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" Health op London Drenra thb . WfifiK . —The present return exhibits a sadden increase m the deaths of London , and a greater mortality than in any weefcYmce the beg inning of April . The deaths registered in the two previous weeks were 921 and 903 , but rose in that which ended last Saturday to 1 , 016 ; and they now exceed the actual average for the ten corresponding week in 1840-9 , which ia 977 , bat fail short of the average as corrected for probable increase of population , by which it is raised to 1 , 066 . The present increase , as might be ex pected from the season of the year , ia observed to P . , ^ f from diseases of the organs of respiration , with tne exception of phthisisor consumption . Pneumonia
, was fatal in the preceding week in 5 C cases , last week in 94 , of which 69 were amongst children ; out it has not yet attained the average . Bro " ? " ™ fatal in 77 cases , of which ne arly two-thirds were among persons of mature y ears andI it «• " *»«» ** exceed the average . On the otter hand , consumption , which numbers 111 , has declined ont theprevion « i week ind does notshow the same disposition , athXhffectt s of the respiratory organs to he asoreoated bv atmosp hericchauges . This dis-Sseloes ° not yet quite equal the average and its comp aratively low rate of mortality during the year jnr be due , in some degree , to the middle-aged Dart of the population , who are most subject to it , ftavinir been thinned by cholera , which also bore
most heavily on the same class . The deaths of childr en by convulsions were last week 4 i , or nearly twofold the number of the previous week . Amongst zymotic or epidemic diseases , scarlatina and typhus are the most rife , and destroyed nearly the same number of lives ; from the former there were 41 deaths , from the latter 47- Measles is not now so fatal as usual as regards the metropolitan districts generally ; but Mr . Chatwood , the . registrar of St . Paul , in St . George-in-the-East , mentions a family in Mary-street , in which two children had died last week from measles , and six others are suffering tinder it ; and he adds , that measles of a malignant form is very prevalent in his district . . In a house , 1 , Blnegate-fields , also in St . Paul sub-diatrict , the son of a labourer , aged six months , died of " con-Suent small-pox { 10 days ) , not vaccinated . " It is stated in the medical certificate that the complaint was brought , by families from Ireland , and that
" great numbers are now living in this house m a most filthy and deplorable condition . " The only case of cholera registered occurred on the 17 th of Uovember , at 33 , dambridgc-terraee , Clapham-read , the son of a merchant , aged five weeks , died of "English cholera . " Fever finds its victims in damp , ill-drained , unwholesome residences , and several cases in point are now reported by the local officers . Amongst these Mr . Wells draws attention to a locality in John-street , near Tottenham-court-road , where four deaths of children , some of them from fever , cave recently occurred " within a few yards of each other . " The stench in the houses ( bo adds } is almost insufferable , and several persons are now lying dangerously ill , owing entirely to defective drainage . Intemperance was fatal in the week to three persons ; in two cases by producing delirium tremens or other disease , and in one , by means of a fall received in a state of intoxication . The births
of 708 boys and 673 girls , mall l . SSi children , were registered in the week . The average of five corresponding weeks in 1 S 45-9 was 1 , 320 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean dail y reading of the barometer wa 3 highest on Sunday , when it was 29 . 96 * . On Tuesday and Wednesday it was less than 29 in . ; and the mean of the week was not more than 29-340 in . The temperature was low towards the end of the previous week and at the beginning of last ; but the mean rose to £ 9 deg . on . Friday and Saturday , ' abont 6 deg . above the average . The mean of the week was 46-9 ° . The wind was for the most part In the south-west .
TbASSFERIXG RAILWAY SHARES TO A PAUPER . — On the 22 nd inst . the Marylebone Board of Guardians were engaged investigating charges against Mr . Thorne , the secretary of the board . Mr . Haikes premded . The charges were made by a pauper named Cheeseman , who accused Mr . Thorne with having Eold to him some railway shares to release himself from the obligation of paying him his wages , and with having treated him cruelly and unjustly . From a written statement put in by Cheeseman , it appeared that he and his two sisters became inmates of the
bouse in 1812 . That , being a good penman , Mr . Thorne occupied him writing in the office , until 1846 , without any pay . After that Messrs . Biloter , tentmakers , engaged him as clerk in their office , at 8 s . a vreek . Subsequently he got to be Mr . Ttorne's assistant , having agreed to pay Mr . Thome ' s son 10 s . a week for improving his ( Gheeseman ' s ) knowledge of writing , arithmetic , &c . After some time Mr . Thoroe Induced Cheeseman to buy . £ 1 , 000 worth of railway shares in his own name , and to pay £ 10 on them . In eighteen months afterwards calls were made on Cheeseman as a shareholder to pay certain instalments , which he could not pay , and he was compelled to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act ; and ultimately Mr . Thome acted most cruelly towards
him , in prosecuting him criminally for embezzling 15 s . Mr . Thome , in reply , denied these charges , which he attributed to malice , because he had prosecuted him for having appropriated to himself 15 s ., Which had been paid to the parish by St . Botolph ' parish . As for the railway shares , Mr . Thorne said that he had made a legal and lona-fi . de sale of them to the pauper ( Cheeseman ) . After a long debate , a unanimous vote of censure was passed on Mr . Thorne . The Popish Chapel is St . George ' s Fields . "In spite of the unfavourable state of the weather on Sunday , it was evident from the crowds of eager persons who sought admission to this chapel that the interest felt in everything connected with the recent aggression of the Pope of Rome hai in no degree diminished since the first promulgation of the Papal
bull . The curious , however , were doomed to disappointment . Cardinal Wiseman had that morning left town ; and Dr . Doyle , after a stormy passage , bad only reached London from Belgium bnta short time previous to the service commencing , and though the rev . gentleman had intended to preach , he was too much fatigued to undertake the duty . His place was occupied by the Rev . Mr . Cotter , who preached from the gospel of the day , and avoided controversial topics , except to exhort his hearers not to allow their Christian charity to be impaired by the insults that had been heaped upon the church by the emissaries of the devil , by the servants of that anti-Christ whose coming had been foretold , and who were actuated b y a desire to advance their own selfish worldly interests , and not by any wish to glorifv God .
As Explosion ot Gas , by which two persons were Eeriously injured , occurred < m Saturday last in the house of Mr . Peake , boot-maker , 15 , Fore-Btreet , Cripplegate . Mr . Peake had a gas chandalier lately put up in his drawing-room , and one of the burners was accidentally left turned on . The gaB escaped into the room , and a servant maid smelling the gas informed her master ; he went in with a light , and an immediate explosion took place , which shook the whole house , drove ont the window ? , forced the door from the hinges ^ blew down part of the staircase , and shattered the plate glass in the shop windows . Mr . Peake and the servant girl were much burned and otherwise injured , sod . required surgical assistance .
