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      __ 5 C __ U 5 _ 0 .. Health o * p th _ Metropolis . —The number of deaths registered in the Metropolitan Districts last week was 981 , being ;—males . 502 ; females . 479 . A ¦ woman is reported to have died in the sab-district ol Christchurcb . St Saviour ' s , of " natural decay . a « the advanced age of 100 years . The number ot births , regi * tered in the same period , was 1 , * 17 ; or , males . 718 ; females . 699 . TheKturo _tf meteorological observations taken atthe Royal Observatory Greenwich , dmingtbe week ending Saturday 24 th April , states the mean height of the barometer * _, have been 29816 ; thermometer , highest , 57 . 0 j lowest , 318 : mean , 45 5 . The di rection of the wind dnrinc the week was variable , bnt principally from the K . aad E .. with a maximum pressure of 2 . 0 lbs . oh the square foot , tho sum of horizontal movement ofthe air being 160 miles ; mean amount of cloud , 48 ; no rain .

      . E _ ib _ obdisabt B _ _.. _ .. —T _ e wife of William Squires , carpenter and -oiner , Buckingham-road , _Kinvsland . was safely delivered , on Sunday , the _ ih ' nit ., of three boys , who , with the mother , are doing well .

      IKQ . EST 8 . Awful _Swodes Death op a Sira . _geg . —Before Mr Milk- , on the body ofa man , unknown , about 65 years of -ge . James Cottrell deposed that , about three o ' clock last Thursday , he saw deceased , wbo ¦ was carrying a carpet bag and an umbrella , fall down dead close to the pump in the Hampstead-road , opposite Henry street . He was dressed in a new suit of black clothes , and tbe label on bis bag was inscribed " James Smith , _pasfenger . " Police constable 185 S save similar evidence , and produced tbe folio wing articles that were found on his person z—A n or ersi _ ned-y the distributor of stamps , Tenbnry , forJEl 13 s . -dM to be returned to James Smith by the

      Commissioners ef Stamps , being a surcharge on his property , which was under £ 150 a-year ; a receipt for { he purchase of £ 50 stock , sold bere by Mr Green ; a silver patch , ** Man and Wall , " makers , Coventry , No . 2 , 307 ; two told seals , one having a dark stone witb ahead engraved _, and theotherhaving a white _s-one ; a watch-paper , bearing the inscription , " James Smith , 37 . Nottingham-place , 1818 . " His bag was full ' _ new clothes , and atthe bottom of it -xerea large ham , snmebacon , tbe Worcester Chronicle March 31 . and the Birmingham Advertiser ofthe 12 th inst . The jury having expressed a hone that the press _wsnld give publicity te tbe particulars conwwe - with deceased ' s death , returned a verdict of "Kat _ r _ l death . "

      Flatisg with M _ chd *_ bt . —B . fore Mr Bedford , at fiie Plough , Carey-street , on the body of T , _Lawler , aged 13 . The deceased worked with his father , at _BnrSt-ld ' s Papier Mache Works , Wellington-street , North strand , nnd on the afternoon of the 13 th nit ., while alone in the room io which he was employed , he imprudently ber * -- playing with some steam machinery , by thrusting his right hand between two iron rollers _revolving at fnll speed , grinding paper to a pulp , and before he conld withdraw it , the rollers had drawn his arm in as far as the shoulder . H . screams br * _ g _ t assistance , and the engine was _iastantlystopped ; bat the machinery had to be taken to pieces before it could be extricated , when it was shockingly mutilated . He was removed to King ' s College Hospital , where , _subseauentlv his arm was

      amputated , -ind le died on Friday last from the effects of tbe injury . "Verdict , " Accidental death . *' Acctdext at the B-acswau , Railwat . — Before Mr Baker , at the Brown Bear , Leman-street . _Goodman ' s-fields , on tbe body of Margaret M'Cattey , _ ne _. seventy-fire , who for many years got her living at a froit stall adjoining . It appeared , that the deceased was standing at her stall at the time that a dray , drawn by two horses , was passing the arch of tbe Blackwall Railway , when the anima _. were alarmed by the sound ofthe train . The driver Aid all he eould to stop the horses , hut without _euceesB , and the dray knocked the deceased down , and the near wheel went across ner body . Sbe was taken to the Brown Bear , life being extinct . Verdict , " Accidental death . **

      _MrsTERiocs Death meat _Deowkiss . —On Tuesday by Mr Baker , at the Royal Standard public-house , _Fieroming-street . Kingsland-road , on view ofthe body of Alexander Henry Ingram , aged nine years _, the son of a respectable tradesman , residing in Griffin-street , Hoxton , who was drowned on Saturday afternoon last under the following veiy mysterious circamstances : —ft appeared from the evidence of two bnya _, named Giles , that on Saturday afternoon last they were playing with the deceased near tbe f-ingsland-road Bridge . The deceased went to the side ofthe Regent . Canal , and laid himself down on the towing path , where he was fishing with a stick for some time . He was cautioned not to go so near the water , when he rose and disappeared under the arch . He was never seen alive afterwards , and the same evening he was recovered by means of the drags under'he arch of the bridge . A verdict of " Found Drowned " was agreed to .

      Death by Su . _ oca _ ios . —A poor fellow , name . John Strange , aged 54 years , an inmate of St Luke ' s workhouse , Old-street , while eating his dinner os Monday last in the dining hall , put tbe greater portion of _s potato in his mouth , and was in the act of swallow ! - ! * ; it , wben it stuck fast ia his throat . He was observed to become . quite black in the face , aud pointed to his throat . An effort was made to dislodge the potato , but without effect , and before medical _assistance could be obtained he was lifeless , _Sto-h-sed Sdici-E j * - _ n _ New River . —Mr Hi _. _gs held ao inquest on Monday , at the Canteen , Enfield Lock , on the body of James Jones , aged 42 , gardener to Mr Alderman CnaJlis . It appeared in

      evidence thatfcae defeased had , for some time past , been goffering from disease of the brain , and was subject to paroxysms ot madness . On Wednesday night he was exceedingly restless , and on the following day left home secretly , and strolled along tbe line of the _Extern Counties Railway , at Enfield . The gatekeeper sent him off the line , and believing , from his wild manner , that he was not in his right senses , sent some persons _tolook after him . He was not seen afterwards until Friday , when his body was fpnnd in a branch of the New River , at Ware . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased _' was found drowned , and that he had probably drowned himself whV e in a state of insanity . "

      ExtsaO - _dis-bt Case oi * Aix _. _gid Mesmeric In-__ . e . _** ce tesdiso xo Death . —Before W . Carter , Esq .. coroner for Surrey , at the Guildford Barge , Belvedere-road , Westminster-road , as to tbe death of John Peterbridge , aged fifty-eight years , who was alleged by his wife to have -. en seriously injured by mesmeric influence , under most extraordinary and novel circumstances . It turned ont , however , from the evidence of DrAldis , of the Surrey Dispensary , that the deceased died from the combined effects of dropsy and consumption . Verdict—" . Natural death . " _Sobd-h Death . —In the Marylebone Workhouse , before Mr Milk on Mary Btndley , aged 62 , late an inmate . On Friday evening , deceased was washing at the pump some potatoes for her supper , and had just tue last one in the saucepan , when she exclaimed . " 1 will have some potatoes for supper , thank God ! " The next moment she fell down a lifeless corpse . Verdict— " Visitation of God . "

