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    Tjrabindai Intolipiue.

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    SnoPBBiSK . —The Xobdek at Bkixhoxxz was tgtin the subject of investigation before the eoroktr on Friday week . The suspicion that the deeeased Ama Newton was murdend by her daughter was etreagthtued * y the evidence adduced . Rch * td Evans , tba poliosman , who apprehended the prU « u * r , eai d , I charged h * with murdering her mother , ooi cautioned har not to Hy anythisg to me . Ia golcg up the HLjh Street wkea X was taking i-. er to the lock-up , ehe ssld to me , * I suppot 3 thlt will be another Swrn Hail jab . ' ( the prisoner ' s trotter wm hnng for the murdtr of hi * wlfc at Severn Hall . ) I laid , ''That do jo mean by tb «» t ' and the said , ' fission , ps « slon ; I am « ry pAMlonato , ¦ ud . u soon as my passion 'b over , I forgive directly . ' The coroner read the evidence of Messrs Sirange , Colty , Kewalt , and Martin , the surgeons , and the inqusst was adjourned until the 2 * h of February , on which day the Jury will deliver their verdict .

    Shskuid . —A STSAK 8 E Tbasxdt . —On Wednesday week an inqaett was held on « he body of a woaau , named Haamh Bettrey , aged 6 * years , wife of John Bettrey , a labourer . The evidence given wag of a very perplexing character , andg » emed rather t » obscure than throw light opoa the circam « taii « e « of the woman ' s death . It wonld appear that for wveral monthi da . ceased h « d been neglected by her husband , who hai been cohabiting with a woaaan . of infamous character , named Dsnton , at R « therhara . The wifo , with whom < he husband ' s brother , Thoaat Bsttrey , lodged , leslded in G .-em ' s Yard , Andrew Street , Sixfold . She , Casing that her husband would allow her nothing for her sapport , determined upon giving up housekeeping , and going into the workhouse , an 4 with this view kad been removing sonse furniture into Jefcn Lsne , to the rc « l-

    4 enco cf her daug ht e r , who is married . These circum-8 tane >« , ia the mcu tint * , were mads known to tka husband by his brother . Obs of the witnesses , Mm Paddigal . who lived nest door to the dec « a * ed taid that on Monday w « ek afternoon , about five o ' clock , Mrs Bettrey oame into her home , and told her that she had had a strange dream the previous night , i n which ehe distinctly ssw feer husband , Bad that sbe had been most grlevonsty troubled about lome muddy water ; and tkat htr daughter , also , had the asms night witneised something verj marvellous by her bedside . She did sot relate all the particular * as feer household duties just then called her away . Soon after dfoeaged Bad gone into Set own beuse , Mrs Pnttlgal baud tome parsons to part to Bettrey'a fc < wae , but she did not see who . In a few minutes afterwards deeeased « ame again to witnen ' s

    house , and said , ' Did yon see that lad jast now ? Jack ( m = aniog her husbaod ) has sent for me to meet him on A ^ ttreiim K * ad to mate a settlement with me , So my dream is broke / Witness strove to persuade her mot to go , bat the poor wife , r *« dy te forgive the past , seemed quite orerjiyed at the prospect of meeting her husband again , having pnt on some superior clothing , acd given vrit eese sixpence to pay for soire milk , set off , say ing aa she wect , ' I will fee back In about an boar , and I will tell von all about my dream , and what' Jack ' means to do . ' This was about twenty minutes after five . Borne time after she had gone , a relative of the husband's , named Spencer , came and inquired for deceased , and for Tom B ttrey . Mrs Puddigol said ehe was * ot is , that

    Ehe was gone to see her husband . Spencer replied he was not far off . and went away appearing very muoh flattered . By end by , Tom Bettrey also came and inqnired for deceased . To to brief , however , the poor creature was never again Ken alive , but her body was found b / a boatisaa about eight o ' clock ins following morning in the csnal . How she gst there is a mystery . The husband declared he had not seen her for twenty , one weeks before Wednesday last , -rrfcen he saw her dead . Ha states that he arrived in Sheffidd at fire o ' clock , by railway ; that he sent no boy to fetch her ; that he went into Andrew Street with his brother Tom a little after seven to look for her , but that he never saw her . After an anxlou ? sitting of six hours , the Coroner adjourned the investigation to Friday .

    Uuiow Escape . —Ose HtntBaeB add Pirtr Lros m PiBit . —Oa Christmas Day , the trains , at usual , carried a great many of tbe gsod folks of Herthyr from the smoky precincts of the town te tbe country . Abardara , Cardiff , Newbridge , &b ., also sent forth a great many to Herthyr , to take part in tfee festivities there , and the meeting of C / arrelgiddion , Tbe train left Mer » thyr at half-past four , and proceeded to the top of the incline ; the carriages were then placed in readiness to descend this declivity , aad were wakinj the Cardiff train , which was 4 ae one minute , when suddenly the chain which connected the ninth and tenth carriages gave way , and precipitated nine carriages filled with passengers down the incline . A person who was stand-, ing by at the time said that the carriages went at such a rate that they were scarcely discernible , and tbe

    breeks , which were almosUu a blsza , accompanied them in their perilous descent ; but fortunately the carriages proceeded down tbe incline with their living load without the least accident , although it was half a mile in length . They didnetfartunatelyget off the rails until they arrived at tha bottom , consequently no itjury was sustained by any ofthepsMengere , and none ef thosa who were inside were aware , until the carriages had stepped tbatanythiog had occurred ; they were , however , much surprised at the rapidity with whxh thty had gone . It teemed almost a miracle that no injary wss snstained , for bad tte carriages kut ran eff half way down tie incline , no mortal power could hava szvei ins pas . tBBgusfrom beta ; dashed U atoms ; and bad the Car - diff train bat bees in a minate sooner , a collision wonld hava inevitably occurred .

    Death f&ox Fbicht . — An inquest was held at Horten , iBEt week , on the body of a boy named C . Jackson , aged eleven years , son of a wooleomber . It appeared that on the previous Monday the deceased had been doing some mischief to the windows of a mill belonging to Mr C . Tetley , when eae of the overlookers caught him and placed him in a room under a pretsace of detaining h ' m until the arrival ef Mr Tetley , when , he w « told , he would be sent to W&ktfie ! d . The lad was mach { lightened , and cried bitterly , and after har ! ng been kept in confinement about ten minutes was liberated . Afterwards the boy went abeut his usual business dnrisg the day , and at night be was taken ill and continued to get worse until the Friday nvnnin ? , when Mr 6 ; muwood , a medical man was called in ; he w&s then suffer * Ing frottoosrolsions , and was evidently in a dying state , exhibiting the uinal symptoms of tffmlon upon the brain , Sir Gteaawooi , la hti evidenee , stated that death might be cause ! » y fright , and the jar ; agreed ap ? n a Terdict to that effect .

    F * icortsicn . T Collsctuto R » tes . —At the Leeds Chart Houe , oa Friday week , John Spence , a middleaged man , was charged T > ita obtainieg the cum of £ 33 8 i . 6 d . by false representations . Hr Band , solicitor , in the absence of the town clerk , appeared to support the accusation , and said that the charge against the defesdant was , that having been formerly a collector of the lamp and Improvement rates for seme of tbe townships of the borough , he h ad , after being discharged from that offic , been collecting a conddsrable amount of rates and pnttiag them in his own pock ; t . Evidence in support of the charge having btea given , the prisoner was committed to York C > s'le for trial , Lakchhire . —A f « w days ago a male wild cat , mea-BuriDg four feat from tail to scoat , and weighing 9 : b ! ,, was tsken in a vermin trap by the gamekef p .-r to Joosph Bashel l , E * n , of Balk , on that g < ntltman ' s estate .