Soicide . —On Monday an inquest was held before Mr . Wakley , at the Sing ' s Arms , Rawstone-street , CrosireU-rnad , on the body of a labourer named Brown . From the evidence it appeared that the wife of deceased , on the 22 nd inst ., went out as usual to work , leaving her husband at home , and on her return , she found the deceased hanging by the neck to the bedpost Deceased had been dependent on his wife ' s earnings for some time . Verdict— " Died from Strangulation while in an unsound state of mind . " Caution to Cobonebs' Jubies . —0 a Saturday last
3 ar . H . M . Wakley , after waiting three quarters of an hour for jurors summoned to attend an inquest , Bent the summoning officer to the house of the absent jurors , to ascertain the cause of their absence . After some time the summoning officer returned with Mr . Gibbon and Mr . Watts , the jurors who did not attend , and as they gave no proper excuse for their non-attendance , the coroner fined each of them £ 10 , assuring them that he would enforce the fines . He then _ adjourned the court without going into the Inquiry .
Deaths of Illegitimate Chudreic . —On Tuesday Sir . W . Baker , Jan ., held an inquest in the boardroom of the Court House of the liberty of Norton Folgate , White Lion-street , Norton Folgate , on view of the body of Alexander Allen , about six weeks old . It appeared that the deceased ' s mother -was a waitress at a tavern ia toe City , where an intimacy took place between her and a gentleman who frequented the house , the result of which was , on the 8 th of October last , the birth of the deceased , at the above bouse , in which lived a female named Mary Faulkner , who acted as midwife . The deceased child was brought np by hand . For the first fortnight it had only bread and water . It afterwards had bread and milk , bnt the diet did not agree with it , and it died on Thursday last . It was Btated by the midwife that the mother did not intend to suckle her child ; but that if she did , she
• would have been unable , from the state of her breast . —Mr . Hart , Burgeon to the union , said he was called npon to attend a person at a house in "Upper Blossom-street , when ha accidentally saw the deceased , who was extremel y emaciated . He pare an order for the mother to receive a supply of grrow-root , milk , &c ., from the workhouse . He law the child eig ht days before its death , when he had no ho pes of ifc . -Bevis , a Bummomng office * , said Satthis was the thirdI inquest taken on illegitimate Sren who had died at the same house . -A Juror Sm-rfe ^ dTthat the circumstances of the death in SSrSt w ? r « precisely similarr to another «« S ^ retf was al » a juror . -The Foreman observed 5 ^ a subject of notoriety for wme years past , ? nitvonnff women nave gone to that house entente , ggsssesggg Louse , whicn raised some suspicion , and which led
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Sfje sroDtwe * . Ho troHTOJf Colitbrt Explosion . —The inquest in this case was concluded on Friday , when the jury , after an absence of about twenty minutes , returned a verdict to the effect that John Watchman and others , all pitmen in Houghton Pit , came to their death by the effect of fire-damp ; that the explosion took place at a naked light , which had been negligently and improperly used by the said John Watchman , contrary to orders given to him , or in consequence of William Hunter not having given those orders .
The Risca Collier ? Explosion . —The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate ' young men John Strickland and Thomas Edmond ? , who were killed by an explosion of foul air in Messrs . Russell and Co . ' s black vein coal-pit at Risca , on Friday morning , the loth inst ., has been brought to a close . A good many miners were examined , but they threw but little lig ht on the catastrophe . The colliei-y has a good ch aracter for management , and it is said that the ventilation is better than in most of the mines in the neighbourhood , the explosion took place in the stall where the deceased were at work together . It appears that two men work together in a stall , and they have a safety lamp between them , one lamp to two men . It . came
out , however , in the course of the investigation , that when the men think there is no danger they work with naked candles , which give more light than the lamps . William Hazel , a foreman belonging to the colliery , deposed that the pit was in a good working state on the day before the accident ; and the only evidence which tended to throw light on the origin of the explosion was that of Mr . Edward Robotham , who deposed that a severe frost 3 et in on the Thursday night , which continued up to between 5 and 6 o ' clock on the Friday morning , when a sudden thaw supervened , which caused the barometer to fall considerably . He thought that might have had some effect upon the state of the air in the pit . He had noticed in many instances
that such a cause would have an effect upon the fire-damp . After about half-an-hour ' s deliberation the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death , caused from suffocation from the after-damp . " Highwat Robbery and Attempted Murder near Carlisle . —The court at the Town-hall , Carlisle , was crowded to suffocation on Saturday morning last , it having been currently reported that four desperate characters , who had robbed and made a ruffianly midnight attack upon Mr . Palmer , farmer , of Hall-flatt , near Carlisle , would be brought up for examination . The names of the prisoners ar © William Mounsey , John Thompson , William Graham , and Robert Pinnick , all of whom are well known to the police authorities . The prosecutor , John Palmer , who evidently suffered much , stated in evidence that he was a farmer , living at Hall-flatt , and that while on his way home with his cart from Carlisle on Saturday night week , about
eleven o clock , Mounsey and Pinnock came behind the cart and asked for a ride . They got upon it behind , and soon after Graham came up and seized his horse by the head . The prisoners in the cart then seized him bv the throat , and struck him some severe blows , which rendered him insensible . The last words he heard were " Stick the . " On coming to his senses he found that he had been robbed of thirty shillings , a silver watch , and about thirty-five pounds of beef . The prisoners repeatedly interrupted the witness , in course and brutal language , they accused him of uttering falsehoods , and the magistrates were more than once obliged to , interfere . A man named Coffield swore that he was in company with the prisoners after the robbery took place , and bought some beef of them . He afterwards received an account of the robbery from Graham . This witness was also coarsely assailed by the prisoners , who were ultimately committed to take their trial at the next assizes .
