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6 THE NORTHERN STAR. February 6, 18i?.
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6 The Northern Star. February 6, 18i?.
6 THE NORTHERN STAR . February 6 , 18 i ? .
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_ENUI . AND . * * _-jj _* 5 _*> _RLAJ * r ' . Fisti- aeoakd or Suir and _Lots of Life . —At two _oVUick _«> n Saturday morning last , a _scvious tiro _attti'derl with fatal re _.-ult 8 , broke out on board the _sch . mner Zebra , oi London , _ljing oft the quayside , at Maryi _^ rt . It was di scovered by one of tbe town police who was passing by the vessel , when his attention was drawn to a great light apparently in the
cal . ro , which rs he _approached thc vessel proved to be the . * ti flection of the flames on tberaasts and inner bulwark * , the after cut-in being completely on nre . Alto- the -. moke nud _stoam bad sutaded , « m » _d the crew went down to ascertain tbe extent of the dam-. _- _«* _, when _ti-ev were _slacked at to * W * _¥ _}_ > _ one of dine apprentkis , named \\ _icr , lying on the au-r of the cabin , burnt completely io » cinder . Ihe Mt was _icc-q-ui-H-tl by a knife lying Inside i t ihe fire , there is no doubt , _M _«**** _£ * _£ « £ k 5 S _' . . tR < ofthe unfortunate youth , »» - _^ « _" ™ _J _sth-k being found in his berth : tbe cabin was _dtsiroved .
_LlVERfCCI .. TnE _Isvamos of Ihm I- _« 0 _K-T e _*^ &**» _Gam ** : l _aASn-rtcdia Utter jo Sir George Grey on T ! _-- _; _iVday . ou behalf ot the Vestry , upon the influx of the Ivi _^ h P _* _- _*' _"' _* Liverpool ; in winch he _represent to ihe Home Secretary the nerccssity of some _icf-i-lativcreiiel being {• ranted , and that some restrict'C . s should be placed upon the _nndue facility of itu-P' _-nii _:-. * _pauj-ers int <* Liverpool front li eland by the s ! e- ; _em-Iwats . The Rev . gentleman sa > s , that the DUD . _be-r who iis ve a * rived from Ireland since the 13 th oi January , has amounted t *< _V 0 _. 9 S 2 ; but the impression r . owuniver _** allynrevalentainongstthe Irish , ibat lhey can claim rcliet lrma the tarish funds merelv bv the idea of destitution , ho---ever
uniountled ibat plea may be , _h-us so increased the number of apylicai . te _. chhJy Irish frum various quarters , tb :: t on Saturday , the 23 rd of January , the number _aimronted to _-J-. 4 _S 3 men , 4 , 7 < K > women , and 14 . 677 _chiidrvn , tbe total number on that day being 23 , 866 , tbe _agarigale of the whole week beiug 130 , 7 J 5 . Tnr . IiiisH is * Liverpool . —The daily numbers relieved last _we-k were as follow-: —\ hmday , 22 , 0 > S 5 _i Ymsdiv , 25 * 529 ; Wednesday , 23 , 313 ; Tnui > day , Si . _1 ' 97 ; Friday , 24 tK > S ; Saturday , about _2-i , < Wu . The cost of relievim : this _number of last week wan upwards of £ 220 .
• _ScsciDi . —An inquest was held before theBorou-. li C' _»* -t _* : i ; _ir * -n Saturday , upon the body of Letitia Nvr .: e . a married female , _foriy-two _» ears of age , who resided in L .. _rk-1-inc , T _.-xteib-park . It appeared . t .: at she went into an outhouse in the yard on Sunday week , and _thit on a person ' s opening the door . «••"••/< :- time alter , she wns found with her head in a _n-clinau ; _position . There wns a lau _*; Med . with ble-. 'd between her knees , aud there * as a wounu _jji- ros * i . er throat . She had a _raze-r in her right h ii : d , and on rai-i *; g her up she appeared quite m-¦ * e > _isibic _* . No cause could be as _**! gtied for tue _comiwissiwi of this ra _* _- " i act , as the deceased and her i-usbaiid lived _cmnfotabiy to _^ eth _. r . She died of tbtr it jury on Friday .
makchester . _HokbJele Result ** of thb Factory _Systum . — Hen-, inthe mast advanced nation of Europe-in the midst ofa population unmatched for its _cuersy , bdusfv , _rrjH' _-iiiaeturiiig skill—in -Manchester—T ' . _i-. ' _iert Thousand Three hundred end Sixty two _ci'iiuren _perisuid in seven years , over and abavc the inorts'ity _imtaral to mankind . These " little _chile _' rei :, '' _biousht up in unclean dwellings and impure s _* . rcm , Wife kit , alone ions dnjs by their _mathers , to breathe the subtle , sickly _rapours—soothed by _or- . _- oKi , a more cursed" _distillati-n than " l . eleb re' —nnd when assailed by mortal diseases , their _stm-tchs torn , their bodies convulsed , their brains
_h-. _A-i ' dtred , left to di _3 _without medical aid , which , 1- c _il-jpe , sh' _-uid " come to all" —the skilled _medi-<• ... - r . _att never being called in at ali , or only _surarj-utie . to witness tne death , and sanction the far . _trr- » i . —Report of the Registrar- General . _Faiax . Accidem o . v thc MA . _tcH _^ rEB a . vd Suef-• _n- _ri-n Railway .- — A fatal accident octirred on _Monday morniup , on the _Jianchester , _SUehield , and _Lin-C-Jnsjiiie uue . At seven o ' _clock two engines left >" ewioa . Laving different destinations . One of them . - _. > _ii ; t < nded to go to _Glossop ; but , alter having pr . e _** _.-J-d _s-. m ? distance , the snow upon the mils v . * ..- _for . _'d to bs s' * deep tbat it eould not proceed ¦ wi * . _i- _' _-ut tbe _assisiance of a second _ensrine . At
_Dintjr * ' - the _engines stopped , in order that a waggon nLht _beatuched ; and , just as they were moving _«* T ;' g- * in , an empty passenger train , which had left N i _. u . _ii at a _qiiaitt-r-p . -ist seven , and wnich was g « - ing up to Had Held , to start at 7 45 , came up at quick speed . Tue _signal was up at tie station , ana was _c-jubtl-. ' _-s _t-eeu by the engineer ; but _Se > « _.-reat was Lis ti _e-eei , ' . hat be eoui 1 not >; op the train in lime , and , f ::: diu j . t ' sat a collision wa- ineviubie with the two e :: .-iries . iie and ibe fireman leaped off . The fireman tsju : «; un _' u jartd ; but tbe _engineer , uufortunatcly , r ' _li . er tbrough niissii ;! : his _fnoticg , or some other C . " ; se , fell ou the iiue , and the second and ali tbe _savcxdiug carriages of the train _passed ever him , hi : ! . !; -: him in a moment , and mangling his body _v-. e _mtii-ii . The collision was rather _** _. sharp one , _c-. d c . \ u * ed some davuagc to the entices , but not of ;; v-. ry serious character . Tue _unfortunate engineer , v . h ' _-a ? _iiam-.- wa * - James _Bobins-. u . was ihe only
perbr ; . W ' . osuffered . _Lxres-ivE Emd zzLUir . _sr . —Tiiomas Smith , collect :.. -to Mr . _Aidemian "shuttleworth , char-ted with ev _. bezzlii _^ g _moni'j paid ) W _' i < _i _nhhirndstotheiieconnt ot Messrs . Strutt , of De : by , was brought up at the _B-ire ' _--Ji ; h _Ciitirt , ou Tucsdaj , for further esannnation . J" was _iben proved that , on the *"\* . d Feb ., ISiO , _IL-ssrs . J ) e _Jcr-ey , merchants , paid _Jiini a ch' _-que : or £ 15 » 1-s ; _v-az ov . ibe 22 . iei May , . ti ( -i _* _* . rs . _Gumpeti _iiiij L _<> ., paid him a v ) _ntpie for £ 51 0- ; that on the l *" t . _out ; e . Messrs . _Abi-i . iS . a Tross and Sous , _niereuiiuts , paid him £ V 2 i liii ; and thai on the 30 th _Oci-ber A ' r . _Zclus , _lnt _.-chaut , _jiaiuiiitn £ . il ou account Of _r'Ki _*** lS . SlUll ; UUel that he bad _actoanted for none of tbe-c sums . At the _conc-lusi-m of ; hfH ? _proceediogs he was _committed . ' " or trial . Iiis attcrny a-ked if bill wnuiei be accepted ' Mr . Maude _intimatc-. i that i ' o _' JO v , M _, ; ld ba _ticccpted ; but r _. o bail was _fotthcomhi *' , aud the prtsjuer was _ren ; _ov-jil iu custody .
