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      _aCCUWKTS , 0 FWSCE 8 , MC . _3 _" 3 DDE-t AKPllEIASCH 0 _I , T lteATH 0 F TUB SlSTKR OF -: HBUTBDKiKoF CHiCHKSTKR .-OnThur 8 _daymornrag Miss Watkms , ' sister of the late Dean of _Chichester , was found dead in the back _roim second floor of 12 , _UolywelUtreet , Strand . Upon Mrs Dibble . vi * landlad y , going into her room between eight and ameo clock , she found her partially Bitting up in bed . and quite dead . Mr _Earquhaf , assistant to Mr Walker , surgeon , Drury-lane , was sent for ; and he not only said that she had been dead fer hours , bat that Bhe had , in his opinion , died nnder the most destitute circumstance ? . He therefore felt it to be his duty to give tha hey of deceased ' s apartments to Mr Baker , the parochial officer . Nothing in the _Bhapeoffood was found in deceased ' s apartments , and ber body was a complete skeleton . Deceased had formerly occupied G , Howard-street , and was between Bixty and seventy years of age .

      ExnarsivK _Robbekv at _Fudojtg ' s Hotel . —On Saturday a robbery to a considerable amount was discovered to have taken place at Fladong ' _s Hotel , Oxford-street . On _Fridayjeveningavery fashionablydressed man , between thirty-five and forty years of age , and about five feet eight inches high , entered the hotel m question , and after partaking of some refreshment requested to be accommodated with a bed ; be retired to reBt at ten o ' clock , and at an early boor in the morning , upon one of the servants going _downstairs , he fonnd that the front door bad teen unchained and unlocked . Being satisfied that soma ctift * an & t have made his egress from the premises _, it was ascerfained , on examination , that the gentleman - ' who had engaged the bed as before

      alluded to , had made Ms escape , having left behind a small carpet bag , containing a few articles of bnt little , if any value . Other apartments were next searched , and it was found that from a box inthe B _' Uin ? room on the first floor had been stolen , eleven Back notes of £ 20 each , a gold watch , a gold snuffbox , and two foreign notes , one of them for 1 , 000 francs and the other for 500 francs . Tbe whole of the said property belongs to a gentleman named Marsh , who for some days past has been staying at the hotel . The outer door of the room bore no marks of violence , but from the appearance of the box . the lidof it was beyond all donbt forced open with a chisel . Information of tbe robbery was , in the course of tbe afternoon , circulated throughout the whole of the divisions of the police .

      _DTQOESTS . Duxa FROM _Eitisa Ytuaw Soap . —Before W . Carter , E < q ., atthe Shard ' s Arms Tavern , Old Kentroad , as to the death of Sarah Newry , aged 23 , which was alleged to have taken place in consequence of eating a large quantity of yellow soap , Mrs Norris , of 1 . Alpha-street , Old Kent road , stated that the deceased was quite imbeciie _. and had been placed under her care by her father , who paid six Shillings a week . Oo Wednesday morning _. she directed some soap which she was using , to be placed in the next room where the deceased was sitting . Soon after deceased was attacked witb a fit , and Mr Lodge saw her . It was fonnd that she had eaten some of tho soap ; she thought about an ounce , or an ounce and a half . The deceased died the next mornimr . Mr Lodge , of

      Ryelane , Peckham , surgeon , gave it as his opinion that the deceased died in consequence of the fit , and the exhaustion brought on by her having eaten the soap . Thejury returned a ver . lict to that effect . Accident on the Brighton Railway . —Before Mr "W . Garter , the coroner , at the Railway Tavern , Kewoross , as to the death ef James Griffiths , aged 37 , a fireman on tbe Croydon line of railway . W . Mitchell , also a fireman belonging to the company , stated that on Thursday evening , about seven o ' clock , he waa on the platform at the station at New-cross , Deptfqrd , and the deceased was at Ms engine , which was going to Croydon | trimming bis buffer lamps . He crossed one of the lines , apparently to go to a . shed on the other side , when at that instant , the Brighton express train came down from London , and tbe engine struck

      the deceased and knocked him down on one of the side tables . The train was going at the rate of forty miles an boor , and did not stop . Upon going to the deceased , he was lying denbled up , and his face covered with blood . He was quite dead . He had been in the employ of the company abont two years , and ongbt to have known the Brigh ' on express train would be down ; but he mnst have forgotten it , as it arrived at its proper time , bnt no whistle was blown . Mr Anderson , the station master , raid that the deceased had a fracture on tbe top of the skull , and another en the forehead . The line was quite clear at the time , and there was no occasion for the whistle to be sounded ; and as tbe steam was blowing off the deceased's engine , he probably did not hear the train coming . Verdict , * Accidental death /

      FIS . ES . Pobtmas-eqoaek . — -A fire has occurred at 17 , Seymour-street , _Fortman-gquare . occupied by Mrs A . J . Pocbiu , a lady of property . When the police entered they fonnd the whole of the bedding and drapery in the second floor front in flames , and the night clothes ofthe unfortunate lady who owned the building were also burning . Several engines arrived in quick succession , and tbe firemen having setto work _vigarously they succeeded in getting the mastery over the flames , but unfortunately not nntil Mrs rochin was most frightfully burned . A medical man was promptly in attendance . The premises and furniture were considerably damaged . From the fact of a book and candlestick being found in bed it is supposed that Mrs Pochin was reading in bed , and tbat she mast

      have fallen asleep , and nntil she became surrounded with tae flames was unconscious of what had happened * . The escapes of ths Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire were very speedily on the spot _Kknsisgtos-koid . —On Saturday morning _absut fonr o ' clock a fire , nearly attended with fatal results _, broke out in the lower part ofthe premises occupied by Mr E . Low , pastry cook , No . 2 , York-place , _Kenninstrn-road . When _discovered , the cellar and shop were completely in ablaza , and the occupier saved his life by leaping from the top room window . Several engines were soon on the spot , and there being an abundance of water , were set to work and the fire Boon extinguished , bnt not before the lower part of the budding and its content'were destroyed .

      H * 8 CEI £ ASE 0 C 3 . BcBiii , op the Poob . —Parish Dispctes . — -At an inquest held at the Grange , Carey-street , before Mr Bedford , on the body ofa man lying io King ' s College Hospital , the secretary of that institution applied to the coroner to make an order upon the parish of St Giles to bury the body . The coroner said he had no power to do so . The secretary stated that the man was brought from his lodgings ia St Giles ' s , and on his arrival was found to be dead . Tbe parish officers of St Giles ' s wonld , no doubt , as thev had always done before , refuse to bury the body , on the ground tbat it was sot in tbat parish , and St Clement Danes wonld not , as it had been brought there . Under these circumstances , the hospital , therefore , had always to bary the bodies of those wbo died there , an expense it conld not well bear . The hospital was intended to cure people , and not bury tbem . The coroner Slid he thought the expense should be _bomo by one ofthe parishes , bat he could give no order on the subject .

