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OTaloj . -f J j"i ^^ Accn > £ Hx . _ Iast week an accident attended with loss of life occurred to the Cardigan mail , coach on its journey from Carmarthen to Cardigan , when a short distance Jbeyond Newcastle Emlyn ^ t a p lace called Pomprengwyddon . When the coach left for ffewcastleEmlyn , two persons Mr , Morgan Jenkins , " a respectable draper residing at Cardigan , and his daughter were the only inside lassengere . When near the post-office , a drunken man got up usbAnd , aad refusing to go down or pay
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his fare , the coachman , William Evans , endeavoured to get him off by a pretty free use , of . the whip . Eventually , when , near the old turnpike f- ^ v " man gotoff , and commenced running after tl » e coacn catclung hold of it behind . The coachman went down tomakehimletgo his lioU , vrhich having succeeded in doing , he again took his seat on t , he box , aaataK - * sa ^ £ -S ^ ^ sift 34 Ssa ™ 2 ! materially injured . Mr . Jenkins ^ who , as it has been statedwas insidecried out for assistance ,
, , and as soon as the outside passengers got up , the coachman and another man proceeded to extricate him , but could not until the coach was righted , and this having been done , he was taken out and placed with his back against the hedge , but it was found he was dead . " An inquest was held , and the jury returned the following special verdict : "That the deceased , Morgan Jenkins , being a person subject to fits , accidentally died in consequence of the overturning of the Cardigan mail , and that the evidence does not satisfy the jury that the coachman was in a fit state to be entrusted with the lives of persons , and that there was a great want of care in not using the drag on the Bill on which . the accident occurred . "
Death of a Po-iciier . —On the evening of the lstinst , a party of three persons , whom a fourth joined on the road , left Welsbpool for the purpose of netting in the river Terniew , a rapid and dangerous one , near the village of Meifod . Shortly after midnight , while pursuing their illegal amusement , one of tbe party , named Robert Da vies , aged twentyfour , whose * parents reside in , Welsbpool , _ was suddenly missed by his companions , the first intimation of his fate being the floating of-his hat down the stream . The immediate cause of the catastrophe is not known , for not a sound was heard by his fellowpoachers . The body was found some hours afterwards . -
The Britannia Bridge . —On or about the 20 th of June is the period spoken of as a probable time when the floating of the tube may be expected to conic off . A party of Jack tars from the Sailors ' Home , Liverpool , have reached the locality , and are barracked on the banks of the Mcnai , and these will be under the direction of Captain Claxton , to whom the arduous task of floating the tubes has been confided . The scientific -world looks forward to this grand operation with much interest , not unmixed with anxiety , but yet with confidence ; and it is expected that numbers will personally satisfy them selves of the success of this certainly Herculean task . North Walee Chronicle .
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non-payment of rent , but the industrious . under-tenants allowed to . remain .. _•' . ¦ . _ . ; ^ Monday , June 4 . —Cholera . —The correspondent of the Daily News states that the cholera has been in Dublin for several days , and very bad cases of it have occurred . The fact has been kept concealed from the public , in order to prevent needless alarm a policy which is of a very dubious utility . It has appeared on both sides of the river , and has been worst in the low situations , as has always been remarked of it . There , is much alarm felt about it , in consequence ol so many ' respectable persons having fallen victims to it at Limerick" and elsewhere . In Kerry it has been very bad . The parish priest of Dingle and several of his best parishioners have died by it . On going through a long list of respectable names of persons dead from cholera , I find that , with scarcely an exception , they were
either old or very young persons . . " .. Pook-iaw Rating . — The very unequal rating in different electoral districts of the same union is now become very remarkable , according as employment is given or withheld on drainage , land improvement , ana farm labour . In " the union of Limerick , Cappermore has a ten shilling rate , whilst Doon has but two and Patrick ' s Well three shillings in the pound . In the Nenagh union the ratea vanes from sixpence to five shillings . The Land . —The ' Limerick Chronicle asserts that < Mn the county of Clare 10 , 000 acres of land , arable and pasture , may be had for only the payment of the poor-rate from one to five years . " The Clearance System . —At the . meeting of the Limerick board of guardians , on Saturday , a letter was read from the Poor-law Commissioners relative
to the eviction of seventy-five persona at Donoughmore , contrary to the act , no notice : having been served oh the relieving officer . An immediate inquiry was ordered , with a- view to a prosecution for felony , if it should be found that legal notice had not been given . ' . The Irish Basks . —The last return of the circulation of the Irish banks show a further contraction Of £ 89 , 000 . ; The Harvest . —The Northern Whig states , that some cases have occurred in Antrim , Down , and the neighbouring counties , where potatoes are extensively planted , which " leave little doubt that we ave again threatened , to some extent , with a recurrence of the disease ; but the instances are not very numerous , fortunately , so far . " The Galway Mer
cury builds its hope of revival of the country upon the safety of the potato crop . However , in that western county there is a great breadth of other crops , proving that" the efforts of the peasantry must have been almost superhuman in putting down , amid all their privations , such extensive sowings this year . " That journal adds— " For years past there have not been witnessed finer crops than those now growing throughout i district of ten miles round Galway . " . " NOTES FBOM THE WEST . " Tuesday . —Under the above head , an intelligent writer in the Newry ' Telegraph continues his sketches of the condition of the province of Connaught : — " In my last paper I observed that a retributive Providence was punishing the parties that had contributed to the poverty and degradation of these
countries . The heartless and improvident proprietor has to pay up by rack-rates what he formerly took away as rack-rents , and is made to support the poor he helped to impoverish . The bigot priest , who lived upon the superstition of the people , feels his system of the dark ages unsuitable for the age of light , and is frowned upon as the adherent of a sinking and hopeless cause . As equity prevails , the fox-hunting , card-playing aristocrat is made to suffer , and as light prevails the men of beads and crosses , and relics , are deserted , Both are paying the penalty of former misdeeds , and the spirit of the age will certainly overthrow them . " I fear you will not believe me when I state a few facts concerning the social state of the country .
