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ST . _-- ' . _v 7 t * _^ i _^ _^ _W _^ _THE _WEEK .-It is _«" - * _- » ch the fatabtv from cholera w _** _s greatest , and A 1 _**}** -rsons died from all causes , the _t-. _t-d number fci ! m the scoond week to 2 _. S 65 , then to 1981 , and in tue week ending last _Siturday the total deaths _re-riitcred-were 1 , 611 . Dnring thesame period , tbe weekly numbers of lives destroyed by cholera have _bee-i 2 , <« 26 , 1 , 682 , 839 , and in the last week 434 . Iterrhraa was fatal successively fo 272 , 280 , 238 , and last week to 163 . In comparing the returns fur ibeisbttwo weeks , the decline of _niortalbjis most obvious inthe South Districts , white the deaths
from cholera have fallen from 422 in the week ending Sentember 22 nd to 161 in the last ; and to taks tbe _mo-st striking examples of _particular districts , in St . € eora » , Souuiwark , they declined from 58 to 10 , in _Kewiiigtonfrom 66 to 15 , and in Lambeth from 117 to 5 _« In the north and central districts the improvement is also remarkable ; in the former tbe deaths from cholera in the two weeks having been cocsecatirely 71 and 37 , and in the central having teen 35 and 51 . The improvement in the east dhtricts is not so ereat , tbe 183 deaths of the previous week having fallen to 113 in the last ; bufc in the west _-Ijstricts the public health has recently _be ? n stationary , the weekly deaths caused bythe epidemic _having been 68 and 72 , though here . too . a great
change has taken place for tiie better in the latter ialf of September as compared with the _former . In the whole metropolis the daily number of deaths from cholera last week has fluctuated between 102 and 53 , Lut showing an almost constant tendency to fall . The -mortality from _smaU-pox _, measles , and scar . _' atina is much less than the average ; from hoopin * : cough it is near theavenge ; typhus has recently _eh-. vu a slight increase- Tbe mean height of the _fatrossie-er in the week-was 2 P 980 . Thehigbest temper ; -.- _*;« occurred on Tuesday , when it was 72 deg . 7 r o .: _* . ; the highest mean temperature on Thursday , when ir was 62 deg . 2 min , The mean temperature of the week was 58 deg . 4 min . and higher than the at _* _e- -t _£ 3 of thesame week in seven years by 5 deg 4 min .
_li-iHiBBT or Parcels Cosvbted bt the Great "Wi _:. _> r } . ijK Railway Company . — An extensive _tol-L-er * of valuable parcels conveyed by the Great Western Railway Company has just been discovered . Oa Thursday * the 27 th ult ., the raail train by the Great Western Hailway its-ring Plymouth at 6 25 p . m . on the previous evening , and calling at the intermeuiato towns upon the route , arrived at the Paddington terminus at 4 . 15 a . in ,, laden , in addition to the Post-office mail lags , with between 200 and 300 parcels ofa miscellanoins character , consisting of bankers' parcels , containing notes , cheques , & c ., from local to London banks , and solicitors ' and other parcels , of considerable value , passing between -various
metropolitan and provincial firms . The parcels were deposited -: » masse in the parcels -van , and shortly before seven o ' clock the delivery agent of Messrs . _CSir . piin and Home , accompanied by a lad , who remain * - iri the cart to watch them , started on his round from Paddington , taking with him the part-el * -,-sorted ont and strapped together in classified lav * -, those for the " bankers in one batch , those callod _i-y therailwayclerks "the lawyers' parcels " in _aa-jcher , the general commercial ones in another , and •**> on . On arriving at Featherstone-buildings , Holborn , shortly before ei g ht o ' clock , the driver of ihe van , as is usual with him , alighted , leaving the cart ia eustody with thc lad . Taking with him the lawyers * parcels , of which on the occasion there were twenty-four , strapped together , and endorsed with their -ublressess he proceeded witb tbem , slung over Ms _^ ' _sftalder , and with , his entry book , to the first
placi _; of calling , m _Bedfore-row , intending afterwards to go to Chancery-lane , Lincoln ' s-inn , and _Gfnj'v-inn , before proceeding to the city . Accordingly he first of all proceeded to the offices of Me **?? . Gregory , Faulkner , and Follett , one of the lari" ; ** t legal firms in Bedford-row , and there , at a few _laisutes after eight o'clock , he saw the housekeeper , who received the parcels for the firm , and the - man , who it would appear , had on previous _occasions acted _thtia imprudently , asked permission of tic housekeeper to be allowed to leave all the parcel-- - , strapped together , in the office , on account , as he _.-. Jlegcd , of thoir great weight , while he went a Huh further on in Bedford-row , to deliver two _othere , one for Messrs . Algar , solicitors , the other for ? _vl . _*** srs . Stevens , which be did ia the usual _mam-cr . In the meantime , however , and within five _li . inutes of his absence from the offices of
Me-- ' *; - ; . Gregory , a roost adroit and daring abstraction _« ihe remain * twenty parcels left there , coniaini _' - 'ic deeds , wills * , and valuable assignments , was _jHeeicd . Immediately on his return the housekeep ,. ¦* --aid to him , " one of your fellow servants ias _h-yn here and stated , " Oh , my mate has left the -r _*!* ng packet of parcels , " exchanging at the _sar _n-: lima the parcels that had been left for a sot w _' _liCi * ' xYcre "dummies" filled with waste paper . Xlfov _^ nlion having been given to the police , a man , « h < _r-i- ¦ known" as one of thc most expert thieves in _L-. T . ion , has been apprehended , and identified by _ITe-i _* -. - . _* - _* . Gregory ' s housekeeper as the person who left the fictitious parcels . It is believed that thc _chiK-oi' _-ct of tbe thief was to secure tbe banker's and j'ic ' tor _' s parcels . The real representavc value of the V . tter is not yet ascertained , but it is _conjecturc- i : c- : _* e verv large .
S _» ' ? 4 _' _- > - _* 50 Mciwer of a Child . —On Sunday * _mon-i * - £ shortly before eight o ' clock , the parties _eomuxtl'I with the Royal Opthalmic Hospital on _entsriftg the aTea of tbat institution , discovered _lyin-rou the stone flags what they at first believed to be an old umbrella , and upon making a closer _inspeetioo theyfoaad that it was a parcel containing a _Ic-ivy substance , Tbe package was fonnd to contain t _'* o dead body of a remarkably fine child , and froi- * -ne appearances npon it there is little doubt ent _< - ; i . uned that the child had been murdered . _TVie polio ;* •* - ? rc immediately acquainted with the discov < -.-f , - * nd the body was forthwith removed to St . Mann- '* -, workhouse to await an inquest .
