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    America * *! attacked 400 Indians who were strongly intrenched in one of their villages . After three hours ' fighting the Indians were driven from the village with a loss of sixty killed . The Americans , who had lost only two men , by their own account , burnt the village , and then retreated , with the Indians pursuing them for ten miles . In another case seventy two Americans were massacred by the Indians while working in a gulch or chasm , near which they had staked their arms , not suspecting any danger . The fugitive slave law in Boston is becoming more complicated than ever . Mr . Charles Davis , whose case came on after that of Elizur Wright , was acquitted for want of evidence . James Scott , a coloured man , was next examined , and bound over for trial in the sum of 2000 dollars . Two similar cases still remain to be

    disposed of . Robert Morris , jun ., a coloured lawyer , and J . H . Coburn , clothes dealer , were also arrested on a charge of aiding in the rescue of the slave Shadrach . On the other hand , G . Lunt , United States district attorney , has been arrested and held to bail in the sura of 10 , 000 dollars , on a writ brought by Burton , the coloured man recently arrested in . Salem . G . T . Curtis , United States Commissioner , and P . Riley , Deputy United States Marshal , have also been held for trial in 10 , 000 dollars each on charge of arresting the fugitive Shadrach . The grounds upon which these suits are brought are , that the fugitive slave law is unconstitutional , and that the officers prosecuted acted without authority .

    The packet-ship Infanta , which sailed from Liverpool for New York a few weeks ago with a full complement of emigrants , was compelled to put into Halifax through want of provisions . Fourteen persons had died on board the vessel . In answer to a memorial from the Assembly of Jamaica , imploring that all captured Africans should be sent to Jamaica , and other measures adopted for the speedy and adequate supply of free emigrants from Africa , Earl Grey refuses to send captured slaves to Jamaica on the ground that all the Africans who wish to go . to West India colonies are sent there free of expense : — "The number , therefore , to be sent to Jamaica could only be increased by depriving some of the other colonies of the share of

    this advantage which they now enjoy ; and , considering that in those colonies the want of labour is not less urgent than in Jamaica , though they have hitherto been spared from the disease which has visited that island , this is a course which- her Majesty ' s Government could not with propriety adopt . " The number of deaths from cholera in Jamaica durinsr the months of October , November , and December , 1850 , was estimated by Governor Sir C . Grey at from 12 , 000 to 13 , 000 ; the greatest mortality was amongst those of unmixed African descent . Earl Grey suggests that it would be very advantageous to procure , by means of private enterprize , an adequate supply of coloured and black immigrants from the United States and Canada .

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    I he metropolitan delegates , for obtaining the total and unconditional repeal of the window tax , held a meeting on Wednesday evening at the Marylebone Court House , " to take the most efficient measures in order to secure the above object . " There was a large attendance of delegates . A demonstration by the members of the Lambeth Reform Association took place at the Horns Tavern , Kennington , on Wednesday evening , for the purpose of forwarding Parliamentary Reform . Sir Joshua Walinsley , M . P ., took the chair , and , addressing the meeting , apologized for liis apparent intrusion amongst them as chairman , a circumstance which was owing to the absence of both their members . Resolutions in favour of an extension of the suffrage and the principles of free trade were passed .

    The friends of early closing hold their eighth annual meeting at the Freemasons ' -hall , Great Queen-street , on Thursday evening . Mr . Moncktou Milnes , M . P ., presided . Mr . Ewart , M . P ., explained to the meeting that the abolition of the late hour . system was essentially necessary to the success of the efforts which Were being made for the intellectual improvement of the working classes ; and Mr . Hiiulley , M . l \ , urged that the marked ucccsh which had attended the working of the short hour system in factories was au encouragement to shopkeepers to abridge their hours of business . Dr . Pett . igrew explained the physical evils ami early deaths caused by late hours . Dr . Chalmera pointed out its demoralizing effect , and was followed by the . Reverend Mr . Hughes , M . A ., on the same subject .

