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INqOESTS . SnciDE of as Ariist . —Before Mr Wakley , M . r ., coroner at tke siga of the Queen ' s Head , Kcppelterrace , King ' s-road , Chelsea , on the bodv of Mr Joseph William Bratt , aged 34 years . Tne deceased , who was sn artist , was the son of * clergyman of the Church of Ensland . and lived wittt ma ased parents in a cottage , No . i . , PP ; " r ^ South . The deceased was * ne of tne largej Humber of artists who competed for the prizes ° ^ eV ° I ^" t ' toons to embsUish the new Houses of "rtiamenj , an . 1 , like the nnu-Tity rf his ««? P ^ * " « «* U took for the sub ect
^ eSone : Vbe inddent he of in * picture-w » * Kiag R ^ i * !}?* ** " ]^ who SL him / The d «» aB t d , althougblhe never complained of his disappointment , was nerer afterwards been -rttins weaker . On Wednesday morning the dec ^ edV ss found by his father in his bedroom with his throat cut . After a lengthened inqairy , a verdict was returned that « The deceased was found dead with his throat cut , supposed by his own act , bntrthat there was not » uf 5 cient evidence before the jury to show them what was the state of his mind at th *> * time he did it . ' ¦
_ . Fatal Fioht os Boibd Ship . —At the London Hospital , respecting the death of Robert Wjks , aged fifty-fiT . e years , who died oa the TOth inst ., from a frVcTqre of the spire , alleged to hate been occasioned bj a bailor , named Morrison , who stands charged , on his own confe-sies , at the Gravesend Police Court , with having caused the deceased to fall down the Mold of the ship-Herefordshire , whereby he received the injury . John Scott , a shipwright , stated that he was at werk with the deceased and hie sod , inrepairiagthe ship Herefordshire , at the time she was hanled oat of the East India Dock , on Thursday , the
23 rd ult . When the vessel _ reached Woolwich Reafeh . witness saw several sailors approach de-( SiS 2 d ' ssoD , and one of them struck him ancient blow , which caused him to fall upon the chai ns . " Witness went to his afsistance , and forced the sailor from him . lie rose from the deck and went down the Wd , snd witness was afterwards informed that deceased was * ki o -ked dowa the hold . The jailors bad'been drlnkinc , and were much intoxicated . When the vessel arrived off Griyesend , Morrison , one of the crew , stated that daring the scuffle he pushed the deceased . Webb , the constable , said that-all the witnesses -who were present , and conld
giv&evidenca relating to the transaction , were gone to sea in the Herefordshire , which was bound to Gibraltar . The coroner then directed Webb to make inquiries at Gravesend , and thought it advisable to adjourn fur that purpose . The jury assented , and the inquiry wa < adjourned . Siartitios op a Mother asd Child . —Before Mr W . Cartsr . at the Swan Tavern , Bsttersea Bridge , upon the body of Sarah Tout , aged thirty-one , and Henry Tout , her son , aged four , who were alleged to Lave died from an insufficiency of food . —The jury proceeded to a snail house in the vicinity to view the bodies , and on the door being opened the exhalation of hot and impure air was so great as to drive back those who were entering , the coroner remarking that he had not- in the experience of eleven
years met witk bo abominable a nuisance , and that it was mere a pest-house than a dwelling for human beings —Anne Polt stated , that she was sister-inlaw of the deceased woman , who was the wife of William James Tout , 3 sawyer by trade , who had recently supported himself , his wife , and three children bv making hat and bonnet boxes , which he fcawked ' aboet the country . Witness had been living with them the last five months . Her sister-in-law ¦ wa 3 only taken ill on Friday evening week , and on the following day she obtained a medical order of Mr Tow , the overseer , and saw Dr Connor ' s . assistant , ¦ who als . i gave an order in kind to the relieving officer . The assistant attended within the honr . and saw boih her sister and thechild . S me medicine was suppliedand ho vi « ited them again on the
, Sunday evening- lie did not visit them again until Tuesday , snd in the interval tfee child had died a ? . d the mother had become much worse , and died the same evening , her boy having expired on the previous right . The medicine only lasted till Monday mornins , and her sister had no more till the doctor came en the ensuing day . Deceased had said that if she had inoremedicise she would be better . Her brother had nofc been home ( until now ) since a week before Christmas ; and the last time they received any money from him was the last week in the old year . Tiiere were two children still living—a girl and an in aat four months ol * . For many weeks past they had been living very short indeed , and her sister often denied herself food that the children might have it . Sfce was certain that her brother did all he
could to support his family , bat he earned very little ; and to-add to their distress they received a letter f'om him on the 5 "h inst ., stating that he was then lying ill&tSotl'h . iraplon . and " had notafirthing to send home . Mrs Freeman , a lady in the neighbourhood , had teen very kind to her deceased sister darins her confinement , and since on many occasions they had no food _ but what that lady supplied . Deceased had an aversion to parochial relief , and did not make known her distress . A woman , named SVise , gave evidence which went to show that the family were in a very bad state ; and she believed the illness « i " mother ani child arose solely from want of
food . ; Thty had the typhus fever * and cue child was then " Euffsrins from it . —The coroner faid . it was a great shame for the medical man to have exposed the jarv and himself to such a risk . He ouqht to have informed them of the nature of the disease , or at least have seen that the house was well ventilated before the jury entered it . —Mr J . S . Miles , a surgeon ,-and assistant to Dr Connor , assured the jury they had nothin ? to apprehend , and deposed that he was called in to the deceased on Saturday week ; they were in a stsie of Jow fever , and exceedingly ill and emacia ed . He asked if the woman had food , and was told that she had none . —Verdict— ' Died from natural causes . '
Scicidkofa Surgeon—Before Mr Wakley , M . F ., at \ he Sevmnur Aim ' , Seymour-street , on tb . 9 bady of Mr II . TT . BoxaH . -snrgeon . asedthirty , late of 74 , Upper Sermaurstrcet , Euston-square . —Mr II . M . Aidrid ^ e , - surgeon , of Upper Seymour-street , said he ia-H : c ?> vn deceasen for five or six years . He was formerley in pra : iice in Melton—Hree * , Eustonsquare ; s « b ? equently in fee M' rninuton-road ; and had resided a few manths at 74 , Upper Seymourstreet . On Friday evening , a voting woman , with ¦ trhemdeceased lived , asked him to eome and see Mr Boxall on the folisKins day , as he appeared ill . Between t ^ o and three o ' clock on Saturday afternoon he went to see deceased , and found him standing rear , be fireplace with his throat cut . On seeing ¦ c ritnef , decease ^ exclaimed , ' Ab . it ' s no use ; I
have done it etreetualiy . ' Witness ' . vent toward- ; h : m , 'b' : t deceased ran round iho tib ! s , snd struggled ¦ violently , throwing witness over a b" > x . All thhtime the b ' o-ii tv , * s spoutin ? profusfly from his neck . If was . sure minutes befme wi ' acss could secure decc-S 5 ed . lie thai fried to stop the bleeding by pressure on the vessels of the Keek , and called for assistance . Dr-ceas- ' < i sv . li . «? roas : ied violently , and called out for prussic acid . lie s-trugrgled to the last to prevent nrcy attempt to save his life , and died in about aquarter of an hour from the time witness first saw Mm .- lie had mr . ds a cut with a razor , dividing the eirotM artery and all the larger vessels t > n the left side . De cased was of a nervous temperament , and drank at times . He w ,- . s very strange in his manner ? , and had told witness that he suffered frora
delirium ircmtns . —Mary Ann Normaa deposed to laving lived with deceased four years . He had latterly been in great distress , on aeeonatofkis father , who resided at Brighton , having refused to assist him . He went to Brighton on the 29 th of December , and returned on the 5 k i : ist . He said he had : baen staying with his father's friend ^ , whf > made Lint drink brandy till he wag mad . On Friday sight , he was under a delusion that lie would be taken up at twelve o'clock that night and banged at JTewsrate for a conspiracy to shoot bis father , and he said he must die . This induced witness to ask Mr Aldridge to see him . Witness identified a note