One union boasts ot a staff of paupers to the amount of 27 , 000 . The Union of Ballina has on out and indoor relief not less at present than 32 , 000 . A gentleman writes me from another place , We have 19 , 000 on out-door relief , and 2 , 000 in the workhouse—21 , 000 in all , and our union £ 15 , 000 in debt , and an execution this moment in the house for £ 90 . ' The High Sheriff of the county is missing . So is tho county treasurer . Society is thoroughly dissolved , and the government , even in the administration of their relief , do not know whom to trust or employ . Strangers have to come in to support the people , and strangers have to administer tho support . The righteousness which ' exalts a nation , ' teachimr mutual dependence , and leading to the
discharge of respective duties , is wanting . The material with wnich the government have to build is bad , and no matter how benevolent their designs or careful their construction , tho fabric crumbles again and again among their hands . In the midst of this dreary state of things evictions go forward , and if the poor things do not clear off as soon as ordered they are denied relief . Wherever God has designed they shall live , it is clear the proprietors do net design that they should encumber their property ; so they drive them off in hordes to the fever shed , the workhouse , or America . On the road from Ballycastle to Killala I counted from one eminence thirty-seven unroofed house 3 . The number of these is rapidly increasing . "
The Cholera . —Within the last few days there have been several fatal cases in and around the metropolis , the mortality , however , being almost wholly confined to the lowest classes , the residents of the courts and lanes , which are rarely free from disease of some type or other . It is also reported that the pestilence has again broken out m the Queen ' s lioyals , now lying encamped in the Phoenixpark . The Barracks in Ship-street have been fitted up as a temporary hospital for the reception of military patients . Wednesday , June 6 . —The State Prisoners . —Reply of the Lord Lieutenant . —Yesterday , the deputation appointed lo present the memorial to the Lord-L'eutenant on behalf of the state prisoners
waited on his Excellency at the Vice-Regal Lodge , Phoenix Paik . Amongst the gentlemen who formed the deputation were the Lord Mayor of Dublin , the Mayors of Cork , Limerick , and Wacerford , Sir Colman O'Loghlen , Bart ., Mr . Butt , Q . C , Mr . W . V Leslie Foster , &c . His Excellency returned the following reply to the memorial : — " My Lord Mayor and " Gentlemen . —Fivm the moment when the senience of the law was pronounced upon the prisoners on whose behalf you have addressed me , I have felt bound to give the most anxious consideration to tka unhappy condition in which they were placed , so far as I could pay regard to their condition consistently with the obligations imposed on me in the exercise of those powers and prerogatives of
the Crown with which I am invested . I have felt deeply concerned for the unfortunate situation of men whose lives are forfeited to the offended laws of their country , but an imperative duty compels me to look to the nature and character of the crime of which they have been convicted—to the circumstances preceding and attending it , and above all , to the consequences which might have resulted from its temporary success . I cannot diregard matters unfortunately too notorious : the disturbance of the public peace—the dislocation of society for many weeks throughout an extensive district—the armed opposition to the constituted authorities of the realm—the
serious loss -of life among the poor , misguided followers of the prisoners—the utter havoc which seemed , for a brief time , impending over many parts of the country from their wild and desperate proceedingstheir avowed rebellion and treason against her Majesty , and her rights to the Crown and sovereignty if Ireland . I fully appreciate the motives of humanity which have prompted this appeal , but in reply to it I have at present only to assure you that the government , in the performance of its duty , can have no other desire than that justice should be adminis tered without any severity beyond that which the interest of societv demands . "
The Freeman ' s Journal of this morning contains the following : — " Yesterday , Mr . Marquis , the governor of Richmond Bridewell , received a notification from the Lord-Lieutenant that the sentence of death which had been passed on the state prisoners , Messrs . Smith O'Brien , Thomas Francis Meagher , Terence Bellew M'Manus , and Patrick O'Donohoe , had been commuted to transportation for life . Up to a late hour yesterday evening the governor had not received any notice tor the removal of the state prisoners from the gaol , although rumours were afloat through town that they had either been removed , or were about to be removed , to a steamer , which was said to be in readiness at Kingstown to receive them . "
Increase of Destitution . —Our-DaoR Relief . —The guardians of the Fermoy "Union , by a majority of 13 to 6 , have determined to apply to the Poorlaw Commissioners for a sealed order , authorising them to grant out-door relief for two months , under the second section of the Poor Law Act . Already out-door relief is given , in certain cases , under the first section . The number now receiving in-door relief in the workhouse of Fermoy is 4 , 929 ' , and those receiving out-door relief amount to 7 , 591 ; total , 12 , 520 . It was stated by some of the guardians , that destitution had latterly increased to such an extent , that four thousand more , would require relief , being a total of 16 , 500 out of a population of about 90 , 000 . The Earl of Mountcashel . vigorously and perseverinely onDosed a further extension of
out-door relief , and moved , an amendment that increased workhouse accommodation should be provided . His lord-hip remarked at length upon the abuses of the out-door relief system , and stated that , ! the landlords would be compelled , where they did not get their rents , and where the people were all to be indiscriminately supported , to eject the holders of land—to thin down the small farms and make large farms of them . If that system were carried out , he should -commence dohtg it himself . in sslf-defence . They do not ( continued , the noble earl ) calculate what the result of that system Would be : and . he believed that the entire of Ireland swmld -be in a very short time , much gooner than they imagined , and themselves included , be involved is one general insolvency . " The amendment of JLoM Mountcashel ,
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however , was rejected by a majority of two to . one ; and it is remarkable that his son , Lord K » woi > tn » voted with the majority against him . Lord Mountcashel , however , read a formal protest , against out door relief . In accounting fi » the great mortality in the workhouse , he attributed it to the " too g < v > d food given to the paupers , " after destitution outside . The expense of this luxurious feeding , lor each nauper , is exactly sixteen-pence a week . The Cuoleua . — There havo been since yesterday sever al cases of cholera reported in tho city and suburbs , one or two of which terminated iatally . A iveit his
comp etent medical authority-gs as opinion , founded upon considerable experience , that the present pestilence is of a much more malignant tvoc than that of 1832 , but that it is scarcely , if at all epidemic : and that , although the disease has been hovering about the metropolis for a period of six weeks , the numbers . attacked have been comparatively few . If not taken in time death is . in four c ases out of five the inevitable rcuult , as the collopsed stage immediately follows the first symptoms , and the recovery is then all but hopeless . ; By the adoption of timely precautions , on the contrary , dangerous consequences have been almost invariably averted .
