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Health op Loxdox Dcbiso the " Week . —Tn ih * pending last Saturday , the dJffSStaS m the metropolitan districts 931 . ThfSS continues to show considerable decrease o ™ the ^ sat ^ & ^ tlJ tsssssifsriEBi Sw astttsiasl under lo years of a ? e . l l » einc » nn !„„ ,. „ » fi _ . i ™ _
L ip ^' - V " « " «*»<*» . Thedeashs from all epidemic diseases -were 173 whilst thl sj ^ r ^ asrss 3 T \^ Md ^ dea th is returned i » »« & . ¦ £ !* -, ** - ; of the disease whieh she ha ? suffered previously ^^« wa ? ri 5 S stt ^ rtfyaf * b * hshs ™™^^? H - ^ -. i » ttT « tirt weeks
ending September 22 nd a 7 d « ££££ yere pnbhsheo \ showing the deaths from cSolera to every 10 , 000 inhabitants , in each district of London . A tabular statement is now given , ghowing the mortality from cholera in 58 weeia , in each of the snb-distncts into which London is divided the population of each , suWUtrict , the deaths from chqlerato every 10 , 000 inhabitants , and the number of inhabitants to every death . To take a few examples :-Lambeth contains 8 sub-divisions ; in Waterloo-road ( first part ) the deaths to 10 , 000 of the population -were 159 ; in Waterloo-road ( second part ) they were 145 ; in Lambeth Church ( first part ) they were 112 . These places are in the neighbourhood of the river ; but the sub-districts which
are more remote , presents more favourable results ; for in Kennmgton the deaths were 110 to 10 , 000 inhabitants ; in Brixton they were 79 , and in Norwood only 7 . Wandsworth and Camherwell also exhibit the greatest contrasts in the comparison of the subdistricts into which they are severally divided , the deaths ranging from 17 in 10 . 000 in Putney to 175 in Battersea , and 182 in Strentbam and Tooting ; from 5 in Dnlwichto 182 in Camberwell ( sub-district . ) In St . George Hanover-square , the Belgrave sub-district , which is of low situation , suffered a mortality of 33 in 10 , 000 ; while the average of portions more favourable situated , was not more than 8 . In St . James , Bermondsey , the rate of
mortality was 208 deaths ; in Kotherhithe 270 . The above are some of the general results , but in the table the sub-districts , which contain workhouses , hospitals , and other public institutions , are distinguished , as allowance must be made for persons taken into them from other districts , after they had been attacked by the disease . The births registered in the week were 1 , 291 , —The mean height of the barometer in the week was 22-803 ; the daily mean was above 39 in . on Tuesday . The mean temperatore of the week was 34 deg . 5 min ., and was lower than the average of the same week in seven years by 9 deg . 1 nun . On "Wednesday , the daily mean was less than the average by 17 deg . 5 nun .
Eire atjd Loss of Lies . —On Saturday evening last , Mr . H . 3 L Wakley held an inquestat the Brown Bear , Broad-street , Bloomsbury , on William Martin , aged sixty , who had been a respectable tradesman and an overseer , but , in consequence of altered circumstances , was lately compelled to take shelter in the crowded lodging-house , 26 , Great Wild-street , Prory-lane ^ which was burned dowa a few dajs since , and in which fire deceased perished . —Joseph Gerard , fireman of the London fire brigade , stated that the fire , the origin of which was unknown , broke out at five on Wednesday evening week , and was extinguished at nine o ' clock , when he found
deceased lying dead on the floor of the second floor front room . —Ellen Smith , servant of Mr . Sullivan , the proprietor of the house , s * id that there were thirty-six beds in the house , and that between 40 and 50 persocsslept there . When tliefire broke out deceased was confined to bed by rheumatic fever . Tise fire destroyed deceased ' s room—Other witnesses proved that the fire originated in the rear of the house , and that several of the poor ledgers sustained great loss by the fire . One of them , named O'Mara , saved his life by jumping out of the window . Verdict— "Deceased ' s death was cause by the fire , but there was no evidence to prove how the fire originated . "
Suddes Death is Lambeth Church . — An awful instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred on Sunday during the performance of divine sendee , in the parish church of St . Mary , Lambeth . The officiating minister had just commenced reading the Psalms for the day , when a respectable inhabitant of the parish , named Stickley , who resided at No . 3 , Walnut-tree-walk , and has for sometime past occupied a seat in one of the galleries of the church , was observed to stagper and fall to the ground . The " street orderlies" of the district , who attend the church regularly , were called to the spot by the pew opener , and with their assistance the unfortunate gentleman was conveyed into the vestry ,
were he was immediately examined by several medical gentlemen , who at once pronounced life to be extinct . The Rev . Mr . Dalton , the rector , having retired to the vestry , instantly recognised the unfortnnate man as a regular attendant and communicant at the church . Mr . Superintendent Rntt , woo happened to be'in the church , at once gave directions to some of his officers to procure a stretcher , on which the deceased was shortly afterwards conveyed to his late residence . The awful incident created much excitement in the church , and the service was decayed for a few minutes in consequence . The rev . rector , who was very much affected , alluded , in Tery feeling terms , to the occurrence in the course of his sermon .