_Ex- _'Cvsiok of a Sewer is TnE _BoKorcn . —On "Saturday evening , about six o ' clock a fearful explosion of sewer-damp happened in Friar-street , in the U _* Oi"ough . The sewer has been in a most pes-¦ Jalenti'il state for some time , and cholera is raging _immediately around it to an awful extant- Not-* - _* riih :-i _* v .. _* ling repeated complaints bad been made , nothing has been done by the commissioners , and on S : _** - _* ' _* _- _* -.. ay Messrs . Anderson and Collcy , _soap-Tioik- - - _* . •• ere prevailed on by some of tlie inhabitants in de-pr . _;*** , to attempt to draw off the pestilential _xapovr ly connecting a pipe from the sewer to one of _tb-i-ir - * fiimneys . All went on apparently well for about ¦¦• If an hour , when a violent explosion occurroti . Tbe shock was felt at a considerable distanc <* .-. ( Und the neighbourhood ; the cast-iron
plate covering the mam holes , in tbe flag pavement _iaFr-cr-street , were all blowu into the air , and the flame- * came through the gully-gratings into the stree : - - . Happily , no lives were lost . Fir-: _*** Good-sax ' s Fields . —Supposed * Lvce . v ' * diaih ,. ' - ' . —On Sunday morning abont half-past ten o ' _clocv * * .. "• . n re was discovered on the premises ofa l _> eer- ' ; _-. p keeper _,-jameil J . D _** ake , situnte at 2 fo . 67 , _l-. _^ _betli-sti-cet , Goodman ' s-fields . The fire "Whie * ' * > . kc out in a top-room , is supposed to have heen _-v-ssd by some evil-disposed person . The "Weie *¦ -.- -.-- «] nare fire-engine was promptly on the spot , ' • ¦ _'Ti-ng to the exertions of the firemen and nam-.- ¦ ¦ - willing assistants , the flames were overcorn- * i " / c property to any considerable amount was c- * ¦•¦¦ i _cd . Mr . Drake ' s loss will fall npon the Kova . " .- •• _bai-jre fire-office .
Exi . -lis of Gas . —On Sunday night , about half-p i i ' 'ii o ' clock , the inhabitants ofthe _Ilaymark _!*; - * re alarmed by bearing a loud report , and it wa * - . •• _tvered thafc an explosion of gas had taken place ir . - "ue house occupied by Mr . Laing , theextensiv * _..: i .-smitii , _Xo . 7 , Ifaymarket . From inquiry -. ¦<> tbe origin of the explosion , it appeared that a . . r ? on in Mr . Laing _' s house had occasion to goiwl * . ' _* . « area for some purpose with a lighted candle * , when the explosion , took place instantaneously , v . l with such force as to drive the person "holdin _;
His ( _"tssx of Bodies sitp . ised to date bees _Mcni-i . - •;** . —Throughout Friday and Saturday last great _^ - .-umtiou prerailed hi the vicinity of highstreet , _Jtoro-ugh , in consequence of the following _discov-.- _' _.-y : —Some children who were playing in the lofts <• - " : he OH "White Heart Inn ( celebrated by _Dicker * n the Pickwick Papers , but which is now chiefly . - _* ¦ out in lodgings ) , tbrew down into the yard w ! _-. _* _t proved to be a human skull . This led to in < iuir - . and by the aid of the police aud Mr . Thwai :-, churchwarden of St . Saviour ' s , search was
made , _, vhcn various bones , forming three perfect _skeletal * * , were found , one that ofa young female , and e ; i _Sently deposited there very " recently . In the _sa-i _>* portion of the loft was discovered a heap of _ai'setie which had fallen from a rotten paper bag . la an - -per loft , _communicatiug with the former hy a h ' in the eeiling , were found three stockings , a fem * _i _:,. _*' s cap , aud part of chemise , a portion ofa man '** _.- ' _i-rt , a leather glove , and a cotton cravat , _appareijrly saturated with blood . By the direction Of Mr . _Tliwaii * _* , thc beadle of St . Saviour ' s has taken charge of the premises and ics contents .
_Sdddkn * Death of a _Timbsu _Meuciiakt . — Mr . Payne li _?!( l an inquest on Tuesday at the Kings ' s _Ajiaa _Tav . rn _, Queenhithe , on the body of Mr . 11 . Waigh ; . aiiiaVr dealer , residing at Hurst _' . 'OUrne , near ti , c New _Torest . Hampshire . Mr . Phillips , the _fandlord of ih 8 King ' s _Armes , said that deceased had been w the _habit of using his house for the last twenty _. ihree years . lie went to the house as usual on the 2 / rh alt . and said that he should want to remain uiitill _Susday . De was tben perfectly well . On Sunday he ordered a cab to convey him to the tailway statimi . He directed his carpet-bag and valise , whan he suddenly staggered , and falling into an easy chair , was found to be a corpse . A medical
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_i-entleman stated that deceased died a natural death from disease of the heart . Verdict according . Three Lives Lost o . v the River , —Au accident , by which rhrce persons lost their lives , happened on the river Thames on Wednesday , off the Commercial Dock buoy at Limehouse . Shortly before two o ' clock tbe Thordenskiold , a Norwegian brig , arrived at tbe before-mentioned part of the river , for the purpose of being taken iuto the Clyde dock for repairs . In order to get the vessel through the dock entrance , Waterson , a waterman , and two of the crew , were cugaged in a small boat alongside of tbe brig . The pilot having some apprehensions tbat tbe kedge was not sufficiently strong to keep the brig safe gave orders for the men on deck to lower the large anchor ; the man not knowing that
the small boat was immediately under the bows , let go thc anchor , which fell upon tbe three unfortunate men , crushing tbem , ifc is believed , and sending taeboatto thi bottom of the river . After theiapsec / a few minutes , the boat came to the surface of the water , but the three poor fellows never rose a _ gain , It is considered that they were so seriously injured by the anchor fiilling on them , as to have been unable to do anything towards saving their lives . The drags of the Royal Humane Society were instantly procured , and search wa 3 made for the parties ; but afc six o'clock the same evening neither of the bodies _iuul _btt-en f-ovmd . Waterson has bit a large family totally unprovided for ; his widow , being a cripple , is unable to do anything towards the support of her children . The other two men belonged to the vessel , and were Norwegians .
The _BEBMosnsEr _MoBDEB . —On Saturday afternoon , Mr . Solomons , the solicitor to Mrs . Manning , applied to Mr . Seeker for the restoration ofa letter which she received from Patrick O'Connor , in July , 1847 . That letter was stated to be of great consequence to her , inasmuch as it was sent to her while in ibe service of Lady Blantyre , afc Stafford House , St . Janies ' s-park , and related to the purchase of stccki n rail way and other securities , shebeingat that time in possession of considerable sums of money . On Tuesday Inspector Yates waited upon Mrs . Manning , at Horsemonger-lane county gaol , for the purpose of ascertaining what letter she required , as there were an immense quantity of documents in his possession . She then informed him tbat the
letter she wished to be placed in the possession of ! her solicitor was one she received from Mr . Patrick O'Connor a short time after they became acquainted , and that it contained a request for her to purchase _s-ome Eastern " Railway and foreign stock . Mr . Yaies informed her that her parcels had been minutely ex imined , and no such letter could be found . The only letter of a public or private nature had been given to her solicitor , but still some might be at the bottom of some of her boxes . Mrs . Manning was certain that such a letter was taken from her by Mr . Moxhay _, and that if it was produced it would prove how she became possessed of fche property found on her . She therefore requested Mr . Yates to search her boxes and produce the letter . The inspector accordingly left tbe prison , and related the circumstances to the magistrate afc fche
Southwark Police Court , when he received orders to give copies of any letter that might be required . Mrs . Manning seems confident of her success , and states to every person who visits her thafc she must be acquitted . She never alludes to her husband . Tue Bishop op LoanoN ' s Ohdination of Two Afmcans . —The Bishop of London held an ordinatiou at Fulham , on Saturday last , when two natives of Africa were admitted into holy orders . The two candidates , the Rev . Thomas Maxwell andthe Rev . George Nicol , aro coloured gentlemen , and are of that class termed the Sierra Leone '' colony born , " that is , their parents were brought into the colony as liberated slaves , but they were never themselves in a state of shivery . They were received in the missionary schools as children , and baptised as infants .
