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MuitTAUrr ix the Metropolis . —The 1 , 191 deaths in London are twenty-two above the average , and show a small decrease on the previous week . The rate of mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs is the same as on the average has prevailed inliTC previous "winters ; for though , as was observed list week , the deaths from bronchitis are 113 , or-M ) above the average , those from pneumonia are SS , or 15 below it . But zymotic diseases continue to show a great excess ; they were fatal to 100 persons more than died weekly in the previous years , the prevailing epidemics being hooping cough , scarlatina , diarrhoea , and cholera . Hooping cou ^ h , ¦ w hich carries off the young , as bronchitis the old , caused 76 deaths , or 34 more than the average ; It is
scarlatina 50 , or 18 above the average . remarked that the cases in which death followed from effusion consequent on scarlatina are considerably fewer , relatively , than when the epidemic ™«^ height . The mortality from measly is at p" *^ low ; that from small-pox is near the a ^ rase . ¦ ¦* woman died from " variola and disease of the heart at the age of 63 . Four persona died o '«*»* & ranee , on one of wLom aUinOUeSt ^ S held . SK died of delirium tremens , which is ™ ^ J » . theresult of intemperance . A boy of 16 is certified to havedied of " staAction , after an attack of smallpox" ( no inquest ) . A woman died in Lambeth , at the advanced age of 100 years , from iilceration of the throat , after an illness of two months . Of the 40 deaths from cholera , 10 occurred at the Female ¦ Refuse for the Destitute in Shoreditch , and 16 at
Warburton ' s Lunatic Asylum in Bethnal-green The barometer was highest on Sunday , haying been 30 . 333 , and lowest on Saturday , when it fell to 29 . 520 . The mean temperature of the week was 45 . 4 . Mr . Steib , the reg istrar of the Hackney subdistrict , states , in reference to four cases of cholera in the Park-house , Church-street , and published in the return for the week ending February 10 th , that ' •' the deaths happened on the 10 th , 11 th , and 12 th , of January , but in consequence of the inquests having been several times adjourned , and the inquiry afterwards abandoned , they were not registered till the oth of February . " It will be observed , that the return professes to give the deaths registered in the week ; but , except in inquests , which are returned by the coroners , registration is perform ed s hortl y after death .
INQUESTS . Hetobse or Foricse . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Carter , at the Windmill , Upper Kenningtonlane , Lambeth , on Mrs . Ann White , aged fifty-six . Upon the "jury Tiewing the body * they and the coroner were astonished at the frightful state of emaciation , in which it was , and , indeed , it appeared as if the deceased had died of starvation . As she had refused medical assistance , though pressed by _ her husband , who had behaved with the greatest kindness to her , and a 3 a surgeon was only called in on the night previous to her death , he declined to give a certificate , and this inquiry was necessary . ' The husband of the deceased lady formerly held a situation under one of the government commissions for the emancipation of slaves . "When that ceased , about three years ago , he was dep ende nt on h i s own resonrc e s ; a n d a b out four months ago he and his wife went to reside at
Kennington-cross , where they had but a single room . On Friday night , the deceased becoming apparently worse , Mr . 'White called in Mr . Smith , of Clapham-road , surgeon , but she then seemed to have been m artien l o mortis , for she expired the next morning . Itwas shown that the deceased had never wanted food ; and Mr . White stated that , although latelv he had been dependent on his friends , the deceased had for the last week or so jellies and other things ; but her stomach was so far gone she could scarcely eat anything . —The coroner said that the appearance of the bod y , and the registrar refusing to register the death , had given rise to an impression that the deceased had died from want of food , but i t was now shown that was not the case , and that she had died of wasting of the whole system . — Terdict . " Natural death . "
A Gravedigger Busied Alive . —On Saturday afternoon , an aged man , named Charles Barker , who for a long period had discharged the duties of gravedigger in South Hackney churchyard , was preparing-a ten-feet grave , when , having-attained a depth of about six feet without the aid of shores , an immense mass of earth gave way , and . instantaneously buried him . A young man , named Jackson , -who witnessed the occurrence , gave an alarm , and no time was lost in extricating the unfortunate man , who was found in a stooping position . A surgeon promptly attended , and used every effort to restore animation , but without effect . The upper portion of deceased ' s face was severely contused . The accident is ascribed to the disuse of shores , and the
proximity of the ground to a newly-filled grave , the soil of which is of a loose and gravelly nature . On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr . Baker , at the Green Dragon , 'Wells-street , Hackney , on view of the body of the deceased . T . Jackson , assistant gravedigger said , that on Saturday afternoon he assisted " deceased in excavating a grave in the cemetery adjoining South Haefcney Old Church . It was a tea-foot grave , and was formed without shores or props . Deceased had dug the proper depth , and -witness was standing at the edge in the act of receiving the last pail of earth from the deceased , when one side fell in , by which deceased was completely covered . Upon witness giving an alarm several persons came to Ms assistance , a n d decease d
was extricated , life being quite extinct . Three quarters of an hour elapsed before he was extricated . —By the Coroner : The grave was made near another which had been recently formed and filled vp . It is not usual to place shores or props , as ihe soil is of a hard gravelly nature . The witness attributed the accident to the grave being constructed too near the one which was so recently formed . Mr . Steel , sexton , stated that there were fenders and props provided for the gravediggers , who thought it too much trouble to use them . The coroner said that he hoped that the sexton would take care that proper precaution was taken in future . Verdict— " Accidental death . " Death fbom Stahvatiok . —On Monday before Mr .
