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Dfehsate . on Emiiv Richards , £ cd j £ tho ' livcd E . ua at the An ^ l Ian . 1 " « J ^! f " ' very much sever . rooaths in ^^¦"'^^ S ber imagining SS ^ S& , S = s ^ Jbssssjarx ^ r ffi "" heohiaisi . ! the drawer « , f her lookinB-p la ^ snd the tumbler upon the basin-stand ; after which sue Bt » t -bed herself upon her bed , where she was found dead two hour , afterwards In her work-box she left a letter directed to her mother , stating that sue was heirtbrnken . in consequence of having been suspected of the theft , and that she resolved to destroy herself . Deceased ' s mistress gave ber a most excellent character , and wept bitterly dunne her eTiJenre . Verdict—' Deceased destroyed Hewelt . hut there was no evidence of her state of mind at
Infamous Cruelty to a Cosvicr . -BefoH Mr Bedford , in Millbank Prison , touching the death Ot Pntrick M'Ginty . aged twenty-Bfr . a convict who had been removed from Glassow gaol , being at the time in the last sta s e of disease under which he rapidly sank and died . -Capt . Williams , , one of the inspectors of prisons , was present by direction of the Secretary of State , to watch the proceedings , and was attended by a shorthand writer to take notes of the evidence . —Capt . John Richard Groves , the governor -f the prison , deposed that the deceased was received into the prison en the 21 st of January ] a 4 from Glasgow ^ aol , having been convicted at G ' as ^ ow on the 2841 of the previous September , of
as ^ ult and robbery , and sentenced to seven years transportation . There were Fevcral other prisoners brouuht with the deceased , thn whole being under the charge of one of the Sheriff of Edinburgn sobcers , and his assistants . , The medical certificate whieh accompanied the prisoners , and which was signed , David Gibson , M . D ., set forth that they were all free from mental or bodily diseases , and tt-at their berths would not be endangered by their removal to JIil ! b * nk prison . Two hours afterwards , howevtr , his attention was particularly attracted to the deceased , in consequence of a certificate from J ) r Naly . medical superintendent of the prison , stating that the deceased was in the last degree of debility . Buffering from severe internal scrofulous disease , and
w ' -tnPBs thereupon ordered deceased ' s immediate removal to the Infirmary : On asking him what medical comforts and diet he had had in Scotland , he said , principally gruel ; no wine , ale , or beer , bnt Once p . little cin was given to him . Deceased rapidly sank asd died on Thursday last . —Anthony M'Ginty , a prisoner , but no relation to deceased , who was chained to him dorin ? the journey from Scotland , said , when leaving Scotland , the deceased seemed very bad and weak , and said he thought he should die . The food eivea to prisoners in Glasgow gaol was broth and bread , and porridge , composed of Indian rorn ani oatmeal . They never tasted animal food . They came to Englasd by railroad and steamboat , by which latter deceased was so ill as to be obliged to keep his bed . witne 3 B being chained to him all the time . Deceased was so weak that he could scarcely oeeasionally eetup , but he said he should be afraid of complaining at Millbank prison ,
for fear of beins : sent hack . Deceased was very ponrly clad , and complained bitterly of the cold . There was no medical man on board , and the Hen in charge -: of them eave deceased some tea , and beef , and mutton , but he could eat but little . They were ex . irain . ed hy the doctor three or four days before Jeavine Ghveow gaol , but not on the day they left . —Captain Williams here said that the whole circumstances of the case , as far as had tbea transpired , had been laid before the Secretary of Ptate , by whom he had been authorised to say that if the coroner and jury required any evidence from Scotland , every facility would fee afforded them for obtaining such , by corresponding with the Lord-Advocate . —The coroner said the importance of the inquiry rendered < t imperatively necessary witnesses from Scotland should be present , and on that subject he should communicate with the Home-office . —The investigation was then adjourned for a fortnight .
Child Murder — "Bafore Mr W . Carter , in the coramittee-room if Lambeth wsrkhonse . relative to tfcea ? athofa male child , unknown , which died in that institution . Policeman Jordan saidthaton Monday morning last , wkilst on daty in the Harleyfordroid , K ^ nnington-evs . 1 , his attention was directed to a large market baskei lying on the step of a house in Meadow-plsce . Witness opened tke garden gate ar . d to . k up the basket , which he examined . On the lid being rais : d he found that it contained a male infant , dressed in a gowa and night cap . The child was very thin and dreadfully cold , from the damp and exposure . Witn ? B 3 had been past the hinss ab " 'Ut an hour previously , but did not Eee [ - * nytrungMng there , nor did he observe any person near .
There were no marks of violence on the b ; dy , and the clothi ps when searched did not contain any mirks or initials . Witness took the child out . and Laving wrapped it well round to keep it warm he eoiv ^ yed the d ece ased to the workhouse , and gave Mm into the care of one of thenurses . Nothing had transpired to throw any light on the mysterious case . —Hannah Secular , nurse , stated that ghe received the deceased child on themornin ? in question . It wa ? very cold and breathed with difficulty . She plnced ' " deceased before the fire and rubbed its body ¦ wi th warm flannels . The honse surgeon was gent for , p . nd upon his arrival the child wa * ordered new milk and other nourishing food , bnt the deceased
was so -rauch exhausted from cold , huneer , and exposure that it never became able to take any food . The body wa 3 shockingly emaciated , but clean and free from injury . —Mr Duke , surgeon , said that the dwa * . ed was about six weeks old . lie saw tke ehiid soon after its admission . It -was very attenuated and weak of body , evidently resul'in ? from the want- f food and long exposure to the weather . Witness had no hope of saving the child , ¦ which had clearly died of starvation and complete exhaustion consequent upon the deficiency of Boarishment and the exposed manner in which ihe cfcild had been inhumanly left . —The jury returned a verdict of * Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . '
Suicide or thb Mother of Sevf . k Ghtldbes . — De-tituiios . —Before Mr G . I . Mill , the deputy coroner , at the Elephant and Castle , King's road , Carrn ' en Town , oa the bady of Eleanor Dove , aged forty four . It appeared from the evidence that the hosband of the deceased is a . plasterer , residing at 34 , Cambridge street , Apr Town , and all the witnesses concurred in representing him as a most eober , industricus , 'and well-conducted man . For some months past , however , ho had heen unable to obtain employment , and hia wife and family of seven children had consequently been reduced to extreme distress . -The deceased had applied to StFancras Workhonse , and obtained some bread as relief , but ~ ss told not to come again unless she sent her
husfeand . <• "She had complained ef her head for some time pa ^ t , and on Sunday morning , on her husband ba ! n ? awoke by her eldest daughter , he missed deceased from his side . The bare footsteps of a woman were subsequently traced to the banks of the Regent's Canal , which abuts on the garden of the deeeased ' s bouse , and the body was ultimately discovered , attired in its night clothes , in the water . Mr Pitt , the agent of the board of guardians of St Paneras , explained that in thestafement made , that deeeased was to send ker husband , there wasnointentlsn , whatever , to stop relief , which would have been given had a second application been made . The
only object -was inquiry . The case was one of those where real distress existed , and where the really distressed were the last to come forward and claim ihit relief which impostors carried away instead . The father applied on Monday , and bad been temporarily relieved with bread and money , anil a ticket given Mm to go before the Doard on Friday , which would decide on the amount of out-door relief to be given . The case , from inquiry , was a most deservipg one . The coroner's jury deeply commiserated . the condition of the unfortunate father and his distressed and bereaved family , and ultimately returned a verdict ' That the deceased drowned " herself , in an ua-Esond state of mind .