Asti-Popebt Riot . —Cheltenham , Fkidat . —This town has been thrown into a state of considerable consternation in consequence of the excitement arising from the anti-Popery movement having caused a riot , which at one time it was feared would lead to the most serious consequences . A meeting was held last week , at which an address was voted to the Queen , but in consequence of the rush of people to the place of meeting , accommodation could not be found for half of them , and thousands were obliged to go away . It was therefore arranged that a second meeting should take place , and this accordingly was held last night . During the day an effigy of the Pope in full pontificals had
been exhibited in the shop-window of Mr . Hardwick , draper , of the Hig h-street , and it was intended to form a procession at night , and burn it . The authorities however , at a late hour of the day , issued a proclamation forbidding the procession . After the meeting a mob got round the draper ' s shop and demanded the figure . It was refused , and then they began to break the shop windows , and extended their favours to the neighbours' windows also . As the mob increased in numbers , and began to assume a formidable front , it was deemed advisable to hand them over Pio Nino ' s representative . This was done by the police , whereupon the people hoisted it on high , and carried it through the town io the front of the Roman Catholic
Chapel , where they made a huge bonfire of some pailings , torn down for the purpose , and the figure was burnt amid the acclamations of the mob . They afterwards broke the windows of the Roman Catholic Chapel , and the town was in a state of uproar and excitement until after midnight , when at length the mob dispersed . The outrage has given great offence to the respectable part of the inhabitants . MCKDEB AND StHCIDE . —NOTTINGHAM , MoSDAT . — This da ; the wife of a hi ghly-respectable resident in one of the western suburbs , strangled her youngest child and cut her own throat . The facts , as ascertained directly after the horrible occurrence , are as follows : —Mr . William Chambers , lace manufacturer , whose house and business
premises are situated in Orchard-street , Radford , arose at half-past fire o ' clock , as usual , to prepare for the occupations of the day , and prooeeded to the factory , leaving his wife and a female child , four years old , in bed , and another daughter , Mary Ann , seventeen years of age , asleep in another room . At twenty minutes before seven he returned home , and had occasion to go down into the cellar , when he fancied he observed something on the ground unusually white . He ran up stairs and fetched a lighted candle to ascertain what it was that had attracted his attention , when he was horrified to find his wife in her night-dress weltering in her blood , with her throat cut from ear to ear . Seeing that she showed no signs of life , he ran up stairs to
ascertain whether his children were safe . Going first to Ms own lodging-room , he looked at his infant , Eliza , which he fancied to be asleep , and then proceeded to the dormitory occupied by his eldest daughter , and having aroused her , they returned to the child , when , npon more closely inspecting it they observed a handkerchief and a garter tied tightly round its neck , and taking it up they discovered it to be warm , but quite dead . The neighbours were called in , and Mr . Chicken , surgeon , was sent for , but no aid in the world could have restored either the mother or the daughter , the vital spark in each case being irrecoverably gone . Mrs . Chambers was forty-two years eld , her husband being some twelve years her senior . The
implement used for this act of self-murder was Mr . Chambers' razor , which had been taken from a cupboard in the house-place . —An inquest anon the body of Charlotte Chambers was on Tuesday held at the Peacock , Radford , before Mr . Coroner Swann . The inquiry as to the death of the child was also pursued at tho same time and place . William Chambers , the husband of the deceased woman , and father of the child , was examined , but his statement contained little in addition to what is given above . The jury returned a verdict to tho effect" That the deceased , Eliza Chambers , was wilfully strangled by her mother ; and that the latter afterwards destroyed herself by cutting her own throat , being at the tune in an unsound state of mind . "
The Explosion of Naphtha at Seacombe . —Last week two inquests were held at the Abbotsford Hotel , seacombe , before Henry Ghnrton , Esq ., coroner , on the bodies of Matthew Johnson , schoolmaster , aged thirty , and Edward bums , aged twelve , both of whom died from the severe injuries they received on the night of the 6 th inst ., from the explosion of naphtha which took place at the Roman Catholic school-room . A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned . Three other sufferers still remain in a precarious state—viz ., Patrick Riley ,
aged fifteen ; John Cox , aged seventeen ; and John Fowler Duff , son of Mr . L . Duff , hairdresser , of Seacombe . Aff 3 at wwh PoachsH 8 . —On Sunday night a desperate affray took place on the grounds of Lord Guernsey , M . P ., near Leamington , between two of his lordship ' s keepers and seven poachers ; there was firing on both sides , but such was the desperate onslaught made by the poachers that both the keepers received frightful injuries ; one of them was dreadfully shattered . It was reported that death had ensued .
Winter Assizes job Toss and Lancaster . —On Monday a special commission was issued for a winter assize © foyer and terminer and general gaol delivery for the counties of Tork and Lancaster , The Judges appointed to proceed thereunder and hold such assize are Mr . Justice Patteson and Mr . Baron Martin for the city and county of York , who have appointed Tuesday , the lOtb day of December next , for opening the commission for that county at the Castle , at York , and the . Right Hon . Mr . Baron Alderson and Mr . Justice Coleridge for the county of Lancaster , who have appointed Saturday , the 7 th day of December next , as the day for the opening the commission for that county , at Liverpool .
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Alleged Murder upon the High Seas;—William Gray , captain of the bark Defender , of Newcastle , was brought to Exeter , last week , "having been apprehended at Stockfcon-upim-Tees , at . ! which port his ship had just arrived from a voyage , on a warrant charging him ' with the wilfulmurder of a boy named William Vinson , aged fourteen , in the month of November , 1848 . The case was investigated at the castle of Exeter , before the Hon . W . W . Adding ton , Mr . W . Miles , and the Rev . Arthur Atherley , magistrates for the county of Devon , and has excited much' indignation . The Defender , it ' appears , sailed in September , 1848 , on & '¦ voyage to Quebec and back again , going out in ballast and bringing home timber , and . it-was during the
voyage home that the boy died irom the ill-treatment , as alleged , of the captain . From the depositions it appears that on one occasion the deceased was ordered to clean down the cabin , and for neglecting to do so was " rope s-ended . " On another occasion , when the ship lay in the Gulf of St . Lawrence , he was ordered to go aloft and loosen the foot of the mizens , hut because he did not ascend the rigging with sufficient lightness of step he was called back and direoted by the captain to strip naked , and then go . aloft in that state—the weather being piercingly cold , all the crew warml y clad , with their pea-jaokets , and mittens even on their hands . On his coming down deceased was ordered by the prisoner to go round the vessel six times in the same unprotected condition . Whether he contracted a violent cold or not does not appear , but
his health from that time was observed to decline . On another occasion , while suffering from bowel complaint , he was sent upon deck ,, scrubbed , and buckets of cold water thrown on his shivering body . Under such treatment the boy gradually sank , and he died in the arms of the carpenter , who held him in a gale of wind because of his weakness and debility . An entry was made in the log that he had been jammed between spars . The magistrates , after a very lengthened sitting , determined on committing the prisoner for trial at the next Devon Assizes on a charge of manslaughter , . and refused bail . We understand that application will be made to the judge at ohambers , the owners of the Defender being ready to enter into sureties for the accused , who has enjoyed their confidence now for nine years , during which he has commanded that
vessel . An Irish Affray in Leeds , —On Saturday last John Connor , John Haley , James Cratty , James Fallan , Wm . Fallan , Michael Cantwell , Michael Marah , Wm . Higgins , Patrick Kennedy , and Mary Rourke , who have undergone several examinations before the magistrates , were again brought up charged with taking part in an outrage and robbery , which took place on the Saturday previous . On the night in question a mob of some hundreds of Irish assembled together in York-street , armed with sticks , pokers , and brickbats ; and besides breaking in the windows of a police-station and-a beer-house , which they robbed , they severely injured Musgrove and Storey , two of the police force , who met them in Marsh-lane ; one of the ruffians broke Musgrove ' s
arm , and injured both him and Storey on the head very seriously . In addition to this they threw a brickbat at a man named James Rhodes , which knocked him down , and so injured him on the head that he has since died . The evidence clearly , proves that Higgins threw the brickbat which killed Rhodes . The witnesses also spoke positively to two Irishmen named Hogan and Cane , who are not in custody , having taken an active part in the outrage , and the magistrates have offered a reward of £ 40 for their apprehension . The prisoners were remanded . On Tuesday the justices committed four of the prisoners for trial at the ensuing assizes at York , namely , James Cratty and William Higgins , charged with the murder of James Rhodes , and William Hayley and Michael Cantwell for riot and assault . The former two
are also committed for not and assault , A woman named Mary Rooke stands remanded until Saturday , it having been sworn by some of the witnesses that she took an active part in breaking windows daring the riot ; and for a like reason , a man named W . Fal-Ion is remanded until that day . Two of the ringleaders , Edward Hogan and John Cane , are still at large , but for their apprehension a reward of £ 40 has been offered . . Affray with Poachebs i » the Grkat Park . —One night last week as one of the royal gamekeepers , named Foster , with his helper , named Parker , was out in the Great Park , near Cranbournlodge , they were attacked and overpowered by a party of poachers . The gun of Foster was wrenched from him , he was most brutally beaten about the head with the barrel of the piece , and he now lies at his residence , High-standing-hill , suffering severely from concussion of the brain .
