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      _Hsu-ravo"" ? Loxdoh _Dunmof-the _fWsEK . ' _-i . The _, increase of . mortality , noticed . in the previoiisfweek ; is still apparent to nearly the samef _, ex & rit 7 iii . the -week ending last Saturday . ,- The _deaths _regUtared in the metropolitan districts , " which * in " the two preceding weeks were resMcdyel y' 8 _loand 79457 humbered last week 921 . In . the corresponding weeks of the ten years ( 1 S 40-9 _) _theaverage was 9 G 3 , which , " jf raised In tbe ratio of supposed increase of population , becomes 1 , 051 , and shows » differ 6 neB _ in favour of last week to the amount pf , 130 . Tbe mortality from pneumonia ( or jnflamffiation ofthe lungs ) and asthma nearly equals the a _™ _-rag _<* , while that from bronchitis exceeds it ; and , though

      the deathB from all diseases are diminished , as compared with last week ' s return , those from that Class Of complaints of which the above are the most important hive increased For , » _^ _PM _^ ing w _£ k , the deaths from diseases «> f the respiratory organs were 138 , last week they were 171 . But it will & seen that p hthisis ( or consumption ) , » hieh las this year been less f atal than usual , is not included in the Observation ; for while in the previous ¦ week it was fatal in 112 cases , last week there were only 93 , a considerably less number than in any of the ten corresponding weeks in 1 & 40-9 , when they ranged between 107 and 13 S . The present time se _? ms to be unfavourable to the health of the aged , but more propitious to the young . Eleven children died of small-pox , besides a man who had nearly

      attained the age of 60 ; 33 of measles , 23 of hooping cougb , 33 of scarlatina , 7 of croup . Fever is now the epidemic which is most _propuctire of fatal results ; _but week 55 persons , of whom about a half were of middle age , were its victims . In connexion with various deaths from fever , the registrars call attention to local nuisances ; but the following casi whieh occurred in "Wild-passage , St . Giles , is specially worthy of notice . The child of a labourer died there on the 3 rd of this month from typhus , making the third death , which , according to tbe Statement of the mother , has taken place amongst Ier children , in the same house , within six months . Ia the dwelling ( added the informant ) there is a constant and intolerable smell from the drains . Thc death of a boy , aged twenty-two months , is registered as caused by " typhus i loss of blood from the throat , by leeches . " Fatal cases of diarrhoea

      and dysentery do not exceed 20 ; and the following is the only instance in which cholera is mentioned : —At 6 , Pitt-street , Si . _George's-road , the son of a shoemaker , aged ten months ; died of "fever ( two days ) infantile cholera ( twelve hours . ) " The deaths of three persons are ascribed directly or indirectly to intemper ance ; and that of a woman in Jenring _' s-buildings _, Kensington , to want and exposure . The births of S 31 boys and 72 G girls were registered in the week . At the Iloyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean reading of the barometer on Saturday was 30 * 194 inches ; tha mean ofthe week was 29 941 inches . Themeandailytemperaturevaried little during the week , and was throughout higher than the average of each day . The mean of the week was 50 * 2 " , which is about 4 ° higher than the average of the same week , derived from the observations of seven years . The wind was generally in the south-west .

      FXTtSSIVB CONFLAGRATION AT Beptfobd . —On Saturday morning last , a fire broke out in Deptford , wbich injured the premises of Mr . Palmer , a grocer , No . 16 , Broadway ; those of Mr . Kenward , a linendraper , No . Id ; and the building numbered 17 , in the same thoroughfare , occupied by Mr . Peat , a cheesemonger , burning most furiously . Tbe fire at one period assumed such an alarming aspect that the occupants of the houses some distance off commenced removing their goods to a more distant place for protection . At length , however , owing to the exertions of all parties , the fire was extinguished , but not until a serious amount of property was destroyed .

      Extensive Fish . —At a few minutes before two o ' clock on Tuesday morning , the neighbourhood of Great Russell-street , Bermondsey , was thrown jnto great confusion , through a fire breaking out in a range of premises belonging to Mr . Harredine , a rag merchant , in Butler _' s-walk , _Bermoudsey-strett . which extended into Bins Anchor-place , the whole being of great magnitude , and which was adjoined by the premises belonging to Mr . . Murrall , a straw merchant _, the national schools , and several other erections used for private and manufacturing purposes . Numerous engines of the London Brigade and West of England Company speedily arrived , and plenty of water having been procured , the whole force was brought to bear upon the conflagration , but it was nearly three o ' clock before the mastery over the fire coild be obtained .

      The Lite _Bubglaby is the _Eegext _' s Pahs . — On Monday morning the four men , John Mitchell , _Willi-un Dyson , James Mahon , alias Hollinsdale , and William Robinson , all of whom were under remand upon tbe charge of burglary at the mansion of J . Holford , Esq ., Holfora-house , Regent ' s Park , were brought up at the Marylebone Police-court . The perforated hat was called for by the magistrate , who directed that Drage , 1 > , should place it on the head of Mitchell . This was done by the officer , and oh his being asked by Mr . Bronghton if it fitted , he replied that it did . —Mr . Wakefield examined ; Remembers Mitchell being brought to the House of Detention on remand . lie was severely wounded in the leftside with numerous small _shots , extending f om the hip to the head , and ths wounds

      were covered with poultices , which were removed by the warder . There is no doubt in my mind as to their being shot wounds . Since he has been nnder my care no shot 3 have come away from him that I have seen . There are , in my opinion , some under the surface of the skin now . There were several shot in the nape of the neck , and several under the scalp . ( Tbe riddled hat was here shown to Mr . Wakefield . ) llad seen it to day for the first time . The marks appear to me to be caused by shot . Some of the shots which passed through the bat would have produced the wounds in the scalp thathe had stated .. The prisoner is a great deal better . He had at one time a bad abscess , whicb las now nearly healed . —He has been most severely wounded ; and , to the best of my belief , he has received altogether as many as 60 or 70 shots , most of

      them in the arm . —Mr . Bronghton ( to Mitchell ) : Do you wish to ask this witness any questions ? Mitchell : No , yonr worship . —Mr . Broughton : Does either of the prisoners wish to say anything ? Mahon : Yes , I wish to ask—but , suddenly stopping , he said—I ' ve taken a second thought , I won t aBk it now . —Mr . Fell , the chief clerk , then read over the depositions taken from time to time in this case . —Mr . Broughton ( to the prisoners ) : Having heard the evidence , do you wish , either of you , to say anything ? You are not obliged to do so , but whatever you do say will be taken down , and may be used aga _nstyou at your trial . —The prisoners replied that they had nothing to say . —The magistrate discharged Robinson , at the same time saying that he had had a most narrow escape . He hoped that he