    A preliminary meeting of gentlemen belonging to the parishes of St . Sepulchre , St . Andrew ' s , and St .. fieorge's , " Blooinsbury , was held on Thursday evening " for the purpose of devising some measures for the suppression «> f the further imposition of Iullun organists , German broom-girls , Lascars , and other foreign beggars , ft wan Mtuted Unit the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill , 11 niton-K' * rden , and the boundaries of Clerkeiiwell and St .. John's . Parishes art ! literally infested with these unhappy creatures , who having been brought over by whole cargoes , me distributed each morning throughout the metropolis , for the purposes of absolute mendicity , coloured by the flimsy pretext of a street organ . It ivua resolved to call a public meeting on the subject .

    A public meeting was held , at the Literary and Scientific Ii'stitution , John-street , Tottenharn-court .-road , on Monday , for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the Sunday Trading Hill . Mr . Thomas Cooper , who was culled to the chuir , said if Home public Ktiind wore not . made agniriHt the bill , they would inevitably be defeated by the Jesuitictil influence th . it was now so predominant . Ho deprecated the system they were endeavouring to introduce , restricting people in the sale of certain articles which did not in any way iilirct tin ? rich , t > ut only the poorer Classen of th * - community . He next alluded to tin ; act of Purliumeut ., and quoted front fleveral clauses to prove the onpruubivu nature , of the ; bill ,

    particularly adverting to the prohibition of the sale of unstamped newspapers . It was resolved to petition Parliament , praying them to reject the bill and throw open the British Museum , the National Gallery , and other National Exhibitions on Sundays and other holidays . At the suggestion of Mr . Panizzi , the trustees-of the British Museum have ordered that from the beginning of May to the end of August , during the present year , the rooms containing the collection of the printed books shall be kept open for the first five days of the week for the public to walk through , like the gallery of antiquities or natural history . On Saturday and Sunday admission will be refused to all persons indiscriminately . This arrangement is only temporary , and the former rule will be resumed on the 1 st of September . It is reported that the Government , convinced at last

    of the necessity of moving the National Gallery from the building in Trafalgar-square , have adopted the suggestions thrown ouf . in various quarters , and pr opose to place the pictures in Kensington Palace . — Obse rver , The executive committee appointed to carry out the design of a Cambridge Military Asylum , in memory of the late duke , are about erecting an asylum for forty widows of British soldiers at Kew , and with the intention , hereafter , of making accommodation for one widow , at least , of each of the regiments in her Majesty ' s service . An order has just appeared , signed by Lord Truro , abolishing certain fees heretofore payable in Chancery , and reducing others . A numerous deputation of Members of Parliament , consisting chiefly of Irish representatives , waited on Sir Charles Wood at his official residence in Downing-street

    on Saturday for the purpose of pressing upon his attention the expediency of abolishing the present duties on paper . Sir Charles said he would pay every attention to the subject , but he could not at present pledge himself to any particular course . The South-Western Railway Company have submitted to the Home Secretary a statement of the advantages that would result from making theport of Southampton a central depdt for emigrants , both to the public interest and to the emigrants themselves . Among the advantages enumerated are safety as regards navigation , saving of time , punctuality , and economy . The company offer to make arrangements to secure conveyance to and from Southampton at moderate rates , and in every respect to meet all the requirements of the emigration commissioners .

    A notice has been issued by the City Commissioners of Sewers , that on and after " Monday first , till further notice , in consequence of its being the intention to repave London-bridge , no vehicles of any description will be allowed to pass by that bridge . The cost of repaying is estimated at about £ 2600 . In consequence of a recent accident to the brougham of a medical gentleman in North . Audley-street , and of repeated complaints which have been made with respect to frightening horses , and endangering the lives of the public by the street organ nuisance , the commissioners of police have issued a general order for the suppression I of street organ playing in the public thoroughfares of the metropolis .

