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Fiiii Accedett ssas Lsicesikr . — "An ioqxury into the circnmstances attending- the death of Edirard Jowett , theunfortnnate man killedon-ttierafliraT near this place on Thursday -night , tookplace on Friday , at ax o ' clock . Prom the evidence ofthe two principal "witnesses , the drirer and stoker of a coal train , "which left Leicester for Sngby , ^ bont seven o ' clock on Thursday night , It appeared that tie deceased acted as breaksman to the same train , and accompanied them on that occasion . After passing ifowieh the Kous&ton-hill Tunnel , yfhlcb . IS little 3 &j > re than & mile iram Leicester , one of the coupling chains connectingthe coal trucks broke , and the train was stopped to remedy the accident . This having
been done , the eB 2 nie was again set in motion , but ©¦ wing to ihe nnmid state of the atmosphere , and conjeqaent Blipperiness of the Tails , the-wheels did-not "bite , " and the deceased sot down off the truck on jrlieh he -was riding , and taking a small spade or Shovel "with hjm , crossed the line for the purpose of obtaining a little sand to throw upon the rails . TFMIe in the act of doing this the second goods train from London came along the down line at a rapid pace , but , from the fog -which prevailed at the the tone , it "was nor observed bv the driver of the coal train until "within a few yards' distance . When the train had swept past , the driver called om to deceased , and . obtaining no answer , eomiaeiieed a search for him . In a Terr few moments 111- was di > -
Eoyerea m a ^ ei ^ eles-i hj the road sidr , with a jHrliifnl tromid oxer the right temple , from which ihe trains prnirnded . and other contusion ;* a )* jnl the face . He "wa ^ immediately placed jm one of the trucks and conveyed tuit-k to Leicester , where he lingered imtil ten o ' clock , and then exj . ired . In the absence ofallpositrve knowledge , it is coniectured that , in consequence of the noise from the engine of the 4 » a 2 train , the deceased was altogether unaware of the approach of the down train , the conuct-ting bar between the -wheels of the locomotrve attached to ¦ which appears xo have struck his head , and inflieT-ed &s -wound aboTe described . After hearing evidence fa > ilusegSec-i , The jury expressed themselves satisfied , SudTeturned a verdict ^) t" Accidental death . "
AaoxHXB K > Tr-WAT Accikext . —Another accident eecarred on Thursday betwrri Leicester and Rugby . Two statements haTe reached us , but the one most generally credited is , that a luggage-train could not get along , in consequence of the slippery state of the ia 2 s ; tfiat fhe gnsrd or stoker got off to scatter sand Bpon the Tails , and that another train overtook them , lot was not observed in consequence of the dense fog , and the poor fellow's brains -srere dashed out . These events nave caused great excitement . * The Fatai Acctdkst os * the Great Wzstehx "BjarwAT . —On Thursday morning , a dreadful and fatal aoddent took place on the line of the Great Western railway , near the station at West Drayton , Middlesex , bv -which two men , named Samuel Brooks
and Willxg-m TnckweD , bare lost their lives . It appears from inquiries made on the spot , that about half-past eight o ' clock six men , including the two menkllled , "Vere engaged in repairing that portion ef the railway -westward of the West Drayton station , Dearly on the confines p f Buckinghamshire , "when the Bound of an approaching up-train -was heard "in the distance . Four of the men immediately got off the line altogether ; but the two men , Brooks and Tuck-¦ well , instead of following their example , nioved onlv . from tifi up Yin * io the down line . At the time there yrae a Tery thick and xiense fog prevailing , so that objects could not be seen beyond a very short distance , in ' coBseqBenee of which the men were not aware of the approach also of the down train , which leaves the Paddington terminus at eight o ' clock , until it "was so daie to fhpm that all chance of escape was hopeless ,
and they were instantly knocked down and passed OTer by the train . The persons having charge of the feain were not aware of the accident until their anival at the Slongh station , when some of the raDiray officers observing blood on the tender of the engine , communicated the fact to the guard , when persons were immediatelv sent along the line to ascertain the cause , -who TOund the bodies of the two deceased lying in a MghtfuQ y mutilated state QD the &nra " ] ine between xue Slough and West Drayton stations . Both bodies "were promptly removed to a sht-d at the West Drayton station . It is stated that the bodies presented a most frightful spectacle , and that ihe -rstch of one of ihe unfortunate sufferers -was iriren into Ms body . An inquest on the bodies "was held on Saturday last , when a verdict "was returned - of " Accidental 5 eai £ . "
AxOXHES TiXlL AcCIDEXT OS THE XTinnvn CoiTXma RiiLWit . —Another accident , fatal in its results to one individual , on this line of railway , occurred on Wednesday morning . The deceased , named Joseph Woodford , amarriedman without family , was a guard in the employ of the Midland Gounties ' Railway Company , and left Rugby on Wednesday morning in charge of tne seven o ' clock train . On arriving at the Syston station , some luggage was handed up to him on the top of the carriage upon which he was seated , that ie znigiit arrange it in the usual manner . He gave £ be signal to the driver to start the train , while he ¦ was so engaged , and Mr . Withers , the superintendent , landed Mm a note , and the train moved off . The
deceased being still in an erect position on the top of the carriage , was observed for some distance down the line , and was only missed on the arr ival of the train at Sibby . by the superintendent of that station , « id on a search feng made he was discovered on the top of one of the carriages with his brains dashed out and quite dead . There h > but one bridge between System and Sllebv- It is situated about midway , and tfiere ean be no d * oubt that the aeeideni occurred by the deceased ' s head , -while he was still enga ? ed on the roof oi the carriage , cominc in contact with the bridge . ^ Near the centre of the arch some fur from the deceased ' s cap has been discovered , reducing the mode of his death to a eertaintv .
Accn > : E 5 T os tse Gheeswich Railwai . —On Sunday night , about eigbt o ' eloek , on tlie arrival of the TO-train from Greenwich , an accident oetnrred to au elder ^ r woman , named Ellen Donagboe , aged 69 , the ¦ wife of a Greenwich pensioner , which ii likely to prove iatal to her . Previous to the train arriving at the regular platform , a man in the same carriage with her opened the door and jumped out . She , beheving that the train was at it 3 destination , followed Mm , when she fell between the carriage and the stone platform . In falling she broke her right thigh , by coming in contact with the steps of the carriage .
Baxlttat Accidxxt at SrxDEBLAXD . —On Saturday last a little boy named George Crowther , of Ilendonterrace , near Sanderland , was killed on the Durham and Sunderiand Railway , by being run over by two waggons a 3 they were passing on the line near Hendon . It appears the little fellow was attempting to get on to one of the waggons , when he fell down , and both va | sons passed over him , breaking his legs , and in-} nnng Mm severely in other parte of his body . He died shortly after from exhaustion , his remains presenting a shocking spectacle . It is rather remarkable flat about a year and a baTf ago he escaped miraculously from being killed on the same spot by a train Oi / waggons , at which time he was knocked down and imheadlaid open , and the greater part of his face Bmch mutilated . On another occasion he narrowhr escaped drowning , and wasrescned from under a ship ' s bottom when all hope of hb recovery was given up .
