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_&\) _t Metropolis Health OF _LOXDOX dcmxg tub "Week . —The 1 , 033 deaths registered in the -week exhibit an increase of 70 on tiie weekly average ; as well as an excess of nearly 90 on the previous fortnight . This nnf . iv . _^ ur able result is due chiefly to diseases of the respii ' -Hory organs . The deaths from hooping _consrh were 67 , or nearl y double the average ; those in tli" preceding week were 40 . The deaths from bronchitis and pneumonia were 51 and SQ , being 17 and - . ' 3 above the respective averages _^ and also _showing an increase ou the previous week . The deaths from measles were 32 , or 11 above the average ; those from typhus exactly correspond with it . " The mortality from small pox is remavkably low ; and scarlatina , after spreading its ravages
_throughout a long period , has subsided to near the ordinary amount of fatality . The deaths from diarrhoea ' and dysentery were IS ; only one was caused hy cholera . The ' deaths of two persons , one advanced ' in life , were accelerated by intemperance ; and a woman of 77 vea rs died from immersion in - waier , and bruises received by falling into a common sewer , when under the influence of intoxicating drink . A man of 53 years died of " cerebr al affection produced by mental anxiety , after an lll-H 0 S 3 vf twelve weeks . And a boy w _^ as accidentally tilled bv suspension with a rope at tho neck when en « a <"" 4 in <* _vmnastic exercises . The mean height of ~\ if e _~ barometer hi the week was 2 H . 493 . The mean t _emperature of the week was oi deg . 9 min .
The _teiiipcrature was a little ahove the average of the KMne-period of seven years , throughout the whole week ; and the excess , taking one day with another , was 2 deg . 6 nun . Chab « s of XegLect against a P-uusn Scbgeox . —On Monday an Inquest was held before Mr . _Taynont the * King ' s Head , _Toolcy-streci , Southwark , _« n the body of Ellen Collins , aged twentyseven years , whose death was alleged to have bceu caused by neglect , or non-attendance , during her _confiiirr-iiient , of Mr . P . O'Connel , assistaut to the _parisu--mrgeou of St . Thomas ' s , Southwark . The deceased _was-a native of Ireland , and had only latterly arrived in this country . She was pregnant , and w _..-i ! t to live with a female , named Ring , at ~ So . 1 , Piu _"^ buildings , iahabited by the lower class of Irish . On Friday , the 11 th inst ., she was taken in lahour . and Mr . O'Connel was sent for , who , upon 3 u 3 _arrha _* . found the child horn . After applying
the u _« ::-. l remedies he left the deceased , and did not "prescribe auy medicine , which is usual and necessary , nor even attended until after her death . The deceasod appeared to be going on favourably , and " was aiiacked suddenly on Friday last with a fit . and died shortly afterwards . —Dr . Holding , physician nml accoucheur to Guy's Hospital , stated that it " Kas Ill % _upillion that _deathTwas irrespeetire of the confi ! : _« ir . ? enL It had been produced by a spasmodic affection of the heart , or by some affection ia the fcrain . —The jury returned " a verdict of " Natural "Death . " ' and added that they were of opinion that the conduct of Mr . O'Connel * was highly reprehensible , aij-I that he had been guilty of great neglect ; and lis ? also recommended that a memorial should be sent to the hoard of guardians , conveying their opinio ? . ' ? . —Mr . Corner , the vc * try clerk , here stepped fbrwarc , and said at the next meeting of the board of guan 2 L' < M 3 , ho would communicate the evidence of the witnesses , and the opinion of the jury .
AcciiiExr oy the River . —Two Lives Lost . —On Tv _edn- - - _= 'i ay afternoon , shortly after one o clock , au accident occurred on the river , near the St . Katharine ' s .-ream _paefcet -wharf , by irhich two men were droir « ..-. k It appears that two fishermen were _na"rigatiry a small Peter-boat down the river , and on _rcaclsHiL' the Tower , they made towards the New Unity _ileam tug , which was about proceeding to _Gruv _^ _siJ , to tow a vessel up into tlie docks . One Of the men in the Peter-boat , made fast his boat tc
the m rn of the Unity , for the purpose of being towc _= i -own the river . * The Unity started shortly afterwards , and the two men satin the stern " of their boat . On reaching St . Katharine ' s steam packet wharf , tiie Peter-Sbat was suddenly upset by the swell hvm the steam tug , and almost immediately sunk . "Several boats were put off from the shore , but before any assistance could be rendered , the men disappeared and were never seen afterwards . The _--ata-men _. dragged the river , but were unable to fc : ii the bodies .
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31 i > : _!" i . Tn , Satchdat . — Committal op axotht . _r Wm : _vn P _^ isoxixg _heh Huseaxd . —Considerable excii ,-:. >« it prevails throughout the nei g hbourhood Of _Mwoeih , in consequence of tlie discovery of anot = i' _-r _supposed case of secret poisoning , and the committal to the county gaol of the alleged murderess . Tho circumstances connected with the case , : > s fsr as they have yet been ascertained , appenr *«> be as follow : —Some few days since a _marriv-i * wan about twenty-six years of age , named "Williai " _ilornshy , who resided at _Haltwhistle , was takeh _-uddeidy ill , and he died shortly afterwards , from what was at first supposed to be inflammation Of tli-.- - * _oinacli , produced by natural causes . The mau % dfath having become generally known _thi'oui it the district , a report became current that
his v . _'fi . * on the day preceding the death had purcha £ < -- ! some arsenic , ' for the alleged purpose of poisoning rats . The neig hbours and other parties at ov-i : made inquiries respecting the mysterious aft ' _ijiv which satisfied them that the poison had not been _uw ? d for the purpose stated . Mr . Bird , the corom-r . was therefore made acquainted with the _SUSjJi' - _^ _iS Thai -were entertained that the decansed had :.- ¦*¦ . ' met Lis death fairly . The result was , that gentl . _:=::-n gave the necessary instructions for _biding an _rwiufst or . the body , when , after the exainimth' ; i of sundry witnesses , the Inquiry was adjourj ! _,- _? . ; o allow time for _ajiost mortem examination of th > - _^ ecasod's body to he made , and also for an anal-,, _";•>» , ' , ihe contents of the stomach . Dr . Glover
and : _¦ - —iJser medical g entleman have been directed to _prui-s-cd with this " part of the inquiry , and it is _statci" ; _iiaj they have discovered indications denoting tlie _pi--.- _?« icc of arsenic . The _magistrate _having also ir . k _.-.- .- the case up , the evidence brought before them -- as of such a nature as to warrant them in commkiuig tlie deceased's wife to Morpeth Gaol , on suspi : , _«! of murdering her husband . 3 » iA . - - ~ i _ _i—oirrKn . it _Osxead . —On Saturday last at the _Cui _^ _luali , _Sorwieh , Thomas Ellis , a * railway _Libca _?; _-. - . was brought before the mayor and magistrate-. _«« a _eharge"bf manslaughter . The prisoner , on the previous Tuesday night , was at his father ' s house , - _-iarnJiBg' outside the door . A man named Matt " ?* " Peart , in the employment of Mr . Blakcly , fariiH-r , •< : " Oxnoad , and who lived next door to the _prisoi _^ -v _' s father , had just returned from work , and
_secin- OLs made some observation in a jeering maiiiwr _. tvben Ellis went up to him , struck him in the fa' "' ' * , ami knocKed him _tlovrn . l *< _su-t got nj > again , '•• nt , _lieing a weak man , was unable to defend _hhiiscSi" Ellis struck his head against a stone wall , _; _= _;¦ rked him down again , and kicked him violently _, ilc was put to bed in an almost insensible state . A surgeon attended the wounded man till the _IbUov- _"! _.- _;^ Thursday , when he died , in _consequence of th- i-juries he bad received , lie was fifty-three year .- * _-= gc , and lie has left a wife and two children . Whc-3 ' _! _-e : ure the ' magistraies the prisoner appeared quite _uiiL'onceniciH . " He did not deny having _assaslt _> -d i ' cari ; but merely said , " He called mc a thief , _& _i--l wanted to know my affairs . I kicked him , -jut did not intend to hurt him" The prisoner ' - _-::.-, remanded .