    Another prison ia being built in Glasgow to hold the fast increasing mass of crime devolved upon us by the enormous immigration of our Irish neighbours . It is intended as a penitentiary , and is to be four stories in height . There will be forty cells on each floor , or about 1 G 0 in all . It will be completed in the course of the summer . — North British Mail . A public dinner under the auspices of the Scottish Association for the Protection of Native Industry , is to take place in the Music Hall , Edinburgh , on Tuesday , the 22 ud of April . The Duke of Moutrose or the Jiarl of Eglinton is expected to preside .

    A novel kind of paper is stated to have been produced at the mills of Mr . Thomas II . Saunders , of Darenth , in Kent . It contains a water-mark portrait of the Queen , contrived , not as the ordinary water mark in mere outline hitherto used in bank-mute and other paper , but so as to give the gradation of light und shade of an Indianink drawing , such us is seen in the porcelain pictures introduced from ( iennuny . It is the invention of Mr . Oldhain , the engineer of the Hank of Mngland , and as iis production involves many diflicullies , an opinion in entertained that it may form a valuable addition to banknote paper for the prevention of forgery .

    One of the most remarkable passages ever made across the At lanr . ic under sail only lias just been accomplished by iho new American ship Typhoon . She nailed from Portsmouth , New Hampshire , for Liverpool on her trial trip , coming' over in ballast , only , and entered the Mersey on Wednesday , having completed the passage , in fourteen days from port to port . A lire attended with the loss of two lives , through intemperance , took pluee iu . lobn-Htreet , Harper-street ,

    New Kent-road , on Wednesday morning about , four o ' clock . Mr . und Mrs . I ' ottH , the t . wo persons burned to deatli , went home , late in a statt ) of intoxication . In retiring to bed , it . is . supposed that , they dropped a sj ) irk upon ( lie bedding , and that when the ilunn h broke out . they were unable to help themuelves . When the fire had been extinguished , the two bodies were as black hh u coal , every article of furniture in the place heing consumed , and not ho much as even the trace of a bedstead being left .

    A Meain-boilttr explosion took place at Manchester on Tuesday afternoon , by which eight lives were lorn . The whole of the bodies of the unfortunate miners in the NitshiU colliery , have now been recovered . It is uncertain when tin ; pit will again beiu a working condition . A consultation of engineers is arranged to consider as to ibe measures which should be adopted for the attainment of that end . . Front the , extent of the pit , and the nature of the explosion , it will probably be a conni deiable time before it . in put in tliu puuiu State as it was before tho catastrophe

    i At Kingston Assizes on Thursday , the grand jury returned true bills for the Frimley burglary and murder ! against Levi Harwood , James Jones , and Samuel Harwood . The other man , Smith , has been admitted a witness for the crown . Upon the application of Mr . Robinson , the trial was fixed to take place on Monday morning , at ten o ' clock . The prosecution will be conducted " by Mr . Chambers , Q . C ., Mr . Anson , and Mr . Robinson . The prisoners are to be defended by Mr . Ballantine , Mr . Chamoek , and Mr . Woollett . At the Dorchester Assizes on Saturday , a juror asked the judge ( Mr . Baron Martin ) for leave to go home ; he was forty miles from home , and had served two days . I he judge said if he was the only person who applied he should have no objection , but the moment he gave one permission , there would be many applications . However , he might go . Another juror then appliedThe

    . Judge : Ay , ay ; there it is . The Juror : My lord , I am the master of the Sunday-school . The Judge : Well , I suppose you must go ai . d take care of the Sunday-school . _ At the Thames Police Court , on Wednesday , Charles -rivans , a journeyman cooper , solicited Mr . Yardley ' s advice and assistance under the following circumstances He was a member of the Coopers' Union , and the society had proscribed him for having worked in a cooperage where steam power was employed in aid of manual labour . For this oflenoe a fine of £ 10 was imposed , and on his refusal to pay it a combination had been formed against him , so that he -was unable to obtain employment A master cooper in court said he knew Evans to be a good workman , and he had work enough to find him employment , but if he were to engage him the coopers in 3 ns yard would leave him , and his loss would be