"W . Carter , at the Rose Tavern , Snow ' s Fields , Bermondsey , on the body ' of Elizabeth Rose , aged 04 . —S . Tubby , a broker ' s assistant , stated that the deceased had been living with him for the last thirteen years . "Witness had formerly been in a large way of business , but through misfortune had been reduced to extreme poverty . Witness , his daughter , and deceased o c cu p ied one small room , and latterl y they had been without food for days together , occasionally obtaining a little bread from the neighbours and others who had known him in his prosperity . About the 13 th ult . deceased became very weak and 01 , when witness called in a female lodger , who waited upon her until her death on Tuesday last . —By the Coroner : Made no
application to the parish authorities for relief . The deceased would not allow me to seek aid from" the parish , and I think she would rather have starved from hunger than allow any one to go the workhouso if she knew it , I could not go myself as I was also suffering from ill health . She " had been without food for four days previous to her death . — The Coroner : You might have sent to the relieving officer , who would have attended and afforded instant relief in such a case . —The witness added that the three of them slept on the floor upon some old bedclothes . They were unable to have a fire for several days prior io deceased ' s death . Witness and his child were starving , and , if something were not done for them immediately they must
share a similar fete as the deceased . —The jury agreed io the following verdict : — " That the deceased died from the want of p roper nourishment , and that great Maine attached to the persons in charge of her for not making the case Known to tho parisu authorities , who were kept in i gnorance of the case , and upon whom no reflection was cast . " TCESDAT . —SOICIDEAT Si . Luke ' s LUNATIC A STL CM . —Before Mr . Baker , in the board-room of St . Luke's Ho sp it a l for Lunatics , Old- s tr e et , City-road , on the body of Elizabeth Berry , age 34 , a lunatic—Mr J . 2 fash , surgeon of the institution , said that on Friday last the deceased was admitted into the asylum , having been brought from Sudbury , Norfolk , where she resided with her husband . He received a
certificate with her , in which she was described asdangerous to her children , and of a suicidal disposition : it was also , stated that she was unfit to be trusted alone . She slept in a room by herself , from which everything , wa s removed w ith whichshe could possibly commit suicide . About three o ' clock the following ( Saturday ) morning witness was called to see deceased , who had strangled herself with a strip that she had torn off part of her linen . Life Lad been extinct about half an hour . —Three nurses who were on the night watch deposed that the deceased went to bed about eight o ' clock on Friday ni ght , and that they had received instructions that she was dangerous . Her shoes were taken from her , and she was watched every hour . When she was found she lad a strip of linen twice round her throat and tied in a knot—The sister of the deceased stated that she thought the deceased ought to have been watched oftenerthan once an hour .
The ni ght before she left home she attempted to commit suicide in the presence of her two nurses . She thought that she should have been under some restraint . —Mr . Nash gaid , that when the asy lum was visited on the last occasion by the commissioners ( 16 th February ) they made a complaint about tac patients being under restraint . —The coroner Observed that an opinion was entertained bv medical gentlemen that the recovery of the lunatic was less likely to take place when under , than when free / from restraint . That course was practised' at the County Asylum , nantfell , andaf other institutions . "With respect to the suicide of patients , he was surprised they were not more , frequent . He had three establishments in his district , at which there were about 1 , 500 inmates , and there were at them not four suicides . in a year . —Mr . Hamlin , the registrar , stated t&at during eleven -years . there had been but four suicides at St . Luke ' s Hosp ital . —Verdict , " Tuax the deceased committed suicide while in an
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unsound state of mind , " and the jury ( with one exception ) observed that proper steps had been tah . cn to prevent deceased from destroying ber ^\ n . . day Supposed Murder at Isuxorox .-On ^ nes fr morni n g , shortly after sis . o ' clock , the * g 7 * gentlemanly attired man , between fifty ° ™ £ ^ 5 S 9 # g « 8 sa i iSfs £ S « £ ur Dennis ' s BricK Field ( in whose employ he is ) and on enteringthe field his attention was attracted bv the whining of a dog ; and he saw a little black snH white curlv doz sitting at the feet of the body
of a man lying immediately behind the palisades . On "oing to the spot , he observed at the southern end ' of the palisades a large pool of blood , at a distance of about twenty feet from where the body lay . The dOg growled and snapped at him as he approached , and seeing the blood on ., the body , fie mocked up some workmen who lived near . About four or five feet from the spot where the first pool of blood was discovered was a purse , empty , with the exception of a small key , and in the mud of inD pond , about thirty feet from the body , they found th e b l a de of a n ol d razor , which , with tho exce p t i on of about two inches of the broad part of the blade , was hound round with strong cord , in order to give a hold and answer the purpose of a handle .
Between the place where the nrsc pool of blood was discovered and the place where the body lay is a wooden bar , fixed into the ground at one end , and passing in a slanting direction upward to the top of the palisades in order to support them . The top of this bar is covered with tenter hooks , and on one of the hooks the right-hand . g love ( the other being on th e dec e ased ' a left hand ) was found suspended . There were several marks of footsteps , and a track of blood between the first pool of blood , and the place where the body lay , as also bloody finger-marks on the bar . Tho distance of the razor from the bod y le a ds to a strong susp icion , coupled with the f ac t of th e purse b e ing found empty , a nd nothing being found on the person of the deceased , that he has been tho victim of some foul play . It appears that a man , residing in a hut within the field where
the body was found states his belief that during the night he heard the barking of a dog , but that he paid no attention to it , and went to sleep again . The n i ght was b oisterous , and he much doubts had there been a struggle whether he should have heard it . The body is that of a man about sixty years of age , with grey hair , and about five feet ten inches in height . His attire consisted of a light-coloured silk handkerchief , b lack waistco a t , trowsers , and body coat , a dark green great coat , and cloth boots . On the police being made acquainted with the occurrence , the bod y w a s removed to the . vaults of Islington Church ; and it is stated that during the afternoon it wa 3 identified as the body of Dr . Crook , of 11 , Bayham-street , Camden Town , hut nothing has transpired to show how he came to be in the place where his body was discovered . The body awaits a coroner ' s inquest .
Smithtiem ) Market , —On Tuesday , a discussion , which lasted nearly six hours , took place in the Court of Common Coun c i l , upon tho following pro * position , made by Mr . John Thomas Nbrris : — " That a market for the sale of live cattle in the midst of a city is incompatible with the convenience of persons resorting thither for the purposes of business ; that the present market of Smitbfield is insufficient in space , as well as objectionable in situation ; that the safety and health of the inhabitants demand its immediate removal ; and that , therefore , a special ward committee be appointed to consider what steps shall be taken to remedy the existing evils , by providing a suitable market place . " As the discussion was adjourned , and a number of
members declared their intention of speaking upon the subject , we postpone our report until the proceedings shall have terminated . The previous question was moved by Mr . Deputy Hieke . The Galleries ax the Central Criminal Court . —It will be remembered that somo time ago a change took place in the management of the galleries at the Central Criminal Court , the sheriffs t aki ng them into their own han d s an d employing money-takera of their own , the fee for admission being under all circumstances one shilling . Before that time the galleries were "leased" at the rate of £ 25 per session to a Mr . Reeve , who regulated the charge for admission according to . the peculiar circumstances of the case under investigation , a pract i ce to w h ich the attention o f t h e pu bli c h as b een frequentlv directed . A few months' experience has
told the sheriffs that the regular remuneration of one shilling each was not quite so remunerative as the letting them to Mr . Reeve for a stipulated sum , and as Mi * . Reeve was willing to become the lessee a g a in if the s heriffs would reduce their terms , an arrangement was last week made between him and the sheriffs . On Monday Mr . Reeve took possession of the gallery keys , and the indivi d u a l s who were formerly in his employ as " agents" again made their appearance . Mr . Reeve , it is understood , is in future to pay at the rate of £ 250 a year for the galleries , the amount to be charged for admission being , as formerly , entirel y optional on his part . The receipts of the galleries , whilst they were under the control of the sheriffs , fell far short of £ 20 per session . There is no gallery to the new third court , which will be opened for business this session .