_Di-tress —The occupauU- of the " Night Asylum " avenge nightly one hundred and seventy utterly destitute persOKs . The quantity of soup distributer ! at the " Soup Kitchen" was , on Saturday , 5 , 600 _« _ju :: ris ; on Monday , 4 . 800 quarts ; on Tuesday , 5 . G 00 _q--.-. rs _; in addition to which , 1 , 000 loaves were _distiijuctd on Saturday , and abjut 1-500 on Tuesday
BGLIO . V . _Sluiocs Accweki . —Abuat half-past five o ' clock en MoKilay _etenius , a boy named Joseph Bennett , _a- ; _e-. t fourteen years , son of Mr . Bennett , t _. rner , went , to his father's shop in Mr . _Langley _' _s timberyard , behind the Black Boy beershop , Moor-lane , to _j-e * some sawdust . There was no _Jh-ht in the shop , nnd it is supposed that he stumbled orer something , and in consequence fell upon ihe circular saw , the teeth of which stuck into the back part oi his head , asd injured him frightfully . _STOCIiPOItT .
Uakisg Robbery . —On Sunday morning last , durin ; the hours of serrice , _snd while the inmates were pun * .- to chapel , a man entered thc house of Mrs . Wi ! J , Wellington Road South , by the back sittingi- _o ' _-m window , rifled all the drawers , and stole twenty-four silver tea-spoon * , and two silver _tableip-iMis . The robbery was , of cuurse , committed in _fipeu day , and it was not discovered until half-past t _** . o o ' clock , when Airs . Wild _returned home .
_WIGAJf . Aitkehexsw . v of a Wholesale _TiiiEP . —On Saturday last , a woman named Elizabeth Burns , the wire of William Burns , a cooper , residing in Chapel Erne , U _1-,-aii . was brought Oetbre the magistrates of _Wicau . charged with stealing seven rolls of ribbon lr . ua tie shop of Mr . Joshua Coop , draper , Wigan . . She was also detained on suspicion of having _eominiittd several other robberies , a « , on her house _tiehiKt-earc-ed . property to a considerable amount _, and _totirteen tickets for other articles pledged ( nearly a ] i . f iht ui quite new ) w ere discovered . The rihlKin _*? " re _rfc'ietion the _previousday ( Friday ) , _theprisoner _ii-. vi ' _n-z irono into the _« hop of Mr . _Cewp with the : ie : _e . i _iiiU-niim of making some purchases . She _lv _.-is committed lor trial .
OLOtUU . . - > KP . m : i _Hoimi-iitEs . —At the petty sessions on Mondiv , a Im * . _liiout _seventeen year's ol age , named John - _luideii . i ! : e s « i ot a hat dyer , _n-sidim : iu Coldhurst 1 .:.- !' .-. wa * * br _.-t'ght up by superintendent Wild , « -. ar . cd « i : h _st-.-a _inir a £ 10 Bauk of England note , ten _s-vvivmi-s . «•• •• half sovciei _>* n , and ten shillings in -ii ' . ; _i . < m th . * _M-. ii <> f 1 ' .. _<* emberl .-ist . from the house _e . 1 Mr . J _..- IH ¦ " - <; - _'ii , _piib _' _-ii-an , _lligh-street , Oldham ; ie * .-. ' . ; _i ! o -. vii _sv-aJiti- £ 7 in _sovei-cigns , and £ 2 10 s i » s _,- v . > - . j ,- ; j 3 Hit- _Ktnie house , of the IQih of _Jan--::. i » ' -.- ! . 11 _<; was com . uiited for kialat thc Salford sessions . < - ' ! _STKU . i ' m : _t-ii-ittiOTc _* - < y ( _jiiot ' _-T have elected Hugh L" \ ti-, Ka- ' _Orosven'rt- to _rojirosMit tlie borough in /' . ; _r-. ; iii _!« -n ; , hi _ihnrou u » f Lord Rybcrt Grosvenor , »•< - ; - *• . * _... _t ) ianrl i ' _-ir _Mi-idle * ex .
_iv . _-. fi .-riKi . li . i _'* . rEi _* Mi \ _-. ii SviriVr : mi' Two _Lovku-- . —A most ' . _;• ¦ ¦ :: _;; i [) ' _Ji-i- _. ; s . i ? taken _, i ! : _n-e in V _> _akcfield , _* . _- !; : ¦ ; , i- -. a d a ijf < -jRt' _*;* _ti-- _' _-. _ti- < n it . the _tK'i- _^ h'x-ur-• : ¦ ¦' , . _.-. _* , no . - iWf ie * pccl . _ib < - i .- tiiiiiies _liave' _- •¦ . _; ¦ .. v ., i _,. _.-. . i _> _t- ( i _«*«« l ;! . «< i « . v ,- ! .-t _dintiegs . A '• ' : i nu : i _, :.. > ed Gewue IJaaipstm , _alioiit twciity-: _;* . . * _;* _- ... _; ,: .: . _. _, a , iel [ _, aiihis & _--dnss-s to a yount ' " -. ! it ; _:-t _t ' ::- u . mc of Siitau _Me'iieiu fin- about tbree _ii ; _i : s i ' .. ; t _; _ihi- _piities re _" _--iiie . i i ; i » V : _ikt-lie ! d , the y _.-tij-r ..., ; , _ij .: _^ _, _nJiiu's _^ iitb , _aii-1 son of Mr . <¦« " :, ' . I . iiu _;;!! - _!! , _, also a _wi . itesmit ' f . _tt-j „ in thai " v _* _- ; :. _*> . ; _n ; .. _{ _Vi ' _jiijm of Friday _iiist , ii . iiiipsonweni ' « - st -. ; ¦; . : , ;• _,,. _J _, , ,,.. t ! i \ , U _Iuv . a ; ; ::. d m thu _liiu-;; c . _' .. ¦ a _.-i-. t- ; . i- tiie girl w . is not _vi-ry well . On thc . '••;«• v _, i . _^ ( . s .- . ri ! _ri-ay ) m' » rni « y , _two-co'iis and a hat , jn ; : a _biimtt , shawl , and _bw were found on th < U uliot the Barnsli-y Canal , near ihe _bridge which ti- _"ses it m soin ? fselds near lkr _. tit Wood , about a
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mile and a half from Miss _^ _ortoh _' i- home . Tho bodies , of Qampson an , d bin lover- Susan were found near the _fdacd . * Tbe suio . dal determination must nave bccuetrcritiin < acri , tor their _liwlies wero firmly tkd together with ftur handkerchiefs , which must have been fastened by Hampson , as the knots were tied _bi'hind the vemng woman . ln his pocket was found a pistol loaded with ball , and two bullets sum-. ' powder , caps , < fcc . ; and in her pocket was found a soft substance , like raste , which _issupposedto be poison . No reason can be found for the commission ot such a rash act . There were no marks of violence on either oftlie bodies . The deceased young woman was about twenty-one _yearsofage _. Rfine _figure , audvervpreltv . An inquest was held on thc bodies on Saturday , before Thomas Lee , _Ecq ., coroner , when the jury returned the following verdict : —** Found drowned _, without any marks offiolence ; but how , or by what means , they got into the canal , there is no evidence to show . "
WORSB 0 R 0 UGH _OALK . Loai Pit _AccinssT . —Lots of Six Lives . —On Friday afternoon a fresh sacrifice of life took place , _atone of the Darlcy M-. in Coal Company ' s pits , at _Worsborough Dale , about four miles from Barnsley . About two _s _' clock , some men , wbo were employed in one part of be pit , lired a blast of gunpowder lor the purpose of _briugiut ; down a larc . e piece of coal . Shortly after the explosion , an alarm of fire was given from a part of the pit two bundrtd yards from the place where the blast had been fired . A large mass cf coal was found on lire , and every _txeriion
