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      _ _IJ-qOKSTS . _ttl _?^ _? _**"• »? w- * n _> -BBfi » Mr Baker : At tte _Oock-honse , Last _lndia-roatf , Bromley , on the bodj of Martha Janes , aged Bve months , whose death was accelerated by the impure air . _arising from an nndramed ditch . The deceased had been _soffennz from hooping cough , and had partially recoTered . She had seTeral fit-, and her health was impeded by an obnoxious effluvium arising from two nndrained ditches on eaeh side ofthe road in Quaylane , Bromley . Thev were roll of decomposed mitter , and all sorts of fifth was thrown into them . The stench was most dreadful , and t h * inhabitants could

      scarcely live in the houses . Mr Bellow , a _surgeon "who attended , was of opinion tbat her death was accelerated by the impure atmosphere . The coroner said he had held several _inquests daring the last rlldath on the _bodies of children wbo bad died m a similar _macrer , and he should write to the boar « l of guardians , who , be hoped , would adopt seme measures io prevent the nuisance . Thejury returned a verdict of' natural death , ' and added that the death of the deceased had been accelerated by the obnoxious state of the atmosphere , arising frem an offensive drainage , which is calculated te do serious injury .

      L Fatal Effects op Bjw _> A * H .-Before Mr Baker , at the Three Mariners , Copland-hne _, South Hackaey , on new ofthe bodies respectively of R . Cornish , _^^ _woyeirs , and his brother , J . Cornish , eleven weeks old , whose deaths arose from the noisonoua effluvium of a large collection . of sewage adjoiningthe cottage they were _living in at SUktmll-row , South -Hackney . The locality was visitsd by the coroner and jury , with MrB . Clarke , surgeon of the Heck--atsj ' Union , who found the accumulation of _Btagnant natter abont an acre in extent , a dam being at the lower ead , wbich was erected to allow a fall of water -for aflonr-tnilltbat occasionally flowed over it from Hackney-brook . . Mr Clarke stated that tbe matter "was ten feet deep , and tbat it was twelve vears _ainna

      it was cleaned out . The mother of the deceased -chi'dren said that about two months ago she removed from NurserT _* Iane . Hackney , to _Silkmill-mw , when aereldestcbi'd , who waB previously slightly _indis-. _posed , became seriously ill . Mr B . Clarke attended him , and she went with him te the London Hospifell . He was seen by Dr Pereira , who said he conld -do nothing for her child . lie died on Friday last . 'The other child was a fine healthy baby for three weeks , after which he became sickly and weak . Ee gradually wasted away , _anddiedon Saturday . She had so doubt that the children died in consequence of _in-Iialingtbe _poisonous effluvium from the sewage . The water in tbe woll wbicb is drunk by persons residing there has an offensive taste . Mr Clarke , wbo was of

      opinion that tbe deaths of both children were accelerated by the impure air , said that much illness prevailed there , and that a short time ago a child died under similar circumstances , Evans , the summoning officer , said that many deaths bave lately occurred there . The juiy remarked tbatif not removed it wonld create a _pestilence . Mr Clarke stated tbat ne had forwarded a communication to the board of guardian * . Verdict : 'Thatthe deceased children died a natural death , accelerated by the noxious and poisonous vapours arising from a stagnant and exposed sewer in the neighbourhood of the residence . Accidkrt os the _Rtvir . —Before Mr Carter , at tte Royal Oak , Lower-road . Rotherbithe _, relative to the death of J . II . Boff , aged thirty-five , who lost his

      life by being run down by the Eclipse , Margate steamer , whilst in a pleasure-boat , with others , off Shadwell , on Saturday . the 25 th nit . —William Cross stated that he wag standing on a barge on the day in question , and distinctly saw the _accident . The Jiclipse wa 3 coming down full swing with a strong head tide . Witness ' s attention was directed tothe small boat being in darger . The several persons in thelatter were much confused , and standing up , as if they expected a collision . Witness saw the bow of the steamer clear the skiff , bat the starboard paddlewheel struck ic across the centra and capsized her . A boat was lowered _freai the steamer , by which , one man was picked np ; the others were pulled onboard the steamer by ropes . —By the Coroner ; If the

      wheels were stopped when the collision took place , it roost have been bnt a veiy short period before . If thej bad pulled either ahead or astern the accident wonld not have taken place . —Examination continued : Witness thought the steamer might have been stopped earlier , because it came right upon the men in the skiff before tbat was done . —Mr . T . Targate , lockrnaster ofthe Surrey Canal Dorks , and Mr J . 'Whitehall , ship chandler , were called , and gave evidence of tbe skill and attention displayed by tke captain of the Eclipsesteamer to avoid the accident . ' Thejury returned a verdict of 'Accidental death . ' At the close of the investigation , which lasted many boars' the coroner informed Captain Newman that the verdict of the jury exonerated him from all blame .

      HRK FiaKEi _Wakb-lute . Bucbtruih . —On Monday evening at a qnarter past seven o ' clock , the premises belonging to Messrs Whittaker and Co ., furniture brokers , of 28 . Water-lane , _Blackfrian , were discovered to be en fire . The building , which was three floors high , contained in the lower portion a great quantity of furniture . At the outbreak Mr and Mrs Whittaker were from home , bnt one of the lodgers and her three children were in one of the tapper rooms , andit was with great difficulty that tbey escaped . With as little delay as possible several engines arrived ; the Barnes , however , continued to travel , s ? _iz " n ? npon everything of an ignit & _ble character , until tha premises were _naarly gutted . The damage m _^ t be considerable , tbe entire stock in trade being destroyed . Messrs Whit taker ' s loss will lie covered bj aa insurance in the Sun Fire Office .

      How the fire originated coald not be ascertained . The fire has been attended , witk fatal consequences to an elderly female , wbo lodged in tbe upper part of the honse , and known as Miss Purday , a teacher ofmusic . At twenty minutes past nine o ' clock , whilst _Flemins , one of the brigade men was removing tbe furniture tbat had not been totally destroyed in the flames , he found the body ofa female most _sheckiBgly burned , s » much sa tbat _uone oi tbe features conld be recognised . She lived in one portion of the second _floir _, and when the alarm was given she was in her sitting-room . The poor crea * ure was told by one of the females that a fire was raging below , and tbat she mast make the best of her way down . As Mrs _Hatnblebon ' s family were leaving , they met tbe deceased on tbe staircase , and told her not to ascend or sbe wonld be burnt ; she , however , made her way to the _nppec floor , where she was discovered . .

