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ADDRESS OF THE POLISfl DEMOCRATS TO EUROPE . If , on the occasion oi the late suppression of the Republic of Cracow , the Polish Democratic Society —the true organ of the present wishes , i < Jea 3 , and actual wants of Poland—once more raises its voice , it is because it owes to Europe the duty of manifesting a trank , conscientious , and solemn appreciation of the act perpetrated by the three Northern Powers , of tbe peculiar position in which Europe is thereb y placed , and , lastly , of the right of Poland to her ancient independence . ....
Considered in itself , that is to say , from a moral point of view , from that of eternal justice , this deed u as odious as it is base and dastardly . It is a murder perpetrated by the stronger upon the weakervet more , a spoliation of the victim by its murderer . In a well ordered civil society such a crime is foreseen and punished with all the rigour of the law . An international criminal law does not yet exist . But e * n justice and public conscience—the guarantees of tho safety of nations—be less severe towards the crime offo natimtalite than the civil law is towards an offence committed against a single individual ? Is not the seizure of a town , or province , a state—is not the confiscation , to one ' s own profit ot a whole population , which , on the faith of
treatiescon-, sidered by the Governments of Europe as most sacred and solemn , ought to be " free and independent "—as iniquitous and revolting a plunder as an armed highway robbery ? fa not the arbitrary erasure from the map of the world of a state whose existence was assured by the whole of Europe , a rebellion of the three monarchs against all the rest ? Is it not an act of revolt against the political and social order established by the mutual consent of governments ? Is it not a defiance thrown by the overbearing pride and blindness of kings at the patience and good sense of nations ? Is it not , in fine , a most striking instance of that very spirit of anarchy of which absolute governments accuse the nations of Europe .
And yet , whatever the enormity of that crime , it -does not surprise us Poles : it is the consequence of the far greater crime perpetrated against our whole country ssventy-four years ago . Poland—chivalrous , agricultural , and hospitable , -was at that time in one of those critical moments , when nations , weakened by long and terrible struggles , seek new forcts in regeneration . Her noble and frank spirit , her military loyalty , made her rely entirely upon her se-gloriously tested valor . She knew her civilizing mission , and faithfully fulfilled its duties . In looking around her , she thought herself secure , for she saw nothing that could surpass , or even equal , her prowess in the battle-field , or in the advancement of her ide « s and institutions . But she did not discover the subtle and wily spirit , the craft and rapacity , of her neighbours , who had been long lying in wait for a favourable opportunity to strike her dead , to plant upon her grave thestanderd of tbeir dominion .
Thus Poland was vanquished neither by arms nor by the might of ideas , but nit rely by that brigand audacity , which , in the dead of the night , murders the unwary . Since then they have many time 3 torn Poland to pieces and drenched her in blood ; she lias suffered whatever a martyr people can suffer ; all the crimes which osly hell could invent have been perpetrated against her andher children . That of which Cracow is n * w the victim is , therefore , for Poland but the consequence of her murderous struggle with the absolutism or the barbarity of the Three Northern Powers , a struggle to which Official Europe has been and is to this very moment impassible and indifferent . The suppression of Cracow may , however , have very serious consequences for Europe . It at once destroys all { the illusions all the pretexts , of pretended European law . Absolutism , long bridled and repressed in its ambition , is again beginning to show
its tpirit of invasion and slavery . It longs to be free in its actions , it wants to disengage itself from all ties , were they never so weak , that hinder its dfSt-uctive policy . Listen to its language ' now ! See vit ' i what disdain ! it addresses one of the greatest nations of Europe ! '' Finally , " says the Austrian government , " we attach less importance to these vrotds , now so often repeated , 'that the French will not consider themselves bound by the treaties of Vienna , ' as this does not in the least alter the case : for it is neither the conventions of Paris or Vienna , nor the respect due to the faith of treaties , which have imposed any reserve npon the French ; they would long since have broken them , had they felt themselves strong enough : and we would not blame them for it . But these are precitely questions of tear . Forty years ago Austria would not have used such language without immediately seeing the tricolour on the road to Austerlitz .
Now the three absolute Powers of the North think they may do whatever pleases them . Thirty years havn passed away since the conquerors of European liberalism dictated at the Congress of Vienna laws for the subjugated nations . They did not dare then to take full advantage of their victory ; the feelings of liberty and glory in the hearts of nations were then too powerful to be braved with impunity . Now it is not so . Muscovite Absolutism , having ' chained Austria and Prussia to its car , by their complicity in the crime perpetrated against Poland , feels itself bold enough to lift its bloody sword against timid and patient Europe . It tramples nationalities under its feet , arbitrarily destroys the existence of states , tears treaties , spurns contracted engagements , crushes the weak , and insults the strong . * It is enough to pourtray such a situation to show how seriously it threatens official Europe , the Europe of Governments .
Every thing proves that the suppression of Cracow 13 only the first step towards a vast remodelling which the Northern Powers are anxious to apply to the present system of European equilibrium . Projects of a partition of Turkey , elaborated by Russian agents , circulate in diplomatic circles , and find a welcome reception in the German newspapers inspired by the cabinet of St . Petersburgh . Saxony , whose existence seemed so problematic at the congreM of Vienna , turns an uneasy look towards Berlin . Swiuetland is more than ever threatened by Austria .
This , however , is but a part of the projects of the three absolute Northern Powers . Other interests , of greater consequence and import to Europe are in danger . Its liberty , its conscience and civH ' zation , are at the mercy of the Muscovite , supported as he is by the weakness , the avidity and the natural inclinations , of Prussia and Austria . Russia has never ceased to increase and to grow stronger : she presses heavily upon Turkey , she covets the English posessions in the Indies , she incloses Austria at the mouth of the Danube , she penetrates into Prussia and threatens central Germany . Austria , feeble and
tattering , exerts herself to strengthen her dominion by everywhere consolidating despotism ; she demoralises the peasants of Galicia , and orders the butchery of unarmed patriots , she is anxious to annihilate liberty wherever her influence can reach it , inSwitzerl . ind . in Italy , in Hungary . Prussia repels the liberal ideas by which she is besieged ; for the last thirty years she has lulled the impatience of her subjects with the hope of a constitution , which her ideas and her secret tendencies delay for ever ; moderate in her interior policy , she cajoles the constitutional monarchies , whilst her real affections incline towards the despotism of Austria and Russia .
Let Europe reflect upon this state of things ! By the suppression of Cracow the three Northern Powers have unveiled their policy . What does that policy leave secure in Europe ? . There was once some public law , they have destroyed it ; there were guarantee for some states at least ; they have annihilated them . Thenceforth , then , there is to be no security for anything in Europe , no restraint for the strong , no guarantee for the weak , no safety for anybody . All is to be anarchy , revolution , and war .
