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1 S 0 . 0 K 8 IS . A wtol' _VisiTATio'V . —Uy Mr Baker , at the Cumberland Head , City-road , on Thomas Small , ( G 7 . ) » Milter , lately employed by Messrs De la Rue , of _Bunhill-row . Oa Friday night last , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , the night watchman , while patrolling the premises , discovered the deceased lying on hi « face , in the _cslour-mill quite insensible . An alarm Tna raised , and a . surgeon was called , who _prenounced _dm-ased to have been dead several hours . The ¦ witJow stated that at five o ' clock on Friday evening he came home to tea , and that when he left to return to his employment he appeared perfectly well . > cr-¦ dicr ' * Found dead . " i
Faw * AcciDKsr . —By iff . Baker , at the same place , on a man unknown , who was killed in the foilow ' a * ' shocking manner . On the evening of Tuesday _deceased was _cro-sing the City-road , near Castleatreet , when he fell between th <* fore and hind wheels ofa timber carriage passing along the road at the same instant . _Although the driver stopped lug horses as soon as possible , the wheels of the vehicle _tttfocd over the unfortunate man ' s body . kiliing him _instint-inemsly . Every endeavour haa been made to find out who the deceased was . but without success Iiis age was about thirty-five ; be was five fee ; seven inches high , and was clad in moleskin _sim-lar'to what is worn by engineers . Verdict ' _«• Accidental death . "
_Ihs Merdxk is Shoeeditch . —By Mr Baker , at the Old King John , _ilolywell-laue , on William _Cabart , who was shot en Wrdnesday week bv Thomas Brcoks , now in custody , in Hare-alley , Shereditcli . The _evidence adduced was little more than a recapitulation of that given before the magistrate , and whieh has already appeared in the Nor thern Star . The jury ultimately returned a verdict of " wilful murder * ' against theprisoner . Thepri _aon * r wa * on Tuesday examined at Worship-street Kb new facts wero _adduced ; and Mr Broughton _follv _connni ' _-ted the prisoner ta Newgate .
ACCIDEST 05 THE _EAtTEllS CorjSTIBS RAILWAY . — On Tuesday , by Mr Biker , atthe London Hospital , en the body of William Prior , aged 35 , a labourer on the Eastern Counties Railway . The decease ! had entered one of the trucks of a coal train , which was strictly prohibited by tho company . The trucks opened atthe bottom to allow the coals to fall through , and were not considered safe for any one to ride in . William Perry said thatthe deceased and himself , on th ? evening in _qud'tion , bavin ? missed a train
that w . is to have conveyed them to London , got into one .-if the coal trucks . Shortly afterwards , _wiii-e _.-s fell asleep . When thc train arrived at Ponders End , the flip atthe bottom of the truck he was in mnst £ _»* ,-- given way , and the remainder of the trucks , 22 in number , have passed over deceased ' s leg . Air Pay , ho . ise _* 3 urger > n , _!* aid that when _the'deceased was admitted the lett leg had a compound fracture ; amputation was res-r ted : o , bnt deceased expired on the M _' . h instant , from tbe effects ofthe injuries received . . _" -V . _Tdict , ' - Accidental death . "
FvrAi . Effects of _Istoxicatios . —By Mr Wakley , M . _T , at the _Brickl-iyers" Arms , Gresse-street , Oxford-street , on the _illecitimate infant of Mis Read , a _d-css maker , living with a man named Allen , at 32 , _'Jresse-strsit . From the evidence it appeared tha : on last Monday aud Tuesday week the mother was si drank that _alellow lodger to » k the child away and ft 6 it . Shortly after nine o'clock she gave the chiV . _- i to _tu-i molher . who was lying , in bed insensibly dra"k . Shortly afterwards Allen returned home quLe drunk , and went to bed in the dark . Between ten uid eleven o ' clock 'the wretched mother awoke , and found heir infant _desd at the toot of the bed . Mr l _'< plow , surgeon , who performed a post mortem examin ition , could not find the cause of death , as all
the organs _prestn ' cd a bea ; thv appearance , but from the - vMetice he was induce ! to think that the child had been overlaid and smothered . The jury retired , and _xfter souvj deliberation returned the verdict , " _Th-it the deceased died while its parents _wer-j in a stale of intoxication , but there was no evidence to pro ** - whether its death was natural or otherwise . " Fmi Effects of _Pwtkg at " Car . "—By Mr . BaVtr on James Bonny , son of a pastr ) cr ok , living at 39 . _Princri-street , Mile-end- The deceased , on _We- 'uesday last , was playing afc ** cat , " when in 8 to < _- -iin _£ down tostrike the p ! a * thing , a jieceof wood _poitiedat < achend , hishc-id came in contact with ths waccl of a cart , and he was _knor-ked down , when the vehicle _pamed over his back , _killing hira almost ins ! : * ' _*? ii * eou-iy . Verdict " Accidental death . "
Fatal Gab Accident . —By Mr Bedford , on Jerejnh Oii _' . _nin-iham , a pauper in the _Strand Union . On _Wednesday Jast deceased wascro .-s _' mg Long-acre at ' h' moment wh _<** n one of ilansom . s cabs drove pas turning down James-street . The deceased was ca'i ; l io , bat instead of _running back , he nn directly _agaisist the wheel , which knocked him down . Four oi li- ribs were broken , and he died of the injuries in K * nit ' s College Horpital . Verdict— " Accidental dea _* :.. " SCiCIDE BV k COMMERCIAI . Ci . _™* .. —By Mr W . Carter at the George Tavern , Lambeth-walk , on Mr G . _Mej-jsvan , lately residing at 10 , Bolwell-terrace , Princes-road . The deceased had formerly been in the < _-crvice oi Mr Mortimer , a si li .-Hor , who had
latter !*; _discharged him , which , circumstance preyed hea * _- i ! y on his mind . On Sunday afternoon , _durintthc absence ofhis wife , he inflicted a severe wound on the si « ie of his neck with a small clasp knife , _vrhiUt in the _bedrr-om , where be was subsequently fonn-1 lying on the floor in a pool of blood . A 6 uigeon w _' s cal ed in , but the deeeased died at ten o ' _clock the same night from the effects ofthe injulie '* , which separated the carotid artery and other _brat-fiit _"* " ofthe neck . Before he expired he became _con-i'icu ** , and exclaimed , " Let me die in the arms of my wife , " and repeatedly said , " Why did you not watch me ? " The deceased was a very sober man , and Hid been in a deranged state for a considerable period , arising from the jus * of his situation . Verdict ** Temporary insanity . "
P ATK TROM _OvKPJOT AT BbKISO A IiOVEK . — _SisoCLAn Ca _<* _e—W . Payne , Esq ., at the King of Derma k , 0 ! d Bailey , on Jane Nicholson , aged 23 , ¦ wh ' .-e death _tojfc place under t _' _ne following singular eiR : '' _. _* . _'stances : — It appeared froa the _evidence , that , the de * oeas » d had been _atayini with Mr Piper , bak r , of No . 19 , in tbe Old Bailey , and was in the enj r ; ment of the best of health aud spirit ? . On Sundav _' _-vening last , between five _^ and six o ' clock , a _youi- _*** man , named Alfred Brit ton , c lied for the pn _ ) S" of escortin ; her home to _lier mother ' s residence _, in Augustus-street , _Re-ient ' s Park . Mrs . Fit _t-r te ! d her she need not stop and wash up the tea _' _Jiir . gs , but might go upstairs and put on her bonnet . The d ; cased r . _tn up stairs to do so , and almost imw _-diateiy after a heavy fall was beard , and on Mt- * Piper R ° i"g up stairs , the deceased was found lyiu / 'i '' " _-n the staircase lifeless . iVedical assistance -wan -vomptly obtained , but the poor girl had ceased