      ACCIDEHT 3 . _OFFBHCBB , SIC . A _Vipan is a Carriage . —Oa' Saturday afternoon Miss Catherine Hayes , daughter of Captain Edgar Hayes , of Lander House , Brompton , accompanied fcv a female friend , Edgar her brother { in bis ninth year . ) and the governess , were ' proceedinjr in the carriage to 3 friend ' s in Buriingtoa-strcet , when , at the corner of _Sleane-street , the jouDggentleman imagining that he saw something move in the pocket ofthe ceach , drew his sister ' s attention to the subject , _placing his hand at the same time within tbe pocket bnt almot immediately withdrew it , exclaiming that be had been bitten in the wrist . The governess was abont to order the carriage to be stopped , when a small viper sprang from the pocket and fastened

      itself npon the fur mantle of the mend of Miss Hayes , wounding ber just above the shoulder . The screams of the ladies brought several persons to their assistance , * nd a young man ot the name of Brodie , a waiter at an hotel in Bon ' -street , seised the viper and destroyed it , the viper measuring seven or eight inches in length . Medical assistance was procured , and the wounds of the yonns bdy and gentleman dressed , tbat of the latter " ieing of rather an extensive character . Not the slightest idea can be iormed as to the means by which the viper had got into the carriage , the vehicle having conveyed the father of the young lady to the railway station only the day previous , and the _stabler are supposed to be free trom vermin . Bbdtaut ? op a Post office _Sebvasi —On Tuesday evening , about seven o ' clock , the Post-office accelerators were pausing down _Holborn-bill to St

      Martin's-Ie-grand . when several little children got into one of the _tmnilwes , the conductor — who should have been at the bach—having taken a seat with tbe driver . On discovering where the children were , he got down , seizing one of the children by the arm , and another by the leg , and dashed them separately into the road with grett violence . One _psor little creature , about seven years old , was completely scalped , the skia of the head being torn from the crowa to the forehead . He was _immediately removed into tho shop of Messrs _Lamplough and M'Doug . il , who , bavins secured the artery , and drawn the skin to its original position , had tbc child removed to ita parents , where it now lies in a moat precarious state . The offender has so far eluded the police ; bnt is hoped , by the _active exertions of the detective force , and the authorities at the Post office , that he wiil bo secured .

      MISCELLANEOUS . _THeRuGiSTniTios of the barongh of Marylebone terminated on Friday with the investigation of tke claims and objections fur the St Pancras district , the overseers' lint having been revised at _Gordonsqnare on a formerday . The revising barrister sat at the new _vestry-roim , King ' _s-road , _Camden-town . The claims and objection ' s , wh ' ck were all Conservative , were , claims 50 . objections 270 . Of these , 17 claims and 267 o * ? * £ ctioii _3 were sustained . The general results of tho year ' s _reviswn for ihe borough of Marylebone are— _C » n _? ervati-e claims made , 94 ; allowed 23 ; Liberal , none . Conservative objections made . 441 ; allowed , 439 . Liberal , none . Number of voters added to the roll , 23 ; struck off 439 .

      Cut of _Loyonx Smiz _Dears' Cobbt . — The 'Sheriff ' sCourt , _L- «» d ; . n , ' ss it is styled in tho Act for the recovery of dob * ur > der £ 20 is _nsw open for the first time , at the _Ojteen ' a _lfc-nch Court , Guildhall , Before Mr Cmaui _^ _sioner Bu'lock , the judge appointed under t * u » . _Sui uie . Oa the learned j udge taking his seas on the Beach , Mr Buchanan called the _atvesiii-jn of ike court to certain ciau ~ . es ofthe

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      Act , which in his opinion empowered none bnt barristers and attorneys , or the accredited representatives of landlords , to appear in'the rapport _oftefence of causes . Mr Bees , who appeared as the clerk ofa large firm , whose dealings are principally with the lower orders , said that this question bad lately been mooted at most of the county courts . It was evident that clerks to solicitors could not represent their principles , but it was apparent that the judge conld give permission to respectable parties to represent their friends or others who wero prevented obeying

      thesnmmons of the Conrt . The learned judge said that , with the exception of some peculiar cases , it was not his intention to tolerate 'agency . ' This was a general rule ; but there were inshnces where he should allow suitors to be represented . Mr _Reet maintained his position , that a suitor in tke Court , by permission of the judge , could bo heard by his representative . Tke 5 ath , 62 nd , 75 th , and 125 tti _olnnses ofthe Act were quoted during the Mgument . The clauses adjudicated on possessed no feature of any public interest , and the Court adjourned till that day week .

      The _Kmi-dm _Dra-.-The Gazette announces that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty s lreasury having certified to tbe Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt , in pursuance ofthe Act 10 th Geo . IV ., c . 27 . sec . 1 , that the actual expenditure of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof , for the year ended the Sth day of July , 1847 , by the sum of £ 143 , 3923 _i Id , the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice , that no sum will be applied by them on account of the sinkin- 'fund , under the provisions of the said act , between the 12 th day of October . 1847 , and the oth day of January , 1848—S . Hicham , Comptroller-General . —National Debt-office , Oot . 12 , 1847 .

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      _iSnglanrj . WB _9 TH 0 RBUSS . Ratlwat . Accident . —A serious casualty occurred on Monday , about mid-day . on the Lancaster and Carlisle line , close to the Milnthorp station , about seven miles from Kendal . A luggage train from the south was standing at tbe station on tbe downline , when a train laden with cattle , drawn by two engines , came np at a rapid rate , and before warning could be given ran into tbe luggage train , throwing over and smashing the engine , and forcing it some yards off the line . One of the engines of the cattle train was also very much damaged , and tbe stoker so seriously injured , tbat he died shortly after . Three other men connected with the trains were severely , but it is thought not fatally , hurt . Fourteen of tbe bullocks were killed npon tbe _spet , and lay

      among the rains of the tracks in a dreadfully mangled condition . The line presented a sad spectacle , and was completely obstructed for some hours , so tbat two of the trains , both from the north and south , had there to exchange passengers , and turn back again . Itis almost impossible to guess who are the parties to blame . The driver ofthe cattle train states that no signal was hoisted to warn him that a train was upon the _up-line ; and the stationmaster states that it was properly hoisted . Itis said that this luggage train was not in its proper place atthe time ofthe collision , but ought to have been ' shunted , ' so that the line would have been clear . The passenger train from tbe south came np to the spot immediately after the accident . Had it arrived a very short time before , the most serious consequences might have ensued . It was said that this affair would cost the company at least £ 2 . 000 .

      cumberland . The _Rscest Murder—Death of the Murderer . —We last week gave the particulars of the inquest upoa the body of Mary Hanlin , the wife of Peter Hanlin , a travelling potter , who died from certain wounds inflicted on her head by her husband , on Saturday , the 25 th of September . Tbe proceedings , before the coroner , at Carlisle , were not concluded till Friday afternoon , wben a verdict of ' Wilful Murder' was returned against Hanlin . He was at that time in gaol suffering severely from erysipelas , produced by a blow w ' aicb , it was believed , had been given to him by Charles M'Minnis , in a scuffle to

      ascertain which was 'the _better man . ' The symptoms gradually assumed a more dangerous form , and terminated fatally at twelve o ' clock on Saturday—just within a week of his wife ' s death . We now subjoin the conclusion of the inquest on Mary Hanlin ' s body . Tbe room was cleared , and after a consultation of abont ten minntes , thejury returned a verdict to the effect ' that Mary Hanlin died from effusion of blood on the brain , in consequence of injuries inflicted on her head by Peter Hanlin , and that they found the said Peter Hanlin guUtjr ot Wilful Murder . ' The priioner was then committed to gaol for trial on the coroner ' s warrant .