BtBT . —Scions . —An inquest was held at the Buck 3 nn , Holcome , on the body of Richard Dearden , fariner , aged 47 years , who ' cut his throat on the loth instant . It appeared he had been in-a low state of mindfor several weeks . He died on Sunday la * . The jury returned a verdict of " Committed suicide TfnBst in a fit of temporary insanity . " SiocsPOBi . —B 2 ur . 11 . Ma ^ lacghter . —On Tuesday afternoon , at five o ' clock , an inquest was held at file coroner ' s offiee , Vernon-street , before Mr . Hud - ion , on the body of Eliza Jones , aged between -30 and 40 , whose husband , Henry Jones , is a bricklayer . It appeared , from the evidence of John Hadfield , that the husband had been drinking all dav at a beer-shop
and that the deceased came to him about mid-day Cndeavonring to get b ? m home . The woman was tht in , and begged him ( Hadfield ) to get her llU > - oaad io go home . The prisoner came to the deceased , and Hadfield saw him strike her in the breast . She sied out , " Don ' t strike me , my love 1 " and prayed * everal times , "Lord , save me ! Lord , help me !" He said , " Are you going home ? do you think I am £ omg to have you following me up and down the towiTr' She said , " I can't go home , my love , " and ie again hit her in the side . She ehangwl her place fc fee front of a table ; and , after she had prayed toee or twice more , he got hold of her flcad and Jjowed r > [ bear ] it violentlv against the window
bot-Hnn . Tie master came and separated them , and wld the prisoner to go out of the house . The deceased could not walk , but went and sat down on some < teps opposite . Prisoner got hold of her arm : itesaid , - Come , Eliza , will you go ? " She said , " 1 can ' t , lore . " He heaved her up , and went off in the < nreerion of the town . Jane Langton deposed to ^ eng the prisoner strike the deceased , and kick her ^ Efer the chin , after leaving the beer-shop . Ann L ^ ris deposed that she saw the prisoner drairsinjr the ««* aseu along the street She sat down on " ± he " edge « the nag . He asked her to get up . She did not do so ; and he took his foot , and be took a " run-lxtr ?« s « [ a running kick ! and kicked her with his "foot
21 the belly , very heavily . He ran back about two ?? rds to do it . She fell back insensible by the force ™ tie kick , and 1 asked > iVm how be could ' for shame , fle said , if I meddled -with his "wife and him , he * oold serve me the same , i did not speak n »» . bat -j-ie 3 j > ed her bome . She never spoke after the kick , jo-cor tW prisoner bad kicked the deceased . ] y ^ gired her as far as the King ' Arms , liavrrc ; hi * ^ asds round Ler waist . He left her on the tia « s pl » o « ite the pnblic-bonse . He vrent off , > i : iirim ^ JJ ^ tr < 5 own tlie street . She was dead before we imt W ^ 0 ? eV T ^ e P ^ OQPr declined saying a ? iy thin ^ r . J ? - ^ . "wnnfsses to jrrore the previous irnli ^ n-^ ja 01 ij ^ \ 7 jf The iui-v at once returued a ^ er-«« « manslausliwr . " *
^ 3 ^^ eseepeb 5 > jot . —Saturday night k > r . llr . ^« s ^ uiestej ^ r to J . S . Lescher , Esq .. of Souih ij ^ -t ^ -5 , was iv < mn < 2 ed by a gunshot , in nn at-/ j ^; l ^ Pl « Lend a poacher , who escaped . Mr . vz ? e > i iie ; m a dang ^ -ro-os state . *^^ ii ^ j- _ i , ja "" - ¦ . - " ' -Li . " . _! " ' - "
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Mixbdxb Ai Pabis bt ScKFOCAnos . —The Court of Assizes of the Seine was occupied on Saturday with the trial of Etienne Chevreuil . aged 24 ,. a journeyman shoemaker , for having , on the 12 th of July last , murdered a woman named Celina Bronn , aged 33 , by pkcing over her face a pitch plaster . The singularity « f the means used in the committal of this crime , and the fact of the prisoner ' s having immediately afterwards gone and deliverad himself into custody , contributed to lend a certain interest to this case . It appeared from the act of accusation that the prisoner had , on tue evening of the murder , come to the guard-house of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers , and declared that lie had just killed a woman who lived with him as his -wife . He had met with the
deceased , he said , in the street , a month before , and proposed to her to go home and pass the night with him . She consented , and remained with him at his -request for some days . He then wished to get rid of her , but she positively refused to quit the place . Having scarcely any money to pay his rent and other expenses , and being besides in debt , they had agreed to die together ~ br means of charcoal . They got some brandy on credit , and drank it to eive them courage , and , having stopped the key-hole and windows carefully , placed the charcoal near the bed , ready to be lit when they pleased . The brandy rapidlv took -efft-et on tin- ? en ^ t- ^ of the deceased , and she was
obliged t <> iie dtra-n on the bed . Finding that she lay quirt , the idea occurred to him u > mrit aume shcH .--m .-vkers' wax , and spreading it on a piece of ra ; to plate it over her lace . He did this and after holding it on tin- woman ' s features for a short tiaie , found that * he was dead . He then thought , he said , of luriitinj : the charcoal , but his couragel ' ailed , and he determined to give himself up to justice . The Hjldiers at the euard-house at first imagined that the prisoner intended some hoax , but on some of them proceeding to his lodging in the Rue Aumains they found the woman Bronn lying dead , with the pitchmask on ber face . On the trial a number of
circumstances came out which very materially impugned the veracity of the prisoner ' s statement relative to " his intention to die with the deceased . It appeared that the prisoner was always of a morose , taciturn dispostion , given up to the most degrading habits of dissipation , dissatisfied with his wages as a journeyman shoemaker ( 50 sous a day ) , and still wanting energy to better his condition . In appearance he bore all the marks of an nl-Teculated life , being sallow , thin , and undererown . He was fond of reading , but the books which he generally perused were of a lascivious character . He was also said to be fond of poetry , and to have written some verses himself , but this fact only rests on his own assertion . The deceased was also said to have occasionallv produced
some short pieces in verse . The quantity of wax used for the plaster was so much more considerable than a journeyman generally had by him , that inquiries were made on this point , from whicn it appeared that the prisoner had the evening preceding the murder gone out and purchased two sous * worth . This quantity , and even more , had been all used , which would seem to "imply that the prisoner had previously formed the idea of murdering the woman . It was proved , too , that when he came to the guard-house lie was perfectlv sober , whereas , by his own acknowledgment , he had 2 iven the deceased so considerable a quantity of Brandy as to intoxicate her . This was more easy for him to do , as the deceased was known to be fond of
spirituous liquors , and had been repeatedly seen in a state of intoxication during the time she was living with GhevreuiL The question of the prisoner ' s mental intelligence was raised by his counsel . A person named Oreillard , one of his ' most intimate acquaintances , swore that he was weak in intellect , and the person for whom ^ e worked seemed inclined to the same opinion : but , on the other hand , there was brought forward a written account of the crime , and of the circumstances which , led to it , drawn up by the prisoner at the guard-house on the night he delivered himself into custody . This paper , which is curious from the minuteness of its details , shows no want of inteBhrenee . It is filled with faults of orthographv , but is not devoid of occasional force
of expression . After a great number of witnesses had l > een examined , . ! .- . \ : hoiate-&eneral addressed the Court at great length in support of the accusation , declaring that uo proof existed that anv agreement had been made between the deceased and the prisoner to die together ; but that , on tne contrarr , every thing led to the belief that the prisoner bad first intoxicated the deceased , and then murdered her . according to a plan which he had previously determined on . The prisoner ' s counsel having replied , the jury retired fur half an hour , and thenreturned a verdict of " Guilty of murder . " The Court passed sentence of death on the prisoner , who did not manifest the slightest concern , and walked away in custody with a firm step .