was used to stop up the driftways , or roads _throu- ;! _. which air was admitted , and to put out the lire , by throwing water upon it . The men were engaged in this manner , from two o ' clock until four , at which time , instead of having checked the flames , it was found that they were gaming up » u them , and the pit being filled with smoke rendered it impossible ! for tbem to continue longer . Those who were at the pit mouth now became alarmed for the safety of their companions , and a _message was immediately dispatched to the pits uf Messrs . Field and Cooper for _assistance . Some of the other men succeeded in
reacamg thc pit mouth in a state of exhaustion . The manager of the works went down into the pit , which was then se full of smoke that he was obliged to return . Joseph Beaumont , tbe steward of Messrs . Field and Cooper ' s pits , arrived shortly after four o ' clock , and every _exertmn was then used to reach the place where the men were known to bo , but without success . It was net until twelve o'elock at night that the last of the bodies ' ( tbat of _George Gomersley , the under-ground steward ) was found , and they were each removed to tbeir hou . * es . The •¦ th r men , eight in number , wbo had escaped from suffocation , only with great difficulty , were immediately after being removed from the pit , attended
by a _surgeon , who adminsteied such remedies as tbeir cases required , and , though suffering severely , there is every reason tu hope tbat hey will recover . Tiie cause of the accident has not yet been dearly ascertained , but from the statements made by the _mt-u who were in tlie pit at the lime , one of them the man who fired the b ast , and who escaped , tbere docs not appear to have _bee-n any light near tho place where the fire was discovered , uutil _immediately after the blasting of ths coal . It is supposed that the breaking up of the eoal must have opened a crevice in which catburetted hydrogen gas , or tiredamp had accumulated , and this having ignited , bad set fire to the coal .
X 0 TTIM _3 UAM . A Female Burnt to Ashes . — On Monday last , Mrs , Grundy , residin _* - at War . * : er-gate , _Nottiugiiam , was found iu her house literally burnt to ashes . Tbe unfortunate woman was at the advanced age of 82 , enjoyed good health , and lived alme . At fuur o'clock in tbe afternoon , a coal-higgler opened her house door , and inquired if any one would buy a load of coals , when he saw ber lying with her feet near the door , and her head towards the opposite side -, her clothes were burnt _t- » dust , her body black as a cinder , and in some parts reduced to aslies . Her table stood near the fire with her breakfast thing * _, upon it , a cup of tea poured out , and a bit of bread in it . as if she had been taking ber breakfast .
WAnWICKSHIRE . Mt'BDER ASD _AxriMITED SUICIDE . _—KePIOJ _* , SATURDAY . —Last evening an inquest was ueld at the Wbite Lion Tavern , en the body of Henry Peter Taylor , aged eleven weeks , the illegitimate _offspring of jane Taylor , seed 20 years , who had jumped into the Warwick and Xaptnn Canal , with tbe child in her arms , on _Thuis-iay nii ; lit last . Hannah Taylor , of Ilanningham _, said " tbat her husband was the brother of Jane Taylor . She was at her house on Thursday evening about five o ' clock . She bad tbe deceased with her . When she went away she was crying very much , and witness understood that she was going to _Leamiagton . Witness wished her not to e- out , as it was ouite unnecessary , but -he persisted
in geiing . My husband bad told her that she must procure a _frcdi heme , for he was unable to support her . We had notice to leave our house in consequence of her beinn there , which notice was up tonight ( Friday ) . We have but one room for myself , husband , and tiiree children , and , _therefore , had no room for her and the baby . Phineas Page said : On the previous evening , as be was coining from the mill , he saw something floating on the water , on tlie opposite side . Having pr <* cured _asskt'ince , and got the female out , she then ejaculated , " Oil , my poor baby . " Her dress having been unpinned , _tliedeceased was found elapsed in her arms quite dead . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against _J-iue Taylor , who was fully committed for trial at the next assizes .
_UIRUI . VGUAM . There are now in the Birmingham workhouse 613 persons , 593 of whom are paupers—and tbis in a season ef no extraordinary distress , for , compared with otber large towns , Birmingham may be considered singularly fortunate in the present condition of the lower class of its inhabitants .
_OLOUCKSTEKSniRE . Seicde of a _Clergi-ma * _-. —On Friday the Rev _George Ireland , the chaplain of _JS ' ortbleach House of Correction , in this county , was found in his room with his throat cat , and quite dead , the fatal act having , it is presumed , been committed some hours before its discovery . We have heard tbat the reverend gentleman had forwarded or left behind him letters addressed to Mr . _Reeves , the governor of the prison , and to his own family , in which he expressed bis intention to commit suicide . We have not heard a cause assigned for this very rash act , but f ar that straitened circumstances , and the great difficulty ot sustaining by small means his position in society , may have operated upon a dispirited man and been the impelling cau-e ot this sad catastrophe , lie was beyond the middle ace , a « d has left a widow and a large family of we believe seven children : None of these , at the time of his death , had joined him at Xurtkleach .
batii . Elopement op ax Heiress . —An elopement fror ** Bath has given theeossips of that watering place an amusing topic of discussion . The lady is stated to be the " grand-niece of a late _eccentric inhabit nt ofthe vicinity of Bath , who , at his decease , bequeathed to her a considerable portion of his _enormous fortune , which he placed at ber own conditional disposal , after hor arrival at the age of _twenty-ono . Like her well known kinsman , the young lady was somewhat singular in her iubits and refined in her tastes , and , as matter of course , iu a fortune-hunting
place like the " Queen city of the west , " the heiress attracted much attention . The funds at hor disposal caused more than one needy Peer , and many a half pay hero to vow eternal n . hlity . Like Miss BurdettCoutis , she was pestered with _levers ; but bad her face and form been her only dowry , she mi _^ bt have been deemed a noble prize , for in the _exclusive circlesof the provincial ton she was universally known to be tho bdle of Bath . A few days ago she was nmsed from the house of hei- _t'liardian . Pursuit , was defeated , and on Th tin-day it became knoivn that she had been married at Exeter — to a tailor ' s assistant !