      DURHAM . Extensive Forgeries at Stjsderland . —The 'Newcastle Guardian ' Bays : —Greatsensation has been occasioned in this borough duringthe present week by a report , which has unfortunately proved correct , that Mr J . Humble , a share and ship broker , in a firm , recently dissolved , bas committed forgeries to agreat amount and decamped . Our correspondent states that three or four bills for £ 1 , 000 each have been discounted at Sunderland , which the supposed acceptors bave pronounced fo be forgeries ; and it is rumoured that there are forged bills to the extent of £ 10 , 000 , bnt probably on tbis point it may be found that tbere is some exaggeration . Air Humble is a

      young man , respectably connected , and , we believe , engaged extensively in speculation during tbe railway mania . The ' Durham Chronicle' gives a circumstantial account of the parties who have been defrauded by Humble , and wbe , we may state generally , are his relatives . Jt adds : —There' is too much reason to fear tbat Humble , who is quite a young man . had got some unfortunate connexions with swindlers at a distance , who were victimising and goading bim to his nin . # * A warrant bas been granted for _Hurable ' sapprehension ; bat there is not mucb probability of his being caught , as he bas gone abont a week . It is supposed he has sailed for Monte Video .

      IAKCASHIBE . Broughton Old Hail , near Manchester , was partly destroyed by fire on Saturday morning , and damage was done to the extent of nearly £ 1 , 000 . It was , within a few years ago , the seat of the late Rev . Wm . Clowes , and on bis brother Col . Clowes , the present owner , coming into possession , heremoved ths furniture forthe purpose of subjecting tbe building to some extensive alterations . Owing to tbis circumstance the Iom has been trifling compared witb what it wonld have been if the hall bad been occupied by the family . The hall is situated about two miles from Manchester , and the alarm did not reach the police till some _considerable time bad been lost . The fire was entirely subdued in less than two hours , after destroying a large portion of the roof and ofthe cupola over the south front , besides

      the upper part ofthe grand staircase . As the walls and ceilings were in the course of reoeiving embellishments they also suffered much injury from both fire and water . The enly tenants ot the hall were three grooms , occupying the upper sleeping rooms , Snd they were awoke by a suffocating sensation arising from the smoke . Tliey tried to make their way down stairs by the principal staircase , but finding egress that way cut off , _theye-caped bythe windows npon some scaffolding erected by the bricklayers , and from thence descended by ladders which had been left reared against the scaffolding . The crigin of the disaster is attributed to tbe joiners on the previous night haviDg left r very hot fire in one of the rooms , which had ignited some pegs , the ends of which in one direction communicated with tbe flues , and in the other with the Bkirting boards of the room .

      The Eclipse—The wet , cloudy , and hazy weather which prevailed throughout the greater part of last week , caused a very general apprehension that those who wished to observe the _eebpse on Saturday morning would be disappointed . In this neighbourhood , however , the morning was exceedingly propitious , the atmosphere was clear and unclouded , and the transit of onr satellite across the sun ' s diec waa observed from the moment when the luminary appeared above the horizon to the termination of the eclipse . The Welsh is Manchester and Liverpool . —In Liverpool , there are at present from 40 000 to 50 , 000 Welsh , who are almost all Dissenters . The numerous meeting-houses are crowded to overflowing whilst the only Welsh church in Liverpool is almost deserted . In Manchester the Welsh have no church to resort to , but thousands of the Welsh residing

      there attend dissenting places of worship , where they bear instruction in their own native tongue . The Oldham Bankino Company is understood to bave made a proposal for winding up its affairs , on Saturday , to one of the larger concerns in tbe neighbourhood , and on Monday , at Manchester , the news was current that it had stopped payment . The statement did not create much sensation , it being known to bave done but a limited business . The company was formed in 1836 , when there were about fifty partners ; but , according to tho returns published in February last , the list contained but 33 names . Tbe Bank had no branches , and the capital is said not to have exceeded £ 20 , 000 . The immediate cause of stoppage is understood to have been that they held bills to some considerable amount of De Jersey and Co . ' s npon John Thomas , 803 , and Lefevre .

      YORKSHIRE . Iscesdiary Fire at Clay Wheels It is _ajjain our painful duty to record one of those fires which there appears every reason to regard as having originated in an incendiary act . It took place at what are known as the Clay Wheels , about three miles from Sheffield , near W & dsleyBddge , and situated on the river Don . The _property belongs to II . M . Greaves , Esq ., and consists of four rooms , all on the ground floor , and which are let out to edge tool , table blade , and file _grinders .

      A fatal Case of Pohonixg _, with Prussic acid it te conjectured , has created no trifling sensation in Sheffield . Tu- subjoined particulars _haya been

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      gathered from the evidence taken at the coroner ' s _mquirv .. The deceasedivraa [ aMnamed John Smith , and was employed at the neighbouring pit of Messrs Chambers , NeWtpn , and Co . He resided with his father at the works of Tankersle . On Tuesday _evenisg , between five and " six o ' clock , he returned home , and without asking permission of his mother , drank nearly the whole of the contents of a cup which stood on a table , no doubt being tempted by the smell .: His little sister , scarcely two years of age , then swallowed what _remained of the liquor . Immediately afterwards the lad fell on the floor and was seized with a violent fit . The little girl evinced similar symptoms , though of a lesser degree . Mr

      Campbell , surgeon , was instantly sent for , but by the time he had arrived the youth had expired . The girl was Buffering considerably , and for some time her recovery was deemed doubtful . It appeared fromthe statement ofthe mother of the deceased , that sue had for several -seeks pout beon an outdoor patient of tho Sheffield General Infirmary , and it was usual for the medicine to be supplied her in a bottle . On the day in question she took a bottle with her to the Infirmary . On handing it in it was returned to her empty , and a parcel of medicine in another form waa furnished her . On her way home she called at a publio house on the road leading to the Infirmary , and there purchased sixpenny worth of gin and peppermint ; tbe sign of _thebouso , however , she did not remember . She took a sip of it in the

      house , and the remainder she put into the medicine bottle . On reaching home sbe poured a small portion into a enp , which she intended to drink . She placed the cap on the table , when the deceased came in , and without ashing her sanction took it up and swallowed the contents . —Mr Campbell , the surgeon , in answer to the coroner , stated that from the strong and peculiar smell ofthe small quantity ofthe liquor left in the bottle , he was of opinion it contained prussic acid . He had neither , however , made a post mortem examination ofthe body , nor tested the contents of the bottle , therefore he could not speak with certainty on the subject . — Thc coroner adjourned the investigation , and directed the mother of the deceased to meet him on the following day to point out tho home where she procured the spirit .

      _STAfrORDSHIBE . Am Explosion of Gas , attended with fatal consequences , occurred in the church at Walsall on Sunday night , shortly after the termination of the service , and before the whole of the congregation had departed . For some time previously an escape of gas had been remarked , and on tbis night tbe beadle incautiously proceeded to examine the churchwarden ' s pew , from which it was supposed to proceed , having in his hand a lighted candle . He had scarcely entered before a tremendous _implosion took placethe pews were torn up , tbe fragments of timber scattered in all directions , and the poor man was killed en the spot , bis body having been mangled in a frightful manner . Fortunately no other person was injured .