found on deceased ' s table as his handwriting , and Eaid she saw him write it on Saturday morninjr . It traa address ^ , * Mr Bosall , Brighten , ' and was as follows : ^ - Daar Father , — -Will yea be kindenoueb to send me a little money , as I xm . mech in want of some —Tours , truly , H . W . Boxall . ' ( No data . ) The witne-s made several charges against the father of the deceased of refusing him assistance , but this wa 3 drnied by a gentleman , who said to his know ledge deceased had had £± IQ 3 . within eight or nine days . —Other witnesses corroborated tbc foregoing testimony . —The jury returned a verdict , 'That the deceased destroyed himself while in an unsound state of mind . '
Cedeltt ta ax ArPBENnpE . —Before Mr W . Payne , at St Birtholomew ' 8 Hospital , respeating the death of J . Keller , aged 17 , an apprentice , who was alle-reri to have died from the effects of the ill-usage of his master , Mr Fletcher , gold and silver paper layer , retiding in Norfolk-street , Lower-road , Islington . — Mary Macdonald , of 9 , Newton-street , nolborn ; the wife ef a tailer , stated that the deceased washer son , snd was apprenticed from Tooting Schpel aboufe'four years ar . d a half ago . He had been sinking for the last tro years from the' want of proper nourishment ^ and hard work , which he said was sixteen or eighteen ionrs a day . It was twe . years ago when the master was first before the masistrate for beating him with e rope , and was reprimanded . The master appeared
before the magistrate since that time at the instance of a policeman , who heard the boy ' s crie 3 , but nothing ¦ u- as then done . The food he had consisted of three slices of bread and butter and milk and water for his breakfast ; two slices and the s * me far tea : Boiled riee , or eheese , or bullock ' s liver for dinner , and sometinw « he would have a couple of gansages and some eabh ' re . Rice , however , was his chief dinner . She !; aH frcqaaotly taken him victuals , but Ms sistress woa'd ueve ? let her see it given to Mm . About two months ago he did not come te his dinner on Sunday w usual , and she west on the Monday , and he was Jyi ? r on the bench in the workshop with only bjeshirl end ' -fcr orisers-ea- The next Thursday shetoik him ira e , when fcfl fcsmp ' alnsd of being tesy ' weak , and
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the following Monday , December 28 . he wm admitted into the hospital .-Wm . Macdonald , hUBbaiRd of the ast witness ! stated , that he had made a complain ; to the master , at Tooting , of the boy ' s treatment , but he refused to interfere . —The Coroner said it was his duty to have done so .-Macdonald added that the last words the deceased spoke a 6 home were , when he asked him what had brought him to that state— ' 1 shall say on ay death-bed that Fletcher starved and worked me to death . '—Mr Newell , assistant apothecary to the hospital , deposed that the death of deceased was caused by consumption , of at least two years ' standing . In his opinion it was the reavilt of exnaaure to cold , or sleeping in damp clothes . - ^ , noa .
Round , an apprentice , deposed that he was bouad two months after the- deceased , and slept and eat with him . The work was not hard , except burnishing . Tliey had three slices of bread and butter nearly an inch thick for their breakfast , and two for tea , and about a p int of tea at each meal . Fop dinner they had riee and sugar one day , liver and rice or liver and potatoesanother , and b : ead and cheese another , fhey might have eaten more if they had had it . They always had meat two or three times a week , and rice or cheese the other " . No beer , but cold tea . They UBfid to have 2 i ., 31 ., or 61 a week for ever-work , and they used to buy appleB or other things with it . —Mrs Fletcher explained that when Mrs Macdonald complained that tke bays had not sufficient food , she was so satiafibd they had , that after that she did not give them the hot supper she used to do . They had meat four timeB a week , and rice and cheese the other
days . She persisted they had both been treated well , and that the observation about the gruel was a mere jeke . —Mr Fletcher , tho master , asserted the same thine , and that they had even been preferred to their own children . They had been unrnly , and tried to get the upper haiid of him . —The Coroner Baid it was not likely two boys of that age would attempt it . —A Mrs Moss , the auHt of Round , who bad interfered when she found they worked en a Sunday and slept on the floor , said she had no reason otherwise to cemplain of their treatment , and the deceased once told her he was satisfied . —Tbe Coroner summed up , observiBg the great question was what wan the cauce of the consumption of which the bo ) died ? He should suggest that they should have further evidence . —Tae jary returned a verdict— "That the deceased died ot consumption , and they considered the conduct of the master and mistress very reprehensible in keeping the deceased en sach short diet . '
A Child Frozen to Death . —Before Mr Baker , at the Halfrason and Punchbowl publio house , Bucklestreet , Whitechapel , on view of the body of Bertha Dohl , aged four months . The parents of the deceased are natives of Germany , and a few days since they left Rotterdam , for the purpose of emigrating to America . They travelled ia an omnibus , on the winds w of which the iee was an inch thick , and when they arrived at the first station , after they had left Rotterdam , the deceased , wko was a very healthy child , was found quite dead . The child had been lying apon her arms for several hours , and she considered the deceased was asleep . A surgeon could not be obtained , and when they arrived at ( ha next station the deceased was examined by a medical gentleman , who said that her death was caused by the severity of the weather , the cold having caught her breast . The parents then carried their dead ohi . 'd on board the Rainbow steam vessel , which arrived in the river on Sunday last . Verdict— ' Fonnd dead . '
accidents , offbxces , btc . The Latb Dreadful Accidbns at Euston-equabe Station . —Charles Gage , one of the sufferers by the fall of the buildings at the Euston-square Station , died on Sunday in the University Colleee Hospital . This m akes tke second death amongst the wounded . The others are doing well . Determined Sctcide op Sib J . Mildmat , Bart . — We have to record the premature death of Sir John Mildmay , Bart ., which took place by his own band ? , at an early hour on Monday morning , at his residence , No . 6 , Halkin-terrace , Belgrare-square . The deceased gentleman bad resided as above for aboat five years , occupying the upper part of the house , the ground floor * being let to Mrs Cos , a milliner ; his establishment , consisting of two male and an equal number of fcnale servants ; and his health of late was stated to be tolerably good ; but for several days past his valet had noticed that he appeared low nnd
depressed in spirits . On the previous day ( Sunday ) the deceased appeared somewhat better , and parbek of his seals , apparently , with a better appetite . He retired to rest between eleven and twelve o ' clock , and nothing more wsb heard or seen ef him until shortly before five s ' clockon Monday morning , when his valet was awoke by a deadened report of firearms . He was undecided for some time what te do , but eventually ho went upstairs to Sir-John's bedchamber , on the secondjoor , whea on entering the room he was horror-struck on discovering his master lying prostrate on the carpet weltering in his blood , aad lifeless ; his head . was shattered ta atoms . and the walls and ceiling ware covered with his blood and brain ? , a small double-barrel bolster pistol , which had been recently discharged , was lying close to his right hand , and had evidently been discharged in the mouth . Several medical gentlemen were promptly in attendance , who pronounced death to tare been instantaneous ^
FIBKS . Alarmixg Firs . —A fire , nearly attended frith disastrous consequences , broke out upon the prerrises belonging fo Mr John Baldock . licensed victualler , carrying on bnainess at-the Kent and Essex inn , situate in Kenfe and E 4 ex . yard , Whitechapol . The flames originated irom . some unexplained cause in the front bRr , and when discovered th y were making fearful havoc amongst the spirits . The whole of the inmates were immediately aroused , and a messenger sent for the eagines . There being an abundant supply of water , the further progress of the alarming element w . tg cut aft , ' but not until a considerable quantity of spirts had been consumed and the bar burned out . Fortunately Mr BaWock was insured in the Licensed Victualler ' s Fire-office .