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Shockiso Railwat Accidest . —A dreadful accident occurred on Friday , the 23 th ult ., on the _Nottingham and Mansfield Railway ( Midland ) to one of the Company's servants , a labourer , named Thomas Coope , which there is no doubt will terminate fatally . About nine o ' clock on the morning in question Coope- was afc work on the above line , afc a curve , near King ' s Mills , when the down train from Mansfield to 5 fottn * gbam was proceeding at a very
rapid pace , and it is supposed that the unlortunate man , cither had not time to get off the line , or considered himself safe iu continuing at his employment ; he was , however , struck down by tbe engine and one ofhis legs completely toru from his body . The poor fellow was taken up frightfully mutilated , his head and back being shockingly injured , and immediately conveyed to thc general infirmary at _Zvotfcinsham , where he now remains under the care ofthe resident surgeon , Mr . "White , with hut little chance of recovery .
West StfRKEr Election . —Mr . Low , of the firm of Fentress and Low , paper manufacturers , No . 30 , Gr-icechurch-streefc , has protested against the validity of this election . Mr . Low tendered his vote befiire ' nine o ' clock on "Wednesday morning , at the polling-place afc Godalming , bufc found that thero were no officials at the booth to register his vote . The Sheriff , it appears , named the election to commence on Tuesday , the 25 th of September , from nine a . m . to four p . m ., and on Wednesday , the 26 fch , at eight o ' clock in fche morning , finally closing at four p . m . It is nofc in fche power of any candidate , when the poll is once commenced , to—strictly speaking—resign ; he is in the hands of the electors , and if the electors choose to elect him bc cannot refuse to serve .
Alleged Murder . —On Friday , the 28 th ult ., _Ifenry Glover , son ofa respectable farmer , of Leahouse , Lea , near Lea-gate Railway station , was charged before the mayor of Preston , with the wilful murder of Edward Latham , a gardener , employed by Mrs . Fodder , at Ashton-lodge , The deceased was found on Monday week by Policeconstable llindle , lying under one of the arches of the Wyre Railway . Life was extinct , bufc the body was quite warm ; blood was flowing from his nose and cars . The body was forthwith removed to the Uawestone Arms public house . Mr . R . Palmer _. the district coroner , having been apprised ofthe finding ofthe body , held an inquest on the same , when it appeared thafc the prisoner and the deceased left the Water Trough public house on tbe previous Sunday
nigbt in company with other men ; the latter left them , and shortly after a person named Charles Billington _, saw the prisoner standing up , and the deceased on thc ground , when the former said , " Hast thou had enough ? " Witness went towards the one on tho ground , when the first one ran away a few paces , but returned directly , and seeing witness , he said , " Holloa , Charley , is that thou ?" Jle proceeded along the road in company of the prisoner , when the ' prisoner said , " Shall I turn back and finish him ? " Witness replied , " No . " He afterwards said it was a bad job , and witness must not mention what he had done . The case assuming such a serious complexion against tbe prisoner , he declined to say anything in his defence , inri he wns remanded .
The late Attack os tub _Rj-vesub Officer . at _Gospokt . —Atthe Gosport Petty Sessions last week before E . P . Samuel , Esq ., John Brown and John Matthews , the ring leaders in the above , were brought up to answer a charge of assault preferred against them by Stephen Mountifield and Benjamin Mountifield . P . Beverley , Esq ., solicitor to the Customs appeared on the part of thc Mountifields , and contended that ifc was so gross an assault , that he hoped it would nofc bc dealfc wifch in a summary way , —committed to the quarter sessions , when they made application to be _bailed , which was granted . Smugolisg . — Charles Wadesy , of Slindon , was brought up hy the coast-guard , and charged by the Collector of her Majesty ' s Customs , at Arundel , with aiding and assisting in unshipping thirty-sevon gallons and one quart of brandy , and two gallons
and seven pints of Geneva , without payment of duties . Tlie witnesses proved that there was a run from a boat ; close to the beach afc Climping , between two and three o ' clock in the morning of the 20 th ult ., and that nine tubs were found in the boat and four just over the beach near it . Men were running to and from the boat over tho beach , and thc defendant Wadesy came over the beach with a stick and went up to the boat . He was convicted in the penalty of £ 100 , and committed to Petworth until paid . Ifc was stated to be the practice of the Treasury to order persons thus committed to be discharged after being imprisoned six months ' . The smugglers , it is said , succeeded in securing the safe removal of nearly 200 tubs , and they intended to abandon the old boat which the coast-guard took possession of .
Suicide of a _"Saval Officer . —On the 27 th ult ., Mr , William Rcmphry , clerk of her Majesty ' s ship Ocean , flag-ship of Vice-Admiral the Hon . G . Elliot , C . B ., commander-in-chief at the _Norc , committed suicide , whilst the ship ' s company were at divisions . It appears the unfortunate deceased took that opportunity of cutting his throat with a razor in his catbin , and so effectually did he perforin the dreadful act that life must have ceased almost instantaneously . Estessivk _Foimjery of FoBEios Notes . —For some time past very extensive frauds have been committed on the Russian and Prussian governments by
thc manufacture of foreign forged notes , and within the past fortnight two German Jews , Marcus Lavin and Hyams Liptziek , bave been taken into custody here , as parties concerned in the manufacture and disposal of the same . The first named prisoner , Lavin , called on the Prussian Ticc-Consul at this port , Louis Arnoldus Yandenbergh , Esq ., and communicated to bim that be could afford some important information relative to the parties engaged in disposing of these forged foreign notes ; and accordingly Mr . Vandenbergh assented to an introduction to thc parties who had thc notes to dispose of . Previously , however , to doing so , he communicated with the borough police , and readily obtained their assistance . At the appointed time Lavin brought
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the other prisoner , Liptziek , to Mr . V andenberg h , who passed , at the time , for the captain of a foreign vessel ; and the result was that both the Jews were taken into custody by Inspectov Daisb . A c arpetbag _containin-r the property which was to have been disposed of , viz ., 353 . 3-rouble notes of the Bank ot Poland , wasafterwardsfound by Inspectors PowseCt at a pastrycook ' s in Broad-street , where it bad beon left by Liptziek on thc same day as the prisoners were apprehended . The capture of these fellows , who form part of a gang that has for sometime carried on their nefarious practices and eluded the _vio-ilant exertions of the governments whom they have defrauded , reflects infinite credit on the tact and iudement of the Prussian Vice-Consul here j
and the conduct of Inspector Daish and Bowsetfc in aiding him in the affair , is highly praiseworthy , and will , we have no doubt , be liberally rewarded by the ( Prussian government . The two prisoners who bad ' been remanded after a private examination , were brought up _forre-examination on Friday week . The depositions taken at the former examination , which was conducted by the magistrate privately in the council chamber , were now read over to both prisoners and the evidence adduced , relative to the finding of the carpet-bag by Inspector Dowsetfc , and the identification of the prisoner Liptziek by Mrs .
