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      started on foot in pursuit of the thieves and animals ; but , finding the Indians very numerous and dangerous on the route , seven of the persons returned , leaving four men to follow the trail through the mountains . These four—B . F . Bradford , J . J . M'Kinnis , W . H . Mitchell , and Coleman Jameson—followed the trail on foot six days , and arrived at Mr . J . Klanton ' s , on Cottonwood , on the 26 th , after having been without food for two days . Mr . Klanton kindly furnished them with food , Ac , and they continued the pursuit . When they arrived at Major Reading ' s , weary and suffering with sore feet , they were shown that kindness and hospitality which have ever characterised that man , furnishing them with horses and provisions to continue the pursuit . They were joined by Mr .

      Peasley , who had taken the valley route on horseback , and ascertained when the thieves had crossed the Sacramento River . While crossing the Coast Range Mountains , they were attacked by a party of Indians numbering from fifty to one hundred . The whites gave them a desperate fight , and killed thirteen of their warriors , after which , unhurt , they reached the valley , having followed the serpentine course of the thieves through the mountains , a distance of some 175 miles . The pursuers , now numbering five , left Major Reading s on Saturday , the 26 th , and on the evening of the 27 th found the animals quietly grazing in a secluded spot on Antelope Creek . When they recognized the animals , they looked around for the theives ; but , from the fact that the encampment was almost surrounded by chapparel , did not discover them . But on entering the chapparel they were fired at by two of the thieves , though

      fortunately without receiving any injury . Seeing this , two others , more bold and determined than the first , rose to their feet . The first , J . Spafford , from Ohio , rose with his gun levelled upon Bradford , when , at the first glimpse , Bradford shot him through the heart ; the second , John Emory , known as Sailor Tom , with his gun levelled at M'Kinnis , was shot dead by that quick-siehted Texan before he could pull trigger . George M . Holliday , the third thief , is supposed to be one of the first that fired . He escaped , but is supposed to be wounded . There must have been a fourth , as two guns were fired from the chapparel , while Spafford and Emory fell with loaded guns . The camp seemed to be one long frequented . They had a good stock of provisions and cooking utensils , seven riding saddles , a pack of cards , and ' Lorenzo Dow . ' The driving of the animals seemed to have been done by about fifty Indians , who were doubtless sent back on the trail to kill those pursuing . "

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      MEETINGS OF THE AVEEK . The distribution of prizes at University College , Gower-street , derives its public interest from the remarkable men who yearly preside on the occasion . This year Sir James Graham occupied that post , and under his auspices the prizes were given away last Saturday . When that business -was concluded , Sir James delivered the customary address , and in doing so , he touehingly referred to his late friend , Sir Robert Peel . Referring to the value of the art of ¦ culpture , he said : — " It stimulated the warrior and the statesman to deeds of fame , by handing down their names to succeeding ages . Already those younger than he could only form conjectures of what was the appearance of Pitt by the statue of Chantrey ; their notion of Canning from the work of Weatmacott . lie also within the last fortnight had had to appeal to statuary to perpetuate the recollection of one whose loss , while life remained , he must from Jus heart deplore . It was not , indeed , that the worth of Vcel ~( lottd cheers )—required to be recorded on amonument of bronze ; for he had ' scattered plenty o ' er a smiling land , ' and his history might be read in a grateful nation ' s eyes . ( Applause . ) Still statuary wbb wanted , for to it he must appeal to convey to the next gent-ration some idea of that face which he had so much loved in this . ( Applause . ) Then , as regarded law—were they not proud of the names of Romilly , of Homer , and of Brougham ? ( Hear , hear . ) The studies which were pursued in that university might lead his audience to equal eloquence and equal fume . " On a topic of more interest he thus expressed himself : — " He was one of the original subscribers to the college , one of those who thought it desirable , considering the unhappy difliculties which existed upon religious topics , that Hcculur education without reference to religious creed should be freely provided within those walls . That opinion he still entertained as strongly as ever . Ho believed " , with Junitis , that really to improve the understanding was to enlarge the heart ; but though such was his firm conviction , ho could not stop there . It was not , indeed , the duty of that college to impart religious instruction ; but lie should ill discharge his duties if he failed to remind them that , each in his individual capacity was bound to examine for himself the sacred truths , and was under an obligation not to neglect that , subject which , after all , was the . most important , to which hunmnit . y could apply itself . " After Sir . fames had concluded bin address , the Ht udents separated . At a public ; meeting convened by the National Reform League , and held at the Delectus Institute , No . IK , Denmark-street , JSoho , the following resolution , moved by Mr . F . O'Connor , M . I ' ., seconded by Hronterre O'Urien , was unanimously panned : — " That this meeting observes with indignation and regret that of lute years ( especially since the Reform act gave increased political power to the middle classes ) , there has been munifcBtcd , on tho part of judges and juries and of the Crown also , a growing disposition to confound differences of political opinion with criminal and illegal uctn , and to punish the former ( when expressed against class legislation )