Destruction of Propem ? . —On Taesday night about a quarter past ten a fire was discovered upon the premises ot Mr Laws , ~ a baker , at IS , Gibraltarrow , Bethnal Green . An alarm was spread , and Mr Laws and his family were without , delay apprised of the outbreak , which had barely been doae when a laree sheet of flame shot through the windows , and with such fury did the fire travel , that it wan at one time feared that the whole of the contiguous houses would have fallen a prey to its fury . The engines of the parish , London Brigade , and others , were re markably quick in reaching the spot , but the fire had previous !? extended to the whole of the upper part
of the bnilding , every room being m a general btaze . Tha firemen bsing supplied with an abundance of water , the engines began operating , and vast streams of water were scattered inta and upon the burning property . Notwithstanding , the , work of destruction continued , and ifc was not till past eleven o ' clock that the fire was safely got under , and not until every portion of the premises , with the exception of the front shop wa 3 destroyed . The total loss is considerable , and ifc is understood that the sufferer is not insured . The origin of the fire is not precisely known : but the gt-neral opinion is that it was occasioned frsm the spark of a lighted candle falling amongst E 9 me wearing apparel .
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iSttgiattir . KQKPOLK . Small Dbbts Court . — The following letter ia worthy of notice , and we extract it from a confempopary . —Sir ' : Without grear vigilance on the part of the press the Small Debts Courts maj be made the means of a vast amount of petty tyranny and oppression . Poer people seldom take bills or keep receipts . An unprincipled man may . in nine out often oases , be pretty sure of recovering small sums which may have been contracted and dischaged , if he summon the parties into the courts . I will offer you one instance of the oppressive way in which ifc works . A man formerly in trade , bntwho failed through his own misconduct , having twice or three times compounded with his creditor ? , lives on the small sums be obtains through the small debts court : he usually has two or three , sometimes mere , summonses out against parties every eonrt day . On tho last court
day he summoned the wife of a labouring man for % . debt of ISs . When pnt upon his oath he eaid that the woman had paid 13 < . Cd ., but he thought it made no difference whether he summoned her for the debt he claimed or for a larger sum , Be claimed on oath upwards of 4 i . The woman had fartunately kept his bill , and produced it receipted fer the whole amount , with the exception of Is ., and he owned to the correctness of it . The judge immediately adjudged her to pay the shilling , with all the costs , amounting to several more , ana" refused to hear her apeak in her defence . She was ready to declare on oath taat she had repeatedly offered to pay the man the real balance of his bill , but that he refused to take less than the amount claimed . Ifthe creditors had considered that the maa had any jnst claims upon these , and numerous ' other poor people , they would , one / , " iw , ould have / supposed , have retained hig books and recovered them themselves .
GLOUCESTERSHIRE . , BiQA « r asd a Title . —An extraordinary case of bigamy has been investigated st the Cheltenham Police Court . A riohly-dreesed female , who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circleB in this town as the Lady Ada Alice Wvativille , was placed in the deck , charged with bigamy . From the evidence produced against her , it appears that she w . as married on the 8 th of November , 1838 , at Kensington Church , under the name of Octavia Sarah Moore de Bellvue , daughter of Lucius Moore de Bellyue , Marshal of France , ti > Mr Henry Wyatt architect , sen of Mr Matthias Coles Wyatt , the celebrated sealptor , of Dudley ' Grove Bouse , Harrow rbad , London . Subsequent to the taarfiage , the parties went to resident Boulogne'sur-Mer , but they separated after a short residence there . . A oorres poadeisce , however , has been kept up between them ever since . It farther appeared that in Mey last the prisoner was charged tfitli bigamy at the MarJ
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borough-street police-court , London , by intermarrying with a person named Kolles , from which charge ahe escaped . The offence of which she is now accused is , that she married , at the parish church , Cheltenham , on the 17 th of December last , under the name of L ^ dy Ada Alice Wyattville , with Mr Thomas Hinckley , civil engineer , son of Mr Arthur Hinckley , a gentleman residing in Cheltenham , her first husband , lienry ffyatt , being alive at the time . The marriage at Kensington was witnessed by Mrs Hannah Murray , of Brompton ( then Miss Cully ) , and the parish clerk ; and that at Cheltenham by a female servant , and a man named Edwin Patter . The prisoner was committed to take her trial at the next Gloucester assizes . " - . .
SURREY . The late Medical Neolbct as Crotdon . —On Saturday last , a special meeting of the board of guardians at the Croydon Union was held , for the purpose of taking into consideration the course to be adopted in consequence of the verdict of the coro « ner ' s jury , imputing great inhumanity to Dr Berncattle , one of the medical officers of the union , in reference to his candi'ct toward tho woman Hopkins , and expressing their opinion of his unfitness any longer to hold tbe oiSoa of a medical parochial office ? . There Was A numerous attend ' aftCS of guardian ? , but , in consequence of a determination on the part of the board not to admit reporters , we are
unable to state precisely what took place . It appears that a very strong discussion arose upon the motion for the immediate disnmsal of the officer , atid some of tbe guardians who took his part urged that he had merely acted under the impression that he was performing his duty . After a discussion , which lasted several hours , the decision of the board was adjourned to a future occasion ; but so strong is the feeling of the ratepayers and inhabitants of Croydon upon the subject , that if the board should resolve to continue the objectionable person in his preeen appointment , it is intended to hold a public meeting , to address the Poor Law Commissioners , and require his dismissal .