Tin fiTxx Baxk Eobcert . —Sanger , whoabseos _^ k-i - - vii ' i a considerable amount of money from the _£ -.: - .. of _Enshmd Ban !' , at Lynn , has lately receiv ' v-i - conditional pardon ; this will enable him to go to a : Vy part of the world except Great Britain and lr <>' * md . It is understood he will shortly leave for _Fi- ' . _'o-c ; he is at present a clerk on the peninsula , suaclicd to the convict department , "Van Diemen :- Land . Crielty to " Ammals . —On Friday week Mr , Josep . i " iazelden , a builder , residing at _llrighton , appe- _' _-rtd before the bench of magistrates at Uckfieid , in Sussex , charged hy Mr . Thomas , the secretary _-i " ihe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ai . i :: > _als , with wantonly and cruelly ill-treating a mare ihe property of Mr . Read , a postmaster at Lewes of whom he had hired it . Mr . Thomas called sever :. ! witnesses , who described the conduct of the _defehhmt as brutal in the extreme . In consequence
of ihi treatment the mare received it was unable to work for some days . Tho defendant was drunk at the tv . _sie , and had several narrow escapes from serious _iiijury , owing to the docile nature of the animal he was wantonly _torturinff . W _/ _hcu called on for his defence ihe defendant admitted having hired the ware , but denied using her cruelly , and said he had no recollection of being in Uckficld at all on the day mentioned by the witnesses , who must he mist-iken . lie * _aad no witnesses to contradict their _evidence The bench said the esse had been fullv and satisfactorily proved ; he had been guiltv of wanton crush ? towards the mare , for which he must pav 40 s . in addition to £ o , for the _damage sustained by Mr . Head , the owner , and in default of p .- ; _vin" _-the £ 7 forthwith he would be sent to the House of Correction tor two months , aud kept to hard labour . The _JHffiKiff Pr 0 Vided _^ . _tta money _irw
_tW l _^ r r _* _* la * B _**™>* _-T'We understand _laatJohn _Pord , convicted and sentenced to _transpoiv-jf . on seme time ago for participating hi the JSF 7 _A 1150 _^ _^ \ _H l ! lte _Ju > - S & ck . _& S hecn hberated fi om the Bath Gaol , at the instance of the govei-imont _inspector , on account of ill health _Twars . Fever rages to a fearful extent in " the _Carditi union . Workhouse , and a grc _? t manv deaths have occurred . Means are taken to meet the Uy ih ' "
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emergency and to arrest the progress of the disease , A temporary hospitallis to be provided for the sick _, and all other necessarv measures are to be adopted forthwith . TnE GiATLEr _Murdek . —Our readers will remember that at the last Sussex Assizes Hannah Saudles was convicted of tho murder of her infant child by throwing it into a well at _Chaiiey , near Lewes , the jur y accompanying their verdict oi guilty hy a recommendation to mercy on the ground ol the _ucstitution of the prisoner at the time she committed the act . Shortly afterwards she was respited _during her Ma _* estv _* ' s pleasure ; and the governor of _lS 4 Gaol * has just received from the llomc-omce an official notification that the sentence had been commuted to two years' imprisonment with _Ijard labourfollowed by transportation for life .
, Tub _Staxfuxd _' Hau , _Murpeib . —Discovery of _inE _"Weatox . —Wtmoxdham , Wednesday . —The discovery of the weapon bv which Rush » crpetrated the murders at Stanficld " Hall has created considerable interest in the county . The locality in which it was found certainly tends to show that the presumed search made by the county police was at least carried out in the most slovenly manner . For several weeks they , with sixty or seventy hired labourers , under the personal direction of Col . Oakcs , the chief officer of the force , at a very great expense to the county , were engaged in almost the complete demolition of Potash , tho turning up of land , ana the emptying of the numerous pits of water which abound in the district . In fact , to
such an extent was thesearch said to have been made , that , to use the words of one of the officials , had so small a thing as a pencil-case been secreted , it would have been turned up . It may be stated that the weapon had been so placed after the search by some person , for the purpose of obt aining a large reward , hut a general opinion prevails that that portion of the farm where the discovery was made had not been examined at all . Although the process of ejectment has been served on Mr . James Itusb _, son of the deceased murderer , and the furniture disposed of hy public auction ; yet he continues to hold possession of the farm . It appears that in the course of last Saturday one or two of the labourers were engaged in clearing away some muck which
stood near a shed at the eastern extremity of the barn , scarcely thirty paces from the back-door of Potash , when a double-barrelled short gun or blunderbuss was turned up iu the soil . The fact was instantly communicated to Mr . Hush , who took possession of the weapon . It had evidently been concealed a considerable period—several months , as it was coiToded . To more properly describe it , it is a small doubled-barrelled carbine , about threequarters of a yard in length , something simibr to the arms carried in former days by mail-coach guards . It has a spring dagger or bayonet attached tO It , Which _SCCms to have been added since its construction . The maker ' s name , it is said , docs
not present itself . _Neither of the barrels were charged , and the hammers of the locks were down . Being without a ramrod , the one found in the hall of Staniield Hall on the night of the murders , was fitted to the weapon , and was found to correspond in size and make in every particular . That it belonged to the instrument was proved beyond a doubt . Somewhat of a fracas has taken place between the police authorities and the magistrates for ths possession of the weapon . Shortly after the discovery , one of the chiefs of the constabulary waited upon Mr . Bush , and requested a sight of it . It was produced , and the officer rather forcibly seized it . Mr . llush remonstrated with him as to
the apparent illegality of his proceeding , at ihe same time expressing his readiness to deliver it up to the proper authorities should it be desired , ' when the officer remarked that Colonel Oakes had requested him to take it , and he should do so . Mr . ltush then rode over to Mr . Cann , and communicated what had transpired . In the course of Sunday it came into the _possession of Mr . Cann , who retain , d possession of it till Monday , when the colonel waited upon him and demanded the gun . At first it was refused ; some angry words , and indeed a scuffle , it is said , ensued , when the colonel produced an order from the sheriff for its delivery . It was accordingly handed over to hi ? . i under protest , and in whose custody it continues . It will he remembered
tbat at the trial Emily Saudford said that after Bush had returned home on the night of tho _niurdars , she heard him come down stairs and go out at the back door for a few minutes . The finding' of the weapon in the heap of soil so near the rear of the premises will fully explain his ohject in leaving _tl o house in that secret way , viz ., to conceal the instrument by which lie had committed the atrocious acts . That that was his motive for going out there is little doubt . By many it is supposed that anotherweapon is yetlobe found , as Rush tired four times . Tho general belief , however , is , that he had only one , the one now found . After firing at the elder Mr . Jenny . he would have had ample time while proceeding into the mansion by tlie servants' entrance to reload
the discharged barrel ; and again , after shooting the younger Mr . Jenny , a few minutes elapsed ere he fired at Mrs . Jenny . He went into the diningroom , and had time and opportunity to again load before he met with the unfortunate lady . The finding of the ramrod in the hall favours the impression that lie used it while there . His re-loading would account for the four shots fired . It is somewhat surprising that the police did not , after hearing the admissions of Rush that he had buried the clothes he had Avorn on the ni ght of the murders near the pigsty of the farm , institute some search in the locality mentioned by-the murderer , if only to satisfy themselves as to the truth of the statement , nad they done so the probability is , owing to the close proximity of the pigsty to the place where the ' . vcapon was found , that it would have then come to Lisrht .