      Suicide . —Before Mr Mills , in tbe Marylebone Worknouse , on John Bateman , aged 36 , a carpenter and undertaker , late of John-street , A ' ew-road , who has been missing for a fortnight . Benjamin Cole , deceased ' s brother-in-law , deposed that , in conseqmnce uf deceas-i having threatened to destroy himself , lie seai ehed the Regent ' s _canil on Thursday , and found his body clase to the _Lisson-grove bridge . Iu hia opinion he drowsed himself . Another witness proved that he heard deceased say tbat he would make a hole in the water . Verdict—'' Found _drowned . "

      Suicide bt a Child . —Before Mr Mills , at the Elephant and Castle . King--road , St Pancras , on John Taylor , aged ten , whose body wasfonndinthe Rt-grnt _ canal , near tbe York and Albany . Mr J . Taylor , residing at No . _ , Munster-street , stated that he wa * . tho father of tbe deceased , and that he sent him out one morning to buy some tea , bnt instead of vurch-smg the required quantity , he purchased less , fur which ne mildly reprimanded deceased , who _sooq afterwards left bis home , and was not again see ; : until the body was found . In his opinion he drt-wned himself . Deceased ' s grandmother had been deranged , his mo'her was in Hanwell , and his aunt betrayed . symptoms of insanity . Mr Mills observed that two ca * * e * nt children of the ages of ten and eleven , coiumitttBg suicide through fear , had come before him . Verdict— " Found drowned . "

      ACCIDKRT 3 , OmiHJES . ETC Mt > te _ i « u < > iukt . —On Monday , information was received by ihe Marylebone division of police , that a day or twu before , at noon , aFrenchraan , fashionably dress .., drove u !> in a cab to the door ot a mansion in Pon man-square , during the absence from home of some ot the family , and by representing to the servant wli « answered him thnt he came from a friend of the . _HX-pier of the house , residing in Eatonsquare _, sue * . _ed-d in obtaining an interview with the lady , to whom he said he eould communicate his _message as well as to her husband . What his object in doing __ •» wa . -, or what took place atthe interview , Im . * n _.-i tveq made known , beyond the fact that he by some means induced the lady to deliver to him two g old wat-lny , - a _go-d guard-chain , a gold watch-key _.

      and a ste- wf ofthe valw of upwards £ 50 , and £ 15 in niowy , tbo lady receiving from him in exchange an eu-. mell < V ; gold watcl _* , warranted perfect , and a gold chain __ ml i _^ y _, very inferior articles and of trifling vaiu « % when he speedily Tery politely bowid himself out of tbe house . The Frenchman is described as _l . in _. atiout five feet seven to eight inches high , from 35 tu 4 . 0 year , of age , of florid complexion , can speak * * ever _ _. ia _* j . ;_ _ai- * , andisvery plausible iu his manner . Ue _gaw * the name of " Mauley" to the setvant when ho en : _** r . d tne house , but to the lady he signed it "F . DeUn . " The police are aware that an individual ans * . riog the description recently obtained from a Spanish gentleman £ 20 by a similar trick . Tho name of ihe lady , his last dupe , has not been al-OW { d to transpire .

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      ___ S _ 1 B _ . _Bnu-ENHBA-. —Dreadful Mbbdeb . ~ During tbe past week considerable excitement has prevailed in Birkenhead , owing to the death of aa infant female child , the daughter ofan unmarried woman , named Grace Deays . The child had been placed out to nurse with an old woman , named Hannah Jordan , who on Wednesday brought it to its mother , and left it with her for the day . In the course of the afternoon it began to cry frequently , and towards evening it was quite clear that the child was very ill . Its hands got clenched and the eyes fixed . Mr Edgar , surgeon , was sent for , and at once saw that the infant waa labouring under the effects of some narcotic On the following morning , Mr Drinkwater , suspecting that the mother , bad poisoned the infant , sent for

      Inspector M'Neill _, who charged her . with having giren the child _a-me laudanum , when she admitted that she had given it some with a spoon , and had thrown the bottle into the fire . She was then taken into custody . Upon inquiry , it was found that she had purchased some laudanum at a druggist ' s shop in the neighbourhood . The prisoner , it appeared , wasabont to leave Mr Drinkwater _' s service , and being wishful to go into the workhouse , applied to the magistrates for an order for that purpose , bnt she was refused . She then made application to one of the relieving officers for relief , and a subscription waa got up to send ber to Scotland . The inquest waa held on Friday , and after the evidence , had been heard , the prisoner , having been cautioned by the coroner , made the following statement : — " I gave it

      the laudanum , but I merely gave it to make it quiet end not to disturb the . house . J did not intend any harm tothe child , or 1 would not have given it . Master was going to bed , and I was going to be sent home to Scotland next day , and the master and mistress were going to let me stop tbat night if I was not going , to cross to Liverpool . I had often heat - that laudanum hnd been given to children to keep them quiet . I did not think it would poison the child . " The coroner said one question for the jury waB , whether laudanum had been administered at all ; second , how or by whom it was administered ; third , with what intent ; and fourth , was it given with the felonious or wilful intent to destroy the life of the child . After an hour ' s deliberation , the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Grace Deays .

      _ST-VrOED _& HIH _.. A _ r ___ . to Murder an _Aokd Com * -.. —George and Sarah Bridgewood , both between 60 aud 70 years ofage , reside by themselves in a house in Highstreet , Fenton , in the Potteries , where they keep a small provision shop . Having retired to rest one night last week , shortly after 1 o ' clook ou the following morning , the old man as he lay half asleep , fancied he saw a glimmering light in the room , and before he could rouse himself to ascertain from whence it proceeded , he received a blow on tke side of his head , his wife , the next moment , receiving several cuts or her face and arms from a knife , which , it is believed , were aimed at her throat . The old man , recovering himself , sprang out of bed . aud seised a man , whom he got on the floor , and placing hia knees in his assailant ' s throat , succeeded in keeping him down , his wife in the meanwhile contriving to reach the door , and call out "Murder !" Ina

      few minutes ai _' _-e-rwards the police were attracted to the house , and , on entering the room , found the old man in the position described . Both were drenched in blood , and the bed-clothes and floor exhibited tear * ful proofs ofthe murderous design of the ruffian . On being taken to the station-house , he was recognised to be a bricklayer , named William Burleigh . He was in a very weak . state , his throat being cut , but how it was done was difficult to say . There is no donbt that his intention , in the first instance , was to plunder the house , but being disturbed , he attempted to murder the aged pair , in order that he might complete his object and escape detection . On Friday he underwent an examination before the magistrates at the Stoke police-court . Mrs Bridgewood was brought into the court on a chair , and was propped up by pillows . After several witnesses had been examined , theprisoner waa fully cmraittedfor trial at the next assizes on the capital charge .