Asotheb Female Dbow xed . —On Monday morning last , the body of an elderlv woman , the wife of James Hall , a resident in Lord-street , Oldliam , was found drowned in a lodge of -water in the Intack Field . The unfortunate woman , -who was about sixty vears of age , had been quarrelling on Saturdav night last with a daughter of hers , who bears a bad character . After this circumstance she disappeared . She was searched for in vain on Sunday , ana was not discovered till Monday morning . The deceased was a bread-baker , and a most industrious woman .
Melaxcholt a > d Fatal Accipext . —About seven o ' clock on Tuesday morning a moat frightful aitident occurred at the mills of the Messrs . Martin , adjoining KjUileasli . While a man of the name of Joh . 11 Crosbey was attending the fires , by some inadvertence his clothes were caught by one of the belts , which carried him round the drum attached to the engine . When he was taken out life -vva ? rxtinrt . lie wa . » dreadfully mangled . The poor man has left a wife and seven children . Lite t- ^ deh Extraokdixarv Afflictions . — Mr . Higgs held an inquest on Monday , at the workhouse . Poland-street , on the body of Richard lleddinf , aged twenty-tTro , an inmate , who for the last nineteen
years laboured under vclaitvt ( lock jaw } . Charlotte Clarke said that on Friday the deceased , while talking to a female in what is termed the quarantine ward , suddenly fell down in a fit , and died in a few minutes . Mr . French , the parish surgeon , said he arrived when the deceased was at the point of death , and witness thought he died from the bursting ot some large blood-vessel . In his infancy deceased had some disease of the jaw , which caused the union oi the two jaw boneh , and in consequence of this the only way to satisfy him with food was through an aperture made by extracting two of his teeth . This had the effect of weakening his constitution , and he was almost always in ill health . Verdict , " Died br the visitation of God . "
Slvgcxab Case . —Monday afternoon Mr . Wakley held an adjourned inquest at the Pembroke Arms Tavern , Pembroke-square , Kensington , on the body of Mary Garfield . It appeared , on the opening of the inquiry on Friday last , that the deceased had been living for the last twelve months as cook in the service of Mr . Collett , a gentleman holding an official situation in the House of Commons , and residing at lio . 28 , Pembroke-square . During the whole time of ber living there s > he was never known to go to bed , but she would sleep sitting in a chair in the kitchen , and her manners were in all respects most eccentric , the other servants scarcelv speaking to her , on account of her crossness and snappish manner of
answering tlieia . On the night of Wednesday last , about half-past eleven o ' clock , Rose Jackson , the nursemaid , after having supped with deceased , who during the evening appeared in her usual good state of health and spirits , took the candle off the table to go up to bed , when the deceased called her back , and a ~ ied her to leave the candle . She did so , and on coming down again into the kitchen the next morning , about seven o ' clock , she found the deceased in the kitchen , dressed as she had left her on the previous night , lying on the i \ oor , and quite insensible . The inquiry was then adjourned for a pon mortem examination of the body to be made . This was done , and . in accordance with the medical testimony , the Jirrv returned a verdict of " Natural death "
UrnsopnoBiA . —During the last five or six days the greatest alarm and excitement has existed throughout the neighbourhood of Turnham-green and Chiswiek , in consequence of a mad dog having bitten several persons and animals . It appears that on Wednesday week , the 2 M . h inst ,, a small Scotch terrier dog , the property of Mr . George Battersbee , the "landlord of the Prince of Wales public-house , Turnham-green , which was IS months old , and had been in Ms possession from a puppy , was observed to be in a verv strange and excited state . Nothing was , however , thought of it , and the dog was allowed to range about during the day , and it has since been ascertained that he bas bitten several dogs at Chiswick , Hflmmersmith , and Brentford , and also a donkev .
belonging to a water carrier , named Clark , at Chiswick . About 12 o ' ulock on that day ( Wednesday ) tbe dog followed home from his master ' s house a young man named Fowler , in the employ of Mr . Dean , a market-gardener at Strand-on-the-Green , who resides nearly opposite the Prince of Wales , and there flew at him , ana bit him severely on the thumb of the right hand . Fowler shortlv afterwards complained to Mr . Battersbee of the dog having bitten him , and laid his thumb open , "but nothing " serious was thought of it at the time . About an hour after , however , a little boy , between four and five years of age , the son of Mr . King , a tailor , living two dooi > from the Prince of Wales , was bitten in both legs by the dog , and snbseqHentlv , on the same afternoon . Mr . G . Bancrsbec hrmsel / , wiiile sitting in the
bar . was bitien by the animal m the middle finger i > r ihe riirhi band : a woman named Drown , a dealer in ush , living tit Chi-vrirk . -while passing ti »> house , was bitten ill the leg : Mr . V . Battersbee ( brother of the landlord 1 . in the right thumb ; a man named Stowell , in ihe employ of Mr . J . Cloud , liveryman , and Mr . Battersbfv . sen ., in the thick pan of the thirrh . Still no suspicion was entertained that the dot ; - * a . « in a rabid state until tlu-evening of tin- smif day-, * vhen the < i << -j was se .-n to bhe the door-po > t ? i : and it KT-onunr known that several fn-isonj :-. « wi'l ! as animals ha « I been bitten by him . Sir . BatlrrsUv dim-ted that the dog should be tied up in the stable . ¦ niii-Ij-was i !' _ . m \ Frum that tiniv * until Sunday last tlit" doij n-iiiSt- 'J « -ifljf-r uhhI or tlrink . hat i ' oai «< t ! ill the mouth . . fii : l esawed tbo straw on wliich he was
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placed , and even the bricks underneath ; and on Sunday he was destroyed . All the persons known to have been bitten have been placed under medical treatment , and have had the parts cauterized without any unfavourable symptoms having appeared . Numerous dogs in the neighbourhood , supposed to have been bitten , have been destroyed . Mr . Battersbee has also destroyed his cats , it being impossible to say to what extent the virus has been communicated . The young man Fowler , owing to inflammation extending up his arm , lias since become a patient at St . George ' s Hospital .
Lo . ydo . v . —Great Robbest at a Ba . vki . vg IIocse . —Great excitement prevailed in the Citv oil Monday , upon the fact being made known that a robbery had taken place , during the course of the previous day , in the house of Messrs . Rogers , Oldingt and Co ., St . Clement ' s-lane , and that propertv to tht amount of upwards of £ 40 , 000 had l > een stolen . 1 appears that the money "was deposited in the iron safe , and , as usual , a clerk was appointed to watcn over its safety during the day , and another to perform the like duty during the night . One of the partners remaining at home on Sundav , the dav clerk
asked permission to go out for a few hours , which was granted . At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk <* unie , and remained during tin " night ; but when business was resumed on- Monday , and the iron sai ' o opened with the ordinary key , ii was found entirely empty ; and yet no force w ' lmtm-r had l > een used in the employment of the means adopted to rid the elicit of its valuable contents . Ot course , all is conjecture upon the subject . Notes to the amount of £ 10 , 710 have been stopped at the Bank ; and Forrester , the active City police officer , is _ engaged in endeavouring to trace tin- party guilty of this daring crime .
r ubtreh Pakticulaks . — This enormous robbery continues the subject of general conversation in the city ; but , as was the case on Monday , it Ls deemed a matter of prudence to conceal certain particulars , the publication of which would probably militate against the apprehension of tlie offenders . " It has been a work of some excitement , under existing circumstances , for the clerks of Messrs . Rogers and Co . to make up the heavy list of missing notes ; but on Tuesday morning the whole were completed , and placarded , extensively throughout the metropolis . The house of Rogers and Co . is situated in Clement ' s-
lane , rather a quiet thoroughfare , and , on Sundays especially , comparatively deserted , the houses being chiefly let out as offices , and occupied in other than business hours merely by the male or female keepers . This would so far afford facilities for the unobserved approach of the thieves , a court running also within two doors of the bank . The house of Rogers and Co . has always been considered one of decided property , though doing a very private business ; and the head of the firm , now advanced in age , is well known an the author of the Pleasures of Memory . Business appears to be proceeding in the establishment in the usual quiet wav .
