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      ' sssgsgggw %% t fReiropolw . INQUEST ON Tn £ ~ l } ODY OF JOSFPH 55 HS H » % A ciUTinsT ; who mffix ? Se 7 ™ lSSfT PR 1 S ° ' ° N FRIDAY ' Oa Saturday e ^ eninj a long inquiry took place uetore Mr . Langham , the deputy coroner for Westminster , at the Westminster Uouse of Correction , concerning the death of Joseph ¦ Williams , aged thirty-fire , who died irom an attack of Asiatic cholera . Mr . Tindall Atkinson , barrister , and Mr . letch , solicitor , of Northampton-street , Ilolborn , attended on belief of the friends oftbe deceased to watch the proceedings . There were also numerous friends of the deceased present , who appeared to take a deep interest in the inquiry . From the

      evidence of the various warders attached to the prison , it appeared that the deceased had been lately several times under medical treatment . On Tuesdaj ne complained of pains in his head , and the resident surgeon prescribed for him . On the follow ing morn-Mg , between three and ionr o'clock , he was suddenly attacked with violent vomiting , purging , and crampsm his stomach . He was speedily removed to the infirmary , and the usual remedies being apphed , he appeared to be going on favourably until * nday morning , when he c-inpiained of pains in Uis back , and , at his request , his bed was re-made , but whilst in the act of being placed in it , he fainted . Mr . Lavies , who had just left the prison , was instantly sent for , and ou his arrival in about twenty minutes , he found the deceased quite dead .

      Kirsham , one of the warders , stated that on the 1 st of July the deceased was reported for repeated acts of disobedience , for which he was ordered to be locked up for three days with a diet of bread and water . In answer to questions by Mr . Atkissox , ths -witness said , that he discovered the deceased in the act of secreting some letters behind the bedstead belonging to another prisoner in a different cell . The letters were addressed to another prisoner in the same prison , who was also suffering imprisonment for a similar offence Mr . Cree , the deputy governor , said , one of the warders , who had to give evidence was not in the prison , and would not return f r some time .

      Mr . Atkinson ( addressing the coroner ) said , Sir , I have to request an adjournment of the inquiry ; for , if I am informed correctly by deceased's friends , the cass may turn out to be something very different from cholera , as there is yet much important evidence to lay before you . The Coroseb—I will most certainly adjourn the inquiry , for it is due to the friends of the deceased , and to the public generally , that the most searching investigation should take p lace . The inquest was then adjourned until Monday . MONDAY . —The inquest was resumed this

      aftersoon . William Bales , having been sworn , deposed : 1 am a warder , and received the deceased into my charge on the 4 th of July . He continued under me till the 1 st of September last . The deceased had very bad health during that time . Had never complained to him but once of being ill . On the 28 th of August last deceased complained to him of a pain in the bowels . He was properly attended tohaving received medicine about two hoars after he complained of illness . The surgeon saw him , and sent him the medicine alluded to , soon after this deceased said he was better . Uc was at that time tinder solitary confinement , and bread and water diet . He had Dreviouslv been under solitary

      confinement and bread and water diet The doctor saw him the day after that , which was Thursday , the 29 th of August , and ordered some gruel . lie had nothing else by the doctor ' s orders . On the 30 th ult . Williams said he felt himself quite well , and did cot want to sec the surgeon . Deceased so expressed himself . Had not heard deceased complain again while under his charge . The solitary confinement began on the 26 th of August , and was to have continued sis . days . Deceased recovered on the 29 th , and then he was again replaced in solitary confinement , and the bread and water dietary was reimposed . The solitary confinement ceased on the 1 st . of September , and he then appeared to be quite well . Williams was placed in solitary confinement

      for breaking the rules of the prison . I do not know how . This was done by Mr . Cree ' s orders . Mr . Cree received his orders in the usual way , from the governor of the prison . Tee magistrates sentenced Williams to solitary confinement . His d ct was bread and water . Deceased did not hare bread and water only daring the whole of the sis days , lie was ill during the time he was in solitary confinement . He . remained there whilst he was ill . The diet was changed on the 2 S : li of August , because he complained of a pain in the bowels , on which occasion he had some gruel for supper . After deceased said he was better the gruel was stopped , and he was

      placed upon bread and water again , until the expiration of his solitary confinement , when he was released . He said he felt quite well then . I asked deceased on his liberation from my custody , " if the diet had affected him ? " when he said "No ; "hefelt quite well . That was on the 1 st of September Deceased had . whilst in solitary confinement , two hours allowed him for exercise each day—one in the morning , aed one in the afternoon . The magistrates regulate the length of time for which prisuijers are placed in solitary confinement ; but the surgeon regulates the kind of diet they are to receive . I believe that the deceased was , generally speaking , a healthy and robust man .

      By Air . Atkixsox . —The surgeon ordered deceased an extra loaf daily . I am not aware that this was dons because he was in a weak state of health . I never heard deceased complain of being ill before the 2 Srh of August . He was allowed to take Ms usual exercise whilst in solitary confinement . Was not allowed to see any of the other prisoners daring that time . He was not made to work during any portion of the six days ; nor at any other time so long as the five shillings due weekly , to exempt him from picking oakum , was paid at the proper time . 1 do not know , but I think deceased refused to pick oakum that was given him because the money had not arrived . I cannot say exactly tint he was placed in solitary confinement because of his refusal to pick

      oakum . I believe deceased refused to pick some oakum given to him . lie was not strictly confined according to the rules of the prison , because he was allowed exercise . Was not allowed to speak whilst on exercise . Was on the separate system . The surgeon saw him , and ordered his diet as follows : Three meals per day—six ounces of bread for each meal , and as much water as he could drink . This was the only time deceased had been undec solitary confinement as far as I can recollect . I do not know what sort of looking man deceased was . I never noticed him from any other prisoner . As far as my recollection serves me he was stsut and robust with a sallow complexion . I have not seen him since the 1 st of September . Deceased only had gruel one day for dinner , whilst in solitary confinement .

