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"NICHOLAS _, so . iv . fife stated In a preceding article that Nicholas Is _ji _^ principal slave-owner in the Russian empire . _irjjg Serfs form tWO distinct bodies , of-which 23-43 _ths yetie property ofthe landholders , and upwards of jl-ioths appertain to the domain ofthe Emperor or _jmpresa . The idea 13 universally entertained that jbe serf population is devotedly attached to the Tsar , _jndtbaiinthisstupHsnbmissioa and superstitions _gjetitythe Emperor finds a sore support , both _against discontent within , and attacks from without ; _, j o a certain degree this is true , but not to the extent
_jserted by the apologists and adnyjrere (?) of the _jwtoc rat _. Formerly the great mas 3 of theserfpopu . _jjtion belonged to private landholders , and these being Hsually tyrants of ihe -worst character , were of _joorse odious to their stares . It having heen the policy ofthe Romakoxts ever since the tame of Peter to humble the nobles , the _Entr-erors have naturally hten viewed by the ser & as their protectors , or at least the avengers of their wrongs . Again , all the exaefioas of the Crown , although made from the nobles , of coarse press directly or indirectly upon { he serfs , the nobles having the odious task of acting Bominally for themselves , hut really for the
Emperor . In the recruitment for the army the proprietor ef an estate is rated at so many men per cent , upon his slaves . He has to single out those whom he chooses for this hateful serricej and on him talis the odium of those families from whom the recruit is e & _ssen ; bnt the Tsar , hy holding out the promise of freedom at the expiration of tiie term of military service , is only seen in a comparatively amiable iigut . Prom these causes has been engendered a feeling of loyalty and attachment to the Tsars , amongst the private serfs , which feeling has beeu greatly strengthened hy the idea prevalent amongst them that the Emperor will eventually release them from slavery .
But tbe twenty-one millions of Crown serfs entertain no very enthusiastic feelings towards their " paternal" lord . Terror and superstitious awe rather than love and veneration unites the crown serf to bis imperial master . The belief entertained hy fiie private serf of the superior condition of the crown slave , the latter knows is hut an illusion . The imperial serfs find their condition becoming worse instead of better , owing to the increasing exactions of the Govermaent and their subjection to a host of blood-sucking officials , who have not the least interest in the welfare of those they plunder and oppress _^ ded to which , the hopeless state of those employed in the publie works , causes the crown serf to look
with envy npon tbe condition ofthe privateserf . The increase of the military force , of the Government manufactories and works , and the establishment of the military colonies , io all of whieh the erown serfs are compelled to personally contribute , inspires them with disgust and dread , "While the private slave hi general looks upon the Emperor as the mighty master in whose name retribution is so often dealt upon his petty tyrants ; on the other hand , hope no longer stimulates the imperial serf , he is oppressed by the Emperor ' s own servants instead of by a private lord ; he no longer , therefore , sees in him a protector or avenger . He may-, and does fear the Tsar , bnt dees not love him .
This abominable system is of course fruitful in revolts . "On these ecccasions , like the camel goaded into fary , they turn on their tyrants , and patting them to cruel deaths , burn , and destroy and ravage . * " On this _subject we quote from the work "before ns—In the course of the present year , ( 184-5 ) oue of the distinguished family of Apraxin perished in a similar manner . The fact was generally known , not on account of Ms great same , bnt because it enabled his wife then residing- in . Austria , and who bad long in vain sued for a
divorce , to marry j and it is never bnt through some such casualty tbat these Jacqueries come to light . It is , however , remarkable that out of about a dozen revolts of private serfs , of whieh the author received tuxounts bom personal testimony , in almost every case , _thepeasauts in the midst of & sir eseesses , always spoke with respect of the emperor , and often were excited by their leaders in his name to fresh acts of outrageous violence . But , on the other hand , amongst the imperial serfs these rebellions are also frequent , though in alike manner local , and produced by the unendurable oppression oi their overseers .
The conduct ofthe insurgents is usually in both cases the same with this _remarkable distinction however , that in every one of these _leoeUions , from that dangerous outbreak in the military colonies on the banks of the Yolchrjva , towards the close of Alexander ' s reign , down to those of most recent occurrences' the imperial slaves , when once roused , show none of that superstitions awe for the sovereign , with whieh their fellow slaves survives even when they have furiously broken through all other
trammels . An officer who witnessed the revolt of the military colonies in the government of _Novogerod , and who had some reason to remember them , having narrowly escaped _bong "boiled alive , informed ths author , that when he made an appeal to the rebels in the emperor ' s name , they tore the portrait of his imperial majesty from the walls , and _ignominionslj trampled it under foot . The image of the saint which hangs in the corner of every Russian apartment , was , however , still respected .
The subject is continued in the third chapter and , in this chapter the author investigates , the _probabilitiesof a _general insurrection of the slaves , fie has no hspe of anything lite a spontaneous attempt on the part ofthe serfs to liberate themselves , but it becomes a very different question how they might act if supported by some external agency sufficiently powerful to neutralise their belief in the temporal omnipotence ofthe Tsare . During the last century
the serfs have been thus twice tempted ; firstly , in the rebellion of Pugatcheff , and secondly , during the French _iinvasion of 1812 . The author of the work before us proves incontestibly that at the latter period the slaves were ripe for revolt , and that had Kapoleon proclaimed their enfranchisement , and had hJ 3 troops respected their religions prejudices , and abstained from plunder and ontrage , the game would have been his , Russia would have , been revolutionised , and the Muscovite empire rent to pieces .
THE FBEXCS _INVASION—MOVEMENTS OS THE SERFS . On the 18 th of July , lS 12 , tneEniperor Alexander , finding his armies so separated that they could afford each other no mutual support judged it too late to depend upon his military forces alone for the safety of his empire . Be therefore addressed a proclamation dated from Polotzk , to the people at large , announcing the invasion of his territory , andmaking such an appeal to the popular sympathies as lie hoped might invest the contest with a national character . The effectofthis solemn and widely spread do cument was , at the outset , far from answering the views of its promulgator . It made known , indeed , in the remotest villages , the threatened approach of the French armies ; hut farirom inspiring any patriotic _in--dignaiion amongst tbe serf population , it was received with sullen apathy , or with positive satisfaction . A repart seemed to gain ground amongst them , even in
governments _d- * stant from fhe frontier , that the French intended to free them from slavery . In the environs of St . Petersburg , it was commonly said amongst the _psasantry , that Napoleon was not their enemy , and that he would free them . In the government of Xovogorod , a landed proprietor relates , that , on returning home to his village , he was received with positive disrespect by his serfs ; they had neglected to perform all the tasks he had left them , with tbe exception of one individual , who had been taught the trade of a bootmaker . He brought back one pair to his lord , in a state of intoxication , and returned the remainder of the leather , _saying , — " Take care of it ; the French are coming ; jou will have to make the next pair for me . " A German land-steward In the government of Moscow , saw reason to dispatch his wife and family to the city , though he had been unremitting in his efibrts to paint the Trench army in the most sombre colours to the serfs of the estate .