      _ExrBjioBDurABr _Reuoyal of Coxvicis . —In consequence of the crowded state of Newgate , 130 have heen removed durin * tbe session to the Millbank Penitentiary , as a temporary domicile preparatory to the final disposal of them by government . It is not intended that those for seven years shoald be sent beyond the sea , bnt to the different hulks , and other prisons where they can be put to beneficial employment . Those sentenced for above that period , will some of them , be drafted to Ibe Model Prison at Pentonville . where they wi 1 be taught a trade , and should their behaviour be of a satisfactory nature , some of them will be sent to Australia or New Zealand as free convicts . The Bombers are : —For life , 4 ; 20 years , 2 ; 15 yea . ro . 3 ; U years , 1 : 12 years , 1 _; 10 years , 12 ; 7 years , 117 ; total , 130- Several have had the original sentence commuted . So great a number have not been removed at one time during the present century .

      _Opexixg of the New ModelPaiso . f , _Cmbkenwell —Communications have been forwarded to the metropolitan pdice magistrates and also the county magistrates , requesting them on and after the 28 th nit , from which date the New Model _Piison , Clerkeawell , named the Middlesex House of Detention , will be ready for their reception , to commit all prisoners for trial charged with offences in the county of Middlesex , as also persons remanded for a further examination to this prison . For the future the Westminster Bridewell , Tothill-fields , will be exclusively nsed as a House of Correction . This Model Prison contains 1000 separate cells , chapel , exercise ground , and gratings for the reception of visitors , being constructed on tbe solitary system to prevent tbe moral contamination , and tbe consequent evil inflicted on society from the promiscuous intercourse of the hardened offenders with those comparatively uninitiated in crime .

      The Cricket _Stbameg . — -The engineer , H . R . Heasmao , against whom a verdict of' Manslaughter ' wa 3 returned J > st Friday by the . coroner ' s jury , has contrived to effect his escape from justice . At bis examination on the last day of the inquiry , he gave his address at No . 8 . Temple-lane , Fleet-street , but on Inspector Marsh , F division , into whose hands the warrant was placed for his apprehension by the coroner , proceeding there , he found the witness had given a false _addrees , no Mich person being known there . On Friday , the secretary presented to John Connor and Jerry Leary a bronze medal'and three sovereigns e ch . which had been awardi'd -them by the committee of the Royal _Hnmape- _'Sbliety , for their praiseworthy and _sacoss _^ _fuiexertions in having saved six persons from , drowning on tbe recent accident occasioned , by the explosion of the Cricket steam-beat ' s boiler . These men are coal porters , in the employ of Mr Bryant , at his wharf , which is clo _* e to where the occurrence took place . j

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      _ISnglatttr . UKCABHIRB . Liverpool . —The ' Great _BBnAnt . '—This vessel was towed out of Prince ' s Dock basin on Friday , by five ofthe steam-tog company ' s boat-, and conveyed to the Coburg Dock , on the south side of which she is now floating . The repairs she has _| undergone have proved thoroughly effectual in preventing the leakage , the quantity of water made np to this time being scarcely perceptible . No orders have yet been given as to when or where she is to be takea for tbe alteration or restoration of the machinery and fittings .

      The Death ok Board tee Duchess of _Kbht Steamer . — -The inquiry into tbe circumstances of the removal of Michael Duignan , an Irish pauper fremRochdale , ordered . by thepoor-law commissioners , commenced , after two adjournments , occasioned by ehe delay ofthe authorities in Dublin , in sending the depositions taken at the inquest , on Thursday last , at Rochdale , before Mr Austin , assistant poor-law commissioner . The inquiry was resumed on Friday , and again on Saturday . Of course Mr Austin ' s report will net be made known for some time , bnt the reporters _« f the press had admission to the inquiry , and the evidence given by the surgeon who attended the lad , and of other witnesses , goes to prove that Duignan was sufficiently recovered from the attacks offerer to _undergo an ordinary voyage to Ireland ,

      and that the reason of his removal to the Rochdale railway station from the workhouse was not thathe was in too weak a state to walk from the fever , bnt that he was a cripple from malformation ofhis feet , and from partial paralysis of his limbs . It appeared that though he had had two . attacks of fever they had both been very slight , and that his recovery in each instance was ibe work of a few days . He bad been discharged from the fever ward the last time seven days before be was sent to Ireland . He had been well supplied with food on his way to Liverpool , kept from exposure tothe weather , and in every way kindly treated . One witness stated that to prevent the natural jealousy which exists amongst the Irish paupers of not being put on an equality with English paupers , and fromtheirbeine generally more destitute , the allowance to tbem is somewhat greater , beine in the proportion of 4 s . 6 d . to 3 s . As one of

      the Irish members has threatened to bring the case nnder the notice of parliament , the Rochdale board of guardians invited the representative of the _boroagh , MrShtttmrn Crawford , to be present at the inquiry . Mr Crawford excuses himself on the ground that his health is not equal to the crossing ofthe Channel in tempestuous weather like that now prevailing , bntexpresses satisfaction tbat the inquiry will take place , because it will be calculated te relieve the public mind in Ireland ontbe subject ; and he observes . * Ton will observe the Irish feel more strongly on any matter with reference to removals from England , because in this country there is no reciprocal power to remove English paupers . ' Through an Irish Catholic priest , resident in Rochdale , a gentleman was appointed to attend the _inveatiration , aud watch the evidence on behalf of the Irish jury . The inquiry was adjourned to thefollowing day .

      _TORKSaiBB . WoBSBRO * _—COAIr-PlT Accidest . — On _Sat"" * - last , at the house of Mrs Ann Fisher , th » Gate Inn , Pilley , an inquest was held before Thomas Badger , Esq ., tbe coroner , on view of the body of Joseph Beaumont , aged 55 years , steward of Messrs Fields , Cooper and Co- '* coal and ironstone mines , at Worsbro' Bridge . It happened that on Thursday the deceased was inspecting the works at one of the pits , near Pilley-Jane End , when he was induced , from the state of one of the workings , to draw the attention ef his nephew , John Swift , the underground steward , to the place . He was standing with Swift npon a stage at the entrance of the workings , and abont eight yards from the bottom ofthe pit , in the act of pointing ont some precautionary steps which ought

      to be taken to prevent any accident , when a quantity ef foul air from tbe workings below coming in contact with a naked candle , which Swift held in hia hand , the gaseous air ignited , and a most fearful explosion followed . Beaumont and Swift were , with tbe wooden stage on which they were standing , blown some yards np the shaft , and then dropped to the bottom ofthe pit . The timbers ofthe stage fell with a frightful crash , covering the heads of _Beoumont and Swift . Mr Beaumont ' s head was so severely cut and crushed that he must have died immediately . Swift received such injuries that his life is despaired of . The explosion was of so fearful a charaoter _. that the landing hoards , & c , at the pit month , a diatsnee of upwards of one hundred yards , were blown np . On the men reaching the bottom of tbe pit they

      found Mr Besnmont covered with pieces of timber aud quite dead . Swift was also fonnd in a state of insensibility . They were both immediately removed ont ofthe pit and carried to Mrs Fisher ' s , the Gate Inn , where surgical aid was promptly obtained . The jury returned a verdict of * Accidental Death . ' Halifax —The bhcest Railway Accmssr . —On Friday the Government Inspector of Railways returned from making his official inspection and in * quiry into the causes which led to the catastrophe which occurred on this line on Thursday week . Captain Simons wiil make his official report in a few days . It does not appear that the accident could in any way have been prevented , especially with an express train , as will be seen by the following account given by Mr Hawkesham _, the company ' s chief

