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      _SnoMBiax . — -Thb _Uubdeb at _Bbissjxobth wat agila the subject of laveitigatlon before the eoroner on Friday week . The suspicion that ths deceased Abu Uewton waa murdered by her daughter wai strengthened by the evidence adduced . R _' chard Evans , the poliosman , who apprehended the prisoner , ssld , I charge" her with _jnurdtrlcg her mother , and cautioned her cot to aay anything tc me . Ia going « p the Hl _^ h Stwrt * _nhen I wu taking - ter to the lock . tzp , ahe said to me , * I gap . pots this win ho another Severn Hall Job . ' tthe priso . net ' s brother was hung for the murder of hia wife at Severn Sail . ) I said , 'What do 70 mea . - . by that !' and she aaid , « Passion , passion ; I am very passionate , and as soon as my passion ' a over , I forgive directly . ' The eoroner read the evidence of Messrs Strange , Cole ? , _Kewill , and Martin , the _sorgeons _, aud the inquest WUl adjourned until the _SS'Ji of February , on which day ihe Jary will deliver their vsrdict .

      _SHtriiiLU . —A _Stbabgx _Tbaqxdt . —On Wedceeday week an inqaest was held on the body of a woman , named Hannah _Battrey _, aged Si yean , wife cf Jobn Bettray , a _labourer . The evidence given was of a very perplexing character , and seemed ratber tsebtcara than throw light npon ihe ciicunutawses of the woman ' * death . It wonld appear that for several months de . eeaied had been neglected fey her husband , who has been cohabiting with a woman of infamous character , aimed Denton , at _Retberbara . The wife , with whom the husband's brother , Thomas Battrey , lodged , resided in _Gretn ' _a Yard , Andrew Street _. _-Stulfisld . She , _fiadlng that her husband would allow her nothing for her sup . port , determined npon giving up housekeeping , and going Into the workhouse , and with this view had besn removing eome farnitoro into Jehu Lane , to the

      residence ot her daughter , wbo ts married . Thes _? circumstances , is the mean time , were made known to the husband hy his brother . Oas of the witnesses , Hr * Paddigal , who lived next door to tha deceased , said that on Monday week afternoon , about five o ' clock , Urs Battrey came into her honse , and told her tkat she bad had ' a strange dream the previous night , in which she distinctly saw ker husband , aad tbat sbe had been most grievously troubled about some muddy water ; and that ber daughter , also , had the ssme night witnessed something very marvellous by her bedside . She did not relate all thB particulars ai hsr household duties jnst then called her away . Soon after _dsceased had gone into ber owa house , Urs Paddigal heard some persons go , pa » t to Bettrey ' s house , hut she did not see whe . In a few _mlnatrs afterwards deceased csme again to witness ' s

      honse , and said , ' Sid yoa see that lad jast now ? Jack ( _meaolog hsr husband ) has sent for ae to meet bim on _A' . _trroliffc _Bsad to make a settlement witb me . So my dream Is broke . ' Witness strove to persuade ber not to go , but the poor wife , ready to forgive the past , seemed quite _overjoyed at the prospect of meeting her husband again , having put on some superior clothing , aad given witness _sixprcce to pay for _taxo milk , set off , saying as he weat , * I will ba hack in about an hour , and I Will tell yoa all ab . ut my dream , and what' Jack ' means to do . ' This was about twenty minntes after five . Soma time after she had gone , a relative of the husband's , named Spencer , came and inquired for deceased , and for Tom Bttrey . Urs Paddigal said she was not ia , tbat

      aha waa gone to see her husband . Spencer replied he was not far eff , and went away appearing very muoh flattered . By and by , Tom Bettrey also came and inquired for deceased . To ba brief , however , the poor creature was never again seen alive , but her body was found by a _boato-au about eight o ' clock the following morning in the canal . How she get there ia a mystery . The _ha-hand declared he had not seen her for twentyone weeks before _Wednesday lest , whea he saw her dead . Ho states that he arrived in _Sheffield at five o ' clock , by railway ; that he sent no boy to fetch her ; that he went into Andrew Street with his brother Tom a little after seven to look for her , bnt that he never saw her . After an anxious sitting of six hours , the Coroner adjourned the _Investigation to Friday .

      Saxbow Ejcafs . —Ok Hufidbid ahd Fhit Livxs XX Pxait . —Oa Christmas Say , the trail s , as usual , carried a great many of the good folkB of Merthyr from the smoky precincts of the town ta tbe country . _Aber-Saraj' Cardiff , Newbridge , & s ., also sent forth a _grc-at many to Merthyr , to take part in the _festivities there , and the meeting of _Cymrelgiddion . Tfae train left Merthyr at balf . past four , and proceeded to the top of the incline ; the carriages were then placed in readiness to descend this declivity , aad were waitinr the Cardiff train , which waa ana ona minute , when suddenly the chain which connected the ninth aud tenth carriages gars way , and precipitated nine carriages filled with passengers down the incline . A person wbo was stand _, ing by at the time said that the carriages went at snch * rata - ' that they were scarcely discernible , and tfae

      Breaks , whleh were almostin s blaze , accompanied them in their perilous descent ; but fortunately the carriages prooeeded down tbe incline with their living load without tbe least accident , although itwas half a mile in length . They did not fertnnately get off the rails until they arrived at the bottom , consequently no injury was sustained hy any ofthe passengers , and none of those who were inside were aware , until the carriages had stopped tkat anything had occurred ; tbey were , however , much surprised at the rapidity with wh ch they bad gone . It seemed almost a miracle that no injury was sustained , for had the carriages but run off half way down the incline , no mortal power could have save * tha passengers from _beis * dashed to atoms ; and bad the Cardiff train bat been in a minute sooner , a collision would bave inevitably occurred .

      Death _fbok _Paioar . An Inquest was held at Hor . ten , last week , on the body of a boy named C . Jackson , aged eleven years , son of a woolcomber . It appeared tbat on the previous Uonday the deceased had been doing some mischief to the windows of a mill belonging to Ur C . Tetiey . when ene of the overlookers caught bim and placed him in a room und _« r a pretence of _detaining bim until the arrival ef Ur Tetiey , when , ke was told , he would be sent to Wakefield . The lad was much frightened , and cried bitterly , and after having been kept in confinement about tea minutes was liberated . Afterwards the boy went absnt his usual business daring ths day , and at night he was taken iU and continued to get worse , until the Friday morning , when Ur Greenwood , a medical man was called in ; he was then suffering from convulsions , and waa evidently in a dying state , exhibiting the usual symptoms of _effaslonupon the brain , Mr _Grseawood _, In hts erfclenee , stated that _dsatb might he caused hy fright , and the jary agreed apon a verdict to that effect .

      _Fxaudblsktlv . Collectiks Rates . —At the Leeds Conrt Honse , on Friday week , John Spence , a middleaged man , was charged with obtaining tbe sum of £ 33 8 « . fid . by false _representations . Hr Sons ' , solicitor , in the absence of tha town clerk , _appsarad to support ihe _accusation , and said that the charge against tbe defendant was . that having been formerly a collector of the lamp and improvement rates for seme of the townships of the borough , he had , afier beiog discharged from that efiae » , been collecting a considerable amount of rates and patting them in his owa pocket . Evidence In support of the charge haviag been given , the prisoner was oommitted to York C ' . _s'le for trial . Lakcashibe . —A few days ago a male wild cat , measuring four feet from , tail to snoot , and weighing 9-bs ., was tafcen in a vermin trap by tbs game ' sBEp . r to Joseph Boshell , Esq , of Balk , on that gentleman ' s estate .

