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Sfje iRetropoife * Health of Losdos Duhisg the Week . —In the week ending last Saturday , the deaths registered in thp metropolitan districts were 731 ; -whereas the average derived from ten corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , is 886 , or , augmented in the ratio of increase of population , 967 . Compared with this latter number , the deaths of last week exhibit a decrease of 1 S 6 . Taking the ten weeks of previous years , namely , the twenty-eight of each year , it appears that the lowest number occurred in 1843 , and was 757 , while the highest occurred in 1849 , and was 1 , 369 , when cholera was making considerable progress . The deaths caused by diseases-of the zyraodic or epidemic class were last week only
168 ; in the corresponding weeks of 1843-8 , they fluctuated between 167 and 319 , and in the same ¦ week of last year rose to 630 . In the present return , small-pox numbers 9 deaths ; measles , 16 ; scarlatina , 23 ; and hooping-cough also 23 . The first three epidemics are less fatal than usual , and the mortality from last differa little from the avenge . Typhns carried off 30 persons : it fluctuated in the ten corresponding weeks between 18 and 59 , the increase falling on the later years . Diarrhoea , which the summer usually calls into activity , was fatal during the week ia 37 cases , all except three having been amongst young persons ; the average is 39 ; and as further proof that up to this period there is no striking development of the
disease , it is sufficient to state that ia the same weekoflS 46 the deaths from diarrhea , were 37 ; in that of 1 S 47 , 32 ; in 1848 , 64 ; and in 1849 , 89 . Last week seven persons , of whom three were children , were registered , who had died of cholera ; Jut in most of the cases it appears to have been the common English epidemic , and it 13 not stated in any case that the disease had assumed the malignant form . The following are the details of the 7 cases : On the Uth July , at 43 , William-street , Kensington , the daughter of a labourer , aged 5 months , died of " cholera infantum ( 3 days , ) convulsions { 12 hours . " ) On the 8 th July , at 32 , Nutford-place , St . Mary , Marylebone , the wife of a servant , aged 70 years , died of " English cholera ( 3 days . " ) On
the 10 th July , at 7 , Tooting-court , in the same subdistrict the daughter of a labourer , aged 8 months , "diarhcea ( 7 days ) , infantine cholera ( 24 hours ) . " On the 10 th of July , at 27 , John-street North , in the same sub-district , the wife of a joiner , aged 40 years , " cholera ( 12 hours ) , sickness and effusion on the brain . " On the 10 th July , at 4 , Warwick-place , St .. Luke ' s , acntler , aged 32 years , " cholera 2 & *?*)» typhus ( 14 days ) . " And on the 7 th July , at 7 , Preston-street , the daughter of a weaver , aged 8 years , died of " cholera ( 5 days ) . " This street , says Mr . Howard , the registrar , is overcrowded with inhabitants , and has no drainage . On the 3 rd of Jnly , at 9 , Brnnswick-street , St . Mary Newington , a female , aged 24 years , " cholera ( 3 days ) ,
lartuntion a month before . " Mr . Seagrave , the registrar , adds , " that this woman has bad an attack of peritonitis after childbirth , from which she quite recovered ; that she afterwards ate some currant cake , which produced vomiting and purging .- * To these may be added the case of a boy , aged 11 months , who died on the 9 th July , at 3 , PerryVplace , Cornwall-road , Lambeth ; he was the Eon of a carpenter , and the cause of death is described as diathoaa with vomiting ( 10 days ) . " Mr . Hears , the registrar , states that "its parents lost another child last year from cholera , and the symptoms in the present case were so similar , that the medical man would have considered it a case of cholera if it had occurred at the time of the epidemic . " Besides the three cases of cholera in SL
sSaij , Marylebone , as recorded above , there was also ft death from diarrhoea in the same sub-district , one from bilious fever , and another from fever with lydrocephalus . According to the above statement , 1 deaths from cholera were registered last week ; lot in the same week of 1846 there were 8 .. in that of 1849 there were 9 , while at this period last year the epidemic had made such progress , that in the corresponding week 339 deaths from it were registered . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29-875 inches . The mean temperature of the week was 57 * 5 degrees . Except on the last two days , the mean temperature was below the average of seven years . On Saturday , the highest in the sun was 110 degrees .
A Boiwet Makkr Starved to Death . —On Saturday last , Mr . Win . Carter held an inquest at the Duke of Gloucester public-house , Union-row , New Kent-road , on the body of a poor bonnet maker , named Susan Ansell , aged fifty-nine years , who , it teas alleged , had died from starvation . * The evidence adduced went to prove that the deceased had suffered great privation from her incapability of earning a sufficiency to get a proper quantity of food for her support . She had been known to go without Victuals for days together , and then would beg of some
of the neighbours . She had been advised to apply to Sewineton workhouse for relief , but informed the witne-s that " she would rather die in a ditch . " An order was obtained for the assistance of the pariah surgeon , who came and prescribed for the deceased , ¦ whom he described as dying from disease of the heat and lungs , no doubt brought on by the want of proper nourishing food . She died on the morningof Thursday from exhaustion . —The jury returned the following verdict — "Died from disease of the ieart and longs , accelerated by the want of proper food . " r
Ship on Fire j k the Thambs . —On Saturday afternoon last , " between four and five o ' clock , a vessel named the Sann&rs , belonging to Mr . Phillips , a lighterman , and lying off Irongate-stairs , caught fire , and in a few minutes , notwithstanding prompt assistance was given , the cabin head and the after part of the vessel were inflames . The two splendid steam-shins , the Batavier , Rotterham trader , and the Leith , a Scotch trader , were in dose proximity to the fire , and the forepart of both ships ' sides , together with their paddle-boxes , were se-Terely damaged . Death op Mrs . Gloves—With deep regret we announce the death of Mrs . Glover . The distressing event took place at an early hour on - Tuesday morn-Ing ,-and was , happily , unaccompanied by any
perceptible evidence of physical suffering . There is something inexpressibly shocking in the fact that on Friday night Mrs . Glover was in person the object of a great popular demonstration in her honour , and that on the morning of the following Tuesday ' she ceased to be among ns . The first and most natural impression on the public mind will doubtless be that the excitement inseparable from her last appearance On the stage must nave accelerated , the deplorable event : and when it is known that , for the fortnight antecedent to Friday , Mrs . Glover had been confined to her bed , the impression would not seem illfounded . Her medical advisers , however , state their deliberate opinion , that the nervous irritability arising from severe illness would have rendered it more
danger'ns to check the impatiencs she felt to keep faith with the public than to yield , however reluctantly , to her Btrong anxie'y . Mrs . Glover had announced that she would appear , and , with thorough English courage , she did appear . In the lamentable result we find ground for deep regret . ExTBiOHDtSAEY Suictoe . —On Saturday morning , about two o ' clock , police-constable Hodges , 83 P , ¦ was on duty at the back of Argyle-Iodge , Tulselill , when he fonnd a child fast asleep under one of the haystacks . He awoke her , and asked her to go to the station-house in the Brixton-road , which she did , and here told inspector Emmerson that her aame was Mary Ann Cooper , and that she lived "with her nncle and aunt in White Horse-street ,
Waterloo-road , but she could not tell how she got to the haystack , and that , being very tired , she had slept there since six on the Friday evening . Upon Bodges taking her to the place she had mentioned , lie found that she had not been with her uncle and aunt since Christmas , and that , in fact , she resided frith her father , who is a very respectable carpenter , ia the Green-lane , Tulse-hill , of the name of Chandler , that her name was Sophia Chandler , and not Cooper , and that she was barely fourteen years of age ; she was , besides , of very small stature . Upon hearing this , Inspector Emmerson desired she should be taken home to her father ; and she went with Hodges , apparently in high spirits , and running after butterflies for amusement . When they had got into the Green-lane , in sight of her father ' s House , she rushed through a gap in the hedge , and across a field belonging to Mr . ItoopelL of