    A Gomo Embalmed Cmu > . —The o-her day the mammy of a male child , found imbedded in a vast deposit of Peruvian gnane , sear ' Arlra , was fcrongbt from that port to L'verpjol by the barqas Octavia , In the deposit were found three booUes , supposed to fce those of a father and mother , and this child . The two adult bodies have besa forwarded to the British Mu 3 eum . Cajtbiidgessike — Ahothek Lisas Ftse at Cottbn-BAH —On Thuniay w ; ek a ftre broke oat in the barn on the premises of Mr C . Chivcrs , of the King ' s Head . On arrival at the spo ^ the flames burst simultaneously from all quarters of tbe bun , proving that U must have been in existence for tame time before its dl-. covery . This Darn oantalaea a large quantity cf unthrabhed traeat , whica wool 4 have been beaten ent on Friday . In spite of the the most unceasing exertion * tbe flunei

    maintained their ascendancy , aad -gradually spread to saotber barn , containing nathrashed barley ; also to two large wheat cobs , one oit cob , one core cf hay , the outbsildicgs aad offices ; these , with their contents , and aoma live stock , consisting of twelve pigs , a large qusntity of poultry , and a dtg who had long kept watch over tbe property were eonraoied . Kevobiog [ and comcaan ! - catfn ? with the premiKBafljoininf , occupied by Mr W . Barman , the fire seia > d upon some uuthrashed oats , the produce of three acre * , the straw from six acres of wheat and two acres of oats , and a building in which thirty tons of wnrzj was stored ; this latter was co mneh burneS as ( o be rendered totally nieless , a cart , a crib , and some other farming imp l ements , with the st cks above mentioned , were totally consumed . On thtss premises also stood a cottage and a dove home , the property of Mr CharlcBChivers ; these were fenrnes al « o ; tbe former was in the occupation of Mr James Thnrlfeoarn , end Is totally consumei . together with Mr

    Thurlboom ' s furniture , a quantity of potatoes acd other eff-cts . Passing from Mr Norman ' s premise * , the fir * entered on Mr Btnnett ' s house and shop , and toon reduced them with their valuable contents , confuting cf bis furniture and stock in trade , to a beap of a > hes . Hr Cnivers'heues , known as the King ' s Head , next fell a victim , and from this nothing was saved exajpt the furniture from one small room . The cellar of a ! e , e « ntaining about thirty barrels , wa « protected from injury . Mr Hlne s hanse ( a thaleied obi ) , aajafaing , was on fire evwaUimei , but t » e thatch being ktpt in a slate of saturation It wag saved . Thaiehed premises at various dlstsnoss caught firs from falling sparks from tima to time , bit a . vigilant look out being kept npon their roofs tte damsge to them was but trifliag . As yet no correct estimate can be formed of the value of the property , bat it is thought that It will exceed £ l tm . For part of this amount the fireofficej will be euffisrerf . Mr Thurlbourn is wholly uninsured . The reflection of the flaaies was seen at a great distance .

    FATAt Railway Accidzkt At inqnest was held on Wednesday week , at Minster , on the body of S : ephan ChandlJT , wh » hsi met with his death by being run over by th °£ U 0 p . m . f « In which left Rsmsgate on Kon < Iay for Daal . The accldsnt oecarred at the crossing at the rtation , and it U coa } eetured that the deceased must baveal ' ghted on » hs wrong « ld » , the ligh ts a t t h e sta t ion bsingoatattbsmoaent , through the win 3 , though ftwewas no bh « e to attach to the r ^ l « y oScials ^ . fe : dict , ' Arei ? ental death , ' '

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    Thi CBAiai of Abwk at Inmroot . —On Prld * y week W . C . Demain , who had bew retnaaded on a charge of arson , was agala brought up before Mr Rush , ton , when some farther avldenoe was proiuoe * . Tha principal wltnsss was Mr Smithccs , purveyor to the TorksWr * Insurance Company . Ha detailed the airsusasUnces of tha fir « . The prisoiee had eff . oted a policy of insuTAue * for « 5 M on his properly in Swift ' s Court . After the fire he ssnt im a claim for £ 576 8 s . Td ., but tfc * vblu * of tb » property destroyed was only £ iii 9 i . ** . Th « prisoiMr saad * d ! fiW * at statements as to the origin of the fire . aui ditl not ssentioa the oiroum . staneas of tha wire running up the building until a late period of the cumulation . Lawreaoe K « bot , ef the detective force , deposed to appreheadlne the prisoner at

    bis residence Id Giove-Street , oi the 82 ad nit , Th » prlioner showed him torn * wire , of which hs was eonstrnoting a riddle . This wire exactly reiembled that taken from the shop of th » prleontr . Witness waited while the pristner changed bis cress , and whilst foiag so , he pointed to a wira ronoiog op tbe wall of tbe room , and laid ho hai plaeed it there for ih » purpose ot tiiglng a bsll t « call up his servanU That when he put it there , he borrowed a gimMst frem Mr Harding ' s , an 4 hai wnt | Ae the boy with it back , but he had teg kctsd to tsks it ; that it had be « n left in the sh « p , and h « ( tbe witness ) had ao daubttbat this glmblet h « d been uwd for the purpose of fitting up tki win fonad In the shop . The ftiiener uksd him , ' What is it—wan »» or . tatlon or imprlsonmwt , for setttsg fire ! ' Witness said

    he did not know , and tbe prisoner replisd , ' Oh , yes you do , welL' Witness then said , ' I thtak it Is transportation for a dwelling home , ' and prhooer said , ' Tes , or for anything tin ; bat I ner » r did 1 *—the b » j » threateaed me b * fore . ' At tha police office the prisoner was toli tbe obarg « against him ; and he repliti , ¦ I have sorting to say against it . '—The prisoner was further remanded to Saturday , wbeo he was finally committed f jr trial . Mr Hime , hi * solicitor , applied to the benaa to hare him admitted to bail . He gtomudsd his application on the fact that the oas « was on * of suspicion alone against the prisoner . Mr Rushton nfusef . He intimated that he felt qaila satisfied in bis own mind of tbe prisoner ' s guilt ; and expressed high approval of tbe ¦ Gadget of the Terkthire Injuwnoe Co » poDj- ia pro . metinz the praeeatUn .

    Edikbcssh . —Patai , iceiDMT . —On Friday afternoon , as some men wera engaged in operations at the bniMiog ia the Lothian R * ad , fomerly ccmpled as ths D ! or « ma , which is now ia couree of nmoval , th * y fastened a ropa round a portion of the wall near the roof , with the view of more speedily bringing the mass to ( he ground . After sone exertion , the mats was loosened , and fell ia with a crash , bat unfortunately buried a labourer , of the mama ef Young , emoag the rnbbinb , who was at work In the Iaterior of tbe buil ( 3 ipg ( by which he was killed on the epat . The authorities have commented an investigation into the circumstanees .

    A New Mods o * SwuDinea . —Before the Colchester magistrates , on Saturday , Q . Shepherd was charged with obtaining money nnder falie pretences from a number of the carriers , It appeared that fer gome time past ths prisoner had been travelling the country as a servant to a quack doctor , who was represented to h&ve taken up a temporary residence in Colchester , ani ihe trick played was as follows : — -Tbe prisoner went to each of the carriers with a paper packet neatly done up , and directed to certain respectable parties residing at a con . slderable distance in the country , and at the same time

    statins that the packets contained medioine ordered of his master by the parties to wbom it was directed , and who were hU emp ' oyer ' s patients , ht ( prl « onw ) not omitting to add that the carriers were to pay him for the medicne , and charge the parties for whoa it was intended with it , on its arrival at its destination . This beieg the practice of tb » oarrierain many eases , they did not hesitate to comply with the prisoner ' s request and all paid him the money , but on th « lr endeavouring to deliver the parcels , no such parties could tie found as described upon ihe pacfeett , the contentB of which , it appears , were valueless . —The prisoner wa « remanded '

