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      tei-town depoted that at 7 on the previous evening as lie was riding on the top of an omnibus along High-street ^ sZ th t p r isoner toing along at a furies rate with a ( W anc W es down Pratt-street The omnibus coachman pulled T in order to let it pass , and at the same moment witness saw a nnn ( the teased ) step off the kerb into the road , when the fChora of the dray struck aud propelled Iran several yards forward Witness heard a tremendoiis scream , and upon looking round saw one of the wneels of the dray pass over the heir ? J + ht rr felloj as he lay upon the groUd . The P " wa $ ? ting on the dray and appeared to have been drinkin- Thi representation having been supported by the testimony of " policeman , the prisoner was committed for killing and shyiiirlp . n-town , depoted that at 7 on the wminns <* r ^; -.

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      The Mysterious Affair at BATit .-Tlie details of the dis appearance of a young woman , aged 21 , named Ellen Forster under somewhat remarkable circumstanepq n-id ™ h « -1 ' generally beKe ^ ed m the Star of f reedom . The mystery has since fei c eared up by the discovery of the bod y near the Twerto Wens , and an inquest has been held on it . The iu-v rrtm , ™ 1 an open Terdict of " Found d rowned . " J ' 3 letmned Pension to the Widow oe the late Hew TJvtt tm , annuity to the h * Mr . Henry Bell , whose ^ ervL ^'~ 5 to the propulsion oi vessels by steam were acknowledgedi by the grant of a pension of £ 100 a year b y the Clyde Traste « having ceased with his death , the same public board / by a unanimous resolution , agreed to grant a pension of the sTme amount to the widow of Mr . Bell

      to Palace at Baikal ,-It has just been determined to oui d a new palace for the Queen at Balmoral . It is to be hull on a site between the river and the present castle , 112 mg the « mt . i , and is estimated to cost from £ 80 , 000 to £ 100 000 How many persons did the Times say were daily starving hi

      Attempted Gaeotts Robbery .-A few days ago , two cabmen named Williams and Harding , were remanded on a chate of attempting to Garotte Mr . Griffiths , a chemist Clerical BiGOTRr .-The Eev . Mr . Woodward , curate of a . James ' , Bermondsey , lately refused to bury a child th ^ o years old . on tae pretence that it had not been Wized IV Mier was compelled to take the body home a ° 4 in - but the scrapulous clergyman refused to return the fees that had been paid to mm .

      IvAlv Water axd Cholera .- ^ has been fully ascertained , says the report oi the Freneh medical commission , both at Pans and elsewhere , that rain water is a prophylactic of cholera and that this disease has never proved an epidemic in any eitv where ram water is exclusively used . A Chinese % wsi > APEr ,-In Pekin , China , a newspaper of extraordinary size is published weekly on silk . It is said to have been started more than a thousand years ago—somewhat earlier than the one under the patronage of the » Good Queen Bess I » An anecdote is related to the effect that , in 1827 % public officer caused some false intelligence to be inserted ' in the newspaper , for which he was put to death . Several numbers of the paper are preserved in the Boys' Library , at Paris 1 hey are each ten and a quarter yards long . DuoiiEDAiiY Driving . —General Yusuf arrived ten days ao-o at Algiers , from Blidah , in an elegant carriage drawn by two dromedaries . These animals had a lew days before made a journey from Midah . to Boghar of 280 kilometres ( nearly 180 miles English ) in 24 hours .

      Voluntary Starvation—An unmarried woman , named Hannah Moore , starved herself to death lasfc week at Northampton . The Earl of Carlisle at Morpetk . —On Friday evening Lord Carlisle read before the members of the Morpeth Mechanics' Institute , the lecture upon the poetry of Pope , which he delivered in the winter of 1850 to the members of the Mechanics' Institute of Leeds .

      Condemned Stores . —The Master-General and Board of Ordnance , having made an official tour of inspection round the Channel Islands to see the efficiency of the defences of the coast , condemned nearly 100 guns as unfit for government service , and ordered them to be sent by the Queen , lighter , to the Royal Arsenal as condemned stores , and to be replaced ~ h new ones . —Kentish Mercury . Kepressiox of Cruelty to Axdials . —A coachman in the service M . Delacour , of Belville , was sentenced on Saturday to

      imprisonment for one day and to pay a fine of 6 f . for having brutally kicked one of bis masters horses . A dustman living at Vaugirard was fined 27 f . for having struckhis horse on thehead and * cgs , and a gain llf . fine and imprisoned for three days for having struck the same horse on the ear with a stone . The servant of the above was fined 6 f . for having struck the same horse with the handle of his whip .