      Thomas Ckae . examined . —I am the deputy governor of the prison . I remember the deceased , Joseph Willhms . On Saturday , tbe 25 sn of August , I gave him ( according to orders received from the governor ) a pound of oakum to pick . The reason why th ? oakum was givmtahim was because the 5 s . aUwed ny deceased ' s friends weekly , to exempt him from labour , had not been paid . The as . had not been paid since the 11 ih of August . Deceased ' s . friends bad been in the habit of paying 5 s . per week . I received my directions from the governor of the prison . All convicted prisoners , not sentenced to hard labour , can be exempted from picking oakum by the payment of 5 $ . per week . I wa 3 present on the 30 th of August when the governor visited Joseph WilPams . The governor visited deceased to see whether he would like to go on with the oakum

      picking , at the same time telling him that if he wou : d prefer doing so , he might be immediately released from solitary confinement . Deceased again refused to pick oakum , but asked the permission of the governor to write a letter to his wife . His request wa * complied with . On the four following days Williams was asked each day if he would pick olikuni , and each time declined doing so . The magistrates have the power to sentence any prisoner to solitary confinement for breaking the rules of the prison . The magistrates sentenced Williams to six days solitary confinement . Deceased refused to pick the oak ' nmtefure the magistrates . lie told the magistrates he could not pick oakum .

      By Mr . Atkixsox . —I am sure he said to the magistrates that "he could not do it ; for he had tried it a few days after he first came in the prison , and found himself unequal to the task . " Deceased had gained in weight since he had been in the prison . I think he had only been ill once before the 1 st of September daring the time he had been confined in the prison , when he was in the Infirmary . I do not know what was the matter with him ; it might have been an attack of rheumatism . I considered decessed a healthy man generally . ¦ I eannot say whether he had a strong constitution . He was pale and sallow in the face . I cannot Bay whether deceased was inclined to be consumptive . 1 do not know that be had a-cough . In all cases convicted prisoners , not sentenced to hard labour , are made to work at some kind of labour cr other . Mr . Lavies , ( surgeon to the prison , ) was next examined . —I saw deceased when he first came into

      the prison . To the best of my recollection he was in good health . I find by reference to my books that he was in a good state of health at that time . I have seen him daily since . Considered him to be a rather short , stout man . lie was pale , but that 1 attributed to his occupation as a baker . He had been iil of rheumatism in the May of this year , but ailed nothing before that time orisince nntil lately . Deceased was in theiofirmary one month throagh an attack of rheumatism , namely , from the 21 st of May to the 22 nd of June , when he was discharged , quite well . I allowed him a pint of beer every day for a week after his discharge from the infirmany . Deeaased s last illness commenced on the 4 tb of September , after his release from solitary confineaent . He then complained of disordered bowels The wiident medical officer attended him in the

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      afternoon of the 4 th ult . Some medicine was administered to him , and the diet changed . At eight o ' clock in the evening of the same day I was sent for to see the deceased , who at that period felt worse , and vomited a preat deal in my presence . I then ordered deceased to be taken to the infirmary , which was done , and I immediately placed him again under active treatment . 1 saw him again at half-past nine , and again at nine the next morning , the 5 th ult ., when he was a little better . I saw him again at noon , and at half-past nine in the evening . The collapse was then going on . I did not see him again alive . Deceased was always very restless during his illness , and continually wishing to get up . I told him several times taat it was necessary he

      should be kept in a horizontal position ; but he took no notice of my instructions , and repeatedly changing bis position . I considered it indispensable to his cure that he should lay in the position I ordered . " 1 attribute deceased ' s death entirely to the circumstanee of his refusing to obey my orders . " He died in a state of sy ; cope in consequence of an attack of Asiatic cholera . I had seen Joseph Williams previously to his being attacked with cholera . I did not think it necessary to make a post mortem examination of the bouy of the deceased ; being quite satisfied that Asiatic cholera was the cause of death . I remember the deceased having been in solitary confinement for three daysbeginning from the 1 st of

      , July 1849 ; and know that he was placed in solitary confinementfor six days , from the 20 th of August to the 1 st of September . On that occasion 1 thought the deceased was capable of bearing solitary confinement , and of being placed upon bread and water diet . Otherwise 1 should have interfered . I saw deceased every day during the time he was in solitary confinement . On the 28 th nit . he complained of a pain in his bowels and head , when I ordered some gruel for his dinner , and likewise some medicine . I attended him every day during his last illness accord ing ' to the costom of the prison . I do not think that his Veing put on bread and water diet rendered him at all liable to be attacked by cholera .

      By Mr . Atkisson .- This waa not the first case of Asiatic cholera that had been in the prison . The first case happened in July . The number of cholerp cases , extending from the 1 st of July to the 31 st of August , has been limited to seventeen , principally among the male prisoners . Deceased was very wayward and self-willed . He bad refused several times during the i'lnGS 9 which had caused his death , to take the medicine I sent him , and had also disobeyed my instructions about lying in & certain position . I do think it was neces-ary that he should have laid in

      the position I have described , to enable me to eradicate the disease . He had books allowed him under the silent system . I do not think that placing deceased upon bread and water diet tended to produce the cholera . I ordered him au extra loaf in the afternoon , because he complained of flatulence previous to the arrival of the meal time , which was five o ' clock . I never discontinued the practice of allowing him the extra loaf , only when he was in solitary confinement . I know that bread and water produces constipation . I do not know of any case where constipation of the bowels produced cholera .

      The Coroner . —Then , Mr . Lavies , I am to understand that the deceased died through his own imprudence in not obeying your orders ? Mr . Lavies . —Yes . And I begtostate , explicitly , that it is my opinion that the deceased ' s own conduct brought on the cholera , which caused death . The Coroner having intimated to Mr . Atkinson that this concluded the evidence he had to produce , the latter gentleman called upon William Williams . —I am the father of the deceased , Joseph Williams . I am a shoemaker , and live at No . 12 , Ualf-moon-street , Bishopseate-street

      without . I saw the deceased oa Wednesday last . I went into Ms cell . He appeared in a very low state . When I asked him how he was he did not answer for about a minute , when he said he was very ill from starvation . He told me he had suffered solitary confinement for six days . Whilst I was there the attendant gave deceased about half a quartern of soda water , because he said he was sick . My son told me "thatthey . ' meaning the doctor and attendants , "told him he was suffering with cholera , but it waa no such thing , it was starvation and cold , and not cho ' era . "

      The Coroner then summed up , recapitulating the principal parts of the evidence , and called upon the jury to give a verdict in accordance with the opinion of the surgeon . The court was cleared , and after about half an how ' s deliberation the jury returned the Mowing verdict : — " That the deceased died in a state of faint , caused by Asiat c cholera ; and the jury recommend that the change of diet to bread and water for so long a period should be discontinued . " The deceased's wife , and several of his friends were present during the inquiry , and seemed to feel very deeply at the different portions of Mr . Lavie 3 ' evidence , referring to the cause of death . The inquiry lasted nearly three hours .