    Foaoro Bahk or Z 5 « lam » N » tei . _ . Tfce public are cautioned not to take £ 5 and £ 10 soles of the Bank o ! England without a previous careful iaspecti « D , as there are many forgeries in circulation . At Gkaveseni , no leas than three £ 10 notes were last week detested as sparloui , and have since been branded as forgeries by the Baak of Englaad . AD » e « h ,-A short tlma ago a cow belonging to the town clerk ef Maccleafield was turned into a field , on his farm at S *« stn , along with a number of others ; and on the cows fefag taken to their stalls la the evening , the stall muallj eecnpled by this csw was found to be empty . SesMh « a » immediately made for U but without

    success ; it was concluded that it was stolen or strayed , and handbills which have lines b * en transferred into the Police Gazette , had been accordingly printed , offering reward for its « ii # 0 VH 7 . Oa Toesiay night week , however , one » f the n « n who bad bstn employed by the town cltrk , and whehad been particularly anxious about the cow , offering to go abeut in search of it , dreamt that tbemieaing cow was in a drain naar a holly busk . He got up on Wednesday morning about fir * o ' clock and called upon another man in the town clerk ' s employ , to whom he told bis dream , and isked bin to g « with aim to look before the people wsra aboat , that they might not ba laughed at if they fonnd nothing . They cansuited together , an 4 the ether man coold think of no

    place where there was a holly bosh except on a mound in the field where the cows bad been , about 120 yards from tbe town elerk ' s home . The dreemer , it is believed , had so knowledge himself of the Stld in whieh this mound of hollies was , Oa going to the hollies they per . ceiveda round hole in a drain but it appeared no larger than would admit a man ' s body ; and the other man on setiog this said , 'Well , now you cej there's BOthleg ;' but tha dreamer was not satisfied . Stooping down and putting his arm iatothe hole , be immediately exclaimed , 1 There ' * something in it , ' and soon after , * It's her , ' he said , ' for I feel her horns . ' It turned out that she h&d

    got into a very large sough connected with tbe town clerk ' s hoair , and vraa standing with hw foreleg * resting above and ker hind quarters at the bottom , in a crouch , ing postwe ; and it is supposed that ths drain had given way , so that her hind qiarters first went dowa , the rest of her boiy following . It is remarkable that the per-Sana in search of the cow bad frequently passed the spot whera » he wai without teeing any reason to think she was there . She was alive , although she had been thas confine ! fron Sandiy night till Wednesday morning , end has besa since grazing as usual . —lfaecksfield Courier .

    Ames ox He Aocum , M . P . —At the Birmingham Public Office en Saturday last ( before YlEcount L'fford aad W . C . Alston , Esq ., ) three men , named Sasrael Suobury , of Lay Hill , Suttoa , Charles Riohardf , and Edwari Price , a carman , of thia town , were brought op for examination , charged with riot , nnder tbe dr . eumstanoes whiob will be found ia the following statement;—C . B . Adderley , Esq ., M , P ,, who was accompanied by the Rev . Mr Thompson , stated that on the previous Tuesday he received Information that a prixs . fight was to take place at Kingiborj , In this county , on which he repaired to the field with the view of preventing the fight , He found a great number of persons assembled , and a ring formed for the combatants . He stated himself to be a magistrate , and called upon the

    prisoner . Endbury , several time * to a ^ atst him In are venting tbe fight , SwHmry , who was on horustrack , paid no attention to what he said , bat rode away , and passed through two or three feno ; s to avoid him . In the course of tbe day he afterwards saw the prisoner on the ground He was quite sure that the prisoner heard him , and knew wbst he wanted him to do , for h 3 ( Mr Adderley ) Mutionedblm , and raid him tbat he would ba implicated in any ilkgal proceedings that might takeplaca . Soen afterwards two man began to fight , on which he west up to the prise * er , Charles IVchaHa , who was one of the eecoads , and laying his bsnds npon him said , ' yea are my prisoner ; ' and reported that he was a magistrate . Several mea together drew tbe prisoner away from him , npon wbich ha told them they were rescuing a prisoner from the hands of » magistrate , and soon afterwards a riot and great violence ensued . —Tisconat Ltfford said it appeared the principals in thought were not in custody ,

    and natil they were apprehended it wonld be advisable to remand the prisoners upon tbe prim * / Weie oase made oat in Mr Aiaerley ' s statement . If , however , they could fioa bail for thsir appearance , it would be accepted on their giving notice to the clerk , of the parties they in . tended to effir , in order that he might make ths necessary inqu-rles . He wished itto be known by such persons as the prisoners that one of the highest misdemeanors they could commit was that of resisting a magistrate under each circumstances in the execution of his duty . Mr Alston said bis great desire was , if possible , to reach . those persons , called respectable , who encouraged prlae fight ? , becked tke unfortunate mea , and found money for them , In order that they might make meney by them . Sodbary was then admitted to ball , himself in £ i ' o aad two sureties In £ 20 each , R ' chardsaaidhe thought he could prosare bail . Price , the carman , was released from custody , and not included in the remand .

    Glasgow . —Housebrbaeiks . —About half . past twelve o ' clock on Saturday morning , one of the night WBtohmen in Jamaioa Street heard a peculiar noise proceeding from the-premiaea of Mr M'Dowall , spirit-dealer , and became satisfied , after listening a few minutes , that there was some party in the shop . The assistance of other watchmen having been procured , the premises were surrounded , so that no meanB of escape were left for the supposed depredators , and the shop was then opened by ihe police . After a careful search—during which it was evident , from the confused appearance of the interior , tbat some person had been making himself acquainted with the contents of the shop—a stout young

    fellow was at last diicovered Jyicg gtretehed at fall length « n one of the top Jhelres , where he had gone in the hope of escaping the lynx-eyed offioars ef police . He was immediatel y dragg dfrom feis place of concealment , and , after a desperate resistanos , in ths course of which one of the ingpectors was hitten through the hand by the ruffian , ha was saW y i oi gea , „ the ^ aital Folfca-office . Tboagh only one party was found iaside , it is probable that he had accomplices , as a dasntity of brandy ia nunog . The entrance was gained into the premiaes by wrenchiagr the graticg from a feack mHdOw , te aecomplish which two strong bars of wood were employed as levers . Tfce name of the man found in the shop ia Piter Doeberty . Ha is well known to the police

    Thb Late Mubde * at Tapkohsb The adjourned inquest on Mrs Holman , was hald on Tuesday laat at MarehaafB Red Lion Inn , before Mr F . I * jgat No more evidence wa * produoed , except that a Burn of money much larger thBn it was believed by her frlenta Mrs HoIbsb erer kept ia her faoose waj discovered son *

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    jays after the murder in the cushion seat of one of the chairs . The cushion happened to We taken up , whea two sovereigns fell frem it , aid on futthsr investigation fourteen sovereigns and a £ » aote were fouad in it . Whethsr the thieves fauad any mon » y in her bos is still a Mystery , The jury returned « verdict of 'Wilful murdsr against some persen or persona unknown . ' Mr Baldwin Falfoei s- ' ated in the course of the inqulty , as a matter tf justice to George Badcock and George Holman , whose names have been eonnested with some isle tales about the murder , that those parties b « ve had ¦ othing to do with It , as ihey were not near the pluso at the time , the ona being in Plymouth , the other in Lonion . On Friday two men were taken Into custody by Hele , the Alphington constable , on susp ' oien of having bten eoncemd la this transaction ; but , after two examiMttws before Mr Claries Gorton at the Castle ( both ef whioh were strictly private ) , they were discharged , there being no evidence to warrant their detention .

    Namow Escapi op Chablks Cowah , Esq , M . P . — Thursday week , while Mr Oowan was driving along in a gig , in the direction of Cierk Street , in the southern part of Edinburgh , the horse stumbled , and tbe driver who was seated beside Mr Cowan , 'elther lost hold of the reins , or they snapped asunder in his hands . The animal , as is supposed , beoaaae frightened , and set eff at fall gallop till it reached Montagu * Sireet , down which it turned . "When about twelve or fifteen yarts from tbe bottom or the etrot , wbich is closed up by a dead wall , the driver threw himself from the gig , and , from the velocity at which the animal was proceeding , fell with

    some force on the gro » ndi g » zlD 8 «» cheek , and sl ightly injuring his Kg , Mr Cowan kept bis seat ; and the aatmal ' a course having been stopped by tbe wall , againat which it came with some force , shattering the shafts of the vehicle , he contrived to get out without injury . H e bad no so o n e r accomp lished thU , than the horse again let off up the street in the eppoiite direction , but , oa reaoblBg the top ef it , Its coowe was stopped by a fall , when it was secured , and taken to Mr Dick ' s , veterinary surgeon , Cljde Street . Mr Cowan sustained no injury , and the driver ' s bruigea are slight . The herse , which was a valuable animal , also escaped with some

    slight injuries . Hotel Lacmce , —On Thursday week at half- p »« t one o ' clock , the iron stoamer Menal , built by Messrs Greenstreet and Paton , engineers and iron-shipbuilders , was launched into th « Qaeen ' s Dock . She is intended for a ferry-boat to ply between Carnarvon and Anrlewy , Her dimensions are—length « G feet 6 laches ; beam , II feet ; depth , 6 feet 6 Inches ; e&gine , lfi-horse power . The novelty of the launch created considerable interest . The veaael was required to be drawn ant of tbe jard in Stanhope Street , in which she was built , and launched on rollers , which critical ni difficult job wa » ably performed without the slightest mishap , aad was executed in the course of Wednesday night , and the forenoon of the following day .

