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      police , left Swaffham and proceeded to Letton-park , which is nearly three miles in circuit . By the consent of the Norwich Watch Committee , Constable Noller , being a strong , powerful man , went over to aid the county police . The police were secreted every day last week , watching at night , and while thus engaged , they often heard the poachers firing at a distance out of the park . Last Saturday night was bright moonlight , the police and keepers were in ambush on the watch , and shortly after twelve o'clock the police heard three guns fired off successively in a cover . They had three guns , one double-barrelled , belonging to the keeper , as they knew they would have to encounter ruffians armed with guns . They proceeded in a line towards the

      cover , and when within a hundred yards of it made a rush forward , and were within eleven yards of it when the poachers seeing them cried out " Stand off . " Without giving the police time to stand off , they immediately fired three guns . The police fired two guns , but without any effect . Superintendent Parker , being the foremost of the police as they rushed to the cover , was marked out ; he received the charge of one of the guns full in his face , and fell severely wounded . Constable Greenacre was shot in the shou lder and face , but not so seriously hurt . A tree intercepted the charge of the third gun . The police and two keepers , after the firing , rushed upon their murderous assailants , and a desperate affray ensued . The poachers , being armed with large clubs ,

      made a stout resistance . They were soon knocked down ; three of them were taken on the spot , the others ran off , but were closely pursued . Two of them reached their homes , and were soon after taken there out of their beds . All of them were in disguise , and had their faces blackened , so that if seen they might not be again recognized . On the same night the five prisoners were taken before the Reverend P . Gordon , and , after a short examination , remanded and sent to Norwich Castle . The others had escaped for that night , but on Tuesday two of them were apprehended , and brought before the Reverend T . Paddon , at East Dereham . They underwent an examination , and were remanded to the Castle . The names

      of those now in custody are Richard Lincoln , William Hunter , William Rugg , John Lake , Robert Back , William Harwood , and John Turner , all of Letton , Shipdham , or adjoining parishes . There are two others yet at large . The names of the two who effected their escape are known , and though they have absconded suitable means have been taken , and we cordially hope they will speedily be apprehended . Superintendent Parker was convened to his house at Swaffham , where he has been lying ever since in a very precarious state . Mr . Whitby , the surgeon who attended him , found that twenty-five shots of No . 5 size had been fired into his face and neck , and just round his eyes ; but fortunately he has not lost his sight . His hat was quite riddled with shot .

      In Nottinghamshire similar scenes occurred this week . On Monday night two keepers and a large mastiff were on the watch on Sir Arthur Clifton ' s estate , Barton . Suddenly three men appeared with poaching apparatus . The keepers set upon them ; the dog was killed ; a large reinforcement of poachers rushed from behind a hedge and drove off the keepers , who had , however , succeeded in laming effectually five of the poachers . Creditable state of things in the nineteenth century !

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      TIIK l . ATK INVOLUTION IN PARIS . On Wednesday a . public meeting was held at the National-hall , High llolhorn , to consider our position in relation to the changes which arc taking place amongst the peoples and powers of the Continent . Mr . G . J . llolyoake was called to the chair , and stated the general object of the meeting , and urged the advantage of considering the . French Preside-nt as a policy rather than a person , and of taking care that their resolutions should not afford a justification for the violence of despotism . Mr . J . 1 ' ettie , after some prefatory observations on the political state of France , moved a resolution that the meeting protested against the late political changes in France , against the arbitrary arid heartless

      means by which they had been cileuted , and deemed it its duty to raise a public voice on behalf of a friendly people crushed under a military rule . Also , to call earnestly upon our ( jovernment to use practical influence on behalf of the restoration of the lilx rtic » of all peoples destroyed by the indefensible aggressions of organized despotisms . Mr . Hooper Hcconded the resolution , which w ; : m also supported by Dr . Tau . scnau and Mr . W . J . Birch of Oxford , Mr . Goodfellow , and Mr . Ellis . Mr . Jironterre O'lhien moved an amendment , that the meeting contemplated with abhorrence and disgust the treasonable usurpation of Louis . Napoleon — a usurpation accomplished by a combination of crimes , including perfidy , perjury , violence , and organizing murder