      Iron Trade . —We are glad to hear that the furnaces at Aber . K ' ^ y 11 Neath , are about being blown in . These works will afford employment to a large number of peesons in the neighbourhood , and we wish the spirited proprietors success . Prot estantism in Tahiti . —Advices from Tahiti to the middle of May state , that the English Protestant ministers lied been forbidden to preach until they had formally acknowledged the trench Protectorate Goverment as thier head , and promise to submit themselves to its control . The Rev . Mr . Chisholm , employed by the London Missionary Society , had been prohibited irom preaching out of a certain district under pain of arrest and bani shment , tjo native was allowed to preach without first obtaining the sanction of the Goverment .

      Ravages op the Yixe Disease in Italy . —The vine disease continued its ravages in the neighourhood of Como , Bellogio , and Robbio . The infection manifested itself by an eruption of mute dust . In the mountains of Nesso , and the forests extendw » g from Zebbia to Erno , and above Careno , the same malady att acked the chestnut trees . The lower part of the leaf is at the o * st covered with a white dust , soon after the leaf becomes spotted with coffee-cobnred stains , which perforate it , and the *«» ultimatel y turns yellow , dries nr > , and fells . Cruelty by a Butcher . —At Brighton , a few days ago , a oiucher was fined . £ 5 for skinning a sheep before it was quite

      ¦ & "A iLn Giro ,, says the Cincinnati Commercial , was captured f ? J ? q ] } m . t ] lQ W 0 Qds hack of Columbia . She was first obser ved climbing trees with a rapidity only equalled by a mon-* « Jl ^ Pjahi JP . Culloitgh , with a large party , went out to S ^ ' 6 ^ ' " S ^ " ^ ing , and after great trouble succeeded xi t ! ! . S' i& ? vvUen they learned from Iior incoherent expressions i w , ahe } m ( i | j ecr , j- £ Ba fj £ j n theasyliim at Columbus , whence ^ w escaped some months siuee . ' und had lived in the woods , wMi T ^ m im » $ m * r "' *"" '" " "" '"

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      ovwW fc J . 0 Rif ~ A 1 ™ ing Iieav-y thunder storms broke S . nfVi ! ^ ^ } J f day lasfc ' accompanied by loud pea s of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning . In the height noZ T ! llShtn ; ? trUCktlie house of ^ - Chas . Silcock , pottei , Brampton-a locality which , from some atmospheric t ^ f ' P 8 P t 0 be Peciillarly ex P ° to visitations of this nado ™ i f chl T . T ? &St St ? ' tlle electricnuid passed 10 not i a ° i } e 6 xo 0 ^ here ^ o pieces of plaster , about tK ? g a 5 « wlde were stl < i PPed off one wkl and stm W ° mi ^} GY at ^ side of the room , wherethey sm emam as if fastened- with glue . The cornice and several E ° ™ ™ . ent ^ . *«? t «> ten and damaged , and a stuff dress be longing to Miss Silcock was extensively sineed- hnrl th « flv , «« mus hn

      »^ a Or print one , in all probability it wou d have imted and set fire to the furnitnre in the room . The lightning taen appears to have degcened upon the hearthstone , from which it lutl taken a portion about the size of a pido-conVe" - ? a « s S ° eS > ^ by < * f fineSt cWseL In ^ hrcentre of tW adniifa f \ r ^ 2 ? iave . f . Me not larger than would aW Ifh i ° ? f ; ° ? assed illt 0 the P »^> and almost totally destroyed a large picture represe ^ tino- the de struction of the French Bastile ; conWiu , its ^^ S ™ ±