      engineer . After alluding to the plate-layers , whose dnty it is to inspect tbe line , Mr Hawkesham says : — ' I have no doubt that ( he last carriage got off tbe rails at the place where the rail was broken ; it was a little ont of its level , bnt not ont of its place , and tbe carriage having got off the line there , ran along till it struck the ash-pit , which knocked off the wheels . I think the broken rail was quite sufficient tO ttirOW ofi the carriage at the speed of an express train . I have not the slightest doubt that the broken rail was the cause of the accident . The fraoture on the rail was quite fresh . . After the express train passed over it , a goods train also went over it . It is certainty surprising that another train passed over it without getting off the line . A flaw might exist for weeks in iron without being discovered , but tbe moment it is broken it must go down . There being

      abont thirty carriages in a goods train , there would be in succession sixty-eight blows , like those of a tilt hammer , striking it , in that one train alone . I should think , however , that it was very likely that an express train broke the rail . It appeared to be a very clean fracture ; there was not more than three inches of the rail resting on the chair , so that the other end must go dewn . The _express train was the worst train in such a case . I sbould be glad if the public would be satisfied with a less speed . The fact is , the express trains are driven for the publio requirements _, and not by the desire of the railway companies . ' It is expected that tbe expenses of ibis accident will not cost the company less than £ 10 , 000 , as it is not likely that they ean offer Mr Weston ' s family less than £ 5 , 000 , considering the lucrative situation he heldi

      H 0 HP 01 K . Jbsnt Likd ik Norwich . — Three concerts , at which this extraordinary gifted vocalist bas appeared , were given in this city on Wednesday , Thursday , and Saturday last , and caused the greatest excitement . St Andrew ' s Hall was filled on each occasion . On Saturday , when Messrs Hall and Smith reduced the prices of admission to 10 s . 6 d . and 6 s ., more than 2 , 500 persons took advantage ofthe opportunity . The receipts ot the three concerts were abont £ 3 , 500 , ont of which there will be abont £ 1 , 400 profit . The terms of Mdlle Lind ' s engagement were £ 1 , 000 for the two evenings and £ 200 for the Saturday morning concert . On Mr

      Hall ' s waiting on her with a cheque for the amount ehe expressed he ** unwillingness ro take it all . She said the _nricee bad been lower than at any other place ( which was in consequence of the representation of some of the patrons , ) aud Bhe was sure tbat they could not make so much by her as they ought ; and Bhe insisted on returning £ 200 . She would have added £ 50 to this , to pay for the extra expense they had incurred , in consequence of her pot being able to appear at the time announced , but Mr Hall wonld not accept it . In addition to this munificence Mdlle Lind left £ 200 with the bishop , at whose palace she bad been entertained during her stay , tobe distributed amongst the charities ofthe city .

      H 8 BKF 0 BBSHIBB . Nbw _LuirATic _Assxmr . —The county of Hereford is to unite with the counties of Monmouth , Brecon , and Radnor , to establish a joint pauper lunatic asylum . AFibe broke our neah Ross a few nights ago , in the farmyard ef Mr Verry . There were fourteen ricks burned altogether—namely , five wheat , one very large barley , and eight of straw and fodder . The number of bushels of wheat was about 1 , 500 , barley , 1 , 300 , and fodder 100 tons . Two waggons , two

      carts , and other implements were also destroyed . The buildings were all new . Verry is irsured for £ 600 , bnt he will yet incur a lass of £ 800 . An investigation into the circumstances was held before the magistrates on Friday , the result of wbich led to tbe belief that the fire was occasioned by a _labourer having caused it by a lu ' cifer match or knocking oat the embers " ofhis pipe near some hay and straw . Mr Verry ' s farm buildings were a model for erections of that description , and _personB were in the habit of coming from distant parts of the county to iispectthem .

      _"JDCKINOHAMSHIRE . AjjoihebShakpbarean . Reuc is about tobe destroyed— 'Tke Ship , ' at Grendon Underwood , Bucks , where the great poet used to quarter himself for afew nights at a time , when making his tedious journey from London to Stratford , and to study his inimitable characters in the public kitchen . It has fo- many years been discontinued as a public-house , and it now attached to a homestall of one of Colonel _Jarvis ' _s farms . The building it framed of oak , bricked between , and has a single gable front . Its dormer casements have been removed , and the window-frames filled in with plaster , but the gable still

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      contains its single lozenge-shaped one , and is an object arrest * *** the attention of the casual passenger . _Thefate rter shows its ancient importance , and has two staircases with oak pillar balustrades ,. and' the _bcTOlled door-frames and chimney-pieces are still in good preservation . The floors are the only parts showing decay . Mr Knight , in his late tract on the life of _Shakspeare , states that this place afforded him ft character for his Tillage constable , and his Midsummer Night ' s Dream' owes its chief character to the poet ' s acquaintance with the locality .

      HKBTPORDSHIRE . Attempt to _Mobber an old Man . —A few nights since , an old man named Henry _Bodsworth spent his evening at a public-house at _Beeckwood-green _^ and on the house being closed at the usual hour , either from drinking too much , or from fatigue , he went into a cart-shed at the back and laid down on some straw . Shortly after two men entered , who had been drinking in the same house , and bad seen Bodsworth change a sovereign .. They , immediately assailed him in the most brutal manner with a . heavy bludgeon , with which they beat bim over the bead till the blood issued most copiously , and he was almost senseless . He , however , managed to crawl into a brick-field , about a hundred yards off , where he was attacked for the second time by his assailants . In tbis field were _marksjof men's shoes , and

      about a quart of coagulated blood , between a number of bricks , and the . hedge where the old man waa thrown , the villains no doubt supposing he was dead , inspector Good , from certain information which he had received , apprehended two men , named Thomas Hide ard James Claridge , who were kept apart , one at Whitwell , and the other at Stevenage . Upon examining , the clothing of Claridge , marks of fresh blood were found . He accounted for this by saying that his nose had been bleeding . Similar marks were found upon the clothing of Hide , and , upon being shown Hide , Bodsworth at once identified him as being the man who inflicted thi wound , and he stated tbat Claridge knelt on his body during the time .. _Afterso cruelly treating tbe poor fellow , his assailants took from him all the money ho had about his person .

