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ve - writing caused the frightful event of W ednesday evening to be anticipated . At five o ' clock Sto Perez , who had previously sent off his trunks byaem , mtssmmmre , descended the staircase in travelling costm ^ Nothing strange m fcs maTmer was remarked ; and tTS only half an hour after that the waiter , on entering he room found the unfortunate Dolores lying on S ^ Smnd bathed m blood . The murder had been accomplished by means of a sword-cane . The blade was plunged into the young woman ' s heart , and she must have died the moment it was withdrawn A traveller , whose personal appearance corresponded with that of the Spaniard , left by the ^ Bordeaux diligence of the Messageries Rationales shortly after he murder was committed . It is presumed that lie was the murderer Telegraphic despatches were immediatert sent off in all directions , and everything causes it to be hoped that he will soon be in the hands of justice !"
Singular Case op Importttaw at ™ Stt ™ , ™ , ™ , , b ^ GULAR Case op Imposition a * d Superstition - On Monday last a woman named Bridget McQuillan , living oiifte road leading to the Chord , complained to H . 3 ? ^ irtloug * Esq ., that on Friday , July 30 , a man named Michael Mohan came to her house and asked something for God s sake . Complainant gave Mm a bit of bread , on which he ooked at her and said there were a great
many crosses before her : that Wsplf n ^ ^« ,, « i . *«» JL _ _ u many crosses before her ; that herself and daughter would be put on the road to beg ; and that she would die before 1 r Ti *? n ? f . COuld break a 11 m ? c ^ ses with the hel p of God . He then asked me had I a piece of silver . I gave him a shilling . He next asked me if I had any copper and I gave him threepence , thinkin- he ^^ ir ^^^^^ ck again . Hesaidhelmd chaiand
a -m none had it but two men and himself-ore lived at EnmskiUen , and the other in Gibraltar . He then asked me had I anything belonging to my son , a sailor , who is abroad ? I said I had nothing but an old cap and waistcoat belonging to him . He asked them from me , and I gave them to him . He said he would bury them , money and all , at Garhstown , between two counties , and I would have all back in nine days . My daughter , Mary , has sore eyes , and he desired her to give him a handkerchief . She
gave him a silk one and a cotton one . He said he would bury them all , and cure her eyes in nine days . He then told us when we would be both going to bed to go on our bended knees , and give God thanks that sent him to us J \ ow , said he , have . you anything ready for me ? I then got him some tea , and when he took it he said he was not to eat a bit or sleep a wink until he would see me ao-ain , and that would be before two or three o ' clock next ° day ( Satiirday ) . He called on Saturday , and by his orders I had bacon and cabbage ready for his dinner ! ' He told me
my son was living , and that he had saved his life . He then wanted a piece of silver to bury along with the rest of the things which I had given him . I got him a fourpenny piece , and he got into a passion , and said it was quite too small—that the larger the piece the less trouble he would have . My daughter then pawned a shawl for a shilling , and gave it to him . He asked me had I any copper , and I gave him twopence , which was all I had . He then said he
wanted a sheet without either crack or break in it , and a pair of stockings which he was to put on him and the sheet about him , and he was to he on the grave of the last corpse buried in town . I gave him a calico sheet and a pair of blue cotton stockings , which I knifr myself . He then left me , taking with him these things to work the charm , and called yesterday evening , about nine o ' clock . He was beastly drunk , and his face cut . He said the cut was occasioned by a fall which he got on account of a small dam which was on the
sheet . He asked me for something to eat , and I ottve him some bacon and cabbage . He then said , " Can I go to bed ?" to which I replied , " Oh , sure you'll not stoplon ^ ? " " Stop long , indeed ! " says he , "that ' spretty treatment F He asked me for more money , and when I had none for him he got into my bed , stripped himself , and lay down ; on which I locked the door , and went for the police . Prisoner was then committed to Drogheda gaol to stand his trial at the quarter sessions for raising money and goods under false Itretenees . —Droqheda Conservative . .-..-