Brixton-Eul , in which is a deep pond , dug for making bricks , and into which she resolutely plunged . Hodges proceeded after her , and his feet sticking in the day at the bottom , he was very . nearly drowned ; tut young Mr . . Bounell happening to witness the ¦ w hole occurrence , went to his assistance , and he was got out ; but a quarter of an hour elapsed before the body of the poor child could be recovered , and she was then quite dead . It seems a neighbour of Mr Chandler had missed some silver , and a policeman had been sent for but not to take her into Ctwtody ; this appeared to hive- alsraied"her , and Eheran away from home , and theu tfee next day coming suddenly in sjgbt of her father ' s house with a policeman by her side , although not in his charge is supposed to have had a momentary impulse on her-mind , and led her to commit suicide . The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity /'
Destructive Fibe at Hbsdos . —On Tuesday afternoon , the village of Hendon was thrown into a state of the utmost confusion , in consequence of the' outbreak of a serious fire on the private estate Belonging to Mr . Howett , the extensive linendraper ef Holbora , situate at Hendon , near the parish church . The flames originated , from some unknown cause , in a barn , nearly fifty feet long , and about thirty feet wide . Owing to the easily-ignitahle nature of the materials with which the building wa 3 erected , bnfc few minutes elapsed ere the "wiiole became one immense sheet of flame . Within a short space of the horning property stood three nduovhaj , and owing to the stiff breeze which prevailed , the whole were quickly in a general blaze . The parish engine and a private one were teoBght to the spot , bnt the fire by that period had
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assumed such a threatening aspect , Itoat it was deemed advisable to send to London ( for additional assistance . At half-pait ten o ' clock ^ Wednesday night the fire was far from being extinguished , although all danger of any further extension was over . By that time the barn was totally destroyed , and , at a moderate computation , tfeere must have been about 160 or 200 loads of hay consumed . Mr . Howett was insured in the Phffluix Fire-office .
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ford . —On Monday an inquest was taken by Mr . W . Baker , at the'Lond 6 n'Hos' $ tal , on view of the body of Mary Ann ^ Morris ,, aged " ' f 6 rty .-twp , who ,. with her husband , has died in consequence of injuries received by an explosion ' of gas , which took place at the IIford Toll-house ; On the night of Sunday week ; last . Verdict— , ! ' That the deceased died from the injuries received through a lighted , piece of paper being incautiously placed in connexion [ with an escape of gas ) but by whom such escape of gas was caused there was not sufficient evidence before the jury . " Thundbbstoem .- ^ Bristol , July . 15 . — A heavy thunderstorm , attended with vivid : flashes ' of lightning , passed over this city this afternoon . It lasted from about one p . m . to four p . m ., and was accompanied by torrents of rain .
Accident upon the North Kent Railway . — The up-train which left Gravesend oh Monday evening at twenty minutes past nine o ' clock , with two engines and atleast eOOpasaengers , arrived safely at Woolwich station , but had only proceeded as far as Blackheath Tunnel , when a luggage traiB , loaded with fruit , &c , ran into it producing a ifearfalxollialon . Several of the carriages were completely upset in the tunnel , and many passengers severely injured , some , it is feared ; fatally . . . Nearly , 1 , 500 passengers by the succeeding trains were detained in consequence of the accident , and those who were compelled to make their way to town had to do bo in any conveyances that could be obtained . Gross neglieence was freely attributed to one of the superior
railway officiate , by . many : of the passengers , but it was impossible , in such a Boene of terror and confusion , to ascertain with any degree of certainty to whom the culpability really attached . Railway Riot . —For some time paBt discussions have been going on between the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company and the London and North Western Company , under the name of the Stour Valley Railway , which ' they , have leased , as to the right of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company to form a connexion at the joint station at Wolverhampton with the Birmingham Canal . ; It appears that such a connexion is necessary for the convenience of the public and for the due conduct of the business of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Company , as they have at present no access to Binning , ham by railway . The formation of this canal appears to have excited the apprehensions of the London and North Western Company , who have thrown ,, eyery obi ) tacle'in their power in the way . . After some preliminary skirmishing it became obvious on Friday week that a serious collision of the rival companies was likely to ensue ; The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company having been obstructed oh that day in forming a temporary connexion with the canal within the station . limits , determined to persist on . the foi . lowing morning in completeing the necessary work and carrying on their . business .. The London and North Western men mustered in great , force , there having been collected six or seven hundred of the
'' navviest" employed in the construction of the Stour ya ) leyline . About twelve o ' clock , a . train containr ing thirty , or forty waggons of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company , loaded with materials , which were intended to be conveyed by the canal were brought down along the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line , accompanied by a body of workmen ; for the purpose . of transhipping into the canal boats . They commenced to lay down planking for that purpose , butit was immediately torn up by the London and North Western men , and scattered about in a reckless mariner , upsettiBg a number of people and breaking one man ' s leg . At this stage of the proceedings the Mayor of Wolverhampton , accompanied by the constabulary , made their appearance .. The Riot
Act was read , and the mob ordered to disperse .. The mayor stated aloud that finding the Shrewbury and Birmingham Company in possession of the , station , and they being the only company now using it for the ; purposes of traffic , that the police and military would project them while conducting their , business , and that he would cause every person . to be apprehended who attempted to obstruct them . The planking was immediately laid down , under protection of the military , and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company immediately , proceeded to tranship the materials from the railway , waggons into the canal boats , without further interruption . At thiis period , however , the Londoa and " North Western were ordered to take their places in a set of contractors '
waggons , which were brought by an engine to the spot , as it was believed , for the purpose of removing them altogether ; instead , pf which , however , the waggons were first pushed for several hundred yards in the direction of Shrewsbury , when the men all jumped out of the waggons , and the waggons were then upset , turned upside down , and scattered over both the up and down line of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway , „ thus completely obstructing the main line of that company , there being one passenger , train about to start at the time , and another train due . The ' London and North Western men were immediately charged by the police with drawn
swords , and the military advanced with fixed bayonets . The rioters were at first violent and stubborn , and the police , unfortunately , had to use their swords . Several wounds were inflicted , and one , we believe , was very serious . They were at last driven from the ground , and , under the protection of the authorities , the waggons upset , upon the lines were cleared off , and the . Shrewsbury and Birmingham trains were enabled to pas ' s without further obstruction . A number of the most leading and active riotors were apprehended . ' This case seems to be an aggravated repeti-ion . at the other end of the Shrewsbury line of the Chester station disturbance , upon which the Lord Chancellor expressed so decided an opinion . :
t Fire at Whitbparish , Wiltshire . — This little village was thrown into great consternation on Saturday last , by a fire which broke out at a farm occupied by Mr . Arthur Nunn , surgeon , and which destroyed considerable property in buildings and barns filled with ' grain , hay-ricks , and wheat-ricks . It is supposed £ 3 , 000 or £ 4 , 000 worth of property is destroyed and that little , if any , was insured . No fire has happened there before for half a century . It is believed to have been occasioned by two little boyi amusing themselves . with lucifer matches ^ who were so alarmed at the mischief they had occasioned that they ran miles before they were stopped . The produce belonged to Mr . Nunn , but the property to . Robert Bristow , Esq ., of Broxmoor Park .
