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      ^^^**^^^^ ' ^^* ^^^ fc' ^*™^ ¦ ~* **¦ ¦ i . —^^—^^^ £ fK iKcttopolis . Health of LosdoS during ihe Week . —The deaths roistered during the past week were 1 , 089 . The excess ou tho weekly average of spring is considerable , and Amounts to 1 * 26 . The epidemic disease exhibit an increase on the average , the two numbers being 248 and 1 H 8 , but it ia important to observe that most of the fatal complaints in this class—measles , scarlatina , cholera , typhus—have produced i&is week a mortality scarcely exceeding the usual amount . Smallpox was fatal to eight children xr& four adults , while the average number of persoire of all ages who died of thisdisease is twenty one . Che deaths from diarrhoea sad dysentery were twestv-three . or nine more thaathe average ; only

      one is ascribed to cholera . Tl * excess of mortality is ascribed to hooping-cough , bronchitis , udphU * - sis , which number i ^ p ec tffd }' 59 , 76 and 159 , the arerage being 36 , 37 , and 145-effects which aw pobally due in great insure to the increased coldness Of the weatucr , the temperature of thesur SS one dav with anotier , having been , since last Sunday , the 8 th instant , less than the mean temperature of the same tiwe , on an average of seven years , by 6 * 7 deg . Tiis difference , on Thursday , the 19 th , even amounted to 14-5 deg . The mean temperature of the week was only 37-1 deg . The highesttemperature 4 id not rise on any day above 49 ' 2 deg . ; it was lowest on Thursday—namely , 38 * 3 deg . —on which day also the lowest mean occurred , and was only 32 'i < ka . The mean reading of the

      barometer in the week was 29 * 626 ; it was the highest on Saturday , being 29741 . A tallow chandler died in Greenwich , according to the verdict of a jury , of " disease « f long standing , hastened by destitution and want of common necessaries , " a case which , as appears from an observation that fell from the coroner , was aggravated by want and atrocious neglect in his own house . In the sub-distric . t of Marylebone , two children , the son and daughter of a labourer , died of " the want of the common necessaries of life . " Inquests were held in both cases . The wife of a labourer died of " exhaustion , the natural effect of delay in procuring for herself medical aid in parturition ; " a return which was also made by a coroner ' s jury . The births during the week numbered 1 , 343 .

      Serious Accident . —On Friday week as the Rev . F . Hamilton , chaplain to the East India Company , was standing in conversation at tho corner of Prince's-street , Hanover-square , a ladder fell from an adjoining house and , striking him on the shoulder , prostrated him with great force . He was at once conveyed to the Academy o . Music , which he had left but a few minutes previously , and Mr . TVhjte Cooper was sent for , who found on examination' that the ri g ht leg was broken immediately abo . ve the ankle joint , the left shoulder much injured , and the back greatly strained . The leg having been set , the rev . gentleman was conveyed to his residence at Poplar . Notwithstanding the severity of the injuries , he is likely to do well

      INQUESTS . Suicide at the Bcke of Devonshire ' s . —On Friday week Mr . William Pell , who had for many years held the situation of Secretary to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire , in addition to an office in the Board of Green Cloth , drowned himself in an iron tank sunk in the garden . The tank was only three feet in length , and about eighteen inches in depth , and was filled with water . On Monday afternoon an inquest was held at the Rising Sun , Charles-Street , Grosvoiior-square , before Mr . Bedford , on the body , when jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " Saturday . —Death ur Fire . —Mr . H . M . Wakley , deputy coroner , held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital on the body of Miss Elizabeth Pettit , aged

      51 . —Mr . Pettit , gas fitter , St . Martin ' s-lane , said that on Thursday evening week he had returned home to his residence , Brook 6-street , Xcw-road , and in a few minutes he heard the screams of the deceased , who was his cousin , in the drawing-room . He hastened there , when he found her enveloped in flames , which he extinguished , but not before her clothes were nearly burnt off her body . She was taken to the above institution , where * she died the following Sunday . She was drying her stays by the fire , when they caught , and the flames communicated to her dress . —Verdict * " AccidentalDeath . " Death p rom Starvatios . —Before Mr . H . M . Wakley , the deputy coroner , at the Marquis of Cornwallis , Marchmont-street , Russell-square , on the body of Hannah Soundy , aged 41 , who it was alleged died from want of food . The jury , on their return from viewing the body , said they had never

      witnessed such a shocking spectacle . The body , which lay on a miserable mattress , at Xo . 13 , Russell-place , was little better than skin and bone . The coroner remarked that he had never in his life seen such an emaciated form . It appeared by the evidence that about seveu years ago the deceased became insane , and had since then been confined in several lunatic asylums , from the last of which , she was discharged three years ago . Her insanity returned , but no steps were taken to procure her admission into another asylum . Lately she had been living with her husband , a pearl cutter by trade , but often out of employment , and suffered the greatest privations . She was unable to rise , and in Eer husband ' s absence was frequently heard crying " Cometome ! I ' m in bed , starving to death !" ¦ Notwithstanding his distress , the husband sought SO aid from the parish , and the deceased died on Friday . —Verdict , " Natural Death . "

      Fatal Accident . —By Mr . H . Wakley , at the Jubilee , Gee-street , Somers Town , on the body of Joseph Uaines , aged 70 . Deceased was employed in the fitting room at the Euston-square Station of the Xorth Western Railway ; on Easter Monday he was engaged , with some other men , in raising au engine to repair the shaft , which was out of gear . It was placed on some buffer blocks , which were on a scaffold , when they gave way , and one of them , weighing about Gibs ., struck him on the back part of the head , which led to extravasation of the brain , accompanied with erysipelas , and consequent death . Verdict , " Accidental death . " Monday . —Melaxcholt Death of as Officer . — Before air . Higgs , at the White Horse , Strand , on

      the body of Lieut .-Col . T . Sufeliffee , aged 59 , late Of the Koyal Horse Guards ( blue ) . —Mr . W . Knight , of 357 , Strand , stated that the deceased had rcsfded in his house for the last three years . In the course of their conversation the deceased related to him the history of his life . He had held a commission in the Boyal Horse Guards , was with his regiment at the battle of Waterloo , was severely wounded , and left for dead on the battle-field . Since then he ha I been in the army of Columbia , South America , and by thus entering another service had forfeited his halfpay from the British government . Returning to this country with but very slender means , he endeavoured to improve them by literary pursuits , his last work ( which be completed onl y a short time ago ) being " A Chronological Record of the Trade , Commerce , Resources , Expenditure , and Progressive improvement in the T extile Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland , from the earliest period

      to the present time . " He finished this book by the opening of the present session of p arliament , and being without the means of publishing it , wrote to Xoru John Russell , with whom he Sad had some previous acquaintance , to assist him in putting the -work to press . He was at this time utterly without money , and all his hopes were built on the success of his application , but his lordship ' s reply was unsatisfactory . He had depended entirely on the proeecdsof his book to pay witness what he owed him for his support during three years , and the failure of his undertaking caused him great sorrow . Deceased had lately been in good health with the CXccption of a slight cold , and on Sunday witness was much surprised to find him dead in his bed . —Mr . George Lane , surgeon , of Endell-street , said he had made a post mortem examination of the body , and found the cause of death to be suffocation from ossification of the heart . —Verdict . " Natural Beath . "