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. mim . THE CHOLERA . KETNsnAM , Pomebset .- ^ A correspondent says t—The painful feelings existing at Keynsham , in consequenco of the breaking out of the cholera in that village , have been greafly increased owing to adispute ° which the vicar , the Rev . G . R . Harding , has originated with the board of guardians . It would seem that tho reverend gentleman having taken umbrage at what he conceived to be a slight in his name not being put upon the sanitary committee , not only refused to bury the corpses of the poor people until a peremptory order for his doing so was served upon him by the bishop , biit he has since insisted on an' inquest being held upon some of the bodies , contending that the guardians had not taken sufficient care to prevent the extension of the
disease , and that a medical staff had not boon provided for that purpose . . It would seem that upon the first breaking out of the epidemic a resident guardian was appointed to act in tho nature of a committee , with power to associate any other parties with him , atid in pursuance of that power he obtained the aid of two p hysicians , who were remunerated for their services , and who joined with him in making a perfect examination of the houses in the parish , a proceeding which occupied four days . At the end of this time it was not deemed advisable to continue the paid assistance of the medical gentleman , and a committtee was formed , a member of which was a retired surgeon . The vicar
subsequently applied to be placed on this committee , but it being understood that he had imputed to that body a falsification of the returns of cases , the chairman refused to act with him , and his name was not added , a circumstance which is believed to have given great offence . , The vicar then refused to bury any corpses , and puthimself in communication with the coroner , Mr . Uphill , with a view to induce that officer to hold h > quests upon the bodies . A great deal of feeling and alarm was excited by these proceedings , many of the parishioners considering the inquiry wholly uncalled for , an doll of them regarding the detention ot the choleraic corpses above ground as highly dangerous to the public health . An application was consequently made to the Bishop of Bath and Wells ,
and his lordship , with great promptitude wrote to the vicar , peremptorily ordering him to bury the body , and to offer any explanation he might have to make subsequently . In consequence of this interments took place on Saturday night . On Monday , Mr . Uphill , the coroner , arrived , and held an inquest on the body of a young woman , named Louisa Long . It appeared , from the evidence adduced . ' that the deceased was one of about fifty inmates of the Keynsham union workhouse , who at the time when the cholera first broke out in that establishment , became so much alarmed as to leave tho house , and place themselves upon the list of outdoor paupers . After quitting the union she went to reside with some poor persons named Godward , who
resided in a small and ill-ventilated dwelling , in a portion of the parish which is known as Swan River . There seemed to be nothing particular the matter with the deceased until tho evening of Whit-Sunday , when at about eight o'clock she was taken ill with a relaxed state of the bowels , but did not complain of any pain . The woman of the house , Mrs . Godward , wentthatnightto Mr . Edwards , medical-officer of the union , to inform him what was the matter with Long , and that gentleman immediately prescribed a mixture and powder for her relief . The medicine was given to her , but as , at about half-past five o ' clock the following morning , the unfortunate young woman became worse , Mrs . Godward again went to Mr . Edwards to inform him of her
condition , and he went down to tho house almost immediately to see her , and found her in a state of collapse . He used tho treatment which ho considered best , and ordered brandy and arrow-root , seeing her himself two or three times in the course of the day . The disease , however , obtained the mastery , and at about half-past four o ' clock in tho afternoon , the young woman expired . The examinations in reference to the cause of death , and the treatment pursued , extended to a considerable length ; but Mr . Edwards gave it unhesitatingly as his his belief that tlic deceased had died from malignant cholera , which he had little doubt had been produced by her leaving tho
workhouso , where she had been living upon full diet , and going to reside in ill-ventilated premises where probably she was half-starved . The jury ultimately returned a special verdict , " That the deceased , Louisa Long , died from cholera , produced by the visitation of God ; but , at the same time , the jury are of opinion that the state of disease prevailing at Keynsham requires additional medical assistance , and they also recommend the owners of the cottages at Swan Itiver to adopt some means to improve . the ventilation . " Our correspondent adds , that " as far aa the evidence went , the medical officer of the parish appeared to have fulfilled his duties with promptness and con > Sidcration , "—Daily News .
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Inquests on the Bodies of Two Seame . v . — On Tuesday Mr . Baker held inquests on the bodies of two seamen , who died from the effects of Asiatic eholora onboard ship . Tho first inquest was held at the King of Prussia , Cartwright-strcet , Smithfield , on the body of William Tyler , aged twentynine years . It appeared that the deceased was cook on board the barque Alterhop , on a voyage from this port to the West Indies and back . The doceased frequently complained of pain in his stomach , and was ill nearly all the voyage . On the ship returning home , the crew experienced very bad weather , and the men were lashed to the pumps to prevent their boin < r washed overboard . The deceased
was very ill at this tune , and was compelled to work at the pumps for upwards of forty hours at a time . The cargo was thrown overboard to save the ship , and all the clothes belonging to the crewwere washed into the sea . The ship after some difficulty arrived in Cork , a complete wreck , and the men were all paid off . Tho deceased and several of the crew embarked on board another vessel , bound for London . On Thursday , the 30 th ult ., the deceased was attacked with all the symptoms of cholera . He became worse , and died on Saturday night last , when the ship was near Gravesend . Mr . Brown , a surceon , said he had no doubt that the deceased died
from Asiatic cholera . Verdict in accordance with this evidence . —The second inquest was held at tho Cannon public-house , Cannon-street , St . George ' sin-the-East , on the body of Joseph Cresay , aged 52 years , a seaman on board the ship Wigram , lying in the London Docks . On Saturday morning last , tho deceased was attacked with cramp all over his body , while engaged on board the ship . He was removed to his berth , and , when Mr . Brown attended , he said it was a decided case of Asiatic cholera . The usual remedies were applied , but tho deceased died shortly afterwards . 'Verdict— "Death from Asiatic cholera . "
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IIMI——— - New League . —Tho men of Manchester have now set to work in earnest for She promotion of Parliamentary and Financial Reform . An association on the basis of the late League has been formed ; and upwards of 200 of the leading reformers of this and other counties have given in their adhesion to the new movement . The agitation will be conducted by means of public meetings , the efforts of the press , and the extensive enfranchisement of 40 s . freeholders ; and its primary object is the attainment of the points included in Mr . Hume ' s motion for Parliamentary Reform . It is evident from tho do-nothing disposition of the present government that vigorous measures must be resorted to by the people , for reducing tho burdens of taxation , and securing to those who bear the greatest portion of that burden a share in the control of the national expenditure . If anything were wanting to prove the necessity for such measures , we could point to
two recent instances in parliament for the purpose . On Thursday week Lord John Russell , with Sir George Grey and other ministeralists , voted against the Ballot . On a previous evening , when Mr . D'Eyncourt brought in his bill for abridging the duration of parliament even to five years , " Lord John Russell opposed the motion in another finality speech , in which he distinctly says : — " My opinion , based upon my experience of this House since the passing of the Reform Bill , is , that there is that general attention paid to the wishes of constituencies which you would desire- ^ that public opinion has fully as much influence as it ' ought to have on the votes and transactions of members of this House . " These instancesjcoupled with the fact of the national expenditure , with all its abuses , being obstinately kept lip to the maximum point , afford a sufficient justificationfbr the people combining to obtain another important advance upon the Reform Bill . —Preston Guardian .