Gray , at -whose shop the same was left by him . a clerk from the Bunk of Poland deposed to t be notes produced being forgeries . A . solicitor from London attended on behalf ofthe Bank of Russia , and asked the bench to commit the prisoner Liptziek for trial under the act of William IV ., sees . 19-and 28 . With reference to the prisoner Lavin , the case mainly depended on information communicated by him , and he thought the ends of justice would be fully answered by bis being bound over to answer any charge thafc mi g ht be preferred against him at the assizes . Mr . Field attended on behalf of Liptziek , who was committed for trial at tho assizes .
—Hampshire Advertiser . Fatai . _Rah-wat Accident . —On the 27 th ult * , an inquest was held by Mr . Rutter , county coroner , at the Railway Inn , Miles Platting , on the body of a labourer , named John Redfem , 49 years of age , who was in the employment of tbe Lancashire and Yorkshire "Railway Company , a _* fc the Miles Platting Station , and whose death had been caused by an express train "having run over him . It appeared that on the previous evening , about tweiity minutes to eight o ' clock , the deceased and another man were talking on the platform of thc station , when the train from Manchester to Leeds came up - and at the same time an express train to Manchester was seen approaching by a porter named Roberts , who rang the bell , and called out to the deceased and his companion to mind the
express . Roberts then went away a few yards to see that none of tbe passengers by the Leeds train got out at the wrong side , and as he turned his head to look back , he saw the two men coming across the line . Instantly the express came up , and when it had passed he only saw deceased ' s companion , who had got across the line . The deceased had been caught by tbe engine and thrown down , and when found his body presented a shocking appearance , being much mutilated about the legs and the lower part ofthe trunk he must have died instantly . Mr . Phillips , station master , was at once informed of the occurrence , and the body was removed to the Railway Inn , cl n se by . The deceased had left off work about five o'clock , and it is supposed tliat be was crossing the line to go to the tank yard . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
Incbnwarism . —Friday last , Sept . 28 , was the day appointed in Bridport , Dorset , for general humiliation and prayer , in consequence of the present visitation of cholera . Numerous congregations were assembled afc fche various places of worship in the morning and evening . 'Ehe Rer . T . Wallace was proceeding -with bis discourse in the evening , to a numerous congregation , when he was compelled to desist from a sudden and general movement aud rising among his audience . He requested them to preserve their _presence of mind and remain seated , or alarming accidents might occur . Several persons rushed into tbe chapel and cried out "Fire ! fire!—tliere is afire just opposite the chapel—save yourselves ! " The rush to the doors was then general ,
but fortunately , beyond the terror occasioned , nothing serious _happa-aed . In a few minutes the atmosphere was illuminated with the outbursting of a sheet ol flame from an extended ranee of buildings immediately opposite the chapel , aud , being thatched , tbey burned with great rapidity and fuiy . It was with difficulty that Mr . Wallace and his congregation could get out of their place of worship . In half an hour the conflagration was tremendous . The wind blowing from the south saved the Royal Oak Inn and stables , but several bouses and an extensive range of premises were destroyed . An alarm of fire was given at Bridport Church during the sermon of the Rev . Mr . Templar , aud the rush waa instant and most serious : no lives were lost , but the terror was indescribable ,
The fire was , no doubt , the act of some miscreant , who wok advantage of the people being nt tlieir respective places of worship to perpetrate his heartless villany . Tbe same premises were attempted to be set on fire at eleven o ' clock at night , about three weeks ago , but through the servants' bed-room at the Royal Oak being full of smoke the diabolical attempt was frustrated , A yigid inquiry will be at once instituted _, and it is sincerely hoped that the culprit will be detected and brought to justice . A young man fell , during the fire , from a wall , and sustained much internal injury . Extraordinary Explosion op Fire Damp . — A curious though serious case of explosion of lire damn or gas occurred on Sunday last , in a house in
Gidlow-lane , " Wigan . On Sunday night a messenger was despatched from tbe house in question to Mr . Winnard ' s surgery , and ifc was stated that a Mrs . Crook had been severely burnt by an explosion of gas in the cupboard . Mr . Winnard was absent at the time , attending to an urgent cholera case , but Mr . Hutchinson , the medical gentlemen from Liverpool , who has been engaged to assist Mr , "Winnard during the prevalence of the epidemic in this town _, ship , was in attendance , and it is said that ho received the statement of the messenger with an amount of incredulity , which is only to be accounted for by his inexperience in a colliery district . A woman burnt by an explosion of gas from a cupboard—he could not believe it ! However , lis proceeded to the
house , where he found Mrs . Crook in great suffering , having been severely scorched about the face and neck . It ivas stated that she was going to tbe cupboard with a lighted candle in her band , when the terrific explosion of lire-damp took place . Mr . Hutchinson , it would appear , was still" hard of belief , " and Crook , tbe husband of the woman who was injured , asked him if he would wish to see a repetition of the explosion , stating that it would be attended with no evil consequences . Mr . Hutchinson assented , and we may be sure that he exercised no small degree of caution when the cupboard was opened and lhe light applied . Crook , however , was unfortunately less apprehensive , and a tremendous
explosion taking place , be received a serious burn on that very sensitive organ ofthe human physiology —the nose . The people of the house screamed , and the greatest consternation _prevailed . It is stated that the body of flame ran along the ceiling and escaped out at the door , but Mr . Hutchinson s » ys that he did not observe this phenomenon . We should state , for the information of those who may be unacquainted with the locality , that the house is situated immediately over a coal-mine , and tbe gas must have made its way through the earth into the cupboard . The woman , we ave sorry to sav , is _sttll in a very precarious state ; but Mr . Crook's nose is , accordingto the last report , in a state of convalescence . —Wigan Times .
Thg Boi & eb . Explosion at _Burtslbt . —We gave in our last a brief account of the frightful casuality which occurred on Tuesday week , by the bursting of a boiler at Mr . Slater ' s mill , Sandy Gate , near Burnley , and stated that two persons bad been killed , and two others so severely injured that they were not expected to recover . We regret to add that the loss of life was greater than we mentioned , three persons having died on tbe day of the explosion from the injuries received . Inquests were betel on the bodies on Friday morning , before John
Hargreaves , Esq ., the coroner . After a lengthened inquiry , the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death" in each case . They added tbat they exonerated the boiler maker from all blame , but recommended a stronger construction of boilers in future ; tliey recommended the engineer to take care that in future tbe peg indicating the pressure should be of proper length ; and they recommended to all millowners that boilers should be placed in separate buildings , aver which no persons should have to work . —Manchester Guardian .