The late Robbeky at Messrs . Rogers . —London , Wednesday Night . —Not the slightest clue has yet been obtained to the perpetrators of this extraordinary robbery . All idea as now abandoned of the thieves having started for the continent . Mr . Hobler , who has been employed by the firm , started immediately the robbery was discovered , for the continent , from which place he , returned last night , and it is believed from the information he there obtained that the guilty parties had not started for France ; and this assurance Ls further confirmed by the fact that Daniel Forrester is in town . The supposition now entertained is , that the produce of the robbery is secreted , and that the notes will not be put in
circulation for the present . A , full account , connected with the numbers of the stolen notes , has been sent to all the great cities on the continent , which , perhaps , will have the effect of preventing any ot them being passed ; but whether they might not be negotiated amongst ^ the South American States is worthy of fconsideration . One of the superior officers of the City police received a letter in the course of yesterday , informing him that the whole of the property which was stolen from Messrs . Rogers' bankinghouse was deposited in a house in the neighbourhood of Walworth ; and off two of the force were sent in a cab to act upon the premises , although the information bad all the appearance of a hoax in the eves of experienced
men . The latter was : uionynious , and written in a ¦ wretched manner ; but so ready are people to grasp at any hope in a des {> erate case , ' that it was speedily reported amongst the police that all the money would be , by six or seven o ' clock , certainly in the custody of the City commissioner or the Lord Mavor . The cabman was the only one who gained by tlie report , for the poor man who owned the house , upon being shewn the warrant , expressed the greatest surprise and indignation at the calumny , and invited the most scrupulous investigation . The expectation of tbe police of course proved delusive . The person who Tvas subjected to this annoyance declares that he b not aware how he could have provoked the animosity of any living being to so unkind an act . The
missing notes and gold alone amount to 4 t" ) , 000 / ., and there is besides , it is stated , a large amount in bills of exchange . The mode in which the robbery was effected is pretty well ascertained ; and : \ s the locks of bankers * safes are generally on the patent principle , the probability b that the keys had on some occasion !> eei > mislaid , and that advantage was taken of that circumstance to prepare for the robbery . There arc one or two point * thatiuay be stated with certainty , from what has transpired . First , that a successful m- was planned to get possession of the keys of tlie strong chest ; secondly , that the party delinquent has on a former occasion not stood A 1—and , thirdly ,
that there is a clue tv the retreat of the delinquent . There was something like a run upon the bank on Monday ; but on Tuesday business resumed its ordinary current . It is not at all improbable that within eight and forty hours the principal delinquent will be in the hands of one of the Forresters . The amount of sovereigns taken is not by any means so large as stated in many quarters . A very strong man must he be who can conveniently walk away , and without attracting observation , with 3 , 000 or 4 , 000 sovereigns . The transaction—the possession of the keys , the opening of the strong room , and the principal party being fairly on "the road "—occupied less than three quarters of an hour .
Extensive Iiocsebreaking and Robbery at Glasgow . —Friday momingj about one o ' clock , a robbery of a very daring and extensive character was pcrpatrated in the drapery warehouse of Mr . V illiam Patrick , Clyde-terrace , Gorbals . The thieves , it appears , effected an entrance by forcibl y breaking Open the back windows , and succeeded in carrying off three hundred bolts of silk ribbons , a quantity of silk handherchiefs , sewed muslin collars , and stockings , along with £ 9 in single notes , and £ 16 in silver and copper . The proprietor of the warehouse , who resides above the premises , fortunatelv heard
the noise caused by the depredators , and immediately proceeded to inspect his shop , just as one of the thieves ¦ was climbing over an adjoining wall . Of course , an alarm was soon given , and in a short time afterwards , Mr . Brown , the efficient officer of the Gorbals criminal department , succeeded in capturing six of the thieves—three men and three women—along with a considerable portion of the stolen goods , in a house in Clyde-terrace . About seven o ' clock tbe same morning , a woman belonging to the party was also apprehended at the Edinburgh Railway Station , with a large quantity of the stolen ribbons in her possession .
Dkeadfi'i . Cbueltt . —The public mind has , since Tuesday last , been much excited by the report of a case of almost unheard-of cruelty practised by the master of a Danish vessel , misnamed Phristian Christensen , towards a boy named Wilhelm Ferdinand Flinlier , aged seventeen' who belonged to the crew of the brig Daisy , of Gottenburgh . The poor boy , who was on his first vovage , appears to have been subjected to the combined ill-treatment of starvation , confinement , and blows . The crew of the BfllOOner Prince , Captain Sohier , Bristol trader , having witnessed the barbarity practised towards this poor boy —having seen him not only repeatedly thrashed bv the ruffian Christensen , but also by the mate , and " , moreover , confined in a ' cask with netting over the
top , and also kept four days without food , stated the circumstance to Mr . P . Le Conteur , who had the lad taken ashore , reported the case to the constables , and observing that the responsibility of the boy ' s life was now in their bands , left them to bring the matter before the court . Well , i ; he constables had the poor lad ' s case in hand—they had Mm under their protection ; they brought him , it appears , as far as the court-hous (?—and what did they do i They sent him on board again ! What was the consequence ? A renewal of iS-treatment in an aggravated form . The monster Christensen , on Saturday night , had the poor boy's hands and feet made fast , so that he could not use these limbs ; and , this being done , he had him fastened tight across the groin to the winch at
tbe foot of the mast , exposed to the cold and rain , where some of the pilots seeing him on Sunday morning , went to one of the assistant-constables , Mr . Payne , who , finding the boy unable to stand through ilJ-tivatnient and want of food , had him conveyed to The hospital , where he now lies in the greatest danger , the doctors scarcely , entertaining a hope of his recovery . The brute of a master was put into gaol on Monday evening , and the court on Tuesday took the boy ' s deposition , in presence of the master , who now await * the issue in gaol . Of course , should tlie 1 k > V die , he iwU be tried for n capiT . nl OffriHT , but a share of the responsibility must fall on ihosi" mciulicrs of tlie police who were- aware of tln > boy's shunt inn and did not iniinediatelv rescue him from it .