* Every one knows that the treaty * f the 21 st of April and tbe 3 rd of JUy , relative to Cracow , concluded betweta Ru « sia , Prussia , and Austria , was inserted in the final treaty of the 9 th of June in the same year ; it is kno * n that this treaty wa * signed not only by Russia . Prussia , and Austria , but also by France , England , 3 pain , Portugal , and Sweden ; it is known that the reciproiuy of rights and obligations spoken of in that treaty it extended as well to the tith article of the treaty of the ird of May , wbichstatw , "the town of Crason-, with its territory , ii aedared for evtr ( A perpetuite ) a free , independent , and r trictly neutral City , " as to all other clauses and provisions . Even Aastria h « i self thought go foraerly . In a dispatch , addressed on the Tth of February
itSlg , to the minister-plenipotentiary of Austria in Swft . zerkad , Prince Sletternich thus writes with reference to that final treaty : " The s » id powers ( all the power *} thought fit to insert in this document all tbe different treaties , conventions , and public acts , concluded privately between ths diveri states , in order to make it a whole * . Thus originated the final treaty of the Congress of Tisane , incompatibly the fundamental law of tbe actual political system of Europe , since it hag been sanctioned «* jr the consent of all the states of which that system consists : therefore the provisions and principles embodied in 'hat treaty , whether they regard , directly or indirectly , one or other of tbe European states , became binding upon ill . "
Well ! what do the Northern Powers say now ? "The erection of Cracow into a free , neutral , and independent town was the act solely of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . Engl and and France were not contracting parties to the con ventions concluded in this respect between the three Pim ? rs aforesaid ; they did cot become so by signiiij the final treaty of tbe Congress of Vienna , neither did the » ther subscriber * , the three Powers excepted . " Compare these ! and judge whether it is possible to conceit * a more outrageous contempt of good faith and re *»« a . With such arguments , what security is there for tfeott state * wh o ** existence depends on treaties !
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Lit Europe reBect upon thisstate of thines ' As for ouraeWes , we are S only anxious tftn » n « « . i this violent deed of the thrJ KSnfiSS a ^ ffi ^ ift ^ s ^ W ^^ ^^ ^ ss s * assa » ag SSfi ^ raaS mivforl ^ T topiw ? ' moreover , that this act SLn ? Y emancipation ot some hundred milhons of people groaning under the yoke of absotwl . "a arbitrary power ; because it points out to them duties which when fuelledwill lace the VSSSS ^^ XsL ...
, , p turopean family in conditions consistent « ith justice , and with the respective wants and destinies of every nation . Feelings of national honour and individual liberty are not yet extirpated among the Slavonian and German populations . They bud in Russia and the Austrian possessions ; they shoot in Prussia , and prevail in Italy and all the states of the German confederation . The spoliation of Cracow is a new , a more direct and more powerful appeal to those feelings , than ever could be made by the three Governments . Let the nations held in fief by Russia , Austria , and Prussia , or those upon whom these Powers exercise the least influence , be warned to be on their guard ; for the same will which annihilated the independence of Cracow , may reach them too , at anv time . There is no bar now between them and
that will . Treaties are broken , and the faith of public engagements , once so arrogantly violated , may be violated over and over again . If there are any guarantees for the subjects of Russia , Austria , and Prussia , can it be supposed that they will be more sacredly kept and respected than the independence of . i whole town , of a whole state ? Can the citizens and peasants of these Governments , already too heavily oppressed , be without a constant fear of having their chains still more tightly rivetted by that same selfish and absorbing thought of absolute dominion ? Will not thi duty of revolting against oppression and arbitrary power appear to them now more natural and imperative ? Will they deem themselves bound to respect the tyrannical laws which are imposed upon them , whilst their oppres . sors violate treaties concluded and accepted by their own free will ? Yes . in trampling under their feet , w hat ought t » have been for them sacred and
inviok-Ma . the Governments assuming the name of " Consirvalivd" have themselves proclaimed and justified evolution ; they have imposed upon Nations and 1 ' copies the duty of mistrusting their faith ; they have absolved them from their oaths of allegiance and fidelity . The liberty of action thus restored to the oppressed fives a new action to what twenty-two millions of Poles have always considered their birth-right and tiwir duty . The struggle which has lasted now for nearly a century , that struggle , exalted in its purpose , powerful and inexhaus'ible in its means , is now to begin again with fresh energy . Cracow , as before , will continue to be its locus , as well as Warsaw , Wilna , Posen , or Leopol , as well as the least Polish borough ; for . wherever Poles abide , there is but one wish , one desire , one oath , that of breakin-: the yoke which oppresses our country and of restoring to her her greatness and ancient independence .
But the restoration of Poland is also of very momentous import to Europe , fo r . ten centuries ago , after having united different stocks of the Slavonian race akin to her by their identity of origin , wants , language and manners , it was Poland alone that preserved and developed ; the Slavouion democratic ge < m , which foreign despotism had stifled and destroyed in the other stocks of that race . It was Poland alone which protected European civilisation , and drove far away the Tartarian , Turkish , and Muscovite hordes , which were incessantly attempting to penetrate into her interior . And when on one side the human mind , emancipated id the West , declared war against old ideas , while on the other side there rose in the North a new absolute power to combat that emancipation , Poland , that ancient representative of democratic ideas , placed in the vanguard of European civilisation , and always faithful to her mission , first entered the lists and fell .
She fell , and the family of sixty millions of Slavonians lost with her their only representative , the nations their truest ally ; and on her tomb Absolutism cemented an impious compact and strengthened its power . By the fall of Poland , central as well as Western Europe is uncovered . Absolutism , after having seen the standard of tbe new era , proclaimed by the French revolution , hoisted on the walls of Vienna , Berlin , and the Kremlin , triumphed again , and Cossacks were encamped in the streets of Paris . And whilst the congress of Vienna was pondering over the claims of some , and the interests of others , the hero of victories gained in a struggle of twentyfive years duration proclaimed from the summit of his rock this memorable prophecy , — " In fifty years Europe will either be Republican or Cossack . Poland is the key-stone of the arch . "
Whatdid Europe then ? She gave Poland over again to the three representatives of absolute power ; she intrusted to them the key of the arch , the key of that stronghold against which all the shafts of her foes used to be shattered ; she committed to absolutism the guarantees of European liberty . Thirty years have passed away since then , and the s-tructure , which was to last centuries , is sinking and falling everywhere . Poland , even such as tk « Congress of Vienna thought fit to establish , is no more . Russia , which was then considered dangerous on the borders of the Vistula , is now on the frontiers of Germany . Absolutism is spreading and increasing in strength and audacity . The European balance of the Congress of Vienna has disappeared . Europe is tbreatenel directly by Russia , and Prussia and Austria , instead of repressing , are pushing her on and encouraging her in her designs .
We Poles , therefore , theorgans of that policy which our country has always followed—of that policy of sacrifice , sympathy and devotedness for civilization and tbe liberty of Europe , we proclaim again before the world , with all conscientous men , with all those statesmen whose solicitude is not limited to the mere direction of the present , but who as anxiously dire into the future , we all proclaim , that , without the restoration of Poland , the invasion of the South of Europe by the North is an event more or less distant , but . nevertheless , inevitable ; that Poland , free , independent and entire , is the only barrier capable of stemming that torrent .