ACCIDENTS , OFFINCVS , &C . HlGHWAT RoEBEEr ON SoUTHWARK-BRIDGE . —On Sunday morning , between twelve and one o'clock , as Mr Joseph Archer , of No- 29 , Pleasant place , St George ' s , was passing over Southwark-bridge , when near the centre he was met by two men , one of whom , without uttering a word , knocked him down by a violent blow on the head , inflicted , it is ^ supposed , with a life preserver , rendering him insensible ; whilst in tUis Rtate the iuffians rifled his person of two £ 5 . Bank of England notes and four sovereigns ; on recovering he made his way to the toll-gate and gave fiie alarm , 'but ihe fellows had escaped .
DSATH OF A YOUKG I / ADY OF FoRTUSE AND AIXEGED Coscncnos fp a Will . —Before Mr W . Carter , the ooroner for East Surrey , touching the death of Miss Alice Ilenley , i young lady of considerable property , whose demise has given rise to various strange rumours in the neighbourhood . Mr Carttar , tke coroner fur West Kent , attended to watch the proceedings as solicitor to the next of kin and friends of the deceased lagy . The investigation occupied upwards of four honre . but the brief facts are these : —About sixteen months ago the deceased lady , who was upwards of
thirty years of age , and possessed considerable funded and other property , went to board and lodge at the house of Mr Chandler , No . 5 , Webb's County-terrace , NawKent-roid . The family consisted of Mr Chandler , Ks son an < i daughter , and a part of the bouse was let out t » lodgers . Three weeks preceding her death Miss Henley became indisposed , and Mr Waterworth , a medical practitioner , in the neighbourhood , and Mr Hughes , & physician , were called ib , and the former gentleman attended her up to the period of her death , ¦* tae a Xvf& place la 5 fc Friday weGk > Mr TCaterworth SJlf f certiSca ' ' attributing the death of the deeea-ed to natural causes-pulmonary apoplexy , he
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thmicht The frinids of the deceased , however , not 1 , 3 been apprl-cd of her illness until alter her eatn and hcin ? informed ni-o that the deceased l . ad e-wcnte . 1 a will on iho day batorc htr dissolut ' . iin , communicated with the ooronor . and hence tlio present inquirv . Mra Morton , a married lady , residing at ( h-house of-Mr Chandler , stated that on the Thursday preceding the death of tho'deceastd , she saw her in her bedroom , when she appeared in a weak state . Uic m-xt morning she again brw her , after she was in a stateof utter prostration and insensibility , bnediea between eleven and twelve o'clock on that day . i « i » 3
Eizibeth Chandler said she had known the daewwed for about six years , lor the la « t sixie . n months ol which time she had lived in her lather s house . -On Thursday , the 3 rd inst ., the deceased "h'le * n bed , said she waa afraid it was all up with & « . »«< requested to 8 ee and sign her will . Witness . s brother , Samuel , who is twenty . ei £ at years of aC e , Drought in the will read it over to the deceased , and she signed it . Witness and Maiy Rtd « m , the aervant also signed it as witnesses . The will had been written by hp % hmther . to wham she left all her property , and it
was dated on thesame day-the 3 rd of February . Uie deceased when she signed the will was perfectly composed and sensible , but in the course of the same evening she became somewhat uneasy in her mind , and said she wished to add a codicil to her will in her ( witness ' s ) favour . Did not know of her own kaowledge that the deceased had signed a consent to sell out £ 50 . worth of stock , on the Sunday preceding her death , but understood ehe haJ done so , and all thnt was found in her possession at the time o her death was Is . 6 3 d . Did Hot say anything about the deceased signing a will , or other document , on the day of her death , and if any person bad sworn that she said , if deceased did write , slie must guide her hand , they Bwore to that which was false . Before it had been taken to the deceased , the will was placed in her drawer , and she had the curiosity to read it . In it the deceased left the whele of her property to her
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brother Samuel . The coroner having summed up , the jury , in accordance with the testimony of Mr Waterworth , the medical attendant ofthe deceased , who had made a pott mortem examination of the body , returned 1 verdict of' Natural death . ' When the verdict was recorded , Mr Carttar said he felt bound to mention a fact which had come to hie knowledge since the inqueBt had been called , that Mr S . Chandler , whom he believed to be a respectable young man , had been paying his addresses to the deceased , and that , had it not been fcr her state o { health , in all probability they would have been married * He ( Mr Carttar ) felt satisfied that Mr Chandler and his family would net regref . the present inquiry , for had the deceased married , and the will paid to be executed on the day before her death waa to be set up , her friends would , undoubtedly , have felt it to be their duty to have the body exhumed , and an inquiry like the present instituted . The Coroner and Jury said they were of opinion that the inquiry was a . FIRES . Narrow Escape . —On Monday morning , shortly after one o ' clock , a fire , which had it not been opportunely discovered by the policeman would , in all probability have been attended with a lamentable lo ? s of life , broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr Nathan , a furniture dealer , carrying on business at 24 . London-r <> nd , Southwark , next door but one to the extensive floorcloth factory of MeBsrs Southgate and Co . Before the constable had succeeded In alarming the inmates , the fire had gained head considerably , and upon their attempting to descend the staircase they were nearly prostrated by a powerful body of fire and smoke . The several parlies instantly made for the first floor , from the windows of which they happily succeeded in effecting a . safe retreat . Several engines quickly attended , and the fire was subdued before two o'clock , but not until a considerable amount of property had been destroyed , the oss of which will fall on the Pfemnix Fire Office .
Firs is St Luke ' s . —On Sunday night , about halfpast nine o ' clock , a v « ry alarming fire broke out upon the premi-es in the occupation of Mr Jackson , an oil , colour and Italian warehouse , carrying on business at No . 54 , Old-street , facing St Luke ' s church . The flames commenced in the front shop , bat from what agency could not be ascertained . The stock in trade being of such a combustible character , it was apprehended at one period that not enly would the premises in which the flames were burning be wholly destroyed , but the demolition of those adjoining on either side appeared certain . Plenty of water being ' at hand the firemen set their engines to work , and after considerable trouble the flames were confined to that portion of the property in which they origiBated . The damage done is very extensive .
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ISnglantf . f ! ORTnUlIBEBI < AHI ) . Four Mes Drowned ik ths Tyke . —Early on Thursday morning they and three others were cross ing in a sculler boat from North to South Shields , and when in the middle of the stream they discovered two steamers approaching rapidly in that direction . Thi ' y shouted lustily , and were heard by the captain of the steamer which seemed most likely to do damage . lie altered the course of his vessel , bat in ignorance of the precise position ot the parties whs had called , and as daylight had not broken , it unfortunately happened that both the s ' earner and the sculler boat were turned to the same point . The consequence was , that the steamer ran down the boat , and four ot the seven men perished before help cuuld be afforded .