to exist . Mr _Watkras , the sun-eon , who was called in , _** _' _* . _iei Vic could not give the slightest _opinion as to the _enuse of death without a post mortem examination- The countenanceof the deceased was _remarkahlv placid when ho saw ber ; indeed , she seemed Biore like a person asleep . She mhht , have taken pru-icacid . The coroner—If fhe had , you would have _tv-en ahle to have detected it by the smell . Mr Warkins—Oh dear , no ; the smell would have gone off in a short time after it was taken . The coroner — " 1 . at is very different to what I have always under-. sto" _- ' _* - I have had many cases where th ; taking of Tjrn _** fi * _adJ h is been proved _sol- * ly by the smell in the mouth . Mr . Piper said the deceased was of too _bapi _. y a disposition to think of destroying herself . The coroner left it to the jury to say whether they thought there was any suspicion in the case , or any _neces- > ity for a post mortem examination . The jury _tho-. _ti ;! t there was none _. and returned a verdict of" Natural _diatb . "
A Female _Bcrm to Death . —By Mr W . Payne _, the _City _Corona , in the Board-room of Guy ' s llos-Eital , 'in the body of Mary Rutland , aged 44 years , _iteiy residing at No . G , Grove-street . _lX-ptf-ird , who lost her life under the subjoined circumstances : — The deceased was a _lodging-housc-kee- _'cr , and was much subject to fits of epilepsy , for which & ke had been under thc sure ofa neighbouring surgeon . On _^ Wednesday night , the 17 th inst ., she was sitting in front of tha fire reading , when she was suddenly f eized -with an attack of that fearful malady , and inthe
absence of her _daughter tbe deceased fell un the fire , ¦ which instantly ignited her wearing apparel . She remained in that awful nosition fur several seconds , when ** he rolled to thc floor , when the whole of her dress was consumed , and her person literally roasted and blackened from the action ofthe fire . She subsequently recovered from the fit . when ber streams _bro-ight several persons to her aid . Mr Wood , a surgeon , was called in , who advised ber removal to the above hospita ' , when she died on Monday from the injuries she had sustained . The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
_Mklancholv Accidb . it . - —Mr Carter on Tuesday held an _iuquest in the Union Workhouse at Wandsworth , as to the death of Joseph Adams , aged 43 . The _deceased was in the service of Mr _Cuapm-in , at _Kwkrnaoswortb . On Tuursd * y hedrove to Streatham , and whilst he was getting hold of the reins , he fell from the cart , and tne wheel passing over his head _sana-iii'd it to pieces . "' Accidental death . " Dkath nr a Fail fbom a Cast . —Mr Carter held aa inquest on Tuesday at the King ' s Head , Longlane , Bermondsey , on the body of Philip Day , aged 35 . The deceased was driving a cart up by the Great Western Railway , and in going to the back part , the tail board came off , and he fell with great violence to the ground . lie was so seriously injured that he died fiom the effects of the fall . ** Accidental death . "
Deatb »* BsixroK Gaol . —On Tuesday an inquest waa held before Mr Carter in the Brixton ilouse of Correction . The deceased was John Foster , aged 31 . He had been sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment _ the Sessions for felony , but he was attacked with « ropsy ofthe skin , of whieh he died on Sunday , lie _appeared to have had every attention in medical skill , _" Katarald _* h ? , sinkiD _*? fran e " _-l- " _* . _^ Verdict , _„ n _« V _£ t _^* - _** - _* * At Sax-Mr Baker held an in-2 _ff _nMAW ? - - _** .. _* ¦ - _}• - _* - Hospital , on the _Wy of John Gilbert Middleton , aged 37 , acuddymao
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of a ship at present in the East India Dock . About six weeks since , whil < t the vessel was about five degrees north of the line , the deceased fell with his < erra against the boof of the ship , winch strained it very nil'Ch _, and eaused it to become swollen . When the _vessel arrived in London ho waa removed to the above hospital , where he "died from the injury he had received . Verdict" Accidental death . "
ACC 1 DF . ST 3 ASD OPFESCKS . _BiH-flti _' . r . —Between three and four o ' clock on Sunday morning a daring burglary was committed at ths honse of eMrs Owers , Rose aud Crown Tavern , Kew-green . The _pre'imcs were entered at the rear , which abuts on the towing path , along the Surrey side of the River Thames ; the" thieves left the same way , taking with them a dozen stiver _tea-spoons , six silver ttable-spoons , two silver salt-spoons , all marked " » . II . 0 .,- " a large plain gold ring , with an emerald stone , a flat gold ring with hair round it , * Bold guard-chain , link pattern , five shillings in farthings , and three shillings in halfpence . The thieves left behind them two hats and a ne *» v centrebit .
t Di . TEi _[ UisEn Suicide . — On Sunday about one o ' clock , a gentleman of the name of Macrean , restding at No . 10 , Bolwell-terrace Lambeth-walk , committed suicide , by running a knife several times into his throat . It appears that the deceased had for _> omc time been suffering from illness , and was in a very dejected state . Mr Thompson , a surgeon , of Lambeth-walk , was called in , who _attended deceased , j but without avail . He lingered until ten o ' clock that night when he expired . _^ Thb _SnnmriELn Nuisasce . — A very distressing circumstance , arising from the driving of cattle to !
and from Smithfield _through the crowded streets , adds another fatal case to the numbers which have occurred from thii long existing nuisance . A young woman , named Lott , residing in Tudor-street , Blackfriars , and who was about seven months advanced in pregnancy , went out in good health and spirits to Fleet-street on an errand . She there became so alarmed by an ox from a drove , approaching the pavement , that it was with difficulty she retraced her steps home , when _shewasprematurely delivered , and notwithstanding the utmost of medical skill , she could not rally from the shock , but expired . Tho infant is likely to do well .
Robberies . —On Tuesday information was _recaiveei by the police , that the kitchen of tbe house of W . Baith , Esq ., 12 , Chester-place , Kenning ton , had been entered , and robbed of two half-sovereigns , _eai rings broach , s me silver , and memorandums . On the 21-st , frora the shop of Mr Pawson Cover )' , Neir Bond-street , an _extensive quantity of cloth ; and from the sh -p of Mr Buckingham , hosier , ol 14 . Baker-street , Por . man-J . qu . ire , under the pretence that the articles were to be sent to a respectable liouse referred to , six coloured shirts , six whito ditto , six _naivofclivcs , and some silk handkerchiefs .
Sudden Dkath w a _Babj-hobsb . —Shortly before 12 o ' clock on Tuesday night a man of the name of George Parsloe , a foreman in tho employ of Mr Creak , of 2 S , Kins ' n-row , Walworth , baker , expired _suileJenly under the _following circumstances : —The deceased , according to custom , arrived from hia home in Portland-itrect , Walworth , and entered the bakehouse to attend to his usual avocations about twenty minutes before 12 ( Mr Creak being there . ) Ou enteriou , the deceased proceeded to the trough , and remarked that the sponge was not ready . Mr Creak left tbe bakehouse , but had not been absent more than a minute when he heard a . * _-trange
gurgling sound proceeding frora the bakehouse , and becoming alarmed he returned , and there saw the deceased standing near the trough evidently in a state of _suffocation , blood issuing from his mouth _, lie immediately caught the deceased in his arms , and awoke his brother , who was lying asleep on the board , and sent for Mr Adey . surgeon residing _nxt door , who promptly attended , but his services were of no avail , as the deceased expired within three minutes of the attack from suffocation ,, _procured from the bursting ofan internal blood vessi-I . The d ceased was about 4-5 , and has left a wife and two children wholiv unprovided for .