Poland performs her duty . The Confederation of Bar , Koseiuskq . the years 1809 , 1812 . 1830 , and 1 S 40 , satisfactorily testify the activity of her spirit , and show that she has not resigned the eminent mission with wiiich Providence hath intrusted her . Bleeding , fetbred , and mangled by her oppressors , she endures her martyrdom with fortitude and hope . Though stifled by an uneasy and barbarous absolutism , she studies her past , and is quickened by her alory , her devotedness to liberty and religion . But it is particularly since 1830 that Poland has made an immense progress in her moral regenerations . Iler forces
are doubled . Her resolutions and perseverance , instead of being weakened , have been on the contrary strengthened by political and religious persecutions . Before 1830 everything was concentrated in the army and the nobility ; now the citizen , the peasant , and the mass of the people , are ready for the struggle . Ideas of liberty and emancipation are propagated from mansion to mansion , from house to house , from cottage to cottage . In vain will absolutism blind and momentarily deceive the people , tbe genius of liberty will b 3 more powerful than his assassins or his sold .
Poland is suffering , believing , acting , and concen * trating her forces to intrust to the bravery of her children the care of herdestinies . Poland will do her duty . But does Europe her ' s . ' The protestations which she publishes , the sympathies which she evinces , are tuey worthy of her greatness , are they sufficient to prevent the dangers which threaien her ? Did the nations which are now quiet and strong , exert themselves sufficiently to extinguish the fire set to their sister ' s house , which , if not quenched in time , may sooner or later consume their own ? Does Europe stiil imagine herself bound by some public engagement or some solemn treaty ? Are we to show her the means , and indicate the day of action ? Let Europe reflect upon this state of things ! Poland will do her duty . The 8 th of January , 1 S 47 . In the name of the Polish Democratic Society ; 1-515 menfters :
Joseph Wysccki " \ Victor Heltman . v | Leon Zienkowicz y Central Committee Albkrt Darasz I Vincent Mazubkiewicz i
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INDIA . Indian papers and letters in anticipation of the overland mail have been received . The following is a summary of the Indian news : — The Punjaub remains tranquil . It is said , however , that unquestionable evidence has transpired of there having been an understanding betwixt the Rajah Lall Sing , Vuzeerat Lahore , and Shaik Ernaura-ooddeen , the Cashmerian insurgent leader , with the purof
pose keeping Gcolab Singh from taking possession of his new dominion . Some most extraordinary instances of gambling in opium have occurred in the course of the month . The Bombay bargains are usually made contingently on Calcutta quotations of the Government sales . To ra \ sa these , rival speculators bid , till £ 13 . 000 was offered for chests usually disposed of for £ 150 , the bidding being so arranged that no sale could bo effected that day . Government have made it a subject of special notification , and large fortunes depend on the results .
FRANCE . Famine Riots . —The Polish Question . # The rise of prices at Nante ? has caused much excitement , and the Prefect had despatched two companies of infantry to Juigne , where some disturbances had arisen . The National de VOuest states , that the distress is so great in the neighbourhood of Roscoff , in consequence of the hi » h price of provisions , that there are several families , who do not eat bread once in four days , and who e principal food is composed of cabbage or turnips stolen in tho fields . f roop 3 were marching from various points of France towards the theatre of the disturbances occasioned by the scarcity of provisions . A distu rbance took place on the 22 nd at Rouen , in consequence of the exportation of provisions . Some fatal disturbances at Caen are reported .
fho Commerce says '" Flour again rose on Saturday , and reached 58 f . lc . Should another augmentation raise it to 63 c , the price of the kilogramme of bread would then be 51 c . The National calls upon the Government to close the ports against the exportation of provisions generally . The paragraph of the Address relating to the incorporation of Cracow , was on Thursday brought under discussion in the Chamber of Peers . All the i Members who spoke vied with each other in expressng their reprobation of that act as a violation of treaties , and an iafringement of the law of nations . The principal speaker was decidedly Count de Montalembert , who , in a very energetic speech , pointed out the consequences likely to arise from the conduct of the Northern Powers . The paragraph was adopted without a dissentient voice . The address itself was subsequently adopted .
SPAIN . The Madrid papers contains little news worth recording . It would appear , however , that the movements of the Carlists in the provinces , had began to create some uneasiness in the capital . The Clamor-Publfro states , that very alarming accounts had been received from Navarre , where the Carliats had been successful in exciting a strong feelin » against the law of recruitment , and rousing the people in favour ot ths Count de Montemolin .
PORTUGAL . THK CIVIL WAK . Count das Antas , with the forces under his command , after the defeat of those under Count Boinlin at Torres Vedras , retired to Oporto , where he is reorganizing all his forces , and preparing to oppose Saldanha , who left Coimbra on the 8 th with from 4 , 000 to 5 , 000 men , with whom he says he is coming to storm Oporto ! forgetting that Dora Miguel , with an army of nearly 40 , 000 men , could never achieve this , even through a period of eighteen months , and was compelled to abandon the enterprise . Tho forces at Oporto since Count das Antas ' s arrival amount to upwards of 5 , 000 men of the line and aoove 8 , 000 of volunteers , almost all of them men who belonged to the old battalions of Oporto , and all animated with the best spirit , and determined to fight for their liberties .
The men of Bomfim ' 3 division have nearly all rejoined their comrades : 200 arrived at Thomar , and from thence went to Abrantes to join the popular forces under Colonel Cesar do Vasconcellos , who has strongly fortified that place . At Figueira great numbers had arrived , and four vessels were ready to leave with them for Oporto , besides many who went to the south , and joined Count de Mello at Evora . The brave regiment of Vizeu is again formed ; the 2 d and 6 th Infantry have already 300 men each , the 2 d and 7 th Rifles are much stronger . The regiment of Oporto Fusilcers has already upwards of 900 men , a « d a great number of Uorses have been boaght for the cavalry . This week orders have been given to make ready 10 , 000 stand of arms , to be distributed to the neighbouring towns .
Baron Cazal was obliged to quit Braga after his victory , having massacred upwards of 300 of the inhabitants , and finding probably that provisions were very scarce , as the people of the neighbouring villages used every endeavour to starve him , stopping all supplies . The consequence was his retreat to Valeni-a : his friends , the GaUegos , on the other sidu of the Minho , will probably provide for him . The Junta of Oporto sent immediately a civil governor to Braga , who was received amidst great rejoicing of bells , &o ., which example was followed byBarcellos , Penafiel , and all other towns through which his forces had passed . Hence it is clear that in the north of Portugal Donna Maiia will govern only where her soldiers are halting .