Fi'Bther Discoveries at Cirencester . —Fresh remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Roman Corinium are daily being brought to light by the workmen employed in digging the foundations of houses , &c , in various parts of the town . A large quantity of very curious pottery has been found , chiefly of the pseudo-Samian description , together with many interesting articles in bronze , glass beads , coins , < fcc . A considerable portion of the wall of the ancient town has also been exposed to view . The pottery is , as usual , chiefly fragmentary , but it sufficiently shows the treasures that mi ght be obtained by a well directed search . Excavations on a large scale are contemplated , and will be undertaken in the course of the ensuing spring .
Death op Mr . George Wombwell . —Mr . Wombwell , so celebrated as a proprietor of travelling menageries and zoological collections , died on the 16 th inst . of bronchitis , at Northallerton , Yorkshire , after a lingering illness . His enterprise and perseverance , coupled with the possession of sound judgment and strict integrity , had gained for the deceased considerable wealth , and he has long maintained the position of being the largest proprietor of wild animals in the world . So one probably has done so much to forward practically the study of natural history amongst the masses , for his menageries visited every fair and every town
in the kingdom , and were every where popular . It was an often expressed wish of the deceased , that as he had lived so long with his collection he should be permitted to die with it , and with this view ho had caused to be fitted up some short time since a new travelling bed carriage , in which he expired on the evening of the day just mentioned , in his 73 rd year . Bis menagerie was being exhibited at the time in the market-place at Northallerton , and an announcement of his death was made by his own request to the spectators ; after which the band played the Dead March , in Saul , the animals were fed , and the exhibition closed for the evening . Mr . Wombwell was a native of Maldon in Essex .
Case of Shooting . —Robert Harriot , alias "Mickey Free , " was charged with having shot his wife in the hands , and thereby inflicting a dangerous wound . The prisoner is a noted pedestrian , and is the person who some weeks ago was advertised to walk 1 , 000 miles in 1 , 000 hours , afc the Strawberry-gardens , Everton . On the 19 th inst ., he , in company with his wife , entered the Jamacia Vaults , corner of Hopwood-street , Tauxhall-road , and called for a glass of ale for himself and a glass of whisky for his partner . In his hand he held a pistol , with which he said he would blow some one ' s brains out before he slept that night . The boy who served the liquor asked for payment , upon which the prisoner said he would shoot him ( the boy ) if he said another word , The prisoner then ulaced
the pwtoi on the counter , left the house , and purchased two penny worth of percussion caps at the shop of Mr . M'Vetie , Vauxhall-road . He told the druggist he was going out a shooting , He then returned to the public-house , and called for another glass of ale . His wife immediately afterwards entered , and requested him to accompany her home . He replied , " Go from my presence , or I'll shoot you . The prisoner then took aim with the pistol at his wife , upon which she rushed forward , but he pulled the trigger , and shot her through the right land . After making inquiry as to whether he had killed his wife , he gave up the pistol , and was taken into custody . The woman was immediately
conveyed to the Northern Hospital , where it was bund necessary to amputate the two fore fingers . The prisoner , on being interrogated by the magis-; rate , said , in a very pathetic manner , that he had been walking a thousand miles in a thousand hours which he completed last week . The pistol was ) ought ! by Mr . Tillotson , landlord of the Strawberry Gardens , for the purpose of awakening him during the night , and he ( the prisoner ) brought it home with him . Since completing his pedestrian feat , whenever he got any drink he did not know what he was dome ; and as to his wife and children , le loved them dearly . The prisoner then wept bitterly . He was committed for trial . r
Fatai Accident from a Pea . —A youth , the son of Mr . Richard Bolton , of Great Horton , Yorkshire , was playing a few days since with a juvenile companion , who was pretending to place a pea in his ear and to make it come out of his mouth . Bolton , believing the feat to have been really performed , was induced to make the attempt himself and thrust the pea so far into his ear that it could not be got out . In a vain endeavour to extract it made by a medical man , it was sent further in , and the poor boy died four days afterwards from the effects .