      _BUFFO-K . New _Rixo-droppiso Trick . *— -As a simple countryman from . Higham , of the name , of Clark , was returning from Ipswich , with his master's waggon , he saw a small jewel-box lying on the road . . Thinking no doubt he had discovered a prize , be eagerly seized it , but on examination it appeared to be empty . On going a short distance further ho met a man , with the appearance ofa Jew , who seemed to be looking for something , and telling the countryman hebad _lost a box containing . a valuable riqg , asked him if he bad seen anything of it ; the countryman replied he had found a box , bnt it was empty , on which the Jew offered to bet a sovereign thathis ring wa 6 in it . The rustic ' s cupidity being thus excited , and' thinking himself eure oi winning , and being without that

      sum , he offered to stake his watch , worth £ 3 , which the Jew accepted , and producing a ring from a false bottom of tbe box , he claimed and walked off with the watch , leaving tho poor countryman aghast at his own folly , aud with ample time to repent of his own stupidity on his way home . _D-SiaucTiON ei * Bru-oeston H __ _..--A few days ago , tbis fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture , the seat of Mr Austin , Q . C ., situate on a prominent eminence , near the road-side , between Cretingham and Framlingham , in this county , was found to beon fire . It was built about three centuries since , and was very capacious , having a noble frontage of ISO feet . Up to within a few years , tbe mansion was tenanted by the family of the founder , from whom Mr Austin purchased the estate , aud it was , at the

      time of the accident , undergoing an elaborate restoration . It appear , that the hall waa placed under tbe care ofthe contractor , who , with his workmen , slept in the baildipg . Soon after twelve o ' clock on the morning named , a boy , an assistant of the contractor _, discovered smoke issuing trom one of the sittingrooms over the library , on the east wing . It had been used by the _contractor sinee he had had the care ofthe building , and was the only apartment in which there had been a fire for teverat days . He immediately awoke Mr Siilett , the principal , who became so alarmed that , instead of ascertaining tbe nature and extent of the fire , he leaped out of window , and sustained some severe injuries by his fall . Two or three workmen who slept in some attics in a distant part of the house , being Moused , hastened to the apartment , and endeavoured to extinguish the

      flames , whieh were issuing from the floor within a space of two or three feet in frent of ihe hearth , but owing to the dryness ofthe wood , the fire spread with such rapidity , that their efforts were unsuccessful . The elaborate carved wood ceiling ofthe library below next caught , and it seems from that moment a < 1 hopes of saving the edifice were lost . Mounted expresses were immediately -ie . patched to Framlingham and to Ipswich for engines aud assistance . Crowds from villages adjacent flocked to tlie scene , and on the arrival of the engines the _spectators exerted every nerve to master t . e fire , but all in vain —and in the space of two hours irom the discovery of the fire , Brandeston-hallwas a total uri _—only the south wall remaining . The loss cannot be known accurately . It it said to be upwards of £ 20 , 000 . The mansion , it isstate _., was not insured .

      _OXTOBDSHIBB . Crnc _Ho-onss at a Discount—Mr Matthew , an eminent builder of Oxford , rather than take upon himself the office of alderman of that city , to which he was elected a fortnight ago by a large majority of the town council , has paid the fine—viz . £ 40 . —into the bands of the city treasurer , and another gentleman has been elected in his place .

      _ssiex . Tbb Bubh __ h Fires . —A man , named Hawea , has been examined at the _registrar ' s office at Maldon , when evidence , which appeared to identify him as the incendiary having beeu given , he was committed for trial , - The value of the property _destroyed upon the three farms is now stated to exceed £ 1 , -00 . Asotheb Case or Att ______ j > Scicid * tkom Pesti--tmo- has been brought .- . ore tiie magistrates at Newport . A poverty-stricken sempstress , named Daller , being out of employment , procured a quantity of laudanum , part of which sho gave to her illegitimate child , and then swallowed the larger portion herself . Both mother and child lay under a hedge insensible all night , bnt being found in the morning , medical aid was rend , red , and neither died . The mother will , it is understood , be committed for trial lor the attempt to murder .

      HieawAT Robbery and Murd _ k . —An old man , named Terry , was stopped a few n . gl _. ts since in a bye lane between Rochi ' ord and C ~ u _. « _. lon . and ao severely beaten about ' . he head by af <« tpad , tiiat he has since died . The robber took the old i ... _* iu _. watch and four shillings and sixpence , but ha . * * been apprehended , aid is now in Chelmsford gao * awaiting Iiis trial . T-Phob Fbv __ . —The typhus fever is very prevalent in Rochdale , amoag the fri » h , and u _' eaths occur nearly every day . The inlmliiuttitsare becoming much alarmed , and not without cause .

      _BEH-iHI-K . Accident at Windsor C ' a « i __ b . —An unfortunate accident , from the effect ** of which it is feared the poor fellow will never recover _. nccurrei ! ou _Wwlnesday morning , between Beven and tight o * clock , to a man named Saunders , a lab _. _um-r , iu tbe employ of Mr Lovegrove of Maidenhead , while he _>*«* i engaged in removing the materials i _* f the military knights ' houses , on the lower foundation , wliich had been _purchased b y his master at tht * _mi-u- ' . ; _ile of the property by order of tbe C < ni ; _minsicm . 'rH of Woods aud _Foresti . It appears tbat while -hi : man was standing on the remaining portion ol' ono of the _* walls a too * , briek gave way , and lit * wai pm ipiiated from a height of between twent- and thirty feet , a portion of the wall to which he bad clung falling w th him , into the _base-ftst _befow , _rauBing a fracture of both thighs and hia right arm , _b-side-- other severe injuries . _MrUoldernesaand Mr Peat ! , surgeons , were _i-unediately in attendance , bui . iu consequence of there being no infirmary ward attached to the Wind-

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      sor Dispensary , -ft was necessary to cohvey , the _suf . ferertotbe . union workhouse , a distance of three miles , where "he received every attention from the surgeon , Mr Kidout .

      _RBNT . Mu * __»**« -of a _Cui-D aud Suicide op thb Moram —A ve ry painful act of murder and suicide occurred at Woolwich , tin Tuesday afternoon . The Salsette , which lies moored offthe dockyard , is used as a receiving ship for the seamen ( and their wives in some cases ) who are attached to steamers and other vessels undergoing repair in the dockyard . On the return ofthe Bloodhound steam-vessel , Lieut . Phillips , from the Mediterranean station , a few weeks since , the vessel was taken into the basin and the crew drafted onboard the Salsette , amongst _wheta was the captain ' s cook , a man named Robinson , and hia wife , who had an infant about fifteen months old . Somo domestic differences ofa very painful nature occurred

      between this man and his wife since his arrival at Woolwich , and on Tuesday afternoon , between one and two o ' clock , when in a fit of excitement , she jumped overboard from the Salsette with her infant ia her arms . * An intrepid seaman on board the hulk immecftately sprang in after her , and made a clutch at her dress , just , it is stated , as she was in the act of sinking . This heroic action , however , was unfortunately of no avail , and both mother and child pank beneath the water . Neither of the bodies has yet been recovered . Various reasons have been stated for the rash act'but as these reflect both on the character of the husband and on that of the deceased , it would be unjust to do more than allude to them till the coroner ' s inquest is held .

      H-MPSHt _.-. _Southampton . — -Fail of a Tunnel . —The tunnel now forming under Bar-street and ( loundwell , for the Dorchester and Southampton Railway , suddenly fell for a space of nearly two hundred yards ; twenty men and ten horses had been at work on the very spot but a few minutes previously , and had it occurred while they were at work not one ofthem could have been saved . The principal thoroughfare of the town is completely stopped , and the workshops of Mr Aslatt , coach-builder , whioh are situate on the verge ofthe tunnel , rendered so ' unsafe that they are obliged to discontinue working in them .

