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Health of London Dure ** the _Wses .-A _eonaderable decrease is observed in the mortality of the week ending last Saturday . The : total deaths registered in the metropolitan districts , which in tiie previous week rose to 1 , 124 , werelast week only 883 , whereas the average derived from deaths in ten corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , and raised in proportion to increased population , is 1 , 001 , and in the last three
corresponding weeks , namely those of 1847-9 , the deaths rose to about 1 , 050 and upwards . In last week as compared with that immediately preceding , the deaths classed as having been caused by zymotic or epidemic diseases , are almost exactly of the same amount ; iu this _return there are 157 , of which 7 were from small-pox , 15 from measles , IS from scarlatina , 35 from hooping cough , 4 from influenza , all of which diseases are at present less fatal than usual ; there are also 37 frora typhus , which is about the average ; and 13 from diarrhoea , 6 from remittent fever . 5 from
rheumatic fever ( besides 3 from rheumatism , ) and 8 from erysipelas , from whieh diseases the mortality is rather above the average . But diseases of the respirator * , * organs still exhibit a small increase on the average , though compared with the mortality of this clas 3 in the previous week they show a reduction . Bronchitis , pneumonia , asthma , and other complaints affecting the organs of respiration ( with the exception of hooping cough and consumption ) , number 174 , the average being 164 ; their progress during the last six weeks may be traced in the following _nunibers :-171 , 1 S 2 , 231 , 252 , 253 , and 174 , these fluetnations being nearly coincident with rise and lall otemperature . Phthisis ( or consumption ) was fatal to 103 persons last week , an unusually small number ; the year 1843 affords the only example of a corresponding week in which the mortality from this disease was so low ; the average is about 150 . On the 6 th of April , in the Maiylebone workhou 3 e . a widow died , whose age is reported to have been 103 years , J
she sunk by " ** natural decay . " On the 28 th of "March , in Ferry-street , Poplar , tke __ daughter of a labourer , aged 3 years , died of privation , or , according to the return made by the coroner ' s jury , from " _¦ ' natural death _accelerated by want / ' Two men and two women are registered as the victims of intemperance . In workhouses , 77 deaths were registered in theweek , and in hospitals 58 , of which 35 were in general hospitals , S in naval and military , and 8 in lunatic _asylums . The births during the week numbered 1 , 473 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of ( be barometer in the week was 29 * 425 in . The mean daily reading of the thermometer was highest on Sunday , when it was 54 * 4 deg ., and lowest ou Saturday , being 46 * 2 deg . ; the mean temperature of the week was 49 5 deg ., or 5 deg . higher than the average of the same week in seven years . The mean temperature was throughout the week higher than the average , and on Sunday was higher by 9 _* 5 deg ., and on Monday 8 * 5 deg .
_^ Suicide nr Poison . — On Saturday last Mr . Payne held an inquest at the White Hart , Fetterlane , on view ofthe body of Mrs . Eleanor _Dundaa Percival aged thirty-five , a lady of high respectability , who committed suicide with morphia at the Hope coffee-house , No . 37 , Fetter-lane , where she had taken temporary apartments . —Sophia Cole , a governess , residing at No . 87 , Fetter-lane , said that tiie deceased had been living at the same house about two _m-nths . She informed _witness that her relations , who were most respectable , had turned their backs npon her in consequence of her marriage about two years ago . When at the is ' and of "Savannah she lost her husband , to whom she had been married nearly twelve mouths , and who was a captain in the _navalservice . She at the same time lost
an infant child . Being left in these circumstances she obtained , a situation as governess in the family of Major-General Sir Colin Campbell , who was then the Gfovernor of Barbadoes . Upon her health declining she returned to England ia the month of October last Witness accidentally met the deceased in the beginning of February , near the American Coffee-house , where witness was applying to obtain a governess ' s situation in one of the colonies ,. Deceased was there for a similar object . She then informed witness that she had been turned out of an hotel at the West-end , where she had been residing several weeks , because Bhe was unable to pay the debt she had contracted there , and that her boxes , with all her wearing apparel and her other property in them , had heen detained by the proprietor of the
hotel in discharge of his claim . She was then dressed in her night clothes , with a gown over them . She also stated that she had lent a sum of money to a female who she supposed was her friend , but who had robbed her . Witness had compassion upon iter , and recommended her to engage apartments at the house she ( witness _^ was residing a t . She assented , azd accompanied witness there . Deceased had applied to some friend in Gordon-square for assistance , but was unsuccessful . She ( deceased ) subsequently wrote to Miss Burdett Coutts , when , a few days ago , a gentleman called on the part of that lady , and paid the rent she owed , amounting to £ 2 14 s . and left her 10 s . Deceased for some days past had been in a very excited state . On Thursday evening she went out , and
returned with a phial in her hand , which contained morphia . There was a direction oa it , that ten drops were to be taken at a dose . Deceased , who was aware of its effects , if taken in a larger quantity , was in the habit of employing it as a sedative . She went to bed between five and six o ' clock . Previous to lying down she swallowed ten drops of ths morphia . Witness went away and returned in about half an hour . Deceased then appeared dying . "Witness , who found that she had emptied the phial of . the morphia , alarmed the landlady of the house , upon which Mr . Cooper , surgeon ,, of Fetter-lane , was sent for . He applied the stomach-pump and Other antidotes , but without effect , and she died in a few hours . In answer to the coroner , the witness
aided that deceased had eighty guineas a year while governess in the famiiy of General Campbell . There were numerous letters' in deceased ' s apartments , with other documents . Deceased was the daughter of a clergyman . A letter was produced , written shortly before her death to a friend in'Scotland for assistance , in which she observed that she had married a gentleman of the Catholic persuasion—that she had lost all her friends by marrying him , while he had lost all his friends by marrying her , she heing a Protestant . She then stated the circumstances of his death , and rcques'ed relief . There was another paper in which it was stated that she was proficient in " the Latin , French , and Italian languages , and was fully competent to _teacti music and dancing . Verdict- — " Temporary insanity . "
Melascholt Accident . —A lengthened inquiry ¦ w as held by Mr . Carter on Friday the 12 th inst . at the Noah ' s Ark Tavern . Park-street , Southwark , respecting the death of "Miss Mary Carpenter , aged eighty-two , who was burnt almost to a cinder , at a fire which occurred at thc deceased ' s residence in Moss s-alley , "Bankside , on Tuesday evening . The deceased , who was possessed of several freehold houses in the above neighbourhood , was looked upon as being ene of the most extraordinary characters probably ever heard of . A few years since she had a _number of dresses made so short that none of them would reach _dosvn to her knees . Part of her leg was exposed , but the other was encased in white stockings , tied up with scarlet garters , the ribbons extendi * - * - ; to ber feet or flying about her person . In
this extraordinary dress she would sally forth to market , followed by _immense crowds of men and children . Sis or seven years ago she entirely changed her manner of living , for , instead of continuing the sport of the populace , she shut herself jap in her bouse in Moss ' s-alley , and being apprehensive that" thieves wonld break in and steal , " she had the windows bricked np . She continued to live in one of the rooms on the ground floor until the memorable high tide occurred , which forced her to leave her dingy apartment for one higher . This room she also had bricked -ip , so that not tiie least li ght could enter from the outside . A woman named Plynn used to attend upon her , and with the exception of her
collector of rents no one was allowed to cuter on I any pretence whatever . On Tuesday Mrs . Plynn left tiie deceased cooking a mutton chop for her dinner , and in two hours after smoke was seen pouring through the apertures in the wall . An alarm being given , the house was broken open , when , on going to the upper floor , the place was found to be full of flame , and the deceased lying on the bed . encircled in fire . The flames having been extinguished , the deceased was found to he frightfully burnt . There being no doubt in the minds of the jury that whilst deceased was cooking her mutton chop her dress became ignited , they returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
_Accibesi ih the Thuxdeb Storm . —The storm of Friday , the 12 th inst ., was extremely destructive . A man , unknown , was struck dead by the electric fluid near the Nightingale , Lissen-grove , and removed to the Paddington dead-house . A billy-boy , eighty tons burthen , was also struck near to flungerford Su spension-bridge , and instantly sunk , the crew , three in number , escaping almost by a miracle . The enormous hailstones that fell have destroyed property to a considerable amount in the suburbs , more particularly ia the nursery grounds at lulburn , Fulham , Deptford , Camberwell , & c . _Metropouta :- * Police . —Captain Douglas W . P . Labalmondiere , is appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan-Poliee _, in-the place _~ of Captain Hay . who has succeeded Sir Charles Rowan as joint commissioner with Mr . Mayne .