      Fatai , Accident at the Bow Gas Works . —Before Mr . Baker , at the London Hospital , on the body of Henry M'Quead , aged 30 , a labourer employed at the Gas Works , Bow . —Stephen Tapping said that about a fortnight since he was in the gas factory ¦ where deceased was engaged in gas tarring the iron columns , for which purpose he Had to be raised by a rope about 50 feet He was taken up about 40 feet when the rope broke , and in his fall he knocked down the foreman ( Mr . Lawrence ) and his son . The foreman called for assistance , upon which witness and some other men went to them , and found the deceased in a state of insensibility , and bleeding from both ears . The foreman had also his left leg broken . They were both placed in a cart immediately , and conveyed to the London Hospital . In

      answerto the jury , the witness said that the rope was about an inch in diameter , and had been borrowed for the purpose . It had been used in the same manner on two occasions previously . The Coroner observed , that if the dWiorsallowed ropes to be used such as that by which the deceased lost his life , that they might Jay themselves open to a charge of manslaughter . He hoped greater caution would be used in future . The deputy manager of the works stated that the deceased had to be placed on a gas pipe full of gas . The foreman had previously tried the strength of the . rope . Mr . Foot , surgeon to London Hospital , said that the deceased died on Saturday last , from a fracture of his skulL Verdict , " Accidental Death . "

      TrasDiur . —Alleged Ill-Trbatmkxt of Lunatics at the West Loxdox Ukion . —Before Mr . Payne , at the Cooper ' s Arms , West-street , Smithfield , respecting the death of "William Lewis , aged 22 years , who was alleged to have- died in the West London Union from neglect and ill-usage . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was apprenticed to a hosier in . Worcester , and he had lately come to London for the purpose of obtaining a situation . He failed in doing so , and he became verv low and desponding , and at times was out of his mind On Thursday evening , the 12 th instant , the deceased entered a coffee-house on Holborn-hill , where he called for some coffee , and remained there for upwards of two hours , when he suddenly attempted to bite one of the customers . He was fortunately pre-

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      vented ; and he was ultimately takenfin a . cal > to the bed and fdstened down , Clift again struck him with thTrope ? In the night tho deceased called out " Fire ! " and Hopwool , tho keeper of the probationary ' ward , obtained a thick walking-stick , and beat film about the body and leg- * . The deceased frequently said , " Pray don t beat me , 111 he quiet " but Hopwood continued striking him with the stick . On the following morning the deceased was directed to be removed to No , 4 ward , which was formerly used as a cholera ward . Several of

      the paupers carried him there , and he was again strapped down on a bed . Mr . Ciiftwas present , and after the usual means had been adopted in such cases , he placed some ropes round the deceased ' s legs and fastened them to the bed post as tight as he could . The deceased raved very much , and Clift struck him on the face with his fist and said , " Will you be quiet V The deceased suddenly answered , " Thank you for that , Mr . Clift , I shall expect the next . " Clift then struck him several violent blows on the legs and thighs with a strap , first with the buckle end , and then with the other end . The only clothing deceased had on was a pair of thin drawers , and he frequently implored them to take p ity upon him . When Mr . Bullin , the surgeon , visited tho ward , the ropes were taken off him , and he was described as being very violent . The deceased remained in that state lor some days , and during that

      time he was frequently beaten by Mr . Clift , Hopwood , and the nurse—sometimes with a broom , and at other times with a stick . His bed was only cleansed once in three days , and occasionally the effluvium was most dreadful . He died on Saturday last . One of the witnesses , named Storey , said there were several insane people in the union , and they were allowed to run about the yard and mix with the other inmates . A surgeon seldom or ever visited them , and the Board of Guardians seldom inquired about any of them . Mr . Clift had formerly been a soldier and a policeman , and he was cruel to them all , and had endeavoured to hush up the present affair . The jury said , Clift had behaved himself in a most disgraceful manner , and that his conduct required the most rigid inquiry . The coroner said , there was none of the officers of tho union present , and that it would therefore be advisable to adjourn the inquest .

      Escape from 'Newgate . —On Monday afternoon , about three o ' clock , a man named Strudwick , under sentence of transportation , contrived to effect . his escape from Newgate hy climbing over the wall of the court-yard' and' descending into the street , by passing through the house of Mr . Macdonald , tho Number Seven , Newgate-street . On Wednesday the two sheriffs ( Mr Alderman Finnis and Mr Goodhart ) , assisted by several of the aldermen , attended at Newgate , and proceeded to make a lengthened inquiry relative to the escape . From what has transpired , it appears that the convict , who belonged to the Westminster gang of burglars , iras tried at the March sessions of the Central Criminal Court , when he was sentenced to transportation for

      fourteen years , and was about to be removed to the Milbank prison , preparatory to being sent abroad . On Monday morning Strudwiek and some other convicts were set to limewash some of the wards on the female side of the prison , when unnoticed in tho course of the afternoon he entered an empty room , having a skylight . By some unexplained means he contrived to climb up the bare wall , a distance from the floor of about fifteen feet , and gained the skylight and forcing his way through , reached the roof surrounded by chevaux-de-frize and other obstacles , and then proceeded over the roofs of at least a dozen houses , until at length he reached that of th » house of Mr . Macdonald , the proprietor of the public-house known as Number Seven , Newgate-street ,

      where a trap-door presented itself ; this the convict forced open , and proceeded to descend the stairs . This was about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon . The waiter hearing a little dog belonging to Mr . Macdonald bark violently , proceeded up stairs to ascertain the cause , when he met a man on the stairs , one of the sleeves of his jacket being saturated with blood . The waiter asked him how he came there , when he said he was a plasterer , and that he had been at work at one of the adjoining houses , on the roof , a portion of which had given way , and but for the parapet of the house he should have been precipitated into the street , and that he had severely injured his arm , and in his agony and confusion ho had clambered up the wrong roof / and that was the reason he had entered the

      house . The waiter believing the statement , and observing the marks as if he had been recently at work , told him to come down , and opened the door at the foot of the stairs , as well as the bar-flap , and advised him to run over to Bartholomew ' s Hospital , and get the injuries dressed . The man then went out into Newgate-street . Nothing further was thought of it until the evening , when , from the convict being missed , an examination was made , and it was then found that he had effected his escape , when the authorities were informed of the above circumstances by Air . Macdonald . The whole of ; the case will undergo a strict and searching investigation before the committee of aldermen . Although the utmost exertions are being made to recapture the convict , up to Wednesday afternoon he had succeeded in escaping detection .