      l « ?«? n l' ° n a l'e ? v ™ ei ^ ti ™ , in white Staffordshire porce-Wn ? S ! ° P and t ! l ? « on ; the l ) atron saint had aMalit , biumshed steel spear , about 14 inches long in his right hand ? hS 5 ? f Cimty WaS ^ the montl 1 of tIl e * 4 on ; from 5 ? t ! f ' P ° f \ H ^ mS took about an inch and a 3 ~ LaT ljotll 1 ends J and havmg shivered these portions into 11 pieces , drove them into the metal firegrate , where they present the appearance of so many shot corns , and are so firmly Imbebded as to be irremovable . Providentially , the family \ v ere in thelutchenat the time of the occurrence , but all were much frightened by the loud explosion which ensued on the chimney being struck On entering the two rooms they were found to be nearly filled with a sulphurous vapour . At W in ^ rworS the vio ence of the 8 to m was also very great . A large lime tree at iiilll ; ouse , m taat parish was struck by the electric fluid and the bavk stripped off , and forced to adistanoe of ten yard " ' The kitchen door of Mr . Edward Bradl ' a housenear the tree

      y , , was partly open at the time , and a ball of fire fell upon the sill of the door and exploded with a loud report ; it then apparently divided mto three large stars , and flames and smoke seemed to ascend upwards Ine plates in the house rattled , anda duck which happened to be just within the kitchen door was turned over on its back , forced through the kitchen , tlirongh the house-place , and under a chair to the front door , through which , being open , 4 was ejected unhurt . A boy was playing in the room throuVh which the ligntmng passed , and he also escaped uninjured . On Tuesday the rain again fell heavily at intervals , and about 2 o clock on W ednesday morning there was another fearful thunder-Storm The damages done to outstanding crops of all kinds has bean

      very great . —Derby Paper . Alarming Thukderstoiim akd Death op a Farmer from the result ov Lightning ' -During the whole of Saturday evening last there prevailed neao Tregaron and Ponthrydfendi aid an awful storm of thunder snd lightning . Mr . David Reel of Covenmenrig , and his grandson , a child from six to seven years old , were standing at the ouiser door of the house between < k

      and seven o ' clock in the evening , when the storm was at its rage , and his wife on entering the . house from milking was horrified at perceiving her husband and grandson postratc in the passage , apparently lifeless . They wore immediatel y removed and put to bed by the domestics , and Mr . Rowlands was instantly sent for , who lost no time in visiting the melancholy scone . The medical gentleman , upon cxaminisg them , pronounced at once that David Rees had ceased to live , and he entertained but faint hopes of the boy . ' In a short time , howeve . i , a si / m of

      anmation was perceived , ancl by skill and attetion ot ' Mr . kbwlands the child at present is perfectly recovered from the effects of the electricity . An inquest was held on the bony of Mr . Rees on Monday last before Di \ Richard Williams and a respectable jury when they unanimously returned a verdict of . ' Accidental Death . ' A stack of com was also struck by the iightmV in the parish of Rhostre , and was consumed . We have also fien informed that a inan was killed by lightning near Machynlleth . — Welshman .

      The Electric Telegraph ix America , —The progress of telegraph enterprizc in the United States is just now assuming a position that indicates the extensive nature of that branch of its economy over that of every other country . According to the most recent authentic informati on on the matter , it appears that the total number of miles of telegraph in the United States is 27 , 177 , independent of the range of lines projected or in progress . Of this 27 , 177 , about 17 , 283 miles are on the Morse system , and the remainder on that of House , Bain , and O'Reilly The longest existing line is that between New Orleans and New York , by means of which , in April last , direct communication

      between the two cities in a single circuit over an extent of 3 , 000 miles was obtained , despatches being sent between the 2 places 60 sec . " ahead of time . " The nextlongest of the 44 , on the Morse system , extending to all the chief States , are the New York and Buffalo telegraph , via Troy and Albany , consisting of 5 lines , each 500 miles long , or a total stretch of 2 , 500 ; the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph , via Virginia , 1 , 716 miles ; and th Washington and New York Telegraph , via Baltimore and Philadelphia , with five lines of 250 miles each , or a total of 1 , 250 miles . Other linos vary from 100 to 300 and 800 miles long , and the expense of tlieif construction from 100 to 200 dollars per mile , the profits alternating at between 3 and 6 per cent , per annum . The number of wires also varies , there being between somo places only one , and between others 2 , 4 , and 5 . On the western and Canada routes there is generally but one . The Washington and New Orleans Telegraph charge 2 dollars from Washington to New Orleans , 1 , 716 miles , with no charge for address , date , or signature . The Atlantic and Ohio