Burglary axd Robbery . — Saturday morning _lastihepremises ofMr . Barr , flour-factor and wharfinger of Cop enhagen Wharf , on the River Lee , Limehouse , were discovered to have been entered , and upwards of £ 30 in silver and copper money ab-Stricted by the thieves . The burghuy was effected With considerable skill , the thieves having obtained an entrance at the window , and , as it is supposed , _saortiy after daylight , so as to throw tha psrsons engaged oa the premises , looking after the cows and Other stock in _ the outhouses , off : their guard . About _twenty minutes to nine two men _^ were seen proceeding in . a . truckfrom the direction pf , the premises , Jmt , aiH _. _wwnQt . - _'erli _^ r than _the'iisual hour
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tor commencing suburban business , no notice was taken . Suspicion has , consequently , fallen on the men who were seen in the truck , neither of whom have , _unfortunately , been yet recognised . Burglaries at this end of the metropolis " and its vicinity have been greatly on the thc increase lately ' . Shocking Accideni . — About ten o clock on Tuesday morning John Jane , one of the men employed to unload the ice from the Wenham Lake Ice Company ' s stores , new the Waterloo-bridge , met with so serious an accident that his life is despaired of . The blocks of ice are this year unusually _Iar- _* e , some of them _exceedin-r 5001 b . in weight , and a horse
is empldved . by means of ropes and tacKle , to raise them from the barge to a platform , from which they are carted for storage to the ice houses- Jhe unfortunate man was employed to detach the blocks from the ice-tongs , on its reaching the platform . By isome means one of the blocks in its ascent caught the beam which cresses thc barge , and the horse , not bein" itopped in time , pulled down the pole to which the tackle was fixed , and the platform , from which the poor fellow was precipitated head _Joremoat , and fractured his skull . lie was immediately conveyed in a cab to the Westminster Hospital , and , from the extent of his wounds , not the slightest hoies are entertained of his surviving more than a few hours .
Death of Madame Tussaud . —This well-known [ lady died on Monday night last , in her 80 th year . She was a native of Berne , butleft Switzerland , when but six years old , for Paris , where she became a pupil of her uncle , M . Curtius , " artiste to Louis XVI ., by whom she was instructed in the fine arts , of which he was an eminent professor . " Madame Tussaud prided herself upon the fact of her having had the honour of instructing Madame Elizabeth to draw and model , and she continued to be employed by that princess until October , 1789 . In 1802 Madams Tussaud left France for England , and from that time to the present—close upon half a century—has exhibited in the principal cities and towns of Great Britain and Ireland her collection of wax figures _, to the great gratification of teas of thousands of holidaymaking sight-seers .
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Oxford . — A notice has appeared inthe Oxford Journal of the intended stopping up of no less than forty-six public ways and footpaths , many of them such , no doubt , from time immemorial , and leading , by short cats , across pleasant fields , and along delightful walks . Fearing that this wholesale curtailment of some of the most valuable rights and privileges of the citizens of Oxford has not met with the attention it deserves , we now notice it , in order- to check it , if yet possible . The stopping up is announced to take place in August next . Execution at Cambridge . —Cambridge , _ArniL 13 th . —It will , probably , be iri the recollection of our readers that Elias Lucas and Maria Reeder were found guilty at the last assizes of the murder of Susan Lucas , the wife of tho male prisoner and the
sister of the female . The horrid act was effected by means of poison , and was committed to enable the guilty parties the more fully to indulge in a guilty passion which they entertained for each other . For the commission of this offence Lucas and Reeder were left for execution by Mr . Justice "Wightman , and at twelve o ' clock this day they expiated their crime on a gallows iu this town . Although inimediately subsequent to their conviction they inani fested complete _indifference to their fate , they yet shortly afterwards exhibited a most desirable _change of conduct , and the girl Reeder very soon confessed that she had mixed some arsenic in a mess of which her deceased sister had partaken . Lucas continued to deny any participation in the crime , but upon his receiving the sacrament last Sunday he confessed to the Rev . Mr . Roberts that he " desired Reeder to do it , and to put as much in the mess as would lie
on a shilling . At the scaffold both " convicts manifested the most astounding nerve . At length the usual signal was given , and the next moment the miserable creatures were in the struggles of death . They seemed to suffer but little pain , and within a minute they had lost all symptoms of vitality . At the moment of the drop falling a terrific rush was made for the narrow gateway leading to the . road . Through some oversight on tho part ofthe officials there had been no barriers erected at this dangerous part of tho ground . A strong body of police was in attendance , but they were of little use in checking the rush of the multitude . A fearful scene ensued , and many persons were seriously , if not fatally hurt , by being trampled upon , the women being the greatest sufferers . The female prisoner was in her twenty-first year , and the male prisoner was in his twenty-fourth . _
New _Militahv Prison at Gosport . —The new military prison at Forton , Gosport , is completed , and iu about a fortnight the establishment now occupying Southsea Castle will be moved over . It consists of a governor , Captain J . Curtin ( late 40 th Regiment ) , a chaplain , the Rev . Mr . Dennis ; a surgeon , Mr . Dowse ; a schoolmaster ( not yet named ) * with ahout seventeen or eighteen warders . The new prison will contain about 150 prisoners , each with a separate cell . The cells are capacious , airy , and well lighted by a small corrugated elas 3 window ; placed high up . The glass admits lir _* ht freely , but is impervious to sight , and a small , pane can . be opened by the prisoner to admit air , if he requires it . The cells , and , indeed , the whole building , is kept perfectly warm , by hot-air pipes , that run under the floorings . Each cell is provided with a hell-pull , which strikes a gong , and the act of pulling the bell throws out au indicator that points to the
warder the cell from which the hell has been rung . The building is three stories high , the c _^ _Ldoors face each other in three tiers , with iron verandahs running along . The centre or aisle between the doors is lighted from the top by a glass roofing . The lower tier of cells contain the solitary and dark prisons for punishment , but these are also warmed by hot-air pipes , and are well ventilated . Four baths for the use of the prisoners also occupy the basement , and in each there are places for washing , shaving , and a number of water-closets . The food is hoisted np from the furnace-room through a trap-door in the floor , aud a railway then conveys it to the door of each cell . At the back of the prison is a capacious chapel , and underneath the chapel-room is a large school-room . The prisoners are generally in three classes , and within , the walls are three c _' assyards . The prison has been erected at the expense of £ 30 , 000 .