      Steam Boiler Explosion . — Between half-past ten and a quarter to eleven on Tuesday morning , a terrific explosion of a steam boiler took place in the saw-mills of Mr . Keys , Back Church-lane , Whitechapel , by which the roof and walls of the mills and some of the surrounding houses were blown up , and a great number of houses in the neighbourhood materially iujured . Immense pieces of the boiler were blown into the air a considerable height , and in their fall they broke everything before them . Immediately behind the saw-mills there is a row of small houses , forming one side of a narrow lane called Charles-street , and in oneof these houses was kept a school where there were between twenty and thirty children at the time of the explosion . The

      back wall of this house , which joined the mills , wa 3 completely destroyed , but providentially the children sustained no injury . Large pieces of wood and machinery were blown to considerable distances beyond the premises , causing great damage , and there is scarcely a house within some distance of the mills , which has not sustained more or less injury . Fortunately at the time of the accident , the workmen were in a part of the premises at some little distance from the engine-room , but when their proximity to that room is considered , and that large masses of iron were blown into the air , and fell in , crushing the roof and floors before them , it is surprising that no life was lost . Two grown-up persons and one child received some injury , but not of a serieus

      nature . The premises were insured m the Sun Fireoffice . Subjoined is a copy of the official report of the extent of the damage done : — " Tuesday , April 24 , 1 S 49 . —Quarter to eleven , a . m . —Called b y a stranger to a fire at Backchurch-lane , Commcrcialroad-m-the-East . Upon arriving there found that an explosion had occurred in the patent saw-mills of Mr . Thomas Keys , which did the following damage : Backchurch-iane , Mr . Keys—One boiler exploded , the shaft displaced , roof of boiler shops blown off , ends of engine-house and part of factory blown down , machinery and contents severely damaged by explosion , the counting-house and offices seriously injured , and windows broken . Ifo . 88 ,

      ditto , Mr . Starkey—Back , front , and roof seriously damaged , and windows demolished . No . 89 , ditto , Mr . J . Jtieketts—Building similarly damaged and furniture broken . No . 87 , Mr . J . Edgington , grocer and cheesemonger—Premises shaken hy explosion , window glass damaged , and roofs of kitchen and washhouse broken in . Xos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 68 , and 69 ditto—Window glass broken , and premises damaged by explosion . No . 93 , ditto , Mr . Readdy , cooper—Roof of dry shed damaged by explosion . Charles-street , the school-house belonging to Mr . Hibbert—School partially destroyed , and front house ditto . No . 1 , ditto—Premises partially blown down , and furniture destroyed by breakage . No . 2 , *? iffsi __ "Rniliiirtcra nnfl fiipnififi'lk nvtanoifnKr AimntrnA

      by the explosion ; back , front , and roof destroyed , and window-glass demolished . Berners-street , No . 14 J , Mr . Stagg—Stabling damaged by explosion . Ditto , Nos . 23 , 24 , and 25—Buildings damaged by explosion , &e . Ditto , Mrs . M'Donald—A piece of wood , about fourteen feet long , forced through the wall , and window-glass damaged . Batty's Gardens , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5—Premises severely injured , and glass destroyed . Campbell ' s-place , Northstreet , Mr . J . F . Campbell—Roof of premises bvoken in . Church-street , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6—Premises all severely injured , and glass demolished . The cause of explosion unknown . "

      Most Serious Accident at Kensington . - On Tuesday evening a band of brass instruments was playing in front of the King of Prussia publichouse , Kensington , when a phaeton , drawn by a grev horse , in which were a gentleman and lady , approached . The horse took Iright at the music , and started off at full speed down the road , when , between the King of Prussia and the church , three boys were run over by the phaeton . At thesame instant , opposite to a most dangerous turn in the road , the phaeton came into fearful collision with an omnibus , the pole of which was driven with dreadthe

      ful force against the lady and gentleman m phaeton , and one of the shafts of that vehicle entered the chest of one of the emnibus horses . Several persons who witnessed the accident instantly went to the assistance of the sufferers , and messengers were sent for a surgeon . The boys were first taken into the neighbouring shops . The lady was found to be lifeless . The gentleman , who was carried up into the back room of the Castle , had sustained an injury of the abdomen from a blow from the omnibus pole , and the medical gentleman in attendance , said it was impossible that he could long suryive ; the body of the lady was soon afterwards

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      conveye d to the Cro ^ ft Inn , adjoining the churchyard , where it av ^ B a coroner ' s jnqueS (; . of the three boys , on ; - Of tne name of Connor had his log broken , an < i was promptly conveyed on the police stretcher to St . George ^ Hospital , where he now lies , the second boy , who is named Boucher , had a . serious injury of the forehead , from which he was covered with blood , and also of his left arm , and was Conveyed to the same hospital in a li g ht cart soon afterwards . The third boy , named Simpson , who was not so severely injured , was conveyed home by his father . The crowd that was immediately collected was immenso , and continued until a late hour throughout that portion of the high road . The name of the lady is Rogerson , and the gentleman is

      a Mr . Tucksfield , of Elm-cottage , Barnes , Surrey The horse of the latter was stopped in . its course , and is now in a stable at Kensington , not much injured , and the driver of the omnibus is detained at the station-house . —— Further Particulars . —Mr . J . Austin Tuxford appeared weaker on Wednesday than on the preceding night . Mr . James Merrimah and Mr . John Merriman are in constant attendance upon him . He has been twice visited by Dr . Arnott , ol Bedford-square . Mrs . Rogerson , accompanied by her two daughters , arrived at Kensington on Tuesday , and remained there in a most distressed state of mind till midnight , when the medical gentlemen prevailed upon her to return to Elm-bank . One of her daughters remained with the body of her deceased sister at the Crown Inn . Mr . Tuxford ' s

      brother has also been constantly with him . The repertB of the medical men give no hopes of the ultimate recovery of Mr . Tuxford . He has five ribs broken , and he has been gradually sinking . The deceased young lady was about twenty-two years of age , and Mr . Tuxford , who is about forty years of age , was about to be married to one of her sisters . The boy , George Connor , whose thigu was fractured , and the boy , Joseph Brucher , whose head and left arm were injured , and who were taken to St . George ' s Hospital , are reported to be progressing favourably . Robbery . —On Tuesday afternoon some thieves entered this house of Mr . Maurice Levy , wine merchant , Norfolk-street , Strand , and stole his cash box , containing upwards of £ 500 , in notes , . gold , silver , and securities .