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west has already recommenced in right earnest . The Balhnasloc Star says : — " Within the past fortnight the number of emigrants from this province has been more than doubled , and we have been assured that very many who had heretofore no thought oi quitting the country are at present < setting their houses m order preparatory to taking their departure for America . " And again , to quote the same authority : — Great " ' — '
numbers from this part of the country are daily passing away to take shi pping in Liverpool for America . In tne early part of this week a great many people left the parish oi More , and several from this locality ; in fact , the railway trains and canal boats are daily tilled by crowds of the peasantry , who are hurrying , away as if they were escaping from a plague . From Australia several remittances nave been received by the poor people here , sent by their relations who went out as paupers ; and that distant country is now being added to in population by many of their strong and willing hands . The bad harvest " prospect in the loss of the potato crop will startle many others ; and all who can gather together merely as much as will pay the passagemoney will follow their friends and relatives . "
Irom the south , too , the emigration tide pours outwards with unabated force , and a Waterford paper calculates that , trom present appearances , the numbers leaving that and other ports will be quintupled in a few months hence . THE FATAL AFFRAY AT SIX-MILE BRIDGE . A man named Molony , who had been wounded in the late fatal affray , died on Sunday in Barring-ton ' s Hospital , in the city of Limerick , and a coroner ' s jury was sworn but an adjournment for a week took place . . =
BAKQUBT TO SHABMABi CRAWFORD . ^ Arrangements are being made to invite Mr . Sharman Crawford to a public banquet in Dublin early in the ensuin month .
—<> - EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND . Execution of Frascis Berry . —On Saturday last the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect at Armagh gaol on Francis Berry , convicted at last assizes for being accessary in an attempt to murder Mr . Meredith Chambre , of Hawthorn-hill , in this county . Precisely at twelve o ' clock the door leading to the fatal drop was opened , and the unfortunate Berry , accompanied by the Rev . Mr . Rogers and the
Rev . Mr . Crynian , made his appearance . He was a strongman of middle stature , 22 years of age , and exhibited no symptoms of timorousness . ' There was an immense crowd in front of the gaol , whose morbid curiosity was evidently sickened by the appalling spectacle , for a thrill of horror was manifested when the victim presented himself . Immediatel y after he got on the platform he addressed a few words to the spectators , which , as near as we could collectwere to the
, effect , that if all young men would attend to the advice of the Roman Catholic clergy they would not be brought to the state he was in ; this he repeated , and concluded by praying the forgiveness of the Lord and the Blessed Virgin . At the conclusion of . these few words the executioner came out , pulled down the cap , adjusted the rope , and retired ; a moment after which the bolt was drawn , and the unfortunate man was thrown off . Death must have been
instantaneous , as he made no struggle , nor was there any symptom of life exhibited . The tragical act caused general horror among the multitude , most of whom turned their backs on the scene . After hanging for 42 minutes the body was let down , and coffined , when the officiating clergy read prayers . A short time after it was given to the mother , sister , and four cousins , who had it placed in a hearse and conveyed to their own home for interment .
Execution of the Murderer Bbophy . —¦ This wretched man , condemned at the Kilkenny assizes for the Ballymack murder , was hanged in front of tlie county gaol , pursuant to his sentence , on Wednesday week . The guilty man had been for some time quite reconciled to his fate , the anticipation of which had so little effect upon his mind that he improved much in condition by the good diet which he was afforded since he entered the gaol , and which he ate with good appetite up to the morning of the execution . In the press-room , previous to being led out to the drop , he declared
to all present that lie had neither hand , act , nor part in the murder for which he was about to suffer ; but he confessed that he had falsely accused his sister-in-law of having perpetrated the foul crime . Upon being thrown off by the executioner death seemed to be instantaneous , as the slightest convulsion of the frame or muscles was not perceptible to those beneath . Having been suspended for three quarters of an hour , the bodv was taken down , and removed into the p rison . Upwards of 3 , 000 persons are said to have assembled to witness the revolting spectacle .