Loss of Life by Fike . —On Wednesday morning , about ten o ' clock , a shocking and fatal accident occurred to a child named Robert _Q' _-in , aged six years , whose parents reside at Lovington Cottage , _Watcrlcostrcet , Camberwell . It appears that the deceased was left by his mother in a room by himself , and during her tempotary absence the child ( as usual } commenced playint _; with a piece of lighted paper , which set his pinafore on fire . lie ran down stairs enveloped in a body of flame to the yard , where one of the lodgers _rolled him into a tub of water , by which means the flames were extinguished , but not before the tool' child was most frightfully burned over the whole _« f his body , lie was placed in a blanket and t : iken with ail care to Guy's Hospital , where he expired in a few hours after his admission .
_AIelakciiolt Attempt at Suicide . —On Tuesday afternoon , Mr Benjamin Ilandky _. a watch and clock manufacturer , residing at Victoria Cottage , Oxfordstreet , St . Pancras , attempted self destruction under the following melancholy circumstances . For a l ong time past tlie unfortunate man hns laboured under a most painful disorder , which at times produced the most excruciating agony . During one of the paroxvsms on Tuesday , the poor fellow procured a raior and cut bis throat , dividing the windpipe and all the prircipal arteries . lie was removed to the University College llospital , and attended by Mr Wil-Hams and Dr Liston , but the injury to his throat is of such a nature that he lies in the most precarious state .
Gig _Accwesxs . —On Wednesd _.-y _evening , a horse and gig , driven by a gentleman in a state ef intoxication , knocked a poor woman down in _Uolborn _. near the end of Gray ' s-lnn-Lane , who , upon being picked up , was found to be in an iusensible state , and so seriously iujured that it was found necessary to carry her to the hospital . The gig proceeded at a rapid rate towards Oxfo : d-strcct , knocking down a man near the end of _Bloomsbury-strcetwith a basket of oranges , who was also seriously injured . At the corner of Crown-street , the police succeeded in stopping the giir , and the driver , who waa much inebriated , re- used to give name or address . Ue was conveyed to Bow-street police station , aud the horse and gig taken to the green yard .
Child _Droppiso . —On Wednesday _rnorniag , _bstweensixand Beven o ' clock , a female infant , apparently _abaiit twenty-one days old , wa 3 found abandoned by the policeman on duty in the Cambridge Heath-road , near the Red Deer public-house . A female , supposed to be the mother , was noticed watching the result , but directly she _Baw that she was observed made off , and effected her escape . The child , which was comfortably clad , is now in the _Bethnal-gresn workhouse . _Deate _frou Fear of Coxtacioj _* . —Last week Mr Watson , organist of the Philanthropic Cbapel , St . _Gcerge ' s fields , went to Brighton to see a friend who was labouring under a severe attack of small-pox , which had such an effect upon him that on his return home be was attacked with delirium , and expired about ten o ' clock on Tuesday morning last .
Discovert of IIuman Bonks . —On Monday considerable excitement prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of the Queen ' s Bench Prison , in consequence of the greater portion ofa human skeleton being found in a garden in front of one of the houses in Belviderc-place . From inquiries made on the spot , it appeared that Mr Bayliss , a cabinet-maker residing in Belvidere Cottage , nearly opposite the Queen's Prison , was digging up the ground in front of his residence , about eight o ' clock that moraing , when in turning up the earth he discovered a human skull , which appeared to have been that of a female , but without any portion of the jaws or lower partoi the skull . Feeling surprised at finding that portion of the human form , he made a further search , and
in digging a little deeper , he discovered two thighbones , arm-bones , and several ribs , which , from tbeir appearance , seemed to have been buried many years . The cottage in _question has not been occupied by Mr Bayliss more than three months ; but , prior to that , had been tenanted by a person , named Lindon , nearly fifteen years . The person residing at thc next house informed the reporter that , about six months ago . the greater portion of a human skeleton was found near the same spot , and it was tlieir belief that they had been brought from some of the over crowded grave-yards in the Borough . ] Moba _** . Lodging House . —The new model lodging house , in George-street , St . Giles , ofthe Sooiety for the Improvement of the Labouring Classes , is nearly
completed , and will shortly be opened . It will accomodate one hundred labouring men , each of whom will have a separate sleeping place , with the use of a large living room , a kitchen , store room , washing room , and every necessary convenience . The 9 um to be charged will be 4 d . per night , less in some instances ; the rate now charged in common lodging houses in St . Giles , and other low localities , for beds crowded together in miserable and unventllated rooms . Thecost of the building will ( independent of the site of ground which was purchased for £ l , 2 t 0 j , amount to about £ 5 , 500 , of which little more than £ 3 , 000 has as yet been raised by subscription . Amongst the principal subscribers aro Prince Albert , £ 100 , and the Corporation oi Loudon , £ 300 .
New Catholic Chapsl . — The long-pending negociation for the purchase ofa piece of ground in King Edward ' s-road , Mare-atrcet , Hackney , for the erection of a building for Catholic worship , has been effected , and the _foundation stone laid a few day * ago . A supper to the workmen engaged was given at thc Dolphin Tavern , on Monday night .
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_SnocKixo Suicide . — Between two and thr ee o ' clock on Thursday morning , Mr Sparks , of Dui _' . ' iey near Birmingham , committed suicide by _cutti ' dg faw throat , at tho beer-shop , 3 , Bridge street , Blackfriars , kept by Mr Merry weather ; _surgio' _, aid Was called , but life was pronounced extinct- Sheriffs of _Lonnox for the _Exsrixo Ybar —At a recent civic dinner , the Lord M _& , yor drank to Mr William Cubitt , tho eminent _buil-ier 0 f Grfly ' . _* nn road , being the ancient mode of _puttiac in nomination for tho high ahd _dbtiiuruished office of one of the _sUarifla of LoBaQlli ami joiafc sherff of Middlesex .