      BURBET . Ths ca . su of Stabbing at _Gmiaroan _.- —Martin , oneof the gamekeepers who were stabbed in the preserves of R . Frogley , Esq ,, at West _Horsley , Surrey , is going on most favourably f but . Targett still remains in danger . Neither of the poachers , who inflicted tbe wounds , has yet been taken , although £ 100 has been offered for their capture . W * MBi . anoN . —Railway _Coiabios . —On Saturday morning , about four o ' clock , a serious collision occurred between the up-mail train and a portion of the goods train , which resulted in the destruction of three or four trucks ofthe goods train , and the loss of life ef one of the guards of that train . The occurrence took place about three hundred yards , on the

      London side of Wimbledon station , at a spot , whicb , from ifs low marshy situation , is favourable to fogs , one of which prevailed at the time . From the inquiries made of the station agent and others , it ap * pears that the up goods train , an unusually long and heavy one . should arrive at Nine Elms . tp « n'nns between three and four o'clock , bub when it arrived at the above spot , from » ° me unexplained cause , the carriages _cimo uncoupled , the engine proceeding on _withaboac three fourths " of the train , and leaving n _' ne or ten trucks and vans behind . By some parties it is asserted that the engine-driver proceeded straight to Nine Elms before the fact was noticed , while others state tbat those carriages were necessarily left behind , the engine not having sufficient

      power to propel the entire . train . At nearly four o'clock the metropolitan police on duty near the railway , heard a loud crash in the direction of the line , followed by shrieks and cries of human beings , Serg . Golding . 30 V , and a body of constables were soon on the spot , and having roused up the station-agent , policeman , and porter , who were in bed , they hastened tothe scene ofthe accident , when it was found that the up-mail train , which consisted of nine carriages , propelled by the Hornet , a very powerful engine , had run in upon the vans and trucks with such velocity and force , as to almost double up and crush in the end and two following ones , and strew the line with fragments . Neither tbe Hornet engine , the driver , the fireman , nor the guards and

      passengers were , singular to state , injured ; bnt on the vans and trucks being searched by Mr Bradford ( the agent ) , tbe guard ( William Sawyer ) was found bent double against a chest , with a load of goods bearing him down . Thepoor fellow had evidently made desperate struggles to extricate himBelf , but was unable to do so , and was crushed to death . The body was removed to the Dog and Hare , Wimbledon , to await an inquest . The deceased had been a guard about twelve months , and was twenfy years of age . Fortunately he is unmarried . Mr Godson , the superintendent ofthe Nine-Elms terminus , with a body of mon . arrived with a special engine a little after six o ' clock , to clear the line , but that had been iu a great measure effected by the police .

      HANTS . _ChRISTCHURCH- _—COUAIIITAL OF A BAKK MANAGER ox a Charge op _Embezzlement . —There has been much excitement in this place for some days past , in consequence of various rumours affecting the character of the manager of the branch of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Company in this town . AH doubts as to the truth of these rumours have now been dissipated by the full committal of Mr Edward Owen Bishop , the gentleman in question , to take his trial at the next quarter sessions , on a charge of

      embezzlement . Private examinations took place before the magistrates on Monday and Wednesday last , when it is understood several clear cases were proved against him by the officers and customers of the bank . Bail to a heavy amount was demanded , in default of which he was on Thursday morning conveyed to Winchester . The investigations were said to have been long and painful ones , and tbe magistrates _, after a lengthened and patient hearing , decided OU fully Committing him On all the charges . — Hants Independent .

      DBVONSHIRB . New Fresco . — -A fresco has been discovered in the ambulatory of Exeter Cathedral , on the south of the entrance to the Lady Chapel . The greater part has been destroyed by an unsightly monument , but a rich pavement is preserved , on which the lower portion of two figures ( a bishop and a king ) is visible . This curious painting may , perhaps , represent an interview between Thomas a Becket and Henry II . If so , it was most likely executed in the episcopate of Bishop Grandis * on ( a . d . 1327—69 ) who was a warm admirer of the archbishop , and commemorated him by a boss carved with his martyrdom , and placed it in the western part of the nave ; or the fresco may represent King Edward the Second , with his treasurer and favourite , Prelate Walter Stapleton . Tracings bave been made , in case the painting should suffer from exnosnre .

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      t Wtifiik HAVEBFOBDWBSr . _Escape _opTwoPbisosbbstbom _Gaoi ,. —The cell from , which the escape was effected is considered SB strong as _anj in the prison , and is called the' black : hole , ' and is the one in which prisoners for solitary confinement are locked up . It had formerly a window looking out to the castle hill , but the window is blocked up by very strong masonry , and two thick iron gratings , so as totally to exclude the light , and to all appearances to render it impossible for any persons to break it open withont the aid of powerful tools . But , notwithstanding these precautions , the prisoners , by means of a small piece of iron about a foot long , which they broke from the kitchen firegrate , succeeded in tearing down one of the gratings , and digging a hole under tbe other , and their descent was effected bythe aid of the counterpanes of their beds , tied together and fastened to the gratings inside , it is the practice in the prison to let open all the windows and doors of the cells for about _halt-anhour morning aod evening , for the purpose of airing them , during which time the prisoners bave- the range ofthe whole wards ; on those " occasions the black hole door is also opened for a similar purpose , and it appears the prisoners took advantage of tbe opportunity thus afforded them of going into this cell , and working _away-in darkness and silence at their apparently hopeless task . One of the prisoners , named Owen , has been recaptured . He was some time ago committed for trial at the next quarter sessions , for obtaining goods under false pretences . Cannon is a tramper , and also awaited his trial for breakine and entering a dwelling-house , and stealing ls . lid- - GLAMORGANSHIRE . Cabot * - ]? . —MrjRPBR ot a Chiid . —For some days past the magistrates of Cardiff have been engaged in investigating a diabolical case of murder of a young child . Tbe party accused is Catherine Evans , its _grandmother . It appeared that the daughter ofthe prisoner , a single woman , had given birth to a child , and , from some cause which is unexplained , the pri ' soner took the child from the bed in which it wss sleeping by the side of its mother , and , without making any remark , put both her hands round its neck and endeavoured to strangle it ; but in _conBequence of its not dying fast enough she procured a pan of water , put the unfortunate child into it , and covered it over , where it remained , till it was quite _riiu . _^ . " _^ h . remanded the prisoner , in order that the child might be exhumed and examined , and at the same time ordered the mother to be apprehended . r

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      _Scotland jnTHEBLANnsHIRU . How bo thb Poo * uvs ? -The Dttke of Sutherland hasexpended no less than £ 100 , 000 inthe extensive alterations he has been making forsome time _pastonDunrobm Castle , which is now represented 5 . _ts _^*^^ _^* ftn 6 n * _' 0 M ofthe most _* S _** m . iw man 8 " » s on either side of the * » XVC lft 1 e 1 M » a universal impression in the north of Scotland thatDunrobin Castle is the place which is destined to be next honoured by Hie temporary _resdence of her Majesty , and that August the expected visit will be paid .

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      LANARK 8 HIBB . _^ • Giasoow . _-Rbwi-wno CASB—Oa Wednesday , an Irishman , named GeorgeFay , was _WnendeoY on the cbarge ef committing a most revolting deed of 33 * it appears that Fay , who isamaster shoe * maker , took possession in _. May last of a lodging ,, on Se ground floor , in South St _Mungo-street , consist * ine of three rooms , kitchen , and a closet . . Upon taking possession ol these premises , or immediately after it—at all events in , the month of May—the man incarcerated his wife in the watercloset , and there she , haB remained from that period till last night when one of the inspectors of the Town ' s Hospital , having heard a rumour of the circumstance , made further inquiry , prooured assistance , and re * I lieved tbe unhappy creature . The prison ofthis poor I

      woman was three feet ten inches by two feet eleven inches in breadth , and was between nine and ten feet in height . The only mode by which the . air found admission was by means of a little wicket looking into the passage , for the door was not opened , mere than once Ih three or four days , when food was tossed in to tbe poor wretch as to a pig , and then it , was immediately closed and barred on the outside . The prisoner was almost in a state of nudity when discovered ; she crouched amongst . a mass of straw , and the place itself , as well as her person , were in a state of indescribable filtbiness .. From the body being so long bent in a sitting position the limbs were quite-stiffened ; she could not stand upright , and from long suffering the mind had become a wreck aa

      well as tbe body . The pout ! creature was _taiten to the Town ' s Hospital , along with one of her children . Fay was apprehended , and there were also taken into custody two of his workmen and the servant girl , The latter handed in the food to her imprisoned mistress , and the shoemakers , while they whistled at their work , heard the moans proceeding , from the dreary den . All of them , therefore , knew the killingby-inches whioh was going on within a few feet of them , and yet none held out a h < ind to save . The man Fay , we believe , admits that he has not looked into his wife's prison for a month ; and since it received its lonely tenant the closet was not entered by any of the family . What may have been the reasons , on the husband ' s part , which prompted this