    Explchiok ik Edibbdkqh . —On Saturday evening , about six o ' clock , a tremendous explosion took place in an arched vault , under the pavement of the High Sireet , close by the entry te Blackfriara' rTyni , the cause and means of which are aa jet Involved iu mystery . The explosloa tore up the strong amJfirmlybuiliarcb . be . neath tbe pathway , carrying with it the large fl « g- » tonep , raising a dense cloud ef dust and lime , and opening up a chasm in front of tbe houies from about fourteen to sixteen feet square . The shock occasioned was meat violent , causing infinite terror in the neighbourhood , staking the contiguous houses like an earthquake , and la its eud&nueis extlngultbtoi tnmy of the lights ; and while it was heard at a great distance from the spot , it was deicribed by those « ear it as like a volley of artillery , or rether a trenendoas and instant crash ; with little reverberation , rendering the horror the more Intense by the silence which succeeded . Most providentially , this

    oecunenee , io fraught with danger to the crowds of passers-by in this busy locality , was unattended with the lots of life , and without dangerous or even Ktimt personal injury . The cause of the explosion has not as yet been directly ascertained , although it is generally understood to be gas , or foul air of some description , which , casually SgnMag , occasioned the above reBUlt . Tbe vault in question belongs to Mr Steel , ironmonger but nho has aot uaed it for a year or two , and som * time since caused tbe communication between it and the cel ' ar beneath hie owa shop to be built up , we be lieve , to eooaequente ef some bad air or gas constantly and oMteoutMably Issuing from it . The disagreeable smell was thus in sone measure stopped . A repart that it was aausei by gunpowder was current , but of this Mr Steel keeps , at present , bnt a small quantity in his shop . The gfMtwt difficulty , however , is to account for the ignition , whieh is alte Involved in an story .

    EtTZAOiDiMAa ? Catch oi MAexEUL , * . The first and only mackerel boat whieh has arrived at Plymouth for the present season is the Mary and Ann , of Hastings , Oapt , 17 . White , and she made her first attempt on the 80 th nit . The ' oets were to full that they grounded with the weight of fiBh in them . Counting 120 fish to the 100 , 7 . 750 mackerel were secured in a perfect state , md a great number in a broken state . Besides these , there was a large quantity of pilchards , and , it is calculated , about 9 . 00 ffdog . flsb wftich were thrown away . Tfce 7 , 750 nackcrel were sold for £ T 8 10 b ., and the major part forthwith dispatched for Billingsgate Market .

    ROBBIET Or TBS MAILS OH tUI GSEAt \ 7 EBT £ S « IUii / wat . — A series of robberies of the most extraordinary and extensive character were perpetrated on the up and ( Jown mails traversing the Great Western Railway dmring the night ot Monday last . The np mail leaviBg Plymouth at 6 , 15 p . m ., and Exeter ! at 9 p m ., on Mon . day , arrived at Bridgwater at its mual heur—balf . pist ten o ' clock . At this station various bags of letters which had ateumuiated in the Post Office during tbe trip were , in acoordante with the usual custom of the guard , placed in a tender immediately at the rear of the Post Office , and securely locked np . The train which , in additUn to the Post Office and tender consisted of abont six or seven first and second class carriages , left Btldewatuin dne come and pioeeededon lujqatney

    to Bristol . The rnn between thesa two plaoeB being timed to occupy one hour end ten minutes without stoppage at any stetioa . On the arrival of the train at Bris ' ol shortly before midnight , the guard went to the tender in the rear ef the post cmse , in order to deliver the Bristol bags , when be discovered that all the bags had been more or less tampered with , some being cut open and others having the seals broken and strings untied . A very cursory examination of their contents satisfied him that all the money and registered letters , bb well as the bathers' parcels , had been abstracted , and without a moment ' s low of time be communicated , first , with tbe two travelling post office clerks accompaojleg the matt , and subttquentlj with the poat office authorities at Bristol . The discovery of course

    ocetstoned extreme consternation among the officials ; the guard was quite positive the bags were safe when the traim left Brldgwftter , and as no stoppage had taken place between that town and tho city of Bristol , it was self-evident that the robbery must have been effected by some parties travelling by the train , and wbile it was in mo'ion , JlfUr a few moments' consultation , it was resolved to tend the Metropolitan bags on te London in the state in which the ' gaard hod discovered them ; and accordingly tbe train l « ft Bristol on its upward journey after a short delay . On reaching town at an early hour on Taendov morning the gunrd . proceeded to the Font Office , In St Martin's le-Grand , and made a report of the oircumatanees above detailed . The various bags were immediately subjected -to examination , when it was

    fonnd that not only had the whole of tbe registered letters and bankers' parcels bsea abstracted , but in eome cases the ' hills' on which all registered letters and va . luable pareels are entered , were also mlsBing , so that it is at present impossible to say how far the plunder bas extended . As a precautionary measure , information was forwarded by the Post Office authorities to tbe various City banking houses , so that a cheek might be put upon the disposal of the contents of the stolen letters . At the same time active measures were taken In order to obtain a clue to the depredaters , and in the course of the morning Mr Seymour Clarke , Superintendent of the Great Westers Railway , in oomgany with two or three officials of tbe Post Office , left Paddington for Bristol , in order to investigate the affair .

    In the afternoon , and while Colonel Maberiey was engaged with several of his offioera on matters connected with the ahove affair , Information reached town of a second robbery—precisely similar in character—perpetrated en the down sail , which left London at 8 55 p . m . on the sam « evening . Ia this oa « e the bags deposited in the tender were perfectly safe on the arrival of the train at Briitel at a quarter past one , a . m . On the tender b ? iog opmed at Bridgwater a eceae similar to that previously observed at Bristol prssentad Itself . All the bags were more or less mutilated and disturbed , and the more valuable contents abstracted therefrom . Hsppily in tbis inslanee tho vigilance of the parties ia charge of the train resulted ! , the capture ef the supposed thieves and there seems great reason to believe that the persons who

    effected the first robbery were also the perpetrators of the seeond . The parties alluded to are two men ef respectable appearance both of whom travelled in a first-class carriage , occupying tbe next compartment to the Postoffice tender . Thiir Implication fa the affair is placed beyond all manner of doubt by the discovery of several registered letters and money pareels in the carriage in wbich they rode . Immediately upoa their anprehension they were cenveyed to Exeter , where they are to be brought up for examination before tbe magistrates . The presumption now entutaiied by those beat calculated to form an opinion is that both robberies were effected in the same manner vis . by parties who rode in a firstclass carriage first contriving to occupy tbe next compartment to the PjBt-office vender , and subsequently , when the train was in motios , at the imminent risk of their lives , leaving their carriage end stepping at once on

    to the tender , and then travenisgthe narrow ledge run . nlng along that carriage until they came to the door , which there ean be Hfle doubt they wsre previously prepared to unlock . This done , there would be little difficulty to overcome . The fender is always well lighted by a lamp suspended from the centre of the roof , and baring once obtained entrance an expert thief would SDaedilv abstraet the booty . The Impudence of the second robbery , immediately following u . an the first , i , incomprehensible . It tn only be described as one of those shore , sighted actB by which offenders against the law very often bring themselves withia it . meshes . Ed tS Offior i l ° Y 8 iBth , a f 8 Cf > thatthe 8 ame two Pose . « 7 * ^ » a 7 eI « toe npBIa " BrI « oI return with the down mall to Bridgwater , probably they would have hen content with their fir « t plunder , and Leaped £ rnTiVXL \ at l 9 /" ' l impunl * ' » ° nt > tlMB ? in future , if the bags from the Poit-office mm * , oontinue