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THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS . " WALEs .--Thc late fawirablei ' change in the weather Immaterially improved the appearance of the growing crops . Hay will be " in abundance , _ and every other agricultural produce , to judge from present prospects , far beyond an average return . TippERAnr . —Tho country never looked so magnificent . . AU the crops , owing to the extremely iavourable weather that has prevailed , are looking in first-r ate condition , and promise , with tho . blessing of God , an abundant harvest . Seeing that some failure in the potato was noticed in the papers we caused a strict , inquiry to be made , and we arc delighted to say that we have the assurance" of experienced agriculturists , and gentlemen who , from personal inspection , are made aware . of the fact , that no disease whatever has as yet made its appearance in this neighbourhood . —Tipperary Free Press . ' , . . '¦' , ' ¦ " . -, — - — -- ~ . _ „ . _„ . . Wti rnV Ti ? . fiT ! OPS '
South Staffordshire . — The past month has been remarkable for two changes in the weather , and consequently in vegetation . Cold and ungenial , with severe frosts for the first fortni g ht , spring did not appear to be coming ; indeed , wo iiad less grass , seeds , and green crop generally than ia April , or even in March ; and now all is changed—grass and seeds in abundance—the appearance of the country rich and luxuriant in the extreme . The wheat crop , of which we may now pronounce an opinion , looks well , and is most promising o n the . li ht soils , espe cially where they are properly cultivated . There are some complaints of want of plant upon the cold and stronger , soils . This may be accounted for when we call to mind the very unsatisfactory
manner in which the seed was deposited in the ground , and the sharp frosts experienced in the early part of the present month . Still , tho improvement of the wheat crop upon all lands ' is most remarkable ; and , speaking generally of this district , we may express ourselves well satisfied as to the prospect for abundance in the coming harvest . The spring crops are also looking wclli and as the turnip crop was generallj good , we may expect , especially with the early sown , ft good yield of barley . The winter or Russian beans look well , are now in blossom , and will be ready to cut , in most instances , before any other grain . The present year ' s clip of wool is moro than usually heavy , and good in quality—thanks again to the turniD cron and the increasing use of oil cakeand
corn . Prices of agricultural produce remain -without much change , ana so must our opinion of the future , except that we should just ask the alarmist to consider one or two facts—that in spite of the present unsettled and unsatisfactory state of Europe ; and the importation of foreign grain and flour to this extent , in the last three months—wheat 1 , 474 , 422 quarters , flour 1 , 216 , 549 cwt . —we can sell home-grown wheat in our local markets , of average quality , at 50 s . per imperial quarter . Prices of other produce , as beef and mutton , are nearly the same ; if any change , in favour of the seller . The demand for wool is slack , and prices rather lower . We must not close this report without a remark upon one particular branch of husbandry in which
this district is lamentably deficient—we allude to the state of the fallows , the preparation of the land intended for root crops . The rain , which has in such an extraordinary degree promoted vegetation , has also retarded the operations necessary for making clean fallows . Is not this , then , a good reason for the farmer to seize every opportunity afforded by the weather to work his land intended for fallow , whatever be the time of the year ? If the autumn season be neglected , and the spring prove wet , delay must be the consequence , and may be fatal . The course of husbandry pursued in this district is , generally speaking , the four-course system . The foundation of success is the fallow . If this be foul , the prejudicial effect is seen and felt
in every crop throughout the course . The remedy is plain : every exertion should be made to work down and clean in the aufcumn the land intended for root-crops . The ridge system , with wide intervals , should be more generally adopted , the advantages being so manifest , viz ., economy in the application of manures , facility for continuing the operation of fallowing the land , and thus remedying the evils of a wet and unpropitious season , and in addition , giving to the growing crop the benefit ( how little understood !) ot inter-cultivation .- We will only add , by way ot parenthesis , that if considerable exertion be not used in weeding the wheat crop , much loss will be occasioned by such neglect in the ensuing harvest . We may appear to have dwelt unon these points in rather a tedious and
unreasonable manner ; but we must plead guilty to the conviction that ho is the real farmer ' s friend , who , by useful suggestion , enables him to overcome some of the many practical difficulties which beset his path in tho daily pursuit of his noble occupation . —Staffordshire Advertiser , June 2 . Yorkshire . —After three or four very sultry days , tho weather underwent a very satisfactorj change on Monday night . Shortly after dusk repeated peals of thunder , accompanied with lightning , passed over Leeds , and various other parts of the West Riding , which was followed by heavy rain , that continued at intervals nearly tho whole of Tuesday . The rain has fallen very opportunely for the grain , potato , and turnip crops , and will prove highlj serviceable to most other descriptions of produce . The prospects of a good harvest Tbegin to look
very encouraging . The Orchards . —Tho Hereford Journal says : — " We do not remember a season when the apple blossom was more abundant ; indeed the orchards and gardens present remarkable luxuriance in this respect , but we cannot give so very favourable an account of the pear trees . Wall fruit , too , has suffered severely from tho ungenial season . What is of most importance , tho rains have advanced both the grain and green crops , and potatoes are coming on very kindly . Appearances here are as favourable as we ever recollect , and this is the more gratifying , as tho cold and the excessive damp in the substratum of the ground had caused an apprehension in the minds of some country people that the plant would not make its appearance at all . Prom the Taunton and Devonshire papers wo gather that the above description applies pretty accurately to those districts . "
Destructive Hail-Stokii . —Afc an early hour on Monday , Brighton was visited by one of the most furious and destructive haiUtowns which has occured in this vicinity for some time . It began about a quarter past six o ' clock , and lasted half an hour ; but the mischief that it did in that short time was very great . The hailstones were many of them the size of a walnut ; they were very hardpieces of hard ice , in fact , with jagged sharp edges . A credible person told the writer that two which he picked up , covered the palm of his hand . It is t ' ortunate that the storm occurred so early in the morning , before many persons were out , for the shower was like a furious pelting with shingle , and it would have been dangerous ior man or beast to
have been out in . it . The hail was preceded by thunder and lig htning . In the western part of the town the storm was furious indeed , ana , as might bo expected from the large size of the stones , great damage was done to windows , especially skylights and conservatories . The conservatories and greenhouses belonging to Baron Goldsmid at tho Wick were broken almost to pieces , some thousands of panes of glass being smashed . The conservatories and green-houses of his nei ghbour , Bright Smith , Esq ., were likewise much injured ; about 400 pieces of glass being broken . Six thousand were broken in the green-houses opposite Montpcllier-croscent . The green-house at Mrs . Steer ' s Silwood-houso , had about 3 , 000 panes of glass broken . Mr . Dobie ,