      unparalleled in the previous history of Kurope ; that the meeting deeply sympathized with the brave mid generous French people in seeing their hard won liberties and constitutional rights ho foully trampled upon by brute military force , and earnestly hoped , in common with all just men , that . Kurope would speedily nee a termination of this usurper ' s reign , worthy of his crimes and of liis ingratitude towardH I . ho . French people . Mr . Muriay seconded the . / amendment , which , on being put to the meeting , was carried . The mover of the amendment occupied three quarters of an hour in doing so ,

      which prolonged the meeting until ninny of those who had listened to the arguments in favour of the ; more temperate resolution had departed . The amendment concludes with a hope which ii ^ iidiI man , in moments of reflection , would hardly . share . Before putting the propositions to the meeting , the Chairman said it was their duty not . ho much to f ^ ive expression to passion , or even natural indignation , an to express Hindi a measured opinion as was likely to be useful , and which might not furnish further pretexts to those who were able to injure thoue whom they met ostensibly to uuvc .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The chief interest in the anticipation of the Overland Mail , which arrived on Monday , is that the Nizam had paid , upon a decisive summons , the whole of the sum remaining due . Dost Mohammed was said to be dying . The Daedalus , one of the searching expedition , arrived at San Francisco from Behring ' s Straits , on the 22 nd of October ; but Captain ; Wellesley brought no tidings of Sir John Franklin . Active measures are about to be taken for laying a sub-marine telegraph between England and Ireland . It will require about sixty miles of cable , or three times the length of that between Dover and Calais . The deputation appointed at the Marylebone meeting to convey their thanks to Lord Palmerston , waited on him on Saturday , at Carlton-gardens . Lord Palmerston briefly and simply " tendered his acknowledgments for the good opinion expressed by the people of Marylebone of his conduct with regard to the late affairs of Hungary . On Tuesday evening , Viscount Lewisham , M . P ., delivered an interesting and instructive lecture at St . Mary's schoolroom Bilston , to the members and friends of z . mutual instruction society in connection with St . Mary ' s Church ; the subject selected by his lordship being " Civility considered as Benevolence in Trifles . — Wolver-Hampton Herald .

      The half-yearly examination of the students at Hailesbury College , destined for the civil service of the East India Company , was held on Monday , in the presence of a deputation of the directors and several distinguished visitors . Mr . Shepherd was the spokesman on the occasion , and he delivered some sensible advice , particularly against debt , to the cadets . Mr . Montague Chambers , Q . C ., who calls himself a Liberal , addressed the electors of Greenwich on Tuesday , as a candidate for their suffrages . Admiral Stewart is also a Liberal , so it is possible the scenes of last spring may be acted over again . Cannot the Bar and the Quarter Deck come to a compromise ?

      A concert in aid of the funds of the Hungarian Committee and the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland , was given on Tuesday , at the Hanover-square Rooms , by Miss Kate Hickson . The programme consisted merely of the usual class of concert airs and pieces . The performers were the Misses Pyne , Miss Poole , Mdlle . Coulon , Mr . Weiss , Mr . Swift , Mr . Salaman , Mr . Wrighton , and others . Miss Kate Hickson , who has been a pupil of Garcia's , possesses a contralto of moderate power , and fair and even quality . She gave the invitation song from the Huguenots , and the Segreto , in which she was encored . Several Hungarian melodies were played by M . Orosz , and Herr Stoffrepen sang with much applause a simple national song of the Magyars .

      Lola Montes , accompanied by her agent , arrived in the Humboldt , and was present in the cabin when the address was delivered to Kossuth ( says the Neio York Herald ) , bhe passed some smart jokes upon the whole affair , and a gentleman informed our reporter that she has declared Kossuth to be a great humbug . It is stated they had some conversations during the passage . The Conntess of Lansfeldt was a prodigious favourite among the gentlemen passengers during the passage . She kept them continually in roars of laughter . She was not at first very well received by the lady

      passengers ; but her manners at last secured her their courtesy . The gentlemen were all delighted with her , as she sang and talked to them most charmingly . She certainly is an extraordinary woman ; and as she is an ambitious one also , we may expect something wonderful from her in the course of time . She is much lighter in her form , and more refined in her features , than she is represented in the paintings . She has a remarkably fine pair of eyes . No doubt she will create a furore of her own as well as Kossuth , whose rival she is for popularity .