      Telegraph , I dollar and 30 cents , from Philadelphia to Milwankie , 812 . The Magnetic Telegraph , from New York to Washington 245 miles , 50 cents ; and to New Orleans , 2 dollars 50 cents ; but when a communication exceeds 109 words , the price on all words exceeding is reduced on third . The New York aud Niagara Telegraph charge C 5 cents for 500 miles . These charges are the same to ail places on the intermediate route , each line running its wires through numerous towns and cities where telegraph stations arc established

      Diskeb to Mb . Lowe at Kii > debmisstbk—On Tucsd evening a dinner was given to Mr . Robert Lowe , the new member ibr this boroucrh Tub Duke of Cambridge . —The Order of the Black E * g ! e has been presented b y the King of Prussia to the Puke ' of Cambridge . Copper prom Jamaica . —Tlia two last West India mail steamers have " brought to Englana a large Quantity of oopfe oyeironitheiftinesvecontly discoYeve ^ VJ ^ aiea , ' '

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      Meeting of Parliamext . —Parliament will be summoned for the dispatch of business early in November . — " Ministerial paper . " J Bucks Agricultural Association . —On Wednesday the an nual dinner of the members and subscribers of the . Royal Rucks Agricultural Association was held at the Swan and Castle Inn , -Buckingham . Lauxcii of a Fifty-gun Steam Fmgate . —The Impcricuse , commenced November 23 , 1850 , on Wednesday was launched at Woolwich , m the presence of Lord Adolnlius Fit / . clarencc and other naval officersand christened bv LjuLv Walker

      , . IHB 1 ATAL * IRE AT SOMERS-TOWX . -The WY Srtt Oil Wed nesnay- to investi gate the cause of the loss of life in the case oi Henry balham , who perished in this disaster . After hearing the witness they returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . " Completion of the Great Noetiiekn Railway Tekmisus .-Uus terminus is now completed , with the exception of laving the rails beneath the sheds , the works of which are in such a forward state that it is anticipated no delay will take place in owning , which is fixed for Monday , the 20 th inst .

      A Mak-Wolf .-TIic "Clamor Publico . " of Madrid , h . is the tolloTing from Coranna , dated the 5 tli : —There has just boon denounced to the tribunal of this citv a man-wolf , who , upon iris own confession , has been in the haliit of going into the forests and killing and eating men , women , and children . He was can tured in Castille . lie has declared to the examining magistrate that he had two accomplices belonging to Valencia , and th : i $ they carried on a traffic with Portugal for the iat of thier victims , i his horrible monster added , that he had killed and eaten his mother and sister .

      at S t f ' T FR 0 M MY Fkiends . —At the dinner of tlic Rovp . l North Lancashire Agricultural Society , at Preston , one Jlr Michaelson , m his anxiety to bespeak ' a good reception for a toast to Larl Derby , overshot the mark , and hit tis mm > n — When he was asked to propose the health of the E ; -i—( tremendous cheering ) -he thought it was an honour that no man who had a ha'p ' orth of pkek about him would refuse , ( cheers ) Amongst them were persons of different religions and politics but they could meet together , and throwing politics and Widow to the winds , could freoly enter into discuSsion upon ^ nMiural interests . It was on those grounds-it wa 3 op tl'o 5 xX ^~ v-r ^ S i mi J ertook t <> Propose to them the health of ' tlie pt ^ l ^ rk n ^ x hadmany a timc l ) een tIr « "t in l leston . " ( Roars ot laughter ^

      u French Antilles . —We read in the " Mouiteur "~ The department of the Marine and Colonies has received tincomparative returns of the productions Of Martinique and Guadaloup e during the first half year of 1852 . The rUlt is that most probably during the present year the exports 5 colonial produce will ba more considerable than in 1351 , which year , it may be remembered , showed an augmentation in th <> crops as compared with 1849 and 1850 . In order to enable o * more correct estimate to be formed of this gradual return of tho colonial produce to its old proportions , we give the quantify of sugar imported into France from the two colonies since ly-18 fe P !! ° i ? * P emancipation of the blacks-Marthuauc in 1 Q 1 Q id 7 oi i ' * " "' uhhiuiu in 164 b