Suicide of a Gigab Merchant . — On Monday Bight , Mr . Payne held an inquiry at the Punch ' s Hotel . 'Fleet-street , on view of the body of Solomon Barraclough , aged fifty-four . The deceased was a tobacconist , and carried on extensive business at 46 , Lndgate-hill . —Charles Pye , assistant to thedeeessed , stated that about one o ' clock on Saturday afternoon he was called to deceased ' s bedroom , and on opening the door he was discovered suspended to the bed with a handkerchief tied round his neck . He showed no signs of life , and a doctor was ssni for ,
whose efforts to restore animation were ineffectual . Last saw him alive on Friday night at ten o ' clock . —Mr . King , assistant to Mr . Holding , surgeon , of Sew Bridge-street , said that he was called to see deceased , and found that life was quite extinct . The appearances were those showing that death had taken place some time . —A good deal of evidence was heard , all of which tended to show that deceased was suffering from deep mental affliction , which had clearly disordered his mind , and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanitv . "
Suicide at St . Bartholomew's Hospital . — On Monday night Mr . Payne held an inquest , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of Jonathan Light , aged fifty one . The deceased was admitted a patient in Mark's-ward , on Thursday , the 29 th ult ., suffering from indigestion . He remained until Saturday morning last about five o ' clock , when , becoming suddenly very restless , another patient in the same ward drew the nurse's attention to him . She endeavoured to sooth him ; but shortly afterwards he began to dress himself , and seemed as if determined to leave the hospital . He then seized hold of a small cheese knife , and inflicted a fearful wound in the throat , completely severing the windpipe , and expired almost instantly . The deceased was a cabinet maker by trade , and had for some time past been exceedingly despondent . Evidence having been given as to the state of his mind , the jary returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . "
Fire at the New Hcuirous Hotel . —On Monday evening , between four and five o ' clock , considerable alarm was caused in the immediate neighbourhood of Covent-garden , owing to the outbreak of a fire in the New Hummums Hotel , situate in Great Russellstreet . Some of the domestics had been airing a number of beds , which were piled on a bedstead on the fourth floor front , where the fire was soon afterwards observed ; but , with the aid of a plentiful supply of water kept on the top of the premises , the flames were confined to that portion of the building in which they commenced .
Epistolary Ixsults to the Queen . —Some letters of an intemperate character have recently been addressed to the Sovereign by a lunatic pauper , in the district of Whitechapel , who fancies himself aggrieved by the local administrators of the poor law , and threatens his revenge on her Majesty . The services of two magistrates , connected with west and east-end police offices , were brought into requisition by the Secretary of State , with the view of preventing a repetition of this indecent annoyance of royalty , and effective steps have been taken to carry out the Home Minister ' s determination . — WeeHy Chronicle .
Workikg Max ' s Hall . —Munificent Gift . —A ¦ benevolent testator named Jenkins has left the munificent sum of £ 10 , 000 for the erection of a Working Man ' s Hall , to be built in same convenient part of the metropolis . The building is to be for the free use of working men of all denominations , under the control of twelve directors , who have been nominated . It is added that Mr . Hall , the geologist , has expressed his intention , on the completion of the building , to present to it his magnificent museum : and further , that a gentleman , whose name did not fcaaspire , would furnish a " library of one thousand Yolnmes . ' Baptist Noel and his New Coxgreoatiox . — On Friday evening , the 30 th ult ., the Hon . and Rev . Baptist Noel omciated for the first time at the " fount" since his connexion with the Baptist Church , in John ' s Chapel , Bedford-row , of which place of worship he is aowthe recognised pastor , Mr .
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Evans , the late minister , having been given up by his medical attendants as past all recovery . Upon this occasion the number baptised or imnersed was seven , viz ., six females and one male , all of whom were members of his congregation when a minister of the Church of England . This number , however , is merely a portion of those who have left Bedford Chapel to join him in his new state , some seventy or eighty having seceded from the church to become Baptists , and members of John ' s Chapel . — Sunday paper ,
Escape of a Cosvict . — On the 30 th ult , between the hours of 10 and 11 in the morning , as the gang of convicts empleyed in cleaning the shot and shell in the Royal Arsenal was being mustered , the guard discovered that a prisoner , named Henry Smith , was missing . Immediate information was given to the police , and it was ascertained that the prisoner , after exchanging his hat and coat for those of a man who had left them in one of the sheds , most have slipped down the wharf and made his escape into the town . The utmost exertions were used to re-capture him , but hitherto without success He is described as being twenty-four years of age . five feet three inches high , has brown hair and hazel eyos , and is tattoed with a star on his thumb and the
letters A . C . on his right arm . Extraordinary Affair in Kessal Green CtMETERT . —On Tuesday afternoon an extraordinary scene took place in Kensal-green Cemetery , and which has created some considerable interest and surprise , in consequence of the body of a gentleman named Hendry , having been exhumed , in pursuance of a warrant issued by Mr . M . H . Wakley , the deputy-coroner for Middlesex , without the presence of a jury . The deceased was a gentleman of property , residing in Hyde Park-square , and shortly before his death , which took place in Scotland , he made a will , leaving the bulk of his property to a gent'eraan with whom he was residing at the time of his decease . It being known , however , that he had made a will in England , inqairies were made , when it was stated that the English will had been placed in the coffin with the corpse , and hence it was deemed desirable to disinter the body , an additional
reason being , that it was said no medical man had been called in during his last illness . The csffin and the body underwent a very riged examination , but no will could be discovered . The body of the deceased appeared not to have been wasted , and there were still some plaisters adhering to the chest . No mil having been found , the coroner said it would be necessary to have a . pott mortem examination of the body , and the contents of the stomach were removed and placed in a jar for the purp-ge of being analysed . The coroner directed that Mr . Garrett should perform the analysis , and that the body should not be again interred nntil the jary had seen it . The remains of the deceased gentleman were then properly secured , and the j « r and its contents were taken away by Mr . Garrett , who was directed to report to the coroner the result of the analysis as soon as possible . All the parties then left the cemetery .