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      Soddex Death . —On Saturday last , Mr . H . M . Waklcy held an inquest at the Devonshire Arms , Howley-crescent , Kentish-town , on Mr . John Medley , a retired tradesman , aged 62 , who dropped suddenly dead . The body became so offensive within two hours after death that it had to be coffined and screwed down . —The coroner , addressing the medical witness , said : "I have lately observed the bodies , no matter what the disease mi ght have been of which deceased died , become putrid and offensive immediately after death . Can you assign any cause for it ? " — The medical gentleman replied : " I have observed a similar change in dead bodies , which I attribute to the state of the atmosphere , and the diseased condition of the blood before death . " The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death . "

      Fatal Accident . —On Sunday afternoon , between four and five o ' clock , a wherry , containing Mr . J . Bryden , of 91 , Bagniggc-wells-road , his wife ( daughter of Mr . Laidlaw , Lambeth-walk ) , and two young women who had acted as bridesmaids ( the parties having only been married that morning ) , was proceeding up the river towards Putney — T . Laidlaw , brother to the bride , having the management of the boat—when about midway between Battcrsea and Wandsworthit came across the mooring-ckain . of a barge which was then at anchor ; the females in alarm rose up from their seats , and instantly the boat overturned , and the whole party was immersed in the water . The people on board the barge succeeded in rescuing Mr . Bryden and one of the females ; young Laidlaw saved himself by clinging to the mooring-chain ; unfortunately , the bride , and Mary Ashdown , one of the

      bridesmaids , sunk and were drowned . Dra ^ s vrevo used , but the bodies were not recovered for some hours . Suffocation' is a Flour-Mill . —On Saturday last , an inquest was held by Mr . Baker , at the White Swan , High-street , Wapping , on view of the body of Watlev Stevens , aged 10 years , who was suffocated in the flour-mills of Messrs . Pavitt and Co ., Execution-dock Wapping . On Friday forenoon deceased was in the mill , which was put in motion by steam power , when he jumped off the stage into the hopper , which is a sort of well , into which the meal fell from the mill . lie exclaimed " I can ' t get Out . " The mill was stopped as quickly as possible , but deceased was soon covered with the meal , and was suffocated before he could be extricated . Mr . Ilcnry , a surgeon , was called in , but he wag unable to Testoretho vital functions—Verdict , " Accidental death . "

      Sudden" Death of a Debtor is Gaol . — On Saturday last , an inquest at Uorsemonger-lane Gael , before W . Carter , Esq ., coroner for Surrey , on Gerrard Henri Kerssclaers , aged 56 . It appeared from the evidence of Mr . Kcene , the governor of the gaol , that the deceased had been confined there for debt since the 22 nd of February , 184 S . —A fellow-prisoner of the deceased deposed that on the previous Tuesday morning they were in conversation together , when the deceased wa s in perfect health . They were speaking of Maiming , as the van in which Manning and his wife were placed was going out of the prison-yard at the time to the Sonthwark police-office . The deceased seemed rather auxiouslo see them . About half an hour

      afterwards the witness returned to the room occupied bv the deceased , when he discovered that he had fallen down ia a fit , and that his head was resting on the bed . lie was nearly insensible . An alarm was given , medical attendance was provided , and every attention was paid , but the deceased died in a few hours . When the witness first saw the deceased in the fit , the latter said , " Oh , don't he afraid , it ' s not cholera . " The witness , to use his own expression , considered the deceased to be of an iron constitution . — Mr . Harris , the surgeon to ' the gaol gave his opinion that the death of the deceased arose from apoplexy , and proved that everything possible had been done for him

      . — The iurv cave % vei-dictof « Nat « raldeath . " -Mr . Watson / jan * of Lincoln s-mn , who had acted professionally for the deceased , attended , and stated that he believed he had been a merchant , and that the father of the deceased had been a merchant of large property in JdCIeZUIU * Fatal Accidest at the London akd North Wesiebn Railway . — On Tuesday Mr H M Wakley held an inquest at the Univer « itr " rn ' lWA Hospital on Robert Sheikelled .. liiK ^ SK the employ of Messrs . Pickford , aged 30 . The evidence was exceedingly coflicting and unsatisfactory . It appeared the deceased had been engaged on the railway , near the Caraden-town Goods DepoUoosemng ; the tarpaulin that covered the mJ . + Zi-T

      when the men , eighteen m number , who were behind the tracks to push them forward , hallooed , as a signal for all m front of the trucks to get out of the way , before they drove the trucks forward . The trucks had just received the first push forward when deceased was seen to stagger and fell on his back , lne men rushed to his assistance , but he was speechless , and could only point to his breast . In ft few seconds blood gushed from his mouth and nose , and he expired jnstas they placed him on a stretcher . It was supposed that when he heard the man halloo he attempted to cross m front of the trucks , when one of-the buffers knocked him down , Had he remained

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      _ ¦ — ' ^ - ——between the trucks he would have been safe . —The Coroner inquired what time elapsed between the signal given hy the men hallooing , and the pushing of the trucks?—Mr . Barker , the superintendent , replied that they were simultaneous . The coroner and jury expressed a wish that he should inform those in authority that it was their opinion that a certain time should elapse between the men hallooing and their pushing the trucks , to afford an opportunity to those in danger to get out of the way . A non-compliance with their desire would , observed the coroner place the company in an awkward position if another death from the same cause occurred- Mr . Barker promised to lay before the company the desire espressedly thecourt . A verdict in accordance with the above evidence was returned .