      Representation of Newport , Isle of Wight . — The present appearance ofthe register of voters has induced the leaders of the conservatives of this borough to offer a compromise , and that they will withdrawal ! opposition to the return of a libcr . il candidate at the next election , cn condition they are allowed to return one conservative member , expecting as a matter of course that tlie same line of proceeding will beadoptedby the liberals , in order , as it is alleged , 'to preserve the good feeling and peace of

      the town 1 ' We need not say that the proposal was most properly and indignantlv spurned . Thunder Storm and the Elecirio Te _ B _6 Baph . — Last week a thunder storm of short duration occurred at Southampton . The gentleman superintending the electric telegraph at the South-western Railway terminus , states that by the influence ofthe electric fluid , passing along the wireB , the alarm bell of the telegraph was rung , a circumstance that in his experience has never occurred before , although the magnetic needles oi the dial are generally deflected and oscillated during thunder storms .

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      ' ¦ - '• . ABMARTH--. Trebersed . _t-Lovb and Jk _. _loubt . —A most barbarous outrage has been perpetrated at this place . Two rivals for the favours of a servant at that farm engaged in a contest , whieh terminated in one of them receiving seven or eight wounds in various parts of his body , by whioh his nose and under tip were nearly severed from Ms face * , and a severe stab in the side perforated the right lung , so that in breathing the air passed through the orifice . The weapon used by his antagonist was a clasp knife . The uninjured party has been taken into custody .

      " _SoPBESMTiO-in 1847 . —A few days since an unusual circumstance was observed at Pillgwenliy , Newport . A patient ass stood near a house , and a family of not much more rational animals were grouped around it ; a father waa seen passing hiB little son under the donkey , and lifting him over its back a certain number of times , with as much solemnity and precision as if engaged in the performance of a sacred duty . This done , the father took a piece of bread , cut from an _untasted loaf , which he offered the animal'to bite at . Nothing loth , the Jerusalem pony laid hold ofthe bread with his teeth , and instantly the father severed the outer portion of the slice from tbat in the donkey ' s mouth . He next

      clipped off some hairs from the neck of the animal , wbich he cut up into minute particles , and then mixed them with the bread , which he had crumbled . This very tasty food was then offered to the boy who had been passed round the donkey so mysteriously , and the little fellow having eaten thereof , the donkey was removed by his owners ; and the father , his son , and other members of his family were moving off , when a bystander inquired what all these " goings ' on" had been adopted for ? The father started at the ignorance of tbe inquirer , and then , in a halfcontemptuous , half-condescending tone , informed him that" it was to cure his poor sou ' s hoopingcough , to be sure !"

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      Glasgow . —Extensive Fire . —A fire broke out in the mills of Messrs . Ferguson and Co ., at Milend , Bridgeton . The fire originated , it is supposed , by friction in some portion of the machinery . The destruction was most rapid and complete , the whole being burned within two hour * , in defiance of every exertion made to stay its course . The damage sustained amounted , it is said , to nearly £ 30 , 000 , which is fully covered by insurances . We are sorry to think ofthe loss sustained by the four hundred unfortunate workers who will be thrown out of employment by the disaster .

      Invbiolinoand Ron-is . a Surgeon .- Atthe CoUrt of Justiciary held at Glasgow on Thursday , two persons , James Ford and Jane Livingston , were sentenced te 14 years' transportation , for having inveigled Mr Black , a surgeon , into their lodgings , under the- pretence tbat his services were required for a sick person , and then assaulting and robbing him .

      _fe-tushir-. Sunday . Observance ut an Englishman in Scotland . —The foreman of the section now forming near Abernethy of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway , was brought up before a justice of the peace at Perth , at tho instance of the procurator fiscal , charged with a breach of the decorous observance of the sabbath . The party was ah Englishman , and only lately come to Scotland ; and had caused six men to be employed on tbe previous morning on some preliminary work connected with laying the rails , which had been attended with considerable noise , bad attracted a crowd ofthe villagers , and disturbed the parish minister at his morning studies . The case was established ; but in consequence of the alleged ignorance ofthe offender of the strictness with which the day is observed in Scotland , and that tbe work ordered was of a trifling nature , the fine was mitigated to 6 s . and costs .

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      -HB FEVER . We continue to hear ofthe spread of ftuXcahmity and famine and pestilence combined are fast engendering violence and outrage . The change from winter to Bummer weather haB operated unfavourably on the condition of the country . The calamity , true to the Persian saying , that " curse , like young chicken * always come home to roost , " is rapidly extending to the wealthy class . Dr . Traill , of Skull , has died , as also Mr Gregory of Coole Porte , Gort ( father of the present member ) . In the midst of this dreadful misery , in the very place where famine and fever are at their height , the

      higher classes are doing nothing for tbe sufferers , but , with an infatuation akin toinsanity , closing the doors of relief against the destitute . In Castlebar and W ' _estport in the west , Bandon and Bantry , the depots of southern destitution and death , there is the same fatal and . intentional neglect . The Bandon workhouse has been closed . Relief works have been rejected , in consequence there is great misery _andsicknes ' _-. f but there " b no rate ! The Temporary Act is evaded , and this while nearly every second bouse in the town is represented as a small fever hospital I Then in Bantry , ' of whose workhouse Dr Stephens has just reported scenes worthy the horrors of romance , the guardians , as well as the _representatives of _[ roperty in the _ourrounditig country , have

      resolved neither to afford any admission to the shocking workhouse , such as it is , nor to impose any rate for its support , nor to employ the labouring population ( of which there is a superabundance ) , nor to give effect to the Temporary Relief Act . This policy is not more inhuman than suicidal . The Cork Rtporur even asserts that a conspiracy bas been entered into _amnnest the owners and representatives of landed and other property in the south west of Cork county . against the very existence of the labouring classes , inasmuch as they neither will allow their admission to tbe workhouse , collect a race for their support , employ them extensively , nor carry into

      effect the Temporary Relief Act . _BilUNA . —MORTAIIT . IN TBB WoRKHOUW . —The number of deaths . which have occurred in the workbouse from Wednesday the 14 th to Wednesday the 21 st instant included , amounts to 67 ; and from the 6 th of last October up to the present date 750 human beings have died in that establishment . Dr Devlin has died of fever contracted at the workhouse , and wo now regret to have to state that Dr Whtttaker _, who was , some short time a _^ _o , appointed to superintend the medical department of that establishmen t in conjunction with Dr Devlin , is uow very aeriouB ' y ill of lever caught iu the _discharge of his professional duties to the _paupiii's . _G-iwir . — _Lovobrma . — The * , are 250 fever