DisrcTK at Sunderland Docks . —On Monday and Tuesday a series of events took place at the extensive docks now in course of construction on the beach , south ofthe river Wear , wbich caused great excitement in the town , and which arose out of cer _. taiu disputes likely to occasion a protracted and expensive litigation in the Chancery courts , unless otherwise amicably arranged , which , for the _E-eneral good of the town and the true interests of the purtie * themselves , wc sincerely hope will be the case . The point in dispute is this .- —In July , _iSiJ , Messrs . John Craven and Sons contracted with the Sunderland Dock Company to construct , by the Slsfc of December , 1849 , a wet dock and half-tide basin on the south beach . In the execution of the works thev
were to be under the control of the company ' s engineer . Mr . Murray . The northern part of the dock , or tidal harbour , was contracted for by other parties . Disputes arose from time to time between Mr . Murray on ihe one hand , and the Messrs . Craven on the other , involving a question of several thousand pounds . The company , on the ground that the Messrs . Craven were interposing difficulties in the way ot tbe contractors engaged at the north end of the docks , exercised or assumed to exercise under the powers of a proviso in the original contract , the right of dissolving that contract , and accordingly , on Friday , they served on the Messrs . Craven a notice to quit , giving them , however , permission to go upon fche ground for the purpose of taking awav tlieir plant , provided they interfered not with the progress ?
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ofthe company ' s works . On tbe otber hand , the Messrs Craven , being advised that the question of _Insa would be best settled before their contract was completed , and tbat it was a question to be deter-SS by ft court of Jaw or equity , determined to retain possession of the ground , and finish their conraTand thereby throw upon the Dock Company the onus of establishing , before some competent ribuna " ; their assumed right to dissolve the contract and take possession of the property ,-Sunderland Braid . __ _ , M ,, _.. _OoBWifc
_ImprotbR _Usb of _•* GoBFM * r ' s -Mr . llerford , coroner , held au mquest , on Monday last , on the body of a child six weeks old , son of Charles Hutchinson , a calico printer , living m Brownsyard , Manchester . From the evidence of the mother it _mnrand that on Friday and Saturday last the of the day the mother gave it some magne _& ia , and subsequently a small quantity of gin and water . AbonfceigbfcVclock in the _^ eveninjr sheobtameda pennyworth of « Godfrey ' s" Cordial / ' and gave about half a spoonful to the child , who subsequently seemed more easy and comfortable . About three o ' clock on Sunday morning , however , it became restless , and almost immediately afterwards died ir _bummbhoh
its mother's arms . Jlr . Dyson , , _? . . Z made a post mortem examination of the body ot tne deceased , described tbe appearances it presented internally . He believed that most probably the child had been convulsed before death ; there was considerable congestion ofthe brain , but whether this arose from an over-dose of the medicine produced , from the child being overlain in bed , or from natural causes , he could mi say . The medicine called <• Godfrey ' s Cordial" was a very dangerous one to administer to infants , as the dose given m the present instance must have contained at least two drops of laudanum . He had inquired at the _druggist ' s , and found thatthe medicine was sold , aa had been stated by the mother of the deceased , without any label being put upon the vessel in
which ifc was contained ; the reason given tor _tnis course was , that various kinds of vessels , cups , & c . were brought for the " cordial , " and that if used , most of the -people who bought the medicine would be unable to read the label .-The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had died of convulsions , but that there was no evidence to show how they were caused . The jury also expressed an opinion that tbe indiscriminate sale by druggists ot mixtures containing considerable quantities of opium , without labels , or proper directions being sriven . was a dangerous practice , and ought it
possible to be prevented . _^ .,. _ ,.. Fatal _Prizb Fight . — On Sunday night , Sub-Inspector Sandford apprehended a man , named Thos . Welsh , at his lodgings , Lad-lane , Deansgate , _Manchester , under a warrant charging bim with being a bottle holder in the fight which lately took place at Throstle Nest , and in which one of the combatants , Bichard Lilley , was killed . He was brought up at the New Bailey on the following moraine ** , when tho offence was proved , and he was committed to the assizes . ; He was matched to & _sht that day fortnight with another man for ten pounds aside .
SrsroraAR EscArn from Dbowwno . —On fche 26 th ult ., Anthony Brown was passing witb his wherry Tynebridge , when the craft catching one of the piers , she " whommeled over , " and all her cargo of water-pipes and chain-bolts went to the bottom—all but one pipe , which had got entangled , and by its weight caused the vessel to lie with one side in the water and the other out . The skipper and his son were cast to some distance , and were rescued from drowning by a watchman stationed on the High Level Bridge . Their eomrade , Henry Gray , was nowhere to be seen—most probably drowned . A steam-boat was procured to tow the capsized wherry ( whose destination was the Gateshead station ofthe Newcastle and Carlisle Railway ) to Stourbridge , and lay her aground . On the passage up , a voice was heard issuing from under the craft ; and it was then found that Henry was still alive .
She was got up as _quicluy as possible to the papermill shore ( a distance of three or four hundred yards ) , and an oar thrust under her , of which Henry got hold . Ifc was then drawn down , but he stuck against the side ofthe boat , and could get no further ; he was evidedtly drowning . Thc boat-hook was pushed in to him : he seized hold of it * . it was pressed down and drawn up , and he was fished through the water , and brought up beneath the gunwale to the surface . A stimulant and a bed ( at the Brandlin Arms , close by ) restored him from his state of exhaustion . He then explained that , favoured by the position of the boat in the water , he had been enabled to keep his head above the surface ; but his air-space was gradually narrowing , and the water had got up to bis mouth when he was saved . He was from ono to two hours in his strange prison , and never expected to get out alive . —Gateshead Observer .
TnE Sisters of _Mebct . —The establishment of the " Sisterhood" has been removed from this parish ( Stoke Damerel ) to that of St . Andrew ' s , Plymouth . The two nouses at the north west corner of Wyndham-placo are occupied temporarily , as it is paid the Sisters have purchased or are in treaty for a piece of freehold ground in one of the Five Fields for the erection of " A Home . " The appeals for pecuniary aid made by the Sisters and the Bishop of Exeter have beon very successful , a capital stock , exceeding - £ 14 , 000 , having been thus raised . _—Devoiywrt Telegraph .