CCCKIXOnAMSIIIRE . Sufferings of _tnE _Peasantut . —A few days ago a meeting eif labourers of Bicester , Launton , Ambrosden , Blackthorn , Arneott , _Piddinijton , _Weiid ' cbury , Stratum Audley , and other places mound bieester , took place at the Independent Chapel , for the purpose of stating their distress , and bringing their condition before the puUlic . Tiiere were from two hnudred and fifty to 300 labourers present , - .. nd , in addition , a considerable number of tradesmen and other inhabitants of Bicester . Many of the _iabourers proceeded to state their condition , and thc attention ofthe meeting waa directed for some time to their statements . We select a few of their declarations : — Thomas Wallineton . of Bicester , has a wife : has not
since the Ilih of October averaged 2 s . per week ; has to pay ls . Od . per week rent . Coxhill , of Bicejter , said he had not earned ls . per week s nce Michaelmas ; has a wife and _fuutchildren ; has a bov who goes to work and earns 33 . per week ; his money went to help to keep them ; paid ls . per week rent ; had managed to live b y the kindness of Mr . Ferguson and others . Thomas Justice , of Bicester , has a wife and child ; for the last two mouths his enrnin « _s have not averaged more than ahout Is . Sd . per week ; had to pay Is . 3 . 1 . rent . Mr . _Fen-uson said it would be a query to many as to how people lived under sueii circumstances . He found out that two or three families lived _together ; those that have more assist those that have ie . « s ; tints one helped the other
. —A female next rose to spea ? - , savins her name was Sarah _Bi . rt _, the . 'ifc of Thomas Uurt , ot Bice ** ter ; her husband ' s earnings had only been 17 s . 81 . in ten weeks ; thero were seven in famiiv ; they had two children nt work , one at 3 s . Oil ami the other 4 s . ; they had ls . ( id . to pav for rent , * had _oot been without bread , it was true , but it was difficult to get it . Mrs . Timras , of Bicester , _stid thev had four children ; for the last four months her busfiand had only _eamtd 17 s . 9 _J ., and out of this lie had 9 s . topay away for his _lodging ; she had gone about _oc-rging with her baby at her breast . Ba » ott of Bicester , said ho had only had six days' work in ten weeks ; had eight children at home ; for threi weeks the b < . y had earned 2 s , per week ; had suffered a great deal ; had gone _^ jthpiit bread for tim e days
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_cog-tlicr ; bad pledget *} all tbeir _things tlmt the tliildren should n _« t go without victuals ; the whole eight had onlv had one pound of bre- » d a-day . — Richard _Marlrham said he had a wife and five children ; had eiuhtshiilinus a week ; a boy was this day goue to work ; had topay ls . 3 d . a week ren ' , ; was very short of victuals ; some days only one bit of bread all day to work with ; bad ls . given him last night ; that was to carry them on thia day . — A female next addressed the meeting , saying she wa ** John Franklin ' s wife ; ho was a cripple , and came to Bicester to fetch letters from thevoat-office ; they had four children ; she went oat in the fields to work at 6 d . per day ; their earnings altogether were
: ib ut _Cs . 6 d , ; they were in great distress . —William Jeacock , of Launton , said he had a wife and two children ; in ten weeks he had three days' work ; before that he was ill three weeks ; when in work he had ls . 4 d . a-day ; took 4 ' . to his landlord , Mr . Asbby , when he was _dowta ; it was all he had ; bad a loai' of bis wile ' s friends ; left no bread at home wheH he came away . William Tubby , of Launton , said h .- had heen an old soldier ; he had been in battle , and never was frightened ; he had not a pension * , he gave that up to pet his discharge ; since Michaelmas he had had eight days' work ; lived alone , and had 7 d . a week to pay rent ; paid his rent _or-ce a year ; for five days he had only had a penny oake .
The abovo cases are but a few of those which came before the meeting . Ou the following day a meeting was held in the parish church to inquire into the state of the poor . Rumours had uone abroad that thcrcccnt statements respecting their _conditb-n were exaggerated ; but at this meeting all that was stated above was _confirmed ; and a subscription was entered into immediately to alleviate the present distress . A committee was formed fo solicit help from the public , and to take other measures likely to meet tbe crisis , Tli is meeting was well attended , and caused unusual excitement .
XORF ' 'LR * . Cumulative Skntesces for Poaching . —On Saturday , James Barney was brought before the magistrates at Norwich for the third time , and charged with po'iohine on tho 21 < t of _N-ivembenlast , at _llorsturd , and a witnes _** was called who said he saw him with a li 3 re . Defendant was now out of gaol , where he had boon sentenced this day month for four weeks for a similar offence . On that occasion , also , he was then out , having , far another offence , been
-eutenced to a fortnights imprisonment . Mr . Stracey thought these cumulative sentences _hit-hly objectionable , cspec . ally as this _e . fFence was aid to have _btjeu committed before the one for wliich the man had been suffering . It was-very unlike the prisoner's having returned to the practice after his _jiiniishment ; and he thought a month ' " imprisonment at most would meet thc justice of the case . The Rev . John llumfrey and Captain Bmdsl . aw _thought not , and _agreed to give him two months . Mr . Stracey refused to sign tbe conviction .
MIDDLESEX . _Eli-johox . —The vacancy in the representation of the county occasioned by the death of the late Geo . Byng , Esq ., was filled up yesterday by the election oi Lord Robert Grosvem . r . _Notwiths-t mding the inclemency of thc weather , which was the less endurable from the business being carried on in the open air , tiiere was a considerable body of persons ast-cm _lilri at Brentford . Lord Grosvenor waa proposed by the lion . P . Bouverie and Sir E . N . Buxton . No other candidate was proposed , and on a show of hands his lordship was deel . ired to be duly elected . The new member then delivered a speech full of the usual Whig nothingisms . The ceremony of girding on the sword , and affixing the spurs—which would be " more honoured in the breach than the observance " _—closed the proceedings .
ESSEX . _Destruction op _Eusion Lodge , the Seat of Viscount _Mavsaro . —This large and beautiful mansion situated a few miles from _Storiford , and the residence of Viscount Maynard the Lord Lieutenant of the county , was destroyed by fire , on Monday morning last , nothing being left but the domestic _"ffiees , and a few other unimportant buildings , llis Lordship and the family were at the lodge at the time , and all the parties in tho extensive establishment retired to rest late on Saturday night , when all appeared perfectly safe ; but about three or four o ' clock on Sunday morning they were aroused by a cracking noise of flames in the upper part of the house , and his lordship was thc first to arise from his
bed and give the alarm to the other inmates . It was found at this time that the fire was raging m the Noble Lord ' s dressing room . The engine on the premises was got out , but ifc was soon evident that the fl imes would entirely dely all their cffortB . Engines irom thc neighbouring towns ot Thasted and Dunmow were speedily on the spot and got to work -, but the flames at this time had obtained a thorough hold of the mansion , spreading rapidly fr < im room to room , and bursting out with terrific violence . Many of those assembled , which included a large number of his Lonlship _' s tenantry , seeing that the power that could b « brought to bear upon the devouring element would be futile , set about removing some of the valuable prop . rty from thc . apartments that yet remained
untouched ; and in this way many ofthe choice pictures and a considerable portion of plate and costly furniture were saved from destruction . The flames went resistlessly onward in their progress , _throwing a itlare into the atmosphere which wa 3 visible for miles around , and was continually bringing to the scene fresh parties . Tho flames continued to rage unchecked for two or three hours , destroying all thc main body of the house , the clock tower , and , in fact , all the building , except one wing , which was ultimately saved by those present . The mansion was a noble and ancient one , and the damage dune amounts to many thousand pounds . We could not learn whether it was insured . The origin of the fire has not been explained .
KENT . Ah accident _oeetrred on Tuesday in _Abbott ' s Cliff Tunnel , on the Southern Eastern Railway , midway hetween the terminus and the Folkestone station , by which Joel Hush , the master of the electric telegraph at Dovor , met with a _fri-jhtful death . The _unfortuna'e man was greatly respected , having been in the service of the company since the opening of the line . It appears that the deceased , having experienced some difficulty in the course of thc forenoon in transmitting messages per telegraph to Folkestoneit is he
, supposed determined on proceeding along the line to inspect the wires , with a view of ascertaining where the defect existed ; and , on the 1 o ' clock passenger train having Dover for town lie got on the engine with the driver and stoker . When the train had advanced about thirty orfoityyatds in the Abbott ' s Cliff tunnel , the engine driver saw him fall against the wall on the left hand side , and disappear beneath tiie train , T he engine was . -topped , and the body was found frightfully mutilated lying across the rails . An inquest was held on Wednesday last . Verdict—Accidental Death .