Even in the most remote districts , wherever any result was produced by this announcement of the "French invasion it was threatening and unfavourable ; hut in those parts ofthe country situated nearer to the Polish frontier , a most dangerous fermentation was evidently progressing in the minds ofthe slave population . The enfranchisement of the serfs in that portion of Poland which constituted the grand duchy of "Warsaw , tad inspired the Lithuanian peasantry with the confident hope that a similar boon would be extended to them , now that Lithuania was added to the Polish confederation . From the Polish frontier these ideas were transmitted by the enthusiastic peasantry to their Eussian neighbours , and spread so rapidly that there can be no doubt millions of Russian serfs were only waiting the arrival of the French to rise against their masters .
The unvarying testimony of all those who were at this period inhabiting amidst the peasantry , in any portion of the country comprised between the Dnieper and the _Moscowa rivers , establishes beyond a doubt the universal ¦ prevalence of _tMs disposition on the part of the slaves .
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let us take the . evidence of two Scotchmen , filling the situations of ovpravitelt . or land-steward * , on two distinct estates at more than a hundred and fifty miles dig . taneefroa each other . Ia the one nearest to the frontier as soon as the French army was known to be advancing * the _serft , who ( according to the steward-sown account ) were unusually well treated , by comparison with neb * _bom-5 j ceased to work . There did not ensue the « me scene of destruction as on the two nei ghbouring estates the slaves confining themselves to an insolent intrusion into the best rooms of the manor heuse , where thev emptied the lord ' s cellar , tore up the fruitripe and
-, nn npe , from the hot-houses and pineries , and smashed the costly mirrors to get fragments of theglass . Ho one dared interfere with them ; tbey said that , the French were coming , and that all their master ' s property would be theSr own . Some even _^ _naerstooa that they were literally to change places with their baroas ,.-tae barons becoming serfs in their turn . On the other estate , in the environs of _Mojaisk , a fellow-steward of theother Scotch man was killed iu the attempt to keep the moujiks in order . After plundermg and burning the house , the peasautry took to the woods , or dispersed amongst the nei ghbonringvillages .
« _b sooner had the French army passed Witepsk thanthe Russian serfs flocked from beyond "Welij to their outposts , bringing with them , to deliver into their hands , the lords and overseers of tbe estates which they belonged to . But _Napoisos discouraged this movement , and refused to proclaim the abolition Of serfdom . Within a month afterwards this terrible means of aggression was not only out of his power , hut had heen turned against him . ' iThis chapter ( III ) contains much interesting matter relative to the French invasion , to which we can merely allude . The author of this work shows beyond question tbat the burning of Moscow was no act of voluntary national sacrifice , as has been almost uniformly represented by English writers . This popular error has beeu regarded as an undoubted fact , aud as such is recorded hy Sir Walter Scott ,
" Whose fictions were so full of history , his histories SO full of fiction . " The Russians themselves deny that they fired the city , and it is the opinion of the inhabitants , even to the present day , that the French themselves set fire to it . The llussian government atthe time most strenuously denied all participation in the burning and imputed it to the French , using the destruction of the "holy city" as a means to excite national hatred against the invaders . Colonel MrrGHEhh is of opinion that the conflagration was caused by the French , hut accidentally ; on the other hand , the author of this work says , "The fire undoubtedly originated with criminals let loo 3 e by Ros topchin before evacuating the city . " , This Rosropchtjj is one of Sir "Walter Scott ' s iavourite heroes . The author of this work vouches for the following anecdote of one of tiie barbarous acts committed by this hero : —
; On the 14 th of September , Count Bostopchin being abont to evacuate the city , caused the prisoners and criminals to be brought before him . After telling the latter that they were to expiate their crimes by serving their country , he set them at liberty . He then ordered 8 Russian , named Verechtcbaguinn _, who had been ar rested on the charge of translating into Buss , for one of his friends , a German newspaper which contained accounts of the movements of the French armies , to be pat to death , and had him literally hacked to death with sabres before his eyes . Not the least interesting portion of this chapter is the notice of the
_UiFAMOCS TBEATMEXT OF POLAND B 5 _T IHE _FBENCH DESPOT , As soon as preparations were known to be making for the invasion of Russia in 1812 , the enthusiastic hopes of every part oi Poland were raised to the highest pitch . There was no sacrifice sixteen millions of Poles were not ready to make . Lithuania having been added to the grand duchy of Warsaw , the diet , under the presidenee of Prince Adam Czartoryski , declared the independence of all the Polish provinces . Never , perhaps , were tbe fervent hopes and the enthusiastic wishes of a people
more truly expressed than in the speech of the deputation sent by the diet to Napoleon at Wilna . — " Only say , sire , that _thePbUshkingdom exists , " exclaimed WybhiBki , its mouth-piece , " and this decree win become for the world a reality . We are sixteen millions of Poles , and amongst ns there is not one whose arms , whose life , and whose fortune is not at the disposal of yonr imperial majesty . There is no imaginable sacrifice we shall dread , if it lead to the restoration of our country , from the Dwlna to the Dniester , from the Borystheses to the Oder . That one word will devote to your majesty , all onr efforts , all our hearts . "
Bnt this magic word the emperor , now the son-in-law of the Austrian Ctesar , would not speak . His reply was cold and evasive , his promises were vague . His ambassador at Warsaw took care to declare that his master did not wish to make the war national , and counted only on his armies , It will therefore be readily understood , whenXapoleon thus cast aside with a disdainful aversion , in the thorough spirit ofa prince " by right divine , " the mighty moral weapon almost forced upon him in Poland , how he should have neglected to resort to its use on the _Bussian territories , which he was so confident of _appropriating by the sole intermedium of his marshalled hosts .
The means which he so impohtically neglected , was , as it is well _knovnij-usea against bim ; and from Moscow to I . eipzic , the popular feeling roused in Russia and Germany by long baffled adversaries , changed his military failures into irreparable reverses . The tide of opinion which had helped to carry him to successes far beyond those to which any other conqueror had ever attained , thus turned to overwhelm him . This sacrifice of Poland is one of the darkest of the" many dark deeds which blacken the name of Napolzox , He had an opportunity to have wedded his name to eternal glory hy liberating a noble country whose gratitude for the act would have ensured
to him the devoted support ot her chivalric sons , and have caused men to forgive , if they could not forget , the previous sins of his career ; but the upstart tyrant cared nothing for Poland . Intensely selfish he regarded only his own ambition , and had no hesitation in sacrificing millions to promote his own vain-glorions ends . It is imputed to him that after the treaty of Erfurt , he assured the Tsar Albx & sder that , so far fromidesiring the liberation of Poland , "the words 'Poles and Poland * should disappear , not only from all political transactions , but from history itself . " An assurance which hia treachery could not effect , and which neither the fraud nor force of Royal brigands will accomplish .