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The result of the investigation of the Crown authorities into ( he fall ofthe bridge at Roxburgh , on the North British line , by wliich several persons were hilled and injured , is , we understand , the indictment for trial at the next assizes of the contractor and resident engineer . —Mining Journal . Mukdeii at _IIbston . —The eastern district of Berwickshire was last week startled by a most atrocious and deliberate murder . On Monday morning tlie 24 ( h ult . the body ofa man named Walter Linn was discovered in a field in the neighbourhood of Rcston , a village distant between eleven and twelve miles from Berwick , and situated on the line ofthe
North British Railway . From a wound upon his bead it was discovered that he bad met his death by violent means . A sum of money which he was supposed to nsv _* e on his person seems to have led to the commission ofthe deed , and immediately on the discovery of the body general suspicion was directed to a man named _M'Quee , who was accordingly apprehended aud lodged in Duvise Gaol . The particulars of the case are as follows ' . —Walter Linn , the man who has been murdered , is an Irishman , about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age , and came to reside in lleston four years ago , having obtained employment on the railway line which was then in course of < j ** sU'ucdon . He - * yas a tbiifty and a sober man , aud was understood to have saved money . He formed
an intimate acquaintance with William M'Quee , also au Irishman , to whose sister he was said to ba paying his addresses . On Sunday morning he was visited at his lodgings by M'Quee , who invited him to dine afc his bouse . This , however , Linn declined , and had dinner at his own lodgings * , but he afterwards went to M'Quee _' s , He was next seen about one o ' clock passing down the village alone . A short time afterwards _ftPQuee followed in the same direction . They were subsequently seen together at Ciiirnside , and they were also seen in company returning towards lleston by two persons at two different places . M'Quee returned home about eight o ' clock . Nothing was seen of Linn till next morning when Messrs . Sinclair , butchers , at Avton , went to a
field near _Reston-hill , the property of Mv . Bishop , to examine some sheep grazing there . They reached this field at a quarter before eleven , and in a ditch tliey discovered the body of the unfortunate victim . The ditch is shallow and nearly dry . The body was lying lengthwise in ifc , and with the face to the ground . His cap was off , and a severe wound was visible on tbe back part of the head . A pool ot blood was close at hand , and a stone , about the size of a man ' s band , bearing marks of blood , supposed to have been the instrument of death . The pockets of the murdered man had been rifled . The breast pocket of his jacket was turned inside out , as well as one in his vest and one in his trousers ; in the other pocket of his trousers was 7 W ., and his watch was in its proper
pl _. ice . As we have already mentioned , suspicion immediately fell on "William M'Quee . The police on the railway line fouud on inquiry that ho had that morning , at 0 . 30 , gone by the train to Dunse . He returned home on foot , and on entering Reston about one o clock he was taken into custody . On his person being examined one of his avms was marked with blood , and his shirt sleeve stained with it , as if it had run along his arm . The sum of £ 8 10 s . was found in Ws pockets . "H e admitted that he had been to Chirnside with the murdered man on the previous day , but stated tbat tbey had parted company on their return when tbey were a short distance from Chirnside , Linn having stopped to speak with some men with hooks in their hands , whom they had met . The statement of their parting company at the place M'Quee stated has been contradicted by two persons ( previously alluded to , ) who at two separate places nearer Reston had met M'Quee and _Liuu together .
Creesock . —On Saturday a scene , which threatened to be very formidable , was enacted in the Duncan-street burying-ground . _Porsome timebacka number of parties in town have been disputing the right of the magistrates to increase tbe fees leviable at interments in those burying-places whore the _hiii' 3 belong to the individuals themselves , and who purchased them without keeping in view the probable augmentation of the fees . r fhe magistrates , after the cemetery was opened , raised these fees , in order to prevent overcrowding in tho yards _, as well as to realise a sum to keep them in good condition . The leaders of the movement against the augmentation of the fees allege that the principal reason entertained by the magistrates is to compel people to use the cemetery , the revenue of which goes to tho funds of the town . An _indivi-SS _^ f _*} SOme of the boidest s _^ tU » minimi diedveQently of cholera , and was to
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bo interred on Saturday a . two o clock . The original fees exacted were proffered to the parties in charge , but refused . Men not connected with tho burying-ground were then engaged by . Mr Daniel M'Farlane , joiner , to dig a grave , which they were in tbe act of doing on Saturday when the policeintevfeved and forced them to desist , it was resolved , however , to conduct the interment in spite of any obstruction that might be ottered by the authorities ; and accordingly a considerable number , whose support could be relied on , were invited to it . Beforo two o ' clock the entire police force , both day and night omoers , " were collected m the yard , and the gate was locked and barred . Wiien the funeral approached the gate a crowd was gathered in Duncan-street , whose symp athies were manifestly in favour of the recussants . The coffin was taken out of the hearse , and laid on the spokes , _awaitiug the oneuins of the door . The gate was
not opened , however , and some tune having been spent by the remonstrances and counter-remonstrances ofthe parties who were respectively within and without the gate , a cry got up , " Burst open the gate . " The coffin was then shouldered , and someofthe most active of them battered in the gate , amidst tho cheers of the spectators . The police at first offered a slight resistance , but at length allowed the irruptionists to proceed , and the interment was completed without further hindrance . There were several most respectable men engaged in this most unseenly and fortunately unwonted proceeding . There was another funeral in the same buryingground afc the same hour and the coffin , in this case also , was borne in shoulder high . When the gate was broken up , one oftho policemen was much injured near the eye by a splinter tbat flew from it . Tho prudence of the police , in not offering much resistance is much commended , as , in all probability , bloodshed would have ensued . —Glasgow Daily
Mail . Accident to ose of tub Party at _Bamobai _,. — Wo understand that our distinguished townsman , Dr . Mackenzie , surgeon-occulist in ordinary to the Queen , had the honour of being sent for to Balmoral , a few days ago , to consult with Sir James Clark on the case of a son of Lord Portman , who had met with an accident while shooting . It appears thafc one of the party was shooting at a hare , and part of the shot , after striking a rock , had darted off in a slanting direction , and entered the eye of thc young gentleman . The small bullet still remains in tho globe of the eye . The wound through which it entered has healed up ; and , although there has been comparatively little pain or uneasiness
produced , the vision of that eye is completely lost . It was not considered necessary to perform any operation , as , from present appearances , it is expected that the foreign body will gradually work its way outwards , and be discharged . —Glasgow Citizen iNc-eNDiAKiSM at _BiAinoowiUE . — The triumphal arches that were erected hero , when her Majesty p assed through of her way to Balmoral , were to have been newly decorated for her return ; but some blackguard , on Tuesday morning last , set Jire to the one at the bridge , which is now standing a charred skeleton . A good reward is offered to any person who will give such information as may lead to the discovery of the blackguard who could be guilty of such a despicable action . —Edinburgh Advertiser .