Order of Affiliation ox Colonel- Beaxe . —Mr . Justice Patteson , on S a turd ay lust , at Judges Chambers , granted a writ of certiorari to remove this case into the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The application was made on Thursday week , by Mr . Pashley on behalf of Colonel Blane , when he stated that tie grounds for the application were that the mother of the child having applied to Mr . Tfardwick the magistrate at the "Westminster Police Court , for an order of affiliation , - which was refused , the ease could not be re-heard by another magistrate ; and also from the fact of the child having been born abroad , it was out of the jurisdiction of the English aw .
Gexeral Post-office . —Notice to the Public . On and after the first of March next the postage upon all late letters posted at the provincial offices , as well as the late letter fee , must be paid by attaching the requisite number of stamps . As any late letternot bearing therequisitestamps , as determined by the office scales , must be detained until the next despatch , the public are advised in every case in which such detention would be inconvenient carefully to avoid all doubt as to the sufficiency of the stamps . As this arrangement will facilitate the receipt of late letters , the hours of closing the Lite letter boxes have been revised throughout the kingdom , and they will , whenever practicable , be kept open later than heretofore .
THE ROBBERY AT ST . PANCRAS WORKHOUSE—ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS . On Wednesday week while the directors of the poor were assembled in the New Vestry Rooms , Mr . Pitt , the accountant of the board , rushed into the room , and announced that he had at that moment foun d t h e three de p os i t che q ues of the London and Westminster Bank for £ 3 , 000 , which had been taken out of the cash box broken open on the night of the robbery . They had , Mr . Pitt stated , been found by him lying quite open on the floor of the strong room from whence the money had been taken . The spot where Mr . Pitt describes he found these notes is within a yard or two from the press closet from which the money was taken . Mr . Pitt
was exceedingly particular in calling his ( the chairman's ) attention to some holes in the cheques , which he stated had the appearance of having been either filed several tunes or perforated by nailed shoes . On this information the Chairman ( Mr . Churchwarden Healy ) left the board room for the clerk ' s office to inquire more particularly into the finding of the deposit notes . He ascertained that when Mr . Jaques , the chief clerk , went in to th e strong room just previously to get the minute book for the use of the board , he was immediately followed b y Mr . Pitt , who exclaimed , " Look here ! " and on Mr . Jaques turning round , he discovered Mr . Pitt in a stooping position , with the three deposit receipts in hi 3 hand . Mr . Pitt showed the chairman the place where he picked them up , and said Mr . Jaques saw him do so , on which Mr . Jaques replied , " I did not
see you pick them up , but I saw them in your hand . " The chairman asked Mr . Pitt if he had any business to go into the strong closet , and he said , "Xo . " He then asked him what he went into the strong room for , and he re p lie d , "Nothing at all ; " to this he ( the chairman ) rejoined , " Oh , if that is the case , I suppose all you went into the room for was to pick up the notes . " These facts were stated by Mi * . Healy , the chairman , to the vestry on the same day , and he exhibited the deposit notes , which are considerably larger than the ordinary size of cheques , and printed on bright pink paper . They were perforated at various parts , as if by small shoe nails . The Chairman observed , that it was quite impossible they could have been left on the floor of the
stronjroom , as it iraa searched at the time of the robbery by the detective police and by the members of the > oard of directors at least twenty tunes since . The key had been in the possession of Mr . Jaqucs up to ten o clock that morning ; , wh en i t was h an d ed over to the yestry clerk , and no one had been in the place since the discovery of the notes . That branch of the inquiry having been disposed of , several persons were examined by the vestry , whose evidence tended to lead to a discovery of the robber .
R . Clarke , c a bman , said , that between twelve and one o ' clock on the morning of Friday fortnight , he was coming back into the Pancras-road , after setting down a fare , when he was hailed at the new vestry-rooms , and told a gentleman had met with an accident . There were four men there , one t !? - ca ried tne gentleman on his hack , and placed him in the cab . He was told to drive up Orays-mn-lane at first , and then to No . — , Blackfmrs-road . He drove to the house mentioned , by the direction Of the party in the cab , and ran- a OeJ , and a gentleman looked out at one of the unper
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windows , came down in a minute or two in his dressing-gown , and stood and talked for some minutes to the gentleman in the cab throvgh the cab-window . The former then told him to drive as fast as possib l e to Guy ' s Hos p ital , and ha did so , and saw the gentleman taken out of the cab , carried into the nccident ward , and put into bed . The doctors said his thigh was fractured . One of the young doctors paid him his fare , and the gentleman said his friends would pay it again . He then came away from the hospital , leaving the party there . By the Chairman . —I did not hear what conversation took place between the gentleman in the
dressing-gown and the one in the cab , nor did I see whether bags or anything else was passed from one to the other . I do not think the cab door was opened at all . I think if anything like hags had passed between them , I must have seen them . I think the gentleman in the c a b w a s b etw ee n forty an d fif t y years of age . He was dressed in a black dress coat , I think , black waistcoat , and Wellington boots . I think , if an inmate of the hospital , I might know him again . Three of the vestry were then appointed to visit th e ho s pit a l , and the house in the Blackfriars-road , in order to get , if possible , the parties identified by the cabman .
J . Lye was next examined . —He said he was in the employ of Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , printers , of Whitefriars . On the night of Thursday , the 8 th instant , he was passing the new vestry rooms , when he was called to by a respectably-dressed man inside the railings , who was leaning against the wall , and said , " Willyouhelp me ? " Lye asked "Whatis the matter ? " and the party replied , " That some man in going by had thrown Ms hat over the railings , and that in climbing over to g e t it he h a d fallen , and he feared had broken his thigh . " Lye had assisted him over the railings , when threo labouring men came up . These men also gave their testimony , and corroborated that of Mr . -Lye , one of whom procured a cab , and another ran for a doctor . . The lamed person refused any one ' s company to the hospital , and was driven off .
The Committee appointed to proceed to Guy s Hospital and the house hi the Blackfriars-road , having returned , Mr . Prendergast reported that on going : into the accident ward of the hospital they found a party whom Clarke . 'the cabman , identified as being the man he had taken from the vestryrooms on the ni g ht of the robbery . He stated his name to be Jackson , and that he had received the injury to his leg by stepping off the kerb just on the other side of westminster-bridge . He denied all knowledge of the cabman , or of having been in the neighbourhood of St . Paucras Workhouse on the
night m question , but refused to state his address , or give any further information . They had instituted inquiries at the house in Blackfriars-road , where the cab stopped , and had ascertained that the party who came out to the man in the cab , although an elderly man , is rather a gay sort of character , and has . no known means of getting his living . After the breaking up of the vestry , a detective policeman took Mr . ' Lye to the hospital , and he also identified the patient as the person he had helped into the cab .. v
On Saturday , the policeman obtained , after some difficulty , an interview with the person residing in the Blackfriars-road , who denied all knowledge of the man in the hospital . After considerable reluctance , Loekerby , the po l i c em a n , su cc ee de d in getting this individual to accompany him to Guy ' s Hospital , and on entering the ward where the man who gives lus name as Jackson lay , lie pretended to be asleep , but on being roused declared that he had not seen the visitor before . The latter was , however , identified by the nurses and the patients in the surrounding bed as a daily visitor to Jackson , with whom he held close conversations . ' He had , however , not made his appearance since Jackson had been in custody . This was also the case with two other parties who were constant daily visitors up to the time of the introduction of the policeman , but who have since been non est . One is described a s h a ving d ar k moustachios .