Western Cottages , had about 4 , 000 panes in all destroyed in his conservatories . In one of these a quantity of grapes wertf ' growing in marketable condition . About SOOlbs . of these wore spoiled . The selling price was 7 s . or 8 s . per lb . The property belongs to Sir David Scott ; it was not insured . The roof of the conservatory at Hampton Lodge , the residence of Sir Ralph Darling , was at least one half of it destroyed , as was also the skylight at the top of the house . We shall not attempt to give a list of the persons who sustained damage to a lesser and comparatively small amount , suffice it to say that skyli g hts innumerable were smashed , and such was the violence of the storm that in many cases the hailstones after lighting on tho windowsills rebounded against and cracked or broke the lower panes of the windows . —Brighton Guardian . Lokdon . —Miraculous Escape . —During Tuesday
morning the weather was intensely hot , the thermometer rising to upwards of eighty in the shade " , with clear bri ght sunshine , up to half-past two p . m ., when suddenly the . sky became overcast , and the metropolis was visited by a heavy shower of hail . Some of the hailstones were of an immense size . A few claps of thunder were heard at the same time , ollowcd by a slight shower of rain , when tho wea-; her cleared up , and the day became again perfectly inc . In proof of the violence of the storm , the following fact may . bo stated : —As the prison van was about to start from the yard to the Thames policecourt , the man who was opening the gate was suddenly struck down ; the vast ptonkage , to the extent of two feet in diameter and more than twelve feet in height , with bolts and bars attached , was torn to pieces , and the van , with its inmates , had a most miraculous escape , The roof was slightly inured . *
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Tub Dover Harbour of Refuge Works —These works having progressed far enough to cover the entrance , of the harbour , tho commissioners have decided on deepening , the entrance , so that the pickets may be enabled to land passengers at all ¦ imes ofthe tide , and also that shelter may be afforded to steamers ^ hv stormy weather , instead of their bemg compelled to , retreat to the Downs This undertaking , so important- to the . interests of Dover , was commenced on the 1 st inst . " ; ? h- ^ W ^!? # ! fen leader Kossuth , uas appointed his sister- general superintendent of ibe military hospitals , and , that she has published t ^ T ^ ' ? allm S all ladies to join her in her work d charity .
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! ; r DESTRUCTIVE FIRES . ' Soutiiwark . —On Monday morning , about eight o ' clock , a fire broke out oii the premises belonging to Mi- Cropper , a mattress-manufacturer ,, m John-Street " , S OUtnwark . ' The fire originated from some unknown cause in the lower floor of tho workshop , and very few minutes elapsed More every porhon ofthe building , became , enveloped in flames . The engines were quickly on the spot , and a plentiful Sli pply Of water was procured , but it was not until Mr . Cropper ' s premises were burned out and their nnritcnts consumed , that the fire could be subdued . ^ DESTRUCTIVE FIRES .
Unfortunately , Mr . Cropper was not insured . Nbwinoton . —A fire broke out on Monday morninff upon the premises belonging to Mr . W . Pates , a Builder , &c , at No . 1 , Monmouth-place , Sewington . : the flames originated : in one of the worEshbns and before assistance could arrive the flames had extended to the stock-in-trade in the open vai'd and afterwards to another workshop , belongin ^ to the same party . : The engines were soon at the spot , but the flames continued to rage until thewhole of Mr . Pates's workshops ami stock-m-tradewero destroyed . The total loss is very considerable , butWrl Pates was insured in the Phoenix
fireoffice . . ' . „ BERMONnsEY . — On Wednesday morning a nre broke out on the premises belonging to Mr . Claggett , an oil and Italian warehouseman , at io 2 , Bermondsey-streetJ The flames were first discovered by Miss Ctectt , who whilst lying in bed was nearly suffocated , with smoke . She aroused the other inmates , Mr . Charles Claggett , her brother , and the . shop boy . A fire-escape was taken to the house , and having been raised to the second floor , Miss Claggetfc was placed in the canvass bagging , when the carriage of the escape shot outwards and the top ladder struck the front wall with such force as to break the machine , and the unfortunate ladv fell unon the ground a distance of nearly thirty
feet . Tanner , the escape man , to save his own life was obliged to jump from the second floor , and he was severely hurt in consequence . Mr . Thomas Claggett succeeded in getting out of onp of the back windows , and in so doing he was frightfully cut over the body . The conductor again raised his escape , and he succeeded in saving the lives of Mi * . Charles Claggett and the shop boy . The engines quickly attended , but the parish engineer had barely entered the shop when a fearful explosion of gunpowder took place , which blew the front of the shop out . The fire was extinguished in time toprevent its extending beyond the shop . Miss Claggett was removed to Guy's Hospital , where she remains without the slightest nrosnect of recovery .
How the disaster occurred has not been ascertained . Mr . Claggett , it seems , passed through the shop at twelve (? clock at night , when everything appeared perfectly safe and free from fire . Loss op Life . —On Thursday morning , between twelve and one o ' clock , the metropolis was visited with two dreadful fires . The first happened at No . 7 , St . James ' s-place , Hackney-road , in the occupation of Mi . Duncan , a solicitor . The flames , whenfirst perceived , were raging in the first floor back ,, used as a bedroom , and in which a child of Mr . Duncan ' s was in bed asleep . The mother of the infant ,, on going to the apartment , found the whole of the bed furniture in a general blaze , ' and so fiercely did the fire progress that she could not enter the room to rescue the child . The flames spread with such swiftness , that before the inmates of tho upper rooms became sensible ofthe outbreak , the fire had extended to the stairs . By dint of great exertion
they , however , succeeded in gaining the road . When the firemen arrived there , they found the whole building , from the base to the roof , enveloped in , the flames . The fire continued its ravages until ! every room in the premises was burneu out , the costly furniture , and wearing apparel of the ownersand servants , reduced to ashes . The total loss must be considerable , and , unfortunately , Mr . Duncanwas not insured . The body of Mr . Duncan ' s child has not been discovered , but from the state of the premises , there is no doubt that it has been burned to a cinder . — "Whilst the above fire was raging , an alarm was given that another had occurred near the Britannia Saloon , Hoxton Old Town . The firemen there found the premises of Mr . Summers , boot manufacturer , in the High-street , in flames . Tho constable who was on duty succeeded in alarming the residents , Plenty of water having been procured , the engines were set to work , and the houses on . either side were saved from devastation . Tho
premises of Mr . Summers continued to burn with the greatest vehemence until past two o ' clock , and it iraa not until almost every part of the building was destroyed , the stock-in-trade reduced to ruins ,, and the furniture of the various occupiers burned ^ that the conflagration could be extinguished . Mr .. Summers was partially insured in the Sun Fire Office . Incendiary Fire near Nottixgiiam . —A fire of a most disastrous nature was discovered on the 1 st instant , in the King ' s Meadows , near Nottingham .