LANCASHIRE . Tee Boiler Explosion at Manchester . —Robert Benson , aged 19 , who was hurt by the boiler explosion at the spindle manufactory of Mr Riley , died the same evening . '' This makes aine lives which have been sacrificed by thia accident . Mr Chapman , the borough coroner , commenced an inquiry into the circumstances on Saturday evening , but , after calling witnesses to identify the bodies , adjourned the case , to give time for scientific evidence as to the cause of the explosion to be obtained .
cheshire . Daring Highway Robbbbt and Outrage . — Last week about half-past five o ' clock on the afternoon of Friday , as a cheese factor , whose name we have not heard , was walking from Adlington , to Macclestield , he was stopped , only a few yards from the railway bridge , at Adlington , by two men , resembling b&wktra , each of whom presented a large hone pistol at his breast , and demanded his money , lie resisted ; they snatched at hia watch guard , which broke , so that they did not get his watch ; and while they were thus engaged another man came up and exclaimed , ' Are you going to murder that man , then ? ' This alarmed the robbors and they ran off . The cheese-factor immediately went
to the public-house at the corner of the bridge , and gave the alarm ; and Che landlord instantly mounted his horse , and rode after the fellsws , giving the hue and cry as he rode along , till they joined in the chaBe . lie rode up to the fellows , but they presented their pistols at him , and said if he did not let them alone they would settle him . On this he desisted , having no aid near ; but on passing a place where two brothers , quarrrmen , named Wyatt , were at work , they joined in the chase , and after a run of about three miles from the place where the fellows attacked the cheese-factor , they were overtaken by the Wyatts , at a place called Bann Fold , in Pot Shrigley . Urged by others , the Wyatts attempted to c ' . oae with ' the ruffians , in doing which each of the highwaymen fired at and shot his captor . The elder brother , Thomas Wyatt , who is about forty-five , was wounded in the arm . The younger brother .
William , aged forty , received a m jre severe and dangerous wound , the ball entering the body just above the stomach and penetrated to the upper and outer part of the right thigh , where it was found lodged about halt an inch under the skin . The prisoners gave their names Bates and Walmsley ; one of them is an Irishman ; botb are strange in the neighbourhood , and though not shabbily dressed , were badlooking men , yet not such as might be expected to ' take to the road , ' fv . r one is a very little man , and neither of them is strong or stoutly made . There were taken frora them a brace of new horse pistols , of the largest bore , evidently but just discharged . At first , the men were conveyed in custody to Adlingtoa lla . ll ; bnt the younger Wyatt being conaidsred in imminent danger , the prisoners were reconducted to Bann Fold , and Wyatt's deposition was taken in their presence .
YORKSHIRE . Fbightfcl Accident akd loss op Life . —For a length of time past the road across the Wicket , near the Midland Station , has . been partly occupied by a quantity of scaffolding connected with the works of the Sheffield , Manchester , and Lincolnshire railway . Last week , forty or fifty yards of the scaffoMing on the right hand side of the road going down the Wicket , fell with a tremendous crash , burying beneath i : five men who were working at the foundation below . A partial clearance was immediatelyeffected , when it was found that ope of the poor men , named Heubea Knowles , wa 3 literally smashed to pieces . He was quite d ^ ad , and his mangled body was conveyed to the Station Inn , close by . The remaining four men were conveyed to the infirmary as speedily as possible , all of them being very much mutilated .
One of them is somueh injured , that there is no hope whatever of hia recovery . On making inquiry on the spot , we were unable to learn any immediate cause which led to the awful calamity . Since writing the above another of the sufferers has expired , and the remaining three are lying in a very precarious state . The daring Bdrqlart near Binglet . —Inquest OS THE PrO-ECOTOB , AKD VERDICT OF WlLPOL MtJR . DER AGA 15 ST THHEE PRISONERS . William Wood , armer , whose house waa robbed at Faweather , on the night of the 17 th of December last , and himself serrrely heaten by the robbers , died on the 24 inat . at Hawksworth , a village about two miles distant from Faweather , whither he was conveyed a Jew weeks ago , for better accommodation . An inquest was held on Friday week last , in the Wc 9 leyan schoolroom at Hawksworth , before George Djrson , Esq .
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and aro . »|! 8 ctablejury . In a former paper we g ; ive full particulars of the circumstances attending t-1 ' robbery , r . s they wen ; detailed'hofore the magistrates . On that occasion ( in which it was proved that the viblif ry was attended with savage brutality towards the deceased ) , three men were committed for trin for burulary . Death ensuing , as we bavo said , on the 2 . 1 Tnst ., gave a new character to the prime , and the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of wilful rnurdor against the three men in custody , namely , George Oalvert , Thomas llodgson and James Mellor , all of Baildan .
BnnorsMKE . Playing tiie Oituessoks' Gamr—Riots between Navvies and Colliers . -Last week considerable excitement was created in Shrewsbury by intelligence that a series of riota had taken place the day previous at Shiffnal , Oaken Gates , and Wellington , between the colliers and the navvies working in these localities It appears that the disturbances arose from a jealousy entertained by the Englishnavvies against Irishmen employed on tbe Shrewsbury and Burning ham Railway ; tho former persuaded a number 0 colliers to jein them , and -m Wednesday they walked in a body , to the number of forty or fifty , into Oaken Gates , armed with sticks and bludgeons , in search of the Irishmen . They thence proceeded to Shiffnal , Btating that they were going to fetch the men employed on Mr Hoof ' s contract of the railway to enable them to drive away the Irishmen working on Mr
Murray ' s contract of the name line , near Wellington . Information having teen given to the nearest magistrate , he immediately went to Shiffnal , and reasoned with the men . which prevented any outrage being cnmmitied in the town . About twelve o ' clock the mob , then about 200 in number , all armed with bludgeons , marched to the Oaken Gates , where a regular affray was expected to take place , but the Irishmen , numbering : about 500 , being too many for their opponents , frightened them away . MrCorbettwent on to Wellington , and consulted with the
magistrates , and a strong force of constabulary was imme diately on tbe spot to prevent any disturbance taking place . On Thursday morning a body of the county police was despatched from Shrewsbury to Wellington to aid in quelling any disturbance that might arise . Captain Mayne had previously gone over to the Rame place to take charge of tho police . In the course of the day a company of infantry arrived at Wellington from Wolverhampton , where they will bo for the present stationed . In the evening the police conveyed two prisoners into Shrewsbury committed by the Wellington magistrates .
WARWICKSHIRE . Birmingham . —A woman was murdered on Mon day night . The name of the deceased is Mary Ann Wallace , and the particulars connected with her and her death are as follows : —She was the wife of an itinerant quack doctor , and had lodgings at a public house in Lower Windaor-street . On Monday he went out with the purpose ( as he alleged ) of going into the country for & few days ; the deceased shortly afterwards went into the town , and to various publichouses , accompanied by another woman ; at the Barley Mow , Stafford-street , they met with a couple of excavators , with whom both the women conversed ,
and ultimately deceased became intoxicated . A short time after this she w ? s seen talking to a man ( not answering the description of either of the excavators ) at the corner of Woodstock-street-Words were heard as if the two were disputing , and then the woman fell down , exclaim iDg at the time , 'I ' m murdered ! ' The man went away , and deceased was taken up and conveyed to a public-bouse , where she died shortly afterwards . There was a great effusion of blood from a small punctured wound upon her face , at the side of tbe nose : this is presumed to have b ° en the cause of death . She w as erty five years of age .