Another circumstance , discovered on the arrival of the detective officer at the hospital on Saturday , was the altered appearance of the patient Jackson , who had managed during the night to divest himself of his whiskers unknown to the policeman in whose Custody he was placed . A pair of 6 cissors were found secreted by his bedside . It is understood that two or three parties are under the surveillance of the police .
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streets , and he was obliged to take refugo in the TheVubder op Mr . Griffith near Brighton . —Two men were apprehended by the Brighton police on Sunday in consequence of something which had Mien from them ; but the expressions proved to bo those of drunken folly , and they were immediately set free . . ,, r . 7 California GoLD . -There is , ( says the Lwcrpool Standard ) , at present to be seen on the Earl of Sy ° estate £ Knowsley a considerable quantity of cold dust imbedded in soil which has been brought from California along with some rare trees an MlicHB 9 TEH . -ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A FAMILY by an Infernal Machine .-A ™ ddle : agc ? ,, ma " ! nnmed James Buckley , was placed in tho dock . i i iv .. .. l i . * lrn nnfnnn in t . hn
the Guildhall , on Tuesday last , ™ $ ^ 'l ™ " ? an infernal machine in tho house of Goo . Blac + k , . ' of Lower Houses , near Almondbury , with the intention of murdering the whole family , or doing them some serious bodily harm . About one o ciock on the morning of iU 1 st ulfc ., the prOSf OUtOr TO awoke by the breaking of one of the window panes ; bv-and-by he was alarmed by the hissing of a fuse , which was attached to something that had been put into the house throug h the aperture just made in the window . He was proceeding to get out of bed to see what it was , when a frightful explosion took place breaking several other windows , and shaking the entire building to its foundation . Fortunately , however , no mischief was done to life or limb . infernal
Upon examination , ifc turned out to be an machine , consi s ting of a ston e g inger-beer bottle , covered with a copper wire , which had been wrapped round so closely , that previous to the explosion no part of the bottle could have been . visible . It had evidently been filled with gunpowder and missiles , and when the explosion took p lace the neck only was blown off . Mr . Floyd , sol ic itor , st a t ed to the bench that the daughter of the prosecutor had had a child by the prisoner , who had absconded to Bolton three years ago to evade tho payment of tho a ffili a t i on or d er where he had resided ever since . He had repeatedly written threatening letters to the p rosecutor a nd h i s daug hter . The prisoner was remanded to Saturday .
Unequal Match . —Tho usual tranquillity of the border country has lately been somewhat disturbed by the discovery that the heiress to a landed estate of £ 4 , 000 per annum was betrothed to a domestic servant of the family . The lady is young , the fortunate swain , who isthe gardener , i s d ou b l e her age , and it is believed that a similarity in their religious views has produced this result . Bo this last circumstance as it may , however , the family , which is an old one , claiming the rare distinction of being embalmed by name in the unfading page of Shaksperc , is in deep distress on account of the match . It may be added that the gardener is of unexceptionable character . The marriage is expected to take place , in a few day 3 .
High Rent ;—Tho farm of Greenfield , tho property of Andrew Hunter , Esq ., of Doonholm , was let on Tuesday week , on a nineteen years' lease after Martinmas next . The extent is about eighty-seven arable Scotch acres of fine land on the banks of the river Doon , near to Burns ' s Monument . It was during last lease lot at a grain rent of three and a half b olls per a cre , averaging about four guineas ui money . ; From all a pp ear a n c e the farmers in this quarter do not seem to partake of any alarm as to the effectjs of Free Trade being injurious to farming , as thenew lease has been takdh up at £ 5 6 s . per acre . We understand there was considerable competition .
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tinues , and all the hoarda of guardians in the north are signifying their displeasure with the proposal of the rate in aid . To-morrow the guardians of Antrim arc to have a full meeting for the special purpose of condemning it . The Lurgan hoard has vehemently remonstrated on the subject , and so also have the guardians of Maherafelt and JSTewtownards . The Dungannon union is to proclaim its adverso sentiments to-morrow , and on Friday the ratepayers of Belfast are to hold a public meeting , and recor d their disapprobation . The Cholera in Ireland . —Thi 3 fearful disease , since its appearance in Newry a few days since , has bcoa steadily increasing ; but fortunately the cases on the whole are not numerous . There wero eighteen cases up to the 25 th ; and the proportion of deaths was one-third . tinuna nnrt oil tho ViiSafna Vlf fliardiailfi in tile north
In Belfast , on Monday , the number of eases suddenly increased to twenty-eight . The Banner of Ulster says ' : — "Total cases in Belfast Union , 616 ; died , 210 ; discharged cured , 27 5 ; r e m a ining und e r treatment 131 . It is rather an alarming fact , that already , within little more than two montUa , 210 human beings haye fallen victims of this diae ;» se in our town and vicinity ; hut when we state , on good authority , that a very large number of these were seized by this awful malady while indulging hi the heastiy habit of drunkeness , the consideration becomes truly awful . " The cholera has also appeared in Newtownards . The exact number of cases is not given ; but most of them had proved fatal . . In Kilkenny the total cases are twenty-six , deaths eleven , exclusive of tho cases in the workhouse .