The Newport _MonnER . —The conduct of Maurice Murphy and Patrick Sullivan , the two young Irishmen charged with the robbery and savage murder of the poor infirm old woman , Jane Lewis , in a wood near Bassalleg , has been marked by a degree of levity extraordinary in their awful position ; and this has been especially the case with the prisoner Murphy . The Catholic clergymen have been unremitting in their spiritual attention to both prisoners . The prisoner . Murphyhas , on one or two occasions since his committal , sullenly expressed a determination to destroy himself , if he could procure means . However , since the ministrations of the spiritual advisers have been so earnestly directed towards this unhappy man s desire for self-destruction , he has' evinced a deep sense of its wickedness . The prisoner Sullivan
—who ha 3 a more stolid and morose disposition than his partner in " guilt—begins to exhibit feelings of deep regret for the crimes in which he has been engaged ; and he expresses indignation that Murphy should have attempted to charge a third party with the Nantoc murder . He relates that another young man had been in their company for several days—that they had agreed to commit some robberies , but that the third party had expressed a degree of fear , and that , therefore , on the morning of the murder ( Wednesday ) they sent Mm on an errand , and gave him the slip , fearing that his connexion with them would involve the whole in discovery . He farther says : — " We were by the ditch . The other _prisoner hit her on the poll of the head with a stone . IJer hand basket fell down , and some of the things came out .
I took the basket in my hand , and took it up to the little house . He took the things out , and gave me a black handkerchief , which I put in my pocket . He told me then to go and watch in the road if any one was coming while he went down to search her pockets , and I did . I stopped in the road till he came ont . I asked him how much had she ? He said , ' . But one halfpenny / and he got the shawl . He went to the pawnbroker ' s with the shawl , and wore the hat at the time . The woman swore falsely about it . They did not take the shawl because it was too wet ; so we both went up together to that lodging-house , and sold it for ls . od . Murphy gave her a hick in the eye with the toe of . his boot , and on the jaw with the heel of bis boot . There is the first and the . last of it , whatever Murphy may have said . That ' s how
it happened , from first to last . ' The prisoners , it will be recollected , were apprehended at Cheltenham , and circumstances have transpired which leave no doubt that subsequently to the murder of ; Mrs . Lewis , and while on their road to Cheltenham , they also committed a murderous attack on a gentleman in Purley Wood , near Lydney . It appears that the second victim was Mr . Benjamin Meredith , aged seventy-two , a till powerful person , formerly attached to the excise department at Chepstow , after : wards superannuated ; and residing at _Aylburtpn , in _Gloucester-Jiire . The unfortunate gentleman had been to Blakeney , for the purpose of paying his rent ; and had takena stamp in his pocket upon wbich to have a receipt . On returning by Purley Wood , with
the unfilled stamp" in his pocket book , not having used it , he must bave been attacked a little before six o clock , . on a lonely spot , adjacent to the road , and much dreaded in general . by _foot-passeneers . Here he was most brutally beaten—the crown of his head being kicked in _. -ahd so ' relentlessly was he dealt with that he was left for dead , Tiie _. poor old gentleman must have lain . _iwthe di ' ch all night , andlhe attemp ed murder _must . have occurred about six , as he left Blakeney at five , and -two coaches pass the spot a little after six , - after which < time . he . was not seen . It is supposed he recovered his consciousness i ' n / sbme ' measure _Cbefore mornihgr . and . crawled towards the high road , ' where -he was'found at about six o clock , by James Davis , a farm servant , who was
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police constable Wright , who is stationed in that village , entered the house . Holden , who was hot infibriated , addressed the constable in a low tone of voice , and said he had a secret to tell him . The constable , supposing that the man was merely joking , told hira to speak out what he had to say . He entreated to be taken into custody , saying that he was a murderer , and tired of his life . The constable apprehended him , and the prisoner made a statement to this effect : —That about twenty years since , on a * Friday night , he was in the company of a young woman , about eighteen years of age , named Jane Lewis , with whom he had tramped and lived about two years . This was at the Cricketers , near Chertseybridge . They left that houso about twelve o ' clock , and when the y had got half-way between Chertsey
and Laleham they turned into a foot-path across the fields , which was a near cut to the Horseshoes publichouse . Some words arose between them , and he ( the prisoner ) hit her with his left hand under the ear ; she fell , and expired instantly . The prisoner then went on to state that he took her on his back , and carried her about twenty yards into a plantation near to the Earl of Lucan ' s mansion . Knowing the place where Lord Lucan ' s gardener kept his tools , he went there , although it was almost adjoining tbe lodge in which he slept , got the spade , and came back with it . He then measured the body , cut aw » y the turf from the same length and breadth of ground , and dug a grave two feet deep . In this he put the woman , dressed as she waa , placing her arms across her bosom . He refilled the grave , and replaced the turf ,
and carried back the spade to the place he had taken it from , and , as the prisoner stated , the whole of these proceedings occupied him only about an hour and a half . The prisoner continued his extraordinary statement , by saying that he had not had any peace of mind since . He knew no more of the young woman than that she was a native ot Hertfordshire . Wlien he struck her he did not intend to kill her . After the discovery of the skeleton , a few months since , he became still more wretched—the deed preyed on his mind . More than that , it was in every person ' s mouth , and he fancied all that looked at him thought him the murderer . At the time he first heard of the skeleton being found he was in Mr . _Woodhouse ' s beer-shop , at Laleham , and he thought the devil hsd caught hold of him . The prisoner made this
statement in a clear , unbroken voice , and when asked if he would point out the spot where he had buried his victim , he consented instantly . The constable then took him to Charles Hanell , policeman , who does duty at Laleham , and in his presence the prisoner made the same statement , lie afterwards went with the constables to the plantation , and . before starting begged te be handcuffed , -lest he should lay , violent hands on himself , As . he approached the spot he trembled violently , and when within a few yards of it said , ' I am near the spot—I can go no further , ' and pointed to it . The skeleton was discovered on the 30 th of November last , by a carpenter , who was putting up some new fencing , and in making a hole for a post struck against the skull . The skeleton was found entire , and subject to the rude inspection of
every person for several days . The hole , however , was filled in , no further notice being taken of the discovery . The prisoner was conveyed in the afternoon to the police station at Sunbury , when Sergeant M'lntyre , the acting inspector , reduced his st _* itementto writing , and the prisoner signed it . The prisoner said he felt now comparatively happy—that he knew he should be hanged , but he did not mind that . The statement was read over three separate times to the prisoner , and each time he declared solemnly it was the truth . On Saturday last the prisoner was taken before Mr ; Marriot , one of the county magistrates who resides at Sunbury , for examination . The . magistrate having read the statement made by the prisoner , questioned and cross-examined him as to different points , to ascertain if lie was insane , but there was not the slightest symptom of derangement exhibited . On Monday the prisoner was'brought before the bench of magistrates at Staines Petty Sessions , and police constable Wright
and the other witnesses having deposed , to the facts above stated , the prisoner , who asseverated that the occurrence was accidental , wss again remanded , in order to afford time to tlie bench to " consider the propriety of adding to the depositions the written s _t atement purporting to be the prisoner ' s confession . Destructive Yian at Mat-Chester ;—On Monday morning , about nine o ' clock , a very alarming fire broke out in the premises of Mr . Thomas Baxter , cotton-waste dealer , Cross-street . Manchester . The premises are situated in a very closely-built part of the town , and are surrounded by piles of warehouses , all containing a great amount of inflammable materials , and for some time presented a threatening aspect to the adjacent property , but , by the exertions of the fire brigade , it was confined tothe building in which it originated—not , however , before damage to the extent of £ 2 , 000 had been canscd . The stock and premises are insured in the West of England office .