      -would now see the necessity of quitting evil companions , aud doing all in his power to obtain a living in a honest and respectable way . Mr . Broughton added , that he should send the other three prisoners for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court , upon what he considered to be as clear evidence as ever went before a jury . —The _prisoners were then removed from the bar , and Mitchell , Dyson , and Mahon were locked up . Thebecest Loss of Four Lives oh the River . —On Monday Mr . C . C . Lewis , the coroner for Sjnth Essex , resumed an inquiry atthe Bell and Anchor Inn , Plaistow , respecting the death of William

      John Luck , aged twenty-five , who with three others W 83 drowned , by a boat in which they were coming in collision with the Duke of Cambiidge ( Cork ) steamer , on the morning of the 17 th ult . The evidence adduced was of a very contradictory character , one class of witnesses affirming that the accident -croald not have happened if there bad been a proper look-out op board the steamer , wbile the other tide were of opinion that the boat was managed recklessly , sad as if the men in her -were bent on destroying _ibem = elves . After half an hour ' s consideration the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Wm . John Coe , the pilot who bad charge of the Duke of Cambridge at tbe time ofthe accident .

      _Accidest at _Westminster-bridSe . —On _Saturday Ja > t , an accident , by which the lives of several parsons were jeopardised , took place at Westminster bridge , steam-boat pier , during tho time thc Lord Mayor was going on board the City barge after leaving Westminster HalL The civic functionaries were in the act of getting into the state _barge 3 when the rush of people on to the steamboat pier became so great that tbe whole structure became densely packed . At the end of the steps of the bridge a stage between twenty and thirty feet long was thrown over the river to one of tho dummies , and although the crowd were Warned of the danger they exposed themselves to by standing on tbat portion of the structure , yet they refused to move . Owing to the : weight on it one of tho _bs-rms broke , and the occupants were precipitated into the mud . Several were severely bruised , and a child belonging to Mr . Yacher , the law stationer , of P . irliament-street , unfortunately got its leg broken .

      Supposed _Sincnre ox thk South Western Railway . —On Sunday night , about ten o elook , a young man named Gwynn , a bookbinder , and living with his father , in Stewart _' _s-lane , Battersea-fields , was hurrying home , and to shorten the distance was in the act of crossing the railway , which is contrary to tlie rales Of the company , when he saw a _respectable _looking man lying with his legs _acrass the Windsor and Richmond up line ; he went to him , _sunposing he was asleep , but finding that he was W 6 eding . and apparently dead , he ran home to his father , who returned with him to the line , and also a constable of the V division , and they toget her _carru-d him to Mr . Smith ' s , the Two Brothers Ta-¦ vern _. inthe _^ ew-road . Mr . Clay , the surgeon , waa soon in attendance , and such assistanee as he requ _i red was afforded by Mr . Smith , but it wa « soon _discoverefs tbat the unfortunate man was beyond

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      assistance in this world , a frightfully lacerated wound , seven inches in length having beenmade _nVhis right side , which exposed the liver and there was also a contused wound , over the right temple . Tbelegspf the : deceased , as also his arms , were free from injury , clearly showing that he had been thrown by the guard attached to ' one of the engines from off some of-the other metals ,-and that this was ho doubt the fact may be . conjectured from the circumstance of two up trains _passsing , one on the South Western line and the other oh the Windsor line , only a minute prior to the young man Gwynne _crossinj _* . The face and hands of deceased were cold , but the body was described as quite hot , proving that he had not long met with his death . There

      was no hat found , and on him was only one _psnny , a comb , and penknife . He remained undentified until Monday night , when Mr . Rowe . and his wife recognised the body as that of Mr . Robert Hancock , who with his wife , had resided -at their house in _Vauxhalbstreetfor some months past ; he stated that he was brother-in-law to Mr . Gooch , the late superintendent of the locomotive department-on the . South Western Railway , and that the deceased had been an assistant under him . On the opening of the Windsor line , the deceased had the management of the locomotive department at Windsor , but was compelled to relinquish the appointment from b .-coming deranged . He had been under control foi some time , and it was anticipated be would

      have recovered ; but of late he had become very desponding . On Sunday evening deceased was out with his wife walking , and she left him at Vauxb . nl ' , between eight and nine o ' olock . It is stated that the deceased was much reduced , though at one period possessed of large means . The Fatal Steamboat Collision on the River . —On Tuesday Mr . W . Carter resumed an inquiry , which occupied the whole day , at the Angel , Platform , Rotherithe , on view of the body of Charles Cooke , one of the fou * unfortunate fellows who were drowned by the boat in which they were coming in collision with the Duke of Cambridge ( Cork ) steamer . It may be stated that these proceedings were opened previous to those before tbe

      Essex coroner , which concluded on Monday in a verdict of manslaughter being returned against William Coe , the pilot who was said to have had charge of the steamer . The same witnesses being examined as were called at the former investigation , and it being _Bworn positively by several parties employed on tbe river that the deceased rowed the boat athwart the steamer ' s bows , and that the engines were stopped , tbe coroner summed up , and desired the jury not to be guided by what had taken place elsewhere , but solely by the evidence that had been adduced before them . After about a quarter of an hour ' s consultation , they returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " adding that they had not the slightest doubt in coming to that conclusion .

      The Charge against Mr . Sirrell . —On Tuesday the property , which was of considerable value , taken by the police from Mr . Sirrell's premises in Barbican pending the charges made against him at the Mansion-house , was returned by order of the police commissioners , Immediately after the discharge of Mr . Sirrell on Thursday week on the several London charges made against him , Messrs . Lewis and Lewis , his solicitors , made application to the commissioners of police for the restoration of the property seized , which led to an interview between Mr . J . G . Lewis and Mr . Mayne , the chief commissioner , and the result was , that the Immense property , except some few articles for which parties had applied for , was on Tuesday brought back from

      Whitehall to Mr . Sirrell ' s premises in Barbican . Arrival of _Cardinal Wiseman in London . — The newly-appointed Romish Archbishop of Westminster arrived in London from Ostend , at half-past four on Monday morning , by the South Eastern Railway , and proceeded to his residence in Golden-square . The cardinal left Liege on Sunday . The cardinal ' s arrival at this moment was kept so profound a secret , and was so little anticipated , that wben he reached town , the mansion that is being fitted up for him waB still in possession of the workmen . Shocking Suicide _* —About twelve o ' clock on

      Monday night a young woman precipitated herself from the first recess on the Surrey side of Blackfriarsbridge , and , striking with great violence against one of the buttresses , dashed in her skull and rebounded upon the causeway . The sound of her fall attracted the notice of two constables , wbo ran down and raised her , but after groaning heavily once or twice she expired , and was conveyed to Cbristchurch deadhouse . She was apparently about twenty-six years of age , short in stature , fair complexion , light brown hair , teeth much decayed , and had on a brown cotton dress witb white stripes , _alate-coloured shawl with red stripes , and a straw bonnet with brown ribbons .