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qp Adulterated Flour Detector . — M . Bolnnd , a baker , of Paris , has invented an ingenious instrument , called by him the aleurometer—the purpose of which is to indicate the panifiable properties of wheat flour . The indication depends upon the exp a nsion of the gluten contained in a given quantity of flour—say 500 grains— when freed by elutriation from its starch . A ball of g luten being placed in a cylinder to which a piston is fitted , the apparatus is exposed to a temperature of 150 degrees : as the gluten dilates its degree of dilatation is marked by the piston-rod . If 25 degrees of dilatation are not obtained , the flour is rejected—the best flour usually giving from 38 to 50 deffrees . From experiments which have been made by Chevruel and Payen it appears that the dilatation bIiows correctly the degree of deterioration which the wheat flour
has undergone : and consequently the aleuromoter offers itself as an instrument of practical importance . Tho same principle may be applied to various other p urpo s es : i n de e d Si lbe rm a n h as constructe d a new aleoholmeter , of a character similar to the aleurometcr . —Atkcmccwn . —[ There is also an instrument in use in Paris for showing the genuineness of milk and the degree of richness of cream , invented by Dr . Donne , and called the lactometer . The practical use suggested by our contemporary of such insh'umenfcs was well illustrated in Brussels on the 27 th of Jun e , 1844 . That morning a bod y of police armed with lactometers , were posted at the various gates or " barriers . " They tested all the milk that was brought into the city for that day ' s consumption , and the consequence was that eighty lai-ge cans of it were condemned . ]
Krviyal of an Old Rumour . —It is understood that immediately after opening his next budget , Sir C . Wood p a cks u p hi s a wls a nd decam ps f r om tho Exchequer . —Liverpool Albion . The laoo manufacturers and hosiers in Nottinpt ' - hamslui'e have agreed to advance their workmen ' s wages .
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Thb Robbery at Messrs . Shoolbred ' s —fin Monday , W . P . Hebditeh , aged 26 . a porter , wash ? dieted for stealing , on the 6 th of February in IL pariah of St . Pancras , £ 43 in gold and silver and ? bank note for £ 10 . in the dwelling house of James Shoolbred and others , and afterwards breaking out of the premises . —The prisoner pleaded Guilty —Mr . Clarkson , who appeared for the prosecution ' stated that the prisoner had been in the employ of prosecutor , and had gained admittance by secreting
himselfinacoalcellar .-A former conviction and sentence of transportation in 1839 was proved The prisoner said he was driven by distress to coin mit the robbery , the prosecutor having discharged him without a character . —Mr . Clarkson said it was true Mr . Shoolbred had so discharged him , but it was because he had abundant evidence of the prisoner ' s dishonesty , but did not care to prosecute " The prisoner had also beon convicted of horse steal " ing . —The prisoner was then sentenced to ten VMrJ transportation .
On Tuesday , the time of the court was occupied in trying asveral cases , not one of which possessed any feature of public importance . Robbery . —llenry William Storey , a naVer age d 39 , and Walter Palmer , a coach painter 29 who surrendered in court , were indicted for stealing some filver spoons and other articles of blate value £ 5 , the property of Harriet Magnay . -Several wit nesses were called , who gare Palmer ah excellent character . —The piisoner Storey again asserted that Palmer was innocent , the evidence not beino- at all conclusive as to his identity , and the jury acq uitt e d him , and convicu-d Storey . —Storey was then sentenced to seven years transportation .
Wednesday . — Post-offioe Robberies . — e Broome and J . Witham , two Post-Office letter-carriers , ' we o convicted of robbing letters containing money . —Sentence deferred . —G . Elton was also indicted for stealing a letter containing two fourpennypieces and a postage stamp . On Feb . 24 a person named Holdernesss . residing nt Eton , a d dressed a letter , which contained two fourpenny-pieces and a postage-stamp , to a Mr . Goodburn , residing at No . 63 , Ernest-street , Regent ' s Park This letter would arrive in duo cou'se at the Portland-street branch
post-office , to which the prisoner was attached on the same day , but it cid not reach its destination . It would appear that some suspicion attached to the prisoner , and he > as taken into custody on some other charge . On his being searched , th e envelope of the letter i i question , as well as two fourpennypieces which could not . however , be identified , were f o und in his p ocket , and in his desk at the Post-offi ce there was found the postage stamp which had been in the letter , and which was identified by its having upon it the following letter to the stamp on the envelo p e , the two having been purchased at the same time . —When Mr . Clarkson had concluded his
opening address to the jury , the prisoner expressed his desire to retract his plea of not guilty and to plead guilty , but Mr . Justice Cresswell said that wa 9 not the usual course when a trial had commenctd ; and the case proceeded , the testimony of the witnesses clearly establishing the facts as above narrated . — The p risoner , in his defence , asserted that he picked up the envelope in the street , and as to the fourpenuy-pieces , he said it was customary for letter carriers to have such coins , as they were convenient to give change . —Mr . Justice Cresswell summed up , and the jury , to the astonishment of every one iu c ourt , the prisoner himself evidently not excepted , gave a verdict of " Not Guilty . "
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IrflanD . Dublix , Saturday Mohking . —OrrosniON to the Rate in Aid in Uisthr . —Tho northern province is move d b y a sp irit of determined resistance to the rate in aid proposed by Lord John Russell ; and Ulster , heretofore so free from agitation , is excited from one end to tho other . The local journals , without distinction of party , oppose the new taxation with energy , and appeal to the people to meet in all quarters , to remonstrate against the injustice of-raxing ihe north for the relief of "the improvident western squires and their paupers . " Several meetings have been convened , a nd it appears likel y before the end of next week , that the movement-will be universal throughout the province .
The " Social Revolution . " — A letter from Clonmel of yesterday's date , after drawing a most g loomy sketch of the state of the South Siding of Tipperary , proceeds as follows;— " At tins present moment a large landed proprietor , residing within a few miles of this town , and who is also the agent over one of the largest properties in the country , is locked up in his house , closely watched by sundry suspicious-looking characters , each of whom has a writ to han d h im to t h e v al ue o f from £ 50 to £ 7 00 , amounting in all to some thousands . The same gentleman is closely looked after by numerous tenants , to w h om rece i pts h ave b een g i ven f or rent on unstampe d paper , therebv r enderin a ; them li ab l e f or th e sa m e
rent at the demand of the landlord , whenever he may choose to institute proceedings to that end . ' The poor rales , ' our people say , ' are killing them ; the shopkeepers complain bitterly of them ; the l a ndlord s a nd ten a nt s a re determin e d not to pay them ; they will emigrate first ; ' and if they have not the means to do this they will go into the poor house . One poor woman yesterday was walking in the town , and her cloth cloak was seized from off her back for poor rates , and sold in a short time a f ter b y pu b lic auction , at the ma i nguar d , for 4 s . 6 d . This will g iv e an i d e a of our actua l state , for prospects we nave none . " The State Piusoneks ix Kilhahoiam . —An
investigation has been ordered by the Government re sp ecting the treatme n t to w hi ch , it is a l lege d , the six State prisoners , still confined in Eilmainham , have been subjected . Mr . Joseph Brcnan has written a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , com p l ai ning o f S i r Georg e Grey ' s statement in the House of Commons , that " all the prisoners had threatened to oftend as Mr . Meany had offended , " by writing articles for newspapers . Mr . Brenan says that Messrs . Meany and Rea were the only gentlemen of the six confined at Kilmainham who ' published any articles ; he himsel f , with O'Higgins , Meyler , and Ildpin , was willing to give a pledge to the contrary . Yet they also were " s e nt to th e da mp c e lls of the felon yard . Mondav . —The only inform a tion which h a s re a ch e d us is that several meetings have been held in different places , to testify their opposition to the rate in aid .