      SU 7 POIX . Am Attempt to Mubdk * was made at Ipswich a few days ago . The person charged with the t . fftnce is John Nunn . a hawker of fish , residing in Hayward ' _s-yard , Upper Orwell-street . It appears that he went home under the influence of drink , and commenced a quarrel with his wife ; at the same rime ordering her to provide him instantly with supper . The woman accordingly cooked him S 9 me food , to which he sat down , wben a further altercation took place , the result of which was that Nunn rose from his seat and followed his wife to the door . Before she could obtain assistance , with the knife he had been using at table hestabbed her in the neck . He was brought before the mayor , and remanded for further examination . No fatal results are anticipated ; but forthe fact of the woman having drawn back her head at the time ofthe assault , there can be no doubt that the wound would have been fatal .

      BERKSHIRE . ACCIDBM ON THE GREAT Wa 8 IERN RAILWAY . —As one of tbe porters attached to the Reading station was on Friday crossing the line with a box heavily laden on his back , he observed the train coming up , which ha endeavoured to _eseipe , by passing , as he imagined , to the line different from the one the train was traversing ; but , instead of so doing , he took the line on whioh the train was . and was struck , it is supposed , by the buffer of the engine , which came in contact with the box he was carrying . The box was driven forward upwards of thirty yards , and the train passed over both bis legs . The unfortunate man was carried to the Reading Infirmary , where it was found _necessarv to _amputate both his feet above the ankles . Although he is in a very precarious state , hopes are entertained ofhis recovery .

      SURREY . Singular Death . —An inquest was held by Mr W . Carter , at the Black Lion , Kingston , on Saturday evening , on the body of Edward Waller , aged fifteen . Sarah Wood , the first witness , deposed that on Wednesday evening she was in ber own bouse , when she heard his father say , Here are pretty doings ; " and , at tbe same time , there was the sound of blows . She went across , and saw tbe deceased lad who appeared to be very drunk , and his father . The latter bad a small stick in his hand , and struck deceased with it once or twice , but not violently . The father of the deceased said that he had been brought home drank ; and almost at-the same moment the deceased ' s younger brother was also led

      home in a similar condition . She did not see the deceased any more until the next morning , when she found he was dead . —By the Coroner : —The blows given by the father with the stick were not at all violent enes , and could not have inflicted any injury upon the deceased . He appeared lu a helpless state of intoxication . —Martha Waller , a sister of the deceased , deposed to his being brought home in the state described ; and she said that after her father had struck bim two or three blows he desisted , and she then undid the deceased ' s shirt-oollor and laid him on the floor , where he went to sleep almost immediately . She looked at him several times during the night ; he always appeared in a profound sleep , and sho thought it was better not to disturb bim .

      On the following morning one of his companions came to call him to go to work , and , on his raising his bead , be gave a deep sigb and immediately expired . The witness added that her other brother was almost as drunk as the deceased , but he vomited , and bronght a quantity of brandy off bis stomach . —The coroner asked tbe witness why she did not send for a medical man ?—She replied that she did not think there was any dancer , and she considered it the best thing to let her brother sleep away the effect ofthe liquor . —The coroner remarked that tbis was a very erroneous idea , and he said that if the doctor had been called in the life of the deceased would , in all probability , have been saved . —Thos .

      Waller , tbe brother of the deceased , was next examined . It appeared , from his statement , that as an omnibus _« as passing through Kingston a large stone bottle , full of brandy ,, fell from the _rosfand was broken , and the spirit ran into the gutter . The deceased , himself , and some other boys , stooped down and scooped uo the liquor with their hands , and continued drinking it till he and his brotb . fr became quite drunk , and be did not know what further happened . He could not give any idea of what quantity of spirit his brother drank . —The coroner having addressed a few remarks to the jury upon the peculiar nature of the case , they returned a ver dict tbat' _thedeceased died of apoplexy occasioned by ; drinking an immoderate quantity of brandy . '

      _BUSSEXi Collision on the London and Brighton Railway . —A collision of a fearful character between two passenger trains occurred on Saturday morning last , on the London and Brighton Railway , by which several passengers were seriously injured , among whom may be mentioned Mr Wyon , the _medallionist to the Royal Mint , and Mr Driver , the land-surveyor of Parliament-street . It occurred soon after nine o ' clock , at the junction of the Keyroer branch line , situate between Hayward ' _s Heath and Hassock ' s Gate stations , and about nine miles from Brighton . The trains that met with tho disaster were the first down , or parliamentary train , and the morning express train from Hastings , the former leaving Loudon

      Bridge terminus at seven am ., and the latter , Hastings , at twenty minutes past seven . At the junction tbe company havo placed a code of signals , and tho instructions were exceedingly explicit a _< t to trains passing from the braneh on to the main line . Both the trains are due at tbat point near the same time , and the custom is to signal tbe down parliamentary train to wait nntil the express has passed ov < r . It appears , in this instance , that when the parliamentary approached the junction the signal wasTgiven that all was clear , and to goon , and itdid so at the usual speed . On nearing the points , however , the engine-driver perceived the express coming up , the driver of the engine of wbich also laboured under the same _impression as to the signal _indicating all

      clear . The moment they saw their dangerous position the steam was shut off . Unfortunately neither ofthe trains could be stopped in timo to prevent tlie lamentable consequences , awl at the moment of the express crossing the junction it was cut in two by the engine of the parliamentary down train . The crash was tremendous , and the consternation and terror that prevailed amongst the passengers was shockingly painful . From the fact of several of the carriages being partially ! demolished , and others turned on their end , a belief was entertained thnt several of the passengers had been killed . Many of the passengers escaped frem tbo carriages as they could , bleeding from wounds in various parts of

      their bodies . As soon as practicable the guards proceeded to make a careful search of the carriages , and happily _asserlained- that no life had been lost , although most of the passengers were mora or less injured . To these more seriously hurt ilim the rest medical aid was promptly obtained , and as soon as tha trains were extricated , which occupied nearly two hoars , thcy _^ wcre fin-warded to Brighton . Tho accident is to bo attributed , in the first place , to the down-tram being behind time ; the _senond , and the more immediate cause was , the inifliciency ofthe tender-brake . How this inefficiency arose we aro unable to state ; but it is somewhat surprising , 83 the engine was a new one . It waa mado by Haughter wd Co ., of Bristol , and tbo principle

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      _ofapplyinfrtho brakes on their engines of that kind is , weare informed , _somerriw . different to tbat ordinarily in use . HAMP-niRK . _Rodbbrt at WErnui . Fair . —During the temporary absence of the shepherds en Saturday , some persons _dres-ed as sheep-drovers went to the pens , ' containing 102 wether and ewe Jambs , the property of Mr R . B . Hart , of Wisbford , near Salisbury , and drove them away . Up to Monday the stolen sheep had not been traced .