      Thb Proposed Park for Finsbury . —Last week the Commissioners of Woods and Forests ( who , by the last returns , have a cash balance in hand of £ 171 , 306 lis . 6 d . ) completed the purchase ofthe Red House , Battersea , and have given directions for Battersea-park to be proceeded with . They have also manifested a laudable interest and concern for the healthful recreation ofthe 30 , 000 inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury , comprising the squalid masses of Saffron-hill , St . Luke ' s , and Clerkenweil . The proposed park for Finsbury has occupied their serious attention ; and the committee appointed atthe aggregate meeting , held in Sadler ' s Wells Theatre have resumed tbeir labours .

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      Belmoxt House Bdbxt . —Tbis , a large mansion at Poetswood , near Southampton , was burnt to the ground on Saturda 7 night last . It was built on what is called the Portswood estate , the properly of George Jones , Esq ., a gentleman of large pro - petty near Liverpool . Belmont House was built several years ago , and was never inhabited . It contained large stores of grain and other farm produce when tbe fire took place . Amongst these stores the fire was first discovered , and is supposed to have originated in spontaneous combustion . A number of engines were soon on the spot , but not a drop of water could be found , and the fire waa allowed to

      take its course . Some sappers and miners from the Ordnance-map-office entered the mansion while it was burning , and attempted to save some of the produce , but they failed in effecting their purpose . The Poisoning at Coxiscliffe Moor House . — _Dablisgton . _Xov . 8 . —The mystery in which tbe circumstances connected witb the death of Mr . G . Young remained involved at the conclusion of the last inquiry , has been considerably removed by some additional evidence which has just transpired . Mary Cleasby , keeper of the Conisdiffe Toll-bar , has made tbe following statement , which was taken down in writing at tbe time , by the medical gentleman to whom it was communicated : — " On the Friday week before tbe death of Mr . Young he called at the gate ,

      and after some talk he asked for a pot to get a drink from the pump . I gave bim a glass , and I then , through a small window , saw him at the pump take a paper from his waistcoat pocket and put some white powder from the paper into the glass ; be put back the paper , folded , into his waistcoat pocket . I thought it was one of those boiling soda powders . He next began to pump , when I called through the window that be bad better pump off the warm water which was in the pump first . He seemed startled when I spoke , but did as I told him , and having got tbe water he turned his face from tbe window and appeared to drink , aud then threw away what was left in the glass . He then sat down on the stone at the doorand he had not sat a minute when his

      , colour turned pale , and I said Mr . Young , you don ' t seem well . He said , no , not very well . He then got up and walked homewards , but stopped when he had gat about sixty yards , and leaned upon his stick , and threw up . He then walked on , and again stopped wben he bad gone as far again , and threw up ; after that he turned into the lane that leads to his house , and I lost sight of him till he came into the field bevond . In walking up there 1 saw him stop thrice and lean on his stick , so that I thought he was throwing up again . After I lost sight of him , I took the glass , and saw at tbe bottom some of the

      white powder , so I took some water to rinse out the glass , and threw it into the fire ( the water and powder ); it turned the coals black at first , as water does , but when it burnt up the coals burned with a blue flame . " The white ponder described seems to correspond in every particular with arsenic . The absence of fatal results at that time is accounted for by the immediate and repeated vomitings . The discovery of these circumstances tends materialJ _*/ to remove the suspicion attaching to deceased's widow , and strengthens the opinion that the poison from whicb death ensued bad been taken by deceased himself . - _ _

      Thb Robberies from the Leeds Post-ofMCE . — Oa Saturday and Monday last John Warren and Hannah Leonard were further examined before the Leeds magistrates on charges of robbery of letters and monev from the Leeds post office . The evidence did not affect the woman at all , and she was discharged , but the male prisoner was committed for trial on three charg es of robbery—one of a bill of exchange for £ 74415 s ., another of a post-office order for £ 5 , and the other of a banker ' s check for £ 50 lis . 3 d . He was also committed for forgery and uttering forged documents in order to get the respective sums of money in each _^ case . He was further committed for trial for stealing a watch from a temperance coffee-house , and was remanded on three or four charges of stealing railway dividend warrants and letters sent through the post-office . These latter charges , like the former ones , also involve forgery and uttering forged documents .

      Election of Mayor at Hull . —On Saturday Mr . T . W . Palmer was unanimously re-elected to the office of Mayor of this town . After the alderman-jo gowns had been conferred on Saturday last , Dr . Sandwith , after expressing his great delieht at _Lwd John Russell s letter in answer to the Pope ' s pretensions to these realms , moved the following resolution : — ' That this Council beg to tender to Lord John Russell their thanks f or bis able and spirited letter to the Lord Bishop of Durham , ana their ad-

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      miration of the position which , as ,. First Minister of the Crowri . be has assumed , in reference to the recent attempt of the Pope to detract from the dignity of the throne of these realms . " _< The motion was unanimously adopted . A _Novsunx . —At the Bristol Police Court on Tuesday , the jurisdiction , of which extends , over 200 , 000 inhabitants , there was not a _Bingle entry on the police charge sheets ..- The circumstance was noticed' in terms of commendation by the magistrates present . .

      . " Fire ; and Loss of * Life at Rochester . — On Monday evening- shortly after * nine o ' clock , an alarming fire broke out at the residence of Mr . R . Homan , on St . Margaret ' s Bank , "Rochester , and which unfortunately resulted in loss of life . It originated in a bedroom in whioh an infant was asleep , and appears to have been caused by the curtains of the bed taking fire through the incautious act of the servant , who , on discovering the danger , ran to a front window and gave the alarm , and from which she escaped ; the child being suffocated before assistance could be rendered . The fire made rapid progress , and , although but a short time elapsed before the engines arrived , owing to the want of water , it speedily communicated to the _adioininir

      houses , and threatened destruction to a large amount of property . A messenger w as des patched to the barracks , and , with their usual promptness , the military were on the spot . By this time a supply of water was obtained from the breweries ot Mr . Shepherd , Mr . J . Hulkes , and Colonel Best ; Aided by the soldiers , every effort was made to stay the devouring element , but ifc waa not stopped until the house in whioh the fire originated , and the two adjoining ones , were destroyed , and one or more materially damaged . Much of the furniture was saved ; but , owing to the confusion and alarm which prevailed , it was , of course , considerably injured . The fire was got under about twelve o ' olock . The buildings destroyed were all insured in the Sun Fire-office .