CHATHAM . Painless Operation at the Military Hospital . —A --ei ies of surgical operations were performed at the General ll _' _-spital , Fort Pitt , Chatham , a few days _auo , in the presence of Dr French and ail the medical officers of the establishment , the patients , previous to operation , having been each subjected to the influence of the vapour of sulphuric ether by inhalation , thc effects of which were as satisfactory as they were surprising . —The first operation was the extraction of a tooth from a s ddier of the 52 d Regiment , dextrously performed by Mr . Peck , dentist , of Chatham , and perfectly successful as regards freedom from pain . —The next was an amputation of the left _letr for disease of thc ankle joint , in a soldier ot
the 37 th Regiment . This patient , after inhaling the ether vapour for two or three minutes , was declared to be in a fit state for the _performance of the operation , and the ie ? was quickly removed below the knee . During the tyfog of the blood vessels the limb was convulsed by strong spasms , and he moaned once or twice , but declared , ou his return to _consciousness , that he had had little er no pain throughout , though he had been " sensible of the sawing of the bone ; " as to the incisions with the knife , he stated that ho had no _knowledge or recollection _ee-iiatcvcr . —The last operation was the removal of tho last joint of the great too . Tho subject of this tall Irishman
was a , spare , private Patrick Foley The ether took effect in less than two minutes ' and he remained under its full influence for about four minutes , during a brief part of which time the toe was amputated . On awaking from his short sleep , he was asked if he would like to have his toe taken off ? He replied , in a drowsy voice , ' Oh I ' m very weak , but ' tis a great bother to me , " and sud dcnly rousing up , he lilted his leg high into the air trazmg for an instant at the foot in wonder and do ! light , and exclaimed , "Oh , by the hokey , but the toe is gone ; well , _m * sure , 1 had tbe finest dream in the world , though in throth it wasn't the toe I was dreaming about at all . "
SUSSEX Thk West _Sirs-aw- _Electiox—TIib election of a member of Parliament for the Western Division of _Sus-ex , in the room of C . W _yudlmm , Esq ., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds , took place ' on Tue < day , at Chichester . 11 . Prime , Esq .. of Watbuvton " deputy-chairman of the West Sussex sessions was elected without opposition . The hon . gentleman be onus to the Conservative party , and is astrong Protectionist . b "
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\ Accident at _Covx-vr _fiABnES _TiiEAmE . —On Sunday afternoon , between two and three _o'clock nn accident of a very serious nature happened within the walls of Covent Garden Theatre to a labourer named _Bushill Molley , aged -15 . He was at work at the tiuto , and was ascending a ladder , when after _having reached about twenty-six feet from the ground he missed his footing , and w . is precipitated with such force as to fracture his thigh , besides rcceiviiv several other extensive injuries . " Railway Coxtentio . ns . —We understand that all hopes of the differences between the Loudon and _Aoi'ih-Western and Great Western Companies being amicably settled nre at an end , —Railway Times
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SCOTLAND . FAMINE RIOTS IS THB XORTB . Eloix . —Tiie pre sent high price of - _provi-ions , chiefly mc _** l , attended with a rioUm _disposition in several districts of the counties of Aberdeen and Banff , havo been marked by _sir _* iilar symptoms in Morayshire . At Elgin , last w . eek , the younger portion of the town paraded the streets , and exhibited much turbulence at the residence of a gentleman _extensively concerned in the grain trade . Mr . Sheriff Innes ( who arrived in Elgin in the course ofthe day ) Mr . 'Sheriff Cameron , and Provost Wilson , accompanied by a number of respectable inhabitants , were successful in quelling the disturbance , and apprehended a few of the _rins-foaders , At Burghead , though a proclamation had been issued by the
authorities insuring plenty of provisions , the Ceres , Capt . Mason , laden with meal , for Leith , was unloaded by the women of the place . The James and Jessie was also unloaded , but the authorities have been successful in restoring peace . In order to preserve public peace , Sherifflnne * _s , forwarded a despatch to the military head-quarters at Furt George for troops . About forty men of tho 7 Cth regiment , under the command of Captain Gordon , accordingly left barracks at five o ' clock on Friday morning , and _murehed to Nairn . Special conveyances having been provided , the party arrived at Elgin about two o ' clock ; they are quarttred in the Court House . On Friday evening , the house of Mr . John Allan , corn merchant , was attacked , and _othir riotous proceedings renewed .
Lossiemouth . —A few _daysaco , several csrts laden with oats having arrived , they were immediately surrounded by a mob , who escorted the grain to the storehouse , After seeing the produce safely deposited in a loft , the mob , composed chiefly of women , locked the granary , and kept possession of the key . _Findhobn . —A few days ago , four carts laden with grain for shipment from Findhorn were stopped by tbe people , and brought back to Forres . The following day the fishermen , aided by women and children , exhibited the utmost determination to prevent the exportation of produce . They seized a considerable quantity of Hour and mea ) , which was freighted from the South .
_Gaumouth —The fishermen of Kingston ( Garmouth ) , Port-Gordon , and Buckie , marched into Fochabers with flags and banners , and assembled in the square . Their object waB to _dcmSnd from Mr . Balmer , commissioner to the Duke of Richmond , and Mr . Marquis , factor , an unlimited supply of meal at 20 s . per boll . The party at first _condu-ted themselves with propriety ; but their demands being treated with indifference , they threatened to raze the huuses of these gentlemen to the ground unless they complied . Whatever were the conditions ultimately _entt-red into , they returned to their homes , under the impression that meal would be supplied in _accor dance with their requests .
This port bas been the scene of much disturbance during the week . The utm ist excitement prevails among the working classes , the usual avocations of the fishermen being suspended . Order and regularity were set at nought , and the holders of grain openly denounced . The people of Keith , animated by the desire of _disburbing the peace , and aiding the fishermen , inarched in a body to Port Gordon , _Petbrheao . — At Peterhead some slight symptoms of disturbance occurred on ihe mornings of Friday and Saturday last week .
EDINBURGH . The Edinburgh and Glasgow committees on Highland destitution have formed themselves into a central board for the relief of the distressed districts . They have resolved inter alia that no man able to work , and having the means of obtaining it , shall receive any assistance . ' A large number of troops have been despatched to the north to aid in quelling the disturbances occasioned by thc scarcity . New _Appuoatio . v op the Sulphueic Ether . —Dr-Simpson , of Edinburgh , has applied this new and vonderful discovery to the purposes of midwifery _. and with the most signal success . This is the most
wonderful of all the applications of this surprising alleviator of the ills that flesh i - heir to . If it should be found to succeed on further trials , it will make the discovery one ofthe greatest blessings ever conferred by science on humanity . High Court of Justiciary . —The Court met on Monday , to try Win . Boyne , farmer , Elgin , who was libelled _withseven charges of forgery by bills , to the amount of nearly £ 900 . The prisoner pleaded not guilty , and a great number of witnesses wero examined in support of the charges . Mr . Crauturd having addressed the jury for the Crown , and Mr . Inglis in behalf of the prisoner , the Lord Justice Clerk summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty . "
GLASGOW . Extensive Bask Ribbbrt . — On Friday afternoon , a clerk of one oftlie most respectable houses in Glasgow was sent to do bank business . He repaired to the Union Bank , and drew a check of £ 1 , 200 . He then proceeded to the Commercial Bank , in the same street , with the money upon him . He was writing some order at tlie bank counter , after finishing which he put his hand into the pocket of his outside coat to draw out the money , where he though he had it snugly deposited . The £ 1 , 200 was gone ! Is is more than probable thath >; was reconnoitied by some expert English thief , several of whom , we learn _, ar . * nowprowlingabout the oitv . Glasgow , formerly , was a rich field for them . But let every man who goes to the bank have his eyes about hira , and not trust to his outside pocket . Another bank _robbery of £ 247 was committed the same dav .