      St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields . —Election of Guardians of the Poor , —In consequence of there being CO names proposed , the result of tho election was Only known to-day : —The 24 persons proposed by the churchwardens have been elected , the highest having polled 1 , 462 votes , and the lowest 1 , 158 . Of the 24 names proposed by Mr . Charles Cochrane , that gentleman himself obtained 871 , and the lowest of his nomination 193 votes , Of the 10 names proposed by others , four were also included in the churchwardens' list , and were consequently among the highest . Of the remaining 12 , Mr . Wakley , M . P ., obtained 838 , and the lowest on the whole poll 130 votes .

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      ¦ ¦ tered , were in the ' Handwriting of the prisoner faring the year 1 % T , but during the whole of that year the entries , m tho general cash book do not corres pond wit > , the entri es of the receipts from the collectors of tho water rents . There ui an entry , of the accounts for the year m ^ B *** ™ S by two directors on the 6 th of May , 1848 but wit ness was not present . The " rent cash-books were luaid for . audit if they had been required , as well as the general caah-l » ok . Iu 1848 , during the absence of Mr . Mann , Mr . Preston was in the habit of receMng the renta from the collectors , and handing SSKx and the key to Mr . Mann on the kllowing morning , or on the morning of the second day but he ma ^ e no entry in the /' rent ^ -book , leaving that to be done by the prisoner . Thei sums naid in by the collectors were entered ^ in their

      collecting books by themselves or ° W ™™' » u ™* Mr . Mann ' s absence for three months ^ of that . yeai ( 1848 ) Mr . Preston received the rents from the collectors , and made payment thereof to the treasurers , Messrs . Beckett and Go . The accounts for 1840 have not yet been audited , in consequence ol the Michaelmas survey of empty property not having been completed , and other charges for water supplied under special circumstances , not having been adjusted . —Mr . Robert Bird , who had been a collector of the company since February , 1846 , states that his duty was to go to the office of the company every night , and there to enter the water rents he had collected during the day in a book called the collector ' s water rent book . When he had so

      entered them in detail , he had to make out an account on a piece of paper , specifying each portion of the year to which the accounts received related , as sometimes there were arrears received . The accounts of water rents were formerly presented halfyearly , but now quarterly . Mr . Mann signed a receipt in the book in red ink for the sums the collectors paid him , and it was his duty to enter those sums in the " rent cash-book . " All the entries made by Mr . Mann in his presence were correctly made in the collector ' s water-vent book ; but sometimes it happened that Mr . Mann was not at the office in the evening , and then he left the money with another clerk , who locked it up in a cash box and gave it to Mr . Mann when he came , and witness

      frequently found when he went to the office next morning that . Mr . Mann had correctly entered the money he had left overnight . All the payments he made to Mr . Mann were in that manner correctly entered . —Mr . Richard Newton , another collector , gave similar evidence as to the course of business , and said that the prisoner had always correctly receipted at the foot of the daily accounts the monies he paid him or left for him . —Mr . Preston , on being recalled , said that for the last three or four years the arrears of rents received are partly in the handwriting of other clerks , and for the last three or four quarters the entries in the rent cash book are principally in the handwriting of other clerks . —Mr . Mallinson , a ledger clerk in the bank

      of Messrs . Beckett and Co ., tho treasurers to the Water Works Company , referred to a pass book showing the accounts between the bank and the company from January 1 , 1841 , to Dec . 31 , 1847 , and a subsequent Look bringing down the account to the present time . The monies were generally paid in by Mr . Mann ; occasionally by Mr , Preston . The money was generally drawn out by cheques signed by directors , and recently were countersigned by the chief clerk . The first-mentioned pass book was signed at the end by the three gentlemen who were auditors of the borough fund accounts in 184 S , and dated Oct . 18 ; there were also the initials of two of the directors . —Mr . J . R . By water said that he had been employed during the whole of the last week in

      investigating the accounts , of the Leeds Waterworks Company . lie had looked into the rent cash books partially , but more particularly into those from Feb . 28 , 1847 , to Dec . 31 , 1847 , and those from Jan . 1 to Dec . 31 , 1818 , and from the latter period to March 31 , 1849 . Witness produced an account which he had drawn out of the sums received by Mr . Mann from the collectors , as shown by _ the rent cash books , and also the amounts paid by him to Messrs . Beckett and Co ,, during the ten montha from Feb . 28 , 1847 , to Dec . 31 , 1847 , which showed a balance against him during that period of £ 1310 11 s . 5 d . The rent cash books from which this account was made up , do not appear on the face of them to have been before the auditors , though there was an audit

      of the accounts for that period , by the company s auditors , on the Cth May , 1848 , and on the 18 th October by the auditors of the town council . The general cash book , which appears to have been before the auditors , agrees , so far as relates to the payments made by Mr . Mann to the treasurer during those ten months , with the pass book of Messrs . Beckett and Co . He could not mention any particular sum that Mr . Mann had received from the collectors , and had withheld , as he paid in several days' receipts at one time , or at least a sum on account of those receipts . The cash account for 1848

      had not yet been balanced and consequently not audited ; but a " rest" was taken of the receipts to the 31 st of December , 1848 , and that showed that the prisoner had paid to the treasurer £ 3050 4 s . Id , less than he appeared , by the rent cash book kept by him , to have received . from the collectors during that year . In the three months ending 31 st March , 1849 , there was a similar deficiency of £ 342 Is . 2 d ., making an aggregate deficiency of £ 4702 16 s . 8 d . As the witness was unable to state any particular sums which the prisoner had received and not paid over , the further examination was adjourned until Monday next , for that to be ascertained .

      Lancashire . —Reform . —A petition to parliament in favour ot the reform movement—namely , for retrenchment and direct taxation—i » being got up in Liverpool , and has alreai ' y been signed by great numbers . Somersetshire . —Suspected Poisoning Case at Bath . —Much excitement has for several days existed at Bath , in consequence of rumours having been circulated that a man had been poisoned by his wife , who had married again three days after her deceased husband ' s funeral . The indecent haste of the woman ' s marriage is certain , and a coroner ' s jury are investigating the circumstances connected with the man ' s death . Deceased was a quarvyman , named Henry Marchant , about 28 years of age . On Saturday night , the 31 st of March , he was in good

      health , and left a fellow workman at twelve o ' clock , saying he was going home . On reaching his lodgings his wife made him a cup of tea , which was very unusual for her to do , and in about an hour after partaking of the tea Marchant was seized with violent vomiting and pains in his stomach . He continued ill for about a week , and then died . He was buried on Friday , the 13 th of April , and on the following Monday his > vidoir was married by licence to a Mr . Harris , a man of independent income , upwards of seventy . This Mr . Harris , had buried two wives , within the preceding thirteen months , the last only a few weeks before his marriage with Mrs . Marchant . —The jury decided unanimously that the stomach of deceased should be analysed by Mr . Ilerapath , of Bristol ; and the inquest was adjourned for a week .