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SSSsffimM-sgt | feS »® # i " aSHheS he finds that the thing mil go down no t « !« r ha very prudently ' draws in hisliorns , ' and 0 T& 5 toK in the wake of the more common . 3 TS W . 5 & course of . dodging agitation , SarLd outTnd solong perseveredin by the ate Daniel O'Connell . It ia bard to conjecture how this Ewm terminate . However , it gives a deep wound t " the interests of the' Young Ireland' party , amf tf I err not , that confederacy has already Bean the sin-down of the best of ita daya in Ireland . Itj many ! f my previous letters to the Stab , I predicted Sat those were not the men fitted to achieve the Mdvation of a nation ; and though I ; alwaya . said , and Sill , that their principles ia most points were ; . _ >„„ ,... i ™ ir _ nHfc to his own personal 1 satety ,
excellent , nevertheless , I fenew well Cbat etnernanaa miist break eur ohains—that wiser and mora singleminded men must devise measures for our amelioration and that it was reserved for more daring spirits to work out the disenthralment of Ireland from her bondage . Time will prave that I have not erred in my calculation . A short period hence , and iho world will see that the raw and ignorant , and selfconceited young ? buckeena' of D'OHer-street , aro not the men destined by fate , or chance , or providence , to lift up our country from her present degraded state , make her free and happy , and Eive her a place amongst the nations of the earth . I may be uttering what is bitter to thousands of my readers , but , as we say in Ireland— ' Time in the best of fortunetellers . ' __
It is said that Mr Mitchel has become , op is about to become the purchaser of'Mr Pagan ' s jour-Mai— The Coke Southern Rkpoutbb—and that he intends to conduct it with a view to the dissemination of his own peculiar views and opinions . If so , the fate of that gentleman and of his paper will quickly be decided- ^! need aot add in what manner . The' Irish Confederation' held their first anniversary meeting in the Round Room of the Rotundo , on last Tuesday night , the 11 th inst . There was a pretty full attendance , owiBg principally to the opinion that Mr Duffy and Mr Mitchel would treat the audienee to a discussion on tke ' . split , ' its causes and probable results , which haa latterly taken place in the Nation camp . In this , however , they
' were doomed to disappointment , as the subject was not even incidentally alluded to . This displaced good taste on both sides , but did not geem at all palatable to many of those who came' to ece , ' as considerablenumbers walked away at an earlystage of the proceedings . The principal speakers were Englishmen , and they were very favourably received by the assembly . Mr . Feargus O'Connor toOi waa not forgotten . Repeated rounds of cheers were raised for that gentleman , though the fact happens to be passed over in silence by the Dublin press . However , the growth of Mr O'Connor ' s popularity cannot new be impeded ; and despite the petty machinations of certain parties , he will , ere long , eclipse both 'Old' and ' Young' Ireland , and be tbe ' ruling spirit' in his
native land . But though the Nation rupture was not brought on the tapis , Mr Mitchel seemed to en-¦ gross much of the curiosity and attention of the meeting . Though his doctrines ftr © looked on oa dangerous and impracticable justnow , the heroic gentleman himself is highly popular and highly admired , even in the circles of his most strenuous opponents . A considerable time was occupied in reading the statistics of tbe ' Confederacy , ' from which , amongst other matters , it appears that 11 , 000 members are now enrolled in tho ranks of that party—that it disbursed the sum of £ 700 . in the course of the past year—that it published six pamphlets , making an aggregate of 13 , 000 copies , and has established seventeen clubs m Ireland , and ten clubs in England . Thelspeechea were good , and . on the whole , the meeting was conducted with the strictest decorum and regularity .
In consequence of Mr John O'Conaell , at his late visit to Limerick , having made overtures towards a reconciliation with 'young Ireland / a deputation from the combined trades of that city waited , on Saturday the 8 th inst ., tp consult Mr Smith O'Brien , aad aBk bis determination on the subject . I regret to add , that this interview led to no favourable result , for Mr O'Brien-seemed impracticable , and unchangeable in his resistance to the policy of Conciliation Hall . The deputation , though receivedlwith politeness and affability , were allowed to retire without / in the least degree , having succeeded in altering the sentiments of that noble-hearted Irishman . The Commission fer the punishment of the Southern Rockites , goes oh as well fis could be hoped for—or
even desired ! The majesty of the law (!) has been admirably vindicated ia the conviction of scores of unhappy wretches—the convict hulks will be tenanted again with the Munster peasants , and several will be offered up as victims of expiation on the gallows Yet , singular to say , crime has not decreased ! Way , it has even appeared whereheretofore it was unknown , and seems now spreading with renewed impetus all over the country . In the Queen's County outrages have become frequent . Four men have been committed last week for conspiring to Bhoot J . R . Price , Esq , & magistrate , residing at West Field Farm , near Mountrath in that county . On the night of the 12 th inst ., an armed party fired shots into several houses at Trummera , in that county also , and served Rockite
ivotices . signed' Captain Fireball , 'warning the inmates that if they refused to' abide by the commands' of the redoubtable ' Fireball , ' they might prepare themselves for the most summary vengeance that doughty hero could inflict . Sir Charles Coote , of Ballyfinn House , the premier baronet of Ireland , haa also received missives from ' Captain Fireball , ' in consequence of which that geEtJeman has fled from home in alarm , and sailo for Italy with his family in a few days . In tho county Carlow , too , outrage haa appeared ; whilot in UJsterand Munster , crimeTias increased considerably within the past week . A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Annascoyle , county
Kerry , on an unfortunate man unknown ; and on tho 11 th , at Six Mile Bridge , county Clara , a fine young man . named John Fittsgerald , was . shot dead in his house . by an armed-party of nine Rsckites , who attacked several houses in , that neighbourhood of . that night ! Minor crimes have increased fearfully , and it is said , even by the Orange journals of Ireland , that , the Coercion Act will make things worse instead of better , and that' Captain Rock ' will goto the devil headlong as soon as the commission in Munster will have terminated ! I predicted this several weeks ago , and I confidently maintain still that I did not do bo rashly or unadvisedly .
On the nighf of last Wednesday , the I 2 th , our new Lord Mayor gave his eiyic banquet , in imitation of the Lord Mayor's Feast in London . It was a splendid affair , truly , and'was attended by the Lord-Lieutenant , the members of the vice-regal court and house hold , Sir E . Blakency , Lord . St Lawrence , Lord Otho Fitzgerald , the great law officers at present in town , and , in short , by most of the elite of this metropolis . All the usual honours were observed , and all the ' loyal' British toasts drank , and responded to ; but it is a singular ' sign of the times , ' that , at a feast given by a Catholic ar . d Ropeal Lord Maysr , and in the midst of a Catholic and Repeal corporation , the name of Daniel O'Connell was omitted , and
those men , who , enly for his exertions , would cerfainly never figure at a civio entertainment in Dublin , ' spoke not one word of sorrow or condolence for the illustrious Irishman , who , but one short year ago , was the lion of the assembled hundreds who , on a similar occasion , sat at the same boaod . This was base ingratitude , and has called forth unmeasured censure and reproach from every clasB in thia city . The celebrated Fathew Mathew , I learn , 13 starting for a short sojourn in Rome . lie stops bat for a feiv weeks , and immediately after his return ( iia April it is said ) , he intends to proceed , on a tour of some months , to the States of America . - God Bpeed hia mission is tuy fervent ejaculation .