Fall of a Graxauy at Pom Dundas . — A large granary at Port Deindas , belonging to the heirs ofthe late Miss Kidd , suddenly gave way ; the south wall , fronting _Clyde-strcet , falling out towards the street , and tbe beams , joisting , and flooring precipitated to tha ground . Atthe timethe building fell it contained about fl . 000 bolls ofthe finest English _wlieat , a eon siderable portion of which will be destroyed . Considerable danger was apprehended to thc adjoining properties , but workmen were speedily set to take down such parts of the building as were dangerous . Fortunately there was no life lost , although two of the storekeepers were in the upper floor when the building gave way , but they escaped by the staircase _withoutsuffering any injury . The total value of the strain in this building is estimated at £ 16 , 000
Attempt to Poiso . v . — On Sunday morning information was conveyed to the police office that a , family residing at No . 37 , High-street , consisting of a mother and four children , had been _poisoned . On the ense being promptly inquired into , it was found that the parties re'erred to were evidently sufferin _* . * from the effects of arsenic , or some other deleterious matter ; and on further inquiry it was elicited that _, it was after having partaken of some oat cake that they all exhibited symptoms of having been poisoned . It wa * likewise elicited that when the mother wa- * preparing the cake , her husband , who is a coal carrier , named James Dacherty , gave her a small quantity of mea ) out of a handkerchief , and as he decline- ! to state distinctly where be got the meal , he was taken into custody for examination , and lodged in the police ofiice . The poisoned family are likely to
recover . A 5 QVLE 8 HIRE . _MV . LAXCHOLV . Circumstance . —A boat belonging to Kenmore , on Lochfine , which had been wind-l > ound in Tarbert sailed from the latter place a few days ago , laden with birch brooms from the Clyde , and when rounding Ardlamout point , there being a heavy sea at the _tima , was overtaken in a squall , when , sad to relate , the boat swamped , and two fine young men , of the names ot Ferguson and Campbell , the only individuals on board , met with a watery grave .
AYRSHIRE . __ Robert Burns . —On thc anniversary of the poet ' s birthday , tho foundation stone of a large hall to bo attached to the cottage at _Allowtiy , where the poet was born , was laid with Masonic honours , br M . Dick , Esq ., Irvine , in presence of a great number of spectators . In the afternoon about thirty gentlemen—M . Dick , Esq ., in the chair—dined in the large room of the cottage .
the borders . _Aoitatiosof _FAitM-SBttVASTs . —Tiie farm- '> ervan ' s or hinds in the southern districts are following the example of their brethren in Haddington , by holding public meetings to discuss their grievances . This is thc first time that this class of the cetmuunity have curee forward as agitators , and the appearance in that capacity of parties so much dissevered by location , and hitherto regarded as so illiterate , is a marked symptom of the _co-operative spirit of the age .
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Desperate Suicide by 1 itussic Acid . —On Wednesday , whilst Mr . Mills , the Deputy Coroner , was holding an inquest in Marylebone , he received information of the following determined act of self-destruction by a young gentleman , named II . B . Fisher , assistant to Mr . Farmer , chemist , Duke Street , Manchester Square . It appears that Mr . Fisher has for some time past been paying bis addresses to a young lady residing in Robert Street , Paddington . On Tuesday morning , at eight o ' clock , he went out , and was seen walking with the young lady in question , in the neighbourhood , and engaged with her in earnest conversation , ( fe returned home shortly after nine o'clock , and in a few minutes went up stairs to his
bedroom . About ten the youth loft in charge of the shop ran up to the deceased's bedroom , and having called Mr . Fisher several times without receiving any answer , he opened the door , and there discovered the deceased lying on the floor struggling , aud apparently in the agonies of death . Ho raised an alarm , arnt two or three medical gentlemen were jent for , and promptly arrived . Antidotes wercadministered , but Mr . Fisher died in two or three minutes after . A cup was on the table , which was found to havo contninqd a strong doso of prussic acid , mixed with brandy . Two letters were also found , ono addressed by thc deceased to his relatives , and the ether to tho young lady in question , in both of which he declared bis intention to commit the act .
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Ireland ; PROGRESS OF FAM _1 NB AND DEATH . Dcblin , Jan . 30 . —In the language of Reproductive _liroploymenc Committee , " it is impossible to exaggerate the extent of thc famine . From the county of Donegal , the Bally shannon Herald gives the following : •—"Distress is here on the increase , and deaths are more numerous in this county than in the fatal year of the cholera-all owing to want of food . Since the news of the ports being about to be opened the markets have fallen about ten per cent . —but what relief is that to the poor-they are about fifty per cent _, too high yet . " *
The Northern Standard reports as followB from the county of Monaghan : — " The state of distress is becoming frightful in this county . The poor-houses , with the exception of Mo naghati , are extremely crammed . In Clones tho guardians have taken tenements in thc town , where the miserable victims are stowed away in hundreds , and of course , in such masses of misery , death and disease are rife . " *• Ballisa Jan . 28 . —Deaths fr ' _-m Stabvatiox . — Not a single day passes without being marked by the holding of inquests on the bodies of persons who have been starved to death . Since our last list of sueh casualties , Mr . Atkinson , coroner , held five inquests , and in each case a verdict of ' Died from starvation ' was returned . " From Kerry , tho accounts are of the same melancholy character : —
• ' Dbaths from Starvation . — The Per . C . M'Carthy , P . P ., in a letter to the Kerry Examiner , dated _Tuosist , January 17 . says , — 'Though our deaths are not reported , having no police , or any other person * in the district who may feel it their duty to forward the fatal list to a coroner , our parochial obituary is not , alas ! the less crowded ; ever ) day furnishes a new and increased catalogue ; the grave-yard is filled with those human victims , receiving five at an average each day , and in many cases the bodies become nearly decomposed before tbey arc interred , for want of cufims . " "State of the Poor in Maryborough . —It was stated at the meeting of the La lies' Relief Committee , held on Wednesday last , that out of one hundred cabins of tlie poor , visited by two of the committee _, at one end ofthe town , forty-three were without a bed of any kind , and of the vemainder only four had blankets .