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_Dubiix , Satcjidat . —The C * . e . _iraxc £ _Ststem . — In all directions evictions are still in progress , and , in some instances , by landlords who ' have been hitherto remarkable for forbearance , as well as an anxiety to improve the condition of their tenantry . At the meeting of the _TSenagh guardians , on Thursday week last , Mr . Stoddart announced the name of Mr . Baron Lcfroy , one of the Judges of the Court of Exchequer , as amongst the defaulters of the poor rate ; but it was explained by Mr . Grace that "the Baron ejected all the tenants out of the land , and . after they had been ejected , tlie collector had nothing to distrain , but tho rates would be paid one of these davs . "
At the meeting of the Carlow Board of Guardians Mr . Gale , in bringing forward a motion to provide for the employment of able-bodied labourers in the -workhouse , stated that the number would bo soon increased , as the police were out that day with the sheriff to evict fourteen familes , consisting of seventy persons , off the estate of Sir Charles Cocte , ia the Shnde district . 2 th : Gale added : _—' . 'The fourteen houses would be thrown down that day , and all our remonstrances with Sir Charles Coote had proved unavailing . " The motion passed unanimously . Colonel Bruen , M . P ., and Sir Thomas Butler were in attendance at the board . Tiie Leinster Express contains accounts of further evictions _neai- Portarlinston and Jtosenalis .
]) Er-ARTPBE of TUB _Lono-LiEuiKXAXT . —His Excellency left this forenoon by the Banshee , and will arrive in London in time to attend the committee on the _Navigation Bill in the House of Lords . A Privy Council was held at two o ' clock on Saturday for the swearing in of Lords Justices . Tue State Prisoners . —The Freeman ' s Journal says : — " Yesterday various rumours were ailoat through town respecting the removal of the state prisoners from Richmond Bridewell ; but , as usual in such eases , these rumours proved unfounded , There was nothing communicated to the prisoners
which would warrant the supposition tbat they will be sent off immediately , but at the same time tho gentlemen have been actively engaged in packing up their moveables , with the view of anticipating any sudden order that may be communicated to them . They are all in the enjoyment of the best health , and quite cheerful . " . .. . *' " Mr . Mautix ' _s Case . — This gentleman , whose health is stated to have improved , we understand lias received an official intimation that the executive do not see any reason why the law shall not take its course in his case , but no immediate order has been iriven for his removal . "
Workhouse Cruelties _Pusisiied . —The Cork Examiner says : — "Two officials of the Youghal workhouse have been dismissed under a sealed order of the Commissioners , for their unhappy connexion with the 'death pf the wretched man Patrick Conolly , into the particulars of whose melancholy case we felt it our duty to enter more than once : and two officials of the Macroom . Union- are now iii custody on a charge of manslaughter , they having struck * a pauper of the auxiliary workhouse , named Kelcher , several fatal blows with a drain-shovel and a stone hr . mmcr . Patrick Conolly , it will be remembered , was confined in the black hole of the Youghal Workhouse on the 26 th . ult , for taking a ration of bread , and died in a few hours of starvation .
Murder or a Bailiff . — Two bailiffs , named Conhlan and Ilinscy ,. arrested a tenant to Mr . Hobert _Cassidy , under a civil bill decree , in the fair of Kinnitty , and convoyed him to Tullamore gaol ; on their return ,, about eleven o clock last ni ght , they were attacked about a mile this side of thetownofPrankford by a party ofmoil , who l » V in wait for them . Two of the fellows stopped the ear on which they were sitting , while the others beat the bailiffs with * _bludseons and stones . The
ruffians dragged both off the car , and then the driver drove off . ' This morning , about six O ' clock , Coghlan was found dead , lying on the read , and Hinsey in such a dreadful , state that he was _unab'e to move . ' The latter was removed into _Frankford , ' where he now lies , in a dangerous state , under the care of Dr . Thornton . " An . inquest was held -this day before Mr . James Dillon , coroner , on view . of ii"c body of Coghlan . The jury found a verdict of ,: Wilful murder against some persons u » 3 uiown . "
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Arrest on a Ciiarok of Murder . —It is probably in tho recollection of many that in the September of IS 17 , a bailiff , of the name of Jeremiah Grady , was shot hy a man of the name of James Wren , who hud a small farm at Knocksragh , near Clonakilty , under the Earl of Shannon , and from which the bailiff ( Grady ) , by direction of the agent , Mr . Leslie , sought to evict him on . the day in question . Having succcded in effecting his escape from this country , nothinj was known of his whereabouts until within a few days past , when Constable John Shcrrln , of the Ballinspittlc station , in the Baudon district , obtained a clue to his location , which ho discovered to be the town of Bridge-end , South Wales . Having
provided himself with the necessary warrant , Constable Shorrin proceeded to Wales immediately , and after a close inspection of the labourers working in the various employs in Bridge-end , he succeeded on Tuesday last iu arresting Wren , whom he found working in a brick-yard , amongst two or three hundred men . At first there seemed a determination on the part of the prisoner to resist , but finding himself unassisted , he did not oppose violence to his arrest . Constable Sherrin then proceeded with his prisoner to Bristol , where , embarking in the Juverna , he proceeded to Cork , arriving here yesterday , when the prisoner was fully committed to the county gaol , by B . Shaw , Esq ., J . P . _—CorkExaniiner .