We quote from our author some profound reilec tions on : —
THE FBESCH REVOLUTION * . —NAPOLEON . The great power of the republic was derived from moral means , though it neglected none of a material nature conducive to success . Human thought and opinion , the supposed championship of a new and better order of things against all abuses , acted as a mighty lever . When grasped in the unswerving hand of a successful leader , this tremendous engine , which had never been brought into play before , produced effects , which reduced the ordinary struggle of nations and of princes to comparative insignificance . The history of . Europe had presented no situation even faintly analogous since the great movement of the crusades . In other wars , the fears , the prejudifces , and the vanities of races had been freely acted on ; but the example of the Trench revolu-| tion appealed to tbe most stormy passions of mankind .
A battle won by the French armies was no longer a mere military triumph , but an event which _trumpettongued confirmed the authenticity of their mission * and for once , the roar of cannon and the clang of arms , in . stead of striking terror into nations , roused the palpitating hearts ef millions to fallacious hopes . The Trench republic had announced that it would break through all fetters , hut when victory gave it up the keys , itkepttbem for its own account ; and by a just and speedy retribution , it was bound in turn . Nevertheless , the oppressed throughout Europe had not yet perceived , what Frauce herself has been so slow to recognise , —confounding as she still does her glories and ignominy , —so that her name continued like an incantation which
stirred nations to tbeir profoundest depths long after she had become the tool of an individual ambition . Napoleon became the incarnation , in their eyes , of that revolution from wbicb the freedom of tbe world was expected ; and blinded by the hatred to which centuries of wrongs had given rise , they continued to applaud in him , the avenger , humbling those who had so long enthralled them . It was of this moral element , which had never yet been to the same extent at the command of any conqueror , that he profited , to attain results which were Without a parallel . Great as he was undoubtedly , he was still too little for his fortunes . The Italian hero , like fhe French nation , had been placed in a position more proud than ever a people or an individual had reached before . The French republic had in its hands the freedom Of tbe world , and sacrificing to its ephemeral aggrandisement , the noblest par tanationhad ' everbeen called upon toplay ,
lt sank into a despotism , Napoleon , when the most astounding successes , based on the public prejudice and opinion , badraisea htm tea station no human being ever filled before , when in the tjTant , mankind could only see the tyrant tamer , —the man of " destiny , who trod upon the necks of princes , and made his footstool of the proudest thrones—at that very moment ef unprecedented triumph , he proved as much below the mission which the world persisted in attributing to him , as the republic before him had proved to that which it had nclected . When the emperor cast ungratefull y aside _theloving daug hter of the people , the authoress of his first success , to take to his oedthe scion of a degenerate and conquered dynasty , — from that time forward , moved by a common-place pride and vanity , he became a vulgar despot . He was nolongtr thechamr / iono _*; a new and promising order of things , — but the . _prostate ofthe old , which hig _veiy victories had
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so far discredited ; and from that fatal _peri _^ cont ented with the material means at hie _dispoj ' al _, ' belearned Br * . dually to neglect-: p _^ haps fay _drejia . _«& _^ _Uifce ind opinion which had made him a giant ; and plalnhg his _* ble trust in _ftehumber and brute strength of his bat . taboos , it was beneath the brute strength " of banded numbers thathe succumbed at length . ¦ - _' ' - " * For _Otttselves we rate Napoleon even still lower than the author of _** the above" excellent remarks . He was always a despot , although atone time he affected to be a sincere republican , but his assumed liberalism was rank hypocrisy . He had the-power to _n > rWm
mankind from bondage and misery , but he used that power to re-fasten the nations' chains _., -He was tlte illegitimate despot striving to render himself legitimate by compelling the old tyrants of the continent to acknowledge his supremacy . Had he succeeded in that , he would nave become the _arcb-coHservator of all tyrannies and wrongs . He scourged _kinga , not to liberate the people , but only . to exalt himself . The false halo which for a season surrounded his name already pales before the light of reason , and it is not difficult to foresee thatthe _iime will come when universally his name will be held ia contempt and scorn . ¦ .-
Fhe Wholesale Murders By Poison Ing In Norfolk.
FHE WHOLESALE MURDERS BY POISON ING IN NORFOLK .
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FURTHER DISCLOSURES . Happisbdho , Sunday Night . It seems that the cases of poisoning which have occurred in this village and neighbourhood are , no doubt , m ° ie _° umerou 8 and appalling than was at first imagined , and that the report of the inquests before the County Coroner will give bnt a faint idea of what has been done in this dreadful system . Suspioion not stronger than that which now exists with reference to the cause of death of many others , led to the exhumati « n of the bodies of four persons and that of old Balls . The evidence at the inquest proved that four out ofthe five had beeu poisoned ; and the probability of Balls intentionally
administering it . In addition to these deaths , there were several other prandchildren of Balls , whose deaths were as suspicious , and hence arises the supposition , that if a strict inquiry were made respecting their fate , they wonld be found to have perished by similar horrid means . Within ten years no fewer than twelve grandchildren of the deceased Jonathan Balls , eight belonging tO his daughter , Mrs . Green , and four to the daughter , Mrs , Pestle , the subjects ofthe recent proceedings before the coroner , have died after being attacked all alike . To this list may be added Balls and his wife , both clearly ascertained to _haveperished from amnio , and yet in all these very suspicious deaths , only one inquest was held , until the inquiry consequent on the shocking discovery . All these children were in the habit of visiting their grandfather's house frequently , and in the case ofthe one _' that
formed the subject of a coroner ' s inquest , it was seized immediately after a visit to her aged relative , " but tbe surgeon , Ur . Clowes , one of the medical gentlemen , that have lately been examined in respect to the poisoning cases , giving it as his opinion that fever was the cause of death , a postmortem examination was not deemed necessary . By several parties it has been proved that old Balls was in the habit of buying arsenic for years past ; for what purpose was not learned , but it is well known thatheproenreditinmanyneighbourhoods . There are a few residing in the vicinity of the village that remembers Ball's father and mother dying suddenly , and in a very suspicious way ; similar to the otherdeachs ; twentytwo years ago , they came to lire with him , and shortly afterwards perished as before slated . It als 0 Ought to be stated that during the last few years many labouring
men who were in the habit of mixing greatly in Ball ' s society and visiting him at his house , have died after two or three days' illness , and from a cause far from being satisfactorily explained . These numerous deaths , all of similar character , coupled with the circumstance of old Balls having been known to have been guilty of several wicked acts , has naturally given rise to a general opinion throughout thc district that they have been unfairly disposed of ; in fact , tbat they have been poisoned in the same way as bodies of the children that have been exhumed . As has been mentioned , Balls was in the habit of perpetrating several disgusting transactions , and according to a statement made to us by one of the heads of the police , has been twice charged with the serious offence of arson , and was generally termed in the village a mischievous old man .