      with as great , and even greater , rigour than the law awards to crime itself . Such practice this meeting holds to be disgraceful to a civilized country , and dangerous to the public safety , inasmuch as it stifles the free expression of individual opinion , closes the legitimate channels of public complaint , and tends , through the preventing of free discussion , to force the injured and discontented classes to have recourse to secret and illegal combinations . For confirmation of these alleged truths , the meeting appeals to the harsh and cruel sentences passed in 1848 upon Mr . Ernest Jones , and his fellow-prisoners , and that these sentences were carried out in a manner even more harsh and cruel

      than the law or the sentences warranted we may infer from the petition of Mr . Ernest Jones to the House of Commons , praying for Parliamentary inquiry into his case . " A petition , founded on the above resolution , was read , and unanimously agreed to ; and also that Lord Stanhope be requested to present the same in the House of Lords , and Mr . Wakley in the House of Commons . The National Patent Law Amendment Association met on Tuesday evening at La Belle Sauvage Hotel , Ludgatehill , to consider the new Patent Law Amendment Bill , now progressing through Parliament , and to take steps to secure the abandonment of certain clauses , " which threaten to render the operation of the law highly injurious both to inventors and the public , and to hasten the enactment of a real patent reform bill . " Mr . Shepherd ,

      C . E ., moved the first resolution , which was to the effect , that as it had been acknowledged by the Government and the public that the patent law required amendment , the bill now before Parliament should effect an efficient amendment forthwith , and the meeting was of opinion that , if this were not done , the inventors who had provisionally registered and exhibited new inventions at the Great Exhibition , would be subjected to the injustice of having been induced to publish their inventions without reasonable means of protection being afforded by the Legislature . The motion was carried unanimously . Mr . Stocken moved the second resolution , which was to the effect that the new patent law was contrary to the interests of the inventors and the public , which was also carried unanimously .

      By a report read at the annual meeting of the friends and promoters of the Grotto-passage Ragged and Industrial Schools , it appeared that , during the past year , 37 boys had been boarded , lodged , and educated ; 100 children of each sex had been under daily instruction ; 75 had been instructed in industrial occupations ; 25 of each sex had been provided daily with a dinner , the only condition being that they worked for it ; and a large number of boys had been enabled to emigrate to the colonies . A Sunday school , with an average attendance of 140 , had been in operation . Lectures on various interesting subjects had been delivered . A library and reading-room had been open gratis , and in the former there were 198 volumes , of which 28 had been added during the present year .

      A very enthusiastic meeting was held at Exeter Hall , by the Metropolitan Wesleyan Reformers . The hall was crowded to excess , and the audience were in tl . e highest spirits . Altogether a most remarkable meeting , not at all on account of what was said , but on account of the unanimity and animation of meeting and speakers . The bazaar , held also at the hall , has at present yielded £ 350 .