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    to be plaeed 1 » a Under , ft guard will 08 appointed to travel with then . « ,, iMfc . n Ei . hikitiom o ? thb AoflPBBD . —At the JuUdhall , Ixeter , on Tuesday morning , Henry Poele , an * a man 5 £ & to giv / his name , ' ^ * f ** «* " ?* £ the maU bags , in their traaait from Bristol to Exeter , and with abstracting wver . 1 l . « e « , « gltt . rW kttors and p eels th « efro « .-Mr Turner « pp « re 4 to wtck the e ^ e o . the part oMheprl «^ erPooU , andMrS , obie Willesford for tho anonymous prisoner . —Mr Barlow , one of the directors of Ae Gieat West * . Htllwi Company , stated that to was a pfles . ng ^ r m tkepmlous ¦ % »» * J the mall train from London to RroMc , and that oa the train reaching Briagwatw the guard same to him and said that tbe mail bags had been ope-ed ; that they kad

    been perfectly aafo at Bristol ; » ut t » a » , on pttiag to Bridawater , tae mall guard aUcovtredAaMhsmrriage had been opened uaa the fastenings of tha bags cut . H « was satisfied , from this inforntatloa , that the robbery must have been oomiatttem by some one in tho tnin , and that whoever bad e »* imltted It must be in the train itUl . He , thirefore , gaM direotfonB that every door should be immediately tecured ; th « ro w » M verff few pasaengtrg , and the prisoners , wh « had got In a * Bristol , were sitting together in a first-class carriage . Mr Andrews , a solicitor , of Modbury , was in the same torn , partment , bat upon « he other elde « f it , and the door betweeea him and the prisoners was shmi and the blkd down . Havfeg satisfied himself that *« e Bust be tho men who had cnt open the bsgi , he oaustdthen to te

    searched , but nothing tending to Implicate them was found on them st that time . At Taunton , he bad them taken Into the waiting room , and the cairh ^ a was searclud more particularly , Uoier the ttat on which they bad been Bitting a henlkerchief was dlMOvertd eontaielng thirteen » r faurteeH parttk , taken from the mall bags , end all directed to parties la the West of England . ' In the carriage pocbet two crap * akctks were found , which bore evidentmarbs of having torn freshly made ; there was also a black « ap , W » U e *!« a ]« 4 s > i Ut purposes of disguise . There bad ein * e , he understood , been takes from Poole a pair of false moustMbios , which it was of some Impertaace to notiee , bscauBe it was possible they might be fonnd to hear upon * similar robbery of the mail train , whiob has ! happened oa the

    same a ' gbt . He gave the » into custody of the auperintendeat of the Plymouth pollw , whe was a passenger by the train ; and on rtacblng Exeter they were immediately handed over ia eustady . Joseph Rhynheert , the guard of the down nail train , stated that , on reaching Bristol , a report wai made that the bags of tho optrejn had been opened between Exeter and < hat place . Thepraotiee is fer the mail guard to remain in the carriage with the bags httw « en Bristol and Inndon , both on the up and dowm jouraeys ; but betwetn Bristol ond Exeter he rWeo in the sorting carriage—which is a separate compartment—with the sorting elerks . Oa reaching Bridgwater , the mail guard called his attention to tha fact that the null bags had been opened , and , on going into the carriage , he different

    law that many of them were tied np In a way from that in whioh tbey were usually Mnt from the Post-omoe ; the original fastenings had evWenlybeen cut , and pieces of the string were strewed about the floor of the carriage : other pieces of precisely the samo deecripttan were subsequently found upon the earpet in tte oarriage where ' tho prisoners had b «« SittlBg —Mr Clarke the night superintendent of the Taunteo atatioa , proved that he searched tke carriage in whioh the prisoners kad travelled , at Mr Barlow ' s request , and found under tbe scat a number « f letters and paroels , whtahne handed over to MrQlbbOM , superintendent <) f < he Plymouth police . —Mr Gibbsns produced tbe parcels , which wtre , with soaroely any exception , of a bulky oharaotsr , and such as were likely , from tfeefr appearsnee , to eontain valuable property . Wh-n he first searohed the prisoners atBrldawater . he fonnd a gold watch and money on each ,

    but nothing to connect them with the rohbery . —The mail guard having been obliged to go oh to Plymouth with the bags , and other evidence bring nectsjary to complete the oase , the magistrates remanded both prieoaers until Saturday . The prieoner Peole was for xeme » i « e in the service » f the Great Wts ' era Railway Company as a gnard ; ' the ether man is entirely unknown . There » p > pears to be very little doubt that both robberies were the work of the partie . o in custody . That the profuse of the robbery of the up mail is eoncealed somewhere in Bristol , there does not appear to be the shadow of a doubt One of the registered letters stolen from this mall , it Is stated , contained £ 4 . 060 , and the loss , so far as at present known , amounts to fifty times that sum . dl . Maberly , tbe Secretary of the Post office , and Mr Peacock , the Post-office Solicitor , were tvgtgtd tbe whole of Wednesday morning In arranging ^*» * fall development of the whole affair .

    Thek amp Suicide oj ih « 0 » khotb . — On Thnriday week , a smell tin box , contalnlsg £ 44 , belonging to the North British Railway Cjmpany , was carried away from the Edinburgh station ; Suspicion having fallen upon one of the aemati of the company , who had been observed in the oourse of the evening to enter oaeof tbe covered sheds where his duty did not require him , tbis place was carefully searched next day , and £ S 8 10 s found concealed behind one of the rafters there . Iu tbe course of tha day ( he suipeeted party and otfceriin the employ of the company were questioned In the ptllee office on the suVjeet . It being , however , impoaalble that evening \ o procure sufficient evidence , tb © accuied were liberates . Farther facts having transpired the police had ordors fee the apprehension of the dolinquent , but on teeing him It was found that in ths interval he had committed saicide . It appears that he bad not returned home on Friday evening , a « d was found deed next morning in a field , with a phial containing a email qnantltj of laudanum

    A Mbioceamatic Suoqolis . —A few days ago . at the Pljmouth police court , IWcoU Uellendicg , a Frenchman , was oharged with smuggling half a gallon of brandy . It appeared that one of the customs' officers was standing on the quay the night before , and while there tbe defendant and four others came on shore . The officer . Buaptoliug Melleuiiug , seissdhlm , whereupon , witb ' a melodtamatio start , he plunged a knife into his bosom , and the Btream efltfe' poured forth mest copiously . The officer , fearing tbat tha wound would be fatal , not to the Frenchman ' s life , hut to his own seizure , tore open the waistcoat of the prisoner and

    found a bladder whieh had been M \ of brandy , but now half emptied of Us oententB by the ruthless knife . The bladder was handed over to the tide surveyor , who now produced it , A glass of the brandy was poured out , which was tasted by tbe court and others . Tbe defendant looked at the glass , and stated , through an interpreter , tbat it did not look like his brandy , and re quested the favour of tasting also . The glaas was handed to him , and , with a emllisg countenance , he piaoed it to hia lips , but no eoouer had it got there than the liquor disappeared with more than usu « l rapidity , much to the amusement of those present , and having finished it he exclaimed , ' Bon / Ion . ' « won tuionat !'