      A CoAfo _Embashed Child .- —The other day the mummy of a male child , fonnd imbedded in a vast deposit of Peruvian gaane , near'Arica , was brought fiom that port to Lirer *» ul by the barque Octavia . In the _degoeit were found three bodies , supposed to he those of a father and mo her , and this child . The two adult bodies bave beea forwarded to the British Museum . Cakbbipceshiee —Another IiAxqc Fibe at _Cottbnbix—Oa Thursday week a fire broke out in the barn on the premises of UrC . Chivcr- , of the King ' s Head . On arrival at the spot , the flames burst simultaneously from all quarters of tbe barn , proving that it must have beea in existence for eame time before its discovery . This bam contained a large quantity cf nnlhrashed wheat , whioh would have been beaten out on Friday . Ia spite of . the the most nneeaiiag exertions the flames

      maintain . * ;! their ascendancy , aad gradually spread to aaother barn , containing nnthrashed barley ; also to two Urge wheat cobs , one oat cob , one core of hay , the outbaildhigg aad offices ; these , with their contents , and flome live stock , consisting of twelve pigs , a large quantity of poultry , and a dig whohad long kept watch over the property were consumed . Reaching and communl . eating with ths premises adjoining , occupied by Ur W . _Sortnaa , tha ate _tehsiiupQa some _uuturaihed oats , the _prodaos of three , acres , the straw from six acres of wheat and two acres of oats , and a building ia which thirty tons of warx : l was stored ; this latter was so much burned as to ba rendered totally useless , a cart , a crib , and some other farming implements , with the _st-cks above mentioned , were totally consumed . Oa these premises also stool a cottage and a dove honse , the property of Ur Charles Chivers ; these were burned al « o ; the former was in the occupation of Mr James

      Thurlbourn , and is totally consumed , together with Hr Thurlbonra ' s furniture , a quantity of potatoes acd other _eff-eis . P-gsln- ; from Mr _Hirmott ' _s premises , the fire entered on Ur _B-nnstt ' s hoose and shop , and soon _reduced them _^ th their valuable contents , consisting of his furniture and stook In trade , to a heap of a < hes . Ur Culver */ _houss , known as the King ' s Head , next fell a vktim , aad from , this nothing was saved except the _faraltura from one snail toon . The cellar of ale , cantabling _abeat thirty barrels , was protected from Injury , Mr Bine ' s bouse ( a thatched ona ) , adjoining , wss on fire several times , but tie thatch beiag kept ia a state of saturation It Was saved . ' Thatched premises at various _tHstanoas Caught flee . fesmfalling sparks from- time to thaa , bat a vigilant lookout being kept upon their _roofa the damage to them was but trifling . As yet no _carreot _eatimata can be formed of the value of the property , but Itis thought that it will exceed £ 1 , 000 . For part of this amount the fire offices will bf sufferer * , Ur Thurl .

      bourn is wholly uninjured * . The reflection of tha flame * . was seen at a great distance . Fatal Railway _Acctdtbt . —At Inquest was held on Wednesday week , at Minster , on the body of Stephen Chandler , wh _« had met with bis death by being run over try fl » _910 p . m . train which left Run-gate en Monday fcrrDetL The aetMent c * c _* imd at ths crossing , at . tbe _statfon _, and it is conjectured that the deceased _nratt haveal ' ghted on the wrong aids ; the lights sit the station being oat at tbe moment , through the wind , though tens was no blarte to attach to the railway or 5 el * us « — Teroi « , - Acel ! TOt * l death /

      Snombiax. —-Thb Uubdeb At Bbissjxobth Wa...

      Ths _Chabgb or AssoM at- Livbbfool . — . On Friday week W . C . Denuin , who had been remanded on a cbarge of arson , wu again brought np before Ur Roth * ton , when stvme further evidence was produoed . The principal witness was Ur 3 mlthers , purveyor to the Yorkshire Insurance Company . He detailed the _clreumstauces of tbe fire . ' The prisoner had eff . cted a policy of insurance for £ 589 on bis property in _Swifi a Court . After the fire he sent ia a claim ( or £ 576 6 a . Ii ., but the value of the property destroyed was only £ 226 Si . 43 . The prisoner mads different statements aa to the origin of the fire , and did not mention the _circumsteoces ofthe wire running up the building until a late

      period of the examination , Lawrence Keboe , of the detective force , deposed to apprehending the prisoner at his residence , in Grove-street , on the 22 nd ult . The prisoner showed bim some wire , of which he was constructing a riddle . This wire exaotly resembled that taken from the shop of tfae prisoner , Witness waited while the prisoner changed bis dress , and whilst doing so , he pointed to a wire running up the wall of the room , and said he bad placed It there for the purpose ot rioglng a bell to oall up bis servant . That when he put it there , he borrowed a gimblet frem Mr Harding's , and had sent ' the tke boy with It back , bat he hsd teglected to tske it ; that it had been left in the shop , and he ( the witness ) had ao doubt that this gimblet had been used for the pa-pose of fitting up the wire found in the shop . The prisener asked him , ' What is it—transpbr .

      tation or imprisonment , for setting fire ! ' Witness said he did not know , and the prisoner replied , ' Oh , yes you do , well . Witness then said , ¦ I think it is _tnnsperta * t ' on for a dwelling house , ' and prisoner said , Yes , ot for anything else ; but I never did It—the beys threatened me before . ' At tfae pollee office theprisoner was told tbe charge againat him ; and he replied , I have nothing to say against it . '— The prisoner was further remanded to Saturday , when hs was finally committed for trial . Ur Hime , his solicitor , applied to the benoh to have him admitted to bail . He _groinded his applies _, tion on the fact tbat the case was one of suspicion alone against the prisoaer . Mr Rushton refased . He intimated that he felt quite satisfied in his own mind of the prisoner ' s guilt ; aad expressed high approval of the conduct of the Yorkshire Insurance Company in prometing the prosecution ;

      _EDinaoaen . —Fatal AccinxM . —On Friday after . hood , as some men were engaged in operations at the buildiog in thB Lothian Road , formerly occupied as the Diorama , which Is now in coarse of removal , they fastened a rope round a portion of the wall near the roof , with the view of more speedily _bringing the mass to tha ground . After some exertion , the mass was loosened , and fell fa with a orash , bat unfortunately buried a labourer , of tho name ef Young , _among the rubbish , wbo waa at work in the interior of tbe building , by which he was killed on the spot . Tbe authorities have commenced an Investigation Into the clroamstanees _.

      A Nbw Mods or Swwdiiii « . —Before the Colchester magistrates , on Saturday , G . Shepherd was charged witb obtaining money nnder false pretences from a number of the carriers . It appeared tbat far some time past the prisoner had been travelling tbe country as a servant to a quack doctor , whe waa represented to have taktn up a temporary residence in Colchester , and the trick played was as follows : —Tbe prisoner went to eacb of the carriers witb a paper packet neatly done up , and directed to certain respectable parties residing at a considerable distance in tbe country , and at tbe same time

      stating that the packets contained medicine ordered of his master by tho parties to whom it was direoted , and who were his emp _' _oyer _' _s patients , he ( prisoner ) not omitting to add that the carriers were to pay him for the medicne , and cbarge the parties for whom it was _intended with it , on its arrival at its destination . This being the praotice of the carriers in many cases , they did not hesitate to comply with the prisoner ' s _» queer and all paid him tbe money , baton their endeavouring to deliver the parcels , no snch parties could be found as described upon the packets , tbe contents of which it appears , were valueleFS . —Ths prisoner wan remanded !