      KENT . Outbade at Chatham . -Tereme Cook and Edward Price , privates in the 63 rd regiment , and William Berwick , a tailor , were brought before the county magistrates , at Rochester , together with William Carson , William Armstrong and Angus M'Lean , Royal Marines , captured since the examination ofthe first three prisoners . The charge against them was for an offence of frequent occurrence lately in the neighbourhood of Ciiaiham . The prisoners forced an entrance into the White Lion publio house in that town , and broke a quantity of glass . _Baing ultimately expelled from the premises , they threw heavy stones through the chamber window in which the wife of the landlord was lying in bed , not having

      recovered from ber recent confinement . One of the _niit-silea , weighing seven or eight pound ' , struck the bedpost , and drove the landlady , with her infant , to a closet for shelter . All the prisoners were lound guilty , and as Captain Barker , the presiding magistrate , observed , there were different degrees of guilt , so the _jourt would award _different degrees of punishment . The judgment , therefore , was that Cook and Price pay a penalty of 40 a ., and lis . Cd . costs each , or to be committed to the House of Correction for two calendar months ; Carson , Armstrong , and M ' Lean 21 s . 6 d . each , or twenty-one days' imprisonment ; and Berwick 163 . 6 d ; , or fourteen days' imprisonment . All the prisoners were removed in custody . )

      Guernsey . Fatal Accidbnt . —On Wednesday last a melancholy event occured at the neighbouring island of Jethou , where Mr Edward Marshal Harris , eldest son of Mrs Harris , of Marshall ' s Royal latch Club Hotel , in this island , was suddenly deprived of life through tbe accidental discharge of his gun . Mr Harris had gone to Jethou in company with Mr Jas . M'Culloch , jun ., forthe purpose of rabbit shooting . Inthe course ofthe afternoon _thrse two gentlemen , and two attendants , were standing on some uneven ground watching some rabbit-holes into whicb ferrets had been sent , when , it is believed , Mr Harris ' s foot slipped , and that in endeavouring to keep himself

      from falling , bo must have struck the but end of his gun on the ground cr against some object , when the piece exploded , and lodged the whel i of its contents in his abdomen , _producingins _' _antaneous death . Mr M'Culloch and the two attendants , whowrre but a few perches from the deceased , hearing the discharge , aid apprehending some accident , immediately ran to the spot where Mr Harris had fallen , and found him a corpse . In the course of the afternoon a boat , which was _ssenpassin- ; Jethou , was hailed , and the remains ofthe deceased _boing embarked in it . were brought to the residence ofhis bereaved and afflicted mother . Mr Harris , who was in his 19 th year , was highly esteemed , and his melancholy end is deeply regretted by all who knew him .

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      _Scotland . _ORE 1 T ELOOD IN TUB TAT . After a drought of ten months , a tremendous stsrm of rain bas vissted this part of the country , The millers thought that it would require a week ' s heavy rain to give them water in quantity to keep their machinery in full operation . Two days have proved more than sufficient for their purpose , as the whole of the mills in tbis neighbourhood have been stopped with the flood . So heavy and so general has been the rain , and the Tay is now at a height which every one , even octogenarians , say hap not been equalled in tbeir day . In 1815 there was a greater nortion of the town under water , but that

      was caused by tbe bridge bein- ; partially closed with large block * of ice . Never , it is thought , has the same quantity of water been in the river ; since Sunday , morning it has risen sixteen feet perpendicular . Those acquainted with tbis locality will have some idea of the effects oi a rise to this extent from the following facts : —The two Inches are wholly oovered , the water being orer tbe parapet walls between the one on the north of the town and Rose Terrace . In the shops in North Port and west end of'Castle Gable , and all the places upon the same level , the depth is about fire ieet . - The Edinburghroad , whidi passes through the . South Inch , being raised twa er three feet above its level , is yet passable , although it also is partially' covered . The

      damage up the country must be tearful . Tbe contractors for the bridges across the Almond and Tay , now constructing for the Midland Railway , must be large losers , as the quantity of wrought timber which has floated past the town is immense . A great number of men have been employed the whole day in catching it in its progress towards tbe sea , and they certainly lave been very successful ; but with all their exertions , what they have brought ashore is not a tithe of what passed them . Carcases of sheep and cattle , trees , stacks , apparently in as good order as they stood in tbe stack-yard , have all been observed in the course of the day in their progress seaward . It

      is also reported that a great number of _Memellogs that were to be used by the Dundee Railway Company in _erecting the bridge across the Tay , have been floated off Moncreiff island . One good effect of tho flood will be to show the engineers what they will hare to provide against in tbe construction of their bridges ; a number of practical men thought that they were not enough alive to the importance of having them of the most substantial description . The water continues rising , and no appearance of it commencing to subside . Parts of the town which it was thought would be safe from all inundation are getting under water by the _burstin _? of tho common sewers . The sunk flats in Rose terrace and

      _Bnrrossa-place are now nearly filled to tbo ceiling . The Blair Atholl coach , which should have reached thi- forenoon , has not yet arrived . It is supposed some of tbe bridges must bavo fallen . The Aberfeldy evening ccach came about an hour after her _tHualtime . Some parts of the road were so flooded that the water covered the seats inside . It is reported that the whole of the scaffolding erected for throwing the arches ofthe bridge across the Tay . at Kinolaven , has been swept away , and that one ofthe piers has gone along witb it . A person ? ays tbat , among other things observed floating past , was tho carcase of ahorse , saddled and bridled .

      ABERDEENSHIRE . Aberdeen . —Extraordinary Birth . —On Sunday last the wife of an industrious man , a patient of the dispensary , _residing in Park-street , with a family of six young children , wss taken in premature labour during an attack of fever , and was safely delivered , within an hour , of three boya , all of whom died in a very short time . The mother is doing well , tlte fever having been immediately cut short on the birth of the infants .

      WICK . Shipwreck at Keiss . —Information reached Wick on Thursday morning that , a large brig had been driven ashore iu tbe neighbourhood oi the old castle of Keiss , a distance of eight miles to the northward of this place . As it was reported tbat themes were clinging tothe wreck , and as there was a strong gale from the E . S . E ., accompanied by a tremendous sea , tbe utmo't fears were excited for their safety . On reaching the spot , the brig was found lying nt a small distance to the northward of the old castle , the sea dashing against her with fearful violence . A largo crowd of persons had assembled , many of them from Wick , to rendsr _assistance ts tbo poor fellows who were placed in such imminent danger . Mr Bremner , civil engineer , had previously arrived , and had , as usual , been exerting himself to rescue the crew .