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      patients in the hospital of the workhouse * and during the last week no fewer than thirty-two deaths have occurred within that establishment . The Right Rev . Dr'Coeh has died afc his residence in _Loughrea ; from the effects of an attaok of the prevailing disorder . The deceased was in his _78 _oh year . This makes the second vacancy within the last fews weeks in the number of Rtnaau Catholic bishops . Sligo . —Typhus fever is growing worse every day ; it has spread irom the environs of the town , where the poor live , into the leading streets , and tbere is not a street in Sligo free from it . As tlie warm weather approaches we fear the pestilence will become more prevalent . Unfortunately there is no account _ v _> . _" . hvanvof _ouroarish officers of the number of

      deaths which occur , but we know that funerals arc now more general than ever we remembered them , and they have ceased to create any surprise or astonishment . ' * ¦ . C _ on _ , e _ . —In _cansequence of the alarming increase of sickness in the workhouse of this union , the guardians found it necessary , at their meeting on Thursday , to appoint an assistant physician . Wexford . —Enniscobtht Wobhho . se . —Fever is making dreadful ravages in the Enniscorthy workhouse ; fifteen deaths occurred on last Wednesday , and seventeen on Thursday . Mr Kennedy , the clerk , and his wife , are both labouring severely under the disease—Mr Kennedy so severely that

      slight hopes are entertained of his recovery . Cobk . —Inconsequence of the influx of paupers suffering from typhus fever , into this city , the following resolution has been adopted by the authorities : — "Thatthe Mayor be requested to issue a proclamation under the provisions of the act 69 th George III ., for the exclusion ef infected persons , _<_ o out of the city of Cork , to prevent contagion . " _DuB-ir _* . —The illness under which the Lord-Lieutenant has been for some time labouring has , within the Jast few days , assumed a most alarming character ; so much so that his nearest relatives have been summoned to attend at the Castle , from England .

      the -FFECIS of famine . Waterford . —A formidable demonstration took place on Friday in this county . A body of about 2 , 000 men , farming and mining labourers , proceeded to the house of the Protestant rector of Annestown . They complained of destitution ; he gave them a supply of bread , and tbey departed , meditating an attack on the city , when the military were put under arms ; and the police threw out videttes to signal invasion when it approached . _T-pp-B-Bt . _** _-NttsAon . —On Friday night last a murder was committed in the barony of Lower Ormond , in this county . A man of the name of Liddell , who had been steward * to Mr Synge , was shot dead at his house in the village of Terryglass . As yet the cause of the bloody deed has not transpired . _Killeagh . —A man named Patrick Lonergan was murdered on Saturday night , near his even door , by two men , who robbed him of a owt . of meal . * Erbis . —A _s _. _ockingmurder-fls been committed at

      a place called Tallagh , near Belmuilet . A man named Michael Lavelle , who resided in a house close to the village , went , along with his wife , to the fair of Belmuilet , leaving his nephew , Patrick Dixon , a boy about twelve years old , in charge ofthe house . Some time after the departure of Lavelle , another nephew of his , a boy named Michael Mullowney , aged seventeen years , was seen hovering about the place . About three o ' clook in the afternoon Lavelle and his wife returned home , and to their great horror found the boy Dixon lying dead on the ground inside tbe door of the house , his head covered with blood and wounds . Beside him lay a turf spade and a tongs deeply stained with blood . The house was rifled ofthe little provision which they had left in it in the morning . Mullowney , who bare but a very indifferent character , was at once taken into custody . The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial , but so satisfactory did that of a female child , about nine years old , appear tothe jury , that they at once found a verdictof wilful murder against Mullowney , who has been committed .

      Carlow . —Attack on Meal Carts . —On the night ofthe 16 th ult ., seven men stopped some carmen proceeding from this town tothe County Wicklow _. at Benuekerry Ford , and commanded them to give up the meal which they imagined they possessed . On being informed that they had seed oats _andnotmeai they proceeded to open the sacks , and finding they contained but the oats they allowed them to proceed . Shortly after , about ten o ' clock at nighty two carmen , who were conveying Indian meal to the Rath , were stopped by the same party , and called upon to surrender the meal , but the men refused , when a regular attack commenced on the carmen , which terminated , after a gallant struggle , in the route ofthe robbersone ofthe men in the charge of the meal having speedily disposed of four of the party , although he wielded but a " loaded whip" in defence of the property . The robbers effected tbeir escape .

      CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL . In Tipperary there are at least 20 , 000 acres of prime land at this moment unprepared for cultivation , in the south riding of this county alone , and no preparation is making to seed-sow any portion of them . ¦ <

      . Distress In Manchester. Fearful As Iat...

      . DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER . Fearful as iathe amount of distress in the town as ' indicated by the obtrusive mendicancy of our streets , we fear that it is _surpassed by that which from a variety of causes _i-i hidden from the publio gaze , and finds no means of making itself felt or known to those who have the means to relieve it . The subject was brought very painfully under notice on Wednesday night , at the annual meeting of tbe Manchester Town Mission , in the report of thnt highly important institution . From that document we learn that the agents employed by the mission , whose duty lies chiefly in places where wretchedness , distress , and their companions , degradation and crime , hide their heads , and whose domiciliary visits render them acquainted with the actual condition of the very poorest classes , have been impeded in their , work by the calls for aid .

      One or two , outof numerous instances which they have recorded in the booksof the society , were siren in the report on Wednesday night , and of these we avail ourselves as coming from a trustworthy , source . Supposing the people to possess means enough t _» purchase food fov their sustenance , their condition in respect to habitations is shocking enough to excite a feeling of pain for that condition . Take an instance : In one district , a missionary reports , that in one house , containing four small apartments , there were thirty-three individuals residing ; in a front room above stairs there were 19 persons . In another liouse ofthe same dimensions there were 27 , in another of two _apavtments 25 , and in another of five _apartnmnts . 41 . But the inhabitants of these miserable herding place , have not employment , and they have not food .

      In some cellars great distress was found by the agents ; in two , approached by one entrance , a front and aback cellar , 19 individuals were found residing , many ofthem were unemployed and in great distress . In another was found a man and his wife and children , without work , the children nearly naked , and nothing to sleep upon , except a few shavings spread on a damp flagged floor . In another was found a respectable looking woman , with six children , and only one in work , and the earnings of that one were only __ _n . a week . Another missionary reports tbat he visited a family in a cellar , consisting ofa woman and her child and mother , both without emr . Ioyment ; the mother was out seeking work . The neighbours informed hira that for a whole week before they had found out their condition they had only had three meals .

      On examination he found that there was no fo _* 'd of any kind in tbe cellar ; he went out and _purchased a loaf and some other articles , and placed them . pon a small table ; when the poor woman saw the bread she burst into tears , rose from the stool on which she sat , went to the table and threw iherself on the loaf and wept over it , apparently , unable to _express her gratitude for the gift . Can anything be more shocking , more affecting . than such a case ? And these cases are but a few out of many such which are reported . They are not cases where the dissipation of the father or the mother condemns hapless helpless children to suffer tlte _^ pangs of hunger and cold , but where the parents are desirous to do anything they can to secure a scanty pittance to feed their little ones to the exclusion oi themselves , If

      we estimate the working population of our mills alone at 40 , 000 hands , we believe , from the number of mills stopped , that nearly one-seventh of the whole are wholly _unomployed _, _; that one-third are on short time , and the rest in full employment . In what state are tho 7 , 000 out of work ? From whence do they draw their support ?—are questions more easily asked _. than answered . Sickness , the sickness of want , already prevails ; and if the people continue to be herded _together in the way above described for a much longer period , the consequences must be dreadful . With damp cellars for their habitations , and shavings for their beds , and rags for their only coverin g ; many of them dirty in their habits at the

      best of times , and much more so now , when tbe inanition of despair is uoon them , the wonder is that fever is not raging fiorcely among them . Two or three weeks ago , a member of the board of guardians speaking of the deaths in the workhouse , said that , in the majority of cases , those who died there came in . but a day or two previous , in the last stages of disease aad destitution ; they were in , in fact , but to die ; and with the above facts before us , we can imagine somewhat , but nothing near the reality , of the sufferings they undergo before they are driven to what proves their last refuge . We leave the iaots we have stated for the consideration of the public .