The property destroyed consisted of a stack of hay , containing about fifty tons , the property of a highly respectable firm , the Messrs . Fothergill , slaters and bone merchants . The fire was discovered at three o ' clock in the afternoon by some persons who were passing at the time . Assistance was speedily procured , and the Nottingham fire-engines sent for . After the most indefatigable exertions the flames were extinguished , but not before the great mass of the property was destroyed . There appears not the least doubt that the fire was caused by an inccndiarv .
IxcENniARY Fire xear Siieerxess . — At halfpast ten o ' clock on Friday night , the 1 st instant , two stacks of straw were discovered on fire in the farm-yard of Borstall-hall , near Minster , in the occupation of Mr . J . Farrcll . A stack of wheat had been threshed out on the previous day by a threshing machine . Several labourers had been engaged on the farm during some days previous to the five , but at present the incendiary has not been discovered . The farm labourers , assisted by Lieutenant Gale , R . N ., and his men , from the coast-guard station at East-end , with other neighbours , succeeded ( by iisiug blankets , sacks , « fcc , well wetted ) in preventing the thatched roofs of the barns , outhouses , &c , from beinsr isrnited . Mr . Farrcll . iun ..
came to the Royal Dockyard for assistance , and the Captain-Superintendent , D . Price , ordered two fire engines to be sent up immediately , with all the available 'force of the police then on duty . There was no other property than the straw destroyed . A strong feeling was shown against the tlireshingniaeliines , and tho labourers iverq very reluctant to save them from the fire . This -was , however , effected , much to the discomfiture of a few of the labourers , who were quietly looking on . A Fire Occuked ax Shawdox Iiall , the seat of W . Pawson , Esq ., on Sunday last . About ten o ' clock , a light was seen in the stables , which immediately burst through the windows , and ascended
to the floor above , on-which were several combustible materials . The keys not being found , the groom broke through the doors , and at great risk to himself succeeded in bringing out the ' horses . By this time the alarm bell was rung , and the neighbouring . tenantry and villagers of Glanton quickly assembled and rendered assistance . The coachhouse doors were broken open and the carriages drawn out . An express was sent off to Alnwickfor the fire engines , but before it arrived the fire had in a great measure been got under . The fire is believed to have originated from a drunken servant smoking in the stable , the ashes of his pipe having ignited tliohav .
Poulton , near Fletwood . —An inquest was held at this place on Wednesday , on vie ^ Y of the bodies of four women , who lost their lives under the following shocking circumstances . A widow , named Kirkham , with four daughters and two nieces , occupied a shop in Church-street , near the marketplace . Between two and three o ' clock on Tuesday morning , one of the daughters ( Agnes ) perceiving a smell of burning , went down stairs to ascertain the cause , when she found that flames were issuing from an unoccupied room on the second story . She immediatel y alarmed the family , and some of the noi | Iibours were attracted to the spot by her cries . Boiore a ladder could be raised to the house , sh& threw herself from the window on t . hn + !>; ,., ! etnrv .
and beiiiffoaught byaman below , happily escaped with but little injury . The premises were entered with as little delay as possible , when one of the daughters and two nieces were found dead , having been suftocatcd whilst erideaVouring to escape from ^ ? ' Anothel' daughter expired in the course w the day . Mrs ; Kirkman lies in an insensible state , and fears are entertained that she will not long survive . It would appear that the sufferers , on being aroused , stayed to dress themselves , and thus perished . The names of the deceased are as follows- —Elizabeth Kirkham , aged 47 ; Sarah Kirkham , 30 ; Eleanor Ball , 14 ¦; and Margaret Ball , aged 6 . The cause of the . fire is at present enveloped in mystery . ¦ x
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The iatb Rbah-Admiral Sir Uisbet J WjlsSTf -H- ? ™ offlcer ^ sfsmguiar ind \ n ( , « , « a ? r lndm ( l « escaping the most imminent dangers He was thrice shi pwrecked ; once upset ma boat , and kept himself afloat on an oar for nineteen hours . IIo wa two years in slavery at inpoli , and escaped by beating out the brains of two Moors , ^ nd swimmin g on board a French ship m the bay , lying two miles from the shore . He entered the harbour ofthe Isle of France with a single mgate , and cut out two rich ships , thou"h opposed •; y sixty pieces of cannon . He was eleven times mvuluvu uiins
mm , mree witn splinters , and was cut m every part of his body with sabres and tomahawks ; his face was disfigured by explosions of gunpowder , and ho lost an eye and had part of his neck and . jaw shot away . When unemployed he joined the Itussianarmy under Kutuzoff , and was nuute a colonel ; lie was thrice wounded , and at Leipzig had his right arm shattered by a cannon shot . lie had pensions from . the . Russian government . Amon * sailors in Ins day he was called " The Immortal ;" at any rate , he seems to have possessed more lives tnan a cat , with all the courage of a Bvitish lion .
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%$$ sHgirapoIia . He . vi . th of Loxdox dueisg inE "Week . —The S 95 deaths registered in the week exhibit a satisfactory decrease of 03 on the weekly average of five springs . The mortality from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases continues to fall , the deaths in last -week having been 209—those in the preceding week 233 ; the average is 193 . Scarlatina has now declined rather below the average , and numbers 29 fatal cases . Typhus , which during the previous 13 weeks ranged from 33 to 40 , was fotal in the last week to only 23 , an unusually small number for this disease , and hardly exceeding one-half of the average . Sniall-pox , also , is fatal to few at the present time ; the weekly numbers during List month were rc- 'pectirely 12 , * 6 , S , 0 whilst the average is 21 .