Baron Castro Daire , with the popular forces under his command , took Villa Real on the 28 th ult . The steamer Duke of Oporto has just arrived from the Alsaryes , having captured a fine war schooner off Cape Espichel , mounting a swivel and two guns , and with a crew of sixteen men , all of whom on their arrival at Oporto offered their services to the Junta .
POLAND . Polish Frostikhs , Jan . 10 . — The number of Russian troops in the kingdom of Poland is increasing in a remarkable manner by the addition of t'oops from the interior of tke kingdom , especially since the roads have again become passable . Five regiments of infanty , two of dragoons , besides light cavalry and artillery , have arrived since the nveldle of hist month by the road of Brzestz Litewski alone , to be placed in cantonments in different parts of the kingdom . An article from the Polhh frontiers in the Mannheim journal , says that the Emperor is expected in Warsaw before the commencement of Spring , on account of important changes to be made in the administration of Poland .
Gaucia Brostibr , Jan . 14 . —The 29 th of this month is the day fixed for the union of Cracow , with the Austrian Customhouse line . A report has been lately spread of the discovery of a conspiracy at Cracow ; whether there is any truth in it raustap . pear in a few days . Bkrlis , Jan . 15 . —It is now decided that the military occupation of the province of Posen shall be strengthened . The whole of the oih carps of the army will in future be garrisoned in that provir . ee ; the cavalry regiments will be quartered in the small towns , the artillery and infantry be divided between Posen , Griescn , and Bromberir .
ITALY . Letters from Rome of the 11 th inst . state that the Pope preached a sermon on the precedin" day , in the Church of St . Andrea della Vale , which has produced the deepest emotion on the auuitorv . It was the first time , during the last 300 years , that a Sovereign Pontiff had ascended the pulpit to address the faithful .
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . New York papers to the 4 th , and Boston papers to the 5 th have beennceived . Tue following , which are the latest proceedings in Congress , is taken from the Xew York Journal of Commerce : — IMPOKTAHT TOTL !—WAR AND TaXES REPUDIATED!—The House having been appealed to to support the war , by supplying the GoTernmtnt with the means for carry ing it on , and the Secretary of the Treasury having for this purpose recommended a tax on tea and coffee ; in order to enable tho Goverment to obtain a loan , tue qutstion was brought up to-day for early adjustment . The House thought it best to give an early answer to the proposition of the Secretary of the Treasury , and to-day they did answer it , Mr . Wentworth , of Illinois , offered a resolution thii morning , as follows : —
" Itosolved— -That it is inexpedient to impose any duty on tea and coffee . " E » ery eftort was made to get rid of the question by Ihe opponents of the resolution , but in vain . A motion to lay the resolution on the table was rejected —yeas , i ' najs , US . The resolution was then adopted — yeas , 115 ; nays , forty-eight . We sie that General Taylor has again been urging Santa Anna to close with the terms of peace proposed by the United States . The Mexican Chief , however , perseveres in his resolution to listen to no offers of peace until the invading ioice 3 quit Mexico .
Later News . —The Zenobia arrived at l . iverpoo on Wednesday afternoon , bringing New York papers of the tith instant . Mr . Polk had sent a message to Congress , which is dated December 29 , the object ot which was to ask for a bill to create a lieutenant-general , and urge that early action should bis made by Congress upon the subjects submitted for their consideration , as necessary for activo and efficient service in prosecuting the war , before the present favourable season for military operations in the enemy ' s country had passed away . Shwimcast . —The special reporter of the ' Cork Lxammer mentions the complete discontinuance oi sawagea in that county .
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"" ~ " . _ == SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . **'' On Monday afternoon as the express train from Meter arriving at Paddington at half-past four was passing the four o ' clock down train at Southall ' The tire of the drawing wheel flew off , and striking a second class carriage en the down train , broke the upper part to pieces . killing on thegpot two men , and wounding several others . A lady in the express tram was also injured by the rebound ofa part of the broken wheel ; neither train was thrown off the rails , s eed CXPreSS WaS nOt traveUin 8 ^ ™ »*» usual { Further Particular ) . ) . -- — - —
The twelve o ' clock express up train from Exeter usuall arrives at Southall about a quarter-past four o ' clock , and on Monday , in duo course , it passed that station within a few moment * of its proper time . The four p . m . down train , which calls at all the stations , arrived at Southall at the same instant . The express train had advanced at its usual speed about 50 yards beyond the station , the down train , at slackened speed , bring about 250 yards on the London side , when the tire of the off driving wheel of ths express engine ( suddenly broke * into several pieces , which were projected in different directions with terrible velocity . One portion , measuring 6 feet 2 inches in length , and weighing 2751 b ., flew almost perpendicularly to a very considerable height , and in its descent fell wit ) , tremendous force on thereof of the first eminte of the
Jonn train , forcmg away a small portion of the front one , as well as a longitudinal slip of tho top , apd making a clear breach into the carriage itself . So great wss the force with which tlus portion fell , that the three first compartments of the carriage were broken the one into the other , and rendered a eompleie wreck . The first compartment was that usually occupied by thegunrd , but this offici r was riding in another part of the train , and thus escape . ) injury . The second compartment contained six persons , and here the accident was moat fatal in its results . The enormous mass of iron , on breaking through the roof of the can iage , fell directly upon the hvadsnf two of the passengers , who were seated opposite e- \ ch other . The one , a cattle dealer , named Bishop , residing at Colnbrook , in Buckinghamshire , wa » seated with hit back to the engine . He was struck at the back
of the head , his skull being comptstely laid open , and his body by the force of the concussion thrown into the lap of the other unfortunate deceased . The latter , also » cattle dealer named Halt , retained his erect position after receiving his death blow , which consisted of a most frightful wound , literally dividing the cranium and face into two distinct parts . A lady named Uibotson , the wife of a paper maker at Colnbrook , who was in the same division of the carriage was nho struck on the head and rendered insensible , several other passengers being more or less shaken . A portion of the tire fell on the down line of rails , nnd threw the engine attached to the down train off the line , other portions flying in various directions , and one large pie ^ e , by some unaccountable accident , striking and pussing tl'rnugh the side panel of one of ths flrst-chss enrriases in the express traiu , aufl seriously wounding Mrs . Mountjoy Martyn , who was a passenger in the same .
The driver of the express train although fully conscious that an accident bad occurred to his ea ^ ine , was driving at so high a speed as to render it impossible for him to stop until he had gone nearly half a mile beyond Southall . The ruR between the Hanwell station and Southall being then cqui-distant , ho came gradually on to the former place , whore he stopped to examine as to the extent nnd natura of the disaster . The injury which Mrs . Moun'joy Martyn had suffered was here first ascertained by the guard , and the dtiver having satisfied himself that the engine would run safely on to town , came up to Pad dington without loss of time . Mrs . Martyn was sittin :
with her bark to the engine , close to the window on the off side , and received a violent blow on the left hip from a portion of the tire , which br . ike threugii the sWe of tbe carriage ; her escape from fatal injury is miraculous ; she was thrown by the violence of the shock from the corner of the carriage in which she was sitting to th « fur . ther end of tbe compartment . Mrs . Martyn on reaching Paddington was convoyed to the wuitin room , and an express was instantly sent for Dr . Locock , her medicn ) . ¦ i ttcnJaHt : thU gentleman shortly arrived and remained with his patient at the station Rearly two hours , at the expiration of which time she was removed to her residence in Charlos-strt'ot , Berkeley-9 qusre .