    The defendant was fined 20 b . ifiBiCctocs Ejcai'b oh the RaiiwAT . —On Friday night week , Mr T . Tidterman , of Blackmore , was returning fiom London by tbe mail train to Srentwoed , and on stepping out of the carriage at that place , before the train had quite stopped , he Dccidenially slipped and fell off tbe platform under tha carriage , bnt , fortunately falling between the rails longitudinally , he osoapad with life , though he sustained severe ! cuts and tuuiftiB , When the carriage passed him be was so elese te the nerth rail that tbe flange of the wheel severely wounded hlB right arm , bis clothes were eat in several places , and his railway ticket in hia pocket was cut in two , and

    received a perfect impression ef a halfpenny whieh was in the same psclrot . Tbe porters were muofr stormed , thinking Mr YiiketmBn was killed , bat prompt assistance was rendered , and Mr V . ckerman , being immediately extricated , was conveyed ( o the White Hart Inn , where surgical attendance was at hand . It was tbsn fouad that no nonet were broken . The eeeipe waa , In . deed , a providential one , bb , had the train moved on half a yard further , Mr Vioktrman must have been crushed . The habit of alighting before the train has been fully brought np is a very dangerous one ; a Bhort time ago a gentleman , at the same station , narrowly tBcaped faring under the wheels from a similar cause ,

    Dbeadfci , ixi ) Fatal Accident in a Cotton Mai at Ashton . —Oa Wednesday forenoon an accident , which terminated in tbe loss of life , occurred at Meserg Stanley and Cbadwick'e cotton mill , Ashton , a yonng girl haviog been taken round an upr ' gbt shaft , and literally dashed to pieces . From the faots which we have ascertained at the mill It appears that a girl ef the name of Hannah Deardeo , 14 years of ego , whoso parents reside in Chtkrltfitovcn , was employed at the above mill aa a eottcr-io for ajaok frame ; that while at work , putting in some bobbins behind the frame , her clothes wera caught by the abaft , which is about two feet from a wall , and revolves at the rate of 160 times a ainote . On finding that the shaft waa taking her rouod she gave a loud scream , which attracted attention , and created th ; greatest confusion amongst the other females in the

    room . The next moment she wbb a corpse . Mr Chad , wiok being in the room below , and hearing the cries above , ran off to stop the engine , which was speedily done ; another messenger immediately went for Dr Campbell and Mr Wood , surgeon , but en the girl bring picked up life was totally extiact , tbe body being mangled in a most aboeking manner . The corpse was oar . ried home to the disconsolate parents by some of the workpeople in a atrip , covered with a sheet . As to how the accident took placo It appears to all a mystery , as the shaft was protected by a round tin casting . When the girl was taken up , the tin cover wns found twisted off from its place and bnken . It is a matter of eome importance to the mlllowners t « know how au accident of * hls nature could take plaee fram a » haft thug protected . —Manchtiler Courier .

    The Receht Book RoimriiT at Oxfobd . —On Mon - day last , at the Oxford Oily Sessions , Andreas Lockhart Bdany pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing bo « be , one from the eliop of Mr H . Slitter , bookseller ; &&a fifty-nine from the University Reading Ro « m . The prisoner , previous to . being sentenced , expressed bis deep contrition at the offence he had committed , and hoped the Court would deal leniently with him . — The Recorder , after rferring to the BjBtematlo manner of the roVoenea , and the station tha prisoner held in Beciety , which was an aggravation of the off ; noe , then sentenced him to one week ' s imprisonment for the first offence , and , for the second , transportation for seven yearn , — Tha prisoner waa very much affected on hearing the lest sentence . Manchebtsb . —Shocking Mobdsb op a Wipe bs bbb Hcsbakd . —Shortly before ten o'clock oa Tuesday morning a man , habited in the livery of a gentleman ' s servant , called at the Town Hall , ani requested to Bee Mr Sawley , superintendent of the AdiriBion of the M » n-

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    oherter poliee force . At tho moment when he called Mr S . wley was engaged , and he was told to wait for a few mlautes , when he very coolly seated himself aad waited for somewhere abuut a quarter of an hour , until Mr Sawley was at liberty . At the eaplratlon ef that time he was shown into Mr Sawley ' s tffiee , when he walked in and elosed the door carefully after bio , telling Mr Sawley that he had been Bent by Dr Bell , of Mosley Street , to tell htm something that had Befallen his ( the man '«) wife . He then proceeded to stato that mis name was Djvtd WUemaa , and that he wns meBman toDr Bell , of Meslcy Street , who had leen kind eaough on the previous evening to allow alsa to invite his wife and children to come and taka tea with him ,. . . .. „ ,

    at Dr Bell ' s house , ia Mosley Street , His wife osmo to him between fire and six o ' cU o k , at whiek ttate she was < j « Ue drunk , whet , Instead of permUHag k «* to stty and take tea with him , he sent her home to Aidwlck , where hs resided in the back part of a house foraerly occupies bf his master , Dr Bell , in which he wis livlsf until tit house was let . After sending hsr haske Is fellawed ter , when in consequence of the state in whtoh le found her they quarrelled , and he got his tea aid returned to lo « k after his master ' s horses . Between e ! g % t md atne o ' oloek he igaln went home , aod , as fc » stated , foumd his wife lying dead drunk in thehonse , and having himself been aggravated to get druak la the intcrvaVhe pulled off his boots Aadgave hi > wife agMdleatlog about the head with one of them . After that , he s » ys

    he took his children t » bed , retiring to rest also htssself , an d he saw nothing more of his wife until tatweea fire and six o ' clock next morning . On awaking he missed her out of bed , and reeollected their quarrel oa l »» previous evening , when he at onee jumped up aad came down stairs in search of her . Not fiadlng her in the kitchen , he proceeded into the yard , where he found her bleeding and almost speechless in tbe water eloset . He carried her into the houae and np stairs to bed , and ram off forthwith for his aaster , Dr Bell . On the arrival of Dr-Be ll , that gentleman applied sueh remedies as the uafortunatecreature ' scase seemed to requtre , fcmtshe naver recovered her oonsclbuness , and died almost im . mediately afterwards . Sueh wsb the story told to Mr Sawley by the hisbandwho seemed reHiarlably cool

    , aid collected ; but , fearing that he bad only get one side of the tale , Mr Sawley deemed it his « uty to detain the man whilst be made sooe further inquiries . Accordingly he was plaeed In ohargeof an officer and Mr Sawley , accompanied by one of the inspectors , oalled a safe and proceeded to the house at Ardwlck , wfcere the maa stated he lived , when , on reaehiag the spot , a most nelaaeboly sig ht was disclosed to view . The poor woman ( a victim , it is to be feared , t » drink , and her husband ' s violence ) was discovered in bed a corpse , having two tremendous wounds over her temples , and her face b «! nff covered with blood . Hsr body also bore aiartn of vielmte in various places , and it was eiidlat ih « had been kicked and very brutally treated , Oath * slop stone in a back kltohen were found the husband ' s with

    shirt , waistcoat , and nsckerchief , deeply stained blood , and in ether parts of the house were discovered the unfortunate wife ' s dress , bonnet , and ahawl , literally saturated with gore . A small piece of hardwood , the portion of » chair bottom , about ten inches ; by five inchei , was also fouad deeply stained with blood , to which was attached loaa portion of the poor feature's hair , ghowing that ihe had beenbenttn about the head with it . Some cleaa towels and articles of wearing apparel which had been hung up in the kitoben to dry , were also spotted with blood , which had evidently spirted from tha poor woman when she han been struck , The floor also of the kitchen and necessary were deeply stained with blood ; in fact , ia the neces . sary tha blood lay in a pool . The children of the deceased , of whom there are three , all beys , aged respectively sine , seven , and five years , all concur Io stating

    that their parents had a quarrel , and , melanoboly enough , that loth weie Intoxicated ! One of ( hem , the second son , also says that his father did beat his mother with the piece of wood mentioned , and also that he struck her with his boots . Indeed , n » proof of the latter fact is wanting , fer tbe man ' s boot heel is stained with the blood of hia vlotim . The eldest sob says that he wae the first up in the morning , and that seeing the bloom about the floor , he commenced to wash it away . His father however , cams down stairs wbilat he was so engaged , and seeing what he was abont , stopped him . The husband , we believe , on seeing tke piece ef the chair bottom , at ouce admitted that it belonged to him , but he ssjs , so far as he caa recollect what occurred , that he never struck his poor wife with it at all . One of bis children , however , says that fie did beat the unhappy woman about tha head with it , and that after he had struok he * two b « three times she

    fell down and screamed out murder . He thereapon eeizsd her by one of her arms and dragged her alsng the fleor into the yard , returning alone , in a moment or twe , to take his children to bed . From all we can learn , fee deceased wast woman of Intemperate habits , whilst the husband Is spoken of as a very ( ober person . TWO COIUEBB DBOWHED IK A . PlT SHAFT . —On Wed . aesday week , at tbe Biockley Wood Fields Colliery , West Bromwleh , a party of colliers , consisting of five men end two boys , descended the pit shaft for the purpose of commtneivg work , hut on getting nearly on a evelwlth the ; workings , they fouad that there was a

    quantity of water lying at the bottom of the shaft . Tb . it being an u&usual occurrence , caused some alarm and in Ihe confusion which ensued , the skip oa which t : ey ware stand ns ; . upa-. t , end two of tbe parly wers precipitated into tbe water and were drowned . It waa found that there were fire y . trds depth of water in the shaft , and owing to it being Christmas time , the mea had not been working in Ihe pit lines Saturday week . On Tuesday week , however , the men whose dn * 7 it i > to take charge of . the horses kept in the pit , weat dawn for the purpose of feediag them , but there was no water tn the shaft at that time .