So far as circumstances have transpired , the conviction becomes strengthened , that the deceased man , Balls , and him only , is the guilty party in this wholesale murderous traffic . His object may be seen in disposing of his wife , who was an old bedridden woman , and must now and then have occasioned him some trouble ; but itis difficult to find a motive for getting rid of the children , whom he had not to maintain and to whom he invariably showed so much kindness . It is , however , stated they had occasionally put him to some inconvenience , bis daughter having frequently solicited him to take care of them . How far that was correct , we could not ascertain . _Accoriing to the witnesses examined at the inquest ; he was always desirous of seeing them at bis house . One fact shows very clearly that Balls was alone in this dreadful affair , which unfortunately was lost sight ef by the
coroner and jury . When the last child of his daughter Mrs . Pestle died , the mother became alarmed , and said she would preserve the piece of membrane which tbe child threw up and give it to the surgeon , ilr . Hewett , to bo examined . This circumstance was stated at the coroner ' s inquest , but it did not come out in the medical tes * timony that the piece of membrane in question had been examined . On Mrs . Pestle stating her determination , the old man replied , ' Ob , den _' t de that ; ' but she still persisting in her determination to do so , he must have taken the poison immediately afterwards , for he was a corpse in a few hours . It is deemed somewhat remarkable tbat these repeated deaths did not excite tlie suspicion of the vicar of the parish , the registrar , the surgeon , or the rural police , and induce them to send the necessary information to tbe county coroner , with a view * bf calling an inquest to inquire into them . The parochial authorities are , to an extent , blamed for not communicating with the coroner , but , according to the statement of the parents of the children , that although their offspring died so sudden
and quickly after each other , they never dreamt of them dy ing under suspicious circumstances . That such deeds should hare escaped tbe prying gossip of so small a village , may be deemed exceedingly remarkable . Itis stated that there has been a feeling amongst the magistrates of this county that the expenses of coroner ' s inquests should be reduced , that inguests should not be held SO frequently , and even that a circular had been sent to the ofiieers of this very parish , impressing upon them the necessity of carrying out their suggestions . If such be the fact , it may in some measure account for the coroner not hearing of these mysterious deaths in the usual channel . There is no doubt tbat if an inquiry had been instituted in the first and second death , the dreadful system would have been detected and diabolical murders prevented . Itis said the individuals who sold Balls the poison ought to have had their suspicions awakened by the many deaths that were taking place in his family . Balls generally , however , bought it some miles from his residenc , and the probability is that the parties never heard of them .
The Secretary of Statu has communicated magistrates of the neighbourhood on thc subject , who bare evinced every desire to sift this atrocious transaction to the bottom . The Government officer is busily employed in this and neighbouring villages in tracing out suspicious facts relating to the affair , and upon the report of that gentleman will depend any further investigation . It is anticipated that tbe preliminary inquiry will terminate about to-morrow ( Monday ) night , and a report of the result will probably be forwarded to the Home Office on Tuesday . "Whether any more bodies will
be exhumed and _examined will , no doubt , depend upon tbe officer ' s inquiries . It will be remembered that Mr . Firth , a surgeon deposed at the last meeting of the coroner'sjury of not being able to trace the presence ot arsenic in the stomach of the infant who died three years ago . It has , however , undergone a more protracted examination , and he has succeeded in detecting poison , but his having put the stomach into tbe pot where the others had been , may prevent his Bpeaking positively to the fact , it being possible for some to hare adhered from the former stomachs .
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TRAGICAL DEATH . On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town of Ramsgate public-house , Wapping , before Mr . Baker , on the body of a fine young woman , called Emmeline FuIIilovc , aged twenty years , who was found in the river Thames , having committed suicide on Sunday night last . It appeared that the unfortunate deceased had been married only three months to a man named Jonathan Fullilove , a compositor at the Queen ' s printing-office , who had treated her with great inhumanity . He had sold a room full of furniture which his wife brought him on his marriage , had pawned her clothes , and deprived her of the common necessaries of life . lie had rencatedlv beaten her in a most savage manner , and
her face and eyes were often discoloured and swollen from the effects of his brutality . The bonnet , cloak , and shawl of the deceased were found on London bridge , together with a letter addressed to her mother , in which she used these expressions ;—" My Dear Mother—It is with sorrow that I write to you in this strain , but my troubles are greater than I can bear . My heart is broken ; I cannot survive it . I would have borne with poverty , were it misfortune that caused it ; but to know that my hard earnings are torn from me to keep a prostitute , is more than I can bear ; but let him know that my last dying curse was , that he may rot and die a despised wretch as he is , and his jade—she that perand
suades , and has succeeded in their vile schemes , made me their victim . They may now revel in then * unholiness , and I shall be no barrier between them . Judgment will some day overtake them . They have played their cards well , and schemed to he rid of me successfully . " Thejury unanimously expressed the greatest disgust at the conduct ofthe husband , Fullilove . They regretted that they could not send him to prison . After a long discussion , they agreed to a verdict suggested by the coroner , " . that Emmeline Fullilove was found dead , with a wound three inches in length on her right temple , whicli was caused after death , and that her death was apparently _caused hy drowning , but the jurors , however , cannot separate without expressing their opinion and hettef that the deceased
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_lr 3 _^ m \ _S ! ° _^ th r y- _fullilove received ' a him h ? J , _K e lec ur from the coroner , who told _fcS-feflffi" ? Tcfiect j - _» Xng . as he lived , on his base and heartless conduct to his late wife !
Tills.J^Ultjujnlncr Case At Birmingham, ...
Tills . J _^ _UltJUJNlNCr CASE AT BIRMINGHAM , Cask of Poisoning at BinMisonAM . _—During the _last . fewdaysa young woman named Lawless , who resided ¦ with her husband in Park-street , _Birmingham , has been in custody on suspicion of havin » attempted to _^ poison her husband . It-appears that she and . her husband did : not live , happily ; together and she had been heard to say some' time back \ after a quarrel , that she would poison her husband , and that she , attempted to . do so , on , Tuesday last by administering some arsenic in tea , not only to her husband , but also to two friends who happened to call in . The woman herself , however , did _notpartaH e , ° f _* be _poisonous mixture , but "" after ' preparing It left the house and did not return . The other
parties having finished their tea were taken so ill that a surgeon was sent for , and for some time the husbands life was despaired of , though , with the others , he is now getting better . The accused was tahen into custody on . Wednesday evening at a lodging-house in another part of the town to which her husband resides . From experiments made by the medical men and a chemist , there remains no doubt of the nature of the poison ; and it was found out on Friday that the wretched woman , on Tuesday afternoon , . purchased some arsenic ; at a druggist ' s shop in the town , at the same time asking for some soft soap , _saymg that she wanted them to clean some bedsteads with . On beiug apprehended , -she said that it was a bad job her husband was not dead .