      Suspected Murder in Kent . —Mrs . Sarah Bates , aged sixty-seven years , the keeper of a small Chandler ' s shop , in East Peckham , was found on the evening of the 7 th inst ., at about half-past five o ' clock , lying dead behind her counter , with her throat out , apparently by a large bacon knife , which was l y ing near her . Her nephew came home at tbe above hour , and not finding her , went up stairs to change his dress , in order to go to an evening school , when he missed some clothes and four shillings out of his box . Another lad called on hiin , and they were shutting up the . shop , when they found the aunt ' s body as above described . She had then been dead some time . She had been seen alive by a female neighbour at about three o ' clock , when she said she was not fit for work , burst outcrying ,

      and asked her to go in . She seemed to have been drinking , to which she was somewhat addicted . She was also seen by another neighbour at about five , at her back door , swaying to and fro , with her arms folded . When found , her hands were much cut , and there were . marks of blood as if she had passed along the counter whilst bleeding , and had stood and bled at a different spot from that where she was found . The place did not appear to have been robbed , and the sum of £ 2110 s . was found in one of her boxes . —An inquest was held on the following day , before J . N . Dudlow , Esq ., when Mr . Biggendes , surgeon , stated it to be his opinion that the wounds could not have been inflicted by herself . —The jury returned a verdict that "deceased had been found dead with her throat cut , but whether or not by her own act there was no evidence to show . "

      Incendiarism in South Hants . —Several acts of incendiarism have recently been committed in the neig hbourhood of Fareham , near Portsmouth . At the last meeting of the Fareham bench of magistrates a man named Wheeler , a tramp , was committed to the assizes for trial , for feloniously sotting fire to a stack bf wheat , the property of Mr . J . G . Martin , of Cams Farm , near Fareham . On Monday morning last , about half-past seven o ' clock , a wheat rick , in a field between Fareham and Stubbington , belonging to Mr . John Whettern , was set on fire by an incendiary and completely destroyed . It contained nine loads" of threshed wheat , The perpetrator of the crime has not yet been discovered . The Leeds _Post-offce Robberihs . —The young

      man , John Warren , was agajn arraigned on Wednesday before the borough magistrates ) and several additional _oharges of purloining letters from the post-office were proved , and he was further remanded for the proof of additional charges . The cases on Wednesday were very clear against hira , especially , with reference to the purloining of several railway dividend warrants belonging to Mr . John Jowett , jun ., _woolstapler , and hiB Bisters . Serious Accident . —The eldest son of the Rev . Thomas Croker , of Maryville , a youth in his sixteenth year , met with a deplorable accident on Wednesday evening last , by the incautious use of gunpowder , a long train of which he was laying on the kitchen floor from a powder flask , while a servant man , at his desire , ignited the powder at one end , when the train blazed up , and the running

      flame caught the young gentleman in a moment , with the flask in his hands , which burst asunder with a terrible Bhock , tearing a thumb from each hand of the unfortunate victim . One thumb was found in a recess in the kitchen . Dr . John Wilkinson was directly sent for , and removed the other thumb , which was connected with tbe hand merely by a ligament . Subscription for Hessian Officers at Manchester . —The Germans in Manchester have lately set on foot , and are successfully rising a subscription for the officers of the electorate of _Hesse-Cassel , who lately resolved to resign their commissions rather than submit to being used for the upholding of the power and decrees of a foolish prince nnd a destable minister . The object of the subscrip tion is with a view of providing the Hessian officers with tbe means of subsistence , which they had sacrificed by resigning their commissions .

      Representation of Pontbfract . —The Hon , Beilby Lawley , theliberal candidate for this boroug h , has , it is said , completed a most successful canvass . Captain Preston , who expended a consider able sura in contesting the borough at the last general election on the tory interest , visited _Pontefract immediately on the present vacancy being known , but found the feeling such as not to ustify him in again offering himself . No other candidate on that side seems to have any chance of success .

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      Strike at thb Brymbo Colliery . —Upwards of eight hundred hands have turned out at the above colliery for an advance in their wages of sixpence per day ; and no arrangement appears tobe likely to be come to . The company have given notice to all their hands to quit , in order to avoid violence betwen those men who would continue in work and tbe turn-outsthe latter having attacked and ill-treated several of the other party , and manifested very hostile feelings towards tbem . Several summonses have been issued against the offenders . Considerable damage has been done to two pit heads . The strike is expected to be

      general throughout the district , the colliers of several adjacent pits having turned out . : Attempted Murder . —A daring attempt to murder tbe valuer of Caldecott enclosure . Monmouthshire , was made on the morning ofthe 8 th inst . Mr . Williams had retired to rest at bis lodgings , when at about two o ' clock in the morning , some miscreant , who must have known the room in which he usually slept , fired a charge of slugs through the window . Fortunately he escaped without injury ; but with a view to deter others from similar acts of outrage , the authorities have deemed it proper to offer a reward of £ oQ for the discovery of the offender or offenders .

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      Clearances and Scarcity of Labourers . —At the last meeting of the guardians of the _Glenamaddy Union , county of Galway , Sir Joseph Burke , chairman , in reference to a letter of Messrs Eyre and Norris , extensive purchasers of property in the district , recently sold under the Encumbered Estates Commission , Btated that those gentlemen had enclosed a list of destitute persons who had been evicted from their holdings , offering to bear a portion of the expenses of their emigration to America , if the guardians would liquidate the remainder . Sir Joseph announced that the guardians were unanimons in refusing the application , as ,

      from the enorraeus extent to which emigration is now carried on , ''they would be obliged before long to import people Into the country . " Business in the Encumbered Estates Court . — The gr < at accumulation of sales in the Encumbered Commission Court has compelled the commissioners to adopt a total change in their arrangements . Heretofore the petitions , in the order of their presentation , were adjudicated upon , and days of sale fixed at convenient periods , in some instances sore--ral months hence . But the sale lists are now so full , whilst hundreds of petitions remain for consideration , that the commissioners bave determined to make no further orders ior Bales during the present or the next year .

      He-adjustment of Kknts . —The provincial journals contain further announcements of reductions of rent , and of new arrangements between landlords and tenants . In one case , Mr . Eccles , of Ecclesville _, bas issued an address to his tenantry in the county of Tyrone , with the view of placing them , by _leaaeB or by written agreements for yearly tenancy , in a position " to make changes in their modes of tillage , to enable them to come up to the improved state of farming in other countries , thus putting them on nn equality with the farmers of those countries , and leaving the want of success entirely with themselves . " .