Tub Cork Examiner of yesterday contains most appalling acconuts of destitution and death in various parts of that extensive county . The Rev . J . Beechinor , R . C ., curate , describes the great increase of fever at a place called Gurtecrasing . and mentions several deaths from starvation , some of thera by the _hedgeside . The Rev . J . Mulcahy , P . P . of CastletoHnsend , says : — "My poor _piirishionars are dying in multitudes in every quarter of those parishes from downright starvation . " The Rev . J * Molony , P . P . of Itosscarberry _, alsn in the County of Cork , says : —'' Several have died of want since I last wrote , and thousands are at thi * moment in the last stage of existence , and will inevitably perish if something be not speedilv done for them . "
A requisition , rather numerously signed , has been sent up for presentation to Mr . Monaghan , _s-olvcitorgeneral , requesting himself as a candidate for Galway . Mr . A . O'Flaherty has been put forward by ths Old Ireland party , " and Mr . Corayn has addressed the electors on the Young Ireland interest . WILFUL MURDBR—lMPDRTANT JUDOMEST . —O ' BRIEN IN KRROR V . THE qUEKN . This case ( which came before fhe judges of the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Friday , upon a writ of error ) having been called on for judgment , the prisoner was placed at the side bar in the custody of the _goalerof Newgate . The Lord Chief Justice , whose judgment was acquiesced in by thc full court , pronounced the decision of the bench . The case , he
said , had come before thera upon the application of theprisoner , Patrick O'Brien , who was tried and convicted at the last summer assizes for the county of Clare for the wilful murder of his wife , Johanna O'Brien , and sentenced to be hanged , which sentence was respited untii the 8 th of February by the Crown , when the writ of error was sued out . The point raised in his favour was , that the verdict returned against him was bad , because it was a general verdict ; on the ground that the indictment charging him with the crime of murder , charged it by three counts , in three distinct ways—by drowning , by a fracture of the skull , and by kicking and beating ; and it was impossible that death could have ensued in three different tvavs ; consequently , it was relied
on that the proper verdict would have been to have found the prisoner guilty upon one count , and to have acquitted him on the others . Now , after fully investigating all the _authorities referred to on both sides of the case , the Court felt that there was no real weight in the objection , and that , in tact , if y were to be decided in the prisonei ' s favour , _thttt it would be impossible ever to bring home guilt to any culprit . It was argued thnt the decision of the Lords in the " _tjueen v . O'Connell . " and the other cases cited by Mr ; Ooppinger , the prisoner ' s counsel _, went to the extent that judgment should be reversed if a prisoner was sentenced to punishment upon an
indictment , part of winch was proved , and part of which had failed ; and that as the prisoner could not be guilty of murder in three ways , he should have been acquitted on two counts . Now , the Court was of opinion , that the case in _question was not at all applicable , as it was merely a ruisdemeauor case , in which the punishment was discretionary , and might b _** affected by a genoral verdict ; whereas in a case of murder the judgment was not discretionary , and could only be the same whether a prisoner was convicted on ono or on twenty counts . For these reasons thoy wore of opinion that the judgment below should be affirmed . The prisoner was then handed over to the goaler of Ennis to be executed on Monday
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AWFUL REVKLATIO . VS OF THE FAMi . VS . We are enabled to lay before our readers the following extract from a letter addressed to the committee in Lundon , by a gentleman whom the British Association fur the relief of distress in Ireland and Scotland has recently sent to the north-west coast of Ireland . The statement bears _obvious marks of unexaggerated truth , whilst it presents tlie most vivid picture of ihe horrors of famine , and of the actual misery under which a large portion of the Irish population is now suffering . " At Carrick-on-Shannon I found the poor-house and hospital crowded with half-naked . nnd emaciated nun , women , and children , prey to dysentery and fever , whieh terminated fatally . The number of daily deaths exceeded the supply of coffins whioh the place could furnish ,
" Between Came and Sligo numberless straggling and ragged families had been observed , some crawling , some squatted on the road side through utter exhaustion , ail bearing downcast , broken , and wornout countenances—fearful results of starvation , sickness , and the exposure to the inclemency of the weather , which alternated with rain and snow . " At Sligo I have fouod the streets swarming with the distressed , _clamerous through hunger , although orderly , respectful to persons , and respecting their property . The poor-house presented an awful number of cases of lev . rand dyseotry , which _coumonally terminated fatally . " In the poor-house , or properly speaking , workhouse , ' there are 500 persons sick , and the master and under master in fever !'
" Between Sligo and Westport , in tbe locality of Ballina , Foxford , Swinford , Castlebar . the desolating aspect of the country grows more fearful still . The population seems as if paralized and helpless , more raged , squalid—here fearfully dejected , there stoically resigned to death ; tueti _a-jain , as it eonseious ofsom _* _: greater forthcoming evil , tiiey arc deserting their hearths and families . " I fear that this unfortunate country lias not y _^ ct reached the climax of its misfortunes—the fearful increase of fever and dysentery will I apprehend take a malignnnt and epidemic character and spread contagiously—indeed several persons in comfortable circumstances , who devoted themselves to the visitation ofthe sick and the burial of the dead , have caught the fever , and fallen victims to their benevolent exertions . "
PR 0 ORESS OF DISTRESS . Dublin , _Fkb 1 . —A return of extremely severe weather forbids the expectation of any improvement for some further time in the accounts from the distressed districts . Yesterday was intensely cold , and towards evening there was a fall of snow , followed by a sharp frost , wliich continued up to this afternoon . The reports of to-day from the counties of Galway , Mayo , and part of IVexford , are very unfavourable . The Tuam paper states , that in the _neighbourhood of Kilcouly eighteen persons have within a few days perished from _starvation , and that from every
quarter of the county the intelligence is of the most gloomy character . Tbe Rev . E . Moore , rector of _Conyj in the most destitute part of Mayo , announces the number of deaths by famine to be fearfully on the increase . In part of his parish , out of a pnpuhi . tion of 5 , 000 souls , thero are as yet only 7 o 0 at work ; some of those persons receiving _ws-ics at the low rate of ; 3 d . per diem , with meal at Od , a quart , In the neantime , it is satisfactory to find that tli prices of all kinds of grain continue to decline iu the provincial markets , the fall in wheat ranging from 5 » , to 2 s . lid . per barrel , with a proportionate reduction in oats , barley , and meal .
State of Ivekky . —Mr . Richard Orpen , nn emi . nent solicitor in Kerry , gives the following extract ot a letter received from a . friend , noar Ken-mare : — "No language can give you an _adequate idea of the state of the people . Tlte first thing , 1 assure you , I heard in the morning , and the last at night , were the uroans ofthe aged , and the crying of children , famishing for want . The men working on the road are perfect spectres . Their hire is uot more than sulTiceiit for ttvo or three at most , and when di vided between five or six itis not half sufficient , and the consequence is , that in trying to work without sufficient food , they are run down iu the most frightful way ; and 1 am satisfied that if food be not sent here speedily , and Bold at a reduced price , halt the
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population of the country will cease to exist before two months . Shipwreck . —The Wexford Independent states that the _ship-Niobe , of New " tork , laden with Indian corn and mea ! for Cork , struck on a reef during the gale of tip ; 26 th ult . The ere iv was saved , but the vessel will become a wreck . THE " ROYAL _VrTUA . " The farce is stili kept up . As miserable a gather * ing of the moral force repeal party as ever took place within the walls either of Conciliation Hall or the Corn Exchange , was held te-day at the usual hour ; the attendance was wretched , both as _regnrda number- ' and the political standing of the orators Mr . O'Flaherty , of Knockbane , the candidate for Galway , in opposition (?) to the _Solicitor-General , was admitted a member on payment of the usual
qualification fee of £ 5 ., which appears to be tho maximum sum exacted from aspirants for Parliamentary honours . It having been bruited about tbat this gentleman had not become a convert to " the cause" until within the last lew day * , and then only fur a very obvious _consideration , Mr . Steele took oc « _casion to state that such was not the fact , for tlut Mr . O'Flaherty was a full fledged Repealer for a whole month . He is , of course , to receive the support ofthe association , although it was pretty plainly intimated that tbe Whig law-officer would not be so " dangerous" an opponent as Mr . Comyn , of Woodstock , who is to fight thc battle ( at the cost of £ 5 , 000 , if necessary . ) o ; young Ireland and no compromise . The average quantity of small-talk having been expended , the week's rent was announced to be £ 27 7 s . lid .
MORE _UORnOBS . Dublin , Fkb . 2 . —Most lamentable accounts of the progress ef famine have been received from Cork and other counties . The awful state of destitution , and the revolting effects ofthe demoralisation produced amongst the peasantry , are thus described by the Cork Examiner Referring to thc district of Youghal , that journal says : — " Inquests have been here held , and the verdict in each of three melancholy cases was * death by
starvation . ' A family of the Cronins , consisting of father , mother , and son , lived at a place called the Windmill , about a mile from tbft town of Youg hal . On tho ai s lifc of Tuesday last , the mother , Margaret , and her son , Patrick , died in thc same bed with tha father , Michael , whom hunger had rendered so help less that he could give tbem no assistance in their last struggle , nor even make their case known to the neighbours . The verdict was ' death by starvation . * In the past week there was revealed another case of a still more horrible nature .