1 IXC 0 LMSHIRE . . A Licbbsbd ToAcnKR —The Stamfobd Mercurt states : — ' The Marquis of Exeter has heen sending large quantities of game by the North Western Railway to the London markets for sale . On the 1 st instant , he sent to the Sibson railway station , in a cart , as many bares and pheasants as took two borses to draw them , and the carriage of them by the railway to London was charged £ 3 10 s . ; there ' were to pay , besides , the fare and expenses of the gameieeper who accompanied them ; and such was the bad return of the salej that when the mnn got back the noble marquis was actually 20 s . out of pocket by t ; . e dealing , the LoQdsn market being exceedingly overstocked .
BtJFFOLK . Ipswich . —Recruits for the Army . —On Tuesday last . " -everal fine young men , recruitsof the 95 th Regiment of Foot , left this town en route to join the depot in Ireland . Amoi g the rest w < iretwo countrymen , who came a short distance to hear the lecture lately delivered at the Town Hall , in this borough , by Mr Flummer , oh ' The Folly of the Sword . ' The account given by the lecturer of the enormous sums received by the Duke of Wellington contrasted so strongly with the miserable pittance of lOd . a day which they were receiving as agricultural labourers , that they instantly became desirous of trying their fortunes in the tented field , and observing Serjeant Rontree , who is recruiting for the above corps , in the room , offered themselves as candidates for a red coat and were accepted .
ESSEX . Committal op a Clergimak for Assault . —At the t > unmow Petty Session on Monday , the Rev . T . Jee , who has b ? on vicar of Thaxted for upwards of forty yeara , and was for many years an active magistrate of this country , acting in the Dunmow Hundred , was charged with assaulting Marian , wife of the Rev . T . Harvey , curate of the same place , and who has been for some time past so conspicuously be ^ fore the public , in consequence of hia misunderstanding with the Bishop of London . —Mrs ilarvej deposed that the Bishop of Rochester had ( with the consent of Mr Jee ) given her husband a license of the possession and use of the vicarage house , the furni . ture , -Sec , during his residence at Thaxced aa aurate ,
which license she now produced , at the game time Mr Jee was to retain , the sole use of what rooms he pleased . Mrs H . further stated that she was superintending her own domestic arrangements as to the list of crockery on Thursday , the 3 rd instant , when Mr Jee camo into the drawing-room , and told her with great violence that she must not assign anything as her property in the house . Mrs II . replied that they had possession from the bishop , when he , ( Mr Jee , ) said that he had power to turn them out . He then left , and in about three minutes returned with greater violence , and said , ' I come to give you notice , madam , that you must vacate the drawingroom . ' Witness wished to know where she might be . He said , ' Where you please . ' He then lifted up his
hand and bent his fist in her face in a menacing manner . —Mrs Harvey tried to pacify him . Witness expected he would strike her , and she waa in continual fear from the violence with which he behaved after the superintendent had delivered theaummoHsea . ' . and also on the Sunday evening . On the latter occasion , witness was in company with Colonel Durford , Mr Ilarvey , and Mr Barnes , about eight o ' clock , when the defendant came in very rudely , four different times , and tried to excite them to quarrel . On the fourth time he went up to witness , and in a very abusive manner laughed in her face , and said , ' I shall have the honour , madam , of meeting you in court tomorrow , when I shall indict you and Mr Ilarvey for perjury . ' On the previous evening , as
soon as he had received fhe summon ? , he cape abruptly into the room and threw down a note , which she now produced , and which was to the effect that he should indict them both for perjury . — Colonel Durford stated that he resided at Thaxted with Mr and Mrs Ilarvey ; he then corroborated a great part of Mrs Harvey ' s eridence . lie had no hesitation in saying that no one was safe in the house with . Mr Jee—The bench fined Mr Jee . found the expenses , and bouRd him over to keep the peace for six months , himself in £ 100 , and two sureties at £ 59 each . Mrs Harvey said they expected on their return to find the house locked and barricaded . The justice told her that Mr Harvey had full power to force his way into his own house . Mr Jae , not appearing , before the benoh , aB soon as the justice had determined upon the conviction and tho penalties , the superintendent received a bench warrant for the apprehension of the rev . gentleman , which Superintendent Rogerson
executed the same evening , and left an officer in charge of his person till the next morning . He was brought by the officer to Dunmow , on Tuesday , and at ten o ' clock , Mr Jee appeared at the police-station , and paid the fine of £ 5 . It was then supposed as the rev . gentleman , who is seventy-one years of age , was accompanied by several of his principal parishioners , that sureties of the peace ¦ was about to be entered into , but this was not done , and the magistrate ( tho Rev . H . L . Majendie ) was most reluctantly compelled to sign the warrant of commitment , and Mr Jee , entering a post-chaise from the office door of his solicitor , proceeded at once to Springfield gaol , where tho rev . gentleman still remains . The whole affair has caused much excitement in- the towns of Thaxted and Dunmow , and the neighbourhood , and in his own parish a hand-bill has been circulated requesting the inhabitants to meet at the Guildhall , to take the case of the vicar into consideration , and to , ' express their sympathy and feeiiugs upon the subject . '
HKRTS . Irobndury Firb — A fire broke out in a wheat stack , belonging to Mr J . Walbey , of Smyth End Fatm . ' . Barkway , which very soon communicated with several stacks of corn and hay . The Barkway engine was very early on the spet , and rendered great assistance in saving the farm premises and house , which were at one period in great danger of bcins ; entirely destroyed . There is scarcely room for doubt that the fire was the act of an incendiary . Four large wheat stacks , two large hay Btacks , and three pieces of hay , a barn containing seme beans and some oats , &o ., and a large cart shed , were burnt . The loss is estimated at £ 700 . The whole of the property , it is believed , is insured in the Phoenix Fire-office .
SURREY . Wcking . —The Late Accident on thb Soutii-Webtern Railway —The inquiry into tha dentil oi David Markland , the engine-driver , late in tho service of the London and South Western Railway
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Company , who met hia death on the evening of the U . hulfc hytha ascident on tbe railway within a short distance of this [ 'hce , was resunrd and coneluded on Tuesday at the Railway Tavern , near the station Mr 0 . J . Woods , tho coroner , arrived ahoitly before two o ' clock , and the proceedings were opened at that hour . Mr Dalrymple . the company h solicitor ; Mr Gooch , the locomotive superinttnoVnt ; Mr . Stovin , the manager of the traffic ; Mr Godaon , the superintendent of tho line ; and several other officials were ngain in attendance . Thecorontr then summed up tho evidence at considerable length . The court wna then cleared , and the jury remained in deliberation for about halt' an hour , at the expiration of which time strangers were re-admitted , when the foreman announced that himself his on the ovcinjr of the
and brother jurors had unanimously agreed to a verdict of' Manslaughter against William Jones and Lewis Fleming . ' The foreman asked if any means of communisation between the guards and the endine-driver had been ad ' optod . Mr Stovin said they were at present trying two plans , viz ., bells and electricity . They hoped ere long to establish a perfect communication , - but of all subjects thia was the most difficult in railway economy- One thing he hoped the public might congratulate themselves upon , and that was , that the present was the only fatal accident which had occurred on this line of railway during the last six years . The jury remarked that there certainly was a remarkable freedom from accident on the South-Western Railway . The Beveral witnesses having been bound over , the proceedings here terminated .