Calamitous Fibe at Bristol . —A shocking fire occurred at Bristol on Monday night , in the Japan Finishing Works connected with the extensive Floorcloth Manufactory of Messrs . Hare and Co ., which ranks amongst the largest works of its kind in the world . The mode in which the disaster originated . remains involved in mystery . After . the workpeople left , at about six o ' clock , the overseer went over , as usual , and all was apparently , safe , and remained so until about half-past nine o ' clock , when fire was observed issuing from the eastern extremity of the building . An alarm was speedily given , and the engine belonging . to the factory manned .. Mes . sengers were also despatched for the police and fire insurance , companies , engines , which were speedily on the spot , and water being plentiful ( the new course of the River Avon adjoining , ) great efforts were made
to arrest the progress of the fire . . The stook of the building was , however , composed of resin , oils , turpentine , and other combustible materials , and the flames spread ' with such rapidity and fierceness as to excite some apprehensions for the ' safety . of the new goods shed of the BriBtol and Exeter Railway , and the terminus of the Great Western Railway- with itsimmenBe wooden roof , both of which were closely adjacent . ; The fire : was not got under until the building in which it originated was destroyed , and a loss of from £ 1 , 500 to £ 2 , 000 incurred . ' The property was not insured , and formed but a small portion of the extensive works with which it is connected , and which , for the sake of lessening the clanger in case of fire , are divided into compartments , located at distances from each other . The flames could be seen for miles , and many thousands of personB wore attracted'to the spot .
Darin g Burglary . —A most daring robbery was committed on the premises of Mrs . C . Bower , a . widow residing at a lonely cottage near the road side , between . Stone-edge and the Hut Bars , between lwlf-past twelve and two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . Mrs . Bower and a'little grandson were the only inmates , and . they' were in bed at the time . Her two 'daughters were on a visit' to her from Chesterfield ,, but they h : id gone to see some friends at . Ashover . Mrs . Bower was first aroused by a loud knocking at the door ; she got up from her bed to the chamber window , and asked who was there twice ; no one spoke . She then returned to her bed , and shortly heard a loud crash Remembering that she had left tho cat in the house she supposed that it had thrown , down . some nots
and , was mnKing her way to the door to go down stairs , when a man presented himself in the'doorwwith his face so muffled in ' black as to disguise his features . ¦ ¦ He held two lighted torohes in oil hand and a large stick , in the other ; and there were behind him two other men disguised in thl same , manner ; . They all walked into the chamber They then ; asked where her money was Tim SSEKS ^ feS ior it one » at on the bed-side to prevent her' eettinp 3 ^ 3 « # &saES Swhpl J pl ? ed 8 he must have some soverei T W KnSH * t ansv ? er , edt | latsheh * dnone - » then took from her pocket , by her bed-side
half-a-trown . one shilling , and three halfpence . They next rummaged many of tho boxes , " and turned most of ner clothes and other articles on the floor , ' expecting lOnndmore money .. A'small basket belonging to one of her daughters , containing one shilling and sixpence in silver ,, and twopence-halfpenny in copper ; they also found ' and took . They next asked Mrs . Bower if she had hot a watch . She : told , them her son had one ' when living , but his wife had it now . Two of them howwent down stairs to plunder , while one remained with Mm . Bower . He told her they
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were all Irish . She asked him how long they had been landed in England , and he Baid a fortnight , " and they had , nothing to take them back with . . Mrs . Bower said she was so ' rry for the poor ; and when iny Irish came toher door she generally relieved them . She added / " The . iLord . haye nrercyi upon me , and the Lord , have mercy upon . you . also . ' ! , He replied , "I ¦ know , we , are doing wrong . " - ... ; . Thundbrstorm ; it BRisTpi . — . During a heavy storm of thunder and lightning ^ which passed over Bristol on Monday , several accidents occurred . At the ironworks , ; ereotedi ; by the late firm iof ¦ Acranians . Morgan , and Co ,, in the Marsh , St . Phili p ^ , a high chimney \ was struck by the electric fluid , and partially thrown down . The telegraph flag . post , attached to the dock master ' s office , at Bathurst
Basin , was demolished , and at the Batch , near the top of Old Market-street , a . house was < very muoh damaged , a woman thrown down and injured , and two horses blinded ^ In Church-lane , St . Michael ' s parish , the lightning entered a house on the north side , from which it passed to the . opposite side of the street , and injured a wall of Prospect House . A man , who was croaking Durdhan Down during the storm , was struck by the eleotric fluid , by which he was completely blinded , and at a place called Compton Gloucestershire , afewmiles . from Bristol , two labouring men were nearly killed . They were working in a field , and upon tho storm coming on took shelter under the branohes of an elm tree , accompanied by a dog . The lightning , . attracted by
the tree ,, pas 8 ed between them , killing their dog on the spot , and throwing , them down in a state , of insensibility . As soon as they were found they were placed on a car and conveyed to the Bristol Infirmary , upon arriving at which establishment they were nearly in a state of collapse , : Stimulants were administered to them , and irritants , applied to the spine , and hopes tiro how entertained of their recovery . During one of the showers which fell , the heat was most oppressive , - and a scientific gentleman had the curiosity to catch a ennful of the rain ; The . thermometer , on being immersed in it , rose * to , 74 deg . , . , Thdndbr SroRM ^ On . Tuesday afternoon , Chatr ham and Rochester were ' yisited by a severe storm
of thunder and lightning , , accompanied by ,. a heavy fall of hail and ram . The . peals of thunder , i Which succeeded each other in quibk succession , were awfullyipud . The electrjio , fluid fell on the chimneyof a farm-house belonging to . Mr . Edwards ; within half amilefrom tho iHigh ^ treet of Rochester . Having riven . the . chimney : and scattered . ' the bricks . in . au directions , its course downwards . is marked in every room by the damaged ceilings and fissures in the brickwork ,. more particularly about the chimneypieces , breaking several panes of g lass ; and , passing put of the house , it split and displaced a stone close to thekerb ' of the well , disappearing at that spot , arid where a large opening in the earth is
observable . The escape of the inmates was most pro * vidential . ! The bailiff , his wife , and family , were seated at tea , and' some , other persons , who had ta ken shelter from the storm , were also present when the destructive fluid' passed through tho room , splitting the % of a chair on . which one of the party was seated . Those who , witnessed the awful visitation' describe the " appearance of the lightning at the moment as an ' immense mass of fire suddenly thrown upon tfae house , and , under the impression that it was in flames , hastened towards the spot with the view of assisting to extinguish it . Fortunately no other injury has been sustained .