COMMITTAL OP THE A . CCUSED . . _BimtisottAM , May 25 . . , On Monday , Mary Ann Lawless was placed at the bar , before the sitting magistrates atthe Public OBbce , on the charge of attempting to poison her husband and two Other persons . The first witness called was the husband of the prisoner , wlio . stated that on Tuesday afternoon last a Mrs . Murray called in at his house , and his wife being then out . he asked her to sit down and wait , which she did ; shortly after that , the accused came in with some soft soap in her hand , and went upstairs , telling witness to make the [ tea , he refused , asking his wife to do it , and at the same time invited Mrs . Murray , who had a child about two years old with her to stop to tea . A young man , a friend of the parties was also in the room . Tbe prisoner , having made the tea , poured out three caps ,
one for Mrs . Murray ,, another for witness , and the remainder she drank herself . There was no unpleasant taste in thut tea , but , on making some more , witness observed his wife take from her breast a small paper packet , which he thought at the time was tea , and , having poured the contents into the teapot , she threw the paper into the fire , and , having poured some more water into the teapot , dealt out another eup of tea to tho other parties and herself , but did not drink more than two spoonsful of it . Witness and Mrs . Murray , while drinking their cup of tea , found that it burned their mouths and throat , and asked the prisoner if she tasted anything the matter with it , to whieh she replied , that she had made it strong . In the course ofa few minutes the witness , Mrs . Murray , and _. her child were all seized with violent sickness- pains in the stomach , and burning heat in the throat .
The greater portion ofthe above evidence having been corroborated by Mrs . Murray , tbe Burgeon who was called in to attend the sufferers was next examined , and deposed to the state in which he found them , and the remedies he applied . Mr , Woolrych , a practical chemist , deposed to having analysed a portion of fluid ejected by the husband of the accused , which he found strongly impregnated with arsenic , andalso found a small portion adhering to the sides of tho teapot . An assistant toMr . Browett , chemist and druggist , said
he supplied the prisoner with a pennyworth of soft soap and a ' penhyworth of arsenic on Tuesday afternoon last , a short time previous to the administration of poison to the complaining parties , the prisoner stating that she wanted it for the purpose of mixing it ' with the soft soap to clean bedsteads with . After hearing the evidence of the police officer who aprehended the prisoner , when she said it was only a bad job he ( the husband ) was not dead , theprisoner was committed to take , her trial at the next as sizes for the county of Warwick .
The only cause that can be assigned for the eommis sion ofthis wholesale attempt at poisoning is the unhappy way in which the prisoner and her husband lived together ,
Serious Fires. " Burning Of A Steam Saw-...
SERIOUS FIRES . " Burning of a Steam Saw-mim in _Goiden-lane . — On Tuesday morning , shortly before four o ' clock , much alarm was excited in the densely populated neighbourhood of Golden-lane , St . Luke ' s , by the outbreak of a furious fire upon the premises occupied by Mr . Inman , known as the Steam Saw-mills , in Cupid's-court . The building , upon the first floor of which the occurrence took place , was contiguous to others in the occupation of Mr . C . Matthias , steam-grinder , Mr . Nash , embosser , and others , all of which contained machinery of great Talue . Instant information was furnished to the several engine stations , and in a very short time several engines , from the various stations of the London Fire-engine Establishment , under the direction of Mr . Braidwood , and the
"West of England and County engines , arrived , several of which were soon got into full play , the New River mains furnishing an abundant supply of water . Notwithstanding thatthe best possible positions were chosen by the firemen for pouring the water upon the flames , it was some considerable time belore any visible impression could be made upon them , from the fact of the fire having obtained great hold before the discovery was made , and the fuel upon which it fed being of a most inflammable kind . By perseverance , however , the body ol fire was confined within the area of the mills , an extensive factory contiguous being preserved _^ The damage , it is said , will amount to several hundre ' d pounds , the building and machinery being nearly destroyed , and the adjoining property much injured . Both the building and the machinery belonging to Mr , Inman are insured in the Phoenix Fire-office .
Fire in Westminstee . —Just before four o'clock , on Tuesday morning , the apartments occupied by Mary Morris , 2 , Pineapple-court , Westminster , were discovered to be on fire . As might be expected the utmost confusion prevailed among the poor creatures dwelling in the houses , which is let out in temements . They all set to work , however , with good will , and by the aid of buckets , fee , they managed to put out the fire witboutthe engines , several of which attended , and before a very great deal of damage was done . Fiee in the EDGEWAKE-ROAn . —Shortly before midnight , on Monday , a fire broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . C . i' . Williams , teacher of languages , of Fortman-place , Edgeware-road , which destroyed a valuable portion of tbe furniture , and some part of the building , before it was extinguished . The accidentalignition ol the bed curtain , was the cause . The furniture is not insured , nor is the building _.
_Otues Fires . —Mr . Braidwood reports four other fires , besides tbe above , within twenty four hours , making a total of seven , which occurred in the metropolis within that period .
A*Wful Collision On The River Mersey.— H...
A _* _WFUL COLLISION ON THE RIVER MERSEY . — hllEADFUL LOSS OF LIFE . Liverpool , May 2 C . A most awful steam-boat collision took place shortly before eleven o ' clock last night , at the mouth of the Mersey resulting in an extensive loss of life and consaq . uencDs the most lamentable . . 1 We extract from the second edition of the Liverpool Standard : — It is our duty to give the particulars of a most heartrending occurrenc _* , which took place on the Mersey last n % ht , and which was unfortunately attended with tlio
most lamentable consequences both to life and property The Sea Nymph , which trades between this port and Newry , was proceeding last night on her outivard passage to the latter port , when , about eleven o ' clock , just as she was off New Brighton , a steamer was seen coming up , which afterwards proved to be the Rambler steamer , coming into this port from Sligo . Both vessels , as fai as we can learn , ported tbeir holms—in conformity , we believe , with the requirement of the bye law ; but before the vessels got fully swung round , they came into collision .
Captain Thompson was on the scaffolding over the engines , and had them stopped fully two minutes before the _aceident occurred . The mate , Mr , Samuel Easter , was ferward . The starboard bow ofthe Sea Nymph struck the larboard bow of the Rambler , and scraping on towards the paddle , carried away her stem . The Rambler was run on shore , near the rock , and Captain Thompson having ascertained that she was there safe from sinking brought his vessel into the . Clarence dock , and discharged his cargo , which has not suffered we are informed any material injury , though the damage done to the vessel , is great , and it is said that her not sinking is owing entirely tO her water-tight compartments . We have not been able to ascertain so far what injury the Rambler has sustained . Both vessels had their lights up .
But , melancholy as are the particulars wo have already given , the loss of life is still more lamentable to contemplate . Itis impossible io say , at present , what number of persons havo beeu injured ; but we feav-thntit will turn out that upwards of _twenty ava already dead , and many Others more or less injure *! , some of them very seriously , if not fatally . In the _Magazine _BoatVouse _thure arc nine dead bodies - , three mor . e are in the Ship public-bouse and one in the Black Ilor Se , T wo men are _lyin- ; dead in tho Northern Ilospital ; and twelve other persons are at present in that excclle nt institution , having their necessities attended to . Am- ong those who are injured , and at present in the North . ern Ilospital , are—Cather ine GUI , Mary Rowland , Patr . « ck jenny , John Roach , Mary Carney , Bridget _O'Mer _j _. _d y _. Etoa Connolly , Mary Batty , Margaret _M'Oundy , Br . j _, j ffet Lelly , Michael Finney , and Mary Connelly .