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man of . substance , thought ho should come to want , but he was at Buckingham . market on . Saturday , and appeared much as usual . . .: ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . The Collision at Woodhouse Junction . . — Thomas Owen , of New Holland , an engine driver in the service of the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincashire Railway Company , was on Friday ; th 30 th ult ., examined on a charge of causing a collision on the company ' s lino at the Woodhouse Junction , near Sheffield The defendant ' s head bore the mark of a frightful wound , received at the time of the accident , and he was suffering from other injuries inflicted on the same occasion , which had rendered him very lame . For the prosecution it was stated that the defendant was the driver of a goods train , and it w . ifl one of the reaulations of the company , and
perfectly understood by every engine driver , that a goods train should not travel at a greater speed than fifteen mileB an hour . This person , on tho occasion in question , was travelling at about forty miles an hour . It was also a regulation that no driver of any train should pass a junction at a greater rate than eight miles an hour ; but he was actually approaching the junction ( Woodhouso Junction ) from Sheffield at about forty miles an hour . Thera is a " distance danger signal ' ' on the Sheffield side , which a man coming from Sheffield may see when he is three quarters of a mile off the junction ; and there being a contractor ' s ballast train in the way at the junction , the signal man
stationed there turned on the distance danger Signal by means of a wire , in order to give warning of the obstruction . Some minutes after this the si gnal man saw a train approaching at a very rapid rateabout forty miles an hour . The defendant , who was driving the train , then reversed his engine . The ballast train was still in the way , and the defendant seeing that a collision was inevitable , jumped off the engine , and in so doing he was very much hurt . A collision occurred , which seriously wounded and endangered the lives of several men , and damaged property to the extent of not . less than £ 1 , 000 . —Evidence having been-taken , tho prisoner was fined £ 10 ., or two months' impri-¦ ¦
sonment . -. ' . - Death of Ebenezer Elliott . —A correspondent of the Sim states that Ebenezer Elliott , the "Corn Law Rhymer , " died on the lstinst ., at his residence , Argilt-hill , near Barnsley . Hisillnesi had continued more or less severe , for many months ; yet up to the last few weeks his powers ot mind were active and clear—so much so , tbat he was engaged in correcting for the press an enlarged edition of his works , now publishing by Mr . Fox . Some of his sweetest lyrical effusions have been the production of this period of bodily affliction , He has left a wife , five sons , and two daughters . This remarkable man and original poet was born on the 17 th of March , 1781 , being one of ^ eight children . His father was a clerk in the iron-works at Masborough , near llotheram
with a salary of £ 70 a year . Of his early life little is known ; the anecdotes which friendship has gathered from his conversation represent him as uniting great poetic sonsibility with much practical inaptitude . On leaving school at an early age , and discovering' great deficiency in arithmetical attainment , he was placed by his father to work in the foundry , and it is recorded that a sense of his shortcomings often caused him to weep , as coming dirty from his work , he saw the invoices or drawings of his brother Giles . Mr . Elliott commenced life as a working nan ; he came to Sheffield under peculiar circumstances , and some much exertion and endurance he was favoured by for tune , and he was wont to relate how » Bitting in his chair , he for a time made his twenty pounds a day ,
without seeing the goods that he sold . The corn laws spoiled all that , and made him glad to get out of the business of a bar-iron merchant with part of his earnings , the great panic of 1837 having swept away some three or four thousand pounds at once . His first place of business was in Burgess-street ; the house is pointod out at the right hand corner as you go up . Removing hence , when business had increased , he established his warehouse in Gibraltarstreet , Shalesiuoor . Shortly after he built a handsome villa in the suburb of Upper Thorpe , whence he could behold Sheffield smoking at his feet . The counting-honse where Ebenezer Elliott made fame as well as fortune , was strangely furnished—iron bars jostling Ajax and Achilles , for the classic poets were great favourites with our rhymer , although he could enjoy them only through the medium of a translation .
Elliott has been called the Burns of the manufacturing city . His honest-natured heart saw with indignation Monopoly rob Labour of it wages , and con-Vert plenty into famine . He attacked the bread tax most manfully . He sent out , right and left , " songs , sarcasms , curses , and battle cries , " among the people . To his alarm , " Up ! bread-taxed slave , " England ceased not to respond till the corn laws were extinguished . Sickness for six months visited him at intervals with increased severity , but his habitual serenity never once forsook him ; indeed , this was a period of great mental activity . On Saturday , the 1 st inst ., he drew his last breath at Argilt-hill , near Barnsley . Of five sons , two conduct the steel business of their father , and two are clergymen of the Church of England . He has also left a widow and two daughters .
The Britannia . Bridge Menai Struts . — Another misadventure occurred on Monday after , noon in the means whereby the second great tube was to have been moored off to-day , but with no untoward attendants ! Precisely at ten o ' clock , when all parties engaged in the grand operation were nt their posts , and the signals bad been sent out to the various stations , one of the great 8-inch thick cables , reaching from the pontoons to the opposite shore , and the duty of which was to give the first impulse to the transport of the stupendous mass , suddenly snapped asunder . On a minute examination of the severed cable , a conclusion , it is to be regretted to say , was come to that the hauling line had been maliciously cut by some miscreants , why or wherefore remains to be made out . This is believed to bo the case on good authority , and it is
almost unnecessary , without actually assigning it as the cause of the catastrophe , to say that it only gives to some two hundred men another day ' s work . It appears , however , from an investigation of . the parts , that the cut or severance is of a character that neither a tearing strain nor the laceiations of a rock could have inflicted . It was forthwith announced to the multitude that the operation would come off the next day the same hour . The transport of the huge mass of tube , 472 feet and 2 , 000 tons in weight was successfully effected on Tuesday . Should the first line of tube be completed by March , 1859 , the works will then have been nearly four years in progress . Telford ' s Mehai Suspensiou Bridge was eight years in building . The weight of its iron work , compared with that of the Britannia Bridge , being as 014 to 10 , 000 tons .
Dreadful Accident . —A fearful accident occurred at the Wernethstationonthe 28 ult , to a man named Thomas Sharpies , aged twenty-one years , who was in the employ of the company . It was his duty to detach the rope from the engine on the arrival of a train . When the train leaving Manchester at a quarter-past one arrived at Werneth , Sharpies was talking with another man , about CO yards from the place where he ought to have been . On seeing the < mgine approach he ran to cross the line in front of it to get to his proper place , but his foot caught the rope , and threw him down across the rails . ' With a wonderful presence of mind he attempted to seize t he rope ; but missing it he laid himself fiat between the rails , in order that the train might pass over him . The engine did so ; but there was not room between the ash-box and the pavement for his body . He was , consequently , squeezed and completely flattened by its passing over him , his brains being forced out of his mouth . An inquest was held on the 30 th ult , and a verdict of" Accidental death" returned .