Dissenting 'Worship is a _CnuncnrARD . —On the question which has been lately raised as to the lawfulness of the dissenting worship in the churchyard of Killdollon , without permission of the officiating minister , tho law adviser of her Majesty ' s govern ment in Ireland has given the following opinion ; which has been forwarded by the Under-Secretary to the magistrate who was present on tho occasion referred to : — " I am of opinion that the performance _, of the funeral service in a churchyard , by a dissenting clergyman , without tho permission of the clergyman of the Established Church is illegal . " —Dublin Evening Post . Monday . —State of the Country . —For the last three or four months the current expenses of the bank" upt union of Bantry have been . defrayed by the commissioners to the average amount of £ 300 ft
week . The commissioners are now decreasing their supplies , and several deaths by starvation have occurred there . The state of the district is most miserable . In the Kilrush union ( county of Clare ) several of the evicted tenantry are living in turf pits scooped out of the bogs and covered in at the top with some branches of trees . Prom these cavities the smoke at times is seen ascending , and the passer-by would hardly know that the bog was inhabited by a subterranean population . Li one locality there are as many as twenty , of these bog-dungeons , with families in them . Your correspondent lately hoard one of the highest emplanes of the Poor ~ Lxw staff give a dreadfully graphic picture' of the scene lie had witoi
nessed in Kilrush . He had got down into one these bog dungeons , in . which a family were lying in fever , and he succeeded iu moving : some of them , but the odour of the place was so overpowering that he was compelled to retreat . Part of tho county of Clare is now the worst spot in Ireland . —Daily _ifetw . Belief :-for tue South and West . —At the meeting of the general committee in this city on Saturdav , the Rev . Mr . . O Mallev , on handing m the subscription of Dr . Pliclan , the Poor Law inspector , said he was authorised by that gentleman to state that he had traversed the south and west in all directions , and that there was not the slightest _exaggeration in the newspaper accounts of the destitution , which required all possible aid from volunlives
tary Charity to preserve thousands of . Lord Laxsdowxe ' s _Tjsxaxtbv is- _Keurv . —The Limerick Examiner , in referring to the great extent of pauperism in Kenmare Union , states that there is only one electoral division which has remained solvent all through , whilst , from all the rest , paupers have been sent iu shoals to the workhouse , or cast in crowds upon the rates . " "But ( says that journal ) the electoral division in question has neither sent a- pauper to the common receptacle , nor received a pound of Indian meal in out-door relief , because that division belongs altogether to the Marquis of Lansdownc , and because all the occupiers—and this is the secret of the solvency of the district—are in the enjoyment ot tenant right , a blessing the noble marquis habitually confers . "
The Harvest . —All accounts state that tlie crops are greatl y improved by tho genial weather and refreshing rains of the last week . Potatoes promise well , and the early sorts are beginning to appear in small quantities perfectly sound . Lord Moxteaole axd his Labourers . —Some weeks since , a violent outrage was committed upon the family of Mr . Loughlin Sharp , a steward ol Lord Monteagle , at Mount Tronehard , county oi Limerick . In consequence , that noble lord suspended all the useful works upon his property , and transmitted an address to the tenantry and labourers , deprecating such outrages as deeply disgraceful to the district , and calculated to prevent all attempts at bettering the condition of the people by productive employment . Dr . Langley , accused of cruelty to his wife , has been arrested in Dublin , and is now a prisoner in Newgate .
Mr . Butt has left for London to be examined before the Poor Law Committee . The Evening _Posi has discussed at great length his " rate in aid " pamphlet . The main _suirgestion of Mr . Butt is , that an Irish Board of Trade should be established , with large and liberal - powers of compulsory purchase of rcclaimable lands , & c . Emigration by Wholesale . —The extent to which emigration continues , even at this advanced period of the spring , is really marvellous ; and Ulster is now affording its . full quota . Three vessels , fully freighted , sailed from Belfast on Friday morning , _oneTfor Quebec , and two for the United States . It appears from the Northern Whv j that the Canadian emigrants were of tho most substantial _> class that have left Ulster for very many years . One of the passengers carried with him £ 700 in gold , and _gencrallv those emigrants took out sums of money DCyond their immediate necessities .
__ Although the poor law guardians arc limited in their power to promote emigration , a considerable number of paupers are about to be sent out tc Canada by the Athy , Baltinglass , and other unions , in whichacertain charge is to be made on the rates for outfit , and some landlords are liberally contributing . I have learned that passages have been provided in Dublin for upwards of one thousand paupers , and that many more are to-be sent out before the close of the season . Tlie adoption of Mr . Monsell's suggestions in the _Kcw Poor Law Bill would open a
wide field for this species of emigration . Many of the Roman Catholic clergy are preparing to emigrate with a portion of the remnant of their nocks . The Vmeriek and Clare Examiner mentions several new _CaSCS * and one ill particular , of a parish priest in the diocese of Limerick , whose parish has been depopulated to so great an extent that tho clergyman has been altogether bereft of income . The Hey . Dr . Moriarty , vicar-general of the Augustinians , is about to pre _' eeed to the United States , accompanied bv some wealthy laymen , in order to found a colony . It is thus that the failure of the potato 's working a revolution hi our whole social system .