      Algenne treatment in a Christian land , we know not ; but poverty had no hand in it , for there were found by tbe police not only a good stock in trade of sh _03 s , but £ 10 in cash . The house had been shut up . On Saturday , the man Fay , witb the servant girl and , two of the shoemakers who . lodged in tbe house , were brought before the sitting magistrate at the central polioe court , to answer a criminal charge brought against them on account of thetreatmentthe unhappy woman had received . The case , after undergoing examination , was remitted to the sheriff . Fax ' s statement in exculpation is . that his wife had become a troublesome lunatic previous to his having confined her , and that she was also much addicted to drinking _.

      _RUNFREWaniRE . _Paislb 7 . —Surprising Escape trom the Gaol . — Two accomplished housebreakers who had entered both the post-office and an apartment mistaken for tbe stamp office , in the course of one night , by means of false keys , have effected their escape from prison in the most surprising manner .. On the officers of the prison going about their business at six o ' clock in the morning , they were surprised to find the outmost door of the prison , aud the main gate immediately within it , both open , while the two culprits in question , with another companion , oonSned in a separate fiat from themselves , were all missing . The names of the prisoners who have made so opportune an escape are James Campbell and Thomas

      Mackay , indicted for trial , with William Fox , a convicted housebreaker , who "fas under sontence , and had but three months of his imprisonment to run . One of the two first named prisoners had been Buffering from fever , ef late , and he had been removed with his associate in crime , as a nurse for him , to one of the large airy front rooms in the south end of the prison . The apartment referred to , though larger than the common cells , is one of a series of apartments constructed with double doors for the security of the most daring prisoners , and the outmost door is fastened by a strong bar in place ofa lock from the corridor of tbe prison . It was impossible that this apartment could be opened when once fastened up , except from _theoutside , either by a fake

      key or otherwise . Fox , theother prisoner , was confined in the flat above , tbe third Btory ofthe prison , in one of the ordinary cells , and waB looked up by a key that fastened twelve rooms . On examining the fastening ofalJ the doors that have been so cleverly opened , tbere is not the slightest appearance of force or effort having been used beyond the application of well-fitted keys , tbe only change being , ' . that the lock of the outermost door of tbe prison appears to havo been particularly well oiled to prevent its creaking or making noise during the operation . A warder sleeps on the same flat in which Fox was confined , and this person did not hear the slightest noise from the proceedings , although the removal of the bar and padlock from the cell door in which Campbell and Mackay were confined , can scarcely be effected even in daylight , and with the greatest caution , without making considerable clanking and noise . The mystery that hangs over this

      ably-accomplished prison breaking seems principally to be , whether Fox bad been furnished with the implements for opening the doors , or whether they have heen opened by parties entering from the outside , after having scaled the walls into the court-yard _. The whole of the doors in the prison are of east iron , and the locks are of tbe most ponderous and _comp'icated description , no expense having been spared in procuring them at its erection . In place of contenting themselves with their own freedom , it is obvious that the prisoners in other eleven cells might have been released also , if those who have set off had been desirous . _. The only vestige of the flight that has been left is a ladder belonging to the prison , which had been used for scaling the walla , and a piece of the clothes rope belonging to the establishment , which had also been cut down and used for favouring the escape .

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      mott wretched beings have , since the period of their eviction , been squatting in dykes and glens , literally burrowing in the earth for shelter , victims to every inclemency of the weather , death hourly staring tbem . At Farnee , Maryglen , and Moyratb _, in tbe neighbour _, hood of K « eper Mountain , lord Bloomfield _, who Is in St Petersburg !] , through his agent , has been at the same work of _fjeoaaient . Abont eight families , consisting of abont forty-five persons , have been al bo sent abroad , witbout a roof to protect them from the rigours of the weather . Their condition is immeasurably more lament able tban we can describe .

      _Ireland BARBARISM OF "" HE _SINBTEEN' -K CENTURY . Let our readers ponder well on the following , while our Queen is enlarging her palaces , and out Dukes spending £ 100 , 000 on a castle , or outliving their income by nearly £ 2 , 000 , 000 . The followine is from the " . 2 V > j 9 er _« r-i- Vindicator and the Cork Heporter . _*—Within the fast few weeks the work of extermination bas been carried on to some extent in tbe neighbourhood of Kilmastulla . Sir Edmoud Waller has ejected eight families , consisting of about forty-seven persons , These

      MoaETJsaooviuo , —A Mau Shot . — In connection with the subject of unroofing houses , we bave just received thefollowing from a correspondent . It is most _melancboly tbat a life sbould be thus lost , and lost in putting into execution the illegal commands of bis superiors . Our correspondent dates from _Brownstown , Sept . 23 : — 'Mr Leslie , agent to Lord Shannon , and seventeen men , went yesterday , at twelve o'clock at noon , to tbe lands of Knuckscag _* _^ , to execute an habere agaiut John Norris , a Protestant , wben Mr Leslie ordered the men to get en the roof and tear down the _slfttes . On the removal of the first elate , horrible to relate , the poor man was shot through tbe head and fell dead . Mr Leslie then came into Clonakilty to order tbe military out to execute

      the habere , wbich they did . This part of tbe country is very peaceable , but from the way the poor people are treated by certain parties here there will be more disasters . The poor people are being ejected ; knocking down their houses , and giving their crops to tbe comingin tenant , and sending the poor people on tbe world _jewajlm _, is all the practice here . ' Tbe guardians of Castlebar are charged with _havingrefused several persons admission to the workhouse who are begging from door to door . The guardians of Mountmellick Union are doing likewise , and tbe greatest misery exists in both places . Fever , as might be expected , increases in such a state of things , and there are loud and general complaints of the heavy rates .

      The conduct of the Rochdale parish officers , who hurried the boy from the steps of the fever _hotjpital of that town on board a steamer , where he died , was tbe subject of animadversion not . less severe than just ; but see if it be not equalled by the following case , which has been officially brought under the notice ofthe guardians of the Mountmellick union : — Mr Turpln _, a guardian , said his attention had been di . rected to a most afflicting case , wbich he considered it his duty to bring beforo the board . A family of nine , five

      of whom were stricken with fever , had been sent from AAhy in a cart , and flung in a ditch at the rear of the asylum , about a quarter nf a mile from Maryboro ' . After remaining for some time exposed io tbe inclemency of the weather , and witbout food or drink , they were disco _, vered by soma charitable persons , wbo relieved tbeir wants and alleviated their sufferings . On enquiry they said they wero from the neighbourhood of Mountrath measures were tben taken to bave tbem removed to that district , there they were commended to tbe care of the relieving officer .