      Extraordinart And Fatal Accident At Mldd...

      _EXTRAORDINART AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT MlDDLBham— On Friday morning last , while at exercise at Middlehara , Sir John Gerard ' s mare Curiosity , ait - Mi'A . Johnstone ' s Little Nell , and one ofthe lads , were struck dead by a _fl-ish of lightning . The poor lad , our correspondent adds , was shivered to pieces , limb from limb . The horse , were trained by D „ _wson . —Manchester Courier .

      Law Vktwd- Repeal.—Royal - Prerogative. ...

      LAW VKtWD- REPEAL . —ROYAL - PREROGATIVE . - TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN ENGLAND . _FEL-OW-CouKTRTUEIf , Yon have great influence over your friends in Ireland ; I beB-ech you to use that influence for Ihe redemption of your countrymen , for tbeir emancipation from the present abject state of slavery both of body and mind . They have ever been the dupes of hollow-hearted , cold-blooded , designing knaves . Teach them , beseech thera , implore them to think for themselves to act for themselvesto rely upon

      , themselves ; to put their whole trust in God , but none in man . At the same time aid and assist by all means those who will help them , or teach them how to obtain their rights ; not imaginary or contingent rights _. out real , direct , and . onaj { - _« rights , wbich they themselves can enjoy and exercise . I beg to direct your attention to the subjoined correspondence . It is worthy of your careful perusal . Faithfully yours , Dublin , April 25 , 1847 . Patrick O'Bioama .

      To Thb Editor Of The Freeman. Clontarf C...

      TO THB EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN . Clontarf Crescent , April 3 , 1847 . My dear Sib , —I have just been handed the Freeman of this day , in wbich my name is mentioned by Mr O'Higgins , one of a class of men who are leading the people of Ireland to believe thatthe _Sove-eign . at the _request o the Irish nation , has a right to revive the Irish Parliament in Dublin , and that , in leading the people , to believe that _. I am leading them erroneously . This may be Mr O'Higgins' opinion , but it has not been the opinion of the first lawyers of other days , the first statesmen of other days , nor is it the opinion of the first lawyer of the present day . ' He says there is no analogy between the case I drew of Charles I . summoning his Irish parliament , and

      Queen Victoria summoning her Irish _patlia-iecttbat there is an act called the Act of Union now in existence tbat did not exist then . I ask him what union , except as Lord Byron truly named it , the union between the shark and his prey 1 Other men have told him that the so-called act of Union is a nullity , a fraud , a deception . Men of eminence have told him so-men whose names wi'l ever live in the hearts ef Irishmen . Plunket told him so , Charles Kendal Bushetold hira so , Saurin told him so , Foster told him so , Jebb told him so , and he told him so , whose opinion must ever have weight , both at the barand iu tho senate house—O'Connell . Laws , not legislatures , the Irish parliament were delegated by their constituencies to make , to preserve ; the

      rights—yes , tbe rights , as finally settled in the glorious year of 1782—of the Irish people—not to destroy themselves , were they commanded by their constituencies . Our parliament still lives . The Irish people say it lives . It may sleep , but the overtaxed gentry of Ireland will soon awake it—will soon cry aloud for it . The _leaseless farmers cry aloud for it—the _famished , dying labourers cry aloud for it—the seedless ground cries aloud for it—thc coffin less unburied of Skirbereen demand it—tbe dog-torn corpses of Schull demand it—the famine-stricken , delirious babes demand it—the ' unnatural joyful smile of the _parent at his dying child demands it—the burning leper-houses ef Bantry demand it—the over-worked , unpaid Catholic clergy demand it—the purseless ( and untiring

      in their charity ) Protestant clergy demand it—th _. rejection of Smith O'Brien ' s motion by the imperial parliament demand it , as also that of Mr J . O'Connell—the beggared artizan , the ruined _shopkeepr-r , the failing merchant , the _lonmless liberties of Dublin , demand it . The citizens of Dublin to a man have already demanded it . The Irish nation want it—look for it—though it may be just now as weak as a child ' s cry—cry for it . And am . 1 to be told that the Queen of Ireland has it not in her prerogative , without referring to her imperial parliament ( magnilequently so called ) , to revive her Irish parliament ? Am I to be told , because a base , a fraudulently concocted act _standB on the state-book , that the Sovereign of Ireland has not the legal , the constitutional , the royal newer to summon , according to the wishes

      of 8 , 000 , 000 of her faithful subjects , her Irish parliament ? Perish the thought—perish such absurdity ' . A nation ' s will is a Sovereign ' s will . We are told the English nation will not consent to such a proceeding—that Queen Victoria is Queen of England too . Be it so ; but the Irish nation demand it . Thepeople whe have bled—have fought—have diedfor he-Task for the assemblage of their parliament . We ask our Queen for tbe exercise of her prerogative . We ask the Queen of Ireland to call her Irish parliament . He of other times said— " For anation to be free , 'tis sufficient that she wills it . " S __ Uwe __ efreeoT slaves ? Wilt this imperial parliament be juBt towards this green land of ours ? lam , dear Sir , yours very faithfully , G . _H . Kerm .

      P . S . —As to the Sovereign repealing the Emancipation Act , and so forth , such things are too puerile to deal with for a moment . May I beg you will pardon my taking up so much of your space ? but the _importance of the question at such a period will plead my apology . G . II , K .

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      LAW vnBVB _PBEROGATIVE . TO THE ID 1 TOB OF TUB IB-HUN - JOVAUAl , Si-, — . he < ty } e of Mr Serin , letter leads me to conclude that I bave mistaken him for another gentleman of tbe name . However , as that does not in any way affect the _qui-tloa at issue , viz . — "Law versus Royal Prerogative , " I shall , with your permission , submit a plain statement of the cast , for Mr Keriu ' s consideration , as well tt for that of the sensible and unprejudiced portion of my fellow-countrymen . Mr Kerin ' s letter ig an eloquent one . It is written in a high-sounding , dashing , patriotic strain ; and if I might _vsntttre to give an opinion of tbe character of the writer , from the style oftlie letter , ! should say that be feela very acutely the wrongs and Bufferings of his country , and would redress them if he could . But to repeal the Union

      in the way he proposes , or tbat any thing he has said bears upon the question , or wilt in aay manner affect it , except to retard it , is quite a different thing . In fact , Mr Kerin ' s letter carries its own refutation on the face of it . He says that " our parliament still lives . " Tbe Irish people say "it lives—that all Ireland , alive and dead , young and old , demand the restoration of tha Irish purl ' anient , wbich is not dead , but _sleepetb—that for a nation to be free ' tis sufficient that she wills it . " Now , it' all Ireland demand it , which no doubt she has don . _i , how comes it that sbe is not free ! "A nation ' s will , " he says , "is •* sovereign ' s will ; " and that the Sovereign | Of Ireland has the legal , the constitutional , the royal power to summon , according to tbe wishes of eight millions of her faithful subjects , ber Irish parliament . " We ask the Queen of Ireland to call ber Irish parliament—we ask our Queen for the exercise of her prerogative . " How comes it , let me ask , with all this royal