HOKBIBLE ACOOUKT OF TIIE FAMINE IK XI 1 E WEST . " .. Tuesday , May 22 . —The Protestant rector of iJallinrobo , in a third letter . addressed to the Premier , narrates the _following horrifying tale of human misery : — " In a neig hbouring union a shipwrecked human body was cast on shore ; a starving man extracted tho heart and liver , and that was the maddening feast on which he regaled himself and perishing family ! and , nearer still a poor forlorn girl , hearing that her mother was seized with cholera , hastened to the rescue , alas ! too late , but , with a deep reli g ious and filial devotion , desiring at least a decent interment for her dear departed parent , was driven to the shocking necessity of
carrying the corpse upon her own back for three long _miles to this very union , so that she might make her wants known , and simply obtain a coffin from the relieving officer , iiucd I tell you , my Lord , the dismal sequel ? She herself died of cholera on the following day ! These awful facts may have been reported , but if they were they have been _cushioned , and suppressed , for who has heard of them ? I will not , __ my Lord , dwell at present upon the painful subject of the workhouse , fl 9 the evil ha 3 gone far to correct itself , the inmates having died off in awful numbers , and more liberal supplies being now remitted for the current wceklv expenses—alas ! that these supplies should have been withheld so long . ' I would , however , fix your
Lordship ' s deepest attention upon this appalling fact , that we have , even at best , to encounter three months moro of sore , sore famine ; and , bear it in mind , my Lord , the three worst months of the year , iu point of homo supply—and this , with 27 , 000 of our population in the BaJlinrobo union on out-door relief ,. ' while the remaining 08 , 000 , minus the thousands already lost , are all , with very few exceptions indeed , barely trying to hold on through the dread crisis ! The all-engrossing questions with every one , gentle and simple , are these—* What , in the name of Heaven , is to become of us _? What are wo to do ? > The country is gone ! ' We must thus , again and again strive to arouse you , my Lord , for ' it is not possible that you or the English people can be fully conscious of , or alive fo , the tvua state of
things in the west of Ireland . I grant that there may be , nay , that there is , much ofimposition , but surely there cannot be any in this , that here are the people dropping dead of . utter want all around in . every direction , night and day ; and can we suppose for a moment that the astounding fact is believed , when-wo see no really vigorous arid united movement , ' except through private ; benevolence , to stay the progress of death ? "f is poor consolation to an already more , than half-starved .. wretch to say to bun— ' Go and break stones , no matter how unprofitable , for that is the sole test of your destitution , and if the contractor don't , disappoint , you _sh-ill'get / or ycur ei ght or ten . hours' labour lib , of I idian meal , whieh costs Id ., but we oan't "ive you fuel or clothing , '; . _Spillyeu ' must deliYeAhe tale
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of bricks ; ' however , if you die , and die you soon must for your emaciated , famine-striken counten-Sc and swollen frame , betoken as much , you wilL as on the outdoor list , be entitled to . oo to « _jj the relieving officer , though ; perhaps , he _maj not hSi of you ? decease till you have _^^ _fi the grave ! I tell it to you , my Lord , whc * hei believed or not , and I tell to the world at laige . and Iteil it to our Father in Heaven ( for J bMjech _^ dress of Him ) , that these are the sufferings ot tl s people despite of every entreaty , but no <> 'f _- bco ple : for who can imagine the th ousandth pal t Sthe _inisery of those who , in large numbers , are Preferring _deathitself to such degradation ? It is a King shame and stain upon the legislature in any so-called Christian country . ,,..,. , . The Freeman s Journal gives the following analysis of the replies of the Ilev . Martin Browne , parish nriosfc of Balls , Mayo , to the list of queries circuited hy the Dublin Relief Committee . If is one
of many similar returns received by the : committee : — "The population has been reduced from S , A ) U to to 5 . 500 , being a loss of 2 , 750 , of whom it is computed that over 1 , 200 died from the effects of destitution , or disease resulting from it , the _remaining loss being in part accounted for by emigration , and tho loss by natural . causes , which , as will bo seen by'tho replies to the third query , is not being supplied now as it was in former years—the increase of the species being chocked by . the excessive misery and wasting of the people . The births and marriages in the parish of Balla in ' 49 , as compared with those in _'ii , ' are in the ratio of one to four , ' in other words , the natural increase of the population has failed to the appalling extent of 75 per cent . In one parish alone . 400 houses have been levelled through the operation of the Gregory clause . "
State of the Skibbereen Union : —This wretched union still preserves its melancholy notoriety . According , to the CorJfc 'Examiner : — ' , ' It is nearly £ 7 , 000 in debt to merchants for food ; and while over 22 , 000 hungry paupers yearn for bread , which must be provided for them or'thcy perish , there is not the least probability of a rato being collected from the farmers and occupiers who still remain . in the country . We do most earnestly , and in the name of humanity , call on government to take the case of Skibbereen , with its 22 , 000 paupers , and its bankrupt landlords , farmers and shopkeepers , into immediate consideration , and at once relieve the board from its embarrassment and the destitute from the near approach of starvation and death . The government must consider that beyond the credit of a single week ' s food one respectable . . house—
-Messrs . Gould and Co . —have refused to grant , and that contractors arc perfectly justified by the state of things in the neighbouring union of- Bantry , where all seems hopeless ruin , in refusing to iisk even a shilling ' s worth of . their property on the faitll Of any board ' Of guardians , be they paid or elected , tho officers . of the government , or the representatives of the people . " The Central Relief Committee , through whose exertions so . much good was achieved , in the years id—7 , have recommenced operations , and in an address to the country , issued this day , they call for assistance to enable them to relieve " the utter destitution of 1849—a destitution far surpassing anything this . country has yet endured . " The accounts this morning from Clave and Galway are scarcely loss afflicting than . thosofrom Ballinrobe and Skibbereen .
Verdict AOAixsr a _Reliei'i . vg _Ojticeb . —On Sunday an inquest was held on the body of a man namedPatrick Dillon in Kilnaboy , Ennistinion union , who died on the previous . day . It appeared from the evidence that deceased . holdnine acres of land , and that for some time past he was living in great destitution , with a wtfo and two children ; he offered to give up the land , but tho landlord refused to take it , unless a portion which was held by deceased ' s brother was also given up ; the wife sot out-door relief four or five times , to the amount of IS-stone of meal each week ; she afterwards applied to the relieving officer and he tohl her to got a ccrti-3 cato that the land had been offered to the landlord
and she would get relief . A medical gentleman deposed that deceased died from protracted starvation . The jury returned the following verdict : — " That deceased came by his death from protracted starvation , caused by having been refused the relief which he had boon ' formerly getting from the relieving officer , Thomas Macmahon . " A coroners warrant was immediately issued , on which the relieving officer was committed , but bail was afterwards accepted for his appearance . New Barristers . —Seventeen law students are to be called to the British bar , during Trinity Term , which commences this day . This is a large number considering tho gloomy prospects of the legal profession iu this country .