HAMPSHIRE . The Infamous Gamb-lawb . —Within the last week conviction after conviction has taken place in the counties of Hants and Wilts under the game-laws , In almost every instance gentlemen who advocate these lawa were sitting on the bench to convict the half-starved poachers brought before them . Those very gentlemen must ba aware that the men standiug at the bar are frequently without bread at home for their wives and children , with the knowledge also that the farmers are now only giving from 6 j . to 8 s . per week to those whom they think proper to empley . Many single men apply in vain for work Some of those receiving but 83 . per week have a wife and from six to eight children to support , pay rent ,
find firing and clothes , besides food . That miserable pittance if divided equally , would furnish less than one pound of bread per diem to each , no meat , no beer , no tea , no sugar , and their nakedness scarcely covered , allowing nothing for firing-, bed , or covering . The following are a tew of the conviotions which took place last week : —At Oldham petty sessions , held on Tuesday , the 8 th inst ., J . Stent was fined , for poaching , 20 a ., or fourteen days' imprisonment ; II , Richardson , also fined SOs ., or the same term ot imprisonment . At Salisbury petty sessions on TueB day , I . Yates , fined 20 s ., or one month ' s imprisonment , for poaching on the preserves of the Earl of Pembroke ; J . and G . Every ( brothers ) , fined-40 a . each and costs , or two months' imprisonment , for poaching on the preserves of the same nobleman ; J
Tubb , fined 20 s . and coats , or one month's imprisonment , for poaching on the preserves of Charles B . Wall , Esq ., M . P ., of Norman Court . J . Mills fined 20 s . ar . d costs , or twenty-one dayB' imprisonment , for poaohing on the preserves of Sir E . Antrobus , ef Ar ae ^ bury . At RomBey petty sessions on Thursday , the 10 th instant , T . Guiles , for killing game at Sherfield without a certificate , fined £ 8 . or three months ' imprisonment . Committed to Dorchester Gaol : — T . Arnold , for poaehing at Motcombe , for two months '; T . Ricketts , for poaching at East Stoke , also for two months ; both last week . Thus ten men were sent to prison within six days in this district alone . The expenses of their subsistence while in prison , and the wives and children in different unions , to be defrayed from the poor rate ? , to uphold these obnoxious laws .
B 0 MERSET 3 HIRT . Confession of Murdbr . —The Bath Herald contains a strange story of a murder , committed twentythree years ago , having been recently confessed by a man when he believed himself on the eve ot death . Our contemporary quotes a paragraph from an old number , dated May 27 th , 1825 , describing the finding of a body , tied up in a sack , in the Avon , the circumstanees coinciding exactly with those attending the murder said to haye been confessed a few da } s since . The names of the parties are not mentioned .
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model . ' An Irish peiumnt , even when cliooimiij a wife , will toll you that he would Iiko to have something worth looking at ! ' And in the puipit , or on the rostrum , at the hustings , or on tbo battle field—( i ? it come to that ) —Paddy alwayn , and ever would , prefer ; m ' nbkbodied' teacher or leader to ' an atomy ov a Shinnawn , unable to take hia own part , not to spake ov anybody elet ' s ! ' The fact of Foargus O'Connor having 'height , bulk , and muccle enough for a model of " a Phoenician Hcrcuks , ' woald , no doubt , work rouble in his favour with an Irish ' mob ; ' and wo hopo the day it not far distant irhon be will meet a hundred thousand of his warm-hearted countrymen in peaceful congress , and monel . ' An Irish peasant , even ^ clu > o , lnB «
givo them an opporlunity of hearing his ' mob oratory , ' and seeing , ' with their own eyes , ' their ' large , massive , broad-ehouldered' countryman , who has eff . cted so much goo A for the labouring classes of Saxon-laud , whilst those , on whom toe relied , dosertcd , ' feuld , ' and betrayed their trust . If tha time has not already come when the Irish people will demand SUCH a leader , ths day is not far distant when they must , for , indoor ) , are eick and dfngusted wi * h both ' Old' and ' Youne Ireland . ' Some man like Mr O'Cannor must succeed tho ' miserable shadows' of Conciliation Hall—as for tho leaders of ' Young Ireland , I may say , with truth , their occupation Jb already gone . '
The writer ef' Contemporary Orators' alludes to Mr O'Connor ' s' attempt to purchase the Cobk Sodtuebr REPORTfca , ' I a « a B <» ' certain thnt Mr O'Connor made any propooalsfor the purchase of that paper , bnt even if he did , and that he failed in securing its proprietorship , I cannot nee how it could affect his interests in Ireland . Certainly my opinion Is , If Mr O'Connor would sat about werking the salvation of Ireland in good earnest , he could not adopt 0 more effective line than by resorting to the press , but then he should not confine himself to a class or a provincial journal . Ho should apeak through some organ , not limited to sect or party , or club , or coterie , or 'Old Ireland , ' or 'Young Ireland , ' er Whig , or Tory , or Liberal , I further think , that if Mr O'Connor would eitnbllsh a newspaper in Dublin , / or thelr ' uhpeopie , he would meet due encouragement , and be conferriog a most important benefit on the country . Therf is not
a good newspaper published in Ireland . Every party and faction has its organ , but there is not nny paper published / which Rives ' good value for its price , ' er Is calculated to amuae , or Instruct , or elevate the public mind . People , here , complain that the preis ie not supported . In most oases tnfs cor > plafnt is Just , but , then . * the blame lies with the proas—not with the pubHc . Men do not like to pay their money when they do not get due value , and when Irish journals " (? o down , ' It is because they are not worthy of being encouraged . If Mr O'Connor would establish » good journal in Dublin , devoted to tho interests , literary , social , and political , of the Irish people , he would be signally suceesiful . But a ' pro . vlnclal' paper for Feargus O'Connor—it nerer would do ; and it that goalloman had any design in getting the Southebn Repobtzb into bis hands , I , for one , am glad that he did Hot Bucceed . Mr O'Connor ' s name would not sound well in connexion wlf * a paltry country
paper , Speakinp of the press reminds me of Mr Mitehel ' s new Journal . The United Ibibhman , mude its first appsar . ance , here , on last Saturday . It is , certainly , In its own way , a credit to the Irish newspaper press , and argues much for the spirit and enterprise , as well as for the splendid talents and reckless dertngof its gifted proprietors . It is not bo large as the NiTioK , but beinp printed In a smaller type and more compact manniT , contains as much matter . It is something like the Spec . TAioaor Examines In appearance , and is * got up in the most beautiful style . If Mr Mitchel be' in earnest , ' ho already deaerves the victor ' s wreath , for [ he speaks ef Irish wrongs and Irish sufferings and oilrieh hopts , too , In such a manner as nobody ever ventured to speak before . From an earljr hour on Saturday morning Ihe office of the United Ibishkin , in Trinity-street , was
literally blockaded with people of every class and pwtj , waiting the appearanae of the new jaurnal . Every copy wae sold eff in an hour , and though ( aa I hear ) the impression wu 8 a very large one , there was not a single Unitfd Irisb 2 UN to be had for love or money at twelve o ' clock . It being announced that a ' secand edition , would appear in the evening , crowds lingered around the office all day ; and , at eleven o ' clock at night , wVen the paper was again , ready 'or publication , Trinhy-street was ; nearly impassible , nnd the police had much to do to keep a wny open for carriages . The new edition was snatched up in a short time , and on this morning ( Mon day ) there is not a elngtecopy to be purchased in Dub-In . If the circulation of the United Ieishman goes on as it has begun , it will make 8 . fortune for its owners , though it never ihould be the means of making a Tbermopylm of ' ould Ireland . '
On last Tuesday at a meeting of Jour corporation in the Assembly House , WlHlam-ftlreet , Mr Qustavus Hamilton , e . rank Tory anil anti-0 'Connelite , proposed a resolution : — ' That an address should be prepared by the Dublin Corporation , and presented to her Majesty the Queen , praying that her Majesty might please to assemble the Imperial Parliament ones every third y ar In Dublin , and to have a palace erected with suit able apattmenta for her Majesty ' s Lords and Commons , which they would have a right to
occupy during the sittings of the said triennial parliament . ' This motion was reiisted by Mr Lougbaaa , who propose ! by way of ' amendment , ' that 'her Majesty do repeal the Union . ' Mr Lough , nan ' s amendment being put , ' was lost , ' and Mr Hamilton ' s motion carried by a large majority of the mem . ber present--CatboJic and Proteatant , Orangeman and Repealer , all voting for Mr Hamilton ' s' novelty . ' More Irish yarn this ! Yet it is pleasing is see that all classes begin to discover that something mutt bt done for Ireland .