      Forged Bam or _EnotAnn Notes . —The pnblio are cautioned not to take £ 5 and £ 10 notes of the Bank ot England withont a previous earetol _iaspectien , as thero are many forgtriea in circulation . At Oravesend no less tban tbree £ 10 notes were last week detested as spu . rious , aad have since been branded as forgeries by the Bank of _England . A Das » M — A short time ago a cow belonging to the town clerk ef Macclesfield was turned into a field , on his farm at Sutton , along with a number of others ; and on the cows being taken to their stalls in the evening , the stall _usually _eecupied by this eow was found to be empty , _Setrch was immediately m « de Tor it , but Without SUC cess ; it was concluded that it was stolen or strayed , aad _handbllla which have aince been transferred into the Potici _Gakcttb , bad beea accordingly printed , offering a reward for its _discovery . Oa Tuesday night week , however , one o ? the men who hod been employed by the town clerk , and whohad been particularly anxious aboat

      the cow , offering to go abeut in search of it , dreamt that the missing cow was in a drain near a bolly bush . Ha got up on Wednesday morning about five o ' clock and called upon another man tn the town clerk ' s employ , to whom he told hia dream , and asked him to go with him to look before the people were aboat , that they might not be laughed at If they found nothing . They can . suited together , an I the other man could think of no place where there waa a holly bash except on a mound in the field where the caws bad beeo , about 120 yards from the town clerk ' s honse . The dreamer , it Is believed , hadno knowledge himself of the field in which this monnd of hollies was , Oa going to the hollies tbey perceived a round hole in a drain , but it appeared no larger than would admit a man ' s body ; and the other man on seeing tbis said , ' Well , now yon tea there ' s nothlBg •' but the dreamer wae not _eatlsfiai . Stooping down and patting his arm into the hole , he immediately exclaimed , « There's _aomethiog in it , ' aad soon after , It ' s her , ' he said , ' for I fe 6 l her horns . ' It turned out that she had

      got into a very large sough connected with the town olerk' * home , and was standing with ber forelegs resting above and her hind quarters at the bottom , in a crouching posture ; and it is supposed that the drain had given way , eo that ber hind _qaartera first went dowB , the rest of her body following . It is remarkable tbat the per _asns in search of the cow had frequently passed the spot where ahe waa withont seeing any reason to think sho was there . She was alive , although ebe had been thus confined from _Sondsy night till Wednesday morning , and haa bean since grating aa usual . —MdceZes _/ eld Courier .

      Attack om Ua _Aodebtj-x , U . P . —At the Binning _, ham Pablio Office on Saturday laat ( before Viscount Lifford and W . C , Alston , Esq ., ) three men , named Samuel Sadbnry , of Lay Hill , _Satton , Charles _Blobardi , aud Edward Price , a carman of this town , were brought np for examination , charged with riot , under the clr-Cumetanees whleh will be found ia tbe following statement;—C . B . Adderley , Esq ., M . P ., who wasaccora . panied by the Rev . Ur Thompson , stated that on the previous Tuesday he reoeived informaticn that a priesfight was to take place at Kingsbury , in this county , on which he repaired to the field with the view of _preventing tbe fight . He found a great number of persons assembled , and a ring formed for tbe combatants , He stated himself to be a magistrate , and called upon the prisoner . Sudbnry , several times to assist him in pre

      _ventiDK the fignt . Sadbnry , who was on horseback , paid no attention to wbat he laid , bat rode away , and passed through two or three fences to avoid him . In the course of the day he afterwards saw the prisoaer on the ground He was quite sure that the prisoner heard him , and knew what he wanted him to do , for he ( Ur Adderley ) cautioned him , and teld him tbat he wonld be implicated in any illegal priM ! 6 Boings that might take place . Soon afterwards two men began te fight , on which he weat up to the prisoaer , Charle 3 Richards , who was one of the _secoads , and laying bis hands upon him said , ' yon are my prisoner ; ' and reported tbat he was a msgistrate . Several men together drew the prisoaer away from him , upon wbich he told them they were rescuing a prisoner from the hands of a magistrate , and soon afterwards a riot and great violence ensued . —Viscount Lifford said it appeared the principals In the fight were not la custody ,

      and until they were apprehended it would be advisable to remand the prisoners upon tbe prima facie case made out In Ur Adderlej ' s statement . If , however , they could find bail for their appearance , it wonld be accepted on their giving notice to the clerk , ofthe parties they in . tended to offer , In order that he might make the necessary inquiries . He aished it lo be known by such persona as the prisoners that one of the highest Misdemeanors they could commit was that of resisting a magistrate under such circamstaaces In tha execution of his duty , Hr AUtou laid hli great desire was , if possible , to _»& eh those persons , called respectable , who encouraged _prlie fights , b-cked the unfortunate mea , and found money for them , in order tbat tbey mi ght make money by them . Sudbury was then admitted to ball , himself In £ 40 and two _suwtiea In £ 20 each , R ' _chards said he thought be ceuld _pnwure bail . Price , tbe _esrmsn , was released from custody , and not Included in the remand _.

      _^ Glasgow . _—HousEBBEAxids . —About _half-past twelve 0 clock on Saturday morning , one of the night , watohmen in Jamaica Street heard a peculiar noise proceed _, ing from _thepremlseaof Ur _U'Dowall , spirit-dealer , snd became _aatiefied _, after listening a few minutes , thst there was some party In the shop . The assistance of other watchmen havicg been procured , the premises were surrounded , so that no means of escape were left for tbe supposed depredators , and the shop was then opened by the police . After a earefal search—during which It was evident , from the confused appearance of the interior , that some person had been making himself acquainted with the contents of the shop—a stout yonng

      fellow was at last discovered lying stretched at full length sn oae 0 ! the top -helves , where be bad gone in the hope of escaping tho lynx-eyed officers ef police . He waa immediately _dragg- d from his plaoe of concealment , and , after a desperate resistance , in the course of which one of tbeinspectors was bitten through the hand by the ruffian , he was safely lodged In the Central Police-office , Thongh only ens psrty wks found _isjfae , it it probable that be bad accomplices , bs a quantity ef brandy to musing . The entrance was gained Into the premises by wrenching the grating from , * , ack wiBdo _ t 8 accomplish which two strong bars of wood were employed as levers The name , or the man found iu the shop is Peter _Dpehepty . _Heis well known to the police .

      _ThbLats _UransB AT TArHonsB .-The adjourned inquest on Urs Holman , was held on Tuesday last at _Marchaifs Bed lion Inn , before Ur F . E _, f _» h Ko more evidence was produoed , except that a sum of money much larger than it was believed by ber _frfende Mrs Holman _eier kept ln her honse was discovered towa

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      days after the murder in the _cushion , teat of one of the chairs . The cushion happened to . h ' taken np , whea two sovereigns fell frem It , and . _& n _futthst investigation fourteen sovereigns and a JE 5 note were fonnd in It . Whether the thieves _foun . d BDy money in her box Is still a mystery . The Jury returned a verdiot ol » Wilful murder against _tezie persen or persons unknown . ' Mr Baldwin Fulfor 5 stated in tbe coarse of the inquiry , as a _matter of Justice to Qeorge Badcock and George Holman whose names have been connected with some idle tales about the murder , tbat those parties have had nothing to do with it , as they were not near the place at tbe . time , the one being in Plymouth , the other in London , On Friday two men were taken iato custody by Hele , the Alphlngton constable , on _Busploion of having been concerned ia tbia transaction ; bat , after two examinations before Ur Charles Gordon at the Caitle ( bothofwMoh were strictly private ) , they were _dliobargsd , there being no evidenoe to warrant tbeir ; detention _.

      _Naesow Escak of Chasms Cow aw , Eso , U . P . — Thuraday week , while Ur Cowan _waadrlvlug along in a gig , in tbe direotion of Clerk Street , ia tbe southern part of Edinburgh , the horse stumbled , and the driver who was seated beside Ur Cowan , either lost hold ofthe _rolas , or they snapped asunder in bis bands . The _animsl , as is supposed , became ftightened , and set off at full gallop till It reached Montague Street , down which it turned . When about twelve or fifteen yards from the bottom of the street , which is closed up by a dead wall , the driver threw himself frem the gig , and , from tho velocity at which the animal was proceeding , { ell with

      some force on tbs ground , _grsrlog bia cheek , and slightly injuring his leg , Ur Cowan kept his seat ; and the animal's course having been stopped by the wall , against which it came with some foroe , shattering the shafts of tbe vehicle , he contrived to get oat without Injury . Ho had no sooner accomplished this , than the horse again set off up the street In the eppoeite direotion , but , on reaohing the top of it , ita coarse was stopped by a fall , when it waa secured , and taken to Ur Dick ' s , veterinary surgeon , Clyde Street . Ur Cowan sustained no injury , and the driver ' s bruises are slight . The herse , whioh wai a valuable animal , also escaped with _sorno alight injuries .