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      TI 1 K EXPOSITION . r l r h r > T P H «<¦ ' -he doors on Saturday amounted to Ll . )<> , > I / 3 s ., and the numbers entering the building were rll'V » ° n M <) II ( lay lh (> receipts " ' r < ' respectively ^ vw ' o ? *¦ ' aI 1 ( 1 ( J 1 ' 7 ° vif ) it »™; <»» Tuesday , reciots L . M <> <) f > s ., visitors , <;/ i , !> b'l >—the largest . " lake " < xr . ' . pt two , since the Exposition has been open . On the following day , however , the numbers / ell to / J « , () ,- ;/ 3 and the ve < ( . i | ,, » to mH ) <> .,. ()„ Thursday the . numbers were / , * " ' "' r <(" l ' P . £ ' - "M > i b \ s . The removal of the glass from the eastern and western oxt . rcnni . ies of the building and tho fiiclcs of the transept bus had the effect of reducing the tempemture considerably , mid t ) u > highest point attained during the last two days was 77 d < ' « reeu .

      The Derby town council have , agreed to an iuMre . su to the Queen , praying that the Crystal Palace may be preserved and adopted as a winter park ' Tho directors of the Cheat Northern Railway Company have g . ven all their servants leave of absence f ? II days each to visit the Great Exhibition , with each a free paaa over the company's line ., and permission to the

      married men to take their wives , and those not marrmri to take a friend . ea Among the articles shown at the Great Exhibition is drinking-glass divided by a partition , and intended to be used for effervescing powders . The soda is dissolved in one compartment , and the tartaric acid in the other and by applying the mouth to the place where the partil tion joins the outside of the glass , the two li quids corru bine as they flow into the mouth , and effervesce as thev are drunk . More ingenious than useful ! *

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Corporation of London have granted a further sum of one hundred guineas in aid of the funds for the erection of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest , at the Victoria Park . The second annual meeting of the "Westminster Freehold Land Society was held last Wednesday evening at the Partheniura-rooms , St . Martin ' s-lane , P . E . Barnes Esq ., in the chair . The following gentlemen were unanimously reflected officers for the ensuing year — President , C . Lushington , Esq ., M . P . ; Viee-Presidents C . Hindley , Esq ., M . P ., and J . Wyld , Esq ., M . P . ' Trustees , G . Thompson , Esq ., M . P ., W . Lane , Esq . '

      and G . Wilson , Esq . ; Solicitor , Mr . G . Edgar Dennes ; Secretary , Mr . G . Huggett . The Committee were then nominated , after which a proposed alteration in the rules , whereby the society would be enabled to make purchases more . rapidly , was submitted to the meeting , to be discussed at the adjourned meeting on August 20 . A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings . ' Admiral Alexander Jones has been had in the policecourt for hitting Mr . Robinson , a navy agent , over the eyes with a stick in St . James ' s-street . He was ordered to find bail in £ 100 to keep the peace . Bail not being forthcoming , he was locked up for a time and then conditionally set at liberty .

      An inquest has been held on the body of the fireman killed at the late boiler explosion near Liverpool , and , after much discussion , the jury returned an open verdict , " That death was caused by the explosion of a locomotive boiler , but that there was no evidence to show the cause of that explosion . " Messrs . James Starkey and Co ., of Liverpool , have been compelled to suspend payment , in consequence of the entire destruction of their stores and property at San Francisco , by fire . They were unable to protect them selves by insurance , although their warehouses were of iron ; their shippers are in a similar position . Their loss is estimated at 130 , 000 dollars .