      A rope communication had been effected between the vessel and the shore , and by means ofa sliding apparatus , similar to ihat of Manby , preparations were being made to take the crew ashore . This we bave great pleasure in statin ? , was accomplished in the most efficient manner . The first who was conveyed to land was an old man , Lowson by name , belonging to Dundee , who had been washed from the _rigein ? , aad was so exhausted that the crow bad to tie him into the cradle . On being landed he and the others were conveyed to the hospitable abode of Mr Iverach , where every attention was paid to them . The poer old man soon after died . The rest of the crew soon recovered their exhaustion . The vessel is the Warrior of Montrose , Captain Mearns , from Riga to Liverpool , with a cargo of railway sleeper ? and is likely to become a total wreck . It is under ' stood that both ship and cargo are insured .

      lanarkshire . Glasgow .--Horrible Treatment 01 ? a Wife by her Husband . —Mrs Fry , the unfortunate woman who was confined for several months in a back closet by her husband , died last week in the Town ' s Hospital . It was arranged that tbe interment should take place on Sunday , nt three o ' clock ; and , a little before that hour , tho husband of the deceased and a few friends arrived at tho hospital , in two mourning coaches , to attend tho remains to the grave-yard . About the same time , however , orders were received from tho Proourator-Fiscal to delay the interment until tho body of the _deceased underwent a medical _examination . _Drs Easton and Mscgregor were appointed to discharge this duty ; but awing to the in which

      secrecy all such inquiries are conducted , ill Scotland , it is impossible to ascertain the particulars of this investigation , or of the previous one which was instituted on this painful case . Great surprise was manifested ? t tho liberation of Fiy on a paltry bail-bond ol £ 15 ; and the decease ot tho unfortunate woman has increased that feclin" to a very uneasy extent . Unless some _circnms ° ta » eo transpired m the course of the examinations which _fwJitf' _-n 8 " K d . _^ _Mm _pfa-ioii from that which it has _awamed in tlio eyes of thc public the acceptance of bail for any amount , and especially iur the small sum ot £ 15 , is certainly a very extra _, ordinary proceeding . We will watch with anxiety the steps which the woman ' s death and tho post morm _cxaaiiflatwni-iay induce _IhecroivnBg-mtolQtake ,

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      The Late RioM : * _i * fhe P _^ _^ J _2 S \ _o evening the 25 th ult .. ' continue to ooeupy attention . The labourat the railway works proceed- P _^ ab ! _f . A large proportion of the workmen have been paid off . and have now left the district . . Nothing as _trarispiredrespectingthe _precedes in T _» e _» _JJ calculated to give any additional information as to the _condnot ofthe individuals who . took a part therein , and the general opinion seems to be that nothing more can be ascertained . The inquiry into tho death of Patriok Cavanagh . who received injuries on the occasion which _cautf d his deatb three days afterwards , has occupied the coroner ' s jury over several meetings . They met on Thursday , Friday _, and Monday nights , and at present the

      inquirystands adjourned till Friday next weeK . ine maeistrates have in the course otthe week been engaged in inquirinj ? into the riots which took place in this town on the " fame evening , and which appear to have been quite distinct and unconnected with the disturbances in Tweedmouth , and seem to have arisen from . an attack upon the railway l _abourers and other strangers , by parties belonging to the town . On Monday and Tuesday the _maRistrates were engaged inquiring into a charge of not , preferred against the following persons , most of whom were brought from tbe jail , having been apprehended and lodged there in the coarse of the two previous days-namely : _AndrowGivens _. -RobertMacfarlane , John Macfarlane . Robert aomerville , jun ., John

      Burns . Hindtmugh , Robert Lyle , James Lyons , William Young , Peter Donaldson , Archibald Johnston , Ralph Knox and Mary Knox . The defendants are all inhabitants of tho town , and with the exception of the two _hst appear under 30 years of age ; Archibald Johnston is only 15 . The charge against them was of tomultuously assaulting , or by their presence aidin " an assault on the evening of Thursday , the 23 rd ult ., on a house in Wallace ' _s-green , tbe property of Mr Johnson IIow . and occupied , as tenant , by one John Kaynes . There were in the house at the time of the assault eight or ten lodgers , strangers travellin- _" . The assault appeared directed against the occupying tenant for having , as was asserted , taken the house orer the head ofthe previous testones and

      nant , and was committed by throwing other missiles into the house upon the inmates , whereby the door and other parts of the house were broken , and the inmates plaeed in bodily fear , so much so , that ( with the exception of two men , who concealed themselves all night underneath a bed ) they sought safety in flight . After hearing evidence the magistrates committed the parties , with the exception of Hindhaugh , Burns , and Lyons , to take their trial at thn ensuing sessions . Mary Knox was liberated on bail , and the _otht-r defendants were sent to prison to wait their trial . The magistrates again met on Wednesday to inquire into a second charge preferred against the greater portion of the persons committed for trial the previous day : this was for the tumult and riot on Saturday evening , Ihe

      25 th ult ., which took place in Chapel-street and in Wallace ' s-green . Thia _charge was preferred _against Robert Maofarlano , Robert Somerville _, Jan ., Robert Lisle , Peter Donaldson , Archibald Johnston . Andrew _Givens , William Young , and Ralph Knox . After hearing ' _evidence the ifurther inquiry was ad * journod till Saturday . Mr White attended the meetings and examined the witnesses in support of tho charges . It may here be remarked , that of the 13 persons charged with the riotous proceedings not one could sign his or her name , a circumstance very discreditable to the education of the town . Peter Hagan was charged with bein * one ' of the rioters at Mr Morris ' s yard in Tweedmouth on the night of " the 25 th ult . The charge was afterwards aban * doned , and the accused was dismissed :

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      _Irrtann . TENANT-RIGHT MOVEMENT . The ' Central Tenant League of Ireland' held a meeting on Sunday , at the League Hall , in ThurJes , county of Tipperary , for the purpose of petitioning Parliament to grant extensive measures bf relief to tha tenants of Ireland . ' The members of this League , it appears , repudiate all connection with the recent _Holycross meeting . Great exertions are made to get up a tenant league movement in the county of Waterford . A meeting is to be held in lulmacfchomas , on the 24 th inst ., ' to secure the rights of the occupying tenant , with due

      regard to the just rights of the landlord . ' It is worthy of note , that tho names ef upwards of fifty Roman Catholic clergymen are appended to the requisition . Mr Sharman Cr . iwford is to be entertained at a public dinner by the tenant farmers of the county of Cork . The Cork Examiner says : — The honourable gentleman is now here on a visit to bis son , who is discharging tbe duties of his office in connection with tbe administration of the psor-law , a _& d tothe satisfaction of all parties . Hr Crawford will remain in this locality for a week . It is his intention to visit the several districts of this country when , distress prevails , and which bavo given a remarkable notoriety to the local hUtory of Cork destitution .

      INCREASE OF DEBTHOTIOH—POOR AATES . From the southern districts along tho coast there aro most afflicting accounts of destitution . Bantry , Skull , Keumore , and Dingle are becoming quite as miserable as they bad been during the general famine . There are local circumstances that greatly aggravate the distress in those places , and the opposition given tothe poor-rate delays anything in the shape of remedy in somo of the districts . At Skull , where a _Bixthef the entire population died off last year , numbers of the poor are now subsisting on cabbages and turnip-tops , and consider themselves fortunate in being able to procure this resource against _starvation .