A "Waterspout in ire Bristol Channel . —One of these singular phenomena of nature , which seldom occur in these latitudes , happened on Saturday afternoon last , in the Bristol Channel . As the Fanny and Jane brig , IIS tons , from London to Bristol , with a cargo of wines and general merchandise , was proceeding up channel , when about twelve miles off Padstow she had her masts , bowsprit , and everything above deck carried away by a waterspout . She was taken in tow by the . Alert , of Bridport , and brought into Bristol . Vessels distant from the brig at the time of the occurrence only half a mile escaped uninjured .
Explosion of Fire Damp . —An inquest was held at the Dinas Works , on the 10 th inst ., before R . L . Reece , Esq ., coroner , on the bodies of Idras David , aged 11 , and Shadrack David , aged 15 , both of whom died from injuries caused by an explosion bf fire damp , at the above works , on the Monday previous . Tho deceased , Shadrack . David , had a partner with him , of the name of Thomas Williams , who , on the morning in question , placed a chain for safety in an old windway , in a part of the works . "Williams , not being able to attend to his work shortly afterwards , the deceased , Shadrack
David , employed Idras David in his stead . The latter , hot knowing whereto find the chain alluded to , went , in company with the other deceased , to look for it . In the course Of the search , one of the parties took a lig hted candle with him into that portion of the pit which had not heen worked for some time past . An explosion immediately took place , which blew the unfortunate lads . 100 yards down the pit . Assistance being procured , they were subsequently discovered lying on their backs , covered with rubbish . Both died in about three hours after the accident . Verdict-- '* Died from injuries received from fire damp . "
Growing Rhubarb in a Coal-pit . —A collier , of the name of Dearden , in the employ" of Mr . E . Radcliffe , of Woodland Cottage , near Stannington , planted a root of rhubarb on the Gth of March , in the pit , thirty-seven yards below the surface , and on the 9 th inst ., he cut six or seven stalks , about twenty inches . in length . This subterranean practice might probably be applied with great success in the production of sea-kale . —Sheffield Times . Fatal Collision at Sea .-Plymouth . —Mr . Christopher Brown , master of the ship George Wilkinson , of 391 tons register , belonging to Mr . James Brown , of Liverpool , reports that ou Saturday , the 13 th inst ., she left Weymouth in ballast , bound to Quebec . ; On Monday morning , at three o'clock , when the _Eddystone bore north-north-east , distance
twenty miles , wind south-south-west , blowing strong , thick hazy weather , the George Wilkinson was on the starboard tack under three single-reefed topsails , foresail , mi _** en , and topmast staysail . Saw _a-heacjj at say half a mile off , a large ship on the larboard tack , standing to the westward or north-west , towards the George Wilkinson , under double-reefed topsails , mainsail , and foresail . She continued her course , and although hailed repeatedly but without eftect , there being apparently no look-out forward , struck the George Wilkinson on the larboard side , abaft the fore rigging , carried away her fore topmast and topgallantmast , fore and main topsail yards , rigging gear , & c , and having , hooked her anchor , Captain Brown was obliged to slip the cable attached , and thus lose in addition thirty fathoms of chain . When _cleari one fine young man , named Randle , was missing ; he was twenty-five years of age , and beloneed
to Weymouth , where he was shipped . He is supposed to have fallen between the two ships in attempting to board , or , what is much more probable , to have been swept off in the falling wreck of spars ,, sails , and rigging , from the topgallant forecastle , where he was on duty , earnestly , but vainly , endeavouring to alarm the crew ofthe approaching ship . The stranger proved to be the Harbinger , belonging to Mr . Chapman , of London , GOO to 800 tons . burden ,. Captain Sampson , which left Havre on Friday , with 256 German and Swiss passengers , bound to New York ; in the collision she lost jibboom and fore topgallant mast , and iiad her starboard side grazed by the channel bolts of . tho other vessel . The Harbinger came in about four o ' clock on Monday afternoon , and brought up jn the Sound . The George Wilkinson , which had lost more canvas , followed in about an hour , went up . Cat water , and moored at the tier .