The engine to which the accident occurred is one of the finest locomotives in the Company ' s st-rvice . It is called the " Queen , " and was built in February of last year . The tirs—the failure of which has been the cause of thi < terrible disaster—is one of Gobch ' s patent , the peculiarity consisting in a coating of steel , half an inch in thickness , over a body of iron sibout one inch in thiok . ness . These two substances are welde I together , and the perfect tire is then " chilled" on to the tiub of the wheel in the usual manner . The advantage < if using steel in the formation of the tire is to secure a greater degree of durability in working , whether its liability to fracture is t the same time increased , is a question which will n « doubt be solved at the inquest .
The driver of the express train had a most miracu . lous escape . Some portion of the tire when it flew off the whtel struck the hand rail on winch he was resting , with great force , and bent the iron pillars on which it is fixed , nearly double . Happily ne escaped injury altogether . Had the iron struck him and his stoker , than which nothing could be more reasonably anticipated , the consequences must inevitably have been of the most dreadful nature . The train , travelling at a spaed exceeding fifty miles a ' n hour , would have dashed on to Paildington , finishing its career only by the destruction of probably nearly ever passenger in the carriage ! attached to it . Mr . Halt is n married man , without family , a ^ ed thir ty years ; Mr , BUhop is very little more than tvrenty-one years of nge , and unmarried .
THE INQUEST . On Wednesday afternoon , Mr . Wakley opened an inquest on the bodies of the above-named unfortunate men . The jury having viewed the bodies , John Mhjilon was the first witness called . He was a passenger in the same compartment of the second-das ? carriages in which the deceased rode , and was sitting next Bishop when the accident occurred . The train started from Paddington at four o ' clock , nnd was approaching tho Southall station , when something fell on tho carriage in which witness was silling with a tremendous crash , carrying all before it , and striking Halt and Bishop instantaneously dead . Witness wus so much alarmed at the catastrophe that he recollected nothing more .
John Gauntlett , a policeman , in the service of the Company ,-who was on duty at the station when the ex . press train passed , said he snw the tire of the wheel tlyotf , the moment after the train cleared the Station , and a portion of it ascend into the air , and directly after fall ou the roof of one of the carriages of a down train , which had arrived at the same moineut . He ran to the spot , and there saw two men in the I'urriage dead . The express train was travelling at about fifty miles an hour when it pu < sed tke station . James Almond deposed that he was an engine driver nnd had been so for ' 25 years , and D years upon tho Great We . Uirn line . LeftSwindon at 28 minutes past 2 o ' clock with the Queen engine and six carriages ; that was five minutes late ; passed the Southall station at ii minutes
I > ast four o ' clock , with tt strong wind . The lirst tiling witness saw was lire living from the splasher , I turned round with my back to the dome , and saw the roof of tbe carriage in the down train croaking in . Knew something was wrong , and stopped a * quickly as we could , which was about two minutes , when I found that the entire tire of the driving wheel was gone ; ntnt to town without it , at about 20 miles iui hour ; the tire was broken into four pieces , hnd scon the tire since . Msijc principally of steel , and thought part of it unsound , should say that it \\ n * unsound fur an inch and a h-ilf : the outside wus sound hut the inside was not , the outside was bright but the inside black anil dirty ; thoueht the bright Hurt was souud and the other dark part unsound .
Mr . Daniel Gooch , of Warwick Place , Bayswater , engi . near , deposed that he had the management of the locomotive department on the Great Western lUilway . The Queen engine was made at Swindon , under his superinten Icnce . The tires of the wheels are purchased from the Uaigh Foundry Company , Wigan , Lancashire . John Fnwcett , a smith , living ut Swindon , is employed to put on tho tires and examine them , and prove them . By the Coroner . — . Vbout four-tifths of tbe tire i * iron , and the other fifth is steel . The iron is all wrought , and the Company spare no expense as to the quality ol the Isttel . It was unsousd in the wild , where it was wrought together , and that caused it to go in other parts .
The first fracture took place at . tho welded ond , ninl these two-thirds of the substance is dark and the other bright . All the othvr fractures were blight . Could tell liy the books how . many miles the wheel mutt have gone during the time it has been used . Frosty weather lias great influence on the metal . Had found w heels which had been still all night , cracked in the morning in times of sharp frosts . Knew no means of preventing such accidents but by enjoining on the company ' * ser . vants increased vigilance in the welding of the tires . iVe have done everything we know of to prevent such defects , but havu found tires ring which eventually proved unsound . In the majority of cases in such fractures H- gives way in the weld .
The CuroniT here said it would be new necessary that the inquiry should be adjourned until Monday morning . In the meantime an examination would be made of the wheel and the carriage by impartial engi . noers , and hu trusted the result would be beneficial to the public . Mr . Frederick Braitlnvaite was then proposed as the engineer to be appointed , and the inquiry was adjouiaed until 10 o ' clock on Monday next .
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Had Legs and Wounds of » " l " nlls cured , by Hol-Ioway ' s Ointment and Pills . —If these valuable mudiciues be used trgi-ther according with tbe tUrcctums-siveu with them , there ii no c-a 3 e , however obstinate , bud , or long standing , but way be short y cured by their surprising ctllcaey . Thousands of persons who had beuiv patients in largo hospitals ,. ; uid under the care- of the greatest surgeons u f the day without iVmviuij . tho least benefit , as u last resource nse Hnllowsiy's . Ointment and Pills , which always cure them , nnd &equently in as little time its a uut fiiiga * would , reqaiiW ; whom trftfrtied in the usual . Wtty ,,
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Paiklks * Operations in the London Hospitals . -Mr . II . G . Johnson , of St . Geese ' s Hospital , has amputated the leg of a man while under the influence of ether . On being questioned afterward * , Indeclared that he felt no inconvenience from inhaling the ether , and that with the exception of lwaring . „• mi J t elin 9 ) the saw , he was perfectly un . on-S ™"?* tlle , " Pcration . Mr . Lawrence , of St . in w r V T > rem ° ved the cvoof a pnafter « Su . 1 " ? " l ° , ttuci * c » f « ther , the patient AtrhS . " ? r tln | 5 i - . * ^ era-need no pain , i ooeration tll ' ' ^ ' - lUn ™* Performed an operation , tho painful nature of which under ordinary circumstances , cannot bo llr ? , JS ' l ThJ success ot tho qfher . in thi s case , " ' S us the most satisfactory example yet affoidod ' " h « nation ! suffered trom disease and « r , winir . j n \ t \ t £ * !? J
ootntne great toes . His sufferings wer 7 intend of 1 h ' n ° -l JT ^ W SmX » rS wai of the nails . The anguish ot this operation , tbrnurlv may be readily imagined , tor every Wy iln 0 Wj how extremely sensiti ve arc the roots of the nails . On the present occa-iim the patient was etherised and became insensiblo in three minutes . The operation was immediately performed ; and consists in running the sharp-pointed blade of a pair of scissors under the nail down to the root , cutting the nail down the middle , and then forcibly extrac ing each half with a pair of 'brceps . During this process ( which without the ether is a piece of exquisite torture ) the patient was obviously quite insensible to pain . When consciousness returned , he declared himsell
perfectly ignorant of what had been done ! He again inhaled , preparatory to the removal of the other nail by the same process . This was accomplished , the feet ami legs beins ; p irposcly left free from restraint ; but during the removal of the second nail there was not the slightest sign , either of twitching oi the toes or contraction of the muscles of tho leg , while the countenance remained perfectly unchanged . A . towel was then thrown over his feet , to obscure them from his view when ho recovered his sensibility . In about a quarter of an hour consciousness returned , and upon being asked whether he was ready to undergo the operation , he said he was , and de . sired the surgeon to begin ; when being shown his toe and informed that the nail had already been removed , he expressed astonishment and delight , declaring he had felt no pain , and was wholly unconscious of anything having been done .