After _obtaining the above brief description , wo proceei _» . ed t . 0 New Brighton , near the slip of which ferry the Ry . mbl . er had been run ashore . The pilot , Mr . William _"Tinri _< , 1 s , informed us that he was taken on board outside ' _, the _Vght-ship . At about half . past . *» passed the Rock
A*Wful Collision On The River Mersey.— H...
light , wind westerly and very light , and the weather par . ticularly fine * . SaW the Sea Nymph coming right across _thei-iver , towards the'Rock . Ordered the ' helmto be put hard ' aport , and stopped tbe engines ; the Sea Nymph with her helm ; in his opinion , _a-starboard ; came 8 teni Oil into bar larboard bow , cutting her completely down to the water ' s edge , carrying away momentarily the topgallant forecastle , smasking to pieces a heavy patent windlass , and severing the ' deck half-way across , and so shaking the whole frame of the vessel , that every water tight compartment was rendered perfectly useless , and it was evident she must have sunk had hot tbe engines been started , and the vessel run ashore , as she immediately filled ., "; ' Tivo principal ' officers of this Rambler were at the whoel , the _Beebnd mate and the river pilot ( a person carriedin case a pilot cannot be obtained ) . There was no _d-fficultym starting ; the engines , and they wore kept going for some time iii' order to harden lier on as tlie tide attained its height .
. After the vessel grounded , some of the passengers , despite the persuasion of Captain _M'Allister , who , we learn , exhibited great presence of mind , took possession of tbe starboard boat lor the purpose of getting ashore . They let go tlie foi' _8-davit fall , and at that moment some one cutaway the stern fall , The weight of persons in tbe quarter-boat ( some say seven , some eleven ) caused Iter to upset , previous to her reaching the water , and the actual result itis impossible to ascertain ; but , as we state below , at aU events _fivewftre Saved . On going on board the Rambler , which we did by entering through the chasm made through her larboard side int _» the steerage , a most exiraordinary sight presented itself . " Part of the flooring ofthe quarter-deck was smashed through , and the remainder , a confused mass of smashed tables , forms , boxes , « 5 _* c ., some floating in . the water which had filled this part of the vessel . The scene on deck was still more horrifying , the whole , both afore and abaft the funnel , being covered with dead pigs , part crushed to death , and another portion of
which seemed to havebeen stabbed , the whole saturated in the blood . The most awful sight , however , was the bows of the vessel , which wore completel y bedabbled . with human blood , and strewed with crushed salmon broken boxes ,. cordage , ifcc , & c , and the fragments , of the windlass . , From this , part of the vessel thirteen human beings had beon extricated , _s _* me with broken arms , or dissevered lees , all dead , and so crushed as to be almost beyond recognition . One poor woman , with her infant child , was taken up from underneath the broken Windlass , the iron spindle of which had MWn upon her head , and smashed it completely . A portion of her brains were to be seen adhering to tho iron spindle . When takan up her infant had fast hold ofthe nipple of the poor mother ' s breast . These thirteen poor unfortunates now lie in the Magazine Lifeboat House for recognition , which in many cases , from tbe crushed state of their bodies and features , appears to us to he very improbable . "We were informed , that on the bodies being searched by the constable of Wallasey , Mr . Scambler , not a coin of any kind was found upon the whole . I
"We beheve that nearly all the persons on board the Rambler were persons intending to emigrate to America . We could not ascertain precisely the quantity of cattle on board or lost . About 120 pigs , however , as near as we can cempute ( for the sickening sight precluded the possibility of counting them ) were laid dead on deck . The captain thinks there were 700 pigs and 20 bullocks Many of the former were washed overheard , in addition to those killed . Only one of the bullocks was killed ; the remainder were on board wken we left the steamer . The loss of life from tbis astounding calamity ]* as far as we can at present ascertain , is as follows : — Dead , aud lying at the _Maga-tine Boat House ... 13 Dead at Northern Hospital 3
16 Lost from capsizing of boat , unknown _. The master of thu Magazine life-boat states , that at . the time the accident occurred he was seated in his house , and , on hearing the crash , went out and procured one or two men—the first he could find , and that with these he manned the smaller life b » at , and proceeded on bis way to the Rambler . Before he reached her , however , he found a boat , bottom up , with a man clinging to her keel ; another man was holding to an oar , and three others were floating on the water ; all these the life-boat saved . They then made for the Rambler , but the scene on board was such that the men ia the lift-boat , unaccustomed to _Bueh a sight as presented itself , turned faint , and the commander then manned the larger life-boat with bis usual hands , and succeeded in bringing 220 persons from the Rambler . He states tbat , though he has been _eighteen years on tbe station , he never knew such a disastrous night before , Of course it is impossible to say bow many were in the boat , which was found bottom up .
At the Northern Hospital the sufferers are going on as well as canbe expected , with the exception of John Roach , _flho h _» 8 since died . The following are the additional persons at present lying in the Northern Hospital : —Hannah Tossey , Fergus Brown , Patrick Williams , and Patriek Geoghan . Both vessels are nearly new , having been built last year , aud are entirely constructed of iron .
FURTHER PARTICULARS . Upon making inquiry at the Northern Hospital yesterday morniug , we learned that most of the sufferers by the late collision on the river are going on as weU aa can be expected . Three of them are so badly injured , and have had so many bones fractured , that little or no hopes are entertained of tbeirrecovery . They can scarcely survive the next twenty-four hours .. The Rambler was floated across the river last night , and is now lying in th e Clarence Dock-basin . She will be hauled up on tho Gridiron today , and the necessary repairs will he done to licr immediately . The Sea Nymph has been hauled up to one of
the southern graving docks , where workmen are _engaged in repairing her injured stem . Itis thoughtshe will again be ready for sea in a fortnight or three weeks . The Rambler may probably be ready for _Sfta about the same time . The inquest on the two dead bodies now lying at the Northern Ilospital will be held before Mr . Curry , the Borough Coroner , but , as yet , no time has been fixed for Commencing the inquiry . The inquest on the thirteen bodies lying dead atthe Magazines , will commence before Mr . Churton , the Chester Coroner , on Tuesday next . It is probable that inquests on both sides ofthe water will bo opened on the sa . ne day ( Tuesday next , ) and that in all probability it will last several days . —Liverpool Courier .
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Mbzascmia- Occurrence At Kensington. — O...