      Fire at Greexock , —On Sunday morning a fire was discovered to have broken out in the extensive sugar-house in the Glebe , the property of Messrs . Ebenezcr Connall and Co . The fire maintained its unabated fury for two hours , when the voltree beams , joists , and roofing gave way , carrying with them in their descent cisterns , pans , p illars , and sugar moulds . The loss is estimated at about £ 20 , 000 , nearly one-half of which will , in all likelihood , have been comprised in the value of the building and machinery . Clarence-street , opposite the sugar-house , was covered to the depth of BeVQl'fll inches with th $ boiling molasses as ifc escaped from the interior of the house . The premises and stock are both insured ; the latter was large at the time .

      Portsmouth . —Alarming and Fatal Accident . — A most awful accident happened on Wednesday afternoon in this dockyard , which is expected to terminate fatally to one or more persons . As a gang of men were employed on the new dock , building by Mr . Bramble , at the north corner of the yard , in working the " traveller" of the tramway supported on piles for raising and lowering stones into the basis of the fabric from a lighter moored alongside , the gear broke , and the " traveller" went over the rails into the lighter , and most seriously injured two men in the vessel , and dragged several others from the scaffolding supporting the tramway . Some fell into the vessel , and others into the water . Six men were maimed , three of them dangerously .

      Three of the most seriously injured were conveyed to the Portsmouth , Portsea , and Gosport Hospital . One man , whoso leg was so severely injured and lacerated ( a bolt having stuck into his thigh four inches deep ) that the only chance of saving his life was by removing tho limb above the joint , had that operation most skilfull y performed by Dr . E . J . Soott last night by gaslight ; little hopes , how ever , are entertained of his recovery . Another man who had both legs broken—one in three places ; it is much feared he must lose it , but he is not in a state at present to undergo the operation . The third is seriously injured in the chest and head . The greatest attention . was promptly afforded by the Excellent gunnery-ship , and the poor sufferers were

      taken to the hospital upon the shoulders and in the arms of the crew of that ship , which is moored adjacent to the spot where the accident occurred . The medical officers of the Excellent were the first in attendance , and accompanied the sufferers to the hospital . The less injured were conveyed to the medical department of tho dockyard , where they received tho promptest attention from the officers of tho establishment . The cases of these poor men illustrate in a most striking lig ht the value of such ft bcnerolent institution as the Portsmouth Hospital . The poor fellows -were not admissible into the Naval Hospital , and but for the establishment of the former , would have had iio place of reception whore their eases could have been done justice to nearer than Winchester

      Death of a Misee . —An inquest was held on Monday afternoon , at Bristol , on the body of Mrs . Parsons , aa elderly lady , who was found dead in her bed on the previous Saturday moraing , when some

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      facts were detailed of a rather extraordinary character . It appears that at the latter end of last July her husband , Samuel Parsons , who was a master mason , was accidentally killed by a stone falling on him from the top of a quarry in which he was engaged at work . The deceased admiui 3 teredto the property , and in her account stated there was only Us . in money in the house . She has since continue ! to live in themost penurious way , denying herself even the vevy necessaries of life , and has been , even known to assist in making and carrying the mortar for the men to use , and she was frequently in th » habit of collecting the offal from the public roads . As some rumours , however , had got afloat that the

      old lady had a good deal of money , on the information relative to her death being circulated , a whole tribe of her relations , first and second cousins , entered the house , with a view of seeing what they could get . In ransacking an old . chest of drawers they pulled open one which seemed rather weighty . There was a large sheet of paper on the top , on removing which they found underneath a whole layer of sovereigns ; there was then another sheet of paper , and underne ath that again another layer of sovereigns , and so on till they amounted altogether to £ 1 , 000 , with eighty old spade guineas , and thirty half-guineas . The deceased has left behind her a considerable property , consisting chiefly of houses . A verdict in accordance with the above facts was returned by the jury .

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      ^^ ip ^^^^^^ . ^^^ 'O'WW i »»» Sreiano . ; Dublin , Mondat . —Infiux op Paupjebmm ix the Towns . —I have had occasion to remark , recently , upon the increasing evil of the influx of rural paupers in the southern towns , caused by land clearances , by the wholesale committals for larceny by the country justices , and by the utter destitution . The spread of cholera , and the dread of contagion , have induced the civic authorities of Cork to attempt the dislodgement of these hordes of rural paupers , and the Town Council , on the application of the health committee , have " voted a sum of £ 100 for clearing the streets , and carting paupers to some distance from the city boundaries . " But what is

      to become of these wretched beings when the carts Of the Cork corporation shall have dropped them upon the road sides , some five miles out of the precincts of that city ? There is no law of settlement in Ireland , else those intruding paupers might be forced back to the places from whence they came , and their own electoral divisions or parishes compelled to maintain them . As it is , many of them , no doubt , will wander elsewhere for a refuge , if they do not betake themselves to plunder ; many more will find their way back to the lanes and alleys of Cork , to he driven forth again at the expense of the corporation , for the poor law guardians have no power to interpose ; but the far greater part , it is to be feared , will perish from cold and hunger in the fields or upon the roadways . In explaining this

      alarming accumulation of pauperism , the Cork Reporter says : — " If every case were inquired into , nine out of every ten of these paupers would be found to have arrived in our city through the medium of the county gaol , having been driven thither by magistrate-landlords , whose only object was to throw upon other shoulders the burden ' they ought to bear . This iniquitous system we have over and over again exposed—it is a system now continued more perseveringly than ever . " This forcible expulsion of paupers is one of the worst manifestations of our horrible . social system , every day becoming more desperate , and approaching nearer to general embarrassment and insolvency . —Daily News , The cholera is making progress in Cork ; but in other places generally its ravages have greatly abated .