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A plan of the scene of the murder and the country immediately adjacent was exhibited , and proved by 8 TlXboy named Barton , ^ toffj ™* age , saia he remembered the day Mr Watwniw * n killed . He was at school , but oneof the boys called him out , saying 'There were Terries coming witn guns . ' It was then between nine and ten 0 clock , lie saw two men oa the road , and had never seen either of them before . They were going towards where Mr Watson was killed . One of them had a eun . and he W 89 putting the barrel down his trousers " Anlanof the scene of the murder and the country . ^ Yr . V , ;„„„„ ,. „„„ ovliihited . and Droved by
and the stock under his arm . The two men were close to each other . He then tamed back to the school , but hearing a shot ran back towards the place where it appeared to have been fired , and saw gome men raising Mr Watson up and taking him to Welsh's house . Mr Watson was still alive . He followed them to Welsh ' s , and staid there , until Mr * Watson sad her ' girfc' came up . He did sot see either of the two men after he beard the shot . He did not see a boy named Crowe . The boy was asked whether either of the prisoners was one of the twe men , but he did not identify
them . In answer , however , to a question by Mr Bennett , he said that two months after the murder he was is Limerick , and he was then shown ! several mea by Mr Browne , the magistrate , and from them he pointed out one as one of the two men he saw on the day of the murder . James Lacy , a respectable looking labourer , was then examined . He said he lived between the place where Mr Watson was killed and the school-house . On the morning of the murder , as he was going to his breakfast , he saw two men coming up from the road where the murder waa committed . He had the barrel of & gun in his hand , The stock was gone . At that time Mr Watson had , in fact , been killed , but he did not know it . The men then went on a field , and were
then joined by a third party . The witness looked round the court , and identified the prisoner Ryan , who is known bythe name of Ryan Small , as the man he had seen with the barrel of the gun . The party who jomed the two men in the field was the prisoner Hayes . He had known him before . The third man he did not know at the time but he had since heard that he was William Ryan ( Pack ) . This is tha man who was convicted at Limerick , and is now under sentence of death for the murder of John Kelly . He was going on when Denis Flynn called him . He then ran up to him , and then saw Mr Watson lying on the road , and a stock ef a gun under him , broken . The barrel was gone . This witness was subjected to a severe cross
examination by Mr O'HsA . —He admitted he was taken up by the police for being suspected of the murder . It was after he was taken up he made the disclosures contained is the evidence fee had just given , but he bad been released at the time . When Mr Watson was taken to Welsh ' s house , the police asked him if he saw any person , and he then told them he did not . He went to Limerick , and there saw Mr Browne , the magistrate , but he did not disclose the matter to him then . He told him afterwards at home . When at Limerick he had b « en trying to g « t from Mr Browne who had succeeded Mr Watson as the agent of Mr Arthur's land en the estate . In his information before the magistrate the witness had also sworn that Hayca waa one of the two men he first 8 aw , He
now swore that they were Ryan ( Small ) and Ryan ( Puck ) . In answer to a question by one of the jurors , why he did not give information to the police on the day of the murder , about the two men , he said the reason was he did noi think well of it . The next witness was James Crowe , a lad of 1 G years of age , remarkably shrewd and intelligent . He said that John Crowe ( who is the person referred to by the Attorney-General as having hired the prisoners to commit the murder ) was his uncle ; the murder was committed about half a mile from his uncle ' s house . He had then known William Ryan ( Puek ) and Ryan ( Small ) about two months . He saw them at his uncle ' s house a fortnight or three weeks
before Mr Watson was killed . He also knew the pr isoner Hayes ; and he krrew him tor twelve months and more before the murder . On the morning it sceurred he saw the prisoners , with William Ryan ( Pack ) , coming down the side road towards the high read ; at that time they were not near enough for him to know them ; they crossed a field and he lost sight of them in a hollow . Mr Watson came riding up the road about thirty or forty yards from him ; his horse was walking ; and the witness then saw Ryan ( Puck ) jump over a ditch and cock a gun at him . Mr Wateon was at that time about three yards only from Ryan ( Puck $ . The gun hung fire . Mr Watson saw it , and directly turned round his horse , and was going down the road back to his owh house , when
Ryan ( Small ) stopped him on the way . Ryan ( Small ) had come out of a field into the road , having a pistol in his hand . He seized the horse by the bridle . The horse made a couple of springs , and , doubling reund , threw his unfortunate rider . When Mr WatBOn was down the : witness saw Ryan ( Puck ) go up to him , Mr Watson immediately took from his pocket a pistol and fired . It appeared to miss , and Ryan ( Puck ) then struck him on his head with the butt-end of a gun . Ryan ( Small ) , also struck him with a pistol . He called oat for mercy , bat Ryan struck him on the head with the gun . Both the men then ran away together . Hesaw Hayes standingstill in a field , and the two Ryans went up to him . Hayes at the time had something in his hand , but he could not say whether it was a can or a blunderbuss .
The answers of this witness , on his cross-examina tions , are so characteristic , that we give the examination nearly as it took place . Mr O'IIea . —I Buppese you told thia at once to the p&lice ?—No ! It was near Christmas before I teld it . What took you out that morning ?—To walk about fof myself . What particular amusement were you about ?—I had none . Wore you going to school ?—I was not . I am not in the habit of going there . What do you do for your living ? -Iwas at labour whilst the Board of Works wasgoingon ; afterwards I was doing nothing at all . Did yon see the boy . Barton . ?—I did not . Now tell me what tcok you out that morning ? On your oath , Sir , tell me . —I had no business at all . Had you' a pistol at all ?
—I had . ; Was it loaded ?— It . was not . Did you ever load it ?—I did . Did you ever fire at a mark ?—I did . I often fired at my cap , when I had nothing better to fire at . Did you ever fire at a bird ?— I did . Did you ever fire at a dog ?—I did . Did yeu ever fire at . 1 cap with a head in it . You understand me ?—I never did . At a goat ?—I never did . Were you ever charged about a goat ?—I'Jl tell you . I was a great deal in my uncle ' s field latterly ; there were goats about tho place , and it was because I let some go astray that I was charged . Were you ever charged with stealing your uncle's wheat ?—1 was but I was charged with it wrongfully . Did tot your
uncle turn you out ?—He never did ; and never will . I am not dependent upon him . I was living with my grandfather , and since liig death with my aunt . Is there any quarrel between your aunt and your uncle ?—Yes . Are not you to be the heir of your aunfc ' a land if she eurvive 3 your unole ? -I am not . layout ? unole trying to turn your aunt out of her land ?—He is . Are you friendly towards your uncle ?—The witness , —with amost significant look , —I am . Do you care for your uncle ?—I do not ; for he does not care about me . ( A laugh . ) I am telling the troth . Mr O'Hea . —You may go down , sir .
The trial lasted the whole cay , and the jury returned at half-past five o ' clock . Iq a few minutes they returned a verdict of Guilty againBt both priaoners , who received the announcement of their late perfectly unmoved . Sentence was not passed . After the trial was concluded , several prisoners against whom true bills had been found by the grand jury were brought up to be arraigned . Amongst them were Thomas M'Inerheny and five others , for the murder of a man named M'Mahon . on the 3 rd inst ., and M'inerherny , on the Clerk of the Crown asking him whether ! he was guilty or not guilty , immediately answered , ' I am guilty , my lord , bat these five others are not . ' MrO'HsAsaid it must be some misapprehension . The Lord Chief Jubticb pointed out to the prisoner that , if he . persisted in his plea of gailty , he must be hanged .