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    BMSSisssssssssMBssasiMsssssssssii ^^^^^^—^^— ¦¦ - » to which they should dlreet thtir attention . He agreed With ou « of the speaker ., that they were too apt to loofe for support and countenance from government . Thej suggesdonofMr Hill that the ^ mwentshouldforward the adoption of the plan recommended by Mr Calthurat had not betm overlooked wh « n the legislature framed aa Act based upon the land commission ; « ut those engaged in that eommiasloa considered it desirable that if public m » ney were to be aavanted , it should be for purposes ) connected with tke improvement of land under oulti 7 atitn In preference to the reclamation of bog . It was said ' that the purchase of land should be rendered more stood » o whlch they snonld dlreet th . ir attention . He agreed

    "" btt under the law as it at present , a great deal ofSri « t » be easily purchased , a good title obtained , and tbat land made praductiv . t # those who de" cd * o Improve it ; bnt he feared that what was want ng was that eonfiaenia which malt Induce people to Jay o « t their natty «« the purehwe of laad . The difficulty which they had t « entounter arose net so much from aay w « at of legislative interference as from a want _ of riMte lidmtry , energy , aid . onfide . ee In developing the resources of the country . He hope * that much would bo d » ie ia reclaiming bog- , tut he considered that It wonl * be more judldons and aore Iwl-able to apply their ftfItal in the further Improvraeat of lands at present

    nider cultivation . IU-A 8 TER OIJ SKCIL HaBBOBR . —FlVB LIVES LOST . — The follewing painful iafwmatlon reoeived by Major BtaBlth , chairman of Ae Oooshei Fieh « ry As » ooiation , and i » is to be feared that this truly praotlcal undertaking , wh » se arra » gementB had just bsen matured , with every pnwpeet of ultimate snecess , bai reoeived a severe ebtck by the oalamttj therein recorded t—Thi * Utter ia dated , Cooihen , Skill , Saturday night , Dec . 23 , 1818 . — Our fishermen wera informed yasteriay , by the Cjart Guard of Skull , that a vesael hat been tost oa the coca * .

    and that her masts and rigging were near Ling Island Channel , hut owing to the strong breeze from the S . B ., the Coast Guard coul 4 not secure It . This morning ehVBU tf our mm put « ff , •»¦• ia our hooker , a beautiful boat of aearly thirty ttn » , and otiert in a jawl . ft was blowing rather fresh from the 8 . B ., but no gale to lajure any bo at . ! Ab » ut two o ' clock p . m . a man eane ridlag at a rapid rate frem Gun-polnt , near Lsnacon , and inforsaed me that the hooksr and small boat were lost —• kneeked to pieces o « a roek west of float Irfand , oolleu Carrigfinatteo , and several of the bmi drowned . ¦¦

    wo » kis « n tbb poo * law . There are at present 500 fishermen in ths workhotna of Dangarvan . Of tsese as many as 870 wors admitted In eae day . It wonld fce nroiesus t * iafer tbat thaw are bteome persnaneatly destitute , havtag availed themselves of tbis resource as a relief ia the late severe vrea « ther , which prevented them from pursuing tbelr occupation . Fiae weather would probably send most of them back again to their industry , bnS a great many matt remain to be added to the birdet already Misting upon what Is left of property and aeltropportiBg energy .

    Miltown , WiPKasDtY . —The condition of the auxiliary werkhouse , lately opened at Miltown , is awful in the extrame ; dysenttty aad fever are doing their work with frightful effect . Oa Christmas-day nine corpass passed through the tow * fer Interment , aad the first tight that caught my attention this mornlag was thre * more from the same quarter . It would be well if the gnardiaas inspected the mode of interment . Two boys ardent to nrry tbe mpae for burial , ond from the carelets , hasty way ia wfcleh the work Is performed sir or seven coffias are eftea found « ac « vered after heavy rains , their putrlfied vapour spreading infection through , out the locality . I was calUd myself to witness , soma time since , seme of the bodies tern asunder by dogs , ANOTHER ZHEUTE IN THE NBHAOH WOBKHOCSE .

    One day last week , when the farinaceous soup was given to the female paupers , SOOef tkembeoame quite reballloui aad Insubordinate . They dashed the boup to the ground , began te yell aad ehout , klok tbe quarts , brandish tin vessels , threaten the annihilation of the workhouse , asd tbe destruction of tfce guardians ; ani pounced upon and devoured two baskets of bread , which were brought for tbe use of other peraoas , The master then railed a force , with which he made for the apartments of tie Amraonlsn disturbers of the home , and h * vlng effected an entrance , tha wotae * one aad aU stood together at one side of the house , and tho-master and his fsrte at the other . After a shore rencontre , the master sneseeded in arrntlag thiriagleaders , and placed them uader arrest . The most determined and rebel * l'ooa of the rioters was the woman wlA the patch oa her eye , and who had been the leaser In the late rebel * Una ,

    IOK « P 0 » D QUAKTIK SBISIOK ? . EXTSAOBSIKAXX CASH . — A FaI&T TCT » IIBD SWINDLES . —B-yanU'Donougb . staed indicted for that he , en the 1 st day of November , 1848 , aad on divers days and times between said fay and the 1 st day of May last , did pre . tend to ene Anne Lyons , widow , tbat the said Bryan M'Sonough was the huabaat of the said- Anne Lyons , who was supposed to In dead , who , In fact , was not dead , but was taken away by the fairies , and by means of ¦ aid pretences the said Bryan M'Boaougk did then and there ualawfully obtain from the said Anne Lyons a ere . ral arttoles of wearrag apparel , valne ten shillings , and thirteen JhilliD'e is wan , tht meney , goods , and chat * tels of the said Acne Lyoss , with intent then and there to eheat and itfraad hs * of the Ba ** , whereas in truth

    and faet the said Bryau M'D . nough was not the husband of the said Anne Lyons , wkoss hatband , James Lvone , had bees upwards of one year dead and bnried , to tho great damage and deception oi the Bald Anne Lyons , tc tbe evil eMsipIe « f fill o : Xtra im like cases off « niing t Ajc . The prisoner is a low-ai * : d , forbidden-looking , dark-complesioaed man , abont forty . five years of age ; and from the nevelt ; of the charge , whieh displayed the grosi ignorance in which a sntabe * of the peasantry are enveloped , it excited a good deal of inlwsst , and oaused the court to be mueh crowded . Amne Lyoni , an elderly , rather stupid-looking woman , sworn and examined ,- — Lives at Kiltielough , near Ballinalee . About twelve months ago , the prianer , Bryan MDonougb , came to htr boose in the evening and asked for lodgings . She

    refund him atfinl , bnt c-a fctAag asked by her daughter she consented . Gave him eighteen-pence through fright , as he said he was her late husband , and tbat he was in tbe fairies . He came again In November last , and re * seated his former declaration , demanded bis clothes , and tbreugh fear , and helisving him , gave all her hnsband ' s clothes to him , er » a up to his tobacco box . She asked him to show to her In his own fi&turea , Hs said if he did , she end the family would be in great danger frem the fairies . She then mid If that was the ease she would not risk it . Through fear she gave him 5 s . 8 d . > ehe gave him 13 s . at oaotber time , as he said he was going to a blessed place to have masses said for him , and he would then come home in his own features , Her husband , James .