      A Keeper Murdered by a Maniac—On Monday evening Mr . H . M . Wakley held an adjourned inquest in the Kensington Workhouse on Murice Pickett , a keeper over the lunatics in the workhouse , aged 62 . On the 27 th ultimo William Wheeler , a dangermiB lunatic , was admitted to the workhouse . He was so desperate that the strait-jacket and leg bolts had to be put on . The following Friday morning John Holden , an assistant , was awoke by a noise in the lunatic ward , when he saw Wheelerarmed with a blackthorn stick , and struggling with another lunatic . He instantly hurried to deceased ' s bed , whom he found insensible , and covered with blood . He then called the watchman . The moment the latter entered Wheeler rushed at him with the stick , but

      the watchman overpowered and secured him . "heeler had by some means got rid of his strait-jacket and aolts . As soon as he was secured , the deceased was removed to the infirmary , and attended by Mr . Runney , the house surgeon , but , although everything was done to save him , he died on Monday the 3 rd instant . Wheeler was conveyed to the Peckham Asylum , where he still remains in a most violent state , threatening destruction to all around him . Mr . Runney opened the head of the deceased , and found an extensive fracture of the skull , from which eight splinters had been extracted . There were other wounds on the body , but the fracture of his skull caused death . Although there was no moral doubt that the maniac had killed deceased , still , in the

      absence of positive evidence , the jury returned the following verdict -. — "Deceased died of a fracture of the skull , but by whom caused there was no evidence to prove . " Suicide . —Mr . W . Carter , the coroner , held an inquest at the King ' s Arms Tavern , St . George ' sroad , Camberwell , on the body of Mary Caruttiers aged 63 years , who committed suicide under the following circumstances :-It appeared that the deceased was the widow of a compositor , residing at Camberwell . She was a very timid person , and had an idea that she would die from the cholera , or be reduced to the workhouse . On Saturday , about noon , the deceased left her daughter ' s house to take a walk , while the latter prepared dinner . She passed the halfpenny hatch-gate at the Peckham

      Canal-house , asking her way to the Walwovth-road . She walked on until she reached the King ' s Arms bridge , where it is supposed she leaped in , for one of the officers who was going past had his attention drawn to a female ' s head moving in the water : he raised an alarm , when the drags were brought to the spot , and in a few minutes the body was dragged on shove and removed to the receiving house at the above named tavern , where the usual remedies wove administered to restore animation , but life was quite extinct . Three-shillings and sixpence and a small comb were found in her pocket , but no paper or writing was to be discovered that would decidedly account for the act . The coroner remarked on the case , and the iury agreed to a verdict oi

      " Temporary insanity . Wilful Murder of an Infant .. —By My . H . M Wakley , at the Three Jolly Gardeners , Hammersmith , on view of the body of a fine full grown male ch < ld , which was found immersed in a water closet in the Mall , Hammersmith . Jane Robin , a married woman , residing next door to the Ship Tavern , on the Mall , deposed that about eight o clock on Monday evening last , she discovered the body of the deceased in the pan in the water closet , at the back of her house . She called in a police constable who had some difficulty in extricating the body , in consequence of the head being jammed tightly in the pipe , which clearly proved that considerable force must have boon used to place the deceased in

      that position . The deceased appeared to have been dead several days . The witness added that the water closet in question was accessible to any person by a passage at the side of the house lea dine from the Chiswick steam-boat pier . On the previous Thursday evening , a tall female of a dark com . plexion , dressed in half-mourning , waited in witness ' s shop for upwards of two hours , and she stated that she expected to meet her sister who was going to town by the steam-boat . She had a bundle in her possession which she endeavoured to keep concealed , and after sho returned in the water closet ( the one in which the deceased was found ) , witness noticed the bundle to be considerably

      smaller than when she first saw it . Sho appeared very ill , and said she had come from Turnhamgrecn . In answer to a question from the coroner the witness said it was possible for the body to have been in the water closet since Thursday . —Mr . Iloyal , surgeon , said he had made a post mortem examination of the body , and found congestion of the brain and heart , which was produced ; bv suffocation . From the appearance of the body , ' he had no douot but that the deceased was forced do > vntlie water closet alive . —The coroner , after hearing some further evidence , summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . "

      nEALTn of London during the Week . The bills of mortality wove commenced in \ , hevei » n of Queen Elizabeth ; and ever since the year lC 03 iiave been published by authority in London . In this respect the English metropolis stands alone ; no weekly tables of the causes of the death of every inhabitant are published in the capital of any other European state . Various motives for the measures hayebeen assigned ; but the fact of continuous publication from a period anterior to the appearance of newspapers and gazettes , is remarkable and characteristic . It may bo fairly referred to the natural inclination of the English people , when they are in trouble , to know the truth , and to seo ih figures the precise extent of their losses : although

      at times the sight might well make the courage of the bravest quail . On the continent " precautions have been used , " in publishing the mo' tality of cholera in 1819 ; and the deaths from all causoi have not yet been made known . The parish clerks of London , in the seventeenth century , when the plague was at its height , counted the deaths , and recorded their supposed causes , and the citizen , when the death-cart traversed the streets , anxiously studied the bill , surrounded by its gloomy symbolical border , announcing 8 , 297 deaths in a . week , out of a population of 600 , 000 . In the hands of Price , Heberdcn , Willis , Bateman , and other statists , these . records have disclosed the laws of mortality , and the causes of the insalubrity of t . lir >

      present cities . One of their immediate advantages , however , is the evidence Which they flll'nisll tliat the most fatal and threatening plagues go through , with some pei-tubations , certain prescribed orbits ; and after raging for a given number of weeks , disappear . Plague , influenza , and cholera have been vanquished before , and to despair now would be as unreasonable as it was in the beginning of the year to deny that the cholera epidemic was impending . Those officers who are struggling with the triumphant enemy under every disadvantage will yet bo victors for if they have art they have also nature on their side . The mortality in the week ending Saturday September 8 th , declined in the west and cast dis' uiuus increased

      m nonuun , ana slightly in the north and central districts , so that the deaths registered ( 1 . / 41 ) on the north side of the Thames wore nineteen less than in the previous week . It was otherwise on the south side of the river , were the deaths m tlio week were 1 , 442 ! The total deaths registered in London were 3 , 183 ; of males 1 4 ( iO females , 1 , 723 The deaths of fen 4 S cWedThe death of males by 263 ; the reverse of the usnal proportions . The deaths from cholera were 2 mI numbers decreased in the districts of Shoreditch Bethnal-green , Whitechapel , Stepney wSSterincreased m Bermondsey , St . LoL SouSmark ' SdSS&Mt ** ' !?** « £ Cambenv Hi violence

      m Lambeth , where 270 wtwm dieTnf ^ -faSSSl SSSpSSKSEa tion seems . to have been used . NeverthS the cases are still numerous in which persons SCO m ( from the painless nature of the attack ) to b ? S conscious how highly necessary it is that immedhto attention should Be paid to it / People wXnrach accustomed to associate danger exclusive J wS pain , tha tho most fatal symptom unaeeSS by pun is neglected . They must , hoSevw £ taught to ook upon painless < liari * aa wS ' tho anxiety that people m tho plague looked SS £ Hwciiura