      Mr . and Mrs . Head , who suffered so severely from the collision of the Enfield express and the Hertford train , on the Eastern Counties line , in December last , have brought an action against the company , and obtained , on Thursday , £ 1000 damages . The jury have at last returned a verdict on the great fire . It is to the effect that the evidence was insufficient to show how the fire in warehouse A originated ; but that there was the highest degree of probability that the fire in warehouse D was not the result of accident , and suggested that the Secretary of State be solicited to increase the reward of £ 200 , offered by Messrs . Wigan and Co . for the discovery of the person or persons who fired the warehouse . Whilst a person named John Thomson was engaged , on Saturday , in carrying bags ashore from a vessel in

      till ? 1 . # I Vfl I * } I A }\ V CniVm S 11 C- * 1 il * BT lv * v « m . n h-nn ^ Unf nrl ?• -. * . » the Clyde , he by some casualty being precipitated into the river , disappeared , and with the force of the fall remained embedded in the mud at the bottom . The mate of the vessel , who at the time was at dinner in the cabin , hearing the plunge , rushed on deck , and with a courage and promptitude beyond all praise , threw himself into the water in his clothes , and brought up Thomson , who must otherwise inevitably have perished . The gallant seaman performed his feat at very considerable personal risk ; for , on emerging , Thomson , impelled by tho instinctive feelings of persons in his situation , grasped Jus preserver by the waist , and would have taken him down again , had he not , putting forth all his strength , seized a rope , and , with one strenuous effort drawn both so far up the vessel ' s side as to be brought within the reach of his shipmates , who drew them on deck .

      I he jury , empannelled to inquire into the death of James ilogan , who was killed in a fray in Shoe-lane , on Sunday night , returned the following veidict : — "That the deceased died from the effects of violence at the hands of the police , but who the ofliccr was they had not sufficient evidence to prove . " The Coroner said it was most extraordinary that in a place like the city of London they were unable to tell who the policeman was . Having called Sergeant Patterson forth , he impressed on that officer's mind the necessity for the police authorities doing all they could to find out who the policeman was who caused deceased ' s death . he

      I jury then handed the following memorial to the coroner , with a request that it might be forwarded to the proper authorities : _» And this jury are of opinion tliat the neighbourhood in which th ' o deceased died is in a most disgraceful state . In the house in which the ( ieccaacil ln-s , the drainage , or some other cause , made an vflluvmin so great that the jury were compelled to leave the place , as quickly as possible ; and should an opiuewne again vist the City , from , dreadful state of "H'se courts they think they would be a nursery for pestilence and disease .. They also suggest , the propriety <> l an additional light in those courts , more especially at the Holborn ciul " ' *

      I he ( . last / ow Daily Mail in informed that the prospects <> t this grouse hcarson are much hotter than for several yearn past . In the first week of June , 1 H 4 !) and 18 / 50 , the heavy rains which then fell were very destructive to the young broods . This year , though the weather was moist , the rains did not / all in suclmmddon and overwhelming toirents as to injure the young biids . Tho uenease , also , which has scourged ho many moors for some yours , is now almost totally extinct . This inysteri ; ub dieeao ? was co-cxiotent with that of the potatoes ,

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      ANOTHER MURDER IN NORFOLK . A murder essentially stupid has been committed in Norfolk The facts are very simple , and few words will suffice to explain them . Henry Groom , a labourer , who had been discharged from the service of the Earl of Leicester , lay in wait for the foreman of a gang of workmen engaged in building a new terrace at Holkham park , named Ayton , on Friday last . The ambush he selected was ;> . etay pit . While he waited there , he heard a vehicle coming along the road ; and , thinking it was Ayton , he came out , but it proved to be Dr . Young , a physician . Presently , however , Ayton did come by , and was induced to leave his donkey and cart and go with Groom into the

      pit . It is conjectured that as he was returning Groom shot him , for he was found with the back of his head perforated with large shots . Groom rifled the pockets of Ayton , and carried off his watch . When the body was found , it was remembered that Groom had been seen near the spot , and a policeman was sent to search his house . There they found the money and notes which Ayton had just obtained to pay the workmen at Ilolkam - park , and also the watch . Groom had attempted to get a note changed ; but failing , he had gone straight home lie was arrested forthwith , and no doubt is entertained that he is the murderer . His motives appear to have been partly revenge and partly the desire to get possession of the money .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1891/page/10/