The prisoner . —I am guilty , ray Lord , and there were five others with me ; but not these men in the dock . The Lord Chief Justice then direoted an attorney to explain to . the prisoner the position in which he was placing himself ; and , after a few minutes' conversation between the prisoner and the attorney , tbe Sue stion was again put , and they all then pleaded Tot Guilty . Immediately ob the sitting' of the court on Saturday , at Ennis , liyan and Hayes , convioted of having aided and nsalatod In tho murder of Mr James Watson , were called up . to have scateooo pronounced upon them , There wig little alteration In the appearance of the piiflonere since Jheir conviction ; , H » ye& , who is rather a mild-looking man , seemed of the two ' most to feel tbe awful position In which he stood . The clerk of tha orown having asked the prisotvetg what they had to say why oentenco of death and execution 6 hould not be passed upon them according to law .
Hayes said : I have nothing to say , only that I ' in . norent of the charge . I noversaw Billy Ryan from the day I was born to this . I did not see him on the day the murder was committed , nor did I put my feet in the county that day . That is all I have to say . I ' m innocent , my lord . Ryan said : I have to gay the same . I wits fifteen miles from home on that day . It ' s a droll thing ; that men ' s Hvob will be taken array for money by perjury . The witnesses against us were all starving , and all striving to get the reward . God ^ seeB us . Tho Lord help them that ' s innoctmt . We hope ho will Bee what they bare done to us this day . I hope your lordshi ps will give ua a long day . I am . innocent—iuaoetut us the the child uaborn .
Their lordships having put on their black caps , the Chief Justice proceeded to pass sentence . He said it was his duty to refer to tbe facts of the ease , not for I lie purpose of Increasing the misery in which the pri-I toners » iwd , b&t bwasse it formed part © f his painful ' . ' r \' ' : 9
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duty , as holding out s warning and example to othere . by pointing attention to tho circumstance of tbia crime and thn punishment awarded for It . His lordship having recapitulated tho facU of the coie , and dwelt at stase length upon the eaormUy of the crime , laid that in Ibis instance the crime ol murder had bees committed for thopurpoie of controlling the power of property in th « execution of the rights conferred by law . But the effect ofBBch outrages , If they were allowed to be contisoed , would be , thst the owners of property would be ; com . polled on the one hand to become absentees from Uw country , and abandon the enjojment of property , ttn& the performance of its duties ; or , on tbe other to remain in tbe coaatty at the peril of their lives . The evil , hoffevsr , did not end tbere ; mob outrages effected tbe safety of tbe femur end the peasant bIbo . Tbe landlord might ba tho first victim , bat the farmer and peasant weuld bo the nest . Hi * lordship having itaplored of tho prisoners to take advantage of the time ramainkig to them , to nek that pardon from Heaven whlejj they could not obtain on earth , in tho dbubI manner *« & . tenced them to be esecnUd on the I 5 th of February , their Bodies to be buried within tha sreeincts of the duty , as holding out s warning and example to othere . bv Dointinsr attention to tho circuuntance of thia crlm .
prison . The prisoners were then removed from the bar , Ryoo saying as he retired , ' Thanks bo to God , we are iono * cent . ' The principal trial was that of two men named Butler and Hourigaa , for tbe murder of a man named Patrick Cleary , in the month of November last . Tbe prisoner fiutitr is a maa about forty-flre years of age , of small frame , and emaciated in appearance , Hourigan , is considerably younger , and s fine-Ioobing . powerful
man . The unfortunate victim was a respectable locksmith and pedlar , residing in Limerick , and the only ground that bas been suggested for tbe murder is , that he and his wife had flvea cvidonooin certain causes at tha last spring and summer asstze * , and thai he was suspected ^ though without any good foundation , of beiag in the ^ pay of tbe police . It appeared that on the Oth of November last he bad occasion to go to Broadfoot , b short distance from Limerick , and having transacted his business , he was returning home at about sis o ' clook ia the evening . The night was dark but starlight . A policeman named M'Wheeney deposed that he loft Broadfoot soon after six o ' clock ; that walking fast bo overtook and passed a man
whom ha recognised at Butler , and a few ptcss further oa he passsd another man , whom he knew to be Cleary . He had walked aboat ninety yards on when he beard s shot fired , and a cry of ' Harder ! ' Some policemen were approaching at tbe moment , he waited for them , and they thtn went together to tne ipot where the shot appeared to bavs been Srei , He tbere found Cleary lying oa the ground woundetl . aad on their raising him up he said he had been shot , and believed he was dying . At that roomeat 11 'Wheeny » &w thoj' shadow oi two men flitting across the field . ' Poor Oleary was takes to the police barrack , and remained tbere tba « night , and onth « following day he was removed to Sir M . Barringtos ' s Hospital , in Limerick , and there , on the 21 st of the same month , he died .
It appeared that on the poor fellow being found by tbe policemen , he immediately declared Butler to bare S » en th « man who fired the shot , and that Hoarigan was with him at the time . Search was immediately made for the prisoners , aad they were captured tbe same night at their own homes . On the next morning tha magistrates attended and toek Clearj ' s deposition , and to that deposition he was 6 irorn , - Tha same day tbe prisoners were produced before him ; be identified tbesa and , in their presence * hli deposition was read over to bim , and he again deciartd . it'to be true , but he was not re- » fforn . After he was remsved . to the hospital , it appeared from the aurgaon ' e evidence that Cleary &fe one * gave himself upas dying , but the surgeon , against hifl
own opinion , gave him some hope « f living ; . Ultimately however when his eoi trns approaching , tbe sargeoa apprised him of it , and at deary ' s request a magistrate again attended him to take bis dying declavatioa . Ms W . Roche , late M . P . for Limerick , was the magistrate vrhe attended , and that gentleman stated that he folly explained to the unfortunate man the situation in which he st&od , and that his declaration must be made with the same solemnity as . if he were answering before his Muker . The man clearly understood tbe affect of what he was saying , and on Mr Roche ' s writing down the declaration , though In language of his own , Clear ; signed it , and within a day or two afterwards died , la that declaration occurred the words , that Cleary , < entertaining little or no hope ' declared . &c .
Mr O'Hea , for the prisoners , objeoted to its being re ceived , oa the ground of tho declaration not being positive as to th « man ' s belief that he was dying . The Chief Jcancs , however , overruled the objection . But there was another declaration of tbe dying man , made to his wife just before bis death , and that was new deposed by ber . The description which the poor woman gave of the last melancholy scene in which that declaration was made was so simple and affecting that we present it to our readers in the language in which she gave it : — ' I went to him ( said Bho ) aboct a quarter of an hour before big death ; he took my hand in his , and asked where the children were—we bad three . ' I said , ' They are with their uncla O'Brien . ' « Oh ! Jenay , '
eays he , < O'Brien will take Hike , and yon and tbe two little ones must go to the poor-honse , and may Godholg you . ' ' Oh ! Paddy , * sny « I , God will help me , bo * you'llhelpmetoo . ' 'Oh ! no , says he , 'I eannot help you , for I ' m dying . ' 'Oh ! Paddy , ' says I , ' you say that to frighten me , because it is dark . ' ' Oh ! no , ' says he , ' I don't menn to frighten you ; I am raley dying / I then called tho aurse to bring a candle , and I says , Oh ! Paddy , if you are djing , if you have any doubt about the men who killed jou , don't criminate Mike Butler and Hourigan ; ' and says he , 'It was Butler who shot the pistol , and Hourigan was with bim ; but I forgive them , ' and then the nurse brought & candle , and fie died five minutes after .