Wewmisstki j Ophthalmic Hospital . —This institution waa again on Wednesday the scene of some operations on patients while under the influence of etherio vapour . We have only room to state one of the cases . The first patient was a female suffering from cancer in the breast . Mr . Hooper was in attendance with his apparatus for administering the ether , and the mouthpiece having been properly applied , in a very few minutes the patient was in a complete state of insensibility . Mr . Charles Guthrie , who again operated , immediately applied the knife , iind having laiii bare tho right breast , in which the cancer existed , proceeded to cut away the whole of the dtsensed parts , an operation which he performed with remarkable skill and dexterity . Durin" the
¦_ . 1 A _ —¦ ft - ¦ B *> i * » O whole timo tho patient exhibited no symptom of pain . Iler eyes remained open , and as the ether was now and then applied to her mouth , she called out sharply , " Take that away ; take that away ! " In the midst of the operation , she was asked if she felt any pain , when , to the utter astonishment of all present , she pointed to a window partially lowered opposite to where she was seated , and said , " I feel that window . " This sash was immediately raised , and the poor creature appeared satisfied . The operation lasted five or » ix minutes , and was perfectly successful , the poor woman declaring , at the close , that she had been quite unconscious of the operation , and had felt no pain .
Melancholy Mvtii of tub Hon . Charles Stuart . —On Monday / v eiling , Mr . Bedford , the "Coroner for Westminster , held an inquest at the Queen ' s Head Tavern , Q , ueen-street , St . James ' s , on view of the body or the Hon . Charles Stuart , lately residing at No . 10 . Pan ton-street , Ilaymarket . The deceased , who was in the 33 rd year of his a « e , was the titth son of the Earl of Moray , by a second marriage , and had formerly been in the army , holding acornmission as Lieutenant in the ? 2 nd p 0 () t p egiment . The deceased was found dead in his apartment . Mr . W . T . Djcr , surgeon , proved that death was the reresult of apoplexy , produced by natural causes , and afUr much more evidence , the Jury returned a verdict—Natural Death .
Dksthlctivk Firk is Moobtiklds . —On Monday morning , at an early hour , a fire , nearly attended with ! o *» of life , broke out at the Djers' Arms publichouse , ;" > 8 . Long-ailey , Moorfields . The flames were first discovered in the kitchen , and had communi-^ ated with the club-roem and spirit stores before any of the inmates could be made sensible of their danger . After considerable trouble the residents — ek'yen in number—were arosed ; but tho house was so full ot smoke that some of them were unable to descend by the staircase , and Mrs . Chapman and another party were saved by the escape belonging to the Society fur the Protection of Life from Fire .
Twnofthe lodgers did not effect their escape until the tiie hail penetrated their room , and they were triflingly injured . They were placed in a cab and conveyed to the workhouse . The engines been set to work , the lire was extinguished , but not until several rooms were burned , and the dwelling-house and contents were seriously damaged by fire . Smitiifikld Nuisance . —Between one and two o ' clock mi Monday , a lad named Thomas Radcliffe , aged sixteen , was knocked down opposite the Adelaide Hotel , London-bridge , and gored by an ox , whinch , together with ' . others , was being driven from Sinithfield market towards Camberwell . The wound will , it is feared , prove fatal .
Most Distressing Cask . —A very melancholy accident occurred on Saturday morning at the house , No . S 4 , Old Gravel-lane , occupied by a poor old woman , named Elizabeth Hill . It seems that Mis . Hill keeps a coffee-house on the above-named premises , from which she derived an income so trifling that she has been compelled to eke out a scanty subsistence for herself and five children , by taking in amongst them S'irae of the low-priced slop work , on which they labour continuously up to a very late hour . About half . past two o ' clock on Saturday morning . Mrs . Hill fell asleep while sitting over her work sit the fire , the second daughter , a fine young woman , twenty-six years of age , whilst continuing her occu .
pation , tound that her dress had suddenly naught lire . Not wishing to alarm her aged parent , she endeavoured to extinguish it by her own unaided endeavours , but the fire gaining upon her she was compelled to scream with agony ; her mother started up , and , seeing her child all over in a blaze , endeavoured to extinguish the fire with her hands , in which attempt she sustained most severe injuries . The ( laughter was nearly burned to a cinder , and on assistance arriving was couveyed to the London Hospital in a state of terrible agony , precluding all possible hope . On inquiring at the hospital on Saturday night our reporter ascertained that the unfortunato young woman , whose name was Frances Hill , expired in extreme torture about four o ' clock the
same afternoon . Firk ik LHATiiEn-LANE . —On Sunday evening , between five and six o ' clock , considerable alarm was created in Leather-lane , llolborn , by the outbreak of a fire upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Wymer , bread and biscuit maker . The flames originntvd , from some unknown cause , in the bakehouse on the bijcmcnt , which contained a large quantity of shavings for heating the own . An abundance o water being obtained , the firemen succeeded , by carrying the piping of the engines down the staircase , jn confining the flames to that portion of the buildin ? iu which they originated , but they were entirely extinguished until considerable damage was done to the stock-in-trade and premise- ' .