The mortality from hooping-cough declines , tnougn it is still above the average . Measles » PPf" the increase , and has last week nearly doubled the average , which is 21 deaths . The deaths from dwrrnoea and dysentery were 19 ; the average of the season is 10 . * Cholera is slig htly increasing , for though one death forms the weekly average ^ ot former springs , the fatal cases registered during the li-t four weeks have been 3 , 1 , o , 9 . Of the last aiine cases , five oceured in public institutions , amniely , two in the Dreadnought Hospital , one in the Uolborn union , one in the Cholsea , and another in the Battersea workhouse . Both bronchitis and pneumonia grow less fatal , though the former is still above the average , while the latter is lelowit . A woman , in the Leather-market ,
subdistrict , Bcrmondsey , died at 54 years of age of « ' bowel complaint and debility , hastened by want of sufficient nourishment , no applijajion having been made to the parish authorities . " A boy of two months , at Somers Town was "found dead in !) ed , "suffoeated from inhaling impure air . " A woman of 52 years died from " vomiting blood , caused by excitement . " Inquests -were held on the above three cases . A man of 36 years died " suddenly after illness , probably from intemperance , but the cause of death is notattested either by coroner or medical man . The mean reading of the barometer was above 30 in . on Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday . The mean of the week was 29 . 978 . The thermometer -ffas highest on Thursday , when it reached 74 deg . 9 min . ; the mean of the same day was 64 deg . 3 min . The mean of the week was 4 iB deg . 3 min . On Thursday the mean temperature ¦ was high ? r than the average of the same day in
seven rears fcv 7 deg . 4 min ., though it was below it on the first ' two days of the week . The mean of the week exceeded the average by 1 deg . 3 min . ACCIDEST OS THE iflTEB IiEA . TwoTjLrTES XoST . —On Sunday evening an accident occurred on the river lea , near Clapton , by -which two young men lost their lives . It appears that six young men all of whom are employed at Perry ' s Gazette office , in the city , engaged a small boat at the Jolly Anders , adjoining tbe river Lea , for the purpose of fishing . They had not proceeded far , when by some accident , which is at present unexplained , the boat upset , and they were all immersed into the water . Two of them succeeded in clinging to the boat until assistance was rendered , two were drowned , and the other two swam to the shore . The names ofthe unfortunate youths who lost their lives are , Benjamin Oliver , of Murray-street , Hoxton , and Charles Sanderson , residing in the neighbourhood of BalTs-pond .
Mysterious Death of a Yocsg Female . —An inquest "was held on Wednesday before Mr . Wakley jun ., —bv adjournment—at the Lord Hill publicliousc , Paddington , on the body of Margaret Fitzgerald , ngcl twenty-fonr years , who died from injuries she received under the following circumstances . —On the first meetin * of the jury it was stated that the deceased was a milliner , and resided in Lisson-grove . On Friday evening , the 25 th nit ., she left home for ihe purpose ol visiting some friends in Paddington , and on the following morning she vasseen by a police-constable in JIaida-LjJl disputing - with a cabman about his fare , and directly afterwards she was lying upon the ground in a state of insensibility . She was removed to the surgery of
llr . Gurwood , where she died in a few hours after--wards . The inquest was adjourned , to enable the police to produce the cabman ; and on the jury reassembling on "Wednesday , John Canfling was examined . He said that on Saturday morning , the 26 th ult ., he took up the deceased in the Haymarket ; she appeared as if she had been drinking , and desired him to drive her to Oxford-street . On arriving there she said she "wanted to go to the Idgware-road , and he accordingly drove her to that place . She then directed him to drive to one street and then to another , refusing to give the number of the house-where she lived . He stopped near Jlaitla-Lill , and again nsked her where she lived , but she refused to tell him . He drove on , for the purpose
of taking her to the station-house , vrhen he felt a jerk in the cab , and on turning round saw the cab door open , and the deceased lying upon the road . She was quite insensible , and lie assisted in removing her to Mr . Gurwood ' s , where he left her . —36 * . Stevenson , surgeon at Mr . Gurwood ' s , said the deceased had a bruise on the left knee , and also under the left ear . Site was brought in soon after ten o ' clock , and she died about half-past three the same afternoon . He had made a post mortem examination ofthe body , and discovered a simple fracture ofthe skull , which had caused death . —Verdict : " That the deceased died of a fracture irom the skull , but ¦ whether she jumped from the cab , or fell , there was no evidence to prove . "
Fatal Steam-boat Accidext . — -An inquest was held at St . Martin ' s Workhouse , on Wednesday , before Mr . Bedford , on the body of O . Chipps , aged forty-six , who was drownedatthe Hungerford Steam-LoatPier . William Moody , the piennan , said that on Tuesday , the 29 th Tilt ., the Sunflower , river steamer , came alongside the pier for the purpose of disenibaikiug passengers . He put the stage across from the pier to the boat for the passengers to get out safely , but as usual a great many jumped from the boat on to the pier . Amongst ihese was the deceased , who in jumping fell backwards into the water , and immediately sank . His body was not found until Saturday last . It was a Very dangerous , bnt yet a very common practice for the passengers to leap ashore , even before the boat stopped , and it was wonderful that many more accidents did not happen . Terdict : —" Accidental death . "
Steam-Boat Expiosiox oef the Ccstom-uocse . — On Wednesday morning , at a quarter past ten o ' clock , the Waterman steamer , ! Xo . 8 , left the pier , at rishmonger ' s Hall , for Woolwich , with a good freight of passengers , and immediately afterwards an explosion took place , f ollowed by volumes of smoke , stonni , and dust , from the gangway of the engine-room . The engineer and stoker rushed on dedc , and the greatest alarm prevailed amongst the passengers and crew . The vessel was making great way at the time . The ensrine-room proved to be on
fire , and as the engines continued to operate , the tcsscI was steered to the north shore , and run aground oif the Gustom-housc pier . Boats put off from the stairs , and tho J ) r ; ad , Woolwich steamer , immediately went alongside Waterman 8 , and the passengers were lauded without injury , but the engineer and stoker were much scalded , * and they were conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . The explosion , it is stated , arose from some defect in the boiler . The fire was extinguished almost immediately after the vessel ran ashore .
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©§ e firsbincfd . The Mubdeii op the Fouceuxs at Bristol . — We understand that the Home Secretary has issued an order to the Coinniander-in-Cliief , directing , for the ends of justice , the recall from Ceylon o ? the two men of the loth Begiment , M'Farlaneand Daly , against whom a verdict of wilful murder was returned at the inquest recently held on the body of John Pym , a police constable of this city . —Bristol 3 Jirror .
The CHincE op HousEBnEAKixo at Leeds . —On Monday , William Burns , Benjamin Wooller , and Mary Lucas , the three persons who had been apprehended on the 27 th of May , charged with having stolen a quantity of silver plate and gold coin from the house of Mrs . Musgrave , in Park-square , Leeds , during the hours of divine service in the forenoon of that day , were again brought up for examination . Some evidence was given which went far towards identifying the two men as the parties who were seen on the premises at the time ofthe robbery , and also to prove that the woman was the wife of the man who called himself Kaye , who was last week committed for a burglary in the house of Mr . B . GUI , stonemason , of Leeds , on the 26 th . May . After several witnesses had been examined , the prisoners were further remanded .
Burglary . —Mr . Munyard ' s house , Terry ' s Lodge , Ash / was broken into on the night of the 1 st inst ., I » y five men . Mr . and Mrs . Uunyard were awakened about eleven o ' clock by hearing the glass of their tvindow rattling in their room . They got up , and found the burglars were attempting to enter their bedroom by means of a ladder . Mr . Munyard , lteing a powerful man , collared two of the thieves , and struck a third , but the others overpowered and seriously injured him . They made Mrs . Munyard , who is far-advanced in pregnancy , accompany them over the house , and point out the articles of value . It 13 6 aid they -were in the house two hours , and , in addition to £ 12 in cash , they stole all the plate .