Mr 0 Hea addressed th 9 jury for the prisoners , basing tbeir defence upon the mistake ns to identity into whicb the poor maa might have fallen from the agony « ud distraction of mind which his wounds must have produced . After a short reply from the Solicitor-General . The Chief Jc&tice summed up tha evidence , and explained the law as to the meaning of a dying declaretlont Such a declaration was laid down as being " 0 C 9 made by a party in etilrmis , when every hope of thiB world is gone , every motive to falsehood sileacea , and the mind indncad by the mest powerful considerations to sp 9 sk the truth . ' Such a declaration , although not upoa oath , ivas legal evideace , and in this case Iho deolara-Ji * n made to tie magistrate was confirmed by tho later one made , to the wife . The Jary retired from the box , but in a few minutflB returned , and pronounced a verdict of guilty against both the prisoners .
The prisoners , who dU not appenr to be ranch affeotefl , were immediately withdrawn . The prisoners w « n brought up on Saturday , whea the Clerk of the Crown having asked them what they had to say why sentence oi death should not be pronounced upon them , neither of them made any answer . Their . Lordships having pui on their black caps , tho Chief Baron proceeded to pass sentence . Hia Lordshjp , after some very suitable observations , fixed their execution on the 17 th of February , their bodies to be hurieS witfiin the precincts of the prison . Tie prisoners received the announcement without exhi'iitins any emetion . On being removed from the bar , Butler said , 'Thanks be to God , we are innocent ; we are innocent before the Court and the Lord in Heaven / The other prisoner , Hourigan , said , 'Yes , we are innocen {—innocent aa the child unborn , though we are cost , denmed to die , of this crime ,
Tbe last case tried was tfeat of four ill-looking fellows * for posting a threatening notice on the park gate of Col . Vandeleur , of Kilrush . The following is a copy of the notice : — ' Take notice . CroftOB Tandalure If you don'tehange your mind and give relive to theyoung as well as the oia And Not to Put a stop to the Publicke ^ Yorke as you are and also Captiu Kenidy if yo Dont bo said by thisNotice blive mel ; will do withe ys as I Did with Pirce Ca-rige * ' So have veir will mrfd in time . ' A man named Curton said that , on the 31 st of Deeember last , about aix o'clock in the evening in question , he went to water hie donkey at a pond near Colonel Van .
deleur'a gate , and whilst so engaged he heard some men talking about putting up a notice . At that ualuekj moment his doBkey ' sneezed' and tho party discovered bis presence . They allowed him , however , to go home without molestation ; but an hour afterwards they went to his house and made him swear that he would » ay ne » thing about what he had heard . The notice waa the nest morniog found affixed to the gate , aad Cnrton , with little regard to the oath he had taken , immediately stated to tho magistrates what had occurred . He and some of his family identified tha prisoners , andtheiurj having retired , after an absence of about fin hour retimed a vardiot of guilty agjuaat them all .
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—m ^^ WSMMA ^ HIftaBAita ^^^ t ^ L ^ BIig ^^ g ^^^ g ^^^ g FEAEFO 1 EXFtOSIOS OF GUNPOWDER ASD MlBACClOtS kscAPE . —In one of the cottar-houses « n the farm of Lurapninnans , near Lochgolly , hwt week , a fearful explosion of gunpowder took plaoe under rather singular circumstances . In one of these houses there were several barrels of gunpowder deposited for the use of the quarrymen on the Lochgelly branch of the Edinburgh and Northern Bailway . Three childrcs were left alone in the house ; and in the course of their play , the eldest , a boy about eight years of age , proposed to his sister to set off aorae powder and , emptying a good quantity out of a barrel that :
was broken open , the boy advised his sister to take a cinder out of tho fire with tho tongs and fling it among the powder , which she did . It may becsny jectured what were the consequences . The two children were sent in a moment outside tke door , the roof went off the house , and , mest singular to . say , tho youugest child , after being driven into a corner was picked out of tbe ruins without a single scratch . Tae boy it seriously injured about the head and face , and the girl about the hand and aria . Fears are entertained about the boy , but the airl is " considered to be oat of daager . Dad the rest of the powder jgmted , no doubt but all the three moat nave lost their hvea , and in all Drobahilitir anma v **
, woald have been lost in the adjoining homes . t Jr hi -1 ° l ^ Elb at Hambure a ^ now so thick ' that heavily laden waggeris can oross the river upon it , The Hxrbfoud Times describes a d rake with ttr «« legs , to one of which two feet were attached .
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Hrelanff . HEESEB . UITCHBL AND EOrFY . —AHHrVIIlSABt OF TBX IEI 8 H COHFSDEEATIOK . ~ THE ' OlD * AND ' YOtTNO ' IKZLAKDEKB . —TBE 8 KCIAL COMHISOION . TBE 1 OBD HAWa ' a ' 8 fBEAD . '— FATHER MATHEW . ( From eta- mvn Gorreipondent . J Dublin , Jan . 17 th , 1848 . In my last letter I promised that I would dwell at some length this week on that very singular transaction now engrossing bo much of publio attention in Ireland ; The reader will probably guess that I allude to the unfortunate dissensions wnich have so prematurely sprung up between the writers and proprietor of the Nation newspaper ; . However , as Lnnd last week's . S ^ Aa publishes the iejna ' rkable letters of Mr MUcheraud Mr Duffy , which throw Ml light on the subject , and aa Mr O'Connor has alluded so particularly to the affair in his able letters , I find it would be a work of supererogation on my part , were I to enter minutely into the details of the matter . A ) l I will therefore say , is , that though Mr Mitchel
appears to act the honester and the nobler part , be will have no chance of gaining the ear of the public joet now ; for however well disposed the peasantry may be to try the chances of a struggle with England , the clergy and the middle classes are entirely opposed to any such project , and will not hearken to any proposal to that effect , no matter from whom such counsel might proceed . Mr Mitchel , therefore , might as well preach to the winds or waves , ns try to create anything like a respectable war-party in Ireland at present , and though he appears resolved to proescute his long-cherished project with re-? ewedand untrammelled energy , hemuBtnotiope to succeed—at least for many a day to come . Mr Duffy , though suffering' in the estimation of many of his own party , and though 'jumping' as niraWy as wy political 'Jem Vtoit' of . them all , latterly , warns to
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PERTHSHIRE . Shipwreck at thb Mojjih ef the Tat .. — Last week , the Bchooner Industrials , of WhitstabJe , Wolt , master , laden with railway iron , for Perth , was totally lost on Abertay Sands , when all on board , consisting of the master and seven of a crew , perished . There was a stormy south-east wind , with a flood tide , and drifting snow showers ; About half-past seven o'clock , signals of distress were observed bythe lighthouse keeper , who made the requisite signals to Broughty Kerry , and the life-boat , manned by a
erew of fifty men , was speedily floated . They got bo near the unfortunate vessel as to be able to heap tbe cries of the crew , but found it impracticable to get at her through the breakers . They remained near the spot till about midnight , but sajv nothing of the vessel after ten o'clock . So great dissatisfaction has been expressed at the boat not making greater exertions to reach the vessel , that the harbour-master and secretary to the Tay Life Boat Society made personal investigation into the case , and have reported that there are times when wind and tide make it totally impracticable to reach the scene oi danger , and that this was one of those caaes .