      Emigration . — Wages of Agricultural Labourbus . —The Wexford Independent states , that many of the tenantry , m the district of Gorey , in that county , are making arrangements to emigrate to- America next spring . p the Barony

      Clearances And Scarcity Of Labourers.—At...

      of" _' Forth , and other parts ; of ; : Wexf 6 rd ; numbers of farmer ? haye taken , their departure during the last month . From the . town of Wexford , a Steamer leaves every Friday , for Liverpool , crowded witb persons intending to take shipping at the latter port for the'United States . From Cork . and other southern ports ; the emigration is * Btill very , considerable . In some parts of the county of Cork , the wages of agricultural labour have been * reduced to the lowest possible point . ' At Kanturk Sessions , a harvest labourer , named Walsh , summoned a respectable looking farmer , named Green , for Is . 6 d ., _i . _hn hire of eighteen days ' , in reaping and saving the

      harvest , being atthe rate of . one , penny per . day The farmer contested the claim , on the ground that he had agreed to give but one halfpenny per week' , _* and out of a well-filled purse he tendered payment df three halfpence for three weeks ' , bard labour at the harvest . The labourer positively affirmed that the engagement was for one penny a day , and he declared that , 'during the , time of his , employment , he " got nothing for his support but a bit of dry Indian meal gruel . " Ultimately the magistrates pronounced a decree for the Is . 6 d . ' . is wages , ' with 8 a . Gd . for loss of time and costs , and they directed the immediate issue of the warrant .

      Affair of Honour . —A hostile meeting on Saturday morning , in the Phoenix-park , between the Marquis of Sligo and Mr . G . O . Higgins _, M . P ., was interrupted by the police as the parties were about taking their places . Two of the friends were captured .. The principals escaped , but were arrested in the course of the day on a warrant issued by Colonel Browne , and taken to the police-office , College-street , where they were bound over . before . Dr . Kelly in heavy recognizances . The misunderstanding , we have heard , arose out of a late election of ex o ffi cio guardians in tho county of Mayo . : . County of Limerick Election—A third candidate , Mr . Thomas Fitzgerald , Q . C . ( who had been in the field at a previous , election , without , howevergoing to a poll ) , has addressed the electors ,

      , from Glin Castle , the residence of his relative , the Knig ht of Glin . "I am determined ( he says ) if my opponents do not retire , to poll to the last man . " . "¦' -:... The Letter of Lord John Russell . —Already the country is excited , and the _. newspapers are engaged in a bitter controversy about Lord John Russell ' s memorable letter to the Bishop of Durham . -The Roman Catholic organs are vehement in tbeir ex _pressions of indignation , whilst the Protestant journals laud the Prime Minister for inflicting a " heavy blow and great discouragement" against Papal power and influence . The Evening Mail , for instance , accepts the letters as " a grand testimony for the principles of the Reformation , " and as "fraught with consequences whieh will render it

      memorable to our latest posterity . " The Mail , however , speaks with a qualification , observing that , " even in this letter of Lord John Russell the case of Ireland is made specially exceptional . - He thought that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholics Bhould be upheld for the Irish , and no doubt he still thinks so , although the Queen ' s authority and her right were as audaciously trampled upon and defied in the Convocation of tbe Synod of Thurles , as in the apostolic mission of Dr . Wiseman to Westminster . " The Newry Telegraph congratulates its readers , and , referring to the Pope ' s bull , says that " the would-be ravager is taken b y the horns , by the iron grasp of power . " On the other hand , the Tablet _dehrcs that Lord John Russell has thrown off the mask , and entered upon " an ostentatious alliance with the blasphemersof Exeter Hall . " Further the Tablet says : — •« Those Catholics who have sold themselves—whether for gold .

      for partisanship , for Whig favour , or for the name of social and political respectability—to tbe present government , have now their just reward , in the contempt of the puppet they have so ignominiously worshipped , In return for their base cringing he buffets them on the mouth , voids his rheum upon garments , " & c . " This , " exclaims the Tablet , "is the severest blow that bas yet been dealt by public opinion , upon those Whig Catholic partisans who have been willing to go all lengths , in sacrificing the interests ofthe Church to the good pleasure of those anti-Catholic friends , patrons , and protectors . " The Freeman s Journal says : — " We sincerely regret to fin d Lord John Russell the author of such a letter . It directly tends to light a flame of religious persecution . Nor is it more intolerant than it is weak and unmanly . " A provincial journal—the Waterford News—suggests retaliation in the shape of an agitation against the Protestant Church Establishment . The iVdtton exclaims _: —

      " If the battle of reli gious , liberty is still to be fought , it could never have been fought in this island with more advantage than now—not the battle of bishops , but the battle _of-liberty—a battle for the right of Christian community to manage their own ecclesiastical affairs , according to their own will and conscience . " Mr . John O'Connell , assuming a character which his father was wont to take in a political emergency , namely , that of " member for all Ireland , " has " come out" with a verbose address to the Roman Catholic representatives , brimful of " sound and fury , " calling upon

      them to " -gird themselves once more for the good old fight , to stand together as of old , " & c . The " Fifth of November" was celebrated in Belfast , Newry , Lurgan , Dungannon , and other parts of Ulster , and passed off quietly . - Rb-adjostmbnt of Rbnis . —The winter emigration of-farmers , in large numbers , is leading to a general reduction of rents , commensurate with thc altered value of agricultural produce . The former valuations of land will be no longer taken as a standard , either to estimate the rate of purchase inthe Encumbered Court , or the letting value of farms . Even the Griffith valuation has been

      described by one of the Commissioners as exceeding the intrinsio value for tho poorer olass of lands . The old rentals are exhibited in the sales ; but they seldom had been , at any time , a correct representation of the rents actually paid , and now they have become , in general , a most fallacious test of the real value of estates . The provincial journals daily contain further announcements of abatements of rent , and of the reductions ofthe poor-rate valuations on appeals before the assistant-barristers at quarter sessions . Landlords have discovered that moderate rents , connected with the security of a lease , are indispensable as a means-of retaining industrious tenants on their _estateB . It would have

      been much better if those equitable arrangements had been entered into two or three years since ; but even at present fair concessions by landlords will have the effect of checking a most pernicious system of emigration , which removes from the country the remnant of the tenantry possessing some capital and skill . Decrease of Business in tiie Four Courts . — Since the commencement of the present term there has been a very decided decrease of business in the law and equity courts . The Queen ' s Bench rises daily ahout twelve o ' clock , and the Exchequer and the Common Pleas bave very little to de . The Encumbered Court has absorbed the chief business in Chancery . The Rolls Court alone is occupied , but chiefly with motions in long pending causes , National Education—The Priests , —The Sligo