      It happened that at that moment theunhannv family was at the door of Mountmellick workhouseeight of them were in fever , thrown tog ether in a catt-the father alone was free from it . Ho was called before the board and told tbis tale-that his name was Kaye , and he was a cooper by trade ; that he travelled about the conntry witli his family that he had been barn and reared at Mountrath , but had last resided fourteen years in Tullamorc . My family was afflicted with fever at Atby . I waa not in a hospital there ; I was ln a lodging , and I was turned out when it was discovered that five of my children were

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      In fever . We tben lay down In tbe street . We lay about an hour in It . We were then sent away to Marybqroug ' i in a cart employed by Father Greene sad a Mr Pepper , When the man came within half a mile of the _toftnhe took the tailboard ont of the cart and emptied my sick family oat of It like so mucb dirt , , Kaye being further questioned , said that the . man who brought him in the cart from Atby , did not give him up io at-y one ; he rolled them _oui , and made sway with himself . It was some distance from the town , and lie could not leave tbe children to go look to aDy one for help . He was discovered by a man who was minding potatoes . Mr Cannon , the resident magistrate brought relief to him ; on the second _ripht he erected a shed over him . Only for Mr Cannon his family would have perished ;

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      GUILDHALL . — Nuisances . —Tbe Commissioners of Sewers , by their selldtor , Mr Tyrrell , _brought two cases of dangerous nuisance under the notice of the court . —Mr _Haynes , of Bel-jrave-place , was summoned ln * e » pe _« tto tout houses tn _Swan-lane , _Thames-street . Oneof tbe tenants appeared . on behalf of tbe landlord to state thathe was quite willing to remedy the evil by opening a communication from tbe cesspools to the sewer ; the experiment bad been tried at one of tbe houses with the result that at high water the Thames flowed up the sewer into the cellar , till the aepth of the water was sometimes three feet . Tbis annoyance must be removed by tbe commissioners beforo tbey could expect a communication to be , opened to the other

      houses . The nuisance had beeu abated by removing the soil . —Alderman Johnson observed that tbe evil complained of could be remedied by placing : q trap at tbe mouth of tbe sewer . The commissioners would readily _dotbis . An order was made forthe abatement ofthe -ro '» uce , tobesuBpendedtiU tbe parties could petition the Court of Commissioners . —Mrs Webb , of Park . plaoe , Islington , was summoned In _rsspect toa cesspool in WindsoMtreet , _Bishopsgate-street . A gentleman , who appeared in her behalf , said be was ready to amend tbe matter complained of . She had expended £ 10 in open _, _fngacommuufcatfonto the common sewer ; but it was discovered that the opening was made at a point seven feet above the bottom of tbe cesspool . An order was made to enforce compliance , if there should be any dis . position to evade the prompt application of the proper

      remedy ; ' _ . ' .. _Rakwat Books . — Mr Marriaer , the secretary of the North _WalesBoilway , was summoned for the fourth time , for refusing to show the books to Mr Archer , a shareholder . Mr Marriaer did not appear , and the summons could not beshown to have reached him . Mr Cbadwick , the obalrmaB , was however present , ond explained that Mr Archer wanted to see the names of the persons to whom £ 20 , 000 had b-eu loaned . This was tbe surplus , after paying preliminary charges of advertising , survey . refused

      Ing , and getting a bill . The information was , as it would ¦ damage tbe credit of the borrowers , who who would rather return tbe money at once tban have their names exposed . Mr ChadwicU considered it a sort of bubble company , and tbat the sooner tbe shareholders got back tbe residue of tbeir money the better . He proposed to divide , and wind up in a month . Mr Archer expressed a doubt if he shonld get anjthlng , and perlisted in requiring the information . The magistrate was unable to feme any disclosure , and tbe matter _dtopped .

      Railway Boosino . — A few days since a banker of low-priced pictures in frames , named Jobuson , complained to Sir Peter Laurie tbat he had booked a package of pictures at Pickford's w & rebouie , in Lad-lane , to go to Aylesbury . It was to remain at the station there till be called for it . He waited at Aylesbury , seven days , calling daily , but still be got no tidings . . As his whole capital , about 30 s , was vested in these pictures , and the hawking of tbem was bis only means ef living , he walked back to London in great distress . At PioWord ' _s he was told bis parcel had been transferred to Chaplin and Home's , at Camden . town station , as tbe place was in their district . And at Chaplin and Home's tbey appeared to know nothing about it . As he booked tbe parcel at Flckford's in the

      City , he claimed of tbem to restore tbe _parcel to bim or pay bim the value . Mr Swan , a solicitor , on behalf of Plckrord and Co ., denied the right of the magistrate to interfere betweea the parties , and treat it as a case of detention of goods of the value of less tban £ 15 . If the poorman bad a remedy it raust bs in the county court . Mr Alderman Johnson and Sir Peter Laurie determined to take the opinion of ihe City solicitor oh tbeir power in such cases , aB the complaint was one likely to be often repeated . Mr Martin , from tbe City solicitor ' s _offce _, now stated that as the case was met by showing a delivery of the goods to another carrier out of tbe City , it could not be treated as detaining it in the city , and the com . plainant only had a civil remedy against Messrs Pickford . Railway companies , when they undertook to carry goods , were , in the eye of . theiaw , subject to all the

      responsibilities of common carriers . Mr Swan stated tbat since the previous hearing tbe goods bad been found and offered to tbe complainant , on paying tbe carriage to AyleBbury and back . The magistrate thought tbis might give them jurisdiction , but it appeared tbat tbe goods had not been brought back into tbe City . They were offered to bim in Great Arthur-street , Golden . Iane , with notice that they would lie at the _Camdec-town station till be cleared them , both places being out of the City . Sir Peter Laurie strongly objected to the poor man being charged oue farthing for carriage , after putfog bim to so much inconvenience , by neglecting to send tl e package at directed in reasonable time . He recommended the complainant to apply to an attorney , if Messrs PicKford did not arrange with him immediately . Here tbe matter dropped .

      "WESTMINSTER . — _Ukfouudep Accusation . _ O . Owen , a very respectable-looking man , was charged with stealing an earthernware jug . —J . M'Carthy , wbo said be was a wiue-mercbant , but , when questioned by the magistrate , said be bad ne place of business , deposed that as he was removing his things from the prisoner ' s house , where he lodged , he saw the jug in tlie parlour , and gave the _prisener into custody , —The accused said thatthe jug , of wbich the spout was broken , and wbich was worth about 3 d , had been lent to bim by the prosecutor , and bad been used by his family for five weeks before . Tbe prosecutor was leaving the house witbout paying tbe rent , and the prisoner refused to allow bim to do so ; at tbat moment the jug happen _, ing to be brought into the room , the prosecutor immediately accused him of having stolen it , and gave bim into custody . —The magistrate . _observing , so impudent a charge had never before been brought under his notice , immediately discharged the accused .