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_UOBTHt'MBHRLAXD . [ Fatal . Boiler Explosion at Burbadok _Collisut . —On Saturday morning a fatal accideut occurred at the above colliery , by the bursting of one of the boilers used in working the engine of the pit , by which three persons wero killed . The colliery is situated about six miles north of Newcastle , and belongs to Lord Ravensworth and partners . The engine attached to the pit is of 90-horse power , and three boilers oflarge dimensions and ofan oval shape are used to work it ; but on the morning ofthe accident only two were in operation . A few minutes previous to the occurrence , ; he engineman , on examining the float , found the water more than a foot above the working mark , but as the steam was low he gave directions to tiie stoker , Robert Thomp- _* on ,
to raite the fires ; soon after which the boilers suddenly burst with a tremendous noise , carrying away part of the engine-bouse and chimney , killing three persons , and injuring , more or less , several of the workmen at the shaft . The boiler was torn into three pieces , and parts of it were blown a considerable distance into an adjoining field . On exaraiuing the place the Btoker was found almost buried in the ruins , dreadfully scalded and bruised , and quite dead ; a female named Praetor , wife ol one of the miners , who waa at thi place getting water , was lying a few yards from him . The other sufferer was a boy , about eleven years of age , named Gordon , employed at the bank . The engineman escaped , though much scalded in the face , and injured in the head . Several ofthe workmen were also seriously injured by the flying bricks , but arc all expected to recover . An inquest was held on the bodies . Veidict _, "Accidental death . "
_LANCASHIRE . LrVXRrOOL . — _MANSLAitOHTBR AUAIKSI' * ? OUCZM _* . s . —Lately , a lad , named Ryder , died at tlie Northern Hospital , Liverpool , from an injury on the head , received from a stone cast by Wat-brick , a _pojiceman , as the deceased and some other bets were sailing inthe Clarence-dock basin . Thi ? circumstances were brought under the cognisance of tho coroner , and a jury returned a verdict c * f manslaughter against the constable , who was committed for trial . Sickness asd _Mobtautt . —& o great is the mor . tality in the neighbourhood of St . _Jamci's-street , that one night last week , no less than tiuhteen " wakes" of dead bodies took place between Crosbie . street and Lower Parliament-street . The medioal
officers of the North _D-spe-naury apprehend that the past and present state of the peor population will result in producing a very severe epidemic of typhus lever , in tho warm months of June , July , and August . Bolton . —Condition of the Ossratives . —Tho Manchester Guardian says : Tho _meetings oftlie unemployed in Manchester , _hav-ing , apparently _,, excited apprehensions throughout the county , wo have been at some pains to ascertain the condition of the factory hands in the Bolton division . In the borough there are fifty-one cotton mills , of which number about fifteen- are running full time , and the remainder fcur and five days per week ; . not one , we are happy to say ,, being standing idle . In the
other portions of the division , comprising twentynine townships , there are fifty-five cotton mills . Of these twenty-six are in full work , nineteen running short time , and ten have stopped , in these twentynine townships 5 , 700 factory hands are computed to be in full work ; 1 , 300 are working short time ; and rather better tb . in 700 are eut of employment by the mills tbat havestopped . There are , however , a considerable numberof joiners , _Imeksetuers , _Aj c ., out of work , wliich with the high price of provision- * , causes a great amount of distress ; but there heing , happily , no political cause of discontent , the people bear their privations with admirable fortitude . Mill Accident . —Na adjourned inquest was held en Tuesdav morning *; before Air Chapman , touching the death of Elizabeth Coupe , who _wis-killed by the sudd nfail ofa part of a shed , erected about two years ago . as an addition to the mill of . Messrs Gray , m Pollard-street , Manchester . At the first inve ' s
ligation all the facts relative to tha accident had been taken , and _sha-ailjournmeni was for the purpose nf allowing scientific men to inspect and report « n the cause of the accident . The gentlemen employed were Mr Fairbum and Mr Hodgkinson . Both were of opinien that the accident was attributable to the giving away of theloner iron bearu ,. and that it would have been much better if the beam had been supported by pillars . Mr Hodgkinson was of opinion , however , that the immediate cause of the accident ivas to be found in tho fact that the tie-rods or trusses had be * : _n so fixed , at the time of erection , as to draw the beam a little to one side , and that the vibrai ion caused by the working of the machinery , together with the pressure , had increased this original _dtflea _* tion or curvature , and gradually waakened the part , until fracture took place , and the oonsequcist full ol that portion of the buildin _? incuini eut upon tho beam . A veidict to this effect was returned by the jury .
_DErtBT-niREA Steam Ixcenoiart . —An extraordinary _ronflngration was seen , on Saturday , in a field which adjoins the Midland railway , near B ; ink CJose . 'J'lic held had yielded a large crop of aftermath , which had never been eaien , and w _.-isconseqaently full of dried grass . A strong west wind was blowing when the express train swept by , and bore into the field some sparks from the _engins ; these ignited the grass immediately , and the fire spread with a swift _, ness which terrified the beholders . The hedges soon caught the flames , and burnt furiously , and the _resi-Jeneeof W . Drabble , Esq ., as well as a large haystack in the next field , were considered to be in danger . The fire destroyed all the verdure , and left the _heelj'es in a blackened state . Great exertions wove made before it was put out .
_TORKSGinB . Another Colliery Accident . —A few days ago an accident occurred in thc Broadgate coal mines , near Masborough , in consequuuee ot : ih explosion ol fire-damp . Seven men were badly burnt . Mon . women , and children rati from alt directions to ascertain who were the sufferers . The explosion was quite terrific . It occurred between six and seven o ' clock . Medical assistance was promptly in attendance , and the surgeon said they were in a precarious state .
WARWICKSHIRE . _Discovlrt or a Cave . —In making the _necessary excavations tor the construction of asewer in Leaselane , the workmen on Wednesday came upon the entr _.-iHceto a subterranean passage , at the end near Bell-street . On procuring lights , some of the men entered , and a recess was _discovered cut in the firmly embedded sand , about eight feet in length , six in width , _andeii-ht feet high , and having a shaft , now bricked over , communicating with the cellar of the house above . After a portion of the rubbish with which the excavation was nearly filled had been removed , Mr Pigott Smith , the town surveyor , proceeded to examine the passage , when it was found to be a long gallery , thirty feet below the hvel of
Bellstreet , extending , so laras could be measured , about forty-two feet _n-wards Spiceal-street , and apparently still more extensive The _height of tbe passage is about seven feet , having on either side eight recesses , of various dimensions . Such is this singular subterranean gallery , but for what purpose formed remains a mystery . On the surface of the soil there waa a thin layer of black powder , which proved to be decayed wood ; hence it may be inferred that a considerable length of time must have been required to reduce the timber to that state , as the porous and dry character of the soil is not such as to promote rapid decomposition . The workmen have siuoc been engaged removing the loose rubbish , and on . Saturday they found a great number of beef , sheep , < md fowl bones . An empty bottle was also discovered ,
which from us appearance would seem to . have been made many years ago . The body of the bottle is five inches in height anil fifteen in circumference , asd the neck three inches in length . Upon examination it was found to correspond exactly with the _uiukc of some bottles discovered lying upon tho skeletons dug up in Oxford-street a few months ago . Several pieces of fused metal and a large piece of chalk were also found . Up to a late hour on Saturday evening tho men had not reached further than forty-three feet , and then they had arrived at a point where the cavern would seem to be increasing in size . This part ot the passage , wherever it may lead to , is filled up with loose soil . Considerable curiosity having been excited by this discovery , we understand it is Mr Smith ' s intention to pursue thc excavation further _' _& _a
Horrible Case of _Pa-rkstal Cruelty . —The inhabitants of Rugby were _putfi into a state of considerable excitement a few days since by a report that a Captain . residing with hia wife and family in a house on the Bilton-road , had thrust his son ' s hand into the tiie , and held it there till the sinews were burnt . It appears that the little sufferer is between sc ** t > and eight years of age , and had incurred his lather ' s displeasure by telling a falsehood . In order to punish the boy tho unnatural parent tied a _handlscrchiel over his mouth , and then , seizing his arms , thrust his hand between the bars ofthe grate mtu the fire , where he held it till the sinews were _biifnt to so serious au extent as to render it a matter 'St considerable doubt whether the poor little fellow ' will nut be obliged to lose _ht 3 hand . Having completed his barbarous purpose , the father removed the handkerchief from his child ' s mouth , when a shocking spectacle was presented , the tongue being completely bitten through in the agony the child suffered and its mouth filled with blood almost to suif _ication .
The only notice , however , that its parent took of this was to tell the child that ' The pain it then suffered , was not a fiftieth portion compared to that which it would be subjected to in a future state . " What adds to the enormity of ihe offence is that thia said Captain professes to bo a _ver- religious character , and has for some time acted as home missionary for St . Matthew ' s district , Rugby , distributine ; tracts , visit iug _pcr-on ' s houses , and _exliQrtiug them to lead godly and spiritual lives .