Ali-kokd Murdkr of a Fkmale . —On Monday evening , at eight o ' clock , Mr . W . Pajno held an adjourned inquest at the Vestry Hall , liorsleydown , on the body of Elizabeth Roberts , aged 20 , who was found drowned on Thursday week , with a severe fracture of the skull , and who , it was reported , had been murdered . A number of witnesses were examined last night , from whose evidence it appeared , that on Friday nine weeks the deceasod had a few words with her mother respecting tho payment of a dress that she had been to a wedding in . She objecteci to pay , anil left the house in a passion , spying at the time , " Mother , you will be sorry tor this . " She also left two packets of her own hair iddresaed to different parties , which were sealei with wax , and lettered " lovo . " To her brother Richard she said , " Good bye , Dick ; " and to a
female she had previously stated that she should like to die at tho ' nge of twenty , because it was such a sweet age . None of her friends had seen her after the day she left her home , and it was only through the publicity given by the newspapers , that her friends heard ef tho boily being found . Dr . Misken , who had examined the body , said that from the appearance he should say that it had been under water a couple of months . The whole of the hair was washed away , and the skull was fractured , but how the injury was received , ot course , no one could toll . The probability seems that the unfortunate female , 'had precipitated herself from some height , and had struck herself in falling . The jury returned an open verdict , " That tho deceased was found dead in the water with a fracture of the skull . "
Extensive Bcrqlari in Regent Stueet . —On Tuesday roorninjf , between the hours of one and five , a most daring biirglary was committed upon the premises of Messrs . HalUtuff and Hauoford , jewellers and silversmiths , No . 223 , Regentstreet . It appears that about the lutter hour a policeman waa R oing his UBual rounds , and on arriving at the door of the above house , he as usual save it si pu » h , nnd was surpristd to find it open . A search being made , it appeared that some thieves had effected an entrance from the rear of the premises , and by picking the locks of two doom made their way into the fchop from which they took property , consisting of uold and silver plate to the value of upwards of X" 30 U Fifty « ov « reign » which were left in the till on the previous ni gh ' , wore fortunufailjj oirsrlooked t >/ the thims ,
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JtahAiiKUL Accident to a Newspaper Messknoer -As a mounted imttcmter was on Saturday o « Ming riding at a furious ,, ace with a large narceu f newspaper * » .. r the l'o < t offi , * , St . Martin ?! lS S d IH « f'l' » l at Temple Bar , and ho IcIhXtU tearful viol-neo to the ground . When | rahed un he w , m quite insensible , and blood flowed profusely ft , m injuries ho had sustained about the head Hi , wuiimls havin .- been bound up in an adjoining s , lr ! gciin s ; and the requisite stimulants administered Ih was conveyed to his home in a state of the most intense suttvringiu i ) K 3 TltUCTIU » OF THE VuLCAN BRKWERY BY Twv — On Wednesday morning at half-past one d ' cIi cli , a liro , involving a most ruinous destruction of property broke out on the premises belonging to Mr . Edwards ' known as the Vulcan Brewery , situate in Salmonlane , Liraehouse . The discovery was made by a police constable of th 8 K division , by seeing fire rushing through the window-shutters of the front
beerhouse . An instant alarm was given , and after a deal of trouble the inmates , the proprietor and his female servant , were aroused from their slumbers ; but the flames hal madesuch fearful havoc , that it was impossible for either party to descend the stairs , and t . o save their lives they wore obliged to jump from the upper windows into the street . 'Khe engines of the London Brigade and West of England Companv , arrived at the scone of conflagration , and plenty ot don * nT . . T dfl 0 mtllemai " « f *'' « EastLonwUh « . ? ' ' was SCrt » cred over the flnmiM ; notwhollnr t 1 i thejr Clllti ^ ed to spread , untilu . e XM J « . reWe ! and its contents were com-??? ??!? d le f ! ell nrhouso gutud
nR ... ' "" . - -. eauwl by the copper Hue , obtained eo , JidernK ,, ld 3 the board timber in the party walls . Theftr m h * d much diflioulty » staying tho pro < re < ii ,, fthifl 1 » 01 and hw was not done till muehrf the wo , 3 " $ and the walls were removed b y cutting awav . Sup . l ) t ri ? ?'" sured ti . cAlliancu . -At LifnehuftC
..,-About half-, * t one , on Wedne ^ iay non a £ 8 tructiv « Bra was discovered upon the premi ' s s in the occupation of Mr . Samuel Edwanl . \ « wT&e I ! meh"f . T ag ^ an K ^^ -Htreet , Salmon ' s ' Ue ' . Umeluum . 1 ho brewery wil 8 nearly dc . tn . vi-d , and ihedwellinB communicating therewith buni \ d out with tlui exception « f the front r .-om on the first imoi . Uiiililinj : '"nd contents insured in the I'lioonix . I lie adjoining house in Rhoileswell-mai ! in the occupation of Mr . Tedman , liHird rc * cr , wns dalilted in a trifling manner ; not insured .-At Now Oiosi . Shortly btttoro three , unon tlio i > ivmi .. « ii ) n
property of Mr J . Trimnell , Esq .. ( the oirnpiVr situate m St . James s-place , New Cross . Ti . i , tiro was not extinguished until the basement flmr . and flouring abovo , were severely damaso-l by tire , nnd the valuabltt turniiure materially darr . a-ed bv bent , smoke and water . Building insured in tin . * Li . vnsed Victuallers olhce , furniture in tho Atlas . Th * adjoining house , in the occupation of Mr . ( . ' . Ilivan . was « lso damaged . In the Old Kent-road . J . i , t betore fi yeo clock , a fire broke out in the huikiim :, oc cupied b y Mr . lloxton , baker , Mason-strict , Old ivent-roail ; in consequence , it appears , . f a delect in the crown ot the oven , Fortunak-lv the fire *»» extinguished before any very extensive damage was done , except m the lofts immediately over th « l > akehouse . Contents not insured ; building unknown . Accident from Reading in Bkd .-O .. Wednesday morning a young man , named John Suundeis , f ,, > , ti
« . « .. « , » ,. roinergin , 70 A , Seymour-rtreut West . LuBton . squi . re , set the bed and bedding on lire by falling asleep vjhilst reading in bed , ° » d h , is , o severely burn t that he is not expected to r . eov . r ike use oflns right arm . It was most fortunate ih :. t tho house was not dotroyed , flhich it would have heen had not Mr Fotliergill , jun ., who had bed . t > the theatre , on letting himself in with a key , pioceeded to the man a room to desire him to cai ' l him in the morning , when the hre was discovered .