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—« 8 > . Weeck of an Emigrant Snip .-Lettere have arrived , giving some details of the melanchol y loss of the English emigrant ship the Trusty , of Scarborough , having on board nearly 200 hundred emigrants , off the shores of Cape Gaspe , while on a passage to Quebec . The vessel , which was commanded by Mr . Forster , sighted the land near the Cape on the 22 d of July , when her course was shaped to the northward . On the following morning a dense fos : came on , preventing the crew observing- any distance beyond a cable ' s length or so of the vessel ; andalthough orders were iven
, g to keep the ship well off the land , she eventually struck on a reef of rocks within a short distance of the Cape , when she speedily filled and settled down . Against the command of the master , one of the boats was lowered and cut away from the vessel . It contained in all , it is supposed , about twenty persons . An attempt was made to gain the shore , but so great was the surf that the boat was capsized before it had reached many yards from the wreck , and the whole of the helpless creatures perished . Among them were the undermentioned persons : —Thomas Blake , Daniel Sannderson
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John Dickenson , William Brown , David Hodgson , John Atkinson , Thomas S ' . ww , William and Thomas Stellings , Thomas Wiutei-in ^ ham , Stephen Bullock , Martha Taylor , Wright Ban , Robert Yates , Frank Francis , and Thomas Burton . F . ;• eight hours the position of those on the wreck was one of ; , reat peril ; the sea sweeping over her decks and it was expected every moment she was going to pieces . Soon after d . iy had broken a schooner bore down ' to the spot , and with tL : aid of the crews of two other vessels that came up , all who Mere clinging- to the wreck were taken off in safety . Their luggage , however , was lost , for in a few days the vessel broke up , and was a total wreck . The emigrants have since been forwarded to Quebec .
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MASSACRE OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND PIMCY AT S 03 COWRY . Statement of Malim Sahib , master of the brig Satreena now l ing in the port of Moulmein , taken before me Henry Hopkinson , principal assistant to the commissioner in tlie Tennasserim Province \ his 30 th day of February , 1852 , who saith : —I sailed k . i Xag-ore in the month of August last , to Bimlapatam , thence to Penanjr , and from Penaiig I I came on to Jfoncowry Island , arriving in all November . I
got as many cocoanute as I could at Noncowry Island , and filled up with more at Car Nicobars , where I remained up to about the 20 th December . From Car Nicobars I was driven by stress of weather with the loss of all my sails to Junk Ceylon . I had to stop and refit there , and take in provisions and did not leave till the 20 th of January last , when I
came on here . One morning , about two o ' clock , while lying off Noncowry , and about 13 clays after my arrival , there came alongside the ship a man on a log of wood . I lowered a boat and picked him up . He appeared much exhausted , and could only tell me at first his name was Soobooroyloo , and that he was a Coringee . He was , however , in perfect possession of his senses , and soon recovered strength
sufficient to state his storv . He said he wsis nne nf *> mvw n-F ± z cient to state his story . He said he was one of a crew of 45 men belonging to a Coringee craft which had come from Singapore to JNoncowry , to load with cocoanuts ; but before her cargo could be completed she was one day surrounded by a number of armed boats , whose crews boarded and carried her , and put all her people to death , with the exception of nine , of whom the narrator was one , and who escaped b
y hiding themselves in a water-tank . When night fell they endeavoured to swim ashore . Four were drowned , but the other five managed to reach the land . They soon got separated , however , in the jungle . Soobooroyloo wandered about for some time , but tit last was captured by the islanders , who kept him prisoner . He managed at last to bite through his cords , and so got free from them , and gained my ship on a log , as I have mentioned . Sooboorovloo told me that his
was not the only ship that had been attacked by the natives of Noncowry , for , after he had been a month ashore , an English barque came into theharbour formed by the islands of Noncowry , Camarata , and Trincutry , and anchored there ., For four or five days a number of boats , more and more every day , went off to her . And at last one day Soobooroyloo saw her settle , down and sink . Her long-boat came ashore full of Noncowry men . They brou ght with them a European lady and tier child , a little thing not two years old . For four days the poor lady was the victim of their brutal