      Journal has the following statement : — " Everywhere , and in all directions , from the highest tothe lowest , the Roman Catholic clergymen are exerting all their influence against every school and species of education not under their entire control . In this county a national school has been closed , owing to the visitor , a Protestant gentleman , refusing to resign his visiting ; and inspecting powers in favour of the priest of the parish . About ninety pupils were in attendance upon tbis school , nor was there any objection to it , but that the visitor was not a Roman Catholic ; so much for the national system , well-intended , no doubt , but in almost every instance rendered subservient to the views of the priest and to his control . We have also heard that Mrs . Knox Barrett ' s school has been treated in a

      similar manner . Wo fear all endeavours of establishing good feeling between the Protestant and Cathole religion is at an end , and a timo is coming of great trouble to the people of this eountry . " _Rbpaal Association . —As was only to be expeoted , Mr . John O'Connell having succeeded in netting a " grievance , " made a grand display of it on Monday beforo his friends in Conciliation-hall . Lord John ' s letter , in these dull times , was a perfect Godsend , and Mr . O'Connell made tho most he could of it . The learned gentleman , after exhaustin g his vocabulary of abuse , suggested the virtual squelching of " Repeal" by the reorganization of the " Catholic Association . " The project seemed to have been favourably received , and a Roman Catholic clergyman present promised the Premier that if he persisted in his threat of persecution , they ( the

      association ) would have the ardent and powerful aid of 4 , 000 priests . Mr . O'Connell called on the meeting to answer Lord John Russell ' s letter by taking off their bats , and giving threo cheers in honour of the Pope . ( Loud cheers and waving of hats followed . ) He then called for three cheers for Cardinal Wiseman and the Catholic hierarchy of England , which was duly responded to . Avo ' ioe : "A groan for Lord John Russell . " ( Groans and hisses . ) A voice : " Down with heresy . " Mr . J . O'Connell interposed and said ; In that association since its first foundation , there never had been uttered anything hurtful to the feelings of those professing a creed differing from their own . He hoped never to hear an expression of that kind repeated ( cheers . ) Mr . O'Connell said that a little boy had used the expression , and he had withdrawn it . The rent for the week was £ 5 3 s . id .

      Condition op Ireland . —The Dublin Meveantile Advertiser contains the following rather cheering account of the condition of the country : " Notwithstanding the severe distress still prevaling in many districts ,. especially in the South and West , the enormous extent of emigration amongst the better class of farmers , and the embarrassment ofa large portion of the gentry , there are not wanting evidences of improvement in the Home Trade in most parts of the country . The New Parliamentary Franchise . —The several clerks of unions in the county of Roscommon

      Clearances And Scarcity Of Labourers.—At...

      have made , ' _returns'amounting _, to -2 , 500 , persons qualified ; to vote unileit * the provisions o . the New Franchise , Bill—pot a bad criterion of the im proved condition of the people , even in the west of "Ireand . f - •'• ' ' ¦ "¦ Z' 7 : "'' i .

      Robbery Of Jewellery At Newcastle ¦ " ¦ ...

      ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT NEWCASTLE ¦ " ¦ ' _rZiun ' iui ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ — - ¦ ' ¦ ' y : Z ,. ¦; _- . _:. . "i ¦ ' : : , It . will probably be in , the recollection of our readers ( says the Aewcastle Guardian ) thatin December _, last the shop of Mr . Cohen , of . Grey-street , in this town , was broken into , ; and a large quantity of jewellery stolen . ' A reward' ot > £ 50 was offered for the apprehension of the * burglar , but the efforts of the police were , for a considerable period , unsuccessful . Atthe summer assizes , a man Of-the name of John . Bell was sentenced to ten ' years ! transportation , for breaking into the premises of Messrs . Hill and Nicholson , _Grainer-street , and since that time some-particulars have been obtained which tend to throw light upon-Mr . Cohen ' fl robbery . Mr .

      Stephens , the superintendent of police , from private information be had received ; wrote , to the magistrates at Reading , to which place Bell has been removed , and , in consequence of a ' communication from them in reference to a statement Bell- bad made , further inquiries were instituted by the police of this town , andthe result was . that-after a private consultation ofthe magistrates , on Thursday ; week , a warrant was issued . for , tlie apprehension of- Mr . Simeon Joel , bullion dealer , _Shakspeare-street . _*— -He was brought up on Friday morning at the policecourt , when the following evidence was given : —Mr . ' Cohen stated tbat between Friday night and Satur day morning , the * 14 th ahd 15 th of December last , his shop was entered , and a large quantity of

      jewellery , including seven dozen pairs of gold and silver spectacles , was stolen therefrom . Between eight and nine o clock on Saturday morninghis boy oame to his house , and said that his shop had been broken into , and on going down he found that a hole had been made through the wall into his shop ,, from the passage between his shop and Mr . Joseph s . The till had hot been broken open , but the goods in the shop were in great confusion , and a large number of them had been stolen . Ho had not since recovered any of them . —Inspector Little . examined the premises' on the morning after : the robbery , and found a hole large enough for a man to pass through , in the side wall of the shop . Tho robbery was reported in the usual way , and entered in the robbery

      book , which was sent round to the pawnbrokers and jewellers , —Police-officer Buglass stated that he showed the notice of the robbery to Mr . Joel on : the day after , it had been committed , but Mr .: Joel refused to sign the book . — Police-officer Turner stated that after " obtaining a warrant to search Mr . Joel ' s house , he examined it ' , but found nothing to lead him to suppose there was any stolen property there . —Mason , another officer , from some information he received , was afterwards induced to apply for a warrant to apprehend the prisoner , which was granted . —Matilda Bell stated that she was the wife of John Bell , who was sentenced to transportation at the last assizes for another offence . She remembered her husband coming borne one Friday night at twelve o ' clock , with a

      number of gold and ; silver spectacles and eye glasses . : When he had taken them out of bis pocket , he took some of the g lasses out ofthe spectacles , and left the house with them . On his return he had two earthenware pots in his pocket , and _hethen melted the gold and silver rims , and put the silver ; into one pot , and the gold into another . On the Saturday . the pots containing tbe gold and silver and the remainder of the spectacles were ppt into a basket , and between Bix and seven o ' elook in the evening she carried the basket , and accompanied her husband to Mr . Joel ' s shop , and remained outside whilst he went in with it . The prisoner and her husband were alone , in tbo shop , but she did not see what passed between them . When her husband went in he had no money , but when he came but he gave her £ 2 and the empty basket . _; Some months after that , when her husband was taken into custody , he desired her to go

      to prisoner ' s shop for a sovereign which was owing to him , and she accordingly went , when Mr . Joel said that he did not know her husband , and did not owe him anything . She had since then seen Mry Cohen , and told bim that she knew nothing about the robbery , but the statement she made to him was not true . —Police-officer Douglass ' stated that after the burglary at Hill and Nicholson ' s in February , he went to the house of John Bell , in Hill-street , and there found part of the stolen property , and also a how pen . From some information he received after Bell was convicted , he searched behind his back yard , and there found a large number of eye glasses , buried about a foot uBder the soil . —Mr . Cohen identified the bow pen as part of the property stolen from his shop in December , and though he could not positively swear to the glasses , he believed tbey were his . —The prisoner was remanded .