      Novel Launch . —On Thursday week at half-past one o ' clock , the iron steamer Uenai , built by Messrs Greenstreet and Paton , engineers and Iron shipbuilder * , was launched into the Queen ' s Dock . Sho is intended for a ferry-boat to ply between Carnarvon and Anglesey , Her dimensions are—length 6 C feet 6 inohes ; beam , 12 feet ; depth , 6 feet 6 inches ; engine , _16-horse power . The novelty of the launch created considerable interest . The vessel waa requires to be draws ont of the yard in Stanhope Street , in which ah * , was built , and launched on rollers , which critical and difficult job waa ably performed without the slightest mishap , and was executed lathe course of Wednesday night , and the forenoon of tbe following day .

      _ExrLO'ioi * in _EDisauaoH ,- —On Satarday evening , about six o ' oloeb , a tremendous explosion toek place ia an arched vault , under the pavement of the High Street , close by the entry to Blackfriars' Wynd , the oause and means of which are as yet involved in mystery . The explostoa tore ap the strong and firmly-built arch beneath the pathway , carrying with it the large flag-stones , raising a dense cloud ef dust and lime , and opening up a chasm in front of tbe houses from about fourteen to sixteen feet square . Tbe shock occasioned was most violent , causing Infinite terror in the neighbourhood-, shaking the contiguous houses like an ear tb quake , and In its suddenness extinguishing many of the lights ; and while It was heard at a great distance , from the spot , It was described by those near It as like * a volley of artillery , or rather a tremendous and instant craBh , with little reverberation , rendering the horror the more Intense by the _eilenco which succeeded . Most provldeullall ? , this

      occurrence , so fraught with danger to the crowds oi passera-by in thia busy locality , was unattended with the loss of life , and withont dangerous or even serious personal injury . The cause of the explosion has not as yet been _direstiy ascertained , although it is generally understood to be gas , or foul air of gome description , which , casually ignltiDg , ocoasioned the above result . Tbe vault In question * belongs to Ur Steel , ironmonger , bnt who has not uBed it for a year or two , and some time aince ceased the communication between it and the cel ' flr beneath bis own shop to be built up , we be lieve , inconsequence ef some bad air or gas constantly and unaccountably Issuing from it . The disagreeable smell was thus ln some measure stopped . A repert tbat Itwas csused by gunpowder was current , but of this Mr Steel keeps , at present , bnt a small quantity in his shop The greatest difficulty , however , la to aocount for the ignition , whieh is alia involved in mvstery .

      _ExTBAoaniNAaT Catch or UAOKEBEL . _-ofThe first and only mackerel boat whioh has arrived at Plymouth for the present season is tfae Mary aad Ann , of Hastings , Capt . W , White , and ahe made her first attempt on the 30 th ult . The nets were so full that they grounded with the weight of fish in them . Counting 120 fish to the 100 , 7 , 750 mackerel were seeured in a perfect state , and a great number in a broken state . Besides these , there was a large quantity of pilchards , and , it Is calculated , abont 8 , G 00 _*{ dog-fiBh whioh were thrown away . Tbe 7 , 750 mackerel were sold for £ 75 10 s ., and the major part forthwith dispatched for Billingsgate Market .

      ROBBIBT OF TBE MAILS ON THE QSIAT _WfSTEBH BiiLWAr . —A series of robberies of the moat extraordinary and extensive character were perpetrated on the up and down mails traversing the Great Western Railway daring the night ot Monday last . The up mail leaving Plymouth at 6 , 35 p . m ., and Exeter at 9 pm ,, on Uonday , arrived at Bridgwater at ita usual heur—half-past ten o ' clock . At -this station various bags of Iettere which had accumulated in the Post Office daring the trip were in accordance with tbe usual custom of the guard , plaoed in a tender Immediately at the rear ofthe Pott Office , and securely looked np . The train wbioh , in addition to the Post Offioo and tender consisted of abont six or seven first and second class carriage * , left Bridgwater in due coarse and proceeded oa Ita journey to Bristol , Tfae run between these two places being

      timed to occupy one hour and ten minutes without stoppage at any station . On the arrival of the train at Brisol shortly before midnight , the guard went to tbe tender in the rear ef the post offioe , ln order to deliver the Bristol bags , when be discovered tbat all the bags had been more or less tampered witb , some being out open and others Saving the seals broken and strings untied . A very cursors examination , of their contents satisfied bim that all tbe money and registered letters , as well as the bankers' parcels , had beea abstracted , and without a moment ' s loss of time he communicated , first , with the two travelling post office clerks accom _* _panyiag the mail , and _sub-eqaently with the post offioe authorities at _Brlstsl . The ditcovery of course _occasioned extreme consternation among tbe officials ; the guard was quite positive the bags were safe when tbe

      train left Bridgwater , and as bo stoppage had taken plaoe between tbat town and tbe city of Bristol , it was self-evident that the robbery must have been effeoted by some partiea travelling by the train , and while it was in mo ton . After a few moments' consultation , itwas resolved to sendthe metropolitan bsgs on ta London in tbe state in wbioh the ' gaard had discovered them ; and accordingly the trala left Brlstel on its upward journey after a short delay . On reaohing town at au early hour 00 Tuesday morning tbe guard prooeeded to the Post Office , In SI Martin ' s _le-Orand , and made a report ofthe circumstances above detailed . Tho various bags were immediately subjected to examination , when it was found tbat not only had the whole of tbe registered letters and bankers' parcels beea abstracted , but in some cases the ' bills' on which all registered letters and

      valuable parcels are entered , were also missing , so that it is at present impossible to say how far the plunder has extended . Ai a precautionary measure . Information was forwarded by the Post Office _autfcorities to the various City banking houses , so that a check might be put upon the disposal of the contents of the stolen letters . At the aame time active measures were taken in erder to obtain a clue to the depredators , and in the course of the morning Mr Seymour Clarke , Superintendent cf the Great Western Railway , ln company with two or tbree officials of the Post Office , left Paddington for Bristol , in order to investigate the affair . In the afternoon and while Colonel Maberley was engaged with several of his offloere on matters connected with ths above affair , information reaohed town of a _seoond robbery— . precisely similar In oharaoter— . perpetrated en

      the down mail , which left London at 8 55 p . m . oa the same evening . In this case the bags deposited in tbe tender were perfectly safe on the arrival of the train at Bristol at a quarter past one , a , m . On the tender b ; iog opened at Brid gwater a scene similar to that previously obterved at Bristol presented itself . All tbe bags were more or less mutilated and disturbed , and the more valuable contents abstracted therefrom . Happily in this in-Stance the vigilance of the parties in charge of the train resulted in tho capture of foe supposed thieves ; and there seems _grsst _reasoa to believe that the persons who effected the first robbery were also the perpetrators of tbe second . The parties alluded to are two men ef respectable appearance , both of whom travelled in a first-class carriage , _occupying the next compartment to the Postoffice tender . Their Implication Sn the affair is n ' aced

      beyond all manner of doubt by tbe discovery of several registered letters and money parcels in the carriage in which they rode . Immediately upon their _aoprehenslon they were conveyed to Exeter , where they are to be brought up for examination before tfae magistrates . The presumption now entertained by those best calculated to form an opinion is that both robberies were effeoted in tbe same manner , viz . by parties who rode in a first _, class carriage first contriving to occupy the next compartment to the _Pest-office tender , and subsequently , when the train waa In motion , at the imminent risk of their lives , leaving their carriage and stepping at onoe on to tbe tender , and then traversing the narrow ledge run . nlng along that carriage until they came to the door , which there can be Utile doubt they were previousl y

      prepared to unlock . This done , there wonld be little diffi . oulty to overcome . Tha tender is always well lighted by a lamp suspended from the centre of tbe roof , and ha v . tag onoe obtained entrance an expert thief would speedily abstract the booty . The impudence of the second robbery , immediately following upon the first , Ib incomprehensible . It oan only be described as ene of those short . Sighted acts by which offenders against the law vers often bring themselves within Its meshes . Had the thieves known , as is the faot , thatthe same two Post With the down mail to Bridgwater , probabl y tboy would hive baen content with their fir-t plunder , and escaped _rnrnT _^ r _' _*?* _^ l _* i _^™ _^ DoubtleS . _f in fatere _. if the bags from the _PoiUfaca must continue