Mbzascmia- Occurrence at Kensington . — On Saturday morning a melancholy occurrence took place at Kensington , which "terminated fatally . It appears that a gentleman named Mr . George Robert _Wtti-d , a barrister , had been on a visit at the house of his brother , Dr . Ogier Ward , No , y , Leonard-place , Kensington , and during the last day or two had been seized with brain fever . On Saturday morning , about halt-past seven o ' clock , the unfortunate gentleman threw himself out of the bedroom window on the third-floor , and fell on the area railings beneath with
such force that lie was completely impaled on the points of the rails , one of which passed through his thi h and another entered his body . He was extricated with much difficulty , and was immediately attended by Messrs . Pollock and Turner , surgeons , who did their utmost to alleviate his sufferings , but thc injuries he bad sustained were of SO extensive a character , that ddltll ensued in about an hour afterwards . It is supposed that the deceased in bis descent , must have struck against the balcony ofthe first-floor and have rebounded from that upon the area beneath . He had only liis shirt on at the time .
Fatal Accidents on thk _Riveu . —Two Livks Lost . —On Sunday morning , between six and seven o ' clock , a number of persons hired a boat at Blackfriars bridge for the purpose of proceeding up the river . When they had got nearly facing tlie new Houses of Parliament , a young woman named Ellen Morncy , who resided in Fulwood _' s rents , Holborn , by ' a sudden jerk of the boat was thrown from Jier soal into the river . A young man named Beaglcy instantlv jumped in after the female , but he was unable to save her , and up to ten o ' clock fast night the body had not been recovered . The same afternoon as the Matrimony iron steam-boat was proceeding up the river to Chelsea , with a cargo of passengers , the foremost mate , a _yeung man , named Charles Pusey ,
was standing on the paddle-box , when he was accosted by a friend , and whilst shaking hands with his acquaintance he overbalanced himself , aad fell into ihe river . The boat was stopped as quickly as possible , a waterman put off from the shore , and rowed to the spot , and every endeavour was made to save ihe young man ' s life without success , it is supposed that the deceased must have been washed out some distance by thc swell caused by the passage « t * the steamer . As in the previous case , the body had not been found at ten o ' clock last night . Dueadbul Fike is _LivuKFOOL . —About half-past five o ' clock on Sunday morning , a dre & ulul fare broke out at the corner of Slater-street and woodstreet contiguous to the Music Hall , winch , lor
, about two hours , created thc greatest alum among the inhabitants of that neighbourhood ,. and caused the destruction of property to a very large amount . The premises , which have now to & great extent boen reduced to a heap of ruins , were the property of the late Mr . William Calloway , _paiatev and paper _, hanging manufacturer , of No . 20 , _Bwronlow-street _, who died a few weeks since , and wfca willed thera _. we believe , to his _widaw . They wcrfe erected five or six years ago on the site of the old Deaf and Dumb School and Eve- and Ear Institution , and formed altogether a very spacious and elegant building , extending along Slater-street and _Wood-street a considerable way , and being four stories iii height from
the level of the pavement . The lire seems to have been first discovered in that part of Mr . Calloway ' s third story whicli looks iuto Slater-street , and is on a line with Mr . Hunt's shop , but io rapidly did it extend , that the whole of the upper part of the premises was in a blaze when Mr . Hewitt , with the engines and fire brigade , reached thc spot , about ten minutes to six o ' clock . The flames quickly communicated upwards with the fourth story and the roof , and downwards also with Mr . Dreaper _' s show-room ; and for some time the conflagration threatened the most alarming consequences to the surrounding property . It was eight o ' clock before the fire could be said to be completely subdued , and long before that
Mbzascmia- Occurrence At Kensington. — O...
!! _£ _« _£ _^ _a ! i _&< , _'M ' ll _^^ time the entire of the roof "had fallen if , and the *' beams and floorings of the second and'third stories , as well ns the franus and sashes of twenty-six of the windows had been completely burned away . The loss of property i 8 heavy , . _Acciotst Ann loss of LirE o « mi * Sooth-Eastern Railway . _—Doveu , Mo , \» ay . —A serious accident , of a somewhat remarkable character , _re-Milting fatally , toy » k placex > n the -South-Eastern Railway yesterday atternopn to tlur express train , by whicli the engine and train went off the line , and the en » ine-clriver was killed . . The train left the town terminus at a quarter past three o clock . On its arriving about midway of Pluckley and Headcorn , distant from town about sixty miles , and just as it verged into a cutting the passengers were started by a sudden jerk . In a few
seconds the train was brought to a dead stop , and considerable alarm was manifested amongst the passengers . On _lookiii" - out , tliey discovered theenuine and train had got off tht ; line , and the former wns lying on it * side across the rails , it having struck the bank of the cutting and turned over . Ir . -a few minutes tne _-uafovtunaie engineer was discovered under the engine . The poor fellow , we bolieve , was found alive , but ere he could be extricated , which occupied some time , life was extinct . Tllfi Stoker wan thrown by the concussion on bis _fecfc on the siding _, miraculously escaping the least injury . The guard was thrown from his seat , and also providentially _t scaped . None of the passengers were hurt . As soon as possible , assistance was rendered at _Asllfoi'll and Tunbridge , and in the course ofa few hours the line was cleared , the passengers being taken on by thc next train .
THE Late MguDbr is _Mooh-lase . — On Monday evening , Mr . W . Payne , City coroner , held an inquest at Bartholomew's Ilospital , on the body of John Oily , aged 82 , bootmaker , whose death wa 3 occasioned by being stabbed by James Carter , who was mi Sarurday _last fully committed to Newgate for trial upon the charge of murder . The circumstances , as deposed to by the several witnesses whose evidence has previously appeared in the Guildhall police reports , viz . that the deceased and some men of the same trade were , about ten o ' clock in the evening of Tuesday last , drinking together at the Crow public-house ,
Moor-lane , Cripplegate , when Carter attempted to drink out . of the deceased ' s pot of beer . The latter repulsed him , and called him " a sponge . " _C-u-ter then left the house , muttering that he would get something "to settle Wm , " and he returned after an ' absence of seven to ten minutes , called Oily out , and after a few words stabbed him two or three times in the left side with a short but broad and sharppointed shoemaker ' s knife , wliich it seemed he had been home to procure . The deceased was instantly conveyed to St . Bartholomew's Hospital , where he expired on Friday night . Thejury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against James Carter . "
D' _-termixed Suicide of a Widow Lady * . — On Monday afternoon , Mr . G . J . Mills , Coroner for Middlesex , held an inquest at the Mother Rod Cap , High-street ; Camden Town , on tbe body ofa widow lady of independent property , named Quecne , aged forty , who resided in Barham-terrace . It appeared from the evidence of the sou of the deceased , a youth of , fourteen , that he last saw his mother alive in her drawing-room- on Friday afternoon last , abont a quarter before two o ' clock , wlien he left homo to go to school . On his return shortly after tive o ' clock _, on entering the apartment , he found her suspended by the neck from a hook in the wall by a rope . lie instantly gave an alarm , and she waa cut down hy a policeman anil a neighbour . She had for some time past been exceedingly desponding , and five 0 V six
months back threatened to destroy _htrself . He on many occasions thought she was not right in her mind , and on Thursday , seeing tho hook in the wall where he had never seen such a _thiugbefore , he was so strongly' impressed with the conviction that she meant to destroy herself , that he went and brought in a policeman . On Thursday evening , whilst lying on the so / Si , deceased fancied she saw a large bat flying about tlie apartment , aud that it had taken refuge in a bird-cage in the room , and she begged of him ( her son ) to catch it . When he left luitnc for school on the Friday , she called him to kiss her , and behaved most affectionately towards him . She frequently complained of pain in the head , and would stand , with her hands to _^ fc for a long time together . She was under medical treatment for it . When she
read of eases of suicide in the paper , she would express her horror at people taking away that life tliey could not give . The Jury returned a verdict , —That deceased hung herself in a state of insanity . Attempted _Suicidk nv a Boy . —On Saturday , at the Hanirnerofflitii Police Court , James Bannister , a boy , fifteen years of age , was charged -with having attempted self-destruction . It appeared that he had been apprenticed about four months to Mr . Furaell _, a turner , at Hammersmith . His temper was so bad , that when he was spoken to he would damage his work , and refuse to do what his master directed him , and a summons was consequently taken out against him to appear at this Court . # . On Saturday , just before the iime for his appearing , he took up a double-edged chisel , as sharp as a razor , and attempted to cut his throat , but was . prevented by his master , who had much difficulty in getting the weapon from him , He was remanded .