Affray with Poachers in Warwickshire . — Soon after one o ' clock on Monday morning , as a party of Lord Guernsey ' s keepers were watching near Rungell Spinney , Cubbington , they heard shot 3 fired , and were immediately after assailed by a shower of stones , one of which struok Winderbank , the principal keeper , on the back of the head , and knocked him down . A desperate struggle then ensued , in which four keepers succeeded in each arresting a poacher , but four or five others of the gang coming to the rescue , they released their comrades from custody , and then commenced a most cruel attack on the keepers , one of whom , named Davis , was wounded in five different places on the head , and now lies in a very dangerous condition . Two other keepers were severely iniured about the head and arms , the poachers havinc broken guns and blud geons about the persons of
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their oppQnenis , one of whomhad also a finger nearly bit ? en off in the struggle $ ** $£ & £ . head keeper , retained his hold of one of the poachers until he was attacked by the whole gangr frojn whom he and his comrades had great difficul y in effecting their escape into the village . As early as two o clock ' in the morning information was received' afc the Leamington police station , ana Dy mid-day the superintendent , Mr . Roby , apprehended one of the offenders , named Adey , who was examined before Mr : M . Wise ,, the sitting magistrate at the i Town Hall , and remanded , owing to , the dangerous Condition of the keepers . Warrants were also granted for the apprehension of two of the ri e WT WITH POACHm . - MANSFim ,
Bo sover Derbyshire , on grounds lately purnhased o y tl «^ Duke of Portland from Lord Sffiwi Towards midnight the duke ' keeper aaoompanied by a number of watchers and S 3 had reason to . suspect that poachers were in the wood , and , therefore , proceeded in that direction ! They had not gone , frr . before sounds of footsteps could be distinctly heard . On the po achers making their appe « a ? - * e-lkeepers could plainly discover , by the light of the moon , thirteen of them , with their faces blackened and _ a white chalk mark on each of their arms , for the purpose of recognising each other . The head keeper , in a loud voice summoned the poachers to surrender : The latter instantly assumed an attitude of defence , and a strugglo commenced ; the keepers . used their euns and one of them with such fataleffect as to kill nne of the poacherB on the spot . The latter fought
with desperation . One of them , armed with a caralry sword , approached his adversary , and before the latter could make any resistancei cleaved his head open with the weapon . The poor fellow instantly fell to the ground senseless . Other assistance , however , arriving , the poachers retreated as precipitately as they could , but not before two or three of their number were captured . The prisoners wero taken to Mansfield look-up , and yesterday Chief Constable Hatton , acoompanied by a strong body of police , wenfc in pursuit of the remainder of the poachers , and succeeded in apprehending , as is sunnosed . the whole eatig . They were safely
placed in the same prison , to await examination before the Mansfield bench of magistrates , previous to their committal to Nottingham county gaol for trial at the forthcoming assizes . The latest despatch , received here this morning informs us that the unfortunate gamekeeper was dead : we have not , however , heard it further confirmed . Four men , named Halby , Hazard , Thompson , and Ramsdell , were committed by the Retford bench of magistrates yesterday to Nottingham county gaol , to take their trial at the next assizes , on a charge of poaching in the neighbourhood of Welbeck Bonn , Notts . ' _ —
Attempt to Murdeb a Policeman in Essex . —W . Woodj a young determined-loooking fellow , who has often been in custody for poaching and other offences , was on Wednesday brought before Mr . D . Ede and Mr . Spitty , county magistrates , Setting in petty sessions at the Town-hall , Billericay , Essex , for examination on a charge of having made a desperate attempt to murder Robert Bamborough , anomcer . in the Essex constabulary , by violently maltreating him and , when insensible , dragging him into a pond , and leaving him for dead . It may be necessary to mention that in the course of last week the prisoner was found poaching on the estate of Lord Petre , in this neighbourhood . After much difficulty he was captured by the keepers , the gun
which he had with him being broken in the soume . Two pheasants were round in his pockets , and on being examined before the magistrates he was committed to the county gaol at Chelmsford . On Thursday morning the injured officer was conveying him along the road to Brentwood , prior to bin removal to Chelmsford , and on nearing a pond by the wayside he suddenly turned round upon the officer , who from kindness had only fastened the handcuffs to one wrist of the prisoner , the constable having hold of the other end . Succeeding in throwing the officer down , and hitting him with the end of the handcuffs , and jumping upon him , he dragged nun into a pond and made off . As quickly as possible Mr . Coulson , the superintendent of the district ,
had a full description of the ruffian circulated . He was shortly traced along the road to Tilbury Fort , where he was found to cross the Thames to Gravesend , some gentlemen from motives of charity given him 3 d . for the ferry . Mr . Coulson , considering that he would be making the best of his was to Chatham to enlist , two expert officers were sent in that direction , and , on their arrival in Chatham , they found the prisoner in custody . He was m a beer-shop in the Military-road , when the landlord , singularly enough , read a paragraph in one of the London papers relating to the affair , and , thinking that the description of the escaped assailant corresponded with that of his guest , the police were called in , and the prisoner arrested . On the officera of the Essex constabularly reaching , the town , they duly identified him and removed him toBilleneay
The prisoner , securely ironed , was brought over from Brentwood gaol by Mr . Coulson , the superintendent , for examination . The wounded officer being totally unable to leave his bed , the magistrates arranged to take his deposition at his cottage , the prisoner . being present . Bamborough , m his evidence , gave all the particulars of the assault up to the time when he was rendered insensible . The prisoner , after striking him with great ferocity , dragged him into the pond and threatened to drown him , pressing his knees upon his throat and filling his mouth and nostrils with mod . A little girl named Hatch , partly corroborated the evidence of the officer , and one or two persons living in the neighbourhood spoke to finding him in the pond in stnte of insensibility , and dreadfully injured by the blows he had received . The prisoner was ultimately committed to the county gaol .
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arotl&nft Extensive Shopbreaking at Glasgow . —A most daring and successful case of shopbreaking occurred at Glasgow on Saturday morning last , in the premises of Messrs . Dickson and Laieg , shawl and Blanket manufacturers , 21 , Glassford-street . The premises in question are of considerable extent—the back windows of the tenement looking into Thistlecourt , where a door , principally used for the taking in of heavy bales of goods , is situated on the ground flat . In this court , a staircase , communicating with the premises of other parties in Glagsford-gtreet , runs up parallel to the warerooms ot the firm already mentioned . There is no immediate
connection , however , from the staircase with these ; but the thieves , who appear to have had an intimate acquaintance with the localities , and to have laid their plans with great skill , made one for themselves without much seeming difficulty . B y false keys they gained access to a water-closet at the top of the staw , from which a hatchway allewed them to get on the ceiling immediatel y above the upper flat of the wa ™ °° « ns ° f Messrs . Dickson and Laing . The ? befJ ? httU W ? ' the lath 8 and *« 2 fn Z „ f ny f ^ hicknes 8 » innaWng an incision in the roof of sufficient width to allow a full-grown man to get through , and this being BUCoessfaUy accomplished , future proceedings were comparatively easy , jfrom the amount of property that has been carried away , the burglars appear to have had plenty of time at their disposal , and tot « Yfi eon-
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ducted their operations with great caution . Sho ™ y before six o ' clock . and immediatelyprevious to tne ni ght watchman going off . duty , the premises were found perfectly secure , the door of the ^ water-close referred to being fastened in the usuarmanner , and nothing occurred to awaken suspicion till about an hour afterwards , when the door in the court communicating with the back of the premjises was found open . The full extent of ike - robbery was soon aacertained by an inspection of the warerooms , ^ hioh appeared to have been thoroughly ransacked during the night . The stockis very extensive and vaned , but the thieves selected nothing but shawls ana plaids , of which they have succeeded in carrying away between 200 and 300 of all sizes and patterns . How such an'immense quantity of plunder , of so bulky a nature , could be taken away unnoticed is
partly accounted for by the circumstance that the knaves crowned their daring robbery by appropriating a hurley-barrow , belonging to the Thistle Ta vern , that stood in the court , for the purpose of removing the stolen property . Bold measures are frequently the most successful , and no doubt the thieves calculated that openly going through the streets with a laden hurley was much less likely to awaken the suspicion of the police than any other mode they could have devised . The result has been that the booty was safely conveyed away to a place of security , which it has , as yet , defied the utmost diligence of the police to discover . The criminal authorities were early made aware of the robbery ; but , notwithstanding every exertion has been made , no trace has been obtained of the missing shawls , the value of which must be considerable . —North British Mail . .