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JEmano . Dublin , Saturday , June 2 . —The Harvest . —Potato Crop . — "Thepotato , " says the Zcinster j ?» press , "the last sheet-anchor of our struggling hopes , seems determined to retrieve its character . The Newry Telegraph says . — " In this neighbourhood there has not been , so far as we have heard , any appearance of taint on any tubers hitherto examined . ' The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser , as the result of vigilant inquiry , declares that there has been no weS-ascertained case of disease , and that "the alarm is yet'totally groundless . " The only positive case mentioned is one by the Freeman ' s Journal , of three new potatoes , taken from among some exposed for sale in the Dublin market , the place of their growth unknown , but likely to have been imported , but which are pronounced to be . distinctly affected with the disease that prevailed in 1846 . '
The following gratifying letter has been addressed to the editor of the Dublin Evening Post , by Mr . Allman , Professor of Botany : — " 30 , Trinity College , May 31 , 1849 . "Mt bear Sin , —The more careful examination which I have just given to the case of suspected potato disease fully bears out the opinion I formed at first sight in your office , namely , that it is not an example of the disease . The plants are certainly injured , and I feel convinced will never bring their tubers to perfection ; but I have no hesitation in considering the specimens examined as free from the peculiar specific affection which has now for many years laid waste our potato crops , and whose repeated recurrence must convince the most sanguine that no reliance ought any longer to be placed on a vegetable so eminently precarious . " " Believe me , very faithfully yours , " George < J . Allman . "
The State Prisoners . —Decision of the Govxesment . —I have learned that a letter has been this day received from Sir Lucius O'Brein , now in London , announcing that the decision of the Cabinet , on the case of the State prisoners , has been officially communicated to him . The sentence pronounced at Clonmel , on Messrs . Smith . O'Brien , Meaghcr , M'Manus , and O'Donoghue , has been commuted to transportation for life , and Tan Diemen ' s Land will be their destination . It is stated that a first-class transport-ship , the Australasia , is
now fitting up at Portsmouth , for the conveyance of convicts to that settlement . She is expected in Kingstown harbour in three or four weeks , to embark 300 ordinary convicts from Ireland ; and it is understood that the state prisoners will proceed to TanDiemen ' s Laud by this vessel . As directions have been given to fit up five separate cabins , it is considered likely that another State prisoner , probably Mr . John Martin , now under sentence of transportation , will be sent out by the same vessel . —Morning Chronicle .
Ixcbease of Destitution . —There arc some parts of Ulster in which considerable distress has prevailed all through the famine . In Donegal , which more resembles the south or west than the northern counties generally , there is « reat destitution . The Ballyshannon Herald states that the poor in that locality are in " the most wretched state of starvation , " and that they stand in need of a rate in aid . The NorOiern Standard gives an account of the increasing destitution in Monaghan , where the gentry are unable to sustain the charitable institutions . The southern and western journals repeat the same melancholy tale of want and misery . The Tipperary Vindicator has fresh accounts of the clearance system , and , on the other hand , of the voluntary surrender of land , either for the purpose of emigratipn , or to qualify small holders to obtain" out-door relief . During this week £ hy families have been evicted in the parish of Clonrush , county of Tipperary .
The state of things in the Enms union continues as bad as ever . The guardians arc in debt to the amount of £ 17 , 500 sterling , and about one half of the population ofthe union are receiving in-door and out-door relief . Such a state of things in an Irish union is truly miserable . The guardians have applied to the poor-law commissioners to help them . They calculate that in this union of 200 , 000 statute acres there has been a depopulation to the extent of 12 . 2 i 0 souls .
Couxix of Limerick Election . — The election for a representative , in the room of Mi * . Smith O'Brien , took place yesterday in the Court-house of Limerick . In consequence of the retirement of Mr . Fitzgerald , Sir . Samuel Dip kson was returned without opposition . His policy is , " measures , not men . " Lord Wallscourt died at Paris on | the 2 / th ultimo , of Asiatic cholera . Lord Glengall has 1 , 500 acres of land in the vicinity of Cauir , for which he formerly received £ 3 an acre . He proposed recently to a Scotchman with capital to take the tract , and he was offered by the Scotchman only Ids . an acre for it .
MiroKALTr of Dcbllv . —Mr . John Reynolds , the M . P . for the city , is a candidate for the mayoralty of Dublin . It appears that some ofthe liberal party in the corporation are extremely anxious to elect Alderman Kinahan , a member of the conservative party . It is supposed that the Queen will come to Ireland next year , and there would be a chance of the Mayor of Dublin being made a baronet , an honour of which some persons say Mr . Reynolds is most ambitious . There was a long discussion yesterday in the corporation upon the whole subject , in which Mr . Reynolds made a speech , for the
purpose of damaging Alderman Einahan s pretensions . The hon . gentleman avowed himself a friend to Universal Suffrage , and the repeal of the union . The contest for the mayoralty is likely to cause much interest . —Daily News , The mail communication with England is to be changed . The evening mail will be despatched from here two hours later than at present , so that afternoon letters will be sent round to Liverpool with the first delivery of letters the next morning . The morning mail for London will be despatched as usual .. These changes will take place afterthe 20 th
inst . The Eev . Wouam Higgin , Dean of Limerick , and of Ardfert and Aghadoe , is appointed to the bishopric of ihe united dioceses , vacant by the death ofthe Hon . and Right Rev . Edmund Xnox , D . D . The Toouevara Evictions . —These evictions have caused a great sensation here . At first the public were incredulous , because the account in the popular prints are often as overcharged as those in the interest of the ascendancy party . But it appears that there was no exaggeration in the horrible details which were ;; forwarded to you . It is said , in
defence of Mr . Massey Dawson , that the ejected persons were tenants of middlemen , who did not pay the rents due to the reverend proprietor . - ¦ , But the Tipperary- Vindicator , sets forth tacts , to show that a number of the tenants driven out by Mr . Massey Dawson were hard working . and industrious persons . Copies of receipts are exhibited in the handwriting of Mr . Tevers Wilson ,, the ageni ofthe Rev . Massey Dawson , proving the fact , that rents had been paid in October last , but the amount paid does not appear . The Evening Post , of last night , contrasts the conduct pursued at Toomevara with what was done on the estates of Sir Charles Coote , where a portion of the middlemen were ejected , for
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 9, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1525/page/6/
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