Murder and Suicide . —The town of Towcester was last week thrown into a state of the greatest consternation by the discovery that a person mamed Dowdeswell , who had been for some years a traveller in the employ of Mr . John Vernon , wine merchant , of that place , had murdered his wife and afterwards committed suicide . Not appearing at bis place of business at ten o ' clock , a messenger was sent to his residence in Park-street , when the houBewas found to be closed . A ladder was obtained , and an entrance gained to the house , when the bodies of Dowdeswell and his wife were both found lying on the floor . A pistol was on the table , with which the wife had evidently been shot , while the husband still grasped another in his hand , with which his suicide had been effected . The child of the unhappy pair , about two
years old , was in aroom upstairs crying . Mrs . Dow . deswell was for some years a waitress at the Talbot , and was ' greatly respected . Less than two years ago she was married under circumstances not calculated to promise a happy wedded life , and it is said that her husband has frequently treated her with great brutality . Her maiden name was Powell . The double crime was no doubt committed late on Thursday evening . , Great Cruelty at Sea . —The Hull Packet says — " At the Police : court , on Saturday last , Francis Coulson , master of the Stentor , was summoned by one of the crew named Ambros Johnson , a youth seventeen years of age , for treating him in a most inhuman and barbarous manner . It appeared from the statement of the witnesses , which we give below , ' that the complainant shipped on board the Stentor
as an ordinary seaman on the 6 th of August , at Richibucto . Two days after they had sailed defendant went to the complainant at the wheel , and began to curse him . He then knocked him down with his fist , and beat him with a rope ' s end . After that he beat the complainant every day for a fortnight when he went to the wheel , in a most unmerciful manner . He was so ill-used that the poor fellow was obliged to hide himself below amongst the ear ^ o , and he was in that situation forty hours before any one knew where he was . A search was made for him , but not being found it was supposed that he had jumped overboard . At length he showed himself to the men arid they , in order to screen the poor fellow from further ill-treatment , advised him to stay wliere he was and each gave him a portion of his food every day to ' subsist upon . The captain all this time expected he was drowned . He remained hidden until they reached
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-... — . , .. ¦ ¦; „ . ¦¦ : •( r , » .. * ( Hull—a period of nine weeks , and the sufferings he endured , it will be seen by'the following evidence , were dreadful in the extreme : —R . Willis said : I was chief mate on board the Stentor . The : master had beat the complainant everyday , arid almost . every hour . He beat him too bad for any man to bear . I have seen him throw him on , the deals , and jump on him . —H . M . Croft : I ' was on board the Stentor . I have seen the master behave very bad to the complainant . I saw him kick him / and knock him down , and jump upon him , and then beat him with a thick rope . I saw him pull the hair produced out of the hov ' s head . —The captain ,.. m his defence , totally
denied the assaults . —The magistrates decided that the captain must pay a fine of £ 5 or be" imprisoned two months in' the house of correction .- ^ -This case was broug ht before the magistrates again on Wednesday , in consequence of the owner , Mr . . William White , refusing to pay the lad his wages for the nine weeks that he had been concealed in the hole , which were £ 5 17 s ., and £ 215 s . for deficiency of provision ' s . In this investigation the facts of the case came out in a more extended form than before . The complainant stated that , two days after they < left Richibucto the master ill : used , nhnin avery shameful manner , until the blood ran from his nose . He continued this treatment to him every day for a fortnight .
The captain frequently stated that he had had enough of Hull crews before , and he would have it out of the Hull men on this voyage . At last , his ill-treatment became so cruel that witness could not sleep at night for the pain , and was afraid he should not live much longer if he was ill-used any more . One Sunday night , after he had been on deck eight hours , tho captain sent him aloft to rig some of the sails , In consequence of this shameful treatment witness hid himself in the lower hold of the vessel , between , the ends of some deals . He was so closely jammed , that he could not get in without taking off some of his clothes . In order that ho ' one might see him , he was obliged , from eight o ' clock at night until twelve ,
to remain suspended by his hands from some of the deals . ; After twelve o ' clock he could creep out and lie on the deals . He subsisted for forty-eight hours in this situation on the bread be had saved the day before he hid ' himself , ahd when the men left their cabin he used to go and pick the bones they had left . When his bread was gone and he had nothing to eat , he made himself known to some of the men . They advised him to stay where he was , or the master would further ill-use him . He therefore remained there , and the men fed him by each of them giving him a portion of their provisions . He continued concealed in this situation until the vessel arrived in
Hull . Mr . White , the owner , admitted that in the position the lad was in , while he was concealed between the timber , he was liable at any moment to be crushedto death . Mr . Rollitt on the ' part . of . Mr ! White , said that his client was quite ready to pay the lad . his remuneration for the services he really did perform during the voyage , but he objected to do so in consequence of having received no services from the lad tor nine weeks that he was . concealed . It was a question of'hardship by the captain , and the owner himself was quite an innocent man . The magistrates , however , decided that they were of opinion that the boy was entitled to the amount lie claimed . "
Prison Breaking Extraordinary ., and Robhehy of the goternors house , at worcester . —On Monday morning , at five o ' clock , the governor of the Worcester city gaol was aroused by the police , who had found a number of towels , joined together , hanging fiom the wall of the prison next Friar-street . On search being made it was discovered that a notorious character named Evans , alias Phillips , alias Bradshaw , who was awaiting his trial at the next spring assizes ; on several charges of burglary , was missing from his cell , and had escaped from the prison . On further search it was also discovered that the governor ' s sitting-room had , been broken into , and a number of silver spoons and other articles of
plate taken from his plate-chest , which had been forced open , The prisoner ' s escape was a most extraordinary one . The turnkey had seen him in his cell and locked him up at four o ' clock the previous evening . The door of his cell was secured by a massive lock and staple on the outside , and it is supposed that the prisoner had previously succeeded in unscrewing the four nuts from the screws which held the staple , by which means he very easily forced open the door from thence he traversed a passage to the day-room , the door of which he forced by removing the-staple in a similar way to the one attached to his cell-door ; he had then to encounter another door leading into the day yard , having a lock and staple still more . . ....