—Gittrnjh ; S tar . Affecting Eve . vt . —We have revived ijitellijrenc-e of the alrn « . « t sudden demise of Mr . William Hetlu-rintrton . a iinc promising vount : ^ eiiii' -mun of eighteen years ° f : * - . son of the late W . Jicdicriijiiton . E ? q ., of Birkenhi-ail . and recently appointed u r-eeond lieutenant in theiflit-h Rifles . Last summit hi' had been i-Tigaged in a rowing jnatcli ; find , from xW t'xevlUni at the oar , hishanilslH'i-winiE . 2 Mistered , be hicautimisiy . whilst in a state of perspiration , dimu-1 them into the tx > 3 d water . Eruption and ' ^ atJr'l'iii'i ensued , causing much pair , aud annoyance , and tlsii coutinu-
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fng for a considerable time , he went to London , and , it is apprehended , took unskilful advice , by which , though he appeared to be eured , the disease was probably thrown into the system by the too rapid drying up ot the sores . He returned home to his family apparently quite recovered , and , after remaining a short tune , resolved to return to the military college at Brussels , where he had before studied , to make the Dost use oi _ his time in professional acquirements , un nis arrival there he was congratulated by his tormer companions , to whom he was much endeared ; but , alas . oh Wednesday week , when he sat down to dinner with them , he suddenly remarked that he felt extraordinary sensations , and could eat nothing . Being observed to be ill , and afterwards to faint , He was immediately carried to bed , and received every possible attention ; but , to the grief-of all around him , he expired early the following morning
Post-Office Robberies . —Sir , —The Postmaster-General I perceive , has re-issued a notice on the subject of " missing newspaper , " wherein be states the law against either the "Stealing , embezzling , secreting or destroying the said newspapers , " and the punishment " on conviction . " It is on the twe last words , " on conviction , " tbat 1 take tho liberty oi . saying a few words , and layintr before the public * ia « t which shall speak for itself .-ami show , bv the " . screemng' \ sy . stC'm , | mw unlikely the public are to ret redress , a poor jrirl , my gamekeeper ' s daughter , got a place at Lit-htu-kl ; at the end of the tirM ; quarter sin * enclosed two sovereign- in ;¦ letter , put two . seals on it , took it to the I ' ost-ofticc in Uehiield , » nd . as tfooil luck would have it . the sune moment
she arrived at the office window to pay the postage , one oi tlie most respectable inhabitants of the city saw her pay the postage ( twopence ) . The letter was directed to her father , beting him . to nay the bill his poor daughter had contracted -for a small outfit for her place , Now mind , sir , Liohfield is only iO nules from Wolseley-bridgc , the residence of her father , and there is no stoppage between the Post-office of : Lichfield and that of Wolseley-bridge . The poor girl not receiving any answer from her father , she wrote to him ; ho brought the letter to me . I wont down to , our Post-office , and there proved beyond a doubt , that on the day the letter ought to have come to hand , the post-bag being oi > ened in the
presence Of a third indifferent person , there was no letter of any sort in the bag ! I then told the father to go off to Lichfield . He did . lie got no-redress ; and I wrote to the General Post-office Inspector living in North Wales , who came up , and what he called " investigated " iiL I saw 'him myaelf , and had a long talk with him , and I demanded the letter —( I said nothing about its contents )—the letter with two seals on it , post-paid , 2 d . ; and I told him it never arrived at the Wolseley Post-office , bj proof positive , as above , and therefore the postmaster of Lichfield must produce the lettei' ill question , put in in the presence of a respectable witness . Now , sliv what was the result ? Nothing ' . —I am , sir , your obedient servant , C . Wolsbley .
Home ¦ Cjjbcuit . —Maidstone , Wednesday , Nov . 27 . — -The commission of gaol delivery for the county of Kent was opened on Tuesday last by Mr . Justice Williams , and this morning the business of the assizes commenced . There are forty-two prisoners for trial , seven of whom arc charged with murder . There nre also several other serious offences . The Case of Richard Dadd , . tub Pabricidf ,. — Mr . Bodkin made an application to the Court in reference to the above prisoner , who , it will be remembered , after having murdered his father , made his way to France ^ and was eventuallv brought back to
this country and committed for trial . The learned Counsel , after having briefly alluded to the circumstances of the case , said there was no doubt that the unhappy young man was insane , and he had been removed by order of the Secretary of State to a criminal lunatic asylum , where he now remained . As the trial , therefore , could not come on , iie would apply to the Court to discharge the recognisances of the witnesses who had been bound over , ' and to order that the money and other valuables taken t ' vom the person of the deceased gentleman at the time of the discovery of the murder might be delivered to his fricnd . s . —The f ^ niirt . mji / lo Hi <» . mvlr » r
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SATURDAY'S NEWS . — . ^» . Mansion-Hoise . —Examination of William Blroess , the Bank Clkuk . —The Lord Mayor sat at ten o ' clock . After a number of tho ordinary charges had been disposed of , William Burgess , the Bank clerk , who had been brought back from America by John Forrester ; , on the charge of forging a transfer of . ££ , 000 Three per Cent . Consols , and absconding with the proceeds of the same , was brought in and placed at the bar . The prisoner is a well-dressed and respectable - looking man , of about six-andtwenty ; and although of a healthful and ruddy complexion , appeared to be suffering severely from trepidation and anxiety of mind . He walked lame , and stooped forward as if from weakness , and at first leant upon the front of the bar ; but he
was immediately afterwards accommodated with a chair . Mr . Freshfivld , the solicitor to the Bank of England , then proceeded to state that the officer , John Forrester , luid just arrived in town with the p risoner at tlie bar , whom he apprehended at Boston , in America , under a warrant granted by Sir William Magnay , on the charge of uttering a forged transfer of £ 8 , 01 >(» Three per Cent . Consolidated Annuities , belonging to a gentleman named William Uxenford . The prisoner had arrived in town only this morning , and he ( Mr . Freshfield ) thought , under these circumstances , that his lordship would probably think it proper to remand him to a future day . But if the prisoner wished it , he was readv to proceed with the case , and thought
lie could probably conclude it at once . —John Forrester : " He wishes to be remanded , my lord . "—Mr . W . Oxenford stated that he resided at John-street , Bedford-row , and was an official agent in the Long-room at the Customj-house . He had £ 8 , 000 Three per Cent . Consols in the Bank of England . On looking at the transfer-book now produced , he covtld distinctly state that he had never executed any transfer of that stock . Neither of the signatures pointed out were his . Mr . Thomas I ngall stated that lie was a clerk in the Bank of England , and attested the signature of the supposed Mr . Oxenford to each of the transfers . The prisoner at the bar was the person who "identified" the supposed Mr . Oxendford as that
gentleman . Tile Lord Mayor , looking towards the prisoner , told him that he proposed to remand Kim until' Wednesday next , but as there was plenty of time before the next session of the Central Criminal Court , he had no objection to fix any other day which the , prisoner preferred . The prisoner spoke to Forrester in so low a tone of voice that his reply could not l > e heard , but the officer stated that he had no objection to that or any other day bis lordship might think proper to appoint . The Lord Mayor accordingly fixed Wednesday next , at twelve o ' clock , for the prisoner ' s Ix-ing * again brought un , when he will , in all probabilitv , be fully committed for trial .