It now appears , beyond a question , that tho late Rev . Thomas Maguire , the renowsd Catholic Controversialist , methis doath from the hands efsome covert assassin , and that hi ? famous career was terminated by the ' poisoned cup . ' Circumstance * having transpired which excited a suspicion In the mind of bis friends , that with regard to his lamented death , all was not' as it ought to be , ' the body of the rev . gentleman was raised some ( evr days ago , and the tjtoraarh sent for analyeation to Dr Brady , a celebrated chemist and professor of medical iurUprudence , residing iti , Gar 4 mer-6 treet , inthiecitj .
The result of that gentleman ' s Investigation was , that on last Thursday bo came before the magistrates at the head Police-office , Exchange Court , and lodged information to the effict that the stomach of deceased contaiaed largo quantities of arsenic , and that his death ensued from the destructive operations of poison on his vitals . Several persons , it is said , will be impli catedinthis mysterious affair . Already , three person » have been arrested and transmitted to teitrim goal to await tho ensuing assizes ,- iluch rumour exists concerning the melancholy transaction , but as yet nothing satisfactory has appeared to unravel the mystery .
I was in the country last week , and vvas speaking to a gentleman who travelled ' all the way * to Limerick on Monday , the 7 th inst ., to witness the execution of Ryan ( 'Puck , ' ) and the youthful murderer , Andrew Dea . He concurs with the local payers , the LmrEici Chronicle and LiiiekickIUFu&tbb , in describing tbe scene as one of the mott melancholy and degrading , which could be conceived . Long before half-past two e ' clocb , tha hour appointed for the consummation of the tragedy , immense crowds of people ; young and old , the rich and the poor , married and single , male and female , had assembled to ' see the sight , ' and up to the very moment of elocution , and even for a considerable period after the wretched men had ceased to exist , large numbers on foet , on horseback , and in various descriptions of vehicles ,
continued to Bwell the va 6 t assemblage . Every window and wall , even the roofs of the houses in sight « f the scaffold , were crammed with eager spectators . In Ireland , unfortunately , such , scenes are not unusual , but on this occasion public curiosity seemed worked up to the highest pitch of excitement . Ryan 'Puck' had acquired such celebrity—report had made him eucb . a mo&ste ?—and the tales circulated of his ' dark doings' were so numerous and so ' blood-boltered' —that were he the veritable ' Blue-beard , ' of nursery legend , people could not be more anxious to get a look at him , or witness his exit to another world . Andruw Dea , too , attracted much notice . His extreme youth ( be was but seventeen years of ago ) , his mild demeanour , and handsome countenance , elicited much pity
for his wretched doom ; and if Ryan Puck' was an ob ject ot' execration , poor Dea was one of dVp commiseration and sympathy . Both culprits , from tbe day ot ' tboli * condemnation , behaved themselves in a truly penitent manner , and seemed well-disposed to make every atone , raent in their power for their mUdeeds . They even 6 oerae ») impatient for the hour which was to witness their immolation , and were several times heard to say that 'They rejoiced to suffer for their eins . ' They w ^ re attended to the fatal drop by six Catholic prieBts in stelo and sutan , who continued to exhort and sup . port the fortitude of their poor penitents until the last
moment . Previous to their execution , both the culprits signed witton declarations of their guilt , and the justice of their scstence , but neither addressed the crowds assembled before the gallows . Dea died without the semblance of pain or struggle , and ia a minute or two was dead . Notso with the unhappy Ryan . He was a powerful . a tMetic man , and continued to struggle with death for nearly ( ten or twelve minutes , during which time tho priests continued praying over his writhing form . It was a terrific scene indeed , —that unhappy man ' s death was sufficient to appal the stoutest and chill the blood of the most hardened man in that vast aasem . blage .
It is strange , that , even from Dublin , London , and Liverpool several respectable persons came to witness this execution . It is reported in this oity that a certain young lady of Dublin , from reading the ' Life and Adventures' of Ryan ' Puck * in the newspapers had formed ft sort of romantic attachment for that edebrattd . outlaw , and came up ineogr to Limerick to see hia death . I dv not vouch for the truth of this report , however , but it is said to be a fact . It is also said that the celebrated Madame Tussaud commissioned an agent to purchase the cl ithes of' Puck' from tbe hangman , with a view to their preservation in her ' Cab'luet of Curiosities . ' It is roported , ; too , that different persons in England are in treaty for the purchase of the blunderbuss with whieh he effected the murder for which lie died j and a cast of liis head having been taken Immediatel y after execution , it is expected that it will prove a profitable speculation to certain parties concerned , I do not vouch for any of these statements however .
Thero wne n numerous nnd respcotablu mot ting of tho Roman Catholics of this city held in the Music Ilall , on Friday last , to denounce the baso and cowardly nttacka made on the Irish Catholic WshopB and priests by the
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fiondon ne nrspnpcr press , nnd by cerhin pir-i ^ • „ i "~ liouBva of Parliament . It is said that evpry *; ,,. . " > and parish in Irchnd will hold similar ru » etinV s "' , "" > Homsti Githolics se < m determined tliat thr-s » V } , der and vituperate thtir cIwrv , shall not < 1 o so-jwh ¦ punity . To-morrow , the 15 th , a meeting of the r ¦ " "' and admirers of Most Rev . Dr M'Hale and Hi ' , ) ,. ' , ?' Dr Muginn , will hold a meeting in Marlboruu-h ' to denounce the assailants of those cminw , ecclosia ? - " 1 and make arrangements for getting up some subsw ' testimonial of tho high esteem in which they - 7 , " by their Catholic countrymen , and of tho d » :. p " * tii ] l gratitude they feel to them , for their splendid anitr '" ' phant defence of Irish faith andmorais , ** Amongst the lit-rary ooteries < f this city , it [ 3 . that the eminent Queen ' s counsel , Mr White ' sMe , i ' in the press a highly interestiay work , on Italy ] the Italians '—compiled by the learned gentleman LBonflon Mp ? ptr press , nnd by cerhin p ^ ,,, ^
several montns' 6 OJourn in the ' Sunny South » & 6 which ke has but very lately returned . ' m Tho election for tho representation of our TJnive ,. -t tak * s place some day this week—I believe on Friday s verat candidates had entered the field , but all have reiir ^ in favour of Mr Napier , Q . C , who wili : have a ' J \ l over . ' "'* On Friday last , John Renehaa was executed in 1 \ m rick for Iho mujderof U'lBermy . Unlike tho executi o ( Andrew Dea and Ryan ' Puck , ' his death attracted scarcely any notice , and there were not a hundred pSf tons at his execution . It is remarkable that Mr Tfillia ^ Smith , the aub-Bherlff , who attended at his execution died oa the morning following , ne had been complainis ? on tha day previous .