. TnuNDFR Storm in LANCAsnraE . —A terrific thunder-storm broke over the manufacturing district of Lancashire on . Tuesday night , attended with fatal consequences . The thermometer indicated a change of weather on Monday , and during that and the following day two or three light showers fell . On Tuesday . evening , after a close and sultry afternoon , vivid flashes of . lightning were observed in Manchester ; and its neighbourhood , and as the darkness of night approached the heavens were almost continuously illuminated by the lightning . But very little rain fell , and the thunder which succeeded some of the more vivid flashes of lightning was not very loud . . The heavy clouds to the north-west , however , indicated a different state of things towarda Bury , Bolton , Horwick , and Chorley , where it appears the rain descended in torrents , and muoh harm was done both by the water , that felland by
, the lightning . A boy , named Samuel Hulme , whilst riding between two milch cows oh a horse , near Littlewood Cross ,, was struck by lightning , and . both he and the horse were killed . Near to Horwick damage to some thousands of pounds extent was done to the growing crops , and on Wednesday morning the river Irwell , from Bolton to Manchester , was much swollen , showing that there had been a very large fall of water in that direction . At the Fern-hill Colliery , near Bury , two men , ascending a coal-pit , when near the mouth of the shaft and about to land , were precipitated to the bottom of the mine by the sudden snapping of the rope , which , it is supposed , was cut in two by the lightning . . Fortunately the mine was not deep , as compared with most of the collieries in that district , and the men , though muoh injured , were not killed .
. Co « M ? n : EmosHm . —An explosion took place on Sunday last at the Whynnay coal-pit , about two miles and . a half from Whitehaven , Cumberland , which did considerable damage . From the circum-Btance that it fortunately , occurred on a Sunday , the men were not at work , and no lives have been lost ; but the shaft has been eo much injured from the fire , that it will be some time before operations can be again resumed . Much wood-work has been destroyed , and it will coat a great deal of mbnev to
repair the damage . The cause of the explosion was no doubt accumulation of foul air , and there are reports in the neighbourhood that it had been known for some time that the pit was in an unsatisfactory state . The authorities have instituted an investigation into the matter , and some anxiety prevails upon the subject in the nei ghbourhood . It may , perhaps , be recollected that there have been several explosions at this pit , and that upon one of these occasions , about a year ago , a great loss of life occurred . The Whynnaj pit is the propertv of a company . v
Southampton Election . —The election of a memher for this borough , to fill the vacancy caused by Mr . Cockburn ' s acceptance of the office of Solicnor-General , took place on Wednesday / when the non . gentleman was re-elected without the slightest show of opposition . There was very little excitement m the town , and , judgingfrom the appearance of the streets , few persona would have imagined that an election was going on . •*~~— ^ ., „ «~~ >~* r ,
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. : - ; " ? - ~~ s ~ t Steianu . Fobbion Sympath * . for Ieish Distmss . —According to the Freeman 1 Journal the Austrian Minister has handed to Lord Palmerston the sum of £ 3 , 000 , "the munificent subscription of the people of Austria towards the relief of the Irish poor . " It is understood , it seems , to be the desjre of thocontributors that the money should be ' disbursed through the agency of the Roman Catholic bishops . ' ' The Orange Anniversary . —With a single exception the 12 th of July appears to have passed in perfect tranquillity all through the northern province . That exception occurred in the suburbs of Belfast
, where , soon after midnight , a considerable number of Orangemen assembled , in procession , one of them beating a drum decorated with orange lilies . A small police , party , consisting of five , men , interposed , and arrested the drummer ; but tho crowd attempted to rescue the prisoner , and made a vigorous assault upon the police with stonea . The ' police , although severely injured , acted with much forbearance until they arrived in front of their station , and succeeded in securing the prisoner and the drum inside . The sequel is thus described by the Belfast News Letter : — " The police then faced about , and with' fixed bayonets and loaded carbines , endeavoured to deter the crowd from
further violence , but in vain . The street being recently macadamised , furnished missiles in abun » - dance , and the stones fell in perfect showers upon , the little party . The windows of the barrack above were smashed to atoms , and even the shutters of the ground-floor windows were giving way . Entreaties and threats alike produced no effect ; and , at length , in danger of their lives , the police presented arms . Neither had this any effect , and oneshot was fired , which , having done no injury , onlyexcited the crowd more , A volley of four Bhbta wa * then fired , and the consequence , we lament to say , was , that two of the rioters , at least , were dangerously wounded ; for , shortly after , one unfortunate fellow was carried off by his comrades , badly hurt ,, and another was conveyed to the General HosDita ) .