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¦¦¦¦ ? ¦ $ m * nu . Loro John RcssEiifi . —It i » reported thai Lwd John Russell has written to a high personage in this county ( Dublin ) expressing his sincere regret that a misconstruction should have been put upon hip recent lelter to the Bishop of Durham , and declaring that nothing was further from his intention then to > cast any reflection upon the Roman'Catholic religion . _ Poor Law Taxation . —The rates just struck in some of the Clare unions furnish a rem arkable illustration of the extreme inequality of the taxation , for the support of the poor , in various parts of Una flonntrv . In some northern unions the rates are as
low asfrbm Gd . to Is . in the pound . In the union of New Rosa , County of Wexford , the highest rate IS Is . 3 d . in the pound , and some of the electoral divisions are as low as 10 d . Generally there has been a very considerable diminution of the tax , evenin some western and southern unions ; but Btill very heavy rates are required'in some of the distressed unions . For instance , in the union of Scariff , there is a rate of 7 s . 6 d . in the pound . In the electoral division of Cahermurphy , and in other divisions , the rates vary from 4 s . 6 d . to 6 s . 3 d . Even in this pauperised union , however , one division , called Coolrae , has as low a rate as Is . In Innistymon union , also in the county of Clare , the new rate varies from 3 s . 6 d . to os . in the nd
pou . . ., „ ., ., Representation of Limerick . —Mr . Fitzgerald , one of the four candidates for the representation of the county of Limerick , has resigned in consequence of another candidate ( Mr . Ryan ) " whose views go beyond those which I am prepared to adopt , having come forwardand caused many to withhold that firm support which I had reason to believe would have insured my return . " The Tenant League are nsing every exertion to secure the return of Mr . Ryan , who , according to the Limerick Examiner , has received promises of support from "the entire of the influential and venerated clergy of the diocese of Emly . " With reference to the other candidates , the limerick Chronicle says : — " Captain Dickson , we are informed , has been very successful in his canvass
through many parts of the county , and anticipates first place on the poll . The Earl of Clare supports Captain Dickinson . Mr . Wyndham Goold is daily canvassing the eleotbrs of the county , and was at the fair of Rathkeale , where he obtained many promises , notwithstanding the addmses of the Tenant League deputation . " Attempt at Murder in Cobk . —The Cork Conttf tution contains the following account of an atrocious attempt at murder in that city : — "A man named Stephen Wakefield , who has for some time been employed as a nig ht watchman at the mouth of the Great Southern and Western Railway Tunnel , on the Glanmire road , was found on "Wednesday morning , on the arrival of the day watchman , in a dying state , with no less than seventeen severe cuts in the head ,
apparently inflicted by blunt instruments . The night being extremely boisterous , Wakefield appears to have confined himself during it to a temporary watchhouse erected within the company ' s grounds at Bruin Lodge . When the day watchman arrived he found Wakefleld lying in the watch-house , his face besmeared with blood and coal ashes , his head horribly cut , and his arms and hands burned . It would appear that the unfortunate man had struggled with his assailants , who beat him until he fell into the fire , which was extinguished when the day watchman arrived . There is reason to suppose that some parties in the employment of Mr . Dargan , the contractor of the works , were desirous of getting another party into the situation of night watchman , and that
having failed in their exertions to have Wakefield removed , on complaint of neglect of dutv , they resorted to the crime of murder to vacate the situation . It is evident that the outrage was committed by persons acquainted with the works , for a large watch dog on the premises made no alarm . When removed to the infirmary Wakefield was insensible , and two pieces of the skull were removed . No hopes are entertained of his recovery . Wednesday evening an inquiry was held at the Police-office , in the private room , before T . S . Reeves and W . L . Perrier , Esqrs ., when two parties named Kelly , the day watchman , and a man named Scully , who bad been arrested On suspicion , were brought up for examination by Sub-Inspector Walker . Some witnesses were examined , when Kelly was let out on bail , and Scully was examined . "
Death op the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaiob . —The Right Rev . Dr . Kennedy , Roman Catholic Bishop ofKillaloe , died on Wednesday , at Paraon ' eTown , King ' s County , after a protracted illness , in his sixty-third year . Sales in the Encumbered Court . —The proceedings in this court on Friday were unusually interesting . There was but one estate submitted for sale , that of Pierce Morton , Esq ., in the county of Cavan , consisting of the fee-simple of 3 , 500 statute acres , let at rents varying from 25 a , to 23 s ,, and up to 32 s , per Irish acre , or about 18 s . per English acre , for lands of very ordinary quality . There are about 140 acres of bog .: This property had been several years in Chancery ; and in 1845 . when brought to sale in Mag *
ter Litton ' s office , for the first four lots , containing 834 statute acres , and producing £ 677 a year , £ 15 , 500 had been offered and refused . The same section of the property sold on Friday in four lots for £ 9 , 200 , being £ 6 , 300 less than the amount offered just before the first potato failure . The rates of purchase realised for those four lots were 13 , 14 , 15 , and 16 years ' purchase . Other portions of the estate sold at about the same rates ; but by far the most important portions consisted of the lands of Kilnacrott , containing ISO statute acres , upon which there has been erected a very beautiful modern mansion , which cost the late inheritor a very large sum . There was only one bid * der for this lot , at £ 4 , 000 . Baron Richards said he considered the price offered b y far too low , and his
lordship asked Mr . Tatlow , the solicitor in the case , what he intended to do ? Mr . Tatlow replied that he was disposed to let the lot go at the money offered . It had been , he said , a source of very considerable ex * pense to the estate to keep the house in order . He felt assured the solicitors for the minors , and other creditors , were of the same opinion . Two of those gentlemen consented , and the fee-simple of 150 statute acres , forming a highly cultivated and ornamented demesne , with an elegant mansion in the Tudor style , in perfect order ( upon which it is said £ 27 . 000 was expended ) , was sold for £ 4 , 000 . Mr . Samuel Moore was the purchaser . The portions of the estate of Mr . Morton realised £ 35 , 745 , being an average of about fourteen and a half years' purchase upon a rental of £ 2 , 407 , without malting any allowance for a temporary abatement of twenty-five per cent , lately made to the tenantry . This amount being considered
sufficient to pay off all the claims ot the creditors , one valuable lot was retained for the minors , children of the late inheritor , containing 614 statute acres , which yield a rental of 4 J 483 a year . Seventeen new petitions for sale of estates were filed in the Encumbered Court within the week ending on the 20 th instant , making the entire number 1 , 384 . In the new list five of the encumbered inheritors are petitioners in their own cases . The name of Sir R . D . Burghe appears in this list . The sale of the Earl of Aldborough ' s estates has been fixed for the close of this month . The New Fhanchise Act . —The gross number of freeholders under the old and supplemental registries for the county of Gal way amounts to but 4 , 100 —a low figure considering the extent and population of the countv , and a pregnant proof of the fearful effects of athree years famine followed by emigration and evictions on a scale of magnitude hitherto unknown evenin Ireland .