      In Bantry Union the destitution is nearly as ae ' vere , but the poor-law guardians appear to be acting in a most heartless manner . The following report is a striking illustration ofthe obtacles thrown in the way of the poor-law , manifestly for the purpose of securing the rents ofthe landlords : — Ba . nt & t _Unibn . — A numerous meeting assembled in the board-room on Tuesday , Samuel llutcbins , E _.-q ., J . P _., in the chair , for the purpose of deciding the now universally debated _proposition of _complying with the requirements ofthe commissioners , of striking the 3 s . rate , a compliance with which has been insisted on by them , in this union , aB in others , npon pain of removal . There were also to be hoard , and decided upon , a great number of claims for admission , on tbe part of paupers who bad come from the remote western districts ot Bt rehaven , Kilcaterine , and other yet more distant localities . The day was occupied to a late hour in hearing these cases . . It appeared that in tha middle of the night of

      the previous Saturday , between 200 and 300 squalid , miserable creatures had been landed in Bantry , from boots , which had conveyed them there from Berehaven . _TheR-v . Mr Freeman , B . C . C ., was immedately called up , and , owing to his charitable exertions , lodgment was procured for _somi amongst them , whilst others were obliged to pass the night in the open street , without either food or shelter . When these people applied for admission into tbe workhouse on tbe following morninjr , the master declared _thct ho eould enly admit 100 out of the number , even though all the applicants should be entitled , by the orders ofthe guardians , to be received . Temporary relief , in the way of food , was then _aypVud for them , by tho Rev . Sfr Freeman , from some of the _gnardlans , when it was found that the _poorhoase was so badly supplied as to be unable to furnish it , and the sup . plying of tliose starving , naked , perishing creatures , with even ono meal , devolved _upoa the Rev . Mr Freeman ( but chargeable , we believe , on tbe funds of the union ) .

      The following paragraphs , touching the state of the country , are from the Limerick Chronie _' e , re ceived on Wednesday : — . Friday night a largo Btack of wheat , the property of Sir Thos . B . Dancer , near Cleagh _' ordan , was pullfd , ond a large quantity of the wheet taken off . One hundred yards of fine potato drills , tbo proporty of Thomas Barn « , _E-q ., wero polled on Friday night . Thursday nightlast , the bouse of a poor man , named James _Gleeson , of _Ballyhasty , within half a mile of Cloughjordan , was set on fire by an incendiary , and were it not tbat his wife perceived the flames issuing through the roof , the family would have been burned to ashes . On the same night a honse belonging to a man Ol thc name of Bolton was maliciously set on firo and consumed . .

      A mau named Timothy Hanly , care-taker to Hon . Mrs Otwny Cave , was shot dead on Thursday night , in his bedroom in one of tbe out offices at Castle Oiway , Tipperary . Hr Qubbins , of Kenmaro Castle , placed two keepers over the crop of a tenant named Carroll , near Hospi . tal , who owed over two years' rtnt , und was making off the crops by _ni-bt . Thc keepers wore walking on the road a little after six o ' clock , when two shots were fired at them from inside the ditch ; one of them received a bulletin the back part of tbe head , whicii has beea ex . tracted , and there are bow hopes of his recovery—the second roan escaped , a ball having passed through the skirts of his coat . Tho keepers returned the fire , but with what effect is unknown .

      MrR . Young , of _Clonsingle , near Newport , distrained some corn for rentoa Wednesday , and prepared to sell but was deterred b y a multitude of countrvmen armed ' who kept firing shots during tho night , to deter any per ! son buying the _produce . It is said that one of the first measures proposed by the ministry , on tho assembling of thenew Parliament , will be a bill , based on tho proposition of Mr Manor , M . P _., at the Cashel lueetiDg .-namoly , to make the possession of aims by unlicensed persons m 1 miliotable offence . Mr Maher , though opposed to what are called Arms Bills , * is of opinion that

      offensive weapons , and more especially firearms , are too generally held by the peasantry . How tar Mr Maher _s proposition is practicable—to say nothing of tl ; o gross violation of constitutional principle which it involves—will probably be fully discussed hereafter ; but it is cleav from the reception given to it by Lords Suirdale , Glengall , Ilawardeu , and others , that it found ereat favour with the Tipperary gentry . The Quarter Sessions Justices invariably refused to register the arms of the small farmers under * the Arms BiU ; ' and to that fact may , in a gvea . t measure be attributed the indiscriminate

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      ¦ arming of the peasant !/ , on _* « wra _« ion of i unconstitutional measure . Should Mr M _antf _, _^ _gestion bo adopted , it is m we than likely the p » i i of granting and refusing _licenses wonld be _commit I to the same hands , in which . case the hew m _^ licence would be as much _abojedaithe old _sy _^ of _registration . SHOCKING ACCIDB . _VT . The Newry Telegraph announces the psrtiaJ d » . traction of _Liscannon _Cantle , by gunpowder , and tbn death of Mrs Macartney , the wife of tbe * From all tbat can be learned of this _temWe ereatit a ppears that Mr Macartney had , in one of hi- _> lars , a number of casks of gunpowder , forthe •» _, _„ ; tho in which he held a commission , g . _^^ _j _^ _T-T _^ . , „„_»« v . on tne ezoirarmn . » .. _^

      yeomanry , was examining the powder , under tte _impngfa that it had caught damp , and had left Mrs Macart . ney with a lighted candle in the vault or pa 3 ? a- contai-ing the gunpowder , un il he could examine it outside . By what means the casualty took p ] - _^ may never bo known ; but he had sea-eely' _Uft tl _, castle when a tremendous explosion occurred , whi ch blew out the whole frontage of the mansion , and ia . stantaneously deprived Mrs Macartney of life . Mrs Macartney was a member of [ thei * ' / gate family , of Filgate Lodge , B . ilbriggan . We have heard , from _g friend , that the body was absolutely blown into frag . ments . By her decease , it is said , £ 5 , 000 a-year passes from tke Macartney family .

      Attempt Of Twenty-S1x Convicts To Break ...

      ATTEMPT OF _TWENTY-S 1 X CONVICTS TO BREAK OUT OF _MAHYBOROUGH GAOL . On Thursday week , about half . _past five o ' clock in the evening , twenty . glx prisoners , under sentence of trans . portation , endeavoured to effect the ' r escape from the gaol of Ifaryborough . The following are the _circuta . stances connected with the attempt •—It seems th & t several _pri-oners were returning to their re-pective yards from _nchool , when those belonging te No . 3 class , twenty , six in number , _aeixed their turnkey , _deprl-ed Mm of tbe key , ond then locked _hiin up in the _wa-hroom _. Another turnkey , who came into the ward at the time , was aUa locked up . The prisoner * , who were all con . vieu . armed themselves with * tono hammers , aad two

      of them inserted a couple of shoemakers' knives on long _polsi , so as to render them available like pikes . Hav . in )* opened the gate of their class , Ihey proceeded to lh » _adjolniag one , Ne . 2 in whieh was the prison _foige _. Here they _pos-f tsed themselves of the hammers of the smithy , and sallied down towards tbe visiting jrato en masse . The governor ( Mr 'Wilson ) happening to per . ceive them , ru & fced through them and reached the gate , when about ono . hal' of them had passed it . He , after a _struggle , succeeded in shutting the gate , when oae of the party iotide aimed , through tha bars , a blow of the hammer at his h » ad , which eut the leaf of his hat , aad at the same time shattered tbe hand of another convict , who was striving to force the gate . The gate being locked , these inside retired , as if to their class , but m

      reality with intention to release the prisoners of the other classes . Tbe party that had _passed the visitors' _gata now rushed towards that whioh commuuicates with thporter ' s lodge an ;* , the residence of th « deputy governor _. Among these were James Dillon , _eharged witb _murd _** , bat sentenced to ten _jvars' transportation for cow steal . Ing ; the three men under sentence for the attack on Mr _Cullen's house , nsar Mountrath ; and John O'Brien , nnder sentence for hulglary at Munay , near Stradbally _; The turnkey , Henry Dawson , who was going his rounds at the time , ran to the alarm-bell , when he saw the pri . soners , bat one of them caught his bands , and attempted to brain him with a stone-hammer . Having extricated himself from the fellon ' s grasp U " . ran to the gate _wheia Dillon was smashing at tbe lock with a heavy sledge ,