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      to be plaeed tn a tender , a guard will be appointed to travel with thim , _ExsincuTioN or _ist Accubbd . —A * tbo Guildhall , Exeter , on Tuesday morning , Henry Poole , and a man who refused to give his name , were charged with opening the mail bags , in their transit from Bristol to Exeter , end with abstracting several letters , registered letters , and parcels therefrom—Mr Turner appeared to watch the oase ob the part ot the prisoner Poole , andUr Scobla Willesford for the anonymous prisoner . —Mr Birlow , one of tfae directors ofthe Great Western Railway Company , stated that he was a passenger on the previous night by the mail train from London to Exeter , and that on the [ train reaching Bridgwater the guard came to him aad I said thattte mail bags had been opened ; that tbey had

      been perfectly safe at Bristol ; but that , on getting to Bridgwater , the mail guard discovered that the carriage had been opened aad the fastenings of tbo bsgs cut . Hs was satisfied , from this _ioformatioa , that tbe' robbery must have been committed by some oae lu the train , and that whoever bad committed it must be in the train still . He therefore , gave directions that every door should be immediately secured ; there were very few passengers , and theprisoner * , who had got in at Bristol , were sitting together in a _firit-olass carriage , Ur Andrews , a solicitor , of Modbury , was in the ssme com . partment , bat upon the other side af It , and the door betweeea bim aud the prisoners was shut and tfae blind down . Having satisfied himself that tbese must be tbe men who had cut open the bags , he _oauaed them to be

      searched , but nothing tending to Implicate them was found on them st that time . At Taunton , he had thtm taken into the waiting room , and the _osrriage wss searched more particularly . Under tho seat on wbioh tbey had been sitting ; a handkerchief was discovered containing thirteen er fourteen parcels , taken from tbe mall bags and all directed to partiea in tfae West of England . In the carriage pocket two crape _mciks were found , which bore _evidentmarks of having been freshly made ; . there was also a black cap , well calculated tar purposes of disguise . There had aince , be understood , been taken from Poole a pair of false moustaehios , which it waa of some importance to notice , because It _iras possible they might be foand to bear upon a similar robbery of the mail train , wbioh had happened oa tbe

      same _n'gtat . He gave them into custody of tbs superintendent of the Plymouth police , who was a passenger by the train ; and on . reaching Eieter they were immediately handed over in custody . Joseph Rhynheert , the guard ef the down mail train , stated that , on reaching Brlstel , a report wss made that the bsgs of the up train had been opened between Exeter and that place . The praotioe is for the mail guard to remain iu the carriage wltb the bags between Bristol and London , both on the up and down journeys ; but between Bristol and Exeter be rides in the sorting carriage—which is a separate compartment—with the sorting clerks . Oa reaching Bridgwater , the mall guard called Ms attention to tha fact that . the mail bags had been opened , and , on going into the carriage , he

      saw that many of them were tied np in a different way from that in whioh tbey were usually sent from the Post-office ; the original fastenings bad evldemly been cat , and pieoes of the string were strewed about the floor of the carriage ; other plecea of precisely the same _deeorlptloa were subsequently fouad up on the carpet in the carriage where the prisoners had been sitting . —Mr Clarke , the night superintendent of the Taunten station , proved that he searched the carriage in whioh the _prieonera had travelled , at Mr Barlow ' s request , and found under the seat a number of letters and parcels , whieh he handed over to Mr Gibbons , superintendent of the Ply mouth police . —Mr Gibbens produced tbe parcels , which were with aoarcely any exception , of a bulky cbaiaoter , and such as were likely , from tfee ! r appearanoe , to _oontain valuable property . Wh-n ho first searohed the prisoners at Bridgwftter , h « found a gold watch and money on eacb ,

      but nothing to connect them with the robbery , —The mail guard having been obliged to go on to Plymouth with the bags , and other evidenoe being necessary to complete the oase , the magistrates remanded both prisoners until Saturday , The prisoner Poole was for some time in the service ef the Great Western Railway Company as a guard ; the other man Is entirely unknown . There ap . pear * to be very little doubt that both robberies were the work ot the parties in custody . That the produce of the robbery of the up mail is concealed somewhere in Bristol , tbere does not appear to be the shadow of a doubt . One of the registered letters stolen from this mail , it ia stated , contained £ 4 . 000 , and the loss , so far aa at present known , amounts to fifty times that sum . Col . Maberly , the Secretary of the Post office , end Ur Peacock , the Post-office Solicitor , were < nj « ged the whole of Wednesday morning in arranging _plans for the fall development of the whole affair .

      _Thett amd Suicide of the Ominde » . — On _Thurs day week , a email tin box , _containing £ 41 , belonging to the North British Railway Company , was carried away from the Edinburgh station ; Sasplolon having fallen upon one of the servants of the oompany , who had been observed In tbe oourse of the evening to enter one of the covered sheds wbere his duty did not require bim , tbis place was carefully searched next day , aad £ 38 10 s found concealed behind one ofthe rafters there . Iu the coarse of the day the suspected party and others In the employ of tbe company were questioned in the _pslloe office on the subject . It being , however , impossible that evening to procure sufficient evidenoe , tbe accused were liberated . Further facts having tran-pired the police had orders for the apprehension ofthe _delinquent , but on seeing him it was found that in the interval he had committed , suicide . It appears that be had not returned home on _Ptldey evening , and wat found dead next morning in a field , wltb a phial containing a small qaantitj of laudanum

      A Melodramatic _Shdoqise . — A few days ago , at the Plymouth police oourt , Francois Uellending _, a Frenchman was oharged witb smuggling balf a gallon of brandy . It appeared that one of the customs' office ™ was standing on the quay the night before , and while there the _defendsnt ' and four others oame onshore . The officer , _euepeoting Uellending , seized bim , whereupon , witb ° a melodramatic start , he plunged a knife into his bosom , and the ' stream ef life' poured forth mast copiously . The officer , fearing tbat the wound would be fatal , not to the Frenchman ' s life , but to his own seizure , tore open the waistcoat of the prisoner and found a bladder which bad been fall of brandy , bat now

      half emptied ofits contents by the ruthless knife , Tfae bladder was handed over to the tide surveyor , who now produced It . A glass of the brandy waa poured ont , wbicb waa tasted by tbe court and others , Tbe defendant looked at the glass , and stated , through an interpreter , that it did not look like his brandy , and re quested tbe favour ef tasting also . Tbe glass was handed to bim , snd , wltb a smilieg countenance , be placed it to hiB lips , but no sooner had it got tbere tban tbe , liquor disappeared witb more than usual rapidity _, much to tbe amusement of those present , and having finished it he exclaimed , * Bon ! bon ! anion estomac V Tfae defendant was fined 20 s .

      _Uisacolocs Escape on the Railwat . —On Friday night week , Ur F . Vickerman , of Blaekmore , waa re . turning fiom London by the mail train to Brentwood , and on stepping out of tbe carriage at tbat plaoe , before tbe train had quite stopped , he accidentally slipped snd fell eff the platform under the carriage , but , fortunately falling between the ralla longitudinally , he escaped with life , though he sustained severe * cats and braises . When tbe carriage passed bim he was so close ts > tbe north rail that tbe flange of tbe wheel severely wounded bis right arm , his olotbes were eat In several places , and his railway ticket In hts pocket was cat in two , and

      received a perfect impression ef a halfpenny which waa In the aame pecket . Tfae porters were _muob alarmed , thinking Ur Yickerman waa killed , bnt prompt assistance was rendered , and Ur Vickerman , being imme . diately extricated , was conveyed to the White Halt Inn , where surgical attendance was at hand , It was then found tbat no bones were broken . The escape was , in . deed , a providential ont , as , bad the train moved on balf a yard further , Ur Tickermaa must have been crushed _. The habit of alighting before the train has been fully brought up la a very dangerous one ; a short time ago a gentleman , at the eame station , narrowly escaped f & l'ing under the wheels from si similar oause .