Tuesday . —An emigrant ship—the Lord Sandonwas burnt at Kinsale . Its value was £ 2 , 000 . No lives were lost . The vessel was uninsured . Cloxmel Assizes . —Treason Trials . —Next assize promises to be one of the heaviest and mo 9 t protracted that even Clonmel has ever seen . Just fancy fifty or sixty state prisoners—twenty are to be t r i e d f o r hi gh treason , twenty for aiding in rebellion ( that looks like a distinction without a difference ) , seventeen for carrying on a little rebellion on theii- ' own account , the . ov e rt nets of whic h nvm burning the slate quarry , nolice-barrack , and attacking Glenbower ( far eclipsing Ballingarry . ) Mr . M . R . Leyne , who was arrested with T . F . Meagher and O'Donoglme , will probably be tried here . He
was removed with S . O'Brien , &c , before the special commission , to our jail , where he has since been kept . lie , was the orator of Conciliation Hall for a cons i dera bl e t i me , and for some months was in the h ab it of m a king the speech of th e day at the we e kl y meeting . At the time of the League agitation , he joined it , and hence his connexion with the Young Ireland party . We believe he is the son of a stipendiary mag istrate , and a relative of the Messrs . O'Connell . A Miss Power , aunt to Mr . O'Mahony , is to be tried for high treason , and for " aiding her nephew to escape trom justi ce , he being a t the time a proclaimed traitor . " Mr . Killilea , proprietor of the WaUrford Chronicle , who was arrested in company with Miss Power , is to be arraierned on a
similar charge . If there was anything like a hero in the whole movement , one of the Glenbower assailants , named Kelly , has tho best claim to tho appellation . In his desperate encounter with the police , he received four bayonet wounds , one o f them in the head , besides a blow across the ear from the butt end of the carbine . Notwithstanding his sufferings and loss of blood , he has never remained in bed a day since , and was sufficiently strong to be removed from Carrick bridewell to Clonmel in about a week after the affair at Glenbower . Pour men a rc in prison f or th e murder of the thre e ba il i f fs a t 13 ansha , and are to be brought to trial at the approaching assizes . —Clonmel Chronicle . Seizure in a ¦ VYobkhouse . —Tho Cork Examiner
states that the bedding , furniture , &c , o f t h e B antry workhouse has been seized , under execution , by the sheriff , at the suit of one of the . contractors . The Ulster Fires . —The Ntwry Telegraph says — " We exceedingl y regr e t to le a rn that the acts of incendiarism , which have recently so much disgraced this county are not at an end ; but that , on tho contrary , they have been extended from the districts adjoining Belfast , to . the hitherto quiet orderly , and prosperous neighbourhood of Gilford . On the night . of S unday , the 18 th ult ., a house in the townland of Mullabrack , County Down , from which the landlord had occasion some , time ago to eject a tenant for non-payment of rent , was maliciously set fire
on , and comp letely destroyed . We are assured that the landlord , Mr . Franklin M'Orcight had repeatedly , even after he had obtained the ejectment , offered to allow the tenant to sell his interest in the holding ; but tho latter could not be prevailed upon to accede to this fair and reasonable proposition he would neither pay rent nor crop his ground ; and consequentl y , Mr . M'Croig ht , though sorely asrainst his inclination , had no other alternative than to dispossess a tenant so utterly unprinci pled and 60 worthless . On Wednesday ni ght a house , in the townland of Loughans , in the same neighbourhood the property of Mr . R . II . Nicholson , justice of the pace , was also maliciously act fire to " , and most of it destroyed . " Wednesday . —The ulstcr movement still con-
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Newcastle , Fed , 23 . Wounding with Oyster Kxives . —M . Stewart , and Je s sie , his wife , charged with having , in January last , cut and wounded Alexander Young Robertson , with intent to do him some grievcus bodily harm , were convicted . Prisoners kept an oyster-shop , and a dispute having arisen as to payment , each of the prisoners took up a knife and stabbed the prosecutor twice in the facs . The Newcastle Lasso . —James Clegs , nineteen , and Agnes 'Ihompson , twenty , pleaded not guilty to assaulting and robbing Thomas Watson , on ths Quayside , on the 27 ch November last . Thompson was sentenced to ten years'
transportation , and Clegg , on two former convictions having been proved against him , was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation . This is one of the many cases which have originated in Newcastle and neighbourhood , where robbery is committed by means of a "hang , " or loop , like the lasso used in South America to capture wild animals , being thrown over the vi c tim , so as to render him powerless . The following case is of the same character . Christopher Rutherford p le a ded not guilty to having assaulted Charles Anderson , and ttolen from him four sovereigns , eight hal ' ci owns , and twenty shillings . Mr . James and Mr . Heath appeared for the prosecutor . The prosecutor was master of a small coasting vtssel . and as he was proceeding along the Sandhill on the 28 th of August last , he fell in with the prisoner . They went to Antill ' s publichouse , where they had a good deal of drink . Four men were in the same room . Prosecutor then went
to the bar and got some paper , in which he wrapped his money . He then left , and was accompanied homewards by the prisoner . In proceeding through the Dean arm-in-arra , a man came in behind and p ut somethin g round his neck , while two came in befive him . lie became insensible with the attack , and when he came to his senses he found himself alone and all his money taken from him . The prisoner was apprehended a short time afterwards . — Mr . Seymour defended the prisoner , and contended the charge could have no weight with them , as the evidence throughout was entirely circumstantial ; that his client could not have been plotting a rob * bery , from the fact that ho was asked twice b y the prosecutor to accompany him , and that prosecutor at the time was so drunk that he could not describe the parties who attacked him— "Guilty . " Tobe transported for ten years . Feb . 24 th . —A Daring Robbery . —\ V ; Wbi ' e
and J . Kane were charged with having , on the 23 rd December last , feloniously stolen from John Oliver , Street-house , Wyland , twenty sovereigns , a silv e r watch , and several articles of silver plate . —Mr . Matthews appeared for ihe prosecution , and stated the ense . The prosecutor was in bed , his wi f e w a s standing over him , giving him something warm , when tne two prisoners entered the room . Kane stepped up to the bed with a stick , with which lie beat him on the legs , and demand- d his money . White during this time -was also threatening Mrs . Oliver with a knife , and demanding money . Prosecutor then to'd his wife to give them the money . They then extracted the articles from a box , and decamped . The prisoners were captured on the 8 th of February , anu were both iilentififd by Mr . and Mrs . Oliver , Verdigfc , "Guiltyi" —To be transported for fifteen years .