Verdict of the Jury ix the Case of the Not-TisoiiAM Railwai- Accident . —The adjourned inquest upon Mr . 'John Dean was resumed on Friday , at ten o ' clock . The room was crowded , and amongst those present were G . B . Paget , Esq . ; W . C . Hntchinson , Esq . ; and J . Ellis , Esqr , ^ Directors ; Mr . Clarke , superintendent ; and Mr . J . Kirtley , manager of the locomotive engines . After a very lengthened examination of several witnesses * Mr . Campbell addressedthejury on behalf of Mr . Lightfoot . The jury unanimously expressed their high satisfaction at the very ready manner with which the Railway Company had acted . / Thfijury adjourned for half-nn-hour . At eight o ' clock the jury again topic their seats , and the coroner occupied an hour and a half in
summing up . The room was then cleared , and at one o ' clock the jury returned their verdict as follows : — " The jury , after a long and patient investigation of the circumstances , feel compelled by their duty to return a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Mr . Robert Lightfoot ; and they cannot separate without expressing their belief , that notwithstanding the management for general transition by railroad , much might be done , to render railway travelling more secure , and especially of second-class carriages ; and though they may not be so comfortable as the first-class , they may be as safe . And they also intimate , thai passengers ought not to be taken along tho wrong line of rails without their consent . The jury further ; suggest , that much more' safety
might be secured by the general introduction 01 electrieal telegraphs . There is also another point which the jury think ought to be attended to , and that is , that in future great care should be taken to ascertain that all the company ' s servants are intimately and perfectly acquainted in their social duties ; and the jury cannot too strongly express their conviction that Jonathan Raven has not sv , orn to the truth in his depositions , and that he is utterly unworthy of the confidence of the Railway Campany and the sery ice of the public . There was a , point on which the jury wishea to remark , respecting Mr . Lightfoot . and that was , they were exceedingly grieved on account of the many favourable circumstances ¦ in his favour , to place him in the painful situation in which they
have done ; and nothing but a paramount sense ot duty had compelled them to do so . The coroner wished to join also with every individual of the jury , to express liis sorrow on the occasion . There was another thing which was deyh-ed to he recommended to tlie Railway Company , and that was the situation of Mi's . Dean , ' who , in the prime of life , had been suddenly , and in a moment , deprived of the stay of her existence , and of her support ; and the jury hope that provision will be made for her by the Railway Company , so as to prevent her tVeVnig , in addition to her heavy Io .-. n , the sorrows of destitution and privation . "
1 ) headfi'l Shipwrecks . —Twelve \ essel&Lpnt . — By the Hibernia mail steamer , which arrived at Liverpool from the United States on Thursday night l .-ii ' t , letters have come to hand with the melancholy intelligence of the total loss of the . ship Elizabeth , Captain IVuiham , commander , bolong-ing-to Liverpool , with , it is imicll appn > llfcn * U » J » tl )<> saeriiW of twentytWO persons , including tbe commander , the chief mate ,
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Several of tbe crew , and many passengers . The schooner Encore , bound from Bank to Antwerp , was totally lost on the night j of Friday week , on some rocks near Jersey . Her crew was preserved by means of lines from the shore . The Dandolin , an East India ship , of Liverpool , has been totally lost in the China Seas . The particulars as to the manner in whichshe was wrecked have not yet come to hand . On the afternoon of the 11 th inst ., a brig , reported to be the William , of Boston , foundered ; off the Lincolnshire coast , about 18 miles S . S . W . of the Humber , and all hands perished . The British brig Pearl , has been totally lost near Nova Scotia . IThe brig Star ( Captain
Davidson ) from London , was totally destroyed by fire , on Friday night last , off Aiigra Pegtiena , on the coast of Ireland . The crew we're saved . On Thursday week last the smack Paul was wrecked on the shore , near Paulton ( Isle of Man ) . She had 11 passengers on board ; two of whom , | young females , and the master and mate , were drowned , the others were saved . Tlie brig Picton , belonging to Padstow . was totally lost on tlie ISth inst ., about live miles from tlie Dungeon Light , and being run down by the Ackam , another brig of Stockton , the crew had barely time to get on board of the latter before the ship foundered . We hear of two other vessok huing wrecked in the course of the week , on tlie Irish coast .
I' ATAl . ( . ' OAl .-1 'lT A < ' I 1 > KNT . — r 1 FTY I . IVr . S l . OST . — Wo regivt to have tu reror . l this week , the loss ot fifty lives , by the terrible acency nftire-ilamp . at the (' win Avon Colliery , Ncnth , jon Wi dnesday last . On ac-Diint of the shattered state of tin : works consequent on the explosion , and the noxious effluvia , only lour bodies on that < la > hail been taken out . Our information a . s to detail * , c ( piiM ' dei-ing the distance we write from the fatal spot , cannot be copious ; but of the painful truth of the t'r i ' glitful catastrophe there i . s , we negret to state , no room to doubt . —Mtjiunout / tshm Merlin of Fridav .
Bahbarois Mcrder at Tyningiiame . —The small and quiet village of Tyninghame , in East Lothian , was on Saturday thtown into a state of great excitement , from the report that '{ John Robert , coachman to the Earl of Iladdington , liad been murdered within the precints of Tyninghame House . The report was unfortunately correct . The ] unhappy man was found lying on a grass walk within the demesne , between two and three o ' clock on Saturday morning . He died about twelve o ' clock on that day . Two young men named Hannan and Dudgeon have been taken into custody ; the former being suspected as being the party guUty of the crime : the groundsfof this suspicion being that a ! quarrel had existed between deceased and Hannah , who is a lad of only seventeen years of age , and j who had been heard on the previous evening to declare that he would '' do for him "—meaning the murdered man .
Mtjroer of Dr . Thoen . — -The trial of Monsieur Sallier , at St . Omer , tor the assassination of Dr . Thorn , an English surgeon , itook place on Thursday , and the accused was acquitted . Explosion of Gunpowder at Liverpool . —A serious explosion of gunpowder occurred in Limekilnlane , Rock Ferry , about half-past eight o ' clock on Friday morning , It appears that the ship Fairfield , belonging to Messrs . Charles Lawrence and Son , of this town , arrived from Ichaboe on Thursday morning , and was towed into the river by one of the steamtu ^ s . She had on board one barrel of gunpowder , weighing about 201 b ., and also 4 lb . loosely wrapped in paper . One of the laws for the regulation of the port enacts , that no vessel shall be allowed to enter the river or docks with any gunpowder on board , but shall deposit it at the magazines . The boat which should have waited on the Fairfield , for
the purpose of taking the powder to the magazines , did not come , and consequently it was put on board the tug and landed at ; Birkenhead ; the mate of the Fairneld , whose name is Carrington , undertaking to have it safely ] kept on the premises of his father Mr . Rieharil ( . ' amngtoii , ' customhouse broker , in Limekiln-lime , llock Ferry . The cask wast put into an out-house along with the powder in the paper , and on Friday morning the youngest child , a line boy , between seven and eight years old , got to it , and it is supposed ; that by some means he was the cause of its ignition . A terrific explosion took p lace , by which the out-house was entirely levelled to the " ground , and the ; back and front windows of the house totally destroyed ; besides doing considerable damage in other respect ^ . The boy , who is supposed to have caused the explosion , was seriously hurt , and a servant girl was also injured .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Saturdat . —Manslaughter—A young man , named Samuel Sinims , was indictejd for having , while in command of the Waterman [ steamer , No . 6 , improperly run down a small boat , rowed b y Edward Everett , a licensed waterman , and containing four passengers , by which the said Ed-ward Everett and another person were drowned ] The body of the firstnamed person was afterwards found , and these proceedings were instituted in consequence . The evidence of the witnesses occupied some length of time , at the conclusion of which the jurv retired , but not being able to agree upon a verdict were locked up .
A Danobrous ' ' Si'bk-e . " -4-A respectable-lookingyoung man , named Alexander Webb , was indicted for stealing a coat and waistcoat , the property of William Diekson , under the following jeirciuiistances : —It appeared that the prosecutor an <][ the prisoner had been drinking together during the ! whole of the evening , when , both parties being drunk , the former about twelve o ' clock invited the prisoner , as iie alleged in his defence , for a " spree , " who put on the articles named in the indictment , with ; which he walked out of tlie door . He was , however , followed by some , friends to the prosecutor , who gave him into custody . The jurv returned a verdict of XutlGuHt ' j .