Outrage on the Property op the Attorney-Genbral . —On Sunday , the 17 th inst . , about ISO persons assembled at Kildavin with horses and cars , and commenced the removal of a large quantity of potatoeg , turnips , com of every description , furniture , and in fact every available article on the premises of a person named Edward Sinnott , a tenant to the Right Hon . JohnHatchell , the Attorney-General . to whom a large amount of rent waa due . Constable Jordan , at present stationed in this district on temnn .
rary duty , having heard ot the work of destruction in progress , hastened to the scene with his party , and on stopping the first car , for the purpose of ascertaining the owner s name , a whistle was given , when the whole party rushed forward towards the constabulary who , on seeing their danger , immediatel y fixed bayonets and commenced to prime and load their carbines . The resolute conduct of the constable and his party cept the mob in check , and they succeeded in obtaining the nameg of from fifteen to twenty persons engagctf W vm mm enterprise , who will be sum *
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hibhed to tfiepetty ' sessions at Newtownbarry ; ' The tenant owed two years' rent , and the agent offered to allow him to take away his crops and other property , to forgive rent and arrears , if he gave peaceable pos « session ' of the farm . This offer was refused , and Sinnott still holds possession , determined not to surren- ' der it until the landlord be . put to the expense of ejectment . EmoiiATroN . —Alluding to the Unchecked rush of emigration from the west , the Athole Independent observes : — " Not a vehicle leaves this town without containing its quota of self-expatriated ' poor IriBh . ' Wo have seen some of them actually begging their way , barefooted and iltala ' a , with children but a few months old . We have been credibly informed that many of
those emigrants bring their goods to market and never return to their homes , lest the landlord or his agent should be there to demand his rent It has been asserted with more force than foundation that this system of emigration-is propelled by the want of those relations between landlord and tenant which the Leagues strives to attain : bnt this remains to be proved . The tenants of a good and indulgent landlord—one of whom the League can say nothing —we mean the Earl of Clancarty—have abandoned their holdings for the far . west . And this progress of emigration which we notice will flow on uhinter «« ruptedly , in defiance of the aeitation of party on shore or the angry bluster of old Boreas on Bea , until many of the green fields of this dear and lovely land —albeit its wretchedness — lie waste and
unfilled ; unless the capitalists of England interfere by investing their money in its cultivation . " Dismissal op A Magistrate . —The Dundalh Democrat has the following statement : — "Mr Francis Pratt , of Gorinsica , near Kingscourt , who was tried , convicted , and sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment at the late , quarter sessions of Cootehill , for having rescued himself from the bailiffs who > had him in custody under a writ of ca . ia ., at the suit of Bridget M'Eneany , in Kingscourt , on the ) 9 th of July last , has been superseded and dismissed from the commission of the peace for the county ot Cavan by the Lord Chancellor , and was discharged as an insolvent debtor by Mr . W . H . Curran , at the commission held in the town of Cavan on Tuesday la * t . "
Charge of Official Embezzhsment at Cork . —Messrs . Foot and Fitzsimons , solicitors , have addressed a letter to the Cork Reporter , explaining the circumstances under which informations have been taken against Ur : Whitney , first clerk of the Custom-house in that city . They say— " The charge i * for alleged embezzlement of £ 30 , and no more : his receipts have amounted to about £ 300 , 000 annually , and for the thirteen years during which he continued in the receipt of this enormous revenue not a farthing was lost , nor was a charge of any description made against him . Mr . Whitney courted public investigation , and no doubt will establish hiainnocence . For obvious reasons we decline to open any defence npon the preliminary inquiry , and trust the public will suspend its opinion until the . trial takes place . "
Stoppage of the Works ok the Dublin an » Belfast Junction Railway . —We regret to statethat , with some trivial exceptions , the works on this line , in the immediate vicinity of Newry , are stopped ,, in consequence of the misconduct of the labourer * connected with a district of the country through ; which the railway runs . At the Petty Sessions-Court , last Friday , Head Constable Whitley stated that that morning he had come upon a body of 30 O navvies , at the bridge across the Mohaghan-road . and that they told him they objected to working the long hours , asserting that they were the same now asin summer—from four in the morning till seven iathe evening . On making further inquiries we find that the statements made to Mr . Whitley is not
correct . The men were perfectly satisfied with their wages and the hours they had to work , and invariably speak well of their employers , Messrs . Moore-Brothers ; and in fact , tbe present stoppage of tW works arises from the determination of the peopleresiding in Killian and that vicinity to force thenv * - ¦ elves into the employment of these gentlemen . A large number of tkem , who have recently returned ' from reaping the harvest in the sister country , ' have : taken into their wise heads , tbat being connected with the locality where the works are in progress ,, they have a better right to be employed on them , than labourers from other parts of the country ; an& as Messrs . Killen and Moore would not dismisstheir old hands , to make room for them , they comr blned together , and , traversing the line from ones end to the other , drove the men from the various , works by threats and acts of violence . They not
only hurled large stones from a height of fifty or sixty feet down on them , but ' m several cases , armed : with bludgeons , they attacked them personally , and compelled them to retire from the works . The consequence is that upwards of 1 , 000 men are out of employment ; but until tbe present time no further breach of the peace has taken place . We trust that the misguided men who have behaved so badly by thistime see the error of their conduct ; but if not , they may depend upon it that while there is 500 men ia Newry barracks , to speak of no other power , they will be taught to obey tbe law , and respect the rightsof their fellow tuett . Meantime the authorities aretaking informations against every man who can bo identified as having taken part in this dangerous * combination ; and , as soon as the necessary protection can be obtained for the regular hands , they wilt return to work . —Neivry Telegraph .