Wed . _vesdav , May 23 . — Sale _ov O'Coxnell ' _s Library . —The library of the late Mr . O'Connell was sold by auction yesterday , at Jones ' s salc-roomsj D'Olier-street . There were very few valuable or rare works in the collection , which consisted chiefly of law books , tracts on divinity , pamphlets , < fcc . None brought anything like the prices that might have been expected . Even copies having O'Ccnnell ' s autograph affixed sold at prices not amounting to the mere intrinsic value , and , in many instances , far below tho trade price at second-hand ! Ten years ago , who could have imagined such a result as the sale of O' Council's library in Dublin . The sale is to he resumed to-day . Eephesextation or Limerick . —There aro two
candidates in tho field for the scat vacated by Mr . Smith O'Brien , who , on Friday last , was voted civilly dead in the House of Commons . The claimants for the honour are Mr . Samuel Dickson , a large proprietor in the county of Limerick , and Mr . Thomas Fitzgerald , who dates his address from Merrion-squarc , Dublin . Neither of these gentlemen states what his political opinions arc , but it is understood that Loth profess Liberal principles . . The election is fixed for Friday , tho 1 st of Juno . State of the Country . —The Archbishop of Tuam , in a letter to tho Freeman ' s Journal acknowledging the receipt Of several subscriptions fortlie relief of tlie destitution in his diocese , states the following distressing circumstances : — " On the morning of
last Saturday , on sotting out from lleadford , the corpse of a young man who died of hunger on the preceding night was seen stretched on the road-side . I saw the scenes of eviction : _uu \ desolation as I traversed the parish to the shores of Lough Corrib . I could not believe that any one parish could exhibit so many monuments of heartless cruelty . 'It is no wonder if death in every form of disease ' and starvation followed ia the train of this depopulating system . The misery , however , was-deepening as we advanced , and the wretchedness of the poor of this remote ' and-much-neglected region is such that I will not occupy tho time or harrow the feelings ' of the reader by its description . " Mr . Burke , a Galway magistrate , writing from Moycullcn , declares that : — " The people are actually
being swept away . Burials of victims to famine , cholera , fever , and all tho other diseases consequent upon starvation , are ( and 1 declare the fact from my own personal 1 ; now lodge ) , on each day , of hourly occurrence . You will scarcely credit , that in this Christian country I had myscif , within the last three days , to order tho immediate burial , without coffins , of two poor wretches -who had diod of cholera , and whoso remains were left to decompose until they spread tho pestilence among tho unhappy beings around them , I have just seen one good parish priest , and he informed mo ' that alarming as tho description he had already given me of his diminish ing flock was , tbat state has been rendered more fearful by tlie presence among us of the cholera . ' Morning , noon , and night is the rov . ¦ clergyman engaged in the administration of the last sacraments , and still he cannot reach all the cases . In manv
instances at night the want of light from candle , bog wood , or Ave of any kind , renders it almost impossible for him to administer tho last rites ; and were it not that constant repetition has impressed on his memory the prayers for the dying , many would die without their consolation . Ho also mentioned to me that in 13-1-1 the population of this parish amounted to 4 , 080 souls ; and during that year there were ISO births , or about four anil a half per cent ., and that now the people have dwindled down to 2 , 080 , and during the last winter months the birtbs were only fifteen , or about one to each 200 . Up to this month in the former year there wero about forty marriages , and to this date in 1 S 40 , there wore hut three . 1 hese , sir , arc about the average
data of many parishes in the west of Ireland . Our burial ground , an extensive one , and but lately formed , will bear silent testimony to the rapidity with which the people are passing away ; and its clay will soon be insufficient to hide tho hundreds of victims over whom ' the grave will have its victory . ' Pestilence and starvation are at work among all classes of the people ; but those who suffer most are the spirited and industrious poor who have endeavoured to brave the storm , and havo clung to tho wreck , and who , trusting to the mercy of Providence and tho humanity of man , have sold all they possessed on earth in-order to find means with which to till their small holdings of land . Hundreds , who up to this period have committed to tho soil enough ( if heaven prospered their work' ) to
raise them above want next year , are now each day taking their places ' in '' death in _tlmt earth , the like of which their labour < _nje rendered life-supporting . Few will ever reap what they have sown . If relief from any quarter is to be afforded to , the wretched and struggling survivors , now is the time . Should this month find the next be , allowed to pass away , the most liberal and ' generous aid will bo of i . o avail for the future . The grateful heart ol many a poor wretch is now _blessing the charity of the English people , . and thanking them for ! the ' life which makes it beat ; hut bitter . experience now shows that had that charit y been afforded ' in time , and aid been given to'tho people to crop their lands in season , they would not be again , as they are now , dependent upon others for means to support life . "
. AClor . mel correspondent of ; tho Evening Tackel writes that . although the state of that part ' of ; M ' imstor is _a _« t so frightful aj } in _Connaught , still a tone
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of des pondency ' pervades the people generally , and _a'l who can in any way scrape up the money arc preparing to leave tho first opportunity :- _^ Every patch of "round on this side of the country ( adds this gentleman ) is tilled-by the holders , who , as soon as they can lift the crops , meditate flight .. Thus cabin and farm implements are left unrep aired-they will serve the few months wanted as they are . 1 hough tho poorhouscs are all crammed , legions of starving wretches crowd the streets of the villages and towns , some clamorous , but many more appealing only by their gaunt looks and famine-stricken visages to the charity of the traveller . Amongst a . crowd ot such poor creatures surrounding tlie hotel door in the town of Tipperary , I singled out a young girl , sixteen or seventeenwhose handsome profile , dark eye ,
, and rich black hair , thick-and unkempt though it was , rendered her still beautiful , though ' -. shivering in a few loose dirty rags . Never shall I forget the tale of woe that poor girl told of a dying mother and three small sisters perishing from starvation . Never shall I forget the fervent accents of gratitude a very little charity elicited , amidst her sobs and tears—tears summoned forth by being addressed in a tone of kindness and condolence—tones evidently she was little accustomed to hear . Oh ! daughters of . luxury—think _"OW man */ thousands of your sisters , lovely as yourselves , p ine for the bread your lap-dogs reject . All hope rests on the coming harvests . Should God please to again withhold the fruits of the earth this season , tho consequences will be awful indeed—more so than I dare to
contimplate . Want of Tenantry . —The following case of " reaction , " as it maybe called , is mentioned by the Tipperary Vindicator : — " We understand that in Clare , those landlords who were conspicuous some time ago in clearing their properties , are now doing all that lies in their power to procure tenantry to till tho land , which in whole districts is waste . In few instances can tenants be obtained ; and the consequence is that these landlords aro in the utmost distress . Tlie land cannot pay poor rates and taxes
under the circumstances . " And again , to quote from the same authority : — " In several parts of the country from ¦ which tenantry have been lately ejected , and tho lands tilted by proprietors or agents , there is nothing to meet the demands of the ratecollector and county cess man but the growing crops ; but these they cannot touch ; and the result is that these lands for the present are so far unproductive towards meeting the fiscal requirements of the country or of the unions in which they are situate , unless tho owner be compelled to pay by summons . "
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DARING OUTRAGE ON HER MAJESTI On Saturday afternoon London was thrown into consternation by the report that an attempt had been made to assassinate hoy Majesty . It appears that , soon after tho ceremonies of thodrawing-room were over , her Majesty , accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Princess Royal , and the Princess Helen , proceeded , about five o ' clock , in an open landau , for an airing in the parks , accompanied by Major-General Weniyss , her Majesty ' s equerry , on horseback . The drawing . up of the royal carriage in front of Buckingham
palace was a sufficent indication of her Majesty ' s intention , to induce a number of the loungers about the Park to gather round and to witness her Majesty ' s departure . The royal cortege proceeded through a portion of Rcgent ' s-parlc and Hydepark , and after being absent about three-quarters of an hour , turned down Constitution-hill towards the palace . ' By this the crowd in waiting to see her Majesty return had considerably , increased , and formed a double line down Constitution-hill , a considerable number beiner also collected in the
Greenpark , which at . that spot is separated from Constitution-hill by the park palings . Among the groups assembled here , and nearly in the same spot where Oxford made his attempt on her Majesty ' s life in 1 S 40 , was standing a young man , stout , and under tho middle size , about'twenty-four years of age , dressed in a dirty flannel jacket , and having all the appearance of a bricklayer ' s labourer , who accosted a woman near him , and asked if the Queen was coming ; and then , as the royal outriders made their appearance at the moment , asked " if this was her . " The woman answered in the affirmative , when immediately , as the royal carriage came opposite him , he raised his hand and discharged a pistol at her Majesty . The report of the pistol caused the
royal postillions for a moment to check the horses , and the Queen , standing up in the carriage and addressing one of her attendants , asked what had happened . The man replied that her Majesty had been shot at , on . which , without making any reply , her Majesty resumed her seat , tlie- carriage drove on , and the Queen alighted at the entrance , and was the first , wc understand , to inform her Royal Consort , Prince Albert , of the daring outrage that had been perpetrated , The discharge of tho pistol was witnessed by several parties , and the scoundrel who fired it made no attempt to escape ; although , indeed , if he had done so , escape would have been out of his power . He was- first seized by Moulder , one of the parkkeepers , who was standing near him , and who
instantly secured the pistol , which the prisoner was attempting to thrust into the pecket of his trowsers . A police-constable named _Topley , uo A , and a private soldier of tho Life Guards , named Stride , who leaped over the park palings , speedily came to Moulder ' s assistance . Meantime the crowd which had assembled rushed also to the spot , and gave very audible expression to their indignation . Several persons gathered round the prisoner , and wero about to inflict summary chastisement upon him for his atrocious conduct , but at that moment Mnjor-General Wemyss came up and interfered to protectbini ; and a large body of police arriving at the same time , he was rescued from the rough treatment which the crowd were evidently _prepiirinsi for him .