Extraordinary Gambuxq Transactions . —Coi-bt of Queen ' s Bench , Saturday . —!( Before Lord Denman and a Special Jury , )—flill v . Stratford . — The plaintiff , Mr . Henry Hill , is well known in ithe sporting world . The defendant , Mr . Hugh Stratford Stratford , son of the Rev . Hugh Hanmer Morgan , a canon of Hereford . The action u-as brougiit to recover the sum-of £ 3 , 099 , in six bills of exchange , accepted by defendant , who , among several other pleas , had pleaded that he lost money in gambling at one sitting to a greater extent ' than £ 100 , and that the pliiiutiti' , when he discounted the bills , knew they had been given ] for such losses . Mr . F . Kelly , with Mr . Willes , appeared for the plaintiff , and Mr . Jervis , with whom was Mr . Sergeant Shea , and another j learned gentleman , for the defendant . The hand-writing of defendant having been proved , Mr . Jervis addressed the jury at some length
for tlie defence , stating that plaintiff , who was formerly only a waiter , afterwards sold fish , and ultimately became an agent for letting on commission . It would appear that a person named Coghlan got , through plaintiff , three £ 1 , 000 notes for the bills , and afterwards , ineetting a Mr . Willingale , paid him therefrom a debt of honour of upwards of £ 2 , 000 , and who , by good fortune , happened at the time to have the exact sum of £ 840 in his pocket to give change . The whole appeared like a plant . John Wynde Cooke was then examined ; he stated that he was n prisimor in the Queen ' s prison , but was formerly an attorney in Clifford-street , Bond-street . Knew defendant , both being from Herefordshire . [ Acted as Mr . Stratford ' s attorney in 1842 , by conducting j two suits in Chancery against a Captain Page andJDr . Bernard , which were arranged by paying Captain Page £ 3 , 500 , and about £ 700 to Dr . Bernard in lieu of the whole amount claimed ,
amounting to £ 23 , 000 . Afterwards became ou intimate terms with defendant , and played with him at vingt-et-un at his lodgings several times . Objected to say what he won , or whether he won at all . Witness went to Cheltenham in August , 1843 , when defendant gave bills to the amount of £ 3 , 500 for money which ha hajl acknowledged to be due . Stratford often met defendant , and also Mr . Coghlan , Mrs . Coghlan , aud Mr . Evans at the Wellington Arms , Strathfield Turgis , Strathflejdsaye , and on the 27 tli April they ( lady and aU ) played at " blind hookuy . " The play was kept up till about twelve pr one o ' clock . Beg-an after dinner with silver , but afterwards played for a large amount , and Mr . Stratford rose from tlie table a loser of between £ 10 , 000 and £ 11 , 000 . The next d < iy all went to
Reading ; stamps were bought , and the bills drawn chiefly by witness , and made payable at His oflBce in Cliffordstreet ; the total amount of the >> 'M accepted was £ 10 , 84 $ . The next day the bills werf Jividod between witness and Coghlan . On the 6 th of-May an injunction was served at the office in Clifford-street . Mrs . Hannah Howard , landlady of the Coach and Horses , Down-street , Piccadilly ; George White , her waiter ; William Tatton , the waiter at Hatchetf s ; and other witnesses ^ proved the intimacy subsisting between plaintiff and tCoghlan . It was also found that the money hud passed from plaintiff ' s bankers to Cohglan , and that plaintiff ' s balance two days before had been only £ 728 , but had been drafted the very day that the alleged discount took place . The three £ 1 , 000 notes were exchanged at the bank on the 10 th of May , 1843 , for Mr . Willingale , for ; six five hundreds .
A sheriffs - officer and two or three attorutes proved that Mr . Charles William Francis Coghlan had been sued for several debts and judgments * ; but no money , during these last ei ^ ht or iuhf years , and that he had always contrived to k * ep out of the way . ! Mr . Kelly liaviug replied , the learned judj "" summed up , stating that the question was , whether plaintiff knew for what tbe bills had been given v . hen he discounted thein . In the transaction t-hoiv "as ni'tliiiif , ' roinmaviiil ; Cosrhlan appeared to be nothing but a pauper No inquiry was proved to have been made l ' . v plaintiff pre \ iuua ' 0 discounting the bills . lfOoffhlau told p laintiff nothing * bout the bills , Cojjhlaii might have been called intu tlie box to prove it . If the jurv belii / veu C-oghlan hail said nothing about the Nils to vkvintitt' , iw .- was entitled to tlve vcviliet , but otbrrvvise de t ' muUuil was t'iitilU- < l to a . vev . lict . jw K « jurX Rl'ier a brief eoimiltfttum , reUiruvd tt verdict fopi - " . ihifeuduiH .
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The League and Anti-League at HotsceiB ^ K Yorkshire . —We had a lecture from Mr . Harper , of the Anti-League , on Friday night last . His object was Free Trade , which he handled in a masterlymanner . He was often interrupted bv a leaguer in the body of the hall , named Jvathan iatilewood , » shop-keeper . He mounted the orchestra twice for the purpose of refuting the arguments of the lecturer ^ but never before was there such a specimen of ' middle-class ignorance . He denied this , and denied that : but when he had the chance to refute the
arguments , he completely forgot to mention them . In fact , he was a complete clown for the audience At the conclusion of the lecture , another leaguer , named Beardsell , tried his hand , but to little effect . Finding that the question of " protection to labour , " was to be crowned with victory , the leaguers thought proper to try another plan ; that of a public discussion , This is to come off on Thursday , betwixt Mr . Harper and Mr . Ackland , if he ean be got ; ' if not , with some other lecturer of the Anti-Cora League . Rochdale . —I am requested by some of the factory
operatives to inform you that there seems to be a moVe amoncst the different employers to advance wages . . One firm , or the name of * Butterworth , at Spot land-bridge , gave an advance yesterday to a portion of their operatives ; as \\ wy did not advance all , the doffers turned out , and they were obliged to stop the engine . When the bell rang on Wednesday evening , the " hands" mustered in front of the factory and gave three cheers . As there was " no advance , " tlie mill lias been shut all day . —Cvrreppoudent .
Strike at Paisley . —The factory weavers of Messrs . Robert M'Artluir and Co . have unanimously struck work . The reason they allege , in a circular posted in various parts ot the town , is their bein < : asked to work for a Mini which coiikl barely keep existence in them , and besides , at a third less than ' other employers were paying for the same work .
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City Chartist Hall , 1 , Tuhnagain Lai « k . —A general meeting of shareholders will be held , at halfpast ten o ' clock , on Sunday morning , Dee . 1 st . The public discussion will be resumed in the Hall at the same time . In the afternoon , at three o ' clock , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet . In the evening , at seven , Mr . Skelton will lecture . Saint George ' s Temperance Hall , Blackfbiabs Road . —Mr . Farrerwill lecture on Sundav evening , Dec . 1 st . ' Westmixster . —A public meeting will be held at the Clock House , Castle-street , Leicester-square , on Sunday evening , Dec . 1 st . Ax Harmonic Meeting will be held at the Feathers , Lower" Warner-street , Fitzroy-square , on Monday evening , Dec . 2 nd .
Tower Hamlets . —Mr . Wheeler will lecture on Sunday evening , 8 p . m ., Dec . 1 , at the White Horse , Mary-street , Whiteehapel . Frost ; Williams , and Jones . —A public meeting ¦ will be held in the Riding School , Bidborough-Street , Burton-crescent , on Monday evening , Dec . 2 nd . Feavgus O'Connor , Esq ., will attend . Camberwell and Walworth . ^ -A meeting will be held . at-tbe Montpelier Tavern , on Monday evening , Dec . 2 nd . Hammersmith . —A meeting will be hold at the Dun Cow , Brook Green-lane , on Tuesday evening , Dec . 3 rd . Tower Hamlets . —The General Councillors residing in the Tower Hamlets are requested to meet at theWlnttingtonand Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , on Sunday evening next .