Tub Late Fire at Messrs . Ainoeb ' s Founduv . — Ik . ?! " ? " ° " TIIE SPFPMEU . _ OiiTue » d : » . vuning Mr . William Payne , held an inquest at Gu / ., Hospital , on the body of George Riches , aged thirtj-thrre » lm « , fatally i ,, jUr , d at the late deplorable oteu . rw . ee .-it Mi' 6 « r 8 . Ainger ' s iron-foundry , Upper Grouii-1-sir .. et lilacUfr . iiis . Thomas Huigh , of 1 , Aane-strect , Waterlooroad , said that the deceased was a firemm ' s u sist . nit and on Friday week , about ten o ' clock at iihht . was en . iraged mth wi tness and several other partus in tl j foundry . A ladle which hail justbuen fill « d with seventy hundred wei ght of hot liquid iron , was huing lilt . il by a purchase crane , when it turned over and the nu-tal fl > w . ing out , a quantity splnshed up , and coming iiuoi . tact
with theOomeofthefurnace . itrebuunded . and hi I over the deceased liUe a shower , setting his clothes on Hre . At that time the deceased was about twdre fcu from the pit . As soon as possible he wus got out , and conv . yd to the hospital . By tbecuroutr : The ladle was suM . ended ou two pivots , or axles , and , in order to steady the whole , two handles were placed on the opposite sides which wire heM by as many men . One of the parties ha-l uot properly secured his handle , and was in the act of udjusting it when the accident occurred . Fournu-n were injured , two of whom still remains in St . Thomas ' s Hospital . Deceased died this morning ( Tu «» daj ) from the effects of the injuries received . Verdict—Aci- ; dtntal death .
Iatai , Accident at Sm Augustus Clifford ' s . —On Tuesday , Mr . Bedford held an inquest at St . George ' s Hospital , on the body of John Edwards , aged 3 ti . « ho died in that insiitution from injuries > ustained at the re . sidence of Sir Augustus Clifford , Uslierof the Black ltod , No . 74 . Eaton-square . The deceased was in the employ of Messrs . Cubbitt , the builders . On the afterno n of tho Uth ult . he was at work at Sir . A . Clifford ' s , standing on a plnuk supported b y two pairs of steps , eimaguii in cleaning the kitchen skylight , when , overbalancing l . iin . elt , lie tell head foremost into a wooden biisin full of waUr in the sink , and rebounded on to the stone Houring . Beinj unable to stand or get up , he was removed to the hospital , where the only injury he was found to have received , was a slight bruise and laceration of the left thigh . Ho wont on several days very well , when abscesses , consequent on the wounj in the leg , foimed in Ins left elbow , a :. d under the exhaustion oc : icsi . » ned thereby he sank and died on Saturday last . Verdict-Accidental Death .
ExTiuoRDiiUKY Sdicidb . —On Tuesday , an inquest was t-ken before Mr . W . Baker , at tho Telegraph publichouse , Hawkin ' sstrcet , Mile . end , Old Town , on the body of a man named William Holdsworth , aged seventy years , who committed suicide in the following strange manner : —The deceased lived at No . 6 , Swan-place , Mileend , and was formerly a ship ' s carpenter and jointr . He was subsequently employed in the London Dock * , and while there he met with a severe accident , and his leg was amputated . Tho dock company allowed him a pension of 7 s . per week , and he continued to work at his trado , and by his industry and frugality he contrived to amass a considerable 3 um cf money , £ 150 of which he lent to his son , who failed in business . This circumstance preyed upon his mind , and he has been for some timo in a very low nnd desponding state . The loss ot his money , and the fear of being compelled to apply for parochial relief so operated upon him , that he at last
dutermined on committing stlf-dcstructbr , which he effected in the following way : —On Sunday night , after wishing a female named Cosgrove good bye , he locked his room door , and aft ^ r taking off his coat ' and neckcloth , lie laid himself upon the ground , placed his neck over a basin , and themtuck himself in the neck just under tho right ear with his own knife . One of the principal -irteries was wounded , and ho bled to death . When tho unfortunate man was found by the woman Cosgrore tha basin over which his neck was placed , was full of blood , which had also flowed over the room . The knife with winch he had stabbed himself was firmly grasped in his right hand , The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide wbilo labouring under insanity .
Suicide b t Oxalic Acid—On Tuesday , Mr . O . f . Mills , the Deputy Coroner , held an inquest at the Marlborough Arms Francis-street , Tottenhum-court-roiid , on the body of Sarah Bvown , aged 27 . William Brown , the deceased ' s husband , said ue was coachman to Mr . Betts , the railway contractor , and resided over the stables in Upper Gower-mews . On Saturday morning lust ha went out with the carriage , and , on his return home to dinner , he found his wife , as was frequently the case , tho worso for liquor . Whilst at dinner , they quarrelled , when she suddenly rose from tbe table and went out . She rcturnedin about a quarter of an hour , and , in a short time , hearing a mouning noise proceed from the loft , he went there , and found dectased in an insensible state , with a cop near her , and a puptr by her side , havit the
ing on name of Mr . Tosswell , a chemist in tbo neighbourhood , am ) the inscription , " Oxalic acid-poL son , Heremovid deceased on to his Led , and sent for Nr . Tosswell and Dr . Acre , but , before tlmy could apply any remedy , she expired . The deceased had taken to drinking within the last twelvemonths , and had pawned everything she was possessed of to obtain it . She had several times ttiri-ntened suicide to prevent himscoUlug her , and once was brou ht home by a ^ iceman , who found her nttetnptiug to jump iff one of the canal bridges . She had frequentl y fetched oxalic acid for him as he used it to clean boots tops . Mr . II , Matthews , asMstant to Mr , Tosswell , proved having served the de . dceased with an ounce ef oxiilic acid , for which she paid 4 . Tha jury returned a verdict " That the deceased destroyed herself , but , « s to her state of mind at the time , there was not suflkient evidence to show . "
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AWFUL CASUALTY AT SEA . Li YEitrooL , Wtdnesdat . —A great gloom has been oast on our mercantile community by the intelli gence received this morning , by the Lady Falkland , Captain Smith , ar . vived at this port from New OrWaas , which vessel , on tha 18 th init ., f » U in with the New York packet ship Columbia , in distress , havinp on the 13 th bit overboard tho Captain ( RathbotK- ) , first and second mates , fivu seamen and a boy , while scudding in a heavy g » U . The Lady Falkland put her mate on board , to navi gate the Columbia . Cuptain Knthbono was wrll known and highly respected in this pine ., and his unhappy fate Is deeply lamented . He for ; merly commanded ( be packet ibip Oxford .
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The Pbktaiuxo Scarcity . —We are informed that the following document has received the approbation , if not of the highest personage of the realm , at least <\ fa large number of the highest ranks in our nobility . A similar voluntary undertaking was , as many of our readers are aware , Tery generally adopted , under the patronage of Royalty , during the dearth which prevailed at the beginning of the present century . There are probably few householders of the higher and middle classes of society in which a considerable saving might not easily be effected , and , although in proportion to the deficiency of supply the amount of provisions thus saved may seem insignificant , it is to be remembered that the only practical remedy for a scarcity is to limit consumption , and
tnat every loaf thus saved is not only so much gained by the householder , but so muob added to the national stock :- « We , the undersigned , deeply impressed with the distress which prevails among a great number of our fellow-countrymen in Great Britain and Ireland , from the want of necessary subsistence , and observing that the prices f . f food are rising , think it our doty to pledge ourselves to rednee in our families , as far as may be practicable , the ceosomntioa of bread and flour , and we invite the « o- « peration of all those who may concur with ob in our estimate of the present emergency . "—Tima .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1403/page/7/
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