    Lyons , is dead . She ia > r kirn interred . The pri sc * er « ere examined the wiiiies , with tbe permission of the court , having no solicitor employed , aed the old woman having admitted that he bought some elsthea and tent them to the home , In an sir of triumph he exclaimed , ' Bravo , tbe truth comes out baimee . —Eea » y Lyoas , a respectable-looking country girl , dressed ia a cloth cloak and bonnet , sworn and examined , —ft daughter to the last witness . Her father is dead abouc a year or mere Recollects tbe prisoner M'Donough coming to the bouao aad ashing for lodging . He said if she knew who he was , if it was either a pig-. ety or a place , bs it ever t « high of ever so low , sbe would sharo it with him . He came two or three times to the house after that , and from the threats that he would make parables of the children by the fairi ; 3 , he got from

    money her mother . She w » n » to Arva to buy fowl at the market . He got 8 s . 6 i . from her . Said ha h&a to gtva it to a clergyman before fc « goi two miles out of ' town to say a mass for him . Prisoner bought g conplo of handkerchiefs and some fltnnel , and sent them homo to the houae of her mother by a boy , who said he was a nephew of her hnsband , who died about ntno years ago , and was also in the ftiries . —Catharine Lyons , a reBptetably . dressed , sensible-looking young woman , elsttr to last witness , proved the impositions prac ' . lsei by the prisoner also ; aid the prisoner having no defencethe Barrlater eherged the jury , who found a verdict of guilty , and after an admonition to the prlaencr on the enormity and vlleneflsof his eoaductln thas lmpcmug oa an innocent woman , sentenced him to bo transported fo r s e v en years , a sesteaee which every perasn in eoart ( save tbe prisoner ) seemed to approve of .

    BEPEAL AaiTATIOK . Mr J . O'Connellbas followed up his letter by forward , ing five guineas , as his subscrip tion to the Repeal Asso , elation for 1849 . The inauimratton of Dc Case ( recently a SIrU j , » l soner ) , as Major of Kilkenny , took place ia thitcity . There was a dinner on the occasion , bn * very little w » a said about Repeal , the old system of agitation being re > pudiated utterly by the Youny Ireland era . Aldrrman O'Brien , who has been elected Lord Mayer of Dublin for the ensuing year , wbb bIso inaugurated oa Monday . The Lord Major proposed that in future the meetin g * of tte Corporation sheuld be held on Monday lnate&d of on Tuesday . Aldermen Hudson . —As the Rapsal Association ( which wed 1 to meet on Monday ) , ia burled In tb « tomb of all the Capulste there can be now no objection to meet on Monday . ( Lwghter ) .

    Alderman Keahan : Instead of being hurled in the tomb of tho Qftjnuta , it Is not dead at all-daughter ) -, It is n * t even sleeping ; but we had to attend to the poverty ot the ceuntry with the beglsaing of the new year . ( Laughter . ) Babbauocs AssABSiNATiotr . — Yesterday evening s « an named Fitzgerald , steward te Sir David Roche , Bart ,, was shot dead at his own dtor at Barn tick , withia & few Miles of this town , by a person who was lying ia Walt for the purpose . The perpetrator ef this bloody deed has not yet been discovered , but diligent search ia being uade by tho constabulary . We have not heard tbat suipicion yet reBts upon any ptraon for the murder , and n » cause con be assigned for it , as deceased was tcaeh esteemed in the neighbourhood . Hs came from

    Limerick to Barntick about seven months ago , to supnr-Ute& 4 tho drainage wotkB in progress on Sir IW . d Roche ' s property in that place , and had been engaged yesterday , preyiou s to his murder , in paying ihe workmen , about fifty of whom are constantly engaged on the land . He was BtaBding on the steps to his hail door when the fatal Bbot was fired , which took effect on his left side ; ke Instantly fell , and was only able to aay to the persons who cime to the door on hearing tha report ' Take ao in , I am shot through the heart . ' la a few minutes afterwards he expired . Deceased was oaly a few weeks married . Thomaa Whltestone , E < q ., coioner , proceeds to-day to hold an inquest on the body . —Ware Journal of Monday .

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    Ireland . . UK DUFFY ' S TttlATi . The arguments on the demurrer , in the case ef Mr Duff / , were brought to a close oh Friday , by ths reply of the Attorney General , who contended that the facts charged having been admitted by the demurrer , the judgment of the court should be final , withoat the intervention of a Jury , as 1 & a civil case or a charge of misdemeanor . The learned gentleman , however , threw out a suggestion that the court might permit the withdrawal of the demurer before jud g m ent , if the prisoner was desirous ot pleading . When the learned gentleman had concluded , the court , in consideration of the importance of the question to be decided , adjourned until Tuesday , when judgment would be delivered . Thefpnblie , of all parties , regard the proceedings ae ft burlesque , but one . utterly devoid of interest .

    Tuesday was appointed by the Judges for the deliver ? of their decision upen the demurrer , but on that day it was aguin postponed till Friday .

    STALK HCJfBUQ . New Tear ' s Day ushered bsfore the pnblio a long epistle from Mr John O'Connell , addressed to the old dupas of the family—the ' people of Ireland , ' to wit . It is almost unnecessary even to glance at the contents of t h is docu m ent , it being merely a reproduction of the old condiment ! with which tbe more JeisHWic cookery of his father so long and so successfully tickled the public palate , bnt which , at length , even with his consura * mate art , became , from repetition , ' flit , stale , and unprofitable . ' There was , it teems , no rebelHe « last July ; the people were— ' God be praised , for It '—loyal to the heart ' s care ; it was not the police that put dowa insur « reotion , neither was it the soldiery ; it Is to the teaching of the O'Connells , the prleBtB , and Conciliation Hall , that Quoen Yictoria stand ! indebted for the safety of

    this portion of her dominions ; ana grateful ought her M < j : sty to be for the influence thus rxerclied in her behalf . There Is nothing like throwing water on drowied rats ; end , accordingly , Mr J . O'Cjanell is uamtasured in his abuse of Touag Ireland , as the wilful depoms of his snpremaoy , and the unwitting eztermlnators of the whole Repeal huurtrog . Repeal , however , is not deadnot it . Mr John O'Connell means to stir up the expiring embers and ' do his owb part , or die . '—cf course , on the flosc of the Heuse of Commons , whenoe , he says , he has been ' forced by paltry poverty into & temporary exile . ' Such' is the substance of the new year ' s gift presented te the 'people of Ireland , ' and whioh , by the way , " must have reached Dublin by some agency even more rapid than the eleotrio telegraph , as the letter bora date London , January 1 , and was published , ( a the Fmiman ' s J . vbmal at five o ' clock that morning ,

    BECLAHATI N OF WASTE LANDS . At the last meeting of the ll > yal Dublin Society , Sir William Bentham presiding , . Mr Hill read a paper descriptive of the effective recla . matioa ef bog and waste lands , particularly upon the property of Mr Calthucst in the county of Cork . The C&aibmax said the paper read was a very Importaut one It had been tUted that tkoujh a bog was reclaimed it returned in two years or bo to its original barrenness and uaelesftoefts ; but Mr Coltburst ^ had demonstrated that it could be made permanently productive . He approved highly of the suggestion to employ the ablebodied peor in workhouses in reclaiming laad . Mr Haoohton pointed out the necessity of selfreliance and industry in working out the Improvements on land , Instead of relying upen the Legislature , and tho necessity of rendering the purchase of land more easy asd satisfactory .

    Mr Hancock observed , that the poflltioa of Mr Colt , hurst waa peculiar , and he possessed advantagea which ther landlords or tt nants did not enjoy ; * nd as regarded theadvaeceof manufactures in Scotland , if they had in Ireland the same laws to facilitate their advanoement he was sure that a Bimllar result would follow . The Earl of Devon bore testimony to the effective ex ertiona of Mr Coltburat . He had not only dwlned bo * sffestlvely , but had raised upon it a superstructure essential to the purposes of agriculture . The ordinary mothod of conveying earth to place upon the surface of bog was the expensive one of carting ; but Mr Colthurst had

    adopted a more economical and desirable method , The process adopted b y faim waa hi ghly desirable for , and applicable to many parts of Ireland ; but he should say there were several placeB in tho country where the lmprovement of land at present under cultivation , would prove a far more remunerative source of ngriculturol PHrsuif , end ene more calculated to repay the expenditure of money than the reclamation of bog . He did not desire to discourage tho reclamation of bog ; he would be glad to see Mr Cjlthurst'a plan followed in many localities ; but they would fall into a mistake if theyBnpposed that this was the first point in the Improvement of land

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 6, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1504/page/6/