where he was immediately attended by Dr . Aickin . having sustained a fracture . of the leg , which will demand the amputation of the limb . The crowd at length retired , the police having made one other prisoner , who , with the lad who carried the drum , was conveyed immediatel y to the Police-office ,, where the charge was entered against them . The name of the drummer is William Walker , aged 17 ,. and that of the other William Anderson , aged 22—one of the rescuing party . The pelice , up to themoment when they fired , displayed the utmost coolness and forbearance . The path in front of their barrack was literally covered with a pile of stones , and their persons-were all over bruised ,, before they adopted the extreme resource . The name of the youth who is in the hospital is William .. M'Kee . " •
Extraordinary Charge aoainst x Magistrate .. —A most serious charge is pending against Mr-Smith , of Castlefergus , a magistrate of this county . Informations having been sworn against that gentleman for originating and planning a conspiracy toshoot his own mother , a warrant was issued for his arrest , and placed in the hands of J . W . Kelly , Esq ., S . I . ; who accordingly took him into custody , and brought him before James Molony , Esq ., of
nmannon , v . h ., and Mr . O'Brien , R . M ., at Tulla , who were encaged for some time in investigating the charge , but did not come to any definitive conclusion on the subject . It is two years ' since the conspiracy is alleged to have been entered into , and the old lady who was the object of it died a few months since . —Clan Journal . Mayo Election . —The Protectionist committee have issued & notification , signed by Sir Robert ; Lynch Blosse , and dated Castlebar , July 10 , decla . « ng that Mr . Butt , Q . C ., has been selected as their candidate .
The Bleazby Cask . —The prosecution against Mrs . Bleazby is al together abandoned . In the-Armagh Assize Court , on the 11 th inst ., the recognizances were discharged with the consent of the Crown , ¦ Mb . Maurice O'Conkria . —The tfat > o » states that "the hon . member for Tralee has got a positive promise of the colleotor-generalghip of taxes for Dublin , with a salary of £ 800 a year /' Murdkr op Mr . MAuiBvuRER . —At the Armagh Assizes , on Thursday , July 11 th , Bryan Hanratty was put on his trial for the murder of Robert Lindsay Mauleverer . The counsel for the Crown HnrL th /^ ney-General , Sir T . Staples , Mr . ES ? ! ? ; i - M 4 DonneU . & <> . The principal counsellor the prisoner was Mr . Thomas O'Hagan , X t ? n P " P witnesses for the Crown were Owen Kelly Patrick and Charles Watters , Doctors-Donaldson , M'Parlin and Robinsonand
sub-In-, , spector Barry . The evidence went to show that immediately after the murder Hanratty was seen in tne vicinity of the place where it was perpetrated . —aub-Inapeotor Barry gave evidence as to the correspondence of the wounds on Uanratty ' s head with the aze of that portion of the cane of the late Mr . Mauleverer , which was clotted with blood and hair . — Dr Robinson gave it as his opinion that the hair on the cane corresponded exactly , in colour and texture , with that on Hanratty ' s head ;—For the defence , two witnesses gave evidence to the effect that Hanratty was not seen about the place or at the time , when and where the murder was perpetrated . Their evidence aimed at establishing an alibi—Mr . O'Hagan addressed the jury for the defence . —After an able analysis of the evidence by Judge Moory , the jury retired about * half-nast si /
and remained in deliberation till nearly ten o ' clock when they returned a verdict of--VNot Guilty '' Tho foreman , at the' same time , stated to the judge that he had been requested to say that the jury entertained strong suspicion of the prisoner ' s guilt , Tho prisoner was immediatel y . discharged ! and , on the news of the verdict reaching the orfwd assembled outside the-court-house , a cheer was « T £ ffi « £ S' 3 ± HS 5 Sf » aaaf . r . : ^ &s * ' . rtS * m * . " * J " ™™ Pwrnrci .-In otmj
SoS ^ oTO various distSpo ™^ F P " 56 8 tationed ia SSuvKf > - * ' matto Of ^ caution had no r ? S { £ ,. » / ference ' Nothing like this genewitaKett ? ti fronVPa 5 < ty prbcefsions has - been witnessed m the northern provinoe for many . yens . f ^ SZf l 8 trie ^ Orftn g ° S were exhibited Q Encdmbered Estates .-The petitions for the sale of MtateB ; now amount to 1 , 023 . Fifteen : petition ? 2 S / h ' f / ^ ates'TerHodged lnfe , u 1 & on ti" > 10 th instant The | conditional orabsolute orders for sales , pronounced : wtthm the week ending oa the 9 th inat ., amount to
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THE SUICIDES IN NEWGATE . On Saturday last two inquests were held in one of theprisonere * dining-rooms in Newgate , by Mr . W . J . Payne , depnty-coroner , and a jury of twenty-three citizens of London . The first was on the body of Daniel Blackstaff Donovan , aged thirty-three , an expugilist ; the second on the body of Walter Watts ' also aged thirty-three , recently clerk in the Globe Insurance Office , and formerly lessee of the Marylebone and Ol ympic Theatres . On F riday Donovan was tried at the Central Criminal Court , and sentence of death recorded against him ; and on the same day the deceased Wattswasfcrongatup for judgment , and sentenced to ten years' transportation . The following evidence will show the nature of their offences , and the circumstances antecedent and subsequent to their trials and to their self-destruction i—
Mr . W . Copb , examined : I am goyenor of this prison , and deceased ' s name was Daniel Blackstaff Donovan . He came in on the 1 st of July . He wag charged with wounding and throwing out of a window of a certain dwelling house , Anne Danovan , with the intent to kill and murder her . He was tried on Friday morning last , before Mr . Baron AUerson . at the Central Criminal Court , convicted , and sentence of death recorded against him . I did not see him after the sentence , as I was on business at the Secretary of State ' s office , respecting the removal of prisoners to Millbank Prison . His age is thirty-three , and he described himself as being a smith . On his admission he appeared very well . I saw him on Friday morning , before his trial , and saw nim every day during his imprisonment . I did not observe
anything particular in his manner . He was a man of violent temper generally . I used to have him out of his cell to work , and if anything was said to him he would turn sulky and abuse you dreadfully . After such a sentence as that passed on deceased a prisoner is taken into such a cell as he was in . I was not at . home when this occurred . One of the turnkeys was left to watch over him , but not in the cell with him . I did not hear of his death until about four o ' clock , on my return from Millbank Prison . He was tried soon after ten a . tn ., oh Friday , and sentenced soon after one o ' clock p . m . The turnkey in charge of him could see into his cell through the usual opening in the door . In my absence the deputy-governor is left in charge of the prison . After deceased had been put into his cell he had seen two or three of the officers , bnt no one else .