DEAD BODIES _OFPUBED FUR SALE TO BUY POOD FOR THE LIVING—K-KCIMBST OF TENANTRY ! " A person named Thomas Millar , from Ring , a place on tbe extreme coast , opposite Cable Island , came with his wife to Youghal , where tbey both offered for sale at an apothecary ' s shop , the dead body of a male child , aged seven years . The authorities were informed ofthe _circums'ance , and the parties were arrested . Upon being interrogated , they coolly acknowledged that this child was a nephew of theirs , who had died in their house , and they brought him to the doctor ' s to get something for the body that would keep the life in themselvesand tlieir children _, _fno description they gave of their sufferings was in
frightful the extreme . On more than oneoccamn they had determined to kill , aud eat the cat , only they feared it weuld poison thera . The verdict in the cases of this child , too , was * death by starvation . ' Such is the state of things in that locality ; and while death is doing its work , about 200 of the . wretched tenants of Lord Ponsanby iu that neighbourhood hare heen just served with notices of ejectment . What will become of the frame of society ?" Tne equally dreadful calamity of _pestilenceexcites the _nk'st painful alarm in the county . In six days —from eMonday last to Saturday—the deaths were one hundred and two—just double the worst average .
The Adtrnturbs And Perils Op The City Pl...
The Adtrnturbs and Perils op the City Plate . —It is known that the Corporation of London possesses a quantity of valuable plate , the accumulated wealth of ages ; and which rivals that of royalty in costliness and splendour . A singular discovery has lately been made with respect to that treasure , which has caused a vivid _sen-ation among the corporate authorities . A worthy alderman , a namesake ot the founder of a northern empire , and scarcely inferior in genius and _sagacity to that renowned autocrat , with hia customary sociability and love of good cheer , obligingly accepted an invitation to grace with his presence a Hebrew festival in the neighbourhood of St . Margaret . Having long been a close observer of the peculiarities of the various classes
with which he wns associated , the sagacious Knight was fully aware oi the absorbing passion for display wliich distinguishes the *• chosen people ; " he was not , therefore , surprised atthe bounty and liberality with which his comparatively humble Hebrew friends had welcomed the honour of his company : when , however , the supper room was thrown open , and thc ivniiiht with other guests entered , they were positively startled at the profusion and magnificence of tiie _arytnterie . On a little closer inspection , what _v-astbe worthy Alderman ' s astonishment to recognise his old acquaintances ofthe _Mansion-house—aa-, -oeiated in his mind with so many pleasing and melancholy recotlectioiH of departed glory and revellings never to return I Of course the distinguished visitor was deeply moved at this discovery , and loit no time iu cornmunieatini , ' information at head-quarters . Upon inquiry as to how the treasure could have left
Hs resting-place , the mystery was solved by the Davus of the _Man-dou llousa , who had the custody of it , admitting thai he had been in the habit for some time _previous of _letting it out when _solictited su to do ; and defended the practice by stating that as his Lite master had dune so , he saw no harm in earning an honest penny by folio _iving his example . Thus at present ends the stnnge eventual history . Nutner' ¦ _us meetings , conferences , and profound deliberations have beeu held ou the subject . It is expected , however , that some stringent and energetic measures will be adopted to prevent a recurrence of this singuUr and amusing escapade . It is rumoured that the City Remembrancer will be instructed to add as a rider to the Bill for the periodical election ot aldermen , that the corporation plate shall never hencelorward be let out to a ball or rout , without being accompanied by the Lord Mavor . or at least
two aldermen , and shall proceed to and from its destination under a military escort , consisting of the men in armour , headed by the City Marshal . A Coachman in- TnouBL 8 .-Th « coachman of Lord Hastings , a tew days ago , was directed to dri . ea gentleman from his lordship ' s residence at Melton Constable to the railway terminus at _xVorivich _, a distance ot _ahiuttwenty miles . He arrived at Norwich perfectly safe , and the gentleman proceeded by the next train to London . The coachman , whose name is _Hayjett , is a married man , and has a wife and young family living at _Lenwade , a villas' -about midway irom Melton to Norwich . Having no one to
unye oacK , instead of staying at Norwich all night with his carnage and horses , he determined to go as far as his wife ' s _cottage and stay there , putting up his horses at Lenwadc-bridge Inn . Unfortunately tor him he did uot keep _himielf sober in Norwicb , and started from the Norfolk Hotel , in a somewhat unquestionable _.-tate , about eleven o ' clock at night . After he passed the Drayton toll-gate about five ratios on the road , he appears to havo fallen asleep , and the horses turned into a by-lane , which ultimately led into a field . Here they seem to have wan .
dered about , with Haylett asleep on the box , the track ef the wheels the next morning showing that the carringe , on one occasion , passed within a few inches of the edge of a deep _marl-pit , into which it seemed almost miraculous that thev did nut all tall . However , they found their way out ofthe field again , the coachman probably awaking . Thence thoy took a direction for Ringiand , and attempted to ford a wide watering of the Wciismn , but the _immettsely Hooded state ot the lowlands had given a great impetuosity to the stream , and they were carried away by it . At this time also Haylett appears to have
boen asleep upon _theilnving-bux _, and when heawoke , about four o ' clock in the morning , he found himself in the midst of these extensive waters , both the horses being drowned , and the carriage severed , the fore from the hind wheels . We need hardly say he was dreadfully frightened ; his screams brought up in a short time , some ofthe watch from the « amenr < -. serves of Mr . N Micklethwaite , who _raidereiiail the assistance they could . In the course ofthe morning the horses were got out , and the carriage also . Sin Y T m i _- Uo y eatcst " _-i _^* . _»» 3 would probably have done himself some mischief , but for the police , who strictly guarded him . lie was taken to the Bridge Inn , at Lenwade , and _thencedriven _Stn _f ° nt l V . , _^ 'f _^ horses were very _Iffllt 1 *! _- h's , - , dsl _'IP _navtug a _ihw days before _be- _« n oacrcu 4150 for one .
Daring Carriage Robbery . —On Wedtiesday information was given to the police that on the _pre - vious evening , as thc carriage of Mrs . Lawrence , the lady of the surgeon of that name , was proceeding from Ealing Park to Whitehall-place , Ann Langdale one of tho servants who was sitting in the rumble , was robhed of a green purse containing _twenty-one sovereigns and a half sovereign , bv . smut ; thiei' who must havo gut u _** behind and ay-meted the _pur ~ e by cutting both the gown and pocket . Death in a Police Cell . —On Wedtiesday iiiformr .-tiou was forwarded to Mr . Waklev , M . l \ , the Coroner , of the death of Thomas Harvey , under the _toi-Unvifig circumstance * : —The deceased wa * an itine-¦ ant _begaar , and , from his peculiar deformity , wa ** -veil known about thc streets of Loudon . He I ad lust both of his legs , uiul used to proceed a ' oni ; tlio -treets on a piece of biuml , with a _couiile of wheels
attached to it , propelling himself with his hand . Oa Tuesday night he was found by the police in a _sttJQ of inebriation , nud taken to " tha station lvusc in Georgo-stroet , St . Giles ' s , and placed in a cell with two others . At eight o ' clock the next morn ' ng ! e was visited by the constable te get his _n-inie , anil in halt an hour afterwards _^ _Yas found dead in h . _s je 1 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06021847/page/6/
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