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I OXF 0 B 9 BHIRX . I Tub _Gams-Laws . —The Secretary of Stato hss released Baker and Ilunt from Oxford gaol . _^ _*« y were committed from tho petty sessions atWood-Btock , on a game-law _charge preferred by Elliott , head gamekeeper for tho Duke of Marlborough . At the last petty sessions Elliott preferred a _game-law charge against T . Herbert , of Handborough , labourer , but it could not be proceeded with , in consequence of one of tho two _m-iRi _' atrates present refusing to act . The magistrate , T . Thomhill , bsq ., said , "I should be glad to see a discharge gent in every case of _oamo-law conviction . "
HEREFORDSHIRE . Robberies The bnuse of Mrs Bently , _Croxley Green , Rickmansworth , has been broken into , and a quantity of valuable property stolen therefrom , amongst which were five sovereigns and three half ditto , two silver gravy spoons , eight table , and six _desert ditto , all marked B . ; a silver cream jug , and a metal repeater watch , with tortoise-shell case with initials M . B . Also stolen from the person of Mrs B . Elliott , whilst at the Blaekhoath Institution , by three men , a purse containing _aix sovereigns and fifteen shillings in silver . SUSSEX .
I QuBENimKAD . _—Co-oPBBATiOif , —The shopkeepers i of this neighbourhood were alarmed on Thursday last by the announcement that a number of independent individuals had resolved to put their means together and supply the neighbourhood with the best flour and oatmeal at a nominal profit . And that , accordingly , they would commence retailing these articles at Mr Isaac Lilly ' s that night . This announcement threw tho shopkeeping fraternity into the utmost consternation . Some of ihe larger eraft met in secret confab to see what was to be done to avert this threatened invasion of their territories , when it was considered that the best plan would bo to ' crush the new company at tho outset by underselling them ; _accordinuly the bellman was dispatched announcin g the reduction . This announcement was met by a further reduction bj the co-operaf ors , who will not be so easy to conquer as their enemies hope for .
PovRWt ** of English LAB *>* 3 tfeaB—The labouring poor in the * Weald are _snfferin *? great privations _. The whole of their wages is abser 5 ed in the purchase of Hour , andthey have very _littJe indeed of any ether Rind of food' . Many of the men- with families go rework in the * mornrny without tasting oven bread , and return afc nmht to partake off a scanty meal . As the wages of _therrnllionsis now expended almost entirely forfood , —• for the barest _naaeesaries of life * ,- —• _tr-idfe is in a wretched state . The- general dealers , who always know the- sSate of thoir * _neighbourhood better than any one _elser state that Jdiey never _kiww the _trnie when tho working-classes laboured uncfer such privations as-at present .
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_anisnuRuii . 'Prut , of _Riotkhs—Fnf * vmous _SFN-nacB . — Orr Tiif 8 ' ! ay rat Edinburgh , before the Hiejr Court of Justiciary ; Jame * Falconer , A ' _nRUsDavidiion . Daniel Sutherland . _JohnTounc , and John Main ; all inhabitants _oFfcHe county of Elgin " ,: and the indictment « et forth that they had been guilty of _mobbing and riotimr , in bavin ? attempted , riotously andViolently , to prevent tile _ehipnrent ' of grain on board * a vessel lying at Furghead harbour : and also of the crime of _as-wilt _. irr Having attacked _thesheriff-snBstitute of Morayshire ,. the procurator-fiscal of the shire , and a superintendent of police ; The prisoners pleaded guilty , with- the exception of __ . _* araes Falconer , . who di i not plpad ' eiiilty to * the crime of assault . The prisoners Davidson , Sutherland : Young and Main , wpre sentenced to be trdnportcd' for seven yenrs each ; Falconer was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment .
_SKx-reNC'i _* , _ofDsatit : — A eir ) , named Elizabeth Yates , has been sentenced to death , by the High Court of Justiciary , for the murder of her illegitimate _fliild . a male infant of some eleven months of- age . The jury unanimously recommended' lier to mercy . Although pleading " Not-guilty" " afrher trial , the prisoner made a contrary declaration ( n being first apprehended ' . The declaration stated- that the devil was busy with her at tlie time , and from the father nf the child denyineher . and refu-ung to cive anything in support of it . she thought it was well to put the child * out of the world ; Fkvrr t » Glasgow ; - _—Ihisn _PkuPEni-iM . —Fever , which has raged in this-oity , during the whole-winter with more than ordinary serverity , is not abating as the weather imprftvoa with the advance of _sprinir . butis rather on the increase . All tlie increased ac *
CBramodafcions for patients which-public charity has been able to afford _anpears as yet to have been inadequate-to the exigency . One melancholy consequence of'this state of thing * has of late begun-to _shotvitsfllfin the deaths of _personsoccupyinsr respectable _posul-ions in life , whose official duties have placed t _*? em in the way of the _cuntagion-. Besides oases of this nature that might be referred' to as having happenedwrithin the Jast two or three weeks , we understand that during the la-it fewdays the Lieutenants at tho Central and _frorbals Police-officea havo in
several instances been attacked , and one ofthem ( Mr M'Lean of the latter establishment , who was in _pi-rleefe health a week ago ) , has died of fever-in some one of if s form ' It appears that hords of Irish paupers still find _opportunities of locating themselves ammws-t . us , _notwithstanding all that has been said and done to prevent the evil ; and thpre enn be nn doubt that , if the disease is not imported by these rorsons . it is at least fo . « tered and propagated by them to a most alarmisg extent ., and that the _lolgincr-house system is tho principal medium of its diffusion .
Glasgow . _—FuronTFOi , Coach _Acchm-ht . —Two Pfrr' _-ns SkvbkkiiT _iNjimRrx—On _Friday niaht ahout 8 o'clock , as one of Mr Bain ' s carriaoos was _standinc at the _Wellineton Arcade , in Sauchie-hall-streot , and while the driver was off the box , some boys throwing atones startled the hor . * e . a very spirited one , which started off at the gallop in the direction ef the Clelland Testimonial . _Arrrivins at which , it took the turn do « n Buchanan-street , and _dashing forward , it _knnr-ked down and ran over a man named John _M'llrny , who was so seriouslv injured that he had to be carried to the Royal Infimary , where it was found that his hurts were of a dangerous nature . The terrified animal continuing its career dashed down Rue ' _-ianan-strcpt , wliich is at present
undergoing repair . Tho affrighted _brate , however , _perceiv-ina - the barrier placed _acros _* " the street to prevent traffic , evaded the impediment by running on to the footpath , at that hour crowded with people , nnd sweeping alone the western pavement , came in contact with the iron ratlins at the Mon ' eith Rooms , which it instantly shivered . In his course down Buchanan-street , tho vehicle knocked over a girl named Elizabeth Mackenzie , who happened to be pnss ' _ns ;; whereby ah had both her less very severely , but we are glad tn learn not dangerously , bruised by the- concussion . In sueh a thoroughfare , and at such an hour , it is a miracle that there was not a great many injured , if not killed . The police , wc understand , are makint ; inquiries , ns to whether and how
far the driver was to blame for allowing the horse to run off . Fatal Colt . tert Acch > knt . — Two Men Kmi' & s'd-—On Saturday morning-, as one of tbe _of-Uici _* _- * employed at _Coltness Iroft works , named Dougal , was _gettin- _** into a cage to descend to his work , the engine is thought t > havo been unfortunately turned tho wrong way , and took thc case up instead of lettins it down , by which the poor man was _preeinitflted a distance of seveafy yards , and killed on the spot . Deceased has left a widow and three young children . Another accident occurred the snme _mom"n » at Olelland Colliety , by _Ilolytown , when a miner named Marrow was killed in descending the No . i pit , owing to a stone falling on him when going down . Deceased has left a widow and child .
_AFPALUNO IsCRItASS OF _fRVKB AND Dx . _lTIIS I . V DuKnKK . —During the first two months of this yenr death and pestilence have been making fearful ravages in this town . In January and February Inst year the deaths were 137 and 135 . while in tho _correspondinu months of this year , the numbers are 250 and 232 , and , in the first week of March , ( S 3 . The two extremes of old age and young children have _baen tho principal victims cut off ; and it is presumed , ns reported by the physicians of the infirmary , at the quarterly meeting of tho governors , held on Monday last , that numbers of these bave perished from a want of proper nourishment .