      Arrival of the Lord-Lieutenant . —His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant , ihe Countes 3 of Clarendon , and suite , arrived on Saturday evening , shortly after ten o ' clock , in Kingstown Harbour , from Holyhead , by her Majesty ' s mail packet Banshee , Lieutenant Smithett , R . N ., commander . State op Trade . —The weekly commercial report of the freeman ' s Journal contains the following : — " Trade continues in the same depressed state , the transactions in many articles being insufficient to afford a quotation , and , we fear , from present appearancea , no amelioration can be expected before harvest . It in very distressing to be obliged to record the same observations week after week , but the depopulation of some parts of the country is so complete , between the workhouse on one hand , and wholesale emigration on the other , that trade may be said to to be almost extinct , and judging from the falling off of consumption in Dublin , there must be a serious diminution in the Customs and Excise revenue of this country . "

      The Crops . —It is rumoured that the young po tato crop is much injured by the late severe weather , and the accounts from the country are looked for with much anxiety . There is hope of a change in the weather to-day . The last three weeks have been as bad as ever were known in this country . Tuesday . — The Famine . — The most afflicting accounts of the condition of the western districts are daily received . All classes are suffering dreadful privations—the poor are perishing in numbers , whilst those who had struggled against adversity , up to this time , are on the gulf of bankruptcy . The deaths by starvation are hourly increasing , and there is a lamentable want of preparation to meet the next two months . The private accounts from

      the west are most harrowing , and the misery of the lower classes is shown by the number of paupers that assail a person for alms in the neighbourhood even of this city . The famished look , of these beggars , and their wretched rags , tell too plain a tale of abject wretchedness . The Rev . James Anderson ,, rector and vicar of Ballinrobe , and Protestant chaplain of the Ballinrobe workhouse , has addressed a letter to Lord John Russell , describing the horrible scenes which he is hourly compelled to witness . "Can it be possible " says the reverend gentleman , " that we are to be left to die , and be lost wholesale in this truly wretched country ? Here now the cholera has reached us , and no wonder , for really language

      cannot express the deplorable condition we arc in . We have a workhouse built for 800 : but often do I find over 2 , 000 stuffed into it ? Besides this , the auxiliary establishments , temporarily got up , are crowded to a frightful excess ; the paupers , of course , dying in awful numbers , and even on the public roads at noon-day . In fact , death has hurried multitudes away who might have been saved had small timely aid been afforded , and this disastrous WOl'k . still progresses with increasing power . For a year and more the vrorkhousehospitalandfevcrsheds lave been crammed to overflowing with patients , I myself , a few days since , saw in one bed ( five feet three inches wide ) ten large children , fire being , I may say , the common complement . Hence

      hundreds of persons' lives are continually being victimised , and their places again filled up in quick succession with fresh candidates for the grave while the nurses and officials are all down in their turn . Misery is thus concentrated , as it were , in the workhouse , but , alas ! it is widely spread , and spreading faster and wider than ever , all over the country in every shape and circumstance ! I beseech vou my lord , that you will find out what is to be done , as something must , and that speedily . Your lordship may perhaps say , ' Why not get in the rates and feed and clothe the people V Put all the medical aid and appliances m requisition—strike new and

      higher rates—multi ply auxiliaries , &c . ' In God ' s name , let us have no such mockery now , for the country itself is bankrupt—tho lands are wastedthe proprietors ruined—no rents coming in , and the better classes all flitting to other regions . Surely , my lord , if things proceed in this calamitous way we shall only find a parallel to our own case in the plagues of Egypt 1 " The vico-guardians are acquitted of all blame by the Rev . Mr . Anderson , for they labour to their utmost from morning to night . The tax-collectors are in hopeless arrear ; for , after the most perilous exertion their books show a deficiency of £ 7 , 000 . Some of tho creditors of the union , who cannot obtain payment for the supplies already furnished , are themselves on tho brink o

      starvation . Mr . Tracy , the claimant of the Tracey peerage died yesterday morning in this city , where he had only lately arrived from England . Wedses » ay . ^ Pami . vb in the West . —The fearful state of affairs in Mayo is most painfully exhibited in the following gtatement , which appears in the Mayo Constitution , : —<* During the Quarter Sessions ot Westport we witnessed a ' scene which we believed no state of misery or suffering could have hi-nni **

      about . It was that of hearing seventeen unfortunate creatures , convicted of various crimes imploring the Court to transport them from their native country , as their only refuge from the horrors of death from hunger . " Cholera . —The average deaths in the poorhouses of Westport are set down at 100 per week The following is an extract of a letter from Ballinrobe •—" On Monday , the 16 th inst . I regret to inform vou a case of cholera occurred in the workhouse here ' which proved fatal ; since then it has rared thi-mii *

      the town most fearfully ; few ( if any ) once attacked 5 ur wE - V ?? ° ? in & ^ rkhonS awiui . What with lever , dysentery , and chnWi the people are dying like rotten sheep . " ' Death 05 Sir Arthur Blenneiuiassett -The Evening P 0 St announces the death of Sir 4 rthS S * & : k moi a ? tv ' hShpP / + e IocuIlt « * in the south the IS 3 f- ? A "S' ^ - the vihT t ^ C muWle class h ^ e been among rhPmoXr ; i ? 1 £ he countl > y generally , however " SiS t ! Lw £ ! ? nfined t 0 the P ° OT and de 3-SSI i A y 6 t > the cholera has made no S ^ t pro-S ? - the W ? : but » on ^ count of the extent of destitution , it is feared that it will produce calamiiSt kmn ! ' £ mortairty is very cou " Revolting Muuder at Portumna Castle . —The knowing account of a most appalling murder ap-

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      pears in the Evening Post . Dreadful crimes of this kind , from motives of plunder , have beconio frg . quent in this country since the commencement of the famine : —" Poor Miss Prendergast ( a venerable lady of sevcntyMiine , and a connexion ofthoSli go family ) waa , on last Friday night , inhumanly murdered and mutilated . She was found quite dond on Saturday morning by the daughter of Lord Clanri . carde ' s steward , her pockets rifled , but no o ther effects touched or disturbed . Mr . Edward Ryan R . M ., of Porttimna , and Mr . Edward Burke , of Marble Hall , hastened to the spot with police ; and the coroner , Mr . Ilosty , has been sent for . ' The poor old lady was evidently robbed , but why the savages took her life is strange , as she was wholly defenceless , and had not even a maid servant living in the house , or any near neighbour to give an alarm . " 6

      Emigration ' . — From the Powerscourt estate in the county of Tyrone , the trustees have latelv sent 2 l 5 fi ! sma 11 formers and thoir families , who have been provided with clothing and all necessary outfit , besides receiving a sum of money to meet their immediate wants on reaching their destination . From Waterford , and other ports , emigration is proceeding on the most extensivo scale . Renewed IjrsuHREcrloJTABT Stmptoms . —Tho following appears in the Tipperary Vindicator , a Repeal paper : — " A Carrick-on « Suir correspondent states that from circumstances which recently occurred in that locality , and came under his cognisance , there is too much reason to fear the presence of emissaries among the people excitinsr to

      disaffection , and a renewal of the scenes of July last . The Carrick people ought to be on their guard against these machinators , if any such there * be among them ; they should not suffer themselves to be betrayed into ill-advised proceedings by the ' poison of their words . ' Like some of the last incendiaries , they are indubitably vile emissaries , Dobbyns or worse , and only seek an opportunity of battening on tho lives ; and liberties of their victims . With the lone and ] sad experience which Irishmen have had of the 1 enemy ' s tactics in dealing with this country , they must be the veriest dupes in existence not to be j convinced that nothing is too base , nothing too bad , I for those to resort to whose object is to deprive thi 3 country and its people of their legitimate rights . " The State Prisoners . —The Freeman's Journal

      contains the following : — " Some days since it was announced that the state prisoners would be removed from Richmond Bridewell to London , at the end of the first week in May , in order to appear in the House of Lords to have the writ of error argued . We have heard that the Attorney-General has received directions to proceed to London on this business , but up to yesterday the authorities at Richmond Bridewell had not received any instructions as to the removal of Messrs . O'Brien , Meagher , M'Manus , and O'Donohoe . "