      prerogative—with all this friendl y feeling of the Queen for the eight millions of her faithful Irish subjects—with their almost unanimous demand for a Repeal of the Union --that the parliament is no * , bas not been long since sitting snug and comfortable in College-green 1 Accord _, ing to Mr _Kerin , the fault is not in the Irish people , tbe fault' is not in the soverei gn , who , it appears , is ready aad willing to comply with the wishes of eight millions of ber faithful subjects . How comas it after all this unanimity and _goo-l wishes and friendly feeling between her _Mujesty and her faithful subjects that the Irish parliament haK not been summoned long ago ? How comes it that that parliament is not sitting in Dublin ! The _ariBtisr is obvious . It is because the Union it _ tut ~ stands in the way , and says that while it exists the Irish parliament shall not sit in Ireland or any place , and the law and the principles of the constitution , and common sense , " say that the sovereign has not the power to set the law aside _.

      I have said _before , and I now repeat it , and challenge refutation , tbat if royal prerogative can set aside one statute law , it ean set aside another , any other . If tbe TJ nion statute can be set aside by prerogative the _emancipa ii < M > act can be set aside b y the . same power . Tbere _cmi be no doubt whatever upon this point , Yet Mr K-vin treats this plain proposition as a thing so puerile as to be beneath his notice but this apparent contempt is not un answer to the objection . A formidable array of eminent names have been adduced in favour of _prerogative , but against the law and one of the well-known principles of the British _conatitu . tion : the Plunketts , the Bushes , the Saurens , the Jebbs , and even tbe great O'Connell himself , all of whom it is said _declared the Union to be " a nullity , a fraud , a _deception . " Jt was very easy , and safe too , to say beforo

      the act of Union became law , " do not dare to lay your hands _u'lon the constitution , " " resistance to such a law becomes a duty , " " the Irish people will not be bound to obey it . " But did any of those eminent men make use of such language since the two coun tris wera united by law ? No , not a word of the sort . It was before tbe net _piissid tbat tbey made these rhetorical flourishes . It is an net of sheer dishonesty in any man to lead the Irish peopK' tu beliere that those great men expressed these opini _. n * subsequently to ihe act of Union , Those wise , prudent , and far-seeing patriots , to whom this language is attributed , the Plunketts , the Jebbs , the Saurens , the _Bu'hos , 4 o . likeothtr patriots—Repeal patriots of modern _days—m-oepted of all honours and all the emoluments they could _Ri-t from the enemies of their country ; and took rinht good care not to use such language since tbe act passed .

      The only _ocr-wi who yaid , since tbat period , that the act of Uuion should uot b > . > obeyed—that tbe act waa not binding—was the 'ate _Counsellor Walsh , for which he was tried , convicted , anil _sentenced , to six mouths ' impriionmcnt iu the gxo ) of Newgate , and to fin . ! ' . all to keep ihe _paaee for seven years . And out / of your grcat autnoritie « , a (¦ rent lawyer nn < l statesman , said in my _heaiing , aud in tlio hearing of many others , that the sentence on John Walsh waa not only just but hnitnt . Is there a «» ne man in Ireland who would run the risk of advising the people to resist the act of Union—to disob . _* y it ! Would Mr _Koriu give such advice 1 I should think lie w _. iiiiii not .

      Now , then , the roj < a _yi- ' . iag _. tive ' «„ _s _> oi _ e „ t in as full vigour , _?»_ _itr _. _toj Icte an . l powerful in every respect as it was in the rc pr . of Charles I . or James II ., Hnd I believe it is high treason to _rosint ( ho _prtirogative of the crown ; but so _rfiwoujlily convinced am I by the opinions of great constitutional lawyers aad _stutesmen that the crown never bad , nor ever ought to Iia . e , the powtr which Irish patriots attribute to It , now and tban , when it answers api-pc . » p , tbat Iwould not only lakeuparws

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      myself , but advise others to tatteup arms , _» 4 t ,, T ] foree the exercise of any such unconstitutional 1 . H tive aa that which Mr Serin and _othsrs pray her ___ _^ Majesty , Queen Victoria , to exercise . ' Now there ' r _^ bo mistake about what I have said ; It must b _« _W strictly legal and _constitntional , or seditious and " " *' gonable—there is no middle course . What I h - * is tither not lawful , or 1 have subjected _mvttir _* _^ criminal prosecution , for which I bave no _ambiZ ¦ Any man » ho wonld teach the people to _ nl » the political nonsense with which they have been A * I Intoxicated , bewildered , for the last twentv * would deserve well of his country , and become _Lif ' ! titled to tbe character and honours dae to tru I bad , for some short tim * past , indul ged the h empty sound and flippant assertion were abou t ?' _^ to common sense j but it is painful tofedti ,. * « . J _*"* _* is declining . Irish politics instead of adv . h _% retrograding . Every morement appears , now J !? ** _"H be made with a view to melodramatic effect and ' i

      us cuu _juoge irom my intercourse _withnw fel | 0 * sens , the impression which these Hi-considered . _.-f _montades make , _isas instructive , at _-sefttt , »_ _4 1 « , m _'"' as the feelings excited by one of those plays so f u _iP stirring incident , I have heard Braham sing and gu speak : both were equally cheered , " and both _eww ! equal benefits upon the Irish people , the only difW being that the man of song lives honestly upon his _^ resources , while the man of words lives upon the tat wrung from an oppressed people . * I have now but one of Mr Kerin ' s authorities in _fiwts of prerogative to dispose of . It will not be denied ! anyone tbat where two things contradict each ott _ both cannot be true—that every proposition must ? either true or false—that when a man gives opir , _j 0 _ eontrary to each other upon any question , he cannot admitted as an authority upon that question . s 0 !! upon these universally admitted princi ples of right _« son , I shall prove that Mr O'Connell , upon whose op $ a u Mr Kerin relies . with so much confidence , cannot be a mitted as an authority upon either the _qusstioa of fi . peal or Prerogative : for these reasons : —

      First—Because , upon many occasions , but more uu _cially at the great monster meetings at Cash el and ottu places , Mr O'Connell pledged his reputation bs ( constitutional lawyer , that the Union could be repeal- ] witbout the intervention of either houses of parliament . that it was unnecessary to petition parliament on the _tg _^ ject ; and that he subsequently petitioned parliament _^ Repeal the Union . Secondly—Because , at tbe great meeting at Mullag _^ mast , he declared " before high Heaven , in the fice e * America and Europe , that the Union was void ; " than , has since petitioned parliament to repeal the Uni ts which he declared void . ' Thirdly—Because be solemnly declared in the Ft * . t _. nda , and other places , that none but the King , Lor and Commons oi Ireland sbould make laws for Ireland _, that the Irish parliament should be , to all intents * _jj purposes , completely independent of the English parK _* . ment .