., _"Qiscovert pi * Human Remains . —On Friday , the _ilStivinst _., the workmen on the Gloucester and Pean _ForestiRailway . were _Binking for ballast gravel , on a part _ofithe eBtatepf _MnT . G . L Parry ,, at , Hi ghham , ¦ near ;; Glo . ucester ,, tbey ; disinterred _twelve , skeletons , apparently the remains of full-grown men .. Soma ol
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the skeletons were lying somewhat confusedly , as > f the bodies to which they once belonged bad been rather carelessly consigned _tpi their common grave ; but others , and one in particular ,. had evidently been res pectfully interred ; and the coffins , formed of blocks of Painswiok stone , had been built round them . It is conjectured that they were the bodies of some of tho officers and soldiers who fell at the siege of Gloucester during the civil wars between Charles I . and his Parliament . . — — - , ¦¦ Port op Liverpool . — The Gazette of Tuesday night contains a Treasury Order , dated Friday last , which declares Runcorn no longer a port after the 5 th inst ., and that after the same date the limits Of the Port of Liverpool , " shall commence at the
termination of the Port of Chester , being a place called the Red Stones , in Hoy Lake , on the Point Wirrall , and so along , the coast of Cheshire into the river Mersey , and all over the rivers Mersey , Irwell , and Weever , and thence returning along the coast of Lancashire till it meets the termination of the Port oi' Fleetwood , at a place called the Hundred-end Water . " Dreadful Death , —On Monday an inquest was held atthe infirmary oa the body of William Cain , aged U , in the employ of Mr . Gibbs , vitriol-works , St . _Philijos's . At half-past eight o ' clock on Saturday morning the deceased was examining the interior ofa boiler , which contained a quantity of vitriol to the depth of eleven inches . B y some mischance he
fell into the liquid , and was totally immersed m it . He was almost instantly extricated by a fellow-workman , but _he'was so . seriously injured—the flesh being burnt off his bedy _,. and the vitriol having penetrated the bones of his knees and legs—that he died as he was being conveyed to the infirmary . It was stated by deceased ' s wife that he had for some time been _suject to fits of giddiness in his head , and it was supposed to have been owing to one of these attacks that he met with the dreadful accident which terminated his death . Mr . Gibbs said that he was unaware tbat the man ever suffered from such a complaint , or he would not have employed him in such a dangerous occupation . The boiler into which deceased fell was between two and three feet above the ground . The jury returned a verdictof" Accidental death . "
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Thk . Expeditions in Sbarch of Franklin . — The expedition organised at Aberdeen under Captain Penny , consisting of the Lady Franklin , commanded by himself , and the Sophia , Captain Stewart , of Peterhead , left the harbour there on Saturday last , on their perilous enterprise . These vessels have been fitted out at the expense of the Admiralty , and are provisioned for three years . The crew of the Lady Franklin number twenty-five , andthat of the Sophia twenty men , _aliupicked seamen , inured to the
dangers of the Polar seas . Crowds of persons of all ranks lined the quays and thronged the extended line of pier to witness the moving sight of so many gallant fellows , animated by the most generous motives , and'inspired by the highest hopes of success , leaving all that are near and dear to them , for the regions of perpetual snow . —Captain Austin ' s Expedition . —The Admiralty have taken up the Emma Eugenia , transport , at Deptford , to take out the coals and surplus stores for Captain Austin .. Light gutta percha sledges are to be provided for the expedition , on a plan proposed by Lieut . Halkett , R . N .
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Sale in the Encomdebd Commission Court . — A sale took place on Friday in the Encumbered Court , under circumstances of a very remarkable kind , tho buyer being at onco inheritor , petitioner , and purchaser . The property , situate in the King ' s county , held on a lease of lives , and two thousand years , consists of 142 statute acres , with mills and buildings , the estimated annual value being £ 128 . Deducting the head rent of £ 21 , there would be a profit rent of £ 104 ; but the estate is charged with a jointure of £ 50 per annum for the residue of the life of a lady aged 72 . Tho property is mixed up with
others , and thero is some complication in the arrangements . After a very brisk competition between the tenant in possession , the inheritor and petitioner , Mr . Thomas Spunner , and a Mr . Thomas Spunner White , the estate was sold for £ 1 , 500 to Mr . Thomas Spunner , who has now re-purchased his own estate . It is difficult to ascertain the exact rate of purchase ; hut aftor the lapse of the jointure of £ 50 a year , Mr . Spunner will have £ 100 a year for £ 1 , 500 . According to one calculation , he has paid eighteen years' purchase . The novelty of this case , _lioworor , is tho fact that Mr . Spunner petitioned for the sale of his own property , and has become the purchaser , divesting the estate of all the mortgages by which ithas been encumbered .
Emigration and Town Pauperism , —The numbers of people daily crowding the quays of Galway , securing passages across the Atlantic , aro described , by the Galway Vindicator , as exhibiting in their appearance " a degree of comfort and independence hitherto . unknown amongst emigrants . " Four hundred emigrants , chiefly of this class sailed from that port last week , * and four more vessels , for different parts of America , are rapidly filling with passengers . Meantime , there has been an enormous influx of paupers to the town from tho adjoining counties ; and the magistrates and poor-law guardians are preparing for a strict enforcement of the Vagrant Act . " During the ensuing summer , " the same journal remarks , "there would be no living in the town if something were not done to
remove the sweltering mass of destitution , from which plague and pestilence unquestionably spring . " Up to Friday evening 130 vagrants had been convicted before the local magistrates , only forty of whom were chargeable to the Galway electoral division . Tho same state of things exist in Limerick . Since January last , upwards of 5 , 000 persons had left that city to take shipping at Liverpool , besides the multitude sailing directly from the Shannon for America . The Limerick Chronicle remarks : — "A superior class of persons , in many instances , are leaving the country , consigning to us a miserable lot of beggars , with whom our streets are covered every hour of the day , importuning relief , or helping themselves by stealth ' or violence . " The local magistrates are vainly striving to abate the evil by the rigid enforcement of the Vagrant Act . Mr . John Lamb , a Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whig , who has returned from a tour through the midland and southern counties ,
remarks that "the shrewd , hard landlords of _Limorick and Tipperary have been some of the first to reduce their rents , and are , consequently , retaining their solvent tenants ; while the quiet-going landlord , a little dipped , was afraid to commence a reduction , lest he should be left nothing for himself . Men of this class find their best tenants selling off their chatties and emigrating to America . Tho stream of emigration continues , and has reducod the competition for land ; and in many parts of the south and west there is a scarcity of able-bodied men left to cultivate tho land properly . " Mr . Lamb ives a most disheartening account of the . condition of several of the landed gentry . In Clare ono of them has five thousand acres thrown on his hands—another has thirteen thousand acres " without a hoof on it , except some deer ; " and he speaks of" moro than one family , who formerly kept their carriages and hunters , who are now inmates ofthe union poor-house . "
Decay of Oranoeism . —The Banner of Ulster has the following remarkable statement from a Stewartstown correspondent : — " It having been arranged by the masters of Stewartstown Orange district , in thecounty of Tyrone , that in consequence of a bill having been latel y p assed against party processions , they should meet in Stewartstown , for the purpose of destroying the banners and emblems of tho Orange Institution of that district , which they had so often hoisted in token of their attachment to tho British constitution , and in commemoration of the anniversary of the Boyne , about sixteen masters _belonging to the district attended in Stewartstown , on tho 8 th inst ., when a bonfire was made in the _marketsquare , and fifteen or sixteen warrants belonging to tho district wero burned ; and it was agreed that