      Depreciation of Landed Property . —In 1844 a , small fee-simple estate in Westmeath , within a few miles of Athlone , was offered for sale . It consisted of a mansion-house , and 126 acres of fine land , free from tenantry of any kind . By private contract it was sold for £ 7 , 000 ; but the purchase was prevented by some legal difficulties . The following year the estate was bargained to be sold for . tt > , l > 00 ; but difficulties of the same kind interrupted the sale . Another year elapsed , and the same property ivas put up in the master ' s office in chancery , when the lighest bidder was £ 5 , 100 . The inheritor petitioned

      the court to prevent so great a sacrifice as a sale at £ 5 , 100 , and there was an order for the adjournment of the sale . The creditor became importunate at the long delay—a peremptory sale was directed last December , and the estate , which would have brought £ 7 , 000 five years ago , uras finally disposed of for £ 3 , 500 exactly one-half the amount . The solicitor in the cause has given me the particulars as I have stated them , ana lie is of opinion that the same property , if now in U « j market , would produce a still smaller amount , if i bidders could be had at all . —Morning Chronicle . I

      Tho Covk Examiner states that a nobleman in j that county " has offered 000 acres of land rent \ free for a period of seven years to any respectable '¦ ¦ party who will undertake to pay the poor-rate and ¦ cess thereon for the term specified . " I The Poor Law Commissioners have resolved on ; enforcing the lioman Catholic holidays in the case ; . of Catholic paupers in workhouses . For doing so ; they have been severely assailed in the northern prints . It is quite clear that making Catholics work on these days ( nine in the year ) would be y ielating their reli g ious feeling 3 , and the poor law is unpopular enough , without giving its administra- j tion a sectarian aspect . {

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      THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS . EXECUTION OF RUSH . * Norwich , April 21 . — James Bloomfield Rus ! i , the perpetrator of the Stanfield Hall murders , wasexecuted this day at noon in front of Norwich Castle . The enormity of his crimes , the station in life which he had previously occupied , the extraordinary circumstances of the whole case , his inexplicable conduct during the trial , and the steadiness with which ho has since then persevered in denying the guiJt which was so clearly brought home to him , have all tended to attract in an unusual degree the attention of the public to his fate . It is very seldom , in this country and age , that the crime of murder rises from the vulgar and debasinsf associations by

      which the influences of civilised society surround it , and by its appalling magnitude takes its place among the list of historical- events . In thi 3 case unfortunately such has been the result . Tho assassin ' s firat victim was Recorder of Norwich , onco themost important city in-England after the metropolis . The second victim was that ill-fated gentleman ' s only son . They were shot down at night , within their family mansion , without a moment ' s warning or opportunity of resistance . It was proved beyond the possibility of doubt that the man who did this foul deed was James Bloomfield Rush , a farmer , living in the immediate neighbourhood , and who owed a deep debt of gratitude to the father and grandfather of those whom he had so ruthlesslv

      muruered . Two helpless women , the one wife an . l daughter-in-law to the murdered men , tke other herTieroic servant , still suffer from wounds receive ;! by them on " that dreadful night . Suspicion foil immediately and instantaneously on Rush , fit' was taken , tried , and condemned , the principal witness against him being a girl whose innocence he had betrayed , whom he then used as his tool in the perpetration of fovgevics which were to gni » the F ° " perty of the persons he had marked out for slaughter , and whose life there is very little doubt tliai he would have taken after she had served his infamous designs . Such were the crimes for wliii-h the convict Rush was this dav hanged upon the scaffold .

      The conduct and language of such a monster inhuman form previous to ins execution , when oppressed by the memory of his tremendous guilt , and knowing that his days and hours were numbervil , cannot be uninteresting to the psychologist . Thore are , too , a variety of circumstances already p ublished to the world which have increased the curiosity felt upon this point . Rush , like several other great criminals—amongst whom may be montionoJ Eugene Aram and Thurtell—undertook his own defence , which he conducted so as to strengthen the case against him and supply links to the evidence previously wanting . Like Tawell , who was also a native of Norfolk , he was observant of the outira '

      forms of religion , and while contemplating « savasff and wholesale murder practised family devotioa with his mistress . One of our greatest noveli- 'fby a happy flight of imagination , represents a convict , when on the scaffold and about to die , piovia the ruling passion strong in death , by picking M pocket of tho chaplain . Rush mau .-igeJ at Ijis trial , in the presence of judge and jury , with tte court crowded in every corner by spectators , to a ' ' stract a £ 40 check from a pocke ' t-book handed up to him for inspection , and dexterously to coiw ^

      the paper in the lining of his hat , principally- a ^ - would appear , ' for the purpose of blackening }> character of the solicitor prosecuting on Iit'li "" ot the Crown . Like several other celebrated n > u J * dcrevs , he was not a man addicted to drink . »««!• singular to say , his general abstemiousness ° ! ' ' j , point gave tremendous force to a little face « ' '"* conduct on tho night of the murders wluctt vw » stated by Emily Sandford . ... i These remarkable coincidences give * ' , " ,., interest to the details of his conduct toM ® r ? l before his execution , and to his general be . i' « 'fc from the time when sentence of death « . P « l

      nounced against him and his doom irrevoca " } n »• The following particulars we owe to the c 0 UW « he Mr . Pinson , . Governor of Norwich Castle , awl »' . " Rev . Mr , Brown , Chaplain to the Gaol . J » * gentlemen state that Rush , from the commcnc - . . ^ of his imprisonment , assumed the character " nocence and piety , and so carefully asserted i » i . ^ tensions to these qualities , and so ovev- * "H . ns part , as to throw at once the strongest si j > i rf on his sincerity . He took every ° PPol , j | litv \ iiid denying his guilt , professing perfect tra »< lul ' - con . unhesitating confidence in his acquittal- V cOffl . stant language was , " Thank God , la " & , vel ) , fortable in body and mind ; I cat wo 11 ' , " ffas ouand sleep well . ' The wretched man s sicei . he served by his attendants not to ^ . ° V ; „ his athtmsolf represented it . He was cons ; ani | m _ tendance at chapel , and very soon alter i z ^ mittal requested the chaplain to adminicle ' crament to him privately . This , howewr , w , ^ _ lam refused to do ,-and thereupon M *^^ ' j that fidencc m him . After conviction he reqw d the the Itev . W . AV . Andrews , of Felming tom , ' Rev . f ! . T iiinir- « f K- ntf » i- ? n ( rhani , niifi ' \