      CITY POLICE COMMITTEE . —Deos amp Police- _, hen . —Mr Loader , a cabinetmaker , on Moorfields-pavement , was summoned before Aldermen Hooper and Hugbes for allowing a Newfoundland dog to beat large unmuzzled , to the great danger ofber Majesty ' s subjects .. Bythe testimony of a City police-constable , it apperared that tbe dog , for some offence or other , bas considerable antipathy to tbe police officers on dnty in the neighbourhood . No sooner do they pass tbe door of tbe proprietor's residence tban out bolts the beast and makes vigorous efforts to grab at tbeir legs . Defendant denied It . The dog was a quiet , harmless , _inoffensire creature if not teased ,. Officer . —He is quarrelsome to

      everybody , your- worship . Defendant . —Is he , thought I'll settle tbat your worship . [ Defendant here gave a load whistle , and in rushed a large nob ' . e looking brute , who , apparently conscious of what was going on , dodged around tbe legs of every one in Court , and was on the best of terms with all , even the stern justice on the Bench ] There now , your worships , here ' s the beast . He bas been in the Guildhall all tbe morning , and seen plenty of policemen ; but I am sure be bas not touched one _ofthsm . Mr . Alderman Hughes said the dog had some antipathy to the officers of the peace , _andbe should recommend it to be muzzled for their safety . Defendant answered tbat he would do so , and paying tbe cost of the summons , departed with the dog _.

      CLERKENWELL . — Thi Police Aoaik . —Mr Henry Mitchell , proprietor of the Rose , and Crown public-house , in , Allen-street , Clerkenwell , was summoned for having his house opea for the sale of exciseable liquors on Sunday , the 19 tb , during the hours of divine service . Inspector Pennv stated that on tbe day named , at tbe hour of twelve at noon , he saw a boy about fourteen years of age , come out of defendant ' s house . He approached him , and while he was descending the steps leading to tbe street , witness laid bold of bim and asked bim what he had got , when he produced from his pocket , a bottle containing half a pint of gin —Mr Duneombe : Will you swear it was not eye water f—( A laugh . )— _"YitnesB : No , but I would rather swear it was gin . —Mr Duneombe : How do you know tbat it was gin ; did you

      taste it t—1 did not . He told me that tho bottle _contained gin . —Mr Duneombe : Did you not seize him violently and take it out of his pocket?—Witness : I did not . He pulled it out of his pocket , but I should have done so had be not . —Mr Duneombe : Indeed I Are you not aware tbat the lad , who is only , about ten years of age , is the defendant ' s son 1—Witness _; I ba > e since _understebd that to be the case . —Mr Duneombe : Wns he * not terribly alarmed when you caught hold of him and did be not cry f—Witness : Why , as to tbat , he tried to cry . —Mr Duneombe : I am informed that you went into my client's house afterwards . Inform the Court what you saw . The witness admitted that _everything _wa « quiet and orderly , and _^ b ' at he had no further evidence to i _buncombe then

      R Mr addressed the _Mauistrate He said , of all the most extraordinary _casa she had ever beara , _orbeen concerned in , tbe present beat all- and If such _astato of things were permitted , every individual coming out ef a _publichouse would in tho end _baSed and searched . _Hehad avMy high respect for h 5 „ d tbe inspector ; , but in this case he had no hesitation in _-ajiag hehad exceeded his duty . The worthy _gentb n « m proceeded to urge that there was not a title of evt _dtneetosupporttbecharge , as alleged in the informa . ion , when he was stopped by Mr . Tyrwhltt , who said In that respect I fully agree with you , and dismiss the _™? ? _uwv . , r ? unoo , nDe tu _^ ed his worship , and retired with the defendant and his friends .

      Mr Willtaui Bulkeiy , _Wells-street , Gray's _Inn-road . was charged by Ellen May , a young woman , his servant with having assaulted her , with intent , die . The com ! plainant deposed that she was servant to the defendant , and she left him on Friday last . On _Thursduy fortnight she first entered tho service , having been engaged by Mrs Bulkeley , at Thompson ' s Registry Office . Witness came from Boreham , Essex . On last Sunday morning week , defendant entered the back kitchen to wash himelf , and witness generally took Mme water to him , He

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      called her to come in , and on going in he asked her « wash hit back for him . He wat naked with tbe nc , ! f tion ofhis trousers , .. He told . faer to be a gold girl to hia little boy and he . woulitake ewe of her , and » hen * IBg wanted any money she sbould bave it , and to put _, J faith and confidence in him , to mind what he said . not to tell her mistress ; no mere passed until last Thui-. day . Mr Tyrwhltt .-Did yoa wash his back . _Wltau _* . I . did . Mr Tyrwhltt : Did yoa ever wash it before ? Why ness : No ; I had received instructions from . my _mfgt rMt to do every thing he asked me to do , as he was more liim an old bachelor tban anything else . Thursday e « miD » at half-past seven o ' clock , he came home and _nenttohlj _bed-room fn the front of the house . My mistress said tbey had not slept together for some time . Mrs Bulk-l j tbe floorWitness took

      slept in a room on same . bim up his slippers , and he asked her to take him up a _basia £ gruel ia oue hour and a half . She took up the gruel and be told ber to shut the door , _whfoh she did , and laid ft on the bed . He told her it was too hot , aad to lay it 0 B the table . She did , when he caught hold of her _wbilehe was lying on tbe bed , and pulled her to Wm , but the got away . Further evidence being given , the charge was denied . Mr Tyrwhltt , who evidently watched tbe case with _greetattentfen , _safd that he had his _donbtsin such a ticklish case ; and , after the evidence and other _cireumstances , he could only decide oa dismissing the charge , and Mr Bulkeiy was liberated , when he quitted the court with his solicitor . and a host of respectable friendB , to whom the result of the investigation gave great satis .

      faction ; soaTHWABK , _—Hosaro _BauTAitir . —Henry Jame * lewis , in the employment of a wharfinger , at _Horsely . down , was charged with committing a violent assault on Margaret Bowler , his mother-in-law , and breaking one of her arms . After hearing evidence , tbe complainant and her daughter Interceded for the prisoner , but Mr Cottingham said that it was so gross a case of assault , a man of the prisoner ' s strength lifting an old woman , seventy years of age , and throwing ber with brutal violence to the ground , and that woman his own motherin-law , thatit would be absurd in him ( tbe magistrate ) to dispose summarily of sueh a charge by the infliction of a £ 5 penalty , so utterly inadequate as a punishment for such an offence . Under all tbe circumstances , therefore , he should commit the prisoner for trial .

      WANDSWORTH . —Thomas Bad « ck , Henry Badcock , and Henry Driver , three powerful young men , were charged before Mr Paynter , with the following attack o _» two labourers , working , on tbe Richmond . railway . It appears that these two men , whose names are James Smith and Jesse Haydon , went on Saturday night into the tap-room ef the Rose and Crown _. and bad hardly been there a _minute'before Henry Badcock knocked Smith down , and kicked him , Haydon picked bh companion up , when be ffas struck and knocked down . Witb considerable difficulty thsy got out of the house , and proceeded towards home . In passing up _Garrett _^ lane tbey were met by the prisoners , Thomas Badcock and Driver , Who attacked them with the ferocity of wild beasts , they felled them , and tben in the most cowardly and brutal manner kicked tbem with their nailed and plated shoes over the face , head , and body . Tbe poor fellow Smith

      became insensible , and tbe moans of Haydon were distinctly heard 300 yards distant . Tbeir cries of' murder ' brought police-constable Webb 131 V to tbe spot , and the prisoners tben made off , bnt were apprehended in the course of that night and Sunday . When found by tbe police the navigators were lying fn a pool of _bfoed , Smith ' * frock being completely saturated . Both men exhibited such marks as proved thsy had been most illtreated , while their assailants were without a scratch : — Mr Paynter said tbe assault which had been committed ou the unoffending men was one of tbe most brutal be bad ever bad to adjudicate upon . But tbat tbe injured parties were poor and could not afford tbe cost of going to tbe sessions , he would bave sent the prisoners for trial . Thomas Badcock and Henry Driver , would pay £ 5 each , or be committed for two _meaths _, and the other prisoner would pay a fine of £ 4 , ir be committed for one month .