the members of tho district should henceforth live in peace with their Roman Catholic countrymen . " _ExKCUTlOf _* . —The execution of the woman , Ontherino Moore , for the murder of her husband , took place at Maryborough , on Thursday .- Though no public confession , was mado bj the culprit , it is understood that the version of the traged y given by tho unfortunate woman , who evinced the utmost compunction , was not without some extenuating circumstances , as her husband had lived some time separate from her , and it was , according to her account , in a struggle to defend her own life that she inflicted a deadly wound on him . Murder . —The Clare Journal gives the following account of a barbarous murder committed in the vicinity of Kilrush , on the 9 th inst . ;— " Wo deepl y
regret to havo to announce the melancholy fate of Arthur O'Donnell , Esq ., of Pickwick Cottage , Knock , who was waylaid and brutally murdered near liis own residenoe . It appears that the unfortunate gentleman was in the habit of going from his dwelling house in the evening to the house of his herdsman , and whilo'lie was returning . from doing so , at about nine o cldok , he was attacked by a party , of . whom . tho names or _nilmbor aro equally unknown , arid killed with a hatchet . ' The deceased was a quiet and inoffensive gentleman . . The samo journal _stivtos that the herdsman of Mr . Scanlan , of Fortane , was murdered oh the same
night in _Maryfort-wood , Sbvbn . Churches , _SiiANNON-BniDo ' i * , Arhii 12 . —A barbarous murder was last night perpetrated' on the person of Patrick Egan , a pensioner , _residing oh the tOwnland of Clonaseraythe property of a Mr Usher . The poor man was ailing and iri'bed atth ' e time of the . attack , so early as eigbt ' . b ' clock' One of the assassins struck him . with a pistol , ' and then leaped so violently on his _. cKesfc that he _& pired " iu ten mmutes . . ; It is not known at ; present what " 'the motive _> _of the attaolr _. was . ¦¦ * E gah _waskhOwn 'to . havea « on _{^ i _\ ablo 8 um . of _, money , and also iigiin
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for : his protection . The , latter . was ' carried off by the villains '; they ' made bo search for the money . This is the third attempt onthe unfortunate man . At Glasslough _. 'in the county- of Monagban , a shot was fired on Wednesday night last into the bedroom window of Mr . John Robertson , land steward to C . P . Leslie , Esq . Lbttiso op Estates . —In the Court of Chancery on Monday , in the case of "The Duke ' of Leinster v .. Ball , " an application was made that the receiver in the cause might be . at liberty to re-let portion * of an estate in Tipperary , in a more advantageous manner than tho ordinary process , by receiving stamped proposals from persons desirous to become purchasers of small lots . At present the tenantry —250 of whom were in insolvent circumstances _^—had been served with ejectments , and a large number of tho holdings had been given up . The Lord Chancellor granted the application .
The Repeal Association . —The association met on Monday , in Conciliation Hall . Mr . M . Murphy , who was called to the chair , stated that it was the intention of tho committeo to close tho association on that day week if the people deserted them . Mr . John O'Conneil next addressed the very few persons who were in attendance . He said if they were not relieved by tho country , to enable them to discharge their debts , the doors would be shut . With about £ 1 , 000 he would undertake to work the association efficiently . They should not ailow Lord Clarendon , besides carrying off the Viceroy , to bring also the joyful news that the spirit of the people was sunk ; for a few paltry pounds the association must bo let down , and the glorious agitation for Ireland ' s liberty abandoned ., That shall not be . ( Cheers . ) At the conclusion of the meeting Mr . O'Conneil announced the rent for the week to be £ 22 Cl . 8 d , and observed that it showed the people were determined that their association should not go down .
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_If-DicrxtE . VT' Ton Extortixo Monev by Threats . —Henry Tiddiman , 24 , omnibus conductor ; John Bennett , 22 , sugar refiner ; William Laidler , 30 , waiter ; John Jones , 24 , labourer ; and . John Sullivan , 39 , fancy willower , were indicted for feloniously extorting money and a valuable security , to wit , an I O U . for - £ 50 , irom , Samuel Wyatt , by a threat to charge him with an abominable crime . ' Tlie prisoner Tiddiman pleaded guilty to the charge . Mr . Bodkin and Mr . W . Cooper conducted the prosecution . Mr . Woollett . defended _.- . Bennett , Mr . Parnell defended Jones , and Mr . M . _Prendregast defended Sullivan . The prisoner . Laidler conducted his own defence . The prosecutor is 64 years old , and carried on the business ofa tobacconist in Little Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-inn Fields . —Mary
Legg ,: the niece of the prosecutor , deposed that her uncle had for sometime been in ill-health . About last November he appeared very ' much depressed ,, and there was , _, a . great change in him . Shortly after this she remembered Tiddiman coming to the shop . It was on the Slab ot December last . She observed him sitting down between the parlour and the shop door . He had got his hand in his pookefc , and he said to her uncle , *• Now , this settles it between you and me , " and he then left the shop . —Baron Piatt suggested it would be better to call Tiddiman before this witness was further examined . —Henry Tiddiman was accordingly brought from the gaol and sworn . He deposed that he was . formcrly an omnibus conductor . He . had known Bennett tliree years and a half . He was formerly
checktaker at tho Adelphi Theatre . Witness remembered going to Mr , _Wyatt's shop . He had seen Sullivan and Bennett five or six months before , and had drank with thom .. . About fourteen months ago , 'ho went to the shop of the prosecutor with Sullivan , and saw Mr . Wyatt . Witness asked for a cheroot , and Sullivan said he would have one also * and he then asked for an ounce of birdseye tobacco , and ho wont away , and said that his friend ( meaning witness ) would pay for it . He was then left alone with Air . Wyatt , and he remained five or six minutes , and then went away , and met Sullivan outside . Sullivan then said to him , " If that is not an old , my name is not Jack Sullivan ! " Witness told him he did not think so ; he did not understand such things , and Sullivan said , " Then you
should ; if you como under my jurisdiction I will make your fortune . " . Witness passed off the conversation as well as he could , and they , separated . The next night he went to the shop again , and smoked a . couple of cigars and had somo gin and water with the prosecutor , and he fave witness half-a-crown . After he left the shop , emet Sullivan , who said to him , ' . * Ah , you ' ve been into tho old man ' s , and got some money , ; " and thinking he had been watching him , he said that he had , Sullivan then demanded half , and . he gave him a shilling and twopence ; and he said that if witness took his . advice , they . could make £ 20 or £ 30 out of the old man . ¦ „ Witness replied that he would have nothing to do with it , and Sullivan said if he did not he would have him "nailed . " - He
made no reply , - and went away . About a week or ten days after this he met Bennett , Jones , and Sullivan , near Coventry-street , in the evening , and Sullivan said , "Harry has a good caae , which I told him of , and if you pay attention to me , we can make a . good thing of it . " Witness made no answer , and Sullivan then talked apart to Bennett . They all went to a public-house where they had some drink , and then proceeded to the Catherine "Wheel public-house in Windmill-street . They afterwards met again , Sullivan , Jones , and witness , and Sullivan said , " Well , have you been to the old man ' s again * " and he told him he had not . Sullivan then said if he did not he must put up with the consequences ; he had _already extorted half-a-crown and he had got him in his power , A fortnight after
this he saw Sullivan , Jones , and Bennett again in Piccadilly , and witness , Bennett , arid Jones went to the prosecutor ' s shop , and saw Mr . Wyatt . Jones asked Wyatt for some money , and . told hira that it was no use to hesitate—he knew what it was for it was regarding him and Tiddiman . The prosecutor then gave Bennett some money . At first he said he had not got any money , but Jones said he must have some , and Wyatt then went into the parlour and fetched the money from a chifforiniere . The prosecutor appeared very nervous . They divided the money afterwards and witness received 2 s 4 d . as his share , He met Sullivan again about a month after this , and Sullivan said , "Now , Harry , will you go with me down to tho old man , and get some money ? " Witness hesitated at first , but