Hsnbt Todmak ( turnkey ) examined : I was on duty on Friday over the cell in which deceased was , and when he was brought to it after trial he seemed quite collected , and perfectly quiet . He was dressed in the clothes he was tried in . His hands and feet were not confined . It is ray duty to watch in a sort of passage in front of these cells , into which I chd see . About half-past one the deceased was brough t , to the cell . I locked him in . He asked for his dinner , which I gave to him , and he then refused to eat it , saying he could not . He then asked me for some water to drink . I gave it to him , and he drank it . I then went away , and came back to him at five minutes past two . He said he should like to see his wife , and I said he should have an opportunity , lie also asked me if he could write a letter , and I said that I most report his request to the governor , as it
was contrary to the rules to write without leave . He was then walking backwards and forwards in bis cell . I left , and at half-p ^ st two came to see him again . He was then suspended by his handkerchief . I opened the cell , and went in and took a knife and cut the handkerchief , which was round his neck and fastened to the bars of the cell windows . I do not know whether it was a neck or a pocket handkerchief . His feet were off the ground . He could not reach the bar from the ground } and 1 think he must have stood upon the bedstead to have reached it . His back was to the wall , and his hands were hanging downstraight . When I cut him ' down he was a little warm . I gave an a l arm directly for the doctor ' s assistant in the infirmary , who came , and ordered me to take him to the bath-room , and a snrgeon was sent fcr . Two medical gentlemen soon came and saw him , and prcrnnnnced him dead : - -
The deputy-governor , the under-sheriff , and some of the officials having been examined , the deputycoroner summed op the evidence . The jury consulted for a long time , and twelve of them were of opinion that deceased had hung himself whilst in an unsound state of mind ; the remaining eleven considered that he was not . A verdict was then recorded of " Temporary Insanity , " according to the decision of the majority . The second inquest , on the body of Watts , was then proceeded with .
Mr . Cope , the governor of the prison , examined : — Deceased was brought in on the 16 th of April last , on two charges , for stealing . an order for £ 1 , 400 , and apiece of paper value one penny . He was tried at the following May sessions of the Criminal Court , and judgment was then respited on a point of law . Judgment was givea yesterday morning , and the senfence was transportation for ten years . I do not know whether the judgment of the Criminal Court of Appeals , which was adverse to him , was made known to him until he was finally brought up for judgment to receive hia sentence . His health was bad when he first came into the prison , and he had been under the doctor ' s care , and in the infirmary
ever since . I was in court " when the final sentence was passed on him , and he appeared to be in pretty good spirits after he had heard the sentence . I did not think he appeared at all depressed . In my books he is described as a clerk , and his age is recorded to be thirty-three . After the sentence had been passed he was taken backinto the infirmary , where ! saw him last . The occurrence happened in the middle of the night , and until a quarter to four this morning I knew nothing of it , when I was sent for . There were four prisoners in the same room with him , and Waldon , the infirmary assistant , slept in a room adjoining . When I was called , they told me he had been dead for some time .
William Smith , a prisoner , examined : —I was in the infirmary last night , and I know the person who is dead , Mr . Watts , who was also there . I have been in the infirmary since last Thursday , and had conversations with deceased , who appeared in excellent spirits . I saw him soon after he was sentenced , and he did not appear at all different from what he had been before . I never heard him complain of anything being the matter with him . I slept three beds off from him . I and he went to bed about a quarter to nine last evening . He did not eat much supper , bnt he took some medicine about five minutes before he went to bed . Mr . Waldon gave it to him . Before he went up to the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday morning last , he said that he expected to be
imprisoned for twelve months . On that day he was not sentenced , and he said the judges were not satisfied with Mr . Justice Cresswell ' s decision , and that they would write to him into the country , where that learned judge then was and that he ( Watts ) was ordered to come up again on Friday . On that day , when he came back to the infirmary , he said he had got transported for ten years , but heseemed as usual . He also said that he had expected that sentence after what the jndges had told him on Wednesday morning . I went to bed at nine , and woke again at twelve o ' clock last night . All was then quiet . I woke again at three , and lay awake until a quarter to four this morning . I then turned round and missed Mr . Watts , and seeing his slippers and boote underneath
his bed , I then thought something Btrange was the case and being sure that he had not got up between three o ' clock and a quarter to four , I suspected that something was wrong . I woke the prisoner next to me , and communicated to him my suspicions . He immediately jumped out of bed , and went to the water closet at the other end of the infirmary ,. and he called for a knife , saying Mr . Watts waB there hanging , quite dead and cold . I went—the other prisoner ' s name was Shipton—and saw Mr . Watts there . We rang the bell for the officer . Deceased was hanging , suspended by a bit of cord fastened by the side of his neck from some bars across a window , which was over and by the side of the watercloset . The feet of the deceased were fast touching ¦ the
ground , and were tied together with a silk handkerchief . He iras hanging about a foot from the seat of the water-closet . I think I could reach the bars of the window from the ground ; be was hanging quite perpendicularly , with his back to the wall , and his eyes wide open . When he called for assistance Mr . Waldon came with a knife , and deceased was cut down , and Shipton took him and laid him on the floor of the infirmary . A doctor was sent for , although Mr . Watts was quite dead . He was in his shirt , with a napkin on his chest , and a locket suspended from his neck . By a Juror . —I believe the rope was cut out of the sacking of the bedstead . It corresponded with a piece that was wanting . All the knives are given back after every meal , and deceased had one to cut
his dinner and supper with on Friday . I never heard mm say anything about making away with himselfquite the other way . -He was always in fall spirits , r * \ not a P ^ av , to me to be ill . Mr . M'MuRDO , chief surgeon to the prison , examined ' . —Deceased wasfirst brought under my notice and care at , Giltspnr-street prison , where he had been remanded before he was brought here . He waB tnen m a state bordering on ddirium tremens , caused by drink . People are not of sound mind at such fames , and he asked me for some brandy when he came in , saying that he had been in , the habit of RT £ ? ST ^[ eB ; . ^^ remonstr ated with him eni that habit , he told me he had done so to prevent the recurrence of . a spitting of blood , which affected him . 1 thought : he was too much excited then to reason with him , and I put him in the infirmary of the Compter at once , and I found ft neces-
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sary to give him some stimulant , as he was accus-, tomed to a considerable quantity of it .., He remained under my care in the infirmary of that and this prison throughout the whole of his imprisonment until his death . - I , saw him in Newgate daily , and so did my assistant and my son , who is also a surgeon . He had been getting better since he was imprisoned , and bad become more cheerful . He had taken medicine , and was able to bear the diminution of the stimulant at first administered , ' and was in good spirits apparently . He was very cheerful throughout , and very weirconducted towards all . tie waB continually complaining of headaches , but said they were diminishing , and I still thought it right to keep him in the infirmary . He was a very excitable person , but it is very difficult to say whether an unexpected sentence would derange his brains or not . He frequently repeated that he had had a great deal of difficulty about his theatres , and in other ways .