      , oaura WKcn-wJueit were also pa nlcssbutwitl , less fear ; for the premonitory symntorn now seems to be sent not m mueh to S ? ouZ death as to give timely warning , and tooillK tion to that stage of tho malady in Iil £ canheal . Asmediealskill is « fmo UvaSX beginning and end of a fever , as the effect of the on ginesismostconspicuous at the outbreak iSZ of a conflagration , and as most onergy iBdJXSS when tho wreck nears the shore so it ; = r *™ " * " demic ; which , if it has not i J , T el kedaffl " may yet be cut short , and combatto I » f J 8 t ' as it declines . None of the nVeJsuwTnf 7 ' fQCt > district should therefore ITZStinS ^ V wtuici

      «* v Huouuea ; ana the district „ i v i not yet suffered greatly BhoiiM (« r * . ch Lavo plete their preparation ? S , '" mediately com-U of dolSyEpaSlo ^^ Whort ; the

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      held an inquest 6 h the body , on Thursday , but tho proceedings were adjourned .-, ... .,. Shocking Occurrence . —On the 6 th mst . an idiot boy came by his death in a horrible manner at the Stroud Union Workhouse . The attendants had put him in a warm bath by order of tho medical officer , and at the same time their attention was engaged in restraining a . refractory lunatic , and assisting a cholera patient , who had just been brought in . The boy . screamed violently , but no notice was taken of him , as it was his practice to do so , and it never occurred to the attendants that the water was too hot , as a woman had just proviously used the bath . It turned out , however , that the steam by which the bath was warmed had been turned on from the

      moment tho woman quitted , and the poor boy vms literally boiled to death ! The affair was brought before the Stroud Board of Guardians on the following day , and the following resolution , in relation to tho case passed : — " The Board of Guardians having received the report of the death of Charles Ireland , a pauper idiot , and an inmate of the workhouse , who lost his life by having been unintentionally put into an over-heated bath—Resolved , that an application be made to the Poor Law Commissioners requesting them to investigate the case . " Sudden Death at Bristol .-On Sunday morning , as an omnibus was standing at the booking office of the White-Lion Hotel , the driver suddenly fell from his box and instantly expired . He has left a widow and four children .

      Attempted Murder op Three Children . —A female named Isabella Stevenson was taken before the magistrates of Fcnton , Staffordshire , on the 7 th inst ., on a charge of attempting to murder her three children , of the respective ages of seventeen months , three years , and five years . The prisoner seemed exceedingly dejected . From the evidence adduced , it appears that the prisoner , who is the wife of a cratemaker living in the town , on the previous day took the three children out for a walk , and after leading them about for some time , she made for a place termed Smith ' s Pool ( a large pond ) , a short distance from her own house . She then threw the youngest child head foremost into the pool , and afterwards laid

      hold of another one for the purpose of throwing it in , when its screams attracted the attention of Mr . Superintendent Perry , of the inland navigation , who hastened to the spot , and at the risk of his own life , jumped into the pool , and succeeded in recovering the drowning child , who was in a very exhausted state , and prevented the destruction of the other two children . The woman was taken into custoiy , and the child taken out of the -water was attended by a medical gentleman , who succeeded in restoring suspended animation . Tlie mother , when placed before Mr . Rose , the magistrate exhibited unmistakable evidence of her mind being in a disordered state . She was sent to a lunatic asylum .

      Pitmen Killbd at Percy Main . —Mr . Reed held an inquest on the Cth inst ., at Percy Main , on the bodies of Thomas Pattison , aged 29 , and James Daglaish . aged 23 . The deceased were pitmen at Percy Main Colliery , and it appeared that after they had got into the corf to descend the pit in the morning , the chain broke ; and they were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and killed . The jury returned the following verdict : — " That the deceased were accidentall killed by falling down the shaft at Percy Main Colliery in going to their work , by reason of the chain breaking on their getting into the corf ; and that the jury are of opinion that the chain was not of good quality , and recommended that in future the chains be properly te . sted , to ascertain their strength before being put into use . "

      Serious Accident at Plymouth Hoe . —We regret to record another of those unfortunate accidents which have so oftenbappened to parties walking on the Hoe since the military commenced making use of it as a drilling ground . The sufferer on this occasion was a little boy , between three or four years of ^ e , who was playing on the Hoe on the 1 th inst ,, in charge of his nurse . The soldiers appear to have been " skirmishing . " At the " word of command they were flying in all directions , and before the child could getout of the way he was struck by a soldier , either with the bayonet or the end of the * gun , in his eye and the poor fellow has thus had the sight entively destroyed . —Plymouth Journal .

      Fatal Mine Accident . —A melancholy accident occurred at the pita of Mr . Whitehouse , near the Cosely Tunnel , near Tipton , on the 5 th inst ., which resulted in the death of two men and two boys under the following circumstances :- ^ It appears that about six o ' clock on the morning in question four lads named John Millard , Ishma Granger , Timothy Flavell , and Samuel Weston , were let down the shaft of a pit under Mr .- Whitehouse , at Coseley , in a skip with a lighted candle , in order to work out before reaching the bottom of the pit , which it was stated liad not been worked for some few daysowito

      , ng the strike among the colliers . Damp was indicated by the candle being extinguished , on which the lads shouted to be drawn up again . Unfortunately however , their cries were not heard in time by the 'banksman " ( . Simon Peters ) , he having left the bank by direction of one of the " butties " of the pit , ( William Jeavons ) , whose life it will be seen was sacrificed ; and on fhe skip being drawn up again only one of the boys ( Millard ) was in it , the other three having doubtless falling out of the skip from suffocation . On ascertaining the sad occurrence William Jeavons , the butty , and another man . named

      beorge Grainger , descended the shaft to the assistance of the other three lads , and on the skip beintr again drawn up , another of the boys ( Ishma Grainger ) , was found to be in it alone , both Jeavons and trramger , the " butties , " having , it would appear fallen' out of the skip from suffocation in its ascent as on other men descending the shaft in search of them they were found to be quite dead , and their bodies mutilated . Granger's bead was also sadly cut . The other two boys , Timothy Flavell and bamuel Weston , were likewise found to be dead . Un the following day an inquest was held over the bodies , before T . M . Phillips , Esq . and a jury at the house of Mr . Joseph Stanford , Horse and Jockey Inn , TuUar ' s-end , Coseley , which was adjourned till I'nday , when the above facts havincr bp . en dp . kniM in