massive than the preceding ones ; this he also forced . Arriving in the day-yard he was met by a high wall , surmounted by a most formidable chcyaufrde-frise . This he is supposed to have scaled by means of towels , supplied him by some of the female prisoners ; this feat brought him into the women ' s yard , but of which he got by climbing some tall palisading , and alighted in the prison yard adjoining the governor ' s house .. He then forced open the window of the governor ' s sitting-room , which he ransacked and took from the governor ' s plate-chest every article in it . From this spot it would appear he went round the prison-yard to the infirmary , which adjoins' the prison wall , and here he performed the most desperate mi
rear or . Tins building is about eighteen feet high and has Uiree windows placed in a triangular position , about six feet , apart , looking into the prison yard . He succeeded in climbing up the building from one window to the other ( in which he is supposed to have aided himself by the towels , ) and from thence to the top of the outer wall of the prison . There he drove a strong nail into the wall , and attached to it a piece Of Stout string , to which he also attached several towels , by which means he let himself down into the street , got clear off , and no clue has as yet been obtained to his whereabouts . The man is thirty years ot age , five feet six inches in height , brown hair , grey eyes , pale comploxion , slender make , with three small moles on the left arm ..
_ lllREAIENED DESTRUCTION OP RAILWAYS BY HIE rLooDs .-NoiraonAM , Tuesday . —During the last two or three days considerable anxiety has been experienced in this district , inconsequence of the rapid rise of water in tho valley of tho Trent , and upon the banks of its tributary streams , owing to ™ e very heavy and incessant rains which fell in the midland counties between Saturday evening and Monday morning . The whole country , from the source of tho Trent to its junotion with the Hum ' ber , is one vast inland sea , more than 150 miles in length ,, and occasionally extending for miles on either sido ; and on the banks of the smaller streams , m Derbyshire , Leicestershire / and Staffordshire , it is the same , but to a somewhat more limited extent . The effect' of all this upon the dittereut lines of railway has been tremendous , causing no little amount of risk to every train that has passed to and fro . and eivins ? consineraHB
trouble and anxiety to the whole of the company ' s omcials . In the neighbourhood of Burton-oh-Trent , a portion of the embankment was washed down , delaying some of the subsequent trains for a considerable time ; and from Monday ' morning until luesdsy morning the whole of the ' traffic upon ' the Lrewash Valley branch was entirely stopped . Now however , the broken portions of the embankment nave been repaired , and the trains have recommenced running as usual . From symptoms perceived on Tuesday on the main line , between Loughborough and Long Eaton , it was greatlj tearcd all communication between the south and north of the Midland line must cease , and so it soon would have done had the heavy rains continued . Happily , however , the pouring torrent was stayed towards noon on Monday , and the ' weather has since continued beautifully fine '
; An Ingenious Invention for Early Risers . —A mechanic , residing at 104 , Newcastle-street , Hulme has constructed a 'little machine for the purpose of awaking himsef early in the morning . To a Dutch ciockiinthe kitchen he has attached a lover from which rt wire communicates through the ceiling to the'bedroom above , in which he has fixed his novel invention . Having sot tho lever to any hour at which ' ho may wish to be awakened , " when the'time arrives it is released by the clock / and the machinery upstairsi-inpa bell than strikes a match , which lights an oi lamp . This lamp runs upon four wheels and is at the same instant propelled through a tin tube on a miniature railway , about five feet Inn ,,
wlucti w raised , by small iron supports , a few inches above the bedroom floor . Near the end of tho line is fixed an elevated' iron stand , upon which a small tea kettle is placed ( holding about apint and immediately under it , by the aid * of a sprKe r ? ^ . - PP . ' ifcs flame Mia the water n Jki'fJ f f ) Venty m T ' thus enablin I h m S toko a cup of tea or coffee prior to going to work The bell attached ls so powerful that'it awakes his neighbour , and tho machine altogether ia of 1 rerv neat appearance , tho mechanism being of noUheS {" »• ' -The inventor had made it duS hiSfsS hours and has been about eighteenShs in bri ?« ing it to a state of completion H » T i g " biuedutility with ecoStas ttaJSkK'SE does not cost more than a half pennyTerwik Manchester Guardian ¦ v « eeK ' ~
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water . They plunged about in a mass , and she did not right , but broke her painter , and drifted away , bottom up . '• There were no means for assisting them , and the crew of the brig had to suffer the angaiah of witnessing those who had come off to rescue them from peril sink one by one into a watery grave . Of the twenty-four men who went off only four came ashore alive . Three of them , John Harrison , John Millburn , and George Heirs , got on to the boat ' s bottom , and were taken off by the second life-bo > t , which put off another gallant crew as soon as the accident was discovered . The fourth man got on board the vessel , he does not know how . He and the crew of the brig were
rescuedby the second life-boat as the tide receded . When the second life-boat landed at the low part of South Shields with the three men taken off the boats the scene was most terrific . Fathers , mothers , wives , sisters , and relatives , rushed down to the water edge , to see if it was " theirV' that had been sived ; and when the loss was manifest to them , the wailing of women , and deep sobbing of sturdy men—men who had stood many a nor-wester , and escaped many a peril—was most heartrending . The most of the men drowned have left large families , and the South Shields pilots—like most of those who gain a living on the coast—intermarrying into
their own calling , the ties that are broken are extensive . The boat , after- breaking her head rope , drifted to the south , and it being thought that some of the men might be under her , as soon as the second life-boat landed the three men , she put out to sea again , at the imminent risk of her crew , and grappled the upset boat amongst the breakers . They immediately got her in towards the beach—those on shore rushing in up to the neck—and hauled her in ; but , or righting her , all that was found was the scarf of one of the men , which had been fastened round the thawt , and with a slip-hitch round his wrist ; but ,