On Saturday , the 12 th instant , a fine youdjy Bailor named Sylvester Clinch , wai fined 2 s . 6 d \ , at Colle ge ' ttraet Police-office , having on the previouB evening ^ tho Theatre Royal ' hissed ' and 'groaned , ' and inoit 9 j others to do so , when tbe orchestra was playing < Gqj save tbe Queen . ' Here is mora ' coercion ' for you , Q ( late , it has heeome usual to ' hiss' and ' groan , ' whea . ever the national anthem is played at any &ssembl Q Dublin , and I am certain the ' example' made of poor Clinch , will tend very little to instil feelings of attach , meat to her Majesty in the hearts of her Irish subje c '
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STATE OF THB COUNTRY . The Coercion Act appears but still more toerabiifef the people , and to be wholly inefficient for cawyin . out the object intended , as witness the fbllowini ; t—County of Tirosb . —Malicious Burnisg . —Ob the morning of Tuesday last , a barn and byre , in ttWc ^ there were four shocks of flax and one stack of corn four cows and two calves , tho property of Mr VictoJ Gordon , at Edymore , near Strabane , were set on fire . The cowa were burned to death , and the corn and fla j totally consumed . It is supposed to have been tbe act of some incendiary , aa the proprietor , previous to going to bed at twelve o ' clock , found all Bafe .
Nksaok . —ihe heuse of Patrick Reddon , a poo , cottier near Lorrha , was plundered on the night of the 6 th instant . His son resisted them when they were proceeding to rifle the meal chest , but receivtd a blow of a ? pade , with which one of the party wag armed , on the head . CountyDoww . —On Mondajerening last this county was the scene of one of those outrages which were rarely to be recorded as happening in the north . At about six o ' clock in the evening a shot , whether from a pistol or a musket ia unknown , was fired into the parlour of Mr Turner Brown , of Warrinatown , that gentleman sitting in the room at the time . It < rould seem as if the arras had been loaded with slugs , ai three panes of the window were shattered , butfortop ately Mr Brotvn escaped suffering any personal iu > jury .
Kilkenny . —Threatening Noticbs . —On Sunday last , during the period of divine service , notices were posted on the church and chapel at Coolcullen , warn . ing a man named Brennan , who holds some land ia that locality , to be prepared for death . About two years since a brother of Brennan ' s waa murdered at Ms own door , about nine o ' clock in the forenoon , in the presence ef his workmen , who allowed the murderers to walk off deliberately after committing the act . The brother succeeded to these lands , and bat now been threatened with death . The people were also warned , en peril of their lives , not to take down the notice .
LrMBRicK . —AKOTHER Execution . —Last week John Renehan was executed on the gallows at the county gaol . The unhappy man made no declaration of his guilt or innocence ; but from the day of his committal to prison , after his conviction , he gave himself to prayer , and went to meet his end with perfect reaig nation . On the 22 nd inst ., James Skeahan and Jaraee Quane are to undergo the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of Ralph Hill . The Limbrick RiPOBTEKsays ^— ' Such is the craving
of the English appetite for everything connected with great crimes and remarkable criminals , that the clothes of Ryan Puck have been , or are about being , purchased from the hangman , for the celebrated Madame Tussaud , to whom , we understand , is also to be forwarded a cast of his head and blunderbuss , E order that his image may be taken in wax , and that , dressed in the clothes he wore , and bearing ia its hands the formidable weapon with which he murdered , it may appear so like life that Cockney grandams will scream at the sight of 'the monster . '
Death by Poison op thb Rev . Thos . Maguire . —It appears certain the death of the Rev . Thomas Magaire , so well known as a controversialist , had been caused by poison . Dr Brady , of Gardiner-street , to whom the stomaoh of the late Re ? . Thomas Maguire had been forwarded for the purpose of being analysed , and reporting thereon , has lodged an information at the head office of police , to the effect that in the stomach of the reverend gentleman he has found large quantities of arsenic . We have learned that three persons are in custody charged with thio crime . ' Mr DameIiO Co . nkell , —The Limerick Exjhiitcb , a repeal paper , says , ' We are glad to hear that Mr D . O'Connell , jun ., is abeut to receive an appointment . The Consulship of Boulogne \ s the one named to us ; the salary attached to which is said to be about £ 80 Q , a year . ' Mr D . O'Connell recently resigned the representation of Waterford .
Surkenber of Bad Firb-abms —The Limerick Chromcle says , ' On Thursday 100 stand oi arras ( 6 omo of very bad description ) , which were surrendered to the authorities , and taken np by the constabulary in Cappermore district , were brought into this city by the police , and deposited in the store of the Ordnance barrack .
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geotSan ^ . ABERDEENSniRE . . Aberdeen . —Fatal Effect op Chloroform . —A melancholy and fatal occurrence happened to Arthur Walker , a young man , an apprentice to Messrs Soufcir and Shepherd , druggists , Broad-street , in consequence of the incautious use of chloroform . It appears that , for some considerable time past , he bad been in the practice of inhaling this vapour to enjoy the pleasurable sensations which it is known to excite ; and on Tuesday , when weighing an ounce of chloroform to order , ho applied Mb pocket-hand kerchief ta his mouth , and soon after appeared to be rather excited . There was only a lad in the warehouse at the time , but having observed Walker in a similar state before , and also . that he had got violent when any attempt was made to take tbe phial from him , he did Hot disturb him , and felt pleased when he laid his head down on his arms en the counter . In thia state he was found by tho other clerk , who had been out for some time , and who being also afraid to waken him up , called his father ; but no sooner did his father raise the lad ' s head , than he fell back apparently in a lifeless state . Dr Jamieaon and Nicol , with other medical gentlemen , were sent for ; when artificial respiration , venesection , and other means were employed , but life was extiHct . This melancholy and distressing accident will surely act as a warning to parties Bob to use chloroform without the advise and under tho eye of a physician , or other experienced party . It should also act as a caution to chemists , not to dispose of this article to any parties without a written order under the hand of a person of known skill and experience . At the post mortem examination , we understand , that the lungs and brain were found much loaded with darkened blood , which had the odour of chlorolbrm There was also , it is but proper to state , such disease about the heart and Iun ? a as rendered the individual an unfavourable subject for the employment of such a « ont >? as ether or chloroform ; and which , although tasufficieut to have caused death , must , no doubt , have expedited that melancholy result .