_CAlTHNESS-SHinH . Miran-sB . —This district ( Wick , Caithness ) has this week been thrown into a state of great excitement , by tho commission of one of thoso diabolical crimes which are fortunately of extremely raro occurrence in Scotland . Isabella Gunn , an old woman , apparently about sixty years of age , living in Achow of Swiny , in tho parish of Lutheran , has been made the victim ofa most atrocious , yet evidently de'iberate murder . Her resilience is at the end of the Free _scheol of Achow , situated about 200 yards from any other dwelling . On tho mornings of Sabbath , a school is taujht _. and it iscustotnary on that , as on other _morninus , for somo of the children to go to her room for fuel to kindle thc school fiie . Accordingly , on tho mornin-of Sabbath last , ono of the scholars went fer that purpose , and was surprised to find no
reply given to the customary salutation . Another cf his school-mates speedily followed , and liisoovercd thc body of the unfortunate creature lying under a quantity of straw which had been spread over her . She was dead . The ;\ uuw was immediately raised , and _forthwith a numuer ot the neighbours assembled . They found that the crime ol murder had boon that morning committed upon the lonelv woman , and judged that it could not have been ' of very late occurrence , as tho body was yet warm . The foul deed had evidently been committed by means of strangling , as a piece of ropo was found round the neck of the deceased . There wire marks of violence on other parts of the lace , one in particular on the chin , where , to all appearance , an iron instrument had been applied , Of . one of tho hands there was also a blue roavl ; , Several small sums of money , amounting , in ali , to upwards of two _poujiIb , were found _oudiffcvcutoaita of tho _decmed'a mx-
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son , and lying between tho body and the chest . A considerable time ago a forcible attempt was made to break into the liouse of the unfortunate woman , who has of late been livimr very retired , having refused to domicile with any other individual . In the district she was reputed to have been worth a little money ; but as she was of very penurious habits , and toalloutwara appearance in poverty , she was admitted lately on the pourV roll . It is said that since the attempt was made to rob her , she generally slept throughout the day . and sat up during the night . A young man had been apprehended and lodged m gaol , under suspicion of being connected with the murder .
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Donut _* , March 20 . —Thero is a vast incrcaae of fever in Dungarvan and Waterford . In the fever hospital ofthe latter place , there are 210 ill of that disease ; and so crowded is the hospital , that tho convalescent _^ patients sleep two in a bed . There are 500 paupers in the Waterford workhouse now beyond tho number at this time last year ; and on Friday , such w » s tlie number of applicants for admission to
the workhouse at Dungarvan , that two women enfeebled by destitution were crushed to death in the crowd—each applicant being eager to go before tlie guardians earlier than hia neighbour . A gentleman named Boate writes respecting Abbovside , Dungarvan , that that district will soon rival Skihbereen . There are , he says , from twenty to thirty deaths per day oocu rrin £ r there caused by starvation , and he adds that he bas recently met " half-naked women traversing the mountain cf Slieve Grtene , the only commo dities they brought from Dungarvan being co ffins on their heads . "
E _** % BmoN _* . —The current of emigration continues to proceed with great activity from Dublin , and ft number of the landlords , following the example of Lord De * Vesci , are eagerly occupied in providing for the transit of such of their tenants as avail themselves of the liberal treatment offered in a free _passatre , and money in hand en their arrival in the United States The ship Atalanta has sailed for New York with one hundred and fifty emigrants , all of whom defrayed the expenses of their voyage em their own account , and took with them , in the aggregate , a lanre > nm of money in specie . DTSCHABOK 03 * * LABOUnEIeB FROM TnR PUBLIC WORKS * .-According to letters received in Dublin on Tuesday morning frem Eiroerick . Tipperary , Cavan . Queen ' s County , Meath , and Mayo—tbe discharge of the Mo _' _. oOO _labourera from the public works' was going on peaceably .
8 TA 1 * I * OF TnK PROVINCKS . From the counties of Ga ' w *> y , Roscommon , Sligo . and Waterford , tiiere are _assain _afflicting accounts of the continuing" effects of famine ; and' in Cork and _Slft'O , particularly , typhus fever is rapine to a _rcaly _alarmins extent . I hould * remark , that , tnkine the country generally , there appears to be a decided deerease'ih the numberof deaths from starvation : and the vast importations of Indian corn * appears to have produced a seasonable relief .
j County-of _Galwat . —The Rev . T . Newell ; C . C , Im a letter to the Galway Merctiry , dated _'"Oran _* more , ' _lTtli March . " says : " — " About a _fortnitrht _aeo , I'fumished you with tbe total deaths , amounting to fifty-four , that occurred in this parish since December last , from the _effects-of starvation . That dismal catalogue has been _ausmented by _thirty-threeadditional deaths ! ' On thin-day , the Feast ofthe Apostle of Ireland , no IrS 3 than eight _individtia ' . i are stretched in the cold arms of death from famine , in this parish . " "
_Roscommo-y , _Madcit 20 . —The Roscommon Journal says . -- We are in an awful state here—few resident landlords—and the few , however well inclined , unable to meet the afflicting cry of hunger . Our soup establishment here _mu' _-t he-closed in a few days unless airier ! 'by government . " COUSTT OF' _WaTEKFORD . —DuNOABTAN . MARCH IS , —Oil this day over two thousand nf' the poor labourers who have been dismissed from the public works ; with tlieir starving families , from the _surronndins rural districts , came into the pnorhouse , with a view of being admitted , or to get out-door refief . ' The euardians met ; deliberated , and then went home , after _ai-nnuticvni : to tbe _famii-hiTis multitude , who were waiting Hie "live long day" to set
some-relief , the cheerless intelligence , that they mn " t return home again , as they were unable to give them either " in or _ont'doar relief . " The Scot 3 Greys were ordered out to t _** e pnorhouse to keep Hie peoplo from the gate ? , and ' to make way for the guardians in their ingress and egress . As soon as the military- _arrivt-d . the nnforcunate people spoke to them , ami ' said it would bean act of humanity for tbem to " oommence and'shoot them all . " Some ofthe brave Scots actually slicd tears at the awful nnd _sotil-harrn-. vine scenes of human misery and _suffering they beheld . After the guardians-left the board-room , the
people saw there was no hope of _settiiigrelicf at the _poorhouse , and' they thpn came into town , and stopped _oppositc to Mr Fisher ' s biker }* . The poor creatures said tbey had no intention of attacking Mr Fisher ' i _" _, or any other person ' _s house or rtre _> _pcrfy ; they should do _no'hinu but merely go round tnthe bakers' shops , and appeal to their charity for nny relief they would bo kind cnouah to cive them . Tho " Waterford Froemnn , "from whioh this recount is taken , then proceeds tn _describe the scenes which followed at tho several bakers' shops , from th _wine _' . _ove-s of which laree quantities of bread were thrown to tbe starving multitude .
Typhus fever continues tn spread in Cork , and to pxtend amongst the upper classes , 'l'he number oi de _* aths in tho workhouse , for the week ending on Monday , was 1 ? 1 , while the _ntsmbor of patients , in and out of tlie hospital , was 2 202 * . Exclusive of the uni' _-n workhouse mortality . 101- paupers bad bpen interred in the New Cemetery , between the _lU-th and 21 st . There are ven * _atT-ctibir _flcr-ount . i from pa _* _-ts of Roscommon . Fever is raging in tho workhouse or 0 _arrick-on-Sh- ! n . ie . n .