      Poisoning Near Gainsborough, Lincolnshir...

      POISONING NEAR GAINSBOROUGH , LINCOLNSHIRE . The inhabitants ; of the village of Stow were thrown into a state of great alarm and excitement last week , by the fact becoming known that Mr . Christopher Page , farmer , of _Stow-park _, and his wife had both been poisoned , that the latter waB dead , and tbat Mr . Page was suffering from the same cause , and that his death was likely to ensue . Information was forwarded to Mr . Hitchins , coroner , who immediately issued his summons , and early on Friday morning , the 8 th inst . , held an inquest at the house of the deceased . The person accused of the poisoning is Eliza Smalley , servant of tho deceased , who is now in custody . —From the evidence of Mr . Smith , surgeon , and who is a neighbour'of Mr . Page , it appeared that about seven weeks ago mercury or arsenic had been boiled in

      his ( witness's ) presence for tho purpose of being mixed with the wheat . The portion left remained in tho iron pot in which it was boiled , and the pot was put in the granary , the door of which was locked , and the key brought into the house every night , i and " -put in its usual place , —B . H . Cheney , superintending constable , examined . He said : In the kitchen of this house , this morning , I told the prisoner , Eliza Smalley , that my name was Cheney , that I was the superintending constable , and that she was in custody on suspicion of having poisoned her mistress . She said ( her breast heaving violently ) : "Last Saturday my mistress said I had killed a fowl , I told her I had not . Yesterday morning I took some mercury from an iron pot that stood againBt the backdoor , and put it into the

      coffee-pot , I did not think it would have killed her , I only thought it would bave made her badly . " When I asked her where the pot was , she went and showed it me . I held out no inducement to her . She confessed freely and voluntarily . —The Coroner ( cautioning her that what she said would be written down ) asked her "Is this what you told Mr . Cheney , and is it the truth ? " Prisoner ( hanging down her head ) : Yes , sir , —Coroner : How old are you ? Prisoner : I am seventeen years of age , and have lived here ever since last May day . I have no reason to complain either of my master or mistress . The pot stood at the back door for two days . I took the poison out of the Dot with a gill mug . I * took it away and put it in

      the dairy after having washed it . When I put the poisOn in the coffee-pot I was in the kitchen , I put in a gill full , and the coffee was boiled afterwards for a few minutes . My master and mistress got their breakfasts immediately after the coffee boiled . I saw both of them after they had done their breakfast . I was with my mistress when she died . I have never been either to church or chapel since I bave lived here , but I used to go to church before 1 came . here . I never had a Bible , but I could read a little in it if I had one . I know the commandments , and 1 perfectly remember the sixth ; it is , " Thou sbalt do no murder . " 1 cannot write . —Mr . Page , who looked better than might have been expeoted , but who appeared to be

      suffering severely from the effects of the poison , was tben examined . He said : Yesterday morning , after 1 had come home from shepherding , I went into the house and asked my wife if breakfast was ready . She said " No . " Then I said to her I'll go and turn the beasts out of the yard ; and when I came in again I said ' What , thour _' t gettinc thy breakfast , art ' ee , bairn ? "' She said "Yes I ' m just getting a cup of coffee , but I feel very unwell . " " What ' s the matter with thee ? " I ashed . She answered her tongue roots and throat were sore , and that she did not know what was tho matter with her . She went out of doors and threw up ; sbo went into tho garden and I thought her long , therefore I got up to go and seek her , but just as 1 did so she came past the window . As

      soon as she got into the house she sat herself down and told me to tell the girl to come to her . She Said to her , get me a little brandy ; and to me , put a little water to it . . She suffered greatly , and writhed with pain- I assisted her aB well as I wasable . She kept continually feeling about and creeping on her hands and knees . She died in about half an hour after she began , as near as 1 can tell . I sent for Mr . Smith , but when he arrived she was dying in my arms . I bad had the pot in the barn for a month , and my man brought it out last Tuesday night , and left it iri the kitchen . —The Coroner then summed up and the jury , after a few minutes' consultation ' returned _BmTlle ! " _Wilful Murder" _gainst S

      The Unfailing Success Of Holloway's Pilt...

      The unfailing success of _Holloway's _Pilts ' _avt-, _n , » ... MENT IN THE CURL- OF _IWyOBM AND D _mSK n ™ Skin-A medical gentleman residing at Lhm Z _\? Z child had been severely afflicted wi h _rktwoZ Z _" _f _iiaS's _^ _in _^ n _rnT _^ _,, _^ _rr h to *

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      ' ! ' ' [' . : ' : R ( 3 LL S ' COURT ; ' . _"'* ¦ _- . ' ' ' * / _- , '¦ , HOLIOWAT V . HOLLOWAT . —INJUNCTION . Mh . Twiner opened the case for the plaintiff , ana stated :. _thatthejinjunctionwhichhe was instructed to move fpr could , hardly be refused : under the circumstances it " was ; his duty to , state ; arid the affidafits whieh"had been filed by the defendant since the case was before the court very imperfectl y attempted . ' to answer the _, case made , out b y the plaintiff in behalf of the injunction . He read the following affidavits ; -p' Thomas Holloway , the inventor of the Ointment arid" _Pill » , deposed thafc j n the year-1837 the plaintiff invented an Ointment , and , in 1830 , 'a Pill , since known as .. ' . Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment , ' which for several years had a

      high repute with the public for their curative and healing qualities ; and that large * quantities were now sold in the United Kingdom , and in all quarters of the Globe ; that the , plaintiff ' had , expended £ 160 , 000 in establishing the gale of his , medicines , which are more extensivel y Bold than any " patented medicine in use . About May last the defendant ( Henry Holloway ) Commenced the sale of his Pills and Ointment-at So . 9 , Walbrook , and since then at 210 in the Strand ; and the defendant described the latter to be his manufactory , but the premises consisted of only two empty rooms on the second floor . The defendant had stated in his ad vertisements that be had expended large sums of money in advertising his medicines , which assertion the plaintiff denied , ; ahd alleged that he had not exp ended in advertisements more than one pound per week at the utmost , and that sum only for colourable purposes . The affidavit of-Mr . Thomas Young ,

      of Hatton-garden , deposed that be had learned from the defendant himself , that the defendant had app lied to the Stamp-office to have medical stamps struck off for _himy . with the words , ' Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment , ' engraved thereon , which tho authorities refused to do . He had then stated that he should carry out his speculation without being obliged' to advertise the medicines , as his brother had already sufficiently advertised them , and would continue to do so , " . f William Hall , 190 , Strand , said the defendant had hired part of . his shop window for the sale of his Pills and Ointment . The defendant informed the Baid William Hall that his Pills and Ointment were prepared and made up for sale in such a manner as to resemble those of the plaintiff , so that they might bo sold for the plaintiff ' s ; and to a remark tbat tbe initial letter "H . " of the surname of th * defendant would betray the deceit , and the * defendant replied that would never be noticed by the publio . ¦ ¦ ;