Other witnesses corroborated the abovestatement , and after a few remarks from the coroner , ' the jury immediately returned an unanimous verdict of " Temporary insanity . " ' The career of Donovan , who was termed an expugilist , was one of great dissipation and riot . In a moment of birter passion , he hurled his wife out of window , and how she escaped immediate destruction appears marvellous . The learned judge before whom he was tried , Baron Alderson—Justices Pattern and Talfourd being also on the bench—apparently took more than his usually great pains in eliciting the facts .
The principal witnesses against Donovan were his two children and his wife . Baron Alderson had the children placed on a bench near him , and his lordship , with considerable care , questioned them as to their knowledge of the obligation of an oath , and pointed out the awful position of their parent , and the necessity of their telling the truth . Donovan cross-examine' ) them at some length , as also his wife , with much seriousness , with a view of showing that sbe either jumped or tumbled out of the window . The fact was not altered , however ; the jury found him guilty , and , it being a capital offence ,
sentence of death was recorded against him . Previous to his trial he was classed with the untried prisoners ; but on leaving the dock after his condemnation he was conveyed to one of the old condemned cells at the extreme north angle of the gaol . Although probably improved , it continues a dismallnoking place , being twelve feet by ten , and lighted by a window in the passage . How he could have succeeded in destroying himself without the watcher in the passage seeing him , if he really was on duty , is a matter which will , no doubt , be inquired into by the Court of Aldermen .
With reference to the convict Walter Watts , there is little doubt that the unfortunate man was led te believe that the circumstance of his being a pariner and shareholder in the Globe Insurance Company would be sufficient in the eye of the law to absolve him from the criminal charges brought against him . On being brought up on Wednesday morning , and hearing the opinion of Baron Alderson , and the result of his application to the Court of Appeal , he prepared himself for a severe punishment , and it is possible that he then made up his mind to commit self-destruction , for the way he accomplished his objftt shows that be had meditated it some time before he could effect it . ' As will be seen , ever since his incarceration he has been an inmate of the
infirmary , a comfortable ward on the second floor , on which are some five or six cast Iron bedsteads , fitted with sacking and fastened , and laced by ropes . The one occupied by Watts stood next but one to the watercloset-door , and how he managed to remove the rope from the sacking of his bed—for it was with that he strangled himself—without either exciting the attention of the warders or his fellow-prisoners , is a matter which perplexes all . The inference , however , is . that he must have watched his fellow prisoners to sleep , and then raised the bedding , and removed the line . The secure manner in which he fastened it rouid the bar of . the window of the . closet exhibited the determined character of his purpose . He had passed it round the bar four or five times ,
and . by jumping off the seat , the window being about six feet from the ground , ended his life in a very prompt and effective style . , , Watts fora longtime before he became mixed up with theatrical speculations , was looked upon as a mo-t singular and somewhat extravagant person . Hekepthis town house , and also a country establishment ; the latter was near Brighton , and when he came to London , which was generally of a morning , he would have his carriage and . servant in waiting at the London-bridge terminus . ready to drive him to the Globe Insurance , Office ,. or any place he might wish to visit . , Although he enjoyed a good salary , it was a matter of astonishment to
many how he could , keep up such an appearance , more especially as he was in the habit of ; giving , on frequent occasions , champagne breakfasts and other expensive entertainments . Prior to taking either the Marylebone or Olympic Theatre , he mixed frequentlj with betting men , and , according to his own account , was lucky enough to win considerable Bums of money . From what- has Bince transpired , there is every reason to believe that , instead of his gaining such large sums as he had represented , he was a considerable loser by his speculations . His defalcations to the Globe Iusurance Company reached , it is said , to nearly £ 80 , 000 , a small portion of which will have to be made good by his bondsmen .
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&J ) e fttottincoj . Trial ano Sentence op Smebton , the Buiiding Societies Defaulter . —At the General Quarter Sessions held at . Ipswich before Mr . D . Power , the recorder , Thomas Smeeton was'indicted for numerous acts of embezzlement . The prisoner acted as secretary to two building or investment societies , and in that capacity he succeeded in appropriating to himself a large amount of the funds . Smeeton obtained some notoriety in the town by holding forth on the teetotal system and becoming a preacher in a Baptist chapel . He iutroduced himself to very respectable society , and we understand he was the first to propose or project two societies called the
Last Anglian Bunding and Investment Company and the . Suffolk Improved Building and Investment Company , he becoming secretary to both . Matters went on prosperously enough apparently until about last March , when a review of the accounts exhibited serious deficiencies on the part of the prisoner . After this he suddenly absconded from the town . He was traced to London , and , after some difficulty , was captured and brought back . He waB arraigned upon no fewer tbat seven indictments . The one upon which he was convicted was for stealing a banker ' s cheque for £ 1 T 12 s . 6 d . drawn by William Henry Alexander and Henry Gallant Brisco , trustees of the
East Anglian Society , with intent to defraud John Fuller , a shareholder . In the course of February Fuller sent a notice to Smeeton to the effect that he was desirous of selling his share . For this he was entitled to receive £ 1712 s . 6 d . He afterwards sent m , a countermand , however , but it was not laid before the trusses . In accordance with Fuller ' s previous order a cheque was given to Smeeton for the amount , but Fuller never received it . By the company ' s books it did not appear that Fuller had withdrawn Ub share . The Recorder having summed up , the jury returned a verdict of - ' Guilty . " The sentence of the court was , thathebe transported beyond the seas for the term of ten years .
Murder ik the Coontbt . —In the Police Gaxzette of Saturday last a reward was offered by her Majesty ' s government fer the discovery of the murdereror murderers of Mr . Joseph Warren , a farmer lately residing near Gayton , Northamptonshire . The unfortunate gentleman had been at endin g Broughton-green fair , and on his return home was attacked and beaten to death , his body presenting a most frightful appearance . Fatai , Accident at Gateshead . —An accident occurred on the 12 th inst , by which two lives were lost , at Mr . Price ' s glass-works , in Pipewellgate , by the falling of a cone ( a large chimney enclosing the furnace . ) It appears that the men had been engaged during the early part of the day in setting the
pots for melting the metal , when some of them observed that the cone had shrunk , and great apprehension of danger existed . At the time of the accident , however , most of the men had left—the two sufferers being in the cutting shop upstairs . William Weightman , a joiner , and an old man named Sewell , on hearing the alarm , ' had both run across the building to make their escape , but were caught by . the falling wreck . Weightman was got eut almost immediately , dead ; but Sewell was buried under several tons of rubbish , and had to be extricated by breaking through the wall of the building ; He was not released until upwards of three hours after the accident . He had lived a considerable time , his moans being heard at intervals by the workmen .