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRES . _Riksbijl Square —On Saturday morning , ahout 6 ' o ' clock , the servant of a medical gentleman named Farrer ; residing at 23 . _Gtiildfurd-street . disevered _smoke-issuing from the surgery . Having alarmed her master and family she opened the street door to c . ill assistance , which caused'the _flimes to spread to t e _drawing and other rooms . Two _engines from Farringdon-strcet and _Ilofbnrn , as well' as _othes , were promptly on the spot- ; but before the firemen terminated their labours , property to tho amount of £ 2 ' 000 was destroyed .
_Anothsr Attempt to _Bcrm _Soiiaki—Net place in the kingdom has suffered so much from incendiarism oa this unfortunate place . In the present instance , theold cry of " Fire" aroused tbe townspeople between three and four o ' clock on Wednesday mnrnin _? , when the premises _<* f Mr Cooper , plumber , _pratt-street , were _diwovered to be in _fl-mes . The destructive element extended with formidable fury , and in a very brief period the entire of Mr Cooper's property was in on _# _uenfral blaze . Immediately nt the rear , « _-ere a _rriimhsr of favmins _; premises , c < _irapriiing four lance barns , stables , and otht > r o ; _itbnil- 'incs . " _Upfert'inatf-iy , owing to the trade stock of Mr Cooper ' s being nf an ' iRrfcimraable _de-ci'iption . the flnmes raged so vio ' ently , that before they could in the slightest degree be subdued , the barns and
stables _icrnik'd , as also a range of dwellings which adjoined . Again , aided by the thatched _rcerfs _, the fire ran along with rapidity , and great were thc fears lest it should provo of gronter _extent than _others thatluv ! previously visited the town . The * - engines . howeve _* _. were qotto play in a very ( ff-ctiKil manner , and hy eiidit o ' clock the Oonll-igr-ition w . is _sobduvd . There' arc no less than seven families , hurnt out . Their loss is estimated at _between £ 2 , 000 and £ _S 000 . This is ths third attempt that has been m . ' xle to fire the snme premises . A woman , earned Sarah Munsen , has been apprehended on suspicion of having fired them . She is the mother of a prisoner » n Cambridge _eaol , who is charged with setting fir © to Mr Owen ' s house , in the same town , in January last .
Destruction' of a Cotto . v Mill . — On Thursday mornins , nbout three o ' clock , a mill at Bacup was destroyed by fire , under very peculiar circttmet , inc . s It was known as Lee Mill , and stood a short _distance from the town . It is calculated tho loss will not bo less than £ 1 , 000 . Extensive Conflagration at _Hun-vinoborv . — Tho village of Hunninchury , near Leamington , presented a scene of dreadful consternation on Saturday evening , in consequence of a firo breaking out on some premises occupied by a person who carried on business as a baker . The honse where the fire originated , as well as a number of those adjoining , was built in the Elizabethan style , the wooden _framawerk of which offered every facility for _theflnmss to spread , ar . d the result was , that _altliou _^ h there wns an ahundant supply of water , and the engines from
Leamington , & c .. were _spei-dily on the spot , nearlv one i half of the village was laid in ruins beforo . the tire ' could be got under . Fifteen house *! were totally i destroyed , whilst 8 i . voral others sustained considerable damage . Fortunately nu lives were lost , thoueh several parties had narrow escapes . One aged female who had left her liouse at tho first alarm afterwards recollecting that _sho had left a box containing money behind her , returned to tlio cottages , notwithstanding tho remonstrances of her friends , nnd su .-ceedod in saving her treasure , but not _withoutbeii-g severely burnt . We _regveUo state that the rapidity with which the flames _spread , afforded very little _opiKM-tu nity _totheoccjpnnti of ihe burning tenements to remove their ' urnituve , and the consequence is , that in the great mnjority of instances , tlte snflerors have been reduced from a state of compaiativc comfort to utter _diiititutioii .
' " kstminster French Protestant Church . —On Wednesday forenoon , shortly after tlio commencement of . divine " service in the Westminptcr French _Prote-tant Church , _Bloomsbury-stree- _* , HolLorn , the congregation were thrown into a stato of alarm , by a report that the ediiico hnd taken lire . For _s < m \ c tew minutes a strong - "well of burning ' wood was _cs _* _ie > rienceil , but nothing particular _^ _Y _» _s though , , of _tJ _»» t
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iSs _^ _tf « _- _*^ _tsfTt ) S ? tuo _buiming I he _ssrvre was mme _liatolv stor _. l 7 _andseroral _peraonshavingprocured lmckets B . _" ' they were discharged upon that portion o h _cft on fire . _Atthosamotimo _in _^ was sent tothe engine stations ; _Numero _^ _lSS * ol the Brigade quickly attended , and the fi _^ T _. e _* upon nemoving some of the flooring boards , _foZltfl inaci
mc _juiDiii as . _»* . oecome ign ted , owir _» _•« * defect in the hot-air Hue used for _^ warming fiu _,, ? iiig _. ant there is no doubt that hadthe odtK taken place at night , after the church was cWl - would have been destroyed . ' Thk Lats Catastrophe at £ _arlsrbiib . —* _•„ ¦ , ofthe 15 th inst . states , —All public and _privato hull ' nnd other amusements have been _suipeiidcd-er the military band oftho daily parade is _discontinno , ? In order to provide employment for the numeS workmen and other persons engaged atthe theat _™ as speedily as possible , the Grand Duke ha s _ofW the Orange House in _thelteyal Gardens as a temnB . rary theatre , until a new one can be orected Th principal performers have consequently rc ' oeivpd uiree
_montns leave ot absence only . Upon the un fe » i tunate spot where the old theatre stood a ,. ¦ „ . : ' is to be erected . The new theatre will be built ;„ the _garden of the Hereditary Prince . m
Murder And Mutilation . # At The Derby A...
MURDER AND MUTILATION . # At the Derby assize * - on Saturday , John Platts wM indicted _fw the murder of George Collis _, in the But _chcrs _' _-shambles , at Chesterfield , in December , l & is " I he prisoner is not more than 20 years of age , and _hisyouthlnlappearance , _snd the awful character of the crime imputed tohim , t-roduced amarked feeling in the court . & / _r Ji « ! _y ° n t ,, " S n - _' »? of -Ao _^ st Friday in August ( _l-J _lOJsoraomcn _weieerapIiyedinemptyingareiiiote cesspool attached to the premises of Mr Bunting , a _ffour-dealer , m _Low-pavement , Chesterfield , when their attention was drawn to what seemed * to bo tlie remains of the carcass of a sheen : a further search
showed the mass t _& _consistof two leg and thjgh bones , and a quantity ot * entrails . On ths soil being removed ton field for which it was intended , partofa coat , trousers , liat _. _twosiitc handkerchiefs , and theremain 3 ofa brace and stockings were discovered . One of the handkerchiefs waa marked G . C . " and , when tound wa * tied as if" for the neck ,, and on the leg . bones , were garters—apparently old ones—one red and the other white . This led _to-a more minute inspection of the _coss-pool , and atthe bottom-waj picked up- a skull , with a large fracture ofthe vi « ht eye . Ihe examination- of the bones by a surgeon satisfying s » doubts as 4 b the remains , and the finding- of mule attire wiih them , soon gave strowr grounds for supposing that a murder had hem , on ™ .