afterwards complied , and thoy went together to the prosecutor ' s shop , and he went . in and Sullivan stood outside . He told the prosecutor that he should be obliged to him if he would give him a little money , and he gave him a sovereign . When he had obtained the money lie joined Sullivan , who asked him how much he had got , and he told him a sovereign . He replied that he ought to have got more , and ho believed he had . He then gave Sullivan ten shillings . A week or ten days after this he went to the shop with Jones , and Jones asked for some more , money , and the prosecutor said he had not got any , and Jones replied that he must give some money . The prosecutor then gave them a half sovereign and some silver , and the amount was divided between them . Witness had known
Laidler before these transactions . About the 1 st of March he was at a ball , and saw Bennett and Laidler there ; and Bennett said , alluding to Laidler , " there is a young man who has no _objection to take the part of a solicitor , and we can do the old man out of £ 40 or £ 50 .- Laidler replied that he would do so , and Bennett said that Jones would act as clerk . After this had occurred Jones and Laidler went to the prosecutor , and witness remained outside . He had seen Sullivan before this , and he said it would be a very good dodge to get some one to act as a solicitor , as there was a woman in the case . ' When Jones and Laidler went in Sullivan and ' witness remained outside . Sullivan had previously told Laidler to go in and get some money , and to mind and not come out without it . When
Laidler came out . ho produced a sovereign , and said that was all he could get ,, and they then went to a public-house and shared the sovereign . Upon the same night . Jones , ' Sullivan , Laidler , and witness : hiet again , by appointmentj at a piiblichouso , in Long-acre , and it was arranged that they should go again to the old man , and that Laidler was to draw up an I O U for £ 50 , in case the prosecutor- should not . have so much money in house . An IO U was first drawn up for £ 40 . When they left the public-house they went to the pro secutor ' s shop , Sullivan , Bennett , Jones and witness . Laidler came by appointment , and ho and Jones went in , and witness , Sullivan , and Bennett remained outsido . In about ten minutes they came out of the shop _,, and Laidlor told Sullivan that he
had told the woman all about it , and then turned to ¦ A / _"l , ¦ " * i " ? ° ! - _H _™*? ' you must come in . " At first he refused _. _but afterwards ho went in , Bennett accompanied him , Laidler and Jones talked to the woman privately , and he . saw tears in her eyes , and she appeared . very much affected . The prosecutor was standing , by the counter when this took place - and he appeared rather nervous . Laidler asked , him for some money , and he replied that he had , not got any , and Laidler then said ho would draw up an IOUfoi \ £ 40 , and onoof tho others said '" . _^ he for £ 50 . , Laidler then drew up an IU U for £ 40 , and Jones drew up oiie for . £ 50 ; A paper was here produced , and the witness
idehtitied j * . _'¦» _"" 'the ' . I O U drawn up , by Jones . A sovereign was then demanded of the prosecutor , arid he said he had no ' t . gota sovereign , but he would give huh some , silver . ' On . this ' same evening tlio proseoutorgaye Laidler . a £ 10 no _$ e , and they then left the ; shop , and joined Sullivan outside ,, and they " , all went ; to a coffee-shop ,, when Jorios told SuiJiran they had boon to the old man ' s arid hail made . him . givo tlierir an'I 0 ,: U for ; £ 50 ; and Sulli . van ; : replied , ' ., •« Theni of course 1 _, ' _stand in , " , and . Jones _' and Laidler replied , ! ' " , tcB . " ' , On : the _following day Jones , _^ Bennett , i Laidler _^ Sullivan _^ aiid w itness . weni . tb . thepr . oseci- ; ' tor '' s , sh 6 p , _\ and ; Lai'diorarid . _^ went _, in _r and : thej " others remained outside . - When _Johea and Midlercabo . ' out they , said thoy had' ' got _tfffinW . _fiVe shil-
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lings , and that amount was _Bhared _betwponTT _^" They all met . after this ; _atlLaidler ' s house _aS , i _*?" - saw each other almost every , day . On the ni i" J was taken into custody , Laidler and Jones * _^ the prosecutor ' s , and Sullivan , Bennett ZT ttfi ness stayed outside . Jones came out in - ? V * - * time and told them they must come in f-J _>?& money was there read y and waiting , With first refused , but at last fie agreed to go in wiM ? _^ two others . When they got into the shop _Afr , j _^ asked them to walk into the parlour , and th $ i so . Mrs . Legg then said , "Now , gentlemen T * _- an explanation of the case . * who ig the _soiioii _^ and Laidler said ho was . She then wi shed to I- ?" what demands they had upon her uncle -m . i ° """ them said £ 24 . Mrs . Legg asked LaidS ? S ? of his chambers wero . and lm cni . i ;_ / -.. " "" ere
, St . Martin _' _s . lano . At this moment iwll _^ came forward , and took them into cLn ; . Mary Legg was _^ hen recalled , and her evident * l ' _^ firmed the statement ofthe previous witnesT n * tho extortion of money at various times fro * ° prosecutoiv-Sergeant Thompson , ofthe P SJJ of police , doposed that he and another _coS . * named Brown , concealed themselves behind If " tain in the parlour of the prosecutor ' s hous _/„ the night in question , and they heard -vkt ? ? place ; and he confirmed in this respect the _eviH k given by the last witness . Upon searching Laid _«\ Found the . 10 Ufor £ 50 and a letter in his _PS ° As they were going tothe station-house , _Laito _inquired if Sullivan was taken , and witness told _hS- * he believed he was . He replied , " I am glad ofM _? ho was the general ; but with all his _eenenU- ' ho is taken at last . " He aftorwards _sewS ? _T boxafcLaidler ' s lodging , and found the ac-reeml _? that had been produced . He had seen the ( Sa - in company together , and had frequently seen to nett dressed in different military uniforms . _-AnnttT
constable proved that he apprehended BennettTi that he said "he was let into that secret and _v , wished he had staid at home . "—Mr . Samuel _Wvati tho prosecutor , was then called , and he was briefly examined as to the _^ circumstances under which hi first became acquainted with the prisoner Tiddiman He also spoke to seeing all the other prisoners » 1 peatedly at his house and to their demands fo * money . —Mr . Baron Piatt summed up , and the iurv immediately returned a verdict of'" Guilty" a « ' ns ( _- all the prisoners . His lordship then addressed the prisoners , and said he would not make any allusion to the disgusting nature of the offence of which they had been convicted , and it would be quite sufficient for him to say that after a very long and Da _^ tient inquiry the jury had found them guiltv , and
it now became nis duty to make such an example of them as would be calculated todeter miscreants of the like kind from levying contributions in future upon those who , as in the case ofthe prosecutor in the present _instance , had not the nerve to meet such demands in the proper manner . Taking into consideration , therefore , the nature of thc case , and all the circumstances connected with it , he felt it his duty to order Sullivan , Bennett , Jones , and Laidler , to be transported for . the term of their natural lives . With regard to Tiddiman , considering , but at a late hour , certainly , that he had rendered all the assistance in his power to further the ends of justice , and that he had made some atonement for his share in the transaction , by giving evidence and impeaching his _comnfininn-j . thA
nnnishment would riot be to that extent . The evidence of such persons was necessary in some cases , arid the ends of justice required that ' when their evidence was made use of , that some consideration should be shown them . It was utterl y impossible , however , to pass over such an offence without adequate punishment , and under all the circumstances the judgment of the court upon him was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for two years . —His lordship then directed Mary Legg , the niece ofthe prosecutor , to stand forward , and after observing that it was mainl y through her that this gang of miscreants had been brought to justice , and that she had thereby rendered a great public benefit , he . directed that she should receive a _i _* eward of five pounds .