in the working of the boat , the knot had broken , and he had drifted away ; . The best swimmer would have had s no chance in such a sea . Tho following are the names of the sufferers , men well kriown ^ by those navigating the North Sea :-John Bone , Lancelot Burn , John Burn , John Burn , jun ., Wm . Smith , John Donkin , Robert Donkin , George Tynemouth , Henry Young , Ralph Shotter ,, Wm . Purvis , John Wright , James Wright , Thos . Marshall , Ralph Phillipson , John Phillipson , John-Marshall , jun ., Goprge Tindle , James Matterson , and James Young . At present the only body found is that of Leneclot Bnrni :
Sudden Death op thb Rev . Philip Stbong . — The very sudden decease of the above' Rev . gentleman , took place at Myland Rectory , on the 28 th ult . The deceased had enjoyed his accustomed health during the day , and , on his return from a visit to the town , partook of his dinner as usual ; when the hour of family prayer arrived the household assembled , and the reverend gentleman proceeded to perform the customary devotional duties , but while in the act of uttering the words " Our Father , " suddenly fell backwards , and did not breathe more than three or
four times afterwards . On Friday , the 30 th ult an inquest was held upon the body , when A . Partridge , Esq ., surgeon , gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died of serous apoplexy .. ; it was possible , he said , that the [ heart ( as was currently reported ) might have had something to do with it , but he had not found symptoms of any such affections . Some three or four years ago deceased was ill , and sought the advice of Dr . Watson , who suspected that something was wrong with the heart , but could not find proof of it . Verdict , " Died by the visitation of find "
A Heavy Sentence , —At the Lewes Sessions , last week , Samuel Bartholomew , a labourer , described as sixty-eight years of age , having pleaded guilty to stealing one hop-pole , of the value of one halfpenny , was sentenced to . " one month's-imprisonment , with such description of hard labour ( says a Lewes correspondent ) , as he was found capable- of performing . " The sentencing magistrate was George Darby , Esq ., late M . P . for East Sussex Brighton Guardian . ¦• ¦ Accident on the Medway . —On Tuesday evening a frightful accident occurred on the river Medway , occasioned by the : Victoria steam vessel running _ ' . _ . 11 i _ . i mi ¦ . O small boatThe steamer
over- a . was on its passage from Sheer ness to Chatham , and on ' its passing Chatham Dockyard , with its usual speed , a ferryboat containing two persons—viz . W . Britten , a waterman , and Lieutenant E . W . J . Knox , of the 75 th Regiment , camo suddenly in front of the steamer from behind the stem of a ship lying in ordinary near the sheer hulk , and so : sudden was tho collision that there was not time to give alarm from the steamer , and , melancholy to relate , tho boat was smashed to fragments , and the . officer and waterman immersed in tho river . The captain of the steamer ordered the engineer to back astern and fortunately both were saved . Both the men however , -were picked up in a very exhausted state !
and the waterman was dreadfully mangled , having one arm smashed , and a thigh and a leg broken ! Tho officer was very much hurt , and it was thought that some of his ribs were broken . He was conveyed m a carriage to Chatham Barracks , and the waterman was ; taken to his residence on the Brook at Chatham . It appears that Lieutenant Knox was in charge of a detachment at Upnor . Castle , and had taken the boat at the New Stairs for the purpose of being conveyed to Upnbr when the accident occurred . Dr . Pink , surgeon to tho provisional battalion , immediately attended Mr . Knox , and the report is that Lieutenant Knox is very much bruised about the body , but there is nothing to apprehend from the injuries he has received . With regard to the waterman great fear is entertained for his
recovery lHE OUTDREAK OP ChOLEBA IN TAUNION "VTORKnotiSE . —The attention of tho Board of Health having been called to the recent outbreak of cholera in the Taunton Union , Dr . Sutherland was sent down specially upon the subject , and in his report which has appeared in : the columns of the Somerset County QazetU , he says : "A practised eye can perceive at a glance that the workhouse in question has been constructed without due regard to sanitary principles . Its situation , though suburban , is badly drained . On one side the ground is higher than the level of tho base of the building . The drainage is carried by a sewer into a cesspool in the garden ,-which until very lately was open . It is
nuw , nowever covered over ; and the overflow passes out of the garden , and discharges itself into a pestilential ditch in a neighbouring field , not far from the garden wall . The elevation of tho workhouse is remarkably low ; it consists' of a front Sv ^ fi f > ches 3-riiy 5 ' whicfl P « Ject into theyardbehmd . it . This yard ia surrounded tv low badly-constructed sheds ' which are used [ partly as offices , partly for wards , and in one of thern is ' ff * W ° K £ " ^ t schools beLging to the establishment . -On entering the building one is SS ^ nr " - *^ maikamy low , and bad y ventilated whilp thn overcrowding , so far as . could k Si l ? & S !
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swrtlantf . Statistics op ScoiLANn . — -According to the cenms of 1841 it appears that the inhabitants of Scotland are 2 , 620 , 184 . The largest item of that number is Glasgow city and suburbs , which number 274 , 533 , being ten per cent , of the whole ; tho smallest of the inhabited islands are Moray in Inverness-shire , and Vementry , in Orkneyshire , both of which contain two inhabitants . There are a number Of islands whose inhabitants number five , six , seven , and eight each , and a greater proportion varying from , that number to . thirty or forty persons ' . Out of 2 , 620 , 184 people in Scotlarid , the county of Lanark , though by no means the largest in extent , contains 426 , 972
, being the sixth part of the whole ; while Selkirk " , which contains about one-fourth of the area of square miles has only about a fifty-eighth ' part of the inhabitants of Lanarkshire , or about 7 , 300 . Manymore instances could he adduced of the irregular distribution of the inhabitants of Scotland , in ; proportion to . the superficial area , and that without reckoning the wild uncultivated tracts of the Highlands ; but we have stated enough to show that the wealth lying below the surface has done far more to stimulate population in this country than the best soil with all the appliances of the most approved husbandry . —Caledonian Mcr * cury .. .