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FOHMIDABLE OPPOSITION TO RENTS . —COMFI . ICT AND Loss of Life . —The movement against rents and the carrying away of crops is assuming a more formidable aspect , extending even into the northern province . The following account pf a sanguinary struggle for the possession of corn appears in the Kilkenny Moderator of this day ;—** We ha , ve just received an account ofa fatal and most fearful struggle between a landlord and tenant for the possession of the crops , and which , we are sorry to state , has taken place in our own county . It appears that the corn ofa farmer named Cloony , residing at
Butler ' s Grove , near Gowran , was distrained for rent by the landlord , Captain Watson , and was only protected hitherto from being forcibly removed by having a strong posse oi armed bailiffs placed in charge . However , on yesterday ( Friday ) morning , at about eight o ' clock , Cloony collected a consider * abie body of men , who were armed and provided with cars , in order to seize and remove the crop afc any rak . Tho attack was , of course , resisted by those in charge , and who acted under the directions of Captain Watson ' s sons . A violent struggle took place , but Cloony ' s party succeeded in loading the cars , and just as they were leading them out upon the road , one of the men named William Butler , was shot dead " _^ Captain Watson ' s party , and another was so seriously wounded that Df , Newell , of
Gowran , whose professional assistance was promptly obtained , is said to have pronounced his recovery to be hopeless . On thc other hand , it is stated by report that three of the parties who were in charge of the crop are dangerously wounded . The police arrived from Gowran soon after the fray , bufc too late | to prevent thc fatal consequences of the encounter ; however , the _corresponded from whom we have the particulars cw-. olv . de 3 Ms communication , which was dated at noon Friday , with the remark : — ' Notwithstanding the fearful circumstances which have resulted from the attack tho eorn is still being removed , though * one maw lies dead in the gap , and another is dying in the neighbourhood . ' " The Leinster Express has the following account of
the progress of the anti-rent movement in tbe vicinity of Shinrono , Kings ' s County , where twenty of tho peasantry havo been arrested : — " On Wednesday night Head-constable Corcoran , of Shinrono , received private information of upwards of fifty cars and drays , fvom diffevent parts ofthe country , being in readiness to carry COl'n , the _pi'Optrty of John Clarke , Esq ., off the lands of Tubrid , situate wifchin two miles of Shinrono . The head-constable and party lost no time in proceeding to the lands in question , where on their arrival they found a great many persons in attendance , with horses and cars , The police immediately charged the party at the point of the bayonet * , eighteen of them sought refuge in a small house , where they were made
prisoners . Iu the meantime , the mon in care of the cars commenced upsetting their loads , and scattering thc corn about tbo road . Constable Kelly nnd tbe police from tbe Brusna station being on patrol , and hearing the yells and shouts of the Fellows running away , immediately came to the head-constable ' s assistance ; and in doing so , he arrested two of the runaways . The two police parties marched their twenty prisoners and twenty-four load of corn to Shinrono . On Thursday there was a full investigation into this matter , before R . Hammersley and George Fitzmaurice , R . M ., Esqrs ., when the twenty prisoners wore fully committed to take their trial at the ensuing quarter sessions of Birr . Several
persons have applied for their horses and cars , bufc tlie magistrates refused to give them up until they would communicato with the law advisers of the Crown . Some of tho party came over ten miles . " Nearly the whole ofthe Irish journals contain accounts of the spread of the movement in various parts of the country—Queen ' s County , Cavan , Monaghan , Carlow , and other places , have been the scenes of active operations , and in some instances the landlords are attempting to meet tho crisis by reducing tbeir rents . In the counties of Waterford , Tipperary , and Limerick , ihe Roman Catholic clergy continue to denounce the secret _organUation , and the outbreak at Cappoquin ,
The Doha ' s Brae Tragedy . — Tlio Report of Mr . Berwick , _-Q . C ., the commissioner appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant to inquire into all thc transactions connected with the fatal affray at Dolly ' s Brae , on the 12 th July , is now under tho consideration of the government . There is much excitement on the subject , to which an unseemly and taunting letter of Mr . Beers , the Orange Grand Master of the county of Down , and one of the magistrates who accompanied thc Orange procession from Lord Roden ' s park to Dolly ' s Brae , has in a great degree contributed . The decision of the government in this disastrous affray is looked for with the deepest anxiety . The local Crown Solicitor has received directions onco more to tender the
informations against some of thc Orange party to the bench of magistrates at Castlewellan , ot which Lord Roden is chairman . Tho Freeman ' s Journal contains a letter fvom a correspondent at Ballymena , describing the murder of a young man named Bradley , " who died from the effects of a severe beating , received from the hands of a party of Orange assassins , on the night of Saturday , tho 22 nd of Sept . " No particulars are given ; but it is stated that " the magistrates refused taking the depositions ofthe deceased , _although repeatedly called upon by his medical attendant , who told them tbat the man was at the point of death . " The absence of the _sti-pendiavy magistrate is assigned as a possible cause for their refusal .
There was another extraordinary scene at the petty sessions of Castlewellan on Tuesday week , when there was a great muster of magistrates , including tho Marquis of Downshire and the Earl of Roden . It is remarked in tho report of what occurred , that no Liberal magistrate was in attendance . There was some excitement and recrimination , but nothing practical was done or even attempted . Mr . Rea , thc agent for thc Roman Catholics , delayed presenting informations against some ofthe Orange party until Tuesday -aoxt . Thc opinion of the Attorney-General was read , dcclarm _** _* _* the Orange procession at Dolly ' s Brae an illegal as " semblage .
Revival of the Repeal Agitatios . —Mr . John O'Connell has onco moro appeared on tho political stage , with an epistle addressed , as usual , " to the people of Ireland . " Here aro the materials , with which he hopes to float his balloon * . — " We must bo stirring 1 We must cry out to tho world to bear witness tb our _swffcritigB D . nd _wrongs ! We must not permit those who wield our destinies to rock themselves to slumber iu . the "belief that Ireland ' s heart and hope are utterly broken and that sho will remain ( as novf -some fourteen dreary months she has been ) dumb , paralysed , defenceless
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" Let all friends to the peace of _Irt-K _,,, * _^¦""•^ that when the Catholic Association _amse _^ _Wt two counties were in open insurrection ' firi t _** . from the formation of that body > . ope , ' j *] thj _. to revive in the minds of thc peasantry _^ _"S-H came checked , and within afew months tlio I le _*•«• once again respected and obeyed , w " _Sj * " Should not our labours in the Repeal _JU _<* n ¦ to bring about a like result , iVIU i Sa ' _^^ _S from the last misery—that of wild and 1 _^ and most criminal insurrection—command i ) _^ S of every good man—of every patriot— J _H Christian ? w % " Let us , then , ask of every friend of lro i _ , her people to join in working for this and otlio * . " "•'* that our duty to man and heaven alike call . „ _$% to labour for . Thoy can be briefl y stat ed _anf _^ can dispute tlieir need . ' " _* % « 1 . To arouse the Ministry and Parlhmn the terrible danger threatening the remnant of " it - nation from the renewed failure of the pohto " _*• " 2 . To check and arrest , so far as our _^ . J \
and entreaties , ana cowiciiimgs may avail «; _<*> cursed system of Bibbpnism , now said to ' _fal _* ing in one or two districts of Ireland . _U 1 * i . " 3 . To contradict the audacious assertion * i we are content with the endurance of the mons _ " *• injustice ofthe church establishment , an d to t \ In ' Parliament to apply the church revenues { ' " ft support ofthe poor , and thereby to the _lessenL ; tho grievous burden of the increasing aild _^ vounng poor-rate . ,,,.., e " " 4 . The estoppel of tho horrid erictioft <• . _* , - _*„ Nofc loss than 12 , 000 families were evicted _mS _™* months , as proved by a return I moved for _tltis" _° sion , but which as yet bas appeared onlvi _* . „_ ; script , its printing and circulation having been _i " layed , for what reason I know not . a ! - ' " 5 . _Tb-vant-riout—plain , unmistakable , ____„ . _ equitable tenant-tight!—the tenant-ri ght 0 f -Jnorth . _, _, tt ! e 6 An amendment of the -law—if ¦ ¦