muted , and the body of the deceased cut up as found I de wearing apparel being publicly exhibited , the _ton-. _kerchief _bearing ths initials of "G . C . " « a » identified by -a young female , named Ellen Bereslord , as having belonged to George Collis . This party , in the _. course oftlie preceding year , ( 1815 ) went into-partnership with the prisoner . _Platts , as _butcliers ,. and _cu-ducied their business in _a-muerable nlaoo called the " Shambles , " adjacent to tlio market-place in Chesterfield . Since Sunday _ni-lit , the f i ° t ! P °° mber 18 i 5 _Collis-had not been-seen , and the belief gained ground that it was his remains that were discovered-, _susnicions at the same time heim * _-
entertaiKcd that the prisoner was the partv who had _tak-Mi away his life , it being traced bv the " Chesterfield police that he had got a _^ man named Knight to plco _^ e a watch belonging to the deceased ,. at Mr Wilcock 3 on's , a pawnbroker in Chesterfield , a few days alter _Collis ' s sudden disappearance . When _interrogated _as-to how he gol * possession of it . he said he had "on it at a nifile , while to others he said he had bmight it ofa man known in the neighbourhood as "Lankey . " These _f-tatements being ascertained * ° benntnic , led to his apprehension . In addition to L . _'fen Beresford ( who had been _encemfaby thede . ceased ) identifying thc silk handkerchief found with the remains , she spoke to the watch produced being in deoeased ' s possession on the 7 th December , 1815 . They bad kept company together some timeand on
, bis leaving her house on the evening of that dav , at six o'block , he told her he was- obliged to leave , as he had promised io meet the prisoner , Platts , at halfpast _bix o ' clock , lie told her Platts had several times-promised tosettle with him , for he w . is greatly in his debt , and ho wns determined to get the monev coming to him . She never saw him after . When he left her saw the watch in , his pocket .. lie was dressed iH a black surtout coat , black cloth trousers , canary-coloured waistcoat , and black hat . The witness also identified the red garter , found on the leg bone . Deceased took it fr .. rn her in jest . She had the fallow one in her possession , which she produced . The mother of the deceased identified the clothes fiitma in the cesspool as those her son wore on the
night of his disappearance , adding , that the prisoner , _we _- ien applied to if he had seen anything cf Collis , said he believed lis _w-is at Manchester , as Collis hael told him he intended to get out of the way of the female _Beresfrrd , who was inthe family-way by hira . J . llolbrook , an . eating-hoase keeper , said he re . membered Collis coming to his shop on the Tth of December . He eame in about a quarter to sever o ' clock , saying to witness he had to meet Piatt at their place in the shambles ,. to get some money from him , and he would meet llolbrook at twelve , llolbrook saw the deceased go in the direction of the prisoner's place , but _nevessaw him after . That lie went direct to the prisoner , not a doubt wns enter _, taiued . T . Harvey , a _slioemahe _** . said , at about
twenty minutes past sev . 'n o'clock % n the ni _^ lit in question he- was standing near Platts' shop , and heard two or throe _bluws struck , as if by a clever on a piece of wood or b . _oclc :. The sound of tbe blows was rather jarred . After the fiist blow the witness distinctly * heard proana ejaculated irom a human being , and he made all haste to his friends at _htime K and told them he was sure _sonae murder was . _goingon in Plaits' simp . His wife and sister relumed with him . to the "shambles , " and finding the _door secured , they _kiioclie'd _,. niid asked Platts * what ho w , is doiag , _a d who had in tke shop ?—The prisoner immediately answered- * 'Nobody ; " he had been takingaiwe rum , which had made him exceedingly sick , aad that he was going to lie down . He was asked to open the door , and thev would give him
some water , but ho would not . The females , ( men _ciiargsd Platts with , _havin-j a woman inside . He repliod be bad net ,. there was no one with him , and he _vaauld not ojveti the door _feir any ofthem . They then left the _slu-v * . i _** he * rtly afterwards Platts came into a neighbouring public-house with one of his hands covered with blood ; ho said lie wanted to wash his hands as he had cut his linger . Witness observed , as did the- other witnesses , that Platts had been _kneeling , one of his knees bfcing covered , with dirt . Tbey again asked him who he had had with him in the shop , buS . he refused to _, _-answer . Other witnesses corroborated Harvey' *' eviflenee . Mary lladnell proved meeting the prisoner in January ., _IS-15 . He offered a watch ( the deceased ' s watch , produced ) , saving he had won it ata raffle , and wauled £ 2 Jur it . * She told _li ' ni she was not in
Wivotoi at watch . Alter the _i-iscovery of the mutilated remains --he met the prisoner at _Caestertield _, nnd asked hira it he had heari of the rumovas that Collis was supposed to have- been , _laurdeml . He said he hud . but he believed Collis had _doms it himself . He added tbat Collis had often told him that he would make away with , himself . —George Knight spoke of having bmi >; ht a pair of boots of _tt'e prisoner far 3-. [ They were produced , and identified as be * bulging to decenscd . _] He also deposed to pawning a watch nt the _priswm-r's- direction . It was redeemed _aftei'the finding of the body by the prisoner ' s mother , at whose _hoi- ' _.-e it was found by the officers ; the prisoner telling _tliein where they would hnd itconceakd _. The statement the prisoner made when taken into
custody was , that he did not owe the deceased any j money , but that tlte dacoased owed him some : for he lent hira £ 2 on tho last occasion of meeting with him . 'I lint was em Saturday , the Cth of _Docember , IS 45 . —Mr ll . li . Walker , surgeon , stilted Jli-. it the bones found in tho soil , in the cesspool , were those of a malenbe ut 2 eJor 24 years of ago . He was of _opiiiien i that the fractures of ihe skull had been inflicted be- fore death . They were four in number , evidently j inflicted by some heavy instrument , such as ;» i butcher ' s cleaver . —Mr Macaulay addressed the J court for the defence , and called a nuirber of wit * * _nessos , from whoso testimony it appeared that , uj > to o the time of the commission of the offence , the pri _** _'•* . soner had borne a . n excellent character for honestv . \ The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of if Guilty ; and the learned judge then passed upon the : e prisoner thc last sentence of the law . It was _iiutos * s _*
_- _sible any oncwho had list-wed to the evidence could ! d doubt the _prisoner was concerned in tho death of of Collis , and that he struck the blow . Thc facts proved ed were remarkable . They wore shown to have been en _together on the eveoing _' of the 7 th of December from mi fivo to between so _* _jL-n nnd eight o'clock , they were * re : traced to _Mt-rle \ \ shoo , words were heard ; the _pri-iri _* soner was in pia . sessioa of a deadly weapon . Thcroero i wa- ascufil' ) and a full . He had given fake _accountants _.. had refused to let people in , was subsequently _secn-cn : assisting in _carryin- * a heavy weight , and was aftcner " wards 5 > _roveel tee be in possession of the dcceased ' _sjd ' _ss watch , bouts , etc . llis lordship then earnestly _e-Ve-V honed him . to repentance , and oonchulf d by sentenc _* nC " Hig him to ho hung , holding out no hope of mercy . - . The prisoner , who had been very composed up tcp toe the timo ofthe verdict , turned very * pale at that mo-mo- * ' 1 ment . He had regained his composure when re * re ; moved from the dock .
Co . _\ Tr'ssiON m ? thk MuRDEBSR . —The prisoner , or . -, or . " Wrdnesday last , made a voluntary and ramblin & l ' in _' ii statemeni bef ' ora several of the magistrates . —whiclhicM left on their minds no doubt whatever ofliisgn _* ' _*; _" _* ' _** We believo the execution is fixid for Thuvidai '; dai ' i ' April _1-t .
* Ire?.—Thero Were Four Fires In Liverpo...
* ire ? . —Thero were four fires in Liverpool la- la = i = weok , but they wevc all extinguished before they h _» f baa dona any serious injury . An association hns been formed for tho purpose < ose '' _eHWureg-ng the growth of flux m Wiltshire ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 27, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27031847/page/6/
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