SriTALFiELDS . —At the Standard of Liberty , Bricklane , a public discussion , on Sunday evening next , on the question of " the rights of property . " Islington . —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Islington will be held at the Swan Tavern , Highbury , on' Monday evening next , December 2 nd , on behalf of the Duncombe Testimonial . G . Rogers , Esq » ., will take the chair at half-past seven precisely . Whitechapel . —Mr . Wheeler will lecture at the White Horse , St . Mary ' s-street , on Sunday evening . Pimlico . —The Welsh Martyrs . —A public meeting will be held at the Belgrave Tavern , Ebury
Street , on Wednesday evening next , Dec . 4 , at halipast seven , to memorialise Her Majesty to restore Frost , Williams , and Jones to their country , families and friends . Feargus O'Connor , Esq . and other talented individuals will address the meeting . Lbiehouse Locality . —The members lately meeting at the Marquis of Granby , are requested to meet at 23 , Totton Street , Stepney Church-yard , on Sunday , at half-past eight . Rochdale . —Mr . Donovon , of Manchester , is expected to deliver two lectures next Sunday , at the Association Room , Mill-Street , at two and six . ifi , < - Tiif r f i * » i , i *^^^ j ^ h ^ Miii , nii , i i i < ¦!¦
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EDWIN WOODHAM , BOOKSELLER AND NEWS- ' AGENT , SISTER-GATE , NOTTINGHAM , TAKES this opportunity of informing the readers . ?? the - " Northers Star , " tlxat owing to its removal to Iiondun , he mil be enabled to supply iteverv Saturday morning vvath the other London weekly newspapers . The Hroadsheets and Periodicals fo ? the current . week are received by him , and ready for druvery every Tuesd inorninp . ¦
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DEATH . Death of the Princess Sophia Matilda . —Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda expired at her mansion on Blackheath , on Friday morning , after a short illness . Her Royal Highnes 3 had been unwell at intervals for some time past . The Princess was in the 72 d year of her age , having been born on tbe 23 d of May , 1773 , and was sister to the late Duke of Gloucester .
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TO BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSVENDERS . THE Trade supplied with the "Noetuehs Stab , " and all other Newspapers and Publications , by ARTHUR DYSON , 231 , SHOHEDITCII ( late Lloyd ' s ) . Counter Agents may know terms on application as abo \ -e , prepaid , enclosing : i stamp . A . D . has jhst printed a Ifew Edition of the People ' s Charter . Ask for Dyson ' s " Conference ' Edition .
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I MPERIAL AUSTRIA * LOAN of 30 , 000 , 000 Florins , guaranteed by bis . Majesty the Emperor of Austria . — This very important Distribution will commence on . the 2 d of December nt'xt , at VIENNA . Tbese are Dividend of £ 23 , 000 , £ - > MW , £ l , ii 00 , £ 1 , 000 , &c— Smallest Dm deml £ 5 rt-Prk-e of one scrip £ ¦ & , six scrips £ 15 , thirteen scrhy j BSO , fifths in proportion , which of course receive gn / . v a fifth part of the Divideud . As the greater part ot the scrips art- already applied tor , immediate apphcatio is lUMH'ssary . ,. Prospectuses , with full particulars and hsts of the distribution , prt-mptl ;* furw ardud on application to A . JA . coiia uud do .. Bankers , i-Vankfort-on-Maine . Letters addressed A . Jacobs , 3 t , Wellplose-square , Lon don , ivill be promptly forwarded .
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FORTHERi STIR :
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Stealixg Sugar . —Edward Warren , Philip Roberts , and George Bowers , were indicted for stealing one hogshead of sugar , the property of the London Doek Company . The prisoner Warren pleaded guilty to the indictment . Evidence having been adduced at great length in support of the prosecution , Mr . Clarkson took a technical objection to the indictment , which having been allowed by the Learned Recorder , the jury , by the direction of the Court , acquitted the prisoners Roberts and Bowers . ! Edmund Warren was then placed at the bar for judgment , and sentenced to be transported for seven years . ; a ~ -
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BIRTH . On Monday , 25 th inst ., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , ihe wife of W . P . Roberts , Esq ., of a son .
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BANKRUPTS . From Friday ' s Gazette . Cecil Sober Taylor Walker , Oxford-street , artificial florist , to surrender Dec . « , at half-past 12 o ' clock , Jan . 10 , at 1-2 . at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor , Mr . Ward , Essex-street . official assignee , Mi-. Belcher , King's Armsyard . John North , Map ' s-row , Stepney-green , licensed victualler , Dec . 6 , at 2 o ' clock , Jan . 10 , at 11 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs . Yonge and Hancock , Tokeiihousc-jard ; official assignee , Mr . Pennell , Basing , hall-street . Hichard Tucker , Dean-street , Westminster , farrier , Dec 10 , Jan . 4 , at 12 o ' clock , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor , Mr . Blackmore , Trafalgar-square ; official assignee , Mr . Follett , Sambrook-court , Basinghall-street .
Lucy Williams , Oxford , woollen draper , Dee . 13 , at 2 o ' clock , Jan . 7 , at 1 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs . Dixon and Overburr , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lane . Joseph Harwar , Charlotte-street , Bloomsbury , pianoforte-manufacturer , Dec . 10 , Jan . 7 , at 2 o ' clock , at the Bankrupts' Court ; solvcitors , Messrs . Willis , Bower , and Willis , Tokenhouse-yard ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . Robert Marshall , Deptford , stonemason , Dec . 17 , at 2 o ' clock , Jan . 8 , at 12 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs , Tyler and Lane , South-square , Gray ' s-inn , ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lane .
William Henderson , Sunderiand , mercer , Dec .. 9 , Jan . 20 , at 2 o ' clock , at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Moss , Cloak-lane ; and Mr . Brown , Sunderiand ; official assignee , Mr Baker , Newcastle-upon-T yne . William Oliver , Darlington , Durham , printer , " Dec . 9 , Jan . 20 , at half-past i o ' clock , at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs . Tilson and Squance , Coleman-street ; and Mr . Allison , Darlington ; official assignee , Mr . Wakley , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Edward Potter Worth , Henley-in-Arden , Warwickshire , victualler , Dec . 10 , at 12 o ' clock , Jui . 10 , at 1 , at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Noble , Henley-in-Arden ; and , Messrs . Harrison and Smith , Birmingham ; official assignee , Mr . Christie , Birmingham .
Matthew and John Ibbotfion , Eccleafield , Yorkshire , paper manufacturers , Dw "V Jan . 16 , at 11 o'clock , at me i-rcds District Uourt of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Tattershall , Great James-street ; Mr . Marshall , Sheffield ; and Mr . Blackburn , Leeds ; official assignee , Mr . Freeman § Leeds . William Rcos and George Edwards , Wells , Somerset * shire' seedsmen , Dec . 17 , at 1 o ' clock , Jan . 10 at 11 , at the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Whittuker , Lincoln ' s-in-fields ; Messrs . Fry and Pain , Axbridge : and Messrs . Robins and Hohbs , Wells ; official assignee , Mr . Miller . Bristol . James Storey and John Gibb , Liverpool , ship-chandlers , Dec . 10 , Jan . 8 , at 11 o ' clock , at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs , ' Willis , Bower , and Willis . Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr . , Mason , Liverpool ; official assignee , Mr . Morgan , Liverpool .
William Cross , Chester , lead merchant . Dee . 13 , Jan . S , -at 12 o ' elock , at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs . Sharpe and Co ., Bedford-row ; and Mr . Carter , Liverpool ; official assignee , Mr . Cazenove , Liverpool .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1844, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct973/page/5/
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