      ,,-mitted to visit him in Mr . Brown ' co"W ^ msh was of course complied witii , ana . w ^ ^ convict expected to work upon the mm u gentlemen , whose churches he had buen m i of attending , a conviction of lusj nnocencc . " * * An account of the execution appeared in * - » j fourth edition of Saturday last . . . *' ' - ^* i

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      Cambridgeshire . —Alleged Case op Suicide . — About two years ago , a Miss Bowtell , the daughter of a bookbinder , residing in Cambridge , became a convert to the ltomish church , and after a time she became acquainted with a young Irishman , named B . Smithson , who was employed in the town , and who proposed marriage , but wished the ceremony to be performed privately ; to this , however , Miss Bowtell objected , and the present Catholic priest , the Rev . Mr . Quinlivan , it is understood , was altogether opposed to the match . Consequently , and for some supposed interference of Mr . Quinlivan , Smithson waited on that gentleman on Monday night week , and at the close of the interview ,

      committed a very grievous assault , for which he was taken before the magistrates on Tuesday ; but the prosecutor was suffering so severely front the injuries sustained that he was unable to attend , and the case was remanded until Monday last . On "Wednesday se ' night the legal adviser of Smithson ( Mr . Garrett ) waited upon Miss Bowtell , and pointed out to her as delicately as possible the serious nature of the charge against her lover , at which , as might be expected , she was seriously affected , and great depression of spirits followed . On Thursday Mi . Hammond , surgeon , was sent for ; but his aid was of no avail , for the vital spark had fled , the young lady having , there is too much reason to fear , taken poison . An inquest was holden on the body of this

      unfortunate woman , when Mr . Hammond stated that he had made a post-mortem examination , and found a stricture of the stomach , some patches of inflammation , and a whitish powder mixed with the food , but what it was , or what was the immediate cause of death , he had not been able to ascertain ; consequently the inquest was adjourned , and tho coroner requested Dr . Webster in the meantime to analyse the contents of the stomach . Miss Bowtell possessed considerable personal attractions , and was thirty-two years of age , It is evident that Smithson strongly suspected the priest of interfering

      to prevent Miss Bowtell marrying him ; although when he accused Mr . Quinlivan ot it , that gentleman denied it , and said liis feelings were just tho reverse . On Monday last Mr . Quinlivan appeared before the court to prefer his charge against Smithson . He was in very delicate health , . owing to the injuries received ; and the magistrates decided upon committing the prisoner for trial at the assizes upon the felony . Norfolk . —Emily Sandford . — -All persons holding subscriptions for Emily Sandford or Eliza Chestney will have the goodness to pay the same to the bankers immediately , the former being about to emigrate under the protection of a brother . —Daily News .

      Surrey . — -Daring Burglary . —On last Saturday evening , between the hours of eight and nine , tho residence of Mr . Daftbrne , Russell-terrace , Brixton , was felonionsly entered , and various articles of jewellery , trinkets , &c , stolen . Among these were a lady's gold chain , two or three brooches , and a morocco case containing a silver fruitknife , fork , and spoon . The thieves gained admission through an unoccupied house nearly adjoining , and then making their way along the parapet , which is surmounted by a high-stone balustrade , they entered a bed-chamber window after cutting the glass and removing the fastening . Fortunately , they were alarmed before they had secured all within reach , and several similar articles to those stolen were left behind .

      Explosion in a Colliery . —Or Friday morning week , about seven o ' clock , an explosion of sulphur took place at Keeling ' s Colliery , the property of Benjamin Gibbons , Esq ., in this parish , and adjoining the Oak Farm Works . The " doggy " had examined the pit as usual at six o ' clock , before the men went to work , and believed that all was right , but about seven o ' clock an explosion took place , by which throe men were dangerously burnt , and two others slightly injured . One of the three men , John Hickman , who is about fifty years of age , was so severely injured that he died on the following morning . Mr . Ireland , surgeon , of Kingswinford , is attending two of the other men ( James Glazzard and John fester ) , but entertains no hope of their recovery . —Birmingham Journal .

      Lancashire , —Female Burglar , —On Friday vrcck a young woman , Isabella Crook , was charged before the magistrates with breaking into the house of Mr . Steel , Duke of York Tavern , Urmston . The prisoner had been discovered secreted in one of the bedrooms , behind two sacks of flocks , lying on the floor , with a sheet around her . She haa broken through a wall out of the shippon , into the back brevfhouse , and so gained admission to the house . She WAS committed for trial . Worcestershire . — Alleged Poisoning . — On Thursday week , Martha Price , a widow living at Maddresfield , and who had attained the venerable age of 93 , died under circumstances pregnant with suspicion , and strongly suggesting that she had been p oisoned by her son , Thomas Price , a labourer , who lived in the house with her . She had been for

      some time attended by Mr . West , surgeon , of Malvern , but though she had been ailing , she seemed to be recovering her usual state of health . However , when he made a call upon her on Tuesday he found her much worse and sick , and on asking the son the reason , he said that she had had some soup sent her from the court ( Maddresfield Court ) which was too rich for her stomach . This tale has since proved to be altogether untrue ; Mr . W est , however , believed it at the time , and left her without making further inquiries . She got worse afterwards , and died . As soon as this event had taken

      place ,. a neighbour , named Ann Bridges , informed the R « v . H . Phil pot , the clergyman of the parish , that she had seen Thomas Price give his mother a cup of tea on the Tuesday , on the top of which she observed an unusual scum , and when his mother had drunk it , there remained a spoonful of white sediment at the bottom . She immediately afterwards was seized by a pain in her stomach , and continuous vomiting ensued . The motive for this supposed matricide is thought to be supplied by the fact that the old woman had £ 170 in the hank , which her son would become possessed oi on her death .

      Yorkshire . — The Embezzlement op nearlt £ 5 , 000 at Leeds . —On Monday , Mr . Peter Mann , chief clerk of the Leeds Waterworks Company , was further examined before the sitting magistrates at the Court-house , Leeds , on a charge of having embezzled a sum of nearly £ 5 , 000 , the property of his employers , the " Waterworks Company . The investigation , which was taken before Mr . Carbutt , Mr . Monkland , and other justices , occupied a considerable time , in consequence of the necessary reference to the books in which the accounts of the company kept by the prisoner were entered , but the facts lay within a very narrow compass . Mr . N . Preston , ii clerk in the service of the company , produced a number of '' rent cash books , " each being made for a separate half-year , which purported to contain the particulars of the various Bums received on account of water rents by the collectors , and paid to the prisoner . The entries of these sums in the rent cash books , as well as in the general cash book , into which the sums purporting to have been so receired were , or should have been , correctly en-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 28, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1520/page/6/