      and another man ready to _plasge the long knife on the pole through the bars . At tbis juncture the gate-keeper Thomas Pratt , came out with a yun , an & discharged it at Dillon , when he and his party tell back for a moment or two ; but no wound being inflicted they returned to the attack . In the meantime Mr Lewis , tho deputy governor , handed Henry Davis a gun with a fixed bayonet through the bars , and proceeded to load other fire-arm } for himself and Pratt . Dawson next presented bis gun at Dillon , but misfired . Dillon flung by the sledge snd took to his heels , while O'Brien rusbed in on _Dawsoa with intent to disarm him . While attempting te Oo so

      the latter stabbed him three times with tbe bayonet . This so disheartened the desperadoes that Dillon called thera off , sajing at the same time it was ' no go . ' Ia the meantime the governor had all the other turnke-s collected , and succeeded in getting the prisoners into their classes . They were _subsequently placed in irons . O'Brien ' s wounds were dressed by Dr Jacob . They are not mortal > and though labouring under acute pain , he _strears he will not leave the _priton until he bas some person ' s life . The whole occurrence did not occupy more than eight miuates . The Sheriff investigated tbe case , and is of _epinion that co blame can be attached to any ofthe officers ofthe prison .

      Murder Of A Wife By Her Husband. Bibmino...

      MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND . BiBMiNOHAH . —One of the most atrocious murder ! Which bas been committed in this tann for man ; vears past , took place on Tuesday , and has caused a great sensation in the immediate locality of the violence . Tha murderer U a _maa narasd Davies , a _boarding-houetkeeper , who resided in Moor-street , opposite the Police Office—tbe victim his own wife . For a long time past D . _ivies and the unfortunate woman lired npon wretched t ; _rms _, and bis violence was such as to cause her to summon him twice before the magistrates for ill-treat _, ment to ber . A few days ago he was to have appeared again before the justices , hut a fair-week coming on his wife did not press the charge , in consequence of the injury which sbe knew they must sustain in their _bvuinesi

      by rach unseemly litigation . It seems , however , ber in . dulgenco had little or no _effect npon Davies , and he con . tinued to beat and ill-use her until the was obliged to renew her application to the magistrates , and on Satur . day an officer from the court was sent to his house aad gare him notice tbat he must appear on Tuesday to answer any complaint which his wife might prefer against him . On receiving the notice , Davies said to the officer , 'I will warrant her , ' or words to that effect . From that time ha was very violent towards his wife , feat nothing material occurred until thnt morning , when he termi . nated her existence . It seems he rose rather earlier than usual , and was aware thathe had to appear _bekrs the magistrates at eleven o ' _ciock , be went between nine and ten o ' clock to the house of bis brother-in-law , a

      respectable shoemaker in the nsighbouthood , aad asked him to interfere with his wife and prevent her from going before the magistrates . His brotherin-law said he could not inter / ere any more —• that he had dono > o many times , that he had beea bail for him , and all to no purpose , and he would not have anything more to do wish him . Davies soon after returned home , , ' and began to attend apparently to his business . About half . past ten o ' clock his wife was washing her hands in a vessel in the _brewhouse , before going to the public effice , to appear against him , and a woman named Eliza Yarnell was sitting pnpariHg po . tatoes for dinner , in the same place , when Davies entered the brewhouse and _beyan to peel some potatoe _* . Ha then _stooa up and near to his wife , end asked her not to appear against him . She said sho would , and lie again said she must not ; but she repeated what she had aaid , or similar words , upon which Davies , _standiog with bis

      Uft side towards htr , leaned across as if to kiss herbat iustead of doiag so , said , with an oath . « You shall not go ; ' and , di awing a sharp case _knifj across her throat , completely separated the jugular vela , and walked away . The unfortunate woman rusbed out of tbe doer covered with her gore , and fell at her full length on the pavemmt the _momi-nt she g « t outside . The woman Yarnell immediately went out and called 'Murder . The neighbours came In , and Bichard Bingloy and another officer ran over from . tho _lork-up , and seiied Davies , who , it _s-emed . had remained motioiiloss . Mr M'Pherson , surgeon , _nas prompt in attendance , and Mrs Davies waj removed up stairs , but life wai extinct , the nature of the ivound having rendered immediate death inevitable . Davies , on being eonveyed to the pri * son opposite his own house , said , ' I did not do it , ' and this , observation he continued to make , until lodged in the cell in the custody of an officer .

      An _iuquest was hold on Tuesday afternoon , when the following evidence was adduced : —Eliza Yarnall , acharwoman , stated that she had worked _f-r the deceased eighteen months ; that she had a family of three children ; and that she « as at her house on tbo morning of the murder . At the time she went in the prisoner Varies was there , and one of bis children : tba former was peeling potatoes , and bis wife washing herself . He pressed her no ; to appear against him before the magistrates for the assault be Lad committed upon her . She refased to listen to his entreaties . The deceased , in the meantime , went to the sink to wash her hands , alter which Davies went up to ber and said , ' Mary , do you intend to go V to which sho replied , ' If Gad spare me I will . ' The prisoner stood near her with his left hand _raised to put over her shoulder , as if to kiss her , while ho had the knife in his band . It was customary for him after _ill-usiug her to kiss her , aud it was witness ' s impression that ho was going to do so on this

      occasion . Alter uttering some threat , witness observed i a gush of blood flow from tha throat of the deceased , j but bad not obsorved Davies u < e the knife , althoug h she I was certain that _deceased could not have dono it hor- : self ; thero was a struggle bptiveen the tiro . Witness > ran into the street , and deceased called out , ' Murder ! he has cut my throat ! ' ; Shc ran out of the house . and f * H . Tbe priioner then threw down the knife— _s put his hands iuto his pockets , and stood with his bsck i to tho fire , with apparent unconcern . Thc evidence o » : other witnesses was similar in its purport . Tho stir- _i _geon deposed to the cff . ct that the wound inflicted upon > the deceased was six or seven inches long and tbre 8 _,, deep : that It passed thraugh the windpipe , and divideu ' all the blood-vessels and nerves on the rig ht aid " , ii touching tne vertebras until it approached the rig ht ear , 9 where it terminated . The inquiry oceupii d tour hours 1 u and at the _conclusion tlio jury returned a verdict 0 t ' Wilful murder' against Davies .

      Latts'c Quantities Of Carrots Have Latel...

      _Latts'c quantities of carrots have lately _basi * in 1 1 ported into Lindon from Harve and other r _* en ,: K ! t ports . , An American paper states tbat a clerk in a _naN" is ware store , in Cincinnati , lately put a hunureo _»» . fifty dollars in a teakettle for safe keeping . » " ' while I 19 was out , the master sojd [ hi J ... " * * * _86 _Yenty-fiYec-mt 3 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16101847/page/6/