      Dkadful add Fatal Accident it * a Cottow Urn at Ashton . —Oa Wednesday forenoon an accident , which terminated in the loss of life , occurred at Uessrs Stanley and Chad-tick's cotton mill , Ashton , a young girl having been taken round an upr ' ght shaft , and literally dashed to pieces . From the faots which we have ascertained at the mill it appears tbat a girl ef thename of Hannah Dearden , 14 years of age whose parents reside in Charlestown , was employed at the above mill as a _sgttu-fo for a jack frame ; tbat while at work , putting in some bobbins behind tbe frame , her clothes were caught by the shaft , which is about two feet from a wall , aud revolves at the rate of 160 times a minute . On finding that the shaft was taking her round sbe gave a load _icrtftm , which attraoted attention , and oreated the greatest confusion amongst the other females in the

      room . The next moment the was a corpse . Ur Chadwiok being in the room below , and hearing the cries above , ran off te atop the engine , which was speedily done ; another messenger immediately went for Br Campbell and Ur Wood , surgeon , bat en tbe girl being picked up life was totally extiact , tbe body being mangled in a most _tboeking manner . The corpse was carried home to the disconsolate parents by some of tbe workpeople in a skip , covered with a sheet . As to how tfae accident took place it appears to alt a mystery , as the shaft was protected by a round tin easting . When the girl was taken up , the tin cover was found twisted off from its plaoe and broken . Itis a matter of tome Importance to the millownera te know how an accident of tbia nature could take plaee from a shaft thus protected . — -Manchester Courier ,

      Thb Xecemt Book _Robbebt at Oxiobd . —On Mon . dsy last , at the Oxford City Sessions , Andreas _Lockhart Belany pleaded gnilty to two charges of stealing boobs , one from the Bhop of Ur H . Blatter , bookseller ; and fifty-nine from tha University Reading Room , The prisoner , previous to being sentenced , expressed his deep contrition at the offence he bad committed , and hoped tbe Court would deal leniently with him . —The Recorder , after _referring to the systematic manner of the robberies , and the station the prisoner held in sooiety , whioh was an aggravation of tho offenoe , then sentenced him to one week ' s imprisonment for tho first offence , and , for the _aeooad , transportation for seven years , —The prisoner was very much affected on hearing the last sentence . _Uahcibstib _, _—Shockivo McBDin of a Wive bthm _Hdebaud . —Shortly before ten o ' clock on Tuesday morning a man , habited in tbe livery of a gentleman ' s servant , called at ihe Town Hall , and requested to see Ut _Sawley , _loperiattBdeaJof the Ad ( vision of the Msn-

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      - _***¦ _—^—mm—mmmm oheiter polioe force . Atthe moment when he called Ur Sswley was engaged , and he was told to wait for a few _mlautes , when ho very coolly seated himself and waited for somewhere about a quarter of an hour , until Ur Sawley was at liberty . At the expiration ef tbat time ho was shown into Ur Sawley ' s effiee , when he walked in and elosed the door carefully after him , telling Ur Sawley that he had been sent by Dr Bell , of Uosley Street , to tell him something that had befallen his ( the man ' s ) wife . He then proceeded to state that his name was David Wiseman , and that he was ooaobmsn to Dr Bell , of Uosley Street , who had been kind eaough on the previous evening to allow him to invite his _fflfe and children to come and take tea with him at Dr Bell s house , In Uosley Street . His wife osmeto

      bim between five and six o ' clock , at wbicb time she waa quite drunk , when , instead of permitting hsr to stay and take tea with him , be sent her home to Ardwick , where he resided in the back part of a house formerly occupied fc ,- his master , Dr Bell , in which he was living until the house was let . After sending her home he followed her , wben In consequence of tbe state ia which he found her they quarrelled , and he got his tea and returned to look _so fter Us master ' s horses . Between eight and nine o ' clock he _sgain went home , aod , as he stated , foand bis wife lying dead drunk in tbe bouse , and having biraaelf been aggravated to get drunk ln the interval , ho pulled off his boots snd gave his wife a " good booting about the head with one of them . After that , he says he took his ohildren to bsd , retiring to rest also himself ,

      and he saw nothing mora of hiB wife until between five and six o ' olook next morning . On awaking he missed her out of bed , and recollected their quarrel on the previous evening , when he at onoe jumped up and came down stairs in search of her . Not finding her in tbe _kitchoa , he proceeded into the yard , wbere he found her bleeding and almost speechless in the water oloset . He carried her Into the house aad up stairs to bed , and van off forthwith for hie toaster , Dr Bell , On the arrival of Dr Boll , that gentleman applied such remedies as tbe unfortunate creature ' s case seemed to require , but she never reoovered her consciousness , and died almost immediately afterwards . Such was the story told to Ur Sawley by the husband , who seemed remarkably cool and collected ; but , fearing that he had only got one

      side of the tale , Mr Sswley deemed it his duty to detain the man whilst he made eome further inquiries . Accordingly he was placed in charge of an officer , and Ur Sawley ,, accompanied by one of tho inspectors , oalled a cab and proceeded to the house at Ardwiek , where the man stated he lived , when , on reaehiag the spot , a most melaaoholy sight was disclosed to view . The poor woman ( a viotim , It is to be feared , to drink , and her hue . band ' s violence ) was _discovered la bed a corpse , having two tremendous wounds over her temples , and her faoe being covered with blood . Her body also bore _matke of violence in various places , and it was evident she had been kicked and very brutally treated . On the slop stone in a back kltohen wero found tbe husband ' s shirt , waistcoat , and neckerchief , deeply stained with

      blood , and in _othsr parts of the house were discovered the unfortunate wife ' s dress , bonnet , and shawl , literally saturated with gore . A small piece of hardwood , the portion of a cbair bottom , about ten inches . by five inohes , was also found deeply stained with blood , to which was attaobed some portion of the poor creature ' s hair , showing that she bad been beaten abont the head with it . Some clean towels and articles of wearing apparel which had been hung up ln the kitoben to dry , were also spotted with blood , whioh bad evidently spirted from the poor woman when she had been struok . The _aoor also of the kltohen and neoeaiary were deeply stained vrith blood j in fact , la the necessary the blood lay In a pool . Tho children ofthe deoeased , of whom there aro three , all boys , aged

      respectively sine , seven , and five years , all concur Id stating that their parents had a quarrel , and , melanonolj enough , that both were Intoxicated I One of them , the _seoead son , also says tbat his father did beat bis mother with tbe piece of wood mentioned , and also that he struok her with his boots . Indeed , ne proof of the latter fact is wanting , forthe man ' s boot heel is stained with the blood of his viotim . The eldest son says tbat he was the first up ln the morning , and tbat seeing the blood about tbe floor , he commenoed to wash It away . Hia father , however , came down stairs whilst he was so engaged , and seeing what he was aboat , stopped him . Tbe husband , we believe , on seeing the piece of the chair bottom , at 01 . ee admitted that it belonged to him , but he says , so far sb he can recollect what

      occurred , tbat he never struck his poor wife with it at all . One of bis children , bowever , says that he did beat the unhappy woman abont tbe bead with it , and that after he had struck her two or three times ahe fell down and screamed out murder . Ha thereupon seised her by one of ber arms and dragged her along the floor into the yard , returning alone , in a moment or two , to take hia children to bed . From all we can learn , the deceased was a _wonaa of intemperate habits , whilst the husband is spoken of as a very sober person . Two Couims _Daowncn im a Pit _Shast . —On Wed . _aesday week , at tbe Blockley Wood Fields Colliery , West Bromwlch , a party of colliers , consisting of five men snd two hoys , descended tho pit shaft for tha par .

      pose of commencing work , but on getting nearly on a level wiih the Workings , they fouad tbat there was a quantity of water lying at the bottom of the shaft . This being an unusual occurrence , caused some alarm , aud in ibe confusion whioh ensued , tbe skip on which tiey w « re stabd / _ng upB * t _, end two of the psrty were precipitated into the water and were drowned . Itwas fonnd that there were five yards depth of water in the abaft , and owing to it being Christmas time , the men had not been working In the pit since Saturday week . On Tuesday week , however , the men whose du ' y it is to take charge of the horses kept in the pit , weat dawn for the purpose of feeding them , bat there waa ao water In the shaft at that time .