Bmde Stolen . - The parish of Ardersier was thrown into a state of unusual excitement on tho morning of Saturday week last . On the previous evening a young and buxom damsel plighted her troth , before a large party of young friends , to bo faithful and / . true until death to the devoted swain who led her to the altar , after a long and patient courtship of four years . After the ceremony was performed the party proceeded to the bridegroom s rooni in Campbelton , led by « a piper , who blew as ii " he'd blaw his last . " Having concluded a substantial repast , the party proceeded to the ball-room , where they showed that they had light heels as well as light hearts till three in . the morning . For some time before this hour if :
was remarked that the bride did not grace the ball-room with her presence as she had done in the early part of the evening . The question , Where is the bride" was asked by a a . hundred tongues , but nobody gave a satisfactory answer . The bridegroom looked anxious—tho bridesmaids looked fnghteried-and the bridesmen looked foolish . Some observant persons whispered that they did not like the conduct of a young plouchman-a rustic Loclrinvar-who waa noticed to ' tread a measure" with the bride , and "to whigper a word in her ear ; " and it was further remarked inat
t-nia youth had not been seen for some time Consternation seized the party , the dancers stood motionless and the fiddlers dropped their bows A general search was instituted ; "thev sought her east , they sought her west , " but " the lady was not seen . Some of the company blamed tho bride lor-having broken her vows so soon after making them ; and everybody pitied tho bridegroom , who however , seemed to bear his disappointment with equanimity , saying with Duncan Grey , " shema ! f ^ ^^ or nie ; " and further consoling himsdf by threatening towed another wife before a
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Uwr ! S ™ n ' Ii : 0 E CT ° ^ PAPERS FOR TUB UNITED &TAiEg COMPULSORY . —A Post-office order just issued , stated that . « A consideii JS ot newspapers addressed to the United States r . aving lately been posted unpaid , there is reason to tear inat many persons are under the impression that the payment of postage upon newspapers intended to be sent to that country is optional . The
public , therefore , are again informed that , iinless the rate of postage upon these papers , namely one penny , be paid in advance , they cannot be forwarded to their destination . It is desirable that postmastors should give the utmost publicity to this notice !" ¦ Vnfo JT ?? x Ga * $ & . annoui » ces the return to Paris of M . Itocher d'lleric 6 urt , from a iournev in Abyssinia of long duration , bearing about a Scwetf manuBcripte in tho Ethiopian language , of vSAntiquity and great literary value ; one n anuscrlnUs SSfffifS also brought home ™ T * - UtM > d > ncourt hag ™ . *• . _ £ : "; . me many specimens of n . ™ l ™ t + 1 , 0 . is cu
„ assbfa : i thrs ^* K 7-tft oe ^ JhSd ^^ A , Potentate plant , assured him of its »™~ iT , l ue of t ] ™ ^ d showed liTita SkSTbl *^? ™» , dogs . A committee of £ 8 ^ 5 ^?^*? Place near AWeSSood in S * " * . \ ^ poachers and gameSS l ? l ^ / betwee * Wiled on the ifTiPdM ? h ^ t fi'T ' bein & incident affected Mr AMeSw « f { n dl 8 a 8 trw « that he as instructed his ten-vn / ' r ^ ^ ey-hall , to destroy all the game on hk \ Geoi > S . L'ghtfoot .
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& $ e iiroDfttre ?* Forgery on the Daiuixgiox Bask . —Last week considerable excitement was created in Darlington , by the discovery of a forgery upon the house of Messrs . Jonathan Backhouse and Co . During the previous Saturday , a person , having the appearance of a horse dealer , made a great number of small purchases of different tradesmen and publicans , in each case offering a £ 5 note for payment , and requesting change . In every case where this was ascertained , the note has been pronounced fictitious . On the same day , a number of similar notes were passed without detection at Stockton
Middlesborough , and Richmond , doubtless by members of the same gang . Some members of the same gang visited this city , on Saturday , and succeeded , in the course of that evening , in passing at least thirteen of the forged notes , by the same means as their confederates employed in other places . We learn from our correspondents , that Sunderland , Bishop Auckland , Richmond , Northallerton , and a few other towns , have been visited ; hut it will be satisfactory to the public to know , that as far as has yet been ascertained , the entire number of notes issued by these adventurers i 3 by no means considerable . —Durham Chronicle .