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Srelfluu . MS O ' COSNOR AKD ' PBASBr ' s MAQAZIKb' —THE ' UHITXD irishman '—the » ublim corporation—tub late FATHER MAGUIRE—THE RECBNT EXECUTIONS—TIIE CATHOLICOLERQY—' aODSAVE THBQUEEN . " ( From our own Correspondent . ) Dubmn , F . b . 14 th . We have been perusing the' natice' of Fsargus O'Connor , in the last number of Fbases ' s Magazine , with a good deal of interest , mingled , of courso , with the disapproval of the sneering tone In which English writers , and writers / or Engltou publications , are too apt to speak of Irishmen , find of Irish matters in general . That Mr O'Connor is one of the moat remarkable men of the times , ' nobody can deny . That ' ha hae immense energy and determination of purpose , ' even the anti-Irish writer in Fnt sna mntt admit , but then he consoles himself by the reflection that the great Irishman 'lacks the higher qualities of the mind , and ie only a mob orator . ' Only a mob orator ! Well , after tfels , who can refuse an ovation to that ' rare follow , ' who ' deea' the 'Contemporary Orators' in Fbaber ' s Magazine S Only a mob orator , inagh . ' Well , now , Mr Saxon , or Mr Saxon ' s lackey , which ever you be , who penned those lines , if Mr O'Connor waB not ' amob orator' what would hebe ? If tho late - O'Connell was not a ' mob orator , ' would his name be now emblazoned on history ' s pnge , or would he have shaken—as he certainly has shaken—the omplro of British bigotry and Saxon into , leranceto its very centre , and fritterjd to atoms the bar . riera which for centuries excluded his co-religionists from place , and distinctioa , and religious equality t If Feargus O'Connor was not a ' mob orator , ' andono of ie most effective ' mob orators' of the day , too , who would care a pin what he was , even though buekots-full of ' the old Milesian blood' was careering through his massive veins ? If Mr O'Connor was not a ' mob
orator , if ne was not witu tue moo , ana tor mo moo he certainly might , many a day ago . bavo ensconced himself in a snug Saxon ' berth , ' where , like severul of . his recreant , rascally countrymen , who for ths lucrp of British gold , have ' shamed their sires , he might look out carelessly on the storm , and exultiugly soliloquise himself , saying , 'Blow high , blow low , my bread is baked : I have made my hay whilst tbe sua shone—and to the devil with honour , virtue , 'patriotism--e \ rorj thing but tho glittering gold ©{ the 'Sassanagh . ' But Mr O'Connor did not bpII himself , He did not 'learn to he * tray . ' He found that ' in iho cause of the ' people '—or ( if the writer in Fbises wills it)—the' mob '—he alone could legitimately exercise bis ' immi-nse energies , ' and emplay those rare talents with which Nature had endowed him , Driveafroiu that ploco which should be tUo proper sphere of his exertions , he flung himself at the head of the injured people of England ; h « became ' a mob orator , 'a ' mob leadir , ' an ' -English demagogue ' and ultimately tbe most successful champion of popular rights and social reform , wMcb . England over saw . Theae aro big words , but ' the proof Is there ! Mr O'Connor la a mob orator . ' He need not blush at the name , and ' the fact of an Irishman beiDg tho trusted leader of the Boglish Chnrtiats / provea that our gallant countryman is right when ho laughs at tho machinations of his adversaries , and eircngtheHB uitUBelf by the refleotioa that , 'When his enemios havo done their utmost against him , they eaust Btop , and t&en all will sturton equal terms . ' From tho writer in Fhabeb , it would nppear that Saxon aa wall as Celt , has an nyo to external t , and can duly npprociato thoprestlje associated with ' a fine pliysicnl moael . * Wi-ll j itis true for you—jou , who 8 U |)|) 1 ) us with sucb pluasant sketches of Contemporhrj Orators' —it io , Indeed , true , that tho « masses '—Irisl . masses at all events— ' alwajs worohi p a fine physical
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Barn 8 Ley Irish Democratic IConfedkratios . —A numerous and respectable meeting of thia body was held in Mr George Utley ' a -large room , on Sunday evening last . Mr William Jessop , a noble minded English Chartist , and member of the above society , was called to the chair . Several articles were read from tho Northbrv Star , and United Irishman ; the Natioh newspaper lay on the table , ' all atone in its glory , ' no one feeling disposed to touch it . M length Mr Seagrave read . in extract from an article that appeared in a copy of the 5 th ult ., on which lw commented , showing that the editor was opposed to democracy , and in favour of an union with the people ' s enemies—the plundering atistocracy of Ireland ; he therefore proposed that the society , being democratic , discontinue supporting that paper any
longer , which . was seconded by Mr M'Coy , and car- S ried unanimously . Mr O'Leary delivered a leng . by \ address , in which he exposed the truculency of the \ Irish leaders , and the baseness of the prostitute j pres 3 of his unfortunate country , who taught the i people a slavish doctrine instead of inculcating lie boly and useful lessen of men standing forward i" £ thediguityof manhood , and demanding their just } rights . He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to Mr Mitchel , of the United Irishman , which « J seconded by Mr Coyle , and ably supported by Mr Flanigan , and earried . The meeting was subsequently addressed by Messrs Keith , Brani ^ nn , and other * . The announcement of our London friendi the Democratic Confederates , to bring out a weekly publication , waa duly appreciated . Several ne «_ members were enrolled , and after ihe usual vote ol thanks to the ohairraan tbe meeting separated .
WUST LOKDON ANTI-EnCLOSURH ASSOCIATION ' . —^ the last meeting of the committee of this Association , at Clark ' s Room , Feb . 14 th , William Ennrt , , Esq ., M . P ., waa elected an honorary member , for b « gift of books and money to the library . The committee stated that they had engaged , for the purposes of the Association , one of the large Assembly * rooms of Mr Bendall , in Circus-street , New-roadi where they should meet every Tuesday evening , a ^ where they purposed having debates and lectures in furtherance of the objects of tho Association , n »' Tuesday being their opening night . Accidents on inn : North Western Railwat . - * On Wednesday two accidents , both of whioh , thoup not attended with any fatal consequences , were of ' serious nature , and caused much alarm to the P :
sengers who were travelling in the trains , occurs on the above line . The first happen'd to the tram which left London at six a . m . from Eust > n-. squ » rf ' betwein Ilugby and Birmingham , at Ilauip tot-Some rassengers discovered that the carriage ;' which they were was on fire . An alarm was instiiiw raised , but before the train could be Btopped Uiel" ' had got a firm hold of the carriage , which was c «* pletely filled with smoke . Upcn the train beift brought to a stand , it was found ' . hat , owing to ' , axle-boseanot having been properly examined ' " , greased , the friction from the wheels hud set fir * £ , « Vyt . tO « .-V >( VUV ¦ A AOLll'Xt ft VIU . fcUO *• UvVlO ilttt * ¦ - " * - - . 1
the carringe . The fire . was extinguished w > doing much damage . The second accident cw » , . to the express train fnm Manchester , whi * . f ' that town at five o ' clock p . m ., when nuon artivw near Rugby , alter leaving the Trtnt Valley l " ^ . singular j . umping motion wa 3 felt by the en «" 11- j he immediately stopped the engine , wben "P ' . examining the truin , it was found that a carf'g had got off tho line , much to the terror ' ; ' ( 1 passengers , who had been thrown from one » 1 ' : the carriage to the other . The carriage wua H '" ,, to be bo much injured that it was necessary to' - ' . j , it from tho train , which afterwards prceceilcu co > journev to London ¦ J ¦
. . - _ ( UUIIICJ IU ljUUUUU . T -. *¦ A Prcstou paper mentions thur , oa Friday , 3 ' , $ fisher was touml dead in Cadiley Braok , ^ " l ^} had been choked in attempting to swallow a * " ¦' " wbich was found in its mouth .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1458/page/6/
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