      evidence , the jury returned a verdict of ' Accidental V ! , ir ^ i i othe f boys ' Ishwa Grainger and John Millard are likely to recover . Elopement Extraordinary . —The inhabitants ofJSottinghamhave , during the last few days , been greatly astounded in consequence of the sudden disappearance from amongst them of Mr . Robert Parker cotton agent . It seems that about a fortnight since Mr . Parker went with his wife to Cleethorpes , where he left her , promising to fetch her home within a taef specific time ; but not keeping his engagement inquiries were made for him by his friends , who to their-great consternation , found that he had not onlv left the town , but that he had embarked per steamer for the United States , taking with him some merchandise , a large amount of cash , and a eii-linW

      teens . Mr . Parker is sixty-two years of age , and has been mamed upwards of forty years . The girl with whom he has eloped was recently his kitchen maid and is by no means either ladylike or good lookintr It would appear that he had beenlWmated -with Sfn girls charms for some time previous , for about twelve months ago he placed her with a Mrs . Fanne , to learn the tmllinary buisiness , and was often seen «;» etf » ss ^ r £ Destruction of Farm Property by Vnxssh ^^ i

      . ears no doubt but it was set on fire by some one ^ im ^ mi

      Ai ^ Z ^ ZT ^ ^ T ^ TSS" 5 KS = £ S £ la > go , ami evcnS V lAT is , vcr > - sonevs have been i icusto . lv TJT captured pr f . *! the jr ; auS ! t west ; r co dcnvcrpj F " day week have disapne red in t ! l l ) any on nous manner . The ffi to tho $ L myste - thmigli this system ot plmdS tl ^ TV ' vory serious , and the exff to AHT t 0 be earned may bo inferred from « T * l \ lm bccn Yorkshire id Laneaahire Q ^^ Jff the claims against them for oomnonwtffiL \^ ^ 7 during the past two years Vml ^ x- lo 8 t g ° half year alone to moro thin ^ ? Untln e » one Huddcrsfield agent alone . £ °° 0 paid hV «« Highway Roubkuy . — Two mroi n ; names as James King and rw' o . " theil " uiuuni

      uu as vagrants in tim o * ' " « ucomasiiHSa S fS ^^ IS ^ i They ttm tawkcS imTwn ° Zt ' n - ' " none - f » "S 5 fe ^ t 2 s ' S £ i ;; jot apmhc ., 4 » d ISttfe . '' " « % ,

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      miii i J * v' ± y , was walking along the top of Brld ^ lTr ^ observed a man putting a plank on the ton of' ^ rails , which are fixed round a coal-pit in lip if " road , and immediately afterwards she saw Ih ^' get upon the plank , and jump down into th « m n She at once gave information toa wmi »« ¦ ^ neighbourhood , who told Mr . T . Arun dal " t ) tha nager of some coal-pits near , belonging tT ? " Porter . Mr . Arundale , having ascert-unoi « r " there was no foul air in the pit , quickly ' j .,: ' } ' by means of ropes , and on reaching tbe bottom u found the man lying on his back quite de-ul ti ha warm . He brought him up , and had him cimT ^ to the Farm Yard Tavern , where Mr . ££ ? was acting as deputy to Mr . Herford held -, ' ¦ quest on Wednesday . It was then stated tin ? \ * pit was twenty-eight yards deep . —A woman nU 2 Margaret Richards , stated that tho d ece-ise . 1 * her husband . His name was Jacob Richard i _____ g ^^ g ^> g

      was a joiner , twenty-eight years of a » e , -, \ v !» ? at 108 , Edward-street , Oldham-road . lie bail h ill of rhcHmatic fever since Christmas last and h ? been for three weeks an inpatient of the Rm l Infirmary , from which he was only discharged 1 1 Monday . When he arrived home that day ho I pearcd to be quite uneasy . Ou the moni ' iiU of l& ' death , ho went out about half-past nine o ' clock saying that he would not be away long . uc . !*' peared to bo rambling in his mind , and did not com * back . —The jury returned a verdict of " Tempon 7 v Insanity . "—Manchester Guardian . * Robbery froji tub East Lancashire Railiw Company . —On Tuesday a man named John Board man , a watchman , jointly employed at the station

      in urcat Howard-street by the Lancashire a ;» Yorkshire and the East Lancashire Railway Com panies , was brought before Mr . Rushton , at tho police court , Liverpool , charged with havin <» robhrnl the till of the East Lancashire Railway dompanv of 4 * d . It appeared , from the statement mad e on behalf of the prosecution , that the prisoner was tho night watchman at the station , and that in consequence of several sums of money having been missed from tho East Lancashire tiJl during tfie last four or five days , and tho prisoner ( whose dutv it was to open the booking-office door in the moraine when the . bookih g clerk was not there ) hems suspected , Mr . Wolstenham , superintendentordered

      , one of the parties to keep a watch upon the prisoner on Monday evening , and tho money alleged to havo been stolen was marked , and the drawer left un-Jocked . About fire o ' clock on Tuesday morning tho prisoner was seen to unlock the office door and enter the office , and in a few minutes came out again , at that moment apparently putting something into his pocket . When the clerk came to tha office ho found that marked money had been taken trom the drawer , and the prisoner was then taken into custody , when the missing money was found upon him . Several of the company ' s servants bavin * given evidence on the charge , * the prisoner was committed for trial .

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      Sreiaiio . TnE HARVBST .-The past week was most favourable for harvest operations , and the farmers have taken all the advantage of it that they could from their restricted means . Labour is dear , j ust because there is a great demand for it , and it has been remark ,, that for many years , labour has not been so difficult to be procured as this harvest . The extensive emigration of the past season should account for this , supposing that we desire to conceal from ourselves the fact of the great mortality which prevailed among the agricultural labourers . From tbo reports of the agricultural instructors , it wnnirf ™

      pear that the potatoes arc more or less affected with disease-but they are not beyond hope . The certain prospect of a harvest of move than ordinary abundance is already working wonders in the diminution of the overwhelming amount of pauperism which crushed down the ratepaversin some of the southern unions . At the last meeting of tha J eimoy board of guardians , it appeared that tbe number of inmates , which was over 5 , 000 in the beginning of June last , was now reduced to 1 , 580 , 2 Ll ^ ui td T ; , !" elief WhateVei < was Siven . ' The general health of the paupers were good , the number or deaths during the week being only seven . All the auxiliary workhows , with the excentinn nf th »

      one at Kothcormac , wero closed , and , with a view to concentration and a further reduction of expenditure , that house was to be imniediatelv shut ud so that withm a period of six weeks the guardians were enabled to close seven auxiliary houses . The state of the Cork Union also presents some agreeable features , the number of inmates showing a material diminution during the past two months " The number on the 28 th of June was 7 , 033 , on " the 28 tk of July 6 , 13 / , and on the 28 th of AjiguM . 4 itfj . The decrease fur tho month ending the 2 Sth of July was 808 , and for the month ending the 28 : h of August l , 04 o , and for the two months 2 811 The lowest number in the house during the year 1 * 18 as&af ' ' ts-ia . ^ WiS