      Fourthly—Because , in the authentic report ofthe ' 4 . _cussion with Mr Butt on the Repeal of the Uuion , in ft , Dublin corporation , he has said distinctly and aatho % lively that" the Irish parliament may revive without ii 8 necessity of going through the drudgery of getting tbe if . proval of the English legislature , "— fSee Report , - >* m 62 . ) That" the Queen might at any time issue writs for Its convention of an Irish parliament , "—( See Report , pan 62 . ) Fifthly—Because , in the reply wbich closed the debatt , he said— " I am ready to do this—let tbem give us _ewa a dependent iiarliament—a parliament inferier to tbe English parliament I would accept as an instalment , ii found the people ready to go with me , and if it wtte off-red me by competent authority . "—( See Report , page 199 . )

      Sixthly—Because , in his place inthe House of Commons , wben the' Coercion Act was nnder discussion , bs said ibat be never agitated the Repeal of the . Union a . cept as a means to ai end , and tbat that end was "Justice to Ireland ' , " that be would " rather see that house doins justice to bis country , than that any _necessity for _Repeal should exist . Tbe only reason I * i _ t « for being * a Repealer is the injustice ofthe present government towards my country , and the total want of hope that _jus'ice will be done to my country . "—( Seefr « t _* ian '{ Journal , 22 nd Feb ., 1833—Mirror of Parliament , same date . )

      Seventhly-Because in November , 1843 , he solemnly declared before God and bis country tbat tbe Repeal As * sociatic-n was based upon tbe principle of petitioning par . Iiament for the Repeal of tbe Union—tbat petitions te parliament were adopted at tbe Repeal Association , a : i subsequently presented to parliament by the very maa wbo bad often previously declared tbat petitioning parliament was . wholly unnecessary , because the Queen had power to Repeal the Union , by summoning tbe Irish parliament to meetin Dublin . Eighthly _—Becanse be said , at a meeting in St Andrew's Parish , on ,. Sunday , 22 nd of October , 1843 , " Give me but six months of perfect tranquillity , and will have a parliament in College-green or give my head npon the block . " The people relying upon this promise remained tranquil—a great deal too tranquil—but they have not gotten tbe parliament in College-green , nor their beirayer ' s head upon tbe block . He has taken care that they shall hare neither .

      Ninthly — Because , at a "Great Monster meeting " held near Bantry , October , 1845 , where the people of Skihbereen and surrounding districts assembled in thousands , and complained to tbe "Liberator" of the cruel tyranny of their landlords , who were turning tbem out of tbeir holdings , though they owed no rent ; of the loss of the potato though many of thtm had topay £ 10 aa acre for the ground ; of ' the delapidation of their cabins , _tviich let tbe riin down in torrents ; and in order to excite the sympathy and support of their " Liberator" held up their cards of admission as aisociates of tbe " Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , " Well , what _iras Ur O'Connell ' s answer to these heartrending complaints : Let it never be forgotten . Let it sink and settle deep in

      the souls of honest men , as a warning against hollow _, hearted trickery and knavery : — " I have not coma here to talk about bad landlords , about rotten potatoes or crazy old houses ; but I bave come bere to talk about that which will soon redress all your grievances , the Repeal of the Union . " The Union is uot repealed , but deatb by _'tarvation has redressed the _grievances , ofthe Repeal Association of Skibbereen . And the few wbo have survived bave been basely deserted by tbe man in whom all their hopes were centred , and for whom and at whose bidding they increased the hatred of their landlords . And tbis is the man whose opinions , Ut Kerin tells us , " must always bave weight at the bar and in the senate . "

      Tenthly—Because an inferior and dependent parliament is not an _independent parliament , subject to no power but the monarch of Ireland , Eleventhly—Because Mr O'Connell led thc great majority ofthe people of Ireland to believe that tbe Queen had the power to summon tbe Irish parliament to meet in Dublin , while at the game time , and so late as Jan . last , he apologised to bis country on two Mondays successively in Conciliation Hall , for not having the draft of a bill ready to enable ber Majesty Queen Victoria to summon her Irish parliament to meet in Dublin . Now , if

      the Queen had tbe power to summon the Irish parliament to meet in Dublin , by virtue ofthe Royal prerog-tive , where was ihe use or necessity of bringing in a bill to enable her . Majesty to exercise a power wbich she already possessed , and wbich was said 10 be one of tbe prerogatives of tbe crown r This is so palpably contradictory , absurd , nnd ridiculous , tbat no otber people on tbe face of the earth but my deluded countrymen would permit It ta pass unnoticed . To _eutn up further would be only a waste of time . Let every one , therefore , draw tbeir own conclusions from tbe facta stated .

      Ia conclusion , I have te express a hope that neither Mr Kerin nor any one else has a wish to see our beloved Queen in a . predicament similar to that of Charles I . or James II . The first charge against the latter unfortnnate monarch was , thathe attempted to set the law aside by tbe mere exercise of wbathe considered tbe royal prerogative . The charge is in tbe following words ( see Act 2 Seas . Wm , and M . cap . 2 . ) : — Charge I . " Tbat he ( James II . ) assumed and exercised a power of dispensing with and _suspending laws and the execution of laws without consent of parliament . " Patmck _O'H _ioouw . No , 15 , North Anne-street , 9 th of April , 1847 . ' "

      P . S , —I beg leave to say , wbich I do with tbe utxott candour and sincerity , that I do not wish for a triump h orer Mr Kerin or _anyone else ; but I do wish rosea my countrymen think aud judge for themselvesto see them exercise tbat reason which God bas g iven them , and wbich is the pride and glory of human nature , And that I consider one teacher of _sonni political principles is _warth a hundred leaders . P . _O'H ,

      The Nationai. Fisakcss.-A Parliamentary ...

      The Nationai . _Fisakcss .-A Parliamentary paper , containing an account of the public income down to the 5 th April , 1847 , baa just been issued . The document gives the inc » iue of the year under one head , aad the expenditure under another . The income forf the year ending 5 th April * £ 54 , 473 , 761 , and the expenditure i » £ 51 , 708 , 670 , giving the large excess of * 2 , 764 , 181 ef income over the expenditure . This » a very gratifying fact . On comparing , however , the balances in the exchequer on the 5 tb April , 1847 , _» _] find a considerable falling off at the latter d ate , in April , 1840 , the balances amounted to £ 6 . - 07 , 483 , ! while at the coramrncement of the present month 1 they were only £ 5 , 459 , 835 . being less by upwards ov a million than they were last year . The reduction 1 is no doubt to be accounted for from Ihe large eubib i which it has beeu found necessary to advance to Ireland .

      Tnu _CnwKss Jpkk * 'K _ nxa . " - Thia vessel , 1 commanded by Shing-Shing , new on her passages from Hong Kong to this country , is daily expected t to arrive lit her Majesty ' a Deckyard Woolwich , Sue 3 is the bearer of most valuable presents from thel Emperor to her Majesty and Prince Albert . Thy ' will be the first Chinese vessel ever brought to Eng- ii land . She is . _olely manned by Chinese sailors , it i * i understood that a troop of celebrated jugg lers are 1 on board , and have been engaged to perform in thist country . On Friday afternoon last a beautiful whilalarfea was seen , pouring forth its melodious cotes , in a field 1 near Heap .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01051847/page/6/