Tne Dublin MnNiciPALELECTioNs . —This city was : in a state of considerable bustle and excitement out Monday , in consequence of the elections for the representatives in tne new town council , which will have , under the Municipal Act , the control and management of local taxation to the amount of £ 200 , 000 per annum . In several of the wards thecontests were extremely close . In the Linen-hall ward the Lord Mayor ( Mr . John Reynolds , M . P ., y came in as the fourth successful candidate , by % very small majority over Mr . Jamea Perry , awealthy merchant , and one of the directors of the
Midland Great Western Railway Company ^ In thewards , generally , highly respectable citizens have been returned , and men of moderate political views-A considerable number of the members of the old corporation have lost their seats . The new council will be a fair representation of the property andintelligence of the Irish metropolis . The Freeman ' * Journal states , that there has not been one man returned who has not given a pled ge against the removal of the Viceroyalty . That journal also gives a political analysis of the returns , of which the following is a summary : —Liberals , 35 ; Conserva--tivea , 22 ; doubtful , 3—total , 60 .
The Late MuRnKROus Assault Case in Cork .- * The Cork Examiner states , that the man who was beaten so severely at the tunnel of the Great Southern and Western Railway , on Tuesday night , died in the North Infirmary at five o ' clock on Sunday evening , in consequence of the injuries inflicted on him . The unfortunate man remained insensible since the commission of the offence , and has left a large family to lament his disastrous end . A verdict pf «• Wilful murder" has beeo returned .
Sales in the Encumbered Estates Court . — The new regulation against adjournment of sales , unless under special circumstances , is working very beneficially . Six separate estates vrero announced for sale on Tuesday , all of which , with one exception , were disposed of at very fair rates of purchase , and within the short space of two hours . Poor-Law Taxation . —Whilst the poor-rate ievery considerably diminished in most parts of thecountry , the unfortunate Clare Unions are still taxed to a most alarming extent . In Killadvscrt Union , the new rates vary from 3 s . 8 d . to 10 s . in tho pound . In the electoral divisions of Clondaga . and Liscasoy , the rate is 10 s . ; in Kilmurry , it ia 9 s . lOd . ; in Kilp iddana , 7 s . ; and in other division * the new levy exceeds 5 s . in the pound . In such cases how is it possible to obtain rents from th » tenantry 1
Legal Appointments . —Mr . E . Geale , a solicitor , has been appointed as Crown Solicitor for the County of Carlow and Queen ' s County , rendered vacant by the death of Mr . Elliott ; and Mr . E . Mooney . clerk to the Attorney-General , has been appointed as the successor to Mr . Geale , in the office of Clerk of the Crown for the County of Longford . The Hon . David Flunkett , son of Lord Plunketfc , ex-Chancellor for Ireland , has resigned the office of Master of the Court of Common Pleas , in consequence of serious ill health . The salary of this office is £ 1 , 000 per annum . Repeal Association . — The usual meeting was held on Tuesday instead of Monday , in consequence of the municipal elections . Mr . John Byrne presided . Mr . John O'Connell , in alluding to thoaa elections , stated that the Repealers had lost many g ° , ° A o ^ * The ren t f or the week was £ 1413 s . 9 d .
Rebiosamojj to Professor Shaw , Quein ' s Cot .-woe .-We regret , and so we feel will a large circle of friends , to whom his high qualities had endeared him , and none wore than the college authorities , ; hat Professor Shaw has felt compelled io resiga his office at the Queen ' s College . He filled the iia-• ortant and arduous chair of Natural Philosophy , but , as a Fellow of Trinity College , he feels that there is an incompatibility befcw « n his position there and his continuance in the Queen s College professorship . To prevent any inconvenience from a suspension of studies , Professor Shaw has most kindly consented to continue his lectures till the appointment of his successor . —Cork Reporter .
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French Goods in Tranbiiu . —It will afford som ® idea of the large and increased quantities of mer chandise of a valuable character which are brought to this country from France in trantitu to other foreign countries , when it is stated that the vessel Margaret , arrived a » tho port of Liverpool from Havre , officially reports as naving brought no leaa than 2 , 216 packages of silks , besides twenty-five packages of woollens and cottons , ten packages of watches , three packages of embroidery , fifteen packages of gloves , and sixty-seven packages of manufactured goods , which are imported in transit for other parts of the world .
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to the present inquirv . Verdict , " That the declased died from the want of proper . nourishment ¦ ^ to iS ^^ -isr ^^*^ to Sfter a long consultation , among the jury .
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male * - The Late Murder at Havebfordwbst . —The exertions of the police have been successful in fixing the guilt of the murder of the old woman , Elizabeth Barnard , upon a man and woman , Thomas Thomas and Jane Evans , both of whom have been fully committed by the magistrates to take their trial for the capital offence . It will be remembered that the old woman was picked up in a ditch near the Wesleyan chapel , Haverfordwest , in a sinking and indeed dying condition , and that upon a post mortem examination of the body being made , the death was clearly traced to injuries which had been inflicted upon her .
The Sale of Materials at Britannia-bridge was concluded on Saturday last . The weather remained favourable and there was a good attendance of mining engineers and others , and high prices were maintained throughout . The only articles unsold were two of the large iron pontoons used at the floating ^ , and some large capstans , The proceeds of the sale of materials have been estimated at about £ 12 , 000 . The hydraulic presses have been purchased by the makers , the Bank Quay Foundry , Warrington , for the purpose of exhibition at tho forthcoming industrial display of 1851 .
Riot at Hirwain , Breconshire . —Owen Morley , Hugh Watkins , Thomas Roberts , Thomas Lewis , and William Williams , colliers , of Her wain , were charged at the Aberdare police court , last week , with having riotously assembled at Hirwain , in the parish of Penderyn , with about one hundred others , and broke in the windows and doors of the Golden-Lion Inn , and assaulted the landlady and other inmates . It appeared that on the night of the 10 th inst ., some Welsh workmen assaulted some Irish railway excavators as they were going along the road : a row ensued , in which two Welshmen named Williams and Rees were stabbed . An Irishman named Galanan
was given into custody on the charge . There being no look-up house at Hirwain , the officer had to convey the prisoner to Aberdare station , and during his absence the Welsh workmen assembled to the number of about one hundred , and commenced an attack upon the Golden Lion , which is kept by an Englishman named Stacey , who is connected with the railway works . The conduct of the mob was described as very outrageous , several windows were broken , and the disturbance lasted from half-past eleven till two in the morning . The prisoners were ail apprehended on the Monday following . They were all committed for trial at the Brecon sessions , but were admitted to bail .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1602/page/6/
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