- flie prisoner was conveyed in a cab to the police station-house , Gardeuer ' s-row _, in King-street , Westminster , and was charged before _Inspector D _.-irlun , then on duty , v . ith having attempted to _.- ! Ssnssinato her Majesty . Mr . JVliiyno , one of tlie Commissioners of Police , arrived soon afterwards . The prisoner at _firft maintained a sullen silence , leaning his arms upon the dock and his head upon his hand . In answer to repeated inquiries , he at hist stated that his name was John Hamilton , and that he was a native of Adare , county Limerick , Ireland , but that he had been about five years in this country , and worked , when he could a ' et work , as a bricklayer ' s labourer , and that ho lodged with a person named O'Kcefc , in Ecc ' cston-place , Pimlico . Major-General Wemyss , anil the persons who first seized him , were also examined , as were some others who witnessed tho occurrence , and particularly a seafaring man , who was standing in front of " ihe at the
prisoner park _palinss . on Constitution-hill , and whose face was scorched by the discharge from tho pistol behind him . The pistol itself was produced and examined . It is a small , _oldtiishionod screw pocket-pistol , with a flint lock , and a barrel not three inches Ions . It has on it the name " Clarke , London , " It was the opinion of General Wemyss and other persons who examined it , that it bad not been loaded with anything moro dangerous than powder ; and . wo may add here , that it has since appeared he borrowed the pistol from his landlord , and employed one of his children to purchase for him a halfpennyworth of powder , which was all tho provision he seems to havo made for his dariri " outrage . In answer to the inquiries of tho inspector , the prisoner denied that the pistol was loaded with ball ; ho said that lie intended no harm to her Majesty ; and after being pressed with regard to Ins motives , he reluctantly admitted that he did it only to be talked about .
The . prisoner was then removed to a cell , and on being searched , there wore found upon his person a few halfpence , the blade of a knife , a leather purse , and some pieces of paper , but the writing on them had no connexion with tlie diabolical attempt with which he stood charged . His lodgings in Ecclestonplaco were searched the same ni ght , and sonic papers were found , but containing no allusion what over to the outrage It appears he had formerly worncdon the Belgium and "Nantes Railway , but .
had returned to Lngland about a year ago , and he has been out of employment for some months . In ormation of the occurrence was instantly forwarded to ihe members of government , and Lord Jobu Russell visited her Majesty at Buckingham 1 a ace the same evening . Sir George Grey issued orders that the utmost care should be taken of the prisoner , to prevent him from laying violent hands on himself , or otherwise frustrate the ends of justice , and directed that he should be examined in his presence next dnv .
Accordingly , at two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , the prisoner was brought up to the Home Office , and underwent an examination before Sir George Grey , Air . Waddington , the Under-Secretary of State tor the Homo Depnrtmont ; Mr . Henry and Mr . Hall , the magistrates of Bow-street , policeottico ; and Mr . Mayno , tho commissioner of police . i he Attorney-General also attended and conducted « ie examination . The prisoner was brought from the police-station , Gardincv _' s-lane , in custody of Mr . Superintendent- May and Mr . ¦ Inspector Ottway . Upon being placed at the table and questioned , no stated that lus name was James Hamilton , and that ho resided at-So . 4 , EccIeslon-pIace _. _- _'Belgraye-road , Pmilico , and was a bricklayer by trade Mr . hall told -him that he was charged with having , on Constitution-hill , St . James ' s Park , on
The first witness examined was Daniel _O'Kum On examination by the Attornov-General _w , f l . live at Ko , 4 _Eccleston-place , BcEe-v _^ d Put hco , and have known the prisoner ,, _Jamos 01 Silt ™ from four to . five years .:. The prisoner e _^ cover from Ireland as , a br ckkwer _' s Inl . _« _, !« ,:., } , \ atthe business _-hen _heS _^ _f'VuelK uonded b j a jriond to lodge with mc , m lodged
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with me nearly the whole time I have known him but left me once , about two seasons ago , to go to Prance , lie returned in the month of November in the same year that he left . On his return he lod ged with me , but as he was out of work , and had got into my debt , I sent him to a friend of mine at Bow , in order that ho m ight get employment , and pay me something toward s the amount he owed me . i then wrote him a letter , and told him I had burned mvleg , and was in groat want of money , and he came one Saturday nig ht and brought me a soverei <* n , and came again after that and brought me ton shillings more ; but I could not get anything else from him that season . After that I summoned him . and put him to all the expense I could , except
issuing an execution . Tho prisoner came at that time from Bow , and called upon an acquaintance , for the purpose , as I afterwards ascertained , of being taken i nto custody , so that he might get a billet for the winter in prison . I know the prisoner from his coming from the same place that I did . Mr . Commissioner Mayxk , at tb _* request of the Attorney-General , now produced the pistol , and , in answer ' to the Attorney-General , the witness said that the pistol produced was his property . The next witness was BniDOET O Kkkfe .- —She said : I am the -wife of the last witness . I know the pistol . On Saturday last , I was going out into the garden when'I saw Mr . Hamilton ( the prisoner ) at tho bench . Ho said he was making a pistol , and was _soin g to fire a shot or two . He then showed
mc a sort of barrel which he had fixed upon a piece of wood like a pistol . It was made of tin , and seemed to me to be the spout of a teakettle . I made some remark to him about it , which I do not now recollect , when he said , " Why , Dan has got an old p istol , lend it to me . " I then went to my bedroom and gavp it to him out of the window . Tho prisoner looked at it , and said it was very rusty . I said it was , and that I did not think it was of much account . I afterwards heard him fire the pistol about three times in the garden . —Was tho prisoner in or out of work ?—I have not known him have seven weeks ' work since Christmas . — -How did he live ? A young woman who lives with me , and is in the milk line , serves a great many persons and collects a good deal of broken victuals , and between the two of us we managed to keep him .