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      The ReTerend Francis Sadiier , D . I ) ., provostof Irinity College , Dublin , died on Sunday night . Writing from Dublin on Tuesday a correspondent says : — " For houiu days past Dr . Cullen , Roman Catholic Primate , has been suffering from a severe attack , which has confined him to bed . He is now staying at the College of St . Vincent , Castlenock , about three miles from Dublin : but so much weakened by illness that he has been unable to attend to any active duties . " At a meeting of the Catholic defenders on Wednesday , Mr . Wilherforce , brother to the Bishop of Oxford , and one of the famous perverts , was elected secretary .

      " An important meeting of landlords and agents connected with the province of Ulster , " says the Ncwry Examiner , " was held in Dublin on Monday , the 1 / itli instant , for the purpose of taking steps for the suppression of the diabolical conspiracy against life and property which , by the hand of the assiiusin , has already consigned ho many victims to untimely graves . A trustworthy and most respected correspondent puts us in possession of the following particulars with regard to the meeting , which , we understand , was very numerously attended : —Tlie . ro was great good feeling evinced towards the tenantry of Ireland , an well a . s a disposition to remove every just cause of complaint . A firm resolution , however , was come to , that on the part of the tenantry there should be a strict , compliance with the commandment of ( Jod - ' Thou shalt do no murder . ' Who can honestly object , to such a course ?" On Saturday evening last , when the train from Water luo-ioad to Twickenham arrived , at ft . I /> , Mr . Campbell , who was a passenger , stepped on the platform , When the train nt that moment moved " a turn ahead , " mid the door of the carriage wheeled him round and threw him close by the buffers , his Ic ^ h were caught between th <; foot-board and tlie platform , and in thin manner he was draped forward a lew yards . M r .

      promptly attended , who ordered Mr . Campbell ' s imm * diate removal to the Three Tuns Tavern , where he not lies in a very favourable position , under the care of Dr . Clarke . OI Harriet Newman , whose story will be well reraem bered , was this week found guilty of perjury at the Old A fire broke out in Bull-court , Whitechapel , on Tuesdav evening . An alarm was raised , and a fire-escape and engines , were quickly on the spot . A very old man lived in "the house and was heard calling piteousl y for heln from amidst the flames . But the fire extended so rapidly being fed by wood and shavings , that assistance came too ' late , and he was burned to death . The fire was quickly extinguished . *

      A prize fight took placepiear Belper on Tuesday . The combatants were Paddock and Paulson . They had fought eighty-five rounds when the magistrates arrived with one constable . Of course , the mob refused to disperse . The Riot Act was read , and the constable ordered to arrest the fighters . Whereupon tremendous onslaught upon the constable , resulting in his complete defeat ensued . One of the magistrates , Captain Hopkins , gall loped off to Derby for aid , and met the pugilists and crowd returning . Paddock the winner was captured in a cab and Paulson pulled out of a " drag . " Both the men were dreadfully punished . Paulson could not see , and Paddock had one eye closed !

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      All sorts of curt apophthegms and emphatic sentences are attributed to Louis Napoleon at the present moment . Among other dicta the most startling is the following , which , of course , must be taken for what it is worth : — " J ' ai une mission divine a remplir , et je la rempliraie ' est d ' aneantir le Socialisme , la tribune , et la presse . " A somewhat novel " bull" has been recently issued by the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada . It prohibits the ladies of their communion from indulging in the profane amusements of waltzing and polkaing . Ludicrous as such an order may seem in England , it is a very serious affair here , and may open the eyes of the Roman Catholic laity to the tyrannical theocracy under which they live . The ladies of the upper classes of French Canadians have been hitherto accustomed to take

      their share in all the innocent diversions which form the passe temps of their winter evenings , and among which the waltz and polka are not the least considered and cherished . They are now forced to relinquish these amusements under pain of ecclesiastical censure and final excommunication ! The Impartial de Smyrne , in its correspondence from Salonica , has melancholy accounts of an earthquake at Berat . We learn that a part of the fortress had been thrown down , and 400 soldiers buried in the ruins . Some days after the catastrophe , and after great exertions , their lifeless bodies were withdrawn from the ruins , and