The Riot at Grienwich Fair . — William Battersby , 21 , Thomas Hart , 28 , and James Purcell , 29 , marines ; and Henry Taylor , 18 , Matthew Cowdy , 26 , William Lemon , 22 , James O ' Brien , 20 , Samuel Eobinson , 25 , William Jamieson , 21 , Evan Evans , 19 , John Watt , 24 , Thomas Hart , 28 , Jarhe 3 Purcell , 29 , John Martin , 21 , Kennedy Wilkinson , 22 , Edwin Grippen _, 21 , William Wedd , 20 , Henry Tipping , 21 , were jointly indicted for a riot and assault . The prisoners pleaded "Rot guilty . "—Mr . Nelson Lee said he had been most unwillingly brought forward , although ho would not admit that any blame was attributable to his _cIowb , and also begged to state that he had been a considerable loser by the injury done to his show : still he had no wish
to . press the charge . —The Recorder said he had looked over the depositions , but could not find out how the affray first began . —Mr . _Ifclson Lee was then sworn , and said the first he saw of the matter was a soldier driving the hat over the eyes ofa civilian , who remonstrated , and thon some one struck him , and a general fight followed ; and he thinking that by getting the person into his booth they might have got him out another way , and so end the quarrel . The soldiers then got up the step , and beat every one , and haying cleared tho place commenced breaking the lamps , and continued their violence until overpowered by the civilians and police . He did not know if the man who was _bonneted had g iven any offence to the soldier . —Several other witnesses deposed to individual acts of
violence on the part of the soldiers , and identified Lawson , Rippon , Evans , O'Brien , and Jamieson , as having committed actual assaults , and added that for the three . days the soldiers had gone in a body through the fair , assaulting everybody . —Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Parry said those who had been pointed out should plead ••¦ guilty , " for though there had been a mutual aggravation , thoy could not as lawyers justify their conduct . —A verdict of •¦ Guilty " was taken against the five identified , and an acquittal on the part of the others . —The Recorder then bound the defendants over to keep the peace for twelve months , and he hoped that for the future this would serve as a . lesson for them to act with more temperance and discretion . —The recognisances were then entered into and they were discharged .
_Bioamy . —John Smith Marl , SS , carpenter , was indicted for feloniously marrying Mary Ann Hog , his wife being then and now alive . —Mr . Ballantine defended . —It appeared that the prisoner was married to his first wife , at Trinity Church , Maryleta _f _" _- on the 18 th of November , 1832 , and had children by her ; and it did not appear that he was separated from her even at the time of his second marriage , which took place at Bloomsbiiry in February last . — The jury found him " Guilt y , " and he was sentenced to twelve months ' , imprisonment . Highway Robbery with Violence . —Jane Knight , 21 , was indicted for robbing _Chaijles John Cowell , upon tho Queen ' s highway , of three sovereigns and a half , and the indictment alleged that at the time of committing the robbery the prisoner s ' ruokand beat tho prosecutor . —The jury found _tlBSti'jner " Guilty , " and she was sentenced to beUJW _9 porte d for fifteen years .
Robbery of Plate . _—^ Edward Dawson , 23 , and George Parraty , 22 , were indicted for stealing » quantity of plate , tho property of James Miller . — The prosecutor of this indictment is a physician in Welbeck-street , and it appeared that on the 22 nd of March , between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon during tho temporary absence of one ofthe servants , some thieves contrived to get access to the pantry from the area , and stole a good deal of p late . The prisoners were met the same afternoon
by a police constahle , who , knowing their character , stopped them , and endeavoured to take them into custody . Pawson ran off , but was stopped by another policeman , and Parraty , who had endeavoured to assist his companion in getting away , was also secured ; and upon . 'searching Dawson , tbe whole ofthe stolen property was found upon him . — The jury returned _, a"Verdict . of " Guilty" against both prisoners , and Parraty , who had been hefore convicted , was sentenced _' to be transported for ten and Dawson for seven years ,
Bubglary—R . Newman , 19 , porter , Jane Phillip " 1 , IS , spinster , and B . Gardner , 18 , smith , were indicted for burglary in the dwelling-house of William Cox , and stealing therein a quantity of boots and shoes . It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor and the police that the prosecutor keeps a boot and shoe warehouse in Eield-terrace , _Bagmgge Wells-road , and on the 5 th of this month the policeconstable , observing one of prosecutor ' s shutters removed arid standing near the door , went to the place , and there found that one of the sIiod windows had been broken out , and the contrivance for p , re « venting the noise that would arise from breaking out a square of glass was a novel and most artful one . The square intended to be broken had been
first plastered oyer thickly with . ' mud , and then covered with sovoral . folds of paper , and had beea so broken out ; arid was laid down by the side ; th police then roused tho prosecutor , who fourid that all the property within reach had been taken out . Tho officer having seen all four prisoners ; who _w * known to him , near the spot where the robbery _fif-d been committed a , short timo . before , went to where they all lived in Paradise-street ; -Gray ' s-innroad , and , on knocking at the door , heard some one g o to the back of the premises . : Haying got & they found three ofthe parties in-the front parlour
and one coming irom . the yard . ' Upon _searcbin _?! some of the . shoes were found in the parlour _. ' and the rest had been thrown down the _water-closet . - Tho .. jury . found them all *¦ Guiltv " —The officer ? o . o Galifiner hau h ' convicted at this court in 1818 ... They were part of a most desperate gang of thieves , and were the _tori-orof _thenofrhbourhood . - Tho prisoner Gardner ' waa then •' sonterieed , to ten years transportation _^ and the . other . _thi- _^ tb _^ sere" _! —Moms , upon" hearing his seriterice , "deferentially raised hishand to ' _his head-and said , ''Beg pardon , my , lord , hut can't you make mine fen ? " His wishhowever , was not _acceded to . . ; -, - " ¦ ' : ¦¦ ' ¦ , This corioluded the ¦ busiriess _'/ _' of ; the session , and the ; count stands adjourned . until Monday / May , 6 w *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_20041850/page/6/
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