      The guardians of the Fermoy Union are about to send out sixty more young females to Australia asp ^ fat SOTS ASSJ & ? ss £ ^ fffl / sszad ? 5 * f U « Wi « , . too , there are some healthy indica . a"letfonrr ^ 0 fCO f T' aud tllc « S

      Lakdlodds , Middlemes , " ' Tknaxts — The g&as-^ . Jaf tfitsa ^ rasaB mind , but our views are not founded on tiie wor * t ae S- tiSn ^ n 1 CCOnaUion - blU " ^ on to state ot things likely to arise from the crisis to MtnZfr ° f Thatthe »? haSLfSfruiS JLt PlenifuI » fnnotbo denied , unless by mere makers and prophets of woe , ami hence it is that , bad as the present state of thines is . it mn « t L nl

      te'rs&Kffiawsdm interests would be most likely to wovkwel both for sSr ^ saa pavtot the aristocrats mid . tUa « M «^ .. i „ , » , „«"»

      for Mo «\ f' f ? r" is a very favourable omen SneoftEf ^ T US > - Butlhe great misfotbodv callS S 1 1 S Uie ° , stence of tllat llC' ' ari 0 lls BSS ^^ -s ^ ara SSSrflSstsssSs on the mS ? rtif m ! e Clld . ^<»» resistance SSI of agricultural pauperism . The middffil ^ T irom

      me evident iniquity of the system ™ Vf ,, u ; m ^ pass away ) aud y m Lnpn ^ ft " ^ iUffiii scription of work . " «« P uticular de-Cork School of Dfiiov in . Ployed in completingffi ^ M Ttractors eMactively forwarding tfework f / n U "i ertaki » S «« deuce of Sir Thomas S \ ' nder the superintenopen for the recention n ? ' } ° , exPCcts to have it month . GovSien ? ?«* T by tlle lst ° f * ext ^ thsome beauK Lt- ? W > 'inS the Bch ° o 1 collection . It \ J t > " f ddlt ! ° , *> the present rare marblcs aiuWecSP , be ^ unil ? Wltk ancient t ^^ F ^ - ^^ ssi sasfsSas-Sfi'Ats

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      Male * . « $ ra . Accident at IWnARRAs . -On Saturday the 8 th instant , a most fatal and melancholy accidenr occurred at the Lodge Pit , near Fenydarran Iron \\ ovks . The pit » on foe property of M r . Alderman itiompson . On Saturday as the men were at work a fall of rubbish took place in one of the headings bv which two men were killed ; the mass that fell was two or three tons in weight , and it was onlv after a vast deal of labour , that the bodies were extricated they presented a most fearful spectacle , literally smashed to pieces , so much so that recognition was rendered almost impossible . The bodies werecarned down through the High-street , Merthyr , followed by about 200 or 300 men most of whom had been working in the same pit , and nearly all of them carried their lamps in tlieir hands .

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      ® De $ townees . Destructive Fire . - Chatham , - a During the whole of Saturday night and Sunday morning the inhabitants of this district were very much alarmed , owing to an extensive conflagration that occurred at Sharstcd Farm , in the occupation of Mr . James Edwards , of Rochester . Its situation is near the village of Luton , about two miles from Chatham , and the largo number of fires that have been wilfully caused intlie neighbourhood durin " the last few weeks raised the suspicion that the firewas the work of an incendiary . The fire first broke out in one of the stables , and ' owing to the combustible materials the flames spread rapidly from one

      building to another , then connecting themselves with a row of twelve stacks , the growth of this year consisting of wheat barley , oats , peas , Ac , and , ' owing to the wmd blowing \? estvraus . caused the whole very soon to be one body of fire . Information ot the disaster was communicated by express to the tiremcn , -when the engines proceeded to the seene of destruction , but they wove of no use , as there was no water . Such an extensive fire as this has not been witnessed before for some years . The proporty destroyed , it is stated , amounts to about ± ¦ 7 , 1 ) 00 , and that Mr . Edwards is only insured for m the Kent for £ 4 , 000 . Four farm torsos were burnt to death ; three stables , ono barn , and a lon <» al " o burnt Wing 8 < ™ th twelvc staoks » WC 1 > <>

      Fire . —At two o ' clock on Monday morning an extensive fire broke out in the High-street c ? Chatham , at tho residence of Mr . Tucker , tailor and clothier ; so rapid was the firo that it caught the next bouse recently occupied by Mr . Stigant , linen ai . ipor ; both these houses are destroyed , and the next house , that of Mr . P . Lynch , ' fruiterer , iS partly burnt . The dock-yard engine , under the direction of Lieut . Wise , B . N ., with a detachment ot the dock-yard police , exerted themselves to the u most m saving the property . The fire was subdued by six o dock The damage in this instance is oonsiderab o . There was another large fire seen m tho . direction of the Isle of Slieppy , which was burning when daylight appeared . U

      anocKixo Brutality . —On the 7 th inst i min named Thoma * ffiobartson was killed in a mS brutal manner by a smith named John Lee , at Manchester , Richardson was in a state of intoxicat on and during the day had several times gouoto ffi shop and greatly annoyed him . About two o ' clock ho went again , . at which time Leo was in tho act of heating two pieces of iron , about half an inch i , dumeter , for the purpose of welding them together Seeing Richardson , he flew into an awful raSp a ,, after threatening him , seized the two pieces of ' red hot iron , and rushing upon him , made a desperate thrust with each at the lower part of his fi W Both pieces penetrated quite through . The poor man fell shrieking wul , agony , and the brutal ffiihS cooly went to the anvil and actually welded the iron . Two men were in the shop at the W '„? least

      ana inoy me idea of Lee ' s horrid intention couM easily have prevented the murder . ££ aid was immediatel y obtained , but the man K almost immediately . Lee , who seemed lffi con corned , was at once taken into custody and on SSKBriSff ffS 5 * * £ «•" sto'ai ^ ' ^ Asc *" ^ PmzE Fight asd Death op onk op tup p ™ sa » a ^ thirty yea - rs of ag | and 2 ^ cputej ' -is on ? ' ?? , "' s «^ hiSs to fight for £ 2 BIslSe andfS L ? s Sn ^^ l wmtfthnrl ntnkn ti . ..- ? ; '" . 1 < 111 S trilllllfr nml