MelakchoiiT Accident and Loss of Life . —A lamentable accident occurred near Weymomh oh the 11 th inst to Mr . and Mrs . James Tasker ( of London , ) who , with their little girl , had been on a visit to a relative at Warehnm * They were returning from Weymouth to Wareham in a four-wheel chaise , when , ' descending the hill in the village of Osmihgton ( four miles frim' Weymouth , ) the pony became unmanageable and ran violently against a stone wall , by which all" three " were thrown out of the chaise . Mr . James Tasker was killed on the spot , Mrs . ' Tasker and the child had each an arm ¦
broken . The body of Mr . Tasker was removed t « the Plough public-house , at a short distance from the spot . Mrs . Tasker and the child were brought to Weymoulb , and not made acquainted with his death fearful what may be the . result . •¦ . ¦ ' . Strike or Gun-lock Filers . —At Darlaston six hundred gun-lock filers struck work last week when a government contract for 60 . 000 locks had ' I . ! taken . . Itis said that thexontSor wishTreSS wagea in order to supply the locks to govermnS last [ September ; andKLSS 1 ten P - cent < jf . attisa'SB'aKtts ¦ The Gas Erosion at the Ton , house , II-
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sttttlatffl . Death op Mr . Robert Stephbnsok . —With regret we announce the death of Mr . Stepberison , civil engineer , an event which took place on Unday . Mr . Stephenson had reached the advanced age ot 78 . The contemporary of Tclford , Rennie , and Stephenson ( of England , ) needs no biography beyond an enumeration of his works . Mr . Stephen-Bon , it will be remembered , was the sole designer and executor of the celebrated Bell Rock Lighthouse , which is in itself a monument of ingenuity and industry . \ Mr . Stephenson first brouriit inta
notice the uuperiority of malleable iron rods for railways over , the old cast iron , a fact which has been fully acknowledged . He also surveyed the line between Edinburgh and Glasgow , and though his plan was not adopted , it was much admired . The SlfW'l ™ ' i 8 Replace where the labours of Mr . Stephenson are principally to be seen 3 fc £ W ? r' u ' . , i 8 land , but bears evidence ? Ifilt n / fi gable int l ^ 5 t iB incalculable ^« twi ^ » s S ^ Kw aa -ftS thnrtttr J i ° wusuueu < IB an 8 U
o «« - « * ' SSSW ^ sfa ion . —Mmburgh Evening Post . AndSn » AFF ^ at GLA 80 ow .-Catrine . street , alnS ^ - ?\ the aoono of a vefy <*»<>»!» and Th « T , i- !? - ^ anoe on the nfeh * » t Saturday , inetnat indications of a row presented themselves in tne street m tho form of a slight altercation betwixt two parties Of women and men , who had been annlung previously in publio-houaes , situated in Close contiguity . Fierce words succeeded ; and a fight , most alarming to tho neighbourhood , commenced . The assistance of the police was naturally invoked , and a Btrong force made for Catrine-street . Their arrival was greeted with derisive shouts ,
hooting , and a shower of stones and other missiles , from an immense multitude who had by that time swelled the original group . A reinforcement of police , was called for ; but even tm ' B additional strength was unequal . to the task of quelling the rebellious lieges of Anderston . The ringleaders , male and female , were , however ,. uHhnatley secured ; and at the Western Distriot Court on Monday morning , they were , to the number of eight arraigned on a . charge of a breaoh of the public peace .: Evidence was heard at length , and ; difficult as it always ls . to conviot in oases of riot , the whole party were most clearly identified as having taken awas ^ tssaSS FtMR- ^ 'tSSS
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^ Walt * . Extensive Seizure of Smuggled . Malt . —Ia conseauence of secret information conveyed to them ^ officers of revenue at Maenolochog , South Wales made several , extensive seizures of smugs-led malt £ wM ? 8 8 mueglers ' andaresistancewasoffered , in which the officers received some rough usage . The seizures , however , were ultimately effected .
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path , without [ respect to . either age or sex ., 'Alraosfr the entire community cObin-street poured into the street ,., which for . several , hours , presented » scene of riot and wild disorder ., It was some considerable time before quiet was restored to the excited thoroughfare . ¦ Bloodflowed freely in the fray ; and dislocated armsand fractured legs were numerous , Throughithe aoti y ity of the police ; officers , the disv turbanoe was ultimately , quelled . ' iSriMMAHT EJBOMONS OI COLMBBS ON StRIKB , — . Last week , at Glasgow , a number of cases , under the statute l < fc 2 Vic , cap . 119 , were brought at the instance of Messrs . Colin Dunlop and Co ; , of Clyde , against colliers having houses under thenv and ' out on strike ; but , oh a point of relevancy , they
were , of consent , dismissed by the presiding judge , Mr . Sheriff Bell . Renewed complaints were subsequently brought before the same learned judge , ani keenly discussed on ; a variety of preliminary points ; but the Sheriff felt no difficulty in repelling the whole , objections urged , and as there was really no defence on the merits , warrants of ejection , with costs , were granted against the wholoof the colliers .-The learned sheriff , with reference to ait objection ^ observed that tho statute clearly applied to work * men having houses from their employers .-, Th& court was crowded with colliers and others from all parts of the district , arid the men appeared inucft chap-fallen upon the judgment being pronounced * for an erroneous impression had gone abroad that parties in their position could not % e asssiiled under the statato , and that they , could , while on strike ,
retain possession of their houses . "We { North British ifail ) io not question the right of the men to decline to : work when they choose , but unquestionably the sheriff has taken a sound view of the matter , and the result now . is that , if men ¦ ' . ' strike , " they must " strike" their tents also , and remove bag and baggage . Contest with Monkies . —Mr . M'Bride , manaeer of the . Bridge-of-Weir Gas Works , keeps a braceof jmonMeg for his amusement . ¦ The animals arcusually kept in a large iron cage , but in the absenceof Mr . M'B . the other day , for a few minutes , they succeeded in effecting , their liberation , and seemed to feel a pleasure at the lime in working all the mischief that was possible . The desk of the offi ce was oveturned , and the papers it contained torn and scattered about . They also opened the crane of a gas-tar cistern , and flooded the floor with the nauseous
con-» ~~— ~~ ~ ~* ~~ *~ m w * f » w » 4 mMM VMW wiJvvObl tents . The manager , ; on his return , finding matters in this plight , he unceremoniously commenced to inflict corporeal punishment on the first of themonkies he came in sight of , when the other , which had been hiding , immediately made a rush to the assistance of his companion . . The brutes cut the leg of Mr . M'B . through his trousers , and one of then * leaping on his back , cut him pretty severely over the face also . By this time one stick had been broken oyerthe back . of the animal ; and Mr . M'B . having placed his back to the wall for protection , and armed ' nimseU : With another bludgeon , he ultimately recaptured ^ is assailants , but not till the leg of one of them had been broken in the contest .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 20, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1583/page/6/
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