The Murder of Sir . James Graham s Gaueeeeper . —An adjourned inquest was held on the 29 th nit ., at Carlisle , on the body of Thomas Davidson , gamekeeper to Sir J . Graham , who was found murdered . Three persons , named Andrew Turnbull , John Nicol , and Joseph Hogg , were in custody for the murder . They were remanded on the first examination , subsequently to which Andrew Turnbull made a confession which fixed the actual perpetration of tho deed upon his companions , has made a further statement , in -which he unsaid a great part of what he had sworn to on his first examination ; hut he directly implicated both the prisoners in custody , and himself , and his manner seemed to indicate that he spoke the truth . The
evidence taken at the inquest was very voluminous , and the verdict was " "Wilful murder against Joseph Hogg , John Xicol , and Andrew , Turnbull , by strangulation with deceased ' s neckerchief . " On the night of the 28 th ult , Turnbull committed Suicide in Carlisle gaol , by hanging himself with a towel . An inquest was held on the body on Friday week , when it was proved that the deceased hung himself with his towel , tied to the iron bar of the window . To effect his purpose he must have got upon a form , and kicked it away , his feet being only three or four niches from the floor ; his bible was lying at a short distance . The following sentence was found written by him upon the wall / . vith a burnt stick , below the window : — " The two Hoggs are guilty—I
am innocent ; I will not come in the hands of man . " Above the fireplace , " I commit my soul to God that gave me it—take my body to my father ' s burial place . " Above Ms bed ( to his wife ) , " My dear , you and I was lovely , but I am torn from thy breast ; don't weep for me . Jemimah , my dearest , my heart's delight and treasure , I am innocent—I die with pleasure—we'll meet again with pleasure . Beware of bad company . My parents are not to blame—they did their duty . Adieu , my dear friends ; God bless you all . " He had not been in bed , and it is supposed that he was dead before midnight . —Verdict , " Deceased committed suicide by strangulation , but in what , state of mind he was at the time there is no evidence to show . ' *
Thb Poaching Affrat ax Cheeseburn Grake . —On Sa t urday three men , William Ramshaw , Daniel Ridley , and Alexander Cloughtou , now in custody on a charge of poaching over the grounds of Edward Riddell , Esq ., of Cheeseburn Grange , and also of having fired at that gentleman , by which he was severely wounded , underwent an examination at the Moot Hall , before S . Ilderton , C . A . Mouck , Edward Collingwood , Esqrs ., and Captain Potts , the prisoner Cloughton being so much recovered from the effects of his wound as to be removed from the infirmary to the pr ison underneath the court . The three principal witnesses in the affair , viz ., Mr . Riddle , who was sufficiently recovered to attend—his butler . ( Nicholas Havelock . ) and the gamekeeper ,
severally detailed the circumstances which led to the more serious charge of shooting and wounding . From the evidence then givsn , it is understood that the gun which wassupposed to have been fired by one of the poachers , and the contents of which , were received by Mr . Riddell , wa ? not in fact the act of the poachers at all . The keeper , Roddam , appears to have been repeatedly knocked down , and in consequence became stupified and scarcely conscious of his actions . On rising from the ground , after being knocked down for the last time , it is supposed that one of the barrels had gone off by accident . The butler , seeing the flash coming from the direction in which Roddam and the poachers were , and perceiving also that Mr . Riddell had been wounded , immediately shouted out to the keeper that Cloughton had fired at hi 3 master and shot him , and called upon
Roddam to fire in return . The keeper did so , and shot Cloughton in the left thigh . It would appear , therefore , that the barrel which had gone off by accident in the hands of the keeper , had been the cause of Mr . Riddell being wounded , as the keeper , on his return to the hall , after the poachers tad been captured , was only aware of having fired one barrel . The presumption is , therefore , that it had gone off when he was insensible from the blow he had received , there being no proof that the guns in the hands of the poachers had been fired . This being the case , the more serious charge of shooting with intent to kill was abandoned , the prisoners being now accused of cutting and wounding the keeper Roddam . The prisoners were remanded for another week , farther evidence being required . — Xeiveastl / i Guardian .
A Gift of £ 2 , 500 has been made by "W . Laslett , Esq ., to the parish of St . Nicholas , Worcester . Affray with Poachers . —On the night of Thursday , the 29 th ult ., Mr . Millie , head-gamekeeper to the Earl of Winchilsea , of Uaverholm-park , near Sleaford , Lincolnshire , was out watching , accompanied by some of his men , in the parish of Evedon , at which place they were expecting a gang of poachers . Early in the morning three men made their appearance near to Millie , and commenced destroying the game , when Mr . Millie arose from ms hiding place , and after a severe scuffle sucoeded m capturing one of the three , a well-known poacher named W . Hides , from a , village called Heckington , near naverholm . Millie was dreadfully beaten about the head and arms with bludgeons , and has not been able to attend before the magistrate to give evidence against tho prisoner , who was conveyed by one of hi s men to the police station at Sleaford .
Melaxcholt Scicide . —Mr . William Tredwell , farmer , destroyed himself on Sunday moram * last by discharging a gun , loaded with bits of glass through his bowels . It appears that while his wife was absent for a few minutes in the dairy , he put the butt end of the gun against the salt-box in the kitchen , resting the muzzle on his stomach ; he survived only a few minutes . He had been in a low desponding way for some time , and although a
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• l ¦ raaie $ . ¦ Mysterious Affair . —On Saturday last . 1 serious charge was investigated before tho magistrates , at the Town-hall , " Pembroke . The inquiry was conducted with ; clpse 4 doors , but the following ia stated to be tho result of the investigation : —In the ' eariy part of last month the daughter of an influential inhabitant pf Pembroke was secretly delivered of an illegitimate male infant . Feeling anxious to provide for tho safety of . the child , and to conceal her shame , she induced a man named John Walters , for a valuable consideration , to adopt the child and
bring it up as his own . On the Gth ult ., ' the infant being then one day old , it was with a sum of £ 40 , delivered into Walters' hands . Soon afterwards the mother sought her child , but Walters denied all knowledge of it , and the infant being nowhere to re found he was apprehended by Mr . S . Hedges , tho chief constable , on the charge of murder . When before the magistrate the prisoner stated that he had given the child to two gipsey women , and £ 5 with it , to take it off his hands . Sot being ablo to confirm this statement he was remanded , to enable tho police to make inquiries . The affair has
created much excitement in Pembroke . Murder in Wales . —On Thursday , tho 28 th ult ., Rosemarket , Pembrokeshire , was the scene of a murder—a crime , happily , of rare occurrence in Wales . The perpetrator is a small farmer , residingat Wostfields , of the name of William Morgans ( commonly known as Dr . Morgan , ) and tho victim a female domestic in his employ . Tho following , received from creditable authority , may be relied on : —A lad , in the employ of Morgans , was engaged in removing ashes from beneath the grate , which not being " done to please him , Morgans seized the shovel to strike the boy . Tho girl , however , interfered , and he made his escape . He then swore he would kill the girl . She . consequently . endeavoured to make her escane bv runnintr . but in ascending a
hedge he struck her from behind with the sharp end of tho shovel , which ! split her head open . The shovel broke b y the blow ; but , seizing the remaining part , he beat her head to pieces with it . He then attempted to . leave , but the screeches of the girl having brought persons to tho spot , he was secured hands and feet , and conveyed to this town in a cart , when he was brought before J . L . Morgan , Esq ., and remanded to wait the result of the inquest . Morgans was considered a' person of weak intellect , and had some years ago been confined in a lunatic asylum ; but from the period of his release ho has conducted the affairs of his farm , and attended the market to dispose of its produce . Tha deceased had resided with the prisoner a great number of years . —Pembrokeshire Herald .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 8, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1551/page/6/
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