      Amy Nbwbkruv ' s deposition was , that she had used for a twelvemonth the . Pills and Ointment of the plaintiff with good effect for the dropsy ; that on the 25 th of September last she purchased both Pills and Ointment at a shop in Harrow-road , which proved to be injurious to her on two occasions , when she took eight of the pills . The Pills , upon examination , were found not to be those of the plaintiff . Other affidavits were read , which proved thatthe defendant had obtained his recipe for his Pills from a young medical student , and another for the Ointment from a different party , and that neither had been prepared in the same manner as the plaintiff " had prepared his , though they were put up in boxes and pots of the same make as those ofthe plaintiff ' s

      medicines , with labels corresponding m nearl y every respect , and in wrappers and direction papers copied almost literally from those . made by the inventor . There were other affidavits to prove that the defendant had endeavoured to induce patent medicine vendors to sell the defendant's Pills and Ointments as those of the plaintiff , and that they had been offered at . a reduced price , or to be left on sale or return ? that he had failed to induce the Messrs . J . Pratt and Co ., potters , of Lane _Delph , Staffordshire , to * furnish him with pots ofthe pattern of the plaintiff , having inscriptions burnt in upon them , purporting to contain his , Holloway ' s Ointment ; that he bad given instructions to Gayneau , to draw , up two direction papers , consisting of

      twelve and of eight pages , the same number of pages as are used by the . plaintiff , which _papers were to be only a little altered in phrases from those of the plaintiff , so as to deceive buyers into * the belief they were purchasing the plaintiff ' s _medicines ; that he had succeeded in getting pill-cutting machine-makers , lithographers , dec ., to aid the defendant in his deception , and that some of the wholesale dealers told him that they must refuse to vend his medicines unless specially asked for , as his was a too palpable deception . The learned counsel ( with whom was Mr . Miller ) remarked that tfee case could hardly by possibility be carried further

      to prove that a gross fraud had been practised upon the trade , aiid the customers ofthe plaintiff , and that the pirating of the plaintiff ' s boxes , labels , and printed productions , fully authorised the court to grant the injunction , Mr . Roupel , for the defendant , observed , that the plaintiff was fully aware for some time that the defendant had been making the medicines ; the names were idem sonans , and likely to be confounded . The plaintiff had his aetion at common Jaw , and yet had not availed himself of it . The defendant bad not had sufficient time to put in such an answer as be might bave done bad he bad an opportunity to do so .

      The affidavit of Henry Cunningham stated that he had been a workman to plaintiff , and now served the defendant . He traversed the statements of several of the plaintiff ' s witnesses , admitting that he had solicited orders for Henry nolloway ' s medicines , but denying tbat he had represented them to be the plaintiff ' s medicines . Tbe defendant ' s affidavit stated that he had obtained the secret of preparing his Ointment from a parly , and not being similar to that of the p laintiff . He denied that in making the application to Somerset House on two occasions to have a distinctive stamp he intended to practise any deception on hisbrother , or pirate his invention .

      Mb . White followed on the same side ; and upon Mr . Turner rising to reply , Lord Langdale said he would not trouble thelearned counsel to reply upon the case . The names of the plaintiff and of the defendant in this case * were the same . His lordship did not , he said , mean to abridge the right of tho defendant to vend an artiole in which ho dealt , but he could have no right to prepare and get up that article so as to resemble the article invented by the plaintiff , and thereby deceive the public into a belief that it was that of the plaintiff ' s . It was only necessary to refer to the evidence of Qayneau to see that the * defendant had given orders that the direction papers of the plaintiff should serve as a guide or model of the pamphlets which the defendant wished him to prepare , so as to pass with the public as the pamphlets of the plaintiff . This was a direct avowal of an

      intention to commit a fraud upon the plaintiff . It wa 9 stated also to Hall , b y the defendant , that the introduction of the initial letter " n " for Henry would never be noticed , and the medicines might be very well sold as thoso of his brother . This was certainly a description of property which was protected by law , and when it came under the jurisdiction of the court it must have the benefit ofthat protection . The only thing which pressed upon the court was the suggestion that the defendant had not had time enough to put in a sufficient answer . His lordship would , therefore , introduce into tho terms of the order for the injunction , which he was determined to grant in this instance , permission to tho defendant to move to dissolve the injunction should he be provided with sufficient evidence to * contradict the plaintiff ' s affidavits . The injunction , as prayed by the plaintiff ' s bill , was accordingly granted ,

      Navigating The Air.—We Find The Followin...

      Navigating the Air . —We find the following ia tho JFu « M !* ' ) i

      will through the air has been come to , but we think that a first step has been made in the matter . The model balloon which was used to make tbe experiment measures five yards in length , and contained 1 , 200 litres of gas ; it wei ghs 1 , 200 grammes , and is completely ofthe form ofa fish , witli fins nnd tail . The tail is composed of two small ruddere , one which causes the balloon to ascend , whilst the other turns it either to the right or left . The fins are represented by two movonble oars , short and wide , which are moved by a very simplo piece of mechanism . The whole apparatus is covered with netk This model

      wor , and with bands of wh alebone . , which is rather diminutive , labours under very serious disadvantages . The necessity of making tho mechanism for " moving tlie wings very light , only allows it to act for a very short time ; nevertheless the balloon wcut for a certain space in a direct line , and even described a circle , though with some difficulty . In order to be able to : carry three men the balloon should be at least seventy yards long , and the fins worked in tho car below by means ot a handle turned by two men . or by means of a wheel similar to tbat of the treadmill . The exhibi tion of M . Arnault , the inventor , is of a nature to excite public curiosity to a hig h degree .

      Chinese Produce . —Tlio importations of fanoy articles from China , are much more various and _extensiro than used formerly to be the case . A vessel which has just arrived from Canton , has brought no less than 370 packages of china and lacquered wares , as a portion of a large general cargo from the Chinese emp ire .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 16, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16111850/page/6/