      Wvrnitot . be entounS 1 Hfe v \ ^ ° called Middloton was the doolarX U -H " though m a miserable condition to enw ^ ° 1 vlotor . for it is said lie was eo beX *?„„ , ? t J y , lauvds . more than a . laSSiZ « i fT that f ^ despaired of . Lilly Wa ^ JS . flghtll ! Iifo ™* in so bad a state , . 4 o 't ^ i ^ Vmi to bo not him by rubbing W 2 „ , , S . restorill £ Ins mouth it only curelcl in II + i g pouved int « incaiwblo of swallSi J a * 1 Mat » aml ll 0 was ffliiolt l . o was eonvoyfd to fRi ? ' ^ Iroourod » in Arms ; Strntfor , l-3 onlv ? ^ ftnmberland di « tan % > lmUn ug ^} % *** 'Undred y ^ ^ o ^ lbccomo aoo ^ X l ^ rS

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      Explosion of a Firework Manufactory . — Between four and five o ' clock on Monday afternoon nart of Kensington was thrown into a state of indescribable alarm by a tremendous explosion , which shook the houses in High-street to their foundation . It was soon ascertained to have occurred at the house of a man named Jones , a firework manufacturer residing at No . l . Dueiimantonyard , at the bottom of Marketcourt , High-street , directly opposite Kensington Old Church . Hundreds of persons instantly rushed to the spot , when it was found that the house in question had been blown completely into the air , very little of it remaining I and thatpart of No . 2 , m theoccupation of Mr . Dean , had been carried with it . A

      stron * body of police , of the T division , was ra prompt attendance , and , as speedily as possible , began searching the ruins , it being at the moment believed that the whole of the inmates were amongst them . Mr . Jones was , however , soon found to be uninjured ; but Mrs . Jones , his wife , was got out a frightful spectacle , being completely blackened from head to foot , and dreadfully burnt over the head and body . She was immediately conveyed on a stretcher to the Kensington workhouse , wrapped up in a blanket by the police , but it was almost impossible that she could survive the night . No . 3 , in the occupation of Mr . Spavks , is also injured ; and so powerful was the explosion that the roof of No . 1 , was carried off , and fell on the

      workshops of Mr . Walter , at the back of the houses in Young-street , leading to Kensington-square , and completely . destroyed them . The parish engine and the brigade engines from town were in prompt attendance , but their services were not required . Mrs . Martha Jones , tho wife of Mr . William Jones , died in Kensington workhouse at two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . The unfortunate woman had both eyes blown out , and was otherwise most frightfully injured . Mr . Jones is also vevy severely burned on the face and one of his arms . He had not a minute before returned home , and had got no further than the pass-: < ge , when the first explosion took place upstairs , and was followed by others in the house , and he was

      buried in the ruins , from which he , with great difficulty , extricated himself , although he was close to the door . The second house is nearly destroyed , and No . 3 . is in a very dangerous state , the walls being cracked . The premises are insured , but Mr . Jones and tbe other residents of the houses are uninsured , Mr . J ones Still remains at the Kensington workhouse in a very doubtful state . Destructive Fire ;—On Sunday morning , about three o ' clock , a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr . Trott , a builder , carrying on business in Primrose-street , Bishopsgate . The flames commenced from some cause , which could not be ascertained , in the ironmongery stores , a

      building of some magnitude , and separated from the City of London Theatre by only a few feet . Policeconstablo 245 6 , who first discovered tho fire , raised an immediate alarm ; and in the course of a few minutes tho engines of tlio parish , London Brigade , and West of England attended , as well as one of the Iloyal Society's escapes . The flames , however , had during the brief interval obtained the entire possession of that portion of the premises in which they commenced , and were rushing so fiercely through the roof as to threaten the theatre with destruction . Fortunately there was an abundant

      supply of water obtained from the firemains in the district , from which the engines were worked with full vigour for some considerable time before the least impression could be made upon tho fire , but owing to the strenuous exertions of the firemen the flames were prevented from extending to the theatre and other surrounding property , but they could not bo extinguished until the shores were burned out , and the premises under , in the occupation of Mr . Johnson , grocer and coffee-roaster , were seriously damaged by water . The origin of the fire is unknown . Mr . Trott was fortunately insured in the Phoenix Fire-office .

      Alarming Fire and Probable Loss or Life . — On Monday morning about three o ' clock a fire , nearly attended with loss of life , occurred on the premises in the occupation of Mrs . Storey , No . 26 , Bromleyplace , in the Commercial-road , East . The flames commenced on the first floor front , but from what agency is at present unknown . The police who first discovered the fire succeeded in arousing the inmates , all of whom with the exception of Mrs . Storey succeeded in effecting a safe retreat from the burning bunding . She unfortunately was not so successful , and before she could leave her room she was most terribly burned .

      -- /•— - » ^— ^ m v t ^ £ w \* w VAVMW 4 * City of London Registritios . —The objections taken , and claims made , in the City of London this y , J ' 'Ol < tne revising barrister to dispose of , are as follows : —Objections—Persons objected to as not entitled to have their names retained on the list of persons entitled to vote as freemen of the city and hver . vmen of the several companies , 235 ; objeoted to as inhabitant householders , 1 , 071 . Total objections , ^ 206 . —Claim * . —Persons claiming to have their names inserted on the list of persons entitled to vote as freemen and liverymen , 4 ; claims as inhabitant householders , 276 . Total claims , 280 . On Monday , on the report of Dr . Gavin Milroy , the General Board of Health ordered the Spafields burial-grounds , and also the burial-grounds at St . uotolph , Bishopsgate , and the St . Thomas ' s burialground , Golden-laue , St . Luke ' s , to be closed .

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      N ¦ ? ! « THE TVTOKtHER STAR , £ 184

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 15, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1539/page/6/