Abingdox , Feb . 27 . Desperate Highway Robbery . —James Hai - grave was charged with assaulting on the highway William Musson , with intent to rob him , on the night of the 18 th of August last . —The Judge summed up , after which the jury deliberated for a vetV short time , and pronounced the prisoner guilty . The judge , in passing sentence , told the prisoner that he was ^ oo clever and too des perate a character to remain in this country , a nd ad j ud ged him to fie transported for ten years .
Case of Manslaughter . —Charles Giles , John Briant , and Edward Cope , were charged with tlie manslaughter of Charles Gilhain , on the 2 /' ih of December last , in the parish of Shinfield . —Mr-Williams for the prosecution , JMr . Pigot for Giles , and Mr . Carrington for Briant and Cope . —From the evidence . it appeared that on the day in question the prisoner Giles had a slight disagreement with the deceased , Charles Gilham , who would settle it in no other way except by a fight , which it was agreed should take place at their dinner hour . At that time they proceeded to a field , and the fight com ' menced , in which the prisoner Giles had the best : of the rounds , but would willingly baye ceased fighting , but Gilham expressed his determination to fight
like a cock and not give up , In the last round the dece a sed had scarcel y strength to stand "Pi but would not give in ; he was , however carried off the ground , and in about forty-eight hours after he died , and on &post mortem examination being made by a medical gent l eman , a wound was found on the left sid e of th e skull , which , in his opinion , was the cause of death , and was produced by external violence . The prisoners Briant and Cope acted 85 seconds . —It was contended by Mr . Pig ot . on the part of Giles , that he was provoked and obiiged to fight , that he wished to leave off , and the tight was a fair stand-up fight . —Mr . Carrington , on tho part oi Briant and Cope , maintained that tbey took no pw't inth e fi ght until after it had commenced . —Th 3 jury acquitted all the prisoners .
Hertford , Feb . 28 . Burglary . — James Raokley , twent y-three , Daniel Brown , twenty-two , Alfre d Lunn o n , twentythree , three powerful-looking young men , were ID ' dieted for burglary in the dwelling-house of AW Stacey , and stealing a £ 5 n ote , and other moiue » f her property . —The Honourable Mr . Grimston pro " secuted , and Mr . T . Chambers was for the defence . It appeared that the whole number of personsiwU " entered the house was six , and that three of WW the Dai
were armed with sticks , and the fourth had which had fastened the window before it wasbroKeu open . The prosecutrix swore positively to the iaeii tity of Brown and Lunnon , although their ™ es w " blackened ; and as regarded the prisoner « ac ^ V it was shown that his shoes corresponded witn io " steps that were under the window ; and it was a ^ proved that , on the morning after the burglary , was seen in company with the other two pnwnW jJ at a beer-shop , apd that they all three wad « wi UJ faces , which appealed to have beon blachene" » soot . Tie July found all the prisoners guilty , w » were transported for fourteen years .
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3 Tf ) c | 3 roDiners B-AitLEt Main Colliery Explosion . — By the list of subscriptions for the numerous families bereaved by the catastrophe at Darley Main Colliery , it appears that upwards of £ 1 , 200 has been put downfoi this benevolent object . Hampshire . —Timber Stealixg in New Forest . — Three of the principal keepers in the New Fores ! have been dismissed from their situations in consequence of the timber stealing which has recently been brought to light , and which has excited sc much int eres t throu ghout the country . These art the only persons , therefore , that have yet Deen punished for this most extraordinary and extensive
peculation . All the persons prosecuted have been acquitted . The elder Read , it is reported , is likely to retain his situation . , Colonel Tnornhill ' s situation is not yet filled up . ' The government have received nearly 300 applications for it . Important Conviction under tub Wreck and Salvage Act . —A most important conviction , resulting in the committal to gaol of the master of a steam vessel , for evading the provisions of tho act 9 th and 10 th Victoria , chap . 99 , known as the Wreck and Salvage Act , has just taken p lace at Newmarket , in Flintshire . The decision m this case is one of great importance to the maritime interest , and cannot be too generally known by masters and commanders of vessels , It appears that
the Taliesin steamer , plying between Liverpool and Rhyl , on her passage between the above ports , on the 9 th of January last , fell in with an abandoned vessel , which proved to be the Dasher , of Killough , in Irelan d , la d en with oatme al , and bound for liverpool . This wreck was taken in tow by the steamer , and was safely brought into the river Dee , where she was stranded near Mostyn Quay . The master o f t he ste a m e r reported th e circu ms t a nc es to hi s employers , the Messrs . Eyton , of Mostyn Colliery , but neglected doing so to the Receiver of Dvoits of Admiralty for the district , as required by law . The Messrs . Eyton took measures for saving as much of the cargo as possible , and they transmitted a full narrative of the circumstances to Lloyd ' s agont at
Liverpool , and the owners of the Dasher . A small schooner was laden with the recovered pr o p e rty , value £ 150 , which was forwarded to Liverpool by Messrs . Eyton for the benefit of the underwriters , by whom it had been claimed . The remainder of the cargo was plundered , and carried away by a number of lawlcsss depredators . For the non-complianeo with tho provisions of the act , in t h us noglecting to place the vessel and cargo at the disposal of the Receiver , Hugh Jones , the master of the Talicsin , was summoned by Captain Tarleton , the Rec eiver of Droits , b efore the m agistrates at Newmarket . The case was fully entered into , and the fact of the non-reporting to the Admiralt y officers clearl y established . The magistrates inflicted the
penalty of £ 100 , which sum they had no discretionary power to mitigate . In default of paym e nt , the master was sentenced to six months' imprisonment . It may not be generally known that all goods and articles cast up by the sea , or secured as derelict on the waters , are immediately to be reported in writing , as such , by the salvors to the receivers for the Admiralty . The act is most stringent and decisive on this point . In the above instance had the master properl y reported the c a se he would h a ve been entitled to a large sum as salvage . REiGHLEY .-EccLESiASTicAi ..-The case , ' "the Clerk versus the Churchwardens of Keighley , " for wages , which should have gone before the County Court , here , last Wednesday , has been , we understand ,
removed to the Court of Queen ' s Bench . This ev e nt has been a Bource of much disappointment to the sinners of the locality ; all feeling convinced that the saints would not bring their spiritual affairs into a temporal court , without some unusual reason . It seems , top , that strange revelations were anticipated . Surely t he Ch urc h war d ens mean not by this pious upper-court move to disable their " weak brother " from making any response thereto , s a ve his monotonous dissylable " Amen . "—Tiie Labour Markbt . —Operatives engaged in the staple trade of the locality hare now full work . In several instances improved wages Lave been realised . On the prices of combing and weaving an immediate and general advance seems quite probable .