sinoakdine 8 hire . Serious Navvie Disturbances . —Ose Lifb Lost , akd hant Persons Injured . —Since the works on the Aberdeen Railway , in the neighbourhood ot Stonehaven , were commenced , there have te en located in the town about fire hundred laboureis , nearly all of whom are stout young men , principally from the Highlands . They have generally lodged by renting small rooms from the people , at from 5 s . to 6 * . a week , buying in their own provisions , and getting them cooked by those with whom they lodged . The price of provisions last winter having advanced at least fifty per cent ., the Highlanders took it into their heads that this wsb partly , if not chiefly , oc ? casioned bv a combination among the provision
merchants , and from that time forward they felt as if they owed those people a grudge . Frora time to time slight disturbances took place , nad much illfeeling was engendered . About two months ago , t he works were partially stopped , upon which half the navvies left the place , and the rest were employed at a reduced rate of wages . For some weeks after this no disturbances took p ! aee but it eeems that the old erudge was still harboured hyihe Highlanders . On Wednesday week , the inhabitants of Stonehaven were alarmed by hearing the bellman call a meeting of the railway labourers on the Square , and soon after between two and three hundred navvies had assembled , with bludgeons , knives * , and pikes ; and , as they conversed together in Gaelic , the people of
the town did not know their plans . After consulta tion , a number of those who had no sticks went to the woeds of Dunottar , whero they cut branches from the trees , and about three o ' clock the whole entered the Old Town in a body , led on by a few men belonging to the ' gang , flourishing their sticks and pouring forth volleys of oaths in Gaelic . They made their first attack on Mr Walker , a slater , who had formerly a&isted to quell an outbreak , knocked him down with tbeir bludgeons , and smashed a lot of windows in his master ' s ( Mr Thomson ' s ) house , who had also beep obliged on a former occasion to resist the navvieB . Having beaten Walker , they left him , and proceeded to the Square , which they paraded , shouting ' Victory ! ' and vowing
further vengeance . Mr Weir , the superintendent of police , thought it hopeless to make any attempt to repel the attack , but watched the ringleaders , with a view to their apprehension . About half-paBt five the Highlanders marched through the town in order , shouting and smashing every window where a light appeared . At the bottom of Ann-street they met William Murray , & young mac , who had just come in from the country to see his friends , whom they knocked down and left lying on the road . They then went to tbe Commercial Inn , where they smashed ail the windows and attempted to force the house , but were unable . Tbey next attacked the
Mill Inn , broke several windows , and attempted to force admission , but Mr Melvin and the othor inmates were able to keep them at bay . Passing on from the Mill Inn , they met with one , of Mr Melvjn's sons , who was maltreated , but , thouph dreadfully bruited , was able to make his escape . The mob how went direct to Mr Knox , Ihe gaddler ' a , another of the doomed house ? , and bere they broke open the door , smashed the windows , frames and all , and but for the determined resistance of Mr Knox , his two sons , and a party who happened to be in the house , the consequences would , inal ) probability , have been of the most fatal character . Mr Knox " fired blank
cartridges among tha Highlanders , which at first frightened them ; but , finding ; that there was no ball , they renewed the attack . It being hopeless to effect an entrance here , they again betook themselves to parade the town , assaulting every person they met who could not speak Gaelic ; and breaking , aa before , every window in which there was light . About nine o ' clock the Highlanders dieperaed , and there was quiet for tho night . The unfortunate man Murray , already alluded to , was found lying in a state of insensibility , by a girl who was passing , and on being carried to Mr Milne ' s , in the Old Town , it was found that his back was broken , and his skull fractured . He waa only able to say , 'lam murdered , and the navvieB have done it , ' when he died . John Hobb , who was alBo struck in the street , was dangerously bruised , but is ^ covering . Altogether , about twenty
people were maltreated , and , for anything the mob cared , were in some instances left for dead in tho streets ; but they are now out of danger , Throughout the town , the crieo of murder were heart-rending , ard the scene appears to have been one which can scarcely be described ; indeed , such was the state ef the town , that no man was safe to leave his house , and , consequently , no official steps could be taken by the local authorities . Ear ' y on Thursday week , a speeiaj meeting of the Justices of the peace was held , when it was resolved to send an express for a detachment of the military to Aberdeen , and Captain Barclay and Mr Grahame Munro were charged with the commission . On Thursday evening ; , twenty soldiers and two officers arrived in Stonehaven , and since then there has been no further disturbance . Eleven of the ' ringleadershave been apprehended .
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SPECIAL COMMISSION . On Thursday the 5 th the special commission fqr the county of Clare waa opened at Ennls . when thte Lord Chief Baron addressed the Grand Jury . Hia Lordship alluded to therasaltB oi the trialBin Limerick , and lamented to say that there was reason to believe that outrages similar in character , if not equal in number , had occurred in the county of Clare . Having forcibly dwelt on the direct and im r mediate results of the crimes which were committed for the purpose of controlling the enjoyment of pre - perty , his Lordship continued : —
Bat , gentlemen , the evil doss not stop her ? , The spirit which involves thorigbte of one class of tbe oom . inanity will extend to the deBtructien of the ( rights and liberties of others . Yesterday tho landlord , the agent , the bailiff , may hate be » n the vietim . To day the far . mer , the hnmble pereoa in haznble Iife may become thr object of outrage . If I were to point out the class of the community who are placed in the greatest risk , on 1 for whose protection tho administration of tbe lax ? is most needed , I would point to that , Igrge .. class , of Mth * pfioule-fro . in theweaHby occupier ,, to the person who supports himself by his industry with a small holding and seantj capital—I would point to Ihe fwrnere , wko , by their numbers , must form a large portion of the population , and who are . possibly in the greatest riek , oni most need protection .
The eo-operation of all classes of society , his Lordship observed , was ewentially necessary to sup . pres * crime and prevent its extension . To the want 9 f that co-operation—nay , to something worse—to the connivance or sympathy of tho farming class much of the crime is attributable . It is impossible , eaid his Lordship , that crime ehoald h&va been perpetrated to such on Gitent if that elase did their duty , and lent to the determination of the law the co-operation they sought . In » omo instances that co . operation moy have been withheld from tho influence of the prevailing intimidation—in others , from a lamentablo but mistaken aympntby ,
Tha Court waa occupied during the remainder of the day with tho trial of Patrick Ryan ( Small ) and James Hayes , charged with the wilful murder of Mr James Watson , of Ballyoorney , in the county of Claire , tlie agent of Mr AnguBtus Arthur , upon the
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1454/page/6/
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