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      _Ireland . MB Sum ' s . TBIA ! ., The arguments on tbe demurrer , ln tbe case ef Ur Duffy , were brought to a olose oa Friday , by the reply of the Attorney General , who contended that the facts charged having been admitted by the demurrer , the judgment of the court ehouM be final , without the intervention of a jary , as in a civil case or a charge of misdemeanor . The learned gentleman , however , threw out a suggestion thatthe court might permit tbe withdrawal of the demurrer before judgment , if the prisener was desirous of pleading _. When tfae learned gentleman bad conoluded , tfae court , in consideration of the importance of the question to be decided , adjourned until _Tueiday , wben judgment would be delivered . Tfae _' publio , of all parties , regard the proceedings aa a burlesque , but one utterly devoid of interest .

      Tuesday was appointed by the Judges for the delivery of their decision upen ' the demurrer , but on that day it waS again postponed till Friday . STALE _ntJHBOC . Sew Tear s Day ushered before the pnblio a long epietle from Ur John O'Connell , addressed to tbe old dopes of tbe family—tbe ' people of Ireland , ' to wit , It is almost unnecessary even to glance at the contents of this dooument , It being merely a reproduotion ofthe old condiments with which the more scientific cookery of his father so long and so successfully tickled tho public palate , but which , Bt length , even with bis consnm _. mate art , beoame , from repetition , 'flat , stale , and un * profitable . ' There was , it seems , no rebellion last July ; the people were— ' God be praised for it '—loyal to the heart ' s core ; it was not tbs police tbat pat dowa Insurrection , neither was it the soldiery ; it is to the teaching of the O'Connell * , tbe priests , and Conciliation Hall ,

      that Queen Victoria' standi indebted for the safety of this portion of her dominions' , and grateful ought her Majesty to be for the influence thus exercised in her be * half . There ia nothing like throwing water on drowned rats ; 8 nd , accordingly , Ur J . O'Connell is unmeasured in his abuse of Young Ireland , as the wilful deposers of his supremacy , and the unwitting exterminators of the whole Repeal humbug . Repeal , however , la not deadnot It . Ur Jobn O'Connell means to stir up tbe expiring embers aad ' do his own part , or die , '—of course , on the floor o ( the Reuse of Commons , whence , be says , he has been ' forced by paltry poverty into a temporary exile . ' Suoh is the substance of the new year ' s gift presented t _« the 'people of Ireland / and whlob , by the way , ' mast have reached Dablin by some agenty even more rapid tban tbe eleotrlo telegraph , as the letter bore date Londoa , January 1 , and wbb published ln the FBBSKAtr ' _a Joubnal at five o ' cleok that morning ,

      _ItCIiAMATI ; M OF WASTE IiAVDB , At tbe last meeting of tbe Royal Dublin Society , Sir William Bentham presiding , Ur Hilt , read a paper deicrlpdve of ths effective reclamation of bog and waste lands , particularly upon the property of Mr Colthurst in tke oounty ol Cork . The Chaismam Bald the paper read wbb a very important one . It had been stated tbat _thonth a bog was reclaimed it returned in two years or so to Its original barrenness and _nselessness ; but Ur Colthurst had demonstrated that It could be made permanently productive , He approved highly ofthe suggestion to employ tke able _, bodied peor in workhouses in reclaiming land . Ur Haoohton pointed out the necessity of self _, relianoo and InduBtry in working out the improvements on land , instead of relying upon the Legislature , and the necessity of rendering the purchase of lsnd more easy asd satisfactory .

      Ur Hawcock observed , that the position of Ur Colthurst was peculiar , and h * possessed advantages wbioh other landlords or tenants did not enjoy ; snd as regarded the advance of manufactures in Scotland , if they had ln Ireland the same laws to facilitate their advancement he was sure that a similar result would follow . ¦ The Earl of _Dbvoh bore testimony to tbe _effective _exertloas of Ur Colthurst . He bad not only drained bog effectively , but bad raised upon it a superstructure essential to the purposes of agriculture . The ordinary method of conveying earth to place upon the surface of bog was the expensive one of carting ; but Ur Colthnrst

      had adopted a more economical and desirable method . The process adopted by him-was highly desirable for , aud applicable to , many parts of Ireland ; but he should say there were several places in the country where the improvement of land at present nnder cultivation , wonld prove a far more remunerative source of agricultural pursuit , end one more calculated to repay tbe expend !* tore of money tban the reclamation of bog . He did not desire to discourage the reclamation of bog ; he wonld be glad to see Ur _Coithqrsv ' s plan followed In many locall . ties . - ; frnt they would fall into a mistake If they supposed that lab nas tbo first point ln ths Improvement of land

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      te which they should direct their attention . He agreed with one of the speakers , that they were too apt to look for support and countenance from government . Thd suggestion oiUr Hill tbat the government should forward the adoption of the plan recommended by Ur _Celtbhrsfe had not been overloeked wben the legislature framed an Act based npon the land commission ; but those engaged in that commission considered it desirable tbat if publio meney were to bo advanced , it should be for purpose * connected with tbe improvement of land under cultlva . tion , in preference to the _reclamation of bog . It was aaid tbat the purchase of land should be rendered more bat under the law as it at present stood , a great _t-,-1- attention . He _Btrreed

      easy , deal of land could ba easily purchased , a good title ob . tatned and that land made productive by those who desired to improve it _; bat he feared that what was _wanting was that confidence which would induce people to lay out the ? r money lu the purchase of land The _difficulty which they had to encounter arose not ao much from , an y want of legislative interference at from a want of _private Industry , energy , and confidence In developing-ft * _Source . _otthecouutry . _S _* P ** _* _- ° # _, ! ° _2 J _^ done in reclaiming bog , but he considered that it woul * be more judicious and more desirable to apply their capital In the farlber _improvemeat of lands at present

      under cultivation . _Disabtib oir Skull _Habbodb . — Fivx Lives Lost . —> The following painful information reoeived by Uejor Beamish , chairman of the Cooshen Fishery Association , and it is to be feared tbat this truly praotical undertaking , whose arrangements had just baen matured , witb every prospect of ultimate success , ba * received a severe ) check by the calamity therein recorded ' . —This latter ia dated , ' Cooshen , Skull , Saturday sight , Deo . 23 , 1848 . — Our fishermen were Informed yesterday , by the Coast Guard of Skull , that a voseel had been lost on the coast _.

      and that her masts and rigging were near Long Island Channel , but owing to the strong _bretso from the 8 . B . 1 the Coast Guard could not seouro It . This _morning eleven of out mea put off , some in our hooker , a beantU ful boat of nearly thirty tons , and others in a yawl . I * was blowing rather fresh from the S . E ., but no gale to injure any boat . About two o ' clock p . m . a man eame riding at a rapid rate from _Gun-point , near Lerocon , and Informed me that the hooker and small boat were lostknocked to pieces on a rock west of Goat Island , called _Carrigfinsteen , and several ofthe men drowned .

      _woBKisa er thb _rooa law _. There are at present 660 fishermen in the workbous * of _Dungarvan . Of these as many as 370 were _admittsd In one day . It would be erroneous te infer that these ara become permanently destitute , having availed them _, selves of this resource as a relief ia the Ute severe weather , wbich prevented them from pursuing their occupation . Fine weather would probably _sendhiost of then ) back again to their industry , but a great many must remain to be added to the harden already existing upon what ia left of property and self-supporting energy .