      onn m , iy , 7 ol , p 92 kilogrammes ; m lS'i-9 , 18 391 GOO- riV >^ W ^ ? 1851 ' ^ ' ^ iBsa ifi ^ h ^^ lo , 829 , 63 o . Supposing the second half year to be in proportion wicli the lirst , an augmentation would appear at the cud of thyearot 11 millions of kilogrammes over tlie Droduco of Wi which was of itself more than 5 , 000 , 000 of \ uh ^^ greater tnan the average of exportation during the s 'Javdi ' nothree years . But it is well known that the crops rid th ? exports of sugar during the last six months of the venr iro generally mlerior to those of the first six months :-Guada ' o ' riVfiF ^ 1081811111108 1 iu 1849 ' ^ . ^ l . TOO ; in 1 ^ InlH ^ ^ 1 « 51 , 16 , 922 , 630 ; in 1852 ^ irst half v ^ V 13 , Pq 8 , 4 o 8 . Although mtenov to that which has baeii pro ' ducedat Martinique , the augmentation shown for Gu « , d ?! ou « o m the exportation of the first half-year is not the less vc-V remarkable . " J

      A Mestix \ g was held at Bradford on Tuesday evening to form an association for the repeal of the taxes on knowled « v A provisional committee was appointed , with power to ad' 5 o their number . Death op Mk . PuaiN .-Mr . Pugin , whose name is apsociatcd with the returning taste for gotliio architecture , died on Tros day evening , at his residence , West Cliff , Eamsgate , after - W hours' illness .

      feGARCiTY of Silver . —A great scarcity of silver continues to be telfc m most parts of the country , and , in conscoueu"o of tho sums taken by emigrants , the demands on tho part of mno " ot tho banks m the north have been larger than could bo met bv the supplies from the Mint . '

      The Fishing- TuEATir .-The inhabitants of Halifax , V ov % Scotia , have addressed a petition to ilia home qovenvmevt praying that no concesion of the right of fish-ing on the L ' ritfcll American Coast be made to the citizens of the United States . " Afwsci-ikg Death . —A cliain-oablc maker , aged forty nine years , died m the infirmary of the Work-house , St . Pancns h ^ week , of disease of the brain . The deceased had come iV- ' . m tC country to take leave of a friend who was about to e ^ i-v- ^ . ' the parting had a great effect on him , ancl on his rc ^ ii ^ 7 } , o station of great Western Railway to return home , a lun-oWi seized him ; the police took him to a place of safety v / lrnee 7 v ' was removed to the infirmary . ' ' '

      Orator Johannes Drabicius , in his hook " Do C-x ^ o e + C « ' -H Statue , " printed at Mentz , 1748 , employs 425 pa ^ Vto rr'M-tV . V the employjneutrfthefet in ' heaW will bit ^ eo ^ i "t ringing ot bells ! The Militia -Only one volunteer for tho im ! i * - l rs -n peaxed at Bristol ; at Southampton there were tw '?" Fouirni Parachctr Descest op Madasik roiTEVJs .-On Unirsdfiy evening Madame Poitevin a ^ ., .-e , ll ( le , { lVo ] 1 , Crc morac m a parachute , and ettljctcd aBiitJa ^ stul descent hchv IV andsy / orth Common , returning to the wMcnn within an hour of ncr senal departute .

      Extortioxate I ^ orkion Postagk . —Letters carriad at Id . jiay about £ b 0 per ton . For half-oriiicc letter to Itai ! . costing 2 « , Jd . ^ tnc rate of carriage is about £ 9 . 900 a ton . Letters sent to liicua turo ttgn France , charged 2 s . yd . are done at the enormous rate of charge , as a letter by ateamer from Cmiir ; , weichin" ctmotiou over tho oimce . is chavged horo gs . Bu ,, a « d ^ u ' ^ i gpain the |* n } e mv , ni ^ in | : IK , or at tjvj xm ^ 8 u , ^< iO ^ ton ' ¦ " ' ¦ . " '' . ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ i • •

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      Septbmbbe 18 , 1852 . mTTT , Ll —1 ^ ________ THE ^ STAB OF FREEDOM . 87 ~~ ^ == r . . — - — -

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1696/page/7/