Bristol . —One of those unseemly transactions , a sale of goods under seizure for church rates , took place in this city on Monday , and gave rise to a good deal of excitement . The goods , which ^ belon ged to parishioners of the parish of St . Stephen , were o f a value very disproportionate to the sums assessed by the rate upon tho . parties to whom they had belonged ; but in addition , the fact of the owners being conscientiously opposed to the Church of England , greatly added to the painful nature of the occurrence . As soon as the seizure had been made , bills were i ssued , announcing the inte n ded s a le , and stating the house at which it would take place , and an
immense concourae of p ersons atten d e d , and completely filled the house ; so much so . jthat the officers were compelled to effect an . entrance through atop window by means of a . ladder , being wholly unable to force their way through the shop , After a while the goods were put up—ill cst , the auctioneer bo ^ an to call out , " £ 2 , " » £ 2 5 s ., " Ac , and ultimately the articles were knocked down , but nobody could soe any ono bid for thorn , nov would the auctioneer give the name of the part y w ho h a d b o ug ht . The whole aflair seemed to give great dissatisfaction and to excite anything b ut a re l i gious feeling , and on ¦ the auctioneer quitting the jiublic-house at which be sale was made lie was hooted through the
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FIRES . London . —Fire at St . John ' s Chapel , Bedford-Row . —On Sunday afternoon , during divine service , at St . John ' s Chapel , Bedford-row , . the congregation was alarmed by a cry of " Fire . " The Rev . Mr . Garrod , who had just commenced his sermon , begged the people to leave quietly , and not to be fri ghtened , as there was no danger , They , however , hastened into the street , when they discovered that the roof of tho chapel was on fire .
Information was given at the fire offices , and as soon as the flames were extinguished it was ascertained that the accident arose from the following cause : —In the body of the chapel , immediately underneath the galleries on either side are two furnaces used for warming the building , the smoke from which is carried off by means of iron pipes . The heat from the furnace had fired the bond timbers ^ and the flames extended from them to the roof . No one was aware of the building being on fire , until the children in the upper gallery saw the sparks falling from the roof .
Fire in the College School-room at Gloucester . —The inhabitants of Gloucester were alarmed shortly after ten o ' clo c k on S a tur d ay n ight last , by the breaking out of a fire in the School-room , which it was feared would spread to the venerable cathedral . The school-room is over the chapterroom o f t h e cat h e d ra l , and the chapter-room adjoins tho library , which opens into the cloisters and into a room communicating with the treasury and with the body of the cathedral . The fire is
supposed to have originated from one oi the four stoves by which the school-room is warmed having set fire to the floor , which was much burnt ; some of the flaming books fell through the floor , and , but for the discovery of the fire , must have communicated the combustion to the room beneath . The papers , documents , &e ., kept in the closets below were rescued , and by the vigorous exertions of the inhabitants of the city and those who had the direction of the engines the flames were su b dued be f ore any damage was done to the cathedral .
Destruction op Two Indiamen by ^ Fire . —The arrival of the Indian mail on Friday week communicated the distressing loss by fire o f two fi ne Indiamen , bound for England , involving a sacrifice of property to the extent of little short of £ 60 , 000 . The unfortunate vessels were the British-built ship , George Armstrong , belonging to Liverpool , 491 tons burthen , commanded by Captain Paxton , the property of Messrs . Bodd and Co ., the shipowners ; and the ship Capo Packet , for London , 340 tons bu'thon ( built at Sunderland , in 1843 ) , the property of Messrs . Lamb and Co ., of Lloyd ' s Room . The fivst-named . vessel . sailed from Calcutta on the loth of January , with a full freight , and a number of passengers . A few days after , while lying off Fort
G l oster , near the Hoogley , a heavy squ all d rove h er ashore , where she was . subsequently discovered to bo on fire . Her crew adopted all possible means available to check the progress of the destructive element , which was found issuing forth among the bags of jute in the fore part of the ship , but to no purpose , and ere many hours had elapsed it had reached the main-deck , and issued forth in huge volumes from the hatchways , and other parts of the vessel . Fortunately , all the passengers and crew escaped without injury , though in tne confusion that prevailed , most of them left behind their clothe s an d . &aggage , whicli were burnt . After the m a st had f a llen overbo a rd , it was determihed to scuttle the ship to prevent an explosion , some 200
baga of saltpetre being stowed in the bottom portion of the vessel's hold . The operation succeededjust sufficient water was got into her to cover the saltpetre . It was considered a mosfi fortunate circumst a nce , for had tho matter ignited , it is probable tho consequences would have proved direful in the extreme . . Tho vessel continued burning somo hours , until she became a perfect wreck . With the exception of 400 barrels of sugar , the whole of the cargo was destroyed . The owners -. ire stated to be fully insured . By the acceunts received , the origin of the fire is attributed to the jute being shi p p ed on board in a damp condition , and heating eventually , broke out in flames . The destruction of the other ship , the Cape Packet , is reported to have taken
place on the night of the Oth of December , at Penang . She had on board a rich cargo of China produce , the whole of which was destroyed . It is gratifying to observe that , in this case also , no lives were lost , or auy person injured . No cause is assigned for- the disastoi 1 . Cambridgeshire . —A fire , which , consumed a considerable amount of property and some live stock , broke out on the night of Friday week , on the prem i ses attached to Scotland Farm , in Back-lane , Ch e st e rton , the property of Mr . William Wragg , and occupied by Mr . Jabez Ablett ., The fire was first observed at a quarter before twelve o ' clock
bursting from the roof of a line of barns and other outhouses which run at right angles to the lane . A man , who was sleeping in the granary or loft of one of these barns to guard the poultry against tho depredations of thieves , was , we believe , the first to observe the flames , in consequence of some flakes falling upon him from the roof . He immediately gave the alarm , and , although the hour was late , a considerable portion of the village population immediately turned out to assist . The village engine was also soon procured , and w a ter was obtaine d in abundance ; but the houses were thatched , and constructed of materials of such an inflammable
character that one engine playing upon the burning mass produced little effect , and so rapid and destructive was the progress of the flames that they rushed along with resistless and inconceivable fury from one end of the line of building to the other as if it had been a heap of stubble , Every effort was made to save the live stock , but in spite of all exertions one heifer and sixteen fat hogs f e ll a p re y to the flames . At length the element of destruction reached the stable on the side of ihe farmyard furthest from the lane . Fortunately , this building was made of brick and tiles ; and , with the aid of the
engine , which played continually upon it at the point of its contact with , the flames , their progress was arrested in this quarter . A considerable quantity of corn in the granary and a drill and g ig were consumed . We are happy to state that the buildings and the stock -were all insured . No doubt is entertained that the fire was tho handiwork of an incendiary . At present , howev e r , suspicion does not expressly attach to any one individual , although a man was brought up in tho County Court on Saturday , charged with poaching on the land in Mr . Ablett s possession .
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