_RouBEitr rr »* _Lirjsnrooii . —Between ten and eleven o ' clock , on Saturday morning last , an extensive robbery was committed at the house of Mr . Francis Barnes , book-keeper , Risconimon-streefc , _Everton . It apenrs that , immediately after breakfast that morning , Mr . Barnes and his family left his home , leaving no person to take care of the house except the servant-maid . Between tlie hours mentioned a knock was heard atthe frontdoor , whieh was opened by the servant , aiul instantly two men rushed in , seized hold of her , and fastened her in the watercellar . They then proceeded to ransack the house , and SUJcecded in finding and carrying off with thein a pocket-book , containing nine sovereigns and four half-sovereigns , several ladies' ' dresses , some _go'd rings , broaches , and ear-rings , a coral set in gold , three sets of windowcutains , a black coat and vest , shirts , trousers , boots , and a variety of other articles .
• Fearful Ousiavs _Accidj-st os Loxdok Bkidos . —On Tuesday evening , about six o ' clock a very _distressing ; accident took place on the Southwark side of London Bridge , to a poor man , _naun-d Michael Donovan , aged -10 years , a brick layer , residing at No . 3 , ' White ' s-placc , ttedcross-strcet , _Buroush . He was crossing the carriage way , when he was knocked down by an omnibus which was passing towards High-street , and , before the driver could stop the horses , the off-wheel passed over his netk , and caused a lacerated wound ot" the cheek . lie waa carried to St . Thomas ' s Ilospital , where he is going oa as favourably as can be expected . Tub Laie _Faia-l _AceiOEJ-T Ox the _Soutu-Eas-TKRj * Railway . —On Monday _evening an inquest was held at Guy ' s Hospital , before "W . Payne , Esq ., City Coroner , on the body of William _lloyie , aged 22 , late a fiveman to one of the engines on the Southeastern Railway . John Wit ham , a _fireisan , stated
that on the evening 6 f the 3 rd of May . at hail-past eight o ' clock , an empty engine , which had hem to Dover and back , started again , from the Londonbridge station to New cross , but had not got farther than halfway between the Spa-road nnd the Greenwich junction , on the Dover line , when the eccentric sheave slipped , and stopped the engine , lie then left the disabled engine , and ran back with the red light signal . The Croydon up-train passed him , aud immediately waved the white light signal . This was a sig nal to tho Dover mail down-tram , which waa then approaching , te- stop , but the tram , nevertheless , passed him , and the driver did not appear to sec the- signals , and ran into the engine winch was stationary . He saw the deceased with his ieftleg crushed between tho engine and tender . W . II . Norn ' s ,, house-surgeon at " Guy ' s , described the injuries , adding , that the left leg was amputated by Mr . _llillin , and tbat deceased expired of his injuries Verdict—A eciden tal Deat h .
, A . Mas _KiLUtb is a Snow . — About nine o ' clock on Wednesday evening while the perforiniiuce at Parish's Theatre , Watevloo-voad , Stockport , were going _through the melo-draniaiie spectacle , called ** St , Clair ofthe Isles , or the Outlaw ofBarra , " the seats at the upper end gave way , ami the spectators were preripifcited to the ground , without , as it _wa-i then _supposed , any person _receiving _peramal injury . The plaee was _snuch crowded , ami some _thaicultv _wasexpeviencoiVnn-esUm _*^ truer * , _amivegnvii-Ic-s ' _eftue wreck of timber which tke accident had
occasioned at that 'p articular portion ( _.-i * the booth , the ? performance proceeded . At eleven o ' clock the company were dismissed ; and the parties connected with the building began to examine the anum _*' . _* , of damn go done ; . -when t o their alarm andastonisijineiit , they found a man . buried beneath the timber , a piece of which lay across his throat , and he v . _-, _-is a corpse As no ertcs of distress wero heard , it is clear t !; e unfortunate man , who was smoking his p ipe at the ihne of the accident , must have _iisou _sulibcati ci . Iln name and residence was Win . Uooney _, a mu -iuakev , lodging iu Edward-street .
A Boa * Duoy ; . \ ed while "IUtiukg . —• On Tuesday Mr . Wakley held an inquest at the _iileph-mt and Castls , King ' s-road Camden Town , on the body of James Francis Hammond , aged _di'toim , whose parents live in Wells-street , Oxford-street . The deceased , who was an apprentice to a _eabif . et -maker , on _Satlivdivy jvenin _!? last proposed t . ) his lV ; i * v apprentices to have a ' bathe . It belli- then _near-y nine o ' clock they objected , but lie _buing _detonniunX they consented to accompany him to the Regent ' s Canal . Just beyond Chalk Farm Tavern , deceased , who \ va 3
an expert swimmer , timlrcsscd liimseif « ii « uived m . Ills companions , in thc mean time , amused themselves on the bank , till it becoming quite chirk , tiiey looked for deceased , whom they could not see . They called to him _. 'bufc receiving no answer , they ran to thc lodge at the locks and raised an alarm , ihe drags wero consequently put iuto rcquisuion , and about eleven o ' clock the body was ioumj . it was conveved to the workhouse , where Mr . Cooper , uie surgeon , gave it as his opinion that the mum _. ot do . ceased ' s sinking was his being suddenly _atteoW either with cramp or spasm of the heart , _^ euuU- * Accidentally drowned while bathing .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 30, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30051846/page/7/
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