      their numbers ascertained . About 300 houses , two mosques , and a church suffered considerably , and many are no longer habitable . The Governor of Yanina sent tents and assistance to the remainder of the soldiers in garrison there . Among Christians and Mussulmans , 800 persons are missing . Near to Berat the top of a mountain was detached from its base , and thrown to a considerable distance . In the centre a crater has been formed , from which dense volumes of black smoke , stones , and lava are emitted . Fetid sulphurous exhalations escape and corrupt the air . The villages and environs of lierat have suffered urreat damage .

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Report . ) Though the rate of mortality in London is still high , the present returns bear witness to a considerable improvement . The deaths , which , after a period of continuous increase , ultimately rose to 1 <' U (> , declined under the influence of milder temperature , and in the week ending last Saturday the number was 1194 . The weekly mean temperature , which during the earlier part of November fell to 40 degrees , or 12 degrees lower than it had been during the previous month , and afterwards

      suffered a further reduction toM degrees ( which is about 8 degrees less than the average of the period ) , again rose in the week ending December (> to . ' 58 8 degrees , and last week to 41 8 degrees , or about . ' { degrees above the average . Taking for comparison the corresponding weeks of 1811- / H ) , with the exception of that part of the serieH whieli belongs to 1847 , when influenza swelled the mortality of the w < ek to 1 M 1 (> , it . appears that the average number of deaths was 10 . il , or , with n correction for increase of population , ll . il . The return of last week shows an increase of 00 on the corrected average .

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      BIRTHS , MAKKLAUHK , AND DKATUS .

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      BIKTIIH . On Thursday , the Gl . li ultimo , ut , ISonihay , l-ady \ ar < lley : a daughter . On the . 10 th ultimo , ; tt , I'liu cue .-, the l . ady Methuen : : iH <) 11-On the ii ' . ltli ultimo , : it . Orancl Cairo , ilie Honourable IM'M . Murray , 111 . ) wife , of her ItriUnnir Majesty ' s Ajjrnt aii < l ( -owail-( iciiernl lor Kfjypt : a non and heir . . . Oiit . licllt . il instant ., at the V icara-e , Kcpliain . nisir l . inriiiii , the wife , of the Rcveieml John Suttiiu : a daughter . . On the l ~ 'th iiiHlant , at I , o \ vmlc « ,-Miu ; uc , l . ady Ht . John Mininiiiy : a daughter . makkia <; i ; s . On the 11 th of December , at . Hut Ion , in tin ; I > ' < : <» ' ' '¦ ' >' ( Jeoi-tfc KdwaMl ra ; , ' < t , K »<| .. M . l ) ., lo Clara , youi ^ e 'it daiif , 'liH : i of the Reverend TIhhiihh | - ; udell , I . I ,. I ) ., vicar of Hul ton . On the l- 't . h inntant ., K . I -e l . oup , Kmi .. <> ' Hru : ) : ieli ' , to IHi : !» IScaue . lerk , ( laughter of the Ute Lord !• ledriiek Jlrauc . lerU .

      DKATIIM . On the , fitli of I > cceinl ) cr . ait . t In- n-i . idcnre of her hoii , <;< ' ''" ' K . I'ntinor .-, Kk < i ., the ( Jiove , Ivciilinh-toxvii . Kli / . a , wileol Mitel Oroide I ' litiuoi .-, I'imi ., H < nilh ! iiii |> ton-HM «< -I , Kit / ioj -M <| iiar «; . _ On the 11 th . a-rd nixty-l . wo , la t , l > . Woo < ln , Ki- (| . " »>•¦ Middle Temple , lor upward" of l . hiily ycai : i one ol tlie ivpoi U : i " of the 'I'iwct . . On the lath , at . l » i » nnidc . nre , Oot . hic-villii , Chrlfeiiiliani . Colonel NiiMinnirl Hcmi , Int « ' of her Majesty "» tieveiltucnth Kqj 1 " inent , in ihu » evuiity-aia . th ) car of lu ' ii u ;; c .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1851, page 1206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1914/page/10/