_Euward O'Keefe , tlie son of the list witness , said 1 am eleven next birthday . The prisoner asked me yesterday to fetch him a halfpenny worth of powder , and I went into Elizabeth-street ' and bought it , and gave'him the powder . lIc . Silid . it WAS not the best sort of powder . That was about a quarter to three o ' clock . The prisoner said he wanted the powder as ho could have some fun . —[ Tho witness here produced a piece of wood cut in the form of a pistol stock , on which was tied the spout of an old tin teakettle , so as to form a barrel . Ho said ho purchased it of the prisoner on Saturday last for one penny , and turning to the prisoner , he said , "Here , Mr . Hamilton , I can pay you the penny now ( offering a penny ); I had not got one on Saturday . " ]—
When did he go out ; Almost immediately afterwards . I wanted to go with him , but he said , "So , you must stop at home . " Tho prisoner was asked , as he had been at the conclusion of the previous witness ' s examination whether he had any questions to ask the witness , to which he replied , " No , nothing . " Daxiel Lamb was then called , and examined . — He said : About half-past six o ' clock on Saturday evening I was on Constitution-hill , when I saw the prisoner standing near a tree in the Green Park . He asked me , when the royal carriage was passing , whether it was the Queen coming . I told him it was . Immediately I saw him raise a pistol , and shoot at her Majesty . I felt something close to my oar , and believed at the time that it was a bullet , At the moment before I had turned to look at the Queen , and therefore I did not sec the actual shooting . Feeling assured that the explosion came from
the prisoner s pistol , I attempted to get over the railings to secure him , but at the moment I saw the park-keeper seize the prisoner . The park-keeper called to me to assist him , which I did , by holding the prisoner by the coat tails , the railings of the park prevented mc from taking hold of any portion of his person . —Had you noticed the prisoner before he spoke to you ? Yes ; I noticed he had been for some time walking about that- spot , with his hands in his pocket . ~ Did you notice u _* which hand tho prisoner held the pistol ? In his rig ht band . —What did he do with the pistol after he fired it ? I thought he put it into his trowsers pocket , but he was taken so soon that I am not positive . I know ho was trying to do so . The witness then deposed to tho fact of tho prisoner being taken to the station-house , adding , that had he not been placed in a cab , he believed that the populace would havo torn him to pieces .
George Maiden , the park-keeper , deposed that he distinctly saw the prisoner raise his arm as the royal carriage approached , and hcaringa loud report , ho ran up and seized the prisoner , and took from him tho pistol which had been produced . Mr . _Heswick , the sergeant footman to the Queen , said that he saw the prisoner point the pistol at the royal carriage , and almost immediately called to the riders to ~ stop , but in the meantime tiie prisoner had been taken . Her Majesty rose to see what was the matter , and ordered tliem to drive on . Mr . Oxway , inspector of the A division of police , deposed to searching the house in which the prisoner resided . He found that he had no property of any k nd , and that the shirt which ho wore had been lent to him .
Major-General Wemyss ' s testimony was to the effect that he was attending her Majesty on Saturday last . When the royal carriage had got a few yards down Constitution-hill he heard the report of a pistol ; lie turned round , and saw smoke issuing from the direction of the spot where tlie prisoner was standing , ire rode over to the spot , saw thai the park-keeper had taken the pistol from the prisoner and he ( General Wemyss ) ordered him to be taken to the station-house . Ho was of opinion that if the pistol hud been charged with bullet or shot , ho would have received it , as he completely shielded her Majesty by the position ho held again ' stthe carriage _, llcr Majesty was on the left side , which was the side of the road the prisoner occupied . He was within the Green Park railings . Ifo ( General Wemyss ) did not believe the pistol contained cither ball or shot .
Several other witnesses were examined , but their evidence only confirmed the above testimony . At the close of the evidence , Mr . Hall , tho chief magistrate , said : Prisoner you are committed on a charge preferred against you of endeavouring to friglTten her Majesty the Queen . The act under which you are committed is the 5 th and Gth Victoria , cap . 51 , sec . 2 . The prisoner , who made no observations , was fuliy committed for trial to _Sewgato , to which he was convoyed by three policeman in a cab . Some apprehension was at first entertained that thid diabolical outrage was connected with a political feeling ; it is , however , satisfactory to find , from all the inquiries that have been " made , that tho statement made by tho prisoner is true , that he really' had no accomplices , and that he was altogether unconnected with political associations of any kind .
ADDITIONAL _PAUTICl'IiAn *' . After the examination at tho Home-office had boon concluded , tho prisoner . John Hamilton , was brought into an outer room in the custody of Inspector Shaw , _ivho took the charge , and police constable Topley , who apprehended him , when he was exposed to the gaze of a number of persons connected with the Home-office for upwards of half an hour , hut not the sli ghtest _change of countenance was perceptible . A perfect iinh'fteronco marked the whole of his demeanour . Upon the committal to Newgate being signed , an order was also issued , directed to the governor of the above gaol , that the prisoner should be kept by himself , and , in accordance with these instructions , the prisoner is p laced in a room by himself , seeing no person but the authorities of the gaol , and these only at certain
intervals . Bis sulienness still continues ; he speaks but little ; and when he adverts to his olfence , bo still persists that he had no intention to injure the Queen . Strange as it may appear , after the report oi' what took place at the Home-office on Sunday , an impression still exists that the pistol was loaded with ball . To remove this impression from the public mind , it is only necessary to state that , by the direction of Sir G . Grey , Inspectors Field and Wulfcei were occupied for upwards of two hours on Sunday in minutely examining the private garden of the Palace , as well as the entire range to which a ball by any possibility could be propelled , but not the " slightest missile of any description , could be found ; and this is still further corroborated by the prisoner ' s extreme poverty , for the only property which he possessed was the clothes ' on his back .
With respect to the punishment in the event of tho prisoner being found guilty , an erroneous impi'CSSli *" exists to the effect that he can be both public ly flogged and transported . . The clause of the act , winch is as follows , will show the contrary :- " -V . be it enacted that from and after the passim . ' o ft » i = act , if any person-shall willfully _discharge or attempt to discharge , or point , aim , or present at W near to . the person of tho : Queen , any gun , I » _s * 01 ' or any other description of firearms or oi ' other a *' " ' whatsoever , whether the same s hall or _JbU / J contain any explosive or destructive material , < - ' ¦ shall _discharge or cause to be discharaed , oratten _i - » > " « _viuugu ui cause io uu _uisuutu : ; cu , _v — ,. .
to discharge or cause to he discharged , any _c-M ' _^ si . vo substance or material' near the person Ol ' _^ Quoeii ; or . if any person shall wilfully _strifes _or-- _^ tempt to strike at tho person of the Queen wit' -j oflonsivD weapon , or in any other manner wi » - _^ ever ; or if any person shall wilfully throw oi ' tempt to throw aay substance , matter , or | _^ whatsoever at or upon the person of the _QuW' _^ r _, intent in any of the' cases _aforesaid to injure « ' _<< _^ son of the Queen , or with intent in any ot _" "; . ' [ ho aforesaid to break the public peace , or _wherw - ia public peace may be endangered ; or with >" ' so any of tho eases aforesaid , & c .,: every such l * ur _, offending shall be guiltv of a high iu « sdw » _w " Ud . being coimotttd thereof ia d"c C 01 U _" ''
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 26, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_26051849/page/6/
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