    immense . Mr . Yardley said that something ought to be done for Evans , who had really been fighting the battle of the masters . He was astonished that the masters had not come forward as a body to assist one who had been fi ghting their cause almost single-handed . In reply to a question of the magistrate , Evans said he could not get work out of London , as his name had been published all over . the country . At the South Lancashire Assizes , on Tuesday , Messrs . Platt and Sunderland , cotton spinners , at Lestock , near Bolton , were found guilty of leaving a shaft of their machinery unprotected , whereby the clothes of Nancy Coe , a girl in their employment , had been caught , in consequence of which she received great personal injury . The jury awarded £ 120 damages to her .

    The sailors on sirike in Liverpool still continue to perambulate the streets iu procession . On Saturday night there was a performance for their benefit at the Amphitheatre . Fanaticism has victims in all places and eras ; but that such a sample of its existence as the following should be found in the New York press is not very creditable to Brother Jonathan ' s common sense : — " Prospectus : Disclosures from the interior , and superior care for mortals . —This publication is dictated by spirits out of the flesh , and by them edited , superintended , and controlled . Its object is the disclosure of truth from Heaven , guiding mankind into open vision of Paradise ; open communication with spirits redeemed ; and proper

    and progressive understanding of the Holy Scriptures , and of the merits of Jesus Christ , from whom they originated in inspiration absolute , and of whom they teach , as the only Saviour of a dissevered and bewildered race . The circle of apostles and prophets are its conductors from the interior ; holding control over its columns , and permitting no article to find place therein unless originated , dictated , or admitted by them ; they acting under the direction of the Lord Supreme . James Congdon , Charles Coventry , Andrew L . Wilson , and Lonson Bush are its publishers and proprietor ; they having become , in full confidence of mind , disciples of the Lord ; and being present external agents of the circle apostolic and prophetic ; itcting under the direction , while faithful , aa instruments fur the distribution of truth , &c . "

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    The Dungarvon election ended in the return of the Honourable C . Ponsonby by a majority of seventy-five over Mr . Maguire , the Tenant League candidate . The quiet county of Down was the scene of a serious outrage last week . Mr . Tallow , the sheriff , accompanied by hi . s bailiff and one policeman , were about to servo a writ on a tenant who owed four years' rent , when they Haiv the people leaving their bouses , at the Hound of horns , and gathering in a somewhat threatening manner . On proceeding a little farther they found their progress interrupted by a crowd of two hundred people , who commenced firing ; deliberately at . the sheriff , his followers having ; decamped at the prospect of danger . The firing wiia not in a volley , but one shot followed another to the number of fifty or upwards , but fortunately without fatal effect .

    At a national school in the . diocese of Tuain , which wan attended up to a very recent period by ninety poor Roman Catholic children , the number of pupil * on Sunday week suddenly dwindled down to just one-third . Inquiries were made , and it , was ascertained from sonic of the parents that orders had been promulgated from the chapels on the Sunday previous , threatening . ill sorts of paiim and penalties on thti bodies and souls of . such fathers and mothers as would not . withdraw their ollspring from all schools in connection with the nutionul board ; those institutions , an well as the government , colleges , having been solemnly declared to be "dungeroiiH to the . faith and morals" of the rising generation of KomaikJHtH .

    A meeting of the trades and temperance societies of Limerick was held in that city on Tuesday evening , for the special purpoHe of pa . sninx a vote of nuu . iuro upon Mr . John O'llrien , M P ., for utmenting himself upon the division ou Mr . Dimaeli ' s motion . Resolutions calling on Mr . O'ltrien to resign , und upon the citizens of Limerick to select another candidate , were uniuuiJioiibly adopted , and the meeting ( separated .

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    March 29 , 1851 . ] ® f > £ &eafcet * 293

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1876/page/9/