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THE NORTHERN STAR . _^ Mahoh 3 , 1849 .
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M .-- *? ALirv is -the McTUorous . —The 1 , 191 deaths in London arc twenty-two above the average , and Maw a small decrease oa thc previous week . The rate of mortality from diseases of the respiratory _or-rans is the same as on the average has prevailed in five previous winters * , for though as was obscned list week , the deaths from bronchitis are lis , or 40 above the average , those from pneumonk are 38 , or 15 below it . But zymotic diseases continue to show a creat excess ; they were fatal to 100 _arsons more than died week y in the previous _Tear-T the prevailing ep _idemicsheing hooping cough , _SaSfdiarrhcrf , Ldeholera . Hooping cou _. b , which carries off thc young , as bronchitis the old caused 70 deaths , or 34 more than thc average , scarlatina 50 . or 18 ahovc the average "is refollowed from
marked that , _thecases in which death effusion consequent on scarlatina arc considerably fewer relativelv , than when the epidemic was at its St The mortality from measles is at present Jow ° ; that from small-pox is near thc average .. A woman died from " variola and disease ofthe heart atthe age of OS . Four persons died of intemperance , on onc of whom ah inquest _vyas held . feudied of delirium tremens , which is m many case * theresult of intemperance . A boy ot 16 is certified to have died of " starvation , after an attack of smallvox" ( no inquest ) . A woman died in Lainbeth , at the advanced age of 100 years , from ulceration of the throat , after an illness of two months . Of the id deaths fiom cholera , 10 occurred at the Female Refuge for the Destitute in Shoreditch , and 16 at lum in Bethnal
Warburton _' s Lunatic Asy -green . The barometer was highest on Sunday , having been 30 . 333 , and lowest on Saturday , when it fell to 29 . 520 . The mean temperature of the week was ¦ 1 5 . 4 . Mi-. Steih , thc _registrar of the Hackney subdistrict , states , In reference to four cases of cholera in the Park-house , Church-street , and published in the return for the week ending February 10 th , that "the deaths happened on the 10 th , llth , and 12 th , of January , but in consequence of the inquests having been several times adjourned , and the inquirv afterwards abandoned , they were not registered till the oth of February . " It will be observed , that the return professes to give the deaths registered in the week ; but , except in inquests , which are returned by the coroners , registration is performed shortly after death .
_IXQtESTS . Reverse of Fortoxe . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Carter , at the "Windmill , Upper Kennington-Iane , Lambeth , on Mrs . Ann White , aged fifty-sis . Upon thejury viewing thc body , they and the coroner were astonished at the frightful state of emaciation , in which it was , and , indeed , it appeared as if the deceased had died of starvation . As she had refused medical assistance , though pressed by her husband , who had behaved with the greatest kindness to her , and as a surgeon was only called in on thc night previous to her death , he declined to give a certificate , and this inquiry was necessary . The husband of thc deceased lady formerly held a situation under one ofthe government commissions for the emancipation of slaves . "When that ceased , about three years ago , he was dependent on his own resources ; and about four
months ago he and his wife went to reside at Kennington-cross , where they had but a single room . On Friday night , the deceased becoming apparently worse , Mr . "White ealled in Mr . Smith , of Clapham-road , surgeon , but she then seemed to have been in articulo mortis , for she expired the next - morning . It was shown tbat the deceased had never wanted food ; and Mr . "White stated that , although lately he had been dependent on his friends , the deceased had for the last week or so jellies and other things ; bnt her stomach was so far gone she could scarcely eat anything . —The coroner said that the appearance ofthe body , and the registrar refusing to register the death , had g iven rise to an impression thatthe deceased had died from want of food , but i t was now shown that was not the case , and that she had died of wasting of the whole system . — Terdict , " _Naturaldeath . "
"A Gravediggeb Buried Alive . —On Saturday afternoon , an aged man , named Charles Barker , who for a long period had discharged the duties of gravedigger in South Hackney churchyard , was preparing a ten-feet grave , when , having attained a depth of about six feet without the aid of shores , an immense mass of earth gave way , and . instantaneously _buried-hiin . A young man , named Jackson , who witnessed "ihe occurrence , gave an alarm , and no time was lost in extricating the unfortunate man , who was found ina stooping position . A surgeon promptly attended ,: and used every effort to restore animation , bat _in | boai effect . Tho upper portiou of deceased's face was severely contused . The accident is ascribed tothe disuse of shores , and the
pro-amity of . the ground to . a newly-filled grave , the soil of which is of a loose and gravelly nature . On _TYednesday ah inquest was held before Mr . Baker , _^ tt he _OreehBragou , "Wells-street , Hackney , on view ofthe _hocly '« f the deceased . T . Jackson , assistant grayeuig _^ r said , that on Saturday afternoon he ass _^^ deceased in excavating a grave in the e _^ _imeteiyadjomiiig South Hackney Old Church . 1 _^ -was _' a . i _^ _-fftOj'J _^ aye , and was formed without shores ; txc _^ __^_^_^ tieee-seA had dug the proper depth , aj-td _/ _witoess-pas standing at the edge in the _actof-rr _* cetvh * jg _^| £ e List pail of earth from the deceased , when one ade fell in , by which deceased was completely coverei " ppon witness giving an alarm several * persons . eame . tojiis assistance ; , and deceased
was extricated , life being quite extinct . Three quarters of an honr elapsed before he was extricated . —By the Coroner : The grave was made near another which had heen recently formed and filled up . It is not usual to place shores or props , as the soil is of a hard j _-n-avelly nature . The witness attributed ihea «* _£ _§ en £ to the grave being constructed too near _t-fo : dne which was so recently formed . Mr " , _JSteej , sexton , stated that there were fenders and _ptops provided for the _gravediggers , who thoughtit too . much trouble to use them . The coroner- _sai'l that he hoped that the sexton would take care that proper precaution was taken in future . Terdict— ' * Accidental death . " Death thou Stahvatio : * * . —On Monday before Mr .
