bristol station at ten minutes past ono . The train was not more than two minutes at the express shed . I think it started at 1 . 28 ; the proper time is 1 . 20 . There was a gentleman in the first compartment whom I did not know . I have
not seen him since . I believe Mr . Barlow searched him . Nightingale was partl y searched at Bridgewater ; his co . « c was searched and his hat looked into . I was guard on the line when the prisoner Poole was . Before the introduction of the travelling post-office the guard always rode in the tender . The travelling post-office has been running about a year and a half . This is not the first time I have mentioned that I saw a piece of string fall from Poole ' s cloak . I have mentioned it to several peop le . I think I mentioned it before tho magistrates . The tender has two doors on each side , which are locked . I have steps on both sides . There is not a window in each door , but only one each side . On the oif-side the window is nearest the first-class carriage , and it was at that window that tho strap was pushed in . The window on the near side is furthest from the first-class carriage . The buffer of the tender is thirteen inches , and the
buffer of the carnage is twenty-six or twenty-seven inches long . I did not try the experiment of passing from the carriage to the mail tender whilst the train was in motion . I should not bo afraid to do it . I see no difficulty in it . My opinion is that the person , whoever it was who got in , went across tho buffers from the near side to the off side and in at the window , the same way as I went . It Is Impossible to pass from one door of the mail tender to the other on the same side , the span is too great . I stepped from one buffer to the centre connecting bar , and from the bar to the other buffer , and it can be done with ease . We arrived at Exeter at 4 !* . 25 min ., and left at 5 h . 30 min . Re-examined : There are two handles Outside the mail tender , and they assist in getting to the door . —By the Judge . * The robbery I heard of at Bristol , was of a different train .
Joseph Rheimuut : I am a guard of the Groat Western Railway . I was principal guard on the 1 st of January of the mail train . At Bristol , at the express shed , I let in a gentleman into the first compartment next the mail tender for Lalrn , The two prisoners were going into that compartment , but when they saw the gentleman was before them they would not go in . I complained of their detaining the train , and put them into the third compartment ofthe same carriage . A gentleman from London was there , Mr . Andrews , of Modbury , and one of prisoners passed through the division where Mr , Andrews was sitting , into the other division , but I did not see if the other prisoner followed him , because , as soon as he was put inside , I shut the door and the train started . At Bridgewater I wns
informed of the robbery . A passenger in the compartment into which the two men had gone , asked me what was the matter ? I said there was something the matter with the mails . The window was shut up , and I heard some conversation in a low tone of voice . I went to take the tickets , and found in the pocket of that compartment some crape . I said what is this ? but nobody claimed it , and I put it in my pocket . I picked up " a piece of string , which I gave to Mr . Gibbons , Afterwards , hearing that I ' OOlO W ! 19 ill the train , I went back and lifted up Poole ' s hat , and said , •* Holloa , Poole , is it you ?" Poole said , " Ah , Mr . Rheinhart , how are you ?" Finding that I could not properly search Nightingale , I did not . attempt it with Poole , but went on
to Exeter . I found in the pocket of the division door , the side nearest where the prisoners were sitting , a whole eandlo . I rode in the same carriage to Exeter . The divisional door was open . Gibbons said to Ni g htingale , " I think I know your face ; I have seen you beforo . " Nightingale said , " I am a respectable man . I have twenty to thirty men to look after . " Poole said that was true enough . I asked Poole what train he went up by . He said b y the third-class train . I asked if it was by Mr . Clarke ' s train , and he said yes . I saw Poole fumbling about . I put my hand into the pocket of the cloak and took out " a pocket-book , which I handed to Gibbons , as I was holding up tho window with ono hand , to prevent anything beinir thrown
out . I asked if his friend went up to Bristol with him , and if ho knew him , and he said no , he never saw him beforo . Ni ghtingale said to Poolo , " Oh , I'kuow you . I saw you two or three davs ago , and I knew you twelve months ago . " I asked Poole why he came back hy tho first class , when ho went up by the third class , and wh y he was muffled up so , and he uaid on account of his having a bad cold . Gibbons asked mc if these men were to consider themselves in custody . I said " Yes . " Gibbons turned to them , and said they must consider themselves in custody on suspicion of having robbed the mail bags . Poole said h « always thought the guard travelled m tho mail with the bags . I said I wondered he pretended to be so innocent , when he must
have known how the mails were worked . He said he never worked the mails ; he had only been as passenger once or twice . I sa id he had been so long in tho service that it must have come to his turn to work tho mail on a Sunday . He said he had worked it once or twice . At Exeter I took the prisoners to the waiting-room , and was present when the letters were brought in by Williams . I took some pieces of sealing-wax from the pockets of Poole ' s coat . —Cross-examined by Mr . Stone : While the train was being pushed back at the Bristol station , he walked over from one p latform to the other . He did not know how many second-class passengers there were . Tho train was about five minutes late on starting from Bristol . He did not go into any
house , or to take coffee , during the stay of the train at Bristol . Ho noticed Mr . Andrews in the compartment all the way to London . He heard of the robbery immediately on his arrival at Bridgewater . He did not see any one get out of the second-class Carriages . Nothing was done b y him to prevent them getting out . Ho did not search the pockets in Mr . Andrews' carriage . In fact , he did not make any accurate search of the carriages at all . Re found nothing in Poole ' s pocket but a piece of sausage . ( Loud laughter . ) Mr . J . Ani > uews , solicitor , Modbury , said he was a passenger by tho mail train on the evening of the 1 st of January . He was alone in the carriage at Bristol ; two men came in at that station , and passed through his division of the carriage into the
next . 1 hey dragged a p iece of string w-eord aftiT them , and it was shut in bv the divisional door . He broke it off and threw it oii the floor . At Bridgewater the train stopped an unusuall y long tune , and a guard camh in to see the tickets , and shortly afterwards another guard came in and asked witness his name , and whero he was going—Cross-examined by Mr . Cockburn : He did not get out at Taunton or at ally Of tho intermediate stations where the ti'll " - stopped : : The police did not attempt to exercise any surveillance over him . —Lord Dks-max to the witness : Excuse me the question I am going to pi' * to you , Mr . Andrews . Bid you put the letters the )* which were found under the seat ?—Witness : N * ! my lord , I did not . ( Loud , laughter , in which the bench and bar j oined ¦ - ¦
. Wiw , i . » i Ckaog , foreman of the porters at J •*¦ dington station , said he had got from a first-cw ™ carriage to the mail truck and back again , while tno train waa stiil , hut it could he done very well «•*«•• tho train was in motion , if a person had courage . He had once clambered over the roof of the tcmici and had got into it with his legs foremost , and i »« got out of it with his head foremost . . . Mr . Cockbuux proceeded to address the jury «• the delenc-e . There was no denying , he said , that , cnseof ausme \ 9 « had . ^ n . ml * ° Ut ( ig « , nst l "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 31, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31031849/page/6/
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