abuse , when death put an end to her sufferings , and she was no sooner dead than they hacked the child to pieces with their knives . Before he left the island Soobooroyloo fell in with three men . He found they were his countrymen , Cormgees ; and they proved to be the remnant of the crew of the English barque . They told him that their vessel had been carried and scuttled by the savages , who had murdered the captain and his mate and two other Englishmen ( passengers , it is presumed ); and , after p lundering the vessel , had brought the captain ' s wife and his infant daughter away in the long-boat . They could not tell the name of the barque
, but she was from Calcutta , with a lascar crew . I managed to escape the fate of those ships , as I knew beforehand the character of the men I had to deal with . I kept well out in the offing , in 15 fathoms water , and was very careful not to allow more than one boat at a time to be alongside of me ; and as soon as I had discharged one boat of cocoanuts I made her go well away before I suffered another boat to approach . Soobooroyloo was upwards of two months and a half on shore , and this affair of the English barque took place about a month and a half before my coming . —Moulmein Times , Feb . 20 .
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IBELAND . loud palmeksto : n s hush voters . Some time before the recent election for the county of Sligo ifc transpired that the ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs , "who has large estates in that quarter , had given directions through the " ordinary channels" —agents and sub-agentsthat reasonable efforts should be used to induce his tenants to vote for the Derbyite candidates in preference to the Saxon importation , who , nevertheless , was the winner of one of the seats . The Freeman ' s Journal , it seems , is in possession of the original letters written to tenants of Lord Palxnerston , asking , in his lordship ' s name , that they should vote for Sir Robert Booth and Captain Gore . Here is an extract of one written to a Roman Catholic priest : — " I think it right to repeat what you are already aware of , both from Mr . Smith and me , that we have instructions from Lord Palmerston to intimate to Ms tenants his wish and desire that they shall give their support at the next election to Sir Robert Gore Booth and Mr . Ormsby Gore . " The local papers continue to give accounts of outrages committed upon the persons of unpopular voters .
THE EXODTJS . HThe Limericlt Reporter states that on Thursday se ' nnight 160 women from the Newcastle Union arrived in Limerick for the purpose of proceeding to Canada by the barque Hope , arrangements having been made for that purpose with the owners . The probability of another failure in the staple food of the people has , in conjunction with other causes , given a fresh impetus to the emigration mania , and the exodus from the
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The Whale Fishery . —Information was received on Saturday by the Dublin whaler , arrived at Lerwick , of the progress of the fishery . The Dublin left the ice on the 15 th July , and had four fish and forty tuns of oil . The Spitzlergen was totally lost on the ice on the 24 th of June * she had 108 tuns ; . crew saved . A shoal of bottlenosed whales , consisting of 295 fish , were driven on shore at West Soe , off Sumburgh , on the 27 th ult . ; the blubber sold at £ 10 per tun ; and another shoal of the same description of fish was driven on shore at Queendale , on the 28 th ult . ; the blubber of about 200 realizing from £ 10 to £ 10 7 s . per ton .
Extraordinary Escape .-A young girl , named Hughes , fell into a well 60 feet deep , at Wetherall , a few days a » o . A man went down in a bucket for the purpose of bringing up her corpse , but was astonished to find her not only alive but uninjured , except by a few trifling bruises . We wonder if Mr . Disraeli will bequeath to his successors all he sees " looming in the future ? " and whether he will bequeath it as an " air-loom ?" A lady , who wished for some stuffing from a roast fowl which a gentleman was carving at a public table , requested him to transfer from the deceased fowl to her plate some of its artificial intestines .
A Boston beauty once defined the attentions of a Pennsylvanian admirer as " Sorter honest courtship and sorter not ) but a darned deal more sorter not than sorter . .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 14, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1691/page/5/
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