      WORSHIP-STREET . _—Chabqe op Feiont against a Last . — Mrs Anne Quinn , tbe wife of an opulent tradesman at Poplar , was charged with having stolen a gold pearl-mounted ring , at the shop of Messrs Walker and Co ., jewellers and silversmiths , in the Wbitecbapelroad . —H . Perkins , shopman to tbe prosecutors , stated that on the preceding afternoon theprisoner entered tbe shop and requested him to show ber some fancy rings whieh were exhibited in the _windew . He accordingly placed one of the cards before her , but sbe objected to tbe rings as being too expensive , and desired to be shown some wedding rings . While trying them on , be saw tbe prisoner attempt to substitute a thick brass finger ring she bad with her for one of those upon tbe card . Not succeeding in this , she looked at soma ' ether fancy rings ,

      which she returned to him without selecting one ; but notwithstanding tbe strict vigilance he exercised , he found , upon looking at tbe card that one of tbem had disappeared ; he asked the prisoner if she had seen it * she said she had not ; and having purchased a weddingring for 3 s fid , immediately left the shop . He informed bis employer , wbo overtook her and gave her into custody ; bnt upon beinr searched at tbe station tbe missing ring was not discovered , and only three sixpences aad the brass ring before referred to were found fn her possession . —In answer to the charge tbe prisoner warmly asserted ber innocence , and said tbat sbe only entered tbe shop with the intention of purchasing a cheap wed * ding ring , as ber own had been accidentally broken , and

      that the production of the more valuable ones was the spontaneous act of the shopman , —A professional gentleman , who happened to be in court upon other business assured the magistrate tbat the prisoner was a person of unexceptionable respectability , who , he felt convinced , was wholly incapable of committing such an act , and that if _thetnagistrate considered it his duty to detain her upon tbe charge , be trusted that bail would be accepted for her future appearance , wbicb would be tendered to any amount . —Mr Hammill _^ pressed an opinion tbat a strong prima facie case had been established against her , but consented to take bail for her appearance , herself in £ 80 , and two responsible sureties in £ 40 each . The bail was found .

      WES _rMINSTER . —G 80 S 8 _MlSCOHPCcr of an Office * at _TasMiLMAKKPfiSirruTiABr ;—T . H _, Bird , a warder at the Millbank prison , was charged with carrying in tebaceo to the convicts contrary to the regulations . Capt . Grove , governor of the prison , said tbat there had been an enquiry on the previous day before the inspectors of prisons with regard to tobacco having been taken into tbe prison at Millbank , Witness spoke to tbe defendant about it , when he at firBt denied tbat he bad taken tobacco in tothe convicts , but subsequently , oa being confronted with the mother of a prisoner named Briton who said in bis presence that he had taken tobacco in to ber son , and had received 5 s- and a handkerchief for so doing , be admitted it ; but said be had done no more than other officers io tbe prison . Witness

      told him that if he would let him know the names of tbe other o "Seers to whom he had alluded he would use hia influence for him not to be prosecuted , but only dismissed . It was part ef defendant ' s duty to watch and see that no Buch article as tobacco was brought into the prison . _Defendant contented himself by sayingthat the governor bad told bim that Sf he would answer the question put to him , he would use his influence to prevent him being prosecuted . Capt . Williams , one of the Inspectors of prisons , said , that in _soniequence of the governer having promised to use bis influence In defendant ' s behalf , and the latter having made some disclosures , he hoped tho magistrate would inflict as slight a punishment as he consistently could . ' Mr Broderip could not feel himself justified In Imposing a less penalty than £ 3 , which was immediately paid .

      _MARILEBONE . -RoBBEBr or Waxchs , & c C Silvester wat re-examined , charged with having com . _mftted a robbery in the daytime at the the shop of Mr Morns , watchmaker ,. _Margoret-terrace , . _Harrow-road , The evidence given on tbe first examination , was to the effect that on Tuesday , tbe 21 « t ult ., whUe Mr Morris was dining below stairs , the prisoner , probably by tho aid of a picklock key , effected an entrance into the premises , and on Mr M . going up , the prisoner , who was then is tbe parlour , struck at him twice , and escaped by the frcnt door iato the street . He went up to a chaise which was standing a short distance off , with another man in it , and taking from _hfs pocket a handful of watches threw tbem towards tbe vehicle ih question , and made off ; three watches and a gold case were found in tbe chaise and In the road , and fn an instant the man who was seated in the vehicle jumped out ; saying tbat he would endeavour to capture the thief . The prisoner was followed to a marine store shop , and was seen to thrust thother watches and

      ree , a cbBin beneath a quantity of rags . His friend got clear off j the horse and cart were taken care of by the police . A charge of plate robbery at the residence ofthe Rev Mr Burton , Harrow-road _wasnext gouein ' o _.-CharlotteHoulton , ' oneof tlser-IK _^ that oh Tuesday , the I 4 th ult . atabout half . past three , _sbeheard the rattling of plate whieh was then on a stand Jn tbe ball bu _^ hS _^ Zllr masterwho was handling it , 8 botook no further notice tit . _? _- ?! _T" _?* \ 8 hort time she heard the front Si _ln v , ' _. t" . k : De ° ' 8 he 6 a * a m _« ° whom she be : evea to be the prisoner running up the road ; begot into a chaise , , n which was another man . and they were quickly out . of sight ; she missed from tbe plats stand seven silver forks and eight silver table _spoous .-Tbe prisoner , who , by the adrice of bis solicitor , said he he should reserve his defence for a future occasion , was committed for trial upon Mr Morris ' s charge , but will bo brought up again on Tuesday .

      Srjrrosed Ixw-Mjurism. -On Monday Night ...

      SrjrroSED _Ixw-MJURisM . -On Monday night Ropert smith , a carrier , from Gillingham , was passing the farm of IMr W . Futcher . of Fovant , when he discovered a blaze at the end of a large barley rick , which in a few _niinufes increased fo an a / arming degree . As & fetance was on the spot as quickly as _poasible , but in the short space of one hour tbere was nothing to be seen but the smouldering ashes and ruins from a large barn , which had confained at least 50 loads of wheat . In addition , barlev ricks , stacks of fine hay and sainfoin , sheds , stables ' hovels _.

      piggeries , and every other building around , were destroyed . The horses , pigs , poultry , & o ., were saved . Air lurcher , it is said , is fully insured to the amount ofthe loss . Before Smith , the carrier , perceived the fire , he observed a man cross in front of the horse , apparently m great tremor and hurry running as from the _farm-yard , evidently , by his having _asmock-frock on , an _agriculfural or other labourer , and from the description given by Smith the county police apprehended a man on suspicion . A locust wasi oauBht a few days _sin : o in a field nmBasingwold . in Yorkshire .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02101847/page/6/