      Uiltowr , Wednesday . —The condition ofthe aux _* lliary werkbouse , lately opened at Uiltown , is awful ia the extreme ; dysentery and fever are doing their work with frlghtfal effect . Oa Christmas-day nine corpsespassed through the tonn fer interment , and the first sight that caught my attention this morning was three more from the same quarter . It would be well if the > guardians inspected the mode of interment . Two / boys are sent to cany the corpse for burial , and from tba careless , hasty way in which tbe work is performed six or seven coffins are often found uncovered after heavy rains , their patrified vapour spreading infeotion _through-, out the locality . I was called myself to witness , some time since , some of the bodies torn asunder by dogs , ANOTHER _BHEUTE IH THK _MEHAQH WOBKHOtJBB .

      One day last week , wben the farinaceous soup was given tothe female paupers , 200 af them _beoame quit * rebellion * and insubordinate . They dashed tbe soup to the _gronnd _, began te yell and shout , kiok tbe quarts , brandlBh tin vessels , threaten the annihilation of tbs workhouse , and tbe destruction of the guardians ; and pounced upon and devoured two baskets of bread , which were brought for tbe use of other persons . The master then raised a force , with which he made forthe apart * ments of tbe Amszonlan disturbers of tbe house , and having effected an entrance , the women one aad all stood together at one side of the house , and the maBter and his force at the otber . After a short rencontre , the master succeeded in arresting the ringleaders , and placed tbem nnder arrest . The most determined and rebel * lions of the rioters waa the woman with the patch oa her eye , and wbo had been the leader in the late rebel * lirtn .

      -. _ONQrOBD _QUABTEB _BKtBIOK _" . _EMBAoininABT _Casb . — A _Paibi tdbmid _Swindles . —Bryan M'Donongh stood ladloted for that he , oa tbo lst day of November , 1818 , and on divers days and times between said day and the lst day of Uay laat , did pretend to ono Anne Lyons , widow , tbat the said Bryant M'Donongh was the husband of the said Anne Ljons , who was supposed to be dead , who , in faot , wasnot dead , but was taken away by the fairies , and by meanB of said pretences the said Bryan _U'Douough did then and tbere unlawfully obtain from the said Anne Lyons sere * rai artloles of wearing apparel , . value ten -. hillings , _an 3 thirteen shillings in cash , the money , goods , and chat * tels of the said Anne Lyons , with intent then and _tbero to cheat and defraud her of the same , whereaa in truth

      and fact the said Bry au U'D _enough was not the husband ofthe said Anne Lyons , whose husband , JameB Lyons , had been upwards of one year dead and buried , to the great damage and deoeption oi tbe said Anne Lyons , to the evil example of all others ia like cases offending , ho . The prisoner is a _low-sined , _forbidden-loeklng _, dark-complexioned man , about _forty . five years of age r , and from tbe novelty of the charge , which displayed the gross ignorance in which a number of the peasantry are enveloped , It excited a good deal of interest , and caused the conrt to be mush crowded , Anne Lyons , an elderly , rather stupld . looking woman , sworn and examined . — Lives at Ktlticlougb , near Balltnalee , About twelve months ago , the prisoner , Bryan U'Donougb , oame to > her house in the evening and ashed far lodgings . Sha

      refused him at first , but on being asked by hor daughter she consented . Gave him eighteen'pence through fright , as he said he was her late husband , and that he was Itt the fairies . He came again in November last , and repeated his former declaration , demanded his olotbes , aod through fear , and believing him , gave all her * husband ' s clothes to him , even ap to his _tofeaoeo fox . Sbe asked him to ahow to her in his own features . Hesaid if he did , she and the family would be in great danger frem tbe fairies . She then said if that was thev oase she wonld not risk it . Through fear sho gave hira 5 s . 6 d , ; she gave him ISs , at another time , at ? be said he was going to a blessed place to hava masses said for bim ; and be wonld then come home in bis own features . Her husband , James .

      Lyoas , is dead . She saw him Interred . The pri _soaer here examined the witness , with the permission of the oourt , having no solicitor employed , and tbe old woman having admitted that he bought some _olethee and sent tbem to the house , in an air of triumph he exclaimed , ' Bravo , tbe truth comes out betimes , '—Bessy Lyons , a _respectable-looking country girl , dressed io a elo'h cloak and bonnet , sworn and examined . —Ia daughter io the last witness . Her father Is dead about a year or more Recollects the prisoner U'Donougb coming to the houso asd asking for lodging . He eaid if she know who he waB , if it was either a pig-sty or » palace , be it ever ao high or ever sa low , She WfiUld share it with him . He came two or three timea to the bouse after tbat , and from the threats that he wonld make parables of tbe cbildrea by the fairies , he got

      money from her mother . She went te Arva to buy fowl at the market . He got 83 , « _1 , from her . Said he had to give it to a clergyman before be got two miles out of town to say a mass for him , Prisoner bought a couple of handkerchiefs and some flannel , and sent them home to the house of her mother by a boy , who said he waa a nephew of her husband , who died about nine years ago and was also in the fairies , —Catharine Lyons , a respectably-dressed , sensible-looking young woman , sister to last witness , proved the _Imposltiana practised by the prisoner also ; and the prisoner having no defense the Barrister charged tts jary , who found a verdiot of gnilty , and after an admonition to the prisener on tha enormity and vllenesB of his conduct lu thus Imposing oa an Innocent woman , sentenced bim to be transport ** for seven years , a sentence which every person In eourt ( save tbe prisoner ) seemed to approve of .

      _auEAl , _AoiTATiorr _, Ur J , O'Connell bas followed up bis letter by forward _, ing five guineas , as bis subscription to the Repeal Also * elation for 1819 . The inauguration of Dr Cane ( recently a State pri . soner ) , as Major of Kilkenny , took place in thlt oity . There was a dinner on the occasion , but very little war said abont Repeal , the old system of agitation being re * pudtattd utterly by the Young Irelanders . Alderman O'Brien , wbo bas been elected Lord Mayer of Dublin for the ensuing year , was also inaugurated _OUj Mondfty . The Lord Uay or proposed tbat in future the meeting * of tbe Corporation should be held on Monday instead of on Tuesday . Alderman Hudson . —As the Repeal Association ( whioh used to meet on Uonday ) , is buried In the tomb of all the Capuiets , tbere can be now no objection to meet oa Uonday , ( Laughter ) .

      Alderman Keshan : Instead of being buried in the ) tomb of tbe Capuiets , it is not dead a : a'l—( laughter )— , it is not evea _sleeping ; bat we had to att _« 2 d to thft poverty of tbo _csnntry with the beginning of ths ner year . ( Laughter . ) Ba & baboob Assassinatioh . — Testerday evening t raan named Fitzgerald , steward te Sir David Roche , Bart ., was shot dead at his own door at _Barntlck , within a few miles Of this tows , by a person who was lying ia wait for tbe purpose . The perpetrator of this blood y deed has not yet been discovered , but diligent seareb in being made by tbe constabulary . We have not beard that suspicion yet rests upon any person for the murder _. and ba igned for it

      no eause can ass , as _deceased W _8 S much esteemed in tbe neighbourhood . Ho came frora Limerick to Bnrntiok about seven months ego , to _sup « riatead the drainage works in progress on Sir David Roche ' s property in that plaoe , and had been engaged yesterday , previon s tb bis murder , in paying the work . mea , about fifty of whom are constantly tDg 8 _** ed on the land . Be was _steading on the steps to his ball door ' when tbe fatal shot was fired , whioh tooV « ffect on hie left side ; be Instantl y fell , ' Bnd was only able to say to tbo persons who came to the door on hearing the report _, ' Take me in , I ora shot through the heart . ' In a few minutes afterwards be expired . Deceased was Only B _^ feW weeks married , Thomas _Wbitcstone , E « q ., _coronar _, proceeds to-day to bold an inquest on tke body , —Ctere Journal of Uonday .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 6, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06011849/page/6/