" . poor . ___ _.,. _ , van « . » ___ - - ¦*• - —» - r •« » _illllDj j ment be possible . " 7 . A real , and not a mock amendment of corporations ; a real , . and not a mock _incce _;^ J "; restoration of our franchises , _especiaJiy _oftlinf' ? ; greatest of all—including aU and crowning a _ i' _> right of making our own laws in our own j > arlinn _ ffl ; at home ! " % The-pith ofthe letter like that of a lady ' s _h _^* tained in the postscript . " P . S-1 trust to be allowed the honour of attend * ,,, the committee of the Repeal Association early nt » week in Dublin , and if they approve of it we sy resume at once tbe usual meetings of the _iLJ Association . " Mr . Duffy does not publish thislettcrin tlie Xntm
but instead thereot it contains the letter of Mr . J ,, ) ,-O'Connell ; but in an article , under the headin _* _"JWanted , a few workmen , " he gives the _following description of the effects of the old _agitati-, _** _.,... •¦ S pouting , speeching , and operations if tliat sort can be performed by a large proporti-m of the adult population of this island . The faculty of _wnting sonorousand sweJlin !* sentences is nearly as common . O'Connell made a guerilla of ruthless _speechifies , ' who disturbed the peace of private society will * the thunder of tbeir afternoon eloquence ; and Young Ireland must plead guilty to _havin-j created' Wo _* j of gentlemen who write with ease . But there is m country in Europe where there is so Jittle _nraciical
genius , practical skill , _iruitrui practical knowled ge as in Ireland . The smallest official trained in the petty routine of public business , the dullest _intermittent commissioner who does 'jobs' for the Executive , has generally more administrative capacity than - _^ me of the best of our public men , The •¦ rand , romantic , and picturesque , lire the Irish imagination ; but it plunges restlessly in the harness of practical work . And mark the result On our popular _institutious-nu have Irish membera who originate nothing—Irish corporations bankrupt in funds , character , and influence—Irish boards of guardians replaced by paid officials , who do tbe work immeasurably better , to the deep discredit and permanent injury of the country . "
_Thi * ImsH Church and the Roman Catholic _Caebgy . —The Kilkenny Journal , under the heading " Movement for Church Reform , " says " At *) ie conferences of the lloman Catholic _clers-y of this diocese , on Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday , the Riaht Rev . Dr . Walsh brought the question imdet the notice of his brethren , and recommended them , each in his own parish , to have petitions _-ire-wred for signature , ' praying for a portion of the Protestant Church revenues , where they are _superabundant , for the use and benefit of the Catholics , where their resources are limited . ' "
The Poob-Laiv . —The Cork Examiner contains the _following : — " Over fifteen years ago , a nun namedTeahan , from the neighbourhood of _Killarslin , left his wife shortly after his marriage , awl went on board ship . During that period she did uot hear from him , and presuming that he was dead married _a-jain , The second husband and herself , with four children ofthe second marriage , were compelled to go in to the Killamey workhouse , and the last husband died tliere . The first man , to tlie astonishmeut of every one , veiy lately came home , c ' aimed his wife , and took Ir . r out of the workhouse . An _o- _'jectiim was made to release the wife , without also taking the children . To this the blunt sailor objected , saying , that while be could not blame bis wife for marrying , he had no _noiimioi
doing for the children of any one eke . 1 _' _rocefuinga were taken at a late petty sessions in Killordiu before the Uev , Dr . Moleyns and Edward Hae . Esq ., to compel the sailor to provide for these ehildren . The magistrates refused taking _hiformflti-ws , ; - * _-a case not at all cognisable or contemplated bythe Poor-law Act . They were not tbe man ' s step children . He was not a " relation by law bound to -mnport them , " and tbey accordingly dismissed the < ase _. However , informations were taken against tin * tar by a Kiliarney functionary , and ho was committe *\ ami retained some days in the M'ltown _Bvkk'v _*** li , \ h \ _ming magistrates , laws , country , and all , for thc ungrateful return lie got for hard well-earned service j , The case will come on before the _Assistarit-Ihriistei at the next Killaruev sessions . ' '
Collision betwjse . - *? the Peasantry a . m * the Police . —The Cork Examiner of Monday gives an account of a serious collision between a large lod _, v of peasants and the constabulary , on Sunday last , on the estate of Sir George CoUhurst , Dart * ., _neiii Blarney : — "A large number of small farmers ami agricultural labourers assembled on Sunday _weefc and cut down the corn on the farm of widow 1 'oi-de wliich they put into sheaves and sacks , and stored in one of tho adjourning bouses . Keepers wen placed on tbis house at the direction of Sir (' corgi Colthurst , the landlord of the farm , and tliese mei remained in possession up to yesterday . About tei o ' clock yesterday morning nien and cars were scci
approaching this house from every road i tlie nei ghbourhood , and , by the time tbe had all assembled , it was calculated there wero nwavds of two hundred men , armed with rc . i _*> _in hooks , pitch-forks , and other instruments u-ied fo agricultural purposes ; and thirty-six ears in -, v tendance . At this timo there were twelve or thi teen keepers in the interior of the house in whic the corn liad beon placed ; and on the main body tbe persons in possession of the cars arriving bcl ' oi the houso , quo of them , who appeared io _' be tl leader of the party , summoned the bailiffs thn times 'to give up the house in the Queen ' s name TVith this threat the keepers refused to com ;*!
whereupon the bouse was attacked . Some of th party ascended tlie roof , and commenced removin ; the slates , through which they quickly obtained view of the inmates ofthe barn . The persons au pointed to protect the corn , seeing that resistaiw was useless , escaped through the door witliou much obstruction from the party outside , and in injury beyond a wound innictod on one of thorn bv pitchfork . Sir G . Colthurst , J . P ., Mr . Ilus-cv J . P ., and a clerk of Mr . Ilussey , came before Mi Tobin _, J . P ., where thc clerk swore an _iuformatiou and tho police wore ordered out under the contrt of Mr . Tobin . The party proceeded to tbo iann _< widow Ford , and about two miles from _Billiiicollh
where they found thirty-six cars drawn up in a Ui and . the people around them busily employed transferring the corn fromthe barn to tlie cars _, effort was instantl y made to arrest the most proi neat ofthe party , and rescue the corn , but a vig ous opposition was offered , and it was found thai irould be useless for eight policemen to _coutc "with at least considerabl y over 100 men armed w formidable weapons in a close encounter . In aftray consequent upon tho demand of the poll Curry , the bailiff of Sir George Colthurst , * knocked down and his leg broken in three phi Uis life is said to be despaired of . The police w compelled to retire , but succeeded in _canturinst l
of the persons most conspicuously engaged _, express was then sent off to the military ban-act _Jlalliiicollig _, and two troops of Lancers , acc < panied by a party of fifty Infantrv , started for scone ofthe encounter , and , after a rapid nwi overtook tho cavalcade of laden cars , at pl . called Knockamorc and Knockavillen , and compe them instantly to halt . Finding that resistanc the face of so considerable a force was useless , si of tlio party engaged un tackled tlieir horses made on , at least temporarily , with the loss of tl butts , and others escaped , by removing the c from their cars , and pursuing some of the _by-rc that led to their respective homes . The mnjorit tlio party was thero detained by the military i
the arrival of the police , who had retired for a inforccment , when nine persona wero arrcs making eleven prisoners taken into custody . somewhat singular that all the prisoners nrro are from the neighbourhood of Innoshamion , a tance of thirteen or fourteen miles from the scon this proceeding . It was stated that tho wi Fordo held about sixty acres of land from George Colthurst , but tho amount of vent she o was not ascertained . In tho precipitate flight w was mado on the appearance of tlie military a siderable quantity ot' the corn was thrown or road , inside tbe hedges , and in other places like escape detection , and , for the discovery of this tion of the property , it appears that Sir Gcorgo hurst has sent out mca and horses to scout
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 6, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06101849/page/6/
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