"W . Carter , at the Rose Tavern , Snow ' s Fields , Bermondsey , on the body of Elizabeth Rose , aged Bi . —S . Tubby , a broker's assistant , stated that the deceased had been living with him for the last thirteen years . "Witness had formerly been in a large way of business , but through misfortune had been reduced to extreme poverty . "Witness , his daughter , and deceased occupied one small room , and latterly they had been without food for days together , occasionally obtaining a little bread from the neighbours and others who had known him in his prosperity . About the 13 th nit . deceased became very woak and ill , when witness called in a female lodger , who waited upon her until her death on Tuesday last . —By thc Coroner : Made no
application to the parish authorities for relief . The deceased would not allow me to seek aid froni the parish , and I think she would rather have starved from hunger than allow any one to go the workhouse if she knew it . I could not go mvsclf as I was also suffering from ill health . She had been without food for four days previous to her death . — The Coroner : You _niignt have sent to the relieving officer , who would have attended and afforded instant relief in such a case . —The witness added that the three of them slept on the floor upon some old bedclothes . They were unable to have a fire for several days prior to deceased ' s death . "Witness and his child were starving , and , if something were not done for them immediately they must
sharo a similar late as the deceased . —The jury agreed to the following verdict : — " That the deceased died from the want of proper _noin-ishment , and that great blame attached to the persons in charge of her for not making the case Kno \ rn to the parish authorities , who were kept in ignorance of the case , and upon whom no reflection was cast . " Tuesday . —Suicide ai St . Luke' s Lunatic Asylum . —Before Mr . Baker , in the board-room of St . Luke's Hospital for Lunatics , Old-street , City-road , on the body of Elizabeth Berry , age 34 , a lunatic—Mr J . 2 fash , surgeon of the institution , said tbat on Friday last the deceased was admitted into the asylum , taring been brought from Sndbnry , 2 Jorfblk _, where she resided with her husband . He received a
certificate with her , in wbich she was described as dang erous to her children , and of a suicidal disposition : it was also stated that she was unfit to be trusted alone . Bhe slept in a room by herself , from which everything was removed with which she could possibly commit suicide . About three o ' clock the following ( Saturday ) morning witness was called to see deceased , who had strangled herself with a strip thai she had torn off part of her . linen .:- Iafe had been extinct abont half an hour . —Three nurses who were on the night watch deposed that the deoeased went to bed about ei g ht o ' clock on Friday night , and that they had received instructions that _ghe was dangerous . Her shoes were taken from her , and she wat watched every hour . "When she was found she had a strip of linen twice round her threat and tied in a knot . —Tfae sister of the deceased stated that she thought the deceased ou _^ ht to hare been watched oftener' than once an hour .
The night before she left home she attempted to commit suicide in the presence of her two nurses She thonght that ahe should have been nnder some Tcstj _^ _fc—Mr .- _IJash said , that when the asylum was visited on the last occasion by the conunission-. ots ( loth February ) they made a complaint about the patente being under restraint . —The coroner observed that , an opinion waa entertained by mediless likely to teke place when under , than when free irom restraint . That course was _practked at the _teS _^ _ifr- _^^ _^ _^ institutions . _FJ * * _SW the - _^ _" -Hteof . patients , ho was sur" £ ? _S _^_^ , _^ . . _?*?« J * _- _^ nenf . . He had three _« -a * _WfflrB _«*^* n . his ; distMct , at which thcre ' _- were _aboutl _. _lW . MnBte _^ aha _Inefe were at them not _ionrsnadesm . nyear . —Mr . 2 a _* _aTtn ; the registrar , sated that anting eleven vears there had been hut four suicides at' Si _Iiuke _' s _. _JHor _ai _& _Mcrdicl " That the deceased _conamtM - -suicide ' while in an
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unsound state of mind , " and thejury ( with one exception ) observed that proper steps had been _tasen to prevent deceased from destroying hcrscll . Supposed Murder at Isuxgtos . -Oii _Wednesday morning , shortly after six o ' clock _^ the body ol a gentlemanly attired man , between fifty and sixty vears of age , was discovered lying with his throat cut and iulpoolof blood , at the entrance to afield called Dennis ' s Brick Field , inthe Caledonian-road , Islington , within a short distance of the East India Dock Junction of the London and North Western Railway . The discovery was first made by a man named Eli Dearer , who states that he went to work in Mr . Dennis ' s Brick Field ( in whose employ he is ) , and on entering the field his attention was attracted
by the whining of a dog ; and he saw a little black and white curly dog sitting at the feet of the body of a man lying immediately behind tho palisades . On going to the spot , ho observed at the southern end of the palisades a large pool of blood , at a distance of about twenty feet from where the body lay . The dog growled and snapped at him as he approached , and seeing the blood on the body , he knocked up some workmen who lived near . About four or five feet from thc spot where the first pool of blood was discovered was a purse , empty , with the exception ofa small key , and in the mud of the pond , about thirty feet from the body , they found the blade of an old razor , which , with the exception of about two inches ofthe broad part of the blade , win liminj * i . r » imil _icifh _cfrnnrr O . CiYn . \ X \ 01 V 1 A" * f A OrivA 1 _AWt
_—... W WSU .. U . « _U . ...... wv . _vq — , . _» O a hold and answer the purpose ofa handle . Between the place where the first pool of blood was discovered and the place where the body lay is a wooden bar , fixed into the ground at one end , and passing in a slanting direction upward to the top of the palisades in order to support them . The top of this bar is covered with tenter hooks , and on one of thc hooks the right-hand glove ( the other being on the deceased ' s left hand ) was found suspended . There were several marks of footsteps , and a track of blood between the first pool of blood and the place where the body lay , as also bloody finger-marks on the bar . The distance of the razor from the body leads to a strong suspicion , coupled with the fact ofthe purse being found empty , and nothing being found on the person of the deceased , that he has been the victim of some foul play . It appears that a man . residing in a hut within the field where
the body was found states his belief that during the nig ht he heard the barking of a dog , but that he paid no attention to it , and went to sleep again . Thc night was boisterous , and he much doubt 9 had there been a . struggle whether he should have heard it . The body is that of a man about sixty years of age , with grey hair , and about five feet ten inches in heig ht . His attire consisted of a light-coloured silk handkerchief , black waistcoat , trowsers , and body coat , a dark green great coat , and cloth boots . On the police being made acquainted with the occurrence , the body waa removed to the vaults of Islington Church ; and it is stated that during the afternoon it was identified as the body of Dr . Crook , of 11 , Bayham-street , Camden Town , but nothing has transpired to show how he came to be in the place where his body was discovered . The body awaits a coroner ' s inquest .
Smithfield Market . —On Tuesday , a discussion , which lasted nearly six hours , took place in the Court of Common Council , upon the following proposition , made by Mr . John Thomas Norris : — " That a market for the sale of live cattle in the midst ofa city is incompatible with the convenience of persons resorting thither for the purposes of business ; that the present market of Smithfield is insufficient in space , as well as objectionable in situation ; that the safety and health of thc inhabitants demand its immediate removal ; and that , therefore , a special ward committee be appointed to consider what steps shall be taken to remedy the existing evils , by providing a suitable market place . " As the discussion was adjourned , and a number of members declared their intention of speaking- upon
the subject , we postpone our report until the proceedings shall have terminated . The previous question was moved by Sir . Deputy HickB . The Galleries at tue Central Criminal Court . —It will be remembered that some time ago a change took place in thc management of the galleries at the Central Criminal Court , the sheriffs taking them into their own hands and employing money-takers of their own , the fee for admission being under all circumstances one shilling . Before that tune the galleries were " leased" at the rate of £ 25 per session to a Mr . Kecve , who regulated the charge for admission according to the peculiar circumstances of the case under investigation , a practice to which the attention of the public has been
frequently directed . A few months experience has told the sheriffs that thc regular remuneration of one shilling each was not quite so remunerative as the letting them to Mr . Reeve for a stipulated sum , and as Mr . Reeve was willing to become the lessee again if the sheriffs would reduce their terms , an arrangement was last week made between him and the sheriffs . On Monday Mr . Reeve took possession of the gallery keys , and the individuals who were formerly in his employ as " agents" again made tlieir appearance . Mr . Reeve , it is understood , is in future to pay at the rate of £ 250 a year for the galleries , the amount to be charged for admission being , as formerly , entirely optional on his part . The receipts of the galleries , whilst they were under the control of the sheriffs , fell far short of £ 20 per
session . There is no gallery to the new third court , which will be opened for business this session . Order of Affiliation on Coloxel Blane . —Mr . Justice Patteson , on Saturday last , at Judges Chambers , granted a writ of certiorari to remove this case into the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The application was made on Thursday week , by Mr . Pashley on behalf of Colonel Blane , when he stated that the grounds for the application were that the mother of the child having applied to Mr . Hardwick the magistrate at the "Westminster Police Court , for an order of affiliation , which was refused , thc case could not be re-heard by another magistrate ; and also from the fact of the child having been born abroad , it was out of the jurisdiction ofthe English law .
General Post-office . —Notice to the Public On and after the first of March next the postage upon all late letters posted at the provincial offices , as well as the late letter fee , must be paid by attaching the requisite number of stamps . As any late letter not hearing the requisite stamps , as determined by thc office scales , must be detained until the next despatch , the public are advised in every case in which such detention would be inconvenient carefully to avoid all doubt as to the sufficiency of the stamps . As this arrangement will facilitate the receipt of late letters , the hours of closing the Lite letter boxes have been revised throughout the kingdom , and they will , whenever practicable , be kept open later than heretofore .
THE ROBBERY AT ST . _PANCRAS _WORKHOUSE—ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS . On "Wednesday week while the directors of the poor were assembled in the Sew Yestry Rooms , Mr . Pitt , the accountant of the board , rushed into the room , and announced that he had at that moment fonnd the three deposit cheques of the London and "Westminster Bank for £ 3 , 000 , which had been taken out ofthe cash box broken open on the night of the robbery . They had , Mr . Pitt stated , been found by him lying quite open on the floor of the strong room from whence the money had been taken . The spot where Mr . Pitt describes he found these notes is within a yard or two from the press closet from which the money was taken . Mr . Pitt
was exceedingly particular in calling his ( the chairman ' s ) attention to some holes in the cheques , which he stated had the appearance of having been either filed several time 3 or perforated by nailed shoes . On this information the Chairman ( Air . Churchwarden Healy ) left the board room for the clerk's office to inquire more particularly into the finding of the deposit notes . He ascertained that when Mr . Jaques , the chief clerk , went into t _^ _a strong room just previously to get the minuto book for the use ofthe board , he was immediately followed by Mr . Pitt , who exclaimed , "Look here ! " and on Mr . Jaques turning round , he discovered Mr . Pitt in a stooping position , with the three deposit receipts in his hand . Mr . Pitt showed the chairman the place
where he picked them ap , and said Mr . Jaques saw him do so , on which Mr . Jaques replied , " I did not see you pick them up , but I saw them in your hand . " The chairman asked Mr . Pitt if he had any business to go into the strong closet , and he said , " So . " He thenaskedhim What he went into the strong room for , and he replied , "Nothing at all ; " to this he ( the chairman ) rejoined , " Oh , if that is the case , I suppose all you went into the room for was to pick up the notes . " Theso facts were stated by Mr . Healy , the chairman , to the vestry on the same day , and he exhibited the deposit notes , which arc considerably larger than the ordinary size of cheques , and
printed on br ight pink paper . They wero perforated at various parts , as if hy small shoe nails . The Chairman obserred , that it was quite impossible they could have been left on the floor ofthe strongroom , as it was searched at the time of the robbery by the detective police and by the members of the board of directors at least twenty times since . The key had been in the possession of Mr . Jaques up to ten o ' clock that morning , when it was handed over tothe vestry clerk , and no one had been in tho plaee aince the discovery of the notes . That branch ofthe inquiry having been disposed of , several persons were examined by the vestry , whose evidence tended to lead to a discovery ofthe robber .
R . Clarke , cabman , said , that between twelve and one o ' clock on the morning of Friday fortnight , he was coming back into the _PancraS-road , after setting down a fare , . when he was hailed at the new vestry-rooms , and " told a gentleman had met with an accident . There were four men there , one of . whom carried the gentleman on his back , and Placed him in the cab . He was . told to drive up Qra . _ys-ms-laneat first , " andthen -toNo . ' — , Black- ' f _^ roiid . ' He drove to ihe house mentioned , by the direction of thepai-W the " cab _/ and rang a bell , and a gentleman looked out at one of theunpei '
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windows , came down in a minute or two in his dressing-gown , and stood and talked for some minutes to the gentleman in the cab through the cab-window . The former then told him to drive as fast as possible to Guy ' s Hospital , and he did so , and saw the gentleman taken out ofthe cab , carried into the accident ward , and put into bed . The doctors said his thigh was fractured . One of the youno- doctors paid him his fare , and the gentleman said his friends would pay it again . He then came away from the hospital , leaving the party there . By the Chairman . —I did not hear what conversation took place between the gentleman in the
dressing-gown and thc one in the cab , nor did I see whether bags or anything else was passed from one to the other . I do not think the cab door was opened at all . I think if anything like hags had passed between them , I must have seen them . I think the gentleman in the cab was between forty and fifty years of age . He was dressed in a black dress' coat , I think , black waistcoat , and Wellington boots . I think , if an inmate of the hospital , I might know him again . Three ofthe vestry were then appointed to visit the hospital , and tiie house in the Blackfriars-road , in order to get , if possible , the parties identified by the cabman .
J . Lte was next examined . —He said he was in the employ of Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , printers , of Whitefriars . On the night of Thursday , the 8 th instant , he was passing the new vestry rooms , when he was called to by a respectably-dressed man inside the railings , who was leaning against the wall , and said , '' Will you help me ? " Lye asked '' What is tho matter ?'' and the party replied , " That some man In going by had tin-own his hai orer the railings , and that in climbing over to get it he had fallen , and he feared had broken his thigh . " Lye had assisted him over the railings , when three labouring men came up . These men also gave their testimony , and corroborated that of Mr . Lye , one of whom _nrocured a
cab , and another ran for a doctor . The lamed person refused any one ' s company to the hospital , and was driven off . The Committee appointed to proceed to Guy ' s Hospital and the house in the Blackfriars-road , having returned , Mr . Prendergast reported that on going into the accident ward of the hospital they found a party whom-Clarke , the cabman , identified as being the man he had taken from the vestryrooms on the ni g ht of the robbery . He stated his name to be Jackson , and that he had received tlie injury to his leg by stepping off the kerb just on the other side of Westminster-bridge . He denied all
knowledge of the cabman , or of having been in the neighbourhood of St . Pancras Workhouse on the night in question , but refused to state his address , or give any further information . They had instituted inquiries at the house in Blackfriars-road , where the cab stopped , and had ascertained that the party who came out to the man in the cab , although an elderly man , is rather a gay sort of character , and has no known means of getting his living . After the breaking up of the vestry , a detective policeman took Mr . Lye to tho hospital , and he also identified the patient as the person he had helped into the cab .
On Saturday , the policeman obtained , after some difficulty , an interview with the person residing in the Blackfriars-road , who denied all knowledge of the man in the hospital . After considerable reluctance , Lockerby , the policeman , succeeded in getting this individual to accompany him to Guy ' s Hospital , arid on entering the ward where the man who gives his name as Jackson lay , he pretended to be asleep , but on being roused declared that he had not seen the visitor before . The latter was , however , identified by the nurses and the patients in the surrounding bed as a daily visitor to Jackson , with whom he held close conversations . He had , however , riot made his appearance since Jackson had heen in ciistody . This was also the case with two other parties who were constant daily visitors up to the time of the introduction of the policeman , but who have since been non . est . One is described as having dark moustachios .
Another circumstance , discovered on the arrival of the detective officer at the hospital on Saturday , was the altered appearance of the patient Jackson , who had managed during the night to divest himself of his whiskers unknown to the policeman in whose custody he was placed . A pair of scissors were found secreted by his bedside . It is understood that two or three parties are under the surveillance of the police .
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streets , and ho was obliged to tako refuge m the Guildhall . The Murder of Mr . Griffith near Brighton . —Two men were apprehended by the Brighton nolice on Sunday in consequence of something which had fallen from them ; but the expressions proved to be those of drunken folly , and they were immediately set free . . _, California GoLD . -Therc is , ( says the Liverpool Standard ) , at present to be seen on the Earl of Derby ' s estate at Knowsley a considerable quantity of cold dust imbedded in soil which has been brought from California along with some rare trees an MANCHE STER . _-ATTEMriED MURDSR OF A FAMILY _„ ~ * iv _Tvpcnvii . Machine . — A middle-aged man ,
named James Buckley , was placed m the dock at the Guildhall , on Tuesday last , charged with fit mg an iufcmalmachino in the house of Geo . Btookburn ,, of Lower Houses , near Almondbury , with the intention of murdering the wholo family , or doin _* them some serious bodily harm . About one o clock on the morning of tlie lst ult ., the prosecutor was awoke by the breaking of one of the window panes ; by-and-by he was alarmed by the hissing of a luse , which was r * ttached to something that had been put into thc house through the aperture just made in the win- !; -.,. He was proceeding to get put of bed to see wiuat it was , when a frightful explosion took place , breaking several other windows , and shaking the entire building to its foundation . Fortunately ,
however , no mischief was done to life or _limo . Upon examination , it turned out to be an infernal machine , consisting of a stone ginger-beer bottle , covered with a copper wire , which hadbeen wrapped round so closely , that previous to the explosion no part of the bottle could have been visible . It had evidently been filled with gunpowder and missiles , and when the explosion took p lace the neck only was blown off . Mr . Floyd , solicitor , stated to the bench that the daughter of the proseeutor had had a child by the prisoner , who had absconded to Bolton three years ago to evade the payment of the affiliation order , where he had resided * ever since . He had repeatedly written threatening letters to the prosecutor and his daughter . The prisoner was
remanded to Saturday . Unequal Match . —The usual tranquillity of the border country has lately been somewhat disturbed by the discovery that the heiress to a landed estate of £ 4 , 000 per annum was betrothed to a domestic servant ofthe family . The lady i 3 young , the fortunate swain , who is the gardener , is doubleher age , and it is believed that a similarity in their religious views has produced this result . Be this last circumstance as it may , however , the family , which is an old one , claiming the rare distinction of being embalmed by name in the unfading page of Shakspere , is in deep distress on account or the match . It may be added that the gardener is of
unexceptionable character . The marriage is expected to take place in a few days . High Rent . — Tho farm of Greenfield , the property of Andrew Hunter , Esq ., ofDoonholm , was let on Tuesday week , on a nineteen years' lease after Martinmas next . The extent is about eighty-seven arable Scotch acr es of fine land on the banks of tho river Doon , near to _Burns's Monument . It was during last lease let at a grain rent of three and a half bolls per acre , averaging about four guineas in money . From all appearances the farmers m this quarter do not seem to partake of any alarm as to the effects of Free Trade being injurious to farming , as the new lease has been taken up at £ 5 6 s . por acre . We understand thero was considerable competition .
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Darley Main Colliery Explosion . —By the list of subscriptions for the numerous families bereaved by the catastrophe at Darley Main Colliery , it appears-that upwards of £ 1 , 200 has been put down for this benevolent object . Hampshire . —Timber Stealing ix New Forest . — Three ofthe principal keepers in the New Forest have been dismissed from their situations in consequence of the timber stealing which has recently been brought to light , and which has excited so much interest throughout the country . These are the only persons , therefore , that have yet _oeen
punished for this most extraordinary and extensive peculation . All the persons prosecuted have been acquitted . The elder Read , it is reported , is likely to retain his situation . Colonel Thornhill ' s situation is not yet filled up . The government have received nearly 300 applications for it . Important Conviction under the Wreck and Salvage Act . —A most important conviction , resulting in the committal to gaol of the master of a steam vessel , for evading the provisions of the act Oth and 10 th Victoria , chap . 09 , known as the Wreck and Salvage Act , has just taken p lace at Newmarket , in Flintshire . The decision m this case is one of great importance to the maritime interest , and cannot be too generally known by
masters and commanders of vessels . It appears that tlie Taliesin steamer , plying between Liverpool and Rhyl , on her passage between the above ports , on the 9 th of January last , fell in with an abandoned vessei , which proved to be the Dasher , of Killough , in Ireland , laden with oatmeal , and bound for Liverpool . This wreck was taken in tow by the steamer , and was safely brought into the river Dee , where she was stranded near Mostyn Quay- The master ' of the steamer reported the circumstances to his employers , the Messrs . Eyton , of Mostyn Colliery ; but neglected doing so to the Receiver of Droits of Admiralty for the district , as required by law . The Messrs . Eyton took measures for saving as much Of the cargo as _^ possible , and they transmitted a full
narrative of the circumstances to Lloyd's agent at Liverpool , and the owners of the Dasher . A small schooner was laden with the recovered property , value £ 150 , which was forwarded to Liverpool by Messrs . Eyton for the benefit of tho underwriters , by whom it had been claimed . The remainder of the cargo was plundered , and carried away by a number of lawlesss depredators . For the non-compliance with the provisions of the act , in thus neglecting to place the vessel and cargo at the disposal of the Receiver , Hugh Jones , the master ofthe Taliesin , was summoned by Captain Tarleton , the Receiver of Droits , before the magistrates at Newmarket . The case was fully entered into , and the fact of the non-reporting to the Admiralty officers
clearly established . __ lhe magistrates inflicted the penalty of £ 100 , which sum they had no discretionary power to mitigate . In default of payment , the master was sentenced to six months' imprisonment . It may not be generally known that all goods and articles cast up by tho sea , or secured as derelict on the waters , are immediately to be reported in writing , as such , by the salvors to the receivers for the Admiralty . The act is most stringent and decisive on this point . In tho above instance had the master properly reported the case he would have been entitled to a large sum as salvage . _Keiohlev . —Ecclesiastical . —The case , ' "the Clerk versus the Churchwardens of Keighley , " for wages , which should have gone before the County Court ,
here , last Wednesday , has been , we understand , removed to the Court of Queen ' s Bench . This event has been a source of much disappointment to the sinners ofthe locality ; all feeling convinced that the saints would not bring their spiritual affairs into a temporal court , without some unusual reason . It seems , too , that strange revelations were anticipated . Surely the Churchwardens mean not by this pious upper-court move to disable then' " weak brother from making any response thereto , save his monotonous dissylable " Amen . "—The Labour Market —Operatives engaged in the staple trade of the locality have now fullwork . in several instances improved wages have been realised . On the prices of combing and weaving an immediate . ind c » fn < _- ™ l
advance seems quito probable . BmsTOL . —Ono of those unseemly transactions , -a sale of goods under Bouure for church rates , took place in this city on Monday , aud gave rise to a good deal of excitement . The goods , wliich belonged to parishioners of the parish of St . Stephen , were of a value very disproportionate to the sums assessed by the rate upon thc parties to whom they had belonged ; but in addition , the fact of the owners being conscientiously opposed to the Church of England , greatly added to the painful nature of thc occurrence . As soon as the seizure had been made , bills were issued , announcing the intended sale , and stating the house at which it would take nlace . and an
immense concourse of persona attended , and completely filled the house ; so much so , . that the officers were compelled to effect an entrance through a top window by moans ofa ladder , being wholly unable to force _tfceir way through the shop , After a while the goods were V _^ P-idcst , the auctioneer began to call put , ¦ " _ifa 2 . " " 42 6 s ., " dm ., and ultimately the articles were knocked down ,- but nobody could see any . one bid & r them , nor would the auctioneer give the name « f the party who had bought The w _^ p le affair seemed to give great dissatisfaction and to exes * anything 5 j _* it a religious feeling , and on the _auctioneer quitting the _public-hdiise at which the sate wss made he was hooted through the
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Dublin , Satcrdav Morning . —Opposition to the Rate in Aid in Ulsthr . —Thc northern province is moved by a spirit of determined resistance to the rate in aid proposed by Lord John Russell ; and Ulster , heretofore so free from agitation , is excited from one end to the other . The local journals , without distinction of party , oppose the new taxation with energy , and appeal to the people to meet in all quarters , to remonstrate against the injustice of taxing the north forthe relief of "the improvident western squires and their paupers . " Several meetings have been convened , and it appears likely before the end of next week , that the movement will be universal throughout the province .
The " Social Revolution . " — A letter from Clonmel of yesterday ' s date , after drawing a most gloomy sketch of the state of the South Riding of Tipperary , proceeds as follows;— " At this present moment a large landed proprietor , residing within a few miles of this town , and who is also the agent over one of the largest properties in the country , is locked up in his house , closely watched by sundry suspicious-looking characters , each of whom has a writ to hand him to the value of from £ 50 to £ 700 , amounting in all to some thousands . The samegentlcman is closely looked after by numerous tenants , to whom receipts have been given for rentonunstamped paper , thereby rendering them liable for the same rent at the demand of the landlord , whenever he
may choose to institute proceedings to that end . ' The poor rates , ' our people say , ' are killing them ; the shopkeepers complain bitterly of them ; the landlords and tenants are determined not to pay them ; they will emigrate first ; ' and if they have not the means to do this they will go into the poor house . One poor woman yesterday was walking in the town , and her cloth cloak was seized from off her back for poor rates , and sold in a short time after by public auction , at the mainguard , for 4 s . 6 d . This will give an idea of our actual state , for prospects we have none . " The State Prisoners in Kilmainham . —An investigation has been ordered by the Government respecting the treatment to which , it is alleged , the six State prisoners , still confined in Kilmainham , have been subjected .
Mr . Joseph Brenan has written a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , complaining of Sh- George Grey ' s statement in the House of Commons , that " all the prisoners had threatened to offend as Mr . Meany had offended , " by writing articles for newspapers . Mr . Brenan says that Messrs . Meany and Rca were the only gentlemen of the six confined at Kilmainham who published any articles ; he himself , with _O'Higgins , Meyler , and Hclpin , was willing to give a pledge to the contrary . Yet they also were " sent to the damp cells of the felon yard . Monday . —The only information which has reached us is that several meetings have been held in different places ,, to testify their opposition to the rate in aid . Tuesday . —An emigrant ship—the Lord Sandonwas burnt at Kinsale . Its value was £ 2 , 000 . No lives were lost . The vessel was uninsured .
ChOSMEL Assizes . —Treason Trials . —Next assize promises to be onc of the heaviest and most protracted that even Clonmel has ever seen . Just fancy fifty or sixty state prisoners—twenty are to be tried for high treason , twenty for aiding in rebellion ( that looks like a distinction without a difference ) , seventeen for carrying on a little rebellion on their own account , the overt acts of which are : burningthe slate quarry , police-barrack , and attacking Glenbower ( far eclipsing Ballingarry . ) Mr . M . R . Leyne , who was arrested with T . F . Meagher and O'Donoghue , will probably be tried here . He was removed with S . O'Brien , & c ., before the special commission , to our jail , where he has since been kept . He was the orator of Conciliation Hall for
a considerable time , and for some months was in the habit of making the speech ofthe day at the weekly meeting . At the time of the League agitation , he joined it , and hence his connexion with the Young Ireland party . We believe he is the son of a stipendiary magistrate , and a relative ofthe Messrs . O'Connell . A Miss Power , aunt to Mi-. O'Mahony , is to be tried for high treason , and for " aiding her nephew to escape from justice , he being atthe time a proclaimed traitor . " Mr . Killilea , proprietor of the Waterford Chronicle , who was arrested in company with Miss Power , is to be arraigned on a similar charge . If there was anything like a hero in the whole movement , one of tho Glenbower assailants , named Kelly , has the best claim to the
appellation . In his desperate encounter with the police , he reoeived four bayonet wounds , one of them in the head , besides a blow across the ear from the butt end of the carbine . Notwithstanding hissufferingsandlossofblood , he has never remained in bed a day since , and was sufficiently strong to be removed from Carrick bridewell to Clonmel in about a week after the affair at Glenbower . Four men are in prison for the murder ofthe three bailiffs at _Bansha , and arc to be brought to trial at the approaching assizes . —Clonmel Chronicle . Seizure in a WonKHOUSE .---. Tho Curfc Examiner states thatthe bedding , furniture , die ., ofthe Bantry workhouse has been seized , under execution , by the sheriff , at the suit of one ofthe contractors . The Ulster Fires . —The Newry Telegraph says : — " We exceedingly regret to _leaun that the acts of incendiarism , which have recentl y so much disgraced this county are not at an end ; but that , on tho contrary , they have been extended from the districts
adjoining Belfast , to thc hitherto quiet orderly , aud prosperous neighbourhood of Gilford . On the night of Sunday , the 18 th ult ., a house in the townland of Mullabrack , County Down , from whioh the landlord had ocoasion some time ago to eject a tenant for non-payment of rent , was maliciously set on fire , and completely destroyed .- We aro assured that the landlord , Mr . Franklin M'Creight had repeatedly , even after he had obtained the ejectment , offered to allow the tenant to sell his interest in the holding ; but the latter could not be prevailed upon to accede to this fair and reasonable proposition—he would neither pay rent nor crop his ground ; and , consequentl y , Mr . M'Creight , though sorely against his inclination , had no other alternative than to dispossess a tenant so utterly unprincipled and so worthless . On Wednesday ni ght a house ! inthe townland of LoUghans , in the _sa-neneighboiirhood the property of Mr R _. ft Nicholson , _juiticd ofthe _KSroTcd » ° - mmly _^ ' _^ _WSnd most of Wednesday . -The Ulster _moyermv-i mi con-
Dublin, Satcrdav Morning.—Opposition To ...
tinues , and all the boards of guardians in the north are signifying their displeasure with the proposal of the rate ih aid . To-morrow the guardians of Antrim are to have a full meeting for the special purpose of condemning it . The Liirgan _boaj-djias vehemently remonstrated on the subject , and so also have tho guardians of Maherafelt- and _Jfewtownards . The _Dungannon union is to proclaim its . adverse sentiments to-morrow , and on Friday the ratepayers of Belfast are to hold a public meeting , and record their disapprobation . TnE Cholera in Ireland . —This fearful disease , since its appearance in _Newry a few days since , has been steadily increasing ; but fortunately tho cases on the whole are not numerous . There were eighteen cases up to the 25 th ; and the proportion of deaths was one-third .
In Belfast , on Monday , the number of cases suddenly increased to twenty-ei ght . Tke Banner of Ulster says - . — "Total cases in Belfast Union , 616 ; died , 210 ; discharged cured , 275 ; remaining under treatment , 131 . It is rather an alarming fact that already , within little more than two months , 210 human beings have fallen victims of this disease in our town and vicinity ; but when we state , on good authority , that a very large number of these were seized by this awful malady while indulging in the beastly habit of drunkeness , the consideration becomes truly awful . " The cholera has also appeared in _Newtownards . The exact number of cases is not given ; but most of them had proved fatal . In Kilkenny the total cases are twenty-six , deaths eleven , exclusive of the cases in the workhouse .
Fires. Losdon.—Fire At St. John's Chapel...
FIRES . Losdon . —Fire at St . John ' s Chapel , _Bbd-Fonn-Row . —On Sunday afternoon , during divine service , at St . John's Chapel , Bedford-row , the congregation was alarmed by a cry of " Fira . " The Rov . Mr . Garrod , who had just commenced his sermon , begged the people to leave quietly , and not to be frightened , as there was no danger . They ) " however , hastened into the street-when they discovered that the roof of the chapel was on fire .
Information was given at the fire offices , and as soon as the flames were extinguished it was ascertained that the accident arose from the following cause ' . —In the body of the chapel , immediately underneath thc galleries on either si de are two furnaces used for warming , the building , the smoke from which is carried off by means ot iron pipes . The heat from the furnace had fired the bond timbers , and the flames extended from them to the roof . So one was aware of the building being on fire , until the children in the upper gallery saw the sparks falling from the roof _*'¦ '
. ,. Fire in the College _School-room at Gloucester . — The inhabitants of Gloucester were alarmed shortly after ten o ' clock on Saturday night last , by the breaking out of afire in the School-room , which it was feared would spread to the venerable cathedral . The school-room is over the chapterroom of the cathedral , and the chapter-room adjoins the library , which opens into the cloisters and into a room communicating with the *; treasury and with the body of the cathedral . The fire is
supposed to have originated from one ot the four stoves by which the school-room is warmed having set fire to the floor , which was much burnt ; some of the flaming books fell through the floor , and , but for the discovery of the fire , must have communicated the combustion to the room beneath . The papers , documents , & c , kept in the closets below were rescued , and by the vigorous exertions of the inhabitants of the city and those who had the direction of the engines the flames were subdued before any damage was done to . the cathedral .
Destruction of Two _Indiamen by" 2 Fire . —The arrival of the Indian mail on Friday week communicated the distressing" loss by fire of two fine Indiamen , bound for England , involving a , sacrifice of property to the extent of little short of 460 , 000 . The unfortunate vessels were the British-built ship , George Armstrong , belonging to Liverpool , 491 tons burthen , commanded by Captain Paxton , the property of Messrs . Bodd and Co ., the shipowners ; andthe ship Cape Packet , for London , 340 tons buithen ( built at Sunderland , in 1843 ) , the property of Messrs . Lamb and Co ., of Lloyd's Room . The first-named vessel sailed from Calcutta on the 15 th of January , with a full freight , and a number of nassencers . A few days after , while _lyinu off Fort
Gloster , near the Hoogley , a heavy squall drove her ashore , where she was subsequently discovered to be on fire . Her crew adopted all possible means available to check tho progress of the destructive element , which was found issuing forth among the bags of jute in the fore part of the ship , but to no purpose , and ere many hours had elapsed it had reached the main-deck , and issued forth in huge volumes from the hatchways , and other parts of the vessel . Fortunately , all the passengers and crew escaped without injury , though in the confusion that prevailed , most of them left behind their clothes and baggage , which were burnt . After the mast had fallen overboard , it was determined to scuttle the ship to prevent an explosion , some 200
bags ot saltpetre being stowed m the bottom portion of the vessel's hold . The operation succeededjust sufficient water was got into her to cover the saltpetre . It was considered a most fortunate circumstance , for had the matter ignited , it is probable the consequences would have proved direful in the extreme . The vessel continued burning some hours , until she became a perfect wreck , with the exception of 400 barrels of sugar , the whole of the cargo was destroyed . The owners are stated to be fully insured . By the _accounts received , the origin of the fire is attributed to the jute being shipped on board in a damp condition , and heating eventually , broke out in flames . Tho destruction of the other ship , the Cape Packet , is reported to have taken
place on the night of the Oth of December , at Penang . She had on board a rich cargo of China produce , the whole of which was destroyed . It is gratifying to observe that , in this case also , no lives were lost , or any person injured . No cause is assigned for the disaster . Cambridgeshire . —A fire , which consumed a considerable amount of property and some live stock , broke out on the night of Friday week , on the premises attached to Scotland Farm , in Back-lane , Chesterton , the property of Mr . "William Wragg , and occupied by Mr . Jaboz Ablett . The fire was first observed at a quarter before twelve o ' clock bursting from the roof of a line of barns and other outhouses which run at right angles to the lane . A
man , who was sleeping in the granary or loft of one of these barns to guard the poultry against thc depredations of thieves , was , we believe , the first to observe the flames , in consequence of some flakes falling upon him from the roof .: He immediately gave the alarm , and , although the hour was late , a considerable portion of the village population immediately turned out to assist . The village engine was also soon procured , and water was obtained in abundance ; but the houses were thatched , and constructed of materials of such an inflammable character that one engine p laying upon the burning mass produced little effect , and so rapid and destructive was the progress of the flames that they rushed along with resistless and inconceivable fury from onc end of the line of building to the other as if it had been a heap of stubble . Every effort was
made to save the live stock , but m spite of all exertions one heifer and sixteen fat hogs fell a prey to the flames . At length thc element of destruction reached the stable on the side of the farmyard furthest from the lane . ' Fortunately , this building was made of brick and tiles ; and , with the aid of the engine , which played continually upon it at the point of its contact with the flames , their progress was arrested in this quarter . A considerable quantity of corn in the granary and a drill and gig were consumed . We . are happy to state that the buildings and the stock were all insured . No doubt is entertained that the fire was the handiwork of an incendiary . At present , however , suspicion does not expressly attach to any one individual , although a man was brought up in the County Court on Saturday , charged with poaching on the land in Mr . Ablett s possession .
Adulterated Flour Detector. — M. Boland,...
Adulterated Flour Detector . — M . Boland , a baker , of Paris , has invented an ingenious instrument , called by him the aleurometer—the purposo of which is to indicate the panifiable properties of wheat flour . Tho indication depends upon the expansion of the gluten contained in a given quantity of flour—aay 600 grains—when freed by elutriation from , its starch . A ball of g luten , being ; placed in a cylinder to which a piston is fitted , the apparatus is exposed to a temperature of 150 degrees : as the gluten dilates its degree , of dilatation is marked by the piston-rod . If 25 degrees of dilatation are not obtained , the flour is rejected— -the best flour usually giving from 38 to 50 degrees . From experiments which have been made by Chevruel and
Payen it appeal's that _thfe _dllatattOU _BhOVJB COMeOtly the degree of deterioration whieh the wheat flour has undergone ; and consequently the aleurometer offers itself as an'instrument of practical importance . The same principle may be applied to various other purposes : indeed Silberman has constructed a new alcoholmeter , of a-character similar to the aleurometer . —Athemceum . —[ There is ' also an instrument in use in Paris for showing the genuineness of milk and thc degree of richness of cream , invented by Dr . Dopne- and called the lactometer . The practical use suggested by our contemporary of such instruments was well illustrated in Brussels on the
27 th of June , 1844 , Thatmorning a body of police , _armed-with lactometers ; were posted at tho various gates or " barriers . " They tested all the milk that was brought' into the city for that day's consumption , and the consequence was that eighty la r < p cans of , it >* ete condemned , ] Revival- -of an " Old Humour . —It is understood t ha | immediatel y ' _ajAer opening his next _budget , Sir O . Wood packs up iis awls * and decamps from the Exeheouor . _—Ij-j _^ _ost' AH . ; . * . ** .. . The Lice manufacturers and hosiers in _Nottinghamshire have agreed to advance their workmen ' s wages .
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Thb Robbery at Messrs . _Shoolbred _' - * —n-Monday , W . P . _Hebditeh , aged 26 . a porter w 7 dieted for stealing , on the 6 th of Februarv in thi parish of St . Pancras , £ iS in gold and silver and bank _nofe for £ 10 , in the dwelling house of JaL Shoolbred and others , and afterwards breaki _™ out ofthe premises . —Theprisoner pleaded Guilt ? -Mr . Clarkson , who appeared for the _prosccutinfi stated that the prisoner had been in the _emnlov nf prosecutor , and had gained admittance by secret ?™ himself in a coalcellar .-A former conviction and sentence of transportation in 1830 was proved The prisoner said he was driven by distress to enm " nut the robbery , the prosecutor having dispW , „ J him without a character . —Mr . Clarkson said it 4 true Mr . Shoolbred had so discharged him _buf-v was because he had abundant evi dence of the _« soner ' s dishonesty , but did not care to _prosecuti " The prisoner had also bean convicted of horse st « ?' ing . ~ -Thc prisoner was then sentenced to ten vonrl ' transportation . _iV , urb
On Tuesday , the time ofthe court was _occuniP _j in trying several cases , not one of which _posset any feature of public importance . a RoBBERY .-IIenry William Storey , a _nainV-. aged 39 , and Walter Palmer , a coach painter "o who surrendered in court , were indicted for steabW some silver spoons and otber articles of plate nh , £ 5 , tbe property of Harriet Magnay . _-Sever ' al _wh nesses were called , who gave Palmer an _excellent character .-The prisoner Storey again asserted that Palmer was innocent , the evidence not _beina ¦ af all conclusive as to his identity , and the jurv ap quitted him , and convicted Storey .-Storey was the sentenced to seven years transportation . a —
Wednesday . Post-office Robbkriks — _ Broome and J . Witham , two Post-Office letter-car " riers , were convicted of robbing letters containinc money . —Sentence deferred . _—O . Elton was also in . dieted forstealing a letter containing two fourpenny " pieces and a postage stamp . On Feb . 24 a person named Holdernesss _, residing at Eton , addressed a letter , which contained two _fourpenny-jReces and a postage-stamp , to a Mr . Goodburn _, residing" at No . 63 , Ernest-street , Regent ' s Park , This letter would arrive in due course at the Portland-street branch post-office , to which the prisoner was attached on the same day , but it did not reach its destination . It would appear that some suspicion attached to the prisoner , and he _jwas t-iken into custody on some other cbarge . _^ On his being searched , the envelope of the letter ii question , as well as two _fourpennypieces which could not , however , be identified , were found in his pocket , and in his desk at the Post-office
there was found the postage stamp which had been in the letter , and which was identified by its _liavine upon it the following letter to the stamp on the envelope , the two having been purchased at the same time . —When Mr . Clarkson had concluded his opening _addwss to thejury , tho prisoner expressed his desire to _teh-act his plea of not guilty and to plead guilty , but Mr . Justice Cresswell said that was not the usual course when a trial had commenced ; and the case proceeded , the testimony of the witnesses clearly establishing the facts as above narrated .-. The prisoner , in his defence , asserted that be picked up the envelope in the street , and as to the fourpenny-pieces , he said it was customary for letter carrier * to have such coins , as they were convenient to give change . —Mr . Justice Cresswell summed up , and the jury , to the astonishment of every one in court , the prif oner himself evidently not excepted , stave a verdict of " NotGuilty , "
Newcastle , Feb . 23 . Wounding with Oyster Kxives . —M . Stewart , and Jessie , his wife , charged with having , in January last , cut and wounded Alexander Young Robertson , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm , were convicted . Prisoners kept an oyster-shop , and a dispute having arisen as to payment , each of the prisoners took up a knife and stabbed the prosecutor twice in the lace .
The Newcastle Lasso .-James Clegg , nineteen , and Agnes Thompson , twenty , pleaded not guiltv to assaulting and robbing Thomas Watson , on the Quayside , on the 27 th November last . Thompson was sentenced to ten years' transportation , and Clegg , on two former convictions having been proved against him , was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation . This is one of the many cases which have originated in Newcastle and neighbourhood , Avhere robbery is committed by means of a " hang , " or loop , like the lasso used in South America to capture wild animals , being thrown over tbe victim , £ 0 as to render him powerless . The following case is of the same character . Christopher Rutherford pleaded not guilty to
having assaulted Charles Anderson , and _stolen from him four sovereigns , eight _halierowns , and twenty shillings . Mr . James and Mr . Heath appeared for the prosecutor . The prosecutor was master of a _smallcoa-ting v ( ssel ; and as he was proceeding along the Sandhill on the 28 th of August last , he , fell ia with the prisoner . They went to Antiil ' s publichouse , wbere they had a good deal of drink . Four men were in the same room . Prosecutor then went to the bar and got some paper , in which he wrapped his money . He then left , and was accompanied homewards by the prisoner . In proceeding through tiie Dean arm-in-arm , a man came in behind and put something round his neck , while two came in be-IVre him . He became insensible with the attack ,
and when he came to his senses he found himself alone and all his money taken from him . The prisoner was apprehended a short time afterwards . — Mr . Seymour defended the prisoner , and contended the charge could have no weight with thera , as the evidence throughout was entirely circumstantial ; that his client could not have been plotting a robbery , from the fact that he was asked twice by the prosecutor to accompany him , and that prosecutor atthe time was so drunk that he could nut describe the parties who attacked him— "Guilty . " Tobe transported for ten years . Feb . 24 th , —A _Daking Robbery . —W . Whi ' . e and J . Kane were charged with having , on tlie 23 rd December last , feloniously stolen from John Oliver ,
Street-house , Wyland , twenty sovereigns , a silver watch , and several articles of silver plate . —Mr . Matthews appeared for the prosecution , and stated the case . The prosecutor was in bed , his wife was standing over him , giving him something warm , when the two prisoners entered the room . Kane stepped up to the bed with a stick , with which lie beat him on the legs , and demand- d his money . White during this time was also threatening Mrs . Oliver with a knife , and demanding money . Prosecutor then told his wife to give them the money . They then extracted the articles from a box , and decamped . The prisoners were captured on tlie 8 t )> of February , and wore both _identified by Mr . and Mrs . Oliver . "Verdict , "Guilty . "—To be transported for fifteen years _.
Abixgdon , Feb . 27 . Desperate Highway Robbery .-James Ilargrave was charged with assaulting on the highway William Musson , with intent to rob him , on the night ofthe 18 th of August last . —The Judff med up , after which the jury deliberated for short time , and pronounced the prisoner ;• The judge , in passing sentence , told the pri .- -:-that he was too clever and too desperate a cli _¦« _•'• _.- ''• to remain in this country , and adjudged hii . ' ' . ' ' ¦ ' transported for ten years .
Case of Manslaughter . —Charles Giles ¦ _' _•** Briant , and Edward Cope , were charged v : _* ' ¦ ¦ ' _« manslaughter of Charles Gilham , on the _T-. . '•* December last , in the parish of Shinfieh- - _- _WilliamB for the prosecution , Mr . Pigot for - _^ and Mr _. _Carrington for Briant and Cope ,-F- > ';•; evidence it appeared that on the day in que * ' :: V - prisoner Giles had a slight disagreement _W--- _- _- _& deceased , Charles Gilham , who would settle : * other way . except by a Sght , which it ww _'•; should take place at their dinner hour . . ¦¦ " _' _- time they proceeded to a field , and the _figl' •'; menced , in which the prisoner Giles had ; ' ¦ ¦ _*' of the rounds , but would willingly have ceas- ' : ing-, but Gilham expressed his determination : •¦ V- '
like a cock and not give up , In the last ro . ! : . deceased had scarcely strength to stand ¦ ¦ _'/] would not give in ; he was , however carried " ground , and in about forty-eight hours after b ¦ 'j and on a postmortem examination being tm _. 'h '' _? medical gentleman a wound was found on ! - v side of the skull , which , in his opinion , - _- ' , ; ; cause of death , and was produced byeste _^ . _^ lence . The prisoners Briant and Cope :: ' ¦ ¦ <¦ ' . _- _*" seconds .-It was contended by Mr . Pigot . y ' : ' part of Giles , thathe was provoked and ob ' ? " J fight , that he wished to leave off , andthe _W )' ' , a fair stand-up fight .- —Mr . Carrington , ontli' _p _•* _- *; Briant and Cope , maintained that tbey took _-o ; _;¦' , inthe fight until after it had commencecl . — -U _» ; acquitted all the prisoners .
Hertford , Fkb . 28 . Burglary . — James Rackley , twee . "• _' ' ¦ ¦ ___ . - Daniel Brown , twenty-two , Alfred Lunnon _«< _- ; three , three powerful-looking young men , _*&<¦ ____ _^ dieted for burglary in the dwelling-house ¦ ¦ ' - *;" - Stacey , and stealing a £ 5 note , and otbei _^; . her property . —The Honourable Mr . _Grinv ¦ n * _^ _- _ secuted , and Mr . T . Chambers was for _^ ' ¦ ' _•^ : It appeared that the whole number ' - V ei' ' J |; , ' entered the house was six , andthat three : ' . ;;' were armed with sticks , and the fourth ba ' •¦ _, ;; it
which had fastened the window before w j ; open . The prosecutrix swore positively tc ¦ _*** tity of Brown and Lunnon , although t heir i ¦; , __ _, ;' . blackened ; and as regarded the prisoner . ' -. _* , ; , Itwas shown that his shoes corresponded • - , steps that were under the window ; and it . ' __ , " _j , proved that , on the morning after thc bu - _^ was seen in company with the other two i- _;; .,. at a _beer-shop , and that they all three _s- ; . '• . faces , which _appeared to Ime been Wat ** -.,. _,,,., soot